NOW they pay attention? Democrats, media finally worried about the broken border

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Well, I can't speak to why he has or has not gone. I'm just speaking to the fact that it's a bit more disruptive for the president of the United States to travel than you or I. Keisha Lancebottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta, trying to make heads or tails of why the president has not gone to the border. No one even briefed her because it's inexplicable and not acceptable.

Now they are all paying attention. People, networks, politicians. I'm talking about Biden's broken border. What's so amazing to me, he got 2 million people have been kicked out since Title 42 was put in place. What is that essentially?

Hey, we're in a pandemic. You can't come through our border illegally. Allow single men and most people, except for other circumstances, to come through.

So When they were not enforcing it or barely enforcing it, Lone Star, Operation Lone Star, was put in place in Texas. They spent $4 billion to help try to control the border. They can't. They bust out 14,000 people to northern cities. It still hasn't made much of a difference.

And now, with Title 42 going away, we're expecting 18,000 illegals a day. This is a wide open, busted border that the administration, through their negligence or intentionality, has allowed to happen. But now that people are all paying attention because the numbers and the video is so disturbing.

Now Congressman Gonzalez went into one of these facilities. And shot video. Press is not allowed in these facilities. No reason why they say privacy. No, it's embarrassing.

If Trump. Was involved in setting up a facility like this, and there were facilities set up like this, but he was trying to stop the influx. You would have, you would have, what you'd be calling for another impeachment of Donald Trump. But instead, Joe Biden doesn't go and he gets a pass. You're talking about one bathroom for 600 people and some of these little children sitting on the cement or linoleum floors in these blankets.

So, listen to the question that Martha Raddox asked the governor of Texas. Having said uh having heard everything I just said, President Biden says, we have an open board and come on over. But people I have heard say it are you. Our former President Trump, Aron DeSantis. That message.

Reverberates. In Mexico and beyond. It was known from the time that Joe Biden got elected that Joe Biden supported open borders. It is known by the cartels who have sophisticated information. Whether or not the Biden administration is going to enforce the immigration laws or not is known across the world, but most importantly, known among the cartels.

He's being so calm in that question.

So, it's for example, if you want to stop smashing grabs in San Francisco. You're at fault if you bring up There are smash and grab opportunities in other cities. No, you want to stop the smashing grabs in San Francisco and you want the border to be fixed and someone's ignoring it.

So you bring up the border's wide open. Why don't you fix it? And now the talking points from Democrats are it's Republicans saying the border is open that's the problem. This is really going to drive you crazy. Cut seven, Veronica Escobar, Democrat.

Having Republican colleagues go on national TV consistently saying the border is open, the border is open. They're the ones saying the border is open. I think their rhetoric has a role to play as well in what the cartels use. But regardless, I will tell you, the cartels will do anything possible to exploit these folks, whether they tell the truth, whether they lie, it doesn't matter.

So, what you have to do is pressure. Listen, you've heard me say this so many times. I almost don't want to say it. You pressure the other country, even though there's 150 countries involved. You pressure other countries to crack down on those human traffickers to crack down on their own people to stay in place.

This is not the time to go. You expand the consulates for the application purposes. You feel terrible for Venezuela and Nicaraguans, especially Cubans. You have a different situation for them, but they remain in Mexico while their process and background checks are done.

Now everybody's covering this story because in two days, Title 42 goes away. And then they're going to go from 7,000, which is unsustainable, to 18,000, if not more. And they're all waiting in Mexico right now. Tony Gundala, and Bill Malusions all over it. Just follow his feed.

You'll learn a lot. Congressman Gonzalo shows extreme overcrowding at the Border Patrol Central Processing Center in El Paso, Texas. It says he took the video on Friday with 4,600 migrants who were to federal in custody. Capacity is 1,040. Please tell me if that is humane.

Joe Biden with a big Irish mocking heart. While he sits in Delaware, Totally clueless, not even talking to fellow Democrats like Henry Quayar, who know how to stop this, know what's worked and what hasn't, gets elected, even though he's a Democrat coming who's pro-life, who's coming out for a strong border. In Texas, cut one. First of all, morale is not good because they feel that the administration doesn't have their backs, number one, number two. Are they prepared?

No. Even the three billion dollars that you mentioned a while ago, that money is going to be used for processing It's going to be used for food and shelter and transportation of migrants. It doesn't address the issue that we're facing at the border. Of course it doesn't. I don't want to I want you to get to get on board with this.

I do want you to take some calls, but I do also want to talk about what's happening on Twitter. What's happened over the weekend, more Twitter file drops. And I'm sure with everybody, Christmas shopping, Hanukkah shopping, I'm sure you're not running around saying what did what's the last thing to come out in the past with the past owners of Twitter. But Mataibi's continuing to do this.

So after revealing on Friday in the sixth edition of the Twitter files, Taibbi writes, the Twitter employees had near-constant communication with FBI agents from 2020 to 2022. Matt Taibbi detailed an additional conflict between the federal agency and the social media company when the FBI appeared displeased with Twitter's response. Matt Taibbi, in July, writes this, he puts forward on this, July of 2020, San Francisco, FBI agent Elvis Chan, there's that name again, tells Twitter executives Yo Roth to expect written questions from Foreign Influence Task Force, the interagency group that has dealt with cyber threats. TB writes, the answer was the questionnaire author seemed displeased with Twitter for implying in a July 20th DHS ODNY FBI industry briefing that you indicated you had not observed much recent activity from official propaganda actors on your platform.

So they're upset that they're saying I don't see other countries operating on our platform. He continues, tweet number four, one would think that would be good news. The agency seemed to feel otherwise. Really?

So Chan writes, this was quite a discussion within the USOC. The U. S. IC, intelligence community, to get clarification from a company referring to the United States intelligence community, Taeibi says tweet number six said this, the task force demanded to know how Twitter came to its unpopular conclusion. Oddly, it included a bibliography of public sources, including a Wall Street Journal article attesting to the prevalence of foreign threats, as if to show Twitter that it got it wrong.

They go on to say That essentially, Elvis Chan is everywhere, constantly briefing Twitter.

Now, there's no way they weren't doing the same thing to Facebook because we know for a fact that Mark Zuckerberg said that he would brief by Twitter execut the FBI about a would-be Russian disinformation campaign that was exactly like the laptop that they got. From that Laptop repair shop in Delaware. And then when that popped up in October, Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan, that was it. That's why we froze it. And it's that same way Twitter froze it.

Jack Dorsey later apologized. Other outlets later found out that it was 100% correct. There is such a pathway now for investigation that you have to ask yourself: Twitter trying to keep foreign actors out of our elections, is FBI trying to keep foreign actors out of our election? It's fine. Making sure that Guys like Charlie Kirk and People like Dan Boncino.

And Don Trump Jr. were minimized or silenced or shadow banned, however they want to say it and get around it. is not acceptable. And I just also think. That Elon Musk is not helping himself by arbitrarily banning people as if it's one man, billionaire, doing things.

Instinctively. Ajusan. Clear reflexes. And as powerful as he is and as smart as he is, it doesn't help his cause, certainly not helping Tesla's stock.

So there's a poll put out by Elon Musk himself: should he stay as CEO? Doesn't mean he shouldn't stay as owner, no. Why would he? How can he? The guy's got a tunnel company, he's got a space company, he's got a another company that puts chips in people's brains, and he's got the leading electric car manufacturing company in the world.

How could he possibly stay on Twitter on a daily basis? And now Social media companies are getting a warning from Democrats as they lose power in the House that you better not change your practices. Just because we're not in power. or there's going to be all types of regulation that will not make you happy. That that struck Jonathan Turley pretty provincially.

greatly and he wrote a column about it and we'll discuss it.

So here's what Mike Turner says that he's going to request once he gets into power as chairman of Oversight, Cut 17. The FBI had, under the cover of saying that they were pursuing foreign malign influence, had really exploded into activities that involved engaging with mainstream media and social media and really impacting what is the normal debate of democracy.

Now, what's very troubling here, in my opinion, this was not based on intelligence. You had John Radcliffe on your own show saying, for example, the Hunter Biden laptop, which the FBI was trying to intervene and saying that was Russian misinformation. He said there was no intelligence that substantiated that. I believe that in the end, we will find out there's no intelligence that supports the FBI doing this, that this is a campaign by the FBI. That really is outside of the bounds of anything we would expect them to do and certainly very constitutionally troubling.

Yes, and Turner's sharp, man.

So I look forward to hearing from him. I don't want nonstop investigation, but I do want investigations. And we come back. You know, they've been asking crazy things from past Trump officials in office and out of office. unbelievable demands of the President to get his tax returns and business statements.

And they got him. But you know what it also means? If the Republicans in charge suddenly decide that they want Joe Biden's tax reform, because has a guy. making $250,000 a year, become a multimillionaire. Even before he became vice president, Maybe it can be found in his five hundred one C three s.

Maybe it can be found. in some of these businesses that we don't really have m know much about. Maybe it's time that Joe Biden gets some of the things, some of the scrutiny. That Donald Trump's still experiencing. We come back, I'll take your calls, and then Larry Cuddler will talk about the economy and so much more.

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Um and she's supposed to be the border czar. I've never been there. President Biden hasn't been there. The reason they're not going, I understand, from a political perspective, it is an ugly story for them. They have induced this problem.

They made promises well over their skis on Title 42.

Now I don't know how to get out of it because they have a war within their own party. And if we're looking at 14 to 18,000 people across the border, Yeah. There's going to be mayhem down there. Yeah, Chris Christie again saying it fought out, and I well I just love the people on his. Panel, even the Wall Street Journal reporter, they don't seem to get that this is a festering problem that he made so terrible.

And when they generalize and say, well, everybody had a problem, and in 2013, we almost had a deal, nothing to do with this. The border was being it was busy. We wanted to get border better border security, obviously. We had to get that wall and the barrier. Everyone agreed on that from Harry Reid to Chuck Schumer.

Didn't think that was going to be an issue. President Trump got 450 miles done. We know about the things that he put in place. And because there was people coming, it's nothing to do with them. We had to stop them, screen them and get them to stay in Mexico.

