FBI denies collusion with Twitter; DOJ gives FTX founder a pass?

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. It's the Brian Killmeat Show, 1-866-408-7669. We are on Christmas Eve Eve, and we have a big show planning.

A lot of times, when you get to the holidays, things slow down. Not the case today. And we have a lot of things of great interest, including the weather. I'm not going to go in detail about the weather, but wherever you are, it's affecting your Christmas, but not, I hope, to the point where you don't have one like past year.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. This is an FBI that we now know has interfered in two presidential elections.

Okay, and if you want a reminder about just how much it interfered in 2016, go and take a look at some of those John Durham transcripts from the trials. Yeah, I did. Kim Strassel, Wall Street Journal, with me last night filling in Falora, fighting back, failing to convince the FBI that firing back at Twitter files by saying that they were just doing their jobs. Really? The FBI aggressively defending themselves by saying they're just doing their jobs, focusing on foreign entities in our election?

Really? Facts are stubborn things, and they lead me down a different path, Mr. and Mrs. FBI. I will explain.

Number two. $250 million bond. It is only secured by the parents' house, worth $4 million. That makes zero sense. $4 million would be the actual bail amount.

Bailed out. Yes, crypto creep Sam is freed from NAV for now as the man who blew billions awaits his fate, as his ex girlfriend and co founder pled guilty and now combining to sink him in jail for decades. Why do I get the feeling that this Democratic mega donor will get a slap rather than the slammer? Number It is the big media that has conditioned the American people to not understand the complexities of what's happening at the border. You couple that with the Senate deal, which was passed basically with a twink and a nod, allowing this program to continue.

Byron Donald's weighing in, up and coming star on the right. Time is running out on Title 42, and a massive wave is building in Mexico to overwhelm our border again. The American Christmas present, well, it's coming our way. More experts conclude that President Biden led four plus million in intentionally, covering it all up with fake rage. What I mean by fake rage is Chris Whipple wrote a book and it's going to be out and they want to sell it, obviously, and they say.

Joe Biden was so angry he would be using the F bomb, and they could hear it throughout the West wing. Why was there a crisis at the border? How could they let this happen? How could you let it happen? You signed the executive orders undoing uh third country, undoing remain in Mexico, stopping the wall that we paid for, and you wonder whether it's a catastrophe.

During the debates, you said you want everyone to come. They came with Biden-Harris shirts on, and you want us to believe that he was cursing in the West Wing? I don't know what's worse, that he actually was mad, or that it's written down that he's pretending to be mad to cover his tracks. This is embarrassing. The rest of the world is looking at us at how could a superpower be so negligent?

Remember, some Democrats are being responsible.

Some Democrats understand the president's got to be here.

Some Democrats understand that fentanyl is coming through thanks to China and the cartels. I'm talking about criminal and criminal killing Americans. 180,000 so far this year. Listen to Derek Maltz talk about this. He's all over this issue.

Retired DEA Cut 7. The Mexican cartels are dispatching their operatives in America. They're going right over the open border and they're going to cities like the Crossroads of America, Indiana. They had a major press announcement yesterday, Judge. They were bringing in large amounts of methamphetamine and fentanyl using rail cars from Mexico.

But when they took down the case, nine out of the 12 were illegals from Mexico and Central America. That's because they're running over the border. Then if you look at Atlanta, for example, DEA has been hitting all these meth conversion labs. They're bringing the meth into American cities in our backyards. They send the chemists, they send the operatives right over the border, and they push the poison all over America.

I think we know. I think the polls are overwhelming. Everybody listening to me right now virtually is against open borders. We don't even notice I don't even use the word immigration. It's not immigration.

We're not even talking about it. They're just coming into our country at a dizzying rate. They go, this is the one time.

So if someone could go, someone just says, wait a second. Disney Charges Too much money. I can't afford to go. But if I go around the back door, I get in for free and I get to run all the rides. And if I get hurt, I get fixed and I have a place to stay.

I'm going to get new shoes and then I'm going to get a bus ride home. You're going to Disney.

Well, it's not right for all those people waiting in line paying over $1,000 or buying the season pass. You don't care. Everyone's doing it because sooner or later they're going to realize the back door is open, they're going to close it.

So I got to come one, come all. I love my analogy. I just get it into it now. I think I will use it over and over again until you're sick of it. I'm not sure.

So far, they have not released the official numbers in November. Why is that? Because it's so horrific heading into the holidays.

So horrific heading into the omnibus. 1.7 trillion signed off on six thousand plus pages. Nobody knows what's in it. There'd be too much pressure to put too much Border Patrol information in it. Byron Donalds did it right.

Get people confused about what the actual issues are on the border. Make people seem racist or intolerant. By bringing up that We don't want Every Central and South American individual to be able to come in for free. Cut three. It is the big media that has conditioned the American people to not understand the complexities of what's happening at the border.

You couple that with the Senate deal, which was passed basically with a twink and a nod, allowing this program to continue. House Republicans are gonna be hamstrung by this spending bill because what are the leverage points to actually require the Biden administration to actually secure the border? A couple things that can be done. Number one, give border agents the ability to make credible threats of fear at the border. Number two, don't allow people to make asylum claims at the southern border.

Yeah, I mean, there's some basic things that really worked, got it down to 400,000 for the year. They have 400,000 within a month. And look, when it wasn't working for President Trump. Do you know what I got? Urged by the White House to go down there and look at it.

Nobody in the White House wanted to avoid this story. They would give me the Homeland Security Secretary to say, this is broken. We need more money here. This is the port of entry. This is the problem.

There's huge gaps in the fence. We can't get, we got to get drones up in the air. We got to get this electronic surveillance. We've got to build roads to be able to move quickly with Border Patrol. We need more people.

We need more soft-sided tents in the short term. But the one thing about the Trump administration, they never ducked it. But the rest of the media, just after a few days, they're tired of this story already. I'm not. Uh On that monstrous bill, $773 billion for domestic programs, $850 billion for the military, covering expenses through the 2023 year.

So, the military got money that they needed. That's why the Tom Cottons and the Lindsey Graham signed off on it. You'd not have Senator Shelby and others. Senator Cornyn? Center in Hoff.

Mitch McConnell. Jerry Moran, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman, Mitt Romney, Mike Rounds, Richard Shelby, John Thune, Roger Wicker. What it doesn't have. is enough border money What it does have is Ukraine money. And possibly, if it went to the House, Republicans wouldn't have voted for it.

They have a small margin. They would have asked Democrats to vote with it, and maybe they wouldn't have done it. And then they would have extracted something for their inconvenience. I want to move on and talk about something else that matters. Uh and really he's got me aggravated.

I saw this story. That if uh that Yeah. The world's Bernie Madoff on steroids. The guy who destroyed cryptocurrency once and for all and showed it to the scam it seems to be, is now out on $250 million bail. And then I heard it was bond.

And then I heard, I said to myself, where's he getting that from? I thought he only had $100,000. I go, well, his parents put up their belongings. I'm like, well, how much do they have? There was Stanford Professors.

How much does that pay?

Well, they live in a four million dollar house. That's all they put up? Listen to Dave and Mendegan McDowell unwind this. Cut ten. And I just need to correct something.

That's the headline. In every newspaper across the country. It is the record highest ever $250 million bond. It is utter garbage. $250 million bond.

I have seen the actual bail bond. It is only secured by the parents' house. Worth four million dollars. It is not secured by anything else.

So that makes zero sense. $4 million would be the actual bail amount, not $250 million.

So what's going on here? How does that happen? Bernie Madoff, I forgot. Bernie Madoff was out, was under house arrest for $10 million. Why would you give him that little?

Why would you let him out of prison? We get upset at smash and grabs where people go to the jewelry store and leave with $250,000, let's say $1 million. We're upset by this group of people en masse that go into an expensive jewelry and they get out. They go into CVS, they strip the floor, they strip the shelves, and they get out. And we're upset by that, we're horrified by it.

Why do they think they can do that? Why didn't security stop them? You're talking $500,000, you're talking $20,000. Why are we not outraged about a guy that took over a billion from 1 million people? Summer pension funds.

Cops, firefighters, they put their pension funds, they think they're going to invest in something wise. They see Shaquille O'Neal and Tom Brady and Mr. Wonderful. From the Shark Tank, and they go, you know, I'm gonna put my money in that, and these funds do the same thing, and they lose all their money. And this guy gets to get out and hang out in beautiful Palo Alto, California for Christmas.

I mean, look, we know they flipped his co-founder, they know they flipped his girlfriend with Alameda, they know they're both looking at 100 years in prison. What are they gonna say? And when they expose this guy, which I imagine don't know for sure, as knowingly taking money from investors like maybe you. And s just buying up real estate for their personal wealth and pretending that crypto is the future. This guy should go away forever, but I fear that his democratic and political contacts will give him a.

Soft landing and make him a sympathetic figure? I don't think so. I think he's entitled. I think that he's warped. I think he's clueless.

And he might be intelligent. But he's not street smart. Vivek Ramaswamy sounded, I thought, just summed it up perfectly last night with Tucker. Because we're trying to make heads and tails of it. You know, you and I aren't focusing on bail and how they do it and how much it's secured.

But I think it's important to point out, you can't get upset at people who wear stocking masks and just rob a store and not be outraged by him. Because in terms of dollars, He's done a lot more damage. Cut 12. The whole thing is a smoke screen. It is an optical illusion.

And why did they do it? It's because it makes the prosecutors look good. It makes them look like they're being tough, making the highest possible bond in American history. Guess what? If he flees, it could have been $10 trillion.

Nobody's putting up that money. And the whole thing is a story of smoke screens from the do-good smoke screen of SBF and effective altruism and the good ESG scores now to the prosecutors, just like SBF, pretending like they're participating in a modern Charles Dickens novel where everyone is a caricature of themselves playing their own role. And this was all about today, the prosecutors puffing their chest at something that was an optical illusion all the way down. When Jamie Diamond says, stay away from crypto, and Warren Buffett says, I don't understand it why anyone would do it, that was enough. And then you add this.

I'm not a board. Really smart people who spend their life in finance say they've still got a bright future.

Sorry, not after this. And these smart people that don't get a true accounting of what they're endorsing or what they're investing in. Boggles my mind. I mean the fact is the guy had no risk management team. He had no lawyers on site to see where the money is.

You couldn't verify how much was in an actual fund. And the guy, instead of looking like Leo DiCaprio and Wolf of Wall Street, who could lure you in and be charismatic and kind of make you think, well, this guy really knows what he's doing. He's got gel in his hair and a million-dollar suit. You got a guy in corduroy shorts, 80 pounds overweight, can't look you in the eye. He would not.

This is what they were saying about him. This guy was so ridiculous. That if you went to see him, he would still say, I'd rather you go in the other room and Zoom with me. And that's who you put your money in? Koi Shimkis, can we come back?

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It's very disappointing to see the FBI continue in its downward spiral. What they called misinformation was their own words. What we have revealed from the Twitter dump is their own words, their own emails. Not to mention the whistleblowers have come forward and told us additional information that the public will be hearing very soon. And who they call conspiracy theorists are conservatives in the media and members of Congress.

