Democrats Won't Commit to Biden in 2024 as Inflation Sets Records

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 Killmeat Show. We have a lot to go over.

Charles Gasparino is just getting out of the shower. He's going to give us five great minutes. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West at the bottom of the hour, and of course, you at 1-866-408-7669. Happy to be with you on this Tuesday. And in terms of discussing, we could say this: so far, the market's up 104 points.

I couldn't say the market's up at all on Monday.

So let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. President Biden, he is saying he's going to run again in 2024. Will you support him? You know, if the president chooses to run again in 2024, I mean, first of all, I'm focused on winning this majority right now and preserving a majority this year in 2022.

So we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. Yeah, and that's not going to happen, by the way. Biden bumbling has dams virtually guaranteeing he will be in lame duck status shortly, especially if they have a blowout during the midterms. What does that mean for his party and Trump's rebirth, who, by the way, virtually admitted he's running again yesterday? Number two.

Well, I think there's a legitimate reason for having a relationship with Saudi Arabia if you're the president of the United States. Is there a legitimate reason for Phil Nicholson to have this relationship with Saudi Arabia or for Greg Norman to? No, there's no serious purpose for it. Again, this is simply greed, no more, no less. Really?

Hypocrisy. That's the only consistent thing in the PGA live controversy. Kurdish Islami, the Saudi-based Live League, but they say nothing when it comes to the relationship with the PGA and NBA. And what about all the soccer teams that are owned by Saudis or royal family members of the UAE and China? I'll break down the double standard.

Number one. Secretary said this week that, quote, there is nothing to suggest a recession is in the works. Do you agree with that? No, I don't. When inflation is as high as it is right now, and unemployment is as low as it is right now.

It's almost always been followed within two years by recession. Yeah, Lawrence Summers continuing to write a hot streak. Too bad that the truth hurts so much to every American. The economy is stressing this nation in a way I've not seen before. Not only is Joe Biden not getting a pass from Republicans, he's not getting much support for Democrats either.

Does anyone have any answers? That's why I'm turning now to Charles Gasprino of FBN. Charles. Do you have any answers? From the inflation rate.

To the price of gas, please provide our audience some answers. Um Well it I think the best way to put this, and this is going to be harsh.

Okay. And just I'm a cancer survivor, so I can talk a little bit about this. is um When you get a bad case of cancer, you have to get chemotherapy to get rid of it. And it's a nasty, it's not fun, okay? It's it's grueling.

But it's necessary.

Okay, and that's kind of what the U. S. economy is likely to go through. in the next six months to a year. Um what's necessary to get rid of inflation because inflation is worse than a recession.

You could have a if you if you have massive inflation that just keeps moving. Moving forward. And it it's not sort of tamped down. it leads to an inf i a recession anyway 'cause people stop working. Businesses can't get cut back.

It's a vicious cycle, and then you get inflation and a recession.

So what policymakers try to do Is they tried to soft land the recession, soft land the economy, create a smaller recession, a smaller slowdown. They usually don't do that. It usually ends up to be a modest recession. Uh As they raise interest rates, things come down to normal. Asset prices come down, your Bitcoin goes from sixty thousand to twenty thousand or less.

your meep stocks that Should never have traded at AMC at $77, comes down to $7. And that's what's happening now. Housing prices come down because borrowing costs go up. And the economy normalizes. And that's the best case scenario.

Now, here's the scenario that I talked about. in my New York Post column today. You know, if the Fed doesn't try to do this, Okay, the policymakers, the bond market will do it for you. Bonds will trade off. If bonds trade off, they go down in price, the interest rate goes up.

And that spikes dramatically all the interest rates on everything you borrow at. means corporations borrow at much higher rates. That means they don't expand. It means housing prices go down because people can't borrow at a reasonable rate. The bond market will do it for you.

And here's why. Because bond investors know that inflation If they keep buying bonds, inflation will eat at their investment, because these are fixed income investments. They pay an annual they pay you get back your money at the end of your term, ten years, thirty years, plus you get a fixed amount of money every quarter. Inflation eats through all that. That's why bonds are so important here.

They're overlooked. And what I wrote today is That if the Fed doesn't try to land this thing, even if it's a little bit of harsh landing, the bond market will do it a lot harsher.

Well, the thing is, Charles, with Charles Casparino, our guest. By the way, speaking of the Fed, it's up to them to raise interest rates. Are they doing it? And are they the cause of what we're experiencing now? Mohamed El Aryan weighed in over the weekend.

He's the Alliance Alina's chief economic advisor here at Cut Seven. I mean, what makes this very frustrating is it was partially avoidable. This is going to have enormous economic, social, it hits the poor particularly hard, institutional and political consequences, and most of it could. Could have been avoided had early actions been taken. The Fed is yet to explain to us why it got its forecast so wrong for so long.

And p is part of the reason why the rates did not go up and that the Fed's been wrong is because Powell wouldn't have kept his job had he ra uh jacked up rates right when President Biden was evaluating him? Oh, you're being so cynical. Cool there, Brian. A little bit. I'm talking to the ultimate cynic right now.

Yeah, I mean, that's definitely part of it. You know, there's a degree of incompetence here. He was never, you know, Jerome Powell Powell's not an economist. You know, and if you if you go back and listen to some of the things he was saying over the over the years, um He was actually talking about how good the modern modern Mo modern monetary Method of economics really was. And that's where it says that it doesn't matter how much money you print, how low you take interest rates, how much we spend.

The FA could just keep buying the debt of the U.S. and it's not going to have an inflationary impact. You really were. He was really embracing that modern monetary theory.

So, some of its incompetence.

Some of it is needing his job. Either way, he screwed up. But the reason why he really screwed up is because, you know, He actually endorsed some of the stupid spending that was going on. And you know, you gotta blame Trump a little bit for this too, because It was Trump that was putting the pedal to the middle as he was leaning office when it was pretty clear the economy was. on a pretty firm footing.

Uh, we were we had vaccines that were going to open up the economy.

Okay, they didn't work great on Omicron, but they worked pretty good on the first two variants, and we were going to open up, so that was going to be a stimulus interval. itself.

So Trump started pushing some Spending at the end, and Vitam went whole hog into it. And on top, when you double, when you combine the massive amounts of spending from Mostly Biden, but to some degree Trump. And the m the monetary stimulus of Powell that he had no idea this would cause a recession a massive inflation. Because remember, people were going back to work at that point. Much of it as much of the pandemic was still scary and people were the ba businesses were opening up.

He really missed the boat.

So Now he's in a pickle. There's really nothing he's doing. Is there panic, you think, in the White House? Do you think there's panic there, Charles? Yeah, they have no idea.

And they know they're stuck in a box here. And here's the interesting thing. If it were Now, here's where I would say be positive if Trump was in there. If Trump was in there and you had a Republican Congress, they would probably cut taxes, they would probably loosen up regulations. they would do stuff.

that would increase what's known as the supply side of the economy. We're trying to goose it that way.

So the Fed did have to like Essentially, slow everything down to get inflation under control. Remember, there's demand and supply. If the demand outweighs the supply, you can try to increase the supply of goods. One way to do that is through lower regulations and less taxes. I think that's what a Republican Congress and Trump would do to take some of the load off the Fed so it doesn't have to depress them the The man side so much.

But because that policy is off the table, I mean the Democrats will not drill. Democrats will not cut taxes. Democrats will not increase regulations. They decrease regulations. Oh, no, the opposite of that.

The only game in town right now is the Fed. decrease demand. And the only way you decrease demand is to essentially impose economic austerity and a recession. I got to just go. I know you got to run, but I got last question.

I thought about you on Friday when the President of the United States just took aim at Exxon and all the oil and gas companies that are making profits. And Bernie Sanders yesterday saying, time to call them in and demand some of their profits. But tell everyone the reality of oil and gas. They're not being selfish. They've been marginalized, and now the price is going up.

But between the permits that they have, the leases that they have, they can't get permits for.

So it doesn't benefit them to start drilling. And that's a good point. And they don't know when regulations are coming down. We have a president in office that said, I want to put them out of business. Mm-hmm.

Jennifer Granhold, the energy secretary, is talking about electric vehicles. Even Elon Musk, the king of electric vehicles. knows that that's so impractical.

Okay, he knows that. Average people right now cannot just transition to electric vehicles. We need, or just turn on the switch. We need a transition. If you want to go to zero carbon footprint in the future, and this just shows you how crazy the Democrats are, you really need a transition.

Everybody is saying it. Even ESG proponents are saying it. But this is an administration that wants the light switch off and on because. guess what? The environmental lobby controls them.

In the absence of more supply of oil, which they, which government is actually controlling.

Okay, not not in the oil companies 'cause they would drill. You have oil, which is traded on the open market. Uh You know, essentially going up in price. You know, that's just the reality. And if they really, again, if they really wanted to deal with this, they would loosen up the regulation.

And by the way, That doesn't mean that oil will flow unfortunately. Immediately. But because The markets trade on the futures, on the future of oil, they would trade, oil would go down because. It's going to price in future supply, and that's just the way capitalism works. The market's right.

We're not in probably not in a a technical Recession right now, okay? But the markets are pricing in a recession, and that's how capitalism works. You know, I think Joe Biden, you would think that he would know a little, he's what, he's in his mid-70s, but you know, he's a little bit about this. But if you think about it, He was always like a government creature. I mean, his whole family benefits off him, off of crony capitalism.

They're not like entrepreneurs. You know, they they you know, they do all these business deals based on government contracts and things like that and connections. he really is a bad president for for this moment. Right. And Kamala Harris is probably worse.

And then, on top of it all, he surrounds himself with people like Johnny Yellen, who Is so academic, she has no clue what's going on. Brian Bees, who's in the National Economic Council, who's essentially Jared Bernstein. Yeah, but it looked hard. But I mean, but look about this Brian piece. If you look at him, he worked at Black Rock, the big money management front, but he wasn't A money manager.

He was the guy that was forcing the money managers to adopt ESG into their money management decisions. Which is like environmental, social government screens in their decisions.

So So they would go to Exxon and say, Well, we're not going to buy your stock at this level. but we're gonna proxy and we're gonna we're gonna try to change your cha change the dir the board. if you don't cut back on your carbon footprint. That was what ESD did. That's what he did.

So this guy is is kind of a he's a he's an activist in a sense that's in the White House. I guess so, but I just thought they'd have a survival instinct. Let me put somebody around me that, for example, Reagan. Reagan put his hand, put great people around him. No one expected him to do everything and be a minute-by-minute guy like Carter.

