Trump hammers DeSantis as indictments loom

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Meet Show. Hope you had a fantastic weekend.

We're back in action now. We know the President of the United States will come.

Well, actually, the Secretary of State will deliver remarks at the U.S. Columbia High-Level Dialogue Conference. Why it's important, I never would say that, but it's over in San Diego with the State Department, I should say. But why it's important is we've lost all relations with so-called allies or acquaintances in Central and South America, China moving in everywhere in Africa. We got a vice president out there.

The State Department's got to start doing their thing. We got to start getting these guys in gear, or we're losing traction to an ugly regime that offers nothing except self-interest.

So we have Claudia Tenney of New York joining us shortly. Teresa Payton will talk about the pluses and minuses of TikTok and what we can actually do if we decide to ban it. She is a cyber expert.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three: the banking system is resilient. And it's sound. The banking system has a strong capital position and a lot of liquidity, and has the full support of the Federal Reserve and other regulators standing behind it. That is Neil Kashkari, the president of Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

More uneasiness over our regional banks as SBP gets a buyer as more and more Americans lose faith in the institution and the administration's ability to deal with the economy as a whole. We will discuss. Number two. We showed a video in that last segment of the president on TikTok from a video shot by a celebrity inside the White House. It's not on the phone.

It's not on government devices. Oh, what a joke that is. John Kirby, are you kidding me? TikTok's got to go, but a bigger policy plan has to be put in place right away as another Chinese app is beginning to take over your app store. And even more evidence emerges that China is trying to take over our place in the world in every way imaginable.

Number one. They keep saying, oh, I think DeSanctus can do okay with farmers. I don't think so. Based on polls, he's not doing okay with anything. Really?

Trump front and center again. Four cases threaten his candidacy, but New York could indeed just go away as he takes aim at Ron DeSantis over the weekend. I didn't see the I only saw portions of the speech, but they say when he brought up DeSantis, everything went silent. No one clapped, no one laughed, no one booed, just silent. Because people don't know what to make of it.

Because people that like DeSantis like Trump. People that like Trump like DeSantis. It's not so much I feel differently about Pompeo and Nikki Haley and Mike Pence. I think the president feels differently because. I think he looks at them as the greatest threat to him.

First, on the cases itself. The Trump invest uh Trump indictment. He feels as though Donald Trump feels as though this whole thing is going away. He believes that Alvin Bragg has been disgraced. And I do think he was on the roll to having the best week in years until, of course, he had those death and destruction truth socials towards the end of the week and then had a picture of himself With a bat in his hand, split screen with Alvin Bragg, and it was on the cover of the New York Post.

It just looks ridiculous. I mean, why would you even think about promoting any type of violent act? Against anybody, if you're a political figure or if you're any type of figure, at this point. But the President does get over ten thousand away go Texas, the former President. Joe Biden couldn't do that, and there's not another politician that would be able to do that.

Not the governor of Texas, not a senator, no one. I don't think Governor DeSantis gets that big a crowd yet. But the President's got his fervent supporters who will go far and wide to see him. The question is. Would he be better off talking about everything he did as president and everything he wants to do?

Or is he better off going after his opponents? Or is he better off complaining? If you want the President to be successful, You should say, don't bring up 2022 and better not bring up 2020. Instead, the former president led with a video, a chorus of inmates, literally those singing after January 6th that are in jail, and video of January 6th saying it's not a big deal. It was a big deal.

And not like the January 6th committee was a joke. It was a big infomercial for Democrats. I'm not talking about that, but it's not to the President's advantage. To bring it up. Because it was after his speech that it happened.

The video looks terrible. Most are wearing Trump hats. It doesn't work. I don't know why he doesn't understand that. Here's Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Channel Cut 12.

You look at DeSantis, you see his record, you sort of have one question. You have a few questions, but one is. Why is he running? Does he know? If he knows, maybe he could let everybody else know, and maybe that will help him at a difficult time.

I'm just not sure I'm seeing why he's running. I find that fascinating. Because I just thought he was running.

Next point in his career thinks he can run the country. That's uh it. But she feels as though he hasn't put out his topic sentence yet. And a lot of people think that Governor DeSantis would do a great job, but the most knowledgeable person in the world. You can't just practice being president.

But I loved, I don't know who brought it up to me, that Carl Rove set George W. Bush when he was governor of Texas up with all experts to go see him at different times, from domestic policy to foreign policy to defense, to explain to him transportation and everything else that goes along with being president so he could hit the ground running, let alone what his dad could tell him around the dinner table.

So I think that would be good just to see these guys go back and forth. We've been very curious to see what's going to happen with DeSantis, what he decides to do. I think he's virtually in already, but the longer he waits, the more Trump is going to imprint him like nobody else in history. Another thing, there were two polls that came out: the public policy poll. They were encouraging for DeSantis.

In Monmouth, he's losing, but Trump is. Trudd finds himself tied in New Hampshire. And DeSantis leading 45-37.

So tied at 39 in New Hampshire and 45-37. In Iowa.

So that shows a strong start.

Now, if Sununu gets in, it's going to take a piece, if not all, of New Hampshire from DeSantis.

So who does that benefit? And that's who makes it so interesting and one of the most exciting times. Personally, with Trump's cases, legal cases, it's going to be a challenge. I'm going to get into this with Cordiateni, but in New York, I think obviously I thought it was political, always did.

Now he's having trouble getting the grand jury reportedly to agree that he needs to be indicted. I don't blame him. The Congress coming out saying, you need to explain yourself to me, Alvin Bragg, he just went crazy, said, I'm absolutely not going to do that. Here's where it stands according to our reporters. We expect the secret grand jury to sit this Monday.

We're unsure about the topics. They have other cases, for example. They did not take up this case on Thursday. An indictment could come as early as Monday afternoon. As of yesterday, the grand jury still had not been deliberating, which, by the way, I didn't think they would be.

Now, Comer warns Bragg he must testify after stumbling into his territory during the Trump probe.

So we'll see how that goes. Obviously, a statement came out saying he doesn't want to do that. But I also thought it was interesting: is it on social media saying President Death and Destruction does not help the President's case politically or anything else? Joe Takapina was on Meet the Press. and was asked about the social media post Cut Too.

I'm not his social media consultant. I think that was an ill-advised post that one of his social media people put up and he quickly took down when he realized the rhetoric and the photo that was attached to it. I'm not going to defend or condemn anything regarding social media. It's not what I do. I don't have anything to do.

I'm not a Trump PR person. I'm a litigator and a lawyer. And I'm talking about this case in Manhattan, which is a case that would not be brought for anyone other than Donald Trump. I don't think there's anything to any doubt about it. They sparred for about twenty-five minutes.

I actually think this case makes the president look better.

Now, what I also think is ridiculous is that they're going after him on his documents case in Mar-a-Lago. There's a special prosecutor. Where's the special prosecutor on the current President of the United States? What was he doing for years, for decades, with classified information by his Corvette in his garage? In his house, in his In the Penn Center.

How come we don't get briefed to death? Even Senator Warner over the weekend said, we have not been sufficiently briefed about what documents were there and not. If I'm on the intelligence committee, how could I possibly know what intelligence could leak out if you won't even brief me what's in it? But don't you find it amazing and unacceptable that we only hear about the interview, the prosecution of Donald Trump, we don't hear about Joe Biden? Why is that?

Not even a leak out to say, wow, one of those documents is X, Y and Z. One of them is for a very important time in 1998. Here is Dan Abrams on another case, the Georgia case, about possibly trying to get votes in Georgia and this very politically motivated district attorney there possibly handing down an indictment. He believes that's the danger. Cut ten.

Trump still faces the very real threat of being indicted in Georgia. Yeah, uh that's another potentially serious case related to overturning of the election. And we expect to hear from the Fulton County DA any day now because a special grand jury, which is just an advisory grand jury there, clearly has already advised, suggested that there be charges in connection with that case as well. And you know, the foreman is an absolute crazy woman. We saw that she came out, was doing interviews.

She's out of her mind. Her post says she's a witch. And she's the foreman in charge of the grand jury. I mean, if that doesn't question any type of recommendation, I don't know what does. I mean, you want people that are mentally and emotionally balanced.

And unless she if she had one interview that was odd, that would be no big deal. But she did about four.

So, when we come back, I'm going to talk to Congresswoman Claudia Tenney. Then talk to Teresa Payton about cyber and banning TikTok, which I think has to happen with the likelihood that is of happening, especially with the President of the United States seeming to like the influencers on TikTok quite a lot. You listen to the Brian Kill Me Chow.

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It's Brian Kilmead. It's really telling, isn't it? Because grand juries don't normally rake prosecutors over the coals in order to get an indictment. You have them at hello when you walk in as a prosecutor.

So if he's having trouble, it's indicative of how weak this case is. The most damaging aspect of Costello may not simply be as a former counsel to Cohen, he says that he's lying. It's that he said he brought 300 emails with him and said these contradict what Cohen says. The jury might not have seen those emails. And the most damaging thing you can do in a grand jury is if the grand jury believes that they're only seeing part of this picture.

But the dissent within the office, I think, is also equally important. It is a weak case. No kidding, Jonathan Turley weighing in. We could find out as early as today if the President's going to be indicted for something that happened 17 years ago that was brought up seven years ago. And now we're going to find out after being dismissed, it's going to be brought up again in the reason to indict the first President.

This is D.A. Alvin Bragg. Might be a stranger to you, but not to Congresswoman Claudia Tenney. She's on the Ways and Means Committee now in New York, representing New York Science, Space and Technology. Congresswoman, welcome back.

Great to be on. Nice to be on.

So, the president said over the weekend he thinks that Bragg's already dropped the case. What do you hear? I have not heard that, but I'm sure he's going to get a lot of pressure to do that. And I think this is very, Alvin Bragg's behavior is very typical of these prosecutors that are so aggressive to look for a crime, which is against our system of government and our justice system, which is about innocent until proven guilty. But they're trying to find the man, and then that's the person they're going to go after.

Remember, Letitia James did the same thing to President Trump and his family. They've all been hauled into court, and she got nowhere with it. It was finally dropped by the DA's office or dropped by the U.S. Attorney's Office. And she did the same thing to one of my former colleagues from the state assembly, who's now Rensselaer County Executive, Steve McLaughlin, who was vindicated.

He was within less than 40 minutes, a jury found him acquitted because she lied and brought evidence forth. I think it's time for the Republicans to get really aggressive. These Sorrels-based prosecutors like Alvin Bragg need to, we need to go to the Bar Association. Which I understand are left-leaning. I'm a lawyer.