And we told Abrador that if you don't take them, we're going to hit you with tariffs. And if you don't like that, we're going to pull back aid. And then we're going to reduce trade. You know what Abrador ended up being the last political leader. To recognize Joe Biden as president?

And he's pretty much a socialist. I don't know much about him. When he got elected, everyone said, well, that's not good for America. And it probably is in the long run. But man, he got along with Trump and they they had to deal with each other directly.

Don't tell me it's better. Here's more from Chris Christie, cut thirteen. I don't think the Biden administration has much credibility on that when they say that forgiving student loans is because there's a public health risk as well.

So they've shown themselves to be fairly flexible in that regard, Martha. Look, in the end, they have let this crisis get to the point where it is. That's why they don't want to go down there. What politicians don't want to go to the scene of a crisis? Only if they created the crisis themselves.

And the fact that neither the Vice President nor the President has been to the border is something that's going to be very noticed this week, as much even more than it's been noticed before.

So what you do is you could go down there and you could say things like his spokesperson said, well, when a president goes down, it creates such uproar. Yeah. In a wide open area, it creates uproar. If you ever want to see something desolate outside illegal immigrants and border patrol, you go to the border. I mean it is no man's land.

And there's huge You need a helicopter, you need a four-wheel drive vehicle, you got to go through a small town, then you have a big imprint. You got plenty of room to spread out with security. Trump went down there plenty of times. Politicians go down there all the time, and it's a huge border. You got seven hundred thousand miles there.

Now, I don't know why Governor Ducey doesn't make a bigger deal of it, but I give Abbott. I know it was an election. A tremendous credit because he had to take $10 million. This could have cost him an election. He had to take $4 billion worth of taxpayer money and use it for Operation Lone Star.

And they could say it could be used for other things. And there's a lot of needy communities that could use that. There's fields, and there's farms, and there's supplements, and there's all these types of aid that could be given. But right now, if you can't provide security to your people, you have no choice.

So Henry Quayar gets it. I think Gonzalez gets it. I think Senator Kelly, when he's running for office, he got it. I don't know if he's got it now. Not many of the Democrats get it.

But now they have to understand it because it is so overwhelming. It's hurting the entire country. And that's the brilliance of sending all these illegals into these major cities because these Democrat left-wing cities, these mayors have to deal with the problem. And they look around, they want to blame a Republican governor. And they go, wait a second, you can't.

Where is Sanctuary City? We said, well, come on, come all. And we know That these border communities are no more worthy or unworthy than they are to accept these ill immigrants. Why should their lives be ruined and not these cities be stressed? Larry Kudlow next.

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Recession pessimism fuels the Scrooge in this holiday economy. along with a bare stock market, a housing slump, a drop in manufacturing output. November's retail sales were the biggest decline this year. Worrisome to retailers, shoppers spent less in holiday categories. Electronics, Clothing.

Toys. That is from CBS. That people have this idea about the economy. They look at numbers that don't really affect their lives. That's a practical look at how everything's affecting the lives this Christmas now that we're done with COVID and trying to get back to normal.

Larry Kudlow joins us now, former White House Economic Advisor, host of the number one show in business television, Kudlow on FBN. What a great year you finished up with, Larry. Congratulations. Thank you, Brian. It's a great blessing.

I appreciate it very much. And by the way, FBN beat the competition overall, too. And that's a terrific thing. When you were done with the White House, did you know you wanted to go back into TV? Were you going to relax for a while?

What did you think? Did you know you wanted to come here?

Well, I you know what I I was ready to come back to broadcasting. That's for sure. And I was partial to Fox. And one thing led to another.

So I I think the big surprise Was whether I come in as a Fox News contributor and a Fox business contributor. Uh which was the original idea. Uh But then later on Um My friend Lauren Pedersen, who's the head of Fox Business, said, would you do your own show? And I thought about that and I said, you know what? Yes.

These old bones have a lot of energy left in them. This all happened in early 2021. I guess it was sometime in the winter 2021. Anyway, I wasn't sure, but I got an offer and It turns out great. I love it.

The whole thing's been terrific. And I get to work with Brian Kilmead almost every week.

So that's great fun, too. Yeah, I love coming on. Usually on Fridays, and the money you pay me, it really makes it worthwhile. I mean, it's just fantastic. You're our highest paid contributor.

I know. I take up most of your budget.

So that works out good for me.

So I wanted to play that clip from you, Larry. Right. Yeah, they don't. I shouldn't have probably said this on national radio. My fault.

And then, of course, you do your Saturday show. You do your Saturday radio show on WABC.

So you're working six days a week now, as opposed to the White House. It was seven.

So I just wanted to play that Mark Strassman on Face of the Nation, not just somebody who maybe didn't win an election. And they say that between they keep raising rates. It's definitely going to hurt housing. It has hurt housing. It will hurt the stock market.

There's a drop in manufacturing. And the November sales numbers were not strong. Why is the White House so happy with? the economy.

Well, they always try to sugarcoat everything, and they've never told the truth about the economy, and they've never told the truth about inflation for that matter. And maybe we'll get to fiscal policy, which is going to be a big factor. in all this. But right now, the economy is very soft I mean, actually, y what we may get, um we may get A second recession. It's like called a double dip recession because GDP fell.

in the first half of the year.

Now it's rising a bit in the second half of the year. probably come in around 2%. Although it looks like it's finishing badly. In November, December, as your clip suggested, manufacturing is down, retail sales are down, housing is down. And then I think the chances of a recession are very high.

The probabilities are very high. for next year. There's three things cooking out there. That you have to watch. One is the conference board's index of leading indicators.

which is plunging. Second. Is the Federal Reserve's M2 money supply, which is plunging? And third, Brian, in the financial markets. short term interest rates.

are much higher than long term interest rates. That's called the yield curve inversion. What it means is the three month Treasury bill which is the safe haven is like four point quarter and the ten year Treasury bonds is three and a half. That's a very strong indicator of recession probability in the next year.

So I don't want to be the Grinch that stole Christmas. Honestly, I'm an optimist at heart. But I think the reality is the numbers are pointing to another downturn in 2023.

So the question is who's going to fund the government and how? It looks like instead of doing a continuing resolution, and you know politics as well as the money, they're going to do an omnibus bill at a worth of $1.7 trillion. It makes no sense to Jim Jordan. He said this last night to Steve Hilton, cut 28. The idea that the cavalry is coming over the hill, we're going to have a majority in the House of Representatives, for goodness sake.

Why wouldn't you do a CR and just kick the funding into next year when we could begin to clamp down on some of this instead of making us wait a year? That's why this omnibus is so darn wrong and we shouldn't be passing it. I'm not going to vote for it, but I wish the Senate wouldn't bring it up and would just give us a CR into February of next year.

So why wouldn't they? Why wouldn't they wait? Why is it Mitch McConnell's advantage to do do this now? This is a huge story, huge story. And it's a betrayal.

Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republican leadership. is betraying Kevin McCarthy and the new House Leadership. It won't give them a chance. to establish their own budget. and their own budget priorities.

on opening the spigots for oil and gas, for example, on putting money into the border for another important example, on taxes and regulations. They won't give him a chance for another year. And it just makes no sense. It's an absolute betrayal. And what this is, I don't know.

I mean, what you've got is some of these old. Planet Bulls. Uh including McConnell. Um But um others um From Alabama. Uh and you know here's here's one way I'd picked up Sarah Shelby.

Down to shit, Richard Shelby, sorry. But Earmarks, okay, earmarks, special interest earmarks. are soaring Under the Senate plan. Shelby is the leader, but of the top ten, Eight of them are Republicans. Shelby is retiring.

Inhoff of Oklahoma is retiring. It's like how many post offices can you have with your name on it, for heaven's sakes? And these guys are going to uh Rolling in with Chuck Schumer. For an omnibus spending bill that will probably come by the by close to two trillion dollars. Several hundred billion above any baseline that might be conjured up.

We don't know because we haven't had a real budget in so many years. This, you know, the House guys, McCarthy and company, want their own budget priorities. They want to cut spending. They want to make the Trump tax cuts permanent. They want to open up the oil and gas spigots.

They want to protect the border. You know, Title 42 is ending in two days, and the Bidens have no plan to stop the catastrophe and the disaster of this down the border.

Now, why is McConnell doing this? I mean, McConnell, look, I don't want to personalize this. McConnell has a good conservative record down through the years. He's the guy responsible for the three conservative judges. But for some reason, right now, he's betraying McCarthy.

And this has got to change. It's a terrible idea. It's probably the number one economic issue. And incidentally, this spending, I mean, do you want to spend another $2 trillion a year? The Fed is fighting inflation alone.

The Fed could use some help. less spending would help the Fed right now. In fact, we should have some supply-side growth in the economy instead of going for a recession. That's why I'm so keen on what I call H.R. One.

I think I've convinced McCarthy and Scalise that should be the bill that reopens the spigots for fossil fuels. But the point is, give the House people, the new Republican House, a chance. Don't betray them. Don't stop them. Don't make them wait a full year.

Let them begin in January. Any budget bill should be like a couple of weeks to get them into the middle of January. And that will allow them to put up their own budget and then negotiate with the Democratic White House and the Democratic Senate. That's what needs to be done. It is almost, it's unfathomable, and no one understands what McConnell is doing.

In fact, there's a very good editorial in this morning's Wall Street Journal on this subject.

So this is a huge story, Brian. And we have been fighting it on our show: kill the bill, save America, kill the omnibus bill, let McCarthy and company have their say in court. I'm going to continue all week long on this subject.

So, what is in terms of automatic withdrawals? How much are we committed to spend domestically? How much is our budget before we get into what we need and what I want as President? How much do I automatically have to spend? How much non-discretionary spending is there?

Do you know?

Well, look at no, discretionary spending is the key. It's about $2 trillion. The overall budget. is going to be above six trillion dollars.

So how much is the non-discretionary? Is is what, two? Two trillion? No, nondiscretionary is the bulk of it, the so-called entitlements. They passed the military bill, $850 billion.

