More Ohioans with more symptoms after vinyl chloride spill, officials still deny

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We'll be discussing that. And today is a lot going on. Senator Graham and Blumenthal will hold a press conference. Uh in uh talking about uh making the Russian, you know, that Wagner group. They want to put him on the terrorist foreign terrorist organization list.

I'm all for that. I mean, they're brutal. They're also just tearing up Africa, too. Vice President Pence will speak of the Coolidge and the American Project Conference. Looks like he's library, I should say.

Looks like he's going to run for president. And Speaker McCarthy and a delegation will be down at the border.

So, these are some of the things happening and you're happening.

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for a proud America. I am running for President of the United States. Off to a good start. Nikki goes beyond assessing she's in the 2024 race and also taking a shot at both Trump and Biden's age while not touching Trump's policies.

Meanwhile, the president shows, the foreign president shows, the former UN ambassador, he's done his opposition research on his new opponent. Number two. Just makes the story get worse and worse for the Biden administration because it wasn't as if the sneaky Chinese got this balloon past our radar and suddenly it appeared over our missile silos in Montana. They've been watching this balloon for weeks. And I have a huge problem with this.

China continues to throw out threats and attacks for our shooting down of what they call a weather balloon blown off course. And our vice president not only has no answer, but says it won't affect relations. Can you imagine a weaker response? Oh, I stand corrected. The president's lack of response is worse.

Number I can't believe, you know, right before I came on, the wine went, wasn't it just yesterday they were told not to drink the water? Yes.

Now today they're told you can drink the water? This is just turning into one nightmare, if you ask me. Aaron Brockovich, weighing in. Palestine residents are steaming. Why they didn't.

Why didn't the owners of that derailed toxic train show up to answer their questions at a jam-packed town hall last night? 700 people. Also, another no-show was Mayor Pete. Anyone answers to how they risk all they can? You know, what's going on over there?

I'm not sure. Mayor Pete's not there. I think Congressman Bill Johnson has not been strong. I think Governor DeWine's been terrible. And basically, this city has to wonder: can I trust anything anybody's saying, especially when the people don't show up to answer the questions?

So here's the deal: this train derails on February 3rd. Here we are at the end of February, or just past February, February 16th, right in the middle. And we still don't have any answers. And I'm just shocked that this administration doesn't bring it up, that Mayor Pete doesn't show up. He just tweets about it.

Mayor Trent Conway was there and said this last night, cut three. Yeah, I would say they really screwed up your town big time. What I'm really stunned about is the CEO has not even come down. He's got a $4.5 million house he never leaves. He evidently just doesn't feel as though he has to do what the BP people did when they had that big spill.

Remember, I didn't love the way he acted, but at least they were there every single day. There's something about showing up that people appreciate. And also, you get answers to what people are concerned about and what actually is going on.

So instead of someone saying we have 3,500 dead fish in the water, You go down there and you see the fish for yourself. And then you ask people, how typical is this? Is this as odd as it seems? And maybe the answer is: no, it isn't. People have never looked at it like this.

Harrisman Johnson, who represents the area, told the crowd to come down to him after the meeting and give him the questions that they want answered, and he would relay it to Norfolk Southern, who owns the rail. Forget that Really? You gonna answer my questions? That is crazy. Harmee Dillon understands that these residents have been really left out to dry, cut eight.

One of the things that we've seen from reporting today in the last couple of days has been that residents who are having testing done of their homes, courtesy Norfolk Southern, are being asked to sign waivers of the testing company's liability. And this is significant because, let's say, a testing company that's being paid by the very railroad company that you might be suing. Tells you it's okay to go to your house and then later you develop cancer or other disease, you've lost your right to sue that company on which you relied. That's a good point. And I talked to one woman today on television, and I said, What happened?

She goes, I go, You're in the one mile zone where they told you to evacuate. What did you do? She goes, I left. And I said, What did you do? Did anyone give you any money?

Did they get you a hotel room? Goes, no, but I got reimbursed. I said, Did you have to sign a form? And she said, Yeah. She said, But it wasn't a disclaimer or a waiver.

It was just that I did just proof that I got my money. But I go, it's not proof that you're not that's not all the money you get. I have insurance for stuff like this. I also don't understand. I don't know enough about rails, the system, the transportation, but 10 cars were full of this vinyl chloride.

10 cars, and because it was less than half, they didn't have to go under the hazardous. uh you know hazardous transportation label which would have provided a heads up to the surrounding town. Maybe they wouldn't have taken it, and they would have had different precautions. Maybe you save additional money. I think this is going to be a much bigger story.

Also, why are we looking at all these derailments? Derailment over in South Carolina, derailment over in Texas, derailment over in Ohio.

Something odd. Here's Governor DeWine, cut one. I was just handed a couple minutes ago the results of the testing of the village's water supply. There's five separate wells. And we now have results back from all the wells.

All the wells. Indicate the testing is negative. It's clear that water certainly can be consumed by residents. Really?

Okay. Because yes, two days ago you said that I would drink bottled water, Governor DeWine. And the thing is You should be outraged if you're the Republican congressman and the Republican governor, because the President hasn't shown up and he hasn't spoken about it, the Transportation Secretary's MIA, and you are the ones representing them. Got to go to Washington and make everyone take notice. And so far, no one's taking notice and they're getting a total pass.

As I see it.

So the President of the United States doesn't speak about that, and he doesn't speak about what's happening with China.

So why would he? Three, four things shot out of the sky, one of which was a balloon that had the whole country on edge two weeks ago.

Now we know that most of the payload has been taken off the ocean floor over in South Carolina, and the other three look like they were benign balloons.

Some people were telling me that one of the balloons they blew up, by the way, every time we took a shot, $450,000 was from a dealership. A car sale. We really don't know the difference between a balloon that said 10% off every Mitsubishi. And an actual surveillance balloon or a would-be UFO? I'm bestunned by that.

Are you? How about the fact that You have a situation with China where not only are they not apologizing, they're attacking us because we sanctioned six companies that provided material for this surveillance balloon. And now they say this to China. They're coming at us, and they basically. Uh they basically said this.

And by the way, I expect the President to speak about this soon. China vows to retaliate for downing the balloon, says we undermine their sovereignty in doing so. And we, by sanctioning six of their companies, they're saying they're unmanned weather balloons and yet that blew off course. It was no big deal. They say America, here's the quote: abused, forced, and overreacted, escalating the situation and then used threats as a pretext to illegally sanction Chinese companies.

China is poised to this, is poised to use a countermeasure.

Now, Vice President Harris, instead of showing strength, says. When asked about the spy balloon fiasco, she says this: I don't think it's a big deal. I don't think it'll affect relations. I don't believe it was a super breach. And the President of the United States says, I don't believe it was a major breach.

So, in a time in which China has breached our air security, first time in sixty years we know of, that it's been done, they say it's no big deal. Among the people who say the President is wrong about that and should address Senator Tester, Senator Blumenthal. Senator Menendez. What do they have in common? They were all Democrats.

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It's Brian Killmead. Are you experiencing any symptoms? A little lightheaded, and my lips did get all tingly yesterday when we went to clean up the house. It smells terrible up around the house, and there is black residue on the picture's surface stuff. I hit a cloud of something down in there that.

It put me in a hospital, I went to the hospital, that was worried about me having a, I've been so stressed out they put me on an EKG thinking I'm gonna have a freaking heart attack. Because of my stress being so high, I want to know what I sucked in. Wow, that is a story in Palestine, Ohio, as we try to find out how toxic those chemicals that spilled out from the Durail train are to those people and the surrounding people, and if it got into the water supply, the surrounding cities. Joining us now, Lucas Tomlinson, who's covering the story. And I do want to talk about China and these balloons.

But Lucas, first things first, where's this story going, do you think?

Well Brian, today the first Representative from the Biden administration is coming to town. President Biden's EPA chief is coming at 12:30. He's going to meet with some residents here in town, he's going to tour.

some of the damage. And as you just played at the top, There's many, many residents, hundreds, thousands that are very angry and are demanding answers. Do you mention on television you don't smell anything in the air? Do you get the sense that people are showering, drinking the water, and listening to officials who say it's safe, or are they distrustful?

Well, I'm standing talking to you right outside East Palestine High School, and the schools are open. And I spoke to some residents who were dropping off their kids, some parents, and some of them say they do feel safe. They said if the schools are open and the kids can go to school, that makes them feel safe.

However, you know, other parents were certainly concerned. They're taking precautions. I didn't get the sense that anyone is ready to drink out of the tap yet, Brent. Yeah, I guess not.

So that's how we're some residents. But it would be great to see people on there on the ground. Last night, could you set the scene? 700 people showed up to a high school gym, but they did not get a representative from the rail line. Do you think they had a legitimate reason to fear for their safety?

There we go.

Well, there's a lot of angry people, and there's some tough people. You know, this is Eastern Ohio, Brian. You know, this this is not Park Avenue. You know, there are some tough people here in East Ohio, right along the border with Pennsylvania, and they demanded answers. And for the railway company, they said they feared for their safety.

That's why they didn't want to show up. I thought it was notable on television, on Fox and Friends, what some of the residents said that it instead of it being a town hall, it felt more like a science fair. It sounded like in the business, a dog and pony show. People did not get the sense that people got the answers they were hoping to get. All right.

So the other big story that you've been all over is what's happening with these Chinese spy balloons. Yesterday they got even more belligerent vowing to retaliate for our downing of their balloons, claiming days before that we sent about 10 across their border. And now they want to sanction some defense firms that are dealing with Taiwan in response to the six that we have sanctioned. Lucas. What's the difference that you know from whether the defense officials talking to you about the first balloon as compared to the other three we shot down?

Well, let's start with this, Brent. The U.S. military, while they use surveillance balloons and certainly used them in Afghanistan, you saw some of them were actually pulled from the U.S.

southern border with Mexico recently. The U.S. military does not take surveillance balloons and put them over mainland China.

Now, not to say the U.S. government, the U.S. military doesn't spy on China. Of course, those RC-135s, those Air Force, Spook planes, spy planes, whatever you want to call them. They're flying in the South China Sea, probably as we speak, and they fly in international airspace.

This is what countries do. You know, you have Cobra Ball, of course, different kinds of planes that when North Korea is launching ballistic missiles. We have spy satellites overhead, of course, IR birds that are going to detect Missile launches are also trying to just look for signs of movement, count planes, and troop movements in Russia, China, and of course over Ukraine.