I thought he would just surround himself with what he considered an A-team, but we don't have that at all. And I think it's up to the. Doesn't anyone have a survival instinct, Charles? Even Obama surrounded himself with some pretty smart people Yeah, we're liberals and progressives, but they where you you got that may be certain Larry Summers was part of his cat. You know, um I can't remember exactly what he did during the Obama years, but he was one of the, you know, he might have been at NEC.

I can't remember. But he was there, you know.

So It it is, uh Tim Geithner's. You know, say what you want about Tim Geithner. He's These matters. You know, it's about a That's a sort of a they are looking to impose these policies through an economic lens.

So it is a it's a scary situation. It's a incompetent president, obviously. Incompetent people is number two, it's pretty incompetent. And we're all suffering because of it. Yeah, but you know, that's the way politics works.

You get what you get, look at people voted this guy in office. I mean, not now, you know, pay the price. All right, Charles Gasparino, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Pick up his column today in the New York Post.

Watch him all over the channel. Charles, thank you. All right, Brian, Brian. You got it. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West at the bottom of the out.

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I know that many of you have strong, well, many people have strong opinions, emotions about. my choice to uh go forward with live golf and I understand. And I respect that. I am incredibly grateful for the PGA Tour and for the many opportunities that it has provided me through the years. Um But I am excited about this new opportunity as well.

So that was Phil Mickelson, some of the high pro one of the high profile players that decided to play in the Live Tour, which is about eight events going to be this year. It's spotted by Saudi Money. And it's also where Greg Norman heads up. DiShambeau is in there. Bryson G.

Chamba is in there. You have Dustin Johnson's over there. You have Sergio Garcia over there. And they've been suspended by the PGA, but not Phil Mickelson because he's got a lifetime exemption not only to be on the tour, but especially play in the U.S. Open next week.

He says he expects to play. But I just find it unbelievable that everyone is being so sanctimonious about the Saudis. We have the president of the United States going over there to beg them to pump more. We had the previous president talking with Saudi Arabia in order to combine with Israel to isolate Iran and recognize Israel's right to exist and establish trade relationship. There was no outrage.

Now, with that, Khashoggi gets murdered. It's brutal. They had a bunch of hijackers there. It's horrible. But we've re-established relations with them.

Do you go and not see Sheffield United over in England? It looks like I think Aston Ville, oh, excuse me, Newcastle FC. It looks like one of the royal family, the Saudi royal family, is about to buy Newcastle FC. Manchester City is owned by a UAE prince.

So, why all of a sudden are you jumping on Phil Mickelson? It didn't stop Rory McElroy from going after him, cut 16. Yeah, this is the day I'll remember for a long, long time. 21st PGA tour win, one more than someone else. That gave me a little bit of extra incentive today, and I'm happy to get it done.

That was, I guess, one more than Phil Mickelson. I guess that's who he was referring to. Excuse me, one more than Greg Norman.

Okay, that's pretty interesting. Also, Greg Normo never won a major here, but Greg Norman was always pretty impressive as a golfer, one of the finest athletes, period. I look forward to talking to him about it, but right now it's been a PR challenge for everybody. including the PGA, to try to stay above it while yet identify there's a league threatening it, much like the USFL did, the NFL, the World League did, the NFL that we've seen with other sports, the ABA and the NBA. We'll see who's going to prevail here.

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I'm joining you. A few weeks Athens, an 18-year-old white supremacist. Who was indoctrinated by Tucker Carlson? and Fox News. Yeah.

After he targeted a black community in Buffalo and committed. A massacre. Really? On the exact day five years ago when Steve Scalise was nearly assassinated by. Senator Bernie Sanders supporter Corey Bush, who's an embarrassment to all of Missouri, if they were sober enough to understand that she represents the defund the police movement, made those statements in Washington yesterday.

Joining me now, Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, American Constitutional Rights Union Executive Director. Congressman, welcome back. It's always good to be with you, and happy Flag Day. And today is the 247th birthday of the United States Army. Right.

And first off, what about the marching orders Corey Bush just said? The killer in Buffalo was indoctrinated by Tucker Carlson and inspired by Fox News?

Well, that is absolutely despicable and an egregious statement, but let's tell the truth about Corey Bush. Corey Bush is the individual that was leading the violent marches and protests there in St. Louis that ended with the death of David Dorn, the police captain that was there. She also led the violent mob against the McCloskey family, not just once, but a second time when they came back. And they were threatening to murder them, to burn down their house, and even to rape her.

And so the fact that she is now a member of the United States House of Representatives, that's an incredible indictment on this Democrat Party, this progressive socialist party that embraces the mob, that embraces violence. And let's remember that it was Vice President Kamala Harris, who is a senator, was out there raising funds for bail money to get these violent protesters released.

So to try to indict Fox News and Tucker Carlson. Everything. This is absolutely horrific. But again, look at the history in the background of Corey Bush. Right.

Yeah, she's an embarrassment, big to fund the police person, never backs off it, embarrasses the whole party. And for some reason, the press is willing to give her a pass. Joe Biden never says to fund the police, but she never condemns her for saying it.

So I want to bring you to this gun legislation they're working on. Just give people at home what the outline looks like. It would incentivize states to use past red flag laws that were designed to keep guns out of the hands of individuals who pose a threat, support for state crisis intervention orders, investment in children and family mental health services, protections for victims of domestic violence, funding for school board mental health and supportive services, funding for school safety resources, clarification on the definition of federally licensed firearms dealers. And under 21, you have an enhanced review process that would allow you to look into your juvenile and mental health records. From what you see, Do you think this is progress?

You know, not really, Brian. You know, the thing is, we have laws that are on the books. It's just about following those laws. And I'll give you a great case in point. The shooter down in Uvalde, Texas, first and foremost, he had five or six Call outs to his house.

That's an indicator warning. But the other thing that is very disturbing is the fact that he was living with his grandfather. His grandfather had a criminal record, and his criminal record meant that his grandfather could not purchase weapons and he could not have weapons around him. That's the exact same address that this shooter put down on his background check form.

Now, why did that address not send up some type of indicator warning and deny him the ability to be able to purchase weapons? And it's just the same thing as what we saw in Parkland: 20 some-odd call-outs.

So, just to go through the process, because you're very familiar with gun purchases and ownership.

So, Colonel, I walk into a gun shop. And uh I'm 18. They're not supposed to be able to look at my juvenile record, which is nuts. We have to change that. Don't you agree?

Yes.

Okay, good. Absolutely.

Now, that's one thing that I think should be changed. Good.

So that's it. It should be updated. And you must like the fact that protections, you must like the fact that there's going to be investment in children, family, mental health services, funding for school-based mental health and supportive services, funding for school safety resources. That's stuff you like, right? Absolutely.

I mean, one of the things that we're trying to get going down here in Texas is a school martial program.

So, when you think about today being the Army birthday, think about all the Army veterans that are out there that you could hire to go and do the job of securing our schools. Absolutely, I'm for those. Yeah, under 21 enhanced review process, I don't mind extra scrutiny. They didn't ban it, they didn't say you can't have an AR-15. They said extra scrutiny for it to make sure there's nothing in your background.

That would have stopped the shooter in Buffalo because they would have said a year ago they were brought in for intense questioning for two and a half hours by state police.

So, that would be something that might be a positive. What they did reject is the 21-day waiting period. They did reject a ban on high-capacity magazines. They did reject universal background checks, safe storage requirements, criminal penalties for storing firearms properly, not storing firearms properly in your home, and a license requirement to purchase an assault weapon.

So, all that stuff's Senator Corner wouldn't agree to.

So, this is what they're going to bring forward. I want you to hear what Chris Murphy said: cut 40. We've done the heavy lifting here. We have 10 Republicans signed on to this framework, a framework that's going to save lives. These are five important changes in our gun laws, plus billions in mental health funding.

And my belief is that we're just going to add Republicans from here on out.

So, what do you think is going to pass? If this passes, would you think that would be something that you could not support?

Well, we've got to see the final legislation because having served up there on Capitol Hill, I understand how people can manipulate language and put things in there that get them back to their original positions. And I think that the progressive socialist leftists are not going to agree with this because they want to see banning. They want to see restrictions on individual rights to own firearms. But the thing that for me I want to make sure is that we don't go down the path of these red flag laws. Like I've said to you before, Gary J.

Willis, 61 years of age, Ferndale, Maryland, was killed in his home because of a red flag warrant that was served against him at 5 o'clock in the morning.

So we don't want to see more repeats of that. Understood.

So I want to change gears if I can talk about the January 6th hearings. I think it's absolutely hurting them. That they don't have Republicans. It's hurting Democrats because it looks like an infomercial for whatever your point of view is. You're not, I don't have hearings.

You have edited packages almost because you want everyone to understand that it's Donald Trump's fault. Here's what Britt Hume, the January 6th and everything else was pre-planned. Here's what Britt Hume said that Republicans, and you're amongst them, you're a Republican, I mean, really want. What strikes me about this, Brett, is that if they succeed either by damaging him or staining him such that he is either unable or for legal or political reasons to run again, they might end up finding out that they've done the Republican Party a great service because I think a great many Republicans think they can't win with Trump at the head of the ticket again. They're afraid of his supporters and don't want to come out against him directly, but they'd like him to go away.

If the effect of this committee is to make his possible candidacy go away, I think a great many Republicans would privately be very glad.

Well, is that true, privately, publicly, that the Republicans want to turn the page from Trump?

Well, I will tell you this. You know, when I look at the Democrats wasting all of these resources and efforts, because this is not about truth. This is about President Trump. Then all of a sudden, they have wasted a lot of political capital. And what if it ends up being Ron DeSantis?

Then what do they do? And the other thing is they're spending a lot of taxpayer-funded money for, like you said, an infra-commercial, infromercial. And this is not a balanced review of what happened. And this continuing use of the word insurrection. An insurrection means people are carrying weapons and arms and things of that nature.

If this was an insurrection, it was poorly planned and definitely poorly executed.

So I think that the Democrats, yes, they really are doing themselves more damage and more harm. And the American people just aren't focused on January the 6th. The American people are focused on gas prices, on inflation. They're focused on the fact that they can't get baby forming. I have a one-year-old grandson, and that's a concern for us.

So these everyday kitchen. Table issues are what the American people want to see resolved, not going back two years ago to something that many people have moved past. Right, even though it was an ugly day in America's history, I know you agree with that. Here's Senator Chris Coons. He sees a different panel.

Listen to this: Cut 30. Look, I think what impressed me about those January 6 hearings, about the first hearing that I watched, was how clear and nonpartisan and thoughtful and directed it was. I certainly don't think that Congresswoman Cheney or Congressman Kinsinger were trying to impact the midterm election chances of Democrats. Do you think that? I think they were absolutely were.

