Biden Contradicts His Own Admin, Says Russian Sanctions Not Meant to Deter Putin

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It's been a busy week, which makes it fun. It makes it fun to do this show. I hope you feel the same way. Carly Shimkiss will delve into the major stories happening. You know, it's not just about Ukraine, but that is the number one story, especially when the world focuses on NATO, the G7, as well as EU and the president now touching down in Poland as we speak.

So he's going to be there. And I guess he's going to have a surprise visit to the border of Poland and Ukraine, maybe even get to Kyiv. If he was younger, I would recommend it. My goodness, there's no way anyone would be safer. Because do you really think that Vladimir Putin would allow an American president to get shelled?

Morgan Artegis, fresh off her stint with Mike Pompeo, will be joining us. She's also running for Congress.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. The United States, together with our international partners, we're going to work to ensure an additional. want 15, 15, 15 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas, LNG, for Europe this year.

Well, yeah, it's not going to be a game changer, but at least it's an effort. Can you imagine if he got ahead of the game and set up that pipeline through Portugal and throughout Europe? Finally, President Biden announces he'll pump natural gas to Europe as they will stop buying Russian gas, they say, by the end of the year. But my goodness, we do not have that type of time. Can the industry actually ramp up more and more and get Americans doing what we want to do, and that's drill, get those pipelines back as the rising gas prices inflicting personal pain around this nation?

We'll let you know who the polls say is to blame. Number two. The purpose of the sanctions has always been and continues to be deterrence. The President believes that sanctions are intended to deter. Sanctions never deter.

You keep talking about that. Sanctions never deter. What uh What a joke and an embarrassment. President Biden speaks publicly about a run for president again as Republicans' momentum grows to flip the House and Senate, as he once again denies publicly what we know is true: that the Russian sanctions were intended to deter and they failed. And you just heard his entire staff say exactly the opposite of what he just said.

Number one. There's an opportunity to win. Therefore, a statement should have been made. We're going to double down on everything that President Zelensky needs, and we're going to speed it up and put it on fast forward. We've got to take advantage of the opportunity that Zelensky's army has provided.

General Jack Keen, win. How about that? NATO, EU, G7 huddle to squeeze Russia, but are they doing enough? I'll share the details as we know what now what President Zelensky cites as his frustration with constant delays and indecision on receiving the aid that will keep him and his country alive and their ability to, yes, win.

So I I was uh struck by this. Usually we see President Zelensky's remarks, but when he had a closed door session with NATO, I thought it was something to do with security. You know what it really has to do with? I think it has to do with the fact that he knows he's not getting what he asked for. He said, can I get tanks?

He didn't even ask for a no fly zone. He goes, Can I get those Jets? Can I get one tenth of the twenty thousand tanks you have Can I get some Uh anti-ship rockets, missiles, which we know as harpoons. Where are they? What about everything that you promised?

Am I going to get any of it? And you see that he is frustrated by it. And he went on to say Hey you Baltic nations I know you feel secure because of Article five. But I felt secure in the Budapest Agreement in nineteen ninety four that said Russia and the US were going to secure our security. And look where I am right now.

That to me is inexcusable. I like we're putting sanctions on them. I don't like the fact that. These are these European countries are still providing Money For Russia To fund their war. And they say, according to Zelensky, he says, I looked at the reports, Russia is pumping more oil now than they were before the war started.

So, where exactly is my help? It says the U.S. sanctions are targeting 300 members of the Russian Duma, okay, 40 Russian defense companies. Leaders want to limit Russia's ability to use its gold stash to prop up its currency, so they're going to go hit that. I'm not sure how, but I like the fact that they're thinking that creatively.

So far, they say gold makes up 20% of their reserves, so they got reserves in the bank as opposed to their ruble.

So, let these big financial minds come up with something. But this is what Zelensky asked for: he said, Can I have 20,000? You have 20,000 tanks. Could I have 1% of that? You have the worst thing is nothing is a clear answer.

We've been asking for help, as I paraphrase, and you don't even say no or yes. It's not clear. And they're asking the Baltic nations to feel secure. He goes, you should not feel secure. And I totally believe what Zelensky is saying.

I'm fighting this war now, but you all are going to be in it soon. Unless you make sure we survive, And when?

So the President of the United States is just landing, we just watched this plane land there. Plane Landover in Poland, and we'll see what he does. And I want everybody to understand that I don't want you to tell me exactly what's getting in and when it's getting in. But the fact is, he says he does not have missile defense systems. Where's the S-300s?

You promised them weeks ago, where are they? I just saw in the UK 7,000 more rockets for. Ukraine, are they getting in?

So I talked to Joni Ernst, the senator from Iowa. She was just on the couch on Fox and Friends, and I said, What did you find when you were in Poland last week? He says, We have the aid, it's there, but it's coming in at a trickle. What at a trickle? Incredibly disheartening.

And plus the President saying stuff that just absolutely makes no sense. Uh and we know this. The Russians pretty much telegraph what they're going to do, and they seem to be queuing up chemical weapons, which they seem to have greenlighted. In the past in Syria. And Syria's warned they got bombed they never did.

So, Joe Biden got asked a question. I guess he ran out of hand-picked questions, and he got a question about. What about the sanctions? You know, you say you're putting on more sanctions, but the sanctions have not worked.

So here's Joe Biden. Talking about the sanctions. Working and not working. Sir, deterrence didn't work. What makes you think Vladimir Putin will alter course based on the action you've taken today?

Let's get something straight. You remember if you covered me from the very beginning, I did not say that, in fact, the sanctions would deter him. Sanctions never deter. You keep talking about that. Sanctions never deter.

By the way, how rude. I mean, how many times calls to our reporter in SOB, says another one, it's a stupid question. And that's it. And by the way, both questions were great. And I would say it sometimes you ask a bad question.

I do, you do. The whole world does. He asks questions, I wish I'd put that better. But both those questions were fine, and that question was fine. Why do you do that?

You're playing in game with me, he says.

So and sanctions are put there to deter and to punish. And if you listen to the Congress, many of the Democrats, they wanted you to put the sanctions together as you threatened to invade before you invaded.

So just to show how inaccurate his statement was. and how wrong the tone was. Here's the Vice President. Jake Sullivan Talking about and the president talking about deterrence. Got 20.

The purpose of the sanctions has always been and continues to be deterrence. We want them to have a deterrent effect, clearly. And he hasn't invaded yet. We have agreed that the deterrence effect of these sanctions is still a meaningful one. The president believes that sanctions are intended to deter.

Sanctions never deter. You keep talking about that. Sanctions never deter. Okay. Do I need to even define that further?

Do I need to drill down on that to show you exactly what I mean? I mean, if he does believe that, There's a little bit of a problem because nobody else who works for them believes that. And they said the term, the president believes that this thing happens.

So Matt Continenti was on from the Washington Free Beacon, was on special report last night and says, you got to be kidding me. Got 26. This is why they give Biden a list of reporters to call on, Brett, a list that Biden had exhausted, and he was on his way out of that press conference when he called on Christina Ruffini of CBS, who asked that question about deterrence. Biden was caught flat-footed. He was caught trying to reverse engineer history to grant himself foresight, but he was completely wrong.

Look, the sanctions didn't deter because the sanctions weren't imposed. Biden wasn't imposing sanctions prior to the invasion. He was threatening sanctions. And the threat of sanctions wasn't enough to change Vladimir Putin's behavior. To deter someone like Putin, you have to hold at risk something that he values greatly.

Putin doesn't care about the economic well-being of Russians. He cares about power. You have to threaten his hold on power. And the only way to do that now, Brett, is to find a way to help the Ukrainians defeat him on the ground.

Okay. It's totally true. And that's the problem. I have no idea why they always leave him out there by himself. But once in a while, I can see it, but he's always walking by himself, taking questions by himself, ignoring them by himself.

He's ignoring more and more questions because he knows he gets himself into trouble. He's got no good answers. Think about this foreign policy. Hey, Russia, would you do me a favor while you invade and chop up another country who are blowing up hospitals and pre-kindergartens? Would you negotiate a deal with another heathen nation, the Ayatollah, Khomeini, and Iran?

Could you find a way? Oh, yeah, and when it comes to nuclear waste, would you take it into your country? Really? That's what he's negotiating, let alone Afghanistan and let alone the intercontinental missile that was just shot off yesterday by the North Koreans, first time since 2017. Foreign policy is a flat-out disaster.

That's where he was supposed to be experienced at the very least.

So Joe Biden was asked some other questions in Brussels, Belgium, and was talking about you politically. Makes up to me referencing another story more than likely never happened. But was asked about Donald Trump. You know, you have this one policy now.

Well, is it going to change? If you lose, or if you don't run again. Will America change Cup 52? The first G7 meeting I attended, like the one I did today. was in Great Britain and I sat down and I said, America's back.

And one of my counterparts, colleagues, the head of state, said, for how long? For how long? And so I don't blame, I don't criticize anybody for asking that question. But uh The next election, I'd be very fortunate if I had That same man running against me.

Well, how do you feel about that? 1866-408-7669. Do you think that Trump wins if they do this again? I think if without on pure policies If there was no January sixth? And the president handled the loss better?

I would say the President head to head would be up by about seven points.

So, I'm going to take a timeout right now. I don't want to take too much time away from Morgan. I'm going to ask her that question. She worked for Mike Pompeo, knows the president well. She's now running for Congress, then Carly Shimkis after that.

And then we'll open up the phones: 1-866-408-7669. I'll bring you the latest from Ukraine. Also, tell you what's happening at our border, bad news coming down the pike, and then see who's better at handling inflation.

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I have it on excellent sources that for more than a week now, the Biden administration has been putting pressure on President Zelensky to cut a deal. And that is shameful. Really shameful. And I'm convinced it's happening. And we got to get off of that page and get on the page to helping Zelensky win this war and have the resolve to stand up to the threats of WMD that Putin is making.

Absolutely. And it turns out, of course, Goliath is hollowed out in Russia, and David is fighting and just needs some more armaments. And he's not getting them. And I've never heard General Keene so emotional when he heard that. That you actually not only did you not back the guy, not only did you not believe in the guy, now you want him to quit early and give up half his country.

Morgan Ortegas joined us now, former State Department spokesperson and candidate for Tennessee's 5th Congressional District. Morgan, I wanted to get your take on that initially. Do you believe those reports are true? Have you heard the same thing? Pressure on Zelensky to cut a deal?

Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me at all. I I mean, listen, like you, I've known Jack Keene for a long time and I respect him. He's one of America's greatest generals that that we've had i in our lifetime for sure. Uh and why it wouldn't surprise me, Brian, is because if you just look at the behavior of the Biden administration over the past year leading up to the Russian invasion, listen, everything that they tried as it relates to deterrence to from stopping Russia invading Ukraine failed. And so that's why that's why it doesn't surprise me, you know, Here's like their framework.