So the FBI has a huge problem. It's only getting worse. And their confidence level, not only among Republicans in Congress, but among the public, is at an all-time low.

So here's the problem. That's James Comer is going to be chairman of Oversight. You'll be hearing a lot from him, maybe directly on our show, but that's just a cut. Because the FBI fired back after these Twitter releases of the communication. Between the Twitter, Elon Musk's Twitter, and what was happening when the previous owner, Dorsey, Jack Dorsey, was running things.

And it looks like, on a regular basis, the FBI was there flagging different accounts, urging them to suspend them, also giving them an idea in private conversations. Private conversations that the Hunter Biden laptop was coming down the pike. Not my opinion. I'm not throwing together lines of logic. I'm talking about what these guys said.

Under oath, because they were being sued because of what they were doing with the election, or perceived to be doing what they were doing with the election.

So they said. Twitter did executives that they felt pressured and compelled to suspend that account. And when the Hunter Biden laptop came through, This guy, Yoel, Roth said, I was told specifically about that, even though it was denied by Elvis Chan, this now famed FBI agent.

So that was James Comer.

Now they got a pathway for investigation like they never thought they would have.

So I asked Michael Schoenberger last night like I did on this show. Said Michael. They're basically looking at your work and saying that anybody who concluded they were doing something unsavory or illegal was a conspiracy theorist. And here's what he said: cut 15. I think what was so threatening about what we did is that we just presented a series of facts.

We weren't theorizing at all. I wrote the Twitter files part seven, and I just laid out the pattern of information, some of which we did know before, but some of which we didn't. We did know that the FBI had Hunter Biden's laptop in December of 2019. We knew that the federal authorities, the FBI, was raising the alarm about Russian interference in the 2020 elections. We now know that they were specifically raising concerns around a Hunter Biden-related leak in October before the elections.

We also saw the Assman Institute was involved in raising the alarm. And I think most significantly, we saw former FBI general counsel, who had become Twitter's deputy general counsel, making the strongest argument by far of any Twitter employees for censoring Hunter Biden's laptop and ultimately discrediting it in the minds of many voters, including myself, who did not take it very seriously when the New York Post. Post reported on it in mid-October 2020. And they're talking about James Baker. There were eight former FBI agents working at Twitter.

And there was a bunch of CIA guys working at Meta, now it was then Facebook.

Alright, go get a job afterwards. You have unique skills. But the fact that they're interacting in something that matters so much bothers me. Precise, personal, powerful. Is America's weather team in the palm of your hands?

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Subscribe and listen now at FoxNewsPodcasts.com. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. In our Harris poll this month, I think the findings on immigration. were frankly devastating for the administration.

When the administration started, People thought that Biden's policies were humanitarian. Today they think that they're promoting crime, fentanyl. Increased problems in the country. But interestingly, only 6% of the public really knew the true dimension of the problem: that it was 2 to 3 million migrants crossing the border. Many people thought it was 50,000, 100,000.

So, as this information gets out, the polling is going to be even worse. Frankly, Congress should act. 79% in our poll say that Title 42 should be retained. I know. That's Mark Penn who weighs in.

As you know, he's a longtime Clinton pollster. Carly Shimkis with us now because three hours on Fox and Friends was just not enough. Just not enough. And how hard, I mean, over and over again, can I please do radio? And I said, okay, can I bring her in?

And everyone said, the producer said, no, we don't want her. And I said, listen, do me this favor. And Pete and Eric finally gave in.

So did you know that you're saying that to me? Usually those things are kept from the market.

Well, this is the problem. I am not good with people and social situations. That's okay. I appreciate that about you. This is why I spend a lot of holidays alone.

Yes. Because I tend to say the wrong thing all the time. I don't say the right thing. No, I love work with you. And now you've been working all week.

You're doing Fox and Friends.

Well, you missed Monday. And then Tuesday, Wednesday, you did. I did. What did I do Wednesday? Gosh, that already feels like so long ago.

You did Fox and Friends first. Fox and Friends first, so normal. And then I'm filling in for Rachel tomorrow. And I'll be here Christmas. And then the day after that.

And the day after that. Right.

So, were you surprised that Mark Penn says most people, because we live in this. Bubble pere not bubble, but we live in this vortex of a a blizzard of information when it comes to the border that most people think maybe fifty thousand are coming through and not five million. That didn't surprise me in the least. I love that we have that information now, though, because it just confirms what I think you probably suspected as well, is that nobody outside of Texas And Arizona and the border states and folks who watch Fox News really know what's going on. And that is why the Biden administration has been able to get away with this.

The most frustrating thing that I've heard to date has been this, Corrine Jean-Pierre has said it. Other Democrats have said it, that if you say, if you're a Republican or anybody who says that the border is open, that you're no part of the problem because Mexican cartels can use that information to their advantage.

So 4 million people have tried to get into this country under President Biden's watch, and it's our fault for noticing. Are you crazy? I have an analogy for you. You ready for it? Yeah.

It's like, for example, watching the Jet game last night, pointing out that their quarterback was terrible and booed off. And you say, I booed the Jet quarterback. He was terrible. He go, Well, you're part of the problem. Yeah.

I'm part of the problem. No, no, his incomplete passes and interception and only three points was the problem. But did you have a sports? Did it help sell the story? Yeah, it was really good.

I liked it. Although I don't like when teams like when team Fans boo their own player. I don't like it. I think that's mean. Right.

But it also is very New York and Philadelphia. Yes. Because they have higher demands. When you go to the smaller market, it's very hard for them to boo the Packers, the Bills. Did the guy deserve to be booed?

Yeah, I mean, he has had a real troubling trouble life with New York because he wouldn't take much responsibility. Comes off a little bit of arrogance, been ineffective, got benched. The starter got hurt, he goes back, and he got seized so bad. He actually was replaced by a former Canadian Football League backup quarterback that nobody knew, and they cheered him. But back to the normal, what we were talking about.

Lindsey Graham joined me last night in Laura Ingram.

So I asked him about this, and he was fired up, cut five. To be honest with you, life is pretty bad for most Americans right now. We went from energy independent to being dependent on energy. You know, oil, gas prices are up. The border is broken.

Crime is rampant throughout our country. The bottom line is Americans are hurting. He's disconnected from their hurt. He doesn't understand what's going on at the border. He's never been to the border.

He's really a dangerously incompetent commander-in-chief. We withdrew from Afghanistan, and you see what's happening over there. What I can't get over is how he can talk about an America that most people don't relate to. He's isolated, he's insulated, he's not being told the truth about how life is in America. And I'm hoping he will go to the border and find out that when it comes to being a Border Patrol agent and living on the border, southern border, life is pretty miserable.

Yeah. I'm curious about what's gonna happen on I think it's January ninth when the president is gonna meet with the Mexican President in Mexico. I mean, so is he just gonna fly over the border and not visit? They're going to be talking about border issues. They're going to be talking about border issues.

That should be the only issue. But instead, they're going to talk about climate first. And that should be it. And we got to think about fentanyl. You got to talk about that.

Right.

You got to talk about the cartels, how much control they have. How can we help you? Remember, they were writing this story that Donald Trump said, why can't we just act and just take out these cartels ourselves? How dare we invade another country and think about it? But that's exactly what I'm thinking.

What can we do? We don't need to necessarily go in there with camouflage guys. But there are some agents and some retired people that would go in and take them out for the Mexican government. There really is a key difference between Biden and Trump is that Trump was an ideas guy, and he didn't care what people said about him when it came to some unique or off-the-cuff ideas. If he felt a certain way, he wasn't going to let his administration sway him from how he feels.

And then you have President Biden. And I don't know if, I think you said you're not sure if you think it's true, but there's this book out that's coming out about the Biden administration. Exactly. And he writes that in 2021, when this border crisis really started ramping up, that President Biden was furious in dropping F-bombs and just incensed at how the border policies that, by the way, he implemented were creating this catastrophe.

So why doesn't he do something about it? I mean, it's odd. Which makes me think that he didn't happen. You know what? I think it is true because, first of all, we have seen that angry side of Biden before.

And the other thing is that we have, there are countless reports of his aides and the people around him telling him what to do and dictating and saying, you can't do that. You can make the speech here. You can't do that. His wife, you know, guiding him through certain things.

So I think he is very pliable.

Well, think about this. How many times have you been asked about it? He skirts around him. My wife has. My wife's been down there.

Oh, yeah, whatever. What is the difference? When a president goes down, it's such a big footprint. It's a problem. My fearing is, Carly, is that the minute they go, it's over.

So the first time he goes, everyone's like, you got to go, you got to go, you got to go. He goes down there and he goes to a Port Adventure. People keep on talking about him going. I mean, he's going to want to go. Yeah, he has gone.

The bigger thing is him wanting to fix this issue. And I think the reason people are so hung up about him not going at all is because it is part of the United States of America. He is the president. President of all 50 states, and there is a huge raging fest over crisis at part of it that he created, but it would be nice for him to address it. But the bigger thing is, just even if he doesn't go at all, just address the issue in some capacity.

Here's John Daniel last night. He was owing Laura Ingram. I filled in for Laurie Ingram. This is a pretty good sound bite. You just talked about what this whole migrant crisis has meant.

Cuddy. It's absolutely intentional, and it strains credulity to think that Biden was ever bothered by this. The day he came into office, he signed a raft of executive orders that repealed almost every one of Trump's border policies, the only things that were keeping the border under control, and now, and even started slow walking Title 42. But the reality is now, it doesn't matter what happens to Title 42, because all these people you're seeing at the border and all the way down the migration pipeline through Mexico into Central America and, as Jorge has said, all over the world, those people are on the move. They're not going to turn around now just because the Supreme Court stayed the end of Title 42.

42. They're coming, and they're coming in numbers like we've never seen before. Right.

Yeah. Oh, I have the numbers. Do I have them? Yes. This is new.

CBP told Griff Jenkins this. Just think about this. We are, I mean, fiscal year 2023 started on October 1st, so we are not far removed from that. Border encounters, over half a million, five hundred and seventy-five thousand. of which 177,000 were expelled.

So, those are the people that were expelled under Title 42.

So, even though we talk about Title 42 a lot, a majority of people are still being allowed into our country. Um, and then total migrant deaths is 86. I think that people can glaze over those numbers 'cause they're so big, but um If you look at the footage and the lines of people and then are reminded that every single one of those people, and you do feel bad for them because they just want a better life for themselves. Most of them. But yeah, for most of them, of course.

But every single one of them does represent thousands of dollars to a murderous drug cartel that's controlling our southern border. That's another way of looking at it. And just look at it, too, the people that are doing it right. And we all know people that marry somebody from another country where they met them in college and they have to get married. They got to answer a series of questions.

They got to go and meet with people to make sure it's not a manipulation. I'm going to get married in order to get my visa. They got to pay a lot of fines and go through a lot of gymnastics and do a lot of waiting. And then all these people just say, well, what about them at the border?

Well, they're in tough times.

