Ukraine's Zelenskyy to meet with Biden today PLUS: The $2 trillion omnibus boondoggle

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Me Show, closer to closer to Christmas. And I'll tell you, in New York, crime might be high, but so is, I think, Christmas spirit is kind of back here in New York City.

It is packed, I'll tell you that. People come by the tree. I'm sure it's reflected in businesses. Even if you walk into Penn Station, which has been beat up and supposedly being refurbished for about. Seven years?

You even see some improvements there. Ronna McDaniel is standing by. She'll talk about improvements in the Republican Party and why she wants to remain at the top spot of the RNC.

So, and then bottom of the hour, Rachel Campo Stuffy will join me in the studio.

So, let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. It came together pretty quickly over a matter of days with only being finalized this past Sunday. Did Zelensky agree to come to Washington with a real element of risk here. He needs to be able to safely get out of Ukraine and then get back into his home country afterwards.

Evidently, this video of him getting on a train to Poland and I guess fly from there, he's here. President Zelensky arrives in Washington. We'll address a joint session of Congress today. The address likely will be emotional and motivating as the Ukrainian president will leave with Patriot missiles and fighter jets, along with billions of many Republicans are not happy. I am.

Number two. When you have a bill this large and atrocious, it allows for people on Capitol Hill not to be held accountable for the votes that they take. It allows them to throw up their hands and say, well, we didn't want a government shutdown, especially before Christmas, and we were just going to move on. Yeah, there we go. Katie Pavlich, there is no way to fund a country.

This is no way to fund a country. Another top-secret $2 trillion omnibus boondoggle is about to pass in lieu of a legit budget. I have the details, an alternative path led by the GOP. Number one. This is an untenable situation.

I can tell you, as a native Arizonan who was born and raised near the border, The border is not secure, and it has never been secure in my lifetime. A lot better than it w than it is now, believe me. Broken border, delayed Title 42, makeshift barriers, drug flows, illegal stream, and so far Biden gets a pass. I sense not for long as Dems begin, as you just heard, to demand he address a problem that he created. Let's bring in Ronna McDaniel, RNC chairperson.

Ronna, we're still waiting to find a speaker, but the House is in Republican hands. The Senate is not. But in the lame duck session, they are looking to pass a $1.7 trillion omnibus deal that nobody has read. Yes, it's egregious. I think it's important to understand that many of the senators and congresspeople are saying they haven't read this.

As you're looking at the fine print, there are definitely Pork in there, things that are not necessary, like trails being named after Michelle Obama and buildings being named after Nancy Pelosi. And as taxpayers are struggling right now, as our economy is faltering, it's unfortunate to see our government continue to spend recklessly.

So looking right now, what they say right now is, I guess Speaker would be Kevin McCarthy, we hope, I hope anyway, becomes Speaker. He says no Republicans should vote for this. And Mitt Romney came back, who you're familiar with, your uncle, came back and says, well, that's just silly. It Well, you know, I agree with you that Kevin should be Speaker. We just won the House because of Kevin McCarthy's work, because of candidates that he recruited, funded, and got across the finish line, not just in 2022, but 2020.

Nobody's done more to take back the House than Kevin. And I agree. I think a lot of Republicans right now are saying, why aren't we letting this wait? Why didn't we just pass a smaller measure that allowed the House to be taken over by Republicans, which the voters wanted, and then have that negotiation? And that would have worked, but McCarthy says, in fact, here he is yesterday about what we're about to pass: Cut 13.

I don't want it to pass. I've been on your show saying that. And not only did I agree with that tweet, I said, I'm going to be the speaker. I won't bring the bill up, so you don't have to worry about whipping it. We're two weeks away, fourteen days away for having a stronger hand in negotiations.

Watch what we are able to do in the NDAA, remove the mandated vaccine for our men and women. They're increasing Just the baseline, $134 billion. That's $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years us taxpayers will have to pay. They're adding $410 million for border security. But none of it in America.

You know where it's at? In five Middle Eastern countries. That's where they're sending our hard-earned taxpayer money. Why don't we think, instead of adding more money, we could eliminate waste and wokeism. We would have a stronger hand.

So Mitch McConnell feels differently. He breaks with McCarthy. He says to step back and say the real needs of the country right now, the Defense Department needs to be funded.

So there's a big difference in the Republican Party. You preside over you're in the middle of all this. You're against McConnell in this situation? I'm against the Democrats. I mean, let's remember this is the Democrats pushing this.

This is Biden. The Democrats control the Senate. Certainly, I have disagreements about the way this is being done. I think I'm from the voter standpoint, they just gave us the House. They fired Nancy Pelosi.

They said they wanted Republicans in control. And I agree with Kevin. We should wait two weeks, let Republicans take control of the House and then have this argument.

So, Ronna, do you still want to head this the RNC, the Republican National Committee? I do, Brian. I'm going to tell you why. The RNC has done things in the past two years that we've never really done that we needed to get done. Obviously, the first four years were kind of an extension of the White House, but the engagement with black, Hispanic, and Asian voters provided huge gains in this election.

The voter registration efforts we had in Florida, North Carolina, and Iowa created red waves in those states. And I also know heading into a presidential, the transition of switching leadership and the breaks being put on the efforts that we're putting forward would put us in a vulnerable position. And we will take back the Senate and we will take back the presidency, but not if the RNC isn't doing the things that we did to make us successful to take back the House in 2020.

So Hermie Dillon, well known to our listeners and viewers, a very successful attorney, says there's time for new leadership is needed. And she wants, she's going to run against you. How do you feel about that? Yeah, you know, she is a good attorney, but she's never run a state party. She's never run a campaign.

And if you look at what the RNC did in this election, the things that we control, Brian, we don't pick the candidates. We have to stay neutral in primaries. We don't pick the messaging the candidates choose. But if you look at the ground game, 3 million more Republicans turned out than Democrats. We would have won the electoral vote if we had that same turnout.

And every single battleground state, a Republican won statewide.

So why does that happen? That means the turnout operation worked. And in Georgia, for example, eight out of nine statewide races were won by Republicans by larger margins for Brian Kemp than in 2018.

So it's working, and we can't stop that infrastructure. What I say is the RNC builds the stadiums. The stadium for the participants to compete in. And the stadium needs to stay strong. And I know that we've built a very strong infrastructure, and we need that to be successful in 2024.

Why don't you think you took the Senate? Why did you actually lose a seat overall? I think the early reports say it was messaging on Roe v. Wade. I think Dobbs was a huge factor.

And if you look at Pennsylvania The top of the ticket there had no exceptions for life of the mother, and I think that carried into the Senate race and other races in the state. Same with Michigan. We have to look at messaging. You know, I said this on Fox and the RNC put out a memo. If they're spending $30 million against you on abortion and you don't answer it, if you don't have an answer and you say, oh, I'm just going to talk about the economy, that doesn't work for the voters.

And we can't ignore that again. We can't allow them to spend $30 million lying about us and think that it doesn't become the truth when we don't respond. And that's what our candidates have to do. The RNC was very vocal on this throughout the cycle. I put a memo out, I said it on TV, but different consultants said, no, let's stick our head in the stand and ignore this issue.

And a lot of their candidates lost as a result.

So you know that. We have to know that this will be an issue in 2024.

So, and by the way, it should be noted that Todd Ricketts, Ray Washburn, Ron Weiser wrote to the 168 RNC members to express their support for you to keep the job. They highlight your relationship with RNC. Donors and efforts during the last six years to build a fundraising infrastructure. But a lot of people say that this should have been a red wave and you believe that it was about abortion. Jonathan Lemire on another network said that this is what they're finding in the post-midterm results, CUD26.

When it comes to this year's midterm elections, there's plenty of evidence to suggest that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade played a significant role in motivating key voting blocs. According to Politico, in the months ahead of the election, campaign strategists kept making the same startling finding that abortion hadn't awakened only Democratic voters, it was also actually persuading swing voters. The report found that in many battleground and red-leaning states and districts, especially where Democrats spent millions to keep the issue at the forefront for voters, abortion access played an outsized role, reversing the party's once abysmal outlook.

We know they faced historical headwinds going into the midterms and did stop.

So that issue is not going away. And besides addressing it, a lot of people are happy. Pro-lifers are happy with this, but the majority of the country is not pro-life.

So, how do you authentically message it? I think you have to recognize in a post-obs world, I'm proud to be pro-life, but we have to understand consensus is where the voters are. And this is the memo the RNC put out in the summer that they want exceptions with limitations. The Democrats are extreme on this issue with due date abortions and gender selection abortions. And we can't ignore it and pretend that it's going to go away.

The Democrats spent millions and millions on it. That's why I put a memo out in the summer. I went on Fox News. I said, you can't ignore it because I'm a woman from the suburbs, and I get it. And I was dealing with a lot of young male consultants in some of these campaigns, and they said, huh, we're not going to listen to you.

And I'm telling you right now, if the Republican Party and these consultants continue to ignore the women, Who thought this was an issue, who knew this was an issue, like myself, like my sisters, like my friends, and my neighbors. we're going to lose again in 2024. And that's part of the reason I want to run again, because it's time that we start listening to suburban women and actually understanding these issues. And I happen to have that voice and understand that.

So if you but you're not you're still not going to get involved in picking candidates, though, right? We can't. It's part of our bylaws, Brian. People don't understand this about the RNC. We can't get involved in primaries.

Legally, we can't. We focus on the general. We support who the voters choose. And that's a big part of the Senate races. And I'll say this: we had a freshman class of people running for Senate.

Great candidates. I'm not going to bash them, but they never run for office ever before in their lives.

So they didn't have a fundraising infrastructure. They didn't have a grassroots infrastructure. I liken it to sending somebody to war without ever going to boot camp. And many of the races we needed to pick up were held by well-funded, well-oiled Democrat incumbent machines. The Senate map is the opposite in 2024.

We have 21 Dem seats up. We have opportunities to pick up seats in Ohio, West Virginia, Montana. We can do that. This was always a tough Senate map. I think expectations were set way too high.

And we need to be proud of the fact that we just picked up the House. We kept every incumbent statewide Senate and governor. And we also flipped a governorship. in Nevada, which is critical.

So you're going to run again. It seems like the money's behind you. At Turning Point, the young conservatives did a straw poll. They picked Harmee Dillon to replace you. And in the Fox News.

Turning Point endorsed her. They had her out. I mean, this is not a Harmeet Dillon race. This is Turning Point and Harmeet Dillon. And I just am going to say something about Turning Point.

You know, they do great conferences. How many young voters did they register? How many youth voters turned out this cycle? How about the college kids in Arizona where they're headquartered? You know, if you're going to hold the RNC accountable, start looking at these outside organizations that don't disclose their finances and ask them what they did.

And this is a group that's taken over the youth vote, they've taken over college campuses, and they need to be held accountable. But this is turning point and Harmeet trying to take over the RNC.