Okay, they put that away. But the rest of it is, you know, close. Entitlements uh Close to four trillion dollars, okay. But here's a very important point, subtle point, but very important. COVID emergency speech.

Spending, which was supposed to run out. Yes. Some of it has. That is. It's come back.

In democratic proposals for this omnibus spring. Spending bill. They want to take the COVID emergency money and put it into the budget so that it becomes what's called mandatory spending into the baseline forevermore. And this has got to be stopped. And even more than that, these COVID spending bills, they're essentially welfare bills.

Housing subsidies, unemployment compensation. They want a big kiddie child tax credit. None of them have any work requirements or work fare.

So, this adds to the problem that not enough Americans are actually working because they're being paid by Uncle Sam not to work. The Gingrich Clinton welfare work reforms of 25 years ago have been scrapped.

So, this is stuff. That the House Republican leadership, the new leadership, wants to erase. And stop. Otherwise, you're going to build into this baseline, spending baseline, a massive increase, which will worsen the prospects for inflation. Inflation is slowly coming down.

It's very sticky. It's very difficult. The Federal Reserve is essentially acting alone. The Fed was late, but at least they're getting the job done. They could use some help from fiscal policy because government spending was the original cause of the high inflation in the first place.

But for all these reasons, You know, don't increase mandatory spending. Don't increase discretionary spending. Don't make the COVID emergencies permanent. Please put work fair into these bills. All these things have to be changed.

An omnibus spending bill will not change a thing and will force the new House Republican leadership here. And nobody knows what's in it. It's going to be impossible to read real quick. Joe Manchin came out and said the Inflation Reduction Act does reduce inflation. He goes as far as Eddie, he goes, he says the bill.

The IRF bill, as far as energy, you know, the inflation it brings down drug prices, it brings down insulin prices, life-saving insulin, it brings down health care costs. Allowing pharmaceutical he says allowing these pharmaceutical companies to negotiate directly with the government, does it? No, it does not. By the way, even that part essentially is price controls. Which will damage future breakthroughs and innovation in these drugs.

Look, Joe Manchin is a friend of mine. He's a good man in general. He made a terrible mistake. He fought the good fight on stopping Build Back Better, but he caved in on the Inflation Reduction Act. He caved in because of a fake promise from Schumer and Biden that he would get some kind of permitting reform for West Virginia's pipelines and for oil and gas in general, oil, gas, and coal.

He never got it. He's not going to get it. They double-crossed, he double-crossed Republicans and the Democrats double-crossed Manchin.

So he may be backpedaling right now, but he is completely wrong on this. That Inflation Reduction Act, by the way, which spends about $500 billion on all kinds of phony Green New Deal spending, which itself is inflationary, which did the opposite. Instead of expanding oil and gas, it actually causes it to cut back again. That's the root of all evil in terms of the Ukrainian war and financing Putin. It's also the root of all evil of inflation as well.

So I'm sorry, Joe is just dead wrong on that.

So, Larry, real quick, we know the President of the United States, the former President of the United States, had an announcement last week, and he announced the NFTs. They ended up being very valuable for him. Were you surprised that was his surprise announcement? Uh Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Yes, I was surprised. By the way, he put out a very good statement. on no media censorship and reforming Section two hundred and thirty. He had a very good statement, which unfortunately was not covered because of these Baseball cards, or whatever they are. There's a lot of things in life.

Ryan killed me that I don't understand, you know, on a day-by-day basis. Right, that's one of them. I am. That's one of them. All right, Larry.

So you're not going to get one. But everybody else did. Evidently, it was very lucrative for him, but it was very interesting. I understand that I'm happy for him, but I. Thanks for watching.

I don't know that that was the most important thing he could be doing right now. Very, very diplomatic of you. Mind you. I love the guy. I'm very loyal to him.

I think he's made some very bad mistakes in recent weeks. But he also came out with a very good statement, incidentally. He made a good speech. uh to some group in miami uh israeli-american group in miami about uh his opposition to anti-semitism and white nationalism but a standing ovation too yeah i mean but again he stepped on his own line with these baseball cards or whatever they are so um you know i i just like when he's on message when he's on policy when he's on achievement when he's on the future direction of this country there is nobody better at american life let me just leave it like that larry thanks so much we're going to watch you today at four o'clock larry kudlow the number one uh talk show host in all of fox television not only fox but all of business television larry thank you Thanks, Brian. I'll talk to you soon.

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First, I'd like to thank Sergio over with KURB for hosting us this weekend in McCallum. It was unbelievable. And also, seeing everybody in Point Pleasant in New Jersey on Friday was fantastic. And everyone that supported the President and Freedom Fighter, thankfully, your guys are keeping on the best-sell list. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and their battle to save America's soul.

Roger, listening on WHUB in Tennessee. Roger. Hey, good morning, Brian. What's in your mind?

Well, you know, the FBI spied on Trump's campaign. The FBI rigged with the Russian hoax. And now it's proven, or you know, if they ever do, they're going to have hearings on social media putting its finger on the election. I mean, everybody says move on, move on from 2020. I get all that.

But what could be more important than the FBI in hearing Americans elections? Absolutely, with this exposure. But that's a lot different from saying that Philadelphia had a bunch of ballots there and such-and-such did this. And we don't want to go through that because there's no proof of it. And if there was proof of it, his millions of dollars worth of lawyers wouldn't be in trouble right now because most upstanding lawyers wouldn't touch the case because there's no proof there.

But going into the FBI, talking about what's happened in the past, saying you're going to clean it up when you're president and what Elon Musk is doing, we hope the Republicans will get to the bottom of it to straighten out Facebook, Instagram, and everything else along the way. That's positive. But going back to say ballots was taken from a truck from Long Island, not going to work. From high atop 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 Killmeat Show, 1866-408-7669. Going to be great to have General Michael Lenington back in the studio, and he'll help Danielle Green, another veteran, wounded warrior. He'll talk about what they're doing, why they're still needed, and why we always have to keep them in mind on these holiday seasons. Also, we'll be taking your calls, and Michael Goodwin is standing by.

We're also trying to monitor the situation at the border as well as looking about the. The ongoing negotiations on the budget. Government shuts down on Friday unless they come to some type of continuing resolution or omnibus bill. We'll discuss the ramifications on both. Special thanks to everyone in Point Pleasant, New Jersey for coming out and supporting President Freedom Fighter.

I had great signing there. And Dana Perino for opening up her, telling me about her great town, as well as, and she came down and visited, as well as everybody in beautiful McCallum, Texas. It's just great to see all those great people on the border city there in the Eye of the Storm.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. This would put Argentina on the brink of winning the World Cup. Gonzalo Montiel can win the World Cup for Argentina with this kick. Yes!

And just like that, in penalty kicks, the greatest game that's ever played that I have seen ended, and the World Cup final is through. Argentina beats France in an epic clash in Qatar. Was it done to make this done to make soccer even bigger? It's done everything. And also, how would you feel if Messi was coming to the MLS?

It could be a done deal. Number two. The NSA was working hand in hand with the leading Silicon Valley companies, Google and Facebook and Apple, and they were turning over enormous amounts of information, whatever these agencies asked, without a search warrant or anything else. It's true, Michael Greenwald, Twitter files unfolding right now. The direct role the FBI had in converting Twitter and I'm sure other entities into doing what they wanted them to do, unacceptable.

Number one.

Is that why he didn't go? Is that visit?

Well, I can't speak to why he has or has not gone. I'm just speaking to the fact that it's a bit more disruptive for the president of the United States to travel than you or I. Yeah, but he didn't go. Keisha Lance Bottoms.

Now they're all paying attention. The people, the networks, the politicians. I'm talking about what's happening at the broken border that Biden broke. Michael Goodwin joins us now. Michael, you know this already.

You wrote about it.

Now, Democrats, their plan is to blame Republicans for talking about the border that's wide open, for saying it's an open border. Can you believe this? I think the word chutzpah would apply there, Brian. Look, the Democrats every once in a while when they would be pressed on this, they said, we need comprehensive immigration reform. I mean, it was like a blast from the past.

when comprehensive meant amnesty. And I don't think that that becomes a harder and harder sell. Look just think of all the fighting. That happened over the years over the Dreamers, whom everybody thought they were innocent. but that the precedent you would be setting if you automatically legalize them, put them on a path to citizenship.

And that has always been the problem. That when you make these deals, are they final or are they just an invitation? to a new generation.

So you go back to the Reagan years of 86, there was immigration reform, and they roughly three million were naturalized, the three million illegal immigrants were naturalized.

Okay, that'll be the end of it. And then the number grew to 11 million after by 2000 or so. And now what? We have millions more coming in. Many children, babies will be born here.

Those babies will be citizens of the people who came here i illegally and then a claim of asylum. The one million or so who were undetected by the border agents, the gotaways they called them. I mean, this is a generational issue that has been created by the failure to enforce existing laws, by the dismantling of the Remain in Mexico policy, and now you have probably the lifting of the Title 42. Roll. Which enables more expulsions because of the pandemic.

So it is a holy mess that Joe Biden has created. But you wouldn't think so. Listen to Martha Radditz. She said, listen to who she blames by the question. She's talking to Governor Greg Abbott in Texas about Texas.

Cut for it. Open borders. I don't think I've ever heard. President Biden says, we have an open board and come on over. But people I have heard say it are you.

Our former President Trump, Aron DeSantis. That message. Reverberates. In Mexico and beyond. It was known from the time that Joe Biden got elected that Joe Biden supported open borders.

It is known by the cartels, who have sophisticated information, whether or not the Biden administration is going to enforce the immigration laws or not. It's known across the world, but most importantly, known among the cartels. You believe the question? And that was the same question that Democratic congresspeople were asking all saying all day.

So Martha Rattis is getting the talking points. Yes, that's exactly what it is, Brian. And I have to commend Governor Abbott there. I think my head would have exploded. I know.

He's so calm. I mean, to to such an outrageous uh thing that she did there. Uh I mean, to deny the reality, Joe Biden is president. This is happening on his watch. To say that something, a charge against him, is the reason for this non-stop.