Well, I'm in a tough time. Yeah. And yeah, that's the truth. The big thing is really the drawbacks. First of all, the big thing for me is really the poorest border, and you think about the people on the terror watch list.

That's huge. That's number one. But then there are all these secondary consequences. Like Will was interviewing the guy that runs a hospital in Arizona. And in their $20 million, there's a $20 million.

$20 million bill that the hospital is now facing because of all the free health care that they're giving illegal immigrants. And it's creating a situation where actual residents, U.S. citizens, can't go to the hospital because it's so full. And I was talking to somebody who lives along the southern border recently who is training their daughters on how to use a gun, young teenage girls, because they live in a remote area and there's strangers crossing through their property. Right.

Another reason it's been miserable to live in El Paso, Macau, and any of these cities, and that's why they're not going blue. But I think Joe Biden goes, Yeah, this looks really bad, but. I didn't real I kept the Senate and I you know, there's still only a slim majority in the House. Yeah. What retribution has there been?

And these people that voted for Democrats that are doing these policies and Senator Mark Kelly, who said I'm going to crack down on the border, the President's done a bad job there, I don't want him to visit. Where is he?

Nowhere. We'll talk about Arizona when we get back and so much more. Carly Shimkis is here, and you're there: 1-866-408-7669. Brian Kilmicho. Educating, entertaining, enlightening.

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It's Brian Kilmead. This is my final weekly press conference and some of you have been covering Congress for a long time. Others are new. All of you are guardians of democracy. You've heard me say again and again, if there were one Freedom in the First Amendment, the freedom of the press, that would be the one that protects and defends all the other freedoms.

That is Nancy Pelosi. She's going to stay in Congress. You know, don't you think her husband's like, really? You know, I got hit in the head with a hammer. You're in your 80s.

Yes. I'm 3,000 miles away. I mean, if you're going to leave leadership, shouldn't you just leave?

So, two more years. I think she just wanted to see if she could hold on to that speakership. Didn't work out. But I do remember when the reporter asked her, Hey, listen, now that you're out of a leadership position, what's your future going to look like? And she just hated that.

So she's talking about. The journalists being guardians of democracy. She likes to jump down that person's throat and did not answer the question. I think that she's probably going to stick it out for two more years. But it will be interesting to see how she handles the situation because Hakeem Jeffries is coming in.

She's out. She's going to be the leader of the Democrats in the House. But she has all of this seniority.

So is that going to be sort of a tense situation? Will she take on a mentorship role? No, but James Claiburn didn't step aside. He's like, I'm staying. I don't know about these other people.

Stenny Hoyer, like, yeah, I don't care about the next generation. You rarely hear about Stenny Hoyer. Right.

But now he's gone. Yeah. Right.

They didn't get along, I heard. Really? Right, he's the only Stenny I've even heard that name. I like the name Stenney. But what is the what's the bigger name?

I don't know. Stennis. Stennis? This is a Google-able question. It could be just Stenney.

Right.

You have to fill time while I type. Really? What do I do? I mean, we could talk about how much we need to know more and make that the first thing. Yes.

How about that? More to know, sponsored by Unplugged. Reclaim your privacy from big tech snooping with Unplugged. Visit unplugged.com. The full name of Stenny?

Uh, Stenny Hamilton Hoyer.

So, his first name actually, Advertising, but I love the middle name Hamilton. He was born to be a politician. His parents just kind of hand-picked that job for him with that name. All right, we're going to find out the name of your child, too. No, no, we're not.

We're not revealing that name.

Sorry, I got to fire Pete. Pete told me to ask. Let's find out.

Okay, we should find out this more now. Demand for Lionel Messi and Mambape memorabilia is exploding after the World Cup final that you did not see. I watched it every second. Really? Oh, absolutely.

Why would you give me those ones? Because you don't like soccer? I do like soccer. Oh, you play so much of the world. Did you love it?

I think this is a. Is this because I'm a girl? Wow. A little bit also. But you've said in the past you don't really watch sports that much.

That's. Not true.

Alright. Yeah, we'll talk remember when I went to the Women's World Cup? In France? Yes. Fox sent me.

You were so mad about that. Yeah, I watched the World Cup. And I watch football because of my husband, but I care too, peripherally. Those are the two sports. But can I tell the story versus the auction officials?

They're exploding. Their memorability is exploding. Auction officials telling TMZ Sports the demand for items rivaled that of Michael Jordan and LeBron James. Get this. The marketplace tells us that the following Argentina-France tilt on Saturday, items associated with Messi and Melbape became the most sought-after items per a rep.

Searches for Messi rose 345%. Membape 363%. That is three times Jordan, four times LeBron, and five times Tom Brady. They are hot.

Next. All right. From kids to adults, cinnamon reigns as the best flavor for the holidays, really. Conducted by one poll and commissioned by the makers of spam. Wow.

The survey found food, the survey found food played a huge role in holiday traditions for 83% of people. Flavors and spices that evoke holiday feelings, nostalgia, and comfort, the most was cinnamon, pumpkin next, peppermint after that, cocoa. Cocoa came in fourth and then nutmeg. I would say chocolate should be. It's a lot of spicy talk.

Yeah, that is. I do think cinnamon does win, but why does spam? Is there cinnamon in spam? I think spam. How selfless of spam to do a study that didn't help them?

I know. Well, I think spam came out with a pumpkin-flavored spam. Maybe that's going to do that.

Next, Spain has passed a law allowing children 16 and over to change legally registered gender without medical supervision. Without medical supervision.

Meanwhile, the measure strongly backed by Spain's left-wing party was approved to the lower house of parliament on Thursday by a 188 to 150 vote, which means that anyone over the age of 16 can change their legally registered gender without consulting with a doctor. How do you. How do you do? I have a lot of questions. Right, I mean, you can't just change a gender yourself.

I mean, you could say, by the power vested in me. Yeah, I don't think they're talking surgeries. Maybe they're just saying. I don't know. Should we leave it there?

Yeah. Okay.

Some shoppers are slimming down on Christmas groceries. Another 10% of people polled via one poll think they could make some changes to their Christmas food shopping routines to save some pennies as well. I don't like this one. I want to pick another one. Can I get another swipe?

Aaron Rodgers loves washing dishes. This is not true. One of my favorite activities in the world. He said to men's health, should I read the quote? He said, It's one of my favorite activities in the world.

I think meditation can get skewed at times. Like you have to go in some sort of trance and start ohming or whatever. But I feel like I can go into a meditative stance doing dishes. I believe it. I like doing dishes too.

Well, I don't say I mind doing dishes. Oh, yeah, they're drying and then putting them back. I hate that. But sometimes I think he puts us on by saying bizarre things. Yeah.

Next, two NFL teams contacted Rob Gronkowski after he tweeted out that he was bored. You know, he's still young enough to play, but I do believe that if he does come back, it'll be with Tom Brady to try to save the Buck Season. Could you imagine if that happens? And they tried it again? I would know nothing about it because I don't watch sports.

Okay, go.

Okay.

Best careers for 2023. Ooh, this is an exciting one. I'll go from seven to one very quickly. The seventh best career is a pathologist, followed by an information security analyst. I'll do the top three: information systems manager, don't know what that is, software engineer, and nurse practitioner is number one.

Congratulations to all of you out there who have those jobs. And nurse practitioners, basically like doctors. Yeah, totally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Carly Shimkis, this is the last time we worked until the new year.

Are you ready for that? I am. Right.

Have the best Christmas. You too. Happy New Year. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead.

Thanks so much for being there, every being here, everybody. It's Brian Kilmicho coming to you from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. This hour, we're going to go inside Georgia politics and the nation politics as Doug Collins joins us. Remember, he was a former ranking member at the judiciary. He was also in the majority for a while.

What do the Republicans have to do to pick a speaker? Colonel Andy Milburn is standing by too. Chief Executive Officer at the Mozart Group doing some great work. In Ukraine and elsewhere. Let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. This is an FBI that we now know has interfered in two presidential elections.

Okay, and if you want a reminder about just how much it interfered in 2016, go and take a look at some of those John Durham transcripts from the trials. Right, fighting back and failing to convince. The FBI firing back at Twitter files by saying they were just doing their jobs, focusing on foreign entities in their elections and making suggestion.

Well, facts are stubborn things, and they lead me down a different path. I will explain. Number two. $250 million bond. It is only secured by the parents' house, worth $4 million.

That makes zero sense. $4 million would be the actual bail amount. Right, $250 in bond is posted, but a $4 million house is collateral. Bailed out. Yes, Crypto Creep Sam is freed for now as the man who blew billions awaits his fate.

And his ex-girlfriend and co-founder pled guilty and have turned on him. Why do I get the feeling this Democratic mega donor will get a slap rather than the slammer? Number one. It is the big media that has conditioned the American people to not understand the complexities of what's happening at the border. You couple that with the Senate deal, which was passed basically with a twink and a nod, allowing this program to continue.

Yeah, that is Byron Donaldson, an up-and-coming star on the right. Time is running out for Title 42, and the Supreme Court could make a decision today. Either way, when it's done, a massive wave is going to come streaming in from Mexico to overwhelm a border that's already overwhelmed. That's the Christmas present we can count on, and Joe Biden is solely responsible, even if he doesn't remember that he is. With me right now is Colonel Andy Milburn.

This week we are talking about Ukraine thanks to the visit from President Zelensky, where he says, guys, just to arm me and I will win. Colonel, welcome. What have you, first off, for our audience, what have you been able to do in the Ukraine? With the Mozart Group. Hey, Brian.

Hey, Brian, first of all, can you hear me okay? I can hear you great.

Okay, cool. Yeah, so far it's going up and down here, as it is most areas of here. Yeah, so very, very quickly, Brian, the Mozart group. An organization of mostly US, UK former special operators. We have some conventional guys too with um specialized skills, the bottom line is the most important trait we say among the kinds you bring in is emotional intelligence, and that is Because what we're doing is fairly hazardous.

We're doing two things, Brian. training Ukrainian troops near to the front line. By that, I mean within artillery range. And you may say, why the hell do you are you doing that? That is simply because if you're a Ukrainian brigade commander, you can't afford to take your guys off the line for more than four or five days.

About eighty percent of the guys on the front line right now have received little to no training. They are sustained purely by their courage, their cohesion, their belief in each other. but obviously that's not enough. And that's why A the motor group. That's the first reason.

The second is, we evacuate civilians from frontline areas. And when I say that, I mean frontline areas. I mean, literally within direct fire range of the Russians. We have been. Russians have opened up on us a number of times, not just with artillery, but with machine gun fire.

And I say that only, not out of bravado, but just to explain. who the Mozart Group is, why we exist and and Our niche, essentially in Ukraine, are the most hazardous tasks when it comes to. training Ukrainian soldiers or evacuating civilians. Maybe I'm answered your question about the colours. Hey, Colonel, what does it say about your opponent when.

