Democrats Engage in Anti-Gun Political Theater in Wake of Texas School Shooting

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So there's a lot going on. Everybody's focused on what's going on in Yavaldi, of course. There's also things going on, Coldo, war in Ukraine. This is how bad. The shooting was.

This is how bad the shooting was. Yeah President of Ukraine. Offer condolences to us. That's how bad. That's when you shoot eight and 10-year-olds.

That's how horrific this is.

So, Congressman Mike Waltz, why don't we just get right to him? Is right there. Hey, Congressman, welcome back. Hey, good to be with you, Brian. Thanks.

First off, on what's happening right now in Uvalde, we have 19 dead, 19 children dead, 21 overall with the two teachers. We're still trying to find out about the takedown, how many people were on the outside and for how long with law enforcement. We know that happened with Stoneham in Florida. But I'm just wondering, from the outside perspective and the insider, are you shocked how quick this devolved into politics? Yeah, sadly.

Sadly, Brian, I'm not shocked. And I think. Beto O'Rourke's little stunt there has really backfired on him. Americans are tired of this divisive politics. I mean, it's interesting.

On the one hand, they want us to fight. They want us to fight for our values. But on the other hand, they want us to come together in times like these. And I think that really. Um has blown back on him.

The Senate is in session this week. We saw a session yesterday where Senator Rick Scott from Florida and Ron Johnson tried to move a measure forward that would harden our schools. Schumer slapped it down and that devolved into political infighting. Just people are tired of it. And right now, we need to be focused on the families.

Here's what happened yesterday.

So the governor is going over the amount of deaths, the TikTok of what happened, the chain of events that took place as we try to unwind. And this is what Better O'Rourke had somebody hold his seat until the press conference started, and then they quickly left their seat and he jumped in, leaned over, almost hiding. Cut ten. Excuse me. Excuse me.

He's about to stand face. Sit down. You're out of line and an embarrassment. Sit down. Get out of here.

And you are doing nothing. No.

So he got up there, stood up, and he gradually was tossed out of the press conference, and then he had a big scrum around him on the outside. To a degree, did he accomplish his goal?

Now are people talking about him getting the nomination to run for governor again? Yeah. You know, I mean, it's the age-old political kind of hack approach of any publicity is good publicity. And I guess there's something to that, but look, not in the middle of a briefing for parents, for grieving loved ones, for a small town in America that's just devastated and is just trying to figure out what the heck happened. I mean, that's really what that briefing was for.

Future forums to talk about what do we do about it? How do we stop all of this? Whether it's Dealing with guns, mental health. Things that are broken in our society, but that was just absolutely not the time. And then the way he did it.

Um, it's one thing to stand up and ask a question, it's another thing to have a civil debate, but to really grandstand like that, I think it just. I don't think he's going to accomplish his goals. I think it makes him seem like the kind of shell of a political showman that he is. I want to get into, because you know tactics, you know how to go into a room of hostile people. You probably don't want to knock.

That's what the President Biden wants the cops to do, to start knocking now before they try to arrest a killer. Ask him to come outside nicely. But here's what Joe Biden, I mean, I could not be more angry about this. Listen to this, cut eight. The idea.

An eighteen year old can walk into a store. and buy weapons of war designed and market it to kill. is I think just wrong. It just violates common sense. Even the manufacturer.

the the the inventor of that weapon. Thought that as well. You know Where's the backbone? Where's the courage? To stand up to a very powerful lobby.

Really? The NRA is the powerful lobby if you don't stand if you stand up for your Second Amendment, you don't have a backbone? What's your reaction to that? That's the leader of our country. Yeah.

You know, Brian, I mean, I thought it was really a sad moment. Yeah. I would love. to hear The President of the United States. really trying to get to the heart of the issue.

I mean, what is going on? I heard you on the show earlier talking to Lieutenant Governor, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, and I think he nailed it. I mean, what is going on where we have a societal issue that I think has set the conditions in some ways for this to happen, where we have violent video games. That children play and parents are unwell, totally unaware. We have society telling children it's anything is okay, whatever you think is okay.

Society thinking that when parents are stern or discipline their kids, that it's some type of abuse, or society telling criminals that they can just commit violent crime and not be held accountable. And that's not offering any solutions, but that's really getting to the heart of the issue. Whether this 18-year-old or the one in Buffalo wanted to walk in there with a knife or a pistol or an AR-15 or what have you.

Okay, we got to deal with that, but we got to deal with why did he want to do this and kill little kids in the first place? And why is it systemically happening?

So that's the root cause that the leader of the free world. Should be trying to address and leading our society in a better direction. But instead, he went right to politics because he knows his numbers are upside down. Yeah, but amazing.

Now he's going to go down there and he gives the same speech every time. We go, dear, don't walk around with the Kevlar. Vest says the same thing all the time. You know, he had tragedy in his life. No one's happy about that.

But he's not the only one with tragedy. He keeps on going to this as if it's a great campaign line. John McCain didn't walk around and say, you know, I was a prisoner of war every time there was a military conflict. In fact, you couldn't even get him to talk about the times he was a prisoner of war. Just the way he does it, it sounds gratuitous personally.

A couple of things that are going to happen. Number one, you're going to be asked, how do we, I would like to analyze the last, let's say, 15 school shootings. Is there any commonality between these last fifteen school shootings? Number two, in the meantime, we have to harden the targets. And if there's ever money needed for economically disadvantaged areas and schools, that's where the national money should go to.

If you could put it to those schools, don't tell me my town's too small, we can't afford it, to put armed guards front and back on every school while we try to figure this thing out.

So harden the targets. Can't we all agree on that? One would think, I mean, that's exactly what Senator Rick Scott and Ron Johnson tried to put on the Senate floor yesterday, that and it would codify a federal clearinghouse for school safety practices.

So everybody's on the same page. And Brian, by the way, under COVID, we passed $150 billion Uh, to go out to schools, maybe some of that should be diverted from the latest, greatest HVAC systems, uh, and actually harden our school. And just by point of reference, that's almost the size of the entire United States Army's budget. But that's going out to schools, and I think it could be far better spent to harden them and to protect our kids. I think so too.

What is your takeaway on these between eight pushing the age from 18 to 21 to buy a gun?

Well, you know, Florida has done that, and I think there's a lot of people that say: look, if you can't buy a beer. Until 21, you shouldn't be able to buy a gun. I mean, I think that's a quick and easy argument, but at the same time, you know, you don't have a constitutional right. To have a beer, you have a constitutional right to protect yourself. I think, Brian, I think that should be handled at the state.

Obviously, a 19, 20-year-old in Wyoming, and their ability to go get a rifle is different than, say, in downtown LA. And I think that's perfectly appropriate for the states to handle. Understood. I want you to hear this exchange because it could be you too in Florida. This is Congressman Tony Gonzalez of Texas on with Gail King of CBS Cut 20.

Are you able to vote against two gun reform measures? Are you rethinking that position this morning in light of what has happened? I'm happy to debate policy another time, but today we should be united. We should talk about the survivors as well as the victims. To me, this is a perfect day to talk about.

It's not a political football for me. This is home. What do you think about that that exchange? Yeah, again, I mean, they're going right to a symptom rather than the core illness that is causing people to want to do this. and believe they can they can go they can go do it and get away with it.

Again, whether that whether the kid walks in with a backpack full of pistols, whether he walks in with shotguns, Or he walks in. I mean, they're so focused on the individual type of weapon. And I want to get to the core illness and the core sickness here. of what's going on.

So again, but this is but this is the politics of the left. And I think between I mean, just to turn it into the political conversation for a moment, between Roe versus Wade and that Um uh Ruling that will come out at the end of this month in these shootings, I think this is where the Democrats believe they have a real issue. The other thing is, let's just update on what's happening with Ukraine and Russia. Russia is trying to quickly just basically annex the area in which they have, whether it's Mariupol or Kurasan, and they're looking to try to encircle a couple of other towns. What could you tell me is happening on the ground?

Well, a couple of things. One, you're just seeing that the Russians continue to. Compensate for their failures in logistics, command and control, morale with heavy artillery, which they have unlimited numbers of. And the Russian military has the most artillery of any military in the world and unlimited shells. They shelled 40 cities.

in towns yesterday, Brian.

So they're going to continue to pound away And meanwhile, you're seeing the Russification of the areas that they have taken, where they're already putting them on the ruble. They're already trying to send in Russian leaders They're already mandating that everybody speak Russian.

So So Putin, I think, is running out of steam here. He has lost an estimated third. thirty percent of of his battle groups And he's essentially going to move the line. And if you listen to people like former Secretary of State Kissinger, who this week said. Selensky should just give up part of his country just to achieve peace Yeah, that is I mean, that's that's the mentality of nineteen thirty eight.

And Neville Chamberlain. If Putin solidifies these lines, he will lick his wounds in the next three to five years, mark my words, and he'll be back at it again. We have to help Zelensky go on offense. We need to give him the arms and ammunition he needs to go on offense. Otherwise, the entire world is going to be facing this crisis in the future.

And we have to help Zelensky deal the Russians an actual defeat. And what about the fact that they basically shut off the Black Sea and enabling for grain and food to leave the breadbasket of Europe and maybe even get into Africa? Russia says, yeah, we'll let that happen if you release all the sanctions. What should our response be? Yeah, which is essentially holding food, holding the world's food supply, or at least that region's, as a hostage.

We just had a. A meeting with the king of Jordan, and he was telling us the Palestinian territories have less than a month's supply. On hand, and they're completely dependent. That whole region in Turkey, the Middle East, Africa, I mean, this could be a massive famine and crisis. if Russia doesn't allow those ships to leave and time's running out.

I think one of the things that all of those countries should be talking about and putting pressure on Russia about, and we should as well, along with the Europeans, as a humanitarian corridor and perhaps even an armed one, Yeah, Brian, we... completely seated the Black Sea. Biden pulled all of our ships out and just gave that area completely up. And I've been asking the Pentagon repeatedly, when are we going to send our ships back in? Stop appeasing, stop letting him deter.

