China rages as Taiwan President meets with bipartisan congressional delegation

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We have a lot to discuss today, a lot of things going on. Not as crazy as earlier the week when the President of the United States, the former President of the United States, was brought to Midtown Manhattan, but we have a lot going on. Andy McCarthy is standing by to break down some of the political, some of the legal cases facing the former president, what has happened since we've, I haven't spoken to Andy since we've gotten the indictment. I did read his column in the New York Post today pretty thorough. And Josh Rogan at the bottom of the yard of the Washington Post, we have Taiwan's president here, first in New York, then over in California.

Then we got a delegation over in Taiwan.

So a lot going on today. Josh Rogan is one of this nation's premier experts when it comes to what's happening with China. He wrote Chaos Under Heaven.

So let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. And you have San Francisco, and you have in Washington, D.C., we have a woman from Virginia who is murdered. And you have, frankly, a sloppy and incompetent district attorney in New York that is downgrading 52% of felonies. Yeah, doing a great job, isn't he?

That is the former running mate of Lee Zeldon, Inspector Allison Esposito of the NYPD. Crime and no punishment is causing great pain to major cities, and so far voters don't seem to care. Look what just happened in Chicago. Number two. The problem they've got is normal everyday Americans.

Sit down at the kitchen table, they look at their family budget, they look at the cost of gasoline, they look at the disaster on the border. None of those things fit. what the Democrats wish they were focused on. True. Same with me.

2024, Kennedy is about to challenge an incumbent Democratic president. Not Ted going after Jimmy. How about Robert looking to KO Joe?

Meanwhile, Newsom quietly heads to Florida. Governor DeSantis goes to Michigan. Let the undeclared candidate campaigning begin. Number one. We had a very productive discussion with the President of Taiwan today.

It's clear. But there are several actions are necessary. We must continue the arms sales to Taiwan and make sure such sales reach Taiwan. That is Kevin McCarthy. Masterful meetings with the bipartisan delegation in Taiwan as Taiwanese leadership's in California.

Does this move us closer to war with China? Why won't the Biden administration itself even offer any insight or their thoughts about these delegations and about the Taiwanese president? Andrew McCarthy joined us now, Fox News contributor, former assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and best-selling author. Andy, welcome back.

I have not talked to you since the indictment. You did write a pretty thorough column that was reprinted in the New York Post and also in the National Review. People have a a Did Alvin Bragg impress you with what he released? No, actually, Brian, I think it turned out to be weaker. than we anticipated.

There was a lot of commentary that backed us up. A bit because people kept saying, you know, look, no matter what the leaks are, no matter how reliable the reporting seems to be, and remember, these are. we were going on reports From places like the New York Times that have great sources in Gregg's office and Trump's own lawyers who've been talking to people in Bragg's office for years about this investigation. But it was fair enough to say we hadn't seen it yet. And we didn't, of course, until a couple of days ago in the afternoon.

But I think when we did see it, it turned out to be even weaker. Uh then we anticipated that it was going to be. And it's a very I think it's a case that has a lot of problems. How much Once this all plays out, including the other investigations, how much that will all mean in the long run remains to be seen. Um but it's a weak case.

To say, here's Cash Patel on what he saw and how he assesses it. You know, he's a close aide to the former president, Cut36. And let's remove Donald Trump from the specter of this for just a second to put it in perspective. If the crime that Alvin Bragg has brought about taking money and ledger payments for a federally elected official and connecting it to a purported felony is true and accurate, then every federally elected official in the United States Congress is subjected to that same investigation for taking their staff out to lunch, getting a limo, having a nice haircut, because all of the work they do there is for the purposes of reelection.

So he's saying retroactively you interfered with the election process of the United States of America.

Well, Are the Attorney Generals across America going to prosecute every member of Congress? What do you think?

Well, you know, look, cash has a point and I don't think it's just uh It's just in terms of um You know, expenditures like taking your staff out to lunch, the theory of Bragg's case. is that anything a politician does Two. Airbrush. bad information that might be out there um i is um It is basically can be reformulated into an in-kind campaign. Yeah.

contribution. And I in my um In my time on here on the planet Earth, which is longer than I'd like to admit to, I've seen a lot of politicians trying to minimize negative information.

So I I imagine that if that's the Pandora's box we're opening, it's gonna be quite the the Pandora's box. But I think in truth, The intention here is that this is a set of rules for one particular defendant, and they don't think it's going to apply to anyone else. But, you know, those are famous last words, right? You don't do politics, but it has fortified him. There's no question because everything that he's been saying about a Trumped-up charge is turning out to be correct, especially in this case, which might have other people taking a different view of the next cases, which some say are more serious.

But, Andy, you just point out to Alvin Bragg, get a calendar. What are you talking about? When were these payments made? When was this done? When was the election, right?

Yeah. You know, it's one thing, Brian, to have The indictment fail as an indictment. And by that I mean it doesn't state a crime. He fails to put Trump on notice of what crime he contends Trump was concealing by supposedly cooking his books, you know, falsifying Records, which is the misdemeanor in New York. But I think the The more con you know, the more obvious conceptual flaw here is.

That Bragg's theory of the case is that Trump stole the 2016 election by fraud. That's what he lays out in his statement of facts. Um but then he charges a bunch of crimes that start four months after the election.

So no matter what you think of the way Trump kept his books, It's inconceivable that bookkeeping entries that occurred in twenty seventeen can cause a fraud in connection with an election that happened Months earlier.

So it doesn't, you know, it doesn't even make conceptual sense. The thing is, The only thing that Bragg can prove That happened before the election that he says Trump stole by fraud are these non-disclosure agreements. That's what got Bragg upset. But the thing is, Nondisclosure agreements are legal. They're a staple of civil litigation and civil settlements in the United States.

So, you know, he's upset that he can't. charge those as crimes So he's basically trying to put them down as kind of a marker. Uh and then You know, he brings these cases which are kind of post-dated, these charges that he's bringing. But the thing won't hang together factually because you can't. You can't cause a fraud in twenty sixteen by taking deceptive measures in twenty seventeen.