Like, if you take it back to a higher level, how does Biden and his team think about it?

Well, listen, they told us we have to allow Nord Stream 2, the gas pipeline, we have to allow that to happen because if not, that could provoke Russia, that could set them off.

So, they've taken this approach the whole time: we have to give in to them. We have to give in to the bully because if you give in to the bully, then maybe he won't act like a bully. And I think anybody who has any sort of common sense and has spent two minutes on a playground knows when you give in to the bully, that only perpetuates and exacerbates their behavior, right? It doesn't mean the bully goes, Oh, okay, thanks, Brian. I'm going to stop being a bully now now that you gave me everything that I want, right?

And so, this is really simplistic human behavior that Biden and his team get wrong because they think that Putin and Xi Jinping and the Ayatollah care what is said about them at cocktail parties in Paris.

So, this Shoigo, this defense minister, Shoigo. He has disappeared. Yesterday, he appeared once on a conference TV call. They said he had a heart problem. They could be on disfavor.

And then Garissimo is the military staff chief. He seems to be MIA. He's been invisible. What's going on in Vladimir Putin's inner circle?

Well, I wish I was the one who actually knew. Listen, I think that one of the problems that you have in any sort of authoritarian regime is that it's very hard for bad news to get up, right? Because who wants to be the person to tell Putin, hey, this is actually going pretty badly. You're losing thousands of troops really quickly. We have logistical problems.

We have this issue. We have that issue.

So, you know, who wants to be the one holding the bat, telling the dictator that his plans are failing?

So I think that's certainly some of it. There was a clear, you know, I think, and General Keene has talked about this as too. The thing that's really puzzling for so many of us who watch the Russians in Syria over the past eight years or so is just the sloppiness from which they conducted this whole execution of their war plan on Ukraine. It's been sloppy, it's been half-hearted, and it's really just surprising.

Now, listen, they certainly have the hard power capability. We all know that. We can see what they're doing. In Maripol today, but none of this should surprise us. You know, people who are surprised by this haven't been paying attention to Gronsky or Syria or anything Putin's done over the past 20 years.

So, Morgan, I do want to get you. I'm up against a break. I do want to get you what you're doing now. You're looking to, you're a congressional candidate in Tennessee's fifth congressional district, and Donald Trump has probably pushed you, he's endorsed you, and they're trying to gerrymander your district out. They don't want you to run the Republican Party.

Well, but yeah, there's some legislation that's going on that would Create residency and voting requirements on all federal candidates in Tennessee. And the case that I've made is: listen, President Trump endorsed me for this race. He knows that I know how to fight. And ultimately, this should be left up to the voters, right? This is why we have primary elections.

And the voters in Tennessee and in our fifth congressional district, which is here in Middle Tennessee, should be able to have the chance to have a say of who wins the Republican primary. And so that's the case I'm making. As you know, I worked for President Trump for many years, was in the trenches with him on all these foreign policy issues that you and I have talked about for, you know, for a long time when I was working for Fox before I even went to work for President Trump.

So that's the pitch that I am trying to make to the voters here in Tennessee. Give them the chance to decide, give them the chance to see why President Trump endorsed me and why he thinks I'd be the best fighter in this race. Right, yeah. Give me a chance to win. Given a chance, you will win, Morgan.

Nobody's more qualified while serving the country, too. Morgan Ortegas, thanks so much. Thank you so much, Brian. You got it. Coming up next, Carly Schimkis.

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A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead. In addition to the 100,000 U.S. forces now stationed in Europe, defend NATO territory. NATO established, as you already know, four new battle groups in Romania, Hungary.

Bulgaria and Slovakia to reinforce the Eastern Front. Yeah, we'll see how that goes. And as President Zelensky brought up, hey, Baltic nations, I know you feel good about Article 5, but I felt good about the Baltic Agreement, excuse me, the Budapest Agreement in 1994 when my security was guaranteed. He was probably in high school back then. The security of the nation was guaranteed by the Russians and the Americans and NATO said, you're not going to be invaded if you just give up your nuclear arsenal.

Carly Shimkis is here. And I'll tell you what, I have a totally different impression of this whole trip and the EU and G7. Carly, after I started reading some excerpts from President Zelensky's speech, he's frustrated. We're not doing anything that we say we're doing. It's not getting there.

Well, I think that the Budapest memorandum thing that you just brought up is a really important point. And first of all, that's the agreement, like you said, signed in 1994.

So Ukraine, which had the third largest nuclear arsenal, had to give it up. And it was signed by the U.S. The UK and Russia, right? And now he's saying, I was, Ukraine was given security guarantees in exchange for giving up my nuclear weapons.

Now I am completely defenseless.

So please ramp up the support that you have already provided me. And he asked all the NATO nations yesterday to give him 1% of their weapons. And although that sounds like a small number, I'm sure in practice it's a large number. But his whole position is that if you want to stop Russia, you know, everybody's. Biden's really concerned about Russia, which is why he doesn't want to escalate the situation.

And then Vladimir Zelensky is saying, listen, if you're concerned about Putin, the best way to stop him, even the threat of him attacking a NATO nation, is by defeating him in Ukraine.

So please help me do that. Help me help you, is what he's saying.

So listen to this. They say you have thousands of fighter jets. We haven't seen any of them yet. 20,000 tanks you guys got. Can I get 1% of that?

The worst thing is not having a clear answer when it comes to getting help. He goes, how do I plan? I can't get an answer. And then he went out and challenged the Baltic nations. Do you feel good about Article 5?

Does that work for you?

Well, I felt good about the Budapest Agreement, so it's important. Also, we announced yesterday that Ukraine has lost about... four hundred thousand of their citizens to Russia. 84,000 of which are children. What do you mean?

Well, the Russians have basically said, You're coming with me. They claim these people left voluntarily to be in Russia. That's unbelievable. Voluntarily to Russia. To go to Russia, Mother Russia.

Yeah, I highly doubt it. The one thing that I can, you know, really, I hope, this is my hope, and I don't know if this is true or not, but my hope is that there are things that are going on in private that we don't know about. You know, Vladimir Zelensky is coming from a place of, he's desperate. And even if those weapons are flowing into his country, he's in a position where he's in an active war. He's always going to ask for more.

So maybe he is getting those weapons in his country. Maybe he is getting those missile systems from the U.S. and other NATO nations. And he did say that he wasn't going to talk about it anymore. He wasn't going to say what weapons are coming in and when because he wants to surprise Russia.

So my hope is that some of this is. Do you know what Joni Ernst told us today on the couch? Tell me. When she was in Poland, they said she was asking the refugees, were you guys getting food? And were weapons, and he says it was a trickle.

A trickle of food and weapons, the citizens said. This is, he said. I mean, that's unacceptable. I know. Find a way.

Yeah, I know. Absolutely. And, you know, you feel so bad for the people in Mariupol. And, you know, all this conversation about war crimes that's slowly been coming out and President Biden's now declaring Putin a war criminal. I mean, I think it's all symbolic.

It's the right thing to do, but it doesn't really mean anything. Obviously, these war crimes are happening before our very eyes. What matters is getting the aid and ramping it up and getting the food and the water to people so they can survive this horrific attack. Here's what General Keene told me this morning about what he's seen right now from Ukraine on the ground, Cut 12. What the Ukrainians are doing is nothing short of remarkable.

They know the Russians have become defensive to protect themselves and resupply and reinforce, and in doing that, they're conducting counterattacks and retaking towns that were lost. Pretty significant. It tells you also the leadership that the Ukraine military has. Their generals have a real feel for war. It's fundamentally a test of wills, and they get it.

And they know the Russian will is broken a little bit. Take advantage of it. And that's why they're attacking. Yeah. I was talking to two Green Berets on Fox and Friends First this morning because Green Berets helped train Ukrainians after Crimea, after the annexation of Crimea in 2014.

And one of the reasons why Ukraine has really outkicked its coverage and outperformed is because of that training, that military training that the United States provided them. And then you hear about what's going on in Russia. Russia was supposed to be this incredible fighting force. They even have an academy? I know.

And then I was reading this really interesting article about one of the reasons why their tanks were stalled. And remember that 40-mile convoy that was just stuck and couldn't go anywhere. And one of the big speculations is that it's because Russia uses on their tanks cheap. Chinese tires that kept on breaking and busting and were stuck in the mud. And apparently they are, you know, there's a lack of maintenance when it comes to their military weaponry.

And it's just been a total disaster. And the morale, which is a really big deal when you're talking about fighting a war that you don't even believe in, is a huge issue for them, too. Food, water, also a massive problem. I just love the fact that the one guy just affected, another guy just disappeared, the architect of this war and their defense with their akin to their defense minister secretary. He's disappeared for 11 days.

The other guy appeared briefly on a Zoom call or some type of Skype and then disappeared right away.

So he's firing people. Arresting his new KGB agents.

So obviously, there's huge problems, and he does not understand that it's fundamentally his fault because he actually asked them to implement a program that there was no appetite for the Russians to do, nor are they equipped. I just think that what Mike Pence said this morning was interesting. He's like, I would just create a humanitarian aid overflight, and I would just drop food. Maripol is. Yeah, but then what if that plane gets shot down?

I know, but let them try. They're going to shoot down. No, I like your idea better, Brian. You said it with the drones. Yes.

Why hasn't that happened? I have no idea. An unmanned drone.

So, listen, yeah, those drones are ridiculously expensive, but getting this food and water to people is invaluable. They need it. They're dying. I want to bring you to this setting up 2022. Right now, you have the Republicans at Pona Vedra, Florida.

They're having their massive summit. This is going to be their last pitch in the last seven months to take the House, and they're going to try. For the Senate. I mean, who knows what's going to happen, but the numbers are leaning heavy their direction, but you need a strategy.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden was asked about politics again, Cut 32. The first G7 meeting I attended, like the one I did today. was in Great Britain, and I sat down and I said, America's back. And one of my counterparts, colleagues, head of state, said, for how long? For how long?

And so I don't blame, I don't criticize anybody for asking that question. But uh Uh the next election, I'd be very fortunate if I had That same man running against me. That man is Donald Trump. Do you think he wants to run against Trump? I don't do you think he's gonna run again?

I think he thinks he is. I I think that do you think his wife jumps in? People keep saying this. Do you think that's wrong? His wife, Jill.

Oh, I didn't know that. Did you like look at him and say, Look, that's the in the best interest of him to be president again? Yeah, I I don't know. I I mean, I th I th I think it's just There's no way he can run. I mean, if he what will how old will he be?

Eighty eighty three, eighty two? Can we get it? Yeah. I think so. I mean, yeah, I just.