Caravan Is insane. It's malpractice as a journalist, but that's what we've come to expect. Look, they're only now talking about this. because of Title forty two. They have ignored this story.

As I wrote in my Sunday column, if you watched the networks or CNN or MSNBC or only read the New York Times, the Washington Post for the last two years, you would not know that 5 million people came across the border. You would have no idea why Governor Abbott, why DeSantis, why Ducey in Arizona, why they are sending so many of these migrants to northern cities to get the attention, why they've sent buses and buses and buses to the stop outside the vice president's residence in Washington. They want help. They want it to stop. But even the New York mayor now, Eric Adams.

is demanding help. New York City already has at least 30,000 migrants living in these homeless shelters, some on the streets. This is what's happening around the country. And the federal government does nothing. It leaned on the mayor of El Paso, a Democratic mayor, the forefront of this invasion.

Don't declare a state of emergency. Basically, it will embarrass us. You'll just be reinforcing Republican talking points. I mean, that's essentially what they said to him.

Meanwhile, his city is overrun. Right, and it is state. And then he ultimately did declare one, but it's way too late.

Now in New York, they're asking for a billion dollars. What a joke that is. And there you expect 13 busloads here right to New York City. Michael Goodwin, the New York Post, that's a matter of Chicago, Washington. They're doing it off there in Arizona, too.

How dare you say no? Why should a border city have their life destroyed just because they have to be located on the border? Why shouldn't cities who say come one, come all do the same thing? You also write that there are 275,000 unaccompanied minors. Nobody, and everybody should understand this.

Michael Goodwin and Brian Kilmead have nothing against these people. I'm sure most of them are good people. They want a better life. This is just not the way the world works. You just can't leave a country and go to another.

Try that in Australia or Canada. Try that in Russia or China. Try that in Japan or South Korea. It doesn't work like that. You can, that's not the way an immigration country can function.

And guess what? The Texas spent $4 billion, $4 billion of Texas state money, and they have zero taxes, they get it from other things, $4 billion on Operation Lone Star to round up these illegals because so many of their citizens' security and safety has been compromised. Yeah. You know, Brian, I I think it is uh a fact that this is something that we've never seen in the country before. Um it's it's As you say, that's not the way the world works.

That's not the way the immigration system has ever worked in America. And I have to commend Donald Trump. He said it best. If you don't have borders, you don't have a country. And think about it, borders.

I mean, you look at a map. When you see a map of Europe, what do you see? You see borders. Why are the borders there? It's so you can provide some security for your own people.

We're not yet in a one-world system where people can move freely. You need a passport. You can't just get on an airplane and say, take me to wherever you're going. I mean, there are rules, and immigrants coming to America for hundreds and hundreds of years played by those rules. And suddenly now, the Democratic White House, the Democratic Congress said, we don't need no stinking rules.

Just come on in. That's effectively what they've done. And they will keep coming. There will be no end to this. And they blame Republicans for saying the border's open.

And by saying that, really? Because they're pointing out the obvious that you won't pay attention. And I was in McCallum, Texas on Saturday. And they say, Brian, wherever you go, you can go to about 10, 15 different places. They have stacks of border wall just sitting there.

The Bollard wall that we pay you. You and I, everybody listening, paid for. And it drives them crazy because their lives have all been affected by this. And they're a transport vehicle. They watch people come in, they watch them get their services.

Some, they just ransack their houses and go through their farms. I want to get another angle real quick from you, and that's what's been discovered in the six or seven tranches that's been released about Twitter. The last of which shows, if I could paraphrase, even the vice president, the left-wing vice president of Twitter, who was in charge of content, was getting. Offended and being flabbergasted about the amount of pressure put on them from the FBI, demanding things in writing about who was coming in and what they were saying and how they were affected. Glenn Greenwald, of all people, a left-wing journalist, said this, cut twenty-three.

One of the very first stories that we reported on back in 2013 when I was working with my source, Edward Snowden, and we got this gigantic archive from the National Security Agency was that the NSA, the secretive spy agency inside the government, was working hand in hand in total secrecy with the leading Silicon Valley companies, Google and Facebook and Apple, and they were turning over enormous amounts of information, whatever these agencies asked, without a search warrant or anything else. And obviously, 2016 and RussiaGate was a scandal, a manufacturer scandal that came directly from the CIA and the FBI through anonymous leaks in the Washington Post and the New York Times, specifically to interfere in our politics and manipulate the outcome of the 2016 election because they viewed Donald Trump as a threat. And then it comes to 2020, and they want to make sure he doesn't get reelected, it seems. And we got what we got.

Well, Brian. Uh in my column Sunday I I do a little additional piece on this. And my prediction is 2023 will be the year where this whole thing is blown up. I think Elon Musk has started this. By revealing the internal files, Matt Taibi, Barry Weiss.

and others going through these files and releasing what happened there with this with the FBI and Twitter. The Post reported the other day that as many as a dozen former FBI officials actually were employed at Twitter in addition to the agents. And so you had a kind of column of FBI agents working against Twitter users and working with the FBI. And you know, Brad, I compare this to the church committee in the mid-1970s and where they revealed the raft of domestic spying of the CIA, the FBI, and the IRS. And so I think we're going to have to revisit that.

I think we're that was fifty years ago almost, and I think it's time for another church style committee that goes after this domestic spying and because that's what this is. This is they are suppressing freedom of speech By telling Twitter, the government is using private companies to suppress the First Amendment, and it is spying on these American citizens without, as Glenn Greenwald said, without a search warrant, without a court order. I mean, where's the FISA court in all of this, right?

So I just think that this is something that's ripe to blow open. It's too bad the Republicans didn't gain control of the Senate because the Democrats are fine with it. It's interesting, you know, 50 years ago it was the Democrats crying about this.

Now the Democrats are fine with it as long as all the spying and restrictions fall on conservatives. I think the House is going to have to get this ball rolling. Let's just hope other people understand it. They just want to talk about Musk suspending their accounts instead of what Musk is revealing. And I think getting a panel in there would allow Elon Musk not to step on his own message so the billionaire can focus on other things.

But he's done an incredible thing for the country by doing what he's done already. Michael Goodwin, there's so much to write about. It's going to be hard for you to take a few days off during the holidays, but I hope you do. Thank you, Brian. You do.

All right.

Meanwhile, General Michael Linington is going to be joining us in about 15 minutes. Tell us how you can help the Wounded Warrior Project and those who serve.

Next is your calls. Brian, Kilmicho.

So glad you're here. Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Killmead. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

Hey, welcome back, everybody. 1-866-408-7669. So, just a quick note: I am tracking. I don't know if you had a chance to read Saturday's New York Times, a full overview of how Russia has totally screwed up this war, got over its skis, and it's paying a huge price. But this guy's going to lose up to, he's willing to lose hundreds of thousands of men because he doesn't care about them.

Story and Drudge about a coup seems to be a, I don't know what Drudge is worth these days, but I don't see it. I mean, the guy is just in his own little bubble, but special thanks to the Ukrainians for standing up. We've got to get them those Patriot missiles, and we've got to do it quick because every time the Ukrainians hurt a Russian soldier, that helps us because those soldiers at war tangently with America still. Rich, listen on WABC in Connecticut. Hey, Rich.

Yeah, hi Brian. First of all, love your demeanor, your calm reasoning, calm thinking. Specifically on refugees, illegal immigrants. The Democrats are calling the illegal immigrants non-citizens and have a policy to give them voting. But they're not non-citizens, they're foreign citizens.

They have given up their foreign citizenship.

So it's really dangerous, the whole Democratic policy. On standards for resettling refugees, the UN standards are they have ten main standards. Number one, Refugees go to the nearest country. For Cuba, that's Florida. But and for Mexico, that's the United States.

But for the rest of the world, that's not the United States. UN standard number two, refugees go to similar culture region. And that's similar culture, that's similar language, religion, ethnicity, heritage.

So culture matters, and that point is being lost in this debate. Those are two great points. I'll add this. Just think about this, Rich. Since we have all dire we live in a direct deposit age, we have credit cards instead of cash in our pockets in many cases, you have to take a look at your paycheck.

I I'm doing a lot of year-end things. And I'm f thankfully I have a great job. But it is stunning to see how much money we are taking home from what we're getting paid. And if you just look at $100, the fact that you're bringing home maybe $40 or $35 or $32, and knowing that the money's not even helping those kids next door, they're helping kids in another country or families in another country, this doesn't, we should be knowing that America's money is going to America's interest, and that includes Americans, not other countries. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead.

Hey, we're back in Privileged Seven Studio. If you're watching Fox Nation, you noted you recognize them from this morning on Fox and Friends and other appearances, maybe commercials. General Michael Lenington, the retired general. He's now CEO of Wounded Warrior Project and has been for a few years now. And Danielle Greene, Wounded Warrior, who I was able to feature in my book, It's How You Play the Game, and had a chance to meet you at one of an award ceremony again at Wounded Warrior Foundation right in New York City.

General predated you. You were actually deployed at the time. I think we were doing those awards ceremony. Great to see both of you. Thank you.

So, first off, Danielle, before we get your story, you work for Window Warriors now. I do. Seven months in counting.

So, a lot of people think, hey, we're not in a war. It's not raging anymore. You know, we pulled out of Afghanistan won terribly, but that means things like the Window Warrior Project don't need as much. That's just not the case, General. The need is greater now than ever before, Brian, as I said this morning on network show.

Up to 50 a day are signing up for what we provide, and that's a variety of programs and services that first and foremost connect veterans together with each other and their communities, give them opportunities to regain that sense of camaraderie and cohesion that they had when they were in uniform. That's what Danielle brings to the table. She hosts many of those gatherings and then help them heal mind, body, and spirit.

So why does that matter? Because a lot of times people want to forget. You always hear about the World War II veterans and they say, well, I don't want to bring it up anymore. I go back to my other life and that's the old war. I want to turn the page.

Why, when you come back, do you think it's important not to do it like that?

Well, I think it takes sometimes years.