Look, you know, first of all, he's one of a very few that was watching that. And the other thing is that Congresswoman Cheney and Congressman Kensinger are that's hardly the definition of bipartisan. They are really, this is more personal to them than anything else. And the fact that the. Individuals that Kevin McCarthy had put to be on that panel were rejected by the Democrats just shows that they cherry-picked everyone to be on this panel.

This is not a hearing. This is a production. That's why they brought in that former ABC executive. Who represented the Steve Scales asked a very pertinent question? Who is paying this guy?

You know, if he is so-called doing this thing in kind, you can't do this. That's against Federal Election Commission law. Right. And when we look over in Texas, the other big story I think that's hurting the president's numbers is the border. And now we have a situation where the biggest caravan, maybe ever, 36 miles long, is deep into Mexico.

It's close to our border. And you see such a lack of strong morale and will with our Border Patrol agents because their hands are tied. Same with ICE, they're not being allowed to do their job.

So, again, this is going to be a huge thing that is affecting Joe Biden and the Democrats because this is intentional, this is purposeful. They're violating the Constitution, Article 4, Section 4. They are not protecting this country and its sovereignty. And what they are doing is aiding and abetting a drug, a human, and sex trafficking crisis. You know, the number one thing that is killing Americans right now is fentanyl.

And fentanyl, you know, 100,000 deaths last year, 18 to 45, number one killer. And that's coming in from China to these transnational narco-criminal terrorists, the cartels, and being brought across our border. And so why aren't we dealing with the deal? dealing with that instead of looking and sending more billions of dollars over to Ukraine, which we're concerned about the people there, but we've got some big concerns here in our country as well. Speaking of countries, let's talk about Ukraine.

It looks as though the momentum is not there right now. They need weapons that are going to be able to combat the artillery. It looks like the Russians have backed out of their range and hitting from afar because they cannot beat them in close contact. Here is what President Zielinski said, Cut 45. In the battles in Donbass they will surely go down in military history as one of the most brutal battles in Europe and for Europe.

Ukrainian army and our intelligence tactically still beat the Russian military. What are your thoughts about the direction this is heading?

Well, you know, I spent 22 years in the Army as an artillery officer, and what we see the Russian Army doing is what the whole Soviet mantra was: just lining up your artillery and just keeping it out of range from enemy fire and pummeling the opposition and bringing, you know, urban centers into ruin and rubble.

So there are two things that should happen. First and foremost, we should have been giving them the air cover that they wanted with those Ukrainian, not the Russian military aircraft, the MIGs that they requested, and that would have given them the aerial dominance and they could go after the artillery. And the second thing is we should have been providing them, number one, long-range radar acquisition systems. And then also now we're doing it with the MLRS, which is a weapon system not commanded, so that you can have that range parity against the Russian artillery.

So this is an artillery duel, and they need to have the means by which they can provide the cover for themselves and confront. The Russian artillery, which is just sitting back pummeling them. All right. Thanks so much, Colonel Alan West. Appreciate it.

Always a pleasure. And just remember, Army's strong today. Yep. Happy birthday, Army. Thanks so much.

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I'm now with you, Joy. Get rid of Republicans, get rid of the party. Um, the party as it stands now because it's the party of white supremacy, it's the party of insurrectionists, it's the party of of uh massacres at this point. It's the party that you just it you can't trust. Get rid of Republicans.

Well like Kilmead's eyebrows. That hasn't aged well. Why do I do this show? I don't know. Because you love me.

I have no idea. You love me. Uh that was from Friday. Uh that was from Friday's uh Guttfeld. You guys had a lot of fun on that show.

Right. I think, yeah, I think it was our most highly rated show I think he had all week. Big story, I think, yeah. But it's kind of weird doing that show with an audience. That studio is is amazing now.

Have you been in it? I have not yet, but they just redid it, right? And Yeah, it is absolutely amazing. Uh so yeah, they it really it seats about a hundred people. It's packed out.

So it I mean, it was good before, I really think I think on a regular basis it beat at least three of the four late night shows, sometimes all four shows. Here's uh another one of these shows that I find intriguing because it's swimming against the grain, is with uh Bill Moore. This is what he said on HBOS. Every Friday he does his show. But every once in a while, but almost every show, there's something that'll really take off the Democratic Party.

Cut 38. When liberals scream, do something after a mass shooting, why aren't we also dealing with the fact that the average American kid sees 200,000 acts of violence on screens before the age of 18? It's funny, Hollywood is the wokest place on earth in every other area of social responsibility. But when it comes to the unbridled romanticization of gun violence, Crickets. Weird.

The only thing we don't call a trigger is the one that actually has a trigger. Very interesting. That ticks off the gun people. They don't want any type of red uh flag loss. But the other thing you got to do is somehow find a way, while not violating people's constitutional rights for the Second Amendment, find a way to get ahead of these lunatics before they do what they did in Uvalde by reporting people when they seem out of whack.

Knowing that the guy is going to be 18 to be able to buy a gun. You see him dressing all black. You've seen them come to his house four or five times, the police have to interdict some type of would-be violence. But you know, when they turn 18, Their backgrounds are automatically wiped out. That's why they bring in some type of red flag law, an enhanced background check if you're under 21.

Here's what Senator John Cornyn said: by the way, he headed up for Republicans this bipartisan effort, Cut 36. 16 states have red flag laws, Texas does not. And they certainly shouldn't miss out on access to those resources for crisis intervention. It's absolutely critical. That each and every one of those includes protection.

that comes from due process of law. and particularly when it comes to the rights of law-abiding gun owners. It's not easy in Texas to head up anything restricting any types of. Uh gun rights at all. Uh, yeah, the AR15, the RAR-15 is still in play.

There's so much that got rejected with President Biden Wanda, the 21-day waiting period, not there. High-capacity magazine ban, not going to happen. Universal background checks is not going to take place. Safe storage requirements for all firearms in the house, but it's assumed their responsible owners are doing that already. Criminal penalties for not storing firearms in the correct place, and a license requirement to purchase assault weapons.

So, all that stuff is not in it.

So, there's other things are in it. I know people, some people are upset by it. I'm not. I think it's a good framework. What do you think, Brian?

Kill me chill. 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, thank you. Thank you so much for being here, everybody. It's the Brian Filmico, coming to you from New York, heard around the country, heard around the world, and hopefully in the Ukraine.

This hour, we're going to be joined by Pete Hagseth, as well as his co-author on a brand new book released today, David Goodwin. It's called Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation. And we're also going to do a simulcast with Barney and Company on FBM. And you can always catch us on Fox Nation. Before we get to Pete and Dave, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Sponsored by Life Facts: Save a Life in a Choking Emergency. Visit lifefact.net to learn more and use code BK10 to save 10%. Number three. President Biden, he is saying he's going to run again in 2024.

Will you support him? You know, if the president chooses to run again in 2024, I mean, first of all, I'm focused on winning this majority right now and preserving a majority this year in 2022.

So we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. That is unbelievable, but expected. That's AOC. Biden bumblings on virtually guaranteeing he'll be a lame duck, especially if the midterms are a blowout, which many think they will be, like me. What does that mean for his party and Trump's rebirth, who, by the way, virtually admitted he's running yesterday?

Number two.

Well, I think there's a legitimate reason for having a relationship with Saudi Arabia if you're the president of the United States. Is there a legitimate reason for Phil Nicholson to have this relationship with Saudi Arabia or for Greg Norman to? No, there's no serious purpose for it. Again, this is simply greed, no more, no less. Richard Haas, a foreign relations expert weighing in on golf.

Hypocrisy. That's the only thing you would say with the PGA live controversy.

So far, critics are slamming the Saudi-based Lib tour, but saying nothing when it comes to the relationship with the PGA, NBA, and China. I'll break down both the double standard and the foreign policy implications as the president makes his way over to Saudi Arabia. Number two.

Secretary Yellen said this week that, quote, there is nothing to suggest a recession is in the works. Do you agree with that? No, I don't. When inflation is as high as it is right now and unemployment is as low as it is right now, it's almost always been followed within two years by recession.

Well, that is Lawrence Summers weighing in the economy, stressing the nation in ways I've not seen before. And not only is Joe Biden not getting it and getting a pass from Republicans, he's not getting a pass from Democrats either. Does anyone have any answers? The president speaks today. We'll cover it on Flag Day and the birthday of the Army.

And as I mentioned in studio, Pete Hagseth is here. He's got a brand new book out called Battle for the American Mind. He's also here with his co-author, David Goodwin. Welcome, guys. Thank you, Brian.

Uh good news first. Toddlers in New York City can go to school without masks. Is that too risky? No, it never was rescinded. Preschool?

Did they just rescind it this week? Yeah, this week they go, they start Monday, which I think there's only two weeks left. It's an amazing accomplishment. I mean, I think they got ahead of the curve on that one. Did your kids have to wear a mask at all?

You know what? I'm ashamed to admit that they did. And I would argue for an entire school year too long. And my wife and I, you know, Jen, I mean, we were. Embarrassed by it, agitated at the school about it, but in that near term didn't have another option.

Finally, they switched and changed. But yeah, I mean, It's a sin what we did to ourselves. Oh, it's unbelievable. And just the last one, one of the Bruce's who we both know is actually crying in my ear when they extended the mask for preschoolers 'cause the kids don't want to deal with it. I mean, how you tell by the way, it's not protecting them.

The masks are over their eyes. They have no idea what they're doing. They don't even know what their friends look like. Or their teachers. Or their teachers.

If they're a kindergartner. You're right. But hey, thank you for having David tonight. It's not just Flag Day. Right.

It's also the Army birthday. Yes.

It's also Donald Trump's birthday. Right. I mean, we demanded a national holiday? It is in my house.

Okay. In our contract, it must be the trifecta if it's to be our book launch day as well. Hey, you know what's kind of sad, David, is that there was a 1776 commission under President Trump to push back on the 1619.

So you're one of the few people I understand that was not surprised by the 1619. uh movement. You saw this stuff coming. We did. We I I couldn't have predicted exactly how it came, but we certainly knew that they'd set the beachhead up and we knew where they were coming.

We just didn't know what they were going to do when they got there. When did they start attacking the curriculum in schools? Oh boy, 1915, they redesigned the curriculum from the ground up at about that time for Gary, Indiana, at a model school that they had there. They ran that for a few years, and when it was successful enough, they moved it to New York. And that's where a lot of our research came in, is what the people of New York were talking about when they brought that here.

