Ohio chemical spill causing alarm; China gets combative with Biden admin

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kilby Show.

So glad you're here. Pat Fallon's going to be here shortly, the Congressman from Texas. And we're going to have Robert Irvine, the legendary chef. You know, he's a great talk show host. He's got a brand new book out called Overcoming Impossible.

And we have a lot going on today. For example, the vice president, the former vice president, will deliver remarks on defending parents' rights. You know, he's getting set. A couple hours. You know, he's getting set to run for president.

And Kansas City Chiefs is celebrating Super Bowl 57, their big win. They got a big parade.

So let's get to the big three.

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company and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He boasts about how he only got the job doing this negotiation because he was the then vice president's brother. Explain this. James Biden, now like Hunter, is trading on the family name with his bro as VP. He made millions.

We have the documents, and now will Republicans make the effective case? Number two. You feel comfortable moving back into your home? Look, I think that I would be drinking the bottled water. And I would be Continuing to find out what the tests were showing as far as the air.

Really?

Well, we found out the tests you said the water and air were fine.

Now you take drinking bottled water, tell the truth, and show some caution. That's my message to local and national politicians as the so-called experts when it comes to the toxic chemical spill in Palestine, Ohio. The train derailment from two weeks ago, followed by a controlled explosion. Not good for the people in the area. Number We learned nothing in these briefings that I didn't already know as a member of the Intelligence or Armed Services Committee.

That's why I think it's so important that Joe Biden personally and directly address the American people. Yeah, that would be good leadership, fighting it out. China gets combative, and the Biden administration on the balloon they thrust on us and make laughable allegations while no one knows its origin or make up or if the other objects were shot out of the sky, what they actually were, because we have not recovered any of the wreckage. Top secret briefings only add to the anger and confusion that you just heard.

So, with me right now to talk about leadership is the band, the author of a brand new book, Out Yesterday, Overcoming Impossible: Learn to Lead, Build a Team, and Catapult Your Business to Success. Robert, welcome. Thank you very much. Hey, how? This is awesome.

I didn't even know you were right here. You're everywhere, dude. Right.

Well, you know, when Tony Snow went to the White House, do you remember when he became press secretary?

So I was one of his fill-ins, and I ended up taking over his show.

So it's been fun. I mean, radio, you know, radio is great. And you're better at him. Don't tell him I said that. Tony Snow?

No, there's no way.

So, so, Robert, in particular, you know, people see you on a regular basis talk about leadership, and you now write about it in your book, but you have a humility about it because you learn from your mistakes. How important is it? generally Yeah. I mean, if there's a problem, show up, take the fire, and listen. We don't see that with one catastrophe after another.

You've got to stand up, you've got to own the mistakes, even if they're not yours, and you've got to show the country that you care. And that's leadership, right? I talk about empathetic leadership in the book about listening.

Well, you've got to listen. We have a country that's divided right now. No kidding. On a lot of things. Look, we've got Iraq, we've got Syria, we've got, you know, all the things that have happened, and now China and Iran.

And, you know, I listened to a great conversation. Uh with Mark Esper. You know, talking about, you know, former Secretary of Defense. Yes. And this, by the way, this is Robert Irvine.

I already said Robert. Great, great friend of mine who great, great. But we've got to own these things. We've got to tell the people what's going on. And there's nothing wrong with I don't know.

Yeah, exactly. Right.

But we're afraid to say that. That's an ego thing, right? And I talk about that in the book. Let the ego go and say, look, hey, I don't know, but I'm going to find out. And we're going to do everything possible to find out.

And I'll give you an example. The the Secretary of Transportation was a mayor. Oxford grad. just like our former HUD secretary was a brain surgeon. I have no problem with that.

If you go in there, you put the gexes in other guys, but leadership and accountability, being a great citizen, service, you can learn it. I mean, you're an Oxford grad who served in the military, you can learn it, but you have to try. And you have to show up. Hey, I'm not a chemical expert. Where is my chemical expert?

What's going on? You look them in the eye and you get a sense of who's lying to you, who's nervous about it, who's not telling the truth. But you just said something there: accountability, right? We've got to hold people accountable for their actions. Every action has a consequence.

And if you don't know, And I say this all the time. I hire A people above me because I don't know the answers to liquor and this and this. You got to tell me what to do because I have no idea. But I'm okay with that. And a lot of people are not okay with that.

You know, we hire, you know, I'm an A personality. I want a double A. We hire B people. And I talk about this in the book. We hire B people because we don't want to listen to them.

It's my way. And I don't want to listen to you.

So don't talk to me.

So One thing about leadership, and you talk about this, be compassionate. Show you care about the person. And they will perform for you. And we see that with great coaches, too. Absolutely.

Absolutely. Hey, how are you going in your life? You're going through a divorce? I understand things are going a little tough. You know, you got cut from such and such.

So when you show you care, then that person will be invested in you. But that's the empathetic leadership. I know, look, we have just under 5,000 employees across our 11 companies, right? I need to know that Johnny is disabled and he needs this. And because that's.

That's my job to understand that because now I'm getting a better end result from you. Right.

You know, some people like money, some people might time off, some people like a pat on the back. We're all different. Right, so if you understand your workforce and you understand what they need. The company is always successful. Regardless of how much money you make, because it takes time to build a brand.

So if you think of a mum and pop restaurant at $300,000, then you look at a $300 million company, the problems are the same and they're scalable. And I talk about that in a pancake recipe, funnily enough, in the book about you can't just keep doubling and doubling and hoping that it's going to work out at the end. It doesn't work like that. And sometimes you have to admit this is not going to work. It's not the right location.

The rent is too high. I cannot hire here. We don't have the there isn't enough people earning to be able to afford a restaurant like this. And I think, look, the restaurant business, the military business is changing. You know, we talk about this all the time.

People are not joining the military because the pay is not consumer, the service is not as good, whatever the reason, right? And when I can go and do cyber intelligence outside and make three times as much, live in a house that's not moldy and get great food, right?

So it's the same with the hospitality business. Nobody's coming into it because, well, I'm paying you $15 an hour. In fact, in Vegas, I pay $27 an hour for a guy that can't cook. But at least he's there and I can teach him. You know, and I think that's the problem with our workforce right now.

We're trying to figure out: you know, do we go to work? Do we work for ourself? Do we work from home? Uh you know This this city itself is suffering because people are not working. They're not coming to work.

They don't ride the trains. They don't go to the deli for lunch.

So they don't go out to eat afterwards. They don't go to the gyms.

So it just ripples down. But even we would not, prior to 2019, we wouldn't have had this conversation. You go, well, Brian, of course people are going to work. You know, that whole sense of telecommuting doesn't really work for most industries, but your industry in particular, and talking to John Tafford, too, there's very few industries got hurt as hard as the restaurant business. The restaurant business was decimated across the world.

During COVID, I got sick the first couple of days of COVID with food poisoning doing a show. It wasn't the show I was fixing or the restaurant. It was at a golf course. I went to the hospital for two days, came out, pandemic across the world, and literally for three months, sat at home. I'm like, oh my God, you sat at home.

I sat at home for three months. It was going to kill me. It probably worked out like crazy. My wife was outside and I was inside. I actually got COVID on the 4th of July, went in the hospital for six days.

Trouble breathing? I couldn't breathe. Yeah, it was awful. There were no vaccines. There's no, it was, you know, hey, suck it up, buttercup, vitamin D and vitamin C, whatever, supplemental air.

I came out and I said to Courtney White, who was the president at Food Network, I'm getting 3,000 to 4,000 emails a week in hospital. We need to do something.

So we got on buses. It was tall buses, six people on a bus. We did 66 episodes of Saving Restaurants, who, by the way, are still in business now. Nobody else was on the road, nobody's doing anything. And yet, we see more with inflation and everything else now.

Like just going out of business because you can't afford to run. Because everything's more expensive, too, right? Yeah, it's crazy. Labor, food, and you can't pass that on to the consumer because they don't have any money either. Right.

You know what's interesting too, and you probably do the math better than me. I know you would. They say now with inflation and prices. That it's almost the same cooking at home and going out to eat. Is that no?

I'm going to correct you if you don't mind me. It's cheaper to eat out now than it is to eat in. It's cheaper, okay.

So that, I mean, for me, I never ate out as a kid, maybe twice.

So I'm overcompensating now.

So I love eating out.

So I was privileged to, I loved hearing that. But why is it? Why does the math add up that it's cheaper to go out because you buy them? Because we're buying, you know, instead of 10 eggs, we're buying 140 eggs. Although a case of eggs used to be $40, it's now a buck $20 for a case of eggs in a restaurant, right?

So it's tripled. The meat is tripled.

So we're trying to find creative ways of pivoting with inexpensive meat. Steakhouse, you got to have prime, right? You got to go and do these things. But with mom and pop restaurants that can create the menu, reduce the menu from 28, 38 items to 18 and rotate that being more or less expensive, braising product that's tough to make it soft. Short rib used to be the most inexpensive meat, like lobster.

Lobster used to be prison food. Good luck trying to get lobster in prison now. But so, so we're trying to adapt and pivot that food based on what we can spend that week.

So, they say right now, food prices are expected to rise another 7% in 2023, so that prices go up everywhere. And then, if you have to also have to get labor costs up because people are in competition for less people, Robert Irvine is going to continue and go over not just food, but just some principles that'll help you become a better leader and a better worker. Back in a moment, and by the way, the name of Robert Irvine's book is called Overcoming Impossible. Don't move. It's Brian Kilmade.

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So Robert Irvine's here. You know him, host of the Food Network. You also know him all over the channel. He's got a great reality show. Takes on John Tafferin, another one, as they look to revive busy uh restaurants and see who does better.

His book is out this week. It's called Overcoming Impossible. Learn to lead, build a team, and catapult your business to success.

So, what are some of the leadership things that you've learned along the way? You said you learned a lot by making mistakes. Number one, I think for me was the ego, right? When I got into business, I worked for Donald Trump for four years. I was his executive chef in Atlantic City.

And he said to me, quote unquote, do whatever you need to do to make money. He was making $784 million a year in the casino and $15 million on food and beverage. And I said, okay, but I need to do this, this, and this. He said, do it. Our first year, we went from $15 million to $83 million.

And I was like the golden child. I had a great life there. He was really good to me. And I think changing not trusting is is is one of the things I is one of the pillars in the book. And I say, look, I didn't believe in the purchases.

I didn't believe in the loading dock. I didn't believe in because we would have trucks of of Alaskan King crab legs pull up The cab would leave, and 10 minutes later, another cab would pick it up and disappear, and there was no footage. You know, I mean, it was ridiculous.

