Liberal Media Has a Meltdown Over Elon Musk's Twitter Bid

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There's also a lot of folks out there that say, you know, it's troubling enough that private companies control these key communication platforms around the world. Maybe it's even worse to have the world's richest person trying to buy one of them and take it private. Brian Stelter, I can't get enough of him. Musk must find a way, as an Elon Musk, find a way to buy Twitter. His first and final offer causing panic, invoking liberal newsrooms to lose their minds, how it's all playing out, and what obstacles remain for the world's richest man.

Pete Hagseth, it's good to talk to you again. It's been five minutes. It has been five minutes. Three hours, not enough. Great to be here with you.

Right.

So, what is else, before we get into this, what else is on your schedule, Tay? Because you got the weekend show going from 6 to 10 Eastern Time, Saturday and Sunday. That's it. Don't you have Dan Bongino? This weekend I was bumped, actually.

Really? Yeah, I don't blame Dan. I love Dan. But I didn't fit into the hour. Wow.

So I got a weekend off. But it's a good weekend to have. That's good. I should have alerted One Nation. Because One Nation would take you.

We are your backup show. At eight o'clock. You're never my backup, Brian. You're my number one. Thank you.

So, Pete, let's talk about Elon Musk. And I wanted to play the left going losing their minds. Fox and Friends didn't think that was a big deal. I was stunned by what I heard was happening. And then, when you see the newsrooms go crazy about the prospect of the most Thomas Edison of this generation getting involved in this, R.

Da Vinci of this generation getting involved in Twitter, what is the threat? I don't see it. The threat is the eradication of their safe space. I mean, they were happy to play in Dorsey's PayPal. He's a rich guy running Twitter.

The founder. The founder. But they knew the rules of the road were slanted in their favor. They knew that. Disinformation or misinformation was a tool they could wield against political opponents.

And The reason I say that is because any pretense that the media, the so-called mainstream media, is anything other than in the tank for the Democrat Party is gone. These are all lefties who come from leftist journalism schools, who know each other in D.C. or New York and go to the same country clubs and their kids go to the same schools. They feel comfortable inside that space. If you open up Twitter to a real conversation and they're confronted by the best conservative or even just free thinking views and they're not censored, they lose and it bursts their bubbles.

So I think, and you also have younger kids at Twitter and elsewhere who've been grown up believing that speech can be violent. They're going to get fired. They're going to get fired if Musk gets fired. Musk would have to do that. Take it private, clean house.

You'd have to change the whole culture at Twitter.

So what I think you and I agree on is that this isn't just a rich guy getting what he deems a valuable property that's underperforming. You believe that if Twitter can be balanced, so you get the Ted Cruz saying things about January 6th. That maybe Liz Cheney disagrees with, and he doesn't get his account suspended. And you have somebody come away left and talk about how Donald Trump is the worst person on the planet. He does not get his account suspended.

We just want an arena. And if you start balancing like Twitter was, so to speak, you thought in 2016, in 2014, it was kind of balanced, right? A little bit. You never really heard that much about shadow banning until Trump won. Absolutely.

And he was on Twitter tweeting what he wanted as the president of the United States as a representation of real free speech. As Trump said, who loved the First Amendment more than me? As he said. But it descended into a censorship machine. And I had written off the idea that something like a Twitter could be redeemed.

I was a believer that alternate ecosystems were probably the only opportunity for conservatives and patriots. I did not have Elon Musk saves the day on my bingo card a week ago because it shouldn't take a billionaire to do this. If you can reestablish public squares He said it. Elon Musk said it. On the TED Talk yesterday, it's being allowed to disagree, listen to content you disagree with on a regular basis is the threshold as to whether or not you are truly tolerant of dissent and free speech.

He's an absolutist, and that's a good thing.

So let's go to let's listen to him. Cut three.

Well, I think it's very important for Uh there would be An inclusive arena for free speech. Twitter has become kind of the de facto town square.

So, It's just really important that people have both the reality and the perception that they are able to speak freely within the bounds of the law. And this is more of what you just said, cut five. If in doubt, let the speech, let it exist. You know what I mean? a gray area, I would say let let the let the tweet exist.

And a good sign as to whether there's free speech is. Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like. Mm-hmm. And if that is the case, then we have free speech. And it's damn annoying when someone you don't like says something you don't like.

That is a sign of a healthy functioning. Free speech situation. Amen. I don't think this is a business decision for him. I think this is someone who said in the past, I want to do good in this world.

I don't know what his political leanings are completely, probably more libertarian than anything else, but he wants, he understands that free people can't stay free if we can't keep the very first of our amendments. And a commitment to that would be massive. Listen, I know a lot of your listeners probably have already written off Twitter. 80% of the content comes from 10% of the blue check marks. I left Twitter.

I mean, I was blocked, sh banned, and then allowed back on. And then when Trump was kicked off, I said, enough with it. I don't need to, I don't need to. Peck for scraps on a slanted playing field. But if they bring it back and it's a real conversation, then let's have at it.

Right.

And I did speak to Devin Nunez over the last couple of days, and Truth Social is on track. It's slowly going. That's Donald Trump. That's another interesting dynamic, too. I mean, Truth Social could be a competitor.

We'll see. Right.

Because if the president of the United States starts running again, you do want to know what the leading candidate for the nomination is, just like you would look for Bernie Sanders' comments for a talking point.

Okay, what did Bernie Sanders say? It doesn't mean I agree.

So you'll have to seek out.

So why would Trump want to go back to Twitter? But as a business decision, that's what he's also talking about. Why did I lose? Why couldn't we be inclusive of the other 45% of the country that's Republican that is deciding to go elsewhere or not use their account? It's not a good business decision to leave them out.

But that's the other thing, which I think is important.

So remember, I talked on television about the nuance. Yes.

So in 2015, 2018. And I said you should talk about it on radio. Right.

Yes, you did. Perfect promo.

So remember, he smoked pot on Joe Rogan's show, and then he had a few tweets that affected stock prices. I'm not smart enough to remember what, or I don't have a good enough memory to remember what it was, but also how it affected the SEC.

So they do a full-blown investigation. He agrees with the SEC. They agree to let him step down as Tesla's CEO, and then. They say he's going to agree to have some of his tweets edited.

So he said, never happy with that. He said it was coerced by the SEC, who threatened to destroy his company. And he said, I have a choice to have one of my kids killed or go. agree to this deal. That's how he looked at Tesla.

So he agreed to this deal. And he still he was bitter uh at the TED talk yesterday. And now, if you own Twitter, you're really gonna edit my own tweets.

So I think on some level, He is interesting.

So there's a bit of a. Go back to the SEC and challenge him to stop this deal. What about when I am the one that prints the newspaper? You're gonna I'm gonna tell me to edit me? That's effect.

I mean, look at listen, the and the irony of this is that the Washington Post is grousing about rich people owning Twitter when Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. There might be that personal angle to it, Brian. That's an interesting one. I mean, controlling the very organ that potentially tried to destroy you wouldn't be the first time in human history that somebody rich did that.

So, you guys have been playing on the weekends Bill Maher a little bit, right?

So, he was on with Joe Rogan, he was on with Adam Krolla, and they don't agree on anything, but they agree that the Democrats are absolutely crazy. This whole trans movement, the whole do we don't want parents in control of an education? He doesn't even have kids. And he said, What is wrong with you people? Here's what he said about Elon Musk, Cut 10.

We live in a different age where Twitter is the market, the public square now. If you deny someone's right to speak on Twitter, you're basically saying you don't have free speech rights. Twitter also said you couldn't, they banned you talking about whether coronavirus came from a lab. And it may well have. And even the Biden administration admits that now.

We don't know where coronavirus came from, but there's no reason to think it couldn't have emerged from a lab. They had a lab in Wuhan that was studying coronavirus. And you couldn't even discuss Luna. That's outrageous. I think that's what Elon Musk wants to fix at Twitter.

When have I ever played Cutram Ville Maher? I played him all the time. I know, we play him almost every weekend. It's amazing. Because he's a.

Liberal who isn't woke. Who believes in basic common sense and decency and has the willingness to point out lunacy across the aisle. And that's precisely what he has seen. That's what they've walked into. And it's free speech.

That existed outside of Twitter that brought the world back to the fact that Hunter Biden's laptop is real. Oh, maybe it did originate in the lab. But if we lived in a world where Twitter only, Facebook only controlled it, that's the type of that's Russia. That's what Vladimir Putin's able to do right now with his own people as he wages war and increases his own popularity domestically by spinning what's happening elsewhere. Without free speech, those in charge will lie to us and tell us it's not a lie with their own rationalization.

And it's only Shows like this one and Fox News and a few others that are willing to cut against that grain. If Twitter was a part of that conversation, it's it but the left freaks because that's how they control everything. That's this is the elites playing for the future.

Well, you know, the first thing they wanted to do was control talk radio. Remember, Barack Obama took target at Rush Limbaugh. And the fairness doctrine? Yeah.

Well, but the first thing he said when he wins the election is: This is the party of Rush Limbaugh. And everyone thought, really? You just beat John McCain. He's not Rush Limbaugh. And he was taking target practice at talk radio.

Then they saw what's happening with social media and how Donald Trump used it to win. And he was able to micro-target and find out where his audience is and get these big crowds, whether he was at an aircraft in the middle of a field or in an airplane hangar. He was able to do this, and they go, okay, we're embarrassed. I saw Neil Ferguson is the first one to tell me this. He says, I work in Silicon Valley.

They are embarrassed and humiliated about how Donald Trump used their platforms to win. And they will get their revenge. He said that to me in 2017. Fascinating. What did Mark Zuckerberg do?

Poured hundreds of millions of dollars into certain markets. Into certain markets to facilitate COVID voting, which turned into basic private facilitation of how elections were run in key areas of key states. Right.

Pete Hagseth's going to stick around one more segment. Is that right, Pete? What do we get him to agree to? Whatever you want, I work for you.

Well, you know, I gave him some money on the side. And he says, yeah, no problem, and then he'll act like it's his idea. But unlike Black Lives Matter, you will declare that money. Right? And you will, for the IRS.

On my personal 990, yeah. Thank you.

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Not by doing what we've been doing so far, which is, of course. In Afghanistan. Second of all, our defense budget, which doesn't truly reflect the ability to project power, especially with our Navy, which is gonna shrink in the number of ships. Which is nuts. Which is nuts.

And then and then the complete if our policy is strategic ambi ambiguity in Taiwan, uh l look at what strategic ambiguity has looked like in Ukraine.

Well, you hear what General Keene said today. It's a huge mistake. We should learn from that. That was probably the most hawkish I mean Mm. General Keene's generally a hawkish guy, but that was a very full-throated, you know, send American troops to Taiwan.

And train the Taiwanese to work their stuff. That's a huge takeaway from Ukraine, though. The training of U.S. troops in the years leading up to this invasion has been. Instrumental, and you could argue decisive, because you can't just give weapons to people and hope they employ them correctly, especially if you don't have people on the ground.

Maybe our CIA does. If you train them and then they learn how to move together as a unit, and then you give them the weapons, they're a lot more effective. If we're not doing that, we need to do it on steroids with the Taiwanese right now. Otherwise, forget about it. See, I agree with you.

