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Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Meet Show. We have so many choices about what to lead with, what to have in the show. We'll try to cover it all. Andy McCarthy standing by for the latest on the Trump attack. This is another one.

You could get on Donald Trump and you could say, hey, wait a second, why'd you challenge the Georgia state election? You could say, Mr. President, why were you thinking taking all those documents? Even you could be the biggest Trump supporter. You could ask yourself, why create trouble?

But this last one to me smells like pure politics. Republican president who. Made his name in New York. And has an attorney general wants to make her name, that's what this is about. We'll discuss all that and of course take your calls.

Collie Shimkus at the bottom of the hour. She actually asked me after as I led Fox and Friends, she said, Brian, can I make a suggestion on what we're going to talk about?

So being a nice person I am. I said, okay, what do you think, Carly? What would you like to talk about? And she told me she wants to talk about what's going on with Russia. And I said, Okay.

But it's not part of the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. How long from here should Americans be prepared for that economic pain? How long? I mean, it really depends on how long it takes for wages and more than that, prices to come down, for inflation to come down.

There it is. The prediction from Mr. T in Rocky III: pain. That's what Jerome Powell was saying, with less flamboyance. Economy, the Fed, banking, the circus on Capitol Hill, and what it all means to you and your family finances.

Number two. We're learning those activists suing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for dropping 50 migrants on Martha's Vineyard are heavily funded by George Soros, receiving nearly $1.4 million from his Open Society Foundation. That is Criff Jenkins. Bring it on. That's the message from Governor DeSantis as the illegal immigrants who landed after signing a permission slip on this beautiful aisle of Martha's Vineyard, they are now suing.

No joke. A massive seizure of fentanyl in Florida, enough to kill 4 million people, should be the lead story, but everyone's playing politics. Number one. This investigation revealed that Donald Trump engaged in years of illegal conduct to inflate his net worth to achieve, to deceive banks and the people of the great state of New York. Yeah, Letitia James, the Attorney General, in a tougher fight to keep her job than she thought.

The Trump attack reaches new lows as an attorney general makes it clear it's personal and political. What the civil lawsuit says and why the Trump needs to win for all of us to win, meaning supporters and detractors. With me right now to discuss it, break it down. Andy McCarthy, Fox News contributor, author of Ball of Collusion.

So, Andy, I read your column. I know where you're going with this. First off, for people at home wondering what lawsuit is this, it's a civil lawsuit against his company, including his kids. They want about over $200 million back in restitution. But the people that should be complaining are the banks, and the banks got their money back and more, right?

Yes, this is not exactly the Bernie Madoff case, is it, Brian? Um you know, there's no victims. Yeah. which is why um for all of her bells and whistles at the press conference yesterday, Every prosecutor and the prosecutors crawled through Trump's financial records for three years. Federal prosecutors, this case started I was uh I had a laugh at the end of her during her press conference when she talked about how she was referring The case, referring her complaint to the Justice Department.

The Justice Department had this case in the first place. And they looked at it very hard. They decided that Michael Cohen was not a promising. Foundation to build a fraud case on. Who would have thought?

Uh yeah, right. Um And then it's You know, who was it? The Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance did his kind of Captain Ahab's quest for Trump's financial records, went up to the Supreme Court twice. to finally get them. And when they got them, they realized there wasn't a case there.

So I mean, they have a minor case that they brought against Weiselberg, who was Trump's top financial guy at the organization. And they kept running around saying, we got him to plead to fifteen counts. But what they don't tell you is he's going to do all of one hundred days in jail. It's penny anti stuff. And it's the same stuff that they're using Next month to have a trial against the Trump organization on the same minor tax stuff.

But again, they were really trying to make a case on Trump and his children, and they couldn't. The feds gave up on this a couple of years ago because they didn't think there was anything there. I think that's important, Brian, because I can tell you, I was a prosecutor in that office for twenty years. they don't give away an attractive case to the state. You know, if the Southern District of New York thinks there's a case there, they take the case.

And by the way, that could make you a career. Right? Yeah. That's what those terrible, ambitious prosecutors hope.

So I was one of them, I know.

So I've you know, look, they don't They don't uh give away case, especially, you know, look for a lot of the uh people who Um Lawyers in that office care about, there's no more attractive target on the planet than Donald Trump.

So if they could have made a big old fraud case against Trump, they'd have been delighted to do that.

So why is it I mean, I cannot believe this Attorney General is on the record saying things like this about Donald Trump prior to yesterday, cut seven. No one is. above the law, including this illegitimate president. And so I look forward. I look forward to going into the office of Attorney General every day.

Suing me. him defending your rights and then going home. I say one name. That's round. That should motivate you.

Will you sue him for us? Oh, we're gonna definitely sue him. We're gonna be a real pain in the ass.

So having great fun, posting on social media goes ahead and does it.

Now with uh I saw that Alan Dershowitz said the first thing we would do if I'm his attorney is try to dismiss his case on things like that. Will that work, trying to dismiss it on first blush? Yeah, well, I think Alan's instincts are right. I just wish that I had any confidence the state of New York would do that. You know, the thing, Brian, that you have to realize.

especially with New York, but with a lot of states. is that unlike the federal government, Where law enforcement positions are appointed positions.

So, like, for example, when Bill Barr or Merrick Garland was attorney general, they get nominated by the president, they have to get vetted by the Senate. The Senate grills them hard to make sure they're not going to use the law as a political weapon. That's a big issue in every confirmation. That's the way that system works. In New York, it's totally different.

We don't insulate law enforcement from politics, these are elected positions.

So politics infects the legal system, and unfortunately, The political force in New York that really punches above its weight. is hardcore progressives. They're they are the The juice and the democratic Forty But if you're trying me and I say, look, she hates me, this is personal, look at the tape, does that help your case? It depends on who your jury is, right? I mean, so if you're in a jury in New York and you get a bunch of anti-Trump zealots on the jury, That might be appealing to you.

Unbelievable. Do you need unanimous? Do they have to be unanimous? In a civil case, and look, Brian, I don't think this case is ever going to trial. This is going to take years.

But um In some cases, you're entitled to a jury. In some cases, the juries have to be unanimous, but not usually in civil cases. But if this case ever gets to trial, I'll eat my hat. It's not happening. And look, Letitia James does this all the time.

She did the same thing with Cuomo. She does this long investigation She figures out a way to To dump the investigation into the public record because she's got her eyes on his job. She dumps out a bunch of stuff that she was never able to prove. I'm not carrying a brief for Cuomo, I think he's a bad guy. Um, you know, mm she never even tried to sue him.

And even though she put out a book length investigation findings. There's not a single prosecutor in the state of New York who was able to make or tried even to make acceptance. I'm so confused. Andy, I'm really confused. Because what they're trying to do is stop him from doing business for five years of trying to get financing anywhere.

In the meantime, while this investigation is going, how does he conduct his business? Is he affected? Does he just say, Hey, that's my team of attorneys, you deal with New York? But is he going to be hindered from doing anything with banks? Brian, you have to think about it from the perspective of what would you do if you were a financial institution.

I mean, there's risk here now, right?

So I don't want to pretend that because I think this case is nonsense that it means no consequences for Trump. I think there'll be severe consequences for Trump. I would just add this, It's not just Trump. If you're Uh some business institution and you're thinking about whether New York is a place where you want to set up shop and do business, I think you want to think twice about that. Because if you have a legal environment like this one that's so thoroughgoingly politicized, and where the prosecutors use the power that they get from the public in order to go after their political enemies, and they think their political enemies are like the one percent and the rich and the profitable companies.

If I if I if it were me, I Open the business in Florida, you know, or someplace else, not in New York. Right, but like if like a Florida bank has their headquarters in New York, obviously that's problematic, and you don't get the biggest institutions outside of New York City. But that's for something that works out. And then people say, hey, aren't you being sued? I don't know if I should lend to you.

Now, in this lawsuit, in the 200-plus pages, they say things like, well, you said in order to get financing that you had a 30,000-foot apartment, it's 10,000-foot. You said that Mar-a-Lago is $300 million. It's actually worth $74 million.

So things like that. Does that matter? Because I always thought institutions like Deutsche Bank, who he took most of his money from, they're the ones who call the Attorney General and going, Listen, I'm being screwed by X, Y, and Z real estate mogul. Instead, they got paid back. They have no problem.

And the Attorney General hunts and examines and sees and then files. But there is no hurt party here. And I say that as a pedestrian, not as obviously a legal. It doesn't seem like anybody's hurt. Brian, I think you're right.

I mean, you look I was someone asked me yesterday, do you think she could say that the taxpayers with the victims. And I'm like, how could you how could you say the pa taxpayers were the victims? If Trump gets a loan, if Trump says my net worth is a billion dollars. And it turns out his net worth is actually fifty million dollars. But on the basis of him saying it was a billion.

Now, let's we're not in the real world now, right? In the real world, the bank has its own appraisers. They're not going to rely on Trump's. They're going to do their own due diligence. But let's say, just for argument's sake, I give Trump the loan as the bank on the basis of his misrepresentation that he's worth twenty times more than he actually is worth.

If he pays the loan back, who gets hurt? Nobody. But, you know, I mean, you can say that, yes, he got more favorable terms than the average person would get, but the average person ain't worth $50 million either. But, you know, Eddie, it's the whole theory of if I have a town, if I'm in Ohio, and I go, you know what, it would be great to have a Donald Trump hotel in Ohio. I'm going to give him a 2% loan, perhaps, if I could work it out.

Because my theory is if I could get that beautiful Trump hotel in Dayton, I'll get more people. I'll get more traffic. I'll get more tourists. I'll get more conventions. That's a risk you take as a public official, and you get lower terms.

That's why Amazon in New York, people try to lure Amazon in with better terms. That's something AOC never understood. It doesn't mean you're helping the rich. You're helping the rich bring their enterprise to your city to bring in more revenue for everybody. Am I right with this calculus?

You're not only right that that's the calculus. Nobody makes that argument more than Democratic politicians do. Think of the argument that Kathy Hulkl, the governor of New York, made for why the taxpayers should subsidize the two billionaires who live in Florida. to build a stadium for the Buffalo Bills. Right?

made the argument that exactly the argument that you just made that if we you know if we bring this we we build this great new stadium, it's going to be a magnet for all kinds of business and commerce. And in the long run, the taxpayers are going to make out much better.