I know how that goes in New York. But also, Letitia James should be disbarred for malicious prosecution. I think we have to start looking at those angles. Because right now, if Kathy Hogel's not going to remove Alvin Bragg, as Lee Zeldin promised to do, and not just for his, you know, the issues with Trump, but degrading so many. Felonies to misdemeanors and refusing to prosecute actual criminals while we have a crime wave in New York.

There's a lot to be considered here. But I don't know if it's going to be blown over as Trump indicates, but we'll see. Yeah, we'll see whether you could get bail reform done. When the Democratic governor wants to get some bail reform done and the legislature says no, the hell with you, that shows how dug in a certain amount are to this bail reform. And you wonder how they could possibly think they work on behalf of New Yorkers in particular, or in Philadelphia, same thing, or in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and at the same time resist bail reform after the stats show is putting everybody in danger, the same criminals committing the same crimes.

Yeah, they they just don't care. I mean, they don't want to hear it. They don't want to hear the facts. You know, Kathy Hochl unfortunately ran on this and she tried to placate the far left. In her campaign, but remember, she has a veto-proof majority that she faces in the New York State legislature.

I think this is the first time ever.

So she's really a powerless. Governor, and it's interesting because the New York governor, under our New York Constitution, is one of the most powerful governors in the nation. And there's not much he can do, but the far left, dictated by people mostly in the New York City region, mostly by communists. You know, when I served in the state assembly, if you said to a Democrat, you know, that they were socialists, they would have been insulted. Today, they embrace it.

And the largest coalition in the New York state legislature is the Democratic Socialists of America. They believe in Marxism, they believe in centralized government and control and this type of activity that you're seeing. Alvin Bragg's getting pressured to continue to fight Trump.

So I want to bring you over to TikTok and what the House did last week on a bipartisan level really laced into the TikTok CEO who had answers, but none of them were good enough. Here's a Democrat, Rajah Christermurth of Illinois, cut eighteen.

Well, I think that good policy makes good politics. And in this particular case, we have to recognize that while TikTok is another social media app and we have a generalized concern about these social media apps, it's different in kind from any other social media app because its parent company is beholden to the Chinese Communist Party. That is why, on a bipartisan basis, we've banned TikTok from all federal devices. And that's why the FBI director, the director of national intelligence, the CIA director, and the entire intelligence community believes this is a severe risk to our national security, and we have to deal with it. Do you believe the same thing as everybody, the people he rattled off?

Look, Eureka, the Democrats and Republicans have something we can agree on. I think TikTok is a problem, and that's because the Chinese Communist Party controls every entity that is in China. Every entity has some obligation, even when they're foreign nationals that are in the United States, to report back to the Chinese Communist Party, or they could potentially become an involuntary organ donor, or they could lose their life, or they could be imprisoned if they don't comply with the CCP. And that's the problem with these very popular types of devices and TikTok and other apps. They're enticing, they're engaging.

I know my colleague Kamek said it's like crack for the internet. But, you know, look, these are surveillance documents. It's just one way the Chinese are getting control over the United States surreptitiously. Look at the Chinese spy. Balloon took Biden, you know, what, a week before they finally did something about it.

So it accumulated material that was. Probably remitted back to the Chinese Communist Party and the United States. And things that we think are so mundane, you know, and just so run in the mill really aren't. The Chinese are very smart. They use demographics.

They're right. Congressman, do you know real quick? We have 20 seconds. Do you know there's two more apps, leading downloads on the App Store right now from China? Don't you guys, are you guys offering any type of plan to vote on to ban it?

Yeah, we will be coming up. We will be voting on this and we will be banning it. We've got to get it done in the Senate and the House. But we also, you know, companies and individuals have to comply. And a lot of people have raised concerns because they're making money on this.

We've got to go to where the heart of the matter is, and it's about who's making money on this and how the Chinese are exploiting these people. It's a matter of national security. Thanks so much, Congress. Congressman Claudia, your tendency. We appreciate it.

We come back inside the cyber world. We'll build on what we learned about TikTok with Teresa Payton. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. We showed a video in that last segment of the president on TikTok from a video shot by a celebrity inside the White House.

It's not on government devices. It's not hypocritical. It's hypocritical. It's not on government devices. You try you get this testimony about how evil TikTok could be at the hands of the uh Chinese government, knowing that they could access all this data and control a news feed that might be able to shape the The thought process in the country, especially for those under 30.

And then, while the president says he's taken serious about a ban, he keeps using it. Because he wants political gain. What about the country security? Teresa Payton is with us now, back with us, CEO of Ford Lace LLC and former White House Information Officer and under President George W. Bush.

And we also know you have another book coming out.

So, Teresa, welcome back. Oh, Brian, it's always great to be with you. Hope you're doing well.

So do you am I the only one who thinks the President's that serious about banning TikTok when he keeps on doing TikToks with TikTokers?

Well, it's interesting because this is a challenge. He wants to meet people where they are, and a lot of Americans are on TikTok. But it does come across as a little strange. The CEO of TikTok USA gets grilled for five hours on the Hill, and then we're engaging with Americans on TikTok. And so it does come across as a little odd and a little hard to process.

Yeah, by the way, your second edition of Privacy in the Age of Big Data is out now.

So everyone should go pick that up.

So we know this. If you don't like TikTok, and that's fine if you don't. There's another seven-month-old app that's racing up the app store. I think it's the most downloaded app right now in the country called T-Mu. There's also a TikTok video editing partner app called CapCut.

And then you got TikTok itself.

So if you don't like if you think TikTok's a problem, we have to get a policy together that addresses these apps from China. We really do. And so what the five hours of grilling, and I read the highlights because I had to work that day, but I read the highlights. I read the pretestimony. I watched the CEO's video that he did before the testimony.

And what I walked away with, Brian, is We need to do the hard work. And the hard work is we need a national privacy bill of rights at the individual level. We don't have one. GDPR is in its like second or third version. It's really disgraceful.

We should have spent that five hours hammering out a privacy bill of rights for every U.S. citizen. And then we can hold every company accountable because if it's not TikTok, tomorrow it'll be some other app, as you mentioned, there's other popular apps. And it's not just about China. We have American companies that do business in other countries, including China, Russia, other countries around the world.

And if the government comes to them, another government, and subpoenas records, and they have to comply with those subpoenas because they're doing business there. What does that mean for American Citizens Data?

So we have to get this right, and we need to do the hard work right now and get that bill in place. And what would it look like? What are some of the things that we need rights to have?

Well, also, I just worry about people taking their word for it.

Well, that's the thing too. And so we really need to have a conversation around what will the governance be? You know, will we stand up a private sector nonprofit organization that will hold accountable to telling big tech social media companies regardless of where they're headquartered? You know, the origin story here for TikTok is ByteDance China, but we have American headquarter companies who also have some challenges in protecting your and my privacy. Where we have to start is talking about at an individual level in terms that you and I can all understand and agree to, giving us back our privacy rights.

So allowing you and I to opt in and out of tracking. If you're making money off me, can I also make some money off me? The right to be forgotten.

So erasing things that maybe you've changed your mind on certain positions or maybe you've grown up now and you want to kind of portray yourself in a different light on the internet.

So Shou Chu is the CEO, and he showed up to explain himself. He said he was looking forward to it. It's hard for me to imagine he he feels that way now. But here's when he was asked about China spying. Uh the second cut you have down there, Eric.

Yes or no? Do any ByteDance employees in China, including engineers, currently have access to U. S. user data? Today, all U.

S. user data is stored by default in the Oracle Cloud infrastructure, and access to that is controlled. Do any American dance employees in China, including engineers, currently have access to U. S. data?

Congressman, I would appreciate this this is a complex topic. Today, all data. No, it's not that complex. Yes or no, do they have access to user data? We are after Project Texas is dan done, the answer is no.

Well, when Project Texas has Oracle taken all the data, he says the answer is no, of the cost of $30 billion. Number one, is it? And number two is, why didn't he not want to answer that question?

Well at So, Brian, I've had to testify on the Hill. And it is hard in a very short period of time to explain the architecture. And I think he was struggling with how do I boil down the architecture of TikTok in short sentences.

So, that could have been it. I'm going to give the CEO the benefit of the doubt, but it's a nuanced answer. And so, what I'm taking away from it, and these are my words, not the CEO's, what I'm reading into it is. Perhaps they did have access to it. And he was trying to figure out how to walk that dance of we're doing everything we can now.

We heard your concerns. Cypius has said, you know, that's the Committee on Foreign Investment. And they have said, here are the concerns. They are doing the architecture with Oracle. And I think he was trying to figure out how to, in a nuanced and brief way, answer that question.

Well, that's very kind of you. Sho Chu also was asked about spying. Listen to this parry: has Byte Dance spied on American citizens? I don't think the spying is the right way to describe it. This is ultimately an internal event.

So spying, because he said that journalists were spied on to find out who was leaking information about TikTok.

So it was already done. He doesn't like the word spying, but the fact that it already happened. That gives you additional reason to worry. It does, it does.

So, they over the years, and there was a great piece, people didn't want to hear from me when I tried to talk to them about it. Published in 2021 by Wired. And I wouldn't say that Wired is a right-leaning kind of organization. And they were very concerned about how the TikTok platform was growing in popularity, the collection, the collating, and the tracking of user data, including. your device's IP address.

Which in many cases can be incredibly unique to you, Brian.

So it's like your device information plus your home IP address or your work IP address. And that that would create a problem. And a lot of people will say, well, that's not really spying. The tactic behind the collection of this type of data, whether you use the app or not, by the way, so if you go watch a video that somebody has cross-posted on another social media platform, or you even just go to tick tock.com, they are collecting information that is known as inferred demographics. Many big tech and social media companies do use this same tactic, but the question is, is who is accessing this data?

Is this data anonymized or does it say, you know, Teresa Payton? Is this data anonymized or can you actually see my patterns of life? Because if I know your patterns of life, I can guess with great predictability where you will probably be next based on your past behaviors, probably even better than you might guess your behaviors using algorithms and big data analytics.

So, I want to bring you to a little bit of the exchange of trying to get to the bottom of all this. I don't know what the CO is thinking. I guess he had to go show up. It's one thing if Facebook and Twitter take your stuff and take your identity or shadow ban you or ban you. At least it's an American company.

But when you have China, who we know their main objective is to supplant us in every way, it's number two in the world, that's more of an issue. Here's a little of Kathy McMorris-Rogers and Dan Crenshaw. Let's listen. Can you say with 100% certainty that neither ByteDance nor TikTok employees can target other Americans with similar surveillance techniques? Chair Rogers, I first of all disagree with the characterization that is spying.

ByteDance owns TikTok. If ByteDance is told, and the CCP owns ByteDance, so they can make you hand over that data. Is that correct? Data is stored here in American soil by an American company that.

Well, and it isn't because it does go back. And also, when asked, are the Uyghurs being held against their will and is that genocide? He would not answer.