But I think we should look seriously at a humanitarian corridor out of Odessa and let those ships out full of grain, oil, seeds, fertilizer, the things people need to survive. Yeah, and that's our international waters, is your point. And the other point is, they are so scared because they were blown up by with, I guess, some version of the harpoon, they have pulled their ships way back.

So we should just go in and just assert ourselves because I think people starving to death is enough of a reason. Congressman Michael Waltz, always great. Thanks so much.

Okay, thank you, Brian. All right, 1866-408-7669. We're going to come back and take your calls. Then, Carly Shimkis at the bottom of the arrow. Don't move.

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Because these deaths... These record numbers of American slaughters. are political. They are happening because of uniquely American politics. They are happy.

Because 327 million Americans are essentially hostages. To a morally and financially bankrupt gun lobby. No, it's called a gun culture because that's how we fought for our freedom, and we have a Second Amendment that allows it. Australia lost it. You saw what happened to their country.

And you see what happens? They disarm a population when they want to take over a population. And now you have people like Michael Moore and Joyless Reed coming out and saying, hey, you know what? Let's take the guns away and let's undo the Second Amendment. That's their answer.

Joel in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Hey, Joel. Hey. You know, the these actors Hollywood, fine, take away the guns and take them away from the movies. And then I didn't need Tucker to tell me yesterday.

He was absolutely right. I've always known it. And you mentioned it earlier: a commonality with all these with all these perps. Look bet at those eyes. They're they're like zombies.

And you never hear, at least I've never heard, of anybody saying, Let's get rid of guns on these internet games or videos where these kids are blindly shooting people with no they're doing it all day, and that's the problem. I mean, as I see it. And you know that gun lobby is that the NRA is in tatters. The NRA is not even a force. The NRA played no role in the 2020 election at all.

They're being sued, maybe for no reason. I haven't looked closely at the case, by the Attorney General in New York. They've had terrible leadership. They've threw away a lot of their money. They do not have a powerful lobby.

It is people that like guns. The law-abiding people with guns are not the issue. The crazy people will find a way to get guns like they always do. 18 to 21, let's have a talk about that. A red flag laws.

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It's Brian Killmead. It's not about the how necessarily, but the why, in in the sense that these are people that want to harm people in a mass scale, and the instrument they use in many cases are guns, but that sentiment of wanting to hurt people is the one we really need to really focus on. The one thing I can tell you is we do have tools available now for risk assessment. It's one of the ways the Secret Service protects presidents. It's not so much about the physical protection alone, it's that they are able to profile and identify people that they believe pose a threat to a president or a leader and are able to go to them and prevent them from acting.

And that same system that is able to identify that, that risk assessment protocols exist for things like mass shooting. And then the question becomes, can you have tools in place to identify and intervene before people take that next step? Senator Marco Rubio trying to think analytically about how to stop the next attack rather than politically how to score for it. And yes, he is in not an easy race. Val Demings to keep his Senate seat for six more years.

With me right now, Chris Shimkis is always in a battle to keep her seat for the next six years. You really run on four-year terms, right? Two. Oh, two years. I like the pressure.

Oh, you like to be always be raising money. That's the problem.

So are you surprised how quickly this devolved into politics? I mean, the president within an hour is talking about politics. Yeah, and then obviously Beto O'Rourke yesterday was stunning. I was watching that at the time, and as this was going down, first, it's shocking. You don't expect anything like that to happen.

And then I said, that guy kind of looks like Beto O'Rourke. And then I just went about, you know, listening to it. And then Sandra and John get on, and they, yep, it was Beto. I think he did himself so much political damage by doing that, making the moment completely about himself at a time when people are grieving. And I guess all he thought about was scoring political points in his floundering and failing Gouveni.

Senatorial run. It is a shame. I don't think it should be the focus at all, though, of this moment. Maybe people on the left are paying attention to him. Maybe they, maybe, I mean, Carly, that's how I feel.

That's obviously, I think, your assessment. But maybe people on the left goes, look, he's standing up to that horrible governor. You hear what Nicole Wallace said? It was a little clip that we played on Fox and Friends First. Maybe there is a greater context in the segment than what we aired.

But she was saying something like, if this is how they're going to treat, if this is how they're going to treat Beto by kicking him out, that really says a lot about the city of Uvalde or how Texas is treating this situation. Really? That does the first time. Is the innocent one here? That's a twist.

Well, I mean, he won. First, he says, I want to take everybody's gun away, remember? And he was going to be gun czar for Joe Biden. And his campaign went nowhere. Yes, and they want to take down the wall, too.

He goes, I would take down that wall if I was to become president. And then he changed that. I know. When he starts running for governor.

So now what does he think? What would he do different? Yeah, well, he said on the campaign trail, he said, no, no one's taking your guns away anymore. I think he even said that he wanted to protect the Second Amendment. And then this school shooting happens, and he's standing up at a press conference and saying the exact opposite.

So I don't know where he stands on the issue. Yeah, well, you know what? In fact, we have it. He had a little scrum afterwards, Cut 18. Do you want a solution?

Stop selling AR-15s in the state of Texas. You want a solution? Have universal background checks. We don't have them. You want a solution?

Red flag laws or extreme risk protection orders, which stop a shooting before it happens. You want a solution? Safe storage laws. Those are four solutions that have been brought up by the people of Texas. Each one of those has broad bipartisan support right now.

We could get that done if we had a governor who cared more about the people of Texas than he does his own political career or his fealty to the NRA. And if you need any proof of that, check the schedule for the NRA's convention this Friday, right? here in the state of Texas. It'll be in Houston. And that's the NRA can have conventions?

I didn't know that. Yeah, well, no, listen. I mean, he's allowed to have those political opinions. And half the country does. And that's completely fine.

Nobody's arguing that that political debate can and should happen in this country. That's how we operate as a democracy. It's the fact that he, the timing of when he... tried to do this. And also, if you think you're going to bust into a press conference a day after the second most deadly school shooting and yell at people, that's really going to change their mind, then you are crazy.

No minds are being changed on gun control because Beto Rourke stood up there and pointed fingers and then was shamefully kicked out by law enforcement from the civic center where they were holding this conference.

Well, but let's look at some of what he just said. Universal background checks. There is background checks. Number two, stop selling ARF-15s. That's a debate that we've pretty much pretty prevalent, that they are not assault weapons.

They're not weapons of war. They are commonplace in this country. You can go to have a debate on that. I think red flag laws could be good if implemented the correct way. We would have stopped the guy in Buffalo because, at the very least, if I'm a gun owner and this guy just sat down for 90 minutes or two and a half hours with state police because of his mental illness and threatening to blow up a school and shoot up a school, I'd like to know about that before I sold him a gun.

But when it comes to what they're talking about in terms of red flags, this kid had none. I know. So this guy had none.

So anyone in there and the gun was starting, he says, I feel terrible, but this there was no reason for me to stop him. He turned eighteen. If you want to talk about raising the age to twenty-one that Florida did under a Republican governor, we just had Michael Waltz on. He says, That's really up to your state. Right.

So you could have that debate if you think that. You're going to war, though, can you? You know, I mean, you just keep on going back and forth on this. You don't drink until you're 21, but when you go into war, you get trained to use that. Yeah, but you know the but th this is the point, is that you c this debate is something that should be had just at that time that he chose to have it was completely self-serving and disgusting and ridiculous.

All right, so here's the other side of it. NBC seemed to love it, Cut 19. The political fallout out of that O'Rourke thing yesterday, I think, is going to continue. This is the kind of thing where this is what a lot of Democrats have been hoping for in the state of Texas, someone to express the frustration that they have felt. It's in line with the kind of politics that he has liked to practice, and it's in line with the political theory that says there is a voter base in Texas who wants the kind of thing that you've been outlining, that there is an 80% majority in a state like Texas who wants the kind of policies that we haven't seen here in this state, like red flag laws, which were discussed after Santa Fe and Sutherland Springs, the other two big mass shootings in Texas, but didn't get off the ground.

The question of buying long guns, buying rifles at 18, but handguns not allowed to be bought in Texas until you're 21, is the other big piece of this puzzle. Governor Abbott was asked about that at the press conference and made an argument that it's been 60 years that that's been the law in Texas, that you could buy a long gun at 18, not a handgun. And he essentially said, that was the reason not to change it. As a Texan myself, I can tell you that a very much has changed in this state in 60 years and that that question deserves a follow-up. Hmm.

Yeah, where you stand on this issue obviously depends on where you sit, you know, politically. I think that a lot of people who support the Second Amendment say, we hear you there, but first of all, there are more guns in this country than people.

So you can't taking guns away from law-abiding citizens isn't going to stop the bad guys. Bro, think about Adam Lance in Sandy Hook. He kills his mom and takes her guns. Yeah. The age could be 40.

I know. No one's stopping them. But you know, you bring up Adam Lanza, and then you think about the Parkland shooter and dating back to Columbine. And I think that this time around, there is a huge focus on who is committing these mass murders at school. And.

They are all teenage boys. And why is that happening? And, you know, there's clearly a mental illness factor that is going on in this country like we've never seen before. And we had Jack Brewer on, and he was talking about how there's a breakdown in family structure and society and religion like we've never seen before in this country. I mean, my parents didn't have to deal with mass shootings, but it started in the 90s and it's continuing into today in a more aggressive fashion than ever before.

So looking at the psychology of these people and really targeting who they are, I think could be beneficial to figuring out really what's going on here. All right.

So the other thing is: talk about tone deafness. Yesterday, the president announced, I know it was the anniversary of George Floyd's murder. And he was killed, but they go on now it's police reform. Inconsequential acts, all looking to diminish their power. Number one, let's limit no knock warrants.

Okay, so you go break into that house, Mr. Politician, and tell the murderer to give himself up. Knock first. Do you mind? And then when it comes to choke calls, fine.

Do you see some of these assailants who no longer have the fear of cops?

So don't shoot them. Limit the time you use the The stun gun. And number three is whatever you do, don't restrain him in a way that might be perceived as a chokehold.