Okay. For you personally, I always thought you were going to be a candidate eventually. Is that still, is that a goal of yours? Um I don't know. Maybe in the offing, I'm going to look at it, but I got to tell you, I'm really passionate about defending our work and what the RNC has done.

We got out of the commission of presidential debates. We've registered more voters. We flipped it in Florida. That's part of the reason we had big gains there. I'm really proud of our community centers and our outreach to Hispanic voters that made differences, a difference in Juan Siscamani and Monica de la Cruz's race.

I'm passionate about this, and I think the RNC made this election better than it could have been otherwise. And I'm also going to be a voice for abortion and speaking about our pro-life stances, but we've got to get that messaging right heading into 2024. Understood. Does it tick you off that people are challenging the leadership? Because I don't remember that happening before.

I don't like the misinformation, Brian. I don't like lies being used to create disinformation. I don't like the vitriol. You know, this hate on hate of Republicans is a huge problem in our party, and I'm going to focus on the 11th commandment. If you look at Arizona, the top vote getter there was a Republican, Kimberly Yee.

And a lot of Republicans chose not to vote for other Republicans on the ticket because of vitriol. And if we continue to hate each other so much that we lose sight of the Democrats, that's a losing recipe. And I'm going to focus on bringing our party together instead of tearing it apart. What about Kerry Lake's approach for one, two, on two areas of our 10 count, on two counts to take a look at Maricopa County? Do you guys support that?

You know, we're in a lawsuit with Abe Hamada, the AG candidate. We think there were problems with the tabulators on Election Day. There's no question, and that does need to be pursued. And you shouldn't have that many tabulators go down on Election Day. But we also need to understand that we need to vote early.

We need to vote absentee. And there's been a lot of people in our ecosystem saying only vote on Election Day. We can't do that. The RNC has been a voice against that. We've spent a lot of money to get vote people to vote absentee and early.

But from now on, we can't count on our entire vote coming out on Election Day. You know, it's interesting, you know, who agrees with you, according to an interview we gave another outlet, President Trump. Yeah. He now says they do have to do a better job in early voting.

So there's probably not going to be that resentment or pushback this time. It's adjust to the rules. Ron McDaniel, always nice talking to you. Best of luck. Thanks, Brian.

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And we'll find out what else is going on. Tony's in Pennsylvania. Hey, Tony. Hey Brian, thanks for taking my call. I really appreciate it.

I know there's a lot of people that want to talk. I want to preface this by saying that You're a strong conservative voice. I really appreciate it. You really stand up for tough issues.

However, I think that sometimes you cut everything short. Especially with Ronna Mc Ronna McDaniels. She why wasn't she asked why isn't she down in Arizona? Fighting for Cary Lake. There was obvious there was everyone seed it.

There was obvious Stuff going on there. You see Katie Hobbs. Katie Hobbs would not recruit herself. for watching over an election that she was running from. And uh Ronna McDaniel needs to have her hand to the fire.

Well, well, if you feel as though it's not the right leadership, what do you expect to do in Arizona? It's in a court's it's in a judge's hands. A judge is not going to say, wow, that Rhona McDaniel's here. I think I'm going to put a rule in her favor on 10 counts. Instead, it's on two counts.

But still, Rhonda McDaniel providing support, and if it's money, that's one thing. But right now, it's up to the lawyers to show that those machines or the printers or whatever they're claiming were not effective, did not work. You heard what she said. But from Pennsylvania, Tony, I don't think you know for sure. And the thing is, if she was there to maybe learn more, maybe aggressive on the machines, maybe that could be it.

But I think that Carrie Lake has got a pretty good team around her. She definitely speaks her mind, and we'll find out. The judge ruled in one way. But if they said the biggest rally wins the court case, I would say she should have done something. But those aren't the rules.

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I can tell you as a native Arizonan who was born and raised near the border. The border is not secure, and it has never been secure in my lifetime. Right, but it was a lot more secure with the previous administration. Anybody who's being honest would tell you that. That is Senator Kirsten Sinema of Arizona with me right now, Rachel Campo Stuffy, because listen, I had somebody else booked, but she would not leave.

She insisted on talking more with me after how many hours? Six, nine, twelve. We've had 12 hours. You've had 12 hours. And then you had eight hours over the weekend.

That's right. Right. And you were going to start your weekend, but you gave us. No, I said I'm not. I'm not going to start my holiday without.

Spending a little more time with Brian. Right. And you've actually never said that, but for saying that to my audience, the thing about I find out about Rachel, do not say anything in the break that you do not want to say on the air. It's true. I do sometimes repeat what you say to on the commercial break, on air.

And you don't like that. I'm a little surprised by it. No, it's not that I just like I think everything goes. Once that stop starts at 601, everything goes. Did you know that last year for New Year's?

Uh Pete Hegaset said his New Year's resolution was to say everything he was saying in the commercial break on air. That was his New Year's resolution. And so I decided to bring you into that. Yeah, it was never mine. Yeah, that's the difference.

So Senator Kirsten said I'm going to talk to Fox News Digital and said that. She's not being honest, Brian. She is not being honest. The border was as secure as it's ever been in 40 years under Donald Trump.

So she's being dishonest. She has to play that game, right, because she's a Democrat and an independent Democrat, but still she's in Arizona. There's a lot of problems from Arizona originally, as you know. People care about what's going on at the border.

So she's trying to go, oh, it's, you know, we don't know why the border is not secure. Yet we know exactly why, because you reversed Trump policies. That's why we're in this situation. Right. And you have, where's Senator Mark Kelly, who went down to the border to get elected?

He's invisible. Yeah. And I feel bad because he's going to end up taking out those storage lockers, those storage cases, which are a makeshift wall, because Governor Ducey is the Republican. And in comes Katie Hobbs. And you think she's going to abide by what the federal government wants and pull those off the border?

You know, Arizonans. Listen, I think that Katie Hobbs is. not only a radical liberal, she's probably the most Uh incompetent, and can I just say dumb, governor? She was ever a terrible campaign. It was un no, no, she is dumb.

She is absolutely dumb. And so the problems for Arizona are just going to get worse under her leadership.

So today, we see all types of action taking place. The Biden administration all of a sudden says, you know what? If you want to extend Title 42 past the holidays, we'll do it. We know now the Humvees along the border with Razor Wire being set up. We know the Texas National Guard is erecting that fence and they're using actually vehicles parked there.

And now they're using some of those storage containers that Arizona was using. And I'm saying to myself, now you got 20,000 National Guard. Why? What was it? What million really alerted them to take massive action?

Well, I remember going down to the border this summer, Brian, and I saw the National Guard. Our National Guard on one side of the Rio Grande, and on the other side I saw the Mexican police. And as both of those law enforcement agencies were on either side, people were crossing. They were doing nothing.

So there was National Guard there. But they are not allowed to stop people from crossing over the river. The people in charge are the cartels, Brian. The border is running. Because we're allowing that.

And now the next month the President's going to sit down there with the President of Canada and President Arbador of Mexico. First thing he's going to talk about? Climate. Sickening. How sickening is that?

Climate change. And equity, by the way. Right. With a socialist leader who the President President Trump got along with great. I don't know how he did it, but they were best friends.

Yet the President was the one who threatened. him with tariffs. The President was the one who said, put Marines at your southern border or we're not going to have any trade relations at all. And he did all that.

So what is the plan? John Kirby was asked in his virtual gaggle yesterday, cut eight, what exactly is going to be in place when Title 42 is lifted. Is are we receiving that today from anyone? Uh Jackie, I'd have to refer you to DHS on this. Um, I that that would be my That would be my best advice, Dia.

Why wouldn't we be hearing from NSC on it, though? Because isn't there a national security component to this? Of course, there's a national security component to border security. We've never shied away from that, but this is appropriately a DHS issue to speak to. You feel better now?

You know, Brian, you brought up such a good point on the show today when you pointed out that in that omnibus bill, They actually put in language to say of all the gazillions of dollars that we're spraying out, right, that we're going to spend. That you cannot use any of it, the Democrats put in that bill. To secure the wall. I mean, that just, I mean, right there, you know exactly what's going on. The reason why Kirby says, can't tell you the plan, because this is the plan.

The plan is to open the border. The plan is to change this population. And the plan is no borders, because all of these policies are being run by NGOs who believe in this George Sorrell's open borders society. And that's what we have.

So this is what the bill says: $1.56 billion to Customs and Border Patrol for border management requirements, $339 million to immigration to ICE. For non-detention border management requirements, non-detention, that kind of building. That means processing. Yep. Funds are prohibited from being used to acquire, maintain, or extend border security technology and capabilities, unless therefore improving processing.

Right. So, why would any Republican hang? Why would any Republican sign off on that? There's so basically, I'm going to translate that. That means No money can be used to secure the border.

All the money is just so we can process all of these massive amounts of illegals who are coming here more quickly so that the media doesn't talk about it and they just go and disperse throughout the country. Do you remember yesterday we had Will Kane on the show, and Will had such a great analogy? He said: if your bathtub is overflowing, the first thing you do is you turn off the faucet, then you can mop. But what they want to do is mop and keep the faucet going.

So you just have more and more water, more and more illegal immigrants, and they just move them on. With your tax dollars.

So, yeah, so, and by the way, $65 million for necessary expenses associated with the restoration of Pacific salmon. population. Yeah, they're also by the way, that omnibus bill has $3 million for a hiking trail named after Michelle Obama, as if the Obamas don't have $3 million to get make their own trail. One yeah, it goes the spending bill will ask for $3.6 million for a project called the Michelle Obama Trail. It'll be a path trail project in Georgia.

It's unbelievable. I mean, you know, I remember there was a time when they got rid of all of the earmarks. Earmarks. And then they brought them back. John McCain cut a deal with President Bush to help him out on something.

He goes, in turn, support my earmarks legislation. And they did, and they passed it. And now the Democrats brought it back and the Republicans are leaving it, it seems. Larry Kudlow looked at this omnibus bill. By the possible read.

There's nobody that read it all. Yeah, there's a picture of Rand Paul, and he's standing next to this giant two and a half feet hall. Yeah, it's unbelievable. Here is Larry Kudlow, cut 15. There's a hundred billion dollar corporate tax hike in this bill, which is insane.

And no Republican should support it. There's also an IRA tax hike coming down the road. We've already had a 15% minimum corporate tax hike in the fraudulently named Inflation Reduction Act bill, and a 1% tax on corporate buybacks, which is stupid. And Janet Yellen is in cahoots with the Europeans to slap a 15% minimum tax on American companies operating abroad. Also very stupid.

Immediate bonus depreciation drops off by 20% January 1st. I don't hear GOP senators howling about that one either. I thought the Republican Party was against tax hikes. I thought the GOP criticized Joe Biden during the midterm election over tax hikes.

So it's just exasperating, and it's just going to pass, they're going to go home. And Kevin McCarthy says any Republicans that vote for it should be disqualified. I don't know what that means. But Mitch McConnell, first off, on what he just said, it's maddening. Cutting the corporate tax rate allow corporates corporations to to compete on a level playing field with most other They're from the EU on down, what's other countries?