And what year are you talking about? 1915, 1918, something like that. 1918. And then what was the goal, Pete?

Well, the goal was societal change. It was a recognition that the traditional values of Western civilization and biblical wisdom prevented the kind of radical social change, atheistic change, frankly, that they wanted.

So you had to remove God first. Once you did, there was a lot of power in the classroom. In fact, those early progressives talked about studying what Frances Willard did in the 1870s when she put an anti-alcohol curriculum in third-grade classrooms. Voila, 40 years later, you had a constitutional amendment banning alcohol and the sale of alcohol in America. The philosophy of Schoolroom in one generation can be the philosophy of government in the next.

Progressives studied that, targeted the school, removed God, and then thought the sky's the limit. And look at what we see today. Right. And was there, at one point, was drinking allowed in school? Like early days?

Do you have your research research? Maybe in the one-room schoolhouse. You could bring Breard to school. On Long Island. Right, on Long Island, where I'm from.

Not Minnesota. No. Where they grow them bigger.

Meanwhile, so when did you first come across David?

Well, it's actually a product of Fox and Friends.

So you might be able to say that because of Brian Kilmead and Fox and Friends and diner segments, this entire project came together. And I'm not kidding. I was at a diner in North Carolina. I met a wonderful family that went to a classical Christian school there in Whispering Pines. They said, you got to meet this guy, David Goodwin, who runs the Association of Classical Christian Schools.

We connected. I was passionate about education, wanted to get more involved and research. He had already done a lot of the research on where this problem. Came from. And so as we started talking, we thought, man, if we teamed up, this could be really effective.

He runs a network of schools, has done the research. We're in the media world. And so his research starts at the beginning. My stuff starts today. And we basically pulled the threads together of what the progressive movement has done for 100 years, basically meeting together in the 50s and 60s over the unions and what the Supreme Court did.

But when you add it up, it is an intentional project the left has been immensely successful in. But what makes this book special is the research that David did and that we did on what the early progressives' goals were. And you never learn it because progressives write the textbooks, so you don't know the actual history. And write the history.

So Battle for the American Mind.

So, in other words, Was this the water gradually get warmer, David, or did it come in blistering hot. Trevor Burrus, Jr.: Well, when I started this project, I had heard a lecture where somebody referred to an issue of the New Republic in 1915 and the word, we need to capture the plasticity of the child. And that seemed like a weird word to me, so I started looking into what they were trying to do. That's when I realized it really wasn't about indoctrination, which we hear a lot about today. It was about removing the ability of students to learn to think.

Because if they can't think, you know, in the old system of classical education that had been around for 2,000 years, they trained citizens how to think through issues so that they could vote and so that they could vote without being persuaded. An eloquent tyrant, if you will. And that was the whole thing: is that when you train students that way, they're very hard to control. You can't steer the course you want to steer. And the progressives had a very aggressive plan to steer the course.

So, Pete, why do we even have any Republicans? Like, why are there any conservatives? Why did the conservative movement take such root in the 80s? And many people think poised to reestablish itself in the next midterms.

Well, a lot of the madness we see. Is it not working? Happened gradually and then suddenly. I think what David and I talk about in the book is something called the Western Christian Paideia, and it's a word that's long forgotten, but it's basically the affections or the vision of a good life amongst our youngest kids. There was enough of a residue from 1776 and churches and communities and schools.

If you went into a school on Long Island in 1900, there's a Bible in the classroom, there's prayer being said, there's history being taught of Western civilization. There was enough residue of that amongst parents and grandparents. And others, and then in church and in communities, that the instinct of Americans, the sort of the osmosis and absorbing, was there. Hey, I want to be free. I believe, you know, God is good.

America is good. That could be channeled. You even saw it, you saw it through Reagan, you saw it through Trump. That's still there. But how long can we live off the fumes of that paideia before an indoctrination of a generation of cultural Marxists turns out and says, no, God is dead and America is evil?

It's tough to undo that when you're, or men are women and women are men when you're teaching that to five, six, seven, eight-year-olds. And that's how young they're going at it now. Right. And David, are you surprised? It seems to be the pandemic working to stop this.

Could you describe how the pandemic shed a light on this?

Well, Pete brought to the book the idea of the COVID-16-19 effect, which was that suddenly parents who had previously, just like we think of our congressmen, right? Congress is evil, but our Congressman's a good guy, right?

Well, there's a parallel to that axiom about the public school. The public schools may not be great, but our public school is good. And that was suddenly a Torn wide open, they were able to see it sitting behind their kids on a Zoom camera and see what was actually being taught. And that's why, you know, by a great providence, Pete and I started this project in March of 2020.

So all of, if you think about everything that's happened since then, we basically just stepped into the right page. We started before all of that was exposed. And as we're writing this book, we couldn't keep up. No. And you're updating chapter after chapter.

Things are happening here and there because everything we were writing about seemed to be Coming to fruition at a moment. And that is the silver line, Brian. Parents realize it a lot more now. And what we're trying to do with the book is equip them to make a big choice about how they educate their kids. And then you look at the university, what happened in Virginia.

Yes.

I mean, isn't that the fundamental where the school board flipped and they said, well, Republicans are just trying, you know, trying to insert themselves in a purple state? Republicans would never be able to organize and target school boards. Are you kidding? Yeah. And I think it gives me hope that finally the issue of education will translate into a priority in electoral politics.

It just hasn't been. It hasn't been for conservatives, Christians, patriots, and as a result, The Democrats and their union allies have taken, I can't underscore this enough, have taken over every single institution of education that controls K through 12 on the public and government side. Every single one, testing, standards, curriculum, pedagogy, teachers, colleges, you name it, they control it, which is why our part of the solution is you've got to consider a tactical retreat. Leave if you can, find alternatives, and eventually educational choice is going to be critical. And Republicans, conservatives should be running on that as their top issue, because if we lose the kids, we lose the country.

And also, what about charter schools? Where do you guys stand on that? Is that a relevant and ample pushback, David?

Well, I think in the battle, as we've called it, and it was great to co-author this with a former military guy, I think in the terms of a battle, you've got to use all the resources that you've got at your disposal. And charter schools are certainly one of those. But I think that we are prescribing the book more of a transformational change than an incremental change. I think it's. It's long past time that we do something transformational in education in America.

And I think charter schools can help with that. But I think at the bottom, parents have to take a much more serious look at things. Right. The other thing is they're not being funded.

Now, more and more of these cities are walking away from charter school funding. Which makes absolutely no sense. Because they want the monopoly to continue. The monopoly on the minds, the monopoly on the money on kids, because outcomes they long ago, they've known for decades their schools don't work. Right.

They know they don't work. They haven't delivered excellence for half a century, and they know it. It is now about consolidation of that power. COVID showed it with unions. You're talking about kids two years old in masks in New York City.

They feel like they've got open season to push that control. And what David is talking about is playing within that system. You're going to play within their confines. I went to public school. You went to public school, I think, Brian.

We got progressive educations. You may not have known it. I didn't know it. We did. Every assumption of that education was progressive, which is why the classical Christian schools, David, is helm.

They've overturned the apple cart completely to rediscover a form of education that created the miracle moment of 1776. It was classical Christian education that educated our founders. A lot of Scottish, right? Scottish influence. And by the way, I'm so glad I didn't pay attention to school, or I would have been totally.

There you go. The upside, I never thought about it that way. Think about that. The Harvard youth poll you have in your book. Only 31% of Americans 18 to 24 have a positive outlook on America.

That's unbelievable. That's also in this. When we come back, we'll talk about that as well as the role of Howard Zinn in all this. And by the way, you had your special on Sunday, correct? Yes, David is a good person.

Is that also going to be archived on Fox Nation? On Fox Nation right now. And it's called?

Sorry. Miseducation of America. Got it. Back in a moment. With Pete and David.

Their book, Battle for the American Mind, is out now. Educating, entertaining, enlightening. You're with Brian Kilmead. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead.

Hey, welcome back, everybody. 1-866-408-7669. We'll be able to take calls shortly. A few more minutes with Pete Hagseth and David Goodwin. Hey, guys, you wrote the battle for the American Mind.

Where does the Common Core Come in. I remember Jeb Bush ran about Common Core. Uh it comes in toward the end. As part of the consolidation of federal control, right?

So we think of schools as having effectively being local control. Local school boards, local superintendents, state assemblies are setting the prerogatives. Common Core attempted to tie money towards certain standards that states would enact in order to align with the prerogatives of federal educators. And along with that came changes to the SAT, which now aligns to Common Core. But inside all of that Common Core curriculum and prerogatives were the diversity, the equity, inclusion, and all the woke stuff we barely knew anything about at that time.

Dave, if you can add anything to that, you know it will.

Well, it was kind of a backdoor to deal with some of the disparities between the various ethnic groups in that by creating a test you can study for, which the SAT was always supposed to be a test that you couldn't study for, by creating one that you could study for, and that's what the Common Core was, is a set of standards. When you look at the standards, they don't seem that bad, but when you see what they're They're doing, they're taking reasoning, which is what the original SAT measured, they're taking that out because reasoning is not teachable and they're replacing it with content, and therefore it's really supposed to be leveling the playing field, but it really doesn't do that. I mean, some of the talk was, well, rich people can get people to teach 'em to uh how to take the SAT and it wasn't fair. There's always going to be an opportunity to do additional training on reasoning or approaching a test. There's no doubt.

I mean, that's the reality of. Money and wealth and inequa and inequality and all that. The idea of the Of the SAT was to measure not whether or not the engine could run, but how well it runs, and measuring how well you can reason. That is a reflection of the type of education you got K through 12. We should do better on educating kids K through 12 so they reason the same when they encounter the SAT across all racial backgrounds, as opposed to changing the SAT and making it dumbing it down so that it goes to the lowest common denominator.

So, final thought, David, is there a chance that this thing's going to push back the more you expose people to the reality? There are going to be a pushback and schools will start taking shape in a way in which benefits the country and the family?

Well, I think the best chance is if people get into classical schools and see what's going on for themselves, they can compare and contrast very easily. Just spend some time in the classrooms because it's very different when your kids are full of wonder, they love beauty, and they can reason well. You will be demoralized when you read this book, but also ultimately hopeful about the recourses you do have as a parent and a grandparent. There are options out there. All right, especially now.

People are reconfiguring, figuring out where they're going next year. Battle for the American Mind will help guide you. Congratulations. Thank you, Brian. The more you listen, the more you'll know.

It's Brian Killmead. Let's welcome tonight. He's got a face made for radio, but somehow ended up on TV. Host of One Nation on Saturday nights at 8 p.m., Brian Kill Me. Kill meet, how are you?

