Biden to Hold Rare Presser Amidst Criticism From All Sides

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At 4 o'clock today, the President of the United States will speak. He daredly does that, and he's been off for like two days. I could not believe the stat. I think 28% of the time he's been in Delaware. Why would you fight four separate times to be president of the United States and not stay at the White House?

I believe it's free and you have domestic service. They cook for you. Why go home, walk on the beach with a mask on alone with your dog?

So Rich Lowry is coming up at the bottom of the hour, so let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. If the Republicans block cloture on the legislation before us, I will put forward a proposal to change the rules to allow for a talking filibuster on this legislation. If Senate Republicans are going to oppose it, they should not be allowed to sit in their office. They got to come down on the floor and defend their opposition.

I don't know if you've met Republicans, but they don't mind talking. Remember the green eggs and ham with Ted Cruz? Nice try, Chuck. Here we go again. The raging left wing will rail and must prevail.

They will not when it comes to massive voting reform and pushing back against the Republicans' push for voting integrity. But Senator Schumer will make his caucus vote on busting the filibuster and his tired voting act. But they are doomed. Why I think he hurts his own party? That story next.

Number two. When you have an incident like this, the perception is what we're fighting against. This is a safe system. We're going to make sure New Yorkers feel safe in our subway system, and they don't feel that way now. I don't feel that way when I take the train.

Really?

Okay, that's interesting.

Now that what a sudden switch by Mayor Eric Adams, crime crisis. Every major city is seemingly under attack. No box without homeless. No subways secure. When will we decide that we've had enough?

Number one. President Biden holds a rare news conference tomorrow to reflect on his first year in office and to look ahead to the second. I say rare because Mr. Biden holds far fewer formal press conferences than did the three presidents who came before him. The president hits the one-year mark with slumping poll numbers and rising frustration within his Democratic Party.

Yeah, that's just a little of the negativity that he's getting from his home away from home CNN, presidential presser, as the reeling White House tries to reset their agenda. What we can expect to hear today, what Joe Biden's team plans to change, and what I would do to change his team. And that's what I do right away. First off, I would say I would not make it seem like a panic situation at 4 o'clock today and say my chief of staff is out, my CDC director is out. I'm going to make a change as press secretary.

Jen Saki's their MVP. I really believe that. She's done a really good job, but I only think she wants to do it for a year.

So you got to get Ron Klain out. Susan Rice has got to go. Anthony Blinken should just hand in his resignation. They've been a disaster. And if that's, I know you can't do it right away because it shows panic.

Create enemies. But Ron Clain is the one who led Joe Biden to the left, who calls Jay a pow over Manchin. Huge problem, not for Democrats, but for the country. First off, at 4 o'clock today, it's not the State of the Union, but this is normally when the State of the Union is. He pushed it to March.

So at the press conference, what's he going to say? Sadly, the word is, he says I've done a bad job not trumpeting my accomplishments. Wow. That's like the Giants saying, we did a bad job not overemphasizing the four wins instead of the 12 losses.

So you got the rescue plan, which Larry Summers says helped fuel inflation. The rescue bill, 1.9 trillion. And then you got a bipartisan bill, which I thought was momentum creating. But the same day you got it, you said, I'm not going to pass this without Bill Back Better. And I said, what are you talking about?

Held on to it for four months. Afghanistan's a victory? Don't think so.

So, first off, Let's look at the promises. Remember, every anybody's better than Donald Trump. Everybody's better than Donald Trump. Everybody can handle a pandemic. If you just do the basic things right, let the adults get into the White House.

So let's let's go let's take a trip down memory lane, cut one. The country would be safer. And we'll be seeing a lot less violence. If I were president, my language would be less divisive. If I get elected president, Free college education.

For four years of college. You'll actually see your standard of living go up and your costs go down. We're going to make trade. Australia tragedy fights for every American worker. And every American job.

I will stand up to China's trade abuses and I will invest in the American worker. I'm not going to shut down the economy. I'm not going to shut down the country. I'm going to shut down the virus.

So let me see, I'm just writing this down. Shut down the virus. Nope. You missed two variants by a mile. You forgot to order tests.

You got a therapeutic and didn't pre-order anything. Violence. Does anyone in America think violence has gone down? Maybe you didn't go to the memorial, the candlelight vigil for the 40-year-old NYU grad. Who was thrown in front of a subway?

Maybe you missed the 24-year-old who was stabbed to death. by a uh multi by a twelve-time criminal. In Los Angeles in broad daylight. Maybe you missed The man who gave a homeless man a jacket, and then the homeless guy wakes up. takes the jacket, throws it, and then robs the guy of his cell phone.

Maybe you missed the fact that 12 cities broke homicide records. Maybe you missed the fact that. It didn't really help the economy. We got a 40-year high on inflation.

So We had a huge problem. I'm trying to think shut down the virus. Yeah, that didn't work. And what about the supply chain? He told us he saved Christmas and he solved the supply chain in December.

And that if we see our bare shelves, that's our problem. But now it's trending on social media. But maybe that's part of the disinformation that he's trying to protect us from.

So what will he say today? What I hope he will say today is: I'm going to make some big changes, and we have to learn to turn the page of the virus, and we're going to learn to live with it. And here's how: We're going to push to get vaccinated, but we're also going to push for therapeutics. And by May, I plan on making therapeutics available to anyone who possibly gets this. And I have a new advanced variant team that's going to identify it in all corners of the world in order to be able to prevent it and have a posture to attack it.

Now, these epidemiologists have told us that for the most part, every time there's a variant from here on in, they become less and less lethal. But easily spreadable. The good news is, and I hope he says this, that Omnicron, which has hit so many people and given them mild symptoms in most cases, has also given you immunity. That's what I hope he says, which means live with it. I want these schools opened.

I want people back in work for those people on the sidelines. America is fueled through capitalist principles, and we need you off the sideline, not living off your mom's savings account or what you may have accrued during the pandemic. Start working, start inspiring. But he has lost a lot of people. Here is Jeff Zelany.

Asking Jensaki a tough question. For example, for example. A tough question on what's going to happen today. You promised voting rights, you don't need voting reform, but I'm just saying that's what he promised. You promised that you were going to pass Billback better, that's not going to happen.

You promised to pass criminal justice reform, not that police reform. That's not going to happen.

So here's Jeff Zeleny yesterday, Cut Six. He has long said that he would talk straight from the shoulder, I think is his words, to give an honest assessment of things. What is your honest assessment of the last year of the Biden administration? And how can the voting rights failure not be seen as some type of a metaphor for these challenges?

Well, I would say in terms of voting rights, his view is that it's never a good idea not to shoot for the moon with what your proposals are and what you're fighting for. And the alternative is to fight for nothing and to fight for nothing hard. And that sometimes, oftentimes, as you know you've covered a couple of administrations, you don't get everything done in the first year.

Okay, a couple of things. He also swore not to blow up the filibuster because he's a senator, he's an institutionalist. But to do that, he's doing that. Do you know that Mitt Romney, who did the bipartisan infrastructure deal, and not a Democrat or Republican, would disagree with this statement? If you're going to get something done across the aisle, you begin with Mitt Romney, first or second call.

He never got a call about voting legislation.

So, they would agree on doing some reforms as it relates to the Electoral College vote.

So, he never even got a call.

So, don't tell me you're shooting for the moon if you don't even call up the other side. On one hand, you say, I'm not going to blow up the filibuster. On the other, you're not reaching across the aisle, and you know you don't have 60 votes.

So, at the same time, then you turn around and say, I'm going to blow up the filibuster. And when you can't blow up the filibuster, you don't call the guy that refuses to blow it up since Christmas. That's not shooting for the moon, that's ineptness. And by the way, Jeff Zelany, what do you think of the last year? What metaphor would be a good challenge?

Remember, this is the same guy that asked this hard-hitting question to Barack Obama. During these first 100 days, what has surprised you the most about this office, enchanted you the most about serving in this office, humbled you the most? and troubled you the most. Let me write this down. Yeah, enchanted.

I'm I'm wondering when the last time someone used the word enchanted with Trump. Has that ever happened, period?

So, you know what they're gonna do, part of the strategy? And by the way, I told you this on my Facebook Live today with Pete. I want you to get on board. I want you to tell me what you wanna hear. And I know your country first.

So, Joe Biden is obviously going up in flames this four years. But if you were to try to turn it around, how would you do it?

Okay. Knowing there's about 10 Republicans who would probably work with you to pass legislation, not making Puerto Rico a state, D.C. a state, and packing the court, but other things that are reasonable. But he doesn't seem to want to do that because it would. Tick off AOC, I guess.

I don't know. But What they're going to do now, they're going to have him communicate directly to voters more and show his empathy. Really?

I don't know. He's mad all the time. And every time there's empathy, he taps into the tragedy in his life. But we all have tragedy in our lives. I don't know if it equals his, I don't know if it surpasses his.

But just to keep on empathizing, yeah, I lost my wife and I lost my son, it's tragic. But everybody listening to me right now could blow me away with some tragic thing that happened in your life. And people don't want to hear that.

So I'm not sure splitting him out to go one-on-one with voters is going to work. And he got elected not because people liked him, they never saw him. Because he stood in his basement. And they when they did see him, they'd stood in their car and honked. It was like performing in front of Harpa Marks.

It's nuts. And you even heard that in some of the cuts.

So That is some of the things that he's getting. He's getting a lot of blowback, and we're going to talk about this a little bit later in the show on this Wednesday edition from people that are normally friendly to him. Britium on what this president what year one has been like. In his view, from a guy that's seen a lot of presidents up close and covered a lot of White Houses directly, cut 11. His problem, I think, of course, is that all these matters that relate to COVID have not ended up ending COVID, which he promised to do, as you pointed out.

And on the economic side, You know, the fact that the economy is growing and it certainly has been and continues to, stock market up and all the rest of it, much of that is obscured by the fact that every single American is feeling the effects of inflation, which has spurted forward in a way we haven't seen in many, many years indeed.

So he's got a problem. Yeah, no kidding.

So he's got a problem with the facts.

So if he comes out there, and Mark Thiessen had a great comment with the Washington Post, he said when he wrote for George Bush in 2006, the Iraq war wasn't going well, and George Bush decided to attack it by talking in the big picture what the goals were, and it didn't go over well. The speech wasn't well received. It was a dial tone because they felt as though he wasn't addressing the issue. When things changed, was the search was action.

So, promise action, but saying I did a bad job not emphasizing my victories would be a disaster. And that's what Mark Thiessen was trying to say today in his column. Obviously, he's a conservative writer, but he also calls things as he sees it.

So, the other big story that's going to be happening during our show is going to be voting on the filibuster.

Now, while you want to vilify Republicans, the problem is at least cinema, definitely Mansion, are not going to vote to blow out the filibuster and not going to vote for voting reform. But the problem with Chuck Schumer asking for everyone to go on the record, there's a lot of people that think his own Mark Kelly is on life support. He's been a terrible invisible senator for a veteran who goes into space. He refuses to take any risks at all. We don't know where he stands about anything.