Trouble will be 78. I just have a feeling he's going to bow out. He's a one-termer. But he can't say that. You can't be a lame duck this early in your presidency.

But I think that, well, the reason he made that comment is because that ludicrous question that that international reporter asked, it was like, you know, he had a list. He came out and he said, all right, in the interest of time, they gave me a list of reporters. And it's, you know, they were good questions, but they were non-controversial. And then the last question he got was like, you know, people here are very concerned that your predecessor is going to become the president again.

So what can you do to calm those fears? It's like, are you joking? Like, what kind of question is that when there's a war raging in Europe? That's your one question? You have one shot at asking anything?

You mean the guy that armed the Ukrainians as opposed to the one he did? Exactly. And then that's why he said what he said. And then he was walking away, and I'm sure the Biden people were like, okay. Good.

You know, that was a fine press conference. Nothing really wrong happened. And then President Biden answers one more question. And it was the only question that he just randomly called on. And that reporter had the question of.

of the day when it was about the sanctions and the deterrence. And then for some reason, President Biden gets angry and his his whole attitude towards reporters sometimes he goes from sweet to sour in a second. It's weird. I know. Oh, excuse me, eighteen.

Sir, deterrence didn't work. What makes you think Vladimir Putin will alter course based on the action you've taken today? Let's get something straight. You remember if you covered me from the very beginning, I did not say that, in fact, the sanctions would deter him. Sanctions never deter.

You keep talking about that. Sanctions never deter. Right. Here's a little bit more angry Joe, Cut 19. You believe the action today will have an impact on making Russia change course in Ukraine?

That's not what I said. You're playing a game with me. I know. The answer is no. But look, if you're Putin And you think that Europe is going to crack in a month or s six weeks or two months, why not?

They can take anything for another month. But we have to demonstrate. The reason I asked for the meeting, we have to stay fully, totally, thoroughly united. Yeah, stay united, but why? Do something.

I don't care if you're together. I want you acting. I don't care if it's just Poland, get some arms. Most of the stuff's coming through Poland. Get it done.

Um So So, him having you playing a game with me, I don't even understand what that means. But here's Steve Ratner, Democrat, on MSNBC, 30. We have to be mindful and somewhat humble about the history of sanctions. We've had sanctions on North Korea since 1950 roughly. We've had sanctions on Cuba since 1960.

We've had sanctions on Iran for uh over 50 years now. And none of those have obviously brought those countries to heel. The record of countries being able to withstand even the toughest sanctions is not a completely successful one from the standpoint of the West and putting on those sanctions, and especially in a situation like this, where we're not putting sanctions on all, or at the moment really, any of their exports. True, the energy, they're not touching energy.

Okay, yeah, a couple of things. First of all, uh I'm pro-sanction at this point. I I feel like that was sort of an anti-sanction uh comment. No, but sanctions are make them suffer. Yeah, absolutely make them suffer.

But the whole point was that the Biden administration's strategy, and we were told this repeatedly, is that sanctions, we aren't going to impose them immediately because we are using them as a deterrent. Absolutely. They kept on saying if we impose sanctions now, then Russia is going to say, okay, well, those sanctions are already on us. We might as well invade Ukraine. That plan didn't work.

But then for President Biden to say, you keep talking about deterrence, reporter. How dare you? I never used the phrase deterrence. That was their whole plan. Absolutely.

I do have to say it is important for NATO to remain united, and I like that that's happened. And I didn't know that President Biden, that it was his idea to call this meeting. And that's the leadership that I think from the American people.

Well, that's what he said. I know. Oh, you're thinking he was a liar, liar, pantsom? I'm just saying, like he said, that's why I called this meeting. I thought they said NATO was meeting.

I did not know. That was the first time. Yeah. Well, yeah, I know. It caught my attention, too.

So if he did call the meeting, then good for him. But that whole deterrence thing was super weird for him to get mad at the reporter for just echoing what the Biden administration had told her over the course of the past three months or whatever. But it's not atypical. I mean, he doesn't like questioning. He says really rude things.

Most reporters could care less, and he just wanted him to answer the question.

So Joe Biden talked about running against Donald Trump. It'd be pretty good if I got a chance to run against him. Maybe not after he heard this. Listen to AOC, Cut 35. We need to acknowledge that this isn't just about middle of the road, an increasingly narrow band of Of independent voters.

But this is really about the collapse in support among young people, among the Democratic base, feeling like they are not, that they worked overtime to get this president elected and they aren't necessarily being seen.

So he's saying that the Democrats aren't happy with him, left-wing Democrats aren't happy with him, so don't think that he's doing that well. Yeah. I mean, AOC's nuts, so I I there are more Democrats that are moderate than President Biden should not listen to her, is what I'm saying. I think that he would have a greater chance of winning again if he does run, if he doesn't listen to what she's saying. And he is.

He has been listening to the progressives, and that's why he's killing the Keystone pipeline and, you know, giving all those free money for COVID and stuff like that and the eviction moratorium, exactly, leaving the border wide open because he's afraid to lose those people. And look at what his poll numbers are right now.

So, yeah, so she's going to say that. Of course, she's going to say that. You cannot, nothing that the Biden administration will do will ever be left enough for her. But it's a trap. His poll numbers will go down even more if he keeps on following what she's saying.

Yeah, but maybe she's onto something in that Bernie Sanders has disappeared.

So he knows it probably. Yeah, probably he knows he probably doesn't want to criticize Biden.

So what does he do? Evidently he's trying to get Ro Kahana to run. How do you feel about that? He's not presidential candidate. Are you kidding?

He's a nice guy. President Biden is presidential candidate material. That's a really big problem, though. I mean, the bench is - I think that Republicans have a much wider bench when you think about Nikki Haley, Governor Christy Noam, Rod DeSantis, Mike Pompeo. You have a ton of people that are going to.

Ted Cruz is going to do it again. You can't rule out Marco Rubio trying to run. Chris Christie will be in there. You know, like that.

Okay. Well, no, I mean. I'm here to support everybody. Thank you. You're a very nice person.

Don't forget, you're going to watch One Nation on Saturday night, right? I am. Has that messed up all your plans? Do you eat at nine or do you go out early? Ooh, this is an interesting question.

When do I eat dinner? Do you want to answer it in the break? Let's do that. Back in a moment. Educating, entertaining, enlightening.

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So I was all pumped up because I don't really know the measurements on natural gas, like 15 cubic, whatever. And I'm just saying, well, we have decided to provide Europe with some natural gas, LNG, and to help to supplement because they're going to gradually get off Russian oil and gas. But then when you do actually do the math and what it is, it's like a couple of days.

Okay, wait. I'm so glad that you said that.

Okay. Really? Yeah, why do I? Are you being serious? Because I was talking to Neil Crabtree, who is one of the Keystone XL pipeline workers who lost their job.

And every now and then, when an oil and gas thing comes up, I'll send him a message just to get his take on it. And the reason we're talking about this is because President Biden announced In his press conference or his press statement today with the European Union president, that the United States is going to provide 15 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas to Europe this year. Is that a lot?

Well, okay. I don't know. And I was like, well, I've never heard of a cubic meter, a meter of gas? A meter is a length.

So he said, and I can provide this information to you right now and sound so smart in the process, although it has nothing to do with me. It's a text message I'm reading. He said that you were talking about measuring natural gas in cubic meters. I'll explain a little easier. Just remember, when natural gas is put under pressure, it turns into a liquid.

So it would be the amount of liquid gas that fits inside a cube that measures one meter. I hope that helps. That's what he said. Did it help you? Not as much as I thought it would.

Oh, I was just excited that I had that. I'm excited, but evidently you need a lot more. I think that could be the takeaway. Although I laid the explanation that we're going to be on Fox and Friends First tomorrow? Yes, Fox and Friends First starting at 5 a.m.

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We talk economics, but economics center reflects on your life, inflation dollars, paycheck to paycheck paying, and of course, people that got to skip bills with this inflation. This infects you, this really affects you personally.

So, a lot of people, when we give numbers on the economy, they go, Well, I'm not really investing in the stock market.

Well, I don't really have real estate holdings. I'm not really looking to buy another house. I'm worried about interest rates. And now, everybody's talking about it because it affects everything that you buy. It affects how far you drive and where you go and whether you're buying a new car.

Steve Moore on all that. And Senator John Cornyn standing by, there's so much impactful to talk about, including an Iranian deal that could drop at any moment today. And it will be terrible for the world, especially us.

So from New York, around the country, around the world, let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. The United States, together with our international partners. We're going to work to ensure an additional 15, 15, 15 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas, LNG, for Europe this year.

Well, we'll see. Finally, President Biden announces he'll pump some more natural gas to Europe, but is that enough? Can the industry ramp up and actually help these European countries get off the pipeline of Russia? We'll talk about that and also the personal pain around the country as we shut down drilling, as we shut down fracking. Why is that okay?

And will the polls reflect that the American people want energy independence? Number two. The purpose of the sanctions has always been and continues to be deterrence. The president believes that sanctions are intended to deter. Sanctions never deter.

You keep talking about that. Sanctions never deter. Yeah, my staff keeps on talking about it. What is that? I'm not kidding.

President Biden speaks publicly about a run for president again as Republicans' momentum grows to flip the House and take the Senate. And once again, The president denies something publicly we know is not true, and his own people defy him. They didn't think we were taping them, and the Russian sanctions were intended to deter. That's the whole point of the sanctions. Number one.

There's an opportunity to win. Therefore, a statement should have been made. We're going to double down on everything that President Zelensky needs, and we're going to speed it up and put it on fast forward. We've got to take advantage of the opportunity that Zelensky's army has provided. Wow, there's Jack King.

NATO, EU, and G7 huddle to squeeze Russia. But are they doing enough? I will share the details as we know them as President Zelensky cites frustration about the delays and denials when it comes to weaponry and support, as well as provisions. With me right now is Senator John Corner. Senator, welcome back.

Thanks, Brian. Good to be with you. I know last weekend you were in Poland and Germany. I talked to Senator Joni Ernst this morning, and she said to me that they were expressing to her that weapons. And provisions were slowed to a trickle at the border.

I know the country's at war, but are of all these pledges of support. not actually getting to the people that need it.

Well, it's not fast enough. Momentum counts for a lot in military conflict as just as as General Jack Keene just alluded, and we need to keep the momentum, which is in favor of the Ukrainian position, going in that direction. And the only way we can do that is by speeding up the delivery of weapons that they need in order to defend their country and their sovereignty. And as you point out, because of the Russian invasion, this is a major humanitarian crisis as well.

So we need to do more and we need to do it faster. I know the after-action report will show why didn't we do this on the build-up? Why haven't we done this for years? Why was so many shipments of arms turned around when President Biden took over? Let's not even worry about that.