So You have a situation Where there really is no victim, it seems. The banks aren't mad at him. No contractors are suing him. No accountant is accusing him. There was no tax violations, I didn't think, because until they demanded his taxes, there's no charge against it.

There were audits, and counties were handling it.

So the question is: who gets hurt? Stormy Daniels? She got money and she had no undisclosure payment.

So she has spoken. I have not heard the clips yet. I've only heard one. But she came out and spoke to Uh Pierce Morgan. And here's what she said about testifying Cut 29.

You weren't asked to give evidence to the grand jury. But you may be asked to testify if this ends up as a as a trial. How do you feel about potentially testifying in a a trial that will be watched around the world? Um I mean any time you're Up in the public eye. It's scary.

I mean, I used to get scared giving an oral book report in school.

So, I mean, it's daunting. But I look forward to it. You know what I mean? I have nothing to hide. I'm the only one that has been telling the truth.

And You know, we can't Shame me and you for more. I feel like if they don't, it paints the picture that They know something about me that makes me you know, untrustworthy or not reliable.

So if Andy Stormy Daniel's going to be asked to take the stand? Depends on how much of a clown show they want to turn this into because she's really an irrelevant witness. Brian, it's, you know, given that what people are always interested in are the salacious details of this whole thing, there's great anticipation about whether she would testify. But the thing is, this is a records case. It's a business records case.

The issue before the jury is not going to be to resolve whether Trump actually had a fling with a porn star or not. There's no doubt that there was a non-disclosure agreement because there's a document. There's no doubt that Cohen paid $130,000 and that Trump paid him back. And the issue in the case is how they booked the payments.

So She's not really relevant, which is exactly why she didn't testify in the grand jury. She wasn't necessary to Brad putting the case together.

So I personally, Brian, I don't think this case is going to get to trial. And I also think that by the time we cross that bridge, there's going to be developments in these other investigations that make this seem um subordinate in our Concerns. I mean, it's the big thing now, right? Because it's what's right in front of us, but. I think if we come back like maybe even six weeks from now, we'll we may be wondering what all the fuss was about.

Right. Uh do you think this case at all helps the other two? Could there be some coordination? Could there be a reason why he handed in an incomplete indictment? No, I don't think this can only hurt the other cases because I think.

The other cases are stronger, and this is not only weak, it's like obviously partisan, so it plays into Trump's defense. Where he'd like to link all of the different cases together as one big. partisan leveraging of law enforcement uh powers to take out the Democrats' main rival, that's the way he would like to pitch it. The thing about this that I think people need to remember is that just because political motivations are in play. doesn't mean that everybody has the same political motivations.

So, the Democratic Party has one set of motivations writ large. I think they would like to. Orchestrate a situation where Trump gets the Republican nomination. And then they run against him in November because they're confident they can beat him. Bragg's motivations are not the same.

As the Democratic Party writ large, he was elected by progressives in New York promising to get Trump. And what they really care about, they don't really care, I don't think, that much. I mean, obviously they'd like to see him convicted, but what they care about more is dragging him through this process and making it as financially as human and humiliating. Yeah, you know. In two weeks, I understand, Andy, they're going to have him on a rape accusation in court.

And I understand that Letitia James eventually is going to be suing him for $220 million. Yes, well Letitia James has already sued him.

So that case is proceeding in the other state. But I heard it was put on hold. Is that not true? It's still out there, though. I mean, the case is not going to be tried anytime soon, but she's trying to get a monitor put in to take over Trump's business.

Uh in New York. And you're right about the other case, the E. Gene Carroll Lawsuit is careening toward trial. That's coming up. And Judge Kaplan in the Southern District of New York ruled that she can put in a lot of evidence about that tape that came out right before the election, the famous one.

Access Hollywood. Access Hollywood. I always forget that. I'm having so many senior moments when I talk to you. Why you've been up 24 hours a day studying this stuff?

Maybe. I don't know. But I just failed the test. I didn't know the answer.

So, but that case is coming up, and Kaplan made some rulings that there's very unsavory information about allegations from other women and that sort of stuff that are going to come out in that case. Yeah, I think what eventually Republicans are going to have to realize No matter whether you think Trump is being persecuted or that he's done a lot of this to himself, so he's got to come and however you feel about it. Do you want to have a nominee? Who there may not be any bottom to how many problems he's going to have and how much baggage and how much it accumulates and how unpredictable he is.

So that's the issue, really.

Well, if you want to run against him, if you're Nikki Haley or Governor DeSantis or Vivek Ramaswamy, real quick, what's the timing on Georgia? Is it all up to the DA right now? Because the grand jury did their job. And what about Mar-a-Lago? Any signs at the bottom of Jack Smith's investigation?

Yes, I think the most important thing that may have happened this week, Brian, that we really haven't talked about is Smith is going to put the the Secret Service agents and the grand jury tomorrow. uh Friday. That's really a big deal. I mean, you can imagine that the Secret Service does not want they never want their agents to have to testify about what goes on with a protectee. It makes their job much more difficult.

It makes it hard to win the protectee's confidence.

So my only reason for underscoring that is People need to understand how serious Smith is about. You know, the government's doing a lot of things that it would not be doing unless it was dead serious about making a case here.

So I think that one's coming. Mar-a-Lago is the most dangerous case for Trump, and he's definitely going to indict that case. Right. Well, what? Yeah.

There's no doubt about it. And the thing is, they flipped his attorney, and that was pretty serious. They made his attorney testify against his client. Right. Well, but that also shows that, you know, the attorney is the one that provided the one of the ones who provided the false statement to the grand jury.

So the fact that they had the attorney testify means they don't think the attorney committed a crime. They think that he was just transmitting to the grand jury what Trump told him. That's what's going on there. Crazy. Andy McCarthy, thanks so much.

Appreciate it. Thanks, Brian. All right, we're going to come back, take your calls. Then, Josh Rogan at the bottom of the hour: the latest on Taiwan, China, and so much more. Don't move.