Yeah, I mean, he's part of that uni party, you know, and now you can see why he tried to work against people like, you know, you were talking about Mark Kelly. There was that the senator who was running against him. Why is his name escaping me? Against him, Blake Masters. Blake Masters.

Thank you very much. By the way, couldn't we, with all the stuff that's going on with Twitter and social media and the FBI, couldn't we use somebody who understands technology and social media platforms in the Senate? It would have been great. You can see that he worked in. But you know Arizona.

Why didn't he do well? He lost by five, six points. Listen, I mean, just look at the story we've been covering all week, which is the Twitter stuff. Brian, this is what's so depressing. You know, I used to think at one point, you know, maybe Sean will get back into politics at one point in the future.

If things don't change with the way that the liberals are manipulating social media, you just can't win against that kind of interference in an election. I mean, Sean could be the best candidate in the world. He could get all the, you know, Donor funding that he wants from his constituents and be in a great election cycle, and he could still lose because the power of social media and those algorithms to turn up your opponent and turn you down, the amount of election interference. Honestly, it It We don't have free elections. We have to get social media and the government out of these elections so we can return our elections to the people.

So that's what happened. I think Blake Masters would have won if it weren't for the meddling of so many things in our elections, and including Mitch McConnell. He should have given money from the Senate fund to that candidate, but he doesn't want someone independent, somebody who cares about the budget and inflation and so forth.

Well, it's his rivalry with Trump because Trump said, yo, he picked him, let him finance him, and Blake Masters got some money from somebody else. And also, him and Rick Scott weren't speaking.

So, Senator Rick Scott was not speaking of Mitch McConnell. I mean, their objective should have been the same. Rick Scott would be a far better leader of the Senate than Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell's days have passed. That guy is, I don't even recognize.

Who is he? What is he? Who is his constituency? He represents himself and a few lobbyists in D.C. I don't see him representing what Republicans.

Republicans didn't win all the elections that they wanted in the midterms, but they did win a lot of them. And I can guarantee you that the people who went to the polls do not believe in any of the spending that Mitch McConnell is putting forward. Here's Mitch McConnell praising the spending bill, Cut 12.

So let's step back and say what are the real needs of the country right now? You're in the defense. Yeah. of our expenditures. Making sure The Defense Department can deal.

With the major threats. coming from Russia and China. providing assistance for the Ukrainians to defeat the Russians.

So admittedly, I'm pretty Proud of the fact that with a Democratic President, a Democratic House, and a Democratic Senate. We were able. to achieve Through this omnibus spending bill. Essentially all of our priorities. Yeah, I mean, honestly, I mean, there's so much that can be said about that.

First, I would say this guy, I don't think there is a politician more out of touch with the American people than Mitch McConnell, or more out of touch with the Republican Party and where the voters are at. And also, you look at him and you can totally see what went wrong during the Trump years. You know, Trump wasn't just fighting Democrats. He was fighting people like Mitch McConnell. And that's a tough thing to do.

It's amazing what Trump actually accomplished given these kinds of logic. Until the end to January 6th. They were working together. They had some brawls. Oh, um, pipe.

Uh the president now is uh He had to deal with the January 6th, whatever that is, ceremonial. And now he's got today, they're going to release his taxes. Under what auspices do they release a former president's taxes with him out of office at a request? Where's the why? Where's the why are you asking for the release of his taxes to see if he gained money during his presidency?

When are we starting to do that? Are we going to go back and ask Barack Obama? Yeah. Should we go and start doing that? Because the president's going to go right after Biden.

Yeah, it's super third world. Um What? I would be okay with it if I actually believed that it would go both ways. But I mean, that would be a great argument. Look, next time, you know, the Republicans are going to go after you.

I don't see that happening. You know why? Because look at January 6th. Look at all the stuff that's happening with this January 6th. They're still going after January 6th.

They're still going after Donald Trump with his taxes, all this stuff. We've been covering this Twitter stuff. When has Hunter Biden ever had any repercussions for what he's done? When is Joe Biden zero? The FBI has done nothing.

You know who's they haven't raided Hunter Biden's home. They actually pillaged through Baron Trump's bedroom in Mar-Lago. And nobody's gone through Hunter Biden's bedroom. This is what I'm saying. There's such a double standard.

If you're Republican, there's all kinds of FBI investigations, or they go after you. I mean, all those 50 or 70,000 new IRS agents. Those are being hired to go after Republicans. Those are being hired to intimidate Republicans. 87,000.

87,000. Yeah, let's start repealing that back. And by the way, George Soros, you see this? $35 million into funding police organizations. Yeah.

Why is it? He's also funding those NGOs that are pushing these open border policies at our border. No one has done more to destroy America than that guy. Then George Soros. Yeah, that ultra-rich guy.

We'll see what happens. 1-866-408-7669. I'm going to have Rachel for a few more minutes, and then you're going to start your work. Then I'm starting my vacation.

So I am keeping you from enjoying your life. No, I enjoy being with you, Brian. You know what? Can I just say that? Do you have to go right now?

Yeah, and then we can go. How about that for a tease? When we come back, I'll mention what you were going to say.

Okay. Sounds good. Finally, Rachel will tell us her thoughts. Back in a moment. Coming to you on a need-to-know basis, because Mandy, you need to know, it's Brian Kilmead.

From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead. There's no sound bite to really lead into this next point because when we left, Rachel will give her opinion on something. You had something to say, but you were very wary of the breaks. I knew you were going to have a break there. And, you know, I'm so shy about giving my opinion.

That is so far a break to build up to this. Yeah. You know, I just wanted to say, because it came through today on the show when we worked this morning. What I like about you, what I like about our show, is we can all have different opinions. We can all, you know, you and I clearly don't agree on Ukraine.

And I think you're passionate and you're sincere in how you feel. And I feel. As are you. Yeah. And I think it's great that we have a show where we can have people with different opinions.

We can all still remain friends and we can respect each other and how we got to those conclusions. And I just really respect that about you, Brian. And I respect that about our show. You know, people say, oh, you know, Fox News are all, you know, no, actually on Fox News, a lot of us have very different opinions on a lot of different things. And they did.

A study, and it was an independent study, and they say, Most times I'm right. There is a poll that says Brian's always right. And we were given the poll when I was hired. Right. That was the first piece of paper that was given to me: a poll saying.

Do they have any science behind it? There's some science behind it. It's called Brian. But I just love this. Like, I watched the quad box and the breaks.

Yeah. There's talking about Donald. You have Al Sharpton talking about Donald Trump's taxes. Al Sharpton hasn't paid taxes like 100 years. How did he make his money?

He's not president anymore. What is with these people? I know. You've got all these big songs going on. You're such a TV guy.

You speak in that lingo.

So the quad box, I didn't even know what that was.

So the quad box is a TV screen with four different channels on at the same time. One screen. This is why, like, when we had Cardinal Dolan on today, um. Brian was trying to talk about Cardinal Dolan's sermon, but he referred to it as a monologue. Right.

I said that you're working on your monologue. But I said that in the break, and you told Cardinal Dolan, I said it, and now I'm going out. But it is TV lingo, and I love it. And you do live in this world. I do.

It's fantastic. My life's a teleprom. And at the end of the day, I tossed a break. I tossed a break. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division.

It's Brian Kelmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Killmeat Show, 1-866-408-7669. Victor Davis Hanson at the bottom of the hour, man. You got to be on your A-game.

Victor Davis Hanson, one of the deepest thinkers, smartest people that you'll talk about and talk to as we get ready for this new election season. And soon, once the Republicans settle on a speaker, and I hope it's Kevin McCarthy, we're going to be set for the next two years. But there's some ongoing stories that we're going to be covering, including some relatively breaking news about what's happening with the president of Ukraine, but Victor Davis-Hansen. And then we're going to do a simulcast with America's Newsroom. That'll be great.

So it'll be on Fox News channel, Fox Nation, as well as this station.

So we come to you from 4876 in Midtown Manhattan. That is the headquarters of Fox News.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. It came together pretty quickly over a matter of days, with only being finalized this past Sunday. Did Zelensky agree to come to Washington with a real element of risk here? He needs to be able to safely get out of Ukraine and then get back into his home country afterwards.

Unbelievable. He's here. President Zelensky arrives in Washington and will address a joint session of Congress. The address is likely to be emotional and motivating as the Ukrainian president will leave with Patriot missiles, I hope, and fighter jets, along with billions. And many Republicans are not happy.

I am. Number two. When you have a bill this large and atrocious, it allows for people on Capitol Hill not to be held accountable for the votes that they take. It allows them to throw up their hands and say, well, we didn't want a government shutdown, especially before Christmas, and we were just going to move on. This is no way to fund a country.

Another top-secret $2 trillion omnibus boondoggle is about to pass in lieu of a legitimate budget. I have the details and alternative path led by the GOP. Number This is an untenable situation. I can tell you, as a native Arizonan who was born and raised near the border, the border is not secure, and it has never been secure in my lifetime. Yeah, that is Senator Kirsten Sinema, but it was a lot more secure when President Trump was there, and you know that.

Broken border and a delay for Title 42. Makeshift barriers are being rolled out. Drugs are flowing. Illegals are streaming. And so far, Biden gets a pass.

I sense not for long as Dems begin to demand he address a problem that he created. And that's where I want to start. And, you know, so many days you come up and you're like, is this the same story again? It's more and more horrendous. I don't know how Bill Melusian does it.

He sits there and he does these tweets and does these reports talking about things that nobody else gets because they know who we are serious as a channel, as a company. This show is. And we are providing information that never would have been getting out, including drone technology. We have our own drone team.

So Humvee's along the border. RazorWire is being set up. 20,000. National Guard troops flood into Texas. Maluzia says the state of Sexus is bringing more shipping containers to create a lengthy makeshift wall, like they're doing in Arizona at a popular crossing area in Eagle Pass.

This is where we have funded the wall, but they will not actually follow through with it. He also tweeted this: Elite trackers with the Texas Border Patrol, Texas DPS, just think Operation Lone Star, arrested three illegal immigrants from Honduras who were smuggling two pounds of fentanyl pills, 172 pounds of marijuana as they snuck through the extremely remote terrain of the Big Ben sector in West Texas. One smuggler was only 14 years old.

So you got migrants released in El Paso, 10,000 plus last week. The week before, 8,000. That's as bad as it gets. All right, when we come back. We are going to We're going to go do America's Newsroom to a simulcast with Bill Hammer.

And then at the back end of that, I'll be able to take some of your calls: 1-866-408-7669. This is the Brian Killmee Show.

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In a matter of moments, I'll be able to take your call, 1-866-408-7669. At the bottom of the hour, Victor Davis Hansen. We're still waiting to get in details on President Zelensky, where he is, and when he'll speak. We do know too about the um The passing of Franco Harris. He was about to have his number retired, number 32.