So you have to discount. Officials say they have to discount a lot of what China is saying. That being said, I don't think you can say it enough that the U.S. military on February 4th shot down a 2,000-pound gigantic Chinese spy apparatus. The size of three school buses that splashed down in the Atlantic.

Now, what's notable is there's still no definitive answer about what those U.S. Air Force jets shot down over the skies of Alaska, Canada, and Huron. What do you think, Lucas? It looks like they're benign of getting indications of getting us ready to say they shot down weather balloons. I think there's a s the officials have told me there's a chance it could be Little Kidney's science experiment.

But all jokes aside, while they might look benign, it does show that the U.S. military has ratcheted up its approach. These were, you know, they changed the radar, you know, NORAD, you know, fine-tuned the radars that are picking up a lot more in the skies. But as you heard from the audio from one of those Viper pilots, one of those F-16 pilots over Lake Huron, he didn't even know completely what he was shooting at.

So for some of our listeners, that might be a little concerning that the military is blasting things out of the sky. That it doesn't know. And of course, you heard Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in Brussels at NATO headquarters saying that these objects were shot out of the sky out of an abundance of caution, Brad. Yeah, I guess so. At 450,000 a shot.

It's about 400,000 shot, probably a little less because, as Fox News, when we first reported, these missiles actually aren't armed. There's no warheads. On these A9X sidewinders.

So they're essentially like a flying spear, an expensive spear, certainly well over a couple hundred thousand a pop. But it's also notable, of course, that F-16 over Lake Huron missed with its first shot. There's some concern. Hey, where did that missile go? But for our listeners right now, they can rest assured there's not an armed missile at the bottom of Lake Huron, right?

Yeah, Lucas Tomlinson joining us now. We're hitting one too. His beat was on the China balloons, as well as what's happening over in Palestine, Ohio. Senator John Kennedy got briefed at the highest level, said this, Cut 17. President Biden, of course, has been president for two years.

We've learned a few things. We've learned that under President Biden, the Taliban got blackhawks and unvaccinated Americans got fired. We have learned that under the Biden administration, it seems to be focused with ferocious intensity on the single most important problem today facing our nation, which of course is gas stoves.

Now we have learned in the past two weeks that China has been sending sophisticated spy balloons over the United States and our military installations for at least five years. And sometimes we have known about it and other times we haven't.

So that's the latest, and we are wondering where the President's going to speak. Do you think he's feeling the pressure from his side too? I think there's no question, Brian. Officials told me as soon as today we could hear from President Biden speaking about these objects shot out of the sky. Going back to what Senator Kennedy just said, let's not forget another story we first reported here at Fox that one of these Chinese spy balloons actually crashed off the coast of Hawaii four or five months ago.

So the military has been tracking these things. In fact, it was a year ago when Raptors, F-22 Raptors out of Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, scrambled to go intercept the Chinese spy balloon.

So this is something the military has been dealing with for years. And many people wondering, would the public know about it if one wasn't seen over the sky, the big sky in Montana? The answer is no, but I like the way you played it. Lucas Tomlinson, thanks so much. We come back, Mark Thieson.

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And with that, Donald Trump has some company on the Republican side. I expect pence. Pompeo and Scott to join him quickly. With me right now, to join me right now, it's Mark Thiessen, former chief presidential speechwriter, best-selling author. Not running for president that we know of.

I'm trying to get a second source to prove that you're not running. The Washington Post columnist and Fox News contributor. Mark, Nikki Haley's in. What changes? You know, somebody had to be first, and so she's first.

And I thought she had a great speech. I thought it was really well delivered. I think the call for a new generation of leaders resonates with the country, both with Republicans and with swing voters. I think she had a great line, something to the effect of that, like, it's not that our country is. past its prime is that our leaders are or something like that, which I think it's just says a lot.

It was a great good shot at wokeism and also the so shall we say the mental challenges our current president is having.

So yeah, I thought it was a good launch. I don't I think the odds of her being the nominee are slim to none. I think she's probably running for vice president. um which is uh in the long run, which is probably her most likely place that she'll end up. But I think now that the uh you know, you need something to uh to break the uh break the uh Break the mold, and now we've got other people, as you said.

I think other people are going to be getting in, and we're going to have a race. The Trump team came out immediately with opposition research. The real Nikki Haley, minutes after she was in, official campaign launched. The Trump campaign noted Haley supported Paul Ryan. and his plan to uh eliminate Medicare and turn it into a voucher system.

Dun dun dun. Trump does his homework. Yeah, I mean, you know, the reality is that Medicare is going to be bankrupt in 2028. Here we go So, I mean, Paul Riot was, and I don't think that anybody wanted to turn it into a voucher system. I think that there was a, I mean, I worked in the Bush administration.

We want to create private accounts for people who chose to do that while allowing people to continue traditional Medicare. We're going to have to do something. We're either going to have to raise taxes, cut benefits, or cut payments to hospitals. There's only three options at some point. And it's great politics to attack people for that.

He's playing the same tactic Biden is doing. But, you know, the idea that you want to stop a fiscal crisis and figure out a solution to a fiscal crisis before we end up with people not getting care is probably not terribly responsible. All right.

So, you know, you don't know what Donald Trump is. Donald Trump is in, but he hasn't been doing much campaigning. I think just two appearances. And he's got some legal issues, I'm sure you've heard, many of which are trumped up in New York or a joke, but here. Yeah, here is Nikki Haley, though, calling out Trump, kind of cut 23.

In the American. America I see the permanent politician will finally retire. We'll have term limits for Congress. And mandatory mental competency tests for politicians over 75 years old.

So I asked her a half hour ago, how do you think Donald Trump would do in that competency test since she's 76? You said he'll probably, you know, I'd be curious, he did good last time. But then she quickly went over to Joe Biden. You can't run and not go after the frontrunner. Yeah, no, I think she's well, first of all, you can.

And I think you'll see that with some of the other candidates. I think what a lot of people yeah, I think what a lot of people are going to say is and look, if I was advising DeSantis or any of these other guys who are who went to get in, is to say, look, Donald Trump is a great president. I love Donald Trump. I thought he did a great job as president. I just think that he's not positioned to win right now.

And we can't afford four more years of Joe Biden. And we need a younger leader, a more experienced leader. And as DeSantis said, with subtle dig at Trump, I won my last election, right? Uh but just when he attacks just say you know, he's a great leader because w here's what's gonna and this is Generally speaking, who is going to be able to beat Donald Trump is somebody who is going to pick off or separate him from some of that MAGA wing of the party. And that's why I think DeSantis is the strongest position, because MAGA World loves Ron DeSantis, but he also appeals to swing voters.

He also appeals to independents. He also appeals to some never-Trumpers who never really liked Donald Trump. And somebody who could bridge all those different constituencies within the GOP is best positioned.

Now, one thing that Trump did say, apparently, in Courtney's summer report, is when Haley talked to him, he said, you should run. And That's in his best interest. The more people get into this thing, the better for Donald Trump. That was the quote. He said: the more the merrier.

But also, a couple of things. It just, I think in theory, you're right, Mark, but I don't think it's going to play out that way. For example, Governor DeSantis is being called Meatball. That's going to be his nickname. Oh my god.

Right. I mean I'm sure you've heard that. But it seems childish. You think so? Of course.

Of course it's ridiculous. Here's the problem that Donald Trump has with Ron DeSantis.

So I can tell you this. I have a personal focus group.

So my daughter plays on a hockey team in Philadelphia, and one of the families is from Florida. And they are hardcore MAGA Trump supporters. Her brother shows up to every game in a suit and tie and a red MAGA hat. I mean, these people go to Trump rallies. They love Donald Trump.

And when he attacked Ron DeSantis, They were so upset. The mother said to me, if he does that again, I'm done with him. And it's not like Jeb. It's not like low energy Jeb. It's not like Whittle Marco.

People, the MAGA world loves Ron DeSantis, is loyal to him. They think that he shares their beliefs. And so it's not like attacking these other candidates to go after Ron DeSantis. It alienates a lot of people in his base who don't like it. And he's going to have a very hard time attacking Ron DeSantis when Ron DeSantis just delivered the biggest victory.

How did Trump's candidates do in the 2020 midterms? Not too great. Ron DeSantis won by 20 points in Florida, turned Florida into a solid red state. He won independence. He won women.

He won Hispanics. He did everything that Donald Trump didn't do in 2020. And so you k y going after him when he's basically a more effective mega leader is going to be very hard because a lot of Trump's loyal people who love Trump Love Bert DeSantis as well. All right.

I think a lot of stuff you said is right, and it's also unprecedented. We've never seen anything quite like this. A former president loses election, goes back to run again, still got a degree of popularity. Yeah, um I think you're right. Very similar, but just ever to do that in American history.

Right, but the thing that's different about it is Donald Trump is totally different than any other candidate we've ever had run for president. That is very true. And then we're going against another guy that's actually older at 82 years old, who many people still aren't convinced is going to run again.

So I want to get you on. Last thing is. I want to get you on Ukraine. Rumors between 200,000 and 400,000 troops are amassing in Russia. I'm not sure how true that is, but their major offensive is taking place in the winter.

But so far we're seeing we're seeing the Ukrainians fighting valiantly. And holding off on this one town in particular called Volder here. Evidently, they've killed. They've basically wiped out an entire battalion. Only eight guys are left, and they were considered deserters.

That according to Ben Wallace, who is the UK Defense Minister, they say 97% of the Russian army is going to be deployed in the country. 97%. What are the stakes as most of the Western powers and China and some Asian powers are descending on Munich?

Well, if the Ukrainians can wipe out that military for us, then that that essentially removes the Russian threat to the to NATO.

So the more the more Russians they kill, the more Russian capabilities they take out, the better for us. What I don't understand is this President who claims to be to support Zelensky, who says we'll do whatever it takes as long as it takes, Still is, we won't give him attackums. We won't give him F-16s. We won't give them all everything we do. There was a story the other day that the Pentagon is preparing to give them F-16s because every other time the president said we're not going to give him a capability, he ends up doing it later, just six months later.

It's like we're dragging this thing out. And let's just take the gloves off and let the Ukrainians win this battle. Give them what they need, and it'll be over. Everyone says, well, we can't have this war go on forever. First of all, it's up to the Ukrainians how long we want to fight.