Now, you're going to have him weigh in in a Formerly red state that's leaning purple and say I'm blowing up the filibuster. If not, you're going to alienate the Democratic votes you need? Tough. New Hampshire, also purplish, leans right, but you have Maggie Hassan, a Democrat.

Now she's going to have to go in there and say, I'm going to blow up the filibuster and vote for voting rights reform. That's going to tick off Republicans or Democrats, depending on where you stand.

So has Joe Manchin budged? I don't know if you heard, but some VIP, Paul Tagliabu, the former commissioner of the NFL, Nick Sabin, Jerry West. All have some links to West Virginia. Evidently, Colin wrote a letter, Colin, in some cases, wrote a letter urging Joe Manchin to vote for voting reform. What a joke that is.

Have they even read the problem in any of these states and identified it as a problem, asking for ID, early voting with a Social Security number? Really?

So, Joe Manchin. Has he changed his mind? Here he is yesterday, cut twenty-four. I just don't know how you break a rule. To make a rule and thinking you're doing something is going to.

We've never done this. We have never done it. I've been looking for every precedent I can, every carp out.

So we've done everything along the lines of with the rules. And I don't know why we can't come together and find a pathway forward. But breaking the rules, there's no checks and balances in this process, only for. The only thing we have is a filibuster. The majority of my colleagues in the caucus, the Democrat caucus, they've changed.

They've changed their mind. I respect that. You have a right to change your mind. I haven't. I hope they respect that too.

I've never changed my mind on the filibuster. What don't you get? I mean, come on. He's not going to blow it up, and he's going to be the hero of Democrats when they lose the Senate and lose the White House in 2024, which looks inevitable if things stay the way they are. But will they?

I want to find out from you. 1-866-408-7669. We'll get your calls in a moment. At the bottom of the hour, we're going to talk to Rich Lowry and put this all in perspective as we wait for the president to talk today. You're listening to the Brian Kilmead Show.

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A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. The law's there, the rules are there, and basically the government. The government will stand behind them and make sure they have a right to vote. We have that.

The things they're talking about now are in court. Mark Elias has an awful lot in court. The courts have struck down, like in Ohio, they struck down the gerrymandering. Things are happening, okay? We act like that we're going to obstruct people from voting.

That's not going to happen.

And what he's talking about, gerrymandering was offered by the Republican legislature, was struck down by the courts. This guy, Mark Elias, and Eric Holder are out there trying to stop gerrymandering, unless, of course, it's in a Democratic state. It's been part of our process to begin with. And Joe Manchin just said what we've been saying: there is no problem voting in states that are bringing integrity to the process. They're not limiting the process, nothing to do with race.

The one district in Texas that they said, well, you got to go 24 miles to a voting booth.

Okay, that number one, you look into that and you say, maybe you want to vote early if that's an issue. It's a rural area. It's hard to staff. And one of the other things you might want to do is, I don't know, look at the district. Do you know the district was won by Donald Trump?

By twenty For by 65, he had 65% of the vote there.

So it looks like a Republican would hurt the most by the lack of polling between those two rural areas. Poll uh, poll places. Chris, listen to WSBA in Pennsylvania. Hey, Chris. Chris, you're on.

All right, we'll have to get to calls in a second, so we'll hold on until we can straighten that out.

So, when it comes to voting, when you talk about what's happening in Georgia, you're just talking about putting your last four digits of your social security number on your application. Do you know that there's still no excuse balloting? You just want a ballot. You're not going to say you're absent. You're not going to say you're out of town.

You're not going to say you can't get to the polling booth. You're not going to say you're handicapped or sick. There's no excuse. You could still have it. You just got to apply for it earlier than you were because same day absentee balloting is for the pandemic.

And what I worry about is by Them bringing this up in this fruitless effort. As soon as they get routed in the House, and if they do lose the Senate, They're gonna say, look, I told you, with these new Republican legislatures, we have no chance, creating doubt in the process. You and I know that's not true, but the overall, the American public starts doubting the voting. Precise, personal, powerful. Is America's weather team in the palm of your hands?

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We'll be watching what happens this week. in the United States Senate. The public is entitled to know where each senator stands on an issue as sacrosanct as defending our democracy. The American people deserve to see their senators go on record, and Republicans will have to choose which side they stand on. protecting democracy.

or offering their implicit endorsement of Donald Trump's big lie. See, what drives me crazy and what really has me befuddled is nobody thinks Senator Schumer is dumb. Nobody thinks he's not savvy. Just like Cynthia Mitch McConnell, Democrats might hate him, but no one says he's not smart and tactical and strategic. I don't understand what Schumer's talking about.

Do you think Republicans mind going on the record? The question is: what about moderate Democrats? They're the ones who mind going on the record. It's going to make it harder to keep the Senate, I think. But Rich Lowry is the one with years of experience as editor of National Review and author of The Case for Nationalism.

Hey, Rich, welcome back. I see more downside than upside here for Democrats. Do you? I don't get it. I really don't get it.

Why do you drag your own people through a vote that's going to be bad for them? The Democrats who aren't in competitive states you know, they got if they vote to end the filibuster, it's going to be used against them in the campaign. If they don't, and one or two more might besides cinema and mansion, then you get the left up upset at you.

So why he's doing this is an utter mystery unless He just thinks it's a play that gins up the base, keeps them safe in New York and And it doesn't matter the results, but this just seems rank incompetence unless I'm missing something. Senator Mark Kelly is vulnerable. He's been such a letdown. I thought this guy, as a veteran who goes into space and takes great risks, he refuses to do anything. I don't know what he is.

He doesn't even protect Center Cinema. And then Senator Maggie Hassan, vulnerable by all accounts, especially if the governor had run for that slot, I'm not sure who's going to step on the Republican side. Who else is vulnerable on the left?

Well, I think those would be the top two that you'd look at. And this is just schumer in that clip you played. He's like, the American people are going to be watching. No, they're not. I mean, no one cares about this.

And the polling is clear. One of the charges against Biden, and one of the reasons he's sagging so badly, is people don't think he's focused on things that they are concerned about, the topmost being inflation. There's a CBS poll, very marked findings on this over the weekend.

So Biden, even though there's not much he can do directly to affect inflation, he should be sh demonstrating all the time that he's focused on it and he cares a lot about it. And instead, they've gone down this idiotic rabbit hole.

So it's really tough. You know what? I think I'm getting some read from the other side that says that they feel as though in today's 4 o'clock press conference, Eastern Time, Rich Lowry, they feel as though they have not done a good job effectively underlining their victory.

So I assume that'll be the rescue plan, which many people, alcottomists, think fueled inflation. And they're going to talk about the bipartisan infrastructure deal.

Okay. Do you think the problem is they haven't underlined their successes? And do you think, even if you're a Democrat, would that be a place to start today?

Well, it's better than doing what they're doing, which is doubling down on failure and making a big deal of things that aren't going to happen. We knew two weeks ago before they started on this voting rights jaunt that wasn't going to work. It wasn't going to happen. They should have known that.

So yes, it's better to talk about the things you've been able to get done rather than things that aren't going to happen. But the COVID relief bill, it's just there's zero sign it had any really impact in people's lives in a way that they care about. And infrastructure bill, even if there were the projects eventually funded by that bill, it's not going to infrastructure's not like an instant thing. It unspools over the course of years. And again, it's the conditions and especially in inflation and the supply chain disruptions and the continued big COVID caseload.

Those are the conditions that are dragging him down. And he just hasn't seemed to focus on them particularly. I think in this speech, it's got to be: what is your year two plan on COVID? Because get vaccinated, it's your patriotic duty, is not an effective strategy. Missing both variants, how are you going to catch the next one ahead of time?

He missed both variants. The vice president admitted that. And also, crime in the city. Word is not only is he not going to talk about crime, you know, with 12 separate cities hitting homicide records. He's going to talk about police reform, how he's going to leave Congress and just do it through executive order.

I don't know if there's anything more tone-deaf than that. Yeah, they're just totally incorrigible on so much of this stuff. On COVID, I think the play would be get rid of Fauci. Say we're moving to a totally different approach. We realize that COVID zero is totally unattainable and these various restrictions to try to get there are more destructive than helpful, and we're going to try something new.

I think that might be notable, might make an impression on people. And on crime, it's not a federal issue, it's primarily a state and local. Issue, but the idea that we still have to be banging on about the cops at this moment, as he as he put it, is just incredibly tone deaf. But if you want to show up, and no one knows this better than you, if you want to show up and show you care, you show up in Chicago, you show up in New York, you show up in Philadelphia, you go to Los Angeles, you go to San Francisco, you visit the Gucci place, the smash and grab victims, you see the people, meet with them, and ask the locals, just like, for example, it's not your fault that Kentucky got hit by a tornado, but you show up and you express empathy, you grab your jean shirt, and you walk around and you see.

So there there's no sense that that they even cares. Yeah, so you're totally right. When the governor puts on his boots and his windbreaker and goes and visited some sites been devastated by a storm or whatever, that doesn't, you know, it doesn't change anything. It just shows he or she cares. And he should be doing this not just on crime, but on inflation.

He should be every other day should have an event at a port or at a grocery store that for some reason has full shelves because something companies have figured out some new faster way to work the supply chain. And even if it doesn't make a huge difference, it shows that he's focused on the issue. And eventually, the supply chain disruptions will end. I mean, we'll figure this out. And then you can take credit.

I was working this the whole time. This is just politics 101. And bottom line, Brian, is just this isn't breaking news. He's just not a great politician. He doesn't have great political skills.

No one thought over the last 40 years this is the great statesman who needs to leave this country. He just happened to be in the right place at the right time. I thought he could staff. You know, a lot of people put great staff underneath him. Ronald Reagan, you know, he had the lofty language, but he had the great people underneath him, and he was willing to share the spotlight.

And they did a lot of work. I think he's hired the worst staff from Susan Rice to Ron Klain to Tony Blinken. Please tell to the HHS Secretary Becera, please tell me where I've seen competence. And I want you to hear what Kaylee McEnany said before you comment because, you know, we heard for the longest time this businessman has no experience, there's too many firings, and he doesn't understand the system. That's what was so valuable about Mike Bence.

Here's what Kaylee McEnany said on the transition cut nine. I remember, you know, we're exiting the White House. They're coming in, the Biden administration, and we're being told the adults are back. The adults are in the room. Joe Biden's got it covered.

You know, this administration knows what they're doing. They're veterans. They've been here with President Barack Obama and they're back.

Well, they're back. Look at what that got us. Six months in, the most disastrous withdrawal I've ever seen out of Afghanistan, a moral stain on the world. On our country, inflation out the wazoo, a supply chain shortage, empty shelves. We left them the greatest, most sophisticated testing system in the world, outpacing all of Western Europe combined.

And they couldn't even manage to keep that up. I mean, it is a train wreck on every single level. Do you think she's overstating anything? No, I think she's right. And a huge part of it was that they wanted to focus on their big transformational agenda they didn't have the mandate for, didn't have the majorities to pass in Congress because they thought in part this was their last chance at it.

And they might be right. You know, if Republicans take the House and get a 30-seat majority or whatever it is at the end of this year, that majority might hold for a decade. Who knows? But it's conceivable.