You know, Afghanistan, to me, for a while, we don't need to be there, we don't need to be to occupy, but holding on to Bagram and the rare earth and doing those things and having influence in an area which is just a haven for terrorists. And now they're back. ISIS, Al-Qaeda, they're even threatening the Taliban.

So congratulations. We no longer that's another conversation. But if we could temporarily focus here in Russia for the next year, You realize NATO now is being convinced, not through us, not through being berated, to invest in their military. They're going to buy patriots from us for now on. We're going to add Sweden and Finland to that area.

They're going to book to build up their defense and get out of that Soviet-era stuff, buying it from us, whether it's a payment plan. They have money. And then we train. You watch your own back. We're there to back you up.

Then we can pivot holistically. And the relationships, what we have, what China doesn't have, is relationships, right? We're not looking to rape every land of all their natural resources and get them in possible situations, which is essentially extortion. That's what the Belt and Road program is. There you have it.

We could call it the Kill Mead Doctrine. I mean, you're exactly right. This is a wake-up call for Europe to defend their own backyard. Get off their oil and gas. They've been on our backs to defend them.

Unappreciative. Totally unappreciative. Trump tried to tell them it took an actual threat for them to wake up. If they do wake up, fund their militaries, buy those missile systems, and basically hold the eastern flank of Russia, then we can focus where we need to focus. Continue to train them.

You could put a training mission there, easy. Absolutely. Because China's the showdown. Right.

It's the showdown. And it is. And the thing is, then they'll see the loyalty and we're doing. And then we get back to the Middle East and get that in order the way Trump left it. I would like to do that just so we make sure that China doesn't take advantage of those relationships.

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Now, when talking about this, it's kind of funny how Elon Musk wants to buy it, but there are massive life and globe-altering consequences for just letting people run wild on the thing. There's also a lot of folks out there that say, you know, it's troubling enough that private companies control these key communication platforms around the world. Maybe it's even worse to have the world's richest person trying to buy one of them and take it private. That is some of the outrage from the other networks about the prospect of Elon Musk. Uh buying Twitter.

So joining me right now in studio, because I recognize her from television, Julie Bay Darris, Fox News anchor, who will be hosting today, right? Yes.

You're hosting the Faulkner Focus today. Yes.

Yes, you are. Thank you.

I said it very carefully. But I'm a stand-in by a story. Every once in a while, stories pop up, and you know about horrible stories. We never expected the subway shooter. We knew Ukraine was coming.

But this story, I go, wait a second. Last week, he's thinking about buying. He began with majority shareholders. I'm going to be on the board.

Okay. What happened over the weekend? I'm off. I don't want to be on the board. But wait a second.

The next day, yesterday, I'm going to buy the whole thing. And then the freakout happens. Yeah.

I mean, first of all, why the freak out?

Well, I think that the liberal social media users are shaking in their boots because they see Twitter as a place to silence conservatives. I mean, there are so many conservatives that are blocked for saying absolutely ridiculous things. People are blocked on Facebook for complaining about not being able to pay their college bills. These are veterans, which you've read about, right? And so they, of course, don't want somebody who's going to give them a voice.

And you're hostage to them because there's only one way to get in touch with those people on Facebook, one way to get in touch with those people on Twitter. Yeah, exactly. And it'll be interesting, though, to see how the narrative switches on Twitter. I mean, I'm excited about it. I think it's awesome.

So a couple of things. I am not somebody that does a lot of hostile takeovers in my life or in business. Like, the people don't say, I want somebody to buy Price Waterhouse against their will. They don't go, Brian, kill me, do you have a moment? Right.

But I'm fascinated to see that Elon Musk, he has put it out there at 55. $54 plus a share, right?

So at $54 a share, everybody makes money.

So if they don't want to do it, they do a poison pill, which they're going to dilute the amount of value in each share.

Okay, I understand that.

So, what is must's plan B? He says, Do you have a plan B? The answer is yes.

Now, what could it be? Smarter than me, but this is where the word is. That his plan B would be to take it to the shareholders and have them vote. and have them vote on who whether he should ownership or not. He's convinced that if the shareholders can cash in that aren't as vested as these other ideologues in the on the West Coast, he thinks he'll get it that way.

Isn't it amazing when you have that much money that you can have a plan B when it comes to just taking over? I mean, it's amazing. I mean, if I well, I mean, what if you were in his shoes and you had his kind of money, is this the kind of investment that you want to Well, well if my theory is correct, it makes sense. Yeah.

When Starlink, when he put Starlink in action, allowed the Ukrainians to communicate, and he saw it actually changed the direction of a war. He said, Well, how else can I help the country? And what he said in the TED talk kind of backs up my theory in that how I could open up free speech and social media for everybody and help us help end division by letting people talk again. I could buy that. I love it.

And then he looks at Twitter and says it's a hollow giant because no one tweets anymore. The Republicans, the ones that use the conservatives, they don't do any they're not doing it. Then he looks at the top users that weren't tweeting. Barack Obama, Taylor Swift. Who else do they have that is really popular?

Justin Bieber. He said the people that are the most popular are not even using it. The platform is totally unutilized. He said, I'm out. I have no faith in the courage management.

So unless I'm the management, I'm out. They would be stupid to let him walk away. I believe that he want any part of it. They just know. It doesn't make sense.

I mean, well, yes, of course, because they don't want free speech. I mean, that's the bottom line. I mean, Twitter and Facebook, these two major social media giants, don't allow for the other side.

So they want to control the narrative. I would hope, and I would love to see him take over. I would also like him to add an edit button to Twitter. What would that do? It would just correct a lot of my typos.

Right.

So another certain situation.

So it's totally just about me. Instead of taking it down. Yes.

You just want to correct one letter. Exactly. Right.

How often do you look? Because it happens to me all the time. Do you look at your Twitter and it's up there for about a few hours and you go, I'm missing a word. No, I would say that. Completely.

Completely. And then people, of course, have to retweet and then correct you as if I'm an idiot and I don't understand why wood is not spelled W-O-L-D. Right.

But yeah. A lot of times I find the spell check has turned against me in life. Oh, it really has. No. Oh, my God.

My daughter, let me just say, texted my husband. Husband, not her, my other daughter. She doesn't know the story. My daughter's in the studio, by the way. And she had COVID last week.

So she's locked in her bedroom all week long. And so she's texting my husband saying, I really want to hug you. And she dictated it. Autocorrect turned that hug word to the F-word. To her father.

She's nine. I just want to talk about autocorrect and what the heck is wrong with Apple.

Well, yeah.

Well, yeah, predictive text. I want to hug you to her father. Yeah, predictive text is not fun. No. You don't know me.

Please stop pretending as if you do. Yeah.

So some of the people that are outraged, this guy, Max Bruder, used to be a conservative military expert.

Now he's this left-wing commentator on the Washington Post. He says, I am frightened by the impact of society and politics if Musk acquires Twitter. He seems to believe that on social media, anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation. How weird is that?

We need more content moderation, so less free speech. Yes, and more content. First of all, content moderation isn't the whole point for people to go on Twitter and read about that's where I get a lot of my news, sadly, because you know, all you still do? I really do. But it's because I follow all these different news organizations, you know, newspapers and news channels and so forth.

So I do get a lot of my news there. But as far as opinion, people Have every right to their opinion. I can't understand why free speech is now, therefore, cut off on social media. How is it any different than free speech in real life? Because people can hide behind their stupid keyboards and say stupid stuff and moderate free speech because they're cowards and they don't show their face because they're on the internet.

All right, so real quick, because I know you got to go because you had to prepare for your show. Yeah.

So today at 11. Yeah.

What's it called? Remind me. Oh, right. Yep. That's it.

That's the show, Brian. Appreciate that. The name scares me. I know. But Harris, you should have asked a simulcast.

Harris had a simulcast, so you would do my show at the same time. We share audiences. What? I don't know how much power do you have. Not a lot, but can you maybe make a phone call?

Right.

Okay. No one cares about my phone calls. Plus, I don't have anybody's number. Do you? No.

Either. I could not call most of my family. Should everything go down. And I go to a rotary phone.

Sorry. Nothing. Oh my God. Wait. I would rotate a rotary phone.

Who the heck has a rotary? Do you own a rotary phone? I had one. My youth? No.

How recent? My youth of. I would think I haven't used a rotary phone, I guess, since the 80s. Oh, okay. I don't think that crazy.

I'm also not nostalgic. I don't know what the phone is. I don't want to turntable. No, my mom actually has one still in her house. Are we talking the dial?

Oh, yeah. No, we have that in our house. They don't use it. I believe if you hooked it up, it would be, but I'm not really sure it would register. You know, they also used to give the numbers as letters.

Like, one by one. Yes, that is so confusing. And then you'd have to look through every single letter. Half our viewing audience has no idea what we're talking about. Right, you know what?

But I think we worry too much about our audience. I think we should worry about what we do. Screw the audience. I love writing. I wouldn't say screw the audience.

No. That would be bad.

Okay, sorry. I would say screw the audience. That might work on the Faulkner focus, but it doesn't work on the Brian Kill Me Joe. Without an audience, we're in trouble.

So I looked at, I just want to talk politics if I can, real quick. Joe Biden's approval rating is at 33%. Oh, my gosh. Lost with Hispanics probably more than anything else. It's in the 30s.

Man, he used to, he used to be in. The 40s and 50s and 60s. Remember that. And that's one of the big changes, my humble opinion. The reason why Cesar Chavez's bust is in the Oval Office, they knew the first thing they had to do is get in there and win over Hispanics.

They thought by loosening up on the border it would. It's done the opposite.

So he's got 33% approval rating. In terms of the economy, it's about the same thing. He had somewhat high on COVID. It's just around 50%. Everything else is upside down.

Here is Senator John Kennedy because they also have blown up the parent vote about this craziness. They also, people who have female athletes in their family might not want them competing against men that are transitioning to something else. Here's John Kennedy, cut 33. Senator John Kennedy. I wouldn't be surprised if the White House tried to claim tomorrow that inflation originated in a bat.

But the truth is that President Biden has no one else to plausibly blame. but himself. And all the American people know Well, let me put it another way. When a honey bun costs 20 bucks. and you're homeless on the beach eating seaweed, Most Americans are going to blame President Biden as they should.

Right.

And he's getting a lot of the blame. You know, inflation might have come, supply chain might have been a hurdle. Nobody thinks he's attacking it correctly. No, I personally love his sound bites. Like, you could literally just pick any of his sound bites, and they're amazing.

A honey bun. When's the last time you bought a honey bun? But I have to say, it's not only the Hispanic demographic. I mean, obviously, the nation, the crisis on the border, and they're finally calling it a crisis, which is nice to see them step up and try to get it. Take their time.

Yeah, no, they didn't want to call it a crisis at first.

Now they're like, oh, it's a crisis. But yet they don't want to answer the question whether Biden's ever going to visit the border. Right.

I mean, Kamala didn't really, and now Biden isn't so much either. But it's not just the Hispanic community. It's also the African-American community that have turned their backs on Democrats. And it's because they don't keep their promises. He still has the majority.