It was 50 years since the Immaculate Reception against the Raiders who put the, they would eventually put Pittsburgh into the Super Bowl. And that was him that made the incredible catch, the incredibly alert, would run it in, shock everybody. But now he passes away. He's just 72 years old, and I'll add something to that. No one even knew he was sick.

That might be a personal situation.

So let's do a simulcast with America's Newsroom. from a really, really amazing historical moment to God bless the memory of Franco Harrison.

Now, to those who aspire to be the next Franco Harris, the defense bill may prevent service academy athletes from playing professional sports right away, marking a big change from an earlier provision. It says this: quote: An agreement by a cadet or midshipman to play professional sport constitutes a breach of service obligation. The cadet may not obtain employment, including as a professional athlete, until after completing the cadet's commissioned service obligation. A lot of money on the line here. Ryan Kilmead here, the co-host of Fox and Friends on Radio Now.

And Brian, good to have you on. There's been a provision carved out by Congress. I'll explain that in a second, but just on its face, what do you make of this today? Is it necessary? I mean, was there a problem with too many players at West Point and Annapolis and Air Force Academy saying, I want to go pro, I don't want to serve.

I haven't heard of a problem. Or was it that President Trump brought it up a couple of years ago and said, these athletes that emerge at the academies that have pro potential, why are we robbing them of a window to make judgment? Generational money in professional sports.

So, in a situation which passes the criteria, let them play. In the case of this guy, Andre Carter, he's 6'7, 260 pounds. He's probably gonna be a first or second-round draft pick of Army. They go ahead and do this provision. He goes, wait a second, I signed up knowing if I emerge as a pro at pro-prospect, I can play and then go into do my service afterwards.

What's the problem? And now they're gonna go ahead and bring this in. And I don't get it. You know, some people like Mike Gallagher seem to have stepped up and said we got to grandfather those who went to the academy under the auspices that if they emerge after their sophomore year and want to go pro, that they could. That would make sense.

Here is a quote from Andre's parents. Saying that thank you to the members of Congress who stepped up, spoke out, and worked expeditiously in support of Andre and other Service Academy cadets and midshipmen who made decisions in reliance on the 2019 policy allowing deferral of service. The goodness we saw in people this past week will forever be imprinted upon us. And yet, you don't know how, as you said, Brian, how many people there would be. And you know, I don't know a lot about sports, but Bill was explaining to me that sometimes the academies don't necessarily produce players like this.

But in this case of Andre Carter, he certainly seems like he could be a one- or two draft pick. Yeah, and not only that, Dana, what President Trump said after hearing this story is: why don't we just make a provision for those unique athletes to go in the academy and have this window? It might be a basketball player. David Robinson is the example, Bill, you know well. I think he grew six inches in the academy.

He was too big to serve in a submarine anyway. The Spurs draft him number one. And after roughly six months, they go, go play, come back and serve in a different way.

So he ends up having a Hall of Fame career. But I am afraid the next great man or woman, a national team, women, soccer player, or tennis star, I got to go, yeah, I'm going to serve. I want to go serve my country. I want to be an elite officer, and I'm going to go wherever you want me to go. Can I just see what my potential is?

Because this athletic ability is not run of the mill. You know how many people go to play and just don't have what it takes to even play at an academy, let go pro? Why make it hard? Why throw another monkey wrench into signing up for the academy? It's very similar to the vaccine.

I'm kicking you out if you don't take a vaccine that most of us haven't even looked at a booster yet and we realize doesn't really work against any of these variables. Your example of Dave Robinson was very well taken. I just want to get this in. For Congress has stepped in. If you've enrolled prior to June 1st, 2021, you can pursue your pro ambitions, but everyone after that cannot.

Just we've got one more thing here, Dana. Go ahead.

Well, I just want to say it was great to have you in Bayhead, New Jersey, in the Point Pleasant Beach at the Little Point Bookshop. Paperback is out. The freedom, the president and the freedom fighter. Oh, hey, Percy showed up. I didn't know he had that picture.

That's pretty cute. That was pretty cute. It was great to have you, Brian. Yeah, it was good to be in your backyard and good to be with a great bookstore, great friends, great family atmosphere. People talk about full employment.

If you have a family bookstore and your family works there, your family works for free. And that's one way to get it very successful.

So to meet a great family. There's a family there. Kelly Crevelli and her crew, and they're a great family. And it was fun to have you there. Hey, Brian.

Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, Brian. All right, guys, see you in the hall, and from my audience to yours. Thank you.

Okay, thank you. All right, so we're back. 1-866-408-7669. Now we have more than a full segment, right? We have a super long segment.

Yeah, we have. Because I got out earlier because we're riding breaking news on the television network. All we're seeing on Fox Nation. We go to Fox business a lot with Stuart Varney. And this week, we're going to do a summochest tomorrow, too, aren't we?

Yeah, we're keeping Eric super duper busy.

So I had Varney yesterday, Merg's newsroom, and then Harris tomorrow.

So, do you know I do those hits in the morning on my radio hits, but that's right? On my radio hits with WABC this morning. I'm getting Eric, I meant to tell you, I'm having trouble connecting. Not with the morning show host Sid Rosenberg, but I'm connecting. I don't know what's going on.

Is there something with the internet or something? I think it's really amazing radio to talk about technical problems on the air. But it's all the simulcast tech stuff that is the same.

Well, that is true. We will go look at it after the show. But that's why I wish Eric would just get up at four in the morning, come sit in my studio, in my office, and just make sure the button works. Take a look at it now. I can go now.

I know. Yeah, Allison, just slide over there. You always say how easy it is. I've hit buttons before. Right.

You've hidden buttons. The off mic is good. No, but we actually have a cut then that I pulled since you guys were talking a little about the vaccine. We played a little bit yesterday, but this is a different cut. It's from Tim Robbins with.

Oh my gosh, Russell Brand. Yes, the Russell actor Tim Robbins with Russell Brand talking about how politicized the vaccine was in the U.S.

So we can hear that. It was a very different political environment in the United States, very divisive, very much based on politics. If you were, well, it changed. At first, if you were a Democrat when Trump was president, you weren't going to take that vaccine because it was Trump's vaccine. And then that seemed to somehow change.

It was kind of Orwellian. It was like we are no longer at war with East Asia. It was now we were thinking about it a different way. And if you didn't take the vaccine, you were a Republican. And it wasn't that way here in England.

There was a much more tolerant attitude towards the diversity of opinion.

So I was really grateful to have been in this experience so that I could get a different perspective. Tim Robbins saying that it was true. This would have been totally reversed. And when you tested pod see, Trump would never would have done the mandates. He would have strongly recommended never would have done the mandates.

That would have diffused everything. Number two. Trump wanted to get back to normal rapidly.

So he would have been pushing the schools to and not going along with the schools and the unions. He would have been pushing kids to get back in school and siding with parents. The number three thing would have been when people started testing positive after they got the vaccine. The narrative would be Donald Trump rushed it. It wasn't ready.

How dare he push things at his speed? He's being, that's not the way you do in the medical community. Anthony Fauci would have given these interviews and said, yeah, I didn't really do warp speed. I went along with it because I'm an advisor. I don't set policy.

And then people that test it positively that Donald Trump felt that Donald Trump killed me. Because Donald Trump's vaccine, I took it, I died. You know, my relatives died because of that. And it would have been totally different. And just to see everybody walking around with masks.

That is a Democrat thing. If you are getting a vaccine and all the boosters, that's a Democrat thing. If you push back on schools and question the science, that's a Republican thing. And Tim Robbins, who's the ultra I always knew him as an ultra left winger in England, I guess, shooting a movie, maybe he moved there, I don't know, noticed the difference between America and in London because they don't have the polarization on parties right now between the Labor and the Conservatives that they have. But they got other problems.

They got huge problems, and we are bouncing back better than most at this moment. But let's talk about what's happening today, and then I'll go to the phone 21-866-408-7669.

So we got word, and I understand why they didn't give us a heads up on this. It makes kind of sense that President Zelensky has left Ukraine and is coming here. He will meet with the President at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and talk about the Ukraine. Then at the White House, they'll meet. Then the President holds a joint press conference with Zelensky of the Ukraine.

That should be interesting. Having them both together shoulder to shoulder, that should be fascinating. There's a lot of Republicans, I don't know any Democrats, that just feel as though we're spending too much money and don't think we should spend it there, don't think it's our fight and don't think this is the perfect government we should be defending. Perfect enough. And this was an invasion by Russia.

And if Russia, if you've been paying attention, you saw what they did in Georgia, left, stayed, went in, stayed. Then they go into take Crimea. They went in, they stayed. They went to Syria. They went in, they stayed.

Guess what? They go into Ukraine. They wanted to take it and they wanted to keep it. And if we don't stop them here, goodbye, Lithuania, goodbye, Estonia, and then goodbye. Poland will have all types of pressure.

You hear about election meddling. Then the Russian-friendly person will win these elections and suddenly will have a reconsider Soviet Union. If they could find a way to get a positive resolve and push them out of the Ukraine, dare I say Crimea, we would have stopped the next generation of Russian aggression and hopefully say goodbye to Vladimir Putin because they don't fight. They're underfunded. They're technologically archaic.

Back to the Soviet Union 1960s or 1950s days. Their leaders don't know what they're doing and their soldiers haven't been trained. That's what's been exposed for this. And I hope that the president will have a joint press conference. But then I think tonight or later on early evening, President Zelensky will just address a joint session of Congress.

The guy's a leader. And when you and this other thing is, they say, well, he shut down T V stations. They're pro-Russian T V stations owned by a Russian oligarch, and he was tired of hearing the rhetoric.

So he said, Goodbye, I'm shutting you down. And number two, they had a problem with the church. I don't know the details of a problem with the church that he shut down, but there's such a history in that area of Russian loyalty. Then I wouldn't doubt that the Russian church was a direct line. To Russia.

So at this point, three hundred days into a conflict, I wouldn't be screwing around either. Especially when you know people that have died, you watch people that have fought, you haven't seen in many cases families back in their neighborhoods, infrastructure destroyed. You have no patience. For turncoats. Joe, let's see you on Long Island.

Hey, Joe. Brian, good morning. Merry Christmas to you, your family, the whole staff, Alex and Eric, Pete, the families. I'll get that out of the way. I just heard your whole argument.

Make a couple of good points. I totally disagree with you. We have to stop the insanity. War is horrible. Nobody wins in war, Brian.

You're not going to stop. This some Putin, somebody else will pop up. There'll be another Putin. There's 250 million people. Listen, he can win that war in a heartbeat.

He's got nuclear weapons. No, he can't. The war should never happen. You have to win. If he even tries to do nuclear weapons, he'll be totally wiped out.

He'll be hit from nine different sides. And he will not use it because any nuclear weapon, tactical or just biological, is going to blow right back at him. He's not using nuclear weapons. All right, the military-industrial complex makes money when bombs go off, Brian. There's 250 million Russians.

