Trump says he'll soon be indicted and arrested over Stormy Daniels payment "farce"

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I'm so glad you're here. Larry Kudlow in 15 minutes, center Bill Cassidy in 34 minutes, and you in between. Busy weekend. Donald Trump made it a busy weekend with his truth social posts, and then all the movements going on legally, and then the bank drama that's taking place. And that's why Larry Kudlow scrambled to help us out, as he always does.

His perspective is fantastic, and his show is number one in business. Business News Period. let alone the perspective he has from the economy he left to the pandemic took over to the one that we have.

So his perspective is invaluable. And of course, we know with the drama with President Xi arriving in Moscow today, the 40th meeting between Xi and Putin.

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You know, China doesn't want to get caught doing this, right? Because at the same time, as they're helping the Russians murder Ukrainians, they're also saying, hey, China's open for business. That is H.R. McMaster. You'll hear more from him shortly.

China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Biden administration, in-depth and at times invisible foreign policy, inept, I should say, invisible foreign policy have allowed these unholy alliances to form and reaffirm why we can't afford to look away and need to get on board for a Ukraine victory. Number two. Bank runs are a crisis of confidence. The government has put in place a backstop for the two banks that we know are in trouble. But there are thousands of small and regional banks in the United States.

This usually just doesn't stop after two. Banks fail and rescue swamp this weekend's news as Americans wonder: are we in a slow-rolling collapse like 2008? We go inside the numbers and see how your wallet will be impacted. Number I do not have any thought that he will be quote unquote arrested tomorrow. What will happen is someone like Donald Trump, former president or not, a white-collar crime, he will get to self-surrender.

I expect it to happen soon, but not tomorrow. Ricky Kleinman of CBS. Trump to be arrested, that's what he claims, but there's no word from the DA or any denial as key Trump witnesses will appear in front of a grand jury today. I shouldn't say that's plural, it's just one. The NYPD prepares for possible riots should the 45th president be hauled in.

The whole case with Stormy Daniels and payments is, in my view, A force. What about you?

So that's what we found out on Tuesday. On Saturday, Trump posts that he believes he's going to be arrested. According to one of those illegal leaks, he'll be arrested. He posted like crazy after. Just reported that the most important witness to go before the New York City grand jury, a highly respected lawyer who once represented convicted felon, jailbird, and serial fake storyteller, liar, Michael Cohen, will be doing so tomorrow, meaning today.

The information will be present, will be supposedly to be conclusive and irrefutable. It's a witch hunt. Who is that person? Bob Costello. For a blink of an eye, he represented Michael Cohen, and he just said, you know what, I'll come in and speak.

And he was released from his attorney client privilege, and therefore he's allowed to go and speak at about 2 o'clock today.

So Trump rejected the opportunity to go in front. Evidently, that's something in New York.

So we'll see at 80 Center Street just after 2 p.m. if that'll happen in Manhattan. And when the president came out and says, guys, protest, that was a risky move. In my view, that's Donald Trump being Donald Trump. After January 6th, do you really want to tell people to go out and protest?

But you should show people, if you're upset about it, how you feel about it. But if it gets into violence, All hell is going to break loose, and I think he's going to have trouble finding any support.

So when this happened, we quickly got Andy McCarthy Saturday night on One Nation, and this is what he said. He thinks it's a joke. And out of everything with Stormy Daniels, it happened 17 years ago. It became an issue in 2016. And now you bring it up again in 2023 as he's leading the race to get the nomination to run for president again.

Cut for. He walked away from it, Brian. And my old office, the Southern District of New York, the federal prosecutors in Manhattan, also wanted no part of this case, which hinges not only on the testimony of the porn star, Stormy Daniels, who, you know, look, I think it's credible for her to claim that this happened way back when, but at the same time, you know, she's on record a couple of times saying it didn't happen. The other crucial witness here is Michael Cohen, and I think probably the feds walked away from him because of his deep Credibility problems.

So you're not starting out in a great place with those witnesses. Right, and you're not. And so, but is this something? By the way, I did not know this. I thought about it.

I probably could have concluded it, but no president's ever been indicted, period. And in a similar situation, Cash Patel was just on with me when it was found out that they used campaign funds to support and pay for the dossier, the famed dossier, the Clinton campaign was fined $100,000.

Okay.

So, if you found out that there were payments made to make sure he wasn't defamed in the backstretch of an election campaign, you fine the campaign.

Okay.

Oh, go ahead, but there's no proof they even used campaign funds to do it. And what you might say: look, I don't know what happened with him and Story Daniels. Most likely something happened. All right? Don't know.

But any time a celebrity, a rich person, is targeted And the threat is PR. The threat is: this makes the news, I get hurt, my family gets hurt. I don't care what it is, whether you're on Epstein Island or you had an affair, or you didn't have an affair, someone comes forward and going to accuse you, and they got some pictures, but you know, nothing ever happened. You don't want the problem.

So they call it a nuisance.

So you go, all right. What's it gonna take? Two hundred thousand dollars. Good, you're gone. N D A got it, understood.

So she's on an N D A. The payments made just to keep it out of the news. They already had remember, they already had the access Hollywood tape. They didn't want any more out. Even Mike Pence, who's been so critical of the President, said this is ridiculous.

Cut nine.

Well first let me say I'm I'm taken aback at the idea of indicting a former President of the United States. At a time when there's a crime wave in New York City that The fact that the Manhattan DA thinks that indicting President Trump is his top Priority, I think, is just tells you everything you need to know about the radical left in this country. It just feels like a politically charged prosecution here. And I, for my part, I just feel like it's just Not what the American people want to see.

So we have that going on and that drama with the election. And of course Jason Miller, a key ally of the former presidents, came out and said, I want all these other candidates to go to bat for me. And Kev McCarthy went out there and Mike Pence, you just heard one out there to defend the president, said this is a witch hunt or whatever they wanted to say. But they're pushing Ron DeSantis to come out and support the president. He's not going to say a word.

But isn't it interesting that they seem to be obsessed with Ron DeSantis? As good as the President's been, and I think he's been really good since the former President's been, since having a white supremacist dinner or lunch with Kanye West and that other lunatic. I think for the most part president for 45, the 45th President of the United States, his campaign seems very solid. To go to that wrestling event in beautiful Tulsa, Oklahoma over the weekend, it's totally him. Number one, he loves these sports.

He has great respect for the combat sports. Number two, Oklahoma, he got invited. He shows up. He shows up hours before when he posts he's going to be arrested. The crowd goes crazy.

Just like it was so great that he went to Ohio after the train derailment. Nobody else did. Reluctantly, the Biden people do.

So. I don't want to take too much time away from Larry Kudlow. I'm not going to talk about the finance things with him, with you right now. I'm going to wait for him. But real quick, on what's happening, President Xi is landing in Moscow.

It's going to meet with Vladimir Putin. They'll talk about their alliance. They'll sign some ridiculous paperwork that shows that tight. But I am watching the Middle East. I'm watching what's happening as Saudi Arabia and Iran are going to exchange ambassadors and they're moving in on the peace deal that President Xi's administration cut.

I'm seeing that the UAE is now reaching out to Iran and they're established relations again. I'm seeing that North Korea. Iran China and Russia of forming an axis of evil. And all I'm saying. Is that do we have a State Department or not?

Is any State Department working behind the scenes with UAE and Saudi Arabia to say, yeah, I know you got a President Biden, but you got an 80-year relationship with us? Whatever you do, understand who you're dealing with with Iran. With UAE, are you understanding? Are you talking to them behind the scenes to make sure they understand? You reach out to Iran, it's going to jeopardize our relationship too?

Are you out there trumpeting the fact that Russia has fallen flat on its face militarily and they're losing to Ukraine and how united the world is? I don't see anything. I see a president walking away from cameras. I see a press secretary totally unbriefed, giving briefings. I see a Secretary of State that is invisible, Jake Sullivan, who's pulling the strings behind the scenes, never reassuring.

Come on, do your job.

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Then Jerome Powell just took a flamethrower to the regulations, weakened them, weakened them, weakened them, weakened dozens of the regulations. And then the CEOs at the banks did exactly what we expected. They loaded up. On risk that boosted their short-term profits. I think he's failing in both jobs, both as the oversight and manager of these big banks, which is his job, and also what he's doing with inflation.

Yeah, that is obviously Senator Elizabeth Warren, who hates J-PAL, and using that as an opportunity to do every Sunday show to talk about it. But what's the reality? Larry Kudlow, former White House Economic Advisor, hosts of the number one show in Fox Business Television, Kudlow, which is every day at 4 o'clock Eastern Time. Larry, welcome back. I'm just wondering how serious you're taking all this and the series of bailouts that took place this weekend.

Well you gotta be you gotta take everything seriously. I mean Elizabeth Warren notwithstanding. I mean, I I think a couple things, Brian. You know, big Big Supervisory mistakes were made, particularly by the San Francisco Fed. There's Original Sin.

was the overspending and money printing. By the Biden administration and the Fed, which created the inflation, which created the shock of interest rates, and they acted way too late. But you know why they acted late, Larry, right? You know why they acted late. Jay Powell was trying to get a renewal and continue on as Fed chair, and he knew if he raised rates, it would affect the economy.

And of course, he didn't. And then by the time he started raising rates to control inflation, it's had no effect.

Well I don't know how many things you just said that I think are wrong there. Go ahead. I don't think Jay did it for political reasons. I think it was a misjudgment. The Federal Reserve has made so many bad misjudgments their economic models down through the years have done so badly.

I think that was the principal problem. I think, look, the stuff Elizabeth Ward is saying is not regulations. that uh caused these banks. It was Bad supervision. The bank examiners didn't do their job.

I do think there were. Left wing biases out of the San Francisco Fed that encouraged this rogue bank. Silicon Valley Bank. But look, you know, right now, the situation. May be calmer.

I mean, it looks calmer than it was a week ago. And that's very important. I will say this. There are a lot of banks in the US system that will suffer uh from higher interest rates and their bond portfolios will fall. right, that's already happened.

I just don't know whether depositors will leave those banks or what kind of rumors will happen. And I will say this, the Fed and the Treasury have set up a very good Bad stop lending facility, a very good one. We, the Trump administration, used the same idea during COVID, I might add.

So that if some of these banks are on the hook. they can get some immediate attention. I want the FDIC to stay out of this. I I think guaranteeing uninsured deposits is a very bad idea, creates enormous uncertainty. You know that's being proposed, right?

Up to three million dollars. Yeah, crazy, crazy idea, moral hazard. That would lead to even, you know, more. Risk-taking and more abuse in terms of sound banking practices.