So you just know that this that China is pulling its strings by that, and we hope we get something comprehensive out of it. Is it possible in the cyber world to ban an app? That's on 150 million phones. On paper, we can talk about having a ban architecturally. It's going to be very hard, Brian, to ban the app.

So there's a couple of different things that are going to have to happen. Once they hammer it out, you've got small businesses around America who use TikTok to reach their customers.

So they're going to have to go to another platform. They're going to need time to do this. The second thing to be thinking about is you can't, it's not just as simple as going to Apple and Google and saying remove it from the app store. People have downloaded the app already.

So are we going to compel cell phone companies to automatically delete the app or block the app from working? You'd have to go to all the internet services providers and say, you have to block TikTok.com from all of the households and all of the businesses.

So it's easier said than done at this point to block it, not just because of the popularity, but just from an architecture standpoint. But obviously, China knows how to do this. They block a lot of American big tech and social media apps.

So maybe we can ask China if they could give us some engineering advice on how to pull off a ban. And they're warning us not to do it. And they're warning us not to do it, but they don't let any of our social media companies get over there.

So that's pretty rich. Teresa Payton, thanks so much. Congratulations on your book, the second edition of Privacy in the Age of Big Data. Thank you, Teresa. Take care, Brian.

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Okay. Expanding your knowledge base. It's the Brian Killmeat Show. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead. I just would like to go on record of saying I think this is a colossal mistake if they bring these charges.

Not this one. You know, I mean, yes, he's done a lot of bad things, and I'm sure he did this. Everything they accuse him of done, he did. First of all, it's not going to work. It's going to be rocket fuel for his 2024 campaign.

And it's just going to look to MAGA Nation like, oh, you know, you tried with Mueller, you tried with Ukraine, you tried with January 6th.

Now we go to the porn star. Really? You're down to that? He's 100% right. And one thing he did go on to say, he said.

The problem with Ron DeSantis is. You don't go to the tribute band if the band is actually still out there. And that's what they said that Ron DeSantis is so much like Trump. Why would you not vote for Trump since he's still out there? Which is interesting, too.

I find this endlessly fascinating, the way these two are going to go at each other. And I do not eliminate Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo, and Mike Pence. And, you know, I asked Governor Christy Noam on Friday: Are you thinking about running? She goes, We'll see. And she had a perfect opportunity to do what Ted Cruz has done and Rick Scott has done.

Go, no, I'm running for re-election. She she might get in.

So that would be interesting because she's got to get in. A lot of people think she'd be a perfect number two if Trump gets the nomination. But if she comes in and drops the gloves and says, it's time for a new generation of leadership, we're done with this. Does that eliminate any shot of that? Here is what Carl Rove said about Ron DeSantis' tactics of how to go after Trump and what he should or shouldn't do, CUT 13.

First of all, I thought it was wise that he counterpunched and didn't punch. President Trump unleashed an attack on him, sent his surrogates out to say, here's a big laundry list, one of which was really sort of bizarre. They said, well, you know, he restricted people on COVID.

Well, remember, President Trump was critical of Governor DeSantis when he was one of the first governors in the country to begin to loosen the restrictions. You know, people could come to the beaches, people could go to restaurants and so forth. And I thought he'd get a really powerful counterpunch when he said, I would have fired Fauci because there was Dr. Fauci alongside President Trump for all of 2020. And then the second thing is he said, I'm a no-the-book.

Drama kind of guy. And what he's setting up is a contradiction between himself and the former president. Because there are a lot of people who say, you know what, I like what Donald Trump did, but I don't like what we had to put up with. Right.

So that was Saturday night. He gets this big crowd, and he went after DeSantis a lot. He opened up with having the inmates who was singing the national anthem from prison.

Now, do I think the January 6th investigation was a waste of time? Absolutely. A big propaganda. Couldn't get in the other side. We had no idea about cross-examination.

I thought that Liz Cheney as well as Adam Kinzinger surprised me because I thought they were going to use that opportunity to balance it out while still condemning Trump, which they obviously want to do. Got it. Understand it. But when you open up and do that and say January 6th ends up being not a big deal, that to me is a joke. Of course, January 6th was a terrible day for America.

Of course, you shouldn't have had the rally in Washington. Of course, you should have said, don't march over there and have protest. Of course, you should have pushed back and said, when they said, hang Mike Pence, they, well, what do you want? They're angry. I mean, all that stuff is ridiculous.

Don't bring it up. Hope people forgot and then think, I love this guy's policy. He's learned a lot being out of office. Without a muller probe, I think he'd be a great president. That's where I thought the president was heading because I'm getting all these great text messages about policies and procedures and here how great his staff is.

Here's a little of his rally in Waco on Saturday Night, Cut One. The District Attorney of New York, under the auspices and direction of the Department of Injustice in Washington, D.C. Was investigating me for something that is not a crime, not a misdemeanor, not an affair. I never liked Horse face, I never liked I never it's just not it's terrible for That wouldn't be the one There is no one. We have a great first lady.

This is really prosecutorial misconduct. That's what it's called. The innocence of people makes no difference whatsoever. To these radical left maniacs. The weaponization of our justice system is not.

as some have called it. a political spectacle. This is the central issue of our time.

So, this is what's left.

So, you got the Bragg case, which is a joke. I hope they just end it. As Bill Maher said, it's only going to help the former president, but he shouldn't have even been through this. 17 years ago, it happened. Seven years ago, it was brought up.

This is a total waste of time.

Next is the January 6th investigation, and they're making Mark Meadows, Robert O'Brien, John Radcliffe talk about what went on behind the scenes then. It seems to me that there's executive privilege there, but evidently not now.

So, you want to do the January 6th investigation. Didn't we just have that? And then you have the Mar-a-Lago investigation, which should they have made Donald Trump's attorney, Evan Corcoran, Testified behind closed doors for three and a half hours. Since when, I've never heard this. Obviously, it happens, but I've never heard of them telling your attorney, hey, you know, your client, we're investigating your client, so we want to talk to you about what he said in private.

They think that he had a role in whatever happened in possibly hiding these documents. That's what the outsiders say that aren't there on the inside. He's the attorney. He's representing him to me with a former president, not only using kid gloves, you've dropped the gloves. And number two, it's what about the information?

Who brought all the paperwork over to the Penn Center of Joe Biden with all the classified documents? Who left it in his garage? What else was left in his house? What do they find in this other house? What did they find in this lawyer's house, excuse me, his lawyer's office over in Boston?

Do we know what the University of Delaware? What was happening? What was the genesis of all these documents that turned up in all these places? Why are we only hearing about one investigation? Then you got the Georgia case, it's up to the DA.

The D A is a Is obviously a Democrat, left-wing, trying to make her name for herself. She's sitting on the grand jury's recommendations. We'll have to see how serious it is. In the short term, I think it'll help the president. But if he keeps on stepping on his own Tongue, that's a problem.

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Gilmead. All right, everyone, welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Me Show. Hope you had a fantastic weekend. Michael Goodman was ready to let it all hang out in a matter of moments.

And Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank will be giving us heads and tails and tell us what's up with the economy.

So we have a lot to discuss today. Of course, in Midtown, Manhattan, a lot of people are focused on what's happening with the president, former president of the United States about the indictment. Or if you believe the president, he believes the case is already over. Alvin Bragg has lost. We'll see where that goes.

And the president had a big rally over the weekend.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three, sponsored by Crunch Fitness. Interested in owning your own business in a growing $30 billion industry? Check out CrunchFitness at Crunch.com. Number three. The banking system is resilient and it's sound.

The banking system has a strong capital position and a lot of liquidity and has the full support of the Federal Reserve and other regulators standing behind it.

Well, more uneasiness over regional banks as SVB finds a buyer as more and more Americans lose faith in the institution and this administration's ability to deal with the economy. We will discuss. Number two. We showed a video in that last segment of the president on TikTok from a video shot by a celebrity inside the White House. It's not on government devices.

It's hypocritical. It's hypocritical. It's not on government devices. TikTok's got to go, but a bigger policy plan has to be put in place right away as more Chinese apps are beginning to take over the app store. And even more evidence emerges that China is trying to take over place every place that we dominate in the world, from Central to South America to Africa.

Number one. They keep saying, oh, I think DeSanctus can do okay with farmers. I don't think so. Based on polls, he's not doing okay with anything. Trump front and center again.

Four cases threaten his candidacy, but New York could indeed just go away. But we'll find out about Ron DeSantis and how he's going to respond to the constant criticism from the former president.

So let's bring on Michael Goodwin from the New York Post and beyond. Michael, welcome back. Good morning, Brian. Thank you. First off, how do you feel about the President's rally?

I don't know how much you're able to see or the highlights you're able to glean.

Well Uh not much. Uh n not m I I didn't see much, let me put it that way. Um But as I understand, it was a lot of the same. I mean, it's very much. These are k almost like you know grievance sessions in a way.

And look, I understand he's running for President and he's got a lot of criticisms of the existing administration. But I think increasingly, what we're seeing, Brian, is an exclusionary approach to it in that he's running more than ever before, it seems to me, against Mitch McConnell, against the sitting many members of the sitting Senate. And there's a kind of purity test that he's imposing on all of the people he will endorse. And I don't I mean, even he went so far in a previous rally to talk about Charlie Crist, the former go a former governor of Florida, doing very well too. He said he was a Republican who became a Democrat.

And in a way to diminish DeSantis. And so it feels awfully early To be going down this road to where you're just waging war on fellow Republicans. And I I don't know that uh it just feels too early. There th there won't be a single caucus vote or a primary for nearly a year. Uh but he seems determined to clear the field now to to again, be the person who will smash not only the Democratic Party, but the Republican Party.

And I was reading something over the weekend about A strong Republican who supported him, but who is disappointed in many of the people Trump appointed. Jeff Sessions and, you know, all of that Kind of thing.

So, yeah. Yes, I I'm not sure that that President Trump Has a leg to stand on in this way in the way that he did in 2016 when he was truly an outsider. It's a different thing when you've been president. People saw your appointments. They saw your policies.

And most of the policies remain popular among Republicans, but not so much the appointments.

So I think it's kind of a slippery slope when he goes down that hill demolishing all the Republicans as well as the Democrats. I just think that he has such an opportunity now to run on his policy, so much of which Joe Biden went out of his way to reverse from the border to Afghanistan, to what's happening in Syria, to seeing the emboldened China, giving away Central and South America, actually pushing for a communist like Lula to take over Brazil. You see what's happened with inflation. The fact is the spending that's taken place, he has so much to run on, but he seemed to just focus on something. On more on DeSantis than anything else.