What I'm really focused on is what President Zelensky said yesterday. He said that he not knowing if he's going to get any aid is worse than anything. He said, You guys have 20,000 tanks. Can I get 1%? He says, I need some type of aircraft.

Where are my planes? He also went to the Baltic nation and says, Do you feel good about Article 5? Because we felt good about the Budapest Agreement in 1994. That was supposed to guard our security. Look at us now.

I mean, he is frustrated, Senator.

Well, I don't blame him. He's got a Russian hit squad out trying to assassinate him. And he's modern-day Winston Churchill inspiring the people of Ukraine and people around the world to rally to the Ukrainian cause. But unfortunately, time is not on his side. Time is on Putin's side, as we've seen his war of attrition.

uh artillery uh flattening cities and uh killing innocent civilians. And even holding them hostage back in Russia itself.

So I understand President Zelensky's. Frustration. I've tried to pass a bill which would restore or create a modern-day LIN-LEASE program like we established with Britain and our allies in World War II, where it makes clear we will expedite all weaponry that the Ukrainians need in order for them to defend their country. Again, they've done a magnificent job, better than anybody would have dreamed of in holding the Russian invasion back. But they can't do this forever, and they certainly can't do it without our help.

So we need to do more and heed President Zelensky's call. Uh yeah. Uh when you were over there, what was your takeaway? When you were in Poland and Germany.

Well, I mean, we we were on the border of Ukraine and Poland at a refugee center. Frankly, Brian, it reminded me a lot of what we see on our southern border with two million people showing up in the last year and of the Biden administration doing zero about border security, just sort of processing people through. It reminded me of that, but it was women and children, the elderly and the infirm, trying to make their way to safety while the able-bodied men, fighting aged men, were making their way back heading east into Ukraine to join the fight. Yeah, they just need some weapons and some missile defense. If you're not going to give them planes, which is ridiculous, give them missile defense.

I mean, we're worried about perception. They're aiming at children's hospitals. They're blowing up theaters with people in them. And we're like, well, what if this is over the line? It's just nuts.

So I want you to hear what General Keene said and tell me if you've heard this before. And I hope you say you haven't. Let's listen. I have it on excellent sources that for more than a week now, the Biden administration has been putting pressure on President Zelensky to cut a deal. And that is shameful.

Really shameful. And I'm convinced it's happening. And we've got to get off of that page and get on the page to help Zelensky win this war and have the resolve to stand up to the threats of WMD that Putin is making. What do you think?

Well, I think it there's there's never been a worse negotiator than the Bid than President Biden and the Biden administration. I mean, this is shameful. if General Keene's right and I have no reason to believe he's not correct. And Putin, if he is if there is a deal cut, which allows Putin to maintain his position in eastern Ukraine with with the Crimea and the land that he has captured so far. This is going to happen again.

We need to stop Putin once and for all. And the only way we do that is by having an embarrassing loss Because the free world has come has rallied around Ukraine, not by cutting bad deals like the Biden administration apparently is prepared to do in Iran with their flawed nuclear deal once again. Senator John Cohn of Texas, our guest. Senator, any day now, I expect to wake up and find out we've cut some deal with the Ayatollah. Evidently, they are actually looking forward to doing this deal that Russia is brokering on Iran that's going to allow them to take their nuclear waste and put it into Russia.

And the report is if a Republican president comes in and wants to undo that deal, Russia will give them back their nuclear energy. Uh they're they're enriched uranium.

So, and that would be the leverage they need to not get out of this deal. What can you tell us about this, and what can you do about it? That's crazy. The Biden administration is conspiring. Against a future Republican president that would want to undo this bad deal.

That's crazy. That's crazy. And why in the world would you trust the Russians Given what Putin's doing in Ukraine, or the Iranians. All the Iranians want to do is to improve their economy. They want to export Iranian oil around the world because Biden won't allow the U.S.

to produce what it's capable of doing and helping our friends and allies around the world.

So he's looking at Iran to fill that gap. I mean, there is nothing about this that makes any sense, and it won't survive. The Biden administration, especially if Republicans will get back in charge. But if they're able to get those sanctions lifted and now China is no longer cooperating, they're doing it anyway, and they're able to get their oil back on the market, it's going to be very hard, much harder to get that back genie back in the bottle.

Now explain this to me, Senator. You need 60 votes in order to stop this deal. Instead of confirming a treaty with 60, you need 60 to stop this. And last time you got 58 and Schumer and Cardin joined you and Menendez joined you when not voting for it, but it didn't matter because you didn't reach 60 and Obama was able to pass it. Yeah, the world's upside down, Brian, under the Constitution.

Uh uh it's treaties, if you assume this is a treaty and it that's what an international agreement is, is uh it has to be confirmed But under the last JCPOA, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Iran nuclear deal, there was this crazy Procedure that was created, which required us to disapprove of the deal, not to ratify it like we would ordinarily a treaty.

So the world's upside down. And unfortunately, I think not enough Democrats are going to be willing to stand up to the administration. But look, this is the bottom line. We can't allow the Iranians regime to get a nuclear weapon. And if we don't stop them, I trust that Israel will.

But then we're risking a full-out war in the Middle East, in addition to what's happening in Europe.

So I just. I just can't imagine a worse. Group of negotiators than we're seeing right now at the Biden administration, they appear to be willing to give the Iranians everything and get zero in return.

So the energy is something that's right in your uh area of expertise. Here's what the President said today about what he's willing to do to help Europe get off Russian oil and gas, Cut thirty nine. The United States, together with our international partners, we're going to work to ensure an additional 15, 1, 5, 15 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas, LNG, for Europe this year. We've agreed on a joint game plan. toward that goal.

while accelerating our progress toward a secure, clean energy future. What does that mean in layman's terms? 15 billion cubic meters. I hear it's not that much.

Well, you know, you talk about the energy consumption of a whole continent of Europe, and Putin has seduced. Europeans into uh uh a Dependency on Russian oil and natural gas. And you've seen what happened when Germany decided to hit the reset button and recalibrate, both in terms of its obligations to NATO, supplying weapons, and looking to alternative forms of energy. But American natural gas is the cleanest form of energy we have now, save and accept, for example, nuclear, which obviously the Europeans have weaned themselves from. That's Shows, I think the announcement itself, if you just look at it at face value, makes some sense, but it takes years to build the infrastructure necessary, the terminals to accept the natural gas from the United States and the pipelines that are necessary to transmit it to the ultimate user.

And what Biden has suggested is not going to address that problem, and certainly not in the short term.

So we'll see where this goes.

So, NATO, EU, G7, all these meetings, and we'll see what comes out of it because all. All Ukraine wants to do is to be able to fight and win a war. Effectively, I just think this would be a once-in-a-generation opportunity to actually get rid of this horrible person on this over the last 20 years, and that's Vladimir Putin. You know, the Russians will always be a challenge, but this guy is a unique challenge. They were heading a totally different direction before he took power, and he seems to have lost his mind.

If you see his defense minister has disappeared, the strategist has disappeared, the guy that said this was going to be easy. He's lost intelligence agents who were supposed to pay off Ukrainians and never did. The money disappeared. We're seeing an official just disappear, just leave. I don't know if you have good contacts that you could share with our listeners about what's happening by Putin.

Do you?

Well, Putin Putin is is he's not crazy. But he is uh he does have uh these fantasies of the restoration of the uh of the Russian Empire. Th he called the fall of the Soviet Union one of the greatest geopolitical tragedies in the last hundred years. And so what we see is incrementally, whether it's in Georgia or in Crimea and now in the rest of Ukraine, his gradual attempt to recapture some of the old Soviet Union and restore that empire. That's the ideology that drives Putin.

And if we think he's going to quit, I think we're fooling ourselves.

So we have to stop him, and the best way to stop him is to support the Ukrainians and our NATO allies. This is a very dangerous Situation, Brian. There's no doubt about it. But we need to be deterring Putin and not the other way around. Right now, it seems like Putin, by his saber rattling and his threats, he's deterring the free world, and we need to be deterring him.

He is Senator John Corn. And Senator, always great to talk to you. Thank you. Thanks, Brian. You got it.

A voice of reason. 1866-408-7669. We're going to come back and take your calls at the bottom of the air. We'll turn it over to Steve Moore. I'm going to put take the take these economic issues and And push it down to the everyday person and how it affects all of us that have to make a living and make sure they're able to pay their bills.

You're listening to The Brian Kilmeat Show. Learning something new every day on The Brian Kilmeat Show. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. In the armory, they told us they're receiving weapons from NATO countries.

Hand grenades. They're stocked with RPG rockets, AK-47s, and bigger guns. This sniper rifle, made in Tennessee, arrived with directions in English. You'll figure it out. But they told us they need more, as well as vehicles to move their soldiers to the front.

If we don't stop Putin in Ukraine, he will go more. Lieutenant Miroslav Hai was a filmmaker and reservist before Russia invaded his country. Russia, for example, can use nuclear weapon, but it doesn't stop Ukrainians. Even if Vladimir Putin decides to use a nuclear weapon, you won't stop fighting. We've heard a lot of anger from Ukrainians, a lot of emotion that their country is under assault.

But something that we have not heard any Ukrainian do is complain. Not once. They're simply getting on with the job of defending their homeland. And that's up to their president. And he always starts off by complimenting, and then after the compliment, he'll say, Can you get back to me on this?

And I think it kind of bothered me to see all these class pictures. I see the class picture of NATO, class picture of the G7, class picture of the EU. Guys, What are you laughing about? I mean, I know you want you know, you're representing a country, you feel great about yourself, it's a big ego thing. But if you're really serious about getting together and coming up with a plan and want to establish the validity and the necessity of your organization, don't be giggling.

Especially because you see 400,000 people essentially have been kidnapped and held hostage in Russia. You have at least 1,300 dead civilians, Ukrainian civilians, and constantly watching the shelling people starving, starving to death and dying of hunger. I just think people gotta be a little bit aware. I mean, you're the president of your country. Aren't you aware the country the world's watching?

When we come back, Steve Moore on the economy, how it affects you. Listen to the Brian Kill Meet Show. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. The economy continues to deteriorate.

You can take a look at what's been happening to inflation in GDP and what the banks are forecasting is likely to happen. You can see inflation, which is estimated this year to be a stunning 15%. We think our 8% is obviously very, very unfortunate. Their 15% is a heck of a lot worse. And they've been having widespread shortages and widespread spot inflation.

The price of sugar went up by 14% alone last week, and so they have banned sugar exports until August. Just to give you a sense of what's going on in the Russian economy with respect to inflation. And you just wonder if those sanctions are working. They said they hit the central banks. They're going to tighten it up even more.

Should they hit secondary sanctions?