So, you know, the stock market has opened okay. It looks like Credit Swiss Is going to be bought by UBS. That was mostly a Swiss problem. For $3 billion. For more than $3 billion.

Yes. I mean, I think the Swiss National Bank, it's their Fed. They arranged that.

So I think that's okay. But the question is, what are we there's still confusion. There's still a good deal of risk, okay? Those things are very important to investors right now. I don't think it looks like 2008, Brian.

I said that all last week. I just don't believe it right now. Important mistakes were made, and we need to focus in on why those mistakes were made. And, you know, why didn't the examiners and the supervisors of the Fed and the FDIC, and let's add the control of the currency, why didn't they realize that these banks loaded up on low-coupon bonds and that their mark-to-market value, their assets are getting killed? Why didn't they realize that?

Why didn't they step in? Did you see the Wall Street Journal story today? The Wall Street Journal today said that the Fed raised concerns about SVP's risk management back in 2019 and again in 2021, and they didn't pay attention. Excuse me? The CEO of SVB was on the San Francisco Fed.

How could you not knock this guy in the head and just say, are you going to adjust your holdings? Yeah, and look, the the president of the San Francisco Fed, Mary Daly, apparently signed off on this five billion dollar climate loan. Which was 2.5% of the bank's entire assets. 2.5% of assets in a climate loan that nobody knew about, no knew had any value, had no ongoing business value. I mean, that stuff is crazy.

He should have been fired a long time ago. They all should have been fired. I mean, it was a road bank, right? It had all these Hillary Clinton donors and Barack Obama donors. Nobody seemed to know much about banking.

But that's a supervisory issue. It's not a regulatory issue. We don't have to have a new spate of regulations. And let's see how things play out this week. I wouldn't mind, Brian, one last point.

The Fed meets Tuesday and Wednesday. The Federal Open Market Committee meets at Washington. I wouldn't mind if they pause their interest rate hike. And then came back later. Rates have not peaked.

They're going to go up some more because there's still lingering 5%, 6% inflation. But just me speaking here, and I think I'm probably a minority, I wouldn't mind. They don't have to show their manhood. Just for the moment, let things calm down. Then they can come back the next month.

That's the way I'd like to see them do it. All right. New York Bank, Community Bank agrees to buy Signature Bank. UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse. And we're going to see about First Republic and see what happens with them.

But U.S. regulators will take a look at that after Credit Suisse sale. And we'll see what happens this time in February. All may not be well with First Republic. They own a lot of bad commercial real estate, Brian.

By the way, so does Silicon Valley Bank, but that's gone under. But I'm a little worried about these commercial real estate loans. That market has been hit very, very hard, particularly on the West Coast and the East Coast. Larry Kudlow, you know what a heart break's like. You know radio and you know television.

The Music's gonna get louder and cut us off. We're not gonna let that happen. We're pros. Thank you, Larry. See you today at 4.

Back in a moment with Senator Cassidy. Don't move. Brian Killmee Chill.

So glad you're here. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. The president keeps saying he does not wish to have cuts in social. Is he aware that under current law, when the program goes broke in nine years, that there will be a 24% benefit cut for those who are current recipients?

Is he aware of that? He cares very deeply. He stands ready to work with Commissioner. That's a lie. Because when a bipartisan group of senators has repeatedly requested to meet with him about social so that somebody who is a current beneficiary will not see her benefits cut by 24 percent, we have not heard anything on our request.

So yesterday, excuse me, that was on, was that Friday, Senator Cassidy? Thursday. That was on Thursday. Senator Bill Cassidy in the studio now in Louisiana, dealing right now with Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, asking why you can't even have a meeting to brainstorm how to fix Social Security. And I heard your frustration in your voice.

Can you bring us back to that moment? Yeah, absolutely. Under current law, If nothing is done to help Social Security, people who are currently receiving benefits, who rely upon it for their retirement, are going to get a 24% benefit cut.

Now the President knows that. But he presented no plan. Secretary Yellen mentioned that they had not created she effectively said they had not created models to see how they would bail it out, and he won't meet with senators.

Now, if you don't have a plan and you won't meet with people who care about the issue, that means that you don't care about the issue. And it means that the President doesn't care that people under current law will get a 24 percent benefit cut in nine years. Trevor Burrus: So that has to be addressed. But if you bring it up now as a politician worried about an election, it means you are at risk of being labeled somebody who wants to cut off Social Security on seniors and losing that senior vote. That's the extreme.

And that's what the President did at the State of the Union address. It is what he did. And what he didn't say, though, is his choice to do nothing. means that people will get a 24% cut. That's his choice, and he is going to try and deceive the American people.

that you can do nothing and nothing bad happens. No. If you do nothing, people get a 24% benefit cut. And so the President, as the President, should be taking leadership in addressing this, and right now he is not.

So why is Janet Yellen out pushing him to do that? Did she ever satisfy you with her answer? No. And by the way, she picked up a sheet of paper and she said, and she read. The President is ready to meet with, and that statement she had been given was a lie.

That was not true.

Now, she was just reading what they were told. She doesn't happen to know it's in the White House, I suspect. But the fact is, whoever gave that to her should know that the President has had these requests made, and they have chosen not to meet with us. They are choosing to let the program go broke.

So, what are the options? Raise the age? You could uh raise the contribution. You could go into some type of creative savings account type situation where people get to invest a portion of it. That didn't go well for Bush 43, even though it was probably a great idea.

Is there anything that you would throw up if you met with the President today? Throw up the page.

So, the kind of heart and soul, it's already been reported, but the heart and soul of what we're attempting to do. Is to create a fund separate from social security, separate from social security. you would invest some money. In a diversified portfolio. The federal government.

Now, by the way, there'll be all kinds of guardrails to make sure that some future Congress can't mess with us, all kinds of guardrails. But you would allow this fund to invest in the strength of the American economy. And it would be a bridge for Social Security to go into solvency at a later point in time. In the meantime, the You would go ahead and pay all the promised benefits, no one would get a cut. And you would just use, again, this fund to make good upon that.

Now, so it's a parallel fund. It's a parallel fund, and the risk is borne by the fund, not by the individual beneficiary. But you know that there's no guarantee when you go into the market.

So if you look at every 20-year period of time, from 1929, Great Depression, all the way till now, 1929 to 1949, 1930 to 1950, the average return has been 8.5 percent over that time period. Under our model, we only assume an 8.34%.

So we actually take a smaller return than the historic average since 1929. And if you compare that to what the projected cost of borrowing is, the fund ends up with able to meet the lion's share of the obligations. If we do that, We prevent somebody from getting a 24 percent benefit cut. The President's plan: do nothing, take the cut.

So, Senator Cassie, won't you just talk about let's talk a little bit about what's going on with the banks? You know, people are saying this could be a slow-rolling 2008.

So, over the weekend, New York Community Bank agreed to buy failed signature bank for $2.7 billion. UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse for more than $3 billion. Word is, they were kind of forced to do it. Don't know if it's going to pan out because of it. The Swiss government said it would provide more than $9 billion to backstop some losses that UBS may incur by buying Credit Suisse.

Now, First Republic Bank looms large right now for U.S. regulations. After Credit Suisse got their bailout, we know they were heavily into crypto, it seems.

So, we don't know what's going to happen to First Republic. You're looking for a briefing on this. But, from what you know, what could you tell our audience?

Well, what we know. I call Social Security the Silicon Valley Bank. Of retirement systems. Maybe I should call Silicon Valley Bank the Social Security of Banking. They've got a lot of investments which have a very low return on investment, one, two percent and three percent, just like Social Security.

But their obligations are going up with the cost of inflation and the cost of interest rates. And so if you're only getting a 1% to 3% return on your investment, but you got to pay out on a 5% and 7%. Basis, you're going to run out of money. And that's what happened to Silicon Valley Bank. What I don't know, and what has not been communicated, is how pervasive is that in the banking system.

How many banks have a low return on investment on their investment portfolio, but they're going to have to pay out more and more in order to keep their depositors? We don't know that. Over the weekend, the President tweeted out on Truth Social, posted on Truth Social, that he's going to be arrested and arraigned on Tuesday, at which time all hell is breaking loose. The DA says they're not ready for that, but they did concede convening a grand jury in order to decide if Stormy The Daniels actually got a payout with funds that might have violated a campaign. Governor Chris Sunununu, who is not a fan of the President, said this: cut eight.

I think it's building a lot of sympathy for the former president. I think the fact that I was with coffee this morning with some folks, and there's every not none of them were big Trump supporters, but they all said they felt like he was being attacked. And as you pointed out, this is likely some sort of misdemeanor on an issue seven years ago. This has nothing to do with January 6th. There's folks out there that still think this has something to do with January 6th.

So I just think that not just the media, but really a lot of the Democrats have misplayed this in terms of building sympathy for the former president. And it does drastically change the paradigm as we go into the 24 election. Obviously, Governor Sunu could very well be a candidate himself. Do you dispute anything he said? Don't dispute anything.

No one should be above the law, but no one should be a target of the law. And we don't know what the final charges are going to be, but if the charges are being presented in the press, it sounds like the former President is a target of the law. That is wrong. Absolutely.

So when you look at other things going on, Mar-a-Lago, to me, it's wrong. Why do you even bother taking your documents back? Plus, he's not somebody who loves that. He likes memorabilia, he likes posters and things like that. He doesn't like documents.

He didn't want to read his daily brief, and he would tell you that.

So having said that, when you look at Joe Biden and what they found there, they raided his lawyer's office in Boston and took his stuff. Does that nullify, in your view, from what we know, Mar-a-Lago, the fact that the president's being, the current president's being examined too and found to have Classified documents. It may be that everybody's guilty. Again, Brian, what would happen if you and I did the same thing? That's what we have to ask.

Oh, we go to jail. We go to jail, brother. And we're kicked out of the military. And so, you know, what's good for one should be good for another. Uh, and it goes between parties and it goes between kind of class of folks.

Um, you and I, um. We're not presidents. We're not vice presidents. But people should be held to the same standard no matter where they are in the rank. Today, President Xi flew in for the fortieth meeting with President Vladimir Putin, who just got back from Mariupol, just went back from Crimea.

Does this uh fa this burgeoning alliance, which gets stronger by the day, bother you? Where what concerns you most? Oh, it does bother me. China is picking, and China is picking Russia and a smaller and smaller group of countries that support Russia. And Russia is going to become nothing but a pimple on the rear end of China.