Sometimes it takes 10 years. Veterans have a plan when they take off the uniform.

Sometimes that plan doesn't work out. It usually involves either education or employment. For those that have faced trauma, whether in life or in combat, sometimes that trauma manifests itself years later after you run into some challenges in your own relationships, in your own job, in your own health. And that's what we do. We help those veterans connect and through programs.

That's exactly right. Right. So, Danielle, now you moved. They got you to Florida. Yes.

So you're not freezing in Chicago anymore or Detroit.

So, Danielle, when did you become a member of the military? When did you become specialist Green? I became a member of the military in 2003. I decided that I was ready to serve. And so in 2003, I pledged to serve my country.

And that's a little different because, I mean, here you are, a college basketball player at this place called Notre Dame, and you were probably one of the best high school players in your area. What did you do in high school as a player? In high school, I was pretty dominant. I was the team on the north side, Roseville High School. And the north side of Chicago?

north side of Chicago, yes. What kind of results did you get? Uh excellent results. It g earned me a scholarship to go to the University of Notre Dame. Yes, yes.

But I was all state all American coming out of Chicago.

So you talked about when you were younger, uh, you know, Your dad was not a factor, and your mom had addiction issues. Correct. And you used to watch television once in a while when you weren't playing basketball. And you got attracted to Notre Dame Why? I did.

I used to watch cold Saturday afternoons, and I just remember seeing a touchdown Jesus, which is a seven-story mural of Jesus with the touchdown symbols. And I just thought, you know, this place must be special. And as a kid, you need something to lash onto. You need hope when you're in that type of... adversity, you're going through something.

So I thought that place was special, Notre Dame. And during the commercials, I would see military commercials. And I thought, you know what, if I don't go to the University of Notre Dame, I'm going to serve my country. But also, general, isn't it interesting that you're in adverse situations? A lot of people get involved in that.

And Danielle saw that and said, that's not what I want. Just as a person. Not somebody but as as I think you said in the book, it's a story that you should make a movie out of. I mean, what she went through in Chicago, get to Notre Dame, and then after Notre Dame, Joining the military, tons of opportunities she wanted to give back. It's just a fabulous story.

So, Danielle, you saw adversity. You walked through the glass in those horrible courts to play and develop your game, but you never developed two hands and you were used to scoring. And when it came time to Notre Dame, you didn't necessarily that wasn't your role. Correct. And you had trouble making the adjustment.

I did. I did. The game was quicker. The rigor. People forget Notre Dame is an academic institution, so the rigor was very tough.

And then just acclimating, I had an injury, and I thought Coach was just hounding me, hounding me. But little did I know that would prepare me for something bigger, you know, when I went to the military. Rebecca Lobo told me that she was a player of the year eventually. But when she first got to the University of Connecticut, Gino Oriema was riding her mercilessly, and she was calling home all the time saying, you know, why did he recruit me? He hates me, he hates me.

And she mom finally said to her, why don't you go up and ask him? And he went up to her and he goes, he was befuddled. He opened up a drawer. He said, I asked you your goals. Do you know what your goal was?

To be the number one player in college basketball. How else did you expect me to get there? Correct. And that's pretty much what Muff McGraw was seeing with you. Basically, it was like, hey, you wanted to come here.

We saw talent in you. You can be the first to graduate from your family. And I was the first to graduate on time from my immediate family.

So she saw that in me. And I got a chance to try out for the Detroit shock, made the final cut, but didn't quite make it. You didn't end really good on great relations with her, did you? I didn't. But, you know, over the years, you mature.

She matures. I mature. And, you know, we're buddies now. I have her on my telephone now. If I want to play golf with her, I can call her.

Of course, when the weather gets better, better, we could play golf together. We have that type of relationship now.

So then after you don't make it with Detroit, are you engaged at the time? No, I was not. Before you joined the military.

So you decided you joined the Army?

Well, I taught for two years. I taught at a charter school for two years, and then I decided that I was getting older, and if I was going to do it, I needed to do it now.

So you got deployed into Iraq? Yes, in 2003. How long until you got hit in Iraq? It was four months later, May 25th, 2004. I was hit.

What would happen? I was hit by I was patrolling on top of a rooftop. I believe it was Al Sudoun in central Baghdad, Iraq. And moments after I arrived to the rooftop, two RPGs, rocket-propelled grenades, hit a barricade below. I grabbed my weapon, and the next RPG hit me, and I fell to the side.

What happened? What do you remember? I just remember being very angry that I was going to die in this awful country. That's how my thinking was. And I just laid there waiting to die.

And at some point, I realized that I wasn't going to die. And I remember saying a prayer. And my prayer was just that I survived and that I wanted a child. And believe it or not, I felt a surge of energy hit my body, but I was too weak to get up. I could see that my uniform was tattered with blood everywhere.

And eventually, my teammates came to perform first aid and got me to the child. You lost your arm. I lost my arm. Yeah, I did. My dominant left arm.

So I was devastated for a little while, but then. You know, I had friends in Germany, you know, at Lonstuhl to say hello. I talked to Coach McGraw. Then I went on to Walter Reed, and that's where I first was introduced to a Wounded Warrior Project. Right.

And the one thing, General, that she leaves out is the fact that you've really found out what a team was. When that team went back to the kill zone to get something that you were missing, what was it? Yeah, so my comrades found out that I lost my wedding rings. I had just gotten married several weeks prior to. They went back up to the rooftop against company commander's order, and they found my hand under several inches of sand, and they were able to return it to me in the green zone when I woke up.

And then one of the nurses was surprised. They knew who you were and got a connection to Notre Dame. That was in Germany. In Germany. Yes.

And called your coach. What did the coach say to you when she got on the phone? Coach was just in shock. Because when I was keeping in touch with her in Iraq as well, people don't know, we still kept a relationship, and she didn't think I was in harm's way.

So when she received a phone call, she was in shock. But then I just told her, hey, coach, I'm okay. But all those years you wanted me to use my right hand.

Now I have no other choice because I lost my left hand. And she just went silent. That is awesome.

So, how'd you find the Wounded Warrior Project? The Wounded Warrior Project found me.

So, from Germany, I went to Army Medical Re, and I was devastated and probably devastated, probably even broken. And someone came to my bedside and welcomed me home and provided me with a backpack that I have today. I still have the backpack today, almost 19 years later, and it had essentials. The general here likes to say a Walkman, but they had a CD player, Jim Shoes. All that stuff we don't need.

All that good stuff, yeah. And so that gave me hope and that gave me purpose because you heard about our Vietnam veterans being left behind. But I felt like with this organization, they were going to be there by my side, and they built a community and that connection early on when we were coming back from Iraq. And so for them, I'm profoundly grateful.

So you got her into a program, got her sense of meaning. When did you really be a good employee, General? Actually, you were deployed at the time when she was there, but. Warriors like Danielle that come back and serve their brothers and sisters in arms is what sustains our program. We still have the backpack program in Launchdool.

Service members are still getting no clothes. You have nothing. As Danielle said, they cut all your clothes off, they leave all your gear. You get there with a hospital gown that's opened in the back, and there's nothing there.

So it gives you, re-gives you a sense of personality. And then for your families that fly over, you know, in an instant with nothing travel packed for them as well. And it just helps. Helps them. More important than the backpack comes the promise that we'll be there with you throughout your recovery, however long it takes, and will help be there with you for the rest of your life.

Therapists, psychologists, do you hook up with the real-world community to try to get people like Danielle jobs? She didn't need one because she works for you, but we do the full gamut of programs from initial connection in the hospitals through connection back in their communities. We then provide a variety of no-cost programs and services: mind, body, and spirit. Think physical health and wellness, mental health. Obviously, the invisible wounds of war are huge.

And then jobs. Jobs, benefits, counseling, emergency financial assistance help you regain your sense of purpose and also your ability to feed and lead your family.

So, when the men and women come up to you, both of you, you as an officer, maybe they are used to saluting you, but they're used to serving with you, right? Correct. So, what kind of things do they say to you? We need benefits. Benefits is huge.

Just that connection, that engagement. I like to add something to why a Wounded Warrior Project is needed. When I came home, our VA is great, don't get me wrong, but. They didn't have the resources to help me adjust with my amputation.

So, Wounded Warrior Project came and said, Hey, we will build you an adapted bike. And so, that's why Wounded Warrior Project is important because of the innovation. A lot of the programs that the Department of Veterans Affairs has is for retirees. Whereas Wounded Warrior Projects, a lot of our events take place when we get off work. We connect the families.

Donations provide that bike, right? Bikes, and especially over the holidays, Brian, it really gives families of our warriors something under the tree. We've done more than a thousand connection events just since October. Those connection events are gift baskets, food drives, stocking stuffers, and then giving our alumni, we call Danielle and her, you know, the hundreds of thousands we serve, alumni, they get to give back in the communities as well.

So, going to hospitals, food pantries, orphanages, giving back as well is a big part of regaining that sense of purpose. When Iraq, the surge worked, and then we pulled out too quick, and then in comes ISIS, and then we pushed back a little bit, but it was a lot better when we left initially. And then in Afghanistan, you guys surge was effective reasonably. We were there, and then a new administration comes in and decides to pull out. Danielle, how much harder is it knowing that the country you left isn't as better, much better off as you hoped it would be when you left?

You know, I talked to quite a few veterans who were just devastated by that. And yeah, they were devastated how we just left. And all you do is try to console and sue them. Say, hey, I lost my arm there. Yeah.

I lost my leg. Yeah, you try to point them in the right direction so they don't go out and do something catastrophic or hurt themselves. But you try to empathize. You try to stay positive, be thankful that you are alive and pray that the rest of our troops get out of there in one piece.

So, General, there's about 70,000 Afghans who we got out of there. We're looking to get expedited citizenship status or visa status for them. I think it's a great move. Lindsey Graham thinks it's a great move. A lot of Republicans don't.

They think it looks hypocritical if we're trying, we're so concerned about the southern border. How can we just make these people, bring these people into our country and say, become one of us? Wouldn't we? Brian, we have to figure it out. I think as a country, you know, we could not have achieved our mission in both Iraq and Afghanistan without our allies that supported us, certainly our interpreters, our partners, government partners.