So that totally shuts the door for them doing any of this stuff.

So that accounted for some of the desperation here. And instead of just realizing why he was in that office, because people are like, okay, we'll take some boring normality, he pursued this transformational agenda and has just been overwhelmed. By events, you know, and his assumptions proved wrong. He thought COVID would go away because we had the vaccine. Not crazy.

I thought that too, but it was wrong. And then you need to adjust, and he hasn't on a whole host of fronts. And I think Haley's right, obviously, to mention Afghanistan. I think that's what the beginning of the breaking point of his presidency early on here was clearly that botched withdrawal. Rich Lowry, thanks so much.

Look forward to your next comment with a national review. Rich, thanks. Thanks, Brian. Talk to you soon.

So I don't know if you noticed, and the New York Times and almost every Media outlet is desperate to get ratings. They're not having them. Outside Fox, they're not getting them. And one of the reasons is because Donald Trump is not in the news, taking off social media, not running, not in power. But that hasn't stopped investigations for now moving front and center on every other channel because Letitia James has taken aim at the Trump organization.

It's a civil suit, not going to end up in jail time, but they're trying to say he inflated his properties in order to get loans. We will talk about what is political and what is troublesome because Andy McCarthy is going to join me now. He knows all about New York, targeting, politics, and the law. You're listening to the Brian Kilmead Show. So glad you're here.

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And thanks so much for joining me. Andy, I just watched on TV, and I wanted to maybe share that with my radio audience. The Trump organization leading almost every other outlet because they don't get ratings without talking to Trump. That's what we're seeing.

So, as Letitia James, the Attorney General running for re-election, decides she's going to make public her allegations of fraud, essentially, of the Trump organization inflating the worth of their properties in order to get additional loans. I just want to get a reality check on how much, if any, trouble do you think the Trump organization's in? I would just remind people, Brian, that Um Number one, this is a civil case. Not a criminal case. She's been working jointly with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office which are the criminal investigators.

And that included Cy Vance, who was the DA until the beginning of the year when he handed the baton over to this new guy, Alvin Bragg. They badly wanted to make a criminal case on Trump. And they basically ended up throwing up their hands. They indicted the. Chief financial officer of the Trump organization on a kind of a minor thing that goes on all the time, which is, you know, he was given.

uh perks and they, you know, treated them weirdly for Tax purposes and you know, without getting into the finance weeds of it, if they did that to every company in New York, God knows how many cases they could make. And I think case in point, Andy, I think case in point was they used some uh Trump organization money to help pay for a private school for one of his grandchildren. Right. Right, right. And then there was an issue about whether they treated that as a business expense or whether it was income or so if they started to play those games with every big corporation in New York, my God, who knows how many cases they bring.

But the other thing is and I can say this having been in the Southern District of New York, which is the federal prosecutor's office in Manhattan for 20 years and handling some pretty big cases there. there's nothing that federal prosecutors in Manhattan like better than bank fraud, insurance fraud and the kind of stuff that she is accusing Trump of, which Is not like unheard of in big corporate finance, which is that you inflate the value of properties when you're trying to get loans and you deflate the value of them when you have to pay taxes, right? This is like, you know, this is not something that's that Trump invented, if indeed that's what happened. And I just You know, I I can't pretend that I Um That I have granular knowledge of what's going on in these investigations, but I find it hard to believe.

Okay. Michael Cohen who was the guy who kicked these investigations off for the prosecutors. He was a Southern District of New York defendant. He pled guilty there. He gave them all kinds of information about Trump.

If there was a great bank fraud case here, it's hard for me to believe the federal prosecutors wouldn't. have wanted to do that. Right. And that the Biden Justice Department wouldn't be all over that.

So I'm very suspicious about all of this. But it's not, but it's been 34 months. And to me, it seems like pure political targeting. He had no problem before he was running as a Republican for president, and let alone become president. You raid his lawyer's office for some false reason, and then you have him flip.

He goes to jail. He flips, and he's trying to destroy the Trump organization. But they already tried to depose Eric. He took the fifth the entire time. They're going after Ravanka and Don Jr.

And eventually, probably the former president, he doesn't want to submit to it. But what makes you think the criminal investigation is over? Oh, I'm not suggesting it's over because they've said it's not over. I'm just curious that she says they have all this great evidence. This is stuff they've had for years and they haven't filed Criminal charges, and the whole game here is criminal charges, right?

And I would think, Brian, I know New York is crazy. You know, you're a New Yorker, I'm a New Yorker, but. If I if I was still a New Yorker, I'd be awfully curious about why it is. that New Yorkers are afraid to go on the subway because the laws aren't being enforced. And they're scorching the earth to get this guy, and they've been doing it for years.

And all they've got so far that you can see is a civil case that says. He inflates his property values in lawyered up documents when he's trying to get loans and he deflates them when he when he pays taxes, which Again, if that's going to be now a big crime, there's going to be an awful lot of people very nervous about that. The Trump organization said this through a lawyer in a statement called they called Letitia James' accusations merely the latest in a long line of unfounded attacks against my client and an obvious attempt to distract the public from her own inappropriate conduct. Letitia, you are not above the law. Another lawyer for Don Jr.

Navanka said this in a statement. James filings did not address her repeated threats to target the Trump family and ignore their constitutional rights by conducting overlapping probes, which she actually ran on. She's been caught on tape talking about.

So it is amazing at a time in which there's candlelight vigils for a 40-year-old who was thrown in front of a train at 9:40 in the morning on Saturday and a city that's leading homicide, leading among the highest in homicide numbers. Donald Trump is the biggest problem. It's amazing the tolerance, it's amazing that we would tolerate this. Final thought, Andy?

Well, I yeah, I don't think the Democrats are helping themselves, although it it looks obvious to me that they want to run against Trump, right?

So they're trying to keep him relevant. As a legal matter, Brian, I think the other thing that may be going on here is If this was just a criminal investigation, you can't obviously subpoena the defendant in a criminal investigation, but you can do it in a civil investigation.

So maybe they hope they can get him to say something in testimony that they can use to get them over the top in the criminal investigation.

So they're trying to leverage the two. But I don't think his lawyers are going to fall for that. I wouldn't think so, but you know, they also say sometimes you guys tell me the process is the punishment. Is the process the punishment?

Well, yes, it certainly is. And let's to be fair though, Trump at least has the resources to go toe to toe with the government. A lot of people that the government does this to do not have Trump's resources to fight them back. Good point. And if everybody out there was trying to who tried to remortgage their house, it always tries to inflate the value of their house.

Ultimately, an adjuster comes up and decides if your Chase Bank should give Brian Kilmead that refinance.

So there were banks that check up on this. If they didn't do their due diligence, that's on them. That's what I thought. It looks from her investigation like they did. Yeah.

You know, they didn't take his word for it. They sent appraisers out to look at these properties. Andy McCarthy, come through in the clutch for us. Thanks so much. From the Fox News Podcasts Network, in these ever-changing times, you can rely on Fox News for hourly updates for the very latest news and information on your time.

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Happening to be coming to you from New York City, downtown New York, where no one's safe and around the country and around the world. Hope you're listening. Gerard Baker is going to be with us, editor-at-large, the Wall Street Journal in a matter of moments. And Bobby Barack's going to be with us from Outkick. He did a big story about the COVID hysteria, as well as the part-time, the part owner.

of the Of the Golden State Warriors, who came out and said, Nobody cares about the Uyghurs. Really?

No one cares that 2 million Muslims are in a concentration camp when it comes to China because he's all about the mighty dollar. But my goodness, if you don't like the way something happens with the police interaction with a would-be suspect, you are willing to put Black Lives Matter on the side of a court. But when it comes to the Uyghurs, why not go and invest? Why not go into the Olympics and send your diplomats and underline your sponsors and compete in Beijing? People care about the Uyghurs, and he tried to walk it back, but not even effectively.

Bobby Barack on that.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. If the Republicans block cloture on the legislation before us, I will put forward a proposal to change the rules to allow for a talking filibuster on this legislation. If Senate Republicans are going to oppose it, they should not be allowed to sit in their office. They got to come down on the floor and defend their opposition.

Right, Senator, have you met Republicans? Do you think they're shy about talking? Here we go again. The raging left wing will rail and not prevail when it comes to massive voting reform that pushes back against Republicans' push for voting integrity. But Senator Schumer will make his caucus vote on busting the filibuster and the voting act.

This is going to hurt a lot of moderates. Number two. When you have an incident like this, the perception is what we're fighting against. This is a safe system. We're going to make sure New Yorkers feel safe in our subway system, and they don't feel that way now.

I don't feel that way when I take the train. Head snapping switch, right? Crime crisis. Every major city is seemingly under attack. No blocks without homelets, no subways secure.

When will we decide we have had enough as a country? Number President Biden holds a rare news conference tomorrow to reflect on his first year in office and to look ahead to the second. I say rare because Mr. Biden holds far fewer formal press conferences than did the three presidents who came before him. The president hits the one-year mark with slumping poll numbers and rising frustration within his Democratic Party.

I would say so, presidential presser. As a reeling White House tries to reset their agenda, what we can expect to hear, what Joe Biden's team plans to do, and will he actually change that team? Let's bring in Gerard Baker from the Wall Street Journal, who wrote a recent column that really caught our attention as usual: Biden goes for broke, he's broke.

Now what? Question is, Gerard, is he capable of understanding how bad things have been going for him? Thanks, Brian. Thanks very much for having me. It's a good question, I think.

Look, I tried to explore in the column why exactly Biden took the route that he did in the last year, and I do think he was persuaded. For some strange reason, by Democrats who think that, you know, in the famous words of Ram Emmanuel, don't let a crisis go to waste, they could exploit this crisis, exploit the misery of people in this crisis in order to. Achieve their ideological objectives rather than focusing on fixing the crisis, and I think Biden was convinced of that. Look, I think he must know he you know, I mean, what do we know he knows? I mean, he does show signs of, you know, slowing down alarmingly by the day, but he must understand how bad the polling is.

And he must understand how bad his legislative the the badder shape uh his legislative agenda is in, and he must understand that if he wants to get anything done, if he certainly if he wants to avoid an absolute catastrophe in the midterms in November, Something's gotta change. The problem, Brian, is. What did he change? I mean, to me, this is the thing, even if he recognises the problem. What does he change?

I mean, does he start working with those people across the aisle or even people in his own party that only last week he was describing as traitors like Jefferson Davis? Does he now say, oh, actually, you know, okay, you know, that weird thing we had from Jen Sucky last week.

Well, he wasn't talking about the humans.

Well, who, you know, I mean, who was who was he talking? I mean, I mean, you know, I don't know if he regards, you know, people like Joe Manchin as not human or something, but, you know, how did he do that? He has spent the last year denouncing everybody who doesn't sign on to the full ideological left-wing Democratic agenda. What?

Now he's going to turn around and say, actually, you know what? I think we can get some important stuff done with these people that I despise. I just don't see it happening.

Well, put it this way: Mitt Ronney made it clear, and he'd be the first call if you want to reach across the aisle. I think we all agree on that, that no one ever called him about voting reform. And they would agree on reforming the electoral process itself.