They're going to be progressively weakened. But China's got incredible resources. The degree that they continue to pump up and support Russia is the degree to which Russia is able to continue Putin's war of aggression. And not only that, H.R. McMaster weighed in, and he sees evidence that they're doing more than just buying oil.

Cut 25. I think what you're going to see in the coming days and weeks is more and more evidence of Chinese support. China doesn't want to get caught doing this, right? Because at the same time as they're helping the Russians murder Ukrainians, they're also saying, hey, China's open for business. And they're trying to appeal to American and other investors to continue to prop up their statist mercantilist model, even as they commit genocide.

Even as Xi Jinping, just in the recent People's Congress last week, he gave really four speeches, essentially preparing the Chinese people for war. I mean, these were jingoistic speeches. He also made it clear that the security economy is going to dominate over the free market economy or the tech sector.

So and he went on to say that he believes they're already getting lethal aid. From China. I g I could believe that. Uh, now the Chinese, I could believe that, but uh, but I don't know that. Let me just make that clear.

We've got to engage with China. We don't want to go to war with China. They're kind of a frenemy. They are both an opponent and they're somebody with whom we need to work. The degree that they're working with Russia makes it more difficult for the United States to be the FR part of Frenemy.

The problem is they're moving into the Middle East. They've fostered that relationship now with Iran and Saudi Arabia. How complex does that make? Everything from the Abraham Accords to relations with Israel. And where's the State Department, Senator Cassidy?

I mean, we have a State Department that should be working all these relationships and find out behind the scenes.

Now, Iran is making overtures to UAE and they're going to have a meeting. They were isolated from each other and throwing barbs at each other. We have bases there.

So it seems like we're just giving up these alliances. They need to be worked. Yeah, the Biden administration has mish mishandled alliance after alliance. Um and so um um All I can say, Brian, vote Republican 2024. Uh who do you like?

Right now, if someone had Senator Cassie, who who are you leaning to supporting? I can't tell you that right now. I will tell you that my bracket, my men's bracket, has been a total disaster. On the NCAA tournament. Total.

The women's doing okay. LSU is doing pretty well. I would have picked them to go the whole way. My men's, I lost three people, three top of my top. My Arizona, I picked them to go the whole way.

So I'm not yet picking who I think is going to go the whole way in the presidential, but I do say that the best way to stop. Biden is the vote Republican in 2024.

So when Ron DeSantis you believe that it's in our interest to support Ukraine, right? I do think it's in our interest. As do I. But there's a lot of Republicans who don't. Ron DeSantis came out and says it's a territorial dispute.

Do you agree with that?

Well It is a territorial dispute if you define territory as an entire country.

Now it's now retreated to be in a border war. Yes, you can say that. But but Russia's designs were to go completely into Ukraine. They were arguably going to go into Moldavia, and then they were arguably going to continue to put pressure upon the other Eastern European nations.

So I think we have to recognize that, yes, we can minimize it, but what were their initial ambitions and what would be their ultimate ambition? It's a lot I don't want American GIs dying. I don't want anybody dying, but particularly not America. That's not even on the table. It's not on the table.

What we are talking about, though, is supporting a country which is defending its freedom, and as they defend their freedom, it also defends the freedom of a lot of other countries with whom we have treaties.

So, President Trump seems to have been in support of Ukraine defending itself. In what respect? President Trump bragged when he was president that he was giving lethal aid to Ukraine, whereas Obama only gave blankets. And we have begun to train their military and special operations, for example, and done other things to make them ready for a fight. Indeed, the fact that the Ukrainians did so well, so surprisingly, I think in large measure was because of things that former President Trump put in place to support them.

So I think it was recognized, even under the Trump administration, that having a strong Ukraine is to the advantage of the West. Senator Cassie, you like this job? You know, it's not necessarily a happy job, but it gives me a sense of purpose. I am serving my country. And I am working so that A beneficiary on Social Security does not get a 24% cut, for example.

That somebody doesn't get a surprise medical bill. And the fact that you can wake up with a sense of purpose that I'm going to make this country better for someone who lives here now. That's a wonderful feeling. But you certainly want to be in the majority. You could give the Eva more of a purpose than anything else, right?

Absolutely.

All right. Senator Bill Cassidy, thanks so much. Thanks, Brian. All right, when we come back, we'll take your calls: 1-866-408-7669. Brian Kilmeat Show.

Newsmakers and Newsbreakers. Here at first on the Brian Kilmeat Show. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmead. couldn't get any crazier with the virus.

They think they know now what caused the origin of the Wuhan, of the coronavirus. First we heard, of course, it was wet markets. Then oh no, it escaped from the lab.

Now they're saying it's raccoon dogs, which raises a couple of important questions like What the f is a raccoon dog? And Do I get to enjoy the bat soup again?

So, yeah, I mean, that's so funny that Bill Moore has some of the same questions. I did not hear the raccoon dog thing. What was that from? Did you? Did you?

No, I didn't. It was the first time I heard it when I was watching his show, and he made that joke. And Eric actually looked it up. It looks like just like a bigger raccoon. Yeah, but did someone actually say this?

I'm assuming it's based on facts. I mean, usually his jokes are I must have missed it. I mean, it j just kills me when I see a story like that and I don't hear anything about that. But, you know, I just started to remember Anthony Fauci kinda changed the story a little. It could have started in a wet market, got into the lab with somebody, and then came from the lab.

So he's already changing his story just a little bit. I just saw that Donald Trump. Uh is now calling for Alvin Bragg to be indicted.

So that's it's kind of interesting. I I just the only thing that You know, when he came out and said that he wants to get ahead of it, I'm fine with that. Be measured when you talk about protests. Always add it with peacefully. Number two is stop calling her making fun of her looks.

People don't like that. I mean, I I don't like it. And I also don't think that women like it.

So, no one asked him. It's not like this woman came out of the woodwork. He's the one. That has a picture with her that something happened with.

So, for to call her a horse face or whatever, it doesn't work for anyone. I mean, it's something you say. You know, maybe with your friends, if you have too many beards that describe somebody, and then you never make it public, but he puts it in writing and sends it out. That's not the way to win over suburban women. Taking the high road isn't necessarily a road easy for him to take.

But I mean, yeah, he it. You know, it's actually, you know, Jonah Goldberg is like, I'm getting hit from both sides. I'm saying it's a terrible and weak political case, which is, you know, annoying everyone else. Um at the same time, like Trump causes his own problems and he's Probably, you know, he's not the best candidate. Right.

I just thought when you saw the four-person who's a woman, the bizarre way she acted knowing she was in charge of that jury in Atlanta, and then you see that not only did Joe Biden's two homes get raided, so did his office, and so did his lawyer's office in Boston. I thought for the most part that nullified any Mar-a-Lago investigation. But this special prosecutor is going to town ripping again, like Manaford with the Mueller report, threatening all of his cohorts to come clean on why he took these documents from Mar-a-Lago.

So I And what happened on January 6th? All self-inflicted, and he's still leading amongst Republicans until at least. We see that Ron DeSantis gets in and Senator Tim Scott gets in and maybe things balance out. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead.

Hi, everyone. Thanks so much for listening. It's the Brian Kilmeat Show. We got a busy hour coming your way. Michael Goodwin standing by, talks about the revelations on the Hunter Biden investigation, how it relates the entire Biden family, as well as we'll have an interview with Andy McCarthy.

If you want to break down what's happening in the Southern District of New York, he used to work there. You want to know what's going on with the law. He just wrote about it in the National Review. You want to know what's going on with the Trump case. He's a one-stop shopping for that.

And why, by the way, Joe Biden was asked about the revelations about banking records, Bank of America, that shows how knee-deep the Biden family was with Chinese companies. He says, not true. That's not going to cut it. You're not going to have a bunch of people sticking up for you now because bank records are a lot different than a Hunter Biden laptop that everybody in social media and in print media decided to shelve. It's a new game now.

And McCarthy on that.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. I think what you're going to see in the coming days and weeks is more and more evidence of Chinese support. You know, China doesn't want to get caught doing this, right? Because at the same time, as they're helping the Russians murder Ukrainians, they're also saying, hey, China's open for business.

Yeah, I think so. And that is H.R. McMaster: China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Biden administration. Inept and at times invisible foreign policy has allowed these unholy alliances to form and reaffirm. Why we can't afford to look the other way, and we have to get on board with a complete Ukraine victory.

Number two. Bank runs are a crisis of confidence. The government has put in place a backstop for the two banks that we know are in trouble. But there are thousands of small and regional banks in the United States. This usually just doesn't stop after two.

Bank fails and rescues swamp this weekend's news as Americans wonder, are we in a slow rolling collapse like 2008? We go inside the numbers and see how your wallet will be impacted. Number I do not have any thought that he will be quote unquote arrested tomorrow. What will happen is someone like Donald Trump, former president or not, a white-collar crime, he will get to self-surrender. I expect it to happen soon, but not tomorrow.

That's a CBS legal analyst. Trump to be arrested. That's what he claims. But there's no word from the DEA or any denial, as key Trump witnesses will appear in front of a grand jury today in New York City about 2 o'clock this afternoon. The NYPD is preparing for a possible riot, should the 45th president be hauled in.

That's what he's calling for. Also, special thanks to our brand new Brian Kilmeicho affiliate over in Wisconsin, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, WHBL AM, News Radio 1330. Thanks so much for carrying the show. You will not regret it. And you always love the Monday appearances of Michael Goodwin, New York Post columnist.

Michael, welcome back. Thank you, Brian. First off, your response to the Truth Social Post on Saturday that hasn't been confirmed yet about the President being arrested. And indicted.

Well, look, uh Based on what we know, Brian, this is something of a sham. Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney conducting this case, he's the one who turns loose most of the criminals arrested in Manhattan for violent crimes, pleads down their cases, takes a felony, makes it a misdemeanor. from what I understand, normally campaign finance violations, which is the heart of the Trump case here, those are not felonies, those are misdemeanors. And Bragg seems to have dressed this up As a felony, or at least is trying to.

So, look, there's a lot of speculation, a lot of things flying around. We're going to have to wait to see, but it does at this stage. feel like something of a push, a stretch. Designed for political purposes. I mean, everybody wants a every Democratic politician wants a piece of Donald Trump.

And I'll tell you, it begins to feel like a version of pornography. You know, Letitia James with her dragged show Afternoon for Children, which is an embarrassment. That's what the Attorney General is doing. And then you have a district attorney going out trying to prosecute bodega owners who shoot for their survival after they're being beat up by gang members. And then you have this Alvin Bragg is an absolute embarrassment.