So if you do any business with Russia, should you be sanctioned? Let's ask Steve Moore. You know Steve Moore, Freedom Works Senior Economist and author of the book GovZilla: How the Relentless Growth of Government is Devouring Our Economy and Our Freedom. Steve, welcome back. Hi, Brian.

Is this the one time where sanctions are affecting Russia substantially?

Well, first of all, congratulations on your new book as well. Looking forward to seeing you Monday in Florida.

So that should be fantastic. Look, the most important thing we can do, Brian, I said this on Fox News earlier this morning, was we need to produce as much oil and gas and coal and energy as we can here in the United States. This is not complicated, right? The more that we produce, The less money that Putin gets to finance his war machine. It is economically illiterate and it's immoral that the country with the most oil and gas, the United States, is now importing it from Russia.

I mean, this makes no sense.

Now, there was a declaration by an agreement with NATO between Biden and the European countries that we're going to finally, finally, finally start to increase our natural gas output and exports. But why have we waited a year to do that? When Trump left office, we were exporting natural gas. Biden comes in, he declares war on American energy. And I believe that this is one of the major reasons that Russia is able to invade Ukraine.

So let's drill. Let's drill and pump our oil and gas and bring the price down. It'll help American consumers. It'll hurt the Russian war machine.

Well, the thing is, too, remember the president said, well, I can't stop Nord Stream 2. It's almost done. And then all of a sudden, Germany says, Yeah, we're not stopping that. Then when the invasion happens, Germany says, Yeah, I'll stop it. And we go, Good, you should stop it.

So now they say we're going to give 15 cubic meters of LNG. And I'm not into that business. I don't know what that measurement means, but evidently it's not that much that's really going to help them get off the 87 percent of their energy dependence on Russia. Yeah. Now look, Brian, the Europeans are not innocent here either.

They've also facilitated this war from their idiotic green energy strategy over the last ten years, which by the way damn near bankrupted Germany and all these other countries. You would think the American politicians would learn from the failure of trying to go to eighty, ninety, one hundred percent wind and solar power. And so the Europeans have and by the way, Trump warned against this, Brian. Trump, I remember he was shaking his finger at the Germans and the French and the Italians saying, Do not get hooked. On Russian natural gas, and that's exactly what they did.

And so we're in a predicament right now that is I'm very worried about the economy right now. I think we are going to see worsening inflation. We're now seeing in the neighborhood I live in $5 a gallon gasoline. And this is a result of not producing the oil and gas here in the United States, number one, and number two, the massive overgovernment spending. And by the way, Biden wants more spending.

Joe Manchin is saying that he's going to revisit Build Back Better, only a spoiler version of it, which I found really disturbing. Me too. I almost, you know, when I read that headline in Fox News this morning, I was just really disheartened because by the way, Joe Manchin has been saying all the right things, Brian. He's been saying for six months this more spending will make the inflation problem worse. We don't need another $2 trillion of spending, $2 trillion, $3, $4, $5 trillion, whatever number he's coming up with.

So let's hope that he doesn't change his mind on this because I've always said, Brian. Build Back Better is only officially dead. When we take that gabble away from Nancy Pelosi in January of 2023, I hear you. The Maine governor came out, Democrat Janet Mills, says, I'm going to give my people $850 per month starting in early June to help them with gas. How do you feel about that?

This is only and by the way, I think I You heard it first on their Brian Killmee show. I believe that this is going to become a Biden policy. We're just going to give people more free money.

Now, Brian, what happens to the inflation rate if we send out all this free checks to people? Of course. It devalues the dollar, and it's taking it from me and giving it to somebody else. it's the worst possible thing we could do.

Now what we should be doing I mean, I don't have a problem with maybe lowering the gasoline tax, but look, you're talking about maybe saving twenty cents a gallon on a at the pump. The price of gasoline under Biden has gone up by two dollars a gallon. Yeah, California Governor Gavin Newsom, same thing. He's at on average 588. He wants to give up to $800 debit cards out to his people in California.

Now here's the other thing that's so crazy about this.

So if you do this, you're going to encourage people to mine buy more oil and gas, right, because you're giving them money to buy oil. I thought they wanted the people to buy less. One day they want people to buy more of it. One day they want people to buy less of it. Again, I go back to the solution here.

is to produce more of it, not to have a higher demand for it. Produce more of it. If the production of something goes up, the price goes down. When Trump left office, it was $60 a barrel. Today, it's $110 a barrel.

So we I believe we could be producing five million barrels more a day. I think if Trump were president, we'd be doing that. Think about that: 5 million barrels a day at $100 a barrel. That's $500 million a day the United States would be saving if we were producing it here at home.

So they say gas prices right now are costing American households, on average, $2,000 more a year. And when they say six or seven out of every 10 Americans live paycheck to paycheck, you're going to feel that because the raise gains are on the whole national level, they're not that. Yeah, so we've got wage gains of 5%. We've got inflation running at 8 or 9 percent.

So do the math, folks. That means that we're actually people's real incomes are falling. We're going to probably see the biggest reduction in middle class incomes adjusted for inflation in 20 years due to Biden's crazy policies. But I've been saying this. on your show and on box shows for the last year.

Why? Can you explain to them this to me, Brian? How does it make any sense that we actually are getting our oil and gas from Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela when we think we'd be getting it from Texas and North Dakota and Alaska and Pennsylvania? I it doesn't even make any sense to me. Isn't natural gas burned clean?

Shouldn't that be considered green? Absolutely. So and nuclear should be considered glean, green? Yes. So Brian, do you know what country in the world, of the fifty largest economies in the world, has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions the most?

I think it's the US. Yes, most people don't know that because the media never reports it. And the reason we've reduced our greenhouse gases so much is that we've transitioned to what you just said. Clean, burning, natural gas.

Somebody's got to explain to me why I'm the environmentalist against gas pipelines and LNG terminals and natural gas drilling. Natural gas cleans the environment, it doesn't pollute it.

So, we know that the average person's been hurt. We know that there's a lot of people listening to us right now who have to choose a different bill every week not to pay. But on the big level, you know, I've been listening to a lot of Sky and BBC because I'm up in the middle of the night trying to cover this story. I'm trying to get different video. And they're having huge, huge inflation problems too.

China is growing only at 5%, which means it's probably less. They expect it to be double that.

So they're having some issues with production. Who's doing well through this? Between the COVID-19 And everything else. And the world. Ex except people who work for governments, you know, and the and the the governments and the world leaders and the politicians, the people at NATO, they can't understand that they have created this crisis.

This isn't a natural disaster that's happened. This is because we've made a series of bad decisions, starting with Biden's energy policies. And until we look, I think we need a regime change in Washington, Brian. I think we need to get I worked with Trump. Every meeting I was with him in the Oval Office, he'd talk about not just making America energy independent, Brian.

He'd say, I want to make America energy dominant. And we were on that path. I'm old enough to remember in the 70s when the Saudis had control of the world oil market and they could put a blade to our neck and they could throw the American economy into recession. Where we finally, after 40 years, got energy independent, and then Biden switches the switch off. Mm-hmm.

What has been done? I know Intel is building a chip things here. There was a real sense in this country in 2020. We got to start bringing our prescription drugs home and our masks and PPE and the chips. We found out Taiwan was the main distributor of it.

And of course, Taiwan is overstocked and they were understaffed.

Now they're trying to play catch up. What has been done that you know of to bring manufacturing home?

Well, look, I do believe in globalization, and I think globalization over the last thirty years has been a good thing for raising living standards all over the world.

So I do believe in free trade. But I also believe when it comes to these critical technologies that you're talking about, like the microchips that we need for our cars, yes, we need to make sure that these global supply chains are Are dependable. And right now, they are not.

So we do need to have a domestic. production of by the way, don't forget about food. Food. They're now talking about massive food shortages around the world. And in the United States, that's going to mean higher food prices, which are going to hurt.

But in many poor countries, that's going to mean malnutrition. And unfortunately, you're going to see potentially starvation because of all of these crazy decisions that these governments have made. I hear you. Steve Moore, congratulations on your book. Go out and pick it up.

It's called GovZilla: How the Relentless Growth of the Government is Devouring Our Economy and Our Freedom. Steve, thanks so much for being with us today, and hopefully, we'll have a good economic story to tell soon.

Okay, Brian, take care. Have a great weekend. You got it. 1866-408-7669. I'll come back and take your calls.

We're also following the latest from Ukraine. And then the report yesterday that Governor Keene said, Governor, General Keene says. Wow, Zelensky's being pressured by the West to cut a deal with Putin. Amazing. To what?

Give up half this country? How could you possibly say that? This is the Brian Kilmey show. Coming to you on a need-to-know basis, because Mandy, you need to know. It's Brian Kilmead.

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And just as any player Some people will boo us. But there are also those who would be employed and would cheer us. That is not only the game of baseball, but that's the game of life. And we have to be on the field in order to win. and both the game of life.

Okay, I'm not really sure what he's talking about. That makes no sense. And neither does the policy of Mayor de Blasio, which he inherited and kept.

So, first off, he said, I'm going to leave all the masks on all the kids. That's Mayor Eric Adams, by the way. I'm going to leave all the masks on all the kids, take the mask off all the kids except preschoolers. Really? Why?

After two weeks of protests, all right, take the preschoolers.

Okay, fine. There's a little bit of an issue. Why is it the private sector you say they got to be vaccinated, they can't come in a building? Really? What does that mean for sports teams and Broadway plays?

You go, well, they can't They can't perform. They can't play. Kyrie Irving, case important. He goes, I'm not getting vaccinated. They go, you cannot play in Brooklyn, but you can play in 49 other states.

Think about that. It's the dumbest thing ever. You could be an unvaccinated person, play in Brooklyn, but because you're not employed there, you can play. And then, when the Yankees and Mets are about to start, I personally believe that the Yankees and Mets are so powerful. Are you really going to say, Aaron Judge, don't play?

Max Scherzer, if you're not vaccinated, don't play. Are you really going to? Evidently, half the Mets aren't vaccinated, and about a handful of the Yankees aren't vaccinated. Are you going to be sitting your best players because they're not vaccinated and only playing them on the road? You're not going to get into that, are you?

And there's no science behind it. Plus, you're playing outdoors.

So they lifted it.

Okay. The problem is, they left it in place. Goodbye, firefighters. If you take the firefighters, the school workers, and the cops, sanitation workers who have been fired because they want to get vaccinated, some of which had the antibodies that wouldn't take any antibodies test. We know all those arguments.

They're still fired, 2,500. But now Kyrie Irving can play. And I'm all for him playing. I'm all for the Mets and Yankees playing. I'm never for their band.