So, for me, I learned. to hold people accountable. Double check, triple check, put systems in place that those trucks couldn't take out without somebody being there. And so I think it's putting systems in place. understanding the people and hiring the people.

That was the biggest thing for me. Because I thought I knew all and I don't, and I understand that now, but it took me 10 years to figure that out. Right.

You know, hire people that are smarter than you. And we have, you know, the protein bars, the liquor, all those things that we do now in our foundation that do really well in eight years. I mean, Fit Crunch is a $200 million company because I hire people better than me. Right.

And I think they're the biggest lessons that you learn is: hey, look, you may be good at one or two things. But if you don't understand it, it's okay, just like you said in a second, it's okay to say I don't get it, and bring in people that do get it that can explain it and you can learn it. I remember Captain Kirk had Spock, who was smarter than him. But you knew who the captain was, right?

So that you need experts around you.

So, what kind of boss was Donald Trump? It was great for you? It was great for me. I got to tell you, look, look, I don't know. I went to Orlando City.

They all say the same thing. A great thing because he allowed me to do what I do and report to him and do the things that. I needed to do to make him money. Um And changed things, and they allowed me to change the purchasing, changed all those things. It was a good thing for me.

He never had anything to do. I would go up, he would come in, I'd say, This is where we are. This is, you know, I remember he wanted to change the meat in the steakhouses and whatnot. And I said, Well, if you put prime in every restaurant, it's going to cost you another $6 million. And I said, How about I just do this, season the meats across the board, and you try it and you pick it, and you tell me what you want.

He picked choice. He did.

Okay.

So, you know, you know what you know, and you don't know what you don't know, right? And he had a great team around it. And Nick Ribbes was there and all these other great folks.

So for me, my experience of working for him at Taj Mahal was really good. You have a Pentagon contract. Yes. So, and you were able to see a lot of the men and women serve on a regular basis. And, you know, you make money, but still, you love being a part of this.

I love the military to me, and I come from England. I became a citizen 12, 14 years ago. I pay my taxes, I vote, and I love the military. I travel 150 days a year to be around them and make sure they know that we care, we cook, we work out, we do USO tours. I have a program in my foundation, the Robert Irvine Foundation, called Breaking Bread for Heroes at every base, at a base every week, two or three times a week, no matter where it is.

We feed anywhere from 600 to 1,000 airmen or Marines or whatever. I just think that we have the best military in the world, and we have to give them the best and let them know the best training and food and their families behind them.

So, yeah, I mean, it's like I asked Mark Milley when he was the chief of the army. Could I re-enlist at 50? And he's like, no, you're too old. But you'd be a great soldier. I mean, man, your fitness.

Real quick, you watched the Ukrainians training with the Americans on the High Mars. Yeah, it was unbelievable. We were in Germany, what they called the box. And it's interesting because it's where we take original Russian tanks, we fit them. With a new turret, and it's where we play electronic tag with tanks.

And Justin and my team, we got to play out there, and these in black, everything's in black, they wear black overalls. And it was unbelievable to watch this tank movements. And if you've never been in a tank, they're rough as hell, but it's amazing to play this game. And I watched that Ukrainians teach the Americans how to fix trucks.

So resourceful. Yeah, amazing. Overcoming Impossible. Go pick out this book. You'll become a better leader, a better parent right away.

Robert Irvine, thanks so much. Appreciate you. Back in a moment. Download Fox News channel's The Five Podcasts for free. Five of your favorite Fox News personalities discuss current issues in a roundtable discussion.

Get it now on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, and FoxNewsPodcasts.com. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Possible leading explanation here that we're beginning to develop in concert with the intelligence community and with civilian aviation authorities is that these very well could be balloons of a completely benign nature, perhaps commercial or scientific research sort of a focus there. Again, we don't know for sure, Katie, because we haven't recovered that debris.

So you're talking about one definitely maneuverable Chinese sophisticated electronic balloon from China. But the other three. could be from a car sale, Uh of a toilet dealership. We're not sure. That's what I think Admiral Kirby is getting us ready for those facts as we try to recover these balloons, one from Alaska, one from the Yukon in Canada, and one from Lake Huron.

Congressman Pat Fallon joins us now. He's on the House Armed Services Committee of Texas and was an officer in the United States Air Force. Congressman, always great to have you on. Can you read between the lines for me? What could you tell us?

about what happened to the other th what are the other three objects.

Well, Brian, that's the thing that we were trying to ask them. And what I again, with this administration, there's always a delay and there's not a lot of good communication at all. And largely, unfortunately, members of Congress are ignored. And then, when they came out and the Secretary of Defense Austin said that he has more questions than answers, I'm thinking, you're the one supposed to have the answers, man. But you know, uh Brian, the the February fourth, uh, Chinese five win.

the excuse that they gave for not shooting it down until it hit the Atlantic was so ridiculous to say that, well, we didn't want anybody to be in the Atlantic. Of course you don't. But when you're in when it's over Montana with the population density of seven per square mile, And you take out the top seven towns in Montana, that's 400,000 people. You don't shoot it down on one of those towns, obviously. You now you're down to two and a half.

People per square mile. It's like Alaska. It's the perfect place to shoot it down. It made no sense. The Senator Dain said shoot it down.

The governor said shoot it down. Uh Congressman Zinke said shoot it down. Don't you think they like their voters? Yeah, they love their phoners because that's the safest place to put it. There's nobody in those rural areas of Montana, there's literally, Brian, one or two people per square mile.

That's where, and then there's no intelligence gathered at all, and we send a message to China that they don't play like this.

So they floated a balloon across, I think, something like 14 of our states. What are they going to think about Taiwan? I mean, we're not projecting strength, we're projecting weakness. I don't think there's any doubt about it.

So China's answer is not I'm sorry, it won't happen again. It is to increase belligerence and accuse us of sending ten balloons this year alone or last year across their border. Listen to John Kirby's response, cut two. I assume the United States does spy on China. Do we send balloons?

Will you not deploy surveillance balloons over China? And do we spy over China? We do not deploy surveillance balloons over China, George. Of course we spy. Everybody spy so does everybody.

Everybody knows that. But but In terms of them coming back and saying what they're saying, they actually were sarcastic too and talked about flexing muscle. Here's a it says U.S. needs to be careful not to pull its muscle while flexing it so hard. We have said time and time again the U.S.

clearly overreacted by using force on an unmanned Chinese civilian airship. Quite a few media outlets have compared the U.S. downing of this flying object to shooting mosquitoes with flat guns. and called it odd and costly political behavior art. The U.S.

needs to be careful not to pull its muscle while flexing so hard. How do you interpret that? I interpret the fact that Joe Biden said in the State of the Union, Brian, that he acts boldly when it comes to China. That is um oddly a bold to use this term, bold-faced lie. He met with G, he'd never brought up.

G's aggressive in nature toward Taiwan. He's never even talked to him about fentanyl, which most of the fentanyl that ends up in the United States is produced in China and then ferried through Mexico. We lost 107,000 Americans to opioid overdoses. 80,000 of those, Brian, were fentanyl. And he doesn't even talk to Xi about it.

He said, yeah, that's weak. That's flaccid. That's why China is probing.

Well, the other thing to keep in mind, too, is you read the People's Daily, which is the Chinese government newspaper, and they say they write about how the Americans are hopelessly addicted to drugs. No, we're addicted because you keep flooding our borders with them, and that's their goal. I mean, between the fentanyl, between the buying up farmland, between them giving hundreds of billions of dollars to our colleges, to buying up charter schools and boarding schools, what more evidence do you see that they're trying to do a slow moving invasion? No, that's exactly what it is. This is an asymmetrical warfare.

If you really think about it, World War II, we lost 297 Americans every day. It was awful for almost four years.

Well, last year alone, we lost 293 to opioid overdoses. That is comparable. And the farmland thing and other land in the United States, okay, quid pro quo, can we, can Brian, can you, Brian, can you go to China and buy land? No. No, no American can.

You have to lease it and there's 51% has to be owned by a Chinese national.

So why are we letting them do that? Do this, buy land here. I have a legislation that we filed that prevents them from, any Chinese national from buying land in the United States. And we should do that. We should do, hey, this is the same standard that you apply to us.

We're just simply going to apply it to you.

Well, your governor of Texas, Abbott, says that you are not going to sell any land to China. Yes, and I fully agree with that we want to do that at federal level to nationally. No, you cannot. We are going to stand you know, President Trump, let's be honest, was the only chief executive to ever stand up to China. and say, no more, you're not going to roll over us like you have for decades.

We thought well, several people thought that an engaged China in the world economy and world affairs was going to be a good thing. It hasn't been. They have nefarious intent.

Now they're showing their true cards, and we have to be very wary. Right, there should be a massive pullout and decoupling wherever it's possible. And these companies have to think more red, white and blue than green and just stop giving in. And these University of Pennsylvania and the Harvards got to say we don't need your billions. We cannot afford to be influenced by another government.

So, and I know MIT, who refused to hear from Secretary of State Mike Pompey while he was in office because it would have upset China, who gives millions of dollars or billions to MIT. This is insane. But let's talk about the border if we can. The President of the United States visited, we had the mayor of New York City visit. Right now, the President's bragging that we have less breaches of the border because of the new parole policy where people apply from the places they live.

If you're from Haiti, Venezuela and others. How is that working?

Well, all he's doing is just shifting. We have the same amount of people coming across. He's just letting about 100,000 in saying, yo, you're okay. if you're from Nicaragua, Cuba. Um, Haiti and Venezuela, you can just come in up to like a hundred thousand a month.

There's nothing. Let's be really honest. And he gave them, he lied about. 15, 20 times bullface lies during the State of the Union, one of them was the border getting better. It's never been worse.

We've never had a month before Joe Biden in our history where we had over 200,000 illegal border crossers. We've had 10 months in a row.

So, what they're going to do now is play a shell game, Brian, and they're going to say, oh, look at the illegal crossings. I know in December it was the worst month ever, 251,000, but January, this is my prediction. Oh, it's going to be only 150,000. See, it went down 100,000. No, it didn't.

They just told those 100,000 to go through a point of dimension. And they parole them right away. It's the same situation. We don't know who these people are. They don't have a skill set, unfortunately, many of them, to succeed.

We have 4 million people waiting to come to the country legally, and we're allowing all these people to cut the line. They're economic migrants. They're not political asylum seekers. But the NGOs that the Biden administration funds tell them: hey, play this little game and you'll get into the country. And all that's going to do is create more folks coming.

And we don't have the capacity to manage it right now. And I think it's worse. I think. They're flying him in. They fly them in for the country they're at.