He walked away from this case, and now he's reigniting the case. Jonathan Turley weighed in on what he's seeing, cut three. This is a political prosecution, in my view. And you don't have to really venture very far to reach that conclusion. If you look at how this case came about, it's rather obviously political.

You know, the predecessor of Bragg did not pursue this case. The Department of Justice did not pursue the underlying federal election violation. The chairman of the FEC, election experts have all said that this is an exceptionally weak theory. And yet Bragg, who threw a flag on this case, decided to go forward after his prosecutors resigned. And one of them wrote what I thought was a very unprofessional book, detailing the case against an individual who hasn't been charged, let alone convicted.

Yeah, and he was bringing up the fact that that guy wrote the book and said I would have indicted him.

Well, he just said, before what? For taking out loans that they said they falsified information they already paid back. It is a total joke. Your final thought on this? Because next is the January 6th or Atlanta when they talk about election meddling and then they talk about Mar-a-Lago.

Those are just some of the things that he's looking at in terms of trouble. Do you see any of them giving him hurting his election chances?

Well, Brian, I think only if he would be convicted of a felony, a federal felony, I think that would be the one that would open the challenges, open the door to challenging his right to serve as president. He could run, but if he couldn't serve, that would sort of be pointless.

So I think that's the danger. These were state charges that we're talking about here. And as Jonathan Turley said, I mean, they really go back to the Mueller investigation, which found nothing. But it was the prosecutors from Mueller who kept pushing and pushing and were not satisfied. And some of them came to work for the Manhattan DA.

He left it to Alvin Bragg. It was Cyrus Vance. He left it to Alvin Bragg. Bragg drops it. He gets attacked by those prosecutors and he revives it.

Now, I'm, you know, this idea that's a campaign finance violation to have not reported the payment to Stormy Daniels. I don't know. I mean, I assume he's doing this under New York law. New York law is incredibly porous. It virtually has almost unlimited contribution amounts.

Nobody ever gets prosecuted under New York law for campaign finance violations.

So it really is a mess. And I think it undermines the idea of justice. It gives us, you know, you mentioned the state attorney general, Letitia James. She brought a civil court suit against Donald Trump and his company.

So this is clearly designed. It's prosecution personal. It's just personal against Donald Trump. These are what the Democrats have resorted to because he became president in 2016. This has been their dream all along.

So, okay, let's talk about what's going on on the other side. Finally, it looks like James Comer finally got a hold of bank records where it shows the Biden family knee-deep with the CEFC China. Energy company, which was doing something so anti-American, this Belt and Road program, created to upend our influence around the world with developing nations. And he still, his family, had no problem being involved with that financially to the tune of millions of dollars. That's in the bank records.

Here's James Comer. This is what you wrote about on Sunday, Cut 34. This is one deal. We think there are as many as 11 more deals.

Now, we don't know what those deals are. What the Bidens, you know, in the beginning, the White House denied having any knowledge or the fact that their family was involved in any sort of way, shape, or form with the CCP. But now we have bank records that reveal otherwise. We don't know what the Bidens did in return for this money. The lawyer said that it was seed capital for a business.

We haven't been able to find a business. Yeah, we don't even know what they're doing. They're just basically selling influence, and you have Bo Biden's. Widow making money off it, which people want to see are okay.

So have Joe write a check out of his savings account. Don't do it from a Chinese business deal. You know, Brian, I think the key phrase in all of this is the statement from. Hunter Biden's lawyers that Comer is referencing when he talks about seed funds.

Now, in my column, I quote Tony Bobolinski, the former partner, who has maintained all along that the The Biden family was demanding $20 million for the family. from the Chinese. This is in twenty seventeen when this money arrives. early in 2017. The Biden family was the Demanding $20 million, Hunter Biden said, for work my family did for the previous two years, meaning 2015 and 2016, when Joe was vice president.

And Bobolinski says this is not seed money for future work. This is a partial payment for past work. But the the significance, of course, is Joe Biden was Vice President in twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen. And so if he is the big guy who was going to get ten percent of this deal, that means Joe Biden was going to get paid For work done by his family when he was vice president. That, to me, is the significance of this case here, this $3 million.

And as Comer says, there's lots more money, there's lots more deals that come out not only from the Chinese, but from other countries as well. And I think when he gets these bank records and he sees where the money comes from, where it goes, why the banks flag these as Suspicious activity. I think we're going to learn a heck of a lot more. And I think the pattern is going to be overwhelming that the family was making all of this money by selling influence to Joe as vice president. And then Joe was to get a cut of it when he left office.

This, I think, is the potential crime involving Joe Biden. How about Bobolinski and Rob Walker being subpoenaed? I know Bobolinski would come on his own to come forward and give details of this story, backed up by banking records. And Rob Walker is either going to take the fifth or start answering questions, which will, if he's being honest, will implicate all these family members, James. Hunter, whatever his real name is, and find out, we're going to find out what did Haley.

Biden do. Oh, I don't know. You know, what why why was she getting paid? And again, this is just $3 million of what may be as much as $11 million just from the Chinese on this CEFC arrangement.

So it is such a rat's nest of everything the Bidens have done. And this is, as I say in the column, this is a great reminder that elections have consequences. The Democratic Party and the Justice Department kept these things secret for the last two years while Joe Biden was president. It's only because the Republicans took the House that we're beginning to learn the corruption involved in that family.

So, Michael, think about this. Do you know what they did yesterday with Hunter Biden's lawyers on Friday, I should say? They came out and said, we are going to sue Johnny Mac Isaac because he released all personal information from Hunter Biden. But then they said, we're not saying it's his laptop, but we're going to sue you for releasing his personal information. That doesn't pass the laugh test.

Joe Biden probably wants to strangle this attorney. Yeah, and and for what we know, I mean uh The laptop repairman has the documents saying that after ninety days. Uh and it's not picked up, it becomes the property of the shop. The Hunter Biden forfeited any ownership rights by abandoning the laptop.

So I don't know, this just seems like another suit. designed to create a headline and perhaps some confusion. Like you get to a jury trial maybe and you can find one juror who's so confused they think, well, well, let's hear the whole story. I don't know. It just seems like a stab in the dark trying to find some ground to argue from when the headlines should naturally follow the money.

And I think the money is that the Biden's got the money. The repairman didn't get any money.

Well, uh Right. I mean, he didn't know when to do it. And the problem is, he did the exact right thing. He actually called the FBI and said, check it out.

Well, let's not forget, Brian, the FBI has had this laptop, what, since late 1880s. He was treated abusively. The guy was very abrasive to him, like he was the enemy. Yes, so why did the FBI not do this? That still is part of the scam here, that the FBI, even now we're told, oh, they're investigating Hunter Biden.

Come on, why doesn't Hunter Biden complain that they've been investigating him for five years? He doesn't complain because they're not investigating him, they're covering for him. That's what they're doing. Michael Goodwin, thanks so much. My pleasure, Brian.

Thank you. All right, that is Michael Goodwin of the New York Post, putting it all out in front and center. It might be buried in your book because you're worried about the banks. I understand it. You worry about what's going to Ukraine.

I get it. You understand you're into 2024, but you should understand, too, what has happened with the Biden investigation because it's not opinion. They're now getting bank records to show questionable dealings. You know who said it over the weekend? Aaron Burnett of CNN.

It doesn't look good. That's significant. It shows they're willing to cover something they weren't willing to cover. Two and a half years ago. You listen to the Brian Kill Me Show.

Don't move. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead. Uh Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Here are all the researchers who say COVID can cause face blindness, a disorder that leaves you unable to recognize faces, have to admit that it also might have something to do with the fact that we were all wearing masks for three years.

That's pretty funny. That was Bill Maher over the weekend on Friday night. He's also his talking. I was listening to him online saying that these conservatives seem to like me now. They take one clip of what I say and they seem to be eye to eye.

No, it's just that you have you believe what you believe, but you're open to rationality. The drag show Uh drag shows for children is not a good idea. Asking children to pick a pronoun up until fifth grade, not a great idea. The anti-American stuff that's been trumpeted, not a great idea. That's all.

That's all, doesn't mean You're not going to vote for Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. Everybody knows you are. And that's fine with me.

So I just about this whole Indictments that could be coming down. Look, let's be honest: if it doesn't happen Tuesday, it's going to happen sooner or later, especially in New York, because Bragg is only playing to his power base, and that is these liberals in Manhattan, these extreme lefties in Manhattan that put him in that place to begin with. He doesn't care if you or I give him any criticism, especially people that don't vote in New York, even though he's an embarrassment to the country. And even the mayor, I get the sense, doesn't even like him. But listen to Chris Christie said about what a possible indictment is and how he has a problem with people who speculate that in the short term it's going to be beneficial to Trump.

He doesn't think so. Cut 10. The circus continues. I mean, look, he only profits and does well in chaos and turmoil. And so he wants to create the chaos and turmoil on his terms.

He doesn't want it on anybody else's terms. John, you know this, you know him well. He wants it on his terms. But look, at the end Being indicted. never helps anybody.

It's not a help.

Now, I think that this of the three investigations, I think this is the one where people know the most. And so because they know the most, they're going to take it less seriously. I don't think there's many Americans who don't believe that Donald Trump had an affair with Stormy Daniels and that don't believe that he paid her money at the end of the campaign to keep it quiet.

So I don't think that the American people will probably see this as a huge crime. Yeah, and the other thing that they don't want to deal with is, you know, they don't want to deal with at that time, as you're in the backstretch, you want everything to go smoothly. Any problem with people you might have lent money to, or someone might be upset at Trump Tower Hotels, a series of condos was sold and they don't look good, and they want to come forward and say, What kind of bad land? You might say, listen, what's it going to take? Let me just fix your place.

You want some money? I'm not even saying it's the truth or not. I don't need any problems. I'm looking to win an election.

So, whether it's 100% true or 10% true, you're going to have the same reaction. Sign an NDA, here's a check. Michael Cohen wrote the check he got reimbursed plus for additional services. And it wasn't a problem until just unthinkably, they end up raiding Michael Cohen's office, and then all hell is broken loose since. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead.

With these set of facts, would they be prosecuted? 100% no. Which leads us to the only conclusion. This is a politically motivated prosecution. This is the thing that's happening in this country now where we're using the justice system as a weapon.

It's weaponization of a prosecutor's office to get a political opponent. This prosecutor, Alan Bregg, is from George Source's side on the way, way left. Donald Trump goes as far right as you can go. It should not be this way. I mean, legal experts and scholars, and more importantly, members of the Federal Campaign Commission have all said, members, current and past chairmen have said, there's no crime here.