So, why were you rolling that out yesterday when clearly the problem is law and disorder, not law enforcement? Yeah, I think that everybody across the board really recognizes now that cops are not the problem. Maybe the president needs to be clued in on that. If there's one bad officer, then that person should not be a police officer, take them out. We don't want you here, but to demonize all police.

And really, that's what this is about. This was a message that the president was sending that we need to tighten the reins around law enforcement because we don't trust you. And he did it at a time when crime is on the rise across the country. I mean, think about the national mood right now. It is pro-police because we recognize what happened when you cut police out of the equation.

So, yeah, of course, he was doing it because of the death of George Floyd, but he also did it the day after the school shooting took place. And police ran into. To the line of fire once again. Exactly, and I think he's worried about the black vote more than anything else. Heather McDonald's, who breaks down law enforcement better than anybody else with the best stats, was on with Tucker last night, cut 37.

The police are not the problem in the black community, criminals are. Uh the police shot Six. Allegedly unarmed blacks in 2021. Compare that to the 10,000 blacks who were killed by criminals. In fact, a police officer is 400 times as likely to be killed by a black as an unarmed black is to be killed by a police officer.

George Floyd's death was sickening, but it wasn't a pattern. It doesn't represent the way most blacks die. And if Biden really cared about black lives, he would call for law and order and stop demonizing the cops. Do you need to say any more? I know.

I love her. And she's armed with the facts and the statistics, and she isn't afraid to say it. She's with the Heritage Foundation, I believe. 97 children have been shot. 97 children have been shot in Chicago.

Chicago alone, so far this year. And I was reading about one of them. He was murdered last weekend. Or the weekend before. His name is Shondell Holiday.

And it's so sad. He was. 17 years old, and he recently told his teacher, you know, he was having this conversation about his future, and the teacher said, What do you want to be when you grow up? And he said, Well, if I make it to 21, I want to be, I want to own a music studio. She said, Why would you phrase like that?

Make it to 21. And he said, Well, you know, I mean, it's Chicago, kids die all the time. I mean, the fact that he. Even knew that that was the dang that was the ever-present danger in his life, and he didn't even make it to 18 years old. I remember tragic.

Yeah, I was in Los Angeles when those first riots happened in 94, and I was interviewing these school kids. And I'll never forget this one kid said to me, I've always been told no one ever promises you tomorrow. And he was like 11. And I'm like, wow. Yeah, I knew.

No one ever promised you tomorrow. And the thing that's going on in Chicago right now, and it really did, Brian, it really, really did coincide with the riots and the Black Lives Matter movement in the summer of 2020, is that the bad areas, Chicago's a tale of two cities for sure. The bad areas are getting worse, and the nice areas are getting really dangerous. Smash and grab, too. I mean, yeah, but shootings, too.

There was my husband, we have an apartment in Chicago, and it's in a good area. There was a mass shooting right outside. The apartment a couple a couple months ago. Eight people got shot. And it's just, that's kind of becoming the norm.

And it is really concerning. And I think Lori Lightfoot ran on a platform of fixing the issue, and it has completely devolved under her. I'm starting to think she's not that good of a mayor. Do you think I jumped to conclusions?

Well, that's the. Intuitiveness that I really like about you. I've always said that's one of your superlatives. Do I have any others? Many.

Oh, okay, good. There's a long pause there for a second. Hey, when we come back, a little bit more, maybe takes it out. You know what? I'm not going to take phone calls.

More quality time with Carly because I do want to talk to her about baby formula and what we found out yesterday. Buckle up until July. No joke. Educating, entertaining, enlightening. You're with Brian Kilmead.

The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Killmead. FBA's timeliness of interviewing the whistleblower. and getting into the facility for a cock for cause inspection. We're too slow. And some decisions in retrospect could have been more optimal.

So that is the talk yesterday. The new FDA commissioner came out to try to explain why we don't have any baby formula in the most powerful country in the world, Carly Shimka is here. Carly, it turns out in the whistleblower put something in the mail saying this is this lab, the Abbott Lab is a mess, and it was. You have to have an inspection, it should be. And it turns out it got caught in the mailroom.

I know. So by the time they got back to the guy, it was December already. And by the time they saw the lab and saw how d dangerous it was, they shut it down. But no one shut it down and said, What happens if we shut it down? Does anyone know that this is 40% of the entire market, that the whole country could be out of it?

I know. The and the mailroom element is like the most government excuse ever. Oh, the mailroom?

So embarrassing. It it really is so embarrassing. And then we also learned that the Abbott lab, the new the plant, Was a total mess. Leaking roofs, water pooled on the floor, cracks in key production equipment that allowed bacteria to get in and persist. That's what the FDA commissioner told the House panel yesterday.

He said that it was egregiously unsanitary.

So the plant did need to be shut down. And then I have heard the argument that one of the things that the FDA could do more is they have to do more inspections because apparently this plant hadn't been inspected in a really long time.

So people get sloppy. And so some people are saying, okay, well, the only way to get more inspections going is you have to give the FDA more money. Their budget is $8 billion. There's some outrageous amount. If you can't do regular inspections on these key factories, especially ones that provide food for babies with an $8 billion budget, that's on you.

That's not on the we don't need to increase the budget. You just need to do better management of the money that you're spending. And how about this? If you're the FDA and you shut down something like this, you don't let it. Is not done there.

You got to stay, have them fix it, set up timelines because it could affect national security. Your job then, acting director, whoever it is, is to go to the White House and say, by the way, Commerce Secretary, there's going to be a problem. Yep. Because if we don't get this up and running in a short minute of time, we have to have a plan. Does anyone think bigger responsibility?

I know. Imagine in our job, we've used to say, all I have to do is read the news. If you don't have another anchor there on the couch, it's really not my fault. I'm going to toss to an empty couch. No, I'm going to keep it here and see what happens.

I know. Why can't anyone think beyond their paycheck? It is truly unbelievable. And it's not the FDA commissioner's fault, right? That testified yesterday because I don't even think that.

You just got the job. Yeah. Why did it take forever to nominate an FDA director? That's the thing, especially when we're coming off a pandemic. You would think that would be one of the first commissioners that the Biden administration would want to appoint.

I really do wonder why it took them so long. Right.

You're hearing about these, like. The ATF guy, the head of the I I mean, we're two years into the is this normal time does it does it usually take this long to put these no it doesn't but a lot of times nominations are held up but in this case they're just not made.

Well, the first ATF guy was anti-so anti-gun he couldn't get past. That's right. Right.

And this new guy doesn't want to use the, he doesn't want to define what an assault weapon is. Yeah, I know.

So that's an issue there. But he wanted to ban the assault weapon that he couldn't identify. I would nominate you for all the positions. You would? Yeah, you'd be good.

Carly, you're so experienced on radio. You know the music's eventually going to get louder and kind of sweet. Yeah, it's like the Oscars. Right.

Should I say goodbye now? Not woke. You should. Goodbye, Carly Shimpi. Goodbye.

From the Fox News Radio Studios in New York City, giving you opinions and facts with a positive approach. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Thanks so much for listening. This is the Brian Kill Me Joe coming to you from 48th and 6th, heard around, located in New York City, heard around the country, heard around the world, especially in Ukraine.

This hour, we're going to go inside the Uvalde shootings and the latest on the timeline. Commissioner Ray Kelly is going to be joining us in about 34 minutes. But with me in the studio is Admiral James Charvitas. We're lucky to get the Admiral in here for one very good reason: because the Admiral is very productive in his free time. He's writing books that frees you up from your NBC contract.

And as the 16th Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, you're kind enough to do the radio show with me on a regular basis. You got that clause that you fought hard to put in, I'm sure. But now you have out on paperback Risk It All, Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Division. You also have other recent books, off the Sailors Bookshelf: 50 Books to Know the Sea, and 2034, a Novel of the Next World War, which freaked a lot of people out because it seems like it's playing out right now. But Risk It All is a new book, right?

Brand new. Brian just came out this week, and pretty propitious timing, if you will, in the sense that in this war in Ukraine, you see two leaders who are kind of kind of risking it all. You got Vladimir Putin, the dark side of risk, the recklessness, the lack of a moral foundation. On the other side, you have Vlodymir Zelensky, who is literally risking everything. He looks over his shoulder from those front lines.

He sees his wife, his children, his parents, the elders in his society, his cities, his civilization, his language. He is risking it all alongside other Ukrainians. These two leaders are colliding, and it's all about risk.

So the book, To Risk It All, I think, comes out at a pretty good time. And people are just under this actor. That is somebody that a lot of people didn't take seriously as his first. He ran on, I'm gonna be able to work with Vladimir Putin. He's a guy that worked in Moscow doing his shows and kind of knew Russian culture.

But on the other side, he looked at Vladimir Putin, looked at as pure weakness. This guy doesn't have the moral fiber. He doesn't, he thinks he's gonna deal with me. Really? You learned on stage, and he was totally wrong.

Mr. KGB was totally wrong. 100% correct. And let's add to that that Vladimir Zelensky is five feet five inches tall. He's my height.

I'm a very short guy, as you know. You're looking at me. I can barely see over this microphone. But who does big things and is a powerful commander? And Zelensky is remarkable.

He is almost like Winston Churchill in this moment. And we ought to continue to be behind him and behind this nation for all the reasons we know.

Well, think about this: how horrific the Evaldi shooting was when you have 19 children between 8 and 10 years old who were murdered. by some twisted 18-year-old. He Felt compelled, with all the carnage that he has experienced, to offer condolences here in this country, to the parents here. That's how horrific this was. Indeed.

It's just hard to imagine. And I saw a cover of the New York Post coming in here with the photographs of those. Little angelic faces, and it breaks your heart.

So And a second piece of this, Brian, and you raise it correctly, is as we ought to, we need to have a big, huge national debate about why this is happening and what to do about it. But you know where I come from is the international world. And I will tell you, Brian, this hurts us in the world. It makes other nations question us. It reduces our ability to lead.

There's an international component to this that goes beyond our domestic tragedy. Why do you think there is more violence here? It seems. I haven't looked at the stats, but this is just from gleaning from the headlines. I can't tell you what's going on in the Netherlands.