They're still in the 60s. But they need the 80s. Yes, but it has come down from the election. You know, a lot of African-Americans who voted for Biden are having buyers' remorse. I mean, because he's not keeping up the promises that he promised.

But, Julie, here's the thing. I'm kind of relieved he didn't because if he kept the promises that he promised for the left wing of his party, we would have had Build Back Better and Build Back Better was going to be, you think it's hard to overcome the 1.9 trillion rescue plan? Yeah.

We never would have gotten close to paying off even a yearly, being able to match what our obligations were. Right.

Well, I mean, as if inflation is not bad enough, imagine adding that to the tab. I mean, we do not have an endless bank account. Maybe we do the way that they're spending. When we print the money, as long as we stay on the bank, exactly. And when's the last time you actually had a dollar?

Between direct deposit? Can you go weeks without touching money? I mean, yeah. If you've got your Apple, do you use what is it called? Denmo?

No, when you like do this. Like, I can pay you right now. Apple Pay. Yeah, Apple Pay. Thank you.

That's what I mean. I'm sorry. I forgot what it is. No, it's okay. Not very Apple-friendly.

No, the thing is, you're focusing more on your show. No, I actually wasn't even thinking about it. What show? Faulkner Folks.

Okay, yep. I got to do that at a little bit.

So you do have to go, but my. Exit question to you is: Who's on and why should we watch? Oh, God, really? You're gonna put me on the spot like that.

Well, no, no, I want to give you a chance to promo. Oh, no, I appreciate it. Louise Darius is here.

Okay, fine. Yep. Hi, everyone. All right, so we're gonna be talking to Mark Thiessen about liberals freaking out, about Elon and Twitter, because we love that story. And then we're also gonna be talking to Trey Yangst.

He's gonna give us the very latest on Russians taking hits and ramping up Eastern attacks.

So, of course, we're gonna continue our Ukrainian coverage. We have much more. Also, Biden's border crisis and the latest and Title 42 concerns. Title 42. I mean, why would you get rid of Title 42?

Title 42, you take that away. COVID numbers are rising in this country, right? You see what's happening in China, in Shanghai. They've been on a seven-plus-day lockdown. Do you want that here in the United States?

Sure, come on over our border and bring COVID with you. Oh, and by the way, we're going to bust you all over the country. You want a treat free trip to Miami? Come on over. For free.

I mean, that's the incentive. It was a good promo. With COVID. You were reluctant to. Do I sound like a campaign ad for Biden?

A little bit, no, but it sounds like somebody he won't use. Yeah.

But, you know, for someone who didn't want a promo, you certainly dug into it. Yeah.

Right? So you should be proud of it. I should go into media relations. Do you go out to outnumber two like Harris would? Yes.

Oh, my goodness. I'm doing outnumbered. All right. I wish we could simulcast. Can we try to do that next time?

On outnumbered? Just on outnumbers. I'm going to do the Faulkner Focus. Yes, the Faulkner Focus. I want to do that.

What you have to do is tell your people. They know our numbers.

Next time, you need to be the outnumbered guy on the show.

Well, I was Monday. Because you already work six hours, so then we'll make it seven. Is that okay? All right. What time do you get done with the show?

I'm done here at noon. Oh, okay. But then I have that extra hour so that's a good one.

So that would give you seven minutes.

So I have a few minutes to get downstairs and be the man. Oh, perfect.

Okay. I'll line that up. I'll talk to my people. All right. You can talk to your people?

Yeah.

All right. You don't have people. I'm going to text you and have you email the producer. That'll be fine. That's what it sounds like.

Okay, great. Julie Banderas, thanks so much. All right. Thanks, Brian. Love you.

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Join me as I share my thoughts on a wide range of topics from sports and pop culture to politics and business. The Will Kane podcast. Subscribe and listen now at FoxNewsPodcasts.com. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmead of Go Black Lives Matter.

Where are all those who stated Black Lives Matter. When are we going to start asking these serious questions? If Black Lives Matter, then the thousands of people I saw on the street. When Floyd was murdered, Should be on the street right now, stating that the lives of these black children that are dying every night matters. We can't be hypocrites.

That is Eric Adams, the mayor, still on quarantine, I guess. Busy week, subway shooter. We got it. Number two, with him just coming out to him, Black Lives Matter. He said he was in the Bronx in Brooklyn, on the phone with his commanders, trying to get a hold of what was going on with all the shooting.

He said, all these guys are getting shot in the middle of the night. Kids are getting shot and killed. All black on black crime. And he's a black mayor, and he's saying, Where's Black Lives Matter? I'm serious.

People would really want to help. Uh in all communities But when you find them buying mansions, disappearing, hating the family, hating the country, not being active, no one no one wants to file file a tax form with the IRS, and when you ask them, they say they're triggered. And then you see all these rundown areas of New York urban environments where a boys and girls club could be built, maybe a mentor program could be flooded in and fully financed, people, kid people, teachers, instead of maybe tutoring, show up and provide extra help. State provided, BLM provided to get them the help they're maybe not getting at home. Instead, You know, you hear crickets.

I also was encouraged that the mayor is reinstating and expanding the talented and gifted program. I would not have qualified for that, but in New York City, one of the things to keep the rich and famous and powerful here is their kids are oftentimes very talented and gifted. And they got these great schools, and they'll say, you know, I'll put up with the potential crime and the traffic, and I can't have a car, and I pay a ton for parking, because my kid goes to an elite school. And Mayor De Basio, the biggest loser ever, decides that that was uh exclusivary so therefore He's starting to end it. Or expanded to the point where gifted and talented are not with other gifted and talented.

The whole point was to isolate the greatness, try to get the most out of them and challenge them, and then see where they can go from there. And that's an attraction to keep. People in New York City. And he says, I'll keep it, I'm going to expand it. The other thing I wanted to bring up is Charlie Rose, I guess, uncanceled himself.

He got fired from CBS in disgrace. I'm not sure what it was, something about dropping his pants. Usually not a good thing. If you're unless you're alone.

So he went and interviewed Warren Buffett.

So I want to hear what Warren Buffett has to say, number one, and uh Where was Charlie Rose been? Here is Warren Buffett talking about how much he loves the country, cut 36. And when you say you've been the luckiest guy, I assume that means A. Community and family, but it also means, in your case, as you have said often. The country that you live in.

Toleroyd. Charlie, if I'd been born. Any place But the United States? My life would have been totally different. And incidentally, you know.

It helped to have the parent. I do. But Yeah, I'd say is essential. It's given me everything. A guy modest makes a modest has it lives in a modest home considering I think he's one of the richest men and people in the world.

He actually helped bail out the federal government in 2008.

So, Warren Buffett speaking again, and I guess, how do you uncancel yourself? I didn't know you could do that. Is Matt Lauer next? And I'm not saying I'm against it. I I do think, you know, people Can get restarts in life.

It's not up to you or I to decide. I believe that if someone should work again, it's up to the employer. And I don't know where Choi Rose is airing this interview. But maybe it's the first of an uncancelled, canceled, no longer canceled person. I can't even follow that.

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Thanks so much for listening, everybody. It's the Brand Kill Meet Show. I appreciate you being here. We're coming to you from 48th and 6th, yep, downtown, Midtown, New York City. Heard around the country, heard around the world, hopefully in the Ukraine.

Gerardo is standing by to join us. And Dr. Oz, my first interview with Dr. Oz, I haven't seen him, I'm sure he was on with Sean. Although I haven't seen him.

Since Donald Trump gave his endorsement at a big rally, and it kind of divided. The Trump world because Hope Hicks, a key aide for President Trump, does everything with him, and then you have. Other people like Kellyanne Conway working with Dave McCormick. And then people like Stephen Miller working with Dave McCormick. But Doctor Oz and the President, former President, have been great friends.

He's also tight with Melania. He's a great friend to this show. I think he's great so talented and smart But we'll see. Right now, McCormick's up a little bit in the polls, but it's still early, and I haven't seen a poll since Trump got his endorsement.

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

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Every Border Patrol agent is extremely frustrated and upset about what's going on on the border. It is, in fact, by design. They are doing this on purpose.

This administration has some very intelligent individuals at DHS, and they know what's happening. They just don't have the will to push back against this White House. Which is scary. Their bad policy is a policy. Biden's self-inflicted border crisis has states and some Dems uniting against the flat-out betrayal of his nation by not securing or even planning to properly secure the border.

You heard, Brandon Judd, signs that Texas's governor's Abbott's desperate measures might be working. Number two. It's a significant symbology here, this flagship in the Black Sea, and now it's taken down. It looks like the Ukrainians did it. And it's a huge victory for Ukrainian.

I mean, military, it's not decisive, but nonetheless, a significant symbol to the Ukrainians. Yes, General Keen with me on Fox and Friends today. Russia suffers a brutal blow, losing a warship at the hands of the Ukrainians as they brace for an Eastern assault while desperately trying to hold on to Mariupol, the latest on the war, and the warnings Moscow has given us and the world. Number Yeah. Fear not, Russian.

Wingers, another bro-fascist is waiting in the wings to defend your right to spew bile online. There's also a lot of folks out there that say, you know, it's troubling enough that private companies control these key communication platforms around the world. Maybe it's even worse to have the world's richest person trying to buy one of them and take it private. Right.

We don't want a rich person buying a media outlet like Jeff Bezos at Washington Post. That'll never happen. Musk must find a way, as in Elon, a way to buy Twitter, the first and final offer causing a gigantic panic in a lot of liberal newsrooms. How it's all playing out and what obstacles remain for the world's richest man. Another man who's rich with uh good thoughts.

And a lot of money. Geraldo Rivera, now in Ohio, not here. Fox News contributor, co-host of the Five. Geraldo, welcome back. Hey Brian, I think I'm gonna buy something today.

I'm all for Elon Musk. I hope he goes all the way. I hope that Twitter shareholders understand that this man is. you know, once in a generation creative force and He'll take Twitter and make it what its potential. I love being on Twitter.

Was shocked when they kicked the president off, and many of my followers weren't with him. Uh but I've stuck it out, but I I'm energized now. I think Elon Musk is exactly the guy for the job. He's so creative, the fact that he could do it with this Small change. Is something that I think is quite interesting.

I was fascinated by this nuance to this story.

So, why would. Elon Musk won Twitter. I also think, you know, I think you agree with me that he saw how good Starlink did for Ukraine, literally helped them win, possibly get to this point. They won the first phase of the war. We hope they win the whole thing.

And then he says, you know, what else could I do?

Well, one thing I could do is help with free speech in this country and stop with the division, letting both sides talk.

Well, get the most popular outlet. Let's take a look at it. I'll become the number one investor of Twitter. He saw the outrage, and that makes a guy like him even more competitive. And he thought, I got a better idea.

Keep your board seat. I'll take the whole thing and move it private. And then I found out that he is also just as angry as the SEC. I did not remember this, Geraldo. But after he sent some tweets out and smoked pot on Joe Rogan's podcast and affected the stock at Tesla, he had to go to an agreement with the SEC, almost feels like it was extortion, that he would have some of his tweets edited before they were sent out.