They're not going to surrender to Ukraine. Biden caused this war with his feckless, weak leadership. We are going to drag our American children into this. You have no skin in the game. Our boys and girls, our youth, and youth.

Are they in it now? Are they in it now? Hey, Joe, are they in it now? Are they in it now? If we don't let Ukraine, this is the ultimate proxy war.

We provide the weapons, they provide the victories. All they want is the weapons to win, and they're beginning to win. They win every fight on the ground.

Now we're sending them protection. If we let Russia continue to absorb Eastern Europe, we've seen this movie before. We will be fighting over there. No question.

So I don't, you know, you have a point, you could say, just forget it. You close your eyes for a while, but when you open them up, things are going to be a whole lot worse. Do you think we caused the judges? They wanted to buy. Shashka Vili in 2008 they said was too belligerent.

That's why the Russians invaded.

Well, why do they stay? Crimea? Unprovoked? Unprovoked, they just take it back. Vladimir Putin wanted his trophy.

And when he got there and was allowed to stay, he wanted more. And now he's getting his ass kicked. We're going to come back and talk to Victor Davis Hansen about that, where we're heading, what we can look forward to for the next year. Brian Kilmeicho. A radio show like no other.

It's Brian Killmeade. You can kind of maybe justify there being some kind of involvement in suppressing this or that. I guess there's an argument for that, but they're doing it at a level that's so micro and so ridiculously thorough that it can't possibly be anything but a dystopian project. I mean, they want to absolutely control, or at least have some impact, on basically every communication that happens on their platform. Which seems crazy to me.

I don't know about you, but that seems more in the realm of Warwell to me. Matt Taibbi talking about his experience in when Oliel Musk said, go to town on this communication between the FBI or any intelligence operation and Twitter itself. Joining us now, Victor David. It's Hanson Hoover Institute Senior Fellow. Victor, always great to hear from you.

Your thoughts about what we've learned as Matt Taibbi, anything but a right-wing conservative, comes to these conclusions that the FBI was way over its mandate. Yeah, I think every pathology we have about so-called administrative state was there. degenerated into a sort of a personal Auxiliary Praetorian bard of the Biden family. I mean, on the one hand, They were suppressing the laptop and using their contacts with the former intelligence committee to print this bogus James Clapper, John Brennan headline. Uh Affidavit that this was a product of using disinformation, while they kept it.

suppressed even though they knew it was authentic. And then the other arm of that project was to work with Twitter to suppress any information to the contrary. And I think Ryan, we're going to learn there were other social media platforms as well as Twitter. It was a comprehensive effort. And then they had the revolving door.

It was almost as if we're going to coordinate with you, get to know you, and you're going to have a little in with the FBI, we're going to have it in with you. And then when we tire, almost as if we're defense contractors.

Okay. General's coming out of the Pentagon to go to a defense contracting board. We're going to come to Twitter. And so it was incestuous, it was probably illegal. There's no remedy because this follows I think that the context is really critical.

This follows the Peter Navarro arrest, the Mar Lago The FBI monitoring school boards, and it's just so serial that I think the only answer is the next Republican President's going to have to break up the agency. I really do. I think and farm out the bureaus to different cabinetcies. or move it to Kansas City or something because it its present incarnation is too dangerous. For the Republic.

But are they going to allow themselves to be broken up? Chris Ray up top seems to be a guy that no matter what you tell him, he doesn't, nothing went wrong. We're going to look into that. We're going to think about it. Is your impression that he has an idea?

He has an idea what's happening? No, this is a man that told senators that when they were Inquiring about legitimate but embarrassing issues with the FBI. He said he had to go. He had an appointment, and then he got in his FBI jet. and he flew to his vacation home.

So no, he has no credibility left. But and it's not going to come from The Democratic Party or in the Congress or in the administration because we've we've seen a radical I think it's the most revolutionary thing in my lifetime how These intelligence agencies have become now agents as well as the Pentagon of the Left, and the Left adores them because they feel that they can enact social change or political change without the back and forth of legislative log jam.

So Just call the FBI, they can do it. Call the Pentagon, they can get woke training. Call the CIA, call John Brennan, and they get it done. That's radical, and all of us on the traditional side had always supported these while the left had attacked them. I don't think any of us on the conservative side are going to have that same level of support.

I know I'm not. They don't trust them, any of them, the CIA, the FBI, the IRS, the Pentagon anymore. Not not given their record and they're not they're not going to have any reform. because they're being rewarded for what they do. Christopher Ray realizes that as long as he does but surveys people surveillance people at board meetings or Stonewalls, Congress, Or has these virtue signaling photo ops with people, you know, Steve Bannon or Peter Navarro.

Part John. What's his Eastman, any of them? He's going to be rewarded by Merritt Garland and administration. To the degree that he doesn't do that and he's transparent and he cooperates with both sides of the aisle, he's not going to have a job.

Well, it's going to be a lot harder to get your message out if there aren't more Elon Musk buying the other social media apps.

Well, absolutely. But I think there's kind of been a revolution going on now in Silicon Valley that there's a lot of these people who Feel that they've reached the level of wokeness. In other words, they're at peak wokeness, and now the left's kind of eating their own.

So, you know, I I work at Stanford University and have a lot of friends in Silicon Valley and privately It's just sort of a range of issues, Brian. I mean, some of them say, you know, we can't trust. You saw Stanford University. Which is the embryo of Silicon Valley, their list of words you can't use, the fact they toss out the SAT. The fact that people that had perfect SAT scores, 70% of them were rejected.

At Stanford. And a lot of people are saying, you know, we don't trust these degrees anymore. We're going to have to give our own tests. We don't. We think the left is going to go after us on a lot of issues.

So I think you're going to start to see it A lot of people saying, you know, we supported these guys, but now they're turning on us. And so, They may not say that publicly, but privately I think they're worried that they're in the target. In the crosshairs now. And you saw some of the pushback, too, with the Twitter executives. They were not comfortable with the request.

No, they weren't. And they were saying, Do you want us to go and shadow ban a follower? He's got like nine followers because you don't like something they're saying. And the weekly meetings and the Aspen Institute war games, the tabletop presentations, knowing that now that we know that the Hunter Biden thing was in their possession.

Now, even though they're Democrats and left wing, they might be saying to themselves, these guys were playing us. They had the black tie. You think of the cultural aspects. Do you think a guy in flip flops and cutoffs and a tie dye shirt that walks into Whole Earth and then and Palo Alto wants to brag that he's working secretly with the FBI to suppress information? Or do you think a Stanford professor is bragging right now as a so-called civil libertarian that the bankman parents paid pare uh parents uh were Channeling money without probably gift packs to buy luxury real estate in the Bahamas as a packaged and Bundled dark money from Silicon Valley.

Some of it. brought by into their uh pack by their son. These are very illiberal things that very liberal people who profess to be very liberal are doing. And I think a lot of them are starting to get embarrassed. And it's not going to change though from the Biden administration because they find all this useful.

And the media in the Biden administration won't change. It's gonna not gonna happen until Republicans take control of the of the Senate. and the presidency. And then I think they feel I think their attitude now, Brian, is this can't go on and we know it, and we're probably going to lose power.

So we've got to open the border. We've got to do all we can while we can, because this is a rare moment in our history where we're we as revolutionaries have a moment, a window of opportunity, and we're not going to back down. And so I think we're going to see some crazy things in the next two years. That's not a good sign. I thought we had our wake-up call during the midterms, but I guess it was outdone by Roe v.

Wade, perhaps. But you mentioned Sam Bank Benfreed, whose parents teach at Stanford, who were working. The dad was effectively an employee there.

So this has got to be the biggest embarrassment possible. This scammer, and these smart people know this guy was he dressed like hell. He gave a horrible presentation, pretended to be altruistic. 90% or 80% of all his donations went to Democratic causes. He's with the leading world leaders, and now he's sitting in disgrace in a jail cell.

We'll probably, if there's any justice in the world, spend the next two decades there. Is that a come to Jesus moment for those people? Absolutely, and it's the culmination of a lot of things that are going on that are not widely reported by the left wing media. For example, not only were the parents Somewhat involved because they were buying real estate with money that they didn't earn, and that's going to be a uh an object of investigation. But they were very prominent.

in attacking the right, in being a political activist while they were professors on campus. And this goes on when just yesterday's as you probably know, Fox reported it, Stanford's uh IT left wing committee. Listed all these words you cannot use on campus, supposedly, and among them were things like American. And people are outraged, especially the online. The current president of Stanford University is under intense investigation that some of his scientific research was invalid.

And that's a euphemism invalid, and he's under pressure. We, our campus, birthed Elizabeth Holmes, remember her from the Theranos disaster.

So oh so the university's been battered, and the reason it's been battered is it has this unholy alliance with huge amounts of money from Silicon Valley. and professors and administrators who go back and forth And it's not a good le hard left-wing virtue signaling politics is used by that university to disguise the fact. that there's a lot of unethical uh behavior that's materially uh generated. There's selfish careerism and big money. And then they they say, Well, we don't do that.

The left doesn't do that. We don't care about money. We're for virtue. diversity, equity and inclusion, but in fact, it's corrupt. And I think that's the what's weird about the left right now, whether we look at The Biden administration and Hunter Biden and all of these people, for all that rhetoric about being neo-socialists, they have a a really elemental grifting urge.

They just want to get as much money as they can, as shady as they can. And I think the Biden administration is the epitome of this. This whole Biden family is going to, it's going to blow. They know that as soon as They lose power, it's going to blow up. And the investigations are going to make the investigations of the Trump family look like nothing.

But they don't care. They think as long as they have power they're immune. Yeah, it's pretty relentless. What about the fact that George Soros has been now uncovered to find out that he's supporting a myriad of anti-cop causes?

So he puts AGs in who don't want to enforce the law. They want to empty the prisons and not have the people pay bail. And now they're going to fund anti-cop movements.

So, I mean, this is just anti-American. Yes, I don't think he has a positive I mean, some of the people on the left think they can enact change by advancing alternate alternate socialist programs. I don't think he's one of them. I think he's a nihilist. And his agenda has always been, I'm just going to destroy things that I don't like.

So I'm going to fund, for example, as we know notoriously, these big city District attorney's offices. We're going to fund them and they're going to dismantle the law and they're going to get crime and crime's going to get so bad that you're not going to like it. And ha ha ha. That's what happens to your capitalist. elitist system.

This is a man who made his money by trying to break the Bank of England. He's a convicted felon in France, and he understood something very he was very astute in the 1990s. He ceased being bipartisan and apolitical because he knew that the left would shield him from all investigations of how he got his money and why he was a pariah in Europe. Still can't go into France. And he was right.

Once he became left, he bought identity insurance like so many people do. They get a blanket exemption. as long as they profess all of these virtue cause virtue signaling causes.

So, Victor, right now we're looking at Donald Trump, had the January 6th trial finally wrapped up. If you watch other channels, they're constantly covering this.

Now they're going to look into his taxes. Have you ever seen something so audacious and inexplicable as in demanding former President Trump's taxes for no apparent reason? The House gets them.