You know, Zelensky, if Zelensky cut a deal with Putin to give him territory, he would be thrown out of office by the Ukrainian people. They don't want to do that.

So give them what they need, help them win. I just think, you know, I hear Mark Levin. I know how you feel. I know how I feel. But there's a shrinking number of Republicans who feel that way.

And they say the most ridiculous things. I mean, I saw one from a prominent Republican who said. There are 200,000 Russian troops about to come in. You still think Zelensky shouldn't ask for peace? I mean, do you understand?

They g give up twenty percent of your country and then they'll just take the next country. A lot of people are speaking from what my old boss, Don Rumseld, used to call a pinnacle of near-perfect ignorance. You know, here's the reality: we are deploying the Reagan doctrine. I understand that after Afghanistan and Iraq, people don't want American troops to go around fighting around the world, just like after the Vietnam War, when Reagan came into office, people didn't want to send American troops to fight the Soviets around the world. I get it.

That's not what we're doing. What Reagan did was he found freedom fighters around the world who were willing to push back on Soviet expansionism themselves, who were willing to fight for their own country's liberation. All they wanted from us was weapons, training, some financial support, diplomatic support, intelligence support, and they were willing to push back on our enemies for us and kill our enemies for us. It was one of the most brilliant innovations. It's literally what won the Cold War for us.

And we're now in a new Cold War that Russia and China have locked arms to fight against us. And the first battlefront of that new Cold War is in Ukraine. And we're, I mean, Joe. Biden is no Ronald Reagan. He's dragging his feet.

And these conservatives. Are doing the same thing that Ted Kennedy and the Liberal Democrats did to Reagan. They want to cut defense. The Reagan defense buildup was one of the greatest accomplishments any president has ever had.

Now they're channeling their inner Ted Kennedy and wanting to cut defense. They want to cut aid to Ukraine just like the Democrats wanted to cut aid to the Nicaraguan Contras in the 1980s. Why are conservatives acting more like Ted Kennedy than Ronald Reagan? That's what I don't understand. I know.

You know, obviously, Senator Lindsey Graham doesn't feel that way, and some others, I think they get it. If you want to avoid World War III, Make sure Ukraine is successful. That's the only way to avoid it. And the reason there's a war in Ukraine right now is because of a failure of deterrence, because of the weakness in Afghanistan, the withdrawal that tempted Putin to do that. If you want a war over Taiwan, Have a failure in Ukraine.

It's the perfect way to do it. If we want to deter China from invading Taiwan, and that's a war that we will have to fight, that it will be American troops that are engaged in that. If you want to stop that and deter the Chinese, we better damn well win in Ukraine. Kurtakovsky, the former Olugar, who was jailed for 10 years by Putin, said the exact same thing, and he's going to be one of the guest speakers in Munich this week. Amen.

Mark Thiessen, thanks so much. Take care, Brian. You got it. 1-866-408-7669.

So when we come back, I'll be able to take some calls for the first time and give you a chance to vent from Ohio to the balloon scandal to what the vice president just said about China to what we just talked about, Ukraine one year later, to everything on your mind, to 2024 and the field beginning to fill out. Your thoughts are on our show.

Next. Expanding your knowledge base. It's the Brian Kill Me Show. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead. My biggest concerns.

My biggest concerns is ultimately the drinking water, the effects of the drinking water. I feel like they haven't been truthful with us. I just worry about especially the kids, the young mothers, the pregnant mothers. The biggest concern that I have is with dioxins. Nobody's even talking about dioxins in period.

No kidding. I can't believe what's going on right now. Tyler, listen, WXJB. Hey, Tyler. Hey, good morning, Brian.

How you doing? Good. That's good. I just want to open up with saying that my daughter and I, she's twenty-five, we consider you and Foxes as real family, Brett Bayer, son, and all this. It's really a pleasure to actually know you people.

No, I appreciate that. And that's when when we walk around, we just feel not like you know, we feel like we know everybody, and you guys feel like you know us, because we're allowed to be ourselves on the air. And actually, in reality, you do. As far as the spill. These people that say the water's safe and drinking itself, I want to see them stand on stage and drink like a quarter of this themselves.

You know, they can't be trusted. It's just like at nine eleven, Christine Todd Whitman, she said that uh it was safe over there. You know things forty year olds had brain cancer just a few years later? Oh, believe me, I know. I mean, the numbers almost doubled in terms of casualties since 9-11.

So, Tyler, I'm just outraged for these people of Ohio. And I just wonder if there were a group of minorities and mostly Democrats, how often Joe Biden would be there and how many times the Secretary of Transportation would have shown up there. I think it's a major difference. They look at it as a state that are Republican, and they look at it as a working-class white area.

So, rather than talking about racism, they have to just have talked about being responsible, and they don't want to do it. And for this company not to show up because they felt threatened, there's a police force there. They wouldn't have felt threatened. They don't want the optics of being yelled at by angry residents of the area who have been basically poisoned. Greg in Arizona.

Hey, Greg. Yeah, it's a little frustrating listening to you and Marketson talk about how you can't believe people don't come along with this Ukraine thing. You got to consider the sources. First of all, Lindsey Graham, I don't know what happened to the word shame, but it doesn't exist. That guy putting his face on T V ever again.

It's like putting Sam Bakeman Freed on there having a discussion about finance. He just doesn't have it. The guy wanted open borders here for crying out loud. When? Zelensky.

He never wanted open borders. I follow let's just talk about Ukraine. Greg, you tell me what you want to do about it, Ukraine.

Okay, but you're telling me that Lindsey Graham said go and he wants to go. I don't think you got anything to do.

Okay, forget Lindsey Graham. I believe that the best way to prevent World War III is to do everything to allow the Ukrainians to be successful because Moldova is already being infiltrated. Georgia is going to be finished off. And the message to China is go for Taiwan. You think I'm wrong.

And that's okay. No, I don't think you're wrong. I just wish we had real actors involved in this that had your mental interests at heart. I don't believe it. The same clowns that are running the nightmare in Ohio are the same clowns that are telling us this needs to happen or telling us exactly what's happening over there.

And maybe there is first-hand accounts of horrors that are going on over there. I get it, but I don't think Zelensky's government itself has the right interest. There's corruption. You guys got it on a laptop. That's all over the place.

And this is the same bunch of clowns here in the military that are telling us all this who left our boys and girls over there in Afghanistan and throwing money at it and throwing stuff at it.

Okay, maybe, maybe. But at the end of the day, you know what happens? I'm from a military family. They throw boys and girls at it. That's just the problem.

You've said a lot of things that I agree with, but there's some other things that I wanted a challenge. One of which, whatever you think about Zelensky, what he has done in a year with over 300 calls to world leaders, 38 appearances, different parliaments, rallying his people, giving messages to men and women on the front line, actually visiting them online, be able to take a fractured political process and get everybody from Prushenko to Klitschko on the same page and get this fighting force so resourceful. They are making things work that we never thought were possible with the weapons we're given them. They are making history on the battlefield. They are outfighting the Russians.

Now the other things about crush it, the guy's making efforts to get ri you know, to to to fix it. I think he's a very inspirational guy that stepped up to the moment. I think Ukraine's got problems, but it was beginning to straighten out when they were invaded.

So, but a lot of stuff and a lot of reservations about the way Joe Biden's writing this. Absolutely. Mark Thiessen was 100% right. They're late on everything, they're late on the high Mars. They were late with the tanks.

Now they're going, they're thinking about the F-15s. It's been over a year. But we can't they can't afford to lose there And we got to replenish. As we distribute, we have to replenish. and cannot cut defense.

But a lot of your concerns are legitimate and I agree with. And Lindsey Graham is pretty strong on this and he was just as critical he was just as critical of the Biden administration slow walking these weapons. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Killmead. Hi, everyone.

Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Killmeat Show. Excited to have George P. Bush in studio in about a half hour. And Congressman Michael Waltz is standing by with the House Armed Services Committee out of Florida, represents the great people of Jacksonville and St. Augustine.

So he'll be with us in a matter of moments. Today is a lot going on. I mean, just to think today, we know the. Rare bipartisanship. Graham and Blumenthal will hold a press conference on legislation labeling the Russian Wagner Group a terrorist organization.

Absolutely. They're creating havoc in Ukraine and they're creating havoc in Africa and who knows where else. Also, Mike Pence is making a big speech today at the Coolidge and American Project Conference. You could say it's for his book, but I think it's more about him running for president. Man, we'll find out what's going on.

Also, the president's going to and the first lady will host a screening of Till, the brand new movie that is now out. That's exciting for them at 7 o'clock. People do still watch the movies. Let's go to the big three.

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We'll discuss it. Number two. Just makes the story get worse and worse for the Biden administration because it wasn't as if the sneaky Chinese got this balloon past our radar and suddenly it appeared over our missile silos in Montana. They've been watching this balloon for weeks. Yep, got a huge problem with this.

China continues to throw out threats and attacks for our shooting down of their balloon, their surveillance device, their surveillance ship. They're calling it a weather balloon and they promise retaliation. Unbelievable. Number one. I can't believe, you know, right before I came on, DeWine went, wasn't it just yesterday they were told not to drink the water?

Yes.

Now today they're told you can drink the water? This is just turning into one nightmare, if you ask me. No question. Aaron Brockovich last night, Palestine residents are steaming because guess what? The owner of that railroad that poured toxic gases into their city, into their town when it derailed, did not show up at a town hall yesterday.

That is unacceptable. With me right now is Congressman Michael Waltz. Congressman, I know this is not directly affecting you. It's Ohio, it's not Florida, but I'm sure you've been watching what's going on right now. The only thing that's consistent is we don't see any Biden officials there at all, including the Secretary of Transportation.

Yeah. Yeah, that's right. And look, I think this isn't just an Ohio story. It's a It's a national story. You know, number one, it's the state of our infrastructure.

And how this thing derailed in the first place. Remember, the Democrats passed over a Trillion dollars in infrastructure spending, but most of it was what they called social infrastructure, not actual. Roads, bridges, train tracks, ports, you know, the things that the things that we really need. But, Brian, you know, you. We have seen crisis after crisis under Democrat leadership going back under Obama, whether it was the Flint lead crisis in Michigan, whether it was the Gold King minespill in Colorado that the EPA actually caused, And this obsession with emissions only And I just think we're taking our eye off the ball when it comes to the actual cleanliness and safety for our environment.