I can't tell you what's going on in Germany, but we don't see things like this.

Well, first and foremost, we're awash in guns. And again, we need a national debate about this, but I'm with most Americans. Polls consistently show we need to find a way to control the The Huge numbers of guns. And if you look at the numbers and look at the guns per person kind of ratios, that's, I think, problem one. Problem two is Americans have a very independent sense of themselves.

We've always been a fractious country. We have divisions in our society. I think that is part of these challenges. And thirdly, and I heard your previous guest talking about it, so many of these are young males. And I am concerned about that demographic.

You know, in so many cases, the young boys are the Challenge here, and I think we need more focus on how we are raising our boys in this society. I mean, one thing I would do, and I think you would support this, is: okay, what's the problem? The problem is these kids become assassins. A lot of times, the first time they shoot is the horrific move. It's not like, oh, they've killed a lot, we finally got them after the 19th time.

So, number one, it's outside Columbine, it's usually one person. Why can't we get? experts, law enforcement forensic experts, criminal justice to study this and see where the commonality is. At the same time, you harden the targets with all the great military minds that we have like yourself. We can't harden targets.

And if you want to ever nationally fund anything and would get bipartisan support, it would be for the smallest town and the biggest city to have financing to get the right security.

So you know if they are going to do this, these guys are going to get killed before they get in, or our security would have broken as opposed to not be there. Why can't we do those two things? And I'll add a third, which is the ability to have so-called red flag events so that we can be watching what is happening on social media. And so many times these red flags are out there.

So I think the point we're both making is there is no silver bullet here. There's no one thing that is going to solve this. This particular shooting is so heartbreaking that I am hopeful it will at least get different people to come in together with different solutions, several of which you and I just talked about. And I have you for two segments, right? You do.

Okay, great. I just want to talk because I want to talk about your book, but I also want to talk about what's going on with Russia and Ukraine. We seem to be writing very positively, and nobody's pulling more for Ukraine than I am about what's going on. But I see even the New York Times is writing very positively, pointing out the nine good things that are going on in the Ukraine. But by the way, the Russians have begun to move towards changing the currency in Kherson and in Mariupol and surrounding various cities and expanding their reach.

So I even though they're paying an awful price They are expanding. Where are we at as you are the With all the experience you've had in military operations, how much do you know about the region? Yes, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. I literally looked at all of these scenarios. This is not fresh new music here.

Putin invaded Georgia in 2008. He invaded Ukraine the first time in 2014.

So NATO has been studying this in some depth. And yes, the Russians are making some small advances. You know, you're the sports guy. It's kind of three yards in a cloud of dust at best, and it's more like one or two yards. It's going very slowly.

And so much a life is compared to what?

So Putin's plan was to take the entire country. And so, yeah, he's grinding out a few more kilometers. I don't think he's going to get much more than that. That's the good news. The bad news is.

It's going to be very difficult militarily to dislodge him from this.

So-called land bridge that he's created from Mother Russia down through the doomed city of Mariupol down to Crimea. It's hard to see a military solution there. To push them back. Correct. Because think about it this way, Brian, and you know this in military terms.

We always say that defense is to offense as three is to one.

So the Ukrainians had the advantage because they were on defense.

Well, guess what?

Now Putin's troops are dug in. They've got very strong defenses.

So for the Ukrainians to overcome it is going to be very difficult.

So, bottom line, I think ultimately we're going to go to some kind of an armistice. A state of war probably continues. Think of the Korean Peninsula where North and South Korea are still technically at war. I think that's probably how this ends. It'll be months, but I don't think it's going to be years.

Here's uh a couple of things. Also, this guerrilla war aspect where the little guy gets to so if Kherson already was taken immediately, and all you heard about the mayor got shot, already got blown up, the Russian appointed mayor. Number two is the Ukrainians are going to be on, they're going to be relentless.

So the Russians are already dispirited might be saying, Well, I'm not going to be a mayor there. I'm not going to go grab the Mariopa mayorship. I'm not going to be good in law enforcement. I'm going to be a cop there. I've been conscripted for one year.

I don't even know what I'm doing. The uniform doesn't even fit.

So if they continue to be harassed and blown up, almost like the Iraqis were doing with us. That could be an interesting scenario, right? Absolutely. And to some degree, all of this for Vladimir Putin is the original poisoned chalice. You know, he's won this prize, except it's full of poison, and it's going to cost him beautiful.

Billions and billions of rubles that are getting scarcer and scarcer as he falls under sanctions. And your point, Ukrainians have shown us, if nothing else, they are very tough, very determined people. I know you always thought about scenarios, and you write ahead. A lot of your books are like that. But did you ever think that Finland and Sweden would be knocking on the door filling out applications to be a member of NATO and they have got to be fast-tracked right now?

And he called Vladimir Putin himself, did the President of Finland, and he said, I'm not a threat to you.

Well, I'm doing this anyway. Yeah, that distant boom you just heard is Vladimir Putin's head exploding when those applications hit NATO. To answer the question, when I was Supreme Allied Commander, I literally begged the Swedes and the Finns to at least think about joining NATO, but they were determined to remain kind of neutral. Putin is the greatest salesman for NATO in the history of the alliance. He ought to get the Salesman of the Year award.

And we want them. Believe me, Brian, these are two very capable militaries. Deployed under my command as allies to NATO into Afghanistan. Heck, my security detail was a bunch of six-foot, four-inch Swedish Vikings following me around in the Balkans. They're good.

So Zelensky was asked by Jonathan Swan: what do you say to Americans who say this is not our problem? Here's what he said, CUP forty four. First of all, they have to start uh reading uh some uh memoirs of the Second World War.

So what can I say to the people who think uh that uh this is just for Europe, this is far away, this is not in our backyard, this is somewhere in the world. But the world is uh much smaller than we um think. He's telling us: if you guys study history at all, this is your fight eventually. He's exactly right. And recall.

That World War II analogy with Zelensky now playing the part of Churchill, what did Churchill say to FDR? He said, give us the tools, we can do the job. And I think that's exactly what's unfolding. We need to continue to push those tools forward. Adding Finland and Sweden will be a powerful disincentive for Russia.

At the big level, things are going pretty well, despite some small Russian advances. And with James Travita's here right now, his book is now Outrisk It All, Nine Conflicts in the Crucible of Decision. In just a moment, we'll talk about that when we come back. And more. You're listening to the Brian Kilmeat Show.

Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Killmead. Hey, in about 10 minutes, Commissioner Ray Kelly talks to us about how we can harden our targets and spot these killers before they kill former Commissioner of New York. But with me right now, if you're watching off Fox Nation, you know him.

Admiral James Javitas in studio, which means one thing. He's got a great book out. It's called Risk It All, Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision. Talk to me about this, Admiral. The book, Brian, is a story of nine different individuals, men and women, who have to make a decision under extreme stress.

So many of our decisions are made with time. We can talk to mentors. We can think about it, the big decisions. But occasionally, you have to make a decision now, now, now. Think of an active shooter, as we've been talking about.

Are you going to charge? Are you going to run? Are you going to hide? Those kind of decisions are hard. And so what I do is talk about these nine sailors, because that's what I know, and talk about their moment of decision, both men and women.

and then try and draw some lessons from it. that can be applied for anybody.

So it's really a book for anybody who Who faces hard decisions. And what you've done in the past leads up to making the best decision possible, right? I mean, you could wing it and get lucky, or you could say, my whole life I've been waiting for this moment and act instinctively, which is why you practice in sports and everything like that. You don't tell Tom Brady what to do. He feels it at this point.

So give me one. Sure. I'm going to start at the very beginning, and that's John Paul Jones, if you will, the father of the American Navy. He is on board his ship, the Bonhoeff Marie Chard, fighting the British in the 1770s off the coast of the United Kingdom. And his ship is literally being blown apart underneath him.

His crew is begging him to surrender. John Paul Jones hears the captain on the other ship, the Serapis, call across the space between the two ships. They're grappling at this point. And the British captain says, Now is the moment you must strike your colors. And John Paul Jones says, Sir, I have not yet begun.

To fight, and he wins that battle. It's that determination that can get us through so many of these hard decisions where we have to risk it all. And a lot of times it comes from mistakes you made in the past. Absolutely. And your point also about preparation comes from study and thinking about others and then put yourself in their shoes.

I'll give you one other example. It's a woman, Admiral. She's a one-star at this point named Michelle Howard. She is the on-station admiral when Captain Phillips is taken hostage by all of these Somali pirates. And Michelle is a brand new Admiral.

She's just kind of learning the roast, but what she does is She relies on all this preparation, but she also brings together all the different tools at her disposal and makes the decision to take the shot. That kills those hostages. If you've seen the film Captain Phillips, it's a remarkable story, and behind it is this Navy one-star admiral, quite new to her job, who makes the right decision because of All the preparation, your point. Right.

Field Team Six was the those who were the crew before Bin Laden, before they did the Bin Laden raid, right? It's an amazing story. And one of the toughest sniper shots because they're on a pitching deck on the back of a destroyer. Taking the shot down into a very small lifeboat.

So that's really a hard sniper shot. Normally, of course, a sniper is on land, the target's on land. This is as hard a shot as you can imagine. They executed it flawlessly. I think I know the guy that took the shot.

I think I might have met him. Good for you. Right.

Okay. We're not going to mention that. I didn't think Sarah. But I did get detail on that.

So that is also tremendous. It's good to have instincts with that. Admiral, are you concerned with the battle we're having right now? We just cut $33 billion and some Republicans bailed out of supporting that. Are you concerned about where we are going with this?

And do you think the administration could do a better job maybe making people feel better that it's going to the right people and it's getting in the right hands? Yeah, I'm always understanding when legislators say, you know, that's a lot of money, and we need to make sure, your point, it gets to the right kind of tools to put those in the hands of the Ukrainians and there's not corruption funneling it off. Stuck in Poland. I got it. I got that.

But this is a big, big moment. And so here you have a world where Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell are in total agreement about doing this. I think that Between the two parties, there'll be plenty of oversight. We've got the inspector generals, sure. But I would say to any member of Congress, please get behind this.