So instead of going for some deals, he just goes for the extreme and he wants to paint anybody who doesn't vote with him, Jefferson Davis, or who is somebody who's a, or Bull Connor, somebody who's a racist. I think personally, Gerard, to answer your question that you asked in the column, when he sat down with all those historians and they explained to him and evidently convinced him he was LBJ and he was Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln and he was FDR. That's when he thought, he goes, listen, I got all the power in the White House.

So he started going for these things, ignoring the other party, and he's falling on his face with police reform, immigration reform, Build Back Better, and now voting reform.

So, I mean, the worst thing that probably happened to him was winning both those Senate seats in Georgia. I think you're absolutely right, Brian. And I think I'd say two other quick things too that contributed to this. One was Again, as I said in the column, I think uh, we all heard that Biden spent eight years under Joe under Barack Obama, being laughed at and humiliated by the teenagers who used to carry Barack Obama's Blackberry around the West Wing for him uh because they thought, Oh, funny was out of touch. He was an old guy.

He didn't understand. You know, modern America and American politics, and they just laughed at him. And I think part of Biden getting into office when he came into office a year ago was, I'm going to show these people, I can show, I can be as I can be more transformative than Barack Obama. And I think the other thing we really need to know about when we think about Joe Biden is Joe Biden has never been a leader, he's never led anything, he's never taken a stand against. You know, I went back through his career, Brian.

You look in the 1980s. The the bulk of the Democratic Party was very left wing, very much against Ronald Reagan, very much against what Reagan was doing domestically and abroad. And of course Joe Biden was too. 1990s, Bill Clinton comes in and sort of tries to reposition the party, new Democrats. Welfare reform, crime bill.

Guess what? Biden supports that too. Two thousands, straight after nine eleven and with the Iraq war, Joe Biden supports that, all that, because that's where his party is. Then Barack Obama comes in, takes a different tack. Biden's his vice president, Biden goes in the same direction.

He's never Brian, in 50 years in politics, done what you do as a leader, which is to stand up sometimes, not all the time, because you won't get anywhere if you do that, stand up sometimes against the people in your own party and say, this is wrong. We're not going to do this. This is my way. This is the right way. You follow me.

If you don't want to follow me, then don't. He's never done that. He's a follower, not a leader. Gerard Baker with us from the Wall Street Journal.

So the big story today, there'll be a vote on the filibuster and a vote for voting rights. He wants to make sure everyone wants to find out where everybody stands.

Now, politically, we just found out in reading the local newspaper, it looks like Mark Kelly, who is a question mark, will vote to blow up the filibuster. I'm not sure that's going to really fly in Barry Goldwater's old state or John McCain's old seat. But Mark Kelly will vote, unlike cinema, against blowing up the filibuster.

So he shows, again, no backbone, I don't believe. And listen to what Joe Manchin said when asked about that again, cut 24. I just don't know how you break a rule. To make a rule and thinking you're doing something is going to. We've never done this.

We have never done it. I've been looking for every precedent I can, every carp out.

So we've done everything along the lines of with the rules. And I don't know why we can't come together and find a pathway forward. But breaking the rules, there's no checks and balances in this process, only for. The only thing we have is a filibuster. The majority of my colleagues in the caucus, Democrat caucus, they've changed.

They've changed their mind. I respect that. You have a right to change your mind. I haven't. I hope they respect that too.

They don't. I've never changed my mind on the filibuster. And they don't. Bernie Sanders says I might support a primary for a cinema and mansion. He doesn't seem to care.

Yeah, good luck with that. The ratings, the opinion poll ratings they have, those two senators have in their state, very high, Mansion, particularly high. But even, you know, which is, and Manchin is, remember, you know, a Democrat in a deep, deep, deep red state. Kelly, sorry, cinema and Kelly are Democrats in a purple state, but even cinema has got strong support.

So the idea they're going to be challenged. Look, I think there's something pretty unedifying about the spectrum. We know that a lot of Democratic senators are not in favor of blowing up getting rid of the filibuster. They don't want to get rid of the filibuster because they know, I mean, one, they know that they've said for the last 20 years. 20 years that getting rid of the filibuster would be a terrible, terrible blow to democracy.

Now they're saying, apparently. It would be a blow to democracy not to get rid of the filibuster. But they also know that in a matter of less than ten months' time, the beginning of next year anyway, they're going to be facing a Congress that is almost certainly in a Senate that's almost certainly in the control of the Republicans. And Are they then going to say, actually, yeah, you can, you know, you can get rid of the bus, you can do whatever you like with the 50, 50 seats or 51 seats. 51 seats in the Senate.

So they're hiding behind the actually the outspoken and the more courageous acts of cinema and mansion who are actually coming out and saying, We're not going to do this. There's probably another four or five Democratic senators who are then quite happy to go out publicly and say, Oh, this is terrible. We've got to get rid of the filibuster because we've got to get this crucial voting rights bill through. But actually are saying that, knowing full well that it's not going to happen and very happy that it's not going to happen because they don't want to get rid of the filibuster in the first place. And, Gerard, I just want to give you an idea.

Just give our audience an idea of what you expect to hear and what you, if you wanted to turn around Joe Biden's fortunes, what you would hear. Today is four.

Well, I expect to hear I expect he he will probably try I mean, first of all, you know, we'll we're always unfortunately paying attention to to to what extent he actually manages to utter so coherent sentences because I'm sorry to say this, but that's been pretty rare recently.

So, well, friend, we're all going to be watching to see whether what he says makes any sense. That's the most important point. Look, I think he presumably will say, I don't think we'll hear more about Jefferson Davis and Bill Connor. I think he'll presumably try and say some things that acknowledge that he needs to reach across the aisle if he needs to get anything done. I certainly hope he will say that.

But again, I'm not sure. You know what I'd really like to hear him say, Brian? This is the most important thing to me. He needs to stand up to the extremists in his own party. And whether it's on crime, whether it's on this crazy district attorney we have in New York now who says he won't prosecute lots of violent crime, whether it is on the defund the police people, whether it's on people who want open borders, he needs to stand up and say, I understand that there are people.

In my party, who've got, you know, who believe these things, and I'm just going to tell you, I don't believe them. They're wrong. I'm going to be the president I promised I was going to be when I ran in 2020. I'm the president for all Americans. I'm not a president for the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party.

And he doesn't need, you know, it's an old cliche, Brian, in politics. He does need that sister soldier moment where he stands up and says, you know, I'm not any, you know, we cannot talk. tolerate this. This woke, this essentially woke racism. We cannot tolerate this crime wave, and we cannot tolerate this approach that many in my party seem to believe that we should just let as many people into this country, whoever wants to come to this country.

It's time for him to do that. That might start to repair some of the damage. I don't expect it, but that's what I'd like to see. I think the whole country is going center-right or center-left, not stream-right or extreme-left. I think, George, that's happening.

I think people walking around from their Thanksgiving table to the beach and going, you know what, I'm tired of hating. You know, I'm tired of being angry. You know, I'm not in politics, but I I might as well be. And I think that, you know, when you see Manchin come up and speak up and it's just like a breath of fresh air. Yeah, I agree completely.

You know, this is a very fractured nation, and I do think Biden actually had an opportunity with. Basically, a tied result in the election last year. He won, okay, he won the election narrowly over Trump, but it was a tie in Congress. 50-50 in the Senate, and they lost Democrats, lost seat in the House. Seats in the house and had a handful of seats, majority.

He could have used the opportunity then to say, you know what, I'm going to, yeah, let's not. Let's take a breath. And by the way, let's address the issues the American people want addressed, whether it's COVID, whether it's inflation, whether it's crime. You know, let's address, let's forget these building these fancy castles in the air of progressive utopias of build back better and revolutionizing the economy in a green way and building all this social infrastructure that we need to do. Let's forget all that.

Okay, we can have that conversation another time. Let's focus on what needs to be done. And what needs to be done are a lot of practical things, getting this country back to work, getting crime down, getting the economy, getting inflation down. He could do that. He could still do that even now.

The problem is, he spent a year blowing all that political capital he had a year ago, Brian. And. He's got man left. Politico says 68% of the country feels we're on the wrong track. They gave him 40% approval, Quintipay Act 33, 44% approval from CBS.

And now it looks like it's almost a dead heat on education, on pandemic response, and voting rights between Republicans and Democrats in this country. Those were three issues in which Democrats had the supreme advantage last election. People are looking and saying, well, maybe they didn't have it right. You had it right, George. Thanks so much for answering the call.

We appreciate it. Thanks for having me, Brian. You got it. Gerard Baker of The Wall Street Journal. When we come back, your turn, 1866, 408 7669.

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When you have an incident like this, the perception is what we're fighting against. This is a safe system. We're going to make sure New Yorkers feel safe in our subway system. And they don't feel that way now. I don't feel that way when I take the train.

So that is Eric Adams on Saturday after this 40-year-old NYU grad. got thrown in front of a train, just waiting there, a subway train, by a lunatic, somebody who's mentally imbalanced, that from his own family. You heard him screaming when he was being brought out of the police station, turned himself in after. Eric Adams looks at the horror and says, listen, don't think that subways are dangerous. It's not.

Is there something more tone-deaf than that? I don't think it is. Even Joe Biden would say, you know, wise up.

So then the second statement you heard is Adams the next day that he talked in detail about when he went on the subway after he became mayor. He goes, he was scared. He heard the yelling, the screaming, the homeless, and he was scared. And if you look at some of these stats, transit crime complaints have gone up 65.5%. And I don't say that to get you focused on New York because two of our great affiliates are from New York.

But it's the same thing in Philadelphia, the same thing in Chicago, the same thing in Los Angeles, San Francisco, but it's happening more on the surface than it is below. And it just goes to show you, I had so much hope for Eric Adams, but some of his instincts are totally letting him down. And if Joe Biden wanted to be effective today, he would bring up crimes in these cities and not bring... Up cops being the problem in these cities, which sadly, early reports are he is saying that.

So. A couple of things. The President of the United States reportedly feels bad that he's not emphasizing success enough. If he goes out there and just trumpets his success and then takes questions, he will fall on his face tremendously. He's got to do what Britain did.

And it looks like Britain has done something, maybe because Barnes Johnson got him in trouble, got himself in trouble by attending a party at the height of the pandemic, even though he tested for it. He evidently is lifting all restrictions in the UK.

Now, they're about three weeks ahead of us with this Omnicron variant, but each variant that comes in is supposed to be easily transmittable, easier transmittable, but not more lethal.

So if it's worth bringing up, then in the UK, they're lifting all restrictions. Masks on Thursday, that's tomorrow. They're going to lift all restrictions, and they're just ahead of us, as is Israel. Maybe the President of the United States says we're shifting postures. We're no longer going to be talking about staying home, working remote.

I'm going to urge businesses to get your people back in the office. I'm going to urge teachers more than ever to suffer. It up and get back to work and the kids. To get your allow your parents to go back to work, stop with the daycare, and go back to school. That would be pretty encouraging, and citing the fact that the UK is doing it.

And they haven't exactly been living on the edge in terms of taking risks.