And you write, too, that he had Bragg, obviously overstepping and trying to charge him, but some of his truth socials at the end getting so aggressive hurt him. Yeah. You know, Brian, I I I think f my my overall view is Is that Uh You're you're right about the policies. And the distinction between Trump's policies and Biden's becomes more apparent every day. I mean, Biden's policies, I can't think of one of them that's working as promised.

It's quite the opposite. It seems to me across the board, his major policies are an absolute failure that are quite dangerous to the country. And you're also right. I mean, China is making a move. China is everywhere.

Very big move on the global stage. That's right. It's everywhere. Mark Levin last night went through just a number of the examples. And you put it all together, and China is now making a move for world domination.

That's been the long time goal. We said it was all kind of a fantasy, but here it is. It's unfolding now. And I think the fact that Joe Biden is President is a very big part of the calculation.

So Why does Donald Trump then want to focus on things That I think remind people of the bad parts of the Trump era. And so to me, his policies are good. His policies should be refined. But his personality His personality needs a redo. He needs to me he needs to uh refresh the personality parts of this, the grumbling, the snide attacks, the nicknames and all of that.

It just doesn't feel to me it's going to work again. I For the life of me, I don't think there's a prayer that it works in a general election.

So right now, the public opinion polls, this is the public opinion strategy surveys were conducted March 21st to 23rd in New Hampshire and Iowa. DeSantis tops Trump in Iowa, ties him in New Hampshire head to head at 45 for him in Iowa to 37 for Trump. And New Hampshire, they're tied at 39. Obviously, Chris Nunu gets in there. He's going to get a portion of that vote.

So we don't know who's going to suffer. But also, there's a whole thing about punching down. You are the Republican champ.

So, you want to say that I'm the guy, this is what I'll do. These other guys are pretenders. But he goes after DeSantis.

Now they're publishing pictures of him wearing a helmet, comparing him to Dekakis. The guy served in the Navy, he was in Iraq. Yeah. Yeah, look but this is Trump's playbook, and that I think is Mm-hmm. Heart of his problem is that he hasn't updated the playbook.

It's twenty sixteen all over again. It's twenty twenty all over again. He needs a new suit. He needs some people need a reason to consider him again. He needs to give people new he needs to surprise people on the upside.

I believe if I were running his campaign, I would say to him, Mr. President, you got people on your policies. You've won that battle, and you continue to win it every day Joe Biden is President. Where you are losing is people don't like you. What millions upon millions of millions of Americans voted for Joe Biden because they don't like you?

And so you've got to give them a new reason to like you again. And I know this is not pancakes and this is not a child's game. You of course you have to win. You have to compare and contrast your record. I just think the smash mouth scorched earth policy of other Republicans at this point.

Um It doesn't work because it just reveals the President's personality in a bad light. That's that look, I'm not a political handler. I I've never run a campaign, been involved in one, so I might have to do it. But you witnessed and reported on a ton of them. Yes, but I might be entirely wrong about what's motivating.

Look, I think Trump has a good hold on a big plurality of the Republican Party, but he's got to run this campaign to win a general election. There's no glory in losing the general election for a second time. And then s uh say you were cheated. Uh it's not gonna work. Right.

So that would be the key.

So they say donors are for those according to NBC, they do a report that a few of these donors are holding off on giving his DeSantis after the week he had. They believe the brakes are pumped because he flip-flopped on Ukraine. On the other hand, you have President Trump saying he predicts that Russia is going to win. Uh against Ukraine. Yeah, I mean Yeah.

And I think it's awfully early to write DeSantis off. I mean, I've seen some of those stories. I mean, it's shocking. It's not, oh, people are hesitating. My goodness, it's.

March. It's March of the year before the election. it seems awfully early to declare his candidacy a dud. I mean, this is a guy who all the polls in Florida predicted a pretty close race. He won by almost twenty points.

Um so I I think it's too soon for DeSantis to be labeled a failure. Look, people don't want to give him money. They don't have to give him money. But I think this idea that he's made mistakes, they're fatal mistakes, I think that, in part, Brian, is a consequence of Trump being out there so early and going after him so hard. Look, let's face it, Trump wants to clear the field.

He doesn't want to really have Republican opponents. He wants to be able to be the king now and be able to focus on Biden. I mean, that's what every candidate wants, is to clear the field. But I think DeSantis is still a very strong candidate. And I think that the weakness that Trump shows among the swing voters in swing states.

Is what Is where DeSantis has more potential appeal.

So I want you to hear what Mark Warner say he got briefed on possible indictment of Trump in New York. This is what he said: the Democrat from Virginia, cut seven. whichever of these prosecutions move forward. Uh Ward knows this guy is Appears to have as many things, done lots of things inappropriately. But I hope whoever moves forward has a rock-solid case.

Because the ramifications in Georgia, the ramifications at Mar-a-Lago, the ramifications of January 6th, and the ramifications in New York, having the first president indicted, make us look like Venezuela, make us look like Brazil. You know, when Balsonero goes back, they're going to look to put him in jail for not being a communist.

So, you know, they did with Musharraf in Pakistan. The leader's got to flee to not get arrested. That's what it's going to look like to the rest of the world.

Well And I think Mark Warner is right. You've got to have a really strong case So you don't give that impression that you're just prosecuting your opposition. You're weaponizing the government for political purposes. Right now, that burden is hanging over all of these cases, particularly the New York case, which is based on a novel legal theory, and I think the Georgia case. Again, it's a state case.

And I think those are pushing the boundaries of what people could possibly accept.

Now the two big federal cases being run by a special prosecutor, I think, have another burden, which is where is the special prosecutor on Joe Biden's case? There is one, but we haven't heard any. We hear a lot about the Trump special prosecutor.

So again, look, I think there is a legitimate concern that these are political prosecutions, that Donald Trump is being treated differently because he's Donald Trump. And this is this is, I think, Brian, for Democrats. This is a kind of pornography that to see Donald Trump in handcuffs Is a fantasy that many in the Democratic Party have had for a long time. And it would be a celebration like we've never seen, which is another reason to distrust it because it is politically oriented. There's no way.

Yeah, you're never going to convince me the Mar-a-Lago case is valid. You're never going to convince me. January 6th, with all the investigation, now they're going after him.

Now they're making his lawyer testify in the Mar-a-Lago case. That's unheard of. Not only are you not treating him with kid gloves, you're changing the rules because you're saying that your lawyer played a role in keeping documents. And when you know Donald Trump, do a background check. The guy doesn't read.

He didn't read his daily brief. You think he wants anything except posters and memorabilia? He had nothing. He's not doing anything. They act like he's got Russian documents so he can call Vladimir Putin with it.

That ship has sailed, just like it sailed right through the Corvette, the classic Corvette in Joe Biden's garage.

So to me, this stuff is ri some of this stuff is so ridiculous.

Well and Especially when you compare it to the Biden situation. Where's the Hunter-Biden case? Right? I mean, it's impossible not to conclude that the FBI is slow walking this case. To protect the Biden family.

Absolutely. I mean, there's no other justification for a casement that's going on for five years. Why is Hunter Biden not complaining that the Justice Department has taken five years to investigate him and it's ruined his reputation and not given him a ding? Because he knows they're on his side. That's why.

That's why he's not complaining. If they really were investigating, think of the legal fees he would be complaining about. But he's not complaining because they're doing him a favor. Michael Goodwin, thanks so much from the New York Post. Thank you, Michael.

My pleasure, Brian. Thank you. You got it, 1-866-408-7669. We gave you a lot. Let's hear what you have to say.

Bottom of the hour, Kevin O'Leary, Heads and Tales of the Economy. Don't move. You're listening to the Brian Kilmead Show. Diving deep into today's top stories. It's Brian Kilmead.

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Well, I think we should be concerned that our deterrent posture vis-à-vis Iran is crumbling. We can't afford another failure of deterrence like that, which we saw in Ukraine.

Some practical steps going forward, in my opinion, would be to reimpose a policy of maximum economic pressure, abandon an attempt to resuscitate the joint comprehensive plan of action, as well as force the Pentagon to deliver something they're late on, which is a report on the U.S.-Israeli Technology Working Group, which should have a suite of practical proposals for how we can turbocharge our technological cooperation with the Israelis, help them better defend against the threat of missiles, help us better defend against the threat of Iranian missiles or Iranian proxy militias.

So, very concerning, more we need to do, and we need to have a clear eye view of the regime we're facing in Tehran. Yeah, I'll begin, you call shortly. I guess I just went a little bit too long last block, but Mike Gallagher is. As impressive as anybody I know in Congress, and especially some new talent there. And if you listen to him, he's responding to the fact that stunningly, Iran proxies were hitting our bases with our nine hundred people, killing a contractor.

And then after we hit them back, they hit us back again. We have to answer with devastating effect. And the first thing out of the President's mouth is The first thing out of his mouth is, We don't want war with Iran. Excuse me. They're bombing us.

And we're saying we don't want war with you. We're the superior power. They should fear us. Why is that so hard for him to understand? And the Pentagon, too.

I don't know what has happened to our Defense Department, but they got to get rebooted, and somebody should twist their head on right. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead. TikTok's presence and its influence and its ability to scoop up Americans' data and use it, and the fact that that data is vulnerable to the Chinese Communist Party is something that everyone now has to admit. Even though the TikTok CEO won't admit it, it's obviously true.

This is not only a vector for invading Americans' privacy, it's a vector for the Chinese Communist Party to insert its influence into our information space through the phones of our children. I don't think the Biden administration has the guts to go through with it and fight the legal battle that would follow.

So I think that we're not all the way there yet. At least we can admit that we have a problem. As much as I'm to a free market, I'm not into providing the weapon to slit our own throats. And Josh Rogan's referring to that from the Washington Post when he said he's not going to ban TikTok because he's afraid of losing voters. And then he talks about the free market, and there's 20 million people, or they made an average of these influencers on TikTok, these small business people, made about $20 million last year.

They don't want to give that up. Our national security, when it comes to China, I think we should make up special rules. Let's bring in Kevin O'Leary, chairman of the O'Leary of O'Leary Ventures, one of the stores of Shark Tank. Kevin, great to have you back. Thank you very much.

Hey, just on your thought. I know you're a free market guy. How do you feel about aligning our enemies, naming them, and not allowing them to have. free reign at our market like China has when it comes to TikTok.

Well, I I actually think the best way to deal with China going forward and I've been in this camp for about eleven years now because I have a lot of issues doing business with them, and I'm living the real life in terms of getting ripped off my IP. Any time I get a product that I'm manufacturing there past five million in sales, Here stateside, they knock it off, and I can't litigate them in their courts.

So I just What they understand, I don't want to sound too hawkish, but this is a pragmatic way to deal with it. There's no negotiating with them. They only understand the stick. And we're a bigger stick right now because our economy is bigger and they need us actually more than we need them. Apple was over there yesterday.