We need to get them back as well.

So do a thorough background check, but then once they pass it, let them stay. Yeah, Brian, the pullout was very quick. We got some back, but we need to get them all back. And whatever the administration can do in the new Congress, we're fully supportive of that. Of course, we're focused on our nation's wounded and ill and injured.

But as Danielle said, you know, when you lose a battle buddy, a brother, or a sister in arms, I just pray that the book isn't fully written on Afghanistan. What the Afghan people. You gave them 20 years. They don't understand what life could be. They understand freedom, women and girls, especially, schools, freedom, opportunity to educate.

That's very hard to keep that crushed, and we'll see where it goes in the future. But I will say this: I think that your generation of fighters, Danielle, and you, General, as commanding officer, are as good as any. I mean, you're professional soldiers, the way you're able to adapt to the battlefield and the most brutal enemy possible. It isn't the old fad, not that it was easy before, obviously. But what you guys are able to do, and then when you see the Russians struggling the way they are right now, and the people we train, the Ukrainians, the way they're performing, the innovation you've done with weaponry and safety and battlefield, I just think that.

People are focused on where we left Afghanistan and that we decided not to preserve our gains with the surge. But overall, Danielle, you have to feel that this generation really affords themselves well. I think so. I think so. But like General said, we've got to keep the focus here on our veterans that are coming in now, our active military duty, and just keep the focus.

Because if you go someplace else, then it just opens up Pandora's box. You've got to be careful. But I do think the people that serve deserve credit being part of this elite force of Generation War. Absolutely. Absolutely.

Right. And especially when you think that just take for granted another country that's supposed to be formidable is dealing with 1930 tactics and medical and the way they have little regard for their soldiers, leaving bodies on the ground. The Ukrainians had to pick up the Russian bodies. We view the remains as valuable as the person. I think the opportunities for today's young people to be part of something bigger than themselves, aka the U.S.

military, Brian, are profound. And I just hope that in the future, every warrior that I've ever spoken to, whether they're wounded or injured, invisible or visible wounds, warriors like Danielle say they would do the same thing again, all over again, because they know what it means to protect our country and they know what it means to give other countries the opportunity for freedom that Danielle's service gave to the people of Iraq. Would you do it again, Danielle? I think I would. It was the seven-year-old girl's dream.

So why, yeah, I would do it again. I just wish I could have done ROTC in college. There you go. Wow. I do.

I wanted to do it. And they said, no, you're here on a basketball scholarship. That's the only thing I can walk back. That's not easy being that talented. I'm here in a basketball scholarship at Notre Dame.

I can't get my hair cut in March. You should have made the all-Army team, believe me. Absolutely. Immense team.

So listen, if people want to give to Wounded Warrior, where do they go? Wounded WarriorProject.org. Brian, Wounded WarriorProject.org. Tons of ways to get involved in your community, help support community events, especially over the holidays. And if a veteran's listening today that needs to get connected with some of the programs and services that Danielle talked about, please go to the same website or call our resources.

And do something good for the holiday season and give to this great organization. General Mike Linington, thanks so much. Danielle, thank you. Great to see you. Danielle Grain.

Again, thank you. Happy holidays. Same to you. Back in a moment. Educating, entertaining, enlightening.

You're with Brian Kilmead. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Taking as many penalty kicks. shootouts and otherwise as any player in the history.

Of the World Cup in the 1003rd game of his entire career, the most important kick of his life to date. Rolls it in. This would put Argentina on the brink of winning the World Cup. Yes! Over 88,966 fans at Luceo Stadium.

Gonzalo Montiel can win the World Cup for Argentina with this kick. Yes! And just like that, the greatest game you'll ever see. And I think if you watched it back. And even knowing the outcome, I think you'd see the same thing.

And then you factor in the fact that two of the best players in the world, one at 35, one at 23. Playing against each other and France defending World Cup champions in the place packed, two-thirds of which pulling seemingly for Argentina. And then you have this greatest player ever, one of the greatest, wondering if he's ever going to win a World Cup and he gets to the final after getting upset in the first game by Saudi Arabia. They call that the greatest upset in history.

So they gave the whole country of Saudi Arabia. The day off the next day. After that, that was in the... Group play, not even in the knockout round. And to come all the way back and win like that, pretty amazing.

Especially when you have an upset like that, you get to panic. Argentina just did just the opposite. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Killmead. Thanks so much for being here, everybody.

It's the Brian Kilmeat Show, 1866-408-7669. This hour, we're going to be joined by Miranda Devine in a matter of moments on the latest on the unfolding information reeling coming out of the Twitter releases, as well as what could have happened with Facebook and everything else. We'll do some conjecture there. And also, The letter that was sent out. Uh by Peter Schiff.

Period. Uh Peter Schiff. Uh by Congressman Schiff. Uh Adam Schiff. All these other media outlets, that you better not change the way you moderate your social media platform because, if not, if you start changing because of what's happening in Twitter, you're not going to like the regulations that we bring in.

Meanwhile, he's going into the minority. I think it's thuggish. Peter Bogozian is going to be with us too, founding member of the University of Austin. This university has been started by and raised about $100 million to combat wokeness in higher education. It's just the start.

You'll hear more about it.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. This would put Argentina on the brink of winning the World Cup. Gonzalo Montiel can win the World Cup for Argentina with this kick. Yes!

Best game ever, Argentina beats France. Could Messi be bringing his talent to Major League Soccer? Number two. The NSA was working hand in hand with the leading Silicon Valley companies, Google and Facebook and Apple, and they were turning over enormous amounts of information, whatever these agencies asked, without a search warrant or anything else. Twitter files, Mike Greenwald points out, unfolding the direct role the FBI had in converting Twitter.

Even Twitter executives were uncomfortable with this arrangement. We also have details on the future of Elon as CEO. Number Is that why he didn't go? Is that visit?

Well, I can't speak to why he has or has not gone. I'm just speaking to the fact that it's a bit more disruptive for the president of the United States to travel than you or I. Please, Keisha Lance, bottom spokesperson for the president.

Now they are paying attention. I'm talking about people, networks, politicians. I'm talking about President Biden's broken border he's responsible for. Miranda Devine joins us from the New York Post, author of Laptop from Hell. Miranda, welcome back.

I just got to get you. I know you must be astounded by what's happened at the border. Do you see the Democrats' latest approach? Blame Republicans for bringing up that the border's open, for making that that's what's bringing people to the border. Can you get your head around that?

Well Hi, Brian. Yes, I can because that's their MO. They are utterly shameless. They have the most incredible chutzpah. I mean, they blamed Donald Trump for the chaos at the border previously, uh when, you know, it was the Trump administration that actually got it got it got control of the border and it's Just been bleeding since Joe Biden got in and deliberately dismantled all those Trump-era border protections.

And they've been able to get away with having. millions of illegal migrants pour across the border because they have a muzzle on the media that services half the country.

So there really hasn't been the outcry that there should be if the American people fully were aware of the invasion, that's all you can call it, that's going on at the southern border. And God knows what kind of criminals and drugs and weapons and whatever else has been coming across along with people who are just economic migrants who want a better life for themselves. No one blames them, but they've got to come the right way. It's not the way you're supposed to do it. Listen, for example, I just want you to hear it in play before we talk about what's going on on Twitter.

Congresswoman Veronica Escobar, cut seven. Having Republican colleagues go on national TV consistently saying the border is open, the border is open, they're the ones saying the border is open. I think their rhetoric has a role to play as well in what the cartels use. But regardless, I will tell you, the cartels will do anything possible to explain.

So, I mean, that's what you would say. It's amazing how they all speak in hominin. Martha Radis, I just want you to hear this question at Greg Abbott, cut for. open borders. I don't think I've ever heard President Biden says, We have an open board and come on over.

But people I have heard say it for you. are former President Trump, Aron DeSantos.

So I mean and it doesn't even matter, you know his answer. I mean I just could not believe they're all saying the same thing, but for reporters to be saying the same thing as congresspeople is ridiculous and embarrassing. It it is. And unfortunately. Unfortunately, we now have a good portion of the establishment media basically operating as an arm of the Democratic Party and an arm of the intelligence apparatus.

All right.

So I wanted to talk about what if the latest revelation comes out from Matt Taibbi, and it talks about how often the FBI was dealing directly with Twitter. Did this even surprise you? Maybe they're playing the FBI is playing a role in this interview. We're not really sure, but that was a very crisp question.

Sometimes, Eric, I'll have long questions or Pete, and then I feel like, well, they got bored. But I don't think they can say I'm bored about this.

So let me give you an idea while we get her back. Matt Taibbi tweeted this in July of 2020. San Francisco FBI agent Elvis Chan, get used to that name, tells Twitter executive Yoel Roth, you know that name, he was on the cover of the New York Post once, to expect written questions from the Foreign Influence Task Force, the interagency group that deals with cyber threats. Then Taibbi again comes back and says, the question authors seem displeased with Twitter. Matt Taibbi came back when Twitter came back and said, Yeah, we have no foreign influence.

We've been looking at this. We don't see any Twitter playing a role here. The questionnaire authors seemed displeased with Twitter for implying in its July 20th missive. that you indicated you had not observed much decent recent activity from official propaganda actors of your platform.

So I was just talking about what Joel Roth was shocked that to a degree that FBI agent Elvis Chan was telling Twitter executives to answer some written questions from the Foreign Influence Task Force about different cyber threats or foreign threats. And when they didn't find any, they seemed a little annoyed. FBI did. The arrogance of the FBI is really just palpable in these communications. And I mean as Matt Taibbi, the independent journalist wrote, he said that Twitter was basically in a relationship with the FBI that was like master canine with Twitter being the subsidiary of the FBI.

Incredible also that they committed some of this to writing. I'm told that there were also communications via encrypted apps between Elvis Chan and various people at Twitter, particularly on Signal.

So maybe that's available, should be available in the FBI if the Republicans want to subpoena that material because they're supposed to actually preserve any communications they have on encrypted apps. But I'm not sure that's happened in Twitter.