Now, politics could play a role in that. But that's people writing me at Briankilme.com are saying that, said notice, you can do that.

Something else some people bring up to me is: don't forget to bring up the border. The President of the United States bringing up the border, saying that he's going to actually underline it, stop it from fentanyl to illegals at $2 million plus. That would go a long way. But I just got to see an action plan after that. The vice president is going to Honduras, though, with private money.

No, make them do something, then turn over the private money, Mrs. Vice President. Larry Bobby Barak is next. Brian Kilmicho. Radio that makes you think.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. When are we going to stop putting up with the idiots in this country and just say, you now, it's mandatory to get vaccinated? F them, f their freedom. I want my freedom to live. I want to get out of the house already.

I want to go next door and play chess. I want to go take some pictures. This is bullshit.

So that's a little of Howard Stern of late, the most famous, successful radio personality in my lifetime, possibly ever, who's been unlistenable because all he does is talk about sitting in his basement and ducking COVID, wearing masks. And if you don't wear it, you're a terrible person. If you're Novak Djokovic, the best tennis player in the world who got kicked out of the Australian Open, you should be banned from all tennis. As is Kyrie Irvin, the same thing. If you're not vaccinated, he hates your guts.

What happened to this guy? Bobby Barack wrote a column on this. It's an outkick. Bobby, welcome back. Brian, thanks for having me.

So, Brian, first off, when did you realize that Howard Stern went over the edge? Yeah, Brian, like you had just mentioned it. This is the guy that's known as the most successful radio host ever. He's at least, you know, it's between him and Rush Limbaugh. And so many people turn to Howard Stern as just sort of like this voice for reason.

He's always been the guy that challenges the man.

Now he's become such a shill for the government and big pharma. And people have been asking over the past two years, what happened to Howard Stern? And I really noticed it this past year when the vaccines came out because this is a guy who thinks that, you know, vaccines are bulletproof. You get the vaccine, you're good. You'll be good forever.

But if you don't get the vaccine, not only is he calling for your job, he's called for the government to step in and punish these people. He demanded that the U.S. government step in and make sure Kyrie Irving can't work anywhere. He's even called for people to be arrested for nothing. Not getting the vaccine.

That's obviously not normal behavior by any account. Howard Stern has become exactly the person he spent decades mocking. It's really unbelievable to see the evolution of his career go so far south because right now he's a shell of what he used to be. Cut 31, more from Stern. Anyone who's unvaccinated and needs to be in the hospital for a COVID, they should just say, no, we're sorry, we told you to get vaccinated, and you didn't.

So you're done. I'd say go home. And uh take that horse uh dewormer. Good luck to you. Cybermectin.

And he has become just a left-wing Democrat. Remember, you know, he was talking about I don't want to get involved with Hillary or how or Donald Trump. Donald Trump was the best guest he ever had. And now he mocks him nonstop. It's because he's hanging out with Jimmy Kimmel and all the Hollywood elite.

That's something he used to mock. Yeah, Brian, and I think the big thing here is that people say, well, you know, COVID scared Howard Stern. But I say in my calendar, I don't think COVID necessarily ruined Howard Stern. It was COVID hysteria that did this to him. Like, I think the best way to put it, if you believed or believe everything that the CDC, Dr.

Fauci, CNN, Joe Biden, the New York Times, NPR, if you believe everything that they have told you about COVID, you're obviously not going to be in a healthy state because they've told us so many lies. They've made things so extreme that of course you're going to be sitting in your basement scary. I mean, that first sound bite you played, Howard Stern says, I just want to go to my neighbor's house and play checkers.

Well, Stern's trifes facts.

So is his neighbors. He's admitted that over and over again. There's nothing stopping Stern from going to play checkers with his fully vaxxed neighbors. But the media consumption that he consumes, the politicians and medical experts that he follows, listens to, and reads, they're telling him that he's still not safe, that these unvaccinated heathens are such a threat that they're killing people. Yeah.

If our leaders and medical experts would just come out and tell us the truth about this, that look, there are people that are vulnerable that should get the vaccine, but there are some healthy people that have questions. And by and large, most people are still able to go out and live their lives.

However, Stern doesn't think that because people like Fauci and the CDC, they won't admit that's the case because they don't want to relinquish that power. And I find that pretty sad. Remember Aaron Rodgers, too. Aaron Rodgers, he hated, he went off after Ron Rodgers because he was immunized, but he wasn't vaccinated. And then he came out and he had it, and it was a big controversy.

He went after him. Here he is going after Djokovic, cut 32. That's nut. Whatever his name is. I call him the Joker.

They should throw him right the f out of tennis. That's it. You should be out of tennis. He doesn't care about anyone else. His statement was, getting vaccinated is a private decision.

You shouldn't be mandated. Stay away from other people. You could infect other people. Stay home because you don't want it.

Well, that's like saying smoking is a private decision.

Well, that's true. But don't smoke in my face. What a dummy. Just a dumb, big, dumb tennis player. Really, a dummy?

There's Ph Ds who don't want this vaccine. It's still unproven in many cases. I got vaccinated, that's my choice. But the hatred for the unvaccinated is led by somebody who's looked at as edgy. Since when does if it was if Donald Trump had been got four more years as President, do you really think he'd be going to bat for this vaccine?

No, I mean, what was so fascinating about this is people like Howard Stern and Lookie Goldberg and the rest of UKAT were skeptical of the vaccine when Howard or when Donald Trump was still in office and he was pushing it with operational warp speed. But as soon as he got out of it and Joe Biden became an advocate of it, all of a sudden now they say this thing is mandatory. It's the only way you can protect yourself. It's the only true way to keep on living. And you just listen to Stern the way he talks about the tennis player and Rodgers and Kyrie Irving and he even went after Oprah Winfrey.

I mean, this demonization of the unvaccinated has only furthered the cultural and societal divide in the country. I mean, we have it right now where, like, before it seemed like the left and right couldn't get along.

Now it's like the vaccinated and the ones that still have some hesitancy, they're no longer on the same team. And, Brian, I don't think we can keep going on in a society where everything's your team, my team. If you You're on the wrong team, you're the villain, you should be punished. Personal health decisions should not dictate which team you're on. Why are we on teams right now based on vaccination status?

I mean, we already went down this dangerous road a couple of years ago after the death of George Floyd, where it's like, well, are you pro-BLM? Are you anti-BLM? Nobody even has a chance to consider their options because they have to so quickly identify which side they're on. You can't keep going on like this. Absolutely not.

I got two more topics to get to. One, the whole calculus has changed. Final thought. You might say, well, Howard Stern's saying the more responsible thing. Yeah.

What about this variant? This variant is not good. This vaccine does not block this variant. A booster doesn't block the variant. Look at Whoopi Goldberg.

She got the variant. Dr. Nicole Sapphire weighed in on that. Things have changed. He should change.

Cut 29. Omicron has really forced everyone to rethink COVID, and especially when we're talking about the OSHA mandate, that is based on old data, pre-Omicron data. At a time when vaccines had over 90% ability to prevent symptomatic illness, at that time, yes, the far majority of people who were transmitting the virus were unvaccinated. But that is not the case anymore, Shannon.

Now that has dropped to less than 30%. And while you can have a boost from getting a booster, that is short-lived.

So, right now, you have vaccinated, boosted, and unvaccinated transmitting the virus.

So we're all transmitting it. The booster negligible. They're already talking about a fourth and fifth shot.

So real quick, I want to pivot if I can to what's happening with this Golden State Warriors and the Beijing Olympics set to start February 4th. This owner came out and said this about the Muslim Uyghurs, 2 million of which are in concentration camps in chains, having their organs harvested. Nobody cares about what's happening to the Uyghurs, okay? You bring it up because you really care. And I think what's nice that you care.

The rest of us don't care. I'm just telling you very hard. You're saying you virtually don't care? I'm telling you a very hard, ugly truth, okay? Of all the things that I care about, yes, it is below my line.

I care about the fact that this guy walked it back. Not a word, Bobby, on ESPN. This is a non-story, even though he owns, he's part owner of one of the most high-profile teams in sports. Yes.

So a media monitoring service, which follows words and transcripts, they confirmed yesterday that ESPF has mentioned This story a grand total of zero times. It has not made their airwaves one time, not even for a news update.

So clearly. Either all these ESPN woke sters like Jalen Rose and Adrian Warzon Rowski would touch on all these social issues and claim they're bigger than basketball. Either they're hypocrites or somebody from ESPN management is telling them not to cover this story. I don't think people realize how big this story is because the headlines often say so far is you know Warriors part owner says he doesn't care about Lakers but Really, he's saying he doesn't care about Chinese genocide. Brian, the U.S.

Secretary of State declared about one year ago this time that China is committing genocide against this group. This is the closest thing we have to modern-day Nazis.

So this Warriors Part owner is essentially saying, I don't care about modern-day Nazis. Don't bother me with it. I don't care. We're making a lot of money from China. Don't mess with our bottom line.

I mean, that's the context of what he's saying. That seems monstrous type of comment. Don't quit. And if you were to say that about any other group, I mean, the NBA would force him to relinquish his stakes immediately. Can you imagine if he came out and said, I don't care about George Floyd, doesn't involve basketball?

He would be gone yesterday. Um, I think what he said is one of the more troubling sports statements I've heard in that I can ever remember. And for ESPS, the number one sports network, by a mile to just completely ignore it, means shame on them. And we should never take these guys seriously on any social topic if they're not going to condemn someone saying, I. I don't care about genocide.

Gotcha, Bobby. One last thing. Here is what the media leading up to today's 4 o'clock press conference, Eastern Time, with President of the United States. This has been a disaster. Last week was a disastrous week, and I think this has been a disastrous year, especially with all the promises President Biden has made.

But me saying that is maybe not a big news, but these people saying it is. President Joe Biden has had a very tough week with setbacks for his agenda, COVID complications, and the Supreme Court blocking his vaccine mandate. One year in, Mr. Biden has the second lowest approval rating ever measured in the White House and has never been less popular nationally. 2022 is not exactly off to a good start for the Biden administration.

The country is frustrated. His party is frustrated. We're two weeks into a midterm election year, a few days away from his one-year anniversary of inauguration, and it is black. It is very dark for him right now.

Now he's in the midst of what one famous children's book writer called a terrible, horrible. No good, very bad. Time.

So Bobby's pretty excited. Probably most people remember those voices of CNN and MSNBC. Call what happened? What's going on? Are they giving up on him?

You just played that montage of Meet the Press open with the Chuck Todd. I got a text Sunday morning, Brian, around 11 a.m. I was getting ready to watch the football game, and an industry source said, Hey, did you catch Chuck Todd this morning? I said, No, I don't watch Chuck Todd. And they're like, He just crushed Biden.

This is the hardest NBC and Meet the Press has ever come down on a Democratic president that we can ever remember.

So I went and watched that segment online. I could not believe it. I could not believe it, Brian. I mean, Chuck Todd delivered this guy a fatal blow. I mean, he pretty much just said, Not only is this guy failing as a president, I mean, he pretty much said he's off to one of the worst starts ever, which I agree with.