Uh, Andy, what does it say about uh the Russians that they're shooting at you guys and shooting at civilians? Wow. Yeah, I mean, I I think it's no I don't think it's any secret to your listeners that the abuse of civilians is not just permitted, it's institutionalized within the Russian military. We see that within the occupied areas that have been liberated, evidence of massacre or torture, jails, what are called filtration prisons. We see it in the way the Russians treat their prisoners.

We see it in the way that they target anything moving, anything moving, Brian, in the combat zone. We've been attacked by Russian fighters, we've been attacked. numerous times through drone directed artillery.

So there can be no mistaking the fact that we're driving around in civilian vehicles. There can be no mistaking our mission. We don't carry weapons. We're simply pulling civilians out of bad areas. And you're calling me from Keeve?

I am, yeah. Cube is actually our RR spot. It's actually where we come for a break, although it may seem a little strange to anyone. living in Ukraine right now because even Kiev, as you know, the power is out for a lot of places for the majority of the time. You can mention it, don't bass.

Right.

Sorry, go on. No, I just want to know if you can give everyone our audience an idea of what it is like in Kyiv. We hear the infrastructure has been targeted. We also hear that you guys keep on bringing it back up, whether the Ukrainians do.

So, what is the state of the infrastructure there in the nation's capital?

Well, the Ukrainian electricians are. unsung heroes of this war because the one of the problems here, the electricity grid is Soviet. It's a Soviet era grid. And sadly, the only when the transformer goes out, the only place it can be replaced from is Mother Russia, which is a no longer Mother Russia to the Ukrainians.

So it's a systemic problem. I will tell you though, that here in Kiev right now, looking across the city, there is plenty of electricity in plenty of areas. Everyone, everyone gets electricity for a portion of the day, and that is quite an achievement. Because as you know, the attacks on infrastructure continue daily. Cruise missiles And uh and drones.

Um the fact That the electricity, that power is still on to the extent that it is, is a remarkable testament to the resilience of the Ukrainians. Colonel Andy Milber is helping out the people of Ukraine try to win this war. I want you to hear Vladimir Zelensky. For one, were people in Kyiv able to hear President Zelensky address the joint session of Congress? Yes.

Yes, the most part it was on Ukrainian television. How was it received? They're all very familiar.

Well, there there is, you know, I I gotta tell you that um the Ukrainians are very grateful to the United States. But instead of money, instead of just tons and tons of defense articles, they wish that the US administration would just focus on those five things. That Zelensky mentioned, the four things that he mentioned as being top priority in his speech. those on long range precision drones you know strike. both strike and and reconnaissance.

The Atakams missiles, which have a range of 180 miles and can be fired from the High Marts launcher. Main battle tanks, S-16s, you know, all of these things. Uh where were requested and I I mean unofficially within DOD. These requests have the support of the US military. But for some reason, the administration is still terrified of escalation, which makes no sense.

We're either giving leads away or we're not giving lease away. If we're giving lease away, it makes no sense to carefully meter out what we're giving so that the Russians have time to adapt and then get ahead. We either embrace Ukrainian victory or we say you're on your own. I want you to hear what General Jack Keene's assessment of what's going on right there at this state of the war. He also does the ISW, Cut 26.

This is what Putin is counting on. He submitted, he knows now, to a protracted war. There's no quick victory here. And he believes that he can outlast the Ukrainian people, the Europeans who he believes will eventually take a knee because of economic energy security issues, and the lack of political support in the United States will gradually over time evaporate. That is what Putin is counting on.

He thinks that plays to his hand because he can keep providing people and equipment and ammunition to his forces.

So can he do that? Is he outlasting the Ukrainians? Is he outlasting Europe? Yeah, Keene's 100% right, unfortunately, Brian. Uh you know, time.

Hey, listen, the Russians are uh they're not winning this war, but the longer that they can they can simply delay, the the greater chance they have of arriving at a stalemate, which Hans Keene points out It's a de facto victory for Putin.

So time is on the Russian side. The only way the United States and NATO can avoid a long, bloody, protracted war that's going to end up Basically, defending freedom to the last drop of Ukrainian blood. The only way the United States can avoid that is to embrace the prospect of Ukrainian victory, go all in on these weapons systems, go all in on training. All right, using proxy forces or surrogate forces or PMCs, call them what you will, such as mine, who already have access in country, who have already proven that we're operating within the bounds of US foreign policy, embrace us. We have access.

We can provide unlimited training where it is needed near the front line. Unless the US government embraces all of these things, and and stops having kind of a very incoherent status set policy, then this war will last a very long time.

So yeah, as much as what about Europe? I know that Poland has done a lot, but not many people, France and company, not many people are coming across with their uh fulfilling their pledges. Yeah, well funny thing is though Brian. that all of those countries that you just mentioned have contributed niche systems that get the attention of the Ukrainian people. With the Germans, it was air defense systems.

With the French, it was the Caesar long the long range self propelled artillery. And the policy was air defense systems too.

So the bottom line, it gets back to this, is look to see what the requirements are. Zelensky has stated very clearly what the requirements are. Meet those requirements. Don't worry about spending billions of dollars over and above that. Meet them requirements.

Uh and and it's gonna suit everyone's policy. Um but but uh But this current kind of approach is incoherent. And the pressure, the energy pressures on France and Germany, as Keene points out, are simply going to grow. Yeah, but my my only hope is that we never got they never go back to buying anything from Russia again because it it's not in the national interest and it'll make us look like uh fools for doing that. What we need energy to end energy independence within Europe.

And the US has been pushing that for a while. Germany simply has ignored it. This should be the final lesson for Germany. Exactly. That Germany can no longer claim independence and yet be dependent on Russian energy.

And they're burning coal and wood. But, Andy, let me just get to this. How would you characterize your opponent? I keep hearing that the Russians are ill-trained, they're not motivated, and they're running out of people. When you guys clash, when the Ukrainians clash with the Russians, how would you say the Ukrainians do?

Well, the Ukrainians very well. Look, man for man, the Russians. have nothing on the Ukrainian military, to include the Wagner Group, all right? And by the way, Wagner Group, the rumors about them putting prisoners on the front line, they are not rumors. The first two assault waves, typically called talking to the Ukrainians here, are composed of prisoners.

But but the point is, yeah, they they're no match infantrymen to infantrymen, they're no match. But unfortunately, this war isn't all about infantry. It's about artillery. And artillery, the Russians have, as the old saying goes, quantit uh quality takes on a or rather quantity takes on a quality all of its own. The Russians have just an unlimited amount of artillery ammunition.

Um I know we keep hearing optimistic rumors that they're running out. Uh I would like anyone to who who really believes that to to visit one of the towns in Donbass during a barrage and and uh and and see and announce that same same point of view. Yeah. So the attackums so Andy, the attack'ems I understand go a greater distance. And the US evidently is concerned that they're going to start hitting Moscow with them.

Do you think that's a legitimate concern? Brian, no, no, come on. I mean, NATO already, of course, that's what the Ukrainians want to do. But But are the but NATO already puts a proviso on the weapons that NATO is providing Ukraine, that they do they are not used to strike Russia. The United States is in exactly the same position and has all the leverage in the world to say, hey, here's the deal, guys.

You hit Russia and all deals off and you get nothing more. Ukrainians know not to bite the hand that feeds them. Plus, they've got their own they're developing their own long range weapon systems, not in great quantity, but enough to take care of some of the infrastructure they're concerned about in Russia. Um so why not put that proviso? And and by the way, having Having a score or more, relatively few high-Mars launchers is nothing, nothing.

You need at least one launcher per brigade on the front. perhaps even one per battalion. You know, when you start getting above 100 high Mars launchers, you start talking about attack and missiles. Start talking about long-range drones.

Now you're talking about game-changing technology. All right, now I get it. The main battle tank and the F-16 come with They come with a lot of uh maintenance. training requirements And they're not going to be fielded in a sufficient quantity to be game changers in time in this war. Um but certainly, you know, I wouldn't put uh looking ahead.

And by the way, on that point, the Ukrainians are actually probably ahead of us because They're not looking at the sort of main battle tanks that we have, the M one A one, remember it's late eighties, it's eighties technology. They're looking at the next generation, which are unmanned tanks. And the guy said these are These are supremely technologically savvy people. Uh and they are ahead of us in many ways. But so I just say, you know, arm them, literally, arm them.

I'm with you. All in or all out. Because they've got the will, they've got the resilience, they've got, you know, they and they've got the the savvy. On determination. Let's give them what they need to win.

Well, Colonel, you're doing great work. I'm so glad you're here. You could have quote Churchill, but it was before you're on my time. Andy Milburn, Chief Executive Officer at Mozart Group, retired at Marine Corps 2019, Deputy Commander of Special Ops Command Center, the headquarters for all U.S. special operations in the Middle East.

A rich background, putting all your skills for the Ukrainians. Colonel, hope people are listening. I wish people at this administration would go all in. Colonel, thank you so much. Yeah, please reach out to me on Twitter.

I'm at Andy Milman 8. And thanks very much to you, Brian, and your listeners. Keep up the great work for the cause. You got it, Colonel. Thank you.

When we come back, your calls, and then at the bottom of the hour, we'll go inside the Republican Party, their mission with Doug Collins, former Georgia Congressman. This is the Brian Kilmey Show. Expanding your knowledge base. It's the Brian Kill Me Show. Information you want, truth you demand.

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Innovating again. Dreaming again. That's Joe Biden's vision of America. You got to be a true leader as chief executive. I get it, but is it accurate?

Doug Collins in studio, ranking member of the U.S. Judiciary Committee at one point, author of The Clock in the Calendar, a front-row look at the Democrats' obsession with Donald Trump, which still exists today, obviously, if you watch the other channels on my quad boxes here. Congressman, great to see you again. Good to see you, too. You're going to be doing outnumbered shortly, right?

Morning, 12 o'clock.

So, up from Georgia in this big snow NAMI, whatever it is. But first off, That's the picture that President Biden paints. Is it accurate? No, it's not. Look, there's nothing about the picture that Biden paints about anything that's accurate.

It's sort of what they build up to him to keep him going. And if you look behind the scenes, I mean, he doesn't acknowledge a border. He doesn't acknowledge the inflation. His own White House doesn't acknowledge what most people are feeling, which they saw in the election. And for him to just come out and what's the problematic part?

It's one thing to fight with each other. It's one thing to really fight passionately. But then to come back and almost say, well, oh, well, we've got to all get together.

Well, that's what you spent six months telling everybody. MAGA Republicans, MAGA extremists. But you're terrible. How do you do that? Right.

In fact, here's exactly what you're saying, Cut 28. Our politics has gotten so angry.

so mean, so partisan. And too often we see each other as enemies, not as neighbors. As Democrats or Republicans, not his fellow Americans. Right.

He's always so nice, and we take him wrong when he just says those MAGA extremists and MAGA Republicans and ultra-maga, whatever he wants to say.

Well, and he gives the red speech. You know, don't forget the Philadelphia Red speech. I mean, when he's standing up on the podium early this year, and it was just, I mean, it was like America, doom and gloom. Get in your bunkers and hide because these Republicans are going to come and take your families, take your wives, and do everything else. And then he expects us just to all of a sudden say, oh, well, let's just work with you.