There's no campaign. law violation at all. And that is Joe Tecapino is defending the President of the United States on what would be a charge, an indictment from a grand jury that isn't quite done hearing witnesses. Today at 2 o'clock, they're going to hear the attorney that briefly represented Michael Cohen speak in front of this grand jury. We believe at about 2 o'clock today, Andrew McCarthy, all over this case, Fox's contributor, kind enough to join me on Saturday night, author of Ball of Collusion.

So, you, you know, Joe Takapan doing what he does best, defending his client. I get it. Did he say anything wrong? No, I don't think so. In fact, I'd actually go further than I heard Joe go, and I'm sure he's had other things to say.

But. Yeah. In order to make this a felony. What we're talking about is falsification of business records, which is generally a misdemeanor in New York. To make it a felony, they have to prove that Trump intended to conceal another crime.

So it's not even enough to show that there may have been another crime. Involved in this, he has to have known about it and intended to do it, right?

So, When the statute says another crime, this is a New York penal statute. We have to presume that what the New York State Legislature was talking about was a New York crime. Federal campaign finance violations are not New York crimes, so I don't think they're eligible. To be the other crime that we're talking about here. And if he's talking about New York.

Campaign finance. I think Trump lost New York by about thirty points, number one, so it can't conceivably have had any issues. The other thing is how much time? I mean, how much time is there since 2017? Is this 17 years old?

Well, so the alleged fling is 2006, 2007, right? The.

Well the Cohn laying out the money is October 2016.

Okay.

They paid him. They they They pretended that it was legal fees when it was actually satisfaction of a debt because he had laid out the 130 grand, right?

So they pay him. 35 thousand a month because this got got uh combined with other things uh that he l had laid out money for. And they paid him for the twelve months of twenty seventeen. I think they didn't start paying until February, so it's eleven payments during twenty seventeen. And then presumably You close the books in 2017 and then you pay your taxes on the basis of what happens in 2017.

So let's say that takes it into 2018. Right. That the five-year the felony is a five-year statute lim of limitations. The misdemeanor is only a two-year statute of limitations.

So that should if it's only a misdemeanor, I think that should have run by 2020 Um if it's a felony You could argue that it continues for five years. And I think the other thing that Bragg is going to say is that under New York law, if someone is continually out of the state, For any period of time, the statute of limitations tolls. I don't think that's what that statute is about, Brian, is like. If we committed a crime and then we decided to become fugitives from justice and hide from the authorities, That would be the kind of thing you would toll the statute of limitations for. No one, there was no secret where Trump was.

Does the pandemic extend anything? Do people. One year, I think The courts of New York found that Cuomo, who was the governor at the time, extended the statute of limitations, and they agreed with that. But, you know, if it's only a misdemeanor, it should have already run by then, you would think. Yeah, so the Wall Street Journal called out the whole thing, too.

He says if Mr. Bregmay indict a former president for the first time in American history based on the weakest of charges, he would subject the country to a trial that would be in a media circus for the ages, and he would do so running the risk of a single juror could block a guy, guilty verdict, and validate Mr. Trump's claim that this is a political prosecution. Yeah. No, I think that's right.

And the other thing I think, you know, you're going to get a lot of stories along these lines. But like just before we started to talk here today, I see the Gothamist in New York is reporting that they're going to fine Mayor Adams. For campaign for New York campaign finance violations.

Well How come he only gets a fine? You know, if they're going to start prosecuting people, if this is what Bragg is doing, why isn't he indicting Adams You know, the thing I think that is so problematic about this is if this guy's name was not Donald Trump, there's no way this gets processed. And by the way, all this stuff was out there.

Well, not the Stormy Daniels payments, but all the stuff about his loans and his buildings was all out there when he was hosting The Apprentice. Yes. And still Bloomberg's asking him to revitalize that Bronx golf course. Can you help me out here? And he did.

So I want to bring you to Bob Costello. He'll be testifying before a grand jury hearing evidence against Trump today. But Bob Costello briefly represented Michael Cohen. There's some dispute to that and has a new perspective on what Cohen was bringing to the table and what the reality was. And then a truth social post from Trump said this is going to be the number.

This is going to be the guy that's going to exonerate me, essentially. Do you know anything about Bob Costello?

Well, he's a he's a longtime lawyer in New York. I think he represented Rudy, represented Cohn for a time. He's a well known defense lawyer. He's a smart guy. This will not be A good day in terms of the portrayal of Michael Cohen.

But you know, what else do you need to say about him? He you know, he pled guilty to like a bunch of felonies in New York, in the Southern District of New York, my old office. And when they looked at this case, Which they could have they had first, they could have brought the case against Trump. They decided not to bring the case because the main witness would have been Cohen, and no one knew Cohen better than they did. They were dealing with him and convicted him of fraud counts.

Right. So look at this case. We'll see what happens. It's not going to be tomorrow. I don't think you're not going to see Trump tomorrow, are you?

I wouldn't think so. You know, if they're not going to hear from Bob Costello's testimony until this afternoon, I think this is a Monday, Wednesday grand jury, like last week. Cohen testified on Monday and Wednesday.

So it's possible they could vote. They're only in the afternoon.

Well, yeah, I mean, you can always bring the grand jury. I mean, if you you got to worry about that, which is why they have to be on a regular schedule. I'd be surprised if they need a witness. I'd be surprised if it happens this week, but it could. But, you know, look, what everybody should know, President Trump came out and said that he's going to be arrested Tuesday.

And I understand why he's saying that. I think he's going on the basis of reported information. Number one, I don't think he's going to be arrested in the classic sense of like they come in and put cuffs on you and bring you in. That's not going to happen. Trump is, this is a nonviolent crime.

Even if it, whether it's a crime or not, right? Trump is in Secret Service custody. Secret Service works closely with the NYPD. They have a very good working relationship because a lot of Secret Service protectees are in New York a lot. And the only way this is going to get arranged is when Secret Service and the NYPD figure out what's the best way to do it.

And will you get word of that from the people that you know that maybe this is taking place now, there's some coordination, that would give an indication. Yeah, I don't think it can happen, Brian. There's too much security concern that it can happen secretly. I think it's a very important thing.

So you think we're going to hear about it from the DA in 48 hours. Donald Trump will be at Center Street. Yeah, well, I o I don't know if we'll hear about it from the DA. I think we'll hear about it from Trump because he wants it to be public. What I do think though, first of all, it won't happen Tuesday because he said it was going to happen Tuesday.

I think what they'll want is They'll want people to think that just because Trump says it's going to happen on X Day doesn't mean it's going to happen on that day because that makes it less likely that people will show up and protest, which they don't want. But this will be coordinated between the NYPD and Secret Service. They're pros, and it won't be a problem. Yeah, I guess we're going to see. Yeah, we're going to see what's going to happen with President Trump and the other investigations.

But do you believe that their seriousness is revealed when they have the CFO at 80 years old at Rikers Island for basically using some business funds to help pay for his kids' private school? Grammar school? I think this goes to the point you've been making about the politics of this, though, because let's say Weiselberg gets his mind right after sitting in Rikers Island for five years and says, you know, I think Trump really did know exactly how we booked this. The prosecutors in the case would have to disclose the eight zillion times that Weiselberg said Trump didn't know anything about this.

So it's good politics for progressives in New York to flex their muscles against Trump because he's like the arch nemesis of the Democrats, but it's atrocious law enforcement. I mean, to have a I don't know how old is, did you say 75, 80 years old, whatever he is, but that's Donald Trump is 76. No, I'm talking about Weiselberg. Oh, Weiselberg, yeah. To have him sitting in Rikers Island waiting when Bragg won't put actual criminals in what they did to Manaford in solitary confinement.

It's just stuff that I can't believe we're tolerating. Leslie, your latest column is about telling Ron DeSantis don't buy into it. Basically, Nikki Haley will not comment so far. Governor DeSantis hasn't commented so far, but Jason Miller is calling on the other candidates to come to Donald Trump's defense. Why don't you think DeSantis should come to his defense?

Well, what he did here was wrong, even if it shouldn't be prosecuted. I mean, it does look like the records were falsified, and I don't think it should be prosecuted. I don't think it's certainly not a felony. But, you know, look, he probably had a fling. With a porn star, and then they did a hush money agreement that's kind of icky, and then they booked it in a way that was good that concealed what it was.

That's not something you want to be out defending. I think it's fine for the candidates to all say, because this is important in. in the election vis-à-vis the Biden Justice Department, they should attack Bragg for politicizing law enforcement. But I wouldn't defend Trump personally. And the other thing I would suggest to people is.

We're in this, this is what's in front of us now, so it's a frenzy at the moment. But once one prosecutor crosses the Rubicon, there's going to be more charges.

So the Atlanta prosecutors come in, the special counsel. Do you think they're hesitating? Are they trying to do this in order? No, I think they're, you know, no prosecutor wants to be embarrassed in a case like this. You've got to have your ducks in a row before you indict it.

But it's coming. I mean, we know the Atlanta thing's coming because we heard from the grand jury four woman a couple of weeks ago that, you know, the bizarre woman. Right. And it's coming. I mean, they filed a report that said they recommended these charges.

We're seeing in the reporting that Jack Smith, the special counsel, has turned up the heat on, you know, he wants Pence to testify, which is obviously about January 6th. He's brought all these other people in to testify about the Mar-a-Lago documents. I think once one prosecutor charges Trump, it will be easier for the other ones who are a little bit fraught and worried about the political dimension of it. Once one goes, you're going to see more. If we were living in the 90s, that law and order census society went to crack down, three strikes are out.

I could see people saying, well, that fits the prime. But judging by where all hell break loose society right now, nobody wants to be a cop. Nobody goes to jail. Everyone gets third and fourth chances. You're going after Trump like he is Al Capone.

It's insane. Yeah, and you read from that Wall Street Journal. Editorial. I thought the smartest thing they said in that editorial was that the way to beat Trump is to beat him at the ballot box. This is not the way to go about it.

Exactly.

So, by the way, you wrote the column today about Governor DeSantis. Don't buy it, just stay out of it. It's not your problem. Ignore it. you know, go after Bragg.

You know, say i this is another example of of progressive Democrats using the legal system as a political weapon. That's a fine argument and it's and it'll stand them in good stead for Yeah, the final campaign. But don't defend what Trump did because You know, it's not. Particularly defensible. Right.

And the other thing is for Governor DeSantis, he's going to sit on the sideline and take shots until he's actually in, but he's also keeping his powder dry when he does not want to answer Trump because he's going to do the impossible. And that is beat Trump. and not lose his fans. And his voters. If that's indeed possible, DeSantis can do it.