And he had to agree to step down as CEO of Tesla. They said basically, well, they'll kill the company, in his words, unless he did that. It's like taking one of your kids away. And that in the back of his mind has him seething. What better way to get back and own Twitter?

And then you decide he'll edit himself from here, thanks.

Well, you know, he is someone who basically came from nothing and created a car company that is historic. Absolutely competitive with uh the The big, the so-called big three, Ford Chevrolet Christ love. He is.

now in a position where he's can make his own rules, so to speak. But when you see the content of his own tweets and understand that he's basically allowing a forum where everybody has free speech, where content moderation, which is just another word for censorship, I does not run amok. I think people can self-control, can self-edit, and if they don't, if they really are egregious, and uh to the point where they're they're criminal, then you take action. But I think that everybody agrees that Twitter is less interesting than it was when Trump was on board. And when you have all of those voices, see obviously, admittedly, the guy what do you have, one hundred million followers?

I mean, let the market decide who gets to speak.

So here is the media spiraling out of control because of this prospect, because his offer of $54 a share. And he said his plan B might be, Geraldo, that he is going to bring it to the shareholders and let the shareholders decide if he should be the leader, be the owner. Cut six. Fair enough, Ralph. Wingers, another bro fascist is waiting in the wings to defend your right to spew bile online.

And when talking about this, it's kind of funny how Elon Musk wants to buy it, but there are massive life and globe altering consequences for just letting people run wild on the thing. There's also a lot of folks out there that say, you know, it's troubling enough that private companies control these key communication platforms around the world. Maybe it's even worse to have the world's richest person trying to buy one of them and take it private. I don't know. It's it's crazy, right?

That whining really is so indicative of that whole class of commentator. They can say virtually anything. And yet, if someone on the other side replies in a sharp and pointed way, they're horrified. Let everyone speak. Let the people decide who they want to listen to.

I agree with you. If he wants to send this issue to Tesla, I mean, to Twitter users or Twitter shareholders, let the people speak. You know, Vox Poplar, let them speak. I think it'll be such an entertaining. You know, now it's kind of flat and one-sided.

I would be absolutely psyched to look at my Twitter feed every morning and see what else was happening. We know this week was dominated by the Subway shooter. This guy ends up sitting in Brooklyn on a chair for hours, staring into the distance, going to the deli at this cat's deli, buying a sandwich and then sitting there, and then cold Crime Stoppers himself. Did you ever expect a manhunt to end like that? I didn't know what to expect.

I mean, at a knucklehead, as I said on Foxton Friends this morning, to me, the miracle on thirty-sixth Street is the big headline. The fact that here you had a madman committing the worst atrocity ever on the New York City subway, the most The most egregious mass shooting ever. He fires 33 times with a Glock 9mm in a packed subway car, the smoke, the Yeah. Hits 10 people, kills no one. How do you I mean, he killed I'm so relieved.

33 shots, no one dies. Miracle on 36th Street. And the fact that now he's in federal custody rather than in the hands of the local DA in either Brooklyn or Manhattan, the fact that he's in federal custody, he's looking at a life in Super Max. In Colorado, six floors under the ground. Let him rot there.

He feared prison. He doesn't have to fear the other prisoners. He'll be in solitary. Let him ponder what he did, the fool. And the fact that he had this erratic ending in my old neighborhood, right in the lower east side of Manhattan, and that so many people responded, I'm so glad.

I would have loved to see the citizens make a citizen's arrest. But the way they did it, my old Ninth Precinct, the fact they took him down so quickly, I am relieved. And I really do believe, as I said again, I'm Fox and Friends, that Eric Adams, the new chief of police, I'm sorry, the new mayor of New York, the new mayor, ex-cop, the new mayor of New York is the man for the job, a black man who understands the politics and the BS behind so many of the I hope so, but the numbers are going up. You know that right now, right? In almost every category in terms of crime.

Well, give him time. It's ten days, a hundred days. Give him some time. He'll get to it. The message is right, Brian.

When was the last time you heard a mayor speaking like this? This is someone we should support, someone we should back. And some time, at some point, it will be a self-fulfilling prophecy. At some point, cops will stop as they are constitutionally unable to do and frisk a guy like that who's lurking and hanging around. I think stop and frisk has to come back.

We have to remember the days of Commissioner Bratton, Commissioner Kelly, Commissioner Carrick. Mayor Giuliani, Mayor Bloomberg, where New York was the safest big city on earth. We're going to go back to those days, and the fact that it's a black man at the helm is, I think, wonderful. I think it's super. I want to make you feel better.

He's also decided to expand instead of stop the Talent and Gifted program in New York, which you know is a big attraction. They're going to expand it to other bureaus. I love that because Deblasso tried to kill it. And number two is: I like what he said after witnessing a series of shootings a couple of nights ago. He said this on New York One, Cut 37.

I thought Black Lives Matter. Where are all those who stated Black lives matter. When are we going to start asking these serious questions? If black lives matter, then the thousands of people I saw on the street. When Floyd was murdered, Should be on the street right now, stating that the lives of these black children that are dying every night matters.

We can't be hypocrites. You love that, right? That's it. That's it. He's he preach.

preach, Mayor, because that's exactly what people need to hear. You have to be involved with saving black lives in cases other than when a cop is involved, which is ninety nine point nine percent of the time. It is the most Absolute common cause of homicide, black men up to the age of 42, is homicide is the leading cause of death. How could that be? I know.

I think that this is the guy to do it, and I really do think, you know, I know that conservatives don't like to talk about guns being the problem. Even put that aside now, I think that what you need now is. Stern. leasing with a big, big dose Of the old community approach that they had when I was growing up, where you knew the cop and the beat. The police were omnipotent.

They were everywhere on the subway. There was not a subway car in the city that didn't have a transit cop on it. Not a subway platform, a major platform in the city, that did not have a cop on it. The surveillance camera system that we have is already superb. Make sure all these cameras work, make sure the Wi-Fi is always working, make that a very high priority.

And we'll go back to the days. I mean, we're already way back to the next step. Hey, we'll maybe get Geraldo back to New York if this continues. Maybe we'll get you back here. The five has already done that.

They make I'm there Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I left, but I only half of me left. You're trying you're trying desperately not to be needed. It's not working, Geraldo. You are needed.

Geraldo Rivera, thanks so much. Have a fantastic Easter. You too. Happy Easter, Brian. All right, go get it.

Happy Passover. To whom it applies. Absolutely. Thanks so much, Geraldo.

Meanwhile, next of your calls, first time, 1-866-408-7669. Then we talk to Dr. Oz. First time since he got Donald Trump's endorsement. What is it going to mean for the Pennsylvania Senate race?

Don't move. Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Killmead. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead.

It's a significant symbology here of this flagship in the Black Sea. It's their number one ship, in other words, in the Black Sea. And now it's taken down. It looks like the Ukrainians did it. If they didn't do it, why are they pulling their ships away from the coastal line?

They're pulling the ships away because of the Ukrainian threat. And it's a huge victory for Ukrainian. I mean, military, it's not decisive. This ship did fire cruise missiles into Ukraine. Nothing in comparison to the air-launched cruise missiles and to the land-based cruise missiles.

But nonetheless, a significant symbol to the Ukrainians. And it's got to be a huge morale boost for Ukrainian forces and likely to the Ukrainian people themselves. General Jack Keembong with me on Fox and Friends talking about the taking out of that warship. A flagship warship of the Russians. And this is what's so great.

Now they say they have these Neptune missiles that could blow up ships. They have to move the ships back. This would almost prevent an amphibious landing into Odessa. They take Odessa, Ukraine ends up landlocked, and the Russians would, in theory, hold the whole area.

Now they won't have one day of rest because the Ukrainians will become a guerrilla force, and they have to understand that. And I think at some level they do. But think about what a nightmare this has been for the Russians. They wanted to take in 72 hours, that was our prediction, Ukraine, kill Zelensky and maybe the Klitschkos. And then after that, take over the country and say you're never joining NATO, and that's a message to you, Moldova, Finland, Sweden, all you others that might aspire to join NATO.

Instead, they lose almost every pitch battle. They have to their whole world sees how inept they are as a fighting force, how they have no tactics, they have terrible leaders, they got bad equipment, they ran out of gas, they did not have any cohesive attack plan, no commander was actually in charge, and after 40 days, they retreat out of the capital, out of the north.

Now they're in the south and the east, and they want to take it over. And we got to make sure they don't. And that's going to be the focus. Brian, listening on Long Island, on 1039. Hey, Brian.

Hey, Brian, I'll start with Elon just in case you cut me off. Elon is a man who is the smartest man in every room he walks into. He's an envisionary. He sees everything Ten steps ahead. He sees that there's there's a global shift.

that's trying to move away from what we need to have a m a marketplace. And he sees a threat on all his other companies.

So what he's doing is he's nipping this in the bug. He's it the short-term investor on Twitter, it's nothing to him. It's not supposed to be a financial winner. Second, there's the border. The Democrats, they thought by pandering and letting people across the border that they were going to win over the Democratic populace.

But the legal immigrants within this country see how How detrimental all these people that are going to need help is going to be to their jobs, to their money, and it's going to hurt them.

So they're losing those votes.

Well, now, what do they do? They double down. They got to let more dependent voters in. They got to let more dependent people in because they need to pad that they have a losing platform.

Okay, and boy, laugh. And by the way, it's a great business move to let Republicans want to be on there again. They get more ad dollars, more users, more interaction, more interest. That's a better business plan. Thanks so much.

I appreciate the call, especially all the listeners at 1039, 1866-408-7669. Excited. Dr. Oz making progress in Pennsylvania. How does he feel about Donald Trump's endorsement?

How do you think it'll affect the polls? Dr. Oz on with us next. You'll listen to Brian Kilme Show. Radio that makes you think.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. I endorsed another person today, Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania. Dr. Roz.

Great guy, good man, good man, Harvard educated. Tremendous, tremendous career, and they liked him for a long time. That's like a poll. You know, when you're in television for 18 years, that's like a poll. That means people like you.

And that is enough for the President of the United States. And he let everybody know that Dr. Oz is his pick to get the Republican nomination, replace Pat Toomey and win the general. Dr. Oz joins us now.

Dr. Oz, what were your thoughts when he made the announcement? Did you know he was going to do it then? He called me right before he walked out on stage and said he was going to send out a press release. and is going to say something on stage.

And I thought it was exhilarating. You know, we work so hard on these campaigns. You make sure you're campaigning, doing big public events. just you're trying to serve the people of Pennsylvania. And when the President looks at all the things you've done, and he was very meticulous in the process, he wrote the announcement himself, the actual press release, he wrote.

He put things in there that only he would have commented on. But he said, I'm gonna quote him. He said, I was smart, tough, I will never let you down. And that was just the that was the culmination of the announcement. But he said I was pro-life and pro-Second Amendment, strong on crime, the border, and I will always fight for and support our under siege conservative ideals.

So From his perspective, not only did I represent the values and Morays of Pennsylvania, but I would fight for them, which is what he likes.

So, when did you know it was coming? He called me Friday night. No. Yeah, you're talking the whole time. He's interviewing you.