There is a problem in our country of this divisive, but you can have divisive discussion. I've got an op-ed that's on Fox today about criminal justice reform. You can do it together, but you've got to say, look, we're going to disagree. Let's put that aside and find ways to work. But simply saying the other side is wrong, come to me is the problem.

Jim Crow 2.0, is there a more divisive statement that you could possibly make as president? Here's the problem. With mainstream media, you and I say Jim Crow 2.0, we would be. You know, canceled, everything else. They say it, don't get fact-checked for it, and everybody just believes it to be true.

But yet, you can go to Georgia, look at the elections we just had, the voter turnout, the I mean, it was high, is it has been among especially among minorities and others, and yet we still get blamed for voter suppression. And all those corporations, was it Mayor Delta? Oh, yeah. Delta, Coca-Cola, Major League Baseball, that said, you know, I don't know how many movies you didn't get because of this in theaters. And now we know that they didn't want to pass out online because they couldn't get water.

Yeah, no, no, that was shockingly enough. Right.

So they hydrated up before the end. Here's an interesting part: one, the reaction to that motor law was the most. Elitest thing you've ever seen. It basically said people are too stupid to vote. That was basically what the Democrats argued more.

They just didn't want to make it. But the interesting part was, because of the changes put in last year in SB 202, Fulton County, DeKalb County, and others got votes in quicker than they have ever, ever got their votes in. We were seeing the votes, so it wasn't this, let's hold off and see.

Now, they were later because they just had more, but their early votes were counted before 9 o'clock. You knew what the numbers were. The sad part, though, is from me watching it, I could see when those numbers come in. I knew it was going to be a hard night for Herschel Walker, but the numbers were in. We wasn't guessing.

That's what SB 202 did. All right. Is Warnock that good? No. They're talking about him.

They said if Warnock wins the runoff, don't be surprised if he's mentioned as a presidential candidate if Biden isn't. I'm so sick of this country deciding that they want a presidential candidate based on one speech or one good piece of legislation. We've seen it since Obama, and it comes through. They win one election. Oh, they're the next big thing.

I mean, last year, Glenn Young wins Virginia. He's going to be the next face of the Republican Party. And Warnock's the same way. But look, Warnock is an extreme liberal. He got very fortunate in a race in which Georgia.

You know, frankly, the Walker campaign never made the case to get Walker past that senatorial look. Warnot benefited from that. But if you look at the rest of Georgia, everything else in Georgia went, you know. Red by 4% to 5%.

So if you are the Republicans right now, would you put Ronna McDaniel back in charge? I think it's always a good time for change. And I think that's the thing that needs to be discussed.

So, I mean, you know, she's been doing it for a while. Is there new ideas? We've had some rough election cycles. We've had some successes, mainly a few in the House and some of the others. But I mean, what would be wrong with a change right now?

And I mean, I'm personally nothing against Ronna. But we need Republicans, we got to do two things. We've got to raise money better. We've got to have better off-year demographics in which we're actually putting our email list, we're actually putting our demographics, our basis, getting our precinct cabinets, doing exactly what the Democrats are doing, making sure we're getting ready for early voting. Those are the kind of things I want to see out of a party.

I don't want to see parties all across the country being the purist saying, I like this. Congressman, I don't like this one.

So even President Trump told Breitbart, we've got to have a plan when it comes to early voting. You guys were reluctant to even buy into it, hoping it would go away. Yeah. Now, early voting is always I've always been I've always voted early. The problem we got into is when there became a question in people's minds was, you know, is my vote going to count?

We've seen it work. I mean, look, you've seen it in Florida, you see it in other places.

So it does work. The problem we've got to get out of, and we saw it. Actually, transpire in Arizona and maybe some other states. If you wait till the day of, Think about everything that could happen the day up. You get sick, your kids get sick, your dog dies, you're in a wreck, you can't make it to the polls.

That's what we got to we I've become convinced Republicans have got to do everything that's legal from if you've got a ballot harvesting state, then you we better be out ballot harvesting, whatever that term is. If we're out early voting, same use whatever is there. That we've got to use. We've been too purist in this thing saying we don't want to do that. No, it's time to do exactly what the others do.

All right. So, Doug Collins, our guest. Congressman, as I'm pretty sure you know, Kevin McCarthy can't get these five or six Republicans to budge, whether it's Andy Biggs, Congressman Goode, whether it's Matt Gaetz, they just don't want to they and Matt Gaetz wrote an editorial essentially saying, Well, Kevin Card doesn't stand for anything.

So What would Doug Collins do? I think Kevin right now has a problem. And he I thought if by now, you and I had talked earlier in the month about this, and I said by now in my mind, if he hadn't got it fixed by now, I'm not sure he's going to get it fixed. I believe what they're wanting is simply Kevin not to get it. And then it's not really matter who comes next.

Now, and this is an interesting point. Remember back when Kevin did not get to be speaker for four, five, six years. They didn't have a secondary choice then. All of a sudden, Paul Ryan appeared as a consensus, and nobody cared. You're probably going to, unless something really changes, you're going to see that there's more than just the five.

That's the underlying notion that I'm getting from talking to people. There's more than just the five.

So, Kevin has a distinct problem, he won't win. And my question is: if he carries this to the floor and loses, now they're not going to be a Democratic speaker. Let's get that out of the notion. Let's get that fear factor out of the way. They will not be a Democrat speaker.

But if they can't get one on the first ballot, then you'll see what happens and they'll go to whoever name gets popped up the next, and then you'll see it. I just believe that they're wanting to say, hey, we want a different direction. But I will also tell you, I've talked to about a number of other folks who represent sixty, eighty percent of the rest of the conference. This is going to play very difficult in the conference. What will play?

They're upset. I mean, other members who are saying, like, we got other things we need to be doing, like populating committees, naming committee chairs. The rest of the conference is really upset. But there's no, again, when you're in a What did you do wrong? That didn't do everything that some people said it should.

And so now I have a voting card. And I can determine that you didn't do everything I wanted you to, whether it would have worked or not. Here was the scary part about this omnibus went through. Because Republicans, in my mind, didn't do the stuff early. We've not fixed the system early.

We tried to then all of a sudden complain about it at the end. And said, well, if we just shut the government down, we'll get what we won't. No, you won't. We've tried this for eight years, Brian. I've been in there, I've been in those rooms.

When we shut down the government for 16 days in 2013, I was a part of my first year in Congress. Eric Canter made a very prescient thought. He said, at the very start of it, he said, look, I'll go along with this. He said, but more than likely we're going to get at what we have now or worse. Guess what?

16 days later, we basically got as is or worse because we got some who don't understand you get some, but you're not going to get it all.

Well I still don't understand that. If you could be if you're extreme right or extreme left, you're never going to be happy. And AOC could never be a speaker, right? Right.

And Matt Gates could never be a speaker. No. So, at what point do you just say, I'm in a body, it's not about me, I'm in a body, especially a body that I'm on the same team as. What's better for that team? Or am I going to sit there and try to get attention on me and think Kevin McCarthy doesn't stand for anything?

Well, I need a consolidator. Actually, if you have an extreme ideology, it'd actually be a hindrance as a speaker, I imagine.

Well, one, you wouldn't be there as Speaker, and it would be a problem. And I think this is what, again, we've got to get back to the point, the old Reagan philosophy, if I get 80% of what I want, then I'm going to get it, and I'll come back later. But did you really realize that? Yeah, because the conservatives anyway. And look, and I voted, I voted for omnibus.

I voted against omnibus. And I've been a part of that. The problem is, though, is one of the things that I think sometimes the more conservative part of our caucus in the House. They want to see us put forth our best effort first. And many times they felt like we didn't put our, you know, like our best budget, something like the Democrats did.

Remember, the Democrats passed appropriation bills out of the House with Nancy Pelosi that were far more liberal than anything that's gotten finished. But they at least made that statement knowing that the Senate was going to back on it. Then you have the confrontation and you have the conciliation between the House and the Senate, and then come out with something that would work. If you don't have that mindset, here's the problem. And I'll tell it to any member of Congress, Democrat or Republican.

If you can't get 218 votes on your idea, then you're simply making speeches.

So when you have a six-person majority, and this is what is explained to me. I asked one of the 18, why did you vote for the omnibus bill? It doesn't make any sense. And they said, Number one, we got more in defense than we even wanted, like that we expected.

So that was number two, we wanted to fund the Ukraine war. And we feel as though if it went to the house. With that slim majority, There was too many Republicans who weren't going to fund it. And they would have had to ask Democrats all want to fund it. for uh to do it and they said yeah at at a pound of flesh And they would have extorted The Republicans to do it.

So they said. It's better than most. It's probably better than we're going to get. And they saw what that's one of the eighteen told me.

Well, one of the eighteen, I said, I want to know where the one of those eighteen were for the last twelve months when appropriations bill should have been passed out of the Senate, instead of sitting on their hands till the end to get whatever. But again, though, it it's fine. This is part of the broken process, okay, with the Democrats in the Senate right now, Schumer not passing any of these. But I saw no large speeches on the floor by any appropriations members from the Republican Party. I saw nothing to try and force those bills through.

It just sat there so they could get what they want. Look, Brian, America needs to understand: this is what leadership wants. This is at the end of the day. Because they get exactly what they want. They did the eight or nine top leaders put in a room.

This is what they do. I have a problem, though, with some of the 18 who what they said about the Ukraine. Ukraine put it aside. the defense banning. Explain to me.

Give me good reasons. I'm in the military. I've been there for 21, 20 years, almost 21. Explain to me why we put more than even what the administration asked for into military. Explain to me why in a budget situation we got to you know you seriously have to look at all that we spend.

Why were we because you have a Democratic administration who doesn't doesn't prioritize defense? And so you're Republicans, and you go, I want more than that. You go, yeah, I'll give it to you. By the way, it's Americans' defense. The fact that Republicans have to go to battle for a defense program for the country is nuts.

But here's the problem: I've not seen a Republican say that what the administration, the military put forward, the Pentagon put forward, that we needed to up it that much more, except for. funds and priorities. Again, these are the military heads who put this budget forward. They're the ones saying, here's what I've got. And I think there's a balance that needs to be struck.

And look, I'm in the military, I know what we need. But at the same point in time, What we've got a lot, though, and frankly, and this is a problem: we've got too many people in Congress who've never served in the military, and they don't feel like they can vote against the military. And we need smart spending in our military, better equipment, better guns. Do it a smart way instead of just simply saying we're going to increase the budget.

Well, obviously, didn't they do all these studies that talk about all the ways, and no one ever does anything with their studies? I mean, what if you worked on Simpson Bowles? What if you gave up your time, you got out of retirement, you worked in this for years, and that's a painstaking process. They go, Yeah, I'm not doing that. Barack Obama, you told him to do it.

He goes, Yeah, I knew I couldn't do it. What do you mean you couldn't do it? That was a way to get politics out of it and do what's best for the country and blame Simpson Bowles. Yeah, I'm just going by Simpson Bowles. Exactly.