And with the focus on emissions, if you look at the increase that you're going to need in mining, And these types of minerals, 6,000 times the current levels of lithium around the world that reach some of these. electrification goals. You know what? I want to take some of these leaders to A mine in the Congo run by the Chinese with twelve-year-old Congolese boys getting shoved down into these holes. From a human rights standpoint, from an environmental standpoint, it's atrocious.

But all of that kind of gets ignored as long as I guess we just drive towards EV. And I think they got to take all of this into account. And then finally, you're right, nobody's present. Spasic leadership. When you have a crisis, you get on the scene.

And from a reassurance standpoint, Bootage Edge should be spending some nights in the hotels, drinking the water. If the EPA says it's safe, then you know what? I'm standing right here with the head of the EPA, and we're gonna share in this burden with you. That's That's not what we're getting here. I mean, this is it.

You don't have to be a train. You're scared. You don't have to be a train expert. Number one, the toxic chemicals, 10 of the cars were full of it out of the 50.

So then they didn't get labeled as a hazardous caravan, whatever it's called.

So no one even knew about it. And I think a very mellow governor, Republican governor, and Bill Johnson, the Air Force officer, is sitting there basically saying everything's fine.

So I don't get it. Jot down your questions and I'll get it to the people who run the train. That's not an answer.

Meanwhile, what happened? The preliminary report suggested a wheel bearing was in the final stage of overheat failure just moments before the derailment. It looks like the axle broke. Yeah, right. And that goes to that goes to safety maintenance on Norfolk Southern.

right. If it wasn't if it wasn't the condition of the track, it goes squarely on the company. I will say in my colleague Bill Johnson's defense, at least he's there at the town halls, at the sites, taking questions, breathing the air, drinking the water along with everybody else, but no one from the administration is. But yet they want to tell everybody that's fine.

So please tell me what's going on with China and the rhetoric that's revolving around it. And I talked to Josh Rogan yesterday, as you know, he has got great sources, Washington Post columnists, and he says that we look weak. He says there's no way that President Xi didn't know exactly what was going on. And our answer and being coming out and saying it should not affect relations, according to our Vice President, to paraphrase, and the President said we don't consider it a major breach. And allowing it to traverse the country gives the rest of the world the sense that we look weak in China's eyes.

Well, that no, that's absolutely right, Brian. And it fits into their global Propaganda campaign, and you could see it in the Global Times and all of their other propaganda channels. That yet, one more bit of evidence from their perspective, what they're putting out. That America's in decline, it's a declining power, not only along with America, but democracy. It's too fractious, it's too difficult, and oh, by the way, capitalism.

That the future of the world is socialism with Chinese characteristics and their techno-surveillance state of one-party rule. and continuing to look weak, whether it was on the Afghanistan withdrawal, whether it was the failed deterrence with Russia and Ukraine will invite aggression from our adversaries. And, you know, at the end of the day, Brian, we track this thing all the way along. This wasn't a military hardware failure. It was a failure of policy.

in having clear criteria. I still don't know or have answers on how we allow a massive surveillance platform to traverse Our airspace, but then we start shooting down unknown objects. As a green beret, if one of my soldiers started shooting down or shooting at unidentified objects, they would have been court-martialed.

So it's we still don't get answers on what our shoot down criteria are. If something's interfering with civilian aircraft, does that mean if those unidentified objects have been at sixty thousand feet instead of forty? that we would have let it go. Or if it had been large enough that it causes casualties on the ground, that we just let it that we just give it a free pass. Doesn't make sense.

Now apparently the White House has a working group. to figure out what our policy is. How about the fact that they have a fleet of balloons that are near space that will actually be a s uh fa at the very least a fail safe should satellites go down. They'll have a way to surveil. And they've been doing it now for the last five years.

They actually, if I believe the New York Times, they made this announcement in 2019 that they had these fleet of balloons. They were happy about it.

Well, and you raise a great point, Brian, in that in all of our war games, and I pray it never comes to this, but in all of our war games, the first shots are fired in cyberspace and actually in space. And once you start knocking down satellites, the debris will knock down all kinds of others and will take our networks offline. And what the Chinese essentially have been testing is a backup plan. That's what it seems to be.

So we have Senator Marshall, Senator Sullivan, we have Senator Blumenthal, Senator Tester, all saying the president should come out and speak. But at least he should say something. I think part of it is the embarrassment of shooting down what might be our own balloons or might be some car sales balloon that might be out there. You know, we lost the one in Montana. We shoot it down.

It goes down in Michigan, Lake Huron, one of the Yukon.

So another one off the coast, I think, of Alaska. And these might all just be space it might just be space junk. Yeah, I have. Sky debris. Is that whatever that is?

Is that why they don't want to make this? Is that why they don't want to talk? The other piece is, I mean, that we're asking of the military is. is if you're dialing tuning in your radars and your sensors, getting them pointed in the right direction, the right sensitivity. Why did we only get those three?

Why aren't we seeing a whole other Slew of different types of junk. Have they changed the criteria again?

Now we're not going to shoot down unidentified objects.

So I just want some consistency on how and what the criteria are to defend America's airspace. And if we have gaps, as apparently we did in near space, above where aircraft fly and below where satellites fly, why aren't they coming to Congress saying this is what we need? To acquire, this is what we need to procure. I think they're still trying to figure it all out, Brian. But in terms of the president not speaking, it just.

look, the an administration takes on the culture and the leadership characteriz characters of Of its leader. And just like we're not seeing Budajej on the scene, you name the crisis, railroad strike, port issues and supply chain issues, and now this derailment, same. I think they're adopting the characteristics of the commander-in-chief. China is imposing sanctions on Lockheed Martin Raytheon in retaliation for the U.S. putting sanctions on six companies that were a part of this surveillance ship, or whatever you want to call it.

Yeah, well, look, I mean, what we know, and this is from Yes. uh surveillance craft that have American components, Iranian drones uh that have that are shot down over Ukraine that have American components. There's an entire black market. out there of circuit boards Of all types of parts that go into these sophisticated.

Sophisticated surveillance apparatus, and we've got to crack down. We've got to bring our supply chains home. We have to protect what we have. And that's something we're working hard on in the Defense Department, in the Armed Services Committee.

Well, I mean, I'm happy. Any time the American companies are out of China, I'm happy. Evidently, they're upset because we're supplying Raytheon in particular in Lockheed Martin are supplying weapons to Taiwan.

So I'm looking at Kordakovsky today, the former oligarch who was jailed for ten years by Vladimir Putin, and he says that if Ukraine doesn't win, and Russia is perceived to have won, this will start a world war and it's going to start with China. That it is so important that Ukraine prevail here. Do you think people understand that, especially in your party, Michael Waltz?

Well, look, I think people see a very large price tag. They've seen kind of a shoulder shrug when it comes to oversight. And they haven't seen really holding the Europeans, particularly the Germans and the French, not talking about the Eastern Europeans who are directly threatened, accountable. I mean, look, and that That gives people a lot of questions. I mean, we've got Kamala Harris is going over the Munich Security Conference, the largest security conference of European leaders, prime ministers, foreign ministers.

And I don't expect to hear Or see a finger in the chest of these European leaders telling them they have to step up. the Germans haven't delivered a fraction of what they've actually promised. And so I think if they would do that and demonstrate to the American people that these dollars and this equipment are going, I think they certainly buy where we intend it to. They certainly buy into the proposition we can't let Putin reconstitute the old Soviet Union and suck us into a war with NATO. But those other pieces got to be in place, Brian.

And I just don't think it's too heavy of a lift for the administration to do that. Hold the Europeans accountable. Assure us that our stockpiles aren't going below where we need and provide appropriate oversight of where this stuff is going and give the taxpayer some assurance. Yeah, I would also after 20 years of the Middle East wars and leaving billions of dollars behind for the Taliban. It's not a great track record.

No, it's a terrible one. And also, I think it's terrible that we're not pressuring India to stop buying Russian oil and continuing to trade at a dizzying rate with Russia. China is up fifty percent from a year ago, and do you know how much Germany's trade has decreased? according to the Wall Street Journal, three percent.

So once again, I think a lot of my constituents feel like America it's the right thing to do, but why is America taking so much of this burden? And I think those are fair questions to ask. Wait a second. Germany's only decreased trade with Russia 3%. according to the according to an analysis of the Wall Street Journal.

I thought they cut off all trade with race. All right.

But they still have they still have all types of mineral exports, mining, coal. I mean, ironically, Germany is going back to coal after a headlong charge with its own Green New Deal.

So there's all kinds of other things. that are still going on.

So these sanctions have more holes than Swiss cheese. Michael Waltz, thanks so much, Congressman. Appreciate it.

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George P. Bush is going to be joining me in the studio shortly. I have some time, just us. Let's go to the phones. Wade, listen on W-O-K-V in beautiful Jacksonville.

Hey, Wade. Hey, Brian, thanks for taking my call. I always take the long way to work every day to catch a little bit more of your show.

So I love it. Thank you. I have enough humility to admit that I'm not as smart as you at most of any of this, but I'm one of those that This war in Ukraine, I struggle a little bit with, particularly because Maybe it's selfish on my part, but I've got two special needs kids myself. Took four years to get into any type of. Program for autism because they're perpetually underfunded.

It seems like every program at home that That you know, maybe we could utilize and do better at, it's always broke. And I just struggle a bit with.

Well, if we don't do this, World War III may happen. And I'm watching this ragtag army from. from Russia not be able to in any way make a lot of progress.

So I'm like, how could they possibly withstand World War three? And how do I know that much of our weapons, like in Afghanistan, isn't eventually falling in the hands of Russia anyway? And are we going to strengthen them by them potentially? I just don't know where the money, the weapons are going. There's two things.

I think we agree on one thing. You understand the necessity for the mission. You don't like the execution and don't trust after the Afghanistan debacle and the way this administration performed that it's being that we're doing this in a streamlined way. There should be. Evidently, Deloitte is an audit company.

They are evidently following some of the weapons trail to make sure they're getting to the right place. I want to see more people stand behind what we're doing, find out the weapons getting to the right people. But if. But the objective I 100% agree with. But how they're doing it.