So they're trying the FBI is trying to say, hey, we just do we get in touch with these social platforms after 2016 when we saw that foreign actors wanted to get involved. Do you think these that these reveal that it's just the FBI trying to worry about other countries or something else? No, this is about the FBI. They had eighty agents who were targeting low mainly these were low follower accounts. Belonging to ordinary Americans, people who were just doing things like cracking jokes, engaging in a little bit of satire.

And these 80 FBI agents were full-time flagging, analyzing, reading, and then demanding from Twitter material like user location information that included just regular people, but also Billy Baldwin was caught up in one of them. And also just saying to Twitter to take action to moderate these accounts because they've done something that the FBI deemed unsavory, like cracking jokes. This is not about looking, you know, searching for terrorists or child exploitation material. This is intervening and policing Americans' private speech. And it's illegal.

The federal government, and an agency of the federal government is the FBI, is not allowed to. breach Americans' First Amendment rights by coercing a private company to do their dirty business. How unusual do you think it is to have so many agents work for Twitter when they retire, like James Baker? Yeah, now that is really peculiar. For instance, James Baker, as you just mentioned, the top general counsel, top lawyer at Twitter, who was involved in all of the Russia collusion hoaxes and sabotage of lead counsel, right?

Yes, yes, of the FBI. And he was his right-hand man. He wrote that pre-exoneration letter for James Comey, for Hillary Clinton. He was involved in every bad thing that happened at the FBI. Then five months before the 2020 election, he gets parachuted into Twitter to act as their second top lawyer.

And he, we now find, was intervening in the decision to censor the New York Post over our Hunter Biden laptop story back before the 2020 election. He was also involved more recently, got him sacked by Elon Musk. in intervening in the Twitter files revelations. He was making sure that what came through was sanitized. And so Elon Musk fired him immediately.

And as well as this guy, James Baker, there are at least a dozen other former FBI people who infiltrated into the Twitter to go and work there after the 2016 election. And whether it was because they thought that the FBI would get too hot now that the Trump administration was in charge and there was a Trump attorney general or a Trump-appointed FBI director, which they need and then worried about Christopher Wray. But anyway, they maybe they jumped shipped to Twitter because the heat was too hot, or maybe they jumped to Twitter because they decided that during the Trump administration, this was the way to prosecute the resistance. And they were in senior positions and not just at Twitter, also at Facebook, also at Google. Also, there were C if you look in LinkedIn and you search up these companies, there were a lot of former CIA people as well.

So it seems that these social media companies or big tech companies had become a sort of a playground for the intelligence community. It was a spooks playground. And also, we're told that it wasn't just domestic spies, but also foreign spies.

So you list the list in the New York Post, James Baker, you discussed, Matthew Williams, Jeff Carlton, Kevin McElena, Michael Bertrand, Karen Walsh, Doug Hunt, Marco Jazarovsky, Vincent Lucerno, and Dawn Burton all decided, now that I'm retired, let me go over to Twitter. Can you imagine how many are at Facebook and Google and Tangenti, Snapchat, and all the other major platforms? And other people would say, hey, Brian, you're being cynical. It's just a well-paying job, something to do when you're done with the FBI. But the appearances are at the very least terrible.

And in Baker's situation, more than bad. Really bad, and particularly Baker and his interventions on every kind of dirty trick against Donald Trump and then as well with Twitter's dirty tricks in censoring a story that was detrimental to Joe Biden. And we know that James Baker was involved in advising that that censorship ought to happen.

So these other FBI people, they're not just in, you know, you think, oh, it's kind of normal you might hire a former FBI person to run your security, maybe your cyber security or something. No, these people were sprinkled all over, including as co-head of the moderation section, the trust and safety section, which was all about censorship.

So, what is your biggest revelation of this? Being that you're already knee-deep in this, and you knew about the FBI sitting on the laptop, and you knew that they tipped off the social media companies, warning them, and then they froze the New York Post account. And now we have Elon Musk in there sending in some journalists to bring things out. And I always thought: what is Miranda Devine thinking now that we're in our seventh release? Yeah.

Well, I think that the best part of it is we're seeing more and more the malign intervention of the FBI, that the FBI was fully politicised. We know that already from Tony Bobolinski revelations. We know that from the FBI whistleblowers that have told us. And the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle are coming together very nicely. And there'll be a new Twitter dump from Michael Schellenberger, I believe, today.

And I've got a little taste of it in my column. And there's a very curious communication between the FBI and Twitter. The night before we published that laptop story, Hunter Biden laptop story, that was October 13, 2020, at 9:22 p.m., the FBI sent documents to Twitter through a special one-way channel.

Now, we don't know what was in those documents.

So it's certainly very curious timing because just a couple of hours earlier, Hunter Biden's lawyer, then lawyer, George Maziers, he'd been called by our reporters at the Post for comment about the story we're publishing the next day. He called John Paul MacIsaac, who was the owner of that Euroware computer repair shop, and he asked for the laptop back. He called him a couple of hours before the FBI sent these documents to Twitter through their special one-way channel.

So, you know, let's see. Let's see what comes out. But it's certainly an interesting coincidence. And the FBI has broken trust with the public to such an extent that we only fear the worst. We do.

No doubt about it. And the question is, now with this exposure, it allows them to question much more intelligently Facebook and the other entities when Republicans pick a speaker, get some chairmans and go to start investigating. Don't you agree? Absolutely. And I think we saw Representative Mike Turner talk about subpoenaing the people in the FBI and getting to the bottom of who is the mastermind, who is coordinating all this collusion with the big tech.

Also, I think we're seeing it with other members of the intelligence community. Saw those 51 former high-ranking intelligence officials, including five former CIA directors or acting directors, who wrote that letter straight after our story was published, claiming that it was Russian disinformation. That was a lie, that was false. Those people should have their security clearances stripped from them. And I think this new Republican House will be a lot less lax than the previous one where they allowed people like.

Miranda, I have to hold it there, but thanks so much. I cannot wait to get this next tranche. Brian Kill Me Chow. Expanding your knowledge base. It's the Brian Kill Me Show.

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I want you to hear real quick. Basically, when we get back, I'm going to talk to Peter Bogogian about revamping the University of Austin, what they did by launching that new college in Austin, Texas. It's combating wokeism, getting back to school, getting back to learning things, learning a profession, and getting away from being politically correct and equity and all these other buzz terms that have sickened most of us from day one. We got away from America. But also The fact is Now we see Democrats.

incensed About social media, determined to find out why certain journalists are banned, accounts are suspended, finding out if they should be. Immune from liability. How rich is that? Seeing that the New York Post, so many journalists, the press secretary of the United States, the President of the United States, the President's son, Don Jr. Shadow Band, and Chunk.

No one was concerned about these commentators and others. There were the Daily Caller and others. They've been banned and suspended. But now that a handful were suspended for two weeks, we ended up being two days, then you're worried. I mean you don't think we have any memory of this?

Elon Musk has done so much good. I just wish he'd calm down a little bit and put somebody else in charge daily. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Killmead. Hey, welcome back, everybody.

It's time to tell you something new and heartening, and that is there's a new university. It's raised over $100 million, and it's called the University of Austin. And it just fights wokeism in higher education, which we know is prevalent everywhere, even places we didn't think existed. That's what prompted Peter Bogozian, the founding member, to take action along with others. And they finally are ready to go.

Peter, welcome back. Thanks, Brian. I appreciate you having me on.

So tell me the concept and what prompted it.

So what prompted is you're correct, there's been an ideological capture of universities in the English speaking world. And if we if we have time, I want to talk about how that spread outside the English-speaking world to places like India. And So many faculty members are just sick of it. In fact, right after the University of Austin was announced. Over 5,000 inquiries from academics looking for positions.

Wow. You know, that's amazing, right? 5,000, and thousands and thousands of inquiries from parents and students.

So It's about the universities have lost their way.

So the University of Austin is exclusively concerned with the pursuit of truth. An intellectual pluralism.

So, for example, admission to the university is based on merit, not any other characteristic like race or sexual orientation or sexual status or height or weight, anything. It's just it's a purely merit based system. A radical concept, I know.

So it's merit-based. Uh you're going to be based in Austin, Texas, right? Correct. The opening will be 2024. This next summer, we have the Forbidden Classes program, and that is in Dallas.

But the university itself is in Austin, and so. We're going to have a number of programs, and Leon Cryer, who's the former architect of Prince Charles, is drafting the. UATX's campus master plan right now.

So, when you talk about commitments, you have $100 million raised. Is it going to be an accredited school? Correct, yeah.

So that's one of the things that the, and I'm not in the administration, as you said in the intro, I'm just a founding faculty member, but You know, when you're trying to do something like this, Brian, it's just so ambitious. And you're fighting so many monsters at the same time, so many entrenched And we could talk about that if you want, entrenched interests that don't want something like this to succeed. You have to build this from scratch.

So you have to think, oh, well, should we be accredited? Should we not? The accrediting agencies are the kind of if you don't mind me borrowing a turn of phrase, kind of drawing from the same swamp. But yeah, we decided to go through the accrediting route, and the reason for that is. Accredited degrees just matter more.

So you can only opt out of the preexisting infrastructure for so long. Uh before reality com comes to get you.

So, yeah, it will be accredited.

So, this was you were involved in all this. You were assistant philosophy professor at Portland State University, right? Correct. And what did you witness there specifically that really made you think I got to take action? But you're not going to chase me out from what I want to do.

I mean this interview is This interview is not long enough. To talk about the derangement that I experienced. I wrote about it in my resignation letter on Barry Weiss's Substack. I mean, it was just a house of madness. There was, it prevented me from doing my job.

There were. It ceased to be anything like finding truth, intellectual diversity, and it was entirely about race, gender, sexual orientation, not offending people, not saying things.

So everybody was walking on eggshells, you know, promoting the right narratives. I went into the dean. I tried to get an interview or have a discussion with the president to tell him I was deeply concerned about what was happening at Portland State University. In fact, I asked him repeatedly for a five-minute meeting. He would not grant me a five-minute meeting.