I know that they feel very uncomfortable when he goes after DeSantis personally. All the Trump people got very uncomfortable because they're the same people that like DeSantis.

So it's almost like a mom picking between her two sons. When we come back, some final thoughts. Andy, actually, do you have to go now? You can stick around for a couple minutes. All right, great.

Andy McCarthy's in the studio. Don't move. If you listen to Brian, Kill Meet Joe. Expanding your knowledge base. It's the Brian Kill Meat Show.

A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, welcome back. Andy McCarthy here. He's got his calm out on National Review right now.

Don't take Trump's bait message to Governor DeSantis.

So it's just very interesting to see Nikki Haley. Nikki Haley, not weigh in on it yet. I'm sure she'll be asked soon. But Kevin McCarthy and Mike Pence both went to bat for President Trump. I think on some part, Andy, I don't want to get you too into politics.

But I think Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo, and Mike Pence. I think they're shocked that Trump is still leading. The polls. I know it's early, but you would think that after January 6th, the indictments and everything like that, the lunch with the white supremacist. Um the Kanye West situ situation.

Yeah, Brian, I I think if they asked us on January 7th, would Trump still be The factor that he is, we would have laughed. You know, I would have laughed. But I do think for these guys, there's a ready-made argument to be made here. Um Which is about how progressive Democrats use the justice system as a weapon. They don't need to defend Trump personally to make that argument.

And when I go around the country to talk to people about law enforcement stuff and national security stuff, this country is on fire about the idea that there's two tiers of justice. Right. And it's hard to argue against it.

So let's talk about that. Let's talk about what the revelations of Bank of America and those bank records show, the business dealings of the Biden family and one just last name, Biden, and these Chinese companies. Here's what James Comer has discovered so far: Cut 35. We're going to have an opportunity to ask people about that that were closely aligned with the Biden family. We've talked to them privately.

I'm not going to reveal what they say privately, but very soon they'll either be talking to everyone in the form of a deposition or even better in a committee hearing. But right now, it looks like the Biden family just pocketed this money. This is one deal. We have 11 more to go, and I'm pretty confident we'll be getting more bank records in very soon.

So the president was asked, and he said, not. True. Your bank records show the Biden administration, the widow of Bo Biden got money. Not true. That's not going to fly anymore, is it?

It's not going to fly. And here's a question I hope that Chairman Comer will ask, especially if they have intelligence people who come in to testify. Would the President of the United States get a security clearance? If he had to apply for one like everyone else, because I've had a security clearance. Anyone who's worked in the federal government had a high security clearance has to fill out a form.

It's known as the SF eighty six. It's a lengthy form, and they go through Every transaction, every person you know overseas, every exchange of money overseas, not just you, but close family members. They want to know every bit of money that went back and forth. Doesn't mean it's criminal, but it's the kind of thing that people get blackmailed over, which is why there's such intense scrutiny of it. Based on just what we know, I just want somebody in the intelligence community to be asked: would Joe Biden, if he didn't win the presidency and therefore he gets the keys to the kingdom, right?

But if he just had to apply for a security clearance like any executive official, would he get one? When people say there is no illegal activity here, from what we know, it's okay for Hunter Biden to do a deal with CEFC in China. Not wise, but is there anything illegal that you've seen? We don't know. We don't know enough details about this.

You know, I I think The Curious thing here is not the crime, but like the fact that the president of the United States and his family is getting millions of dollars from the communist Chinese anti-American government. But whether it's money laundering or other stuff depends on how they booked it. Remember, Ronald Reagan had a speech in Japan for a lot of money, and people thought that was controversial. A speech as opposed to a business dealings with a Belt and Road program. Unbelievable.

Aiden McCarthy, thanks so much. Thanks, Brian. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Thanks so much for being here, everybody.

It's the Brain Kill Meet Show. This hour we're going to be joined by Governor Mike Huckabee. As well as, we're also going to be talking to at the bottom of the hour, gonna go out to Ukraine, David Vilak, who will be joining us. He's head of investment over for Ukraine, and we see that. Oh, currently, Vladimir Putin is meeting with President Xi of China, their 40th meeting, but this is most significant because This guy was just indicted by a world of war crimes.

We know that he bombs children, kidnaps them, forced adoption. Everything horrific about war is personified in Vladimir Putin. And on top of all that, he's losing. Also, special thanks to WHBL AM in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. They're part of the Brian Kilmicho family of affiliates.

We appreciate you taking all three hours. News Radio 1330. Welcome aboard.

So before we get to Governor Harkabee, let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. I think what you're going to see in the coming days and weeks is more and more evidence of Chinese support. China doesn't want to get caught doing this, right? Because at the same time as they're helping the Russians murder Ukrainians, they're also saying, hey, China's open for business.

It's crazy. H.R. McMaster weighing in. China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran. The Biden administration is just inept and at times invisible foreign policy has allowed these unholy alliances to form and reaffirm why we can't afford to look away and need to get on board with a win for Ukraine.

Number two. Bank runs are a crisis of confidence. The government has put in place a backstop for the two banks that we know are in trouble. But there are thousands of small and regional banks in the United States. This usually just doesn't stop after two.

Gary Cohn weighing in. Banks fail and rescue swamp the weekend news as Americans wonder, are we in a slow-rolling collapse like 2008? Let's go inside the numbers and see how your wallet will be impacted. Number I do not have any thought that he will be quote unquote arrested tomorrow. What will happen is someone like Donald Trump, former president or not, a white-collar crime, he will get to self-surrender.

I expect it to happen soon, but not tomorrow. Trump to be arrested. That's what he claims. That no word yet from the DA or any denial from key Trump witnesses who happen to be coming today, this afternoon at 2 o'clock. A former attorney to Michael Cohen will be testifying in a way that Donald Trump will be happy with.

Meanwhile, the NYPD is preparing for a possible riot should the 45th President be hauled in. With me right now is Governor Mike Huckabee. Governor, can you put in perspective how extraordinary it will be if you see President Trump being fingerprinted and mug shotted.

Well, Brian, I think it would just be a travesty for the country. And I would like to believe that there are sane, rational Democrats who are appalled by the very notion of this. Surely they do know that if this becomes the new norm, that it will be their own elected officials. And former elected officials who would be subjected to the same kind of treatment. It's not good for the country internally.

But Brian, this is a terrible reflection upon America to the rest of the world. I know. And it really puts us in a position where we'll start looking like a lot of the third world dictatorships. where this is routine. It's just something that makes no sense.

And the fact that some local New York biased George Soros funded prosecutor could even do this is in itself outrageous.

So, the President's looking for people to rally to his support. We understand Governor DeSantis was just asked about it. I can't get specifics, but there's no doubt about it. George Soros, sponsored district attorney, always does stuff like this. That's what they would want.

So, we'll have to see how it goes. But so far, Governor, I know you and both families are tight. The Trumps and the Huckabees are tight, and we've already seen that on display. Knowing that you do have welcome biases. Are you so uh, but you also know politics so well.

With all the headwinds, are you surprised he's leading it by 10 in almost every poll? No, I'm really not. And in a large measure, because the further that this continues to sort of play out, not just this one prosecution, but the continued persecution and vilification of him. I think a lot of people are looking at the results of Joe Biden's presidency and now finally remembering the results of the Trump presidency. Notwithstanding, a lot of people do not like his personality.

He can issue cringeworthy tweets and make comments that just Make you roll your eyes. We all understand that. But on a day-to-day basis of leading the country, Donald Trump was a president who got things done that mattered to the working families who would sit at their kitchen table and actually be able to afford more things because the economy was strong and their jobs were increased and their pay was increased. Because of not only the tax policy, but the regulatory policy and his pushback against China and bringing back manufacturing. Those are policies that touch people's lives every day.

They really start to see it the longer that we're in the Biden administration.

So it does not surprise me at all that there is a sense of which Donald Trump still enjoys strong support among many of the American people. And let me add, especially in flyover country where I live, and especially away from the coastal elites. Who just thumbed their nose at Donald Trump and all of his supporters, and they really have created almost two very separate Americas, which is to the detriment of our nation. What I understand, if you've been to the State Department, you know how sprawling it is, how many different layers there are. What are they doing?

I mean, we're watching now Saudi Arabia and Iran get together.

Now, a senior Iranian official will visit the UAE over the next few days after Tehran agrees to restore diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia. Wait a second. This is the reverse of the Abraham Accords. We have relations with them. There should be pressure saying don't do this with this outlaw regime.

We're trying to isolate them. They strike a deal in Beijing to come together, Saudi Arabia and Iran, and there's no stakes. We see that all these other countries like India is propping up, Russia, they're allies of ours. Don't they need pressure? Can somebody else do their job around here, Governor?

Nobody trusts the United States right now. I mean, let's just be real honest. We were on a roll with the Abraham Accords, which I'm so glad you mentioned because a lot of Americans didn't hear much about them because the media just said.

Sort of ignored it. They didn't want to give Donald Trump and his team credit for the historic nature of them. But this was creating a completely different alignment, not just in the Middle East, but in the world.

Now, Saudi Arabia and other countries are saying, you know, we're not sure we can depend upon the United States. Saudi Arabia, for the first time ever in its history, for the first time in U.S. history, refused to take a phone call from a U.S. President. That is just stunning.

But they wouldn't take a call from Joe Biden because they don't trust him and because of the things that he has said in vilifying them.

So now they're looking for maybe they're going to be different partners, and they're looking at. A natural enemy. I mean, the great conflict between Sunni and Shia Muslim countries. Just as a matter of self-preservation versus trying to partner with the United States and seeing us as a real ally, this is dangerous, and most Americans don't wake up in the morning thinking about it. But there are people at the State Department that, by gosh, ought to be looking at it.

I'm not sure there's enough intelligence left there to do it.

Well, they just got to, I mean, what are they doing? I mean, they're supposed to. The thing that we didn't like is when they went and did their own thing, but I see them doing nothing, and they got their guy in charge right now. With these banks, I still got the greatest minds trying to figure out what went wrong and in what bank, and is this going to be contagion? I want you to hear a courage when Patrick McHenry said on Face the Nation yesterday, CUT 13.

I think all options should be on the table. Is there anything that would block that kind of white knight rescue? What I need to get to the bottom of, investigatively in Congress, is the who, what, when, where, why, and how of these bank failures and the decision-making. That's right. And then over the decision made over the weekend, we saw a private sector response to help support a bank.