It matters. And I want the military to understand: do not give the people, the isolationists, a reason to say, I told you so. Back to history, World War II. Absolutely. Eventually, we're going to get in if we don't pay attention.

Exactly. This is all we wanted from Afghanistan. Let them fight for their own freedom. Exactly. Admiral, congratulations.

Go pick out his book. You will not regret it. Risk it all. Nine conflicts in the crucible of decision. I'll see you soon, hopefully, on One Nation on the weekend.

I'm with you at your command. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. What law enforcement needs is. The public Neighbors, school teachers, relatives, friends, classmates, whoever, the people who are likely to see.

somebody's behavior online. And see it change from just being somebody just blowing off steam to taking a bit of a turn. That is Commissioner Wray talking about what would help in his testimony yesterday at the FBI because everyone's trying to stop the school shooting. At the same time, you're trying to stop an assassination attempt on the former President of the United States, George W. Bush.

And we were able to infiltrate that through the FBI. And guess where the assailants were coming from? ISIS from the southern border and angry Iraqis. That Ray Kelly had both worlds. He had his own counterterrorism unit in New York City, when I think he's the longest serving police commissioner through with Mike Bloomberg, and then he had a previous term.

Ray Kelly joins us now. Commissioner, First off, are we at the point now where the FBI is asking the American people to help out? The neighbors are really going to be one of our unused assets here, or family members turning in their would-be Uh unbalanced kids. I I really don't have a problem with that. You know, this is a red flag process that is in place in seventeen states.

that if you see someone who's emotionally unstable, indications that they're going to commit violent acts. You notify the police. The police can come and temporarily take a weapon from that person. if they deem it to appropriate, and then take the case to a judge to see what what a perhaps a permanent solution or more permanent solution can be. I I think that's a That's one of the appropriate ways to go.

But very few people even know about these red flag laws. It has to be better advertising. I tell you what, the police don't know about it as w either.

So it it I think it's it's something of value. To do. Is it a panacea? Absolutely not. But it's it's something that I think can have an effect.

I imagine you talk about this all the time, but I would look at the last 10 to 25 school shootings and see if there's any commonalities between them. I know the last two, both 18-year-olds, both got their guns legally. The Buffalo shooter was somebody that had to sit down with state police because of his threatening to blow up a school and kill himself. And they were considered okay to buy a gun that did not appear in his background check when he went and picked up the gun that ended up killing those people in Buffalo.

So, as we look at these cases in particular, If Ray, Kelly, I'm thinking first off, we've got to harden the targets from the smallest to biggest school in the country, but in the meantime, what do we do to stop the next attack?

Well, I agree with you, hardening the targets. And I think we've got lots of money out there, post COVID money that's floating all around. school districts should be able to fund a security guard on person, depending on the size of the school. Obviously, that will drive the number of security people. But yes, I think the time has come to do that.

And particularly in places like in Texas, where you can wait twenty minutes for a police officer to arrive after a nine eleven call just because of the distances.

So I can see having a trained guard or ideally a police officer to be at the school locations. I think would give parents a much needed sense of comfort these days. Commissioner, in this situation, as we understand it, and we know how much things will change, we understand there was about 40 to 60 minutes before some people are saying before the police, and in this case some of the elite border patrol were able to enter the school with a big shield in one unit, get into that classroom, take some incoming shots, and then kill the shooter.

So Does that time seem inordinate to you? Absolutely. And I tell you, it was a lesson from Columbine, which I think was in nineteen ninety nine. The overarching lesson from that situation was that the police waited too long. You've got to go in.

Yes, it's dangerous, but that's what you get paid for. And there are different ways to approach that. But they waited In my judgment, way too long. And that In in a situation like that, You've got to mass up, you've got to make a quick tactical decision and you got to go. And unfortunately, that wasn't done.

Would it have saved lives? You know, I don't know if they if they were there while the shooting was going on or afterward, but uh Yeah, they they they definitely violated the cardinal rule. these days uh in in mass shootings You got to go in, particularly where children are involved. And I'm open to the fact that we don't have all the facts yet, but right now that's what the AP and the New York Times is reporting. And we have not seen the police come out and say, Yeah, you're right, we were on the outside trying to assess the situation.

Like what happened in Florida at Stoneham, they've stood on the outside, and that police commissioner just said, you know, our idea was to stay back and try to contain it. Which obviously was a horrible mistake because they went in and this guy just went on a shooting rampage. But in this situation, as people are getting frustrated, they're playing politics, if you ask me. And they're saying, got to get rid of AR-15s, number one. Number two, you got to raise the age to 21.

And number three, universal background checks. I'm not, and the red flag law. First off, when it comes to a red flag law, If you were to define what it is, How would it qualify for you to temporarily or permanently take my gun away? I think you sort of know it when you see it. Uh But you know, police officers would respond, they would talk to, let's assume it's the parent.

or making a call, get their observation of what's happening now. They can take a weapon, but only temporarily. This is not the confiscation. This is holding the weapon. And then and every state is a little bit different, quite frankly.

It's only in seventeen states. But then that case is presented to a judge. And and so due process is involved. And the judge makes his determination as to what the final. Or not so much final, but a disposition should be.

The individual need mental help, that sort of thing. That that's what a judge could do. I think It is a good policy. Can it be abused? Possibly, it could be abused.

But we don't have enough data on it because, quite frankly, although it's been used, it hasn't been used enough. And I think it's not been used because there's no advertising of it. You just don't know it's out there. And as I say, the cops don't know it's out there, even in the states that. You know, they have it in all the books.

So Uh Uh that's the process. I I think it you know, maybe it has different courts or different things have happened in in the in the States. But overall, I think it's a sound approach. Would you raise the age to 22? That's going to solve the problem.

Right.

Would you raise the age to 21? Yeah. I You know, probably it's uh it's sort of like uh you know chicken soup. It's probably not going to help, but it gives the help very much, but it gives the legislature something to do. I don't think so.

So you're against that. We don't want to give them something to do.

So that would not be effective.

So what do you think? The fact is, if I look at the last five shooters, they're all mentally unbalanced. A lot of them were killing for the first time. They don't have 19 arrests like the Subway shooter that we saw on Sunday.

So these kids seem to be loners, number one. There seem to be some similarities. Number two, very involved in some type of social media or video games, and indications that they're antisocial. But that doesn't mean necessarily you should call the cops and say, I'm worried that this guy's going to go shoot up a school.

So, how do we get on the offensive with this? And is there something that you're noticing about you've been in the business for so long, you started as just a cop on the street. Is there something different about these recent generations? Yeah, I think there is something different. It seems to be more loners, less social interaction, probably because of the.

the uh internet that's how they're that's how they're community i all communicating i also think that uh in these video games. May well play a role because they are they are really. uh all about violence these days. The wins that I see are particularly gruesome as far as shooting people. You know, a great abandon on these sites.

Does that add to it?

Well, it would take somebody smarter than me to. confirm that, but I think it's it's something that should be uh at least uh examine and parents should pay particular attention uh to the video games. You know, the kid sees uh sees the death and destruction on a video game. Several hours a day, what does that do to his or her head? I don't know.

Or I'd like to have somebody with the qualifications take a look at that. Right.

I want to fast forward.

So everybody's adjusting. You know, I got Police Commissioner Ryder wrote me this morning and said, by the way, in Nassau County, this is what we have done. X, Y, and Z have done a lot. You're now allowed to have a gun. And for example, in towns by me on Long Island, you're allowed to have armed officers there, if you so choose, to protect a school from a would-be situation like we saw in Uvalde.

I also saw that Mayor Adams comes out and he's telling all parents to check the backpacks of their kids, make sure they're not bringing guns to school, that they brought up, they found two guns in schools just last week. And he's also urging us to go back on the subways and buses despite what we saw on Sunday. What do you think about what New York City is doing?

Well We have to do more. Crime is up forty percent in New York. That's on Mayor Adams' term. Everything is up, and particularly, and I was looking in some of the wealthier areas of the of the city, the Upper East Side of Manhattan is probably one of the wealthiest square miles in the world.

Now robbery is up there, fifty percent grand loss in the auto, the grand loss of the from the purse and is up over fifty percent, which is kind of a purse snatch. robbery being kind of a classic mugging. We know people are leaving the city, and we know people are not riding on the subway because of fear of crime. Surveys have shown that, several surveys that have shown that.

So we have to do more. And I think the anti crime units that we used to have in civilian clothes. Are absolutely essential, and they've been eliminated. They've been eliminated by the de Blasio. Administration.

We need the Perpetrators of these crimes have to look over their shoulder. And see if there's somebody following them or somebody walking. Yeah, the new unit's got windbreakers on and they only focus on uh gun that's basically say I'm I'm a policeman and and they only focus on guns. I understand the new I don't know what that means, focus on guns, because they're not doing stop and frisk. What are they doing focusing on on guns?

I have no idea. As you say, they're in a uniform. you know, they're wearing a uniform that's a tip off. And you know, even even the community will yell out when somebody's there in a in a uniform. Let's get people off.

So, the New York City's police commissioner, the job you used to have, Ray Kelly, Sewell, is giving private unannounced security briefings to the top firms in the city, including the four big accounting firms, Monto, Goldman, Sachs, because right now only 8% of Manhattan office workers are back five days a week.

Now, the ripple effects to that is they're not using mass transit. No, that's revenue. They're not certainly not using subways. That's revenue.

So, if you're not getting people back in to go out to lunch and go to the car to the end of the block or not going shopping, that has a ripple effect to the city. And they got this huge budget and they don't have the tax revenue.

So, these one-on-one briefings, have you ever gotten to that point and are they effective?

Well, I I mean difficult to to tell if they're effective, we know that there is an exodus Yeah. of people, middle class, wealthy people, leaving the city. And the primary reason that we're told is fear of crime.

So if the police commissioner can talk to business leaders and assuage their concerns, fine. But yeah it doesn't change. show on paper. The numbers speak for themselves. you know, we've got a lot of crime, transit crime is up almost sixty percent.