Now in point of fact, I think they often don't make out much better. And these things are right. That's a whole different argument. Yes. Yes.

But you with the argument you made Is exactly the same argument that Democratic politicians make when they think it's good for them. Right.

So I want to get to the RAID case. The Appeals Court allows the DOJ to resume review of the classified records after it was put on hold. But the Special Master listened to both sides. The Trump team did not put up an argument when asked, did Donald Trump, how did Donald Trump declassify these records? They had no answer.

So now for the next day, an appeals court looked at this, and two of the three judges are Trump appointees and said, DOJ, have Addict. Go back to looking to see if any laws were violated with these documents. Am I correct? Yeah, and they may have the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Florida may actually have done. Trump a favor here.

Because they just I mean, look, they ruled against him and he deserved to be ruled against. His his legal position was meritless, and it was not a very good Not very good legal reasoning by Judge Cannon, the judge down in Florida who started all this rolling. But as you point out, Judge Deary, who is the special master up in Brooklyn, he was suggested by Trump and agreed to by the Justice Department. He's not buying this idea that they declass that Trump declassified the documents. He was going to make Trump's lawyers put on evidence, which they didn't want to do, that Trump had declassified the documents.

Now that the Eleventh Circuit has basically rejected that argument, that point is moot.

So the only thing that Judge Deary will now be dealing with is the nonclassified documents, which is the other eleven thousand documents that were seized from Mar a Lago. The FBI and the Justice Department now, based on what the Eleventh Circuit ruled, Will have access to the hundred classified documents, which is what they say they need to. proceed with their investigation. the ruling last night affects the one hundred classified documents But it probably gets Trump out of a problem in Brooklyn because I think Judge Deary, if the classified documents were still in front of Judge Deary, he was going to make them put on declassification. The President said yesterday to Sean Hannity that he could declassify just by thinking about it.

Is that true? The Presidential Records Act, which we talk a lot about, Trump's been talking about a lot of the provisions. One of the provisions he almost never mentions is like the second provision in the law, which says that Presidents have an obligation to document the activities of their presidency. Uh and it's It's inconceivable that you would you would declassify very top secret information and there wouldn't be a document that said that you did it. Gotcha.

Andy, always great columns. Always great to get your incident analysis. I'm so glad you went to law school. Thanks, Brian. You didn't get my bill yet.

Well, that'll prove you went to law school. Until I get the bill, I'm going to just have to go on your word. I'm going to have the Tish James write-up markup on it.

Well, just so that I'm going to try to get a special master name.

So there you go, to arbitrate between us. Andy McCarthy, thanks so much. When we come back, I'll take your calls: 1-866-408-7669. Then we open up the conversation with Carly Shimkis. Busy day.

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It's Brian Killmead. You know, Andy McCarthy is so rich with information, and sadly, the Trump. family. is so overwhelmed with lawsuits. And as I mentioned, This thing in New York, you have to look at it.

You have to just take your time and read it. Because they say that this is worth this much and this is worth this much. This is an attorney general getting in between a bank transaction. If it was Deutsche Bank complaining, if it was TD Bank outraged, if it was people saying I'm now bankrupt and shareholders are left holding the bag, That's one thing. But no one got hurt.

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Welcome back, everyone. As I was talking about her earlier, that Carly Shimkis did something very rare, but she always does. She made a request, though. Usually you ask and say, What are we going to be talking about when you come on the air? Today you made a request, Carly, and it wasn't a typical, not to categorize your gender because I know we're doing this gender blending.

2022. Thank you. You're welcome. But, you know, you said, I would like to request something. And if it was anybody but you, you would think, okay, they have a request.

There's a story that went out about Valentine's Day or about couples or a reality show that you love to talk about or someone got booted from the bachelorette. But no, what did you ask for?

Well, I wanted to talk about the president's UN speech yesterday and what's going on in Russia and China. Right.

Well, because I know that you like that topic too. Put it this way: that is one of the most, if I was looking, if I were dating and I was looking at a dating profile, that's the most attractive thing that I would see on a bio. Oh, yeah. Those international relations. Yes, that is Brian.

That surprises me not. Not at all. Also, it would be great to be hot. You like physical attraction too? Yes.

Wow, this is actually turning more into a bachelor conversation. Which when neither of us are available. No, we are not. And you're having a baby. I am.

And I'm fully in support of this. And so, for everybody who's listening out there, I love to hone in on Brian's softer side because it's not something that you see every day. But Allison just told me that you, Brian, threw her two baby showers. Right, for three kids, which has never been done before. You would think that I should have gotten like one each saying this is for Patrick.

You're actually like underperforming. Right, yeah, I agree. Because when you have twins, you only get one shower. Do you know the rules?

Well, I knew that one. Actually, Ainsley asked if I wanted. I wanted her to Organization. Exactly. Thank you for saying that for me.

I don't even really want a shower, to be honest. Nobody wants to really be there. Do you know how I feel at showers?

Well, I mean, I. I don't know. Did you know how you felt about shower Allison? Even though Brian threw you one, which is honestly so nice. They're both surprises, too.

That's so sweet. Allison, here's the other thing: yes. I think people want to be there. But I think people that don't have uh kids don't love going to baby showers. Am I correct?

It's just in the middle of the day on a Saturday. You need to serve alcohol. Oh, boy, do you.

So here's what I was thinking for my baby shower, because you do need stuff because you need the gear. Um, not to make it so self-serving. I would I I love my friends and family, of course. I just feel bad for them, uh, 'cause a lot of people live far away. Anyway, I was thinking about inviting the husbands too.

Do you think that's a good idea? And I've never heard of that. Having it be like a big party as opposed to just like a female shower. It happens and like sort of the guys go and drink. It can be, for sure.

But but here's the problem. If if you made it during the week, it should be just girls. Not during the week, on a Saturday. Why do you want to be on a Saturday?

Well, because I think that's when most people are available.

Well, couldn't you have it like four o'clock during the week? I don't know if that works for everybody. That wouldn't work for me. I just think all your friends are TV friends.

So I just think that unless you're working for Jesse, Jesse or Tucker, I think you could probably make it. You have friends outside the College of Death. I do, yes, yes. I went to college. I went to high school.

How many friends would I know of yours? I almost know none of you.

Well, you know my friend Lindsay through word of mouth because she lives close to you. And I go to Salt with her. Right.

Which is a restaurant near your town. Which you beat me to Salt. I get there. Salt is great. And they were describing you, and Carly came in, and I'm like, Yeah, I only know one Carly.

Next thing you know, it's you because you were in Wantaw, Long Island, and I'm in Massapequa.

So that's two stops away in the railroad.

So Lindsay's trying to get me to move out to Merrick. You have to make a decision, right? Yeah, I'm not going to move to the suburbs yet. I want to stay in New York City.

However, when I went to The Brian Killmeat Hour, which was the 4th of July fireworks show in Nassau County. And everybody came up to me and I was like, I thought they were going to be like, oh, we watched Fox and Friends First. They're like, oh, I know Brian because I coached his son's soccer team. I know Brian because he was my RA in college. I was like, Bri, he's the mayor of this town.

Well, we knew what would happen. And then I met the mayor and he's like, I know Brian because we, you know, I have a golf club membership with him. You remember almost correctly. But Bruce Blakeman is the Nassau County executive. He's a very nice man.

And Brad Blakeman's been here as a contributor forever. You know, Bruce Blakeman was married to Paul McCartney's current wife. Oh, I didn't know that. Right.

Wait, let me think about that. Bruce Blakeman married to Paul McCartney's current wife? Yeah, and they ended up on amicable terms. Wait, they share it the same wife? No, they got divorced.

Okay, gotcha. But it was very amicable. And it turns out that Brad used to say to me, and I never put it together, he goes, you know, I got to the Hamptons and it's unbelievable. Paul McCartney has a party. I get invited and he'll just sing.

And then I'm a genius. Go, wait, Bruce Blakeman, Brad Blakeman used to be married. Go, wait a second. You still go out to your brother's ex-wife's new husband's house? He goes, Yeah, I'm invited.

And I always go. And it's just amazing. Paul McCartney is amazing performers. I heard John Bon Jovi's like this, I would never know personally. But they performers like to perform all the time.

Really? You would think it's like, listen, hey, I'm Billy Joel. I don't want to do it. Evidently, they always, I know you want me to play, I'll go play.

So it doesn't get old to them. I guess, you know, you're sort of like that too. Because you're always on. Even when you're not working, you're writing a book, you're doing a speaking engagement, you just did three hours of TV, now you're doing three hours of radio.

So pot kettle, but in the best way possible. Right.

I'll appreciate the analogy, but I don't belong in that area. But I would never invite you over and say, watch me write a book. You are the Billy Joel of Fox News. Right.

Thank you very much. A little taller. Right.

But I can't sell out the garden, and he can.

So that's where we're different. You can sell out the villages. I think I could too. Yeah. We've done that before, right?

I think she just insulted me. Can we? No, that's a good thing. I want to go down there. Steve looks like he was having such a blast.

Oh, yeah, he did a great job today. He is good at that. Yeah. So let's talk about what's going on with Russia. Oh, yeah.

So. Right now, I'm just reading a lot of analysis. By him calling up these 300,000 troops, they might not, Vladimir Putin, they might not exist. And there's already riots inside Russia. Yeah.

So they have reserves. A lot of people go, no, we're out of here. Do you know they're preventing people 18 to 34 from leaving the country with one-way tickets? It's like a North Korea situation. Yeah, so very unpopular, obviously, in Russia.

The president makes this announcement saying that, or President Putin makes this announcement saying, We're doing a draft up to 300,000 people. We're going to say draft. We're going to call up reserves and not saying major drafts. Could you imagine being a young man in Russia right now and thinking, oh my gosh, I don't even care about this war. I don't know what's going on.

The strange thing about Russia, though, is you obviously cannot trust these poll numbers, but I remember in the beginning of the war, a lot of people in Russia are. Really supportive of Vladimir Putin in a way that isn't fake, which I am stunned by in the big cities, St. Petersburg, Moscow. But if you get out to the smaller towns, they are very anti-Putin, and that's part of the 300,000 too.