Was that a viable option last weekend, or was there an ideological lens that prevented them from taking these institutions and making it less turbulent for America? Yeah, and they're talking about Silicon Valley Bank and also New York Community Bank. Bank, I should tell everybody, agrees to buy the failed signature bank $2.7 billion. UBS, this is something that Switzerland worked out to buy Credit Suisse for more than $3 billion. It sounds kind of familiar.

It's something we were for these forced mergers from people that just feel as though they want to save the system to stop a panic. And then when you look and find out, Governor Harkaby, nobody with banking experience is on these boards, it's crazy. Yeah, these are boards and banks that seem to be more concerned about how they are going to combat climate. Climate change and focusing on diversity and equity and inclusion rather than banking. You know, if I put money in a bank, I honestly don't care as much about whether they run their air conditioning at 75 degrees or at 72.

I'm not that really focused on whether or not they've done a headcount of how many Asians, blacks, and whites they have working there. I just wanted to take care of my money, and if I need it, it's there. And they don't do stupid things that put my financial situation at risk. But we've got banks like the Silicon Valley Bank that was not being run like a bank, that was being run like a charity, throwing $74 million at organizations like Black Lives Matter. And to what purpose?

How did that help their depositors? How did that help their shareholders?

Well, we now know it didn't.

Well, how about this? A guy in the San Francisco Fed, where as early as 2019, the San Francisco Fed said, I got a huge problem with your balance sheets, where you're invested, and with interest rates going up. And then in 2021, they say it again. It turns out the guy who's CEO of Silicon Valley Bank is also in the San Francisco Fed, and he still did nothing. I just can't believe this type of arrogance and incompetence.

But I want to, if I can, jog over to Hunter Biden. We know that bank records reveal that he, James Biden, and the widow of Bo Biden, and at least another person with just last name, Biden, were profiting off this Chinese energy firm linked directly to the party, linked directly to the Belt and Road program, designed to circumvent our influence in developing countries. We also understand 11 more deals collecting Biden to China is coming. I want you to hear.

Now, if I say it and you say it, it probably doesn't make news. But guess where it actually leaked to? CNN picked up on this. And with the seeing the bank records, Aaron Burnett said this. And it doesn't sound good.

There's a guy whose name is John Robinson Walker. He gets $3 million from a Chinese base company and proceeds to wire it out to a bunch of people named Biden, one of whom is Hunter Biden. Another one is a company that belongs to the President's brother, James Biden, and another amount of money to Beau Biden's widow, Hallie.

So, again, from a lay person, that doesn't look good.

So, for her to say that, this is stuff that she should have been reporting on back when the laptop was out. What do you think about the s significance of bleeding on to CNN? It's amazing that some of the mainstream media are finally pretending to be journalists for the first time in years. It's refreshing. Let's hope it continues because I don't know how you can even call yourself a journalist and not have a curiosity about if the sitting President of the United States Is compromised by business deals that include the communist Chinese.

I mean, this is. It makes Watergate look like uh stealing a a A penny candy from the counter at Walmart, for God's sake. I mean, it really does. And for Joe Biden to repeatedly say, as he did in the presidential debates in 2020, he didn't know anything about Hunter's business deals, knows nothing about it. I mean, he was giving the full-fledged Sgt Schultz kind of answer.

And it turns out he knew a heck of a lot about it. And it appears very clearly that he was profiting from it. Look, this stuff is so lucrative for the Biden family. I'm thinking about changing my last name from Huckabee to Huckabeb Biden and asking to get in on it because it's a pretty sweet gravy train.

Well, I think Huckabee's making a lot of money now. I see you every five minutes with another great product.

So that's great. And you have your great talk show.

So it's good to be Governor Huckabee, too, who also plays music.

So I used to, I was all junior high, but I peaked in eighth grade, or else I would look to join your band. I'm not sure if you need a clarinet player. Do you need one or do you have one? Actually, not only do we not need one, but even if we did, I doubt you would make the cut, Brian. No offense.

I'd just rather I'd rather have an accordion player than I had having Brian Killmead playing the clarinet in a rock and roll band. Allison, why did you book him? That hurts my feelings. I mean, what is going on? I mean, that.

I mean, I know I don't have any musical talent, but I don't need the whole country to know.

Now it's out. The governor, always great to hear from you. Thanks so much. Hey, great to talk to you, Brian. All right, yes, Governor Mike Hockabee.

Listen, when we come back, I'll take your calls: 1-866-408-7669. Then I'm going to go out to Ukraine to get the latest on that war. You listen to the Brian Killmeat show. giving you everything you need to know. You're with Brian Kilmead.

A radio show like no other. It's Brian Kilmead. Manhattan District Attorney is a Soros-funded prosecutor. And so he, like other Soros-funded prosecutors, they weaponize their office to impose a political agenda on society at the expense of the rule of law and public safety. He has downgraded over 50% of the felonies to misdemeanors.

He says he doesn't want to even have jail time for the vast, vast majority of crimes. And what we've seen in Manhattan is we've seen the crime rate go up. And we've seen citizens become less safe. And so you're talking about this situation with, and look, I don't know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair. I just can't speak to that.

But what I can speak to is that if you have a prosecutor who is ignoring crime, Crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction, and he chooses to go back many, many years ago. Uh to try to use something about Hornstar hush money payments, that's an example of pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office. And I think that that's fundamentally wrong. He did speak about it.

So there you go, Teron DeSantis. As as uh blunt as you could be. Fundamentally wrong. Don't trust the prosecutors. Same thing in Los Angeles.

Same thing in San Francisco.

Now they got rid of Chessa Bodine. Same thing in Chicago. Same thing in Philadelphia. You get these prosecutors, especially in New York, and they just give up on criminals. They give up on prosecuting criminals.

They get them out as quick as possible. They try to do bail reform. It's unable to get traction. And then you go and target other people. Like President Trump.

And then you say, well, there's no problem here. If you broke the law, you broke the law. Yeah. But when you look at the triage of things worth fighting, That doesn't even add up unless you want to make your career. People all know now Alvin Bragg and who he is.

Is that the goal? Is that how you want to be famous? Alex, listening in Brooklyn, New York. Hey, Alex. Hey, good morning, Brian.

Thanks for taking the call. By the way, there's going to be a muckshot of Donald Trump. I can guarantee he'll be with his mouth open because he's not going to stop talking, that's for sure. But I wanted to say, I find it despicable what Alvin Bragg is doing. You know, there's crime rampants in the city where I live, and always focusing on, you know, he's a local politician.

He's supposed to focus on what are the threats for the people of New York. Donald Trump doesn't even live in this state. He wouldn't want to hang around New York. He lives in Florida. But he's not focusing on the other criminals that are the real problems.

So there's no way that you can ignore that this is absolutely political. If he was going after the other criminals and people are doing worse things, they'll say, Okay, well, we're just doing the right thing. We're going after everybody. But no, they're. They're purposely going after him, and they're doing it because they couldn't find anything on him for years and years now with Russian collusion.

And they got to turn him into some sort of criminals so that they can tell the Democratic voters in 2024: Yeah, we got something on him, because otherwise, what are they coming to the table with? You run after this guy for years, you look into every corner of his life, you don't come across with anything. He's probably the best, you know, the most honest person, the least of a criminal. He still is a very honest person, a very good person. This is all you can come to find on him after all this time.

Yeah, well, we'll see what happens in Atlanta, see what happens in January 6th, see what happens in the Mar-a-Lago situation, and then we'll see what happens with the. With the nomination. The one thing you want to do: stop making fun of women's looks. If you want to win over suburban women, I don't care about Stormy Daniels and what she looks like, don't bring it up. It's not a factor.

The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmead. When you look at the Ukraine war, What is she's motivation here? It's not the peace. that he's advocating in his 12-point program, he wants Russia to win.

If Russia loses, China loses. That's what we have to come to grips with here. And those who are advocating we should pull out of Ukraine and focus on China are missing this very evidential point. These are partners in common goals to replace the United States leadership in the world. And we have to push back successfully against both of them.

That's what I thought was pretty obvious. And as Senator Cassie brought up to us earlier today. He said, you know, it seems to me that Donald Trump is responsible a lot of the responsibility for him for how well the Ukrainians are fighting. They got training and they got arms. Barack Obama gave him meals and blankets.

So it seems as if President Trump has changed a little bit, but he did want Ukraine to be able to defend himself. And man, are they doing it? Daniel Bilak joins us now, member of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine. He's also an attorney based in Kyiv with an international law firm, also former chief investment advisor to the prime minister of Ukraine. Daniel, how concerned are you or how curious are you about what's really taking place between China And Russia today.

Well, it's very interesting, Brian. The context has now changed because of what happened last Friday when the International Criminal Court brought down an indictment essentially against Vladimir Putin for forcibly deporting children, essentially child trafficking, from Ukraine to Russia, putting kids up for adoption with Russian families, many of whom still have parents in Ukraine. And all of a sudden, Xi's visit has he's meeting with an indicted criminal. And I can't imagine that's going to make him happy. But it also means he went ahead and they're doubling down.

And as the general pointed out, Brian, these are partners in crime. And this war that is being fought by Russia, and Russia is China's proxy. And this is a direct challenge to the United States. The United States has to win this war in Ukraine using Ukrainian soldiers who are using American weapons and weapons of our allies. How well Bakhmood is still not in Rush his hands, right?

No, no, it's not. And that whole line, I think he took a know, essentially three feet of land in the last four days. They're running out of steam, it seems, from all the reports that we're getting, Brian. And it just means that as Kit is coming in and it seems to be coming in, we're going to we're preparing our counteroffensive and we're just going to take it to them.

So, the one thing that I worry about, I'm sure you worry about, is China starting to give some of their lethal weapons. To Russia. H.R. McMaster thinks it's already happening. China said if it gets there, these are just rogue operations within their country.

I trust your sources being Ukraine better than mine. What do you think?

Well Ours are essentially aligned with yours. And I think there is strong suspicion that, that's happening. That's a big risk for China, Brian, because China stands to lose a mot lot more than Russia from sanctions, which is what I think they've been threatened with. I think Secretary Blinken was pretty forthright about that a few days ago. And if they start supplying lethal weapons, they could find themselves, their companies, and their supply chains under enormous pressure.

And China's got a lot more to lose from being corralled in the international economy than Russia does.

So there's a report now, the Polish Ambassador France said that Poland would enter the war if Ukraine fails to defend itself. They walked it back since. We know they gave you guys MiGs.

So what do you uh what do you hear? Does that catch you by surprise?

Well I think the context in which you said that was that if Ukraine fails, if Ukraine is defeated, then Poland would be forced and to and and the Baltic states because their next state this is not a new theme, Bryony. We've talked about this with you many times, that if if he wins in Ukraine, he's just going to keep going. And I think that was just a recognition of that fact. And I'm glad he said it. It was a wake up call.