But what I'd love the Mets and Yankees to do right now is say thank you for doing something that never should have been in the first place, Mayor Adams. But I want you to I want them to stay next to firefighters, cops. And nurses that were forced to quit y you know, uh, Sloan Kettering and NYU. They say NYU 100% were vaccinated. All these other hospitals, I want them to sit in there and go, Thanks for letting me play.

And Broadway, some of these Broadway actors, thanks for letting us do it. And some of these people starring in soap operas at studios. Thanks for letting us go back to work. But let the firefighters go back too. Because you know, in the case of the athletes, Kyrie Irving, just because he was only playing half the games, it wasn't like he was getting half the pay.

He was still getting paid.

So he was getting paid about $18 million and not playing. It was really hurting the team, definitely hurting his career, but he wants to win a championship, and he could actually do that now with Kevin Durant. But why would you continue these ridiculous rules when it comes to COVID-19? Also, the teachers are finding more and more that the kids are way behind when they are now teaching them without masks. These kids really can't catch up.

And they're having problems. And we all predicted this, but as a country, too. And they're just crazy in Australia. They are nuts. They are nuts in Canada and we all saw that.

So some of these things that are taking place make absolutely no sense when it comes to COVID nineteen. And I just think we're going to be seeing a slight uptick because we've got this sub variant of Omnicron And because you have this sub-variant that's going to be easier to spread, but it's going to be not as deadly. And we're going to have the numbers, the case numbers, jumping up, and we're going to have a whole bunch of people panicking.

So listen to this. Um You have 1,500 public sector employees, 2,500 overall, 956 school employees who have lost their jobs because they're not being vaxxed. You let the Mets and Yankees play, but evidently you're not letting They're workers, the co-workers.

So if you're vending, if you're sitting there selling popcorn at the game or hot dogs. You're not allowed to do that if you're not vaccinated, but you can play first base. By the way, we don't have dome stadiums in New York, so it's all outdoors.

So you can't work behind the counter and supplement your income or let that be your income. It's bad enough that it had to stop because there were no fans allowed in twenty twenty. Then twenty twenty one, they come back and they come back late.

Now they're coming back semi late. Also, not ending there. I give so much credit to the airlines. They have to sit there and crack down and tell people you got to be on a five four or five hours, keep that mask up. And if it drops, we can kick you off the plane.

I mean, some of the flight attendants are so belligerent. For the most part, they hated doing it. But now American Airlines Delta United have all gotten together, and they're saying next week. We already tried this once by just laying out and letting you make a decision.

Next week. You have to lift the mask mandate. It's too much pressure. Number one, it makes the flying situation extremely unpopular and unpleasant. Number two, it's too much pressure on the flight attendants.

There's all this flight rage happening. And it could lessen it by allowing you to do it. And if you talk to the circulation experts, the people that know fresh air, they say the cleanest air you can breathe, by the way it changes out is on the plane.

So No longer say Do it for safety, but then when you question, say, well, I'm following the science because the science doesn't back up anything that they're doing.

So I love that this is getting addressed. The other big story is, if you are in baseball and you want to play the Blue Jays and you're not vaccinated, you're not playing. If you are in basketball, And you want to play Toronto? Hmm. Bad news, Raptors will get to play and you're not allowed.

So because that's Canada's rules.

So, Canada is not budging, but we can handle state by state. Listen to the Brian Killmeat show. Make sure you watch One Nation Saturday night, 8 o'clock, repeated at 11. And then this week on Sunday, especially at 10 p.m. on Fox News, who is Zelensky.

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. Thanks so much for being here, everybody. It's the Brian Killmee show. I'll have Shannon Breen with me in a matter of moments.

And then Steve Harrigan will come and bring us inside his stay in Ukraine and how tough it is and what's going on in Russia. If anybody knows, he spends so much substantial time there. If anyone knows, if the grip of Vladimir Putin is loosening, it would be Steve Harrigan. And of course, I'll take your calls. Don't forget to watch One Nation this weekend at 8 o'clock and then it repeats at 11.

And then we have a special, Who is Vladimir Zelensky? It's going to be expanded now for the channel. You can get it on Fox Nation. Fascinating look at how this guy got to where he is. And there were no signs that he was ever going to step up the way he is.

This guy is a generational leader. That's how special I am, and I think most people I talk to are.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. The United States, together with our international partners, we're going to work. to ensure an additional want 15, 15, 15 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas, LNG, for Europe this year. All right, I guess is that a lot?

People say it's not, but at least you're doing it. Finally, President Biden announced he'll pump some more natural gas, but is it enough? Can the industry ramp up more and more and get our European allies off Russian gas and oil? And what do the Poles want the President to do? Number two.

The purpose of the sanctions has always been and continues to be deterrence. The President believes that sanctions are intended to deter. Sanctions never deter. You keep talking about that. Sanctions never deter.

I never tire of hearing such idiocy. Why would the president say something that we know he doesn't believe? President Biden speaking publicly about a run for president again as Republicans' momentum grows to flip the House and the Senate. And once again, he denies publicly what we all know is. True, that sanctions were sent to deter when they didn't, the president's reversing his story.

Number One. There's an opportunity to win. Therefore, a statement should have been made. We're going to double down on everything that President Zelensky needs, and we're going to speed up, speed it up, and put it on fast forward. We've got to take advantage of the opportunity that Zelensky's army has provided.

Yeah, and we're not. NATO, EU, G7, huddle to squeeze Russia, but are they doing enough? I will share the details as we know them. As President Zelensky cites frustration and constant delays from NATO, not only won't they let him in, but they're not giving him what he needs. With me right now is somebody who always comes to play, Shannon Bream, getting sent to host her show tonight at midnight and always has different projects going on, especially now when Shannon Bream has a book coming up called The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak Lessons on Faith from Nine Biblical Families.

That's coming up March 29th, which is just around the corner. Shannon, welcome back. Listen, I only have to write like 50 more books to catch up to you, but I'm working on it. What about the women that aren't in the Bible? Would that be take too long to do?

There are a lot of them, but we have plenty of material, for sure. Right. You'd have plenty of people. And do you know what a woman is? Yeah.

Well, listen, I'm not being nominated to the Supreme Court, so I don't expect to be grilled in that same manner. Were you surprised by that? Of course you did. Were you surprised to decrease that question? No, I mean, when I've talked to Senator Blackburn, I'm taking so much heat for that question about where she was going.

And I get it. Listen, there are cases out there that we track all the time. That are dealing with trans athletes and competition at NCAA, high school level, those legal cases are percolating out there. And I think that's what that was all about, was getting her to go on record and make a statement, which She, as any nominee will wisely do, will avoid stepping on mines. And I think it makes no sense to the normal American who's watching that she couldn't answer that question.

But I get it. She was thinking of the legal context and the fact that she's probably going to have to rule on that at some point. Right. So I just say, well, I know what it is when I see it. Know it when I see it.

They've said that before at the Supreme Court. Yes. Um Shannon, what about Justice Thomas? I know he was in the hospital. Yeah, he is out.

He was discharged this morning, which is great news for everybody who's been praying and rooting for him. But listen, he went in last Friday with what we're told, you know, were flu-like symptoms. Turns out he had an infection, and they wanted to keep him and keep an eye on him. We thought he'd be out earlier in the week, but the good news is he is officially out of the hospital as of Friday morning. Right.

So, flu-like symptoms, but not COVID. Interesting. Overnight, I guess you've been carrying a lot of the stuff that we've been carrying with the time zone issues. President of the United States said that he brought everyone in NATO together. He called for this meeting, this NATO meeting.

Okay, I did not know that he called for it. And here's what he said he did it for: cut eight. First was to support Ukraine. with military and humanitarian assistance. Second was to impose the most significant, the most significant sanctions, economic sanction regime ever, in order to cripple Putin's economy and punish him for his actions.

Third was to fortify the eastern flank of our NATO allies, who were obviously very, very concerned and somewhat at. worried what would happen. We accomplished all three of these. Yeah. I would say getting weaponry, food.

To Zelensky should have been number one, two, and three. As well as putting troops in, you could do that by signing a requisition. But I was struck that Zelensky is not happy. He says, you know, you got 20,000 tanks. Could I have 1% of them?

You said you have fighter jets. You don't want to do a no-fly zone, but could I have some fighter jets? You say you got a missile defense system. I don't see any of it. And can you imagine being him and hearing all this talk and people taking credit and the stuff not being delivered?

What are you hearing?

Well, I mean And I'm still so confused with the months of saying that these sanctions are going to deter Putin, or at least that's the purpose of them, for the President to then stand there yesterday and say, That's not that sanctions aren't about deterrent. He's one of those situations where it's like, Bye. The messaging for this administration has been so all over the place, whether it's COVID or Ukraine or whatever's going on, it just doesn't look good on the world stage. It looks like confusion and disarray. Especially with sanctions, when you feel so good about them, they're trying to weigh, they're going to do secondary sanctions on anyone who does business with Russia.

So if you're one of the 35 that abstained from condemning their invasion, like Brazil, China, India.

So if you do business with Russia, do we sanction them? And that's the big question right now. It would be one of the bigger questions. But when the President of the United States is asking about sanction deterrence, he denied it. But here's the problem: nobody else on his staff denied it.

In fact, they backed it up, Cut 20. The purpose of the sanctions has always been and continues to be deterrence. We want them to have a deterrent effect, clearly. And he hasn't invaded yet. We have agreed that the deterrence effect of these sanctions is still a meaningful one.

The president believes that sanctions are intended to deter. Sanctions never deter. You keep talking about that. Sanctions never deter. Really?

So what am I to believe, Shannon? I'm so confused. I know. I am too. And that is not the kind of confusion that the people of Ukraine need right now.

I mean, they need very concrete. Um up to the minute, help, as you said, with weaponry and all kinds of systems, whatever we can legally do and that the world feels like it can ethically and morally do to step in and help. Nobody wants to trigger World War III. Like no one short of probably Putin wants anything to do with that. Um so it's a very fine line uh to walk, but You know, President Biden is viewed, the American President is often viewed as the leader of the free world.

And so he needs to speak with clarity and with focus and in a way that doesn't leave any room for Putin and Xuji and for North Korea, which is now launching missiles again, to have any room to think that they have a place at the table that would overcome what the U.S. can bring to the table. Here's Matthew Continenti of the Washington Free Beacon on the fact that he got through his list and got to somebody that maybe wasn't on, was it they knew his staff knew would ask a tough question. This is why they give Biden a list of reporters to call on Brett, a list that Biden had exhausted. And he was on his way out of that press conference when he called on Christina Ruffini of CBS, who asked that question about deterrence.

Biden was caught flat footed. He was caught trying to reverse engineer history to grant himself foresight, but he was completely wrong. Look, the sanctions didn't deter because the sanctions weren't imposed. Biden wasn't imposing sanctions prior to the invasion. He was threatening sanctions.