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Well, in about 10 minutes, we'll be able to talk to Josh Rogan about what's taking place. In case you do not know, China has got their three aircraft terriers, basically going around the island of Taiwan, and the surrounding islands are there. And they're also warning. And warning us, we're warning they were sending emails to Speaker McCarthy and others not to meet with the President as she transited through. As she transmitted through the country, she was in New York, she was in Washington, and now she's in California.

They said things very typical. But they're really lobbying hard. I have no idea why China needs Taiwan now. They go to Argentina, who had recognized Taiwan, and they said, flip it. And we'll give you a good economic deal.

And they did.

So they no longer have technical relations with Taiwan. But if you want to get chips, you want to be part of a democracy, you want to trade with a company that delivers, a country that delivers, it's Taiwan.

So, China's the one having big-time problems. Taiwan was the one to first recover. And for a national security reason, you know, we cannot allow Taiwan to go down. If they go down, China will be the only other place we can get chips from, and they will absorb our number one provider, and that is Taiwan. Chips on everything we do, on maybe the phone you're listening to me on, or the iPad you're watching me on.

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Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. But once again, and I know a lot of viewers don't want to hear this. Our listeners don't want to hear this, but I would offer that we still need to find some common ground because here's why. If we continue to push China away, where will China go?

They will build this alliance with Russia and they will strengthen it. They did it. Right. So our goal should be to separate China from Russia. And the way you do that is, once again, you hold them accountable, but you also have to find some common ground.

Find common ground in trade, find common ground in climate, find common ground somewhere where we can engage with them so that if we do have a dust up in the South China Sea, all of a sudden it doesn't escalate into war. And then by building a little bit of this contentious relationship, we can start to separate them from their buddies there in Russia. That's Admiral Craven, and he has a brand new book out. You'll love it. We did a complete hour with him, and we were talking about China and engaging.

Yeah, good luck with that. We talk more with Russia, believe it or not, than we do with China. And it takes two to do that. That's not the reality we're living in right now, though. Josh Rogan, author of Chaos Under Heaven, Washington Post columnist.

He joins us now. Josh, uh it doesn't seem like China and the US have much common ground these days. Right. Now, all due respect to Admiral McRaven, and thank you, Admiral McRaven, for your decades of service. But yeah, no, I think he's totally wrong about this.

It's kind of crazy to look at the U.S.-China relationship and say, oh, yeah, there's a lot of room for cooperation, because, of course, that's exactly what we've been trying to do for 45 years, Brian. And how's it working out? And, you know, the Biden administration tried to engage China on climate change, but they wouldn't do it. They don't care about it. They're building coal plants three times as fast as the rest of the world combined, using forced labor and dirty coal.

It's just insane to think that we can peel Russia off China because they're thick as thieves, because they're both thieves. And they're. Main thing that unites them is their opposition to us. They're united by their desire to topple us off of our perch as the most powerful, most influential nation in the world. And that is.

If they succeed, it would be bad not just for us, but for the entire world.

So, no, I mean, I think while, of course, we want to have good relations with China, we should leave the door open. We got to admit that they're not walking through it. That's just the reality. What's your reaction to the Taiwanese president coming here, transiting in New York, D.C., and now in California? Here's Kevin McCarthy yesterday, cut one.

We had a very productive discussion. With the President of Taiwan today. We covered the crucial ways to further our bonds. Based on our conversations, it's clear. that there are several actions are necessary.

First, We must continue the arm cells to Taiwan and make sure such cells reach Taiwan. on a very timely basis. Second. We must strengthen our economic cooperation. particularly with trade and technology.

All right, of number one they ordered I think thirty million. $30 million worth of arms we have not delivered yet. Right. There you know, I I spoke with Speaker McCarthy uh last night after the meeting actually, and and uh you know, what came through from to me was that how bipartisan this was. You know, there there were there were You know, Democrats, Republicans, progressives, conservatives.

Love it. They're all on Taiwan's side. There's a good reason because the American people are on Taiwan's side because the Taiwan story is compelling, Brian. This is a small democracy full of Chinese people. It proves that China can have a democracy, and that's why the Chinese Communist Party hates it so much.

And so everyone agrees that we got to support Taiwan, but then how come it's not happening? How come the arms are not flowing the way that they should? How come we can't seem to get them a trade deal or an investment deal or to save all of their diplomatic allies from going over to switching to the Chinese side? And it's just this whole sort of Washington dysfunction. We're good at the rhetoric, but we're bad at the actual implementation of the policy.

And that's why I think size is really important, actually, because it reminds everyone here in America that we have a role to play to keep Taiwan free. And if we don't do it, nobody will.

So here's the thing that's missing. You got Democrats, you got Republicans, you got senators, you have House members, minority, majority. But what about the President of the United States? States. Here's the question that was put to Corine Jean-Pierre, cut eight.

On the Taiwan President visit, if China tries to take over Taiwan, is President Biden still committed to putting U.S. boosts on the ground in Taiwan? We've answered this question multiple times. I don't have anything else to share. Jesus.

Yeah, nothing. What does that mean? 'Cause President Biden said four times that we would come to Taiwan's defense.

Now, Americans don't want to send uh, you know, US troops into Taiwan, but they do want to help the Taiwanese.

So, what does that mean?

Something like Ukraine, right? A big money and weapons operation. And yeah, you know, that's a that's a real thing. But the White House Won't say that because they don't want to disrupt U.S.-China relations, which, if you haven't noticed already, couldn't really get any worse. I mean, they won't even pick up the phone.

So, you have this weird situation where the White House is bending over backwards to try to preserve some sort of relationship with Beijing, like Admiral McRaven really wants them to do, right? It sounds so nice when you say it, but they won't, it's not working. And it ends up in us censoring ourselves. It ends up making President Tsai do ridiculous things like calling a transit stop instead of a visit, as if that makes a difference. I went to this event with Tsai at the Hudson Institute in New York last week.

I was there, I was in the room, and she can't even say the word China. She can't even put her do a press interview because everyone's worried about offending the delicate sensibilities of a genocidal. Uh, regime. And that's the bizarre, you know, trap that they want us in. They want the Beijing wants us to self-censor so that we don't, you know.