There's tens of thousands of jobs a year we create manufacturing. Just to manufacture iPhones, we also market there. But this idea of reciprocity, in other words, make it equal. Football game for both sides. And I'll give you an example.

If I can't sue you for stealing my stuff and manufacturing it, selling it to your domestic market in China, which I can't. No problem. You can't litigate in our courts here either. Just the same, same football game, level playing field. If I can't Figure out a way to stop you from stealing my IP, and we rip you off here.

Okay, no problem. Fair game, equal playing field.

Now, TikTok, you don't let me put Google. I can't put Twitter there. You shut down Facebook a long time ago. You don't let our tech companies into your domestic market. You knock them off.

and you create equivalents and grow those. No problem. If you're Chinese, you got to be shut down here.

So I have to what we have to do to be fair is to make them sell TikTok.

so that it's on American servers. And this is not about being vindictive. It's if you let us put Google there and let our companies compete, you can compete here too. By the way, if you want to raise money on our markets, because we can't do it on yours, mm. Got to delist your stocks off the New York Stock Exchange.

You know, it's the That's the only way to deal with these guys. They're not, and I have all the Yeah. the world for The people of China, but it's the policies that are now tipped in their favor, and it's time to fight back.

So I've become extremely hawkish. on what to do with China. I really want to fight back. I want to do everything they're doing to us in their country. I want to do the exact same thing to them here.

But I want to tell them about it. I would say, look, you get six months to clean your act up on accounting with your listed Chinese companies. Or like our companies, you're going to get delisted. You've got to play by the That's the detail. With China.

And believe me, they'll restore. They respect The stick. They understand the stick. They want the stick. Let's give them the stick.

I hear you. I just don't know why people are reluctant to do it. I think Trump started to do it. I think we're getting in that place. But now they're competing with us in Central America, in South America, in Africa, trying to take over the Middle East.

We know that what they're trying to combine now with Iran and Russia. I think we have to, as a country, if you want to lead this nation, we have to go acknowledge that, and then it won't be so hard to get kids off TikTok. But the president's obviously not a fan of that school of thought because he just did a big thing on St. Patrick's Day with this big TikTok influencer.

So obviously he doesn't take it that serious, Kevin. But I want to talk about. It's about Paula. You don't even have to get into politics. You can say, who's ever in the White House, you have to show the stick.

You should invite the Chinese over and show them a golden stick and say, This stick goes either way. It's the stick of friendship or it's the stick of competition, whichever you wish.

Now, if you don't clean your act up in your country and you don't let us compete and you keep whacking us with all your IP things, and we can't protect our IP over there. the same to you. I like that idea because somebody in there is going to get the joke and right now we're still a bigger economy.

Okay. stick now. Absolutely, and they need our market.

So I'm talking obviously with Kevin O'Leary. Kevin, this is what Neil Kashkari said about the state of our banking system. You know, he is the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Cut 31. The banking system is resilient and it's sound. The banking system has a strong capital position and a lot of liquidity and has the full support of the Federal Reserve and other regulators standing behind it.

Now, I'm not saying that all of the stresses are behind us. I expect this process will take some time, but fundamentally, the banking system is sound. Do you agree? Not quite. This provision that the Fed has put in place, the special loan provision, is for one year.

There's some confusion about whether we're guaranteeing every deposit or we're not. Full amounts beyond $250,000. That's not resolved. The bigger issue that I think we should all get our heads around, and we want a very vibrant banking system. There's eleven sectors in the S P economy, and banking is one of them, financial services.

But it's the only sector that services all other ten as well.

So you got to have basic good banking.

Now here Here's the issue. Of tiny regional banks. And when they were set up up to 100 years ago, it made total sense to do that because. The emerging economy of our Country at that time was different in every geography. What was going on in California was different than what was going on in New York.

different than Florida. Different than the Midwest. And so the lenders had to accommodate the uniqueness of each of those geographies' economy. That is not the case today. Because we have, in the last twenty years, digitized all banking.

In other words, 99% of transactions, even in regional banks, or online. That's very efficient. But it also makes the use a need for for regional banks a little redundant. And so What happens when you have a bank like Silicon Valley Bank or First Republic. or Signature Bank, these are the most recent failures.

It's not because the banking system is broken, it's because the people running those banks were idiots. I hate to say it that way, but it's true.

So our system works very efficiently. When you get an idiot doing something, he goes bankrupt and someone else buys it, which is what has occurred today. And that's okay, but the bigger problem long term is Why do we need so many little regional banks? And here's the big, big issue that I think is going to become the narrative for the next six months.

Okay, I'm a farmer in Florida. All right? I pay my taxes. I work in the Agrarian Society of Florida. I grow food for the rest of the year.

the country, maybe it's oranges or whatever it is. Then you tell me that's a banker in California who lends money to highly speculative. Let us start. startups in technology. He blows himself up and I have to pay for it.

I don't think so. I don't want to do that. I'm going to worry about... What I'm doing here in Florida.

So, what we need to do is to figure out how to put the state into this equation because. If you want to run your state with bad policy, Like in Massachusetts or in New Jersey or in New York or California, where the regulatory environment is so brutal and so hard to maneuver that business can't really function there.

Well, then, why shouldn't they eat their own state banks? Why aren't they responsible? Yeah. And I think that's where we're going to go because you've got a shining example of this in the state of North Dakota, the only state with its own southern. They don't have failures.

is in North Dakota. Because the Bank of North Dakota doesn't compete with the regional banks there. Yeah. When there's trouble, It helps one of the them out. They take care of their own.

their own and their bank on the assets of their Yeah. incredible economy which is Based on it. Energy and agrarian, you know, a lot of food and grain grown there. But those guys get the joke. should look at North Dakota, say, Yeah.

other state their own sovereign bank and let them eat their own cooking. When they screw up, they eat it. Suddenly you got a big deal. Bank looking over the small guys, making sure they don't screw up. That's what we need.

Well, that's very interesting, Kevin O'Leary, our guest. Kevin, how do you feel about First Citizens Bank buying SVB?

Well, what you should care about is the taxpayer ate $20 billion of that deal.

So, you know, there it wasn't a perfect buyout in it. any means The crappy assets they did. And so So the way to look at it The FDIC insurance That's a load of crapola. Here's why. The banks themselves.

pay into that fund. the money to pay to that fund is they charge you banking fees.

So it's a burden. on the banking system. It has about $120 billion in it. On this transaction alone, $60 billion. 15% of that insurance was used up.

when the FDIC ate $20 billion worth of garbage on that balance sheet.

So, you, as a taxpayer, paid for that. Never let a politician tell you it doesn't cost a taxpayer. paradigm that is such BS. It always costs the taxpayer all of the time every day. That's what government is.

It's funded by the people, by the people, and it's fees. one way or another. This is something I pound the table on all the time. time.

So do I want to pay another 20 billion? Yeah. Bank. No, thank you. How about it just goes to Zero because they were idiots, and people that put their money with idiot bankers have to pay a price for that.

That way, you start to get a little more creative and start thinking about: wait a second. Why don't I diversify? I'm holding my cash into maybe three or four or five banks. I'm not sure where the black swan idiot banker is, and you never will be.

Well, the CEO of Silicon Valley Bank ends up being on the San Francisco Fed that was warned in 2019 and 2021 about their balance sheet and about the increasing rates and how they were out of sorts, and he did nothing. And that guy better not have gotten paid off, nor did the whole board, one of which had banking experience, which is outrageous. I've got to ask you, you did mention about different states. Kevin O'Leary will not do, doesn't think it's a good idea to do business in places like New York and California. Why is it so formidable?

So, I think it's fair to have competition between states.

Now, think about it this way. Since 1954, when they started taking statistics on vanity, capital. Money that starts. great American companies. That is sixty four percent Yeah.

still is.

So you care about it. about funding startups.

Now 95%. 94% of that since 1954 went to two states. Massachusetts around the MIT and Harvard hub. and Silicon Valley in California.

Well Yeah.

So a lot of interesting technology from the transistor on board. And so that's where you'd naturally put it. Today, I would never invest a dime in either of those states. California is not in business. The regulatory environment is absolutely chaos.

And the taxes are just prohibitive and uncompetitive. Same can be said. Massachusetts. but it's worse there. That there's a place where if you're successful as an individual You're punished by Elizabeth Warren's super tax.

Shame on you for. being a great American entrepreneur, you have to be taxed. That is ridiculous. to pay a super tax. That's a good idea.

against what made this country great in the first place.

So think that is a huge problem that I don't want to reward it by putting a dime into that place. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's a good question. She's very successful. I do not agree with you.

Mm-hmm. policy. And luckily, we have competition.

So why don't I just take that company and Yeah.

So Kentucky. Tennessee, North Dakota. Yeah. South declared. Yeah.

Dakota, somewhere where the tax Taxes are competitive, and the regulatory environment is pro-business. And the reason I can do that. today that I never could. Just three years ago is in a post-pandemic Economy, 40% of my staff. Work outside of the headquarters.

So I can put an HQ anywhere I want, and that's exactly. what I'm doing. That's the whole idea. Punish bad. policy with your money Starve these states out of these policies.

That's exactly the same. You look at what's going on in Florida. with real estate values. billions of dollars, five billion a year transferring out of these East Coast coast highly taxed states. down to the Florida economy to Texas.

This competition among states is a real narrative now. Let me give you one other example that nails it on the head. It's not about just one year of policy or one politician or one senator or one governor. This tells the story. In the States, of Minnesota.

There's a town called Moorhead. Two hundred yards across. The River is Fargo, North Dakota. 50 years ago, each one of those towns had 48,000 people living in them.

Okay? Exactly the same. Fast forward to today. Fargo has 261,000 people, Microsoft's second largest campus, a booming art scene, manufacturing facilities, largest manufacturer in the States for vaccines, biotech, pharma, all of that booming. Across the river, 200 yards, 30,000 feet.

Drive over in a car, it looks like you're Stepping into Cuba. It's a wasteland. That's the difference between a punitive tax policy of Minnesota. The estate tax in Minnesota. The unstable regulatory environment.

Great example. Last question. What's with Sam Bankman freed, Kevin? Have you got any of your money back? Have you got any answers?

No one does. And that whole narrative on FTX's turned to recovery. The story is interesting. Over $4 billion found in Nassau, where the government is holding on to it because they say. say the alleged fraud occurred on the islands.

Obviously, we've also got FTXUS where they found over a billion dollars as well. the bankruptcy courts trying to last sue all these moving parts. We don't know what's going to happen. It's going to take a lot of years. Kevin O'Weary, always in for it, always great.

Thanks so much, Kevin. Best of luck. Back in a moment, Brian Kilman Shop. Giving you everything you need to know. You're with Brian Kilmead.