And the threat of sanctions wasn't enough to change Vladimir Putin's behavior. To deter someone like Putin, you have to hold at risk something that he values greatly. Putin doesn't care about the economic well-being of Russians. He cares about power. You have to threaten his hold on power.

And the only way to do that now, Brett, is to find a way to help the Ukrainians defeat him on the ground.

Do you agree with that? Yeah, I mean, the same since, listen, he has laughed at those. We have had Russian top officials come out and say, well, we laugh at these, they mean nothing to us. And the fact is, like, I don't think his palaces and his yachts and all that stuff is going away. It's going to be unpleasant for him when all the oligarchs are sanctioned and they start putting pressure on him, like, yo, our lives are being destroyed and our bank accounts are being wiped out.

But I don't think that's the stuff that motivates him. I do think, and listen, I'm no expert on Putin, but I listen to the experts who feel like they know what's inside the mind of Putin. He wants a legacy of glory, of reuniting the Soviet Union. And he's basically said, I'm going to do whatever it takes, which means using weaponry, which may cross every international norm, on civilians and other people. He's already shown us what he's willing to do, and I think we should believe him when he tells us.

So, Shannon, who can we expect tonight? I know it's kind of early, and do you expect Judge Jett on your show? And do you expect Judge Jackson to have any roadblocks to confirmation? Because Joe Manchin made it clear he's going to vote for her. Yeah, listen, the Democrats have always had the numbers that they needed to get Judge Jackson across the finish line, so I don't think that's a doubt.

Does she pick up a couple of Republican votes? Probably. Listen, we'll try to book her for tonight's show and I'll get back to you. That would be a humdinger. It would be.

I mean, how do you think she's done? I think that she's avoided the traps. I mean, that's the thing. You want to kind of go in and do no harm as a nominee. You know, they put her through those grilling murder boards and try to trip her up.

And, you know, all these different questions in preparation for this. And I think as long as you keep your cool and you proceed without giving away any major mix-ups, which she hasn't done any of that, I think that it's going to be a party-line vote. And the weird thing is, it's not that long ago that the nominee didn't even show up. I mean, there was a confirmation hearing and they voted. And then before that, there weren't even confirmation hearings.

So what we have now is a very modern-day situation, which has turned, I think, a lot of people into being a political theater. I know. It would be great to see a nominee get more than 50 votes or get more than their party. But I guess those days are done, perhaps. For now.

Yeah, for now. Shannon, thanks so much for giving me quality time. Congratulations. People want to download your book ahead of time and just have it appear on Publish Date. Can they do that?

Yeah, I mean get ready for Tuesday and it'll be wherever you like, whatever format you like to read your books. All right. Great chance. Have you enjoyed this? Absolutely, it's a highlight of my week every week.

All right, Shannon Bream, even last week when you didn't do it? That was the biggest highlight. That was great not to be able to sleep. Shannon Bream, go get him. Good to be back.

Go get him. 1-866-408-7669. Back in a moment, you listen to the Brian Killmee Show. In the bottom of the hour, we have a chance to talk to Steve Harrigan and find out what's going on in Russia. We're watching the president of the United States moving around with the troops.

The 82nd Airborne is in Poland, and before he goes, wherever he's going to go next, meet with President Duma. I do believe that this is one of the great moments. I mean, if you're a president, it's got to be so cool, but they were all wearing masks. Why are they wearing masks? Come on.

Don't you have to be vaccinated in order to do that? I guess he's old. But the other thing would be just to keep as a subplot. The President has been extremely critical of Poland. He put him in the same category as Hungary, with their dictatorial-leaning leader, and Belarus.

Now he's watched Poland in action, sees how they opened up their hearts and their arms to the Ukrainians, sees how strong they've been through this. And I think he's might get it blowing up in his face today behind closed doors. But he better not do anything but be complimentary in the name of America. But you know why he really hates Poland? Because Poland loves Trump.

That's my view. This weekend, check out Brian's new show on Fox News Channel. Yeah, Brian Kilmead. He's got a new show on Saturdays because apparently he's cheaper than infomercials for non-stick fans. That is not true.

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More of Brian coming up. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. This incredible resilience of the people who come to Warsaw. They're unbelievably proud.

They want to work. They do not want to rely on anyone. They want to take care of themselves. The degree of self-organization is just unbelievable. I visited them and I visit them daily in different places where we take care of them.

And they've organized themselves. Teachers, already, Ukrainian teachers who came with the refugees already teach their kids. Nurses are helping out. Ladies who worked in the kitchen are helping out in the kitchen. Plumbers who came are helping out putting showers in there.

There's an etajovaya, a lady who takes care of the whole floor to make order in this place. It's unbelievable. And those guys are, yes, traumatized, but they're so proud. And they are also knowing that they need to take care of themselves because they need to give this force and will to the guys who are fighting on the ground, fighting Russian troops. Yeah.

Uh so that's uh the mayor over in Poland, yeah, of Warsaw. I just have I have so much respect because if you talk to people in the military that Work with international troops, they always say the polls are the best. You know, Australians, they've always got a toughness to them. But there's something about Poles, they really appreciate the idea of freedom. And I know I can't give you the inside story on the Polish parliament, but evidently they're getting a little bit towards more of an autocratic rule, but of still keeping their sense of freedom and democracy.

But they don't like where people are trending. But for the most part, considering where they're from and what they're up against, Amino, what they're able to do. And if Russia looks at Ukraine as having a tough time, they're going to run to a buzzsaw with Poland if they ever think about expanding their sphere of influence. Joe's always got an opinion. He's at WRCN in beautiful Long Island, New York.

Hey, Joe. Brian, good morning. I heard Shannon Breen saying they tried to trip up misses Jackson, the Supreme Court justice, with a trick question. What's a woman? I thought everyone knew women have three chromosomes, two breasts and a vagina.

Men have one chromosome, a penis. We all know women are birthing people.

So I'm not even a biologist. I didn't go to Arbit for that. They need to disqualify right there alone. Mm-hmm. Well, no response.

Well, I did not think we were going to go through the anatomy like that. I'm a little bit taken aback. Uh buy it. But I will say this. I I will say There's no doubt about it.

She is qualified. There's no doubt about it. She has the background. I just wish the President of the United States didn't come out and say, I'm going for a black woman. Because right away, if I'm her, I'm saying really?

That's why I got this job, even though it's not. What she is, is she's a liberal justice, extremely experienced. Extremely competent, extremely bright. Got it. I know uh Paul Ryan.

I know a friend of um A friend of Paul Ryan's, who I guess Paul Ryan's related by marriage to her. And they don't agree on anything judicially, but. They just know how good a great person she is. And I'm for that. But when Joe Biden comes out and says, I want a black woman, all of a sudden it's like, okay, you knocked off two-thirds of the contenders.

Now you're down to this, I'm going to go with her. and it diminishes their accomplishments. And I find this whole process I don't know. I didn't love the way the Republicans approached it. I didn't.

Came off a hostile. You know, I just I mean, do you have to come off so hostile? Nobody's worse than Democrats. What they did the last three Supreme Court justices, they embarrassed their party. I don't think the Republicans embarrassed their party, but the abrasiveness in which they questioned I have a little bit of a problem with.

And thanks for the call, Joe. When we come back, I'm going to I'm going to talk to Steve Harrigan about what's going on in Russia. But for the most part, we see the President of the United States, who made comments earlier in Brussels yesterday, is in Poland today, met with the eighty second in Poland, and at some point At some point, he is going to, I believe, go to the border of the Ukrainian-Polish border. If he was younger, I would say go to Kyiv.

Well, maybe it's too much of a risk. But when you have three prime ministers in the region go do that last week, I would think the president go in there. It wouldn't be an out-of-the-realm possibility. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead.

I have it on excellent sources that for more than a week now, the Biden administration has been putting pressure on President Zelensky to cut a deal. And that is shameful. Really shameful. And I'm convinced it's happening. We got to get off of that page and get on the page to help Zelensky win this war and have the resolve to stand up to the threats of WMD that Putin is making.

Listen, he doesn't want to talk. The talks have gotten nowhere. The Russian troops have not penetrated into any major city. They are absolutely destroying Mariupol right now. And they're actually seem to be starving them out.

But Kyiv seems to be somewhat secure while they're pushing back on some of the suburbs. Steve Harrigan's been. all over Russia and he's been all over Ukraine and knows the area well. Thankfully, he's back and he's safe. And I need to get your perspective almost as an analyst over a reporter, Steve.

Welcome back. Thanks, Brian. It's good to be back with you.

So I know you're not going to say anything you're not feeling secure of, but you know General Keene's background. He doesn't get involved in politics. He was almost breathless in his anger when he said that Zelensky being pushed to do and concede, get into talks, he shouldn't have to. What do you hear about that? it's great to hear that passion.

And when it comes from the general, it really pricks your ears up because he's not usually like that. And it's good to get that word out. It it is amazing if true that Zelensky could be being pressured by the US. To make a deal with someone who's slaughtering his people, it's a remarkable situation.

So If I told you when this thing first started, Steve, we're going to be 30 days in and and we'll be at where we're at right now. We can go city by city, but for the most part, the Russians haven't achieved almost any of their goals. What would you have said to me? If I said, hey, thirty days out, we're going to be here, would you said I'm uh would that have been your prediction? No.

First, everything's been a surprise about this war. Very few people, all the journalists over there who you talk to, is Putin going to invade, everyone said no. A lot of military analysts, same deal. No way he's going to launch a major invasion. It makes no sense, and yet that's what happened.

And then everyone, not just the Russians, but American intelligence, said this is going to take two days. And it's going to all be over. He's going to encircle Kiev, cut off the head, put in his guy. And that's that. A complete surprise, a surprise to the world, Ukraine has shocked the world.

Correct. A couple of things. What's the biggest shock? Russia, lack of coordination, a lack of execution, a lack of communication. Or the way Zelensky and the Ukrainian troops have led and fought.

What's the bigger surprise? I think the bigger surprise is Ukraine. I mean, to stand up to what is a perceived military superpower that's ten times your budget, ten times your size. And on your own, when the rest of the world says you fight it out, we'll give you some weapons, but there's no way we're putting boots on the ground. And by the way, we won't do this, we won't do that, we won't do that.

and to still be fighting. I mean, the stories you hear, just even anecdotally, about Ukrainians dropping their carpenter saw in some country in Europe and just disappearing. to fly home to fight. It's It's just such a spirit where people are standing up for their country. It's really.

you know, it it just gets you teary eyed. And for you who've seen so much, that says a lot, you know, just the story after story of, whether it's Romania. or whether it's uh Poland When they go ahead, the men are dropping off their families and then going back to fight. There is almost no young men crossing the border and staying. They're all going back.