So, we don't even have a track of it. You know, they're landing at two in the morning on private flights, and Secret Service is on the ground. I see it in Westchester, New York. I hear about it in Long Island. You know, you heard about it in Pennsylvania.

So, they're going to be able to fly people, and it may even be more discreet. They don't even tell the governors. Lastly, Recruiting in the military. What are you guys doing as a member of the Armed Services Committee to work with the Pentagon to try to up recruits?

So, what we talk about, and this is something that really shocked me as a member of Congress, because sitting on the Armed Services Committee, I asked, Because I had my own contacts telling me they're not meeting the recruiting goals.

So I talked to the brass of the military, and I said that. I asked about it last year, and they said, no, we're fine. We're fine. And then they had to, because they thought they were going to, you know, they were kind of betting on the comm thinking they could meet their goals in the last four months. They didn't.

And so we were short the army about 20,000 troops. 20,000 in one year. And then they kicked 8,400 of them out for not taking an experimental vaccine, which made no sense. It was completely illogical.

So, what we're trying to do is, when we're developing the NDAA this year, the National Defense Authorization Act, is use incentives, use financial incentives to get people in.

Now, this isn't across the board problem in our economy right now. If you talk to anyone, labor is in a severe shortage and they're looking for it. But we need to incentivize folks. And when you got a major political party, telling young kids that America's not worthy. And we're not a a net force of good in the world, it's going to be hard to recruit.

So this is on the Democrats as well. Could you also say that maybe we up the benefits too and get a new ad campaign going? And get into high school. Yeah, Brian, the the Marines never have a problem. The Marines are always the ones that hit the recruiting goal.

They have excellent outreach, they have excellent commercials, excellent advertising, and we do need to up the benefits. I think for educational benefits, make them juicier and give them bonuses. I mean, we've done this in the past. Where, when the economy is very strong and it's hard to attract people in the military, sometimes we give bonuses in particular career fields up to 50,000, 75,000, 100,000 once they complete basic training and then they follow on what we call technical training.

So we should absolutely do that because I do not want to go to a draft ever. I want to maintain a volunteer force, and it's a very dangerous world out there. No kidding. Congressman Pat Fallon, glad you're out there and keep fighting. He's a member of the House Armed Services Committee, former U.S.

Air Force officer, and right now just trying to find out what is in our skies that we're shooting down. Congressman, thanks so much. Brian, thank you. You're a great American. God bless you.

All right. Go get him. When we come back, I'll take your calls: 1-866-408-7669. This is the Brian Killmeat Show.

So glad you're here. Newsmakers and newsbreakers. Here at first on the Brian Killmeat Show. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead. We learned from the New York Times this weekend that Trump's new nickname for Ron DeSantis is Meatball Ron.

Meatball Ron. Oh. Marinera is his big turn on. Very scared of CRT. Loves to roll around on spaghetti with extra teeth, feet, bow.

Yeah, uh they never take uh they never let Donald Trump get very far at Jimmy with Jimmy Kimmel, right? It was a Kimmel intro to then Colbert singing, but I felt like it was actually the f Best thing Colbert has done in a while. Because it wasn't just like ripping. Right.

You know, but it is. It's where you put down DeSantis and Trump at the same time. Agreed. But it was a little song that wasn't really obnoxious, just something different. But he calls it, yeah, desanctimonious, meatball.

But by the way, The biggest problem with Ron DeSantis is he wears loose suits. The guy's a rock. I mean, and you know who said that? Who? Donald Trump.

So then he's the one who told me that was the first one to say to me, this guy is solid. Said, Oh, okay And then when went I went and did that day with him, He's solid. And you might have something else coming up with him.

So, are you going to ask him maybe to not wear a shirt to show us how solid he is? Hmm. That's one approach. I was also thinking about just bumping into them, you know, and getting a sense. But then you'd need to report on how solid he is.

How do his pecs feel? Right.

I don't think that's the reporter job. I think I'm there to tell a story, not feel a man.

Well, but would it be reporting on if he's truly like pudgy or if he's solid, right? Is he super healthy or is he a little, you know, unhealthy? What's amazing is. He's an elite athlete. He's a captain of the Yale baseball team, where a guy named George Bush, H.W.

Bush, was also captain.

So. He got a full ride to an Ivy League school. Um.

Well, I guess I just got an update from Fox Sports. Let me see what it is. Maybe they're tweeting the picture of you, you know, trying to get in on the Kelsey Mama Kelsey and uh yeah, there's a picture of me there when Jay uh when Travis Kelsey was hugging his mom. And I was waiting patiently for the interview. I don't know if I'd say that.

The video I saw, you were trying to get in there. Oh. I mean, the picture shows that you're waiting patiently, but then after that picture, you're like a good reporter.

Well, you're trying to get the mic in there to hear what they're saying. And if you had them interviewed, that would just be a bonus. Right.

So we were able to get. We were able to get into the game. Right on the field. Let's go to Patrick. Hey, Patrick, you're on the Brian Kilmeat show.

Oh, holy crap. Uh how you doing? I'm super excited to be on the show. I understand. Try to put it into words what's on your mind.

Okay.

Well, I heard the Pete Bootychek comments yesterday, and I actually work for a company on the Warner Robbins Air Force Base Company called River to Tap, and um. The owner of the company, she's a minority woman, great lady, hires many people of different backgrounds. Right here at the base here. We have just about every kind of person here. All right.

Thanks a lot for the call, Patrick. We just got to get to the point. Appreciate you joining me. 1-866-408-7669. But he is bringing up something I wanted to bring up this hour.

In Ohio, what's going on now with this contamination and the derailment and the. And the vinyl chloride that is in the area where they said everything's fine, the air test positive. But then the governor comes out and says, Well, I would drink bottled water. And to me, that's terrible leadership. Wait a second.

Either it's okay to drink boil water, have a shower, you tell everyone they're fine. And then, when asked, would you do it? He goes, Well, I'd probably bring bottled water.

Well, what else would you do? I mean, am I watering my lawn with the water that's coming out of the hose? If I have a well, which evidently a lot of people in Palestine, Ohio have wells, how deep is this stuff possibly in the ground? Because you had a detonated slow burn, a burn, because you didn't want it to explode once it derailed.

So g the governor made a tough decision to explode it himself, and you see the big plume.

Well, what's the ramifications of that? Because every time we go out to somebody in the area, they say they smell The gas still So listen to Doctor Bruce Vanderhoff. He has no problem with it. Cut nine. We are strongly recommending those who have not yet Had their water source checked.

To Use bottled water, and bottled water is being made available again. Same phone number that you can call if you need access to that. This is going to be particularly important if you are pregnant, if you are breastfeeding, or if you are preparing formula for an infant.

So we would encourage you to. To avail yourself of that water. And despite all the people complaining and saying, I'm really worried about it, I have a scratchy throat. I got blotches on my face. I'm watching my dog throw up and I'm watching fish die.

This is what Dr. Bruce van der Harf wanted to say, cut 10. We've got very good data as it relates to the air quality. And I think people can feel very confident in that fact, coupled with the fact that there continues to be air monitoring.

So that's very good. We have no indication that the municipal water supply is not safe.

However, we do have testing that is pending, and I think it's a relatively easy thing to do to use bottled water for a short window of time. Right, okay. Where am I showering? Because you have open pores. Should I be showering under water that could be contaminated?

Where do I go? And the way I understand this, a blue-collar area with not a lot of four seasons around.

So you're going to have to go to a different town, different city to get out. These people got to be massively compensated. And also, I had no idea that you could travel with this hazardous waste this great distances. I mean, are there overall inspections on some of these? Because evidently, the axle just busted.

So ten of those cars are filled with this noxious gas. And they had no idea. At least the governor said he didn't. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian In Kill Mead.

Thanks so much for being here, everybody. It's the Brian Kill Meet Joe coming to you from 48th and 6th of Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. This hour, we're going to be joined by Lance Morrow, a journalist and author of several books, including The Noise of Typewriters Remembering Journalism. That would be nice. And Ben Dominich, Fox News contributor, editor-at-large for the spectator and host of the Ben Dominich podcast.

And we know the Vice President of the United States, the former Vice President, who's going to be running for president, I think it's all but certain. He's going to be busy today. He's going to be delivering remarks on defending parents' rights. Kansas City Chiefs is celebrating their Super Bowl 57 win. They got a huge parade.

And tomorrow's going to be cold. Today is going to be nice for the people of Kansas City. And President Biden will deliver remarks on the progress we are making building an economy from the bottom up and the middle out. That's what he says. A lot of people, including the stock market, are concerned the Fed's going to raise rates because inflation is.

Not going anywhere.

So let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Jim was trying to negotiate a $140 million settlement between this U.S. company and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He boasts about how he only got the job doing this negotiation because he was the then vice president's brother.

Josh Boswell on Hatterday last night explained this. James Biden, now like Hunter, trading on the family name in the past, when his brother was vice president, we have the documents. Republicans have to make the case. Number two. Governor, if you were to live in the area, would you?

Would you feel comfortable moving back into your home? Look, I think that I would be drinking the bottled water. And I would be Continuing to find out what the tests were showing as far as the air. Governor Mike DeWine, tell the truth and show some caution. That's my message to local and national politicians and so-called experts when it comes to the toxic chemical spill in Palestine, Ohio.

The train derailment followed by a controlled explosion has led to many evacuations and a lot of questions. Number one. We learned nothing in these briefings that I didn't already know as a member of the Intelligence or Armed Services Committee. That's why I think it's so important that Joe Biden personally and directly address the American people. Would be nice fighting it out.

China gets combative with the Biden administration on the balloon they thrust on us and make laughable allegations. While no one knows its origin, as usual, when it comes to them, top secret briefings have. Revealed almost nothing but Anger and confusion. Joining us now, a man who's never angry and confused, Ben Dominich, Fox News contributor. Ben, welcome.

Good to be with you, Brian. I may occasionally be angry, but I try not to be confused about that anger. Yeah, now you're clear about how angry you are. Exactly.

So let's begin in Ohio, if we can. It seemed it took a week for people to realize this is a real problem, and still our transportation secretary doesn't feel he should visit, but he can tweet about it. You know, it's really astounding how bad Mayor Pete has been at his job. I mean, really, let's take a step back. You know, this was a guy who was put forward to us by the media as being a competent manager, someone who had skills beyond his years.