So now you have all of these people that are immediately, when he made that announcement, buying plane tickets and trying to hidail it out. And people who are really putting their lives on the line with these anti-war demonstrations because you're not allowed to do that in Russia. And then I was reading some analysis that said the scary thing would be for Ukraine and hearing that there's going to be a possible fresh batch of up to 300,000 troops. Could that turn the tide of the war? And the person that I was listening to said no, because what they need is our experienced soldiers.

These people are Joe Schmo off the street. You're going to give them a gun. They're immediately going to die. Unfortunately for these people, it's just their situation. 60,000 dead Russians already.

And that's what turned the war in Afghanistan. They had a draft. They invaded. They thought they'd run right through. And they ended up getting.

Getting their ass kicked, and then it ended up being a little bit more. But if you listen to Putin, what did he say? Like 6,000 died? Yeah. Which isn't true.

Right.

And what happens is, I think they are educated over there. Afghanistan is not an educated population. This one is. Clinton Watts waited on MSNBC about what Vladimir Putin would do and what he's about to do in a week, cut 35. Is talking about building and essentially annexing parts of southern Ukraine.

As the justification then for using things like nuclear weapons or accelerating essentially the war from his perspective. Because if he does that, it would be seen as an attack on Russia.

Now no one really buys that. And that's where the fighting is happening today. In that southern front, there's some pretty intense fighting back and forth. And for the Ukrainians, I think they're at a point where they've done remarkably well, but it will be tougher and tougher for them for them to advance as well without taking stiff casualties.

So I think heading into winter, it's important to notice Zelensky's peace plan yesterday, and that that could be a way to bring this conflict to some sort of an end.

Well, what what they're doing is in in these Luhansk and other areas, they're having a vote, but there's so much fighting going on, they've got to do a remote.

So it's a joke. And so they're going to just take these areas. But I guess the weapons, if we get all the weapons, you get them in the tanks, they should win. Because the Russians can't fight. As General Kellogg said, it turns out the Russians are Belgium with nuclear weapons.

Yeah, I know. And I know that there's a lot of people who who come on our air and and say that we're spending so much Money in this war. But I also think it's really important to remember that it's not America first to have Russia and China sort of decide. A global new world order, and defending a democracy really does matter.

So now President Biden has given some big-time weapons to Ukraine. The question is: is he really giving them enough to win? And some people say, no, you're giving Ukraine enough to just sort of win the next battle, but not win the overall war. You've got to start pressuring our allies to do what they pledge to do.

Well, that was part of the speech and what Nikki Haley was saying yesterday. About President Biden's UN speech, where it was a well-said speech when he called out Russia. But what about China? What about India that are buying Russian oil, propping up their economy? And he didn't really say much about those countries.

What does it say to you? I always thought, I don't want the whole story because we're not in the meetings, that Iran has to supply drones. What does it say to you that North Korea has got to supply rockets? That means that China's not, and that means they cannot make it their own.

Well, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping recently met face to face. It was the first time Xi Jinping left China since the start of the pandemic, since he poisoned the world. Exactly. Let's not forget that. And apparently, the outcome of that speech was President Xi was like, I don't really support this war anymore.

You got to back off. Right.

So now he's feeling squeezed from his allies. And that may be one of the reasons why he's doing this, I guess, this draft because he doesn't know what to do now. I mean, what's going to happen, Brian?

Well, what I think is going to happen. Happen is they're hoping for winter and to freeze out Western Europe, and they're hoping that winter provides because they're trying to destroy the infrastructure of Ukraine, and they hoped that even to the playing field. Oh my gosh.

So then it brings us to what President Biden said yesterday during the speech about climate change, where obviously part of his UN speech was promoting climate change because that's what these global organizations do. They always promote these ideas. And then look at what happened to Germany. They went totally green. They rely on for all of their oil and gas from Russia.

And then you know what I was reading? Starting this month, Germany has introduced a series of measures to cut energy use. Businesses are no longer allowed to keep their doors open throughout the day to reduce the need for heating. You're not allowed to illuminate advertising signs. You have to switch them off by 10 p.m.

And halls and corridors of most public buildings will no longer be heated.

So they'll be cold during the winter. And offices can only be heated to a max of 19. Degrees Celsius. This is happening in Germany.

So it's like one of the most advanced nations, if not the most advanced nation on the planet. There is an energy independence lesson in there somewhere. Right.

They're buying wood and they're buying coal, refiring up plants, and they're shelving plans to get rid of the energy. And that's what Jamie Dimon is talking about when he talks about: listen, you're criticizing fossil fuels, you're criticizing natural gas, which is cleaner and now it's more expensive, and countries are switching to coal because of it. Is my problem in life that this is my small talk? Like literally, I get so bored if I go out on the weekends and I'm not talking about this. Like, I just, this is so strange.

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Of course, when you make recommendations. If the primary goal when you're dealing with a situation where the hospitals were being overrun in New York. Intensive care units were being put in hallways. You have to do something. That's rather draconian.

And sometimes when you do draconian things, It has collateral negative consequences. Just like When you shut things down, even temporarily, It does have deleterious consequences on the economy, on the school children. You know that. In a conference yesterday, Dr. Fauci was explaining himself, at which time he is trying to say, What he said is correct.

The hospitals were being overrun, and there was need to be severe action. And as Jared Kushner wrote in his book, Carly Shimkiss, he goes, We had to do something because the hospital is being overrun. But how long you did it and the reasons why, while not admitting that you said it's not going to be a problem here, that you didn't have to keep wearing masks to give you a false sense of security, and that he never pointed out that school kids could suffer in the long term on this. That's the maddening thing. Exactly.

And it's just so fascinating to hear the language that he's using now that he is retiring or doing whatever he's going to do. And he's calling the measures that he propped up for two years, he's calling them draconian for the first time. That's new. He was saying that he was criticizing people for calling these measures that he was supporting. Draconian.

He was criticizing those folks, and now he's admitting it. And it's just very interesting. Also, you think about the fallout from this and the rules for the, not for me, with a lot of people, and the firings that are taking place still to this day, even though the pandemic is over, according to the president.

So, Brian Morgenstern, who used to be behind the scenes at the White House, a spokesperson, he wrote that he said this thing on his podcast, Vignettes and Vino. He said this, this guy, Brian Morgenstern, he said, Fauci's an awful egomaniac. He said the virus has nothing to worry about in the beginning for the American people. Then, in the months that followed, he said we should not wear masks. Then they were ineffective.

By June, July, he had changed his tune and everyone should be very concerned, and they should wear multiple masks and goggles. He said, I vividly recall my blood boiling during an infuriating meeting at the Roosevelt room of the White House when Fauci laughed about his own goggles comment, making it clear how cynical he was that he could get people to believe anything. Think about that. I know, it's so true. And listen, I don't mind that, and I don't fault him for being wrong on some of these things in the beginning of the pandemic because this was like a totally new virus.

But I do take issue with the moral high ground that he took when people were losing their jobs as well. And you think about where we are right now, especially when the vaccine came out, of course, and people started getting vaccinated. And then we were told that that was going to be the cure-all. And then it turns out that it does protect you, but it doesn't protect other people from getting it. And then just this absolute unbridled pressure to get everybody vaccinated.

And where were therapeutics? While taking down other doctors and disinformation and working with social media to take all this down and ridiculing people that might have a counter opinion.

Meanwhile, the guy's 80 years old, hasn't been in a lab coat forever. Exactly. And then you go with what Rand Paul always talks about with the emails in the beginning about how he was told very early on: hey, this could come from a lab in Wuhan. And then. A day later, all of those people that were, all those scientists that were saying, you know, you may want to watch this.

You may want to look into the fact that this was probably produced in a lab. And then when he found out that there was some funding that came through his company, all those scientists were saying something completely different.

So more to come on that front, especially if Republicans win the House. Yeah, he's only making $500,000 or $300,000, but he has millions, maybe even billions, to hand out for grants.

So they had no choice. Carly Shimkis, this was fun. It was great, right? Bye. 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.

Listen and download now at FoxNewsPodcasts.com or wherever you get your favorite podcasts. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian. In Kill Mead. Hi, everybody.

Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Me Chows. Thanks so much for being here. We come to you from Midtown Manhattan, but we're heard around the country, around the world.

Soon, they're going to charge me to come to Midtown. Do you believe that?

So there's going to be a congestion pricing thing.

So, just in case you're not overtaxed already in New York, New York City, you're paying city tax, state tax, and a federal tax. Just in case you're up, you pay Terry King basically $6.50. For every dollar, they're taking sixty five cents from you.

Now they're going to have congestion pricing. Should you, I don't know, be one of those rich people delivering bread to delis or those independently wealthy ones who sharpen knives at restaurants.

So when you pull up in your truck and you go around to place to place to place, you're going to be paying congestion pricing. No wonder almost 6,000 people left New York permanently to go to Florida, an all-time record last month. Senator Marsha Blackburn will be here shortly in about a half hour. Admiral James Jarvitas in a matter of moments.

So let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. How long from here should Americans be prepared for that economic pain? How long? I mean, it really depends on how long it takes for wages and more than that, prices to come down, for inflation to come down.

Okay, take your time. I love the way you change your tone. Jerome Powell, chairman of the Fed, Economy, the Fed Banking Circus on Capitol Hill, and what it all means for you and your family finances. We'll discuss. Number two.

We're learning those activists suing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for dropping 50 migrants on Martha's Vineyard are heavily funded by George Soros, receiving nearly $1.4 million from his Open Society Foundations. Why don't they investigate him and that foundation? Bring it on. That's the message from Governor DeSantis as the illegal immigrants who landed on Martha's vineyards are going to sue him. This clown show overwhelms the bigger news: a massive seizure of fentanyl in Florida, enough to kill 4 million people which crossed the southern border.

We will have the latest. Number one. This investigation revealed that Donald Trump engaged in years of illegal conduct to inflate his net worth to achieve, to deceive banks and the people of the great state of New York. If he acted differently in Georgia, there would be no lawsuit. You could say, regardless of the outcome, he'd blame himself.