Why do you care? I do care, I do. I was feeling great about myself until. I heard my introduction. It's only because I tolerate you.

If he's not on the air, people worry. that he'll want to hang out. Right. And if he finds out he's not on TV, he throws more tantrums than Joy Behar when the zoo forgets her feeding time. Your last name is got the word two words in it, kill me.

Right. So, should people kill you? Is that my question? I believe it is. Why do I do this show?

I don't know. Because you love me. I have no idea. You love me. That was literally the interaction from Friday night, which we taped Thursday, but because of.

What was Thursday again? What what the the January 6th hearing?

So they put it on Friday. Uh kind of interesting. And that's just a montage from the first half of the show. We didn't even go through the whole show yet. It's funny, you know, and then I think they kind of welcomed, they just took off.

Then Greg just says, I'm not doing the five, I'm out.

So he just took all Friday off. Um quick thing. The other thing we have not really discussed in about 10 minutes is going to go on with Stuart Varney, but we haven't really discussed Joe Biden. And the bottom is falling out of his presidency. And it's really by Democrats pulling it out.

He says he wants to run again. But right now, his approval rating is at 33% with the Kuwina Piak poll. Overall, on the average, he's about 38%. That's below Donald Trump. And Donald Trump had not one friendly media outlet and a raging Russia investigation.

But you look around and see the stock market. You see the economic numbers. You see the inflation. And you say, this guy can't possibly still do this job. Here's Rick Klein of ABC on this week with George Sevanopoulos, cut 23.

I'll tell you, from the White House perspective, they're not too concerned about the dynamic for two main reasons. One is the whispers haven't become shouts. People aren't saying it very loudly. And one reason is that there isn't an obvious error parent for a lot of Democrats. A lot of people feel like Kamala Harris would be a flawed candidate.

So there isn't an obvious someone that could step in. And I think the second main thing is that Joe Biden did beat Donald Trump last time. And if Donald Trump remains a major presence, there's a lot of Democrats who feel like there's really only one guy that's ever beat him, and that's Biden. Wow. I mean, that's an interesting.

That's a fact. But it's an interesting way to look at it. But you have four years compared to four years. And right now, anybody thinking soberly knows that President Biden's from Afghanistan on foreign policy. To how slow he was to arm Ukraine and the trouble they're having right now can date right back to that.

To the fact that Saudi Arabia was alienated before he took office, and you see the Abraham Accords basically falling into tatters, his desperate attempt to get the Iran deal going again at home, him just trying or destroying oil and gas to keep the nation cleaner has done nothing except for make us poorer. And in the big picture, it might even be Susan Rice that's doing all this. Say, word is that according to Politico, she's making almost all these decisions, and she is now somebody they're looking to maybe be the next. Uh the next uh chairman of the choice not chairman of the choice of staff. But Chief of Staff, and goodbye Ron Clinton, who's absolutely awful.

But what's crazy is He's got a bipartisan. infrastructure deal. He has what could be the framework for a bipartisan gun deal, but nothing has to do with what he's done. He didn't bring anybody together for that bipartisan deal. They came in around with while he was in office.

They came in around. He had all his demands of what he wants in a gun law. Almost none of it is in what they finally produced.

So he is out there saluting the left every day, and listen to what the left thinks of him. Here is AOC on CNN, Cut21. President Biden, he is saying he's going to run again in 2024. Will you support him? You know, if the president chooses to run again in 2024, I mean, first of all, I'm focused on winning this majority right now and preserving a majority this year in 2022.

So we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. But I think if the president has a vision, and that's something certainly we're all willing to entertain and examine when the time comes. Right. His vision. His vision could be whatever it was.

We've seen his vision. It's a plane crash. That's what his vision is. And unfortunately, we have to live through his vision. But that's the story.

When you lose the left, who you've been kissing up to, thanks to Ron Klain leading the charge and giving up your moderate status or somebody who's known to reach across party lines, that's gone. And they're not even oppressed because he wasn't able to deliver Billback better and some other things because there were sober people in the Democratic Party that said all this stuff is unaffordable and makes no sense.

So for the most part, you have Republicans who are. Are tougher on crime. You have Republicans who want to be energy independent. You have Republicans who are not perfect on foreign policy, but you know, in the Middle East we're heading in the right direction, pretty clear. And now you have a belligerent China.

You have a belligerent Russia like we've never seen before. You have Iran making inroads into Venezuela. They just set up a trade deal. And now you have Russia beginning to land warplanes into Nicaragua. Here's Bill Moore.

On the other things like inflation and gas prices and crime, Cut 24. Republicans appeal to people on the stuff closer to home. You're stepping in it. Human feces on the street. You're stepping in it.

Yes, that's going to get people to vote. And the fact that gas, I know, very high. I read mobile park homes are. Uh the price is I mean boy, when you're priced out of trailer living? No, I mean it's He's not kidding.

So far, Joe Biden's approval rating has hovered around in the low 40s, but now it's 39.7, worse than Trump's I mentioned. Why it matters? Biden's window of opportunity for improving is closing quickly. And in the midterms, goodbye what he has been leading on the January 6th. You think that's going to last one day as soon as Nancy Pelosi goes either out to pasture or into minority?

Not a second. In fact, they're going to reverse it and find out about all the things who are left out of the evidence of that day. Look. I thought on that day in particular, you know I thought. About January 6th, President, that's not the way you lose.

Losing really defines the character that you are. I don't care if it's big or small, whether it's the job you want or whether it's the college you want to get into, the game you're watching. If you lose, how you lose defines your character. The president was absolutely off the rails since the election results came in on the fifth. But everybody around him that should have been like, Hey, you know what?

You know, I've been friends with you a while, you know how loyal I've been. I need you to calm down. You're over your skis right here. But instead, they walked away. Ivanka walks away.

William Barr walks away. Mick Mulvaney walks away. Mike Pence basically walked away. Mike Pompeo won lower profile.

So anybody around him. They stay around with the people like Rudy Giuliani. Who, according to these reports, was drunk on election night, yet the president looked at him as his chief advisor. Having said all that, There's no proof that what President Trump wanted to do was to take over the Capitol. And among the people who have said that, Is Rachel Maddow?

I think she's saying this for a different reason. First, I want you to hear what she said last night. Cut 31. Just the key point, that yes, there was a pro-Trump rally at which the President spoke, and we can absolutely talk about all the things the President said there. But the idea that that rally is the thing that got out of hand and that somehow resulted in the breaching of the Capitol, that rally was very far from the Capitol.

And the people who, as you say, did the initial breach that allowed everybody else to come in, they never even went to that rally.

So she's saying you can't tie it together yet. And what they're doing with this investigation on January 6th is without any pushback, any Republican support, any prodding that Liz Cheney and Adam Kissinger just refuse to do, they're editing the answers they want from William Barr, who basically you can get the same answers from his book on tape. There's nothing he's saying different that we didn't get in this studio, in his two or three appearances here or on television. And now you have nobody sitting up pushing back.

So instead of hearing both sides, you say, well, I'm only hearing one side. I question what I'm hearing. Because we've all got our antennas up to being manipulated.

So I think that the present The current president is not going to have that to live off of. He's going to have to live in reality. Or he's going to have to start cutting deals with the right. And I do hold to this, and I think I was the first person to say this: the worst thing that ever happened to President Biden. was winning those Senate seats because that put him in the majority and it raised expectations.

He was going to get things done. He was never going to get Joe Manchin to spend all this socialistic spending. I was surprised that Kirsten Sinema even was standing up so strong in Arizona. And it was definitely a very I don't know, heartened by the fact that in the wings they say that John Tester and some other moderates were also not in favor of any of this.

So they if they weren't going to do it Then the others weren't going to do it. Here's Larry Kudlow, cut twenty-nine. It's about policy and substance and what you're doing and are you helping the country or hurting the country? Everybody in the country outside of the Biden White House understands that the country is vastly worse off.

So he can't possibly be run. But look, the semifinals is going to be in November. He's going to get slaughtered. The cavalry's coming and things are going to get better. Yeah, uh the Calvary would be coming in the house.

And if Herschel Walker and Company can deliver in the Senate, and J.D. Vance to hold those seats, that would certainly be interesting. Listen, when we come back, we'll do a simulcast on FBN with Stuart Varney on his great show. And we'll talk a lot, then to be able to take your calls. 1-866-408-7669.

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In just a moment, we come to you from New York, heard around the country, around the world, and we'll have a chance to go on an FBM with Stuart Varney shortly. And one of the things we'll talk about is: even if you're not a big golfer, you'll probably heard this story: Greg Norm is fronting up this new league. It's called the Live Tour, and it's financed by Saudis. But I don't think, and Phil Mickelson, Bryson, DeChambeau, Sergio Garcia, and others have made the trip over there.

So let's listen. We'll talk about it. As in Brian Killmead, join us. Hey Brian, I want to talk golf. The Saudis kicked off their new golf league.

They were met with anger from 9-11 families. Here's the quote: Live golfers should be ashamed. They're helping the Saudi regime sportswash their reputation in return for tens of millions of dollars. At the very same time, our government's rolling out more damning evidence of Saudi culpability in the 9/11 attacks. They don't like the Live golf tour.

Where do you stand, Brian? A couple of things. Saudi Arabia has never been a pure country. Not many people say, well, I'm so glad to be dealing with the Saudis, but compare them to the rest of the people in that neighborhood and compare them to what else is going on in sports. I mean, right now, the president of the United States plans a trip to, let me see, Saudi Arabia.

Why? To pump more oil and gas. I'm just thinking about it. Newcastle is now being bid on by a prince in Saudi Arabia, Newcastle FC. Does that mean Newcastle fans should stop going?

That oligarch Obramovich that owned Chelsea, they just won this championship. How do people feel about an oligarch actually best friends and buddies and supporting Vladimir Putin, the Hitler of our day?

So why will we go into Chelsea games? Manchester City is owned by one of these billionaire from the UAE. I know that we're about to go to the World Cup overseas at the UAE. They were using slave labor to build their stadiums. These people were treated horribly.

A lot of them died building these stadiums.

So in China, on a regular basis, the Uyghurs. Are being tortured. They're being destroyed. It's a genocide. But yet we still see non-stop interaction between the NBA, the NFL, Major League Baseball, everybody.

Soccer.

So why is the line on this league with Greg Norman heading it up? Who's been extremely popular and successful here as a business person? And you have Sergio Garcia and others going over there. It's not just Michelson. That's for sure.

There's big money to to be made over in this tour. Greg Norman it seems to me, Greg Norman is breaking the PGA monopoly. That's the big picture story here. Where do you stand on that? I was texting with him, and that's it.