And obviously, the reason that he kind of stumbled and failed was that, if anything, he was viewed as too much of a suit, too much of a McKinsey style. I can upend things and remake them and have this sort of corporate consultant vibe to me. In terms of his approach at the Department of Transportation, he has been nothing but an abject disaster for this administration in every different respect. And it's not just the challenges as it relates to airline travel, as it relates to the various strikes and things that were happening while he was on paternity leave. By the way, he only took four months more than me on paternity leave, Brian.

I just want to point that out.

So, the thing that I think is really Hmm. Here is that you'd think, you know, if this guy has any kind of ambitions, He would be trying to write the ship. He would be leaning into something like this, saying, Okay, wait, this is an opportunity for me to show that I'm actually really good at my job. I'm good. I'm empathetic.

I'm going to get out there. I'm going to be in front of people. I'm going to be as authentic and upfront as we can be about what's really going on here. And, you know, reach out to all of these Midwesterners who are, frankly, very concerned, justifiably so, about the truth and what's been going on around them not being fully made known to them in the way that they deserve. And that's something that just is astounding to me again because you'd see this, I think, you know, any politician would see this as a way to write the ship.

You know, look, I may have had some botches along the way. It's not all my fault. You know, some of this stuff isn't on me, you know, even if I wasn't, you know, as prepared for this job, perhaps, as the media let on. But this is a situation where, unfortunately, he's doing the opposite. Right.

You know, ignoring this, he's playing into the. There's a lot to showing up and be able to smell it and see it. You go to the diner and you talk to people, you go to the hardware store. Store and you interact with people, and then you say to yourselves, Is the fit are fish really dying? Show me.

Because listen to me. This is the equivalent of a president or a major executive in a state avoiding a trip to a natural disaster zone or something like that. If a hurricane comes through, you want to see the people in charge on the ground there, figuring out what's going on, hearing and talking to the people and making it clear that, hey, we're in charge. We're going to fix this. We're going to do whatever it takes to make sure that people are going to be able to do it.

Well, here's Congressman Mike Turner of Ohio, CUD16. Secretary of Treasury, excuse me, Transportation, Buttijaj, ought to be on this. He's been ignoring this. I think it shows he turns his back on middle America when they have a crisis like this. But this is one where it shows that, you know.

The people who are affected get very little information. This needs to be fixed. The Department of Transportation needs to have a greater awareness of the risks and of where these hazardous materials are and how they can affect communities. Yeah, and now they're going to have a town hall tonight to get some answers because people say we can still smell it. We can't get home.

We don't have money to go to a four seasons. Who's going to reimburse us? No one blames them for the train derailment. I would like to get to the bottom of it. I know so little about trains, but 50, 50 cars got it.

10 are filled with this toxic vinyl chloride. All right. Evidently, if they declared it hazardous, it would have been more insurance money.

So they didn't. And now they go through and are these old trains? Because the axle evidently just cracked.

So are they old? Really?

So there needs to be an investigation there. I don't know anything about trains, but I'm willing to find out. This is the other big thing here, Brian. This cuts against so much of what Joe Biden has been leading with over the past several years in terms of rebuilding American infrastructure. You know, the idea that the problems like this are happening on his watch and on the watch of his Transportation Secretary cut against that narrative that we actually have good people in charge.

This is something I pointed out to you before, and I really stress: this is not an ideological failure. There are plenty of ideological failures in this administration. There are incompetent people in jobs that they don't deserve because of their ideological position and their matrix on the woke agenda. But this is also just a failure of leadership, a failure of elites. America deserves a better class of leader.

They deserve people who are actually capable in scenarios like this to grab hold of it, to do whatever it takes to solve it, and to be authentic and upfront with the American citizens about what's going on and how they're going to get to the answers. Unfortunately, that's not what we get from this administration. No, we don't. And lastly, Mike DeWine was asked. Uh, about moving back home, what should we do?

What about the control burn and the implosion that you took that you detonated? Uh, and would he feel comfortable going back? Listen to his answer: Cut 12. If you were to live in the area. Would you feel comfortable moving back into your home?

Look, I think that I would be drinking the bottled water and I would be continuing to uh Um find out what the tests were showing as far as the air. I would be alert and concerned.

Okay, why don't you tell us, Governor? All right. You know, can you tell us what the answer is? That sounded like a no. I would not be comfortable.

Right.

So, yeah, but this guy, I mean, come on. You just got elected by 20 points. Just show some leadership. Push your glasses. Just come out and say it.

And that's the thing that people want from their politicians, from their leaders in moments like this. They don't want anybody dancing around. They want people who will actually level with them and be honest with them so they can make decisions for themselves.

So, Nikki Haley is officially in the race for 2024.

So she came out and she says it's a great country. We lose it. We have not had the majority of the vote in this country one time in the last, I don't know, five terms.

So she came out and talked about how great this country was. Evidently, that ticked off Whoopi Goldberg, Cut 26.

So Nikki You know, since you have been asleep all this time and you just woke up, you're just finding out that. There are things about our country that are not perfect. And for us to pretend that it is and that nothing happened is ridiculous.

So you're not saying anything really. I knew of all the. All people should know better. Because you used to actually have some sanity and knew right from wrong. And then you lost your mind and and went in some new direction.

So don't do that. But what are your thoughts? Of course it does, Brian. And look, you know, I don't think that she could ask for a better foil than this. Look, you know, you and I, I think, disagree a little bit because I'm pretty down on Nikki Haley's possibilities.

I think she kind of had a moment but then kind of missed it. But one thing that I don't think you can argue at all is that she is unaware of America's history when it comes to issues of battles over race tensions within communities and things that she had to navigate in South Carolina. Look, I grew up in South Carolina in Charleston, and I'm well aware of all the controversies that she had to deal with over the course of her tenure there. And deal with, I think, very well. And candidly, you know, I think that she was someone who had a lot of potential back then.

I think that today people want someone who's a little more new to the fray, but we'll see how she performs when she gets out there on the trail.

Someone like Whoopi going after her on this, though, just reveals Whoopi Goldberg's ignorance about who this person is. She just sees Republican after their name and just makes these ridiculous assumptions about who they are, what their experience is like. What they've been through, and particularly in navigating the South as someone who has South Asian heritage as Nikki Healy does. It's something that was a challenge for her in her own life. It's something that she's well aware of.

And for Whoopi to just go out there and act as if she doesn't know anything about history, look, you can't live in South Carolina, be in Charleston, or be in the state government there without knowing the history of that state, without looking across the water and seeing Fort Sumter and know what went on there, to see the historical monuments there and understand the different tensions that exist within those communities. She absolutely understands that. And for Whoopee to go after her, I think only benefits her. We'll see how she responds to it in the coming days, but I certainly think it's something she's going to lean into. And plus, you have in South Carolina could be Senator Tim Scott running too.

So Senator Tim Scott, Governor Hutchinson, Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo, Mike Pence, and now it looks like, you know, by all indications, Governor DeSantis. then Trump is in already. How do you rank him? Can you give me your top four?

Well, I think that obviously, if Ron DeSantis is in, I think it's but mostly between the Florida men. I think Tim Scott is a really interesting candidate who could roil things. If I actually had to pick a dark horse who might Overperform in the early days. I think Mike Pompeo could do a lot better than people necessarily think. He's gotten a lot more celebrity appeal on the trail.

His book's doing well. He's a strong foreign policy voice. And people forget he's got the kind of Midwestern capability, the Gladhand, which I think would serve him well in a state like New Hampshire and a state like Iowa. Of course, though, with two South Carolinians in the race, you have a real fight over that early state, which could be interesting. But one other thing that's really interesting is a name you just left out there.

You know, this week, the biggest open secret in Texas politics has become public, which is that Ted Cruz is not running. And to not see a Texan in this race. Brian, since nineteen seventy six, there has been a Texan in every competitive Republican presidential primary. And that really leaves open, I think, a lot of different things for people to compete for those delegates. But also, you're not going to have a border state candidate.

That's really interesting, Brian. What does that mean for all of these other candidates in terms of who leans into border issues, immigration issues, and the like? You know, and that could also honestly benefit Donald Trump quite a bit because he's the only one who actually has a sort of border-focused record. And look, I'll be really interested to see what happens with the kind of Texas support that went toward Cruz. You know, back in 2016, he effectively came in second.

There's a lot of people out there who were kind of waiting to see whether he was going to jump in again. He's decided to run for Senate instead, as have a lot of other people like Tom Cotton, who also had potential. That's going to be a very interesting competition for that Texas support.

Well, you know the problem with Ted Cruz. You know, his dad conspired to kill Kennedy, and that was the same guy. Yes, that would.

So that's the issue. And the only thing I would say is that Ron DeSantis did feel like a border state when he sent a lot of those illegal immigrants over there. Yeah, well, I think that was him seizing a little bit of that border, that border. All right, Ben, good to have you back. Congratulations on the baby.

Keep them coming. Yeah, well, I'll let you know when I get more than three and a half hours of sleep, Brian. You got it. Absolutely. That's cold Monday for me.

Yeah, exactly. Thanks, man. Take care. All right. So when we come back, I'll take your calls: 1-866-408-7669.

Then we talk about journalism, the state of journalism today with Will Lance Morrow. But then I do want to talk about what's in the sky, and it's a balloon. Don't move. Diving deep into today's top stories. It's Brian Kilmead.

A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Okay, this is the LA Times, very liberal Democratic paper. Shootings, theft, and the crime test cities' progressive strain. Let me go into the.

specifics the number of unhoused people. Jumped. Shootings in the city have tripled, homicides are at a record high, lower-level crimes like vehicles being stolen. The Democrat there on the Portland City Commission said, you don't have to watch Fox News to look around Portland and say this is not cool. This is a big Achilles heel for the Democrats, is it not?

Oh, they need to get out in front of it. I want a Democrat to stand up and say, you know, some people belong in jail. You know, the rapists, the murderers, the people who are. One clap for that. I'm sorry.

I think that's very interesting. No, wait, wait, wait. Let's just pause there. One person is like, yes, some people belong in jail. Everybody else is like, no, they don't.

Nobody belongs in jail. I agree with you. I'm going to go out on a limb.

Some people do belong in jail. And by the way, the shooter in Michigan. Uh the at Michigan State University. The shooter was charged with gun possession, and we should have been a felony. They knocked it down to a misdemeanor.

He therefore he was able to get a gun. And he kills people in cold blood until he ultimately killed himself. Let's go to the phones right now. Alex in California. Hey, Alex.

Well, hi, thank you for taking my call. I just want to make two comments about Nikki Haley. First is that she was born to parents who already had college degrees in India at a time where nearly everyone there was illiterate and impoverished.

So she was born into privilege, and she's unlikely to understand the ordinary people in the United States. Really?