If he didn't take documents to Mar-a-Lago, he would have no problems with the FBI. You could say, at the very least, you could blame Trump. If you read this, and I read most of it, this is a pure political attack by the Attorney General, Letitia James. It's a civil lawsuit meant to gum up the works and maybe take him out. I don't think it'll do either.

We'll talk about that. The other big story remains: what's happening over in the Ukraine? Nobody better to talk about that than Admiral James Javitas, the 16th Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. His recent books, The Sailors Bookshelf, 50 Books to Know the Sea, and 2034, a novel of the next world war, which might be with China. Admiral, welcome back.

Great to be with you, Brian. Admiral, first off, don't you think the President could have used yesterday to pressure our European allies to start fulfilling their obligation to Ukraine? We're doing it. I'm hearing these reports. They are not.

Brian, I don't agree with that. I have seen quite a bit of. Weapons systems flowing, notably from Poland and the countries in the Baltics: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. I think that you're correct. We could do more from the Western part of Europe.

France, Italy, some of the other nations there have a lot of capacity. But the bottom line here is the alliance is standing together and providing not only the equipment, but a lot of the intelligence, the training, all that support. I think the alliance overall is doing a pretty good job. Uh Right now, I think that the Ukrainians are doing a great job. They're making gains, they say 3,000 square miles roughly, and they're moving on Kirasan.

But they say that it's going to be very hard going from here on in when Vladimir Putin comes out. And he says what he said, and I'll give you his comments through the translator here at Fox, and says what he says, leading up, knowing the whole world's coming together at a matter of moments. Here's what he said to his people. Cut 32. I think it is necessary to support the proposal of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff to conduct a partial mobilization in Russia.

I repeat, we are only talking about a partial mobilization. Partial mobilization, they say up to 300,000 reserves. What's the reality there? The reality is, these are going to be thousands. I doubt they'll be able to scare up hundreds of thousands.

Look, Russia does not have the kind of high. Highly orchestrated, very detail-oriented reserve military system that the United States has, for example, or that Estonia has, or Finland. Finland has a population of 5 million, Brian. They could put 500,000 troops in combat in three weeks because they keep them trained. They give them on.

It's Israel. Finland and Switzerland are the three top reserve systems. At the bottom end of how to run a reserve military would be Russia. These are going to be stumble bum assistant bartenders who were conscripted 12 years ago. Maybe went to Syria, maybe not.

Have forgotten anything they ever knew about combat. They'll get crummy uniforms, bad rifles, and they'll be cannon fodder.

So I wouldn't overstress on the mobilization.

So Right now, we understand there's going to be an annexation. It's going to be done through proxy because a lot of it's in war zones. They're going to annex like four areas of the Donbass region. And Russia says, look what we got. How do you play to fear Ukraine?

Well, for starters, this would be like a burglar breaks into your house. and then pulls out a gun, puts it at your head and says sign the deed to your home to me. That's how legitimate this is. This is a referendum conducted under combat conditions with military enforcement. It'll be badly managed, and frankly, it's just a sham.

So, what the Ukrainians ought to do is highlight all of that. They ought to do what they've done brilliantly, which is uh shine a cleave light a big shining spotlight on this kind of Russian behavior, and that's with videos. with testimony, with all manner of outgoing strategic communications. They need to shine a light on this and show the world how illegitimate this is.

So having said that, the fighting goes on, it's going to get tougher, and this thing called winter is about to happen. Russia thinks it's going to be to their advantage. We know that they're basically shutting off the gas on Nord Stream One and other, despite France's urging not to, maybe permanently losing that customer base, which is just devastating, I think, long term to Russia. But how do you get through this winter?

Well, let's put this in perspective, Brian. Of all the energy, the energy stack, if you will, that Europe is using, so nuclear, coal, oil, natural gas, Renewables like solar and wind, et cetera, of all the energy Europe uses, only twenty percent. is natural gas. And of that twenty percent, Putin only controls about half of that.

So he's really got control of about 10% of the total energy stack.

So the bottom line is he can turn those taps off. And the Europeans are going to have to take their thermostats from 72 to maybe 65. They're going to have to wear a sweater around indoors. There are going to be some industrial slowdowns where natural gas is used and processed. But they've been preparing for this for months.

And I would put it this way to my European friends. You can have one hard winter, but really make the effort to get through it and cut off Russia. Or you can face this year after year after year and remain beholden and bend the knee. To Putin, don't do it. Take the pain this year.

I think that's where they'll go. I hope that's where they'll go. When you look at these protests in Russia, do you have a sense of what's happening there? They happened yesterday. Eighteen to thirty-four-year-olds are no longer allowed to buy one ticket air by a plane to one ticket anywhere.

So they're not allowed to go they're not allowed to get tickets at all, so they're afraid of the young people leaving. There were some protests yesterday. Do you have any sense of how that government set up that there might be an anti-Putin movement among them? I think there is very much an anti-Putin movement among the intelligentsia, notably around the youth who have means, who are connected to the Internet, who understand what's really happening here. Unfortunately, as you get into rural Russia and you get away from populations that are connected, you start to find more and more support for Putin.

So Brian, look in the cities. You're going to see these kind of protests. I think Putin's going to be able to handle them. Bottom line, the big danger here for Russia is not Putin being overthrown. I wish it were, but that's not the danger.

The real danger for Russia, two words, Brain, brain. These are their best and brightest. They are buying these tickets. Go on the internet and Google outpouring of people from Russia. And you'll see story after story, video after video, of people clamoring to buy tickets, one-way tickets, to get out of Moscow.

And I'll close with this. Nobody's buying the return legs of those flights. No one's trying to get into Russia these days. Right.

We have that problem. Let's talk about China. Here's the President on 60 Minutes, CUP 37.

So unlike Ukraine, to be clear, sir. U.S. forces, U.S. men and women, would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion. Yes.

Is that the answer you would give? Yeah. The answer I would give is our policy toward Taiwan is unchanged, which is that we don't want to telegraph to China exactly what we're going to do one way or the other. We would look at an armed attack on China as a grave threat And we would. Reserve the right to respond militarily, economically, in the technological realm, in cyber, I would have.

Said a more nuanced response to the question would be where U.S. policy currently is present.

So, in other words, on the Taiwanese to defend themselves. Why is it, though, Admiral, we're used to seeing this with the President and his staff, President Trump, would say things like, well, that's not really where we're going to do it, or Mattis would end up resigning. And people would go, Well, that's the President acting on instinct. We're not used to four times now. This administration has walked the President back on this issue alone.

I'm not going to get into comparing presidents. That's really. No, don't. How about on this policy? Like, obviously, he's not being tricked into the question.

Yes, let me give you a reaction. I think all of us ought to stop thinking about defending Taiwan as though it were an on and off switch on the wall and think about it as a Rheostat. And what we ought to be doing is dialing that Rheostat up, like the dimmer on the wall, on the light in your dining room. We ought to be Cranking that Rhyostat up, and what that means is. selling, not giving, Taiwan's a very rich place.

Selling them the high-end military equipment they need. And guess what? We have a scenario unfolding in Ukraine that gives us a pretty good idea of the kind of weapon systems we ought to be selling to our Taiwanese friends. That's where we ought to be putting our emphasis right now.

Now, I know Admiral Stavitas would learn from this invasion and maybe think twice. Is China going to school on this invasion and thinking about in secret what Vladimir Putin promised and what he was able to do? I think so, Brian. If you put yourself in Xi's, President Xi's shoes, he's thinking three things right now. Number one, I wonder if my generals are as bad as those Russian generals appear to be.

I wonder if my equipment is as clummy as their equipment appears to be, because it's all pretty intertwined. That's question one. Question two is, he's wondering, will those Taiwanese fight like hell? The way that the Ukrainians have been fighting? I think the answer is yes.

I've been there, I've visited with the president Madam Tsai. There's not much quit in those Taiwanese. And then, number three, he's asking himself. Mm, those sanctions. They're pretty big.

I'm a big economy here in China. Maybe they can't sanction me fully, but could they target me with very strategic sanctions that could cripple my economy? Maybe they could.

So I think President Xi is pumping the brakes on the idea of attacking Taiwan right now because of what's going on in Ukraine.

So there's a theory that everyone's trying to get their head around the fact that for the first time every branch of the military cannot recruit effectively. And the people that do recruit so many people are so out of shape they can't perform, even though you guys have loosened up a lot of the criteria and the policies. There's also a theory out there that a lot of the woke policies and politics have hurt the military. When you guys sit around and have some beers, other military officers like you, what do you think it is? I think there's a little bit of everything in this.

But number one is: hey, it's hard to hire a lifeguard right now. It's hard to hire servers. It's hard to hire IT workers. You know, news flash, it's just hard to hire right now because of the demand signal from the economy as it comes back from COVID.

So we're competing, we the military, with an awful lot of pretty good jobs out there available. I think, number two, the fact, and this may sound strange, but the fact that we're not engaged in active combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. That Was a draw for many people to come into the military, to go forward, to be in combat, to defend forward. Are some of the social policies you mentioned part of this? Perhaps.

I think you've got to look at it in the totality, Brian. But it's just a hard environment out there. And I'll close with this, which may surprise most Americans. If you look at All of that. High school seniors graduating in a given year, only 25% of them.

Are eligible to come into the United States military because of their obesity, because of their previous drug use, because of their mental health. Only 25%.

So we are competing. For a very select group of Americans coming out of college. And I hope that patriotism and service will win out and we'll be able to reverse some of these declines we've seen in recruiting. I also think the way we left Afghanistan made us look no less than a heroic. Did not help.

Did not help. And let's face it, that's the last image in a lot of people's minds about the military. And so you're so undeserving because you guys fought brilliantly. This is one of the finest generations of military operatives we've ever seen at every level. And yeah, we've made mistakes, but the way you've grown, and I think the rest of the world has to know that, I guess the helpless feeling is when leaders let you down.

Admiral, thanks so much. I always enjoy talking to you. Same here, Brian. We covered, with saying the Navy, we covered a lot of water. I think we helped the country.

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You have all committed, as you all know, to transition the emissions from lending and investment activities to align with pathways to net zero in 2050.

So, no new fossil fuel production starting today.