He says: My goal was to always have some control. And we feel like we have they felt like he never had really any control over his career during these days.

Now, the PGA set up as a non-profit, but they are the only game in town. Remember, you wouldn't know this firsthand, but the USFL gave a run of the NFL. For a while, the best players, Herschel Walker, Steve Young, and others, were going to the USFL. Jim Kelly, going to the USFL. You got changes in the NFL as they assembled with the USFL as they tried to merge.

The ABA pushed the NBA to be better with Julius Irving and Larry Brown, coaching the San Antonio Spurs at the time. There eventually was a merger. I think it made the sport better.

Now they're getting their comeuppance. You're not the only game in town. That might be a lot of this. I'm not speaking for the Saudi families, for the 9-11 families. I get it.

No one's done more in the war on terror and more study and read more books about that than me. But I also know we're back in relations with Saudi Arabia, combining with them to wipe out ISIS and al-Qaeda. It's complicated, but don't make the stand this tournament. My goodness, you barred Donald Trump. You decide to move the PGA out of Donald Trump's courses.

Guess what? The live tournament's going to be at Doral.

So all of a sudden you want to boycott our president, the PGA does, and no one's supposed to have a problem with that? In my opinion, at some point the PGA has to back away from its threat to suspend all those players who go to the Live tournament. They have to back off from that and accept that there are now two golf authorities in the world. PGA dominates still, but the LIV tour is coming on strong. Last word to you.

Don't forget, Dustin Johnson, too. I think you're 100% right. I understand the PGA wants to defend itself, but. And the 9-11 families have every reason to speak out. And Khushogi was a brutal murderer.

But everywhere you go, you had a Russian you have a Russian owning the New Jersey Nets when they were New Jersey Nets and New York Nets for about 15, 20 years. Nobody spoke out about that.

So I I'm like surprised by all this outrage. Yeah. Well, the money talks, doesn't it? Hey, Brian, I'm going to watch you on One Nation Saturday night, 8 p.m. Eastern only on Fox News Channel.

Thanks, Brian. See you later. Go get him, Stewart. Thank you. Stuart?

Yeah, 1866-408-7669. Phil Mickelson's a guy they keep targeting. I'm not really sure why. I think as much as I think he's the second-winniest golfer of his generation after Tiger Woods, off the top of my head, I think about 46 PGA wins. He's won the U.S.

Open. I don't think he's won the U.S. Open yet, but I just think that they just like to beat him up. I mean, there's stuff about him. I mean, he hardly walks on water.

I mean, it lost over not that it's illegally worsted to some like uh over a hundred million dollars uh uh gambling on on different activities.

So Uh we'll see about that.

So we'll talk about what's going on with that league. It's when sports meets real with the real world. But most of all, I just think it's ironic that people are outraged. And I've given nine eleven families their due, but just be just as outraged as As Joe Biden at Joe Biden, we're going over there to beg the Saudis in July in a couple of weeks. Beg them to pump more oil.

Because he isolated them. That means we've got to deal with Iran and Venezuela. Arguably, just as, if not more evil, Saudi Arabia dealing with Israel makes us feel as though they're more. Amenable. To our influence, perhaps.

We also provide them with a weapon system to protect themselves against these missiles that keep on coming over from Yemen, thanks to the Iran-sponsored Houthi rebels. It's a complicated world. And for Joe Biden to come out and say they're a pariah nation, I'll never deal with them. Knowing that we get they're part of OPEC, which controls the price of oil and gas, which is affecting those same people that Joe Biden's going to be dealing with today, working class Americans at the AFL-CIO. Happy birthday to the Army.

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Thanks so much for being here, everybody. It's the Brian Killmeat Show, 1866-408-7669. This hour we're going to be joined by Jonathan Swan of Axe Show.

So we always love that. And of course, we're following the President of the United States, speaking to the AFL CIO on Flag Day, which also the 247th. anniversary of the birth of the American Army, which predated Our birth.

So let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. President Biden, he is saying he's going to run again in 2024. Will you support him? You know, if the president chooses to run again in 2024, I mean, first of all, I'm focused on winning this majority right now and preserving a majority this year in 2022.

So we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. Well, Biden bumbling has Dems virtually guaranteeing he'll be a lame duck, especially if the midterms are a blowout like many predicted, like me. What does that mean for the party and Trump's rebirth, who, by the way, virtually admitted he's running again? Number two.

I think there's a legitimate reason for having a relationship with Saudi Arabia if you're the president of the United States. Is there a legitimate reason for Phil Nicholson to have this relationship with Saudi Arabia or for Greg Norman to? No, there's no serious purpose for it. Again, this is simply greed, no more, no less. Is there anything different than going to China and what LeBron James is doing, what the NBA is doing?

Richard Hossway, and hypocrisy. That's the only consistent thing in the PGA-live controversy. Critics are slamming the Saudi-backed live live tour, but says nothing when it comes to the relationship with the PGA or the PGA pulling out of a Donald Trump-sponsored event that it was on his course.

Well, the NBA with China, we'll discuss it. Number one. Secretary Yellen said this week that, quote, there is nothing to suggest a recession is in the works. Do you agree with that? No, I don't.

When inflation is as high as it is right now, and unemployment is as low as it is right now, it's almost always Been followed within two years by recession. The economy is stressing this nation in a way I've not seen before. And not only is Joe Biden not getting a pass from Republicans, he's not getting much support from Democrats either. Does anyone have any answers? Let's bring in Jonathan Swan of Act Shows.

Jonathan, welcome back. It's been a while. How are you doing, Brian? Hey, I'm doing well. The January 6th hearings, how do you think they're resonating two rounds in?

Well, that's the hardest question of it all. I mean, I've never thought that these appearings would have much of an impact on public opinion. I think most people have made up their mind. We're obviously extremely polarized Politically, in this country, also in terms of media consumption.

So I don't know that it's going to have that effect. And when I talk to I mean, here here's here's the proof that Democrats don't even think it's going to have that effect is Do you ever hear the Biden administration, the White House? talk about it. No, they don't. They're not leaning into this.

They don't think that this is a message that's going to affect the midterms one way or other. They're trying to figure out a message about inflation and other things like that.

So I don't ever I never thought it would have much of an effect on Public opinion. That's a separate question from whether it's a worthwhile exercise in terms of uncovering facts, which I think it is. You could obviously have criticisms about the way the committee conducts itself, but I'm generally interested in seeing what they come up with. A couple of things. The one thing I think they, believe it or not, get hurt by not having anybody on the other side.

Because it makes you be your own judge. And when you watch edited tapes of montages of interviews that you know lasted for hours, and there's nobody there saying, excuse me, he also went on to say this, and he also went on to say that. And the revolution that the revelation that William Barr made could be picked out of his book on tape that's available at Barnes Noble.

So I thought a lot of that was they get hurt by not having a Jim Jordan try to hammer his side. Then you can honestly make a decision. What do you think about that? Yeah, I mean, I again, I don't think that this the construct of the committee is going to Have an effect on Republican voters and change their mind necessarily. I'm not a public polling expert, but I think that if you just look at the approval rating of Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, they're not exactly popular with Republican voters.

I do think it was interesting the way that they presented, having senior DOJ officials who work for Trump all basically say the same thing that they told him that these allegations that he was being fed were bogus. And as a presentation, it was powerful. I don't know that there was much ameliorating when you talk about people like Donahue and Rosen at DOJ and PAC and Barr. I don't know that there was much. Context, frankly, missing from the way they cut that together.

But I take your point in some of these other interviews, I'm sure. you know, Jared Kushner and Ivanka said things that you know, wouldn't fit The narrative that they want to present in the hearing.

So I'm not suggesting it's perfectly contextual. And by the way, just for the record, I think you know, he lost. And I think the way he acted after he lost was the worst period in his political career. And the fact that he still holds to that is going to be going to be really detrimental to him running again. Britt Room said this.

What strikes me about this, Brett, is that If they succeed either by damaging him or staining him such that he is either unable or for legal or political reasons to run again, they might end up finding out that they've done the Republican Party a great service because I think a great many Republicans think they can't win with Trump at the head of the ticket again. They're afraid of his supporters and don't want to come out against him directly, but they'd like him to go away. If the effect of this committee is to make his possible candidacy go away, I think a great many Republicans would privately be very glad.

What about from your sources? Do you think he's do you think he's right?

Well, he's right in the sense that it's true that Republican elites um in Washington and I think a large number of the big donors in the party would would like Donald Trump to go away and would much prefer Governor DeSantis to President Trump in twenty twenty four. But that's a separate question from whether this committee will have the effect of making Donald Trump is politically unviable or legally unviable, and count me extremely skeptical that that will happen. I think there's It's very hard to imagine this committee having such an effect on Republican Party partners. Public opinion, I'm talking about the voters now, not the elites, that it would disqualify Donald Trump from being the nominee in 2024. I just it's hard for me to imagine that happening.

A couple of things that are resonating now. The revelation came out that Kimberly Guilfoyle made $60,000 for a two-minute speech. And some people inside the Trump world, according to Maggie Haberman, inside the Trump world, not outside, are outraged by it because they raised a lot of small donors, donations, in order to fight for this election integrity, and that's not where they thought it would go. Yes, that then certainly there were a lot of people sharing last night. I can tell you from my own sources sharing that piece about Kimberly Gilpo the CNN interview.

What's not clear to me is I know that there were actually a lot of high dollar donors who contributed to that particular event on January sixth, so it's not clear to me that this was Small dollar donations. But, big butt, there is a big question about the way money was raised in that post-election period. A lot of these fundraising emails went out to people saying, you know, give whatever, $20 to stop the spiels, you know, basically giving them the the giving these small donors, many of whom are retirees who have fixed incomes, the idea that if they gave a bit of money, they could help overturn the election, which was always a fantasy.

So there are real questions about how that money was raised and how that money was used, and it's a serious line of inquiry for investigators. Jonathan, it's one of our guests, obviously. Jonathan, you had a chance to talk to President Zelensky over in Davos. Since that time, the war is not going nearly as well for the Ukrainians. Where do you think that stands for their effort?

The Russians are pushing forward in the East, and they're having some success just on raw power and long distance artillery fire. What do you think that does for Zelensky in the war effort? The biggest risk for Zielinski right now look, I spoke to him now probably a month ago.

So I've interviewed him three times in the last eighteen months, but that was the first time since the invasion. The big risk for him is basically that the West gets I don't want to use the word bored, but that's almost the right word. The West effectively loses interest. There was that intense period of Europe Changing its foreign policy, Germany changing its foreign policy overnight, the US getting uh rallied. But you know, here's a here's a kind of way to think about it.