The second comment is. If both your parents go to college, you're privileged? In India, you would be because of the state of the economy over there.

So it's different from the United States. But the second comment I want to make is that She's also a supporter of multicultural diversity.

So unlike Rhonda Santis, She breathes it. Non-Western cultures are on par with Western culture, and that there's not really that degree of difference between the two.

So I think she thinks it's an exceptional nation? Yeah, it's Excuse me? You don't think that she believes America is an exceptional nation? No, she personally does not believe that the United States is exceptional. uh in terms of our culture, of Western culture, relative to, say, uh the various cultures of Asia and how so what is that?

Does that make you th make you think w if you believe if you you can believe that about her, I I'd let her speak for herself.

So does that make her a better candidate or a worse candidate? I think that makes her a much worse candidate than Ron DeSantis. Ron DeSantis firmly believes that Western culture is preeminent. And that the values of the West are superior, and that we must propagate those values. That's true.

I think Ron DeSantis right now is definitely a stronger candidate. But the resume looks fantastic. She understands the issues. She's got international and domestic experience. And I believe that growing up in America, she is one of these people that understands we are an exceptional nation.

India is still an emerging country. It's the largest democracy. But man, their policy when it comes to Russia and China. Not good. A radio show like no other.

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I think we all know if it bleeds, it leads. The more they can get you to stay inside and watch their panic porn, the higher the ratings. Researchers at Dartmouth built a database recently monitoring the COVID coverage of the major news outlets across the world and found that while other countries mix the good news in with the bad, the U.S. national media reported almost 90% bad news. Even as things were getting better, the reporting remained negative.

And politicians, they lie because it's their nature to cover their ass so they don't get blamed if things go badly. And also to keep in practice. But when all of our sources for medical information have an agenda to spin us, yeah, you wind up with a badly misinformed population, including on the left. That is Bill Moore. Again, to me, right on the money.

And I didn't really think that up until the last 18 months or so. Lance Morrow joins us now, journalist and author of several books. His latest, The Noise of Typewriters, Remembering Journalism. Lance, did journalism drop the ball during the pandemic?

Well, yeah, I think that.

Well, a lot of people dropped the ball. I think it was a. It was a failure on many fronts, but certainly journalism tended to Follow uh Bad leads from there. It's a larger problem in journalism of. Uh who Who are the authorities?

Who can tell you the truth about a big story like that? And how does journalism dig into it and think for itself? A lot of it is just kind of following the lead of Dr. Fauci or whoever. And so, you know, there was a tremendous amount of confusion and disinformation.

Not all of it. perfidious or b I mean, some of it was understandable. But uh but you're right. It was a it was a very uh uh confused and tumultuous kind of journalism. Journalism's very imperfect stuff.

Um And as we know, the the first rough draft uh is often very rough indeed.

So you have this book out, The Noise of Typewriters, Remembering Journalism. When was journalism's heyday? Uh I don't idealize the twentieth century journalism and all of that. A lot of it was just uh Uh but following the the uh Uh you know, the authorities and so on. But nevertheless, there was a different stand, it was a different world and it was a different journalism.

And uh there was a difference standard in the sense that A journalism belie a journalist believed, and by the way, we never called ourselves. Journalists. We thought that was a pompous term. We call ourselves either reporters or newspaper men or newspaper women. But the assumption was that there was such a thing as objective truth, for example, and that it could be found out, and that you dug at it and found it out.

And there was not this very unstable, strange world that we're in now, which is the world of the screens and the keyboard and the computer and the mouse and social media and everybody with a smartphone and everybody with a Facebook or Twitter account and a very unstable idea of what the world is and what the facts are.

So the assumption was. uh back in the period that I'm w um writing about. Was that you could discover the truth in in the same way that you could solve a the cops could solve a crime. You know, there was a gun of a certain caliber and the victim was White or black or whatever, and uh the murderer was described as wearing a green jacket and being five feet nine and so on. Facts of of the uh of that kind.

I mean, uh the uh Woodward and Bernstein, when they were uh, running down the uh water gate.

Well, they were they acted like cops. you know, instead of political reporters and and it was as cops that they chased that particular story.

So, and of course, I think they're celebrating some type of anniversary. I think they're both in their 80s now or close there. Lance Morrow, our guest, the name of the book is The Noise of Typewriters Remembering Journalism.

So, Lance, another thing was brought up to me in that journalism, journalists for the most part, was more of a blue-collar profession. You weren't really rich or famous, you were just doing the work. Correct. Has that changed? Yeah, there was a lot of that.

Yeah, there was a change. Actually, when I was a young man, it tended to be a little more to become a little more gentrified, just as I was coming in in the 60s. Gentrified in the sense that reporters now or then rather w w started to become college graduates and especially Ivy League graduates. At the other papers. Before it was much more blue-collar, although you don't forget that.

Column lists columnists like Walter Lippmann and Joe Joe Alsop and Stuart Alsop were very much uh blue blood types. There's there's always uh there's always uh different classes of journalists. There were the saloon journalists like uh Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill, who were who would, you know, uh get their cast of characters from the uh police precincts and they'd walk up and down the tenement squ uh stairs and they covered uh uh Working people. But then there were the rather lofty people like the Alsocks or the big picture characters like Dorothy Thompson and so on.

So it was a variety. It was a variety. But it was a different world and a different journalism, very different from what we have now.

So who in your mind personifies the perfect journalist or the near-perfect journalist that produced the results? I know you cite Hernand Hemingway and what he wrote and how he wrote, even when he was writing fiction. But who do you lean on? Who do you lean on?

Well, I certainly wouldn't propose. I suppose Hemingway is the perfect journalist, but he was a great writer in his way, although he wrote a lot of Stuff that was really pretty terrible, especially as he got drunker and drunker toward the end of his life and is more injured in his head. But I in my book I talk about John Hersey's um Hiroshima book, which was many thought was the best journalism of the 20th century. And I and talk about that and kind of argue with that premise. And then Walter Duranty, the guy who worked for the New York Times, had got a Pulitzer.

For his horrible failure to report on the Ukrainian famine in 1932. And I I I talk about that as the worst. But d for do you mean today or just Well, in the past and then today, who do you look up to? Or not look up to, but who do you single out?

Well, I talk about, for example, there's still plenty of really terrific journalists around. I mean, Dexter Filkins. Formerly of the New York Times, is a terrific war reporter. I think he's he's very, very good. There's there's still some very good war reporting.

I think and very brave uh uh reporting from from Ben Hall, for example, of the Fox News, who was so badly badly wounded, injured uh earlier in in the in the war. And uh, you know, t terrific stuff from brave, good journalists. I think I'm you've you've you've got me a little I hadn't thought in those terms of who were the outstanding today. My my book focuses mainly on the twi twentieth century. Uh there are a lot today, but there's a lot of people who are really bad in there's and in today and and in the sense of much too partisan and a little bit witless and shallow.

And there's a tremendous what's wrong today, in my view, is a tremendous failure of leadership. editorial leadership at places like the New York Times. I mean, the the failures in it was said that the casualty, the great casualty of the nineteen sixties was authority.

Well now, you know, like the author authority of the parents and the president and the military and so on.

Well, now in the old age of the baby boomers. You see that playing out in the failure of the authority of editorial leaders. In places like the New York Times, I mean, the failure, the evident in The firing of James Bennett, who ran the New York Times editorial page, or the failure implicit in. The firing of Donald McNeil, one of the top reporters at the times, for a perfectly ridiculous and non-existent. Or offense.

Involving the forbidden N-word, it wasn't an offense at all. It didn't, you know, it was completely, it was a very immature. act on the part of the leadership of the paper. And I think throughout journalism you see that sort of immaturity and and frankly, venality that uh a deference to uh just ma making the bucks and and uh also pandering to um the party line, the the the basic party line of of uh wokeness or whatever whatever uh the party line is. Uh I I think that the standard of a more disinterested journalism.

Uh where you felt an obligation to Give both sides of the story, or and that's now derided as some kind of prejudice or white supremacy, or God knows what. Uh to try to understand both sides of the story. That that was the point. You know, you had you had to comprehend.

So You didn't just give your party line just as as it would be ridiculous for me to say, Well, Brian, I must tell you my truth. And well, okay, but but it's it's my version. Of the truth, but it the fact that it is mine does not make it the truth, and uh, so these are all uh problems in in in to 21st century journalism. In the twentieth century journalism, if I used the first person pronoun, I better have a very good reason. If I used adjectives, Colorful adjectives, I'd better have a very, very good reason.

And in the twenty-first century, boy, go ahead. And that's okay if you happen to be a genius. But if you don't happen to be a genius You better watch yourself. And unfortunately, a lot of really third-rate people are doing those things. Flinging their opinions around, and the result is lousy journalism.

The result is a A debasement of of the journalism of that we get in the twenty-first century. I Where it goes from here, I don't know. I hope that it sorts itself out and there's some reassertion of. Maturity. and leadership.

editorial leadership, but it's It's a mess now. It's a terrible mess. Lance Morrow, it's all in your book. To find out how we go forward, it's always good to look back. The noise of typewriters remembering journalism.

Lance, thanks so much for joining us. Delighted. Thanks a lot, Brian. All right. Go get them.

Listen, when we come back, I'll open up the phones: 1-866-408-7669. Also, got to keep in mind we're following this toxic situation, hours now counting down to there's a huge town hall over in Ohio. Got to get to the bottom of that. And it would be nice to find out what we shot out of the sky three times over the last 10 days. Brian, Kill Meet Joe.

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Yeah, hi, Brian. You know, I'm listening to all these journalism now and these journalists and they're telling us what's wrong and how they should have been corrected and why it hasn't happened. And we used to dig deep into the news and everything else. Where were they? back two, three years ago.

Why weren't they doing it if they know what they were supposed to be doing? It's i Bill Maher included. You know, I mean, like, yeah, I believe everything you're telling me now, but where were you? Right.

You know, there's just such a lack of logic now, that makes Bill Maher sound less partisan. Because he's like, I'd love to be a Democrat, but I don't know what I don't know what AOC is talking about. You're a fascist now? I mean, calling people fascist. What's going on with what we're seeing?

I would say a couple of things. You want to get to the bottom of things, but also the whole Twitter files, the fact that it's being buried. Backs up. The whole premise of people not trusting anything. The Twitter files reveal that the FBI working with Twitter.

Would put out a story. Or squelch a story, a story would go out, they would explain to the they would put it on Twitter, every outlet would take that story unverified, use Twitter as a reference, or whatever's come from Twitter, the FBI behind it, taking stories out, putting stories in. It would be amplified in every other network, and next thing you know, people take it as fact and they're running with features on something that never happened. And instead of people saying, wow, we got to learn from this. People are choosing not to report what's on the Twitter files.