So when we come back, I want to talk to you about the FBI, what we've discovered already, thanks to Elon Musk, what the FBI said yesterday And now the the bottom line is we know too much and you can't explain it away. I but I'm very curious to see what you think, Dub, because you've seen stuff I never will. And plus, you were all over the Mueller report. And before it was actually released, you know what was in it. This is the Brian Killmeat show.

Coming to you on a need-to-know basis because, man, do you need to know? It's Brian Kilmead. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Killmead Show. It's very disappointing to see the FBI continue in its downward spiral.

What they called misinformation was their own words. What we have revealed from the Twitter dump is their own words, their own emails. Not to mention the whistleblowers have come forward and told us additional information that the public will be hearing very soon. And who they call conspiracy theorists are conservatives in the media and members of Congress.

So the FBI has a huge problem. It's only getting worse. And their confidence level, not only among Republicans in Congress, but among the public, is at an all-time low.

And that is James Comer is going to be chairman of oversight shortly, as soon as they get a speaker and get everything said in the first week of January. Doug Collins with us, former congressman from A former congressman from Georgia. And what Comer is talking about is the FBI blasted back after these releases of all these Twitter exchanges and said: the correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, long-standing, and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries. As evidenced in the correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves. The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect America.

It's unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation. What's your reaction, Doug Collins? There's a wholesale change starting with Chris Ray at the top needs to change. I've said this for almost three years now. I've known Chris Ray when I was in Congress, worked with him and hoped that he would do better.

He's not. FBI is just infected with this. Explain to me why the FBI. Is involving themselves in what is basically misinformation or disinformation. They determine, you know, we don't have to go back to the Biden administration starting a ministry of disinformation.

We already have it, and it's called the FBI because they were looking at the election and stuff. They were looking at other things saying, hey, you might need to take this account down. You might need to take it. A lot of them have like a handful of followers. Exactly.

Like, what are we wasting time on this? And again, this is the problem, but it's not just now. This is just another reflection of what we have seen for the past six to seven years, starting back in the Comey, Strzok, McKay, Baker, when Baker, by the way, was at the, before he went to Twitter. You know, this has just been continuing on. The focus of the FBI is not where it should have been.

So I'll take the FBI side. They say, listen, 2016, we feel the Russians or foreign entities played a role in the election. It was a small part, but they did something. I know Michael Moore came out and said, you know, a bot, a Russian bot came out and they had a demonstration in front of Trump Tower. It turns out that was just the Russians putting something out there.

No one even ran it. But it didn't change the election. Small amount of purchases in Facebook, so we know it didn't change it. You read the Mueller report.

So they said, we don't want foreigners into our election. We don't want China getting in there trying to foment racial unrest when the George Floyd riots. It took anything to start divide us. We don't want, for example, China to get a campaign, a subtle campaign, to not have voter turnout because it's not going to be worth it or it's going to be fixed. I get it.

So you want so the FBI says, okay, I'll I'll handle that. I'll handle that by looking over the shoulder of Twitter, Facebook, Google, Snapchat, and everything else. Isn't that who else would you want to look over?

Okay, my question is, though, is they took American accounts. They took real people's accounts and banned those. The bots, you can figure out where they're coming from.

Okay, yeah. And so, my question is, is all right, that's fine. FBI, which by the way, they should be looking at threats on our banking systems here in New York City. That's all part of what we look at as well. But they're looking at these information issues and coming forward.

Misinformation. Misinformation, as they call it. But the question is, is okay, if you're going to deal with the bots, that's one thing. But when you're taking down accounts and throwing those, that's of Americans. If you say, what's the proper set of FBI is interfering in elections, interfering in the day-to-day process of social media.

I have news for you, Doug Collins. They say they're going to do the same thing in 2024. The FBI says, stop the conspiracy theorists. This is our job. We're doing it.

And when they retire, they go to the Meta, eight CIA guys, eight in the FBI, and they just rotate right through. Revolving doors. CON outnumbered at noon. Look forward to it. Thanks, Brian.

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. From 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, heard around the world. This is the Brian Kilmey Show. I will say that New York, despite all the problems it's having with crime and the overrunning with illegal immigrants and everything, during Christmas, I think it's probably the best city in the country in terms of what they do, how they step it up, what happens on Madison Avenue, what's got on Herald Square, and it's just pretty impressive, even today.

And also, for two years, nothing's been happening. Remember, the pandemic at one point, you're not allowed to stop and look at the tree. You could walk by the tree. That's how insane this was. You talk about misinformation.

We'd later find out you can't get it outside, but you had to keep walking. Don't stand and look at an evergreen. Ugh. Tyrus is coming out the bottom of the hour. Shannon Bream, in a matter of moments, big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. This is an FBI that we now know has interfered in two presidential elections.

Okay, and if you want a reminder about just how much it interfered in 2016, go and take a look at some of those John Durham transcripts from the trials. That was Kim Strossel, of course, fighting back, failing to convince the FBI is trying to sing their song and tell us that they were doing everything on the up and up, but we know different. We looked at the Twitter files. We have our own decisions. We'll see if Shannon wants to talk about that.

Number two, $250 million bond. It is only secured by the parents' house, worth $4 million. That makes zero sense. $4 million would be the actual bail amount. That is crazy.

Degan McDowell waited in. Bailed out. Yes, Crypto Creep Sam is freed for now as the man who blew billions awaits his fate. His ex-girlfriend is flipped. The co-founder is flipped.

They've admitted their guilt for a deal. This guy is probably going to be made out to be the bad guy in this, like we all know he is. But will he get a slap on the wrist or get the slammer? Number one. It is the big media that has conditioned the American people to not understand the complexities of what's happening at the border.

You couple that with the Senate deal, which was passed basically with a twink and a nod, allowing this program to continue. Byron McDonald's, of course, time is running out on Title 42, and a massive wave is building in Mexico. It will overwhelm the border even more than they're overwhelmed now. That's America's Christmas present. And more and more experts conclude that Biden let 4 million people in intentionally.

We'll see if Shannon feels the same way. Shannon, first off, I've gotten news that it's your birthday, and I'd like to be one of the million people that say, happy birthday. What a year you've had, and a better year to come. Thank you, Marfa. Friend, what did you get me?

And did you get me the same present for Christmas and birthday? Or did you do the classy thing? And separate presents are coming. Two separate presents will arrive. I paid the extra money to have it delivered on Christmas Day.

Love it. Worth every penny. Right.

And my big thing is which one of my books to give you. And every time it's a surprise. got them all. and framed.

So You know, unless there's another one coming out, could you send me an early copy? You know what? I'll send you the original tra I'll give you my original thoughts.

Okay.

Hey, there's not priceless. You know what I'm saying? You can't put a price tag on that.

So, Shannon, so much to talk about. First off, if your show was right today, what do you lead with? Oh my gosh, there is so much stuff from FBF to, you know, I'm standing by waiting for the Supreme Court to make a decision on Title 42. We've got the omnibus that, you know, they squeak it across a finish line. Maybe today the House does.

But there's plenty of foreign policy stuff going on, too, and many fights that are looming in the new year about the House Speaker and everything else.

So luckily, we're going to have that all covered for you on Sunday. All right, that'll be good. First off, on President Zelensky's speech, I thought it was excellent. I have no problem with what he was wearing. You're in Washington.

You saw that Matt Gates was sitting. You saw that Lauren Boebert was sitting. And I imagine a lot of empty Republican seats. Is this party 50-50 divided, do you say? I don't know if it's 50-50, but there's definitely a vocal, growing group who say, listen, we're not against this, but we want more transparency.

There have been a number of measures, including one House resolution that was offered up that said, we just want an audit and an accounting of where the money's going because it's U.S. taxpayer dollars. It got blocked in the committee. It didn't even make it out of committee, and it was a strictly party-line vote. Every Democrat voted no on the transparency measure.

So it's creating a lot of venom on both sides for people who say, We want to help our own country. We know that we have to be in this fight to make sure that democracy and free people stay free, that you can't just have Putin showing up and taking over sections of the country. But we just want to know an accounting of where this money is going to go and what the end game plan is. Right.

Well, you know the end game plan. It's Vladimir Putin invades a country. You don't really say, let's have peace.

So you need two people. He's got to be losing in order to be forced to the table. You just wonder how stable he'd be. I mean, can you imagine losing 60 to 80,000, maybe more, in a war that you started for no reason? Reason in nine months.

He finally admitted this week that it's a war. Do you think that's significant? Because he said it, what did he call it, an operation? Right.

And and these phony Votes that they had in some of these territories.

So now then his language was: we have to defend Russian territories.

Well, when you have fake votes and basically, you know, force people to the polls at gunpoint and watch how they vote, and then say there was a referendum and then say, well, we have to defend these territories. And remember, he said when he was pressed on the issue of nuclear, he kept saying, well, we have to defend our territories.

Well, if you just take big sections of a country and then say, well, that's our territory, it's a very disastrous circular bit of reasoning.

So for him to actually say, now it's a war, I think, is significant. Remember the first few days that we were covering this? And for us, when I was doing Fox News at night, it would be morning that was dawning there in Ukraine. We would have members of the parliament skyping into us from their hiding places. And three or four days in, they were like, this is it.

This is the night we hold. Putin says he's going to destroy the entire country and take us over in three or four days. And here we are, nine, ten months later, with a lot of bloodshed on both sides and no end in sight. I have a recommendation for, we had a great guest with a Mozart group who's over there training newer. Um Ukrainian forces, Andy Milburn, and he's a colonel in the m uh marines special forces uh as well.

And he said that basically America is that this pace in which we're sending stuff over and the advanced systems that we're sending over is extending the pain. It says stuff they wouldn't do, they're now doing, but it's coming over too slow, and there's not enough of it.

So that's going to be one of the stories. They need us, so they can't be that critical. But you have a guy, you have an American over there, and he says, listen, what you're doing to these people is just wrong. Let them protect themselves. If you're going to bring a missile system in, you should have done it months ago.

And if you're going to do it, it's got to be more than one. That's the sub-story to this.

Well, and the thing is. Is there are so many voices now saying we were behind. We knew for months that Putin was saber-rattling over this, and it's hard to know with them because he does this stuff all the time. But clearly, there were signs that they were massing troops near the borders, and they really meant it.

Now, you have that same argument that people are having over China and Taiwan saying we are devoting so many resources, money, armaments, all these things to Ukraine because we're trying to help the good people who have stepped up to the challenge more than and are defending their own land. But you hear a number of members on Capitol Hill saying we should be doing the early positioning for Taiwan. This is the lesson we should learn from Ukraine, and yet we don't have the resources because of our commitments there.

Well, we do have more that we could be giving. We have order and we vote, but we just haven't delivered it.

So we'll see. I want to go over to something else that I think requires some subtlety. The FBI and the Twitter files. The Twitter files is being ignored for most outlets, and I can't believe it. You know, Matt Taibbi, Barry Weiss, Michael Schnellenberger, they're not right-wing extremists.