And they're going back to a kind of war that's incredibly brutal, that is close contact fighting. On the Ukrainian side, for the Ukrainians to try and get to these tanks or these artillery. They have to get up close, and it's often with a portable weapon versus a tank. It's an amazing disparity. And we've seen the war evolve too into something really grotesque.

and with probably more to come. I think that's the worrisome thing. this long range shelling and this deliberate targeting Of bomb shelters. You know, when you saw that. Perhaps 300 dead now from that theater in Mariupol.

People taking shelter, writing children out in front, and boom, that's exactly what gets targeted. This is a war of terror that you've seen people stand up in history against. attempts to break the will. You saw it in the London, you know, in the When the Nazis were bombing London. And you're seeing it again here in Ukraine.

There's an attempt to break the will of the people. It's only making that will stronger.

So the UN came out with numbers. They said they can attest to 977 civilian dead, 1,500, almost 1,600 wounded. And we also saw Pravda come out and briefly take down that there have been at least 10,000. Russians. Of those numbers, what do you think?

I think the likely estimate is somewhere between seven and ten thousand Russian military dead. which is more than they lost in years in Afghanistan, which is more than the U. S. lost in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. which is enormous and which is going to You know, which is going to turn villages and towns in Russia against this war, and it's going to strain the manpower to try and.

keep troops in the field. It's really the anecdotal stories too about What the soldiers how the Russian soldiers are being treated by their own government. It's really these stories about having to sleep in your vehicle for a month. About having frostbitten feet that no one attends to, not even bothering about it, about shooting yourself in the leg to avoid. Uh combat.

This is a you know, the stories about morale problems are only beginning to emerge. You know, it's interesting, yesterday's New York Times th they have a video component now to a lot of these Times stories. And when I I was up at four in the morning playing it and it disappeared, I'm sure it was not being hidden, they just left the front page. But they were playing translated uh Russian army uh men. Going back and forth, talking about how disorganized they are, how they don't know what they're doing, how hungry they are, how much longer they have to do this, all this back and forth that the Ukrainians were able to pick up and then put out, got to the New York Times hands, and it's out there.

So, if anyone doubted that this stuff is not Ukrainian propaganda, listen to what they're listening to because they've evidently traveled, Steve, into country without a secure way to communicate with each other. It's amazing. I mean, think of the reputation that Putin has built up over 20 years and the Russian military. in its most recent operations. In Ukraine in 2014, in Syria.

These were much Smaller operations. And the Russian military looked like it had been rebuilt, it had been refinanced, that this was something to fear, that this was an efficient operation. And now it's back to this is a Soviet operation of bungling, of top-down management. and of the people in the field just not getting cared for in any way and fighting against the system.

So a couple of things. You know, I keep hearing these pledges of weapons and provisions, pledges of weapons and provisions, but we're not going through the air. We're not doing any humanitarian drops that I know of, and we're not doing it through drones, which I thought we were capable of. I know this company called Zipline, we had their Mon Fox and friends, they were dropping blood in these small, underprivileged African nations, dropping blood in medical supplies. I don't know why we can't drop water and MREs, but having said that, I just am curious to see what NATO is getting.

And then I got the readout, the rough readout of the summary of what Zelensky said to the NATO. Essentially, he's kind of angry. He says, you got 20,000 tanks. Can we get 1% of that? You promised some type of fighter jets.

I haven't seen anything yet. And he says, the worst thing is, I'm not getting any clear help, answers on what kind of help I'm going to get. And then he said to the Baltic nations, Do you have faith in Article 5? Does that work for you?

Because we had faith in the Budapest Agreement. That didn't work for us.

So it makes me think, I mean, a very small portion is getting actually to the people that need it. And I don't know. Do you hear them about getting any type of Russian missile defense in there there, these S three hundreds? It is a balancing act for the West and for Zelensky. On the one hand, he wants to express gratitude.

On the other hand, you know, he's rightfully. watching his own people. do the fighting and do the dying. And I think there's two questions really to keep in mind. If Putin continues to lose, and get humiliated.

Will he ramp it up with a chemical weapons attack? They did it in Syria and it worked. It broke the will. of the opposition, it created panic and it gave momentum to the Syrian government forces. The Ukrainians have stood up under everything, under random shelling and bombing, under children being targeted, journalists being targeted.

What's going to happen if sarin gas drops there? What's going to be the West's response to? Yeah. It's a different order of magnitude. Both can scare you, both can kill you.

But the chemical is different than metal. There's a stigma to it. very deep in humans. And if we see that happen, and I believe Putin is not going to stop. He's not going to go home.

He's not going to sign a deal until he's in a stronger position. I believe this is entirely likely. What's the West's response going to be to a chemical attack inside Ukraine? And not only that, to back you up, I'm sure they're talking about such specificity and such warnings. It seems like they've gotten intelligence to show that is the case.

Here's what President Biden said yesterday: cut to. And to clarify on chemical weapons, could if chemical weapons were used in Ukraine, would that trigger a military response from NATO? It would be It would trigger a response in kind. Whether or not you're asking whether NATO would cross. We we'd make that decision at the time.

Is that helpful? There's a lot to unpack there. I mean, in kind makes you think, well, we'd respond with a chemical attack, which, of course. is not going to happen. It's a puzzle, but we've seen Putin do it before and.

Some military analysts I've spoken to say at this point it's likely. Which really scares the heck out of you if it's likely in Europe. The other question to ask about this is. If it is a chemical attack, say sarin gas, and that cloud floats over into NATO territory, is that considered an attack? And what would a NATO response be?

But we're seeing buildings collapse on people What if we see their lungs stop to work from sarin gas? What's it going to take for more movement on this? I don't know, Steve. You know, it's kind of heartening. The American people are motivated by this.

They believe we're doing the right thing, and in fact, we should be doing more. Usually, in situations like this, there's this big push in our country, and I understand it through history. They're like, that's not our problem. I think people see what's going on in the Ukraine, and they are really on. And I see it go across party lines, too.

They care about what happens there. Across party lines and really around the world, as you've mentioned before, this is. Done everything Putin didn't want to happen. It's united NATO and united the world. And it's really knocked Russia out of the box no matter what happens from here on in.

For decades to come. as a country to deal with. It's really set them back decades as far as their progress in relations with the West. Russia's not going to be the same as a partner for anybody after this. They are going to be radioactive.

So inside what's happening with Vladimir Putin, you never quite know. I get it. We overestimated them, underestimated Ukraine, and that includes our intelligence services, which are supposed to be able to get this right or at least get closer.

So now we understand his head of military operations has not been seen in 11 days. I'm probably mispronouncing his name, Shoygu, the defense minister.

So he was missing. He just showed up. We didn't hear any audio on what is akin to a conference call. And this Garasimo, who's their military chief of staff, he's been invisible.

So we know there's been an arrest of two of his intellig at least two of his intelligence officers. And I'm wondering, what do you think, what does that mean to you, for somebody who used to live there? Yeah, well, when I used to live there, this guy who's the defense minister, Sergei Shoybu, Was a minister back then as well. He ran like the FEMA emergency operations.

So he's been a survivor and a hanger on. not really a general, but someone trusted. you know, they said he has heart trouble. It's pretty common in Russia to claim you know, a hard trouble to get out of court or to get out of things when the job is going south, but It really makes you think back to Stalin days when people disappear, when you do a bad job and suddenly you're not there anymore. If that is the case here, it's shown how little has changed since nineteen thirties Soviet Union.

And you just go to get clues. You know, you don't even see shots of a Politburo when we used to with Brezhnev, right? You don't even pretend as if there's other people. You go, wait, maybe the guy in the left is the next one to take over. All you ever see is Putin.

Yeah, you're going to be people are going to be airbrushed out of photos soon, but Oh, man. I don't think Putin's all that complicated. Everyone's been trying to figure him out. He's not going to stop. He's like the monster in the Terminator who's just going to keep on coming.

And I feel like either we need the kid's mother who's screaming they're coming or some Churchillian figure who says, hey, This guy's not going to stop. You know, Ukrainians are dying for us today. But we're getting a free pass. We gave a billion dollars in recent humanitarian aid. We've given a lot of military aid.

you know, we're not going to be able to avoid this forever. Listen, I hear you, and that's what Zelensky's done, and I think that we both agree on this. Zelensky has gotten momentum behind him and the people with him by talking past their governments to the people by doing these public addresses and putting pressure on the lawmakers to support him.

So from Japan to Italy to Canada to as I mentioned, Canada, the UK. He's addressed just Israel, to Knesset. He's won past the government to the people by addressing the government. And he made Germany and others take notice. It's pretty amazing.

I don't think I've ever seen anything like it. But it leads me to this, Steve. Who is Vladimir Zelensky, which is Sunday at 10 o'clock? Will you be watching on Fox News? You know, not only will I be watching, and it's amazing, and I really hope you dig into this because so much is given to.

You know, presidential image making. And here's a guy who just walks out in a T-shirt in front of his building and stands in front of an iPhone and says, Here I am. This is what's happening. Just the simple bravery. Not only will I be watching, but I'll be wondering how a guy who does three hours of Fox and Friends in the morning, then three hours of radio.

And then a weekend show is also doing specials. I hope they're paying you, brother. It's not about the money, it's about the experience. They're just getting a lot of experience building up the resume. All right, Steve.

I'll talk to you soon. All right, Brian. Thanks again. Back in a moment. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead.

He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmead. I don't think Russia is at the table in a legitimate or honest way. I think they are looking for ways to get around the sanctions against them. And I think they are looking for ways to have a market for their oil.

And I think we have to be very careful in not negotiating against ourselves, especially with what Russia is doing with Ukraine.

So I think any negotiations with regard to an Iran deal will be quite difficult to accomplish in the near term. And that is a Democratic senator, Gillibrand. But will she stand up and vote against it? Because in this inverse world, and I think Bob Corker did this. Before he left in Tennessee, he said: instead of having 60 votes to verify, how about we do 60 votes to nullify?

And therefore, they got to 58. Schumer got a chance with his Jewish constituency in New York. Ben Cardin, because he's been doing it for 50 years, knew what a bad nuclear deal this was. And Menendez understands international relations pretty well, didn't go along with it. But would you have enough defections on the left to look for self-preservations, not to vote for Iranian deal, that could very well have them ousted from their position?

That's going to be key. This Iranian deal would include this. Get this. And I try to follow it. The rumors is that Russia will be in charge of it.

They will handle the enriched uranium and pull it out of Iran so they can't make a weapon.

Alright. And if a Republican or a Democrat walks in and wants to be president and says, I hit this around deal, I'm out of it. The Russians will bring back the enriched uranium and give it to the Iranians. Is that unbelievable? We're cutting a deal against another party with an enemy pariah nation.

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