The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Killmeade. Hey everyone, this is Rep AOC. Alexander Ocasio-Cortez and this is my first TikTok. Do I believe TikTok should be banned?

No. Why should TikToks not be banned? The United States has never before banned a social media company from existence, from operating in our borders. And this is an app that has over 150 million Americans on it. Yes, as usual, it shows short term thinking.

She did not understand everything that Kevin O'Leary mapped out from Google to Facebook on down. We're not allowed to do that, but they're allowed to go ahead and infiltrate our country. Ben, listening in Michigan. Hey, Ben. Yeah, yeah.

Hey, Brian, how you doing? Good, good change, man. Hey, listen, I've listened to your previous guest talking about Trump. Uh, listen, um, a previous Trump supporter voted for him twice, but he needs to get off this case about uh attacking other Republicans, particularly DeSantis. And he needs to be keen specifically on Biden's failed policies and nothing more.

So easy, Ben, right? Isn't it obvious? Yes. I mean, it's unbelievable. I mean, it's so true.

That's where he's going to. And evidently, every time he mentioned DeSantis, it was total silence. No one booed, no one cheered. No one laughed. Because people aren't comfortable with it.

44-year-old veteran who's a successful two-term governor. And a very good congressman who was very similar to Trump, except for he's got more discipline. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hello everyone, welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kilmey Show, 1866-408-7669.

We have a lot to discuss this hour. We'll do it from the Republican side from Alice Kuhn, founding partner at Firehouse Strategies. Used to work with Marco Rubio, Sandra Smith, at the bottom of the hour. And of course, your calls are 1866-408-7669. We come to you from New York where we know at any minute, really for the last 10 days, we could have heard a historic indictment of the former president of the United States.

Although I think that looks unlikely, we're dependent on. unnamed sources. We have great reporters, but we don't know any of the twenty four grand jurors who will decide if the President should be indicted. I he shouldn't be, in my view. We'll find out.

We'll continue to monitor that. We know the Vice President is in Africa trying to make some gains. Let's see how that goes. Let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. The banking system is resilient and it's sound. The banking system has a strong capital position and a lot of liquidity and has the full support of the Federal Reserve and other regulators standing behind it.

That is Neil Kashkari, talking about what's going on with our banking system after another forced merger. More uneasiness with the regionals. We'll talk about SVB and finding a buyer and why so many are upset with Janny Yellen, think she's got to go. Number two. We showed a video in that last segment of the president on TikTok from a video shot by a celebrity inside the White House.

It's not on government devices. It's hypocritical. It's hypocritical. It's not on government devices. TikTok gotta go.

But the president still likes TikTokers to come over, not on government devices. What a joke. When are we gonna stop acting like patsies for the Chinese to infiltrate our borders? Number one. They keep saying, oh, I think DeSanctus can do okay with farmers.

I don't think so. Based on polls, he's not doing okay with anything. Trump front and center again. Four cases threaten his candidacy, but New York could indeed just go away as he says, well, like they should. And then he takes aim at Ron DeSantis.

Is that a good strategy for all involved? With me right now to discuss this and so much more. It's Alex Konant. Do you know he works, started his own company, the Firehouse Strategies? Alex, welcome back.

Thanks, Brian. Thanks for having me. Alex, impressive crowd for the former President of the United States in Waco, and he was fired up. What about his decision to go heavily after After a lot of Republicans, including Ron DeSantis, is that what you do in primaries? It is if you're Donald Trump, believe me.

I mean, I was on the receiving end of that when I worked for Marco Rubio back in 2016. And look, Donald Trump is at his best when he's on the attack, and he knows it. And so. He sees, like everybody, that Ron DeSantis has been moving up in the polls. I think the governor's had a couple of really good months starting with his historic reelection in Florida.

And he thinks he needs to slow him down. And the best way to do that, if you're Donald Trump, is to get on the attack and start talking about how DeSantis' poll numbers have stalled out a little bit, throw some other mud at the governor, just to try to slow down his momentum a little bit. And frankly, I think it was very early, but it seems to have worked at least a little bit for now.

Well, we'll see. We do see two polls having been DeSantis up by about eight in Iowa and a dead heat in New Hampshire, the public policy poll. I don't know what you think of it, but in the Monmouth poll, it looks like, and some other polls, it looks on the national level, going by 1,000 people or so, it looks like Trump's having a pretty good week. Had a pretty good week. Yeah, I mean, I don't put too much stock in the polls at this point.

As you know, the Iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire primary, I mean, it's ten months from now. There's gonna be a lots of ups and downs. And, you know, I think at this point in the race When I was running with Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush was leading in all the polls.

So it's really early. That said, look, I think that Ron DeSantis has clearly shown that a lot of Republicans are at least interested in hearing what he has to say. His first couple of trips to the early states seem to have been received very well. And I think Donald Trump knows: if you're going to define him, if you're going to try to slow him down, now is the time to do it. And that's why he's going on the offense.

And I think nationally may have been working a little bit. But look, it's early. The other thing going on here, Brian, is obviously you just referenced it, the court case in New York, which clearly has Republicans rallying behind the former president. I think it's far too soon to know how all those legal cases play out 10 months from now, but I think at least in the short term, it's clearly benefiting the former president.

So here is a little from the Waco event, cut 11. They keep saying, Oh, I think the sanctus can do okay with farmers. I don't think so. Based on polls, he's not doing okay with anything. But in the case of Florida, they unfortunately did shut it down.

They shut down the beaches, they shut down everything.

So now that people are finding out about what happened, they're saying, Man, he's dropping like a rock. And I wonder why. But, you know, you never like it when somebody comes, you say, I'm a loyalist. They say, sir, don't talk about that, sir, because people don't want to hear that, but I do, because I'm a loyal person. Sir, if you endorse me, I'll win.

Please. Please, sir, endorse me. And I said, all right, let's give it a shot, because honestly, the Secretary of Agriculture. Adam Putnam, good man, but I never met him. I didn't know him.

So I don't feel guilty about it. You know, if you don't know somebody, I wish I knew him, actually. You want to know the truth? I wouldn't have done this.

So what happened is. I said, let's give it a shot, Ron. And I endorsed him and he became like a rocket ship. Within one day, the race was over. He got the nomination.

But when you're. Getting a guy, so he gets the nomination because of you, he wins the election because of you. Two years later, The fake news is up there saying, will you run against the president? Will you run? And he says, I have no comment.

I say, that's not supposed to happen. I have no comment. No. So I'm not I'm not a big fan.

So there you go. I mean, look, that's this that's all typical Donald Trump. I mean, I had flashbacks to 2016, you know, hearing him kind of make some of those attacks on. DeSantis. And, you know, it's vintage Trump because, of course, he overstates a lot of it.

I mean, the truth is, Ron DeSantis is doing very well with farmers. As you just said, he's doing well in Iowa. And look, when he won that re-election, look, I've worked a lot of races in Florida. There's a lot of farmers. There's a lot of agriculture in Florida.

And DeSantis has done very well with them.

So, look, it's early. I know DeSantis has some momentum. Trump's trying to slow him down. I think it was going to be really interesting to see how DeSantis responds to that over the next couple of weeks.

So, I mean, he has gone at him a little bit, says, I don't really know anything about hush money. I wouldn't have any experience in that. And then say, basically, he's a guy who would have liked the policies, but he's not going to have the drama.

So that's pretty much what people like you, Alex, say. Tell everybody that you'll govern like Trump just without the dramatics. And he basically has said those two things. A lot of people have pushed him to get in earlier. But before you comment, I want you to hear what Peggy Noonan said about Ron DeSantis and the question she has for him.

I wonder if you have the same one. Cut 12. You look at DeSantis, you see his record. You sort of have one question. You have a few questions, but one is.

Why is he running? Does he know? If he knows, maybe he could let everybody else know, and maybe that will help him at a difficult time. I'm just not sure I'm seeing why he's running. Well, he's not running yet, but if he does run, Do you have the same question?

Well, as you said, he has he isn't running yet. And so, look, I think. In the speeches that I've seen Ron DeSantis give in the last couple of weeks, it seems to me like if he runs, it's because he feels like he was a very successful governor of Florida, which means that he'll be a successful president of the United States. But I do think that if he runs, like he has to more directly answer Peggy Newton's question: why is he running? Why does he feel he would be a better president than Donald Trump and obviously, you know, Joe Biden if he wins the nomination.

So, but look, we're so early. I mean, it's 10 months from the contest. He hasn't even gotten in the race yet. But that said, look, I've worked, as you know, Brian, I've worked on a lot of presidential campaigns. It is really, really hard running for president.

You know, even Donald Trump had a lot of really bad weeks when he ran for president in 2016. Obviously, he didn't win when he ran for reelection in 2020. Even if you're a great candidate, it is really hard to run for president. I think, you know, Ron DeSantis is going to have good weeks. He's going to have a couple of really bad weeks.

I can guarantee you that if he's running for president, and that's all part of the process. Look, if you can survive. the test of running for president, you're probably going to be a pretty good president. You know what's interesting is that Donald Trump's got this advantage. His policies look better every day.

for the country. You know, foreign policy, even domestic policy. Just look at the results. If he ran on that, And talk about what I was unable to get done, explain why, and then what he wants to do, and what he would do different, and how he knows personnel better. It just seems to me to be the perfect answer overall.

And also, these court cases in the backdrop, I thought it was brilliant the way he came out and went on the offensive because I don't think Bragg's going to be able to charge him. Everyone thought it was ridiculous. But at the end of the week, he put out those truth social talking about death and destruction and had a picture of him with a bat. Then all of a sudden, he becomes the negative side of the story instead of Bragg being the negative side of the story. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, you you talked about how Trump's been going up in the polls and disans has kind of flatlined or gone down a little bit in some of the national polls in recent weeks. I think part of it is because of people rallying around him, around these court cases. I think the other thing is that, look, he has run a very disciplined campaign for the last couple of months, one that we did not see in 2020. He's got a really, he's surrounded himself with a lot of professionals this time and has run a very disciplined campaign. That seemed to start to fall apart a little bit over the last 72 hours with the social media post that you talked about on Friday, you know, with a lot of what he was saying on Saturday night.

He needs to, I totally agree with you, Brian. If the former president talks about his policy successes while he was in office, you know, he will likely win the nomination and he'll be a formidable general election candidate, but he has to maintain that level of discipline. I watch a lot of focus groups of Republican voters, a lot of focus groups of Trump voters. And the Trump voters say they love his policies. They love what he did when he was president, but even they are tired of the drama and the chaos.