Do you think the next time a Ukraine aid package goes before Congress Going to get the same type of overwhelming bipartisan support it did last time. I don't. I think it's going to have a lot of opposition, particularly in the House. Um so I think the pro the challenge for Zielinski is this war becomes a war of attrition. His economy, the Russians, you know, choke off the ports.

They a lot of Ukrainian soldiers are dying every day. It just becomes a really bloody, painful, long war, and Putin should. Shows a high, you know, he's so invested in this, his whole regime and leadership is tied up in this, and his own self-conception as a historic figure is tied up in this.

So I think that the real challenge for Zielinski, and this is why you see him almost every day do some kind of appearance on television or online, is because he's almost having to basically every day persuade the West, don't give up on me, don't ignore us, stay engaged. And it must be exhausting for him, but that's reality. It is. I guess I've got to see the bigger picture, and the President's got to do a better job at selling on a regular basis what the mission is and how it's bigger than just Ukraine. It could be the rest of the East, and we'll see.

It seems like foreign policy. You look at the President, we find out that Nicaragua is accepting Russian fighter jets now. That's interesting. Venezuela and Iran have set up a 50-year trade deal. That's interesting.

China is pushing back, threatening us because of our support of Taiwan, as well as threatening us not to form a NATO in their region. It doesn't seem like the foreign policy area in which Joe Biden is showing the strength necessary.

Well, you forgot one, which is Saudi Arabia. Joe Biden has had to. Uh reverse himself completely. on Saudi Arabia. Remember, he came into office Calling Mohammed bin Salman a pariah and saying that he wanted to effectively isolate him and to.

Turned out very quickly, they realized they needed the Saudis for a number of things, but particularly for oil.

So they did this sort of quiet mission over there to start saying nice things to MBS behind closed doors. But MBS doesn't want it behind closed doors. He wants a public show of affirmation.

So now it looks like Biden's going to give him that.

So the Saudi policy has had to completely reverse himself on that. He's got a lot of troubles in many different parts of the world. I think so. Let's look at another area in which politically people are debating over the weekend whether Joe Biden has a future running even for a second term. Here's part of the base he's been kissing up to has been the left wing, the squad.

Here's AOC, cut 21. President Biden, he is saying he's going to run again in 2024. Will you support him? You know, if the President chooses to run again in 2024, I mean, first of all, I'm focused on winning this majority right now and preserving a majority this year in 2022.

So we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. But I think if the President has a vision, and that's something certainly we're all willing to entertain and examine when the time comes. Is that an endorsement? You're in Washington, Jonathan. I'm trying to go in between the lines and look at the consonants and the vowels.

What do you think? Yeah, th that is not an endorsement. Yeah. Yeah. Prime one one thought experiment.

for your listeners, is close your eyes. Take yourself back to 2018, 2019, whatever. And try to imagine a member of the Freedom Corpus, the right-wing group in the House, saying something like that about Donald Trump. They would have been pledging absolute fealty to Donald Trump.

So that is one of the differences and one of the challenges Biden has is as compared to Donald Trump is the left Yeah. Of the party is not enthusiastic about him, whereas Donald Trump, the right-wing activist space of the Republican Party, was extremely enthusiastic about him throughout his presidency. And it's a challenge. I will say it's not that kind of equivocation is while AOC may be one of the rare people who's willing to say it publicly, it's not confined to her. There are many others who have private, deep private.

doubts about um about the presence Viability in 2024, and those people are not confined to. To the left wing of the party. They're scattered. throughout the party. Understood.

Jonathan, your gut tell you Trump's running? It does, but, you know, it's always hard to predict what he's going to do, but every indication I've seen is is that he's going to announce that he's running. He's certainly giving that indication to his people. And and I'll tell you, I thought at I I think he this may not be uh Still the case, but I actually thought he was considering doing it very, very soon. As recently as a couple of weeks ago, I was quite confident he was going to announce Very soon, or certainly this summer.

I'm not quite just the latest things I've heard. I'm not quite as certain of that. But would it surprise me if he announces he's running before the midterm elections? It wouldn't surprise me at all. Jonathan Twan, always insightful.

Thanks so much. Thanks, I'm me. Go get him. 1-866-408-7669. I see the numbers up there.

We'll get to you, I promise, when we get back. And then actually, we'll have two blocks to do that when there will do a more to know. This is a big show. Don't move, Brian Kill Me Show. Learning something new every day on the Brian Kill Me Show.

If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. Republicans appeal to people on the stuff closer to home. You're stepping in it. Human feces on the street.

You're stepping in it. Yes, that's going to get people to vote. And the fact that Gas, I know, very high. I read mobile park homes are Uh the price is I mean Yeah, every Boy, when you're priced out of trailer living? No, I mean it's uh Bill, listen at W S K Y.

Hey, Bill, over in Florida. Yeah. Brian, when the oil reserves run out, the question is not going to be how much is gas going to be. The question is going to be how much gas is there going to be. You know what?

I'm not even sure where we're at with tapping into the reserves. But I just think that overall, we'd have to have a real meeting with the oil and gas companies to find out what it would need to get away some of the. you know, some of the red tape that's stopping them from drilling. Getting some permits out there. Yes, right.

All right. Thanks for the call. I mean, If you talk to people, they want to make money, no doubt about it. But who was bailing at the oil and gas companies when they were losing money? They were shedding jobs a year and a half ago.

That was the deal.

Now all of a sudden the money's coming up, but there's only a finite amount they can pump because of the refinery capacity and because they weren't equipped for this type of fallout.

So, as oil and gas become scarcer, remember it was just in the middle of the ocean doing absolutely nothing during the pandemic. That many people were saying, let's bail out the oil and gas companies.

Now, that all of a sudden we need those barges, we need them in port, we got to get them here quicker. Around the world, the demand is up.

Now, the price of oil goes up.

Now, you want to take some of their profits away. That to me is anti-capitalistic. When we come back, I'm going to be joined by Ian O'Connor. We're going to talk about some of the fallout. From this live golf tour as opposed to the PGA golf tour, what the reality is, don't move.

Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Why do they need us so badly? Because those players have chosen to. sign multi-year lucrative contracts.

To play in a series of exhibition matches against the same players over and over again. you look at that versus what we see here today. And that's why they need us so badly. You've got true, pure competition. That's why they need us.

That's what we do. Uh but we're not going to allow Players to free ride off of our loyal members, the best players in the world. That's a PGA Commissioner talking about what they need. They need the elite PGA players to join the Live Tour, which is headed up by Greg Norman. Joining us now is the New York Post, Ian O'Connor, best-selling author.

And his latest book is Coach K: The Rise and Reign of Mike Tchevsky. Ian, welcome back. Hey, Brian, how are you? Thanks for having me. Hey, nope.

Always love having you on. Your column today about Phil Mickelson. You say the editor the headline says it all. Phil Mickelson won't escape his new legacy. How can you live with yourself?

You think he made a big mistake? I do. I understand he's got a lot of gambling losses he has to account for by his own public admission, Brian. But to cut a $200 million deal with these people, I just don't think he needed to do it. And he is going to take a massive public relations hit.

I don't think he realized how big that hit was going to be. And in seeing his face and listening to him yesterday here at the Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, he looks like a haunted man, as if He sold his soul here and he wants it back, and he doesn't know how to do that.

So I think he now realizes he might have made a big mistake. Uh what about the others?

Well, same thing, really, Brian. But of course, Phil's the biggest star and he got the biggest payday, so he's going to take the most heat. And so maybe some of the other players have escaped this a little bit. But now I will say this, I do think they should be allowed to play wherever they want to play. And I also think the PGA Tour left themselves open to this kind of challenge because over the years, as you know, and you have a sports background, the PGA Tour offers no guaranteed money to anyone, including Tiger Woods.

When Tiger in his prime started a tournament, he started with zero, just like the one hundred twenty-sixth guy in the field. That's not like LeBron James or Mike Trout or Aaron Judge or any of the stars in the other sports. They have guaranteed contracts.

So I think as long as the PJ Tour didn't have that, this was inevitable.

So you have Bryson DeCambeau, you have Patrick Reed, you have Sergio. Uh, Garcia, you Dustin Johnson, yeah, Dustin Johnson, uh, arguably the guy who's you one of the biggest names in the sport, go over there. And as you know, Ian, because you have a knowledge of global sports, you know, the Saudis and the UAE and the United Arab Emirates, you know, UAE Qatar, all their royal families own some type of sports team. I mean, now you have Newcastle. One of these princes is bidding for Newcastle over in England.

You have, for the longest time, you have that oligarch, Abramovich, who owned Chelsea. There's just one who just won a championship over there. I mean, Vladimir Putin, who he keeps in power and pays, is one as evil as evil gets. You have China, who is an open market. While they commit genocide with the Uyghurs, it's open market for NBA and the NFL to a degree.

All our leagues are marketed there. What's the difference with this situation? There really is no difference, Brian. And so it is surprising that, say, LeBron James and Adam Silver didn't take more heat for their business. in China.

The PJ Tour, by the way, also did business with China, with the PJ Tour China Series and the HSBC Champions event, which was in China.

So the Tour had no problem cutting that deal or deals with that country.

So, there's a lot of this. I think the difference is this. First of all, these golfers are independent contractors. They're not part of a team, so they can't hide behind the team and the organization. This is a very individual decision, and they're out front with it, public.

And I also think this: Saudi Arabia, it's a little different because of 9-11, and you've seen the criticism from 9-11 families. 15 of the hijackers were from that country, and Americans have not forgotten that by a long shot.

So, I don't think these golfers, particularly Nicholson, realized that they were going to take that kind of criticism from 9-11 families. And I think that's really what's knocked Nicholson back more than anything else.

So, a couple of things. You know, I don't understand. Michelson could still play in the U.S. Open, but they suspended the others. No, no, they're all suspended from the PGA Tour, Brian, but the PGA Tour does not run the U.S.

Open. That's run by the USGA. And the USGA came out and said. we are going to allow these players to compete because they qualified.

So they might be under PJ tour suspension, but we're not going to disqualify people who qualify through our established criteria.

So now next year. That might be different because the live golf circuit is not offering world ranking points right now.

So. This issue is going to come to the fore at Augusta National in April. The Masters. What is the Masters going to do with these live golfers? That is going to be very telling as far as the future of golf is concerned.

Very interesting to see where this goes. The other big story that's going on in the world of sports, I think, is. On the positive note, the best NBA finals I've seen in quite some time. I mean, just great basketball. The ratings are through the roof.