So, that's like zero.

So, I would like to ask all of you and go down the list, because again, you all have agreed to doing this. Please answer with a simple yes or no. Does your bank have a policy against funding new oil and gas products? Mr. Diamond.

Absolutely not. And that would be the road to hell for America. Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. Sir, you know what?

Everybody that got relief from student loans has a bank account with your bank should probably take out their account and close their account. You obviously don't care about working class people in frontline communities like ours that are facing huge amounts of high rates of asthma, respiratory issues, and so much more. Cancer rates are so high among my communities that I represent. Do they want iPads? Do they want iPhones?

Do they want to have heated homes? Do they want to have air conditioned in the summer? That's how clueless Congresswoman, squad member Rashida Tlaib is going talking to Uh the CEO, Jamie Dimon. of JPMorgan Chase. You want him to give up all investment in the thing that's literally fueling our country and fueling our enemies' nation?

Are you nuts? These people are clueless. You want to use your hair dryer tomorrow? A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmeid.

Well, fentanyl. is a clandestine killer. And Texans are victimized by Mexican cartels that produce and import it.

So cartels or terrorists. And it's time that we started treating them that way. And that is Governor Abbott, of course, of Texas, saying, Can we stop pretending things at the border are not terrorists, especially when you have 74 who crossed last month, and we used to have maybe zero in all of an entire year that we know. And a lot of terrorists are great at not getting caught. These are the ones we got that turn up on a terrorist watch list.

Senator Marshall Blackburn joins us now. Senator, we're finally talking about what's going on at the border. We just have different takes on the magnitude of the problem. What do you think about Governor Abbott's idea? I think it is a good idea.

You look at what Governor Doocy and Abbott and DeSantis have done. And to move these illegal immigrants across the country to communities that have said, we're a sanctuary city, we have the infrastructure, we welcome these immigrants. That's the right thing to do because You've got all of these towns along the border that are just being overrun. Their social services are overrun. Uh there Um morgues are overrun.

Their hospitals are overrun. And every town's a border town, every state's a border state until the border is secure. But you do have these cities like Chicago and New York and Detroit. And um Communities like Martha's Vineyard, who have said they were a sanctuary. And supposedly they were going to be welcoming these individuals.

Yeah, this is how about the audacity that the governor is being sued, Governor DeSantis being sued by George Source's Open Society Network to fund his law firm, Lawyers for Civil Rights, against Governor DeSantis on behalf of the 60 illegal immigrants that got bused into Martha's Vineyard, got flown in.

Well, and here they have supported the open border. The cartels are the ones who are making money. They are not going after the cartels for abusing, physically and sexually abusing these individuals. They are not going after the cartels for the drugs. that they are giving people to take.

in order to keep them up to make this walk. across the border. Uh i they're not doing any of that. And they're not going after the administration. We had over a year ago, about a year and a half ago, is when planes started landing in Tennessee.

with the individuals that were being put on the plane, flown to Tennessee. Nobody said anything about that except to say, well, it is hard hearted and it is not compassionate to complain about these. Planes landing in your state, but they did not go after DHS or President Biden. And you never got a heads up, and they never even told the governor. Not just didn't they tell the Republican Senator, they did not tell the governor, correct?

That is correct. They didn't tell the governor, the mayor, the sheriff. Uh the school system anybody. They just arrived. Here is what Ned Price said to Martha McCallum yesterday about the problem at the border, Cut 17.

What I can tell you is what we're doing with countries throughout the region, with our partners here in the U.S. government, to try to address the root causes of migration, the root factors that are pulling people away from their homes in places in Central America, in South America, in the broader region, that are in some cases bringing them to our border. The State Department, we are working very hard every day to try to address those pull factors, those root causes, so we can address this challenge. Would you say that it's fair to Is there any indication they're addressing that every day? And the pull factors is while not going to the border, looking at the pull factors, I don't even think they're addressing it every day.

Dressing this item. thought his response.

So insulting. to the American people and disrespectful of the taxpayer that pays his salary. not addressing this. All they need to do to address it is look in the mirror. and see what it is that they are saying.

Look. Your foreign policy and your domestic policy meet at that border. There are people from 150 different countries coming across that border that we know of. There are 78 terrorists that we know of. That have come across that border.

There are hundreds of thousands of people that we know have come, but they didn't catch. They're called the Godaways. But here's the thing. The pull factor is the Biden policy. that basically has rolled out the red carpet, said, y'all come, we're ready for you, and the cartels are the ones making the money.

Everybody that comes to that border has paid the cartel. A lot of those people are Are going to be sent to gangs to work out their fee. It is modern day slave. slavery. And this administration by allowing that border to be open by not giving the Border Patrol the three things they have consistently asked for, a physical barrier, better technology where they cannot have a barrier, and more officers and agents to handle securing that border.

Until they do that, You have a pull factor.

So the pull factor is them and their policy.

So let's move over to the economy and talk about Jerome Powell. This is his prediction after raising rates for the third straight month, Cut 24. We have always understood that restoring price stability while achieving a relatively modest decline, or rather, increase in unemployment. And a soft landing would be very challenging. And we don't know.

No one knows whether this process will lead to a recession, or if so, how significant that recession would be. That's a great okay, if he doesn't know, I just wanted no one to know well, could he be possibly the cause of it? In an effort to get reelected, he did not stand in his way and speak out about that rescue package that we didn't need and the crazy spending we just got, correct? Yeah, you know, I think that what he was trying to do is find a very elegant way to say I screwed up. And this is his explanation.

He knows that this is inflicting harm on the American people. When I talk to Tennesseans, And a mom su summed it up for me a couple of weeks ago, Brian. She said, you know, I cannot fill up the gas tank and the grocery cart in the same week.

Now that is how people are being hurt. They're working two jobs. They're trying to get grandparents or neighbors to help with children to get them to and from activities.

Sometimes they're saying to kids, we can't do the travel soccer team this year. We can't afford it. This is real life in real America. and they know what they have done. But you know what?

They really don't care. And that has become sadly apparent. Because the underbelly is this green energy transition. That's it. That's exactly it.

So, heating bills to reach a 10-year high. If you want to get a windmill and solar panel in somebody's house, tell them that oil and gas is too high.

So, it brings me to this ridiculous exchange that Rashida Tlaib should be embarrassed by, but sadly, now she has no self-awareness, and her supporters probably love it. Listen to her question to Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan, Cut 25. You have all committed, as you all know, to transition the emissions from lending and investment activities to align with pathways to net zero in 2050.

So, no new fossil fuel production starting today.

So, that's like zero.

So, I would like to ask all of you and go down the list, because again, you all have agreed to doing this. Please answer with a simple yes or no. Does your bank have a policy against funding new oil and gas products? Mr. Diamond.

Absolutely not. And that would be the road to hell for America. Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. Sir, you know what?

Everybody that got relief from student loans has a bank account with your bank should probably take out their account and close their account because you obviously don't care about working class people in frontline communities like ours that are facing huge amounts of high rates of asthma, respiratory issues, and so much more. Cancer rates are so high among my communities that I represent. Right, so it's Jamie Dimon's problem that your kids in your community have asthma?

Well, they would like to blame everyone. Everything on the environment. Right now, we have cleaner air, cleaner water. We're all for clean air and clean water. What we are not for is disadvantaging the United States of America so that people don't have jobs.

Uh that's we're not for that. They are. And, you know, I just would love to hear them at some point say: the United States of America is the greatest country on the face of the earth. I don't even need that. She's got to stop.

How could she possibly get that out of her mouth? That he has to stop investing in fossil fuels, and you think gas is high now as we empty our strategic oil reserve? Does she understand we're not in a battle with Israel, even though she'd prefer that? We're in a battle with China and the rest of the world, who has not shut down anything to the sort? Brian, I think a part of the problem is you had some of these companies.

kind of ease into this ESG. early on. They thought they could mollify people on the left.

So they think they can kind of ease into it, do a little bit of it. And now What they've done is to embolden all of these leftists. Who has this leftist socialist agenda. And looking at that Harvard Harris poll that came out this week, isn't it so interesting? People don't fear Republicans.

What they fear is the social Left and what they're doing to this country, and the pace at which they're trying to change this country. That's what people fear. And that's what's keeping them up at night. They're looking at what is happening, how China is emboldened, how the left is emboldened.

So you blame them.

So Senator Blackburn, you blame them because they placated and voted for Democrats. And now they've got to deal with it because Democrats don't have this capitalist gene in them and don't understand that that fuels our economy.

So you have very little sympathy for the hell that they are going to be in. Is that what I'm am I reading that right? I think that it is unfortunate that some of these individuals have opened the door and now this is why they are facing this kind of vitriol from some people. And, you know. What they need to do is just say, no, we are a company.

We are supposed to make a profit for our investors. apply jobs for People. We deliver. a good product, and we are confident in how we serve the public, not only here in the country, but around the globe. Yeah, I just want you, before we go to break, I want you to hear David Sokol, one of the most successful business people with especially spent a couple of decades in energy.

He was with Teton Capital, used to work for Warren Buffett as a CEO in NetJets, Cut27. As they followed these ESG initiatives, if you will, they've underperformed all of the other major pension funds in the country. They didn't tell their pensioners that they were investing their money this way and that perhaps it would be a bad idea. You know, this whole thing, Laura, is part of the breakdown of the institutions that make this country great. You know, this woke-ism, virtue signaling, ESG, I mean, You know, trying to put per people on a board of directors just for diversity purposes rather than for qualification purposes.

Yeah. And he says he sees it at the highest level. You make this commitment and now you've got to deal with it. And I invest and you have a 401k. You would think the person who's shepherding your 401k is not going to worry about woke policies.

It's going to allow you to invest in things that are going to maximize your profits in your retirement. And he says it's non-stop that they are doing this, trying to be politically correct at the highest levels. It's crazy.

Well, they're emboldened. The left is emboldened. And the best way we can kind of put a check on this is to be sure that Republicans take the House and the Senate in November.

So we can put a check on some of this that the Biden White House is doing. Joe Biden is supporting Kamala Harris. It doesn't know what's going on at the border, but she's the czar.