So now they're going to look at him, see if they can find some corruption.

Now they set a terrible precedent. They do. That's the key word you use, Brian, because I think they don't understand what's coming. They have set so many precedents, and some of them have been just trivial: tearing up the State of the Union address if you don't like it on television, like Nancy Pelosi, but impeaching a President in his first term, the moment he loses majority. That's something Biden should be very worried about come next year.

This idea that you impeach a president twice, you impeach him, you try him as a private citizen, you raid his home, you go after his taxes. And all of that is in the context of every single one of those issues. the Biden family has much more exposure.

So what's going to happen is a little bit because the Republicans have the House, but as soon as they get The Senate And back in power, they're going to use those precedents and they're going to have to. Not that I'm an old customer, eye for an eye, but if they don't, They're going to have no deterrence at all. Their left's going to say, ha. If I were them, I would have done to us what we did to them. But they're you know, they play by the Marcus Quincy rule, so and they to stop it, they're gonna have to do something in retaliation that's commiserate, and they're not gonna like it.

And I think you're gonna see the House try to do stuff already. But I don't get the idea that when you have so much exposure to wrongdoing in a preemptory fashion, you try to accuse people of what you're guilty of. Interesting. I just think overall, our country, I think most people are shell-shocked there wasn't a midterm red wave. Overall, what do you think the reason is the Senate's not in Republican hands, Victor Davis-Anson?

I'm really disappointed like you are. I think they got overconfident. I think they had a negative agenda, which was okay, but they had no positive. No one said if we get the House, we may not get the law passed because of the Senate and the vetoes. We're going to build so many miles of the wall.

We're going to open ANWAR on so many and they should have had a positive contract with America. They were outspent. I don't understand after twenty eighteen, twenty twenty, they haven't caught on to mail in and early balloting, which is now seventy percent in most states. They don't understand it. They get killed by it.

And that's the press to the charitable version that it's legal and and some of it's not, obviously. And so they they didn't they didn't watch that. They and they're outspent. They're outspent three to four to one. They don't have anything l I I think the Wyn Red is a pale imitation of Act Blue.

They just don't raise money like they used to. And Donald Trump didn't help things when he announ he sort of said, within Wink and a nod, I'm going to have a big announcement. that meant that he was going to run and that sort of energized some of the Hard left to come out, and any attacks DeSantis and some key races that may have turned off DeSantis supporters. And I think the polls on the conservative side, a lot of people let down their guard because they, you know, when you have the insider advantage in Trump Hagar polls showing, you know, huge leads, seven, eight points in some cases. And then they're lost credibility with that.

Hey, Victor, have a great holiday. Thanks so much. You too, Brian. Victor Davis Hanson, one of the smartest people you will ever listen to. Brian Kilmicho.

The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Killmead. All right, we're back. We've got a couple more minutes, and you're just talking to Victor Davis Hanson about how it's playing. He believes things are hitting a touchstone because if you're out in the West Coast and it's exposed that you're working with the FBI, that's the man out there.

You don't want to be working with the man. That's society. That's law and order. And now you circumvented your creativity and maybe your whole social media platform to the FBI, giving into weekly calls, answering every one of their requests, going to the Aspen Institute game planning session, tabletop game planning session. You saw some pushback in the exchange.

And now we're seeing it. We're seeing more of it as it comes out.

Now we're finding out that Twitter was working with the Pentagon to the Middle East to manipulate messages and to get our word out to the Middle East to be radio-free Europe or America unplugged, but pretending not to be unplugged, pretending to be a social media platform, not outright and prideful of saying, okay, this is the American message, pretending you're not.

So that could cause some backlash in the long run. Maybe we'll see some of that. I'm relatively hopeful. I did not know that Stanford did not take the SATs. I did not know.

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Rich Lowry standing by, Martha McCallum at the bottom of the hour. It's going to be a big hour, and we're following a few stories. Sad news: Franco Harris died. This guy was a few days from having his number 32 retired by the Steelers. I don't know why it wasn't done already.

And then 50 years since the Immaculate Reception against Beat the Raiders. Passed away at the age of 72, so that's huge news.

So let's get to the big three.

Now with The stories you need to know. It's Brian's big three. Number three. It came together pretty quickly over a matter of days, with only being finalized this past Sunday. Did Zelensky agree to come to Washington with a real element of risk here?

He needs to be able to safely get out of Ukraine and then get back into his home country afterwards. There you go. That is a big risk. President Zelensky has evidently got on a train. To Poland and then flew out of Poland.

Now he's in Washington. He'll address a joint session of Congress, meet one-on-one with President Biden, and drive a tough bargain. He wants more money. He's going to get the Patriot Missile system, it seems. But I think he wants to go out and win this thing once and for all.

Number two. When you have a bill this large and atrocious, it allows for people on Capitol Hill not to be held accountable for the votes that they take. It allows them to throw up their hands and say, well, we didn't want a government shutdown, especially before Christmas, and we were just going to move on. Yep, Katie Pavlich weighs in. This is no way to fund a country.

Another top secret, two trillion-dollar Omnibus boondoggle is about to. Pass in lieu of a legit budget. I have the details and an alternative path if the GOP decides not to go along with this, which they shouldn't. Number one. This is an untenable situation.

I can tell you, as a native Arizonan who was born and raised near the border, The border is not secure, and it has never been secure in my lifetime. Much closer under President Trump, Kirsten Cinema. Broken border, delayed Title 42. Makeshift barriers, drugs flow, illegal stream. And so far, Biden gets a pass and doesn't go.

I sense not for long as the Dems begin to demand, he addressed the problem that he created. Let's bring in Rich Lowry. Rich, first off, Zelensky's showing up pretty dramatic. Of course, you don't want to announce it ahead of time. A lot of Republicans don't want to write any more checks to Ukraine.

Are you one of them? No. I mean, I understand the sentiment. We have out of control spending across the board, but I think this is a good investment to check Russian aggression, if I could write it myself, would I get our allies to fund all the economic aid and just for us to do the weapons? Yes.

I don't know whether that's plausible. But, you know, our guys aren't fighting and dying in Ukraine. It's strategically important to us. They are willing to do the fighting, and we just need to pony up. And yeah, the numbers are eye-popping, but I don't see a good alternative.

Well, the U.S. will send $1.8 billion in military aid to Ukraine in a massive package. They're going to send a Patriot missile battery and precision-guided bombs for their jet fighters. We'll get a billion dollars in weapons from the Pentagon stocks, another $800 million in funding through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. That means ammo and things to that nature.

So it's going to be about $45 billion in emergency assistance, part of the $1.7 trillion. And I would, number one, be public in who's giving and who's not. And, you know, who's not coming across. Yeah, look, you know, Germany's not sitting on a huge arsenal. I get it.

But what did they promise? They actually do have tanks, and Ukrainians need tanks. And why are we giving one Patriot missile battery? Why don't we just give enough to protect the major cities? Yeah, the Germans are worthless.

I would say that the one thing I agree with the critics on the right about is Zelensky is not going to win this war once and for all. There's going to be some sort of settlement. I mean, Putin he's not going to Zelensky is not going to march to Mos Moscow and topple Putin.

So there there's going to be some unsatisfactory arrangement at the end of it.

So I don't think it's like a thought crime to say, well, maybe Russia gets Crimea, and otherwise returns to the borders prior to the first Russian invasion, or something like that. The war is draining. It's a huge economic and humanitarian cost.

Now, we need to exhaust the Russians such that they're willing to consider some sort of deal. And unfortunately, we're not close to that point. But I do think. Diplomacy, peace deal, those shouldn't be considered thought crimes the way they are among some Ukraine hawks. Here's what Senator John Kennedy said, because you know, listen, Zelensky can speak.

He can perform. I think he's going to be motivating today. Cut 19. I would be delighted if President Zelensky came and visited us. I had been convinced for some time.

that President Putin is not acting alone. that there is a partnership between and among Putin. President Xi in China and the Ayatollah in Iran. And their objective is to have Russia dominate Central and Eastern Europe. to have the Ayatoma dominate the Middle East.

and to have China dominate the Indo-Pacific. while being able to roam free in sub-Saharan Africa and South America. And that is a world that is not safe for democracy.

So There's no doubt about it. They have strengthened their evil ties with Iran and those kamikaze drones have really plagued the infrastructure of Ukraine. But it's almost like getting into an infection. You could keep on putting a band-aid on it, or you just attack it. And the Ukrainians, to me, are attacking our enemy and exposing Russia.

Yeah. So I don't know how formally to Senator Kennedy's comment, you know, the pie has been divided up, but these are three powers that hate the United States that all have revanchis. Ambitions all want to restore what they imagined, you know, former glory, especially imperial glory. And You know, the reason, there are many reasons that Putin's policy did not actually serve Russia's interest in the long term. One, they're becoming a junior partner to China, which is not going to work out well for them in the long term.

They're not going to be an equal in that alliance. The end of the day, China is going to overaw Russia if they get what they want.

So this has just been a total strategic blind alley for Russia's interests.

So maximize the pain because this is going to be something that is going to be plaguing Eastern Europe for time to come unless Russia gets thoroughly cut down to size, which we never thought we'd have the ability to do. But we're watching Ukrainians do it. The Russians can't fight. They're not armed. They've been wasting all their money.

People have been stealing it. Vladimir Putin no longer can be the little muscle man that he thinks he was. He has been cut down on the world stage.

So I just think we've got to finish the job, this incremental. is a way of torturing both sides. Yeah, and the other thing that I think is wrong-headed about wanting to cut the Ukrainians off, this has been a success. It's not as though it's like the Afghans or we could never quite get the military to stand up. Obviously, it couldn't stand up on its own.

The Ukrainians have had incredible success. Have they swept to victory? No, but it's been much better than anyone reasonably could have expected at the beginning of this year. To then say, Oh, you know, never mind, we're cutting you off now, would just be totally perverse. What's your take on what you've learned so far from the Elon Musk takeover of Twitter and the seven?

Tranches that have been revealed, and the FBI's work inside that organization basically doing much more hands-on than we ever thought. Yeah, I mean, it just it's it's bizarre. I mean, if the FBI had said to the Washington Post in 1980, well, there are a bunch of Russian spies, Soviet spies around, which is true, and they want to get misinformation all over the place, which was true.

So we're going to come in, we're going to meet with you all the time, we're going to review what you're running in your newspaper and have conversations about it. They would have said no, get lost, you know, and Twitter didn't. And it's a really bizarre and disturbing symbiotic relationship. Between the two. And some of this stuff, we knew it in broad outlines, but it's been helpful to get down in more granular detail.

And this has just become a big proxy battle in the culture war.

So I'm all in favor of Elon Musk versus his enemies. I do wonder, though, at the end of the day, Is it more important for Elon Musk to make better rockets or to be running Twitter polls? I think it's making better rockets.