Piecemealing, giving them the weapons, I find it unbelievably frustrating. But the way the Ukrainians fight and have held up the Russians for a year plus, it's absolutely necessary they're successful. Because believe me, there's evil people in this world that want to make sure we lose. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead.

Welcome back, George P. Bush in studio. I'm his pregame show to. To I guess outnumbered. And then you're going to be on with me over the weekend on One Nation, the former land commissioner over in Texas.

You were en route to becoming the next Attorney General. Did not get the nomination.

Now you're in private practice. George, great to see you. Great to see you, too. Glad to see where the sausage is made. Really?

You did come to radio before, right after you served in the military. You came by with your wife. We were on a different floor, different studio. Do you happen to remember that? I don't, actually.

This seems like much more updated, sophisticated. This is nice. Yeah, we have flat screens instead of two TVs.

So that is, we definitely feel like this is brand new. You were just out of the military. I remember you thinking to yourself, I thought you were going to run. I think it was for a land commissioner the first time.

So what's it like being out of office right now? It's a little bit of an out-of-body experience, to be honest with you, Brian, because you feel the weight of the state of Texas, which is big, right, on your shoulders every single day. And my body clock after four legislative sessions reminds me that we're in session now. And so to transition from public life to private has been, you know, a change, but I'm still just as passionate and excited about the issues that drive our conservative movement forward. And so I'm excited about the upcoming election cycle, changing the levers of power in the Senate and also the White House and helping out wherever I possibly can in the conservative movement.

But you're still using your law degree.

So tell everyone what you're doing. Yeah, so I'm excited to announce that I'm partnering with Michael Best. We're a national law firm, full service. We've got great Republicans like Reince Priebus, the former RNC chair and chief of staff to President Trump that are at the helm and really excited to expand the practice in Texas where we take on complicated challenges for clients.

So even though I'm not serving the people of Texas all 29 million, I get to serve clients every single day. which has been fun. As much successes as your family has had. You guys all lose election once in a while. It happens to everybody.

Your dad lost for governorship and went back and got it, right? George, your grandfather lost his Senate bid, I remember twice. He ended up okay, you know, vice president, president, CIA director, and everything.

So for you, how did you handle not getting that nomination for AG?

Well, I'll also add my great-grandfather, Prescott Bush, lost the first time he ran as well. And I'm the only Bush to have won my first race. But I was reminded by George W. after I lost, hey, don't worry, every Bush has lost at least once in their political career.

So, you know, what I've learned from the experience, Brian, is that everybody fails. You don't win every single time. And how you bounce back, how you recover is really a true judge of your character. And so, like I said, I mean, I still have a heart for service. I'm passionate about these issues.

And I want to serve in some capacity. And we'll see what God hasn't planned. I believe that there's a plan for us all. And so, what I've learned in my family is just to work hard every single day and we'll see what opportunities present itself down the road. You have a lot of areas of expertise, but two, immigration.

You guys were building your own wall in Texas. And number two is oil and gas. And I've actually tapped into both teams twice for that. First, let's talk about immigration. We have a delegation going down to the border today in Tucson sector where they find the bulk of the fentanyl coming through.

When you see the dramatic change at our border, do you believe this is intentional? Or is it just because this president wanted to do the opposite of Trump? I think it's to build a new political constituency or what he perceives to be a new one. And we've seen this in the past during the Obama days with an unconstitutional executive order for the Dreamers Act. And Biden, in order to appease to this base for the next reelect, I think is trying to build a new constituency.

But as we saw Brian in South Texas with second, third generation Hispanics in these communities that abide by the legal immigration process, they're more upset than most communities around our country on this immigration issue. And so when you look at the bill that Texans are paying, especially in South Texas every single day, on law enforcement, on health care, the list goes on. And look, we're a compassionate people. We're a compassionate state, as is New Mexico, Arizona, California. But this goes above and beyond politics.

We need to actually put into action items that are going to stop this flow, this historic flow of illegal immigration. But there's a couple of things going on. There's a lot going on. But in particular, he's wrong to think. That by bringing in illegal immigrants and naturalizing them somehow.

That they're going to be as voters. The only thing pretty consistent is every cycle over the last few years, losing more and more of the Hispanic vote. And I think, in my humble opinion, that's why Hugo Chavez is Hugo Chavez, Cesar Chavez's bust is on his desk. He saw that he beat Trump with less of the Hispanic vote. Trump got more and more and more.

And we saw the last cycle, too.

So this is not working because the American Hispanic community is not happy about this. Absolutely. And, you know, I'm a second-generation Mexican-American myself. My mother went through the legal immigration process. And as a country, we need to honor those that are waiting in line and going through the normal procedure.

But right now, it is much easier to come here illegally than legally. And this president has set forth executive orders, such as removing Title 42 or attempting to, thank goodness for the judiciary and intervening and keeping it in place. But he is basically unilaterally taking away the remaining tools that the Border Patrol has in their possession to keep people at bay. And then, not to mention, the Mexican government needs to do their job to address this issue. There's a lot of evidence out there that.

Shows that they were hoping for a Biden election so that they could pass on this problem. They didn't like to remain in Mexico. No, absolutely not. And it was President Trump who passed the bilateral agreements with the Northern Triangle countries that helped to expedite asylees. But Congress needs to act and close these huge gaping loopholes in asylum law that allows anybody from virtually most parts of this world to come to our country, get a notice to appear.

And as we know, Brian, they're blending into the shadows, not showing up for immigration court hearings, and violating the process, which is an affront to those communities that come here legally and do it the right way.

So they say that the now want countries from Venezuela, Haiti, a couple of others to apply in the country they're in. And then you fill out this form or go on an app, and then they'll fly in $30,000 a month. How crazy is that? And they said right now people crossing that has decreased, but it just shows they're getting, we're flying them in. Yeah, and we're overwhelmed.

I mean, Brian, maybe on our next trip, we should go to El Paso and Fort Bliss, where you may remember the Haitian migrant caravan that came up. It was in excess of about 10,000 asylees. They were immediately transported to El Paso. And anytime you're flying out of El Paso to, say, DFW or another large city that is connected, you'll find asylees getting on the plane and going to a location of their desire. And it's you and I, the taxpayer, that are picking up this bill.

And so, you know, when more Americans are aware of this issue, they're more infuriated. But for me, as a Texan, when watching the State of the Union, it was a 73-minute speech, and he devoted 70 seconds to this issue. And whether it's Chinese surveillance or immigration, This is an issue of national security. It's intertwined with so many different issues for the U.S. taxpayer.

And it's frustrating because as Texans, we're absorbing most of this bill. And this governor, Governor Abbott, is doing what he can every single day to just raise this awareness. And 2024 couldn't come soon enough.

So Arbador evidently is emptying his prisons. If you believe this latest report, he's emptying his prisons. And that explains why 98 people have been found to be on the FBI most wanted list. on the FBI watch list coming across the border when in years past there's been one or two. Did you know this?

Did you do you feel as though that's been ver virtually verified?

Well, I haven't been able to verify that. Definitely want to talk to my friends with the Border Patrol Union, but not surprised because of the undue influence of cartels in profiting from this with a Mexican government that clearly is afraid of the influence of the cartels, particularly in northern Mexico. But essentially, it's a profit-making supply chain that's been created by the current policy that we have. And until we get serious, we can't just have platitudes saying, please do not come. We need actual action on the border.

We need to, as Chip Roy, a congressman out of Texas, has recommended, designating cartels as terrorist organizations, which would unleash so many federal resources to get serious about this, similar to what we did with the Colombian drug cartels in the 80s and 90s. Effectively, they're flying drones at the border to see where the soft spots are in our security. Unbelievable. We've already captured the cartels doing that, and they feel free to do it.

So one of the things that's happening is a lot of the El Paso mayor and now. We're seeing this in Colorado and other places, are bussing these illegal immigrants to places like where I'm at now, in New York, where we're at. And they're dropped off. They say there's got 43,000 here, about 12,000 that come from Texas.

So when Governor DeSantis saw some of them being dropped in Jacksonville and other places, he shipped them over to Martha's Vineyard famously and said, You deal with them. And they thought that was the most horrible thing.

So I asked your dad, would he have done that if he was governor? Um Oh, this is just about Disney? But your dad says he wouldn't have done it because it cost taxpayer dollars. Um Do you agree how do you feel about what Ron DeSantis did in Texas? shipping them to Martha's Vineyard.

Well, I agree with Governor App. He was actually the first one to do this because my viewpoint is to educate the rest of the country. On this issue is to have the issue on their doorstep. And when New Yorkers, when folks in Chicago and Washington, D.C. start saying, Mr.

President, we need some help, finally we're getting some consensus from the other side of the aisle on the issue.

So, Mayor Adams. Comes down to the bottom of the city. He came down to the border. And he's actually taking time out of his busy schedule to learn more on the issue and potentially work with our side to lobby the president of the United States because that's ultimately how this is going to work. Or suddenly, the president's going to say politically, maybe, hey, I need to tighten the reins a little bit on this issue to placate the moderates that he's going to try to reach out to and independent voters.

But in the meantime, I'm for any idea, any governor stepping forward and using whatever mechanism possible. When I ran, I advocated that under our State Constitution, and it was Attorney General Bronovich with the original idea in Arizona to assert State constitutional authority to bring in state National Guard and State Guard to do the job that the federal government is unwilling to do. What do you do when you round them up? Do you put them in your Texas prison? Do you put them in an Arizona prison?

In a non-federal, correct. You'd put them in a state facility, or in Texas, what we've done is put them in county facilities. But as you can imagine, Brian, when you're talking about numbers of, I think in December, it was 230,000 illegals on a monthly basis, which was an all-time record. You know, with Texas roughly representing half of that number.

So if you're talking about Verde County and others, they're totally overwhelmed where they only have capacity for maybe 1,000 or 2,000.

So it's a quick processing. You know, states are doing what they can, and that's what I love about executives at the state level: they're responding to action quicker than what the federal government's willing to do. Former George P. Bush is here. He is a former land commissioner over in Texas.

He is here. He's going to be unoutnumbered. He's going to be on with. Thoughts over the weekend on One Nation. We're going to talk 2024 when we come back on the Brian Killmeat Show.