Make them angry, but then it's all about them and not about the actual mission at hand, which is making sure this small country of Taiwan, which is full of wonderful people who all they want to do is just live their lives and have jobs and vote for their leaders and love who they want and pray to who they want and say what they want. And Beijing is standing over them with a gun to their head saying, No, you can't do that. And that's about as fundamental as it gets, Brian. That's about as basic as freedom can be described.

So the other mission they have, and we discussed this on television, I'm talking to Josh Rogan, is their big mission to get everybody off the dollar and onto the yuan, their currency. You said basically good luck with that, but it looks like Russia's sign on to that. France might be open to it. Saudi Arabia, clearly Iran, you know, some of their evil friends. Right.

I mean, it's kind of on the one hand, it's ridiculous because there's no sane businessman who would look at the U.S. dollar and look at the Chinese yuan or the Russian ruble and be like, oh, yeah, my money is safer. My wealth is more secure in the Russian ruble or the Chinese yuan. That's an insane thing to think, right?

So the only rational reason that people like Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, are doing this is because they want to cozy up to Beijing and piss off the Biden administration, right?

So it's not really about the economics, which no matter what you want to say about sanctions and U.S. dollar, it's still by far the safest place to put any stored wealth over any other currency and will be for, that's my point, for a generation.

So the rest of it is just politics and diplomacy. And I think what we see is that the Saudis are cozying up to our enemies and screwing with us. And that the French President Macron is doing something a little different. He's playing footsie with the Chinese. He's saying, oh, I'm going to be the one European who's a little bit nicer to you in the hope that he'll get some treats, a pat on the head, and some economics.

economic rewards and he just might.

So yes, I'm just very curious to see what do you think of Macron going over to China? You know, they've had rough relations too. The European Union, extremely valuable market to them. He also wants them to play a constructive role and talk some sense into Vladimir Putin. What do you think about this?

Right. I mean, one of my colleagues said to me yesterday, put it this way: like, the French practice realism, but they always do it in the stupidest possible way. You know, it's like, you know, he thinks that he's going to be the broker of, you know, make some sort of grand bargain with the Chinese to solve Ukraine and avoid Cold War III. But it's not realistic because nobody really cares what Macron thinks. And he's a marginal figure in the overall great game.

But, you know, it's a problem for us because we're trying to get Europe on board with this thing. And to confirm, you know, now the Europeans realize that Russia is a threat, but they don't still. Realize fully that China's a threat and they're all playing their own games.

So it's part of this effort to confront the China challenges to get our allies on the same page. And I don't think we should stop them from going to Beijing. I don't think that's. That you know, that we need to cut off relations with China, quite the opposite. I'm just saying that maybe we should coordinate this thing, and Macron is playing his own game for his own purposes.

Right. And the thing is, if you're the president of the United States, Josh, there's an argument to be made: excuse me, Emmanuel, we're friends. Can you get on the phone? Pick up the phone. What are you doing?

And you don't have to talk him out of it, but you could make yourself on the same page. Do me a favor, tell me this is my approach, this is what I'm thinking, this is what I'm worried about, this is what our intelligence says. And you don't have to sit there and be shunned. You could actually get on the offensive. It doesn't seem like our State Department's doing their job and the administration's aggressive enough.

What about Japan buying Russian oil in violation of the sanctions? Yeah, this is a tough one because Japan h I you know, I interviewed Japanese Prime Minister Kishida in January and uh you know they doubled their defense budget because not because of Washington group think because they're worried about China and Russia. They they help Ukraine. They're the most pro-Ukraine country uh in the w in the In Asia. But at the same time, it's pretty clear that our sanctions regime is breaking down.

And, you know, the Russian economy is fine. All the oil is just going to other countries who are buying it on the cheap. And, you know, the Saudis are really screwing us by cutting supply at the worst possible moment to help Putin. And the Japanese are in the middle. They're like, oh, are we going to be the only schmucks?

You know?

So I get that there's cheating, but in the grand scheme of things, Japan is the one country that has been the most anti-Putin and the most Ukraine.

So we should just keep that in mind. Yeah, I mean if we can't convince Japan Who just sent somebody to meet with Zelensky? I think it was their president. I mean, if we've now decided to double their defense. And they know Russia is all part of this evil alliance.

We can't convince them. Plus, we are capable of producing more oil.

So, I mean, we might be able to help some people if we ever decided to stop making windmills. For example, let me tell you. Let me tell you yeah, you're exactly right, Brian, but let me tell you some inside scoops.

So, you know, one thing I heard when I was in Tokyo is that we don't have to produce more oil. We produce tons of LNG, okay? The Japanese want LNG, but we won't give them LNG. Why? Because there's half of the Biden White House doesn't want to do it, right?

John Kerry looks at that and he says, Oh, that's just going to increase our dependence on fossil fuels. They don't even want to use LNG as a transition.

So the Japanese look at that and they're like, Okay, you're telling us not to buy Russian oil and Iranian oil, by the way, and you won't even give us the LNG that you already have.

So that's the dysfunction of having a nuts. Can I just say we all know it burns clean, and that has more to do with the lessen in carbon, our carbon footprint over the last twenty years? Is the fracking the miracle of fracking and what we were able to discover? Yeah, I mean, uh, even if you only think that L N G is a transitional fuel, it's still pretty clear that we need it right now and we need and and we've decided to use energy and oil as a as a diplomatic weapon, right? That's how we're fighting the Russians.

We're trying to to screw the the energy markets. And We're not using our biggest tool, which is our biggest, newest source of energy, to do it. Look at the Europeans, right? Where, you know, somebody bombed the pipeline, they need gas too, but we still haven't built the infrastructure to make that happen.

So, you know, you don't have to be pro-fossil fuels to realize that energy is part of strategy. And we're doing it in a half-assed way, and that's the worst of all worlds. I can't argue. In terms of actual confrontation, I was able to speak to uh To Admiral McCraven and General Keene about this. Here's what McCraven said.

And the bottom line is they could overwhelm our aircraft carriers with the just volume of rockets and missiles that they have. Let's listen. This is the biggest concern: is our hypersonic weapons. Can their weapons reach us before, frankly, we can reach them? But again, the Navy understands this, Brian.