But I've been saying that since the start. For someone like Chuck Todd to say it, that's pretty eye-opening. And you have to wonder where all this goes. I think a lot of people forget during the Democratic primaries, it was the mainstream media and liberal pundits that actually questioned Biden's cognitive. Decline, right?

They were pushing for Tamala Harris, Pete Boo to judge Elizabeth Warren. They didn't jump on the Biden bandwagon until it was between Biden and Bernie Sanders because they thought Biden would do better in a general election with Trump.

So the media and Democrats, which I really consider the same group or at least the same ideology, is they've never totally been. behind Biden. They just used him because he was in true order. A moderate state. They portrayed him as this moderate face, but really they wanted to use him for a radical agenda.

So they have no loyalty to Biden.

So I think as soon as they smell blood, they'll turn on this guy. But they got nowhere to turn, Bobby. That's the problem. That's what's going to make it so interesting. We're going to watch the speech today and see if he can try to get off year two to a better start than year one ended.

Outkick.com is where you find Bobby's columns, also all over social media. Bobby Barack, thanks so much. Hey, thanks so much, Brian. Talk soon. You got it.

When we come back, we find out if there's indeed more to know. Educating, entertaining, enlightening. You're with Brian Kilmead. Yeah. Breaking news, unique opinions.

Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. I've been in a car when, you know, when one of our sons come on the radio, and I've been. As we say in Dublin, Scarlet. You know, I'm just embarrassed. And I do think U2 pushes out the boat on embarrassment quite a lot.

Maybe that's the place to be as an artist, is, you know, right at the edge of your level of paying for embarrassment, your level of embarrassment. And the lyrics as well, you know, I feel that on Boy and other albums, it was sketched out very unique and original material. I don't think I. filled in the details. And I look back and I go, God, they're just, I mean, just we'd run out of time.

Are you kidding me? Bono doesn't like you too? That means there's more to know. More. To know.

I cannot believe this. You might say, well, I think I could do better. I hear Billy Joel talk about his voice and how they messed with it in recording. But this guy's talking about the content of his songs. He told the Hollywood Reporter Chatter podcast, alongside Bandmate the Edge, that Irish rock star revealed that several aspects of U2 now made him cringe.

Let's listen to more. Why do you Find it a bit difficult to listen to the early stuff. It's the voice. The band sounds incredible. I just found the voice very strained and not macho.

And my Irish macho was kind of strained by that. It has been. The big discovery for me was listening to the Ramones and hearing the beautiful kind of Sound of Joy Ramona, realizing I didn't have to be that rock and roll singer. But I only became a singer, it was like recently, maybe it hasn't happened yet. I don't get it.

I mean, I don't see Paul McCartney walking away from his stuff. Billy Joel likes his songs, most of his lyrics. I've heard him extensively talking about some of the things that he would like to change and people change. But I mean, it makes everybody that followed YouTube feel like the band they feel like. They fell for a hoax.

I don't know, though, because, I mean, if you like the songs, you're going to like the songs, though. But he's saying it sucks. That's, you know what? The creator says it sucks. But here, here's this thing: Christopher Plum, a great actor, passed away, legendary actor.

One of his most famous movies is Sound of Music. He hates it. No, I don't like it. I don't think musicals should be movies. I agree.

A vet engineer and podcast host are among the 270 doctors demanding that Spotify take action against Joe Rogan. Have you ever seen the greatest hunk of idiocy? 87 of the signatories are medical doctors or doctors of osteopathic medicine. The conservative news site, The Blaze, found out that psychologists, physicians, assistants, medical students, engineers, all going after him.

Now, Spotify is not going to take him off. He's interviewing doctors and other experts about this. They want to shut him down because Anthony Fauci is not able to go on. I just laughing at the fact that veterinarians are on this list of people that are better experts. It shows you.

I mean, you got to find out too. Remember all those experts that. Said that the build back better was going to help the economy. You got to wonder what they're really expert in. Yeah.

We have so much more to know, but we just don't have any more time to know it. I'm pretty sure that made sense. I'm gonna listen to that back and see if I can separate myself from it. Maybe I'm embarrassed. Am I embarrassed by the more to know?

I'm going to think about that in the break. Thanks so much for listening, Brian King. 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, coming to you from New York City, heard around the country, heard around the world. Larry Kudlow decided to come on five hours early before he had to really be ready for his show. We appreciate him coming on, former White House Economic Advisor and host of Kudlow on FBN at 4 o'clock. And Martha McCallum will be here in about 25 minutes. But first things first, before we get to Larry, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. The Republicans block cloture on the legislation before us. I will put forward a proposal to change the rules to allow for a talking filibuster on this legislation. If Senate Republicans are going to oppose it, they should not be allowed to sit in their office.

They got to come down on the floor and defend their opposition. Do you really think Ted Cruz or Rand Paul or anybody else, Marco Rubio, would have a problem talking all day? Have you met them? Here we go again. The raging left wing will rail and not prevail when it comes to massive voting reform that pushes back against the Republicans' push for voter integrity.

But Senator Schumer will make his caucus vote on busting the filibuster and his tired voting act. But they are doomed. Why I think he hurts his own people next. Number two. When you have an incident like this, the perception is what we're fighting against.

This is a safe system. We're going to make sure New Yorkers feel safe in our subway system. And they don't feel that way now. I don't feel that way when I take the train. That's the same Eric Adams.

One Saturday, one Tuesday, realizing how tone-deaf it was, sitting there with the dead body of a 40-year-old thrown on the tracks because she just was waiting on the edge by some lunatic and saying the subways are safe. He quickly amended his way. The crime crisis, every major city is seemingly under attack. No blocks without homeless. No subways secure.

When will we decide we have had enough? Number President Biden holds a rare news conference tomorrow to reflect on his first year in office and to look ahead to the second. I say rare because Mr. Biden holds far fewer formal press conferences than did the three presidents who came before him. The president hits the one-year mark with slumping poll numbers and rising frustration within his Democratic Party.

And CNN, John King, going after Biden by just listening the facts, the presidential pressure, as the reeling White House tries to reset their agenda, what we can expect to hear, what Joe Biden's team plans to change, and what I would do if I was them. And more importantly than what I would do, let's find out what Larry Kudlow would do and where he'll be today. Larry, how rude is it of the president to start his address when you start your show? That's wonderful. Opening.

We're going four to six today. We're going to do the whole two hours. and line up a bunch of senators and other smart political and economic commentators We'll see what he has to say and then we'll comment on it. I might even have a few thoughts at the beginning of it also.

So it's going to be great cutluff from 4 to 6. I don't know if people are ready for it.

Well, I think for one thing, he wants to point out, Larry, he wants to point out that unemployment is under now 4%, that we do have economic growth, and that I guess he feels as though America is coming back better than any other country from the pandemic. But he is not going to really relish the fact that he was not ready for two variants that helped push our country and our economy back, is he?

Well, look, I think You know What do you say is true? The economy is in decent shape. in terms of the real jobs Employment, unemployment. I mean, that's true. And by the way, one surprising thing is how badly he and his team message this.

I mean, I used to talk about the economy in the middle of twenty twenty when the pandemic was raging. We were beginning a V-shaped recovery. I used to go out there almost every day and communicate it, and we'd and that was our strategy. These guys don't do that. In fact, Brian, they had virtually no communication strategy at all.

at any given time. They don't highlight the wins. They rage against the losses. Nobody knows what their messaging is. And that's really one of the fatal flaws of the Biden presidency so far.

But, but, but, but. The biggest problem is inflation, public enemy number one. Consumer prices up 7%. producer prices up ten percent, it's cutting into real wages and family income.

So that's the inflation tax is something he's just got to deal with. And a five trillion dollar spending bill is not the answer. And that's one reason why his polls are plunged. Do you have you ever heard a message in modern America of I need you guys to get back to work. I need people to get off the couch and get back to work.

You know, we remember John F. Kennedy came out and said, it's not what you can do for your country, which is not what the country could do for you, which is what you could do for your country. I would love that message because I think I'm most concerned, but you're the economic expert at labor participation. There's no skin in the game for too many people. Only six of 10 are working, right?

Uh yes. That's true. It's a little more complicated than that, but participation is still. lower than it should be. I mean, you really have to use The prime working age, twenty-five to fifty-four.

Yeah. That's roughly eighty, what is it, eighty, eighty-one percent of Are working, you never get much higher than 83 or 84 percent. But those two percentage points are crucial. There's a, I would say, There's a couple of million, maybe two, three million people, Brian, that should be back into the labor force. And working, and they're not.

There are a lot of reasons for that. One of them is the mishandling of these COVID mandates, which was a terrible mistake, and backfired.

Okay, so all across the board, right, people that didn't get the vaccines. Don't want to get the vaccines, and more likely have already had COVID, survived it, and have natural immunity, don't need the vaccines.

So that's been the argument, and that's why they're staying home. Plus, listen, on this whole budget debate, right, WorkFair, which is Joe Manson's rallying cry, any of these safety net programs and social spending programs should. Good. have a work requirement. And they don't.

So there's no incentive to go back to work. Folks are staying home because they can collect these federal assistance, welfare and so forth. And that's part of Biden's policy problem. That's part of his big government socialist problem. It doesn't pay to work.

For the last couple percentage points of the labor force, the jobs are there. As you pointed out, the economy is reasonably strong. Inflation is going to kill it eventually, but for now, it's reasonably strong. But not everyone has to work. The incentives aren't there.

And Biden doesn't boost that. See, this whole package he's got. They oppose work requirements. Can you imagine that? I mean, 25 years ago, Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich created welfare reform with workfare.

I mean, I don't know how many times in the Oval Office I sat with the President and various Senators and House members, senior people, you know, during committee markups for legislation where Trump insisted on a work fair provision. I remember the Farm Bill. And we couldn't even get the Republicans to put enough work fare into the farm bill with respect to. Food stamps and other nutrition-related programs. They want to expand the child allowance and the child tax credit with no work fare provisions.

So that goes to the heart of what you're saying. And I think until that's solved, people are going to be very unhappy. We will not live up to our potential. And families will not do as well if they're not working and producing. And if we don't get the productivity, then we're not going to have long-term growth and we're going to sink back into inflation and stagnation.

Larry Kudlow with us. Larry, I know you've done a lot of work to find out what's happening, what's going to happen with the Build Back Better, what's going to happen with the blowing up the filibuster, what's going to happen with voting rights.

So you picked up the people that matter most, Senator Sinema and Senator Manchin. Here's what Senator Manchin, dressed casually, I might add, said yesterday about the vote that's happening today about the filibuster, Cut 24. I just don't know how you break a rule. To make a rule and thinking you're doing something is going to. We've never done this.

We have never done it. I've been looking for every precedent I can, every carp out.

So we've done everything along the lines of with the rules. And I don't know why we can't come together and find a pathway forward. But breaking the rules There's no checks and balances in this pro process, only for The only thing we have is a filibuster. And he's not budging. You've talked to him.

I know you have a confidential conversation, but where is the steel in his spine come from? Is he more befuddled about the constant attacks? He doesn't seem to be worried about anything, even though he seems so isolated on the left.