People come out and they say, oh, that's a big nothing burger. Are you paying attention, Matt Taibbi, Michael Schellenberger? What they've been f able to discover, Dave Rubin?

So, that to me is relatively discouraging. They were able to find out that these synthetic stories were amplified. Maybe affecting an election. And no one's done anything to change it. And no one's acknowledging that it happened.

Steve was here on WABC. Welcome, Steve. Hey, Brian, how are you doing today? Good. We're seeing a good job on the Super Bowl, by the way.

Did fantastic work. I want to talk about the situation over in Ohio with the controlled release and explosion of the tanker cars on the railroad. You know, the reason that they're really not digging into it or making a big hullabaloo about it is who owns the railroads? Who owns the tracks? Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, big supporter of Biden.

And that whole group of people that are involved in in the administration.

So they're not gonna rock the cradle or turn away the spoon that feeds them. And I'll give you a scenario, and I'll build on that. If that area was a Democratic area or fooled with a minority section of the city, they would say another example of them not caring about minorities in America, willing to poison them and then tell them to go stay in their homes and stop complaining and just drink your water. But instead, you have a place that was 70% Republican into a rural section of Ohio, which is Republican, and then you have. Uh working class Americans without a lot of political power, so it's easy to skip over and not even bring it up.

But I would say this. I was telling this to, I think, Allison yesterday. It's the first time And maybe Seven years, eight years. That CNN and Fox News is reporting the two stories: a balloon story. and the chemical spill story with the derailment.

The same way at the same time. Everybody is legitimately outraged of the lack of information on the balloon shot down. And everyone's legitimately outraged about the toxic gases and the lack of information in a small town. But it would have been a lot of grandstanding and America, the racist nation, still exists with two standards, had it been a minority neighborhood. It's almost a relief that it's not, although I feel bad for the people of Palestine.

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Here we go, everybody. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Me Show. Tudor Dixon at the bottom of the hour. One of the things we'll talk about is getting to the bottom of the Michigan State University shooting. Of course, President Biden irresponsibly just goes, Well, guns, assault weapons, it might be on pop assault weapons.

The guy had a handgun is absolutely insane. And the problem with the Michigan State University, besides being a madman, the guy should have been put in jail for his actions prior, but what he had done before was knocked down to a misdemeanor. Therefore, he could buy a gun, and therefore he killed innocent people. Josh Rogan is standing by, too. He's the author of Chaos Under Heaven, Trump, She, and the Battle for the 21st Century.

And he's also a Washington Post columnist.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Jim was trying to negotiate a $140 million settlement between this U.S. company and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He boasts about how he only got the job doing this negotiation because he was the then vice president's brother.

Yes, trading on the Biden name. How unique. James Biden, now-like country, is trading on his family name with his brother as vice president, made millions. We have the documents.

Now we'll see if Republicans make the case. Number two. Governor, if you were to live in the area, would you feel comfortable moving back into your home? Look, I think that I would be drinking the bottle of water. And I would be Continuing to find out what the tests were showing as far as the air.

Yeah, tell the truth and show some caution. That's my message to local and national politicians. You just heard the governor of Ohio speaking, and so-called experts when it comes to the toxic chemical spill in Palestine, Ohio. The train derailment followed by a controlled explosion has led to a massive evacuation and a whole bunch of questions. Number We learned nothing in these briefings that I didn't already know as a member of the Intelligence or Armed Services Committee.

That's why I think it's so important that Joe Biden personally and directly address the American people. That would be nice. Fighting it out. China gets combative with the Biden administration on the balloon they thrust on us, like the pandemic, and make laughable allegations.

Well, no one knows its origin, or if the other objects were shot out of the sky erroneously, or were they just balloons, literally balloons? Top secret briefings only add to the anger and confusion. A man who's never confused joins us now, always intrigued. Josh Rogan, author of Chaos Under Heaven. Josh, welcome back.

Great to be with you, Brian. You're going to Munich, right? Yeah, taking off tomorrow, Vice President Harris, Secretary Blinken, lots of prime ministers will be assembled to decide whether or not we're going to stick with this whole Ukraine thing and beat Russia once or for all, or if we're going to pull the plug and suffer a loss for freedom and democracy. I hope it's the former, but I'll let you know when I get there. Are you not sure?

Because I'm pretty sure they're dug in on it. They just have been reluctant to give them the weapons they need to be successful.

Well, that's right. They they're they're we're arming Ukraine just enough to tie, which if you think about it is the craziest strategy of all because we're giving them we won't give them weapons they need to go on the offensive, but we'll give them weapons to defend themselves.

So it creates a stalemate, which makes means the war will last forever, which is in Russia's favor because they have more prisoners and bodies that to throw at the problem, so the time is on their side.

So yeah, no, I'm sure that the assembled European intelligentsia and chattering class won't pull all the aid, but the question is, will they give them the things they need to actually win? And that includes tanks and fighter jets and the rest. And I don't think the Germans are there because they look at the Biden administration and they say we're not going to be holier than the Pope on this thing. And if Biden won't do it, we won't do it.

So it really is a situation where America has to lead and Europe only then would follow. You know, people should remember that the President of the United States said, ah, let him have Nordstrom too. It's almost done anyway. And even though it's so detrimental to now we know European security, Trump was right on that. Yeah, it's so crazy.

For the whole year, the Biden administration has this pattern where they're like, oh, they don't need the longer-range missiles. And then, oh, okay, I guess we'll give them the longer range missiles. Oh, they don't need the Patriot system.

Okay, we'll give them the Patriots. Oh, they don't need the tanks.

Okay, we'll give them the tanks.

So they're constantly changing their minds when they realize that they do need all of this stuff. And they have this idea, oh, well, nobody wants World War III. But the question is whether or not, you know, prolonging the war makes it more dangerous or less dangerous. I say getting the war over quicker by beating Russia quicker actually is the safest way to get out of this without escalating into World War III. And if we're just going to, you know, keep making up rules of deterrence and rules of we can give them this thing, but we can't give them that thing, that plays into Putin's hands.

And I think that actually benefits the aggressor, which makes this situation more dangerous if you're being honest. Josh, the other thing is, even when we green lights, it takes forever to get there. And then they got to train on them from the Patriot missiles on down to the High Mars that are now there to attack them that we won't give them because we don't trust them not to bomb Moscow, I guess.

So, which is crazy, because if we don't trust the Ukrainians now, we should just cut bait and let them be run over. But you know, the move by Russia is not a theory of Josh Rogan or Brian Kilmead. They're already moving on Moldova. They're already trying to infiltrate that country. How soon till they go after the Baltics and finish off Georgia?

This is part of their master plan they tell people about.

Well, that's right, because, you know, Putin, like every single other totalitarian, aggressive, militaristic Dictator, whoever lived, will advance until he's stopped. And this is sort of the problem with the. I get it. A lot of people in Washington and around the country are like, hey, this is a lot of money. And, you know, it is a lot of money.

And, oh, well, you know, how long is this going to go?

Well, it could go a long time, but you have to weigh that against the alternative, which is that if Ukraine falls, Putin won't stop there. And then we will be in a war with NATO, and then it will be World War III.

So this is the chance. This is an insurance policy. This is a down payment. This is a lot cheaper than not doing it.

So, you know, I get that a lot of people want more oversight of the money. I'm for that. Absolutely. Let's get some more oversight. But at this point, we should be able to say clearly that we trust the Ukrainians enough to give them the weapons they need to actually win the war.

And by the way, that's not a bad deal for us. We give them the weapons, they do the fighting. That's actually, they're doing the hard part. We're doing the easy part.

Okay, it's the least we can do, and we should do it. Why do you have to explain it? Why aren't there people in the administration regularly explaining the big objective? Because the average person. Says, you know, with $32 trillion in debt, we have an open southern border.

Why are we not putting resources there? And the answer should be complete and comprehensive, and everyone should choose whether they want to go with that theory or not. But let's get the other side. Ever since he said, you know, we're going to back them, we're going to support the Ukrainians, it's allowed other people to fill in the gaps of why we're wasting our time because maybe they're not the perfect democracy. But they are great fighters, but they need to explain the objective.

Right.

Well, I think you're right, Brian. I think the administration has done a terrible job communicating to the American people about why this is so important. And I think for the first year, that was because they had a Democratic Congress, so there was no oversight, so they didn't feel any pressure. They knew where they were going to get the money one way or the other. And now that we have a Republican-led House of Representatives, all of a sudden, a lot of people in the administration are like, oh man, I guess we got to answer some tough questions about this thing.

And, you know, or maybe we'll just call the Republicans weak and try to ignore them. And I don't think they should do that. I think we need to engage those people with whom we disagree with on both the right and the left and engage the American people because we are asking the American people for a sacrifice. But again, it's a short-term hit for a long-term gain because, you know, history should have taught us, and this is what the administration should emphasize, that appeasing aggressors doesn't work. It ends up costing you more in the end, in both blood and treasure.

And by the way, this is what the weapons are for: to defend freedom against tyranny and aggression. The front line of that battle is in Ukraine, but it won't stay there unl unless we actually increase our support for them in quick. Uh w How soon do you think the Russian offensive starts? It's all it's started, it's begun. I mean, we see the missile volleys, there's Wagner, thousands of Wagner troops recruited from God knows which prison, you know, being thrown at the lines like cat and fodder.

This is how the Russians wage war. They advance inch by inch and destroy everything in their path.

Okay, that's the other thing. That's the other part of this that people have to keep in their minds: is that you know, it's not as if this stalemate is just you know benign. Every moment that Russia controls 20% of Ukraine, the people in that 20% of Ukraine are living in hell. And if they survive at all, they're getting raped or beaten or sent to some part of Siberia, separated from their kids, tortured. Kids are being tortured.

I mean, we should have some sort of common humanity that allows us to understand that these atrocities are something that we have to stand against. Otherwise, again, we will see them multiply.

Okay, and you know, that's not just because we're so altruistic, it's because this system of norms where we don't permit. Dictators like Putin to commit mass atrocities and get away with it is really important. And again, we learned that lesson once in the 20th century.

Now we've got to learn it again in the 21st century, hopefully for the last time.

So let's talk about China. Once again, we have a mystery. What is behind the balloon program, the near space program? How extensive is it, and why would the Chinese invest in it? Right.

So it's funny. We talked about this on the show earlier today, but the part we didn't get to is the why, right? Why are they doing all of this?