Some of these policies that Pelosi and Schumert have been pushing, this bad legislation. We need to rein it in. We need to check it. And the best way to do that is to win in November. All right.

We'll see what happens. You got it. He was so disrespectful yesterday in the House for it. I know that never would have happened in the Senate. Senator Marshall Blackburn, thanks so much.

When we come back, the phones are finished at this hour strong. We have a lot to discuss because we have the events at the UN. We had the Fed chair. We are going to take a look at the economy as well as what's coming up this weekend.

So don't move. Educating, entertaining, enlightening. You're with Brian Kilmead. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Kilmead. I had the practice squad pass.

My teammates told me, just tell them you were elevated to the active roster and they'll let you in. But I could tell they didn't quite recognize me when I told them I was elevated and they said, look, you don't have to pass for this. And I said, no, I'm a player. And they said, we're sorry, man. And so I totally get where they're coming from.

Did they know your name? Did they know who you were? I don't think so, which is understandable. I mean, I haven't, I gotta prove myself in Philly. I had to park with the Grinders about a half mile away with the Tailgaters, and I thought it was a blast, honestly.

A few people recognized me and they were kind of confused, and I had to ask them, you know, where to go. It was kind of inspiring to walk through the crowd and see how much people love football here. And made me determine, you know, I want to be a great player here. That is Philadelphia Eagles punter Briden Covey, who was forced to park a half mile away from the players' entrance Sunday when security did not believe he was an actual player. A lot of times, kickers are smaller, kickers have gotten gradually bigger.

It's no one's fault. He said I had to go ahead there to the practice squad. I left Covey with one solution: he had to park with the general public and walk to the players' entrance to the stadium through the tailgators.

So at least he has a good attitude about it. It's not like they told the quarterback, you know, Jalen Hurts, hit the road. I agree and also right um I feel like we're talking about him and his name more now than had he not had to park a half a mile away. Makes me wonder if there's more to know. More To know.

Queen Elizabeth's funeral does not hold a candle to Princess Diana's when it comes to TV ratings in the U.S. and the UK. But the reality is it's kind of hard to compare the events. The Nielsen numbers are striking. An average of 11.4 million viewers watched the Queen's Day funeral.

The next to the 33.2 million people who watched Diana's funeral more than two decades ago in the United States. It was a little closer among the British, among 27 million people watched the monarch's final send-off, 32 million Diana's. I thought Diana's much more dramatic, much more soap opera-like. She was much more of a real person, not technically in the royal family. You had the breakup with the prince, the affairs, the books.

The young kids. And the whole thing about the queen is very little controversy. Not a lot happened. She lived a long time in a very ceremonial position. Also, there's a lot more people that can watch via streaming now than you could when Princess Diana passed away.

Next, Floyd Menrett Mayweather wants to fight Conor McGregor in the 22-2023 in a real fight, they say. TMZ asked the legendary. Boxer about the interest in a rematch. Foyd made it clear that he is, and there's already been conversations about money and location. They fought in 2017.

It was a big snoozer. Mayweather won easily with the TKO, could have knocked him out sooner, in my view. Foyd's rumored to have made $300 million, Connor, $100 million. Why wouldn't they want to do it again? Yeah, I know.

I mean, who doesn't want the money? He doesn't know how to box. The other guy doesn't know how to fight. UFC mixed martial arts. It should never happen.

I'm telling you, it's done. It was a one-time thing. I wouldn't put the money up.

So maybe they'll just get $25 million each. I won't watch. Conor McGregor should give it another shot, though, and go back to the UFC. Mayweather retired, rich, and he's still not happy. Brian Kilmicho.

From Higher Top. Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Thanks so much for being here, everybody.

It's the Brian Kilmeat Show. We're finishing up this hour coming to you from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, heard around the world. This hour we're going to be joined by Mark Thiessen and Mike Collius, a reporter based in the Wall Street Journal's Detroit Bureau, where he covers the automotive industry and talks about the folly and how we are not ready for the electric cars. We don't have the infrastructure. We don't have the chips.

We don't have the cobalt. We don't have the rare earth. We don't have the batteries. We don't have the way to throw things out. Yet we have this administration, clueless on the free market, jamming this down.

All the big firms' throats saying you got to make the transition, making them build the plants, but they don't have the material, they don't have the infrastructure. And as was pointed out yesterday by David Sokol, they don't even have a universal plug for the cars.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three, sponsored by Crunch Fitness. Interested in owning your own business in a growing $30 billion industry? Check out CrunchFitness at Crunch.com. Number three: How long from here should Americans be prepared for that economic pain? How long?

I mean, it really depends on how long it takes for wages and more than that, prices to come down, for inflation to come down. Yeah, well, I thought you were handling that, Mr. Ched Fair, Fair Chairman. Economy, the Fed, the banking circus on Capitol Hill, and what it all means for you and your family, finances. Number 10.

We're learning those activists suing Florida governor Ron DeSantis for dropping 50 migrants on Martha's Vineyard are heavily funded by George Soros, receiving nearly $1.4 million from his Open Society Foundation. Bring it on. That's the message from Governor DeSantis as the illegal immigrants who landed in Martha's Vineyard now lawyer up to sue DeSantis. That clown show overwhelms the bigger news that there was a massive seizure in Florida of fentanyl that, if it was put out in the market, could have killed 4 million people. Number one.

This investigation revealed that Donald Trump engaged in years of illegal conduct to inflate his net worth to achieve, to deceive banks and the people of the great state of New York. Great state of New York. Letitia James, the Attorney General. What an embarrassment. Trump attack reaches new lows.

As an AG makes it clear, this is personal and political. What the civil lawsuit says, and why Trump needs to win for all of us, meaning his supporters and detractors. And what do I mean by that? It's because. If you could just be targeted because the Attorney General doesn't like you or your party or your family, then we have no hope because he can lawyer up and fight back.

You and I can't. Mark Thiessen, former chief speechwriter for Bush, Fox News contributor, Washington Post columnist. Mark, welcome back. What's your take on this attorney? What's your take on the Attorney General lawsuit?

Well, two things. Number one, it's obviously political. She campaigned on a promise to go after Trump. Um and she's alleging that he defrauded banks.

Well, if he defrauded banks, then why aren't the banks suing him? Like, what does she have to do with any of it?

So it's obviously political, and it's part of a political strategy on the part of the Democrats. to get us to talk about Trump instead of talking about Biden. They want us to focus on Trump and all of the chaos and everything like that, and so they're going after him. But the purpose is to get us to stop talking about Biden's serial disasters, Biden's inflation, Biden's border crisis, the worst crime wave since the 1990s, the fact that the that food prices are higher than they've been since 1979, housing prices are higher than they've been since 1984, and all of these things, it's part of a campaign. And so we on the right have got to stop taking the bait.

I truly don't care a flying rat's patuti about Donald Trump for the next three months. It should not be what we're talking about. We should be talking nonstop about Biden and the disasters, because all of this is a don't look over here. Look at this. Effort.

And we and we on the right just fall for it. We just do it.

Well, I mean, put it this way. But in a way, there's a couple of things. I mean, it is a big story when a former president has an entire company sued for $225 million.

So you do not cover it. We don't have to lead with it. Yeah, exactly. Obviously, we can't ignore it. and and all the rest of it.

But we gotta be conscious of what they are trying to do. They're trying to get us to talk about this. They're trying to get us to stop talking about that. And so we, yeah, absolutely got to cover it, got to mention it, got to, you know, report on it. It's news.

But don't we we've got it like our ecosystem should be focused on Biden at least At least until November 8th. After that, we can talk about whatever we want. There's two issues that could save the Democrats: Donald Trump, Mar-a-Lago, raid this, and the number two is the Dobbs decision. But right now, with the economy getting this tenuous, at the very least, everybody knows it. The Fed chairman said it.

All these CEOs of these major banks revealed it. The economy is teetering, not in the macro level, in the micro level, the one that everybody's talking about because there's nowhere to escape it. There's no safe haven in this. Yeah, you're right. And look, here's the thing: I don't think that Dobbs can tip the election because.

If In the midst of the worst inflation in four decades, the worst collapse of real wages in four decades, the worst border crisis in American history, the worst crime wave since the 1990s, and all of these serial disasters, people paying the highest gas prices on record, even though they're falling a little bit, they're still 25% higher than when Biden took office. If amidst all of that, The Dobbs decision can tip the election. It wasn't the Dobbs decision. It was a lot of other stuff. And Republicans are going to have to take a very hard look in the mirror if we don't have a red wave that sweeps the Democrats out of both houses of Congress.

It'll be because we picked the wrong candidates. It'll be because we've talked about the wrong things and it'll be because Voters didn't look at Joe Biden and say, yeah, he's doing a pretty good job after all. They looked at the Republicans and didn't like the alternative. I don't think that's going to happen necessarily. I think we're going to, despite ourselves, Republicans are going to go ahead and win fairly decisively.

But if it but if we win narrowly, Or if we don't take both houses, It's on us. It's not on Dobbs, it's not on anything else. It's on the Republicans not offering a palatable alternative to Democrats and to swing voters. Who are hurting under Biden, but still decided that they would vote for the Democrats. See, it's interesting.

If there was a major story about trade, manufacturing, or a war, you could say, well, there's some people who aren't affected. With the economy, everybody's affected. Even if you're an investor, if you have fixed income, and if you're hanging out in retirement, you're saying, oh my goodness, this is getting serious. If you're thinking about retiring, wow, I got to put that on hold. You're thinking about buying a car, buying a house, selling a house, selling a car, it affects you.

So the banking CEOs were brought up to Capitol Hill. Here's what they said about the economy: CUT 26. I think there's a chance, not a big chance, a small chance of a soft landing, that inflation is impacting those who can afford it the least. I would suggest that I think inflation is going to be a little bit stickier. I think we're fortunate to have had the consumer in good health entering into this, but we do expect we're going to be in for tougher times ahead.

So, I mean, that's most of these people preside over banks that supported Democratic candidates, and this is exactly what they're getting.

So, I hardly don't I think they're culpable.