And great, just like a bunch of great guys. And I think it's great to have a storied franchise back in there in the Boston Celtics. I think that's helped, Brian, honestly. And Steph Curry is the greatest shooter of all time. I think there's a bigger difference or gap between Steph Curry and the next greatest shooter of all time than there is between Michael Jordan and the next greatest player of all time, probably LeBron James.

I mean, and he had a terrible night last night, and Golden State still found a way to win the game.

So it's been a very entertaining series, no question. I think the Celtics will win Game Six Thursday night, and it'll be fun to watch Game Seven. Yeah, I think so too. For New York fans, and we are in WABC and WRCN here and WLIR. What the Rangers did this year.

was unexpected. And you really saw that the New York fans were waiting for something to cheer about, and they finally got it. No offense to the Islanders, who got that far last year, but could you talk about that run?

Well, listen, I'm not a big hockey guy, but I've been in that building in Madison Square Garden for the Rangers and their last cup run, and that place is electric. The garden in New York is electric when the Knicks or the Rangers make a run. The Rangers have done it recently. The Knicks, of course, it feels like 100 years. But uh it it's a great atmosphere.

It's a great sports town. And the Rangers, they had their chance to go up three point zero. But I think what Tampa Bay showed you, the Lightning, is having won the last two Stanley Cups, is they have a lot of championship muscle memory and DNA, and that ultimately won them that series. Yankees, this team, you talk about surprises. This was supposed to be well, it's time for Cashman to maybe go, let's break this team up.

Now they're looking like the nineteen ninety eight Yankees. Can you do you Andy, can you put in layman's terms what you've witnessed? It's the best Yankee team I've seen in a long time. They can beat you in so many different ways, not just with the home run. They're more athletic, running the base is better, catching the ball better.

They just They look like the best team in baseball.

Now, the 98 Yankees had won most of those guys in 96.

So when I mentioned championship DNA and muscle memory before, 98 had it. This group does not.

So they're going to be under an immense amount of pressure in October. To win because they haven't done that since 2009.

So I think it's all about winning 11 games in October. And let's see if this group can pull that off. Yeah, and lastly, you were all over Coach K in his final season, and now we're seeing some established coaches head for the exits. We're seeing Nick Sabin brawling with Jimbo talking about what's happened with the NIL. You get the sense that college sports has changed forever, especially until they come up with these rooms with new rules for name, image, and likeness.

Yeah. It's chaotic. That's definitely one of the reasons Coach K stepped away. I think he said publicly otherwise, but I don't believe that. It is just unbelievable.

Free agency has come to College Sports. They're trying to figure out how to manage it. I don't know if there's any managing of. And when you have schools and coaches getting involved with companies, To and secretly, because they're not supposed to do that, but you know what's going on, to put together deals. For athletes, it's the Wild West out there.

And so it is going to be fascinating to watch how this unfolds in major college basketball and football over the next five years. I mean, you're going to have an offensive lineman with like four dealerships that he has to go sign footballs on a Sunday. He could have been making $200,000 while he's studying for physics or philosophy. I mean, what would it take for come in and just set up a criteria, set up a threshold? Outside the word booster, I don't see any rules.

Well, listen, Arch Manning, the number one quarterback in the next high school class, probably the biggest recruit in the history of high school football. Obviously, the son of Cooper and the nephew of Peyton and Eli Manning. Let's see what NI deals he gets, NIL deals he gets. I mean, that is going to set all kinds of records if he wants to do that. I'm not sure that's very important to him, but.

The money is completely gone insane in college sports, and I don't see it stopping anytime soon. Do you think he's going to be that good? I mean, from what you've seen? I've only seen him twice, and yeah, I think he's more athletic than both Peyton and Eli. He's got the arm strength.

And so that's how he's described by everybody who's really coached him and watched him more than I have. He's a more athletic Peyton than Eli. That sounds pretty good to me. I don't know about you, but it's a lot of pressure, too. But he seems like a very level-headed kid.

And I know his father. His father, Cooper, is a very level-headed guy, and he's done a good job managing this process as best he can. I can imagine. I mean, he's the brother. He's got a great personality.

We see him on Fox all the time. Ian, thanks so much. Appreciate it. All right, thank you, Brian. All right, Ian O'Connor, New York Post, 1-866-408-7669.

We'll be back in a moment. Educating, entertaining, enlightening. You're with Brian Kilmead. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show.

If you identify as a woman and you have prostate cancer, it's a guy gonna look for the prostate cancer. No, I identify as a woman, so I don't have a prostate anymore. Yeah, so, okay, sir, you have breast cancer in your balls. Yeah, there you go. Ryan, is your excuse for you?

I heard from Deucey that your pronouns are paupus and jerkface. No, that's just how he describes me. Is any of this show going to air? Because it's all going to be fleek. I mean, for the most part, Tulsa, you and I are only going to actually be understood.

You've got no friends in this circle. Yeah, exactly.

So there you go. That is a little of the gut felt from the other night. It was a pretty crazy show, which I almost totally forgot. It seems like 10 years ago. Right from last Thursday could have been three months ago.

I know, then it aired on Friday, then there was this weekend. And we'll see. It makes you wonder if there's even more to know. More. To know.

All right, let's begin with the NBA Finals. I was just mentioning this to Ian O'Connor. What a game! I mean, again, this is a fantastic series. The Celtics lose 104-94.

They came all the way back. They were trailing early. Seth Curry was not great. 7 of 22 from the field. In the end, the Warriors are now one win away from securing their fourth NBA title.

Game six is Thursday night at 9 o'clock. It's in Boston. They force a game seven. All bets are off.

Next. Justin Bieber is updating his fans about this Ramsey Hunt syndrome. We even talked about this. Think about this. Can you imagine getting up and half your face is paralyzed?

He can't blink. He can't move his nostrils. He can't move his lips on one side. He says he can't even eat because he can't control his mouth. He wanted to share a little bit of how he's feeling.

He says, I'm reminding he knows. He says, Each day has gotten better, and though through all the discomfort, I have found comfort in the one who designed. Designed me and knows me. I guess he's talking about God. Justin Bieber took an Instagram to tell everybody about this.

But think about it: the one thing that could hurt him, something he has no control over, nothing to do with his behavior, just something this happens very rare, one above 200,000 people or something.

Well, at least hopefully it's getting better. I guess I need to look this up, but how is that different from Bell's Palsy, right? Where your face can sometimes. I don't know. It beats me, but I hear people get that, and you eventually come back out of that.

But, I mean, you talk about everyone's getting mad at him because he was canceling concerts, so he had to do his own video.

Next, Elon Musk to attend a virtual all-hands-on-deck meeting with Twitter employees. This is odd because he didn't buy it yet, did he? No, not yet. Did not go through yet. He said he's set to speak at the company he's going to speak to at the meeting this week.

It'll be the first time he's addressed employees since agreeing to buy the company back in April. Twitter confirmed the news, and they say this: the meeting is set to take place.

So, in two days, Musk himself will be taking questions from employees, some of whom have repeatedly been troubled with this purchase. We all know that. The CEO announced that the meetings on Monday will be moderated by Twitter's CMO, the chief marketing officer, Leslie Berlin. Twitter's employees have been upset. But he wants to find out.

Did he find out yet how many bots there are following him? I do not believe so. He's been asking that question, and it's yet to be answered. But um I'm I I'm looking forward to when the questions and answers get leaked. Yeah, I mean, I bet you're going to be right away.

I mean, people are going to be hacking into this right away. And the question is: is he going to be able to answer all? I'm sure he'll have Very good answers. Whether or not they're what the employees want to hear is another story. Yeah, but the thing is, he's got to care the new valuation.

The way I understand it, Tesla's stock has dropped precipitously since, and so has Twitter stock dropped precipitously since. They actually cut the deal. Not only is the market dropped, but his questions, legitimate questions, have hurt Twitter.

So if he walks away, not only does he have to pay a billion dollars, but Twitter's, I guess. Just a hulk of what it was. True, and then all those things plus the economy and market overall has also gone down, right?

So he. Contributed to that in that little isolated world, but then overall, too, the economy's down. It's very interesting to follow.

Next, Mike Tyson back in the news because Ric Flair, the legendary wrestler, will call it a career. It looks like Tyson has signed on to be part of the roast of a 73-year-old Flair going down July 29th in Nashville, Tennessee. He's a big fight fan. In fact, Tyson 2.0, a cannabis company, recently struck a deal with Ric Flair Drip. and the men will be selling different marijuana products, uh possibly edibles.

Will you watch? No. Yeah. No. I don't think so.

I just am shocked how many people are getting so rich off a pot. And I think it's absolutely. hurting America's next generation. I would agree with that.

So, if you had the opportunity to make a ton of money with it, you would say no. I would say no. Uh next, a majority of parents feel no shame in sharing a bed with their little ones. In fact, seven of ten believe the act should be normalized rather than stigmatized. What is your thoughts about that?

One poll said 2,000 parents of kids under 10 revealed that 78% are aware of the pros and cons, but they don't care. 88% prefer co-sleeping with their kids because they believe it makes them feel closer to them. 51% say they co-slept with their parents as young children. 76% believe that kids today should eventually learn how to fall asleep independently. We all eventually have to fall asleep independently.

That's pretty much a given. That is true. I think it really depends on, like, do you let them fall asleep with you in your bed every night, or do you, like. you know, help them. What do you do?

We have them fall asleep in their room. You know, it's always a negotiation with my five-year-old, right, every night. It's like you sit here, you lay down, but like they need to fall asleep in their room. There are nights when you know he'll run and then he sleeps. And then you feel bad, and you don't know if they're sick.

And you know, when they do run in, it is like in the middle of the night, they are cute. You got to take those snuggles in when you can. It doesn't happen that long. You never know where they're going to be 20.

Next, sunny is money. 73% say that weather directly impacts productivity at work. One in four respondents claim that cool temperatures and clear skies have a connection to being more productive at work. It coincides with 43% who believe they do their best work in the spring. No surprise that 65% prefer working outside when the weather is nice.

Lifeguards, for example, which we need some. There is a lifeguard shortage. I feel like when the weather gets very nice, though, people sort of just want to, you know, tap out and go to the beach. No, I do, no, no. I do think people are more productive.

You know what? You could always tell? If people are going to be productive, it's what they choose to wear. If they pick out bright colors, they're in a good mood. If you notice, you're in a bad mood, you pick out dark colors.

Uh-oh, I'm wearing navy today, so am I in a bad mood? Did you pick it out last night or this morning? Oh, this morning. Oh, you're in a bad mood. Uh-oh.

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