That this is the reality of life in New York these days. We can talk all we want about how. horrific it is and we're going to stop this and you know. talk but no action. The action is reflective On the crime statistics that are, you know, I measured on a weekly basis here.

As I say, cr crime is up fourteen actually. forty percent in New York City. But the you know, robberies and Grand Lawson is Grand loss of the auto uh over fifty percent increase.

Now you have to understand that twenty twenty and twenty twenty one were high crime years.

So when we're talking about a percentage increase, It's coming from a base that itself is high. Uh You know, and people talk, well, shootings are down and that's a good thing. But they're down just like seven percent. In twenty twenty, shootings were up one hundred percent, In twenty twenty one, they were up seventy percent.

So it's inordinately high in New York. And people can feel it on the streets. You don't have to just read the paper. You can you can feel it. There's a sense of urgency on the on the streets.

People are concerned to walk out, walk on the on the street, and obviously, as you said, right on the subway. Yeah, what you're trying to say is make the city safe. You don't need the briefings. We'll figure it out for ourselves. Commissioner Ray Kelly, thanks so much.

Appreciate your expertise.

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Please spare me, but don't politicize this, Dex. BS. Because these deaths These record numbers of American slaughters. are political. They are happening because of uniquely American politics.

They are happening because three hundred and twenty seven million Americans. are essentially hostages. to a morally and financially bankrupt gun lobby. and the heartless. gutless politicians that they buy and own.

I don't know. Every day I say, why do I play Joy Reid? Because it's just so absurd that she has to say it's politics, NRA, just as really nuts, the President's remarks. Coming off that, coming off his trip to the Far East, he comes back and he says the NRA, stand up. You don't need a Kevlar vest on a deer.

The deer wear Kevlar vest. Why do you need an assault weapon when it's not labeled an assault weapon? We have these talks. If you want to take it difficult, if you actually want to solve a problem, he's 78 years old. How much longer does he want to play politics for?

Why don't you put together a blue ribbon panel of law enforcement experts, some respected politicians, Tom Dashall, Trent Lott, they tend to be very acceptable on both sides. Why don't you go ahead and say, let's study the last 20 shootings. Let's see if there's a commonality here. Let's see what's changed. Let's see what's going on with the actual assailants and killers.

Stop saying that you and I are nuts because these people have guns and go crazy. Stop taking it away from people that want to hunt or shoot because people are nuts and go crazy and realize there's a separation. Fill that gap on that separation. Stop the next attack. In the meantime, what we could do right away is harden every target now.

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 Kilmicho coming to you from 48th and 6th, but heard around the country, heard around the world. This hour we're going to be joined by Mark Thiessen, the Washington Post Fox News contributor, and Chris Ruffo.

Chris for the senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute has broken a series of big stories along the way. I'm just amazed at how much politics is playing a role with this horrific school shooting that's going to live on in memory, like Sandy Hook, for all the wrong reasons. But it took nine seconds for this administration to start playing politics with it. And I hope Republicans stay out.

So let's get to the big three before we talk to Mark.

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Executive Order raises standards. Bans chokeholes, restricts no-knock warrants, tightens use of forced policies to emphasize de-escalation. and the duty of the interview to stop another officer from using executive force, just as occurred. Yeah, there's no commas and no spaces between words in the president's world. Tone deaf or just idiotic?

That's the choice I give you as the president decides to stick to his timeline and announce police reform. Cops, really? They're the problem? My goodness. Number two.

FDA's timeliness of interviewing the whistleblower. and getting into the facility for a farca four cause inspection, were too slow. and some decisions in retrospect could have been more optimal. Robert Califf, he's the new FDI director, but he was not on the job until recently, and he's talking about the baby formula debacle. You think the stress is bad now?

It's going to last until July. We got the details. Number one. What we know right now that this particular shooter did not have a criminal background, no gang affiliation. We do know that he was residing with the grandparents at this time and also that he was unemployed in a high school dropout.

Uh the shooter in Uvaldi. Leaves 21 dead and 19 kids. We're learning more about the timeline of events and out of nowhere, how the politicians are playing politics within hours of this school shooting, try to jam down gun reform and blame the NRA when it simply didn't exist. And if you're Beto O'Rourke, you look pathetic in interrupting a press conference as we try to make heads or tails about what happened in Texas. With me right now is Mark Thiessen.

You know, Mark. Mark, welcome back. Mm-hmm. Good to be with you, Brian.

So, uh.

So, first off, the President of the United States says the problem is Republicans don't have the guts to stand up to the NRA. Is that the problem? Uh no, it's not. Number one, I mean I think I agree with 100% with what you said at the start of Yeah. We just had a like Eighteen kids killed.

Um and Parents are grieving, and it's like. in a nanosecond They're using it for political purposes. And it's just so shocking that we don't even have, we used to take like a you know, a beat, a decent moment to stop. And take a breath. And grieved with the families before we started attacking each other.

And it's just like, we're not, our politics has gotten so bad that we can't even do that. Yeah. That's shameful. Number number one and number two. No.

It's not a gun problem. It's a mental health problem, it's a school security problem. I mean, I, you know, I was thinking about this the other day that. we can we secure federal courthouses. We secure airports.

We secure all sorts of buildings. Like you can't you can't walk into a federal courthouse. uh with a gun and get in there and shoot a judge. because there's enough security and there's armed officers. Why do we not by now have Yeah.

at least one or two armed police officers at every school public school in America. No reason. That's not the case. While they figure out why they're shooting, why the shootings are happening, you can harden every target. We know how to do it.

And don't tell me there's not money there from the pandemic to use it. Of course. I mean, we learned after 9-11 that we had to take certain steps in order to secure the country. And so we secured our airport. And we secured other and made it harder for PFR terrorists to hit us.

These you know, whether it's a whether it's a terrorist or a crazed person or a mentally ill person or whatever it is, we need to be able to harden our schools. It's not this isn't isn't rocket science. And the idea that You know, when somebody abuses their free speech rights, we don't talk about taking away people's First Amendment rights to deal with it.

So why wa if somebody abuses guns, why would we take away a constitutional right? away from lawful citizens who did nothing wrong. In order to deal with that. It's just you don't take away fundamental rights. We have to find other ways to protect kids.

Right.

Listen to Beter O'Rourke just interrupt the press conference. He had somebody hold a seat on his staff, I imagine. And then the minute the press conference started, they quickly swapped in. In comes Beter O'Rourke, who's got the Democratic nomination to be the next. Governor of Texas, hold your tongue, cut 10.

Excuse me. You're out of line and an embarrassment. Sit down and get out of here. No, we need to get in out of here. This isn't the place to talk to his shoulder.

This is totally predictable when you're in the middle of the moment. Sir, you're out of line. Sir, you're out of line. I'm sure you are not allowed to do that. You got it.

So, does he benefit from this? Even though I'm sure you're with me, that said it was wildly inappropriate. And if you want to hold a press conference, want to be governor, that's what you do. You don't interrupt one. Ours, we still don't have all the identities of all the kids that were killed.

No, it's exactly wrong. The governor and the leaders of the state were holding a press conference to update people on the law enforcement operations surrounding this. And what we know about what happened, and providing vital information for people who are grieving in a state that's worried. And he comes in and disrupts it and turns it into a political stunt. You know, I remember how outrageous.

people were when President Trump during the early in the pandemic Got was getting into fights with reporters during those briefings because, at a time like that, people wanted to know information: what's going on with the pandemic, what's going on with the virus. And they got upset about that. But it's okay for Beto or Ork to come into a government briefing where they're trying to update people on a tragedy that's taken place and to turn that into political theater. It's just absolutely appalling. Yeah, here's the mayor who's the one interrupting him with a cane, by the way, fresh off cancer surgery, cut 14.

This community is broken right now. No community should have to go through what we do in this community. And for a person to come in there and start that crap, I have no respect for Bethel. And the haters that hate that send me the emails and the texts, to hell with you too. I don't care if you're a Democrat, a Republican, an Independent.

We're American people. We're trying to come together as a community and to do what you did today at that press conference was wrong. And I'm sorry that it was wrong. But he might be a hero to the left. And number one, I hear that that city leads Democratic.

Yeah, you know what? I mean, that might have inspired a lot of like rabid gun control advocates and his left-wing base a little bit. But in Texas, that's not enough to win you an election. You gotta win over moderates and independents, right?

So I'm sure he alienated more people he needed in the election than he gained.

So it wasn't even smart politics. It was it was Bad humanity and political incompetence to do something like that. And it just shows that it's not qualified to hold any kind of public office, even even dog catcher. And Mark, I do have to bring you to the politics of it because you're so tapped in.

Now there's a big push to ban what they call assault rifles, but the new ATF nominee has no idea what an assault rifle is. He refuses to define it. And is it going to raise the age to 21? They're going to look to do that nationally and have universal background checks. Do you see anything getting done on what should be done?

Well, number one, what should be done is not taking away gun rights. What should be done is, I mean, there is bipartisan agreement on red flag laws. To increase reporting and make sure that people, if they are If there there's mental health problems, I mean people knew.

somebody had to know about this guy, this guy, it does this just doesn't come out of nowhere. Uh their people were aware that this guy was having mental health problems. His family obviously had to be.

So, you know, you should do red flag laws. But also, you know, we can do something. There's something that we should all be able to agree on, which is hardening schools. There should be, you know, again, how much what is the what is the TSA budget for hardening airports? It the the hardening our schools couldn't be a fraction of that.

Uh yeah. And that's we should we should be trying to find things. that we can all agree on. that that would actually have an impact. On stopping these shootings as opposed to going into our corners and fighting and getting nothing done.

So, yeah, so we'll see what happens on this. I know that after the Florida shooting, the Republican governor did raise the age to 21. The last two shooters did get it at 18. And at least in the Buffalo shooter case, there should have been a red flag on this clown who sat there for hours with the state police because he threatened to kill people in his school and kill himself.

So we'll see where that goes. I want to bring you to two other topics. This baby formula situation is so avoidable. Robert Califf testified, he's the new FDA commissioner. This guy just got named and approved the other day.