It's hard to marginalize. But the FBI is blasting back at the eighth tranche when people talk about the connection and the oversight that Twitter was getting from the FBI, and most likely Meta too. And the FBI blasted back saying this. The FBI is responding to Twitter file revealing that the agency regularly contacts employees at social media just to notify them about the accounts that may constitute violations of a company policy. He also condemned what they say as conspiracy theorists who are giving misinformation to the public about what the FBI was doing.

I don't know. Michael Schnellenberger, who's been in there every step of the way, weighed in with me last night. I filled in for Laura Ingram, and he had a different take about what he's seen when he was there. Cut 15. I think what was so threatening about what we did is that we just presented a series of facts.

We weren't theorizing at all. I wrote the Twitter files part seven and I just laid out the pattern of information, some of which we did know before, but some of which we didn't. We did know that the FBI had Hunter Biden's laptop in December of 2019. We knew that the federal authorities, the FBI, was raising the alarm about Russian interference in the 2020 elections. We now know that they were specifically raising concerns around a Hunter Biden-related leak in October before the elections.

We also saw the Assman Institute was involved in raising the alarm. And I think most significantly, we saw former FBI general counsel, who had become Twitter's deputy general counsel, making the strongest argument by far of any Twitter employees for censoring Hunter Biden's laptop and ultimately discrediting it in the minds of many voters, including myself, who did not take it very seriously when the New York Post reported. reported on it in mid-October 2020. As Mataibi would tell, Uh was say in a podcast. He said, I don't understand at what point this is not a big story to any journalist.

Someone brings you into Twitter and said, Check out this communications between the FBI and this entity. And at any level, this has been what we've been always told to be a big story, regardless of how it turns out. He doesn't understand the lack of curiosity at CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, and elsewhere. But the thing is You should be concerned on any side of this conversation, anytime the government is directing a private entity and how to potentially censor the speech of private citizens. You should care if you're on the left or the right.

It's just like with anything that goes on on Capitol Hill or any of these agencies. It can be turned around and used for your side, quote unquote, if you're happy how it's being used against the other side. And I'm sorry, when you have documented, just factual information that says there were weekly meetings between Twitter, you know, Top operatives and officials, and DHS, FBI, DNI. That should raise some questions for people when they're telling and flagging outside information internally to a company to say, like, yeah, you might want to take this down. That is very strange, and you should care no matter where you are in the political spectrum.

And it also raises this issue then if it's government action, if it's state action that's censoring private speech, because you know, if it's if you're directing a private company, listen, if you're calling and saying, like, hey, these terrorists are posting pictures of people being beheaded, I think we can all agree, all right, that's a problem. But if it's a viewpoint discrimination or a tag based on the content that you don't like, not that it's violent or suggesting violence, I mean, that's a totally different story. But I agree, much of the media just seems completely asleep at the wheel on this one.

So today we find out, from what we know, there are a ton of CIA and FBI retired agents at Facebook and Twitter. The CIA, I think, has this guy Chris Roser, Hagnan Barnett, Brian Westband. They have a list of this. Corey Ponder. They're CIA guys working at Facebook, okay?

And then you have in Twitter eight full-time employees, including the now fired James Baker.

So there's essentially a slack group of FBI agents who FBI agents who are active prefer to deal with, I imagine, who set up, I think, a concerning pipeline between the two.

Now, I know when you stop being a cop, you got to get into another career, usually about 40 years old. I know the same thing with ages. After 20 years, you get full benefits. You want to start doing something else and maybe get really paid for your expertise. But I'm a little concerned about that.

Well, you make a good point. It's just like people who finish out the military or whatever. I mean, you do. You got to go find a private sector job probably at that point.

So I don't fault anybody for that. The problem is when there has been an appearance that you're trying to hide what has been done in the past, what they're doing now could be completely above board, a great job, a great private enterprise that they're now involved with. But when we see things bubble up, like we've seen in all of these Twitter releases, then people ask questions and then they're suspicious because you've told them one thing. Jack comes to Capital Hill and says there's no such thing as shadow banning of conservatives. And then one of the first releases is, well, visibility filter.

Okay, call it what you want, but people are going to be skeptical. No question. Shannon, have you decided who's going to be on your show? I have. We have all kinds of special holiday things going on.

So we've got amazing panelists, David Avella, Dana Perino, and Howie Kurtz are going to be with us for all of the news of the day, domestic and international, as we break down the omnibus, the Twitter, all of it. But then we have special conversations also with your buddy Cardinal Dolan, musician, Grammy Award winner, Michael W. Smith. We joined him on his concert tour, and Moral Wooster, who is the guy behind Wreaths Across America, where they lay hundreds of thousands of wreaths on veterans, headstones, and tombs all across this country. And they do it internationally, too.

He's the most humble guy I've ever met, and he tells us his story.

So we hope to see you Christmas morning. We'll be live. I'll be watching Shannon Bream. Happy birthday. Enjoy the day.

Congratulations on all your success. You certainly deserve it. You too, my friend. Hardest working man in a business. Love the opportunities.

Thanks, Shannon. When we come back, I'll take your calls. 1-866-408-7669. That's Fox News Sunday, by the way. Make sure you watch.

Check your listings. And then Tyrus at the bottom of the hour. Tyrus got some big announcements about appearances that you just have to see. You're listening to the Brian Kilmeet Show. Educating, entertaining, enlightening.

You're with Brian Kilmead. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead. Hey, welcome back everybody. Got a packed line, so let's get to it.

Anthony, you're on the Fox app listing on Long Island. Hey, Anthony. Hey Brian, how's it going? Good. What's on your mind today?

Just wanted to say It's no longer a good excuse. To get military funding and give the Democrats everything they want, which keeps the country lurching leftward. And all we get is military funding. They do this every time. The bill not only doesn't have extra money for border security, you can't use the money for border security.

It's not acceptable. These 18 Republican senators, they don't even represent the voters. It's horrible. This is just, this can't go on. What good are they in the Senate?

What good are the Republicans in the Senate? I hear you. They said that for defense spending, it should be an American thing, not a Republican thing, but they play it every time. Anthony, I understand the frustration. Let's see what happens.

They're online to take the Senate back. They said they're not going to do it again. They've got to get through committees, and then they'll have a chance to truly debate it. We'll see if someone has the courage to do that. Hal, listen on Long Island.

Hey, Hal. Hey, Brian, great show. Love you. I just have to be up front and say I am a Trump supporter, but I do want to see more going into Ukraine here. We really got to rally for this, Brian, including firejets.

I say we go in. To go in to win it or nothing. Second point. And you don't mean us go in, you mean just arm them, right? Arm them whatever they need.

Let's get this done. That should be the goal of 2023. Second point I'd like to mention is the Twitter thing. Mitch McConnell. Where is he on this?

He's supposed to be the alleged leader of the Republican Party. And I I I understand you want to play both sides of the aisle here, but if you want to cut this thing down the middle, um, Republican and conservative voices were the victims of the ones being silenced on this. And I'd like to see some leadership stand up on that side of the party and say we're not going to have this. What's your thoughts on happy, happy Christmas and Merry New Year?

So, yeah, Mitch McConnell, it would be great to say I'm a little bit outraged about what's happening, very outraged. I look forward to the hearings in the House. We have to get to the bottom and reigning in our intelligence community. It doesn't seem to be his speed. It doesn't.

You know, Trent Lott was different than that. Paul Ryan would have been speaking out about this, for goodness sakes. John Boehner would have been speaking about it. Kevin McCarthy is. But Mitch McConnell is into wrangling votes and setting policy and maybe political conjecture and strategy, but he's not a big ranter, which I think he'd find a microphone.

I don't care how boring he is, and just say what I've been reading in these Twitter communications is extremely disturbing. But right now, he's in a territorial war of influence of the Republican Party with Donald Trump. They hate each other.

So by singing that song, maybe he's concerned that it'll look like he's going to bat for Trump and the election was fixed. You listen to Brian Kill Me Show. Tyrus next.

So glad you're here. Get ready. Christmas just around the corner. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Killmead. There was a big shift in the FBI after 9-11.

What was predominantly an agency that was working with state and locals to investigate and interdict drug crime and violent crime became immediately an agency that started to turn its attention to more clandestine investigations. All in the guise of trying to protect America from terrorisms.

Well, what did they do? They filled their ranks with. with computer analysts and with different types of agents than we've seen historically, individuals that now have to justify their existence. And what did they do? They turned to more political and more partisan investigations justified by those at the top, like Jim Comey and others.

That's what I've heard. They've changed. They had to get ahead of things. They had to find out where the next stack was going to be before it happened rather than investigating crimes that took place and then preventing them down the line.

So they changed their approach. But now, next thing you know, we seem to be targeting other Americans. And now, according to a lot of whistleblowers we're about to hear from, they're coming out very ideologically driven. And that, to me, is part of the issue that I possibly find most disturbing.

So the FBI comes back and says, listen, this is what I'm supposed to be doing. I'm supposed to be monitoring things. I'm supposed to find foreign entities. I'm supposed to look at this through my expertise team and share it with the vice president, Yoel Roth, and tell him where to do.

Well, Yoel Roth said that they tipped him off about the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of time. The FBI agent, Elvis Chan, says, No, I didn't. I never did that.

Well, Yoel Roth was under oath. Then he says he doesn't remember. Why is that important? That's a domestic story that would have definitely affected the election, maybe not turned it, but affected it. That they went out of their way to make sure it played no role.

Here's Kim Strossel last night, I substitute for Laura Ingram, on the FBI pushing back that they were just doing as told. Cut 16. This is an FBI that we now know has interfered in two presidential elections.

Okay, and if you want a reminder about just how much it interfered in 2016, go and take a look at some of those John Durham transcripts from the trials. It was over the top. This is also an FBI that's lied to the FISA court and been called out by the FISA court for that and inspector generals. It's an FBI that's mismanaged its Woods files. We know some of its other transgressions with regard to Hunter Biden.

And then suddenly it comes out and expresses shock that anybody is questioning its behavior and comes out and on top of it lands on the journalists who are simply like Michael, who are simply reporting the actual facts. And you're talking about Michael Schoenberger. And the next thing to come out, the next trench, is going to be COVID. Remember, I was kidding before when I said you had to walk by the Rockefeller Positive Christmas Tree. You couldn't stand there.

Then later we found out you can't catch it outdoors. You don't have to wear a mask outdoors. We had kids running around. Playing soccer and football, not football, but field hockey, softball, wearing masks. We realize how stupid that was.

But if you listed that it was a problem, misinformation, you might get suspended, or you might get shadow banned on Twitter. That's an issue. I don't want the FBI deciding that what I'm saying about a mask or a vaccine, that they are the doctors of the moment.

Now, most of what the doctors found out, because the Chinese fundamentally didn't tell us what was hitting us, turned out wrong. Including if you get vaccinated, you're not going to get this virus anymore. Whereby four variants in, and more people vaccinated are getting the virus than not before. Not anti-vax, but I'm not going to get any.

Well, I got the vaccine once, that's it. You're not going to ban me or keep me from coming in buildings.

So, that's next that's coming down the pike. At Twitter alone, there are eight former FBI agents working at the company's so-called trust and security division.