The fact it got some people stood up and said, whoa, what did you mean by that? means that they take a harder look. You know, the the interesting part is that the the countries closest to the conflict, the Eastern European countries, are less afraid of doubling down and giving Ukraine weapons and getting this done than countries that are further away from the conflict, from the war in Western Europe, which is really kind of ironic in a way. But the Poles have been just absolute stalwart allies, along with the Brits and the United States. And the Slovaks gave us some MiGs and the Poles are giving us MiGs.

I mean, assuming these are all serviceable, that's thirty-three airplanes. That's you know, they're not F-16s, but they our guys know how to fly them, and they sure as heck will help us out.

So, what did you think when Vladimir Putin went to Crimea and he also was at Mariupol? The forces destroyed 90% of the whole area, flattened a children's hospital, a theater, the civilian center. He went to the small area that was, I guess, somewhat intact, but that was the area of so much brutality, and he's trying to send a message with that tour. What was that message? Yeah, that that was basically a message to the, you know, he was sort of flipping the bird to the international community after the International Criminal Court came down with its indictment on Friday.

I mean, this cannot be underestimated in the impact of this, O'Brien. Why do you think so? Because he doesn't seem to have any teeth. The Criminal Court.

Well, there are a number of aspects to this. First of all, he is now essentially a pariah. He can't go to a lot of countries, 126 signatories around the world, including in a lot of African countries that he likes to play with. And they are obliged to arrest him if he steps foot on their soil. He's now in the league with Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, Charles Taylor, and a bunch of other butchers that have been indicted around the world.

So it's unlikely, or it seems unlikely, that he'll ever go to the criminal court, but this opens a whole new door. And the United Nations General Assembly on February 23rd of this year passed a resolution on the anniversary of the start of the war that basically says that there must be accountability for the crimes of and international investigations and prosecutions to ensure justice. And 141 countries voted for that, only seven voted against. And if they're if they that opens the door to create another special United Nations Ukraine related tribunal to try people. And maybe the the International Criminal Court can be incorporated by reference.

They can be part of it. And so those indictments may actually get transferred. There's lots of things in play now. But not only is he an international pariah, but it sends a message to all the people around him. Like, guys, you may be next.

And a lot of you got, you know, or had villas and you like to hang out in the in the west, in NATO countries, and you like to hang out, your kids go to school there. You know, if all of a sudden you get these indictments brought against you, these things stick. And it's children, Brian. There's 16,000 children. that have been forcibly deported.

He's basically trafficking in kids. Taking them from parents and taking orphans and putting them up for adoption. And then, if they're up for adoption, they disappear because their parents can change their names, they can change their birth dates. I mean, this is just about the most heinous of the crimes that you can get. And they documented it themselves.

They admitted they were doing this. This is a state policy to relocate them.

So basically he was providing the court with with evidence for them to lay these charges. I mean, you know, this opens a a whole new aspect to this war, and I really hope that it's going to be treated with the seriousness it deserves.

So I want you to hear what Senator Mike Brown said, the Republican out of South Dakota on Meet the Press yesterday, CUT 27, about this meeting with President Xi and President Putin, CUT 27. Putin now tests the waters by walking in or attempting to take over a sovereign state right next to them that we had back in 1995 agreed that they would have sovereignty over that specific part of the land. Xi Jinping looks at that and says, I'm going to watch this very carefully because Xi Jinping would like Taiwan and he's already committed that one way or another he's going to get it back. He wants to see how we respond and whether or not we can keep our allies together, whether or not NATO stays together or whether or not it strengthens NATO.

So this is a bigger picture than just territory.

So everyone's watching. We're seeing what he's got. We'll see him if he wants. He also is going to call President Zelensky later this week. What do you think what do you what do what are the heads up they gave you about what he's going to be bringing to the table?

Well You know, think of forward this twelve-point plan, which is Not really plan, except for the the statement that, you know, must respect the territorial sovereignty of all countries. And Russia says we agree with that, but you know, this part of Ukraine just happens to be ours. uh kind of thing. But, you know, she wants wants a ceasefire, he wants us to go away. He'd be very happy to leave with what he's got.

So I mean, I don't I don't think that'd go very far. It'd be great for him to talk to Zolain. But you can't agree. Dan, I'm kind of losing a little bit. I understand you're in a tough situation.

But, Dan, the thing is, you can't have a ceasefire now. He's got 20% of your country. Of course, he would like it. He would like to just claim it and say, look, I won. That's what people don't realize.

You could want peace, but not like this. Yeah, 100%. I mean, President Zelensky can never agree to that. I mean, ninety percent of the people in this country will not agree to that. And they have no room to maneuver.

But you know, it's good for them to talk. Maybe G will keep. pressure on Russia to do something eventually. But there's no point in having any discussions with Putin because he just wants us to capitulate. That's what he means by negotiations.

That's just not going to happen. It's not. Daniel Bilak, thanks so much. Member of the Territorial Defense Force of Ukraine. And now he's also an international attorney at Akiv.

Dan, stay safe. Thanks, Brian. God bless you and the people of the United States. Absolutely.

You got it.

Meanwhile, we come back. We're going to find out if there's more to know because we have a lot more to tell you. Also, take a look at some of the other things happening in the world. You listen to the Brian Kilmey Show. Expanding your knowledge base.

It's the Brian Kill Meet Show. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. Here's something that I found very interesting today. New poll shows that two-thirds of Republicans Republican voters.

think that their own party, the Republicans, worked secretly. With with the Liberals. To make Biden president. I mean, of all the conspiracy theories, that is the craziest. Bipartisanship?

Okay.

Goodbye. I'll believe a lot of things.

Well, we also did find out today that Lindsey Graham is going to be on without Franken on the Daily Show, so that's a little bipartisanship, right? Absolutely.

You want to hear it? Yep. I have Lindsay Graham. Oh, perfect timing. When I'd go around the country and people would ask me we're friends, and people would ask me who's funniest center, and I'd say Lindsay, and my crowd would get really mad.

Isn't he funny? Isn't it funny? He's really funny. Is he? When he was running for president in 2000, what year was that?

In 16. 16, and he was doing very badly against Trump. I was in the bathroom. Sent a bathroom with him, and I said, Lindsay. If I were a Republican, I'd vote for you.

And he said, without hesitation, he said, that's my problem. That's pretty funny. I do think he's funny, too. He's self-effacing, but he's also consequential. He's looking to get out there.

He doesn't really care if you criticize him, obviously, because a lot of people do. I'm not one of them. But if he disagrees with you, it's okay. You could be friends with him.

So let's find out if there's even more to know. More? To know. All right, here's something that will not affect me, but probably you. Big Mac is getting more and more pricey.

The average price for a Big Mac in the U.S. is now estimated to be $5.15. That's 22% more than pre-pandemic. Do you think this is going to hurt sales? Sadly, no, I think people are still gonna order the Big Mac if they want it.

Two patties. You put a patty and then put stuff on, then put a patty, put stuff on. That's genius. Do you remember the song? I do.

Two old beef patty, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on the sesame seed buns. Impressive. You like that? Have you ever had one? I did at one point.

Like years ago. But I don't eat meat anymore. But I will have chicken. More on that as the story progresses.

Next, California and Nevada are the most expensive states to own and run a car, and it's cheapest in Ohio, where car insurance, leasing, and gas are more affordable. Please take that into account.

Next, Buffalo Wild Wings admits its boneless wings are not wings. In response to customers' $9 million suit, The Wild Wings confession came in response to a judge throwing out a $9 million lawsuit. It's true, our boneless wings are all white meat chicken. And it joked, our hamburgers contain no ham. Our buffalo wings are 0% buffalo.

Chicago man Eamon Haleman's lawsuit filed with Buffalo Wild Wings and owner Inspire Brands claimed that their famed boneless wings are just slices of chicken breast meat fried like wings.

Now, what am I supposed to do with all this information? I mean, you can make maybe some healthier and more educated choices when ordering, and then you can also have good small talk with people when you're out at the restaurants. That's good. I need small talk ideas. You do.

I really do. It's hard for you to keep conversations going.

So far.

Next. Best Oscar winning movies, according to cinema experts. All right. Best ever. Number five, On the Waterfront, 1954.

Number four, The Godfather, Part 1. And part two is number four. The Silence of the Lambs, 1991. I've never seen that. Schindler's List 93.

I have not seen that. Really? I have not. I have not. Have you?

I've seen Yeah, signs of the lamb and Schindler's list. Casablanca 1942. I probably saw pieces of that. I wonder if that holds up. I mean, do you think we look at these movies and say, I just can't buy it?

I mean, it could be an assignment over the weekend, Brian. I sit down and watch these five movies. Will that not drive you crazy? Right, I did watch Your Honor, which is not a movie, but is a series. Did you guys watch that?

No, is it good? Eric, did you watch that?

So it's uh with Brian Cranston. Really good. Really? So you can still watch him? Like, you haven't been tainted?

Because he's gotten so close. Oh, I know. I actually think, yeah, I heard he was a great actor. I actually think he was with the weak cog in this hole. But it was just very interesting.

Also, I have a relative in New Orleans, and the whole thing took place in New Orleans. I believe I even say the hotel where everything took place.

So, you saw a lot, put it that way. And In this case, in a pro-women atmosphere, the woman is the villain. Which is a big risk. We are incapable of having sinister thoughts. That's very unusual.

True. Next, most women say they're working out less in 2023 because they're burnt out. According to a research of 2,000 women, they found that 57% used to exercise more frequently than they do now, with exercise burnout sidelining them for nine days, for nine days at a time. On average, women exercise four times a week. 52% admit it's exercising three times or less.

The average workout lasts 44 minutes. I don't understand because they were working out so much during the pandemic, they're burnt out. Come on. I'm not trying to. I mean, look, you know, I'm wanting to work out, but this sounds like a really high number.

Like, you know, I tend to know a lot of women. I don't know a lot of them that are working out that often and for that long.

Now, how about this? Half of couples are willing to sleep in separate beds for better sleep. They surveyed again, 2,000 people, different from the women not working out, or are they the same people? We're going to have to find out. They said, They said adults who live with a partner revealed that 49% be willing to try sleeping in a separate bed as a way to get better rest.

That might be because the average cohabitating person receives less than four good nights of sleep a week. That doesn't mean couples don't want their quality time together despite a willingness to sleep. More than two in five, 42%, prefer going to sleep at the same time as their partner. Couples use their time before closing their eyes to watch TV. That's the problem.

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