Newsmakers and newsbreakers, here at first on the Brian Killmeat Show. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Kilmeade. Disney was one of the people that took those positions and condemned the bill from pressure they saved from their employees. Can you talk about the battle? As that unfolded, and what were you thinking?

Because you know the importance of Disney to Florida and to Orlando. Look, 80,000 employees. We don't have an income tax because people go to Disney. Our sales tax revenues are paid for by 20% of the sales tax revenue more or less are paid for by visitors.

So it's hugely important.

So I think it's important to recognize how important Disney is to the state, but also take a stand against these woke employees that temporarily were kind of running the asylum there. As much as Governor Jeb Bush is a fan of Governor Ron DeSantis, he did not agree with the Disney, taking on Disney, taking away their autonomous status with me in studio George P. Bush. Georgia, I know you do crisis communications with this law firm you're in right now. Who's right?

Well, he did say take a stand, and that's the role of a governor on it. And ultimately, it'll be the legislature that decides to take away that protective status. And honestly, as a Texan, I wasn't even tracking that they had this legal protection in a state like in Florida. But what I can share with you in Texas and what the ledge is doing, and I agree with, is to say that financial institutions that don't do business with oil and gas companies shouldn't have the right to do business with the state of Texas. And there are so many examples where governors every day are faced with the example of economic development on one hand, but when you have corporate leadership that have decided to take on dangerous ideas and try to indoctrinate, say, children or impose their own political beliefs on their employees and that disagree with the ideas of our legislature, that's a problem.

And the governor, as the leader of a state, needs to, at minimum, raise that to the public. And so the governor is correct on that, and I agree with Abbott on what he's doing for. Our arguably most important industry of the oil and gas industry.

So, do you think Ron DeSantis was right to go after Disney? We've never seen anything like that. And he's doubling and tripling down. I thought Bob Iger would just do a peace deal and say, sorry about this, the other guy's gone. but they haven't turned the page yet.

I'm a believer in sitting down with the opposing side before getting into a war of words and a letter-writing campaign. And so, you know, maybe the governor attempted that. I'm not sure. But at least in Texas, we've attempted that, where we don't get responses back on why exactly overnight banks like Citibank have decided overnight they're not going to lend to oil and gas entrepreneurs. When did that start?

So that started in the wake of COVID. And I remember hearing anecdotally around the time that you came down to the Permian Basin, where a lot of wildcatters and independent producers said, George, some of these larger banks in New York have decided, because of ESG principles, are going to totally divest of their loan portfolios and backing out of deals that were actually signed. And to further define this. Even though it's a great investment. And you might they might deem it as a positive thing for anybody's portfolio, Mr.

and Mrs. Johnson down the block or a major corporation, they're saying we don't want to be part of oil and gas as if it's bad. We want to be part of rare earth or something else, some type of woke principle.

So we're stopping We're stopping going for this, it is not capitalistic behavior.

So, the West Virginia Attorney General and others have combined to say, if you don't want to do this, then you're not allowed to do business here. Totally. And have the bankers come back and say, okay, we'll amend our practice? Because I know Blackstone came out and said, no, BlackRock came out and said, no, we never said we're going to do that, which is not true. Yeah, no, I haven't seen any conciliation from their side to reach out to the legislature.

And maybe they're advocating before the relevant bodies and committees to come up with a solution. But to me, it's very simple. It's about, as you said, the pensioners in Texas. It's about the entrepreneurs that rely upon debt financing to get deals done. And Texas is known as an entrepreneurial free market state.

So it's right for the government to, including the governor, to advocate the way that he has on this issue. 2024, how many candidates do you think will be on that debate stage six months from now? Right now, we've got two.

Well, you know, I had a chance, and I mentioned one of my partners is Reince Primus, former chairman of the Republican Party, and he reminded us last night that party rules are such that you have to have over 10 percent in the polls.

So if that rule still holds, and maybe I'm wrong, maybe I got that fact wrong, the actual debate platform will be very limited.

Some have even advocated. Having a minimum amount of campaign funds available to just show strength of longevity in a long-term campaign. But to the extent that we can kind of tighten the conversation, it would benefit the Republican Party as we get down to the nitty-gritty in these early primaries. Do you expect DeSantis to get in, Pompeo and Tim Scott? Of Earl's three, what do you who's most likely?

I think all of them. I mean, I've really Vice President Pence is in there. That's what I'm hearing. I won't attribute relationships that are involved in that effort. You know, being in Texas, since we are arguably the largest donor to Republican Party causes in the country, you know, we'd see a lot of these aspirational candidates, you know, coming all over the state, and especially when oil is over 80 bucks.

But, you know, when you see a lot of the candidates making those propositions, you know that there's a lot of candidates coming. We're going to watch you at noon on Outnumbered. Then we'll see you over the weekend, 8 o'clock on One Nation. Thanks, George Pig. Thank you.

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Everyone from 48th and 6th of Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. We're going to hear from Lee Zeldin shortly, the former New York Republican gubernatorial candidate, got 47% of the vote. And Daniel Bilak, he is a member of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine and former Chief Investment Advisor to the Prime Minister Zelensky.

So we know this is going to be, this Munich conference is all about Ukraine, mostly about Ukraine. And China's there, and they're represented. They obviously want Russia to be successful, and I think it's very important for the West to realize it is time to pony up big time bucks to make sure this maybe last surge by the Russians of 200,000 ill-equipped, ill-trained soldiers will fail. Let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. A strong America. For a proud America. I am running for president of the United States.

Lady Southern. Just like that, Donald Trump has some company. Nikki Haley is now in. How formidable is she? I say very.

Number two. Just makes the story get worse and worse for the Biden administration because it wasn't as if the sneaky Chinese got this balloon past our radar and suddenly it appeared over our missile silos in Montana. They've been watching this balloon for weeks. Yeah, and they've had the program for years. I have a huge problem with this.

China continues to throw out threats and attacks on our shooting down one of what they call weather balloons blown off course. Our VP says, I don't think it's a big breach. The president says, I don't think it's a big breach, it shouldn't affect relations. I say it absolutely has to. Number one.

I can't believe, you know, right before I came on, DeWine went, wasn't it just yesterday they were told not to drink the water? Yes.

Now today they're told you can drink the water? This is just turning into one nightmare, if you ask me. Aaron Brockovich, the Palestine residents are steaming. Why didn't the owners of the derailed toxic train show up to answer their questions at a jam-packed town hall? Also a no-show?

Mayor Pete, the transportation secretary, and anybody up until today from the administration in that now toxified region. Lee Zeldon joins us now. Lee, welcome back. It's great to be with you, Brian. First off, it's not your area.

I get it. But what I've seen so far in Ohio really, I can't get out of my mind. This train derails, spills toxic chemicals. They think the best thing to do from here on in is to detonate it so it doesn't explode causing shrapnel. They tell everyone, go find a hotel if you live within a mile from it, and now you can go back.

Nobody's shown up. The EPA will show up today. This is unacceptable, Congressman. Yeah, the worst part of it is when you're getting that message from the government with confidence of what you should do next. and you're having a town hall or other outreach with these people in government, you want them to show up and to answer your questions, to answer whatever questions that you have.

And it it only results in less trust, less faith in the advice, the process, the directives. from government when it's only a one-way street. We want to see that the Secretary of Transportation showing up to answer their questions. We want to see the company showing up and answering the questions. That level of transparency and accountability is just it's causing even more of a trouble than what they had previously.

The health piece of it is one that's been filled with too much inconsistency as well, and it's as personal as it gets for these individuals who are right there. Absolutely. So the other thing to keep in mind, too, is I'm not a train expert. I'm not a chemist, but you know this vinyl chloride is dangerous. It dates back to World War I.

It burns you from the inside. It's unbelievable. And now they're saying you can drink the water. Don't worry about the dead fish and dead animals throwing up. Here is Harmee Dillon, a civil rights attorney, talking about what this company has actually done over the last few years.

Cut 10. I think anybody who's touching this disaster, anybody who might be responsible, the railroad company certainly is, railway company is certainly in big trouble with respect to this toxic tort because this is not the only one. In the last four months in Ohio, there have been four derailments by this company. And so that's just a pattern of something wrong at the company. They probably had notice of some of these issues.

I'm sure the Department of Transportation, if it gets its act together, will investigate that. But it's tragic that this happened without an investigation happening earlier after the first incident, the second incident, or the third incident. And the guy, the CEO, is sitting in Atlanta in a $4.6 million mansion with a no-show because they were concerned about their welfare. But you have other things to discuss. First off, in New York, in particular, we find out that evidently there's this tin cup meeting where everyone goes up to Albany and says what they need.

The mayor here in New York did not go to bat for the 12 charter schools that need financing, and the Democrats up there expected it. You know, it helps minorities most of all, disadvantaged youths most of all. How do you explain that? Yeah, amen. To that point, you have people trapped in multi-generational poverty.

You have kids stuck in poor performing public schools. We see it with the most recent test scores that came out nationally showing that black students, Hispanic students, low-income students in New York, where we spend 2.5 times as much per pupil, than places like Florida and Mississippi, are performing far worse. Than the same kids, the black students, the Hispanic students, the low-income students in places like Florida and Mississippi.

So, what you need at this moment in time is to lift the cap on charter schools in the state, to recognize. School choice to make sure it's easier to get your kid into a quality education regardless of race, ethnicity. Wealth, it should not matter.

So, this is the time to go to bat. No more excuses of how people in your own party aren't willing to do the right thing. You have to be able to lead if you want to sign up for the awesome responsibility of being the mayor of the city of New York. Don't look at Bill de Blasio as the example of anything. You need to aspire to a whole new example next level, and that requires you to go up to Albany and take on your own party.

Yeah, why not? Because he has more publicity than anybody else, and he certainly has bigger name value. He didn't use it. The Democrats hold on to and hold off bail reform so we continue to live in the wild west of crime. And they they nicked a promising judge that Governor Hokul, a Democrat that you almost beat, she wanted this judge and she got beat up by the legislator.

She got embarrassed. First time a judge has been kicked to the curb from a governor. Yeah, Hokul doesn't understand tactically how to do this. When I'm saying this, I'm referring to basically the entire job of working with a legislature to be able to get stuff done. We were calling for a special session of the state legislature to overhaul cashless bail, to give judges discretion, away dangerousness and more.

And by the way, not a partisan issue, Mayor Eric Adams also calling for the same thing.