Finally, the dean, one of the deans, granted me a five-minute meeting. And I went in and I said, you know, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Lists Portland State University is one of the worst schools for freedom of speech in, I think it was 2020 or 2021. And So then I waited and the dean, and I kid you not. turned to me, looked at me directly and said, It's not a bad thing to be on those lists.

So I realized that was a huge awakening moment for me because while I had been fighting this from day one, I realized that this was not a bug of the system, lack of speech, lack of cognitive liberty, pushing narratives. This is a feature of the system. And if you don't go along with it, we're coming for you. And they subjected me to virtually every investigation one could think of. And and you know, look, I'm not unique.

This happens to people all the time. I did. Um, unlike other people like Brett Weinstein, who was more or less of a victim in this whole thing from Evergreen, I was not a victim. I knew exactly what I was doing and I was fighting back. Also, you have a partner, Barry Weiss, who's been all over Substack and is doing a lot of the dissemination of what's going on at Twitter.

Correct. Correct, Barry Weiss, Neil Ferguson, Ayan Herciale. There are many board members and founding faculty. That's the other thing, you know, that there's been a shift in education. Because of the Jordan Peterson effect, where there's a rise of the public intellectual.

And so people who move in the public space. be it on Twitter or give I don't know if you've seen the pictures from Jordan Peterson's events, but they're absolutely massive. Tens of thousands of people. Dave Rubin's a friend of mine. He was texting me pictures of these events that they would do together.

Just absolutely massive.

So, you know, the University of Austin is getting the best faculty, public intellectuals, people who have, people who are atheists, people who are Christians. People who have all kinds of different commitments, political orientations, and then we're going to present the best arguments and let the students decide.

So, have you figured out things to the advanced of how many majors are you going to have sports teams? You've picked out the locations, that sounds like.

Now you're lining up the professors through your applications. But to launch as quick as you're going to be, do you have answers to those questions? Yes, that's a it's a remarkable timetable. I mean, this would usually take decades and it's going to be in four years.

So it's a remarkable timetable. And I think that one of the reasons for that is because the need is so great, there's such an urgency. And that's the other thing is we have to figure out all this stuff from scratch.

So, will there be a sports team? Will there be anything more than a basketball hoop? Will there be grades? You know, or like, you know, ABCD, or will there be essays? You know, that a professor write an essay on a student's performance will be their comms.

So, if let's think about it like this: we have an opportunity, or you have an opportunity to build a university from scratch. scratch. You can look at everything everyone's done that succeeded and failed. What do you do? Right?

It's a massive question. And the way they answer that is to bring in the best minds. workshops to figure out how to build the best university from scratch. a university again based on intellectual pluralism, ideological diversity, which the universities do not have now, and placing truth front and center. And I think if that's your North Star, then you can rival the Ivys.

I was just reading something last night. I don't want to go too far afield, but the current president of Harvard University I don't know if you've seen her resume, but it's It's shockingly slim. And I went to Google Scholar and I tried to Google Google her to see what her accomplishments were, and she didn't have a profile set up, so I couldn't see in the academy you look at these things called H indices. And that basically tells you how much someone's published, what kind of traction they have. And so I think that there is a crisis of confidence now well, in the whole society in general, but in the in our institutions, but in academic institutions in particular.

So you you mentioned a couple of things. You said forbidden classes. What do you mean by that? Things people won't talk about, things people are afraid to talk about, or there's kind of a taboo like race, gender. Correct.

Sexual orientation. Yes, the biggest one i is actually trans issues. If I were to put a hierarchy, that would be at the top. And so debates. For example, they had a debate between Kathleen Stock, who's a was a philosophy professor, who was treated horrifically.

In a sane world, I wouldn't have to mention this to you, but I will. She's a lesbian. And she's in favor of women's-only spaces. In other words, people who are born male should not access. women's only spaces for prisons are changing rooms, bathrooms, et cetera.

And she had a debate with c with Deidre McCluskey, the the famous economist. And Deidre McCookloski is trans. And it was a remarkable experience to that those sorts of things simply would not you you just would not happen in a current university, you just wouldn't see it. Understood. And also, you mentioned India.

So, this is infiltrating into other countries. We know it's all over Europe. The political correctness. Correct. It's utterly remote.

Not just political correctness, but the suite of derangements that come with that. I wrote the forward to a book called Snakes in the Gunga. by Indian public intellectual Rajif Maholtra. And this book is just mind-blowing. It's 864 pages that talks about what it calls neocolonialism.

So in relation to traditional colonialism where the English, for example, were going to the Congo. ideas coming out of U. S. universities neocolonized, they colonized Indian universities and they spread woke poison to them.

So this is a phenomenon that's happening all over the world. I was just in Hungary, in Romania for two months. And the government is taking great pains to make sure that wokeism doesn't infect its educational. Yeah, I know what's going on in Hungary. They're really pushing back, trying to get control of that society.

And I think in a positive way. Peter Bogozian, congratulations on all this. If people want to help out or find out about more, where do they go? UAustin.org. If you're a faculty member and you're looking for a position and you're just completely sick of the madness, Think about dropping an application if you're a parent.

Think about your kids can go to the forbidden classes program if you're in college and you want to apply or senior in high school. And those are free, 100% free, not charged at all. And they even pay the plane ticket, uaustin.org. Got it. Hey, Peter, thanks so much.

Have a great holiday. Thanks, Brian. Appreciate it, man. You got it, 1-866-408-7669. When we come back, we'll finish up this hour with your calls.

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Hey, welcome back, everyone. I'm just looking at the clock right now, and it seems to me that we really have not discussed much about the World Cup. And before we do, I just got to tell you that it was when you have Mbabe as taking on Messi.

So it's just like. Jordan against Larry Bird. Towards the end of his career, it is like Uh LeBron. And it's more like Michael Jordan and Kobe going at their best in the biggest game with championship game seven on the line because with the World Cup, there's One and done, and then you have overtime, and then you have penalty kicks right after. But to see that game, and if you played, let me know at egobriankillme.com if you watch soccer for the first time in a length and are suddenly sold, or if you saw that game and thought, like me, it was the best game ever.

Here's how it sounded at the end. This is the Now, here's a little of the goals back and forth. By the way, great calls from the broadcast team. And great job for Fox Sports. Cut 35.

Taking as many penalty kicks, shootouts and otherwise, as any player in the history of the World Cup. In the 1,003rd game of his entire career, the most important kick of his life to date. Rolls it in. This would put Argentina on the brink of winning the World Cup. Yes!

Over 88,966 fans at Luceo Stadium. Gonzalo Montiel can win the World Cup for Argentina with this kick. Yes! But the back and forth in overtime was stunning because you had a game in which Argentina was up 2-0 and dominating and almost got the third. They come out in the halftime and they still dominate.

Nothing changes. France gets one quick goal and then they get another one right away. England knows exactly what that's like. And then they go into overtime, cut 34. Martinez is gonna get to that one, knocks it down for Messi into the middle Fernandez.

Lator Martinez and Sam Mazzi! Clearly, did it cross the line? Did it cross the line? Yes, it did! Mbappe, that was blocked, was it a hand?

It was penalty for France.

Now the 118th minute. Yes! And then they went into penalty kicks. Just awesome. Just great display to see that wide open type of play with great defenses and great offenses.

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So, it's one of the most bizarre finishes in NFL history that you will ever see forever. Las Vegas Raiders going against the New England Patriots. Raiders going nowhere. The Patriots hoping to get a good spot in the playoffs. Tie game 24-24 with three seconds left and see if he can make it out on audio.

On video, it tells the story. Game tie at 24. Just go into overtime, right?

So then running back Ramadre Stevenson, who had up until that point enjoyed a monster game, just grabbed another huge gain. But as he ran into Raiders' territory, the clock ticked down to zero, meaning if Stevenson was to be tackled, the game would go into overtime.

So in the hope of snatching out a win and avoiding an extra 10 minutes of play, Stevens decides to throw the ball backwards to his teammate, Jacoby Myers. Myers caught the lateral and also attempted to keep the play going by throwing it to a teammate. But as he tries to throw it to quarterback Mac Jones, the ball was caught by Raiders' defensive end Chandler Jones, who then would just win the game. Watch. Uh Stevenson Is anyone gonna lose?

Hexhaw the third he flips it back. Stanford band nowhere in sight. Uh-oh. It's picked off. Oh.

Oh no. Unbelievable. Oh wow. Incredible. Fandler Jones takes it in.

and wins the game for the Raiders, have you ever seen an MDL? I've never seen anything like that. I have no idea why he was doing that. Oh my goodness. It makes absolutely no sense.

And a Bill Belichick-run team where they do the traditional to the mundane in great detail, who would ever instinctively just throw the ball back to a. Quarterback with the game tied at 24 already going into overtime. This is the type of play that you do when you're down by a touchdown. It's almost as if it was given. It's different.

You're running around the base in baseball or basketball.

Sometimes you forget how many timeouts there are. A la Chris Weber. I mean, this is just the biggest bonehead of play ever, and it could cost them the playoffs.

Next, OCD could be triggered by too much screen time. This is incredible. The University of California did a study that reported the odds of developing OCD among preteens over a two-year period increased by 15% for every hour spent on a video game and 11% for every hour spent watching videos. The findings will surely give parents more reasons to wonder and limit their kids. Quote: Children who spend excessive time playing these games report feeling the need to play more and more and more and being unable to stop despite trying.

I've never felt that way, but I understand it is something that's got to be looked at. Again, another reason to think that we should get a hold and go to more traditional levels of play. By the way, if you want to quit smoking, you think vaping is the way. George Washington University says most dual users, people who both smoke and vape, are likely to carry on consuming both products. Vaping has a reputation for being safer.

However, the study finds they failed to reduce the habit of at a population level.

So, another reason four in ten keep smoking after trying e-cigarettes. Vaping was about to boom. It went bust. I'm Brian Kilmead. Thanks so much for everybody who came out over in McAllum, Texas, as well as Point Pleasant over the weekend.

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