Now, they're being pressured to divest from all fossil fuel companies that hurts our country and hurts investors. It's Yeah. Absolutely absurd. I mean, the the id there was a great article in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago about a by a reporter, not an not an opinion writer, a reporter who tried to drive from New Orleans to Chicago and back in an electric car and the and the travails for which she went through trying to charge her car and get from one place to the other. And when she came back and she got back in her gas call uh car uh car and went to gas, she s her the last line was something to the effect of the sweet smell of gasoline.

We are not ready for this. And I, quite frankly, I don't think we should ever be ready for this. Where do we get all the ingredients for these batteries? China. China.

from China. Congo. We just achieved under Trump, we just achieved energy independence for the first time from the Middle East. where we were dependent on the Middle East for decades for our oil. And that had all sorts of national security implications and all the rest of it.

And so we finally achieve energy independence. And the Democrats want us to now become dependent on China. Why would we do that? Just from a national security standpoint, why in God's green earth after we just went through the pandemic that China unleashed on us and found that we were dependent on them for antibiotics and for all these supplies that why would we now make ourselves dependent on them for transportation?

So listen to the president yet. Listen, I hear you. I'm going to try to pretend as if I don't believe every word you just said to make the show better. But the president brought that up. How dare I?

Cut 38. That's why the United States, together with fellow G7 partners, launched a partnership for global infrastructure and investment. We intend to collectively mobilize. six hundred billion dollars. an investment through this partnership.

By twenty twenty seven. Dozens of projects are already underway. He goes on, cut thirty-nine. These are investments that are going to deliver returns not just for those countries but for everyone. The United States will work with every nation, including our competitors.

to solve global problems like climate change. Climate diplomacy is not a favor. to the United States or any other nation. and walking away. Hurts the entire world.

Really? I think we hurt a lot less when we walked away. Yeah. So you're an old man like me, so you remember the Cold War, right? You grew up during the Cold War.

like I did. During the Cold War, What did the left want to do? They want we as I said, the Soviet Union blew up the first nuclear weapon. And we were in an arms race, and we finally achieved nuclear superiority, which is what helped us win the Cold War. And what were they for?

Nuclear disarmament. As soon as we got the capability to defend ourselves and deter the Soviets, They wanted to get rid of it, unilaterally give up, unilaterally disarm.

Now we have Energy independence. And what are they and this is a national security weapon in our hands. If China is completely dependent on the West for oil to grow their economy, if they tried to invade Taiwan, the play is to shut off the Straits of Malacca and cut off their supplies of oil, which would grind their economy to a halt.

So what does the left want to do? They want energy disarmament. It's the same play as in the Cold War. Whenever America achieves strategic superiority over our adversaries in any area of national security, their resp their natural reaction is to unilaterally disarm. And that's what they're advocating here.

We should not be getting rid of fossil fuels because we are the world leader in fossil fuels. Other people are dependent on us for fossil fuels. Why would we want to give up that strategic advantage? To save the world so we could stop having heavy rains and hurricanes. There are no more hurricanes now than there were 100 years ago.

I hear you. Mm-hmm. there are no more the the highest temperatures and heat waves are no more uh bigger than they were one hundred years ago. Yes, global climate change is happening, but we can't stop it. What we can do is mitigate.

So what we should be investing in is not Destroying our economy so that we get to stop something that cannot be stopped. We should be building, you know. The global sea is going to rise over the next hundred years. Guess what? Amsterdam has been living under sea level for centuries.

There are 100 million people who live below sea level. It's very cheap to build dikes. it's not very cheap to turn your entire economy by central planners into from fossil fuels into electric cars. That's but that's much more expensive.

So I want you I want you to hear the uh the battle that uh adds more depth to this fight. Squad member Rashid Talib and Jamie Diamond of uh JP Morgan Chase cut twenty five. You have all committed, as you all know, to transition the emissions from lending and investment activities to align with pathways to net zero in 2050.

So, no new fossil fuel production starting today.

So, that's like zero.

So, I would like to ask all of you and go down the list, because again, you all have agreed to doing this. Please answer with a simple yes or no. Does your bank have a policy against funding new oil and gas products? Mr. Diamond.

Absolutely not. And that would be the road to hell for America. Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. Sir, you know what?

Everybody that got relief from student loans has a bank account with your bank should probably take out their account and close their account because you obviously don't care about working class people in frontline communities like ours that are facing huge amounts of high rates of asthma, respiratory issues, and so much more. Cancer rates are so high among my communities that I represent. I mean, it's unbelievable. Oh, you don't care about kids with cancer among the the working class. You know what?

These are the same Democrats who are telling us that they're doing everything they can to get gas prices down. Right.

But they don't want to invest in any, you know. We're you know All these blackouts that you have in California and other places like that, why is that? Because they've told the Biden administration say set a policy I don't know if people know this, they have an official policy of that there will be no coal plants in America in eight years. By twenty thirty.

So if you run a coal plant, Are you going to put capital into improving your coal plant and making it function better? Or are you going to just shut it down? And so they're shutting down coal and they're shutting down all these fossil fuels before they have an alternative. that is sustainable. Do you do people know that there are no batteries in commercially available that can store wind and solar energy.

It doesn't exist.

So if you turn to wind and solar and there's no wind or sun, You got no electricity. Right.

So what do you do? I know. Do we have to fail? Do we have to fail and have everybody just thrown out of office? It's like where it's.

There's a great word that I never succeeded in putting into a presidential speech, but it's called cacistocracy. which is a government of the worst and stupidest people. We are being run by a cacistocracy. We are being run by people who are intellectually incapable of understanding basic facts about how an economy works. And they want to centrally plan it and force people like Jamie Dimon, who do understand how the economy works, bully them into investing in the stuff they want instead of the stuff that the country needs.

It's just insanity. Right.

And lastly, on this, because I'm up against it, but. In many cases, these CEOs got behind these Democratic candidates. And they're now reaping those rewards. Yeah, a hundred percent. Look.

This is the the the parties have switched. And this is the irony of Rashida Tlaib going after Jamie Dimon, is that he's one of them. He's on their side. The parties have switched. The Democrats used to be the party of the working class, and the Republicans were the party of big business.

And today, the Republican Party is the party of the working class, and small government, and small bi and small businesses. And the Democrats are the party of the elites. That's why they are taking money away from working class Americans to pay for the graduate degrees of people who work for Jamie Dimon. And harassing him and telling him he shouldn't have they should they should pull their money out of his bank when he's helping fund them. And when the government already took over all those banks all that money from all those banks a long time ago under Barack Obama.

Mark Thiessen, always great. Thank you. Thank you, Brian. I got him fired up for the rest of the day. When we come back, your call is 1-866-408-7669.

Learning something new every day on The Brian Kilmeat Show. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back, everybody. Let's go out to the phones.

Alex, this on WABC. Alex. Hey, good morning, Brian. By the way, you guys don't have to send Steve Doocy all the way to Florida to make some of breakfast. You know, I'm here in New York City right next to you guys.

I would enjoy breakfast like the one that he did. Would you actually answer the phone if we knocked on there at seven at six in the morning? Yeah. Yes, I would. I would.

Six in the morning because it may be a little too early, but it was at like 8:40. I wanted to comment about Ron DeSantis getting sued by Martha's Vineyard, and they're suing him on behalf of the illegal immigrants that he sent there for misleading these illegal immigrants. But I think what he should do is he should go and sue the people that threw these illegal immigrants out of Martha's Vineyard on behalf of the illegal immigrants because Martha's Vineyard considers itself a sanctuary city that welcomes everybody. And they misled these illegal immigrants because these illegal immigrants thought they'd be welcomed with open arms by Martha's Vineyard. Yeah, because usually the illegal immigrants can't hop on a ferry and get in there.

They'd probably be stopped before that. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. There was a great article in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago by a reporter, not an opinion writer, a reporter who tried to drive from New Orleans to Chicago and back. in an electric car.

and the and the travails for which she went through trying to charge her car and get from one place to the other. And when she came back and she got back in her gas call uh car uh car and went to gas, she s her the last line was something to the effect of the sweet smell of gasoline. You know, this we are we are not ready for this. Right.

No one has to explain that to Mike Collius. He's a reporter with the Wall Street Journal, not the one. Marctese was referring to, but a similar story. With the Detroit Bureau, where he covers automo the automotive industry, and we really need to know what's going on, because the President was just there and he wants everyone driving an electric car. Mike, thanks so much for joining us.

Regard Column, I learned so much. First off, as willing as The CEOs were to bring on the electric car and mass manufacturing. What have they discovered about the current situation today when it comes to consumer demand and how the infrastructure is? Yeah, I mean I think They've laid out a bunch of big plans, right? I mean, you know, GM was first on record saying by 2035 they're going to be all.

All electric, you know, for most of the others by now have made similar pronouncements. I mean, I think the issue is. you know, they want to make this move, but there are two things. Number one, All their profits today come from internal combustion. And so there's a little trepidation, even with the companies saying they want to make this move.

I think they've done so a little bit hesitantly, and it's made it hard for them to get out of the gate. There is some early demand, like early adopters are looking at some of these new Ford Lightning, Chevy Silverado. Startups like Rivian, you know, they like people, at least early on, people want this stuff. But the car companies are kind of stumbling out of the gate producing them. We don't have the raw material, we don't have the charging stations, we don't have the infrastructure.

It's been a year, we haven't really done anything with that. And I found out yesterday we haven't even agreed on the type of plug from GM to Ford to Tesla. They all plug in differently. What if you get to a station and my plug doesn't work? Yes, there's no doubt that infrastructure is a big hurdle to a lot of this.

To your point, a lot of these things don't work on the same card. Tesla is different than a lot of the others. You might get to the charging station and the thing doesn't take your credit card or it's broken or they're all taken up. Um there there are several big hurdles to Some of the big targets that have been put out there. I think the White House has said half of total car sales will be EVs by 2030.

A lot of the companies have kind of put out similar goals Infrastructure is a big one. The other one that's emerging as a big one is are there going to be enough batteries to really do this? You know, all the costs of stuff like lithium and nickel have skyrocketed in the last year and a half. Who has lithium and nickel? Where do we get that?

Yeah, I mean lithium can come from all over, but And nickel, you know, Ukraine, there was a problem early on in the war because quite a bit of nickel comes from Ukraine. The biggest issue is a lot of this stuff is processed in China. And they're under the new IRA, there's a bunch of incentives to bring a lot of this stuff to the US. But it's going to take. years and years, and people worry that there's going to be a battery shortage.