He calls you once a week or so. You call and how's it going, Oz? What's this? What is that about? I just heard this.

You know, just picking the tires. He wants to know how you'll deal with criticism, with celebration. How do you treat your team? How do you feel on the major issues? I mean, he really is he's getting into this.

And at least my Senate campaign, and obviously Pennsylvania is vital because it's a bellwether for the country. But on a Friday night, he called. He said, Oh, I think you're going to be happy tomorrow. And I said, what specifically am I going to be happy about? And so I'm not going to, you'll find out.

So then he called right before he walked on stage and told me it was going to happen, which I think he does on purpose because he wants it to be something that everyone learns at the same time.

So nothing that I could say would undermine what he's about to say. uh but he doesn't want me surprised either. I think it's very thoughtful. And he said some things in the press Uh released again that he wrote himself that What really caught my attention. Specifically, he said that when he came on the show, and remember, I had him on the show in 2016 when nobody would have him on network television.

I thought, the man's running for president, for God's sakes. He should have a platform, just like every liberals have a platform.

So I let him come on. And present his arguments about why he was healthy. And if you remember back then, There was a whole controversy. Was I going to give him a chance? Was I going to be harsh on him?

You actually were involved in that because I told you on Fox and Friends that I'm a doctor. He's going to come into my stage and present his health. And I'm not going to criticize him or go after him. And people just came after me hard for not. Taking shots at him or planning to take shots at him.

And in fact, he came on, he presented himself very effectively. And then I said, Listen, I looked at your medical records. He gave them to us on stage. We weren't ready. We didn't know what he was going to do, but he understood the power of this.

Instead of having the press interpret his medical records, he pulled out the piece of paper from his jacket, slammed it down on the table, and says, There they are. Those are my medical records. I read through them and I said, You're in good health. I wish you'd lose a few pounds. And he said that exactly in the announcement, which means, first, I couldn't be intimidated by the liberal woke.

Groups, but I was also not sycophantic. I was going to tell them what needed to be said, which is if you lost a few pounds, it'd be nice. And I think that was his effort to show that I would say what needed to be said no matter whether you would like to hear it or not. 'Cause that's what doctors do, right? We're there to get respected, not to make you love us all the time.

So this would so as you know, uh Dave McCormick is running against you and uh has in the last polls he's got you by about four or five points. We have not seen a poll since the endorsement. I'm sorry, that's not true. Franklin and Marshall public poll that came out based on what happened before the endorsement had us had me up one point. That was the latest public poll.

It came out based on data gathered on Friday and Saturday. It came out yesterday. Franklin and Marshall poll.

Okay, still it says with 43% of the votes still undecided which candidate they'll support.

Okay. Or the endorsement. All right, before the endorsement.

So as you know, there's members of the McCormick team very familiar with the Trump team, Steve Miller, Kellyanne Conway, Hope Hicks. Here's what Kellyanne Conway said the other night with Laura Ingram. I think that it confused many Republicans and conservatives in Pennsylvania because they've seen Oz in his own words on video against guns, for abortion, praising Hillary Clinton as one of the most brilliant women, smartest women he's ever met, being for Obamacare, and so on and so forth.

So do you want to address those things? Of course. That that it's comple first of all, Steve Miller already quit his campaign. And the accusation that, in my own words, I've said those things is completely false. Not only have I not said those things, they're not true in general.

For example, I'm strongly pro-life. Strongly supportive of our God-given and constitutionally protected right to bear arms for law-abiding citizens. These are issues that I I felt strongly about. And if you try to go back and look at things that I've said, I think you'll find there's ample evidence that none of the things that they're accusing me of are true. The fact of the matter is President Trump did this homework.

He did it because he cares about these things. And that's why I'm going to quote him again. He says: Dr. Oz is pro-life, very strong. Election fraud, our great military, our bad to always fight for and support our underseed Second Amendment.

He said those things because he went through all this, because McCormick's team had passed all this to him. And I just want to make clear for Brian for everybody. President Trump was comparing me to Dave McCormick. Dave McCormick's wife worked in the Trump administration. Dave applied for a job in the Trump administration.

He was turned down, but the president knew him well. They were calling him with him continually throughout this process. He had equal access to all the things plus and minus about us. And believe me, I'm quite certain everything negative about me was shared by the McCormick team because I reciprocated.

So he had everything in front of him, and he made the decision he made with full knowledge of all the things that could have been said about me. And he didn't believe me because they're not true. But do you think that Hillary Clinton's a lot of people think Hillary Clinton's brilliant. I've never met her. Do you?

What? Hillary Clinton is a smart woman. I don't know when that tape is from that they found, but it's very old. This is back, I mean, probably from the year 2000. Way before she was involved with the Obama administration.

And she's definitely a smart woman.

Okay, so I want to bring you to something else. What's happened since we spoke back in play are these mandates. They're extending the mask mandates on planes and buses and mass transit. And in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, according to reports, they're now saying indoor mask mandates. You're first and foremost a doctor.

Is that the right thing to do with this sub-variant spreading, but hospitalizations and deaths down? Categorically, not. It is another example of top-down, authoritarian, one-size-fits-all medicine that Fauci and other middle-level, unelected bureaucrats in Washington keep posting on us. Why Philadelphia, in particular, is a problem? Because the mayor of the city is passing this edict.

He's not allowed to do that. The mayor can't make health laws of that nature. That has to be at least a state decision to allow mandates. We cannot have every Person involved in government with have the power to create healthcare mandates that restrict people's freedom. There's no medical benefit of putting masks on in that setting.

People who are at high risk will already take the precautions that should be taken. Putting a seven-year-old in a mask or a 20-year-old in a mask where it's highly unlikely that they're going to have a problem if they were to get COVID, or putting someone who's already had COVID well or vaccinated in a mask also doesn't make a lot of sense. And frankly, people don't wear the right masks and wear them right anyway.

So, what difference does it make if you pass a mandate that restricts everybody's activities? And this is exactly what I was complaining about with you on Fox and Friends daily for months when COVID started. And it's shocking to me that it still happened. But I'll tell you why it happened, Brian, because if you mix politics and medicine, you get politics. They have taken out the science.

The same thing we're seeing in energy policy, we're seeing the transgender issues. It's a desire by woke ideologic individuals to take over the narrative and create false ones So and they don't stay, they don't let any other discussions be heard. It is reprehensible what they have done in Philadelphia. It's my state. I'm in Philadelphia now, it's where I live.

And I heard that most businesses aren't even enforcing it. But Dr. Oz, is it true that getting COVID in 2020 or 19, 2020 or 202 is different than getting this variant in 2022? It's a totally different. Right.

So if I get it, I think we have to revisit what we do, I think, because we're quarantining people with a variant that's not even a cold. Almost everybody in Shanghai is asymptomatic. It's shocking. That we would fall to this level of fear. The last word of the national anthem is brave.

Not brave because you're willing to risk your life all the time, but brave because you're willing to say what you see. Brian, what you just said is factually correct. And yet, you can't say that in many places and without getting canceled. It's why I was attacked so aggressively when I was talking to you about keeping schools open or medications that might work. We have adopted a belief that any possible Theoretical opportunity to impact on COVID is the right thing to do.

There's harm when you do these things, and especially when they don't work.

So, if you had COVID, the original variants, which were much more problematic, then you're probably protected well enough anyway. If you didn't have original COVID, and I've never had COVID, if I were to get this new variant, odds are I would tolerate it very well, especially since we have antivirals that are not widely available, but FDA approved and can be found. And if you're older and high-risk, the antibiotic cocktails make a ton of sense.

So we have treatments. We understand the virus better, and the virus is much, much, much less dangerous.

So why are we treating this like a pandemic-level problem when it's an endemic issue? It's because we have created a fear of anything COVID. And that I lay flatly on the feet of Fauci, which I've asked for him to be fired, removed, or any capacity eliminated. I'm supportive of Rand Paul, who's a friend's efforts to just remove the position. If you can't remove Fauci, just cancel the job.

So I want you to hear, this is how, this is playing to your point. You know how I feel. I've made it clear. And you're the medical expert, and I know where you stand. But just go to show you the other side.

Listen to the view. Listen to Sonny Holson on The View talk about the mask mandate and the rise in cases. When it comes to mask mandates, they're there because people just aren't great people. That's just the bottom line. Americans just aren't great to each other.

We just aren't. And so, when it comes to things like flying, the mask mandate is supposed to be lifted April 18th. I don't want to get on a plane with super spreaders. I don't want to get on a plane with 214 other people that are going to be breathing on me with their COVID breath. I don't want it.

I don't want it. See? your reaction to her action. There are people like Sonny who will drive in their car by themselves with a mask on. Go jogging in a park with their mask on and line the beach with a mask on.

But none of those make any sense medically. The b the planes are a good example. The air is 99.5% purified.

So, it's about the cleanest air you're going to be exposed to because the air comes from outside the plane to a large extent, which is pretty clean at 35,000 feet. You cannot live in continuous fear of other human beings. You are creating a an illness. that adults suffer from but kids are paralyzed by. By creating this kind of a belief that we are each other's biggest threat.

It's just not true. The average Democrat during the pandemic, when it was really surging, believed that there was a one in three chance that you would be hospitalized if you got COVID. One in three chance. What's the reality? The real number, by the way, was under 1%.

So it doesn't make any sense. To trick people, lie to people, continually scare people into believing that they're in dire risk when they're not, because they'll start to say things like Sonny Hawson just said in the video. Those women, as you know, have been very unkind to me, even though I've done that show countless times, because I'm a Republican. As soon as I announced that I had Republican views and I was going to express them without reservation, immediately turned because I wasn't willing to say things the way they want to. If you argue with Sonny right now, you get shattered off the stage.

Yeah.

Good luck with that.

So yeah, it's great to be so certain that you could shout. Usually when people shout, they're uncertain about their arguments. You know that, and you never shout. The last thing that I think is important to bring up is that We have a situation right now in this country where we're looking for other reasons to shut schools down, masks down, on. on, I think, inaccurate information on a variant that's a sub variant to begin with.

I I want you to know what is your reaction to what's going on in Shanghai now? They have locked down between twenty three and twenty five million people. Then ninety five percent are asymptomatic. They've locked down a whole city. I mean, w as a medical professional, What does that say about the character of China, number one, that they would do this without feeding their people or giving them water?

Some of them are starving to death, jumping off balconies. What does that say to you about China, number one? And you've spent time there, and they were a supporter of your show, and they watched your show. And what does it say about their medical knowledge of a virus they started? China is a Tinderbox.

I think it's a hollow empire that's at risk of having a crisis because of events like this. without an authoritarian surveillance state model of government, they'd be in trouble, which is why they continue to crack down harder and harder on all dissent and have are creating continuous humanitarian crises. There is a large desire to get advice on health outside the country because they don't trust their own health providers. shockingly, right, because they get cheated so often with domestic products, they prefer products made outside the country or products made by Americans working inside the nation because they don't trust their own people. And I think this is representative of what happens when you have a totalitarian government.

trust evaporates. One of the reasons I'm so concerned about America is we have big government, big media, big industry all singing off the same hymnal. That's a totalitarian leadership. But, Ryan, Ryan, this is really critical. The world has choices.