And I think, you know, clearly DeSantis has seen similar focus groups because he talks a lot about how if he's elected, there's not going to be the drama. There's no drama in Tallahassee. There's no drama in his office. I do think a lot of voters want to have conservative leadership, but are tired of the constant chaos and drama that we've had with Donald Trump. And I think if he can sh if Trump can kind of turn a leaf and be a little bit more disciplined as he has been in recent weeks, I think that will go a long way to helping him win the win the nomination again.

Yeah, it would be very interesting because if he's indicted in the short term, I think it'll help. But long term, I mean, when you're indicted, it's kind of easier if you're a Democrat to say that the other guy is not worthy of the office. But if he's able to beat these cases, he'll be turbocharged. But he's got to beat four of them. And also the inequity of it.

The Mar-a-Lago is composed of the Penn Center and Rehoboth, as well as the University of Delaware, his Corvette, his garage. And then when you meet the that's one case, you could easily say dual justice. What about equal justice? And then when you took at the other case in Georgia and you see the foreman who was absolutely out of her mind, she came off absolutely crazy. Is that the person who's going to indict be the first person to indict the president?

And, you know, it just, and then you don't hear anything about any of these other cases that could make people feel there's two tiers of justice. Yeah, I mean, I think clearly that's the argument that I think Donald Trump's going to be making. in these things the the you know, the legal case is playing out in the courtroom, so we don't s necessarily see it all, especially these grand juries where they're all behind closed doors. You know, we get leaks, we get, you know, uh we get you know Yeah, sources familiar talking to the media about it, but We don't really know what's going on behind the closed doors. And then if there are indictments, we don't know what's going to happen if they're going to go to trial, if there's going to be settlements.

There is a on these legal fronts, there are going to be lots of ups and downs in the next couple of weeks, the next couple of months. And so I think projecting how does this affect a primary or a caucus 10 months from now. I think it's really premature. I think it's anyone's guess. But but I don't think there's I don't think there's any question that at least in the short term you're going to see Republicans rallying around And the president in all these cases for the reasons that you just outlined.

All right. Thanks so much. Alex, best of luck, who are you working with these days? Uh I'm watching the presidential race really closely. I've got friends on all the campaigns.

So I'm I'm staying neutral right now just because I I like all the candidates. But stay tuned. The other thing is, Tim Scott, Mike Pompeo, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, possibly Christy Noam. Do you put them all do you give them all a shot? I give everyone a shot at this point because I think Uh Look, I give them all sound A for two reasons.

One, those are all quality candidates who are going to put together serious teams and serious campaigns, and I think voters. Want to see a competitive race. And there's going to be the debates. And as you know, Brian, in these debates, anything can happen. And I think you could see Trump stumble.

I think you could see DeSantis stumble. And if they do, one of these other candidates is going to fill that void. And they're all quality candidates.

So, yeah, I think it's a I think. It is still anyone's you know, clearly Trump and the status are the frontrunners right now. But 10 months is forever in politics, especially when you're talking about Donald Trump and all the legal issues surrounding him. And you're talking about Ron DeSantis, who's never run for president before. Right.

And then you have a guy who has run for president many times who's stumbling badly every day.

Now his approval rating in President Biden is 38%. That spells vulnerable. Thanks, Alex. Thank you, Brown. You got it.

1-866-408-7669. When we come back, it's your turn. We'll get your calls, get your take. No bad opinions, just want yours. Don't move.

Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Killmead. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. First of all, I thought it was wise that he counterpunched and didn't punch.

President Trump unleashed an attack on him, sent his surrogates out to say, here's a big laundry list, one of which was really sort of bizarre. They said, well, you know, he restricted people on COVID.

Well, remember, President Trump was critical of Governor DeSantis when he was one of the first governors in the country to begin to loosen the restrictions. You know, people could come to the beaches, people could go to restaurants, and so forth. And I thought he'd get a really powerful counterpunch when he said, I would have fired Fauci because there was Dr. Fauci alongside President Trump for all of 2020. And then the second thing is, he said, I'm a no-drama kind of guy.

And what he's setting up is a contrast between himself and the former. President, because there are a lot of people who say, you know what, I like what Donald Trump did, but I don't like what we had to put up with. Yeah, and that and that's what he's doing. But we also see the story in the Hill today that Ron DeSantis is recalibrating his campaign. But that, of course, called Rove on One Nation, which aired Saturday night at eight o'clock.

I love the insight and analysis. Even though Donald Trump has personally attacked him, he has no problem complimenting Trump when he feels the time is right. Dan in New Jersey. Hey, Dan. Hey, Brian, thanks for taking my call.

I love your show. Thanks so much. Couple of things. Number one, I don't believe Trump's electable going forward. He is a bulldozer.

only concerned about himself. destroying everyone in the party. Think about when you think about Rubio now. You think of little Marco. What if he doesn't win the Senate or the House?

And he happens to win the election, they'll be after him every day. It'll be just. chaos and confusion again.

So I think A lot of people like yourself are really on the Trump train. Time to get off. It's time to move on from the guy and bring somebody in. Dan, how does this policy be? Dan, I think that I've been effective in explaining that I like the guy.

I think he has so much to run on now. Just the opposite. Just say, imagine if we did what we were doing now. We wouldn't have the problem in Ukraine. We wouldn't have the problem with the Middle East.

Abraham Accords would have been complete. China wouldn't be a part of it. Bolsonaro would have got our support instead of worked away.

So we'd have, say, what's going on in South America and Central America. We were building up relations with everybody. And then with China, we were taking them on because he realized they were our enemy. Just on doing that, you'd be strong. But to go and mock Ron DeSantis, bring up these courts, physically come out with threats against Alvin Bragg, allowing everyone to distract, that's what bother me.

I don't think that means I'm on the Trump train. They're having. Uh I don't know. Uh w Ted Nugent introduce him and calls Zelensky terrible names, which is ridiculous. The guy is flat out a hero, fighting, going to Kearson on his free time on Sunday.

I'm sure he wasn't playing pickleball like most people that are judging him.

So he just because he didn't have the perfect democracy. But that's who introduced him, so that stuff I can't support, but I can support his policies. And I just don't think personally putting down Ron DeSantis works when he is so strong in the Republican Party right now. I don't think Ted Nugent ever had this type of momentum. I don't think Marco Rubio had this type of momentum.

DeSantis is different. Maybe Trump realizes that. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. I feel like a lot of people who say that they're wounded or offended by something, they were never hit by their parents.

So I think, no, it's true. Like, I know people who have never, ever hit their children, and so they don't know what pain is, really. But I think that if you don't want to hit your kids, then that's fine. Of course, that's fine. But other people should be allowed to.

Because I feel that... I think that children are like animals that don't have any natural predators left and they're just not afraid of anything.

Well, they're different than they used to be. I mean, they're naturally feral. They are. I mean it's true. We all read Lord of the Flies, right?

But what did we get out of that book? Kids are feral. They're they're right?

Okay. They have to be civilized by adults, and adults stop doing that. That I think that's the root of almost all of our problems.

So that is parenting advice from Bill Maher. He doesn't have any kids, right? Helps? No, he does not. I don't think he's still looking for.

Yeah, I don't think he's pro-kid. Sandra Smith is. Sandra, is it safe to say you're a pro-kid? Very. Right.

Sandra Smith. In between shows. She's doing her show shortly at 2 o'clock. And now she is fresh off filling in for Dana Perino. But just a little of the Bill Maher show where things seem to happen kind of interesting.

Over the weekend, we also saw the President of the United States. Also, do we have the Bill Maher? Uh commenting on We do have them commenting on this uh with Trump and being indicted. Can we hear that? Give us one moment.

We do have it. But in the meantime, Do you guys think that's a real thing because people are afraid to they call children out or discipline them, not necessarily hit that's a problem with society. Do you well is that a problem in the Sanders Smith household? Look, I think parental discipline is a huge issue right now. I think a lot of American families have moved away from implementing efficient strict with within bounds.

discipline and I'm all for Parental discipline. In fact, I have people stop me all the time and say, Your children are so well-based.

Well, you know what? I don't let them run wild. Like, we have boundaries, we have rules, and we stick to them. And children benefit from that. This is good for children in America.

It's good for children everywhere to know what the rules are, to know what the boundaries are, to know where the lines are drawn, so that when they do cross those lines, parents can say that was bad.

So, did you watch the Chris Wash rock special? I did not. One of the things he did is he says, first time my family's going to hear this. She says, I grew up poor, and But my kids grew up rich. And my kids went to these beautiful schools, these great schools.

He goes, they actually went to Portugal on spring break. And my daughter got caught with her friends in a bar. And she got suspended from school. And they were going to band together. The parents were going to band together and insist on getting him back to school.

And he said, I drove to the house because they were separated. I guess they're divorced. And he saw his daughter laughing on the lawn. He said, Why aren't you in school? You suspended her.

He goes, I don't know. I know I'm going to get back. All the parents are petitioning. We're all going to get back to school. And he said, I drove right up to the school.

I said, I want you to kick my daughter out of school. Oh. And he never told anybody. She got kicked out. She went to public school.

She goes, That kid is now a chef in France, ended up being the greatest 20-something. And they don't even know this story that I did it. But I wanted to make sure that she understood there are consequences for behavior. And a lot of times, he goes, We're heading down a path of not understanding that. I grew up in a house full of rules.

I'm sure you did probably as well. I don't know why we've gotten away from that. I had a strict bedtime of 8:30. My curfew through high school. I had to be in the dorm at 8.

Oh, it was the worst when it came time to like dating boys. Wait a second. You had to be in bed? Oh, like lights out. And then obviously you can't force somebody to be asleep, but you would, if you heard your dad's footsteps coming down the hall or possibly coming up the stairs, it was like, flick that light back off and put your head back down on the pillow.

But yeah, 8:30, I was supposed to be home 8:30 all through high school. And it got to the point where all my friends knew about this curfew. It was kind of like, oh, Sandra, somebody's got to get Sandra home. Did you do the same thing with your kids? Are you going to when they get old enough?

Well, they're not old enough for that yet. Have you thought about it? I might not be that strict, but I was the sixth child in my family, so I'm sure it was just kind of like keeping head count. Like, just get everybody under one roof so I know everybody's home. Um, there was probably a little bit of that going on, because otherwise, during the day, I, you know, I was not always accounted for.

Like, my parents, you know, let me go you know, I would not free range, but I was definitely out there exploring and doing things and I wasn't under the close watch of my parents always. What about track and field? Weren't you in track? I still am. I ran six miles this week on sub-8 pace.

Can you beat me? Sub eight? I don't know. I haven't tried. But I did run this weekend, too.

What I was going to ask you is: with track, that requires so much discipline. This is what I'm going back to.

So I had those boundaries and I had those rules. I had that crazy curfew. And it was an amazing thing for me to be a college athlete and already have my body and my brain trained to get my stuff done and get in bed and how important sleep was. And I was just, you know, I don't want to give my parents too much credit because they're not perfect, but it was a good thing. And it probably made me a better athlete and everything.