So it's good to have it owned by him, hand it over to someone else's poll set, and focus on some of your, I think, more important businesses. And now the investigation element to Facebook and Google are going to be much more precise because we've opened up one body and we did an autopsy on that body and we knew what they were up to. And now we can say to Facebook, was the FBI calling you three times a week? Were you at the Aspen Institute breakdown of tabletop exercise on the laptop or other things? When exactly did that happen?

And listen, judging by how unhappy Twitter was that the FBI was all over them, maybe there's people at Google and Facebook that want to say how oppressive the FBI was. Yeah. And the other thing is, I had the Washington Post analogy I mentioned there, where you would have thought like Twitter would have reflexively said, no, we're a private entity, we're free speech people, get out of here. Also, like you sign up to the FBI, you know, imagining you're in the next Elliott Ness or something, and what you do is sit in front of a computer looking at Twitter all day. That's also bizarre, too.

Yeah, I mean, there were 80,000 agents and so many went over there to work, but not one of them dispelled any Trump rumor that was incorrect. Not one time did they take out anything that was not conservative that was pretending to be, or anything that trolled the other direction. You would think they'd even play the game and point to something, but they didn't even play that game.

So this goes to the whole impetus of the thing being the 2016 election, not wanting that to happen again, and the lie about the 2016 election that it was the product of Russian meddling, you know, and Russian bots on Twitter and all this ridiculousness and the FBI. The FBI. And it's one thing, you know, to be whoever that disinformation woman is at Brookings who sings a song and buy that. It's another to have an entire hugely important law enforcement agency buy into it, but they did. Rich, we're going to about to spend a $1.7 trillion omnibus package.

People like Rand Paul, Ron Johnson. are upset McCarthy came out and said, We're not going to whip this. When I'm Speaker, the bills will be dead on arrival. He said, No Republican should vote for this. It's going to be 4,155 pages.

So what's your reaction? I mean, it's just a horrible you had Katie on at the top here, a clip from her. She's absolutely right. This is no way to run a government, just throwing in all the stuff in what becomes a quote-unquote must-pass bill at the end of the year. You know, they have the Electoral Count Act in there.

Let's have a debate about the Electoral Count Act and pass it as a stand-alone legislation and everything else here. Have it disaggregated and have real debates on it. Instead, this is the way it always happens. It's a terrible way to govern. McConnell's looking at chaos in the House and is just like, well, we're going to take care of this now.

I understand that sentiment, but it's also just bizarre to go ahead on a big spending bill prior, you know, weeks prior to your party having more power and leverage in Washington.

So all you do is get a continuing resolution. Would there be a reason why the Democrats wouldn't sign off on that? Wow, I might have lo I might have lost him.

Sorry, sorry, Brian, I lost for a second. Yes, Rich, is there a reason why a continuing resolution would have been a no a no go zone for Democrats? Um, I mean, just maybe 'cause they thought they could just face face down the Senate Republican leadership and get this bigger bill instead. Yeah, I guess so. I just want you to hear Mitch McConnell's explanation: cut 12.

So let's step back and say what are the real needs of the country right now. You're in the defense. Part. of our expenditures. Making sure The Defense Department can deal.

With the major threats coming from Russia and China. providing assistance for the Ukrainians to defeat the Russians.

So admittedly, I'm pretty Proud of the fact that with a Democratic President, a Democratic House, and a Democratic Senate. We were able. to achieve Through this omnibus spending bill. Essentially all So do you feel better?

Well, I mean, the the suspicion is good, there's no doubt. But all of our priorities are in this bill. I think that's a little that might be a slight exaggeration, Brian.

So listen to this line. The bill allocates $1.56 billion in Customs and Border Patrol for border management, $339 billion for ICE, non-detention border requirements. Funds are prohibited from being used to acquire, maintain or extend the border security wall technology and capabilities.

So see this is this is punitive. They're trying to stop a wall and just fund the increase in population. Of illegal immigrants. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's uh that's bad.

And the and the more resources to various border agency, it's it's great, but it's they're not being used to exclude people. Basically, they're being used to process people and send them into the country. The U. S. government Completes the final leg of what smugglers are doing.

If the smugglers get them over the border, and then we give them the ticket to Boston or whatever it is.

So we could spend $3 trillion on our border patrol agencies, and still the same thing would be happening because it's the policy and the motive that underlies it. That's the problem. It's not so much a lack of resources. Go get them. Rich, have a great holiday.

Appreciate you joining us. Rich Larry. National. Absolutely. 1-8-6-6-408-7669.

I'll come back, take some calls. Welcome Martha in. McCallum. You know, her show starts at 3. Then we'll do a more to know.

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Martha McCallum's in the studio for a couple of minutes, and then we're going to have really big segments after this. But, Martha, a lot going on. Like, this isn't a big enough segment? Did you expect to hear that Zelensky was in town? He's going to be speaking to you.

I think it's very interesting timing. I mean, obviously, they're trying to push through this enormous omnibus bill, and I have a lot of issues with how this happens every single time. You know, it always goes down to the wire, it's always some ridiculously long document that no one can read. This isn't the way you should run a government. It needs to be a lot more thoughtful than this.

There needs to be more than three or four people involved in printing this thing out. And there's so much pork in it. There's $65 million that goes to different funds to protect salmon. I like salmon. But I mean, isn't it time we went through these things?

I mean, I miss Tom Coburn. Nobody talks about the waste in American government the way that we should. But so, all of that as a backdrop, yes, so this is the moment when Zelensky is coming to the White House, and he will be speaking before a joint session of Congress tonight about this latest $44 billion that's being added to the support of. The Ukraine military. And there's pushback because a lot of Republicans in particular don't want to do this anymore.

They don't see the bigger picture. I'm all for accountability. If we can get it, even if it gets people on the ground, they're going to go visit in Ukraine these various cities to make sure the weapons are getting to the front line, make sure political divisions aren't stopping certain units from getting or cities from being protected. But I want enough. If you're going to give Patriot missiles, make sure there's enough of the weapons program, of the weapon system, to cover more than just a handful of cities.

If you're going to give them high Mars, you should give it to them right away. And if you're going to give them now, you're going to give them laser-guided bombs for their fighter jets. What about fighter jets? I thought, even, you know, are we going to get them fighter jets? We've been doing this long dance between offensive and defensive weaponry and anything that looks like we're provoking the situation.

Look, it's pretty clear what's going on. We're the number one supporter of the Ukraine military. We don't officially have boots on the ground in the country, but it's pretty clear that we're in it to help them win it. But my question is, and if I were asking Vladimir Volodymyr Zelensky questions about this, I would talk to him about what lines he wants to go back to because they want to push all the way back to the original lines through Crimea. And that is not negotiable with Putin.

Back in a moment. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. I think this will be a dramatic visit. It's rare to have somebody in the middle of a war leave his country to explain to the United States and the world just what he's fighting for.

And I think he'll be passionate in explaining that. I think the significance of the trip is that politically it should really lock in bipartisan support for continued U.S. military assistance to Ukraine. It should, I think, galvanize our NATO allies to work closely with the U.S. through what will be a difficult winter.

Most of all, this is just a defiant gesture towards Russia, which is pounding Ukraine every day, trying to weaken the country's infrastructure, trying to break the will of its people, and to have their President Zelensky received in Washington, celebrated as the person who embodies the aspirations, I think, of the West. And that is Dave Ignatius of the Washington Post. He's a great foreign policy context. Martha McCallum's here. Martha, you know what's going to be interesting before the address?

The President is going to host a joint press conference with Zelensky. I mean, that's going to be harder than doing sit doing a sit-down with Drew Barrymore. Does he know that? That he's going to have to maybe get tougher questions. Yeah, it's going to be very interesting what we watched today.

We expect it'll happen around the time of the story this afternoon, maybe a little bit later than that, but we'll be getting everybody ready for this. You know, I'm struck by David Ignatius' words about how rare it is for someone to leave a an embattled country in the middle of war, and it makes me think about Winston Churchill because during the beginning of World War II, when Winston Churchill was on the phone all the time with FTR asking for help, asking for us to enter the war to help him in Europe and to keep the Nazis out of Great Britain. Churchill just said, You know what, I'm coming. I'm coming now. I'm coming for Christmas.

I'm staying at your house. I'm not bringing in my family. And he moved in for three weeks. And every single night they talked. They, you know, had scotch and dinner and drinks and By the end of it, there was a commitment for the Lend-Lease program.

So it was a very, very important trip. All the lights were off, Christmas lights were sort of. backed off that year because of the war, even here in the United States, but they turned on the DC the Christmas lights at at the White House that night and went out and gave a Christmas message to people.

So I think it's a very historic visit. And I think what Ignatius says about the way Putin views this is a really important element of this as well, because it's very clear whose side we're on. It's very clear that we support Ukraine in this effort and that this is Vladimir Putin's war. He started it, he invaded their country. And we have to stand on the side of that.

I think how we do it and what the terms are is something that needs to be debated and should be debated. I just would stop this incrementalism. Stop the idea. Listen, you're going to give him Heimars? Give them Himars.

You're going to give them ATACMs, which go a little bit further. I think it's time to do that because they figured out how far the Heimars are going. They back up their troops to a certain area.

So do it. Just give them what they need to be successful and replenish it. Make sure we're being accountable. But of course, we're also studying how all this stuff is happening in battle. We're studying what the Russians are doing.

Martha, I don't think I have to tell you. They moved into Syria, they stayed. They moved into Georgia, they stayed. They moved into Crimea. Crimea, they kept it.

They told to take Ukraine, they get stopped. Does anybody think that if they were able to take Ukraine easily? They wouldn't have taken the Baltic states and infiltrated all these elections. Absolutely. So we're saving a generation a fight in Europe.

Absolutely. And as Zelensky said in the very beginning, we are your bulwark to protect NATO. If they have to come through us, and if they fail here, it will be much more difficult for them to continue. Of course, so many questions have been raised about the capability of Russia. You know, whether or not they would have ever been able to do any of that, I think is a huge question mark right now.

I think we saw the same thing after the Cold War, that a lot of their stuff was rusty and not as fearful as we might have thought once we got a better look at what they were actually threatening us with.

So I just think, you know, in terms of the lines and where it would go back to, we have committed to support this effort, but there is no sort of negotiation around this. And Putin has said that Crimea is not negotiable. Zelensky says Crimea is not negotiable.

So I'm just asking, how many years, you know, how much cost? How long? What will this look like over time? Because these are the questions we don't ask. And then we see ourselves in something for 20, 30 years.

Right. If they get to the point where Crimea, where they're actually in shouting distance of Crimea, I think peace talks could ensue. And I think both sides would probably realize that. They blew up the bridge in Crimea. And they repaired it.

Yeah. Which was a great message. I mean, it was a great day. We know where we are. Absolutely.

And by the way, did you see that story in the New York Times? I read it on Sunday. I was on a plane.

So extensive. Do you know that 60% of Russian cruise missiles missed their mark? Do you know that even the communications guy, Preskoff, Brett Preskoff? He did not know the invasion was taking place until the day it was actually taking place. He did not think it was happening.