Well, look at he has very strong support in West Virginia. And in fact, Brian, his support Look, Save America killed the bill. And Manchin has been absolutely consistent on this. He's been absolutely consistent on the filibuster.

So his numbers in West Virginia his strong favorables have virtually doubled. And he's up around, I don't know, sixty percent overall. Um Donald Trump, I think, carried the state by about 70%. And people in West Virginia don't want social spending and taxing, and they don't want the Green New Deal. That's a fossil fuel state.

So, in other words, Manchin has so much support at home. It's very funny what today I read: Bernie Sanders said he's going to primary Manchin, and Manchin's response was, make my day. I just thought that was fabulous. I mean, nothing could help Joe Manson more than in West Virginia than an attack by Bernie Sanders.

So, you know, Manchin is a tough guy. I've known him a long time. I'm not surprised. Look, he's not a supply sider. I mean, he and I would probably have some disagreements on lower tax rates.

But when it comes to spending and deficits and inflation, I mean, Manson's probably. The only guy in the entire National Democratic Party. Who understands two things. Number one, more government spending causes inflation. And number two, the public hates it.

And he's been spot on. He should run. He should be Biden's Treasury Secretary. He should be Biden's chair of the Council of Economic Advisors. He got the story completely right.

He's been right fundamentally, analytically, he's right. And popularly, electorally, he's right. But you're not going to move him.

So, real quick, Larry, if you were trying to help Joe Biden, he called you up and said, Larry, give me a couple of lines to get people excited about my second year in office. What would you tell him to say? Get rid of your senior staff. First thing he should do is replace his Chief of Staff His Treasury Secretary, his head of the my old agency, the National Economic Council. That's point number one.

You need more sensible, common sense type people around him all day long. Number two is change your policies. Stop the spending. stop the inflation. Stop lying.

You can't look the public in the eye the way he does and tell them that a $5 trillion spending bill is going to cut inflation. Or you can't just blame poultry, meat packers, oil companies, right? You can't, by the way, you know what the biggest, uh, the biggest businesses in Delaware are, or besides financial transactions, uh, it's meat and poultry. He's going against his own state's interest, for heaven's sakes. He needs a thorough overhaul, Brian.

I hear you. Thorough overhaul. I don't see how the hell you do it. Do you think that the performance of Joe Biden in year one has helped or hurt Donald Trump's decision whether to run again?

Well, I think it's helped his popularity. immeasurably.

Okay, immeasurably. because uh the prosperous Trump years look almost calm compared to this race baiting Trump years and this high inflation I mean Biden years and the high inflation. Regarding running free election, I speak to the former President on a regular basis Um Whenever he asks, I give him help. I write him some memos every now and then. I don't think he knows.

I mean, 2024 is too far away. He doesn't know yet. The midterms are going to be everything. And one of the things you're going to see tonight, Brian, is What? strategy Biden is going to choose for the midterms.

Is he going to be mean, bitter? You know, racist, that kind of thing, or is he actually going to move to the center with a calmer, more unified approach?

Okay, I'm very interested in his tone tonight, Brian Kilmeader.

Okay. Because that's going to tell me about the midterm elections. Right now, Biden is absolutely dead in the water. The Democrats are going to lose both houses, save America, kill the bill, and keep Kilmein alive. Larry Kudlow is going to provide the incident analysis.

He's going to watch the speech with all of us and provide the experts in depth and perspective. Host of Kudlow and 4 on FBN. Larry, thanks so much. Thanks, Brian. All right.

And thanks for having me on on Monday. When we come back, Martha McCallum joins us in the studio. This is the Brian Kilmead Show. Don't move. Diving deep into today's top stories.

It's Brian Kilmead. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. If the Republicans block cloture on the legislation before us, I will put forward a proposal to change the rules. to allow for a talking filibuster on this legislation.

Historically, changes to the Senate rules Have been necessary to adapt to change circumstances. If Senate Republicans are going to oppose it, they should not be allowed to sit in their office. They got to come down on the floor and defend their opposition. to voting rights.

Well, that is Chuck Schumer threatening Republicans that they'll have to talk. Martha McCallum, you're in studio, aren't you? I am. Right, you're set to anchor our coverage from 4 to 6. Preview 3 to 5.

How about three to five? That's not where he lives. Right, right, yeah. Three to five on the east coast. I was brought up on the east coast, but in my mind, I'm central.

But, Martha. Do you think Republicans would mind talking? To me, I think the talking filibuster would be a riot. We'd be back to green eggs and hammers. Absolutely.

No, I don't think they'll mind at all. I think the people who really would rather not have this vote are people like Maggie Hassan in New Hampshire, people like Mark Kelly in Arizona, Catherine Cortez-Masto in Nevada. They're people who have tough Senate races coming ahead and who would probably be better off if they didn't have to vote on this particular voting reform or whatever you want to call it. Call the first filibuster buster. Absolutely.

Uh it looks like Mark Kelly according to I guess The paperboy delivered the Arizona newspaper to Eric today because he says that Mark Kelly has said he is blowing up the filibuster. Good luck with that. Good luck with that. Good luck with that in Arizona. He is someone who's going to have a competitive race in Arizona, and he's up in 2022.

So this is. He's, you know, but but you know what? You have to have to pick a lane. This is sort of my theme for the day as we look ahead to the speech as well and to the QA as well. And so I guess Mark Kelly picked his lane.

Right. So the guy who also picked his lane is Joe Manchin, Kirsten Sidderman. They're not budging. I mean, just. The audacity just moving forward of the way the Democrats are trying to harass them into doing it.

And as I just asked Larry Kudlow, he's like, it's a joke that when they're saying Bernie Sanders will prime go get get primary Joe Manchin. Right. What does Bernie Sanders know about West Virginia and Kristen Sinema? I mean, good luck with that. But you know, this is what I think the president has to look at really closely because there's a reason that Kristen Sinema and Joe Manchin feel.

Feel confident digging in their heels because they feel like they're in the right position politically. And that's also why you have Elizabeth Warren now sort of saying, Well, we'd be open to the idea of stripping down parts of BBB and passing them individually.

So they won. Cinema and Mansion won. No question. This battle, right? And now you've got the progressives who have been full of bluster and storm and fury saying, well, we're willing to compromise at this point.

We're going to maybe go piecemeal on BBB and see what we can get. You know, when we come back, I want to talk a little crime. I want to talk about what's happening in New York and 12 major cities where homicides have hit all-time highs and that's not a good thing. And attacks on cops are going through the roof. And the president, for some reason, is going to use executive order to get police reform.

Nuts. That's true with Martha McCallum when he comes back, I guess, with me. Um Yeah. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead.

I've been talking with my friends and like we don't really feel very safe either. I always like stand against some kind of like surface so that no one can like push me. And like I don't really wear headphones anymore. I try to be not too close. To the platform.

It's something I've started doing more and more as these incidents have started increasing. I stand near a pole or I stand near the railing so I have something to hold on to. if there's any kind of attack. And that's these are women speaking in New York about subways. And they say, you know, I no longer feel safe.

Flat out, don't feel safe. Why would you? I mean, I'm on the subway at least three times a week. I'm on Long Island Railroad five times a week, unless I'm doing some type of shoot that I'm working late. Martha McCallum here.

Martha, these women are not talking to from some gang-infested areas. It's Midtown New York City. That's where they're doing these interviews. People are really concerned. 12 major cities have hit burglaries, robberies, and homicide highs.

This is where I feel the President needs to understand when he comes out and talks to people. He needs to meet people where they are. And when people say, well, where should he pivot? Where should he pivot this time? You don't need to pivot.

You need to open your eyes. And look at the moment that you're living in and the issues that are before you. And this is one of them in cities across this country. This is happening in my small town in New Jersey, where we have a tremendous amount of car theft, much more brazen theft than we've ever seen before. Carjacking.

Well, that's that's carjackings are rising in New York and Philadelphia.

So I expect it's going to be in the suburbs where I live soon. Because you know what? When the car is running, it's a lot easier to jump in it and steal it.

So, you know, that and there's no repercussions.

So they have a huge business just stealing these cars and putting them on containers and selling them overseas. It's, you know, it's a racket of cash. But you can't use cars anymore. No, this is true. Right.

Uh so I'm listening to these women talk crime and with them I'm wondering if this dovetails with another goal from the Joe Biden people. And one of them was to make him seem more empathetic and go right to the voters. They seem to think that he bonds well with the voters. That's one thing you would do. You know, you can't really do subway policy, but you can understand commuters trying to make a living, trying to get home, and the mentally ill throwing that and the evil throwing them on the tracks.

Absolutely. And that's what I'm saying. That's what you need to open your eyes. You wonder why you're losing support among Hispanic and black voters, and it's been going on for the last several years. I mean, Joe Biden secured 63% of the Hispanic vote.

Now he has a 28% approval number. That's an enormous drop with Hispanic voters.

So when you look at the cities, you look at where a lot of people of all different backgrounds live, they do not feel safe. They want police to protect them and they want to know that when people do get caught, they're actually going to be off the street for more than. 12 hours. Right. And when you talk about what the president's got to be concerned about, and that is blue-collar Hispanic voters.

He lost blue-collar white voters already, blue-collar Hispanic voters. But not only, they're not just saying I'm not supporting you, they're saying I'm supporting Republicans. And do you remember, Martha? You would be covering this stuff live. The conventional thought was: if you say bad things about the border, I want to put a fence and wall up, you don't like Hispanic people, you're losing the Hispanic vote.

That was part of the autopsy that Reince Priebus put together. That's right. Look, don't talk mean about the border. And I thought, what does that have to do with it? If you're here legally, you should be upset by that.

It turns out they're upset by that. They're upset by what's happening right now.

Well, here's what happens with every immigrant group that comes to the United States, right? They come and they're the Irish or they're the Italian or, you know, but then they become Americans. And Hispanics and minorities are American voters now, okay? That, that. Delineation is not what it was before.

Democrats cannot count on that vote. And also, it just flies in the face of this idea that, oh, you know, everybody who comes across the border, because we let them come across the border, is going to be a Democrat voter. Because what you're finding is that the larger population of Hispanic voters are siphoning off the top because they're Americans and they want people to live by the rules and they want to have a safe community to live in. And they don't want to be treated like an identity group anymore.

So, Saturday, after this woman gets pushed on the subway horrifically at 40 years old, and there was a big candlelight vigil last night, Eric Adams shows up and says, I don't want you guys to be dissuaded by this. The subways are safe. Yeah. So. He tried to amend that, and you tell me if you think he was effective.

Here's a little of the speech, cut 13. Yes, we must deal with crime in real time. But yes, there's some things that we can do every day. I'm saying hello. Good morning.

and interacting with each other. and no longer allowing our city to be an isolated city. Where we lean into the places we disagree instead of the places we agree. This is New York City. the most diverse place on the globe.

It's time for us. to come together as a city. and not allow these issues to take place. My heart goes out to this family. I ask the press.

to please allow the family to mourn. Give them the privacy that they deserve. and ask all of us to see why we're members of the greatest race alive. And that's the human race. It's a little of his remarks yesterday.