And a year and a half later, in the middle of a pandemic, that is such an emergency, he couldn't even name an FDA director. But here's a little about what he said: the reason why we are down 45% of capacity for baby formula. Cut 28. But we had symptoms that were failing and decisions that could have been better. And those findings will be made public, no question about it.

But there will also be a review of the entire food program, which is vast and includes things that you all have discussed, including chemicals and nutrition. Yeah, chemicals and nutrition, I'm against that. Robert Caleb says in December they got the whistleblower. The way it was delayed, it got caught in the mailroom, the whistleblower letter. And then when they finally looked at it and got down there, they realized it is a mess.

The Abbott Labs, they closed it. It's amazing to me, Mark, that nobody said if we close this, it is 40% of our baby formula production. We can't make it at home. We have to inform the White House, the U.S. Commerce Department, U.S.

Agriculture. It's amazing that nobody thinks beyond their little tunnel of responsibility. No, and and that and that uh We knew about this in December and did nothing about it. Uh Uh we hit and And people sort of lewd, there was no big formula on the shelves, and all of a sudden, people found out there was a crisis. We wasted half a year.

Not doing anything about it. The other thing that's interesting, there was a great article on the front page of the Wall Street Journal this week about how the baby formula industry is one of the most regulated industries in the country, which means it's a monopoly between a couple of companies. And and it's almost impossible to get Into the market if you wanted to produce baby formula.

So they've intentionally, through government regulation, limited the number of companies that are. That are producing baby formula. I mean, baby formula is basically cornstarch. uh milk proteins and Nutri nutrients. And you know, we don't regulate baby food, which you know, after six to nine months, all of a sudden you're giving them straight.

We don't regulate strained peas. To the point that there's only like two or three manufacturers in the entire country. Why do we do that with baby formula? Maybe we should have some free market competition and get the government out of the way and let people produce baby formula in this country. It's not rocket science.

And, Mark, here's the thing: the president said he couldn't, he's not a mind reader. That's why in May he's just realizing it's a problem. That's another example of a terrible administration where someone told him and he forgot. The other thing is, if you know that it is run between four companies that control the whole country, at the very least, if you like American babies, at least understand what this means if you shut down one lab with 40% of that overall production, which means we're begging France and Europe and the Netherlands for some of their baby formula.

Well, Mexico, too, by the way, and Canada's got plenty. This is a desperate situation. I know people that just stay on the phone all day looking for baby formula. The other big story is the president chose yesterday to do. to announce police reform because Republicans were standing in the way.

Why would he not? I know it's George Floyd's death anniversary, but didn't he understand the tone deafness of this presser? I I'm Obviously not because he did it. He doesn't understand the tone deafness of a lot of things. He does.

First of all, the reason we don't have police reform, I mean, Tim Scott. has a police reform bill that There's 90% agreement on. The Democrats don't really disagree with anything Tim Scott has in his belief reform, like him to add things that they don't want that he doesn't agree to. But there's police reform that could be done. And Biden's executive action only applies to federal law enforcement.

It doesn't apply to law enforcement throughout the country. Tim Scott's bill could have could have applied to law enforcement across the country. And he wanted to do something that was reasonable, that didn't that didn't demonize the police, but also had common sense reform so we could weed out bad cops. Nothing wrong with it. The Democrats wouldn't do it.

They did. They killed it before the election because they didn't want President Trump to be able to sign it into law and claim that he did something on police reform.

So they purposely killed it then. And then Biden promised to work with Tim Scott and the Democrats wouldn't deal with it.

So, you know, the only reason they don't have a police reform bill that was signed into law months ago. Is because they refuse to work with Republicans because they don't want to give Republicans credit for anything. Marquise citizenship. Washington Post and Fox News. Last question.

How bad, how tarnished is the president after Brian Kemp's A triumphant victory as governor to at least keep the nomination in Georgia. And Purdue barely registered, didn't even get it to a runoff. And the President firmly went behind him. He also lost the Secretary of State battle while winning with Herschel Walker. Is the President severely injured there in terms of perception of power?

You mean President Trump or President Biden? Trump.

Well, so yes, I think it was a defeat for Trump. 75% of Republicans said didn't go for his candidate, didn't go didn't do it. And he's getting about in all of these races, you know, he's running up the score with a lot of EA uncontested races, but he's basically his candidates are getting about twenty five, thirty-two percent of the vote.

So there's a lot of Republicans who are not following his lead. They love him. But Georgia Republicans in particular were burned by by the losing two Democratic Senate seats, which led to $1.9 trillion in spending, which led to forty year high inflation. But I think it's actually a bigger defeat for Joe Biden. Because Joe Biden was the one who said Jim Crow 2.0 I mean, remember he called R all R Republicans traitors and enemies of the country and all the rest?

He gave that horrible speech in Atlanta. That's been completely repudiated. He said it was voter suppression. How is it voter suppression when we have three Times the African-American, not just the three times the overall primary vote. triple Af the African American vote from four years ago in this primary.

Unbelievable. I think this is a big defeat for Joe Biden, bigger than for Donald Trump. Yeah, and all those corporations that took the stand on the president's urging, hurting the people on the land on Joe Biden. All-Star game back. You got a World Series Championship.

Mark, thanks so much. There you go. All right, take care. You got it.

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Hey, welcome back everybody. Just a quick follow-up on what I was talking about with this police reform and how tone-deaf it is. You tap no-knock warrants. Oh, fantastic.

Now we're going to say no-choke holds. What about holds that are going to calm somebody down who's trying to knock your head off?

Now, you're going to say a national database for cops. If they're screw up in Orlando, you don't want them showing up in Washington State. I don't know. I'm pretty sure that most cops look at background checks. Wherever you go in any job, they look in your background.

I mean, restaurant jobs might be a little different, but career jobs, I'm pretty sure they're running that already. To me, these are all insulting little moves as if cops are the issue. When you know the stats reveal that the people that paid the price over the last two years because of the George Floyd murder, or that is bad policing. But the George Floyd as a person is nobody to look up to. Look at his track record.

I mean, look at his police record. Look at the talent the guy had. But now the fact is that you're attacking cops, diminishing the force, defunding them in many cases, including right here in New York City, by millions of dollars. You hurt their morale. This is an insult, this national police plan.

They will have no impact. Except for try to placate a part of society that you think you're losing, and that's the black America. This is the Brian Kilmy Show. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead.

Did you give us any insight into his state of mind? When's the last time you spoke to him? Uh I speak to him daily but Did you know he had guns in the house? I didn't know. I just I get up at five o'clock.

Leave. I'm back. Yeah, that is the grandfather of the killer, the 18-year-old shooter, this mutant barbarian that thought he would target. eight and ten year olds ended. Killed 19, two teachers.

He wounded 17, as many as 17 that were in the hospital. Most are respected to survive. Many of them got out. But what makes these last two shooters in particular, this 18-year-old in Buffalo, Plot and plan, and announce. And also be spotted earlier that he was showing bizarre behavior, going up, plot and plan to kill as many people as possible in Buffalo.

And then, of course, this terrible person in Texas who killed the elementary school kids in Javaldo. What is happening to our youth? Does it have anything to do with what we're seeing in our schools and what we didn't see for the last two years? And that's kids in the classroom. Uh Here to speculate with us is somebody who's been at the forefront of finding out what is happening in our schools and in our businesses, Christopher Ruffo, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, who's really an impactful journalist.

Chris, welcome back. It's great to be with you. Hey, Chris, when people start looking At what's going on with these last two shooters in particular? Should we also look at what's going on in these schools? Yes, I think so.

And I think we should really take a step back and look at exactly what's happening with our culture and with our kids. And if you look at any by really any measurement, you have young people, especially young boys, of kind of suicide, violence, drug abuse. depression and anxiety, severe mental illness, These are all trends that are going in very much the wrong direction, and you have. a generation of kids that is totally disconnected from those Kind of grounding institutions of family, community, a faith community, those connections that keep people within the bounds of sanity. And so you have these two horrific examples.

of kids who have been just totally disconnected from society to the point where they think that it is the good thing to do to indiscriminately kill other human beings. It's unprecedented in our culture. And we should really take a deep look, not just at the practical, legal, or policy levers that we can do to keep people safe. But exactly what has happened to this generation of young people where they feel like this is not only okay, but they feel like it's their only avenue to pursue. Yeah, I mean, we don't know the details of these shooters.

Clearly, they're deranged, but they're not out of their minds. They're not where they they plot and plan. They know how to drive. They know how to use a gun. They know how to work social media.

So they may be Diabolical and sinister. But they're not ill they're not out of their minds to the point where they can't Somehow function in society. And that's what you've been exposing to what's been happening with these in school systems, with CRT, and with these companies, and this whole don't, you know, I'll pick my own pronoun attitude. I don't even know where this stuff came from. And you're starting to unmask it.

I would not be surprised if these two worlds meet. Yes. And again, there's no direct connection in these cases, but if I can step back and just make a broader observation, it's that our public institutions, especially our public schools, are promoting a vision of the country, of society, of human nature that is profoundly nihilistic. It's a pessimistic vision, a negative vision, and a vision that really doesn't connect kids with a sense of the deeper meanings in life. And so when you pair public institutions that are transmitting those kind of values with private institutions, particularly the family and those kinship relationships that have been shattered, one thing that you see over and over when you go back into the history of mass shooters or school shooters.

Is that they're almost always lacking a father? They almost always come from abusive or destructive homes. And of course, not all people who grow up in those conditions become mass shooters.

So it's not a one-to-one causal relationship. But it's something that I think is profoundly important. And if we want to stop this kind of violence, whether it's school shootings, whether it's gang style shootings in America's inner cities. We have to look at those key relationships that have been destroyed. I don't think human beings are different now than they were.

50 years ago or 100 years ago by nature. It's that our culture has changed. And our culture is in a very precarious, very scary, and very dangerous position right now.

So that also makes a lot of Bill Maher's monologues of all things that I've avoided over the last few years. But lately, I found it really intriguing because it seems to be logical, not political. Listen to what he said about what's going on with this whole pronoun push, Cut 49.