This is not something that all of a sudden the Navy woke up and went, oh my gosh, we are threatened from surface-to-surface missiles from the shore, from other ships. But we haven't solved it.

Well, the Navy is not going to tell you whether they've solved it or not.

So, yeah, you can do tabletop exercises and you can look at Missile X can get to our ship before we can stop Missile X, or do we have technology that, in fact, is counter-missile technology that will work? Huh. I'll tell you, they haven't solved it. It is not solved. And, you know, while we were sort of sleeping, the Chinese.

Leapfrogged us on hypersonics, and now they can, they've made all of our aircraft carriers into sitting ducks. There's no way around that cold, hard reality. But you know, when you're again, all you know, thank you, Admiral McRaven, for your service. You know, when you're in that position of being a Navy admiral, if you know, because all you have is hammers, every problem looks like a nail. And the truth is that hypersonic missiles hitting aircraft carriers is really not the most likely thing that's going to happen in Taiwan.

That's not the scenario that's one of the scenarios, but it's not the only one for sure, and it's definitely not the most likely one. And again, let me just quote President Tsai, who I heard from in New York last week and she said, The military thing, that's yeah, we have to prepare for that. But the fight is now and it's going on in the information space and in cyber warfare and in propaganda and cognitive warfare and, you know, social media and all of that stuff and political interference and the, you know, what the Chinese Chinese don't want to fight a war. They're they're going to do it as a last resort. What they'd rather do is to coerce Taiwan to submit to them without a war.

And that's the thing that we don't have tools for. That's the thing that Admiral McRibbin never commanded, was like a political influence operations response. We don't do that, but we need to, because that's what the Chinese are doing to subjugate the Taiwanese. And yeah, sure, the hypersonics is a problem, but this is a problem too, and this is actually a more urgent one. Have you heard a good explanation of why we have not given them the weapons they paid for?

Well, one explanation is that a lot of them went to Ukraine, so there's a huge backlog. Another explanation is that there's disagreements actually between Washington and Taipei on defensive priorities and spending, and we want them to do certain things, and they don't want to do it, and they've got their own domestic politics. And the third explanation is that, you know, we're just not serious about this thing. And, you know, we talk a big game, and I'm talking about Democrats, Republicans, the media, you know, the administration, all the administration. I'm talking about as a town, Washington, and as a society, we haven't put Taiwan as a priority.

And we better start doing that right now because the lesson from Ukraine should have been that we need to stop the war, you need to do more before the attack. When I talked to President Zielinski, I talked to him and I said, what would you say to the people of Taiwan? He said, I would tell them, prepare before the attack. Once the attack happens, it's too late. And we seem to be repeating that mistake, and that's a tragedy.

It is, and it's so preventable. Josh Rogan, thanks so much. Always great. Appreciate it. Anytime.

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And a lot of news. I mean, for one thing, I was wrong. I did not realize that the Taiwanese president did not go to Washington. I just thought the Taiwanese president didn't go to see the president. And we shoulda.

Transiting through, evidently that happens. They want to stop us from doing that. They don't like that they're doing it. I think if I could just paraphrase what they just put out in a statement, America is going across a very dangerous path. Really?

And doing what we've always done, having the speaker, the former speaker, go visit and having the current speaker host over in California. Senators Uh in New York meet bipartisan, by the way. And now you have a You have basically China saying we're push we're pushing the envelope in the region.

So we definitely have to get a hold of this. That is the news that is more important where everyone's caught up in these court cases with the former president. This is what really matters. Let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. And you have San Francisco, and you have in Washington, D.C., we have a woman from Virginia who is murdered. And you have, frankly, a sloppy and incompetent district attorney in New York that is downgrading 52% of felonies. Yeah, that is Alice Ensposito, detective, former running mate of Lee's Elden in New York.

Crime and no punishment is causing great pain in cities like this one. And so far, voters do not seem to care. They put in these horrible politicians who put criminals first. Number two. The problem they've got is normal everyday Americans sit down at the kitchen table, they look at their family budget, they look at the cost of gasoline, they look at the disaster on the border.

None of those things fit what the Democrats wish they were focused on. But they are having success. 2024, Kennedy is about to challenge an incumbent Democratic president. Not Ted challenging Jimmy. How about Robert going to KO Joe?

Meanwhile, Newsom quietly heads to Florida and Governor DeSantis of Florida goes to Michigan. Let the undeclared candidates race begin. Number one. We had a very productive discussion with the President of Taiwan today. It's clear.

But there are several actions necessary. We must continue the armed sales to Taiwan and make sure such cells reach Taiwan. That is Kevin McCarthy. Masterful meetings with bipartisan delegations with Taiwan and their Taiwanese leadership. We have a delegation in Taiwan right now led by Michael McCall.

I love it. Does this move us closer to war? I don't know. But we can't continue to live in a crouch, and that's not going to work, especially when we have the firepower we have. With me right now is Mark Thiessen, Mark, Washington Post Columnist, Fox News contributor, best-selling author.

Mark, welcome back. Your thoughts about what they're doing on a bipartisan level here. I think it's great. And I also thought Kevin McCarthy had the best line of all when he was asked about. China's threat.

He said, Look, I'm the Speaker of the House. I'm not the general manager of the Houston Rockets. The Chinese can't tell me what to do. Yeah. It was outstanding.

Which was, as you know, the Chinese, the general manager, now general manager of the 76ers, supported Hong Kong in a retweet or a tweet, and that caused the NBA to be yanked out of the country.

So that's what you're referring to. Exactly.

Well, here's the thing. We need to stop, we need to deter China from doing in Taiwan what Russia has done in Ukraine. And this is why, quite frankly, victory in Ukraine is critical to our deterrence in China.