Right.

I want you to hear just a little bit more on the Bill Maher show. He said this about what's going on in politics now. I just would like to go on record of saying I think this is a colossal mistake if they bring these charges. Not this one. You know, I mean, yes, he's done a lot of bad things, and I'm sure he did this.

Everything they accuse him of done, he did. First of all, it's not going to work. It's going to be rocket fuel for his 2024 campaign. And it's just going to look to MAGA. Nation, like, oh, you know, you tried with Mueller, you tried with Ukraine, you tried with January 6, now we go to the porn star.

Really, you're down to that? Do you know that that's a conversation? I I I had that nonstop over the weekend. Really, this from seventeen years ago charged six years ago? I mean, really?

That's where things are, you know, and and and to be honest with you, this it's it's Like with the case of Alvin Bragg, it really takes away from the horrific things that are happening right now, these soft-down crime policies. Yes, cities that are just an absolute disaster. Like, who's really at fault for doing something really bad here? I mean, Alvin Bragg needs to be held accountable for what is happening. And I think it takes the light off of that and the focus off of that.

I think that's a big problem. Do you remember the bordega owner that stuck up for himself? We see it on video. And he tried to, he put that guy in jail. That's the only guy he sees in jail.

It's justice turned on its head. Trey Gowdy waited in last night, cut five. I think our justice system is at a really, really dangerous point. I mean, anyone who doesn't think we can find a red state prosecutor or attorney general to go after a Democrat, the justice system, she wears a blindfold for a reason, Janet. She's not supposed to care about your political orthodoxy or your race or your gender.

This is by far the weakest of the cases upon which President Trump is under investigation. By far, it's factually weak, it's legally weak, you've got statute limitations problems, you got witness credibility problems, and yet for political expediency, Alvin Bragg has finally found a crime he thinks it's worth pursuing. And that was it. I mean, that's just it. He doesn't pursue anything.

He doesn't do anything. And now we'll find out what's going on. Do you think we're going to find out something today? No. Because doesn't the grand jury come in today around when your show starts?

We haven't gotten any sense that we will. I don't know. We're always ready in the afternoon hours for that. But isn't it Jonathan Turley or Andy McCarthy? I mean, they've resurrected this case from the dead.

I and you know I I don't know what the appetite is for all this. I don't know who wins politically, who doesn't. I think that's the debate happening right now, whether this would ultimately boost Trump heading into 2024 or work against him. I think the consensus is that it would actually work in his favor. But that's it just It just feels like, why are we in this moment?

I mean, I just came off of the Varney set, and I'm thinking, like, we could be in the middle of a financial meltdown. The banking system could be collapsing. Goldman Sachs is predicting recession this year. I mean, we've got some really serious problems on our plate that I hope, Brian, when it comes to the 2024 discussion, we get back to focusing on getting people back to work, improving the economy, getting kids reading and writing again. I mean, we've got some really, really serious stuff to deal with, including immigration and crime in this country.

And anything that takes the focus off those key issues for Americans, I think hurts us.

So we understand that the CBS had a poll. Only 15% of the country have confidence in the Fed's ability to manage this crisis. 34% say some and 37% said absolutely none.

So that's pretty significant.

So a lot of people also are saying Janet Yellen's got to go, that she can't communicate, didn't get ahead of us, and no one's forgiving her for predicting first that the inflation. Would be transitory. I love how everybody's now throwing, you know, Fed Chair Jay Powell under the bus. Everybody. Elizabeth Warren.

He's off with his head. Elizabeth Warren, well, two weeks ago. Janet yelling. And really. Why are we here?

This was really bad economic policy implemented by the Biden administration. Let's be clear. And I keep saying on my show, people need to understand that. We have economists after economists who comes on and continues to point out we didn't need to be here. We were not acknowledging inflation when it was rearing its ugly head.

Then, when it was, the administration was downplaying it or ignoring it. And then, when it really, really got bad, they said, oh, the Federal Reserve has got to take care of this. And if they don't take care of this, they're not getting it right. Jay Powell's not getting it right. I mean, we need to acknowledge the horrible economic policies that have put us in this position to then say to the Federal Reserve, tame this record high, unprecedented level of inflation caused by big government spending.

And we need to learn the lessons of these huge mistakes that we've made as a country. I think so, too, because you look at the interest rates are now getting that they're like almost the size of our GDP, how much we're paying for all the debt that we have, and we'll see where this goes. The other thing that they could unify the country is just admitting that China is our enemy in every way. That'd help. That's be a start.

Right.

Schools, to grants, to what they're doing in all parts of the world, get our State Department out of the office and get into these countries and start pushing back. Yeah. And you think about the enormous amount of trade that we continue to do with China while not pushing for more manufacturing here at home. That's lining their pockets. That's building their military every single day.

They're educating their kids. We're struggling to meet reading and writing at grade level in this country in so many ways. We're failing our children.

So a very good start would be, how can we start to manufacture some of these products here at home so that we are not. leaning on China to the degree we are today, but First and foremost, let's not grow our dependency on China. I worry about that every single day. And when it comes to this energy, our energy policies here in America, why do we continue to think it's a good thing to rely on other countries for our energy needs when we have them right here at home? I had the CEO of Ford on, and he said, you know, he gets his incentives to build the electric car and they build a brand new planet, get it in Tennessee.

He's excited about it. Look at it behind me, fantastic. But when it comes to electric cars, he said it's a brand new animal. We got to just start from ground zero. All right, fine.

I said, well, what's the problem? And I knew the problem already. He said, because we can't get the rare earth. But we have it, but we don't want to mine it. Where do they find it in Minnesota that we don't want to mine it?

So now he says, the government wants us to do this, but we can't get the cobalt. We can't get the lithium. We can't get all this stuff that's needed. You know, who has it? China has it.

They'll mine anything.

So, this to me is people are going to write about this time in history and say, what is wrong with the Americans? Every time that we as a country make this. This push that we're not ready for into the electrical vehicle market. And I say not ready for because they're not popular. Bjorn Lomberg points this out in the Wall Street Journal all the time.

If people liked these cars, they would buy them. The demand's not there because they don't like them, not yet, at least. I mean, you know, you've got some people who are into them, but they're extremely expensive. But that being said, the lithium batters and the demand from China, we're still getting 70, 75% of all the lithium that goes into those batteries, into those cars, we're getting from China.

So every time we make that push, we are leaning on China more and more. And I'll drop this nugget on you. I gave this to you. And not on oil and gas, which we have. Exactly.

I gave this one to Larry Kudlow the other day. I was like, have you seen this? I was digging through the Energy Information Agency's website.

So this is the Biden Energy Agency.

Okay. They made a prediction. It's buried in their website that I had not seen, I hadn't seen it written up. Biden's own energy agency. Is predicting that EVs, electric vehicles, will be a mere 10% of the American car market by the year.

2050. Think about that. You kidding? Think about that. The way they make it sound will be like eighty percent next year.

No, we're just not there yet. It goes back to his point where we need to innovate to get us there, not spend money to get us there, and inflict bans on people on gas cars in California. What about a true leader that would just say, Listen, I'm going to go electric cars, and here's why, got it. Clean this 18 to 25-year-olds. You understand what we're doing for the environment?

Yes, that means we're going to have to do strip mining in Minnesota, we're going to do strip mining in Nevada. We have no choice. We need to have control of it. Or let's do some video of the Congo where eight-year-olds are climbing through the dirt with hand shovels in order to retrieve it for us. That's really happening.

Yeah, for our iPhones.

So you can't have it both ways. Not only that, our energy secretary, Jen Granholm, just last week. Praising China twice. Praising China. Doubled down for their green push.

Yes. If you walk through China, you need a machete to walk through the cities because how thick the atmosphere is.

Okay, one other thing on that note, though, this was probably my favorite story of the past week or two: is Gavin Newsom out in California. Is now spending seven million dollars to come up with a price-gouging commission. He's going to staff an office that is going to go after those monster price gougers out there. The big oil companies. Let me just tell you, there has been.

So many at the state, the locals, the state, the federal level, there have been investigation after investigation, calls by Democrats to investigate, find those price gougers, hold them accountable. Not one lawsuit has resulted. Not one arrest? Because that would be illegal activity, mind you.

Okay? Never have they found anything. But Gavin Newsom says he's going to go spend taxpayer money on putting together a little office and they're going to go find those price gougers. He's such a disaster. Is everything wrong with politics?

Sandra Smith will tell us exclusively what's on her other show, her show, America Reports, in just a moment. You'll listen to the Brian Kilman show. Educating, entertaining, enlightening. You're with Brian Kilmead. Breaking news, unique opinions.

Hear it all on the Brian Kill Meet Show. When I go on tour, I always do book signings, so I get to meet a lot of people. And you meet people in a way you, and you can ask questions in a way you wouldn't ask someone in the grocery store or whatever. You can ask whatever you want. But I'm always surprised.

I meet a teenager and I say, what job, you have to have an after-school job? And the parent always, this is Atticus' time to be Atticus. Like that's why you you know, you go to McDonalds, you go to these places now and there's there's nobody working there. It's because people aren't sending their kids out to work anymore. How do you feel about that, Sandra Smith?

I'm laughing because I think all of us can picture someone in our life, whether it's a family member, a friend of a friend, or whatever it is. And there is this entitlement thing going on. And parents are part of the problem, too, right? They think they want the best for their child and they think the best is, oh, go take a few years. Travel the world.

Well, I have news for you. Travel the world, come home. And there's going to be a major gap between somebody who went and started their career right away versus somebody who. What about the 16-year-olds that the sophomore in high school that's not working?

Well, I mean, do you think I don't know? I don't, I'm not so harsh on that. Do you need to work when you're a sophomore in high school? Oh, yeah. I was working since.

Eighth grade? See, so there's a theory on this. I did too, and I was very skeptical of kids not going out to get jobs at that age. I know there's been a big transition away from that, but there's huge pressure on that age group. And you're probably way more familiar with this than I am, having kids that have gone into college and everything.

But there's huge pressure on them to rack up so much community service and do so many activities all to dress up their college application process that sometimes I think parents are fearful of having them walk. I think charity stuff and doing that and bolstering the resume, that's also like work. I don't think it's necessarily the money, it's just the experience you get working under people. Hands down, I completely agree. I was at a dry cleaner, I was babysitting, I was answering phones, I took any job I could.

Right, and then you started getting criticism because you know, your crazy manager in your supermarket is not so, you know, when you're 25 and you see another crazy supervisor, you're like, okay, you remind me of, I dealt with you when I was a teenager. Yeah. But that's one thing's cool. Who's on your show? Mike Waltz is coming up.

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