Well, if something about the human race is changing at a previously unprecedented rate, we have to at least discuss it. Broken down over time, the LGBT population of America seems to be roughly doubling every generation. According to a recent Gallup poll, Less than 1% of Americans born before 1946, that's Joe Biden's generation, identify that way. 2.6% of boomers do, 4.2% of Gen X, 10.5% of millennials, and 20.8% of Gen Z. which means if we follow this trajectory, we will all be gay in 2054.

He also went on to talk about this pronoun thing and that i in l on the both coasts, it seems to be about every every dinner party talks about how their kids transitioning, but it's not happening in the Midwest. Why is that? Is there something in the water?

Well, I think there's something certainly that is a cultural element and perhaps an element of social contagion. And I was recently reporting a story in New York City, and a mother whose child is transitioning from one gender to the other was very concerned about it. She confided in me that actually on her block and even in her apartment building, there are three or four families within just a stone's throw of each other that all have kids around the same age, kind of early teenage years, adolescent years, that are all transitioning. And so this is something that appears to be high status in a lot of these communities. It's also a way for kids who are struggling with maybe self-image or body image or sexual identity or Or kind of relationships in school to tap into a community that will immediately affirm them and give them a sense of purpose.

I think a lot of these things, unfortunately, are connected, where you have young people who are not being served by adults. They're not being served by institutions. They're not being served by strong families. And they're seeking to find a kind of solution to whatever pain and anxiety that they're feeling. I see this even in my rural community, small town community in Washington State.

Kids are in a rough spot, and we need to have a kind of 360-degree conversation in this country about how we can get kids back connected with those mainstream kind of thrusts of society. All right, Lucy, I want you to hear more for this. Cut 52. Yes, part of the rise in LGBT numbers is from people feeling free enough to tell it to a pollster, and that's all to the good. But some of it is, it's trendy.

Penis equals man?

Okay, boomer. Remember, the prime directive of every teen is anything to shock and challenge the squares who brought you up. And if you haven't noticed that with kids, doing something for the likes is more important than their own genitals, you haven't been paying attention. Dr. Erica Anderson is a prominent 71-year-old clinical psychologist who is herself transgender and who now says, I think it's gone too far.

The LA Times summarizes, she's come to believe that some children identifying as trans are falling under the influence of their peers and social media. If you attend a small dinner party of typically very liberal upper-income Angelinos, it is not uncommon to hear parents who each have a trans kid. Having a conversation about that. What are the odds of that happening in Youngstown, Ohio? If this spike in trans children is all natural, why is it regional?

Either Ohio is shaming them or California is creating them. If we can't admit that in certain enclaves there is some level of trendiness to the idea of being anything other than straight, then this is not a serious science-based discussion. It's a blow being struck in the culture wars using children as cannon fodder. I don't understand parents who won't let their nine-year-old walk to the corner without a helmet, an EpiPen, and a GPS tracker. And God forbid their lips touch dairy.

But hormone blockers and genital surgery? Fine. Talk about a nut allergy. I mean, what do you say to that? Right, Chris?

It's genius. I mean, it's really funny. It's spot on. And I think it strikes at the heart of this progressive orthodoxy in these big cities. You know, I've lived in these places in San Francisco and DC and Los Angeles.

You have people that have this kind of purity ethic.

So they have to have the most pure foods, most pure organic, kind of consumable products. And yet they're willing to dive headfirst into taking drugs that were invented for chemical castration and then giving them to prepubescent children. It's totally insane. But what you have to think of is what is the thing that's motivating them? Trans the kind of transgender status has become an elite status.

And even when I was had my kids in public schools in Seattle, Some of the kids had been going through this process, and you could tell from the parents, and maybe you're not supposed to say this, but you could tell which parents really believed it, they wanted it, they were excited about it, it gave them a sense of meaning, it gave them a sense of status, and those were the kids that were starting to be transitioned, even in kindergarten, from one gender to the next. And so you have to look at the cultural incentives of these places. And then most Americans, people who are in the kind of middle class or suburban, kind of stereotypical parts of the country, have to figure out how to protect against it. Because unfortunately, what happens in elite America Starts to bleed over into the rest of the country. And lastly, when you see what happened in Georgia, Jim Crow 2.0, all white people are trying to stop black people from voting.

Joe Biden says this is Bull Connor has come back to life, the blatant racists and segregationists. And then you see how everybody voted, how much voting in the primary, when most people don't care to midterm, the show at the polls was overwhelming for both parties and all ethnic groups. What does that tell you? It tells me very simply that the left wants to pretend like the country is forever stuck in 1963. This is the narrative that they've bought into.

This is the narrative that gives movement to their politics. And so they're pretending like the country hasn't made any progress since the pre-civil rights era. It's patently false. It's been false for decades. And this voting pattern in Georgia, in which everyone has a very easy access to vote, it's a secure way to vote, it's supported by vast majorities of the public, really shows the lie in this narrative.

It shows that our country is moving towards a system of free, fair, and secure elections. And that's something that everyone should celebrate. Yeah, bring your ID. We're not going to match signatures. Is that so oppressive?

Most people want you to bring your ID of all ethnic backgrounds. And lastly, Chris, that plays into what your biggest impact would be, arguably, and that's what happened with Disney. By exposing Disney's agenda, having them come out blatantly against the parental rights bill and mislabeling it the don't say gay bill. By bringing that forward and Governor DeSantis sticking up, it stops what happened in Georgia. Corporations jumped out of that state, including Major League Baseball.

Delta threatened to leave and all these other major corporations because of Georgia's Jim Crow 2.0 bill. Which was mislabeled, but in Florida, it stopped, and Disney's still paying the price. Do you think that's going to allow companies to legitimately put up their hands and say, keep me out of this because it's not good for the stock price? Instead of saying, I have to do it. Absolutely.

We're already seeing that that's happening. The Wall Street Journal has reported that CEOs around the country are discussing with each other how to avoid becoming the next Disney. And what we did, and through my investigative reporting, through the courageous leadership of Governor DeSantis, whom I worked with on this kind of campaign, what we did is we took Disney's favorability rating from 77% last year down to 33%.

So now Disney, which is a children's entertainment company, is less popular than Joe Biden and less popular than Donald Trump. That's a disaster for companies. And now all these corporations are figuring out how to avoid it. It takes strong leadership. It takes someone like Governor DeSantis to put a price on it.

And I think we've developed a model for conservatives moving forward. Yeah, Christopher Ruffo, you know what you did? You're allowing these CEOs to do probably what their instincts told them they should do and say, I don't want any part of this, and you're not going to force me to do it. I don't care how woke my employees are. And Netflix stood up and said the same thing to their people.

I don't think they're any less left. I think they're being more business-centric. And that's what we should be getting back to. Chris, great work as usual. You're indefatigable.

Christopher Ruffo, thank you so much. Thank you, sir. All right.

You got it.

When we come back, I'll finish up with some calls and some final thoughts on this hour of the Brian Kilmeat Show. Challenging conventional thought and wisdom. You're with. Brian Kilmead. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin.

It's Brian Kilmeid. Hey, we are back. A couple of things that I don't think we really brought up enough today because we got the big three, which I think are important. And of course, when we talk about baby formula, okay. Uh police reform, yeah, that that's got to be a part of it.

And I also think when you talk about the number one story, is the ugliest story, the Uvalde shooting in Texas. And, you know, I'm not sure where this story went, but there was another story in Texas about 300 miles away that they were able to stop a would-be attacker or two guys, and they evidently had. AR-15s.

So we're looking into that and seeing if I can follow up. But the other big story was Tuesday. Not only because Wednesday I was on assignment for Fox Nation, but Tuesday, in many ways, is quite intriguing. Number one, we found out there's going to be a recount in Pennsylvania.

So it looks like Dr. Oz got about 1,000-vote lead. And now they're pushing, Dave McCormick is pushing to count envelopes without dates on them. That is a huge problem because the minute you do that, when Dr. Oz is probably going to win anyway, it's going to happen.

Very rarely do recounts reveal something, turnover elections, obviously. Look at past recounts. But number two is now all of a sudden you have a precedent. And the big problem Republicans have with Democrats is that the inefficiency of mail-in voting. That's why they say show up the same day.

Because of the inefficiency, one of the things is dating. When did this come in and when exactly is the cutoff? And then why can't you count them in time? And did you fill out the balance? Ballot right.

So now David Cormick says, I want to count everything. That's a little bit of a problem. Number two, I think Donald Trump made a huge mistake, and I knew it the second he did it, by not only alienating Georgia voters on the runoff election of put Warnock and Osoff into power, but then he comes back and has Senator Perdue, who failed because he was lazy to get the Senate seat again. He didn't want to even go to a debate, and he begs him to run governor. He has no message, no campaign.

He loses by 40 points. Makes Trump look terrible. And Herschel Walker, as promising as he can be and as bright as he is, he has not shown me yet he has gone out of his way to study the issues. And I feel real bad for George P. Bush.

I think he's light years better than the current Attorney General, and he'll never be tarnished in scandal. Here's Molly Hemingway on what's going on with the whole Jim Crow 2.0 and the election reform, Cut 38. Jim Crow was a real thing that our country suffered through where the Democrat Party basically disenfranchised an entire race of people. It was very difficult to get rid of those laws and so the slur really stings.

Now the people who wanted to pass election integrity said that it was very unfair, that that was a horrible thing to say, and that they simply wanted to make it easy for people to vote but difficult for them to cheat.

So they slightly streamlined some things, they made some improvements, they developed some consistencies, they made it so that you have to show a photo ID in order to vote. And yeah, the proof is in the pudding. There was this primary yesterday. Voter turnout is way up across all categories, including in the Democrat Party. This was a horrible lie and people should have been held accountable.

Yeah, and that's what I talked about with Chris Ruffo. They weren't, and they aren't. All they've said is check signatures and limit the number of drop boxes. Before the last election, there were zero drop boxes. It's an insult to say minority communities can't go out of the way to vote when they basically are given six out of seven days, months ahead of time, to vote.

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