They have capitalism built on a democracy, what we're offering as a model. They have that surveillance state, totalitarian, top-down approach offered by China, which creates an economy that functions. If we don't thrive, the world will be pushed towards China. The reason China must destroy America is if we don't fall away, their system of governance and economy cannot become a dominant one.

So as we look at what's happening in Shanghai and it'll spread to other parts of the country in other ways, remember that they are enemies of ours in that they need to prove that their system is better than ours. And we need to make sure ours works Functionally at the highest level possible, so the world has us to look towards as its North Star. Right.

And by the way, it was my bad. It was on my sheet. Dr. Oz and Dave McCormick, 16% for Dr. Oz.

Dave McCormick through 15%, and there's still a lot undecided and a lot of hard work, and not a poll has been done since the endorsement. Dr. Oz, keep working hard. Always great to talk to you. Appreciate it.

God bless you, my friend. Take care. All right. When we come back, I'll take your calls: 1-866-408-7669. Newsmakers and newsbreakers, hear it first on The Brian Killmeat Show.

Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. Will you send officials to Ukraine? Will you send senior officials to Ukraine? We're making that decision now.

Thank you.

What was the reason? You ready to go? He's ready for anything. The man likes a fast car, some aviators, he's ready to go to Ukraine. It's true, he does.

Uh we are not sending the President to Ukraine. You should. Actually, I don't really think this president should go to Ukraine. I worry about his condition in a war zone. They're still bombing the capital.

But I would send the Secretary of Defense. I would restock and restaff our embassy like Italy has and the Baltic nations have. And there were three Baltic nation leaders that did actually go to the Ukraine. Bill, you're listening in Missouri. Hey, Bill.

Hey, Brian. I was thinking this morning, you know. Washington and DC, they really don't give out plane schedules. You know, they like to deliver it in throughout the night. Talking about the illegals, right?

Yeah, illegals. Uh and DC is a big town. Why should we get I don't think we should give them a schedule about when the illegals arrive? And it's a big city. They could go to any corner.

So you're talking about Texas bussing them into Washington and then Florida going to bus them into Delaware. and just drop them off. And then people can see what it's like being in a border state. or being in a place like working class Long Island or Westchester County or Pennsylvania. That's what the administration's doing.

It's diabolical. They put them into school districts that are overtaxed and overstressed and it hurts everybody. 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 Killmade. Thanks so much for being here, everybody.

It's the Brian Kilmicho coming to you from 48th and 6th, heard around in New York, of course, but heard around the country and I hope heard around the world, especially Ukraine. I'll talk to Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg. Man, he's one of these generals that always, like General Keen, he leads with new information.

So he's tapped in, he knows the challenges Ukraine is facing and knows the success they've had. Shannon Bremen here because Fox Nation is rolling. If you're watching Fox Nation and listening to the show on the app, you know Shannon's here. She's got a brand new book out. She's also going to be joining me on One Nation, which airs Saturday night at 8 and then 11 o'clock.

Shannon, I just want to be nice and say hello first. Good morning. But for you, this is like dinner time. Right.

This is dinner time. Because I was up at, I know what I did. I hit Snooze Tay for the first time since the Ukraine war started because I'm so pumped up about this war. You ready to go? From 2:30 to 2.36.

I slept six extra minutes. But it was a glorious six minutes. It just flew by. Right? I'm trying to figure out what was fictional.

Let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Every single Border Patrol agent is extremely frustrated and upset about what's going on on the border. It is, in fact, by design. They are doing this on purpose.

This administration has some very intelligent individuals at DHS, and they know what's happening. They just don't have the will to push back against this White House. Biden's self-inflicted border crisis has states and some Dems uniting against his flat-out betrayal of the country. We'll discuss it. Number two.

It's a significant symbology here, this flagship in the Black Sea, and now it's taken down. It looks like the Ukrainians did it. And it's a huge victory for Ukrainian. I mean, military, it's not decisive, but nonetheless, a significant symbol to the Ukrainians. Russia suffers a brutal blow, losing their key warship at the hands of the Ukrainians as they brace for an eastern assault while desperately trying to hold on to Mariupol, the latest on the war, and the warnings Moscow is giving us and NATO and the world.

Number one. Fear not, right-wingers. Another bro-fascist is waiting in the wings to defend your right to spew bile online. There's also a lot of folks out there that say, you know, it's troubling enough that private companies control these key communication platforms around the world. Maybe it's even worse to have the world's richest person trying to buy one of them and take it private.

Why is Brian Stelter still on the air? Musk must find a way, as in Elon Musk. Way is what I'm talking about to buy Twitter, his first and final offer causing panic in the woke community and in left-wing newsrooms, how it's all playing out and what obstacles remain for the world's richest man.

So, do you tweet, Shannon Bream? Heck to the yeah. You do? You know I do. Right.

Are you disappointed that so many conservative accounts have been frozen or kicked off?

Well, it's funny. I think we've all talked about what happened after the 2020 election. I had like 60,000 that disappeared overnight.

So I don't know if they were just getting rid of bots or what was happening there, but yeah, there was some house cleaning. Eric, do you remember how much I said I lost? Because they were tired of me complaining. And he was like, exactly. He's like 50 to 100,000.

50 to 100,000. He's like, today, 83,137. Right.

I mean, I just got back. I was at 551 when Trump was president. And then I dropped down to like 410, I think. Right.

And now I'm up to 581. I don't know how many. Most of them are my really good friends.

Well, I have 581,000. I'm feeling less special and important all the time. But listen, I'm excited because your book is now out. It's no longer an idea. It's something I can hold.

It's the Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak, Lessons on Faith and Nine Biblical Families. It's also going to be a TV special, Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak, airing Fox News on Fox News channel Sunday at 10 o'clock. That's a lot of Bream. It is. Are you sick of me yet?

Because I'm also, I understand, I've got an invitation to your Saturday show. Congratulations. Because you weren't busy enough. Right.

America needs to hear more from me. They do. But listen, by the end of this weekend, they might be sick of both of us. What do you think is bad? Oh, you're a woman.

How do you know that? I'm not a biologist. That's what I'm saying. How can you be sure? Very good, penetrating question.

So I feel very comfortable walking around my real life in makeup. I realize I'm in makeup all the time. Every once in a while, my wife will go, Do you really have your makeup on? I think you're at the gas station. People are like looking you up and down, like, why is this collar orange?

Yeah, I know. What's happening? He's got a shower. Yeah.

Absolutely. But you're always on. That's the thing with you. Right.

I feel very comfortable in makeup. And I just think it's a very dynamic time to be on the air. I want to talk about women in the Bible speak because they do. Mm-hmm. You bring them to life.

But I also want to talk about what Elon Musk said yesterday, cut one. I do think this will be somewhat painful and I'm not sure that I will actually be able to acquire it. And I should also say the intent is to retain as many shareholders as is allowed by the law. It's definitely not from the standpoint of let me figure out how to monopolize or maximize my ownership of Twitter but we'll try to bring along as many shareholders as we as we're allowed to. You don't necessarily want to pay out 40 or whatever it is billion dollars in cash.

You'd like them to come come with you in in the next year. I heard that. But I'm what I'm saying is this this is this is this is this is not a a way to sort of make money. And that's what I believe. You know, my humble opinion is that when he got his satellites in order to allow the Ukrainians to continue to broadcast, he saw that he literally affected the outcome of a war.

Good guys and bad guys. And we know who the bad guys are. And he said, I could do this again. I could allow our First Amendment to matter again on social media because the other media outlets would be forced to follow Elon Musk's wake. Yeah, you got to think about that.

If he pulls this off with Twitter, what happens with the other Facebooks, the TikToks, the answer like that? Yeah, and you have people saying, like, I am going to leave Twitter if he, you know, it's the same thing, like, I'm moving to Canada if Trump wins. I mean, like, is there going to be this mass exodus off Twitter? I don't know. But.

If he is arguing for neutrality, and remember, he says he's a free speech absolutist because when he put those satellites up in Ukraine, people were like, ooh, now you can block the Russian news and Russian propaganda. He's like, no, sort of gunpoint to my head, I'm not doing that. And so all he's asking for is free and unfettered. Like, it's not, you know, you can't be calling for harm to other people, but if it's just speech you don't like or disagree with, that is what the First Amendment's about.

So why does that have people so furious and panicked? I mean, you wrote it on your show. You wrote some of the left-wing crazies on your show. Yeah, we loved it. To hear from people who are tweeting, like, this is the end of democracy if he gets Twitter.

I'm like, really? Because you'll have to hear things that you don't like. I mean, it's not like he's going to block people that disagree with him. No, he's saying, I'm just going to open it wide open. And if you don't like it, don't follow those people.

And, you know, we always say the antidote for bad speech or speech you disagree with is more speech. Have more conversation. No, according to our experts, Max Boot, who used to be a military expert or conservative, somebody that during the Bush years anyway, Max Boot came out and he had an interesting quote. He said, I am frightened by the impact of society and politics. If Elon Musk requires Twitter, he seems to believe that on social media, anything goes.

For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation. We need more sensitivity. Suppress those for freedom. I don't get it. I'm very confused by this whole argument because think about this.

The Supreme Court has protected things like Westboro Baptist Church, which every sane person would say is heinous when they go out and they speech funerals and they say the worst possible things. We can't even repeat it. But the fact that they are protected because of free speech, I mean, there are different forums, private, public, all that kind of stuff. But you got to have that conversation. We're a country like no other place in the world.

If you want to be suppressed, we can get you a ticket to Shanghai. Right.

That goes well. Where they lock you in your apartment, kill your pets. Yes, they put your pets in a bag and kill them, leave them in a bag until they die, and leave you in an apartment until you die because you have no food and water. But you're not going to get out of line on Twitter. Right, absolutely.

That's under control. I did not know this. Vladimir Putin is on Twitter. I don't know. Probably.

All the Ayatollahs who cry for death to America and death to Israel every week, like they're on there too. And I was just saying this, is I was talking to Devin Nunez, who's running the President's brand new social media. They have a slow rollout, Truth Social. I actually don't think Trump would go on. If they asked him to go back, I don't think he would.

Oh, back onto Twitter. Yeah.

I don't know. Come on. I don't know if he could resist. If they were like social's better and he's trying to get And he may drive people there and say, come here if you want to hear from me. But I think the lure of Twitter would be very tempting to him.

I mean, what a megaphone. Did you tell him about it? But you realize this was okay up until 2016? It's not like we say when our parents grew up, this wasn't a problem. This was not a problem.

We never even heard of suspended accounts, really, before President Trump. Have you ever been suspended? No. Have you? Yet.

No, but the day is young. Right.

We'll see. But you are labeled as evil.

Well, I am on a regular basis by someone who would know. Greg Guttfeld. Right.

Right.

He does he ever had you on as a guest? Um, hello, I did the whole hour on Tuesday night. I you I know you need to sleep at times. Right.

But you couldn't be up from eleven o'clock to twelve o'clock. And then you tossed to yourself? Yeah, basically.