Almost everybody on the line. A lot of the military didn't think it was happening either. They were told they were going to training exercises and they're angry. And many of them have bailed out. We saw what they had to do.

They've gotten people out of prisons to fortify their military. They're in rough shape. And the Wagner group is the one fighting. Absolutely. Absolutely.

Who are mercenaries? Yeah. So they hire an outside group and they are threatening the Russians in case they try to run, they'll be shot. And they forgot to bring food and gas for the tanks. This is the Keystone cops.

Look, this kind of economy, you know, which is basically they have basically one, it's a gas station, right? They have one commodity in Russia. They are their economy is not strong. They love what a tough talker Putin is, and I think he gives people many people in Russia a lot of pride. But this effort is is is They're over their skis.

It's been more difficult than they anticipated and I think um I I don't think that they can hang in there forever. It doesn't appear that way at all. I I just want to hear what John Meacham said on another channel, Cut Twenty Two. Zelensky is very much acting in the Churchillian tradition. Churchill didn't come to the United States during World War II until December 1941, after both Pearl Harbor and Hitler's declaration of war on the United States.

It was at that point that FDR said to him, we're all in the same boat now. And it was a boat that, like Zelensky, Churchill had been in largely alone since the spring of 1940. And we had Been fighting this battle that we're fighting again. I think this is the thing to think about today and tomorrow as people watch these events. This is one of our oldest and Most difficult battles in the United States is between engagement in the world and isolationism.

The false sense that, because of our gift of geography of the United States of America, that somehow we are, to paraphrase Churchill, not involved in the agonies and the triumphs of the old world. But we are. Um What do you think? I think there's a lot of truth to that. I think you have to look at this as part of a piece of what's going on in China and President Xi and his aggression, what's going on in Iran as well.

So these are part, these are the forces and the enemies that we face on a global stage in terms of preserving democracy and preserving a way of life. I think Zelensky stands for that 100%. I just think that we need to be very wise about our engagement. And make sure that we get it right. Make sure that we have terms with Zelensky that we both understand.

In terms of the way that this needs to play out, you know, there's all this talk about, well, we don't want to force him to negotiate. You know, nothing with Ukraine, nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine. But this is a moment, he's coming to the White House. They need to have a very honest discussion about what this looks like. Evidently, they're not going to get anything near he wants.

And Joe Biden got mad at him a month ago. He's like, I just got you billions of dollars and you want more.

Well, if you're Zelensky, yeah, you want more. He's right. He knows this is the place to come. Nobody else is doing it. Nobody else is holding up the kind of end of the bargain that we are.

So don't you think the one thing I miss about Trump is calling out our allies? Absolutely. I mean, do we know? Have we heard anything about Germany? No, there's a little bit of, you know, sort of stepping very lightly around Putin, not wanting to be seen as aggressive or provocative in this.

I think you have to say, you know, call it like it is. I mean, we are supporting the Ukraine effort, and we're giving the military backing. We're not putting boots on the ground. That's where we stand. And, you know, that we're going to wear them down until he's done, until he can't keep that effort going anymore.

Course he has nuclear. Capabilities as well.

So it's a dangerous capability. Of course, you have to respect it. We're talking about world civilization. I get it. But do you know that if he even uses tactical nuke, you got every NATO country will blow him off the face of the earth and kill him first?

I I think it's uh it's w do you think it's wishful thinking that Vladimir Putin is beginning to lose some of his power and prestige and maybe his his p uh his position is in jeopardy? You see these headlines sometimes. You know, I do. And then I talk to people from the region who, um you know, say that he has a ton of support. And that he is that figure for them who is talking big and acting big on the world stage.

He wants Ukraine back. He believes Ukraine is part of Russia. There are people in Russia who believe that Ukraine is part of Russia. And that, you know, I mean, if you really look at it from a Ukrainian perspective, they're already fighting on Russian territory. You know, when they're fighting in Luhansk and Donetsk and in Crimea.

they're they already have that territory.

So it's um so they are dropping um weaponry into that area and fighting Russians in an area that the Russians believe is Russia.

So when it comes to this question of, you know, offensive weapons and crossing the lines, um, I I think you have to be I'd like to see some clarity come out of this conversation about what we expect for what we're sending. And if he wants to send a message when he meets today, because it's no problem for the French President to rip us. He said, yo, you did this inflation reduction package. Which we know is a joke. But you basically made it harder for us to deal in Europe.

You cut us out. You basically gave subsidies.

So he has no problem criticizing us on the subsidi issue. Obviously, the President Ham Handed did not know we undercut him. He lost billions of dollars. How great would it be today to say, Germany has promised three dozen tanks they have not delivered. Seven dozen players they have delivered.

And when it comes to aid, we understand France doesn't have the biggest military, but they haven't done that. And I think it's time for allies to step up. Because it does I mean it matters more to them than it does to us, at least in the short term. Absolutely. Right?

And so we need to I think there need to be negotiations and deals done with Europe to say, look, we're either all in this or we're not. And it's very frustrating. It's very frustrating because I see America over and over again, you know, sort of carrying the weight of these situations and it it's People are tired of it. People are tired of it and the way we left Afghanistan. And we'll talk about that.

When we come back, we're going to find out if Martha needs to know more. We know one thing about her show. She will have Terry Hanratty on because of the passing of Franco Harris suddenly at the age of 72, days before he's about to get his number retired. Terry Hanrati said to me this morning, this was supposed to be Franco's weekend. Right.

Yeah. He was the backup quarterback to Terry Bradshaw. I went to Notre Dame. That's correct. Back in a moment.

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I swear, sometimes I think I just thought something and I see an ad pop up. Literally, doesn't that happen to you? It does. I say, I don't remember saying anything about that. Inside our heads.

Or, yeah, maybe crosstalk. Let's find.

Okay, so let's start here. Jenna Bush Hager's daughter appears on today and reveals her mom never wears underwear. Oh. Margaret Mia Laura live on the air on Tuesday with Hoda and this is with Hoda and Jenna. Yeah, she's a handful.

I didn't see this, but I'm looking at it. And yeah, she basically said that her mom laughed so hard that she peed her pajamas, and then she had to go change her pajamas. Then she added the other detail. Go ahead.

Let's listen. You know when I love her the most, Neil? when she's laughing.

So hard. That she can't. Catch her breath. Do you know that kind when she does that? Yeah, one time she was laughing in our living room and she peed her pants.

And you changed your pajamas. You did. Thank you, Elon. Thank you so much. I love her so much, but it's time for her to go because if she's already dropped one truth bomb.

No, I like him. Who knows what's coming here? I think Hoda's trying to get the truth bombs out, but no war. Is that the last one? Nope.

Okay, no, no, no, no, no. Just one tiny one. She never wears underwear. Ah Oh boy. Oh boy.

It's always exciting when you bring kids to work day, right? Yeah, I guess it's seven years old. Seven or nine? I thought it said she was a nice one. Oh, she's nine?

He says the adorable nine-year-old knows many stories about her mom.

So, I don't know. We'll see how that goes over on the nice, naughty Santa list. I guess she has Poppy Louise. Yeah. And then she has Har uh Henry.

Yes, Papi Louise is seven, Hal is three, and Mila is the oldest at nine. All right.

Next, you go.

Okay, so these couples are outraged in New Jersey because the wedding venue at the Madison Hotel, where I went for a graduation dinner with one of my kids, They're changing the colors from gold and a white palette to now it's going to be sort of dark and woody with a dark blue carpet. And the couples are outraged that the venue changed the colors. Would you be outraged if this happened to you? No. That's what I thought you were going to say.

I wouldn't even recognize it. Either. I mean, when I got married, I would have been like, oh, okay, it's a different color. People are so wedding crazy now. I know.

One of my theories is that people are engaged for way too long.

So it makes them focus on all of these things and it drives them to a place where they're insane over these weddings. It's unbelievable. In fact, I have a wedding on Friday because it's hard getting the right date.

So they were getting married on the 23rd, which is pretty. Pretty close to Christmas. Thank you.

Yes. But I would say this: I think a lot of people go. Yeah, it's been two years. We're engaged, we're living together. Maybe I should just save the money.

Do you think that a lot of people backed out? I'm not seeing that, but I, you know what? I mean, it seems to me that we sort of live in like a wedding. Crazy-focused society right now, but I think they should probably take the money and have a nice honeymoon.

Next, Franco Harris has passed away at the age of 72, days after before having his number 32 retired by the Pittsburgh Steelers, and just days before celebrating the 50 years since the Immaculate Reception that had them beat the Raiders in the most dramatic finish, maybe ever.

So you said that you're going to be discussing this today. Yes, Terry Hanratty is going to come on and talk to us. He was, as you said, the backup quarterback to Terry Bradshaw and a close friend. I communicated with Terry this morning and he said that he was just so sad and he said this was supposed to be Franco's weekend. Right.

And they were all looking forward to it. It's tragic and we don't know what happened. He's only 72, but an incredible, incredible player. And did you guys, I saw you this morning. Did you play the Immaculate Reception?

Yeah, we did. We didn't play it full sound, but you want to hear it? Yeah. Last chance for the Steelers. Bradshaw.

Trying to get away. And his pass is broken up by Catum. Hit the ball. Dancer Harris has that, and he's gone. Michael Hammond grabbed the ball and it's a question.

Five seconds to go. We grabbed it with five seconds to go and score. That's why we're getting the one-odds on this one. Ricochet out there off of Jack Tatum and into the man of the year, Frank O'Harris's hands. Here's a miracle of all miracles.

Wow, incredible. And that was Gowdy, Kirk Gowdy, on that. Yeah. Next, Disney stock on its way to the worst year since 1974. Despite Avatar and the sequel, it's disappointing.

No one's going to see it. I don't know. I thought it was going to be big. Avatar's Less Than Stellar Star is just the latest setback for Disney, which has declined 44.6% this year, putting them on pace for their biggest annual percentage drop since 74. Word is, they got it.

They would, there's going to be word to get rid of ABC and ESPN. Wow. Wow. Wow. I mean, they have to do something.

They brought Bob Iger back. He's going to be looking at all the options that he has to fix this company. But Disney was one of the greatest brands in American history. And, you know, I love, you know, you think of the old huge hits of Mary Poppins and Peter Pan and when my kids were little, Beauty and the Beast. And they sort of went off the rails.

And they're not creating these sort of amazing artistic productions anymore that make every single family in America want to see them. And a lot of it, I think, is, you know, a result of some of the wokeism that we've talked about a lot that sort of just watered down the brand in many ways, I think. I think you're right, Martha. I went there at the theme park about a year ago. Everything was broken.

I mean, I can't tell you how many times people get there. COVID did a number on pretty much every resort and hotel across America. Thanks, Martha. Put the power of over 100 meteorologists and the worldwide resources of Fox in your hands with the Fox Weather Podcast. Precise, personal, powerful.

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