Well, I talked to some friends in Taiwan this week, and they were like, oh, yeah, balloons. We get those balloons. We have those a lot. And it sort of dawned on me that, oh, yeah, this is why. Because they're preparing for something.

They're preparing for the capability to launch an aggressive war, similar to what we see in Russia. But they don't want to make the same mistake as the Russians. And so what they're doing is they're developing new ways to sustain that fighting force.

So if the Chinese are going to invade Taiwan, yeah, they have satellites, they can get intelligence and do communications. Yeah, they've got hacking. They've got lots of different things. But this is one more thing that they have against us. And as they just showed us, we don't really have anything good to combat it.

We don't really have, what are we going to do? Send an F-22 with sidewinders at every, you know, they could send 100 balloons in the sky and overmatch us.

So it's, you know, a lot of people, again, in Washington, oh, well, why are we so excited about balloons? This is World War I technology. That's not the point. The point is that the Chinese are weaponizing a new part of space, near space, and they're doing it for a reason to make their army and their military more agile, more resilient, just in case Xi Jinping decides to. attack and that's a real possibility, so we just can't ignore it.

So they came back and they said this. This Wang Wenbin, who's a spokesperson for the military, says since last year, or more specifically since May, the U.S. has released multiple high-altitude balloons from its territory, which have continuously circled the globe and flown into the airspace of China and several dozen other countries over ten times, illegally at least without the approval of relevant Chinese authorities. That is not true. And here is John Kirby cut to.

I assume the United States does spy on China. Do we send balloons? We do not deploy surveillance balloons over China. And do we spy over China? We do not deploy surveillance balloons over China, George.

So uh that is the pushback. They claim we didn't push back hard enough. Right, I am rubber, you are glue, anything you say bounces off of me and sticks to you. That's what the Chinese are. Propaganda machines are throwing out today, which is, okay, well, listen, your balloon was on TV.

If we've got the balloons, show us the evidence. I'm not here to say that, you know, American government can't do anything wrong. I'm sure we're spying on China. I hope we're spying on China. That's why we have an $80 billion intelligence agency.

Somebody should be spying on China. But if you're going to accuse us something, let's see the evidence because let's face it, the Chinese Communist Party has a uniquely, tragically horrible track record when it comes to telling the truth. And besides, it doesn't really matter because in this instance, they were caught red-handed. And at first, they denied it. They said it was a weather balloon.

Then they said, oh, well, everybody does it. And now they're saying, oh, well, how dare you get angry about it? You know, to create news cycles so that, oh, now all the American journalists have to report that China said we didn't do it. But their side of the story is suspect, to say the very least. And our response has to take into account the fact that there's just a ton of evidence that they're expanding.

These programs. And by the way, it's not just us, it's a lot of other countries, too. And if we were smart, if we were organized, which we're not, we would get together with all these other countries and say, hey, listen, this is something that I cannot stand. And I'm sure there are a lot of other countries in Europe, South America, and Africa who don't like being spied on by Chinese balloons either. And, you know, we should probably get in touch with them because it's really not a U.S.

versus China Cold War. It's China's rise that's affecting lots of other countries in all sorts of horrible ways. And the nuclear program, we have no agreement to break. Like the Russians keep violating. We have no nuclear agreement.

So there is no threshold or ceiling on China's nuclear program. And evidently, they have more ICBMs than us fixed and mobile.

So that's pretty significant, don't you think?

Well, yeah, I was in Tokyo, as you know, Brian, uh, last month and I interviewed the Prime Minister of Japan, and he said that they're gonna double the Japanese defense budget over the next five years. This was before the balloons, right? He didn't know anything about balloons.

So it's not as if the balloons are the thing that we have to be worried about solely. Uh it's just the latest thing, added to the pile of things, including the fact that they're building hundreds of ICBM Silos and missiles. Why are they doing that? Again, it's a really good question, and I think a pretty clear answer is so that if and when they decide to attack Taiwan, they can rattle a nuclear saber just like Putin is to keep us at at bay so that we end up at some conference saying, Well, I don't know if we should give the Taiwanese this gun or that gun, or we should escalate with this sanction or that sanction. They're building the resilience and the machine to be able to take Taiwan without us being able to stop them.

And that's Scary, okay, and that's complicated. And that's not doesn't mean we should overreact and throw the kitchen sink at the balloons. It means that we have to take our valuable resources and keep in mind that it's not just about the war in Ukraine now, it's about the possible war in Asia tomorrow. That's what the Prime Minister of Japan told me. He said, Ukraine today could be East Asia tomorrow.

That's what he's talking about. He's talking about China attacking Taiwan. That's what the region is worried about. That's what we ought to be worried about. Balloons are a piece of that.

Nuclear weapons are a piece of that. Information warfare is a piece of that. The South China Sea Islands are a piece of that. The economic warfare is a piece of that. It's all one problem.

And right now we're playing whack-a-mole with these little things by shooting down this balloon. Or now we're shooting down things we don't even know what they are. Maybe it got lost in the mountains. We might have shot down something for nothing. We'll never know.

Sorry, we can't find it. I mean, it's ridiculous. It's insane that we have a policy where we can't even explain why we shoot down things that we shoot down and when we shoot them down. Hey, can't someone over there. Get on message and explain to the world and to the American people.

Here, let me do it. I'll do it for you right now. Shoot down the Chinese spy balloons. Don't shoot down the things that aren't a threat.

Okay? Should be a simple policy. That's just my suggestion. If anyone in the Biden administration is listening, Chinese spy balloons, yes, shoot those down. The things that are benign, don't shoot those down.

But we seem to have the opposite of that, which is crazy. Hey, Josh, have a great trip to Munich. Stay safe. And I look forward to talking to you when you get back. Thank you, my friend.

Josh Rogan, Washington Post. You'll listen to the Brian Kill Me Show. Back with your clothes in a moment. Then Tudor Dixon at the bottom of the arrow. Don't move.

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And Tony are in WABC in Clifton, New Jersey. Hey, Tony. Fine. You know, I know no one's been talking about the Consumer Price Index, which is. the price of um Mm, let's see a bath getter.

of market things, goods and services. You know, is this something that they've been saying is going to continue to happen? I thought they were going to try to cap that. What's your take on that?

So here it is. They say the percentage of consumer prices in January compared to January of last year are down from 6.5 percent and a peak of 9.1 percent last June. The newest inflation numbers are, they say, far above the Federal Reserve's target of two, and consumer prices increased 0.5 percent. That caused the whole market to go down because they feel as though the Fed has got to slow us down, is going to raise rates up to five now.

So I don't think the prices are going down on anything. I know it. I know it. It's amazing because I did like a home construction project because it was mandatory. And so I'm putting off everything that isn't mandatory right now, hoping that maybe in the next year or so we can have more control once we get into a new administration.

But anyway, thanks for your take on it. I mean, people still aren't getting any aid. By what they're doing. I know. Because prices, wages are not going up commiserate with the inflation.

So we'll discuss it all. Brian Kilmey Show, Tudor Dixon next, and then we'll do a more to know. And 1-866-408-7669, the number to call to be part of it. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

Okay, this is the LA Times, very liberal Democratic paper. Shootings, theft, and other crime test cities' progressive strain. Let me go into the specifics the number of unhoused people. Jumped. Shootings in the city have tripled.

Homicides are at a record high. Lower-level crimes like vehicles being stolen. Uh the Democrat There on the Portland City Commission said, you don't have to watch Fox News to look around Portland and say, this is not cool. This is a big Achilles heel for the Democrats, is it not? Oh, they need to get out in front of it.

I want a Democrat to stand up and say, you know, some people belong in jail. You know, the rapists, the murderers, the menu. One clap for that. I think that's very interesting that. No, wait, wait, wait.

Let's just pause there. One person is like, yes, some people belong in jail. Everybody else is... No, they don't. Nobody belongs in jail.

I agree. I'm going to go out on a limb.

Some people do belong in jail. So that's how crazy it is that Bill Moore is the voice of logic, that some people belong in jail, doesn't really have unanimous appeal, which is crazy. Tudor Dixon joins us now. Part of the reason she ran for the GOP nominee for governor, she was the GOP nominee for governor. Part of the reason she wanted to get that over Governor Whitmer was to straighten out things like this.

Tudor Dixon, welcome back. Thank you. Thank you for having me. First off, the horrible shooting at Michigan State University dates back to what we're talking about. This guy, Anthony McRae, this mutant, this gunman opened fire in Michigan State, killing three kids, critically injuring five more, wouldn't have been able to legally own a gun had he been convicted of a past felony weapons charge that was dismissed.

Instead of that, he agreed to plea it down to a misdemeanor gun charge. And the felony rap was dropped as part of the deal, which means he could buy a gun and he could go ahead and assassinate people. When are people going to wise up and see there's a link to all this? Absolutely. And we're devastated here in the state of Michigan.

There's so many families that have been affected by this, the poor families that lost their children in this tragedy. And it's interesting to me because We see this as a tragedy because it's happening on a college campus, but this is actually happening a few blocks over almost daily in Lansing. It's the 17th most violent city in the entire country. And exactly what you heard on Bill Maher, why aren't Democrats stepping up?

Well, instead, the Democrat prosecutor in this town has said, I'm going to forego gun charges for people because I think it's a racist issue.

Now, this man could have been in a situation where, should have been in a situation where he couldn't buy a weapon, but also police have been called to his house multiple times because he was doing practice or target practice out of the back door of his house within the city limits. But you know, when you have a prosecutor who is saying, I'm not going to prosecute these people on gun charges, what are the police going to do? They let it go. And then you have this guy wander into campus a few miles away. And tragedy occurs.

We're shocked about it.

Now, I will say, I want to give kudos to our Attorney General here in the state of Michigan because she put out a tweet, and the way I interpret her tweet is, Well, if I can start prosecuting peop people for gun crimes, then let's do it. But you keep sending these people to this Ingham County prosecutor who's radical and she's letting people out. If I can see a Democrat every day say, We want to abide by the laws that we have and put people in jail that deserve to be in jail or take the the appropriate precautions with people who are convicted of gun crimes, then I think we're making progress. But I hear Democrats come out and say, Add more laws, and I just laugh. I think, well, you've not even been following the laws we have.

That not only politicians, the president, nonstop.

So when you look at what happened in Michigan State, I I don't really know any campus that just locks down like iron gates. But in fact, most of them you can drive on usually. Do you see something being addressed in that way? You know, it's interesting because there's this rock on campus and last and they paint the rock every night. And the night before last, the rock said, you know, how many more?