Okay. Same outfit. I had to, you know, I had to. Did you actually physically get up and go somewhere? I did when the show was over.

I couldn't stay there. All right, did you pre-tape it? We did.

Okay, you weren't going to tell me that word. You weren't going to tell me that words.

Well, you're letting people behind the curtain. I don't know how much they can handle, so a little bit at a time. You love the law. I do if loving the law is wrong, I don't wanna be right. Thank you.

Uh that's so deep. You you're against crime. Yeah, I yes, last I checked. Right.

But you know a lot about crime.

Well, I do, but not from personal experience.

So this is the most bizarre thing, and I I agree with Raldo, one of the one of the most fortuitous things ever. You have this sixty two year old get on a subway this week, walk through a turn saddle in a reflective vest and a hard hat with a gym bag. In the gym bag is an axe, fireworks, smoke bombs, and a Glock. Right? And extra magazines.

He waits for the This train to get close to the platform and start shooting after tossing. The smoke bomb. He drops his axe. He drops his license. He drops the keys to a U-Haul he rented to do this.

He's not good at this. And then the story today on the cover of the New York Post and Daily News has him going from the train where he thankfully everyone survived, but he shot 13 people. He goes right across to the R-train, goes one stop, gets out. Then sits in the park for a while. goes to a a swanky Chinatown restaurant, then goes to Cat's Deli, where he gets something to eat and stares on a bench while there's a massive manhunt for him, and then calls himself in on Crime Stoppers after charging his phone for two hours at McDonald's.

Does he get the reward? Of himself.

So, Shannon, everything I just told you, this is the. The worst way to avoid being caught ever. Right? It worked for him, though. He was 5'5 black guy.

I mean, think about this.

Well, in some media accounts, then we didn't even get the race. I mean, they're trying to be careful about the way, like, if you're looking for somebody who could have been a mass murderer, I mean, it sounds like by all accounts, this person wanted to be. Allegedly, that's what he was planning to do. But when you think about the broken cameras and all the things you think about New York City, I assume everywhere that I'm walking, like, don't pick your nose or anything. There are cameras on you at all.

London was the first, I think. Yeah, and it's they're all over the place here. But if they're not working in a situation like this, you got to start to ask questions.

Well, they said there was Wi-Fi problems. Is that okay for you? I got Wi-Fi problems every time I get on a flight and I pay for it and then I can't access anything. Right.

But this is on the ground all over New York City. This guy turns himself in after hanging out. He's bad at everything. I mean, thank God he's a bad shot, apparently. And I don't know how badly injured some of these people are, but thank God they live through this.

And this is with the complete circle, like Seinfeld ask. They left his YouTube page up as he spouted the hatred of white people, the need for a race war. He's ready to blow his mental health. He's got a huge track record. I don't know how to moderate social media effectively, but I would say that you have a hard case not to take that down or call the police and go, listen, there's a guy who's telling you he's going to start a race war.

And he was outraged that Supreme Court Justice Jackson, soon to be, had married a white guy. Yeah.

Ranting about that. Why wouldn't that light up? Remember, we used to do those algorithms where we used to find out what al-Qaeda liked to talk about before an attack and use the term birthday through Arabic.

So, why aren't we using any of those algorithms? He didn't use the word ivermectin.

So, that's why they didn't get him. That is wild. That is funny. I'm just saying because they will go after certain things and lock it way down real quickly. But I do worry that somebody could be espousing that level of violence, not once, but repeatedly, and nobody flagged that.

But Trump is off. Thank goodness.

Well, do you feel safer? Not yet.

Okay. Maybe in the break. We're getting there. Shannon Bream is going to tell me about our brand new book and the special that comes out Sunday. The Mothers and the Daughters of the Bible Speak.

Of course, this is Good Friday. And tomorrow's Holy Saturday. Follow by Easter. Thank you.

That's why this book is especially important. Shannon Bream here. Don't move. This weekend, check out Brian's new show on Fox News Channel. His new Saturday show lets him ruin your weekends too.

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More of Brian coming up. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. Shannon Bream, you know, she hosts a show at midnight Eastern Time, 9 o'clock on the West Coast. But Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak is now out: lessons on faith and the nine biblical families.

Shannon, first book, Big Success. What's the difference with this one? What's your focus? It's more of a family lens for looking at faith and relationships and how people come together, sometimes the blood family, sometimes by marriage or adoption or whatever it is. It's just looking through the difficulties because nobody's family is perfect.

Maybe yours. I've heard a lot of good things. And your wife is amazing. I've met her.

So your family might be on the upside, but there are some flawed, messed-up families in the Bible, and there's some good ones, but I think we can learn through all of that. Can you give me one? I can give you a flawed one. Do you want to start there? Let's go.

Okay, so we have fathers and daughters and mothers and sons in this book, too.

So all kinds of relationships. But think about this: King Saul, he was very threatened by the man who eventually became King David. But Saul's daughter, Mikal, was in love with David.

So he sees an opportunity to marry him off and, like, you know, kind of mess with King David.

So he gives him this impossible task for all these people he has to go kill in order to win his daughter's hand. David doubles it and survives. Then Saul tries multiple times pre- and post-wedding to kill David.

So if you have in-laws that you don't like, you don't get along with, short of them plotting to and actually physically trying to murder you, you're in better shape than this family in the Bible.

So you want sometimes by seeing negative stories, you feel better about yourself.

Well, of course, and you can learn from the negative, I think. And we really look at the relationship between King Saul and Mikal, his daughter, and just how dysfunctional it was. And as daughters, you look to your dad as a protector and somebody to guide you.

So I think there are lessons from the bad examples, too.

So I'm listening to David Mamet do a Joe Rogan interview. And he says he spent all this time just reading the Bible. And he says that he believes the Bible are a bunch of stories basically written to tell you something about how you should live, that they didn't actually happen. Do you believe they actually happened? I do.

I mean, as a Christian, that is the bedrock of my faith. I believe that the Bible is inspired, the inspired word of God.

So I believe these people existed. And there is historical evidence for a lot of these kings and leaders and different people from that time that is separate and apart from the Bible. Why did it take so long to write things down? Did we miss a generation or two before? Was it Matthew that wrote things down?

Well, you think about... During Jesus' life. Yeah, you think about there was this long period of like 400 years between the Old and the New Testament where apparently nothing happened. The people felt like God wasn't speaking. There weren't angels visiting.

All of this picks back up now when Christ comes to earth and Gabriel comes to tell Mary, you're going to have this baby. He's going to be the savior of the world. But there was a very long period there where the faithful were just waiting and felt like they didn't hear anything from God, but they kept on practicing their faith and waiting and trusting. And you realize if. If God was to do something now, we definitely would capture between the ring doorbell and everything that we have.

We definitely would capture it on camera. He has miraculous powers that can actually even evade a ring doorbell if necessary. You think so? He's above and beyond the ring doorbell. But think about it.

In this day and age, there's so many weird things happening in the world. I think for some people, they're hardened. And for them, even if they saw a miracle, it'd be hard for them to believe. I look at what Ukraine's doing right now. You talk about good and evil.

I'm seeing good and evil, aren't we? Yeah, we are. And there are so many faithful believers throughout that region. And they desperately need our prayers and for miracles. And they are certainly tough.

The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak is now out. Lessons on Faith from Non-Biblical Families. Also, the TV special, 10 o'clock on Sunday. And Shannon, you're going to be on One Nation with me on Saturday night. Wait, I'm so excited.

You don't have to sing on my show, though. But I'll do it for free. Right.

I should do One Nation the Musical. We can work on that, right?

Okay, yes, I'm in. Lyrics. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. Given the potential desperation of President Putin and the Russian leadership, given the setbacks that they've faced so far militarily, Um none of us can take lightly.

Um the threat posed by a potential resort to tactical nuclear weapons. And that's the CIA director speaking at college talking about the threat of China, number one, number two, that a desperate Russia used a tactical nuke.

Now they're threatening Sweden and Finland. If they join NATO, We will have to bulk up and move up our nuclear arsenal. I'm not sure what's real or not, but we know this. Everything that Russia wanted to accomplish so far, they're not getting. And we are also seeing the world is seeing.

how ruthless and barbaric Their military is? And how inept they are. And how unmotivated Uh, they are at this moment. Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg joins us now. Uh, General, it was great to hear from you.

Your reaction. to the taking out of that warship yesterday. Yeah, Brian, Brian, thanks for having me. Look, that was significant. And the reason why it's significant, the Moscow was the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet.

That's the big thing. But it was taken out by uh an anti-ship missile called called the Neptune. That is made by Ukrainians, got a range of out of one hundred and fifty miles. What that did operationally, it forced the naval vessels of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russians. To move out of the area back over 100 miles, because again, the range is 150 miles, which really frees up Odessa.

There was a lot of the concern. that the only port left to Ukrainians was going to be Odessa, and there was a fear of an amphibious assault into Odessa by Russian Marines on board amphibious ships supported by the Moscow, which had missiles on it as well as given itself good command and control. With that gone now, the Russians have lost that opportunity. And that's significant because when you add Kiev onto that as well, the Russians are not doing well. That's a significant loss to them.

It's psychologically a significant loss. And operationally, it's a significant loss. And it allows the Ukrainians to have a lot of more opportunity to do some real damage in the south to the Russian forces. How does a Neptune launch? How was it launched from?

Yeah, it's launched off, it's launched off actually a truck, but it's got a good command control system. And there's eight missiles per truck. And they said they fired two at it, but it's well guided. They've got an operational, it's sort of like a GPS guidance on it. And it's a ski-simmon-skimming missile, which means you don't pick it up right away as it's coming at you because it stays right on the almost on the surface.

What the Ukrainians apparently did is they kind of got everybody's attention by flying a couple of drones. Above the mosque.

So everybody's looking up when the missiles are coming at them from the sea level. And they come at such speed. Uh that you really can't defend against it if you're not looking for it. And it looks like what happened is it hit on the port side, apparently, but the left side of the ship. Damaged it, and then if you had secondary explosions, which apparently they did have, the ship was basically gone.

They tried to tow it and just capsized on them.

So it was a smart move, and now it forces the Russians to back up. It does. And we also understand since we're not sending harpoons, General Admiral Kirby said they don't know how to work them, even though Congressman Waltz said you could just put someone on the ground. We have contractors there, I guess. We're not admitting it.

We could teach him that in a very short period of time. But it looks like the British are sending surface to ocean. To land to ocean rockets, whatever their version of the harpoons are. Looks like the British are sending them. That would, again, give the Ukrainians a chance to take some of the Black Sea back, correct?

Well, yeah, what it does, it denies them the access to Odessa, which is a critical port facility. For the Ukrainians. And the Neptunes are good, they're they're homemade though. What the harpoon does, or the British system as well, it gives you more of an extended range, more powerful payload on the front of the missile. And the Congressman is right.

Look, Brian, it doesn't take a long time to learn these systems, how to work them. If you're used to working a system that's similar, you can train these people in a short period of time. It's a lot harder to cross-train a jet pilot than it is to put a ground system in place. I've seen it. You can take a couple of practice shots at it and you're good to go.