So when they go up finally to Albany for a special session after the election, what do they do? They give themselves a pay raise.

Now Hokul could oppose it. She could go to the public, because I'm sure the public on both sides of the aisle would be in agreement with her that this is something that should be opposed. She could veto it, and instead she ends up just going along with it. How much does the the state legislature appreciate this act of playing along with their pay raise? They're emboldened to roll her even further.

As we see right out of the gate, there's a vacancy in the Court of Appeals that's the highest court here in the state. She puts out a nomination, and this legislature, people of her own party, people who are beholden to the far left, many of them come from the far left. Many of these people, by the way, would be insulted if you accuse them of not being a socialist. There are a bunch of those now in the state legislature. And unfortunately for Hogel, when she gets rolled, that means New Yorkers get rolled, and it seems like she, the people around her, tactically, substantively, she just doesn't have it.

And that doesn't bode well for the future of the state. And this part of the reason why people are just moving out, especially this story, a New York City man shoved onto the tract, a 66-year-old Brooklyn guy. It turns out the guy that shoved him onto the track is this guy named Corey Wolcott. Been arrested 19 times over the last 12 years.

So, how is this guy even out? Normally, he wouldn't be, but the lack of bail reform has him out and about, and judges can't use discretion. It's outrageous. Yeah, and judges should have discretion to weigh dangerousness. There is a need to overhaul cashless bail here in the state.

We need judges doing their job. We have some lax judges out there who let people on the street who shouldn't be. You have some district attorneys Refusing to enforce the law, like the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, as he outlined on day one with his day one memo, and it all adds up. You end up going after law enforcement, take away tools that they need to be able to do their job, and as a result, you have people who don't feel safe on the streets and the subways, and they feel like these streets and subways are being turned over to criminals as opposed to being run by law-abiding New Yorkers. It all adds up together.

But this isn't some complex, difficult-to-figure-out challenge. It's really simple. Stop passing procriminal laws. As a matter of fact, roll back the procriminal laws that you've passed, Cashless Bell is one of them. District attorneys doing their job, judges doing theirs, and unapologetically back our selfless, dedicated men and women in blue.

This isn't difficult for us to figure out and turn around. A couple of things. 2024, Nikki Haley made it official yesterday, and this seems to be a veiled shot at the President, former President of the United States, Cut 23, and the current. In the American America I see the permanent politician will finally retire. We'll have term limits for Congress.

And Manda. Mental competency tests for politicians over 75 years old.

So Obviously, President Trump's 76.

So they were, he says he's my friend, she says he's my friend. But how do you see this playing out? Mike Pompeo's his friend, Tim Scott's his friend. Mike Pence was his friend. Lee Zeldin, you are friendly with the former president.

How does this play out?

Well, first off, the piece about term limits for Congress, I couldn't agree more. We need that type of turnover As far as the attack on somebody because they've hit some type of mysterious age of 75, that all of a sudden they might not be mentally competent. I've met plenty of people over 75 who are a heck of a lot sharper than people who are under 75. I get it. I mean, you see a contrast even with mental abilities between President Biden and many others who would be his peers at the same age.

I don't know if you saw, by the way, or heard about this response that just took place with Don Lemon over CNN going after Nikki Haley and suggesting that she is no longer in her prime because she's not in her twenties or thirties anymore. How does this end up playing out? I think the Nikki Haley candidacy might be making the heads explode at CNN more so than just about anywhere else at the point because it is another aspect of the Republican Party. Generation. I happen to think, by the way, it's interesting if you play this out.

If you're President Trump, You might want all of these people to get into the race. He does. I think. If you end up just running against one or two of them, they might consolidate. The rest of the Republican Party that might be looking for someone else.

You know, President Trump, I don't know what the exact number is. Maybe he has a solid 30, 35, maybe it's more percent. That will be with him no matter what, no matter who's running against him. Maybe it's 40, I don't know. But if he's running against one or two other people, that's probably more of a challenge for him than if everybody else gets in, because somebody like Nikki Halley is probably pulling more votes away from a Ron DeSantis than a Donald Trump.

So what happens if Ron DeSantis and Tim Scott, Mike Pompeo and Mike Pence and just everybody else gets in the race? That might actually end up guaranteeing President Trump's path. It's pretty interesting how that dynamic plays out in the primary. Have you ever run against a friend? Yeah, listen, you can do that.

I mean, you can have a competitive spirited political race. I I mean, I've done that. I I had a primary last year with Andrew Giuliani was in the race. I've known Andrew for a long time. We've always gotten along.

Rob Astorino was in that race, got along well through the years. But just keep it substantive. Everyone should be engaging in a debate in a way that is maybe in a way you're vetting out yourself, your opponent. But at the end of the day, you have a race to win in a general election.

So, my message to whoever makes up this Republican presidential field is that at the end of the day, whoever the nominee is, the rest of them should all be fully behind, doing everything in their power to make sure that Joe Biden doesn't get a second term. All right, so here is what Don Lemon said. This whole talk about age makes me uncomfortable. I think that I think it's the wrong road to go down. She says people, you know, politicians or something are not in their prime.

Nikki Haley isn't in her prime.

Sorry. Whem a woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s. What do you talk about? That's not according to me. Prime for what?

Uh it it depends. It's just like prime. If you look it up, it'll if you look if you Google when is a woman in her prime, it'll say twenties, thirties and forties. That that does that make does this guy want to get fired? Really, you're basically daring any network.

I don't care where you are. I mean, if you're if you're running a channel and you have a host saying something like that, the person at the very least is being put on some previously scheduled vacation. I mean, something is happening to give this guy a breather. Is he saying this about Kamala Harris, who's the vice president? Was he saying it about Hillary Clinton when she was running?

Yes, so I happen to think that Nikki Haley is going to be causing and and a bunch of other potential presidential candidates in the Republican field. I think it's going to cause a whole lot of heartburn on the other side because there is a whole other generation of talented Republicans working their way up through the ranks who will provide one heck of a challenge in differential races to come. Exactly, because everybody knows Republicans are not racist, sexist. They're not anti-immigrant. But most of their candidates have been white.

And m men. And now you have this Indian. A governor. Who is Indian heritage? You have an African-American working, a guy who grew up in a very impoverished neighborhood in Tim Scott.

He's clearly going to run. And you got Mr. Midwest and Mike Pompeo from West Point Guy. You have a very diverse field, and that's what really makes Democrats' head explode, especially Don Lemons. Lee, always great to have you on.

All right, you got it. Take care, Brian. Go get him. That's Lee Zeldon. Your call's X.

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Ken in California. Hey, Ken. Hey Brian, how you doing? Good, what's on your mind? We're up against the break.

You want to talk China? Real quick, okay, huh? I want to talk this balloon thing. It's r it's an insult. I don't see people they flew not only from the west to the east, but the from the north.

yourself. And it's like it's such an insult to us, I can I can't believe people can't see that. And it's kind of one of those last straw things. We need to get a lot tougher with those people. Unfortunately, we're not going to do what the President we got, but Okay.

I hear you 100%. And the thing is, I wish I lived in the world where we could talk it out, but the people we're going against are thugs. The Chinese government a bunch of thugs and criminals, as is the Iranian government, and the Russians were seeing their bloodthirsty, egotistical, egomaniacal ways. That's who we're dealing with. I can't define our enemies, but they are they have a problem with us because we're essentially good.

And we just want to provide people with opportunity and countries with a degree of protection, and we're the problem. To their world domination. We have to wake up to it. And a true leader would define it. But we're not getting that.

And that's what I find just killer. When we come back, Daniel, Bill Ack will be joining us from Ukraine. It's been one year. They fought brilliantly, but they're going to need more help to continue to fight. We got to provide it to him.

I'll discuss it. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. When I was running for the president, I'd say that each of us is a president. because all of us carry the responsibility for our country.

for our beautiful Ukraine. And now it happened so that each of us is a warrior. a warrior in his or her right place. and I'm sure that each of us will win. Glory to Ukraine.

And that was a year ago. And that was the sense as Zelensky was going to keep his country together, not ask for a ride. He just wants ammunition from us, unlike. Gahani of Afghanistan, who just fled with all our money. Zelensky was just the opposite.

He stood and fight, fought, and so did the Ukrainian people. And now, one year later, After the invasion, they're trying to push the Russians out of their country entirely, but they are surging because they're embarrassed, and this might be their last big surge. Can they hold it out? Can they hold out? Daniel Bilak joins us now, member of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine, former Chief Investment Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine and head of Ukraine Invest.

Daniel, welcome back. What a year it's been. Thank you. Thanks, Brian. Good to be back on.

Yeah, it's surreal, to be honest with you. What the Russians are doing is trying to destroy your country because they can't beat you head to head, can't beat you head to head in battle. That's pretty clear. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, we were supposed to be overrun in three days, and the country was supposed to collapse within three weeks. And here we are almost 365 days later, a full year later, and not only have we reclaimed over 54% of the land that they had invaded and taken in the early days, but we're holding them off. There are estimates from the British Defense Secretary the other day that 97% of the entire Russian army is now deployed and committed in Ukraine, and that we have, over the course of the year, degraded 50% of it. And if we can just hang on in some of these key places where they're concentrating their forces now and wait for the ammunition and the tanks and the armor and the artillery that's been promised to us, in the next month or two, we're going to drive these orcs back to Mordor. We're going to just drive them right out of the country.

And that's going to be our common victory, Brian. That's going to be the victory of the people of the United States with us, with the Brits, with the Germans, with the other European allies, NATO allies, Canada. And that's going to that's what true victory is actually going to mean, is that we get our we get our territory back, all of it, And we hopefully we see the downfall of the Russian Empire because so long as Russia is in the current state that it's in, there'll never be peace in Europe, Brian.

So I understand over the last week that the Russians lost one hundred thirty armored vehicles. I also understand, according to Ben Wallace, the person you're referring to, the UK Defense Minister, that in this battle of Ulador, They have lost almost every one of their soldiers, except eight survived and are looked at as deserters. Can you verify any of this?

Well, I mean, this has all been in the public domain, and I think the Brits have got pretty good intelligence. They share it with the Americans. I certainly believe the things that they put out. Look, Brian, we're killing between six, eight hundred to a thousand Russians a day. We need to be killing 5,000 to get through this army of cannon fodder that they're just throwing at us.