So, the FBI wants it in on what Twitter's actually doing, if they're listening or not, maybe they're going to call some of their old colleagues, wouldn't you think? And there's a bunch of CIA at Meta, and I cannot wait to find out what's going on there.

So, a little bit later this morning, Jonathan Gillum, who's a former FBI agent and former Navy SEAL, said this about what we've known so far, along with the FBI defending itself, CUD19. Whenever the FBI or anybody in the federal government builds a relationship with a private entity and then utilizes them to carry out an action, that private entity, knowingly or unknowingly, has become an agent of the government.

So, what is very intriguing about this and damning, I think, to the FBI is that it Executives from the FBI, and we're hearing now that the CIA as well, left those agencies, went to Twitter and other social media companies, and then they're the ones who were working directly with the FBI to do these types of oppressive censorship actions.

So in essence, they sent their own people into these social media companies to become their sources and carry out their actions.

So that's exactly what happened. And Jonathan would know he's worked in the private sector and he's been professional at the FBI as well as in the military. I'll add to this.

So I'm at two schools of thought. Number one, if I'm at Twitter and I am concerned because people have been telling me about foreign entities getting into my system, I might go, okay, the FBI is looking over my shoulder. Why don't I hire one of those guys? Let them know I'm on the up and up. And if you guys can help me, you can help me.

But then when they start with the constant calls and the sidelining these small accounts and telling them and going through the Aspen Institute with other entities, you think to yourself, hey, guys, back off a little. But who's going to back off when you hired eight FBI agents who feel as though they're right on the money? And who are they loyal to? You? Were they loyal to the buddies that they used to work with that helped place them there?

So for the FBI to push back, okay. Congratulations, using conspiracy theorists. That's not something you get in a press release, and that's not an area I expect the FBI to go to. But if people have a problem with what you're doing, don't say conspiracy theorists. And you did have the FBI did have the laptop ahead of time.

The laptop was authentic. You never investigated it. But the day you sidelined it from the New York Post, 51 intelligence operators signed off to say it wasn't real. Who would know that ahead of time? Matt Taibbi is pretty much astounded.

Astounded that more people are at least acknowledging that these Twitter files. Are noose and newsworthy. Here's what he said to Matt Taibbi, Cut20. The reason that it sort of broadly speaking has been favorable to the establishment liberal class was just because that's the general affiliation of the people that were on the team. Yeah, that's one of the things that's amazing about this the stuff that we've already put out even is you can see in these threads somebody will say, Oh, this got escalated by whatever, the ops team.

What do you think? And then like two minutes later, you'll get a decision from some very senior executive who'll say, Nah. You know, that's fine, because The executive clearly Either thinks it's true based on whatever, or did a Google search and found an NPR article that that they liked. I mean, it's that. It's that unsophisticated on that level.

It's like they'll get a request about something, and then they'll do like a two-second Google search, and that will be the basis for whether or not they censor it. It's just really weird. Wow, it is. And Matt Taibbi saying it is even weirder. And by observing, like, he's befuddled.

This is a big story.

So You know, Maggie Haberman is all over the Trump story, right? She's trending right now, and she's been all over Trump story, and she's been all over Trump disciples who went out of there for January 6th. But everything that she writes is against Trump, never writes anything positive for her. Maybe a throwaway line here and there. Everything she writes is against Trump.

He's so unworthy, he's so unwieldy, he's so undependable. He's somebody who never should be in that position. Doesn't say it directly, but she says it through the anecdotes she chooses to include. Matt Taibbi is not sitting there and saying the FBI is bad, saying, This is unbelievable that this is taking place. that they're drilling down on people with 72 followers.

And that there's some pushback, and Yoel Roth indicating under deposition because they were being sued by the Tea Party Patriots for throwing the election.

So, under deposition, said that, yeah, they told about the Hunter Biden laptop.

Now, we all know that was true, and they all came out and said, Yeah, we should never have done that. More from Matt Taibbi Cut21. 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 Orwell to me. Crazy to me. You know what I would love to see happen now? Elon Musk will take a supervisor role, not talk as much. I don't want to see Tesla or SpaceX hurt.

Guy's a genius. I don't care if you agree with everything he says. It doesn't matter. He's a cut above. He's that guy.

That person is just so much smarter, and you're glad he's in our country.

So, and he's extremely ambitious. And not everything's going to come out great, but man, I appreciate the quest, and I think he inspires people.

So, no more tweets. I would have very limited tweets. I would find somebody that thoroughly understands it. He probably hangs out with some of the people that could take on this. And then go and get some subscribers back.

He wants this to be a subscription thing. Because right now it looks like Twitter has lost About 70% of its advertisers were, at the very least, they didn't spend last month on the platform. He needs it back because he loses he needs gets about five billion from those advertisers on a regular basis. eighty nine percent of the revenue comes from ads. Seven percent of Twitters come from the seven percent of all the money comes from the top advertisers.

So he needs to get them back. Whether it's incentives, give them all the Tesla, whatever it needs, get them back. And the way you could do that is by. Step it aside. Doing interviews on it, but not getting into play-by-play on it.

When it's time to testify, go up and show up and testify. But put someone there. that loves the day-to-day that clearly doesn't have a political agenda. And then there will be the source. And the platform.

That people at Fox want to go to, people at Breitbart want to be at, and that people at the Daily Beast feel comfortable with. Because they just they're not gonna they're gonna be able to give you looser with restrictions, barring jump, you know, barring suicide thoughts and murder and things like that and Nazism. And I understand that, but it'll be freer than anything else. But right now, him moving back off the day by day will be the best thing possible. When we come back, I'm going to finish up with some calls: 1866-408-7669.

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Much smarter than the hosts. Yeah. Wait a second. It's the Brian Kill Me Show. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it.

You're with Brian Killmead. Mark, how you feeling out there? Again, the same way I felt about eight minutes ago when you asked me that same question, Ryan. I normally do sports. Everything is canceled here for the next couple of days.

So, what better time to ask the sports guy to come in about five hours normally earlier than he would normally wake up? Go stand out in the wind and the snow and the cold and tell other people not to do the same.

So that is that is just a sportscaster thrown to put at zero degree zero degree temperatures, right, Eric? Yeah, from KWW Allen, Waterloo, Iowa. This guy's going viral. I guess he's a local sports reporter who was sent out to cover the weather shift. Right.

And he was really upset. And he I I watched it this morning, so people would tell me about it. And it's pretty I guess they were having fun with it, though. It wasn't as if he was rebelling, looking to get fired. No, but there was a lot of snark behind his voice.

You can hear it here, kinda. I didn't even realize that there was a 3.30 also in the morning until today. This is a really long show. Tune in for the next couple hours to watch me progressively get crankier and crankier. How do I get that Storm Chaser 7 duty?

I I feel like Clint got the better end of that deal. You know, that thing's heated. The outdoors currently is not heated. Yeah. So he was upset.

I do feel bad. When we was tossing out to reporters in Minneapolis, it was minus twelve. It was minus seven in Chicago. And it's our Fox Weather app and our team is unbelievable. But I guess when you do weather, you have to be prepared to go out in the weather.

Right.

You know, think about that. You've got to be prepared for extreme elements. Right.

Remember. But I mean, i is it really necessary to put somebody in seven minus seven degree weather in order to explain how cold it is? I think the sports reporter would agree with you. Right.

So I think that Chicago is going to have a game. New England's going to have a game. Kansas City is hosting. They're hosting in a must-win game for Seattle this weekend.

So the NFL has got to play unless it's a blizzard. I just wonder if the Giants, for example, in Minneapolis, have obviously the worst, but they have a dome. But if you can't get in because the runways are bad, the NFL might have a problem. But they used to deal with it. I mean, I just don't understand it.

I mean, to see these guys, I mean, you see the iceball, they're wearing short sleeves when they play. That to me is insane. And you can't really pass. How do you pass? In that weather.

You need Jim Thorpe. That's what you need. David, listening in Boca Tone. Hey, David. Hey, how are you?

Good, we'll send you mine. You know, it's by the way, I love the show. You get absolute clarity listening to you. And it's refreshing. I'm out in Florida, and you get all these stimulus bills and everything.

Taxpayers are paying for it all. Not only that, but we're paying for investigations for Hillary, and she's still on the air. And she's still piping down things. And it doesn't make sense to me, the hypocrisy of the whole Trump and January 6th committee and all these committees and committees and committees. And the people that are paying for it are toward attack or all taxpayers.

And I just think the whole thing is disgusting. And there's no realism because of how deep, deep, deep everything is. And I will say, back to the football. Uh Sorry for my Dolphins last week, but it was. They were also playing in a blizzard temperature.

So I'm using them for. Yes, sir. Right.

I'll tell you what, one thing is good for them, the Jets lost. And the New England Patriots maybe threw their season down the street, and the worst play I've ever ever seen, barred none. Actually, Joe Prasarczek's fumble was the worst thing when he handed it off to Zonka and Zonka didn't know it. And the ball just bounces around and Herbert Edwards picks it up, and the Philadelphia Eagles ended up in the Super Bowl that year. The Giants ended up blowing up their team.

The NFL got involved and finally put George Young in there between the warring Mara family, and it changed everything around. But that was just a terrible play by Bill Belichick, who looks more human ever since Brady left. And I'll add something else to this. The big picture, and that is the thing about football. which not only is it, I think, a better sport than baseball, the fact is the Buffalo Bills might be the best team in football.

And over the last 10 years, of fif maybe 15, the Pav twenty Packers have been one of the best teams in football every year. That doesn't happen in baseball because small markets Unless they small markets just don't do it. I mean, Tampa has an unbelievable franchise that contends, but they can't keep their players. And now in baseball the Mets and Yankees, Dodgers and Padres. Texas Rangers, I guess, are outspending everybody.

And I just think that the best thing about a league is when every team, big and small, has a chance to compete. I know about Green Bay for one reason. Because of the Packers. And people want to go there still because they have a shot to win. When Reggie White went there especially.

Joe listening on Long Island. Hey, Joe. Brian, Merry Christmas again. Listen, nothing's going to happen to Sam Bakeman Freed. You know, the big name Republicans were taking money from his crypto partner, Salami.

So it's just going to be, he'll get out on technicalities, maybe get a pardon from Biden. Too many big names. It's going to be a backroom deal with this guy. Scaramucci, how did he not know? He bought 30% of Skybridge.

He didn't bet him. He paid him cash. Then he flies to the Bahamas to speak with him before the FBI. It's too weird for me to understand what was happening here, Brian. Scaramucci's meeting with Jack Dorsey before the 2020 election.

He's the crypto guru. And then we find, and he knows Trump is going to lose big time. Ha ha ha. What's going on here? It's the elite.

They're all connected, whether the Republican or Democrats. Yeah, listen, I wouldn't say he's going to skate, but he gets, he should do the way it looks now, he should get over 100 years in prison. and those million people that lost cumulatively over a billion dollars should start calling press conferences to let everybody know the guy who can't find a comb or a shirt that fits or a Peloton is a corrupt, evil guy. 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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