And then he went on to say that when I'm on the subway, I was scared. He goes, My first day as mayor, I went on the subway, I was scared. I heard the screaming, I heard the yelling, I saw the homeless. And that's dramatically different than what he said on Saturday. Yeah, you know, this is sort of a common.

Line of thinking among certain groups in New York City and in other cities, I imagine as well, that it's just a perception. The numbers haven't really changed that much. Crime isn't that bad. When it happens to you, you, yeah. I mean, when you lose your 40-year-old daughter, mother, sister, and when you look at what happened in California when your 24-year-old graduate student daughter works in a furniture store and someone walks, these people deserve, they not deserve, they need to be in an institution.

They need to be somewhere where people can care for them. This man in New York, his own sister, said she couldn't believe that he was allowed out on the street because she knew that he was clearly a threat. Couple that with the other stories that we have covered very closely: the 21 children under the age of 21 in New York who've been murdered, the two teenage boys in Chicago who've been murdered.

So, this is not just a story for, you know, for these two women. This is a story for all of these young people who have lost their lives in a very unsafe environment. What Eric Adams needs to say is: I'm a former cop. I'm a former transit cop. We're going to make these subways safe.

End of story. And I will not come back to you until I have. Until you are seeing an increased presence of police down there, when people are prosecuted for the crimes that they commit, and when you feel markedly safer, and you should set a deadline. Give me five months to make you feel safer in New York City and watch me. Right.

Now the train's about to go up. Yesterday I had to wait. Usually I'll hop on on 42nd Street, not get the letter, but I'll get the number trains. And yesterday I went like the best thing is because when they got there quick, you miss a train, you got to wait 40 minutes.

So I'm trying to get there quick, and I had to wait seven minutes for a train, which is death.

So I'm waiting, and they're starting to upgrade the lines again to where they were, which will get more people down there, but not unless people feel safe.

Now he's telling people who are walking the beat, you're responsible for what's beneath your feet, which is tough. That's why you have transit cops. You can't tell people to watch, you know, have a, you know, what do they have, a flat screen down there that's supposed to monitor both places or a ring doorbell to watch the station while they're above.

So the other thing I want to talk to you about, and I don't know where you stand, I don't know what's going on with the homeless situation. I know wherever city I go and went to 18 separate cities on my book tour. Everywhere I go, there's a homeless issue. It's unbelievable. Everywhere I go.

I used to say, wow, California and Florida because it's so nice. No, it's everywhere. North Carolina, South Carolina. Where was I? In Dayton.

Everywhere I go, there's a homeless situation. I want you to hear what Tucker said last night, Cut 21. If you live in the United States, you may have noticed that many of our public spaces have become permanent homeless encampments. You see trash-filled tents blotting out what were once green and tidy public parks. You step over vagrants drooling unconscious on the steps of train stations on the way to work.

You watch as junkies smoke meth without any embarrassment at all and then yell at pedestrians on the sidewalk, maybe at your children. Everywhere, at every intersection, there are beggars. It's what we used to imagine India was like, but this is not Calcutta. This is New York and San Francisco and Austin, Texas.

So the question is, what happened? And the short answer is, our leaders did this. No matter what they tell you, homelessness is not an act of God. It's not the result of economic collapse in this country. America did not run out of housing.

Instead, a determined group of well-funded ideologues decided to make it easier to live on the streets in this country while doing drugs. It's a subculture. You see these tents everywhere, right? It's unbelievable. In New York City, in Washington, D.C., in Austin, as Tucker points out, in Miami, in a lot of places, there are just tent cities everywhere.

And it's hard for me to explain to my kids who are, you know, in their early 20s that this isn't what it used to look like in cities. And they live in cities now. And they're like, is this normal? No, it's not normal. It is not normal.

And it reminds me of kind of what New York was like in the 70s when you had a crack. Cocaine epidemic that was devastating to this city and other cities across the country. But Tucker's right. It's allowed to happen. And the other huge mistake that we have made is to deinstitutionalize mental health, to say, well, we want everyone on medication and mainstreamed out in society.

We'll tell that to the family of the 24-year-old in California and the 40-year-old in New York because it's not working. People don't take their medication. We need well-run medical, mental health institutions in these cities that can house people and that can care for them. How come these mayors aren't embarrassed by this? How come they don't get up in the morning and say, how do I fix this?

They get more and more money to keep it. Gee, well, that's a good question. That's a good question. And the money is what's always the answer. Why throw more money at the problem?

I looked at Merrick Garland's comments because I'm thinking, where's the DOJ on this? Where is Merrick Garland out talking every day about what's going on in our cities and how the federal government can aid local law enforcement to help, right? And so I went back, they did this $1.6 billion program where they basically sent money. To different cities, right? That's not what's going to work.

What's going to work is building the confidence of law enforcement, backing law enforcement, hiring more cops, hiring more police officers, and having their back is what's going to start to make a difference. And of course, you have to do the prosecution side of the equation as well. I don't know why. I didn't understand why Bill de Blasio wasn't ashamed of what had happened to the city on his watch. And I don't understand why these mayors don't feel a personal responsibility for.

The deteriorating safety and the condition. Doesn't anyone care anymore about the fact that the park looks terrible? That it should be pristine, it should be beautiful. That's why these parks were created by people who had a lot of foresight 150 years ago, who said, Let's carve a park in the middle of the city so people have a place to go. Not so that people could live there in tents, you know, shooting up drugs.

But it's happening everywhere.

So you could tell the cops, I need that cleaned out. They will clean it out. I need all these tents done and all these people out. I need the garbage taken up. You work with sanitation and they'll do it.

But right now, there is no political will to do that, which blows me away because they don't vote.

So usually they're hostage to voters.

So you really think these people are. There's also a laziness. I think there's a laziness. A subculture. People don't want to participate in the future.

Not of the people who are in the tents, of the leadership. I think it's like, you know, that would be a lot of work to figure that out. Yeah, I really do. I can't understand anything else. You know, when you have a job and your job is to create a safe city, that's your number one responsibility, no matter what leadership position you're in, the government, is to keep people safe.

With the president, it's going to be national security. On the local level, it's going to be to keep your city safe.

So check that box before you start worrying about anything else. Absolutely. Martha McCallum's going to stick around and give us an exclusive preview into her show you kind of did already, but that's not really an accurate tease. You'll do it again? There's more to know.

Oh, you have more? I do. And then we'll find out if she needs to know more. The answer might be no. She knows enough.

Educating, entertaining, enlightening. You're with Brian Kilmead. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmead. Why do you...

Find it a bit difficult to listen to the early stuff. It's the voice. The band sounds incredible. I just found the voice very strained and Not macho, and my Irish macho was kind of strained by that. It has been.

The big discovery for me was listening to the Ramones and hearing. beautiful kind of Sound of Joy Ramona, realizing I didn't have to be that rock and roll singer. But I've only I only became a a singer like recently. Maybe that hasn't happened yet.

Well, that is a Bono, and I think it's trying to find out if Martha needs to know more. More. To know. He says he's embarrassed. You two lead front man.

Embarrassed by U2 in the band, almost everything he's done. Embarrassed looking back. How do you? I feel for the fans. Why is he saying that?

I have no idea. Why he's in, I don't know, he's in touch with his inner child or something. And he feels like I'm embarrassed. I wasn't a good singer. I don't, I'm embarrassed by some of the lyrics.

It's unfinished. Did you like you two? I love you too. Right. You know what?

There's nobody better in concert. I love a good YouTube concert.

So, but I do think, you know, all of us, I mean, maybe he's just going through sort of like a midlife crisis because when you look back at the stuff that you did when you were younger, you think, oh, that was terrible, you know? And you're embarrassed by it.

So he's just sharing that with everybody. But I think he knows how. I think he knows. Really?

It's false? In time, he will look back on it in a different way. He was appearing on Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter, the Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter podcast, alongside bandmate Edge. Bandmate said they both agreed that YouTube made them cringe. I think they're just being cool.

You know, just being cool. See, I don't even get it. I don't even know how to be a rocket. You know what? It's all trash, right?

Like a painter who says, you know, this, this, like, Van Gogh goes, you know, it's garbage. Everything I did is garbage. That's all that is. Right. That's why I'm never going to be a painter.

Next, Brittany Spears issues a cease and desist order against her sister, Jamie. She's got a real problem with this. Quote, we write with some hesitation because the last thing Brittany wants is to bring more attention to your ill-timed book and its misleading outrageous claims. I guess she's writing a book and she doesn't like what's in it. Quote, you all, you of all people, know the abuse and wrongdoing Brittany had to endure during the conservatorship after initially growing up with a ruinous alcoholic father.

So they're all killing each other now. Who do you side with if you had to take Jamie or Brittany? Oh, gee.

Well, I'm going to go with Brittany on that one, but I just think, you know, when I look at families like this, I just say, why don't you keep it within your own family and try to mend your fences rather than splashing it all over everywhere? And boy, isn't Brittany splashing a lot of stuff all over when you look at that on Instagram? Oh, boy. She's probably going to sell out like the Meadowlands with 75,000 people. No, I would definitely, in all of that whole group, I would side with Brittany because she's, you know, she's the one with the talent.

Right. But how soon? Everybody else is riding on it. Right. How soon do we see her in a barbershop getting her hair cut again?

I mean, at this rate, I feel bad for her. No, she has issues. I hope she can straighten them out. She's married now with four kids. No, I've always thought that Brittany would come out strong in the end.

Really?

I did not know. I know I always did. Even when she was like shaving her head and smashing the windshield, I was like, this is a tough stage she's going through, but ultimately, I think she'll be okay. We have talked about this. She'll be a really cool 50.

I don't know if there you never voiced to me your optimism about Britney.

Well, there you go. See, there's a lot you don't know.

Next, crack a barrel or Ordered to pay $9.4 million after a man was served sanitizer instead of water. His name was William Cronin. Oh, no. And he'll receive just $750,000 from the restaurant chain. How much of it did he drink?

Like, how long did it take him to figure out that it was sanitizer? Please don't be so skeptical. He developed gastrointestinal issues after a waitress accidentally refilled his water glass, which he thought was water, but turned out to be a mixture of water and EcoSanta commercial grade bleach. Remember, that's what Trump wanted to do. He wanted us all to drink fleece.

Well, here you have it. It does not work. I had it in my mouth up until, and then he told me it was probably not a good idea.

Meanwhile, label on it, bad label on that bottle.

So, you hear about this next. You hear about in China, athletes are being urged to use burner phones as a watchdog group warned that China is going to be tapping their phones. What about all these? What do you think? Do you think NBC is actually going to do investigative journalism on the Holocaust-like conditions for the Uyghurs?

What's happening in Hong Kong, the fear in Taiwan? See you. Does anyone really know? He would have to. He would do it.

Absolutely. No, I mean, it takes guts, and I do not expect it. I hope I'm wrong. Who runnings? Jamaica will send a four-man bobsled team.

All right. Literally, remember? Yay! Of course I remember. 25 years.

Let's see if they can win it all. Martha, see you three. See you three. Thanks, Prime. Put the power of over 100 meteorologists and the worldwide resources of Fox in your hands with the Fox Weather Podcast.

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