I mean, you know, they're using old equipment now. All their main battle tanks, the modern ones, about 50% of those have been destroyed. They're taking stuff that's been on their fields and conserved for 40 years and trying to put it forward. You know, they're going to try to throw everything they can at us. At this stage, because they know that American armor and German armor and British armor is coming to them, and they know that they can't withstand it.

So I hear the Germans are not coming across a very small percentage of what they promised, and they're still trading with Russia. And are these two facts known? And what's your reaction to them?

Well, you know what? I I I I I never believe anything until I actually see the the tanks in in in in the country. And actually, I did see some some German leopards in Ukraine last week. They might have been the Canadian ones that the Canada sent. But the fact that they're trading with Russia is legal because the I guess there hasn't been a ban put on oil and gas exports.

Uh but um you know I If if people are trading with with Russia, there there's a there's a there's an enormous moral issue that is that is involved. You know, we we keep hearing from people that, you know, we're we're afraid of escalation. We don't want to give you F 16s now because we're afraid of escalation. We didn't want to give you tanks. We didn't want to give you high mars.

We didn't want to give you artillery. But in the end, we got them, we use them responsibly, we use them effectively, and then they go forward.

So I suspect we will get most of what we've been promised. Uh and probably more. But we have tendencies like this stuff about escalation where we're just allowing Putin to weaponize our fears against us. And you see that coming out in some of the press in the United States and other places with journalists saying we should stop this and focus on China or don't arm Ukraine because of escalation, blah, blah, blah. And it costs too much.

You know, Brian, it costs the American taxpayer $14 a month. to equip us, to give us the arms that the United States has been supplying us. that's like three point two percent of the Pentagon budget. That's zero point zero one percent of the GDP of NATO countries. I mean, it's a rounding error.

And what America gets is its vital sworn enemy, who's determined to destroy everything about American democracy and democracy around the world, is degraded, as I said, by fifty percent at no cost to American lives. Zero. And that you're never going to get a deal like that again. No question. So Khartakovsky, one of these oligarchs that was jailed for ten years because he was a threat to Vladimir Putin, will be speaking in the Munich conference.

And one of the things he said, he warns the West, if Russia beats the Ukraine, expect another world war. What do you think he's getting at? Yeah, one hundred percent. We've talked about this on your show a number of times, Brian, that if he is not if the Russian army is not defeated totally in Ukraine and Ukraine does not get all of its territory back, including Crimea and the Donbass, He's coming back. He's going to come back, he's going to come back.

If he's allowed to keep even what he's got now, he's going to rearm, he's going to resupply, and he's going to come back after the rest of Ukraine, but he's going to keep going. This guy is not the reincarnation of Peter the Great, which he thinks everybody talks about. He is the spawn of Stalin. And if you look at a map of where Stalin's influence in the USSR, the Soviet Union's influence, extended to, it's half of Europe. And all of these Eastern European countries certainly know that.

And I think that you're going to see a potential even nuclear war. And you know what, frankly, there was a There was a a survey that came out last week that 89% Of Ukrainians said that they would fight on even if Putin uses nuclear weapons against Ukraine. And because because we have no other choice. And I really hope that we can continue to give the West and NATO its mojo to see this through. We're close, Brian.

We're really close. I mean, you know, if we can get rearmed, if we can get properly, we're getting trained on combined arms training, all this stuff that the Russians cannot and do not know how to do and do not know how to do, they're just throwing bodies at us. We've got to cut through those bodies, drive them out of the country, and we can have this done by the end of the year. That'll be great. 100%.

That would be great, and people should understand it. I wish our president would explain it more rather than just take a few questions as he's walking to an SUV because there's so much at stake. I also think that India needs to be pressured to stop the trade, as well as these Middle Eastern countries, to stop trading with Russia. India knows better. There are certain things, I get it, once in a while, you need some oil, but now they're taking advantage of where the West has pulled out.

India is now moving into Russia.

So that is unacceptable. And we do have some leverage over them, don't you think?

Well Yeah. This is a real, you make an excellent point. Right now? It's India, it's Brazil, it's Indonesia, it's South Africa. These are huge countries.

All of whom are either sort of nominally neutral but trading with Russia. Look, the world is going to post-victory, the world is it seems to be coming into a bipolar type of a situation. You're going to have the democratic nations on the one hand, and you're going to have the axis of evil, the countries of tyranny and repression and dictatorships on the other hand, and countries like India. and Brazil and are going to have to decide which side they're on. I mean, are they democracies and sharing the values and get the benefits of trade with and technology with countries like the United States and its allies?

Or are you going to double down and suck on the oil that Russia's providing you at a deep discount? You know, it's very transactional. And as we've seen in this war, Brian, you know, there's a cost to doing transactional business with dictators. You know, you pay the piper at some point. And this is not going to end well for India or Brazil or these other countries that are doing this.

Lulu was just that criminal, was just at the White House. Uh and why the President wouldn't be using that time to pressure him. But this has got to stop.

Now there's certain fertilizer and certain things that nations have that maybe once in a while there might be an exception. But to have consistent trade to fill the gaps for the rest of the world, I don't see that happening with India and Brazil. They need America too much. Why don't we just use the obvious leverage we have?

So these little things around the edges go a long way. And if you go out and publicly call out Germany for not giving their share of the weapons or money, that also goes a long way. Don't worry about being friends with people. Make people do the right thing. Daniel Bilak, thanks so much for what you're doing.

You guys are making history with the way you're fighting. Hope you can keep it up. Thanks, Brian. And God bless the people of the United States. Thank you for standing with us.

You got it. Always. Listen, when we come back, we'll find out if there's more to know. Maybe taking some calls. You listen to the Brian Kill Meet Show.

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Let's get to. to find out once and for all if indeed there's more to know. More. To know. Not many people are flocking to syndicated television like they used to.

When Regis Philman and Kathie Lee were together, they'd be number one or number two, having about 10 million viewers.

Now it's down to about 1.5 million, but still successful as Ryan Secret, Kelly and Ryan. No longer. It looks like the man who filled in For Michael Strahan, took over for Michael Strahan. Ryan Seacris will be moving on.

So Kelly and I have some news here. This is something that she and I have been talking about for a long time, and it was a tough, tough decision. Last year. We spoke, and I made the decision to make this my last season as co-host with Cal here on Live with Kelly and Ryan. Last season, just like that, Ryan Seacress will go.

Guess who's taking over? Mark Consuelis. I think they have great chemistry. I met him, Mark, a few times. I never met Kelly.

But Mark's a great guy.

So, Ryan Seacrest is doing a million things. I'm surprised he lasted this long. Yeah, and he's actually not even going to last this full season. He said, once American Idol is back up and running, he's done. But he said he will return as a fill-in guest host.

Yeah, I don't blame him. At least there's no anger this time. There's no stabbing in the back. There's no crying and all the other drama that took place. Was there somebody between Straighthand and Ryan Seacrest?

I feel like there was. Rotating. Oh, okay. Maybe it'll be Anderson Cooper. No, no, it's her husband.

Okay, next. Former ESPN president has photographed a controversial proposal: make Super Bowl pay-per-view to increase NFL revenue. This is John Skipper. Let's listen. If you just assume that half of the people watched.

Would still figure out a way to watch if it costs $200, $250 for a household. You can have bigger parties, which is, I don't know how many households, it's, I assume, half the households in the United States watched. If it was only a quarter of the households who were willing to pay $250 to have a party at their house, it would still get you into the billions of dollars for a single game. And that is the single best way I can think of for the NFL to increase their annual revenue take for their clubs. Number one.

All right, I can't even listen to this.

So let's gouge the sports fan who are already paying for cable, for streaming, for whatever they're watching it on, and let's make them pay more for a game that's been an American celebration. You got to be kidding me. Is everything about the bottom dollar? We're not talking about indoor lacrosse. We're talking about the most popular game of the world.

You got to gouge the public even further. That's absolutely insane. He was acting like the NFL is struggling for revenue this way. The only thought is this. The NFL is basically printing money.

Even through all the controversy in previous years, they still are printing money.

Next. Dick Van Dyke, who I've been compared to often, still singing at 97. Remember, he was starring in Mary Poppins, which has been released, I think, a hundred years ago. This guy, I have not met him. But to be that limber, that good shape, that diverse, you're talking about a guy that was a big star in the 60s.

And here we are in 2023, and he's still dancing. Not only he's still dancing, still singing, he's still with it, and he pops up in videos all over the place, too. Listen to this from a, he was a panelist on Mass Singer. There's no hole. This time The legendary Tony Grammy and Emmy Award winner, the one and only Dick Badar.

What was it like being the gnome? It was real dark in there. Nicole, you are in tears. Link is. I love you so much.

We love you. The whole world loves you so much. It's an honor to have you on our show. You are one of the reasons why I got into comedy. You are comedy.

You're the GOAT! That is Dick Van Dyke, so he's getting some appreciation. Uh what does he look like? Big beard? Yeah, he's still got he's got the white beard, uh white hair, but he He's a legend.

He is an icon. And a lot of people grew up with him. He also keeps himself limber. A lot of stretching.

Next, Megan Markle's half-sister claims the Duchess made up the rags to royalty narrative. Markle's half-sister appeared in virtual court Wednesday in her defamation case against the Duchess, her sister, where she claimed the royal tarnished her name by fabricating a rags to royalty narrative.

So Samantha Markle is suing her sister in federal court. What a crazy family. This is nuts. Samantha Markle said this. My half-sister orchestrated the campaign to defame and destroy your sister and her father's reputation and credibility in order to preserve and promote this false rags to royal narrative, had fabricated the story about her life.

I mean, every there everybody's wrong here. Yeah, I it's so easy to just tune these two out. And a lot of people, a lot of people say, why haven't I slept lately? And it's because I can't sleep until I find out if the king coronation will include an invitation to Megan. Do you have like a poster board in your office where you try to figure out the royal family and I am done with my family?

I'm focusing on a fictional family with fictional royalty. Have you told your family you're the king though? I mean, I'm sure they know that. But they're a real family. Yeah, sure.

They're all the John Kerry's private jet just sold to a hedge fund. He feels a little guilty flying around the rest of the world telling us to go green. I guess they found an electric plane. All right, thanks so much. Listen, everyone, this is Brian Killmee.

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