So think about this. If we are not willing to defend Ukraine, which is actually an internationally recognized sovereign state, China's going to look at that and say, are they really going to defend Taiwan, which isn't officially a country? And if we're not willing to spend money to defend Ukraine while the Ukrainians are doing all the fighting, China's gonna say, are the Americans really gonna send you risk the lives of US troops to defend Taiwan? Our deterrence, if we fail in Ukraine, our deterrence of China will be absolutely obliterated. And so it is just absolutely critical to what we are trying to do.

uh to to stop a war with China uh that we succeed in stopping Putin in Ukraine. Uh no question. Uh I want you to hear what El Eldridge uh Eldridge Colby said uh last night about Taiwan on the he's the Marathon Initiative Principle, Cut seventeen. Unfortunately, extremely seriously, I think the Speaker is correct, but we also need to see very clearly what's going on. I mean, we don't need to speculate.

Xi Jinping has essentially openly directed the Chinese military to be ready to invade and occupy Taiwan by 2027. They're initiating a massive nuclear buildup. They've got the world's largest industrial base and shipbuilding industry. We saw what they did after Speaker Pelosi's visit.

So unfortunately, Xi Jinping, say what you will about him, he's serious as a heart attack, and we have to take him very seriously.

So I don't know what else he plans on doing except circling the island. Do you think Taiwan takes the defense seriously? I think they do. And but here's the thing we need to realize, is that here's another difference between Ukraine and Taiwan. Ukraine has a long border with Russia, which one makes it easier to invade, but also easy to resupply.

If China were to try to invade Taiwan, we would have to try to our strategy is to stop them from succeeding in crossing the Taiwan Strait. But they could theoretically encircle the island even if they can't reach it. And that would mean we can't do what we're doing in Ukraine, which is sending weapons over the border after the fact.

So we need to look At Taiwan right now and say, if China invaded tomorrow, what would we wish we had given Taiwan to defend itself? And then give it to them now before an invasion happens. Because once an invasion, an attempted invasion happens, it's too late. We've got to start arming the right capabilities to back up our deterrence posture. And President Biden, to his credit, has said four times now that the United States military will defend Taiwan.

Four times, the White House has walked that back. Biden was right the first, second, third, and fourth time. And we need to make it clear to the Chinese, ask yourself, why did Putin invade Ukraine? Uh but not invade Poland. Because Poland is a NATO ally.

It has an Article 5 commitment, and he knows that if he invades Poland or if he invades the Baltic states, he will immediately be at war with the United States. That is what deters the war. That is what kept the peace in Europe and prevented the Soviet Union from cross-sending its troops across the Fulda gap because they knew under Article 5 we had strategic clarity that we would defend them. We need to have strategic clarity with Taiwan and make clear to the Chinese that we will that if they try it, they'll be at war with the United States. Let's talk about Russia for a second.

If you told me Russia and China were exchanging trade in oil, I knew it. They've been evil allies. Iran, same thing. I get it, evil allies. But now we have Japan buying oil from Russia.

And now, with Josh Rogan on with me last hour, Washington Post columnist, and said, Well, Japan wants natural gas. We won't give them natural gas.

So, what do you want them to do? The war on fossil fuels is undermining our efforts to prevent war in the Taiwan Strait. It's just that simple. The we need to and the other thing is we should be we have an o one of the things that the war in Ukraine has done is given us an opportunity to supplant Russia as the principal supplier of natural gas to Europe. This is a huge opportunity for the United States to to expand its exports of liquefied natural gas around the world.

So we should be supplying Japan, we should be supplying Europe, we should be supplanting the Russians. That's both economically smart for us, it creates American jobs and it also enhances our national security. Let's talk about what's happening over in Russia. We know, too, their winter offensive has failed. They are making some progress in Bakud, but they are not taking it.

They're not encircling it. They've taken tremendous losses there.

So when you look at the offensive that's expected in the spring, I think there is so much on this because Ukraine can be worn down despite how hard they're fighting. They only have a finite amount of people.

So this is going to be big for this contest, especially with an election coming and so many Republicans deciding this is not worth it. Yeah, it's remarkable to me. And I'll tell you, it's also out of touch with what the American people say.

So there's a new Harvard Caps Harris poll that came out, and I actually got the crosstabs exclusively to see what it's saying about this. Do you know that 69%, you know, Ron DeSantis has taken this sort of squishy view on Ukraine because he's afraid of this rising, you know, supposedly rising anti-isolationist sentiment on the right. Do you know how many DeSantis supporters say we should help Ukraine until Putin is defeated or forced to draw off, pull all of his forces out of Ukraine? 69%. 69%, 60% of Republicans overall believe that that should be the case.

The Republican Party is not isolationist. They're reluctant internationalists. They want to be told what's at stake for our national security. But the Republican Party wants to help the Ukrainian people. Most Republicans in the country want to help the Ukrainian people defeat the Russians.

So we've got to stop, you know, the Marjorie Taylor Greens and the Matt Gaces are a vocal minority. They're loudmouths, but they don't represent the majority of the Republican Party. We need to stand up to those people. We need to stand up to them and help the Ukrainians win. Do you think, you know, there's speculation out there, the 60 Minutes would try to feature one Republican and they feature Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Do you think it's because they want the whole party labeled as that extreme? Yeah. And their influence is disproportionate to their numbers. And there's a point. I mean, Lauren Boebert won her election by like, what, one vote in an overwhelmingly majority Republican district.

They get elected, and then the media portrays them like they're the voice of the Republican Party. They have, look, the Democrats have their crackpots. You know, they got the the the squad and all the rest of them, and we've got our crackpots. And that that happens in every political party. But you know, these people do not represent the majority of Republican voters.

They do not represent the Republican majority of elected Republicans. They're a bunch of very loudmouth, uh you know uh moron And we need to stop treating them like they are giving them power disproportionate to their actual support in the party.

So just as I as I mentioned earlier, Nikki Haley has raised about $11 million. She's got some big donors. It looks like Governor DeSantis is in Michigan today. Governor Gavin Newsom is in Florida at a university talking to a few dozen uh very friendly students perhaps. And then you have Then you have a situation where the President is going to a donors' conference and begging donors and I wouldn't say begging, I would say telling donors to abandon DeSantis.