So to me, it's significantly important that they get those missiles. They did it, and it scared the heck out of the Russians. And I know that's the reason why all the reports I'm getting, they move the rest of the Black Sea fleet pretty far out to sea right now. Interesting.

So we understand the bad news is the Russians are tightening their grip on Mariupol. They put their own mayor in there. They're trying to slowly squeeze and starve and starve out what's left of the citizens there and the fighting force there. What's the best way for the Ukrainians to survive and maybe push back with Mariupol? Is there anything that they could do in country?

Is there a weapon system that would back off the Russians?

Well, there's two things, Brian. One, we finally finally started to give them good offensive kind of equipment like one point five millimeter howitzers, which will give them the equivalent range that the Russians have with their howitzers.

So it comes to more of a conventional fight. But here's what I think they might. be planning to do, as I think they're going to do on offensive Ukraine is a different part. If you look near U down to the south, Towards where Crimea is. If they put on an offensive down there and they were able to cut off Crimea, Crimea has only got a land bridge of about four miles that connects us to Ukraine proper.

If they could conduct an offensive and cut that, it's almost a quid pro quo. And it forces now the Russians to look at two directions. If instead of just getting them in a fight, A gun-tube-to-gun-tube fight, which the conventional forces, the Russians, have a little bit of an advantage there. I would go to a dissimilar approach, an asymmetric approach, and force them to fight in a different direction and try to relieve some of the pressure on the Donbass. That might finally get Putin to say, well, maybe we really do need to talk.

Because sooner or later, diplomatically, they're going to have to come to a solution on this. They can't keep fighting. The Russians have got a real problem. They're not going to take Ukraine. I think when they walk out of Kyiv and retreated, that was a clear signal to me that Kyiv is saved, and Ukraine as a country is not going to fall.

But, General, some people say this strategy, but you're the general.

Some people say this could be the strategy. Get the Ukrainians to come fight them in more of an open setting in the Donbass. And then when you wipe out their best units, you go back up and take Kyiv. Is that a possibility? Yeah, and that's really it.

It's always a possibility, Brian, but that's the reason I say go coordination-metric approach. Don't put all your eggs in one basket, force them to look in two directions. I would conduct an offensive, if I was them, I would conduct an offensive in a different part of the country and force the Russians to look differently as well. They've got the strength right there in the Donbass region. Keep fighting like a delaying action there, but attack somewhere else and make the Russians go make the Russians fight on your terms instead of on their terms.

Look, it's a high-risk game. It's a high-risk adventure, but you can't go gun tube to gun tube with the Russians. They simply have got more artillery than the Ukrainians have. That's the reason why we're supplying it.

So, my point was: okay, don't let your major units get affected by that. Hold them in reserve, go to a different direction. Again, it's a risk strategy, but the way the Ukrainians have been fighting, they're willing to take risks. And I think they might be willing to take another risk to throw the Russians off balance. Look, they've done so many different things to keep the Russians off balance.

It's a real tribute to them and their leadership. It doesn't seem like The Russians are organized. Their communication is terrible. The morale is down. And now they're finally back to what you guys always said: you need one commander.

How did the Russians not know that?

Well, they've Brian, they violated probably about Six principles of war: unity of command, mass, simplicity, you name it, they seem to have violated it. It's almost like they said, oh, this is going to be a cakewalk. We're going to take Kiev in three days. We're going to, you know, shoot off rockets and celebrate, be happy. And then when they.

They had their hats handed to them. It was one of those, oh, we made a major mistake. And their units are not. That's well trained. It's being proven on the battlefield.

And they also sacrificed their best units early on. The units that went after Key were the best units they had. The VDV, that's the airborne, they're Spet Snets. They have been Beaten pretty badly. It's going to take time to reconstitute.

So basically, we're saying right now: okay, you've got your second team in right now when it comes to military units because we used our best units and need to refit and reconstitute. We put Dvornikov, that new Russian commander, in place. But he thinks like the old Russians think, and the and the Ukrainians think like the Western armies think. Yeah.

Yeah.

Ukraine's HIGH with much more agility and ability to fight. We're talking to Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, Fox News contributor, former National Security Advisor to Vice President Pence, former chief of staff of the National Security Counsel in the Trump administration, and author of War by Other Means.

So, Vladimir Putin admitted yesterday in a call, speaking to government officials via video link from his residence. He said that payments for Russian energy exports were under strain and that banks from unfriendly countries had been delaying transfer of funds. Quote: As we have said many times before, the most urgent problem here is the disruption of export logistics. The significance, General, of him admitting that. Yeah, well, it's saying to me that he's got a problem.

He knows he's got a problem. He's trying to, you know, the economic sanctions are finally starting to. Take hold. I said all along, it takes a while for economic sanctions to hit. It's taken almost 50 days, but they will hit.

And I think we need to keep the pressure on to do it. I think he admits that. But here's the other thing I do, Brian, which is almost you we talked military, we talked economic.

Now the diplomatic piece. I have no idea why we don't reopen our embassy in Kiev today. And we should do that in the past. Italy did. The Baltic nations did.

Yeah.

And and I don't know why. We ought to we ought to we ought to put pressure diplomatically, economically and militarily, all at the same time on them and real make the people that support Putin start to doubt Putin's leadership ability. And maybe internally they'll say, you know, maybe you need to take a long siesta you know, down to your dacha somewhere.

So the Russia is warning us to stop arming Ukraine. According to the Washington Post today. Russia sent a formal diplomatic note to the U. S. warning the U.

S. and NATO shipments of the most sensitive weapon systems to Ukraine was adding fuel to the conflict there and could bring unpredictable consequences. You know what they're referring to. Yeah.

What's your thought? I don't I think it's a bluff on their part right now. I think if they were willing to go there, they would have gone to it earlier. I think they realize if they had been winning, it's a different story. But now that they're losing, I think they're saying, ah, we may not want to go there because we're playing with a losing hand.

My biggest fear has never been the nuclear piece because I think even though they do have what they call tactical nukes, and I don't agree in anything called a tactical nuke, but they do have sub-kelatone weapons they they can use and they talk about using them on the battlefield. My biggest worry is they'll use chemical because it's in their DNA. They've used chemical against their political opponents. They've used chemical in warfighting. Look what Dvornikov did when he was a commander in Syria.

And that's my worry they use something like that. But if he does that, I think it's a lost cause. And I'm not too sure. I at least have doubts that the Russian military would say, hey, we've now gone way too far on this. And they would they might do something.

They could talk about it, but I don't think they're I think it's a little bit right over bluff. I wouldn't have said that three weeks ago. I'd say it now. I think it's almost like a bridge too far for them. But again, the one I think they would use.

Instead of the nuclear, I think they'd use the chemical, some type of nerve gas. And they might have already. Finally, General, we have. uh developed nations like Sweden and Finland who want to join. And they were warned by the Russians, do not join NATO.

We're going to rechange and reinvigorate our nuclear arsenal if we do and place them in different places. Should we just say flat out yes? to those nations. Yeah, I think we we should tell him yes. We should tell him abs absolutely you know join NATO.

I mean he's these are all bluffs right now. Putin has played the best game he's had and he's losing it. Everywhere, right? Yeah.

But if he's able to take the Donbass region and claim us as his own, he could say, Look it, I've got the iron, I got the coal, I got the oil, I got the richest area of Ukraine and years ago, you know, being that the the crushers descent away is, he could act as if that was his goal all along. That's right, and that's what he's probably gonna try to do 'cause he'd loses he realizes it's a losing game for him. All right, General, thanks so much. Appreciate it. We've had other conversations and look quite this optimistic.

I've also been warned that the Russians have endless resources, a ton of people they can call up.

So they do, and they don't care about casualties, even their own.

So. To not rejoice too soon. You you you report to that school too? Yeah, but Brian, I you know I remember Afghanistan when they lost fifteen thousand and you know, basically brought the Soviet Union down. If the reports are true, they're either approaching that number or they pass that number.

And the Russian people are probably going to see through it. You know, after a while, if there was a quick win, you'd say, Okay, we won pretty rapidly. But you know, this is still playing out on Russian T V. And people are starting to go they start going. Why is this taking so long?

What's happening? It'll finally break through, and I think it'll hurt Putin trying to stay in power because eventually what happened is the Russian mothers. Got tired of fighting in Afghanistan when the body started coming home. This may be the same thing where the public is going to turn against him. That's saying, okay, they'll support him right now.

But over time, they're going to say, look, why are we doing this? This is a lost cause, especially when the reports are coming out that some of his best units that he has have been pretty badly mauled.

So, am I optimistic? Yeah, but you are absolutely right. It's still a tough fight. It still is up in the air. There's no guarantee of anything.

But right now, if I was putting some money down, I'd say, let's put on the Ukrainians today. And the good news is, if you ever get back there, if Trump goes back and runs and wins, and I'm sure he's going to call you, you'll have a motivated Europe, a motivated NATO to buy our weapon systems, not the antiquated Soviet systems, purchase them. We provide the advisors, and NATO will realize they have a function and the danger that Russia presents. You no longer have to sell them that we're not living in the past like Barack Obama thought we were. Is that correct?

That's exactly right. Absolutely right. Absolutely right. Go get him, General. Thanks so much.

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It's the Brian Kill Meat Show. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmead. Putin's invasion of Ukraine. has driven up gas prices and crude prices all over the world.

There's no dial in the Oval Office that turns inflation up or turns it down, right?

So Joe Biden, as he's sitting there at the White House, doesn't have a lot of really great options. But the economy is not doing well, 8.5%. We love the jobs numbers, fantastic. The labor participation is still around the 60%. We love the fact that wages are going up, but they're not keeping up with the inflated prices.

And to blame people for it and not to acknowledge that the money we got in March, I know you can't come out and say rescue plan, big mistake, but you could say we had to print a lot of money, $6.7 trillion for the pandemic. Whether we put too much in the system, we're going to correct it. But instead, you tell everybody it's because of the Putin price hike.

Now, I'm acknowledging that a lot of grain, I did not know that, comes out of Ukraine as well as Russia. I get it. Supply chains disrupted. I understand it. We know in Europe, for example, we depend on those markets, oil and gas, they're trying to get off it and they're making other plans as we have done.

But if you look at the gas pump, I think the prices have come down a quarter or something. They went up slightly after the invasion, but we're 50 days into a two-year graduation of an average. Inflation.

Now, the other big story is what he's going to do about it because right now. The average person suffering. Very few. A lot of people say, you know, no one really serves in the military. I don't know.

I've never been to Afghanistan. Iraq's not really my issue. The VA scandal is not it. You could always section off and say that really doesn't affect me. You know, they're not doing the pipeline.

That's really not going to affect me. I don't work on a pipeline. I'm not in Texas or Oklahoma. I don't really do fracking, doesn't fuel us like it does Pennsylvania and Ohio. But when you raise prices on everything because of the cost of gas and jet fuel and transportation, what you're charging farmers to actually bring the meat to market and the cow to market, that's when everyone walks around and goes, I'm not feeling good about this.

And I do. I know I was in grammar school, but when Carter was president, I do remember that sense that we got to make a change. And that's what people are saying. that Democrats should be feeling. Listen.

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