And then last night, somebody painted the rock and said, when are you going to let us carry on campus to protect ourselves? And the media went crazy over this. Like, who painted this rock? They didn't ask the night before. But when somebody says we want to be able to protect ourselves, we ask.

And I've been saying this from the beginning. You either have a sitting duck zone or you have a militant type situation where everything is locked down because you're not allowing anybody to have protection.

So the other thing is, I did really dislike the press conference yesterday when politicians got up, including your governor, and ranted before we got any facts. We're there for a press conference to find out what happened, how many people died, what were the reasons, is the guy who is the shooter? And then you have people just local congressmen, you have Governor Whitmer and others just go up and rant. We're not your therapist.

So we need answers to these questions. It's such baloney, too, because you don't have any of the details, but you've got somebody. We've got an open Senate seat.

So that tells you a lot. We've got an open Senate seat.

So you see Alyssa Slotkin out there, who would have never been out there any other time. But she's buying for Debbie Stabenow's Senate seat.

So then she comes out and she's all sad about the fact that we've got to make sure this doesn't happen again. But why aren't they saying this prosecutor that Governor Whitmer appointed to this position has got to go? We're done with allowing this to happen. You know, in Michigan, we have four of the most dangerous or the most violent cities in the country, four of the top 20 most violent cities in the country. You think there's a problem there?

Yeah, it's these prosecutors that just let criminals off. And this was tragic. This guy shouldn't have been roaming the streets. And there he is roaming the streets. Tragedy hits.

Tudor Dixon with us, former GOP nominee for governor.

So Tudor, what's next for you?

Well, I you know, I've said before people ask me, Are you gonna run her office again? And I always say, I mean, maybe it's like pregnancy and you forget and then you do it again.

So there's a chance. There's a chan You enjoyed the process. Why do you think you lost? You know, I think that abortion was more than we could have imagined. And they hit us hard with abortion ads.

And you know that what I was running on was safety, was schools and was economic development, certainly not bringing China into the state like we're seeing now. But they had the advantage. I mean, that was something that We didn't see coming that Everett being overturned in July and weren't prepared for the fact that she was going to say that this was something that I would do. And it was on the ballot for the people, but we just couldn't get that message out.

So I think that the idea of young women thinking, gosh, this person's going to stop me from having an abortion if I want to. And then she came out and she said, if she wins, she's going to use abortion for economic development. What? I mean, and people don't understand what economic development is.

Meanwhile, the state of Michigan is just dying. You've got Glenn Youngkin out there going, no way is Ford going to bring these Chinese corporations in here. And Gretchen Whitmer's like, yes, please come. Please come. What do you mean, forge bringing Chinese corporations?

Oh, Ford, Glenn, Ford went to Virginia with, and they said, we're going to bring a battery plant.

Well, Glenn Youngton, Governor Youngton, he looked into it and he said, no, no, no, this is a partner of yours. This is not Ford. This is a Chinese-owned corporation. Gretchen Wimmer said, bring them here. We'll give you $1 billion.

A billion dollars. Taxpayer, Michigan taxpayer dollars will go to a company that is owned by the Chinese with ties to the Chinese Communist Party in Michigan. This is the second battery plant from China that will come here. Which is going to be a boon for your unions. But in Virginia, we wouldn't have had that.

It was a right to work state. Tudor, great to hear from you. We'll keep up to date on what's happening. I look forward to hearing about your next move. Thank you so much for having me.

I appreciate it. You got it. Tudor Dixon from Michigan, 1-866-408-7669. We're going to go back and discuss this. Also, we haven't really discussed.

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So this is a very well-organized family that has been involved in shady business dealings with our adversaries, not just in Russia, Ukraine, and China, which we all know about, but also in the Middle East. And what I found with the president's brother Jim, he operated mainly in the Middle East. There were multiple deals. in the Middle East where Jim Biden was influenced by So that is James Comer. The investigation on the Biden family grows.

Now, on the cover of the New York Post today, James Biden was hired to help a Philadelphia construction company resolve a decades old dispute with the Saudi government because he was a sibling of then Vice President, according to the documents. According to these documents, Jim told a former senior U. S. Treasury official working as a private investigator that he was hired to negotiate with the Saudis because of his position and relationship to the Vice President of the United States.

So it was funny, the New York Post wrote Brothers Reaper, because he got multi-million dollars, $140 million, the Saudis were owed for a desalinization plant built by Hill Subsidy over in 1980.

So he gets a portion of that. Lankford and Reed claims that Hill International also hired James Biden, now seventy three, in twenty eleven, to negotiate a secret deal with the Saudis to settle the dispute and get out of paying Lankford the 40% cut outlined in his contract.

So, where did that money go? Did he share it with Joe? How did Joe end up with all these houses when he spent the last 40 years in government jobs? That is a huge problem. You would think.

Republicans now have to clearly make the case, not make it seem personal. But I guarantee the Democrat's going to come back and say, look at Jared Kushner. You're going to be investigating that.

Well, Jared Kushner did what he did. He's now a private citizen. He can do what he wants. If you found some paperwork that showed he did a deal that he went once Trump loses to get a deal done, that would be an issue. But up until that, I don't think so.

Here's more from Comer.

Well, there were probably a dozen or more countries that they were involved in. The amount of money varies. I mean, that's why we need the bank records to get the exact amount. But I can tell you with confidence, Sean, it was tens of millions of dollars. There are two things every American is going to realize.

At the conclusion of our investigation, and that's number one: that multiple members of the Biden family were involved in the influence peddling schemes. And number two, most of these big deals were initiated during Joe Biden's term as vice president.

Now, the narrative that the defenders in the media are trying to portray on Hunter Biden, now that the laptop has been proven to be real and the evidence on it is legitimate, is that, well, these deals happened just by the president's son, who, by the way, had an addiction problem, and it didn't matter because Joe Biden wasn't in office during this time. That's not true. He was.

So the guy who broke the story for the Daily Mail is Josh Boswell. He joined the Hannity TV show Cut 25. It's the latest in a long line of pieces of evidence that show that Joe probably did know what his family members were doing, the foreign business dealings they had.

So I've got these documents that one of them is the most interesting one I think, the affidavit from this former senior Treasury official. He was investigating this case. Jim was trying to negotiate a $140 million settlement between this US company and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. And he comes and interviews Jim about it. And Jim is incredibly frank with him.

In fact, he boasts about how he only got the job doing this negotiation because he was the then Vice President's brother. And he tells him that over and over again. Is that unbelievable to you? Ugh. Let's just see.

James Coleman, make it clear, make it concise. Where's the money? And by the way, do you pay taxes on anything? If you do pay taxes, the forensics are there to go track it down and see where the money went. Uh let's find out if there's more to know.

More. To know. All right, let's start in golf, where Tiger Wood is going to do something he hasn't done in seven months: play golf. He's going to go out to the Riviera, of course, he's had a lot of success with at the Genesis into Invitational. He is now 47 years old, coming off a horrific injury, but did play two majors last year.

Here's what Tiger expects. As far as the recovery is more of my ankle. Whether or not I can recover from day to day, the leg is better than it was last year, but it's my ankle. And so being able to have it recover from day to day and meanwhile still stress it, but have the recovery and also have the strength development at the same time. It's been an intricate little balance that we've had to dance, but It's gotten so much better in the last couple months.

By the way, Tiger Woods on a bad ankle. Why would you play? Why don't you just wait a couple of weeks or a month and get the ankle better? But he's going to make his own decision. He's got to walk the course.

That's part of the rules.

Meanwhile, there's a documentary on Netflix about the Live PGA rivalry. I will watch that.

Next. Happening today, Kansas City prepares a parade. They're rallying right now. The parade will start on 6th and go to Grand Boulevard. I imagine they will be happy.

Andy Reid, the coach, not allowing the Chiefs to watch Rihanna's Super Bowl halftime show. That's official, according to the quarterback. Actually, that doesn't surprise me. Do you really want your team watching the halftime show? Listen to Patrick Mahomes.

Were you at all watching Rihanna's performance during this? I didn't, but I heard it was great. But Coach Reed told us, he said, if you go out to watch the performance, just keep walking because you're not playing the rest of the year. Do you agree? I believe that Rihanna should name the baby after you.

Your thoughts? My name is taken by my son, Patrick LaVon Mahomes III, so I don't know if that name is still allowed.

So she has to think of another one. All right, next, Michael Jordan's birthday is on Friday. But instead of throwing a big bash ahead of turning 60, the basketball legend is donating $10 million to Make-A-Wish. The Hall of Famer announced this, saying he's been honored to work with the organization since 1989, helping put a smile on kids' faces through hundreds of granted wishes. Witnessing their strength and resilience during a tough time in their lives has truly been an inspiration.

Make-a-Wish says Jordan has granted hundreds of wishes for kids since 1989 and has consistently been one of the most requested celebrities. No joke. That's cool. Yeah, right? I mean, does he really need a party?

Well, I mean, we don't really know that he's not throwing one. We just know that he also, I mean, he could maybe throw away. You don't have to make a choice. You could give to make a wish and have a part. He could, exactly.

But I think it's super classy and, you know, just goes with the man who he is, right? True.

South Dakota has become the second state to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth, and Republican Governor Christy Noam signed the controversial bill into law. The law bars healthcare workers from prescribing puberty blockers. It does not limit or prevent provisions of services to minors born or diagnosed with medically verifiable disorder of sex development.

So I guess getting ahead of it. Do you think I kind of forgot about her sometimes? She might even be getting herself set to run. Yeah, radar someone's number toothpick, but I mean She's the governor in a very red state. I mean, it's a good decision.

Why are we talking so much about transgender? I mean, because it's an issue, though. I mean, it's disturbing. Why is it an issue? Who keeps bringing it up?

I mean, it's out there, social media, other news outlets, and how you need to let kids be kids, and it's sort of a little crazy.

Next, iPhone and Mac users are being urged to update your devices to new software. Apple has released a whole new range of updates, fixing bugs and issues almost on all of its products. The company rolled out software updates for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, watch, and even home pods. The updates include different features across all those platforms, but all of them are focused on bug updates. Are you somebody that doesn't like the upgrades?

My upgrade on my iPad has been a joke. I'm having trouble sending stuff. It sends itself now in an attachment. I don't want to send things in an attachment unless I want to choose to put in the attachment. Yeah, you definitely sent things differently for a while.

It seemed to get back to normal, but I agree. I always like defer for as long as possible because there's always some weird glitch that makes things much more complicated. Nikki Haley, making it official. She's running for president. She'll probably get slammed by President Trump pretty soon.

He's been kind to her, though. Compared to others. This is Brian Killmee Chow. Keep it here. BrianKillmee.com, order any of my books.

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