His numbers are cratering. Where do you think this race is at right now? The indictment of Trump is a disaster, both because it's turning our country into a banana republic where the justice system is weaponized against our political opponent, but it's also serving the interests of so it's great for Donald Trump from a political perspective. It's also great for the Democrats because it makes it more likely he'll be our nominee. They've won three elections now running against Trump: the 2018 midterms, the 2020 election, and now the 2022 midterms where it was his hand-picked candidates that cost us control of the Senate.

And so they're very comfortable running against Trump. They think that that's the best. They've won three elections and they think they can win a fourth. And the polls show that the that a slight majority of Republicans want somebody other than Trump to be the nominee. But the the the the qu and and quite frankly, the majority of Democrats don't want Biden to be the nominee.

I would love to see a faith. If you put our, if you take Trump and Biden out of the race and put our bench up against their bench, they don't have a chance. We've got the A strong idea. I just can't believe that Joe Biden is just running out of gas before our eyes. Can't even do a press conference.

Can't answer a question. Has no letters. But he'll just hide in his basement, the White House basement, like he hid in his basement in Delaware and let Trump lose the election. I don't know if it'll fly. But you know what I did notice?

The President of the United States did, I thought, give a solid speech at Mar-a-Lago. Here's what Newt Gingrich said: what this all means: CUP 34. And I thought his speech last night was extraordinarily well written and well delivered. And again, it was a tone of reasonableness, a tone of talking about the accurate history of the last couple of years and just how bad the left has been.

So I think probably the left tonight is a little frustrated because uh they may begin to sink into them. They may just have guaranteed he'll be the Republican nominee. Your thoughts about his thoughts. They want him to be the nominee. I mean, I agree.

Look, look, I I think Donald Trump was a great president. I think that if if he had spent the last two years talking about his accomplishments in office instead of relitigating the 2020 election, he'd be cruising to victory. But he's made himself completely toxic to swing voters in this country. This election is going to be decided by about 200,000 people in five states. Swing voters.

And the question is: Are they more likely to vote for Trump or somebody else than the Republican ticket? And the answer is obvious. He's made himself toxic to swing voters. And so I have no ill will towards Donald Trump. I think he was a great president, but I don't want to lose a fourth election.

And if you just look at what you just described, Joe Biden, who can't put together a sentence, who's unleashed the worst inflation in 40 years, worst border crisis in American history, worst collapse in real wages in four decades. The litany of worsts under this president is unheard of in American history. He makes Jimmy Carter look like Ronald Reagan. That's more important than avenging Donald Trump. The threat that this guy poses with another four years is so high that we can't afford to risk another election on this.

And so I wish Donald Trump well. I think his place in history is secure for what he accomplished. I think it's terrible the way the left is treating him. But this is bigger than one man. It's about saving our country.

And we need to have a clear-eyed decision to pick who is the best person to defeat Joe Biden. That is the only question that should be before the eyes of Republicans right now. Right. And it's just so, he is so beatable on his record and his age. And it just, he cannot do this job.

And his wife has done, just can't even bail him out at the NCAA championship game. She screwed that up.

So good luck with you, Sarah again. Talk about like the absurdity of the equity culture on the left. Let's invite the losers to the White House. No. Yeah, and also let's invite the white team to the White House because we don't want to be stuck with just the black team.

That's what they assume. It was incredible. Mark Thiessen, thanks so much. Good to be with you, Brian. All right, 1-866-408-7669.

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Hey, we are back. Let's go out to Marty listening in Orlando WDBO. Hey, Marty. Hey uh bro, on this uh Ukraine deal with Japan, the US Biden administration green lighted that. I want to support Ukraine, but I don't understand what we're doing.

Because they're spending money we don't have, sending over military equipment that we are not replenishing for a policy that is completely misguided. But did we ask Canada, or did we open up our own spigots to help out Japan, or did we try to mend fences with Saudi Arabia? No, we're helping. by Japan buying that oil, we're helping fund Yeah, it's crazy. It's terrible diplomacy.

It doesn't mean that y that it's necessary for Ukraine to push back Russia, but what else are we doing? It d it demands more than just here, take this uh take this gun and go win. I cannot believe we greenlighted that purchase. You're the first time hearing that, Japan and Russia. Why would we ever greenlight that?

We're looking to bypass our own sanctions. Why did we not pressure India to stay the hell out of Russia the best you can? I understand you need it as a hedge against China, who are enemies, but there are things you can do. But when our allies turn on the sanctions, they're really useless.

So Mari, thank you. Let's uh I don't want to squeeze in another call because I got uh I got uh Burgess Owens uh just around the bend. And then at 45, I will come back with your calls. I got a lot of calls out of Florida. You got your governor being taken on by the governor of California, who's destroyed his state.

So he thought he'd come and be the villain here in Florida, over in Florida. I mean, is this guy clueless to how bad his record is? Oil, gas prices, taxes, crime, no punishment? A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead.

China can never tell us what to do. As Speaker of the House, I'm going to meet with whoever we want to meet with, with whatever country. Look, I am not the general manager of the Houston Rockets. China is not going to intimidate us. And there's no better place to be than here at Reagan's library.

What it symbolizes, but more importantly, remember: yes, we have the three communiques with China, but we also have the six assurances with Taiwan that Ronald Reagan produced. And what we came was a very bipartisan meeting. We had Republicans and Democrats here speaking with one voice. We need to speed up our weapons sales to Taiwan. Have we learned anything what's happening around the world?

Let them defend themselves. Deter the ability of China to enter Taiwan. And that was some of the remarks from Speaker. From Speaker McCarthy yesterday, and then he went on with Laura last night. But determined, after meeting with the Taiwanese, to set up a meeting where he goes there, and that obviously drives China crazy.

They say we're moving closer and closer to war. Congressman Burgess Owens joins us now from Utah. Congressman, always great to hear from you. Brian, same here. Looking forward to chatting with you, my friends, for sure.

Yeah, I mean, what's your reaction to Republicans and Democrats coming together on this issue? I love seeing courage. I love seeing the good old American way. We stand up for who we are. We don't apologize.