Before that even happens, you say prices for nickel and lithium and other battery raw materials have shot up. The CEO of Ford, Jim Farley, who I went and did a feature with on the Ford Lightning, said in July he wanted that only half of the battery material, raw materials the auto industry needs to achieve its long-range EV sales targets are available today. Only half. He goes, That's why speed in securing the supply is so critical, which is true. And a lot of it's in China, and we've got to agree to do some stripping here.

A lot of people don't want to do that. They don't think it's environmentally conscious. It's something that we should be doing.

So you can't have it both ways. But the demand was there, but no one can do it. And what he told me, too, is like, we got all our people sending their $100 deposits, but we don't have the cars.

Now people are pulling their money back saying, I'm going to go somewhere else because there's no hope of getting more cars. We don't have chips for the combustion engine right now. Yeah, the Lightning is a really good example. That's gotten a lot of buzz. Really cool truck.

I've gotten into it.

So have I. And there's. There's a ton of hand raisers for that thing. People put their hundred bucks down, but this is going on a year and a half now. I mean, they showed it in May of 2021, is when the sheets came off the thing, right?

And there's I've talked to many people who are still signed up that day and are still on the waiting list because I think, number one, Ford wasn't sure that there was going to be demand, so they set their production targets probably a little timidly, and now they wish they hadn't, and they're scrambling to get. The batteries they need to ramp up beyond what they expected, but those the batteries are hard to come by.

So it's just it's kind of like the the traditional automaker. You know, Tesla's in pretty good shape. They're the only ones making this stuff at scale right now. The traditional car companies are struggling to get out of the gate, even though there is signs that Maybe there's more demand than people thought. Right.

People have their, but the auto industry can't answer the call. Also, there's that $7,500 tax credit.

So we'll see how long that stays in place to make it cost-affordable. And as you write in your story, I did not know this. You need a lot more chips for an electric car than you do a standard car. And I was at the dealership the other day, and they say we are delivering cars without heated seats, without a lot of luxury items. And we told them, get back to us in a year.

And now I have people call me, it's been a year and we're still not getting them. And that's not the electric car. These are normal cars.

So when these politicians get up and say we need to make this transition and it's not there yet, I think it's up to the auto industry, you know the business better, Mike, to stand up for itself and say, guys, back off. We don't have the battery material. We don't have the manufacturing capability yet. Is that correct? No, that's right.

I mean, a couple of things on that point. Number one, you're right. Across the board, You know, anyone who's gone to buy a new car knows that the market's a mess. You can't even go and like test drive anything on the lot because they have barely any cars. you know, they're backlogged for I mean, they they think they have enough demand, like even if we go into a recession, they they think they're still gonna be selling cars.

They've got enough demand to fill for a year or two, and they don't think they're gonna get any inventory because of primarily the chip situation. other supply chain stuff But in terms of just this pivot to EVs, it's a rare case of the regulators in the industry right now are kind of on the same side of things. They both want to push in this direction, but I think they're sort of hesitant to admit that there's some big barriers. We talked about them, infrastructure. The raw materials you need.

And then the one we haven't talked about is the grid and whether that's ready. And that's a huge question around some of these 20-30 targets. And I'm told the grid burns with coal. In a lot of places it does.

So your EV might not be as clean. It all depends on where the source your electricity comes from.

So, the industry that's getting a lot of focus is not ready. The infrastructure is not there. You need a private company that I know was financed somewhere through the federal government, Tesla, to take the entire process on.

So, he didn't construct, he didn't make a car that he couldn't charge. They're building their own Tesla charging stations.

So, he looked at the complete picture. Is that different from the other automakers? Look, I mean, there is no question that Taskla is Years and years ahead of the rest of the industry. They're trying to catch up in just about every phase of this. The supercharger network.

Um you know, a lot of people thought was a dumb idea to begin with. It's turned out to be really smart. You know, people who buy Teslas don't have to worry. At least up until recently, I mean, we've seen some instances where some Tesla Owners have been frustrated because there's more people driving Tesla's now, so there's more demand on those charging stations. But yeah, he he thought of all these things that the industry is now just catching up to They're trying you know, the regulators are trying to help pour money into it, but I think it's sort of a bit of a drop in the bucket in terms of Of what you need.

Now, if you have a garage and you can afford a thousand dollar charger in your home and you want to commute. in an E V that's that's very doable today. Road trips get trickier. But for a big chunk of the population, E V's work really well. But before it's going to be a while, I think, before we get to sort of a mass market adoption of these things, and then there could be barriers that keep us from getting there in the first place, as we've talked about.

Mike Cole, yes, our guest. Mike, when we talk about this currently, we want to get these mass produced around the country, around the world.

So as we look at where China is right now, are we, when you look at the raw material, is it for the most part we have to use China? Yeah, so one of the requirements for that IRA to get the $7,500, if you're a consumer, the car can Can't have had anything processed. Yeah. Which right now nobody will qualify for. And so they're hashing out those rules now.

They're not in effect yet.

So some EVs do qualify for the $7,500. But the industry is trying to figure out how to sort of. de Chinify their vehicles. And it's really hard because Most of the battery materials get processed in China, and so they've got to fix that, and it's not an overnight solution. Mike Lasley.

When we're looking now at a situation where we want to be able to buy these cars. But now we understand that we don't know the length of the battery. We don't know if it's going to be like our iPhone. When we first get it, it holds that charge. The longer we use it, the less we hold the charge.

So, if you're trying to forecast how far you can go on a charge, it depends how old the car is. We also hear that it could be $20,000 to $30,000 for a new battery.

So, six years in, you might be making a $20,000 investment in your car. You're a car guy at the Wall Street Journal. What is the reality there? I don't think there's a whole lot of concern around battery life. For these EVs at this point, I mean, I think 150,000 miles.

200,000 miles. Shouldn't be a problem with most of these new EVs coming out. A lot of them are going to have probably bigger warranties than under with a normal gas engine car because they realize that some people might be hesitant. Recycling of these things, the used market, that's all stuff that needs to get sorted out. Uh but right now I think Yeah, I would Personally, I wouldn't look at an EV purchase with any more trepidation in terms of reliability of the power chain than I would a gas engine car today.

That's just my read on it. All right. And when it comes to rapid charging, how long will it take? Like it takes what, five minutes to fill up your car, ten minutes. How long will it take to charge this F uh the Lightning F one fifty or any of these substantial cars?

Yes, I mean, that gets back to the infrastructure problem, right? Like these chargers are all different.

So if you get a fast charger And you're in a vehicle that can take a fast charge, so not all of them take it at the same speed. But a Lightning, you could probably top off 100 miles and maybe, you know. 20 minutes or so. And you could be good to go. Other cars, it might not be that easy.

And if you get to a charger that's a level two charger, let's say, and it takes a lot longer. You're going to have to wait. And if you're on a world trip, you've got to do some planning before you get behind the wheel. Yeah, and I don't know if people are ready for that. And the other thing would be, the other thing would be: you charge your car and you see how long it takes to charge it.

That's one thing. And then, number two, how much does it cost? How many times is a gas station going to let you plan? plug in your car for free. Is it going to be like they're charging us for air now?

So, how much do they charge? And when it's all said and done, am I losing money? I know I could go more than 60 miles, 100 miles on a tank of gas.

So now I can only go a hundred miles. on a charge And then I'm going to get charged for the charge, right? Yeah, I mean, that's anyone who's buying an E V today should look at sort of their own electric rates and what they're paying their utility for charging at home because most people are going to be charging at home. The public chargers, it depends on these speeds, like the higher speed ones are going to charge more. But by and large, you're going to be spending less than you would on gas.

But it can get up there if you're on a fast charger on a highway that's charging a premium, you know, and it's going to be different. for every different use case and different chargers, different locations.

So it's all, you know, you kind of got to do your homework if you're going to get into one of these. As the headline reads, Electric cars took off, car makers weren't ready. He details it in his column in the Wall Street Journal. Mike Cole is thanks so much. You bet.

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Yes. As far as the cost of a car, I have a Kia E V six, I just got like for a month and a half or so. With my home charger, it charges about twelve cents a kilowatt hour.

So I use three hundred ninety five kilowatt hours, which is about forty five dollars for one month. Driving to Indianapolis. What kind of car is it? I've never heard of it. What kind of car?

AKEA EAX. And how does it seat four? Is it a small car? No, it's like a crossover. It's a four-door.

Okay. Do you like it? Do you like it? Yeah. Can you get charged?

Where do you go if you're traveling and you don't know where you're, you know, you're just looking at your GPS and traveling someplace? How do you know where the stations are? They have a thing on the screen, so you can find charging stations And there's like Charge America and stuff like that. But they charge like forty three cents a kilowatt hour for those.

Okay, and so you see and you how much did it cost you? Um Well, when we bought the car, they gave us one thousand kilowatt hours free with Charge America.

So, I'm still using the free hours on that.

So, that's nothing. Gotcha. All right. Sounds good. Go get Ikea.

It's not a hybrid. It's purely electric, right? Yes. Got it. Interesting.

Don, WNIS in Virginia Beach. Hey, Don. Hey, Brian, two comments. One on the electric vehicles. There are like two hundred forty million vehicles in this country.

Less than ten percent are hybrid or total electric.

So that's a little bit of a hurdle. Uh, to what would come so let me just qualify that, Don. Just so you know, I was talking about trends, people are buying them now, so go ahead. Oh, no, I agree, but uh, five less than five percent of all uh vehicle sales today are um are electric.

Okay, so. But now the other thing I wanted to say though, and this is the more important thing, I'm retired and with about a ten percent inflation rate, which is where I think we'll be by the end of the year. You got to add to that the twenty percent that my retirement plan money has decreased. The stocks and bonds So far, this year.

So that guy's hurting me in the pocketbook by 30% a year. And I've never heard his parents. Will that affect how you vote? Not much. No, I was ready to go the other way anyway.

Thanks so much. I'm sorry you're experiencing that though. That's the reality check. You don't need the Fed chairman to tell you what the economy is like. You ask a guy like Don.

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