We don't back down. That's the American way. I'm so thankful that we have a speaker that understands that. I was actually in Taiwan with a few of my friends, my delegate friends, congressional friends, in December. And what a remarkable, beautiful country it is.

A country that believes in freedom, that's very entrepreneurial, innovative. I had a chance to get on that 189-mile speed train they have down there and thought how good that would be for Utah, a state like Utah.

So I'm excited, first of all, that we are standing as their friends. They represent exactly what America does, and that is innovation, entrepreneurship, family, faith, all those things.

So I want to thank the speaker and for that delegation that actually showed up. But you know, Congressman, they do seem vulnerable by where they're located and their lack of weapons and maybe military readiness. Have you been. Have you had a chance to observe that or study that? Yeah, they're very vulnerable.

And unfortunately, it they make them they're more so vulnerable because of the policies of the Biden administration. As the speaker mentioned, we should be arming them. We should push forward. We've put orders through. They've been lagging behind in terms of what they need.

And unfortunately, this is the the way that the Biden administration has always worked. They're late to the party. They're always franklessly working moving towards those issues that we need to be addressing. And this these are friends of ours. We need to make sure that we are giving them the materials, the armory that they need to protect themselves.

Yeah, I hope so. They ordered it, they paid for it, they haven't gotten it.

So, one thing we learned about Ukraine, they should get it.

So, let's talk about what when you were in that country, is there a sense that that there's a an evasion looming? There's always that concern because, I mean, anybody who understands China, China is based on an ideology of evil. And this is what we have to understand. They look for vulnerability, look for the timing in which they can start to control, to take over. And unfortunately, we're at that point where we're pretty we're not showing strength here in the United States.

If there's ever time for China to take advantage of the situation, of the idea they want to take over, this will be that time.

So obviously that is a concern of theirs. And we were just there to kind of listen, to travel, to see what they're doing, and get as much information as we could, and let them know that as a Republican Party, and as I just heard from the speaker, it looks like it's bipartisan. You have other Democrats there also. In our case, it was a Republican delegation. But we wanted them to know that we are listening, we're hearing them, and we want to make sure we do everything we can to encourage the Biden administration to step up, man up, and support our friends in Taiwan.

So it was a couple of weeks ago when we saw that horrific shooting in Nashville. We have not gotten a manifesto yet from the shooter, who is, I guess, transiting from being a woman to a man. It's hard to keep up. Here's the Nashville police officer talking about what he saw, Cut 38. Yeah.

You can call it fate or god. A word. whatever you want, but Uh There I can't count on both my hands. the irregularities that put me in that position. When I arrived, I I don't know the layout of the school.

I uh Luckily deployed my uh My rifle. Uh kept walking towards the gun, the sound of gunfire. And that was Rex Engelberg took him out. And that to go to the fire. You know how much guts that takes to do that, but these guys were trained to do it.

Why haven't we heard about the reasonings behind it? Why hasn't the President visited Nashville? What's going on here?

Well, first of all, you just saw the best of Americans. That's what we do. We run toward. When people are running away, we run toward those first responders. And the fact he laid it to where the foundation of his strength was, and that is God.

It's so good to hear that.

Now, we have a president who's absent. And this is what's concerning me on every issue that our country needs him to man up, to stand up, to provide for our country. He is absent. Whether it be the border, whether it be inflation, whether it be China, the balloon that's doing figure eights over our military bases. We have a president that the only, I mean, you have to wonder, and at some point, Is he just, does he hate our nation?

Or is he just that incompetent that he does not think his way through anything? I can't believe that everything that's happened to us right now is on accident. You can't make these many mistakes continually and put ourselves in this position we're in right now. In terms of our children, let me say this: that should be off the plate. We should not be using our children as gambling chips, period.

We have the ability right now to protect our children. And the hard left, and understand who the hard left is, and I want my Democrat friends to understand this too. There are good people in both parties, and there's evil also hiding behind the Democratic Party. I call them cultural Marxists. These people hate our country, they hate our culture, God, family.

The free market, property, they hate it all, and they have no sense of shame.

So what they do is they leave our children vulnerable, not their children, our children vulnerable.

So every time there's an attack like this, they go directly to gun control.

Well, last year, I I I introduced a bill called Secure Our Children's Act. It's a very simple bill. It says that the the the one point four trillion dollars our American American School Act Of that, $122 billion went into the education, to educational system.

Well, 77% of that has not been spent. We have billions of dollars Have not been spent, and uh, and what this bill says very simply: uh, let there's always been our app, it's already been appropriated, it's already there in the district. Let that money and then go to making sure our children are safe, whether it be hard, uh, hard infrastructure, whether it be software, yeah, whether it be law enforcement, it doesn't matter what they want to use it, they can use it what they want to, and the states are not able to slow or slow walk the process. And all these schools got to be able to be equipped, all of them have to be equipped to take out a shooter before they get into the school and to take them down with surge capabilities. Should they get in?

Everyone, big or small, and the money's there, it's just laying there. I want to bring you to college. They did a study and they asked college students: will you discuss controversial topics on campus? 58% said no. They will not even bring it up.

You'll never know from them how they feel about anything. Doesn't that bother you?

Well, it's you have to understand again. We've been under attack for a long time. Pete has to put together a book, Battle for the American Mind. I hope people read that. The cultural Marxists, this is what they do: they're cowards and they're bullies.

They find those places, the soft spots, where they can't be noticed and they do damage. In this case, there's these tinged professors, these administrators, bureaucrats in the school systems that literally not only teach hatred, but they demand that no one speaks up against it.

So, we now, and I want to thank the American people for giving us a majority in the House. It's a very close majority, but it's enough for us to be transparent. And right now, I'm the chair of the higher ed committee for education and workforce. And we now doing, we're going to be looking at things like accreditation, looking at free speech. We had a hearing this last week about free speech.

We're now looking at those things, educating American people, and we're going to start holding these colleges accountable. That's the great thing about being on the federal side with colleges. There's a federal nexus because they depend on. Funding. And it's time for us to open up this process and make sure there's a level playing field.

Those colleges that are trying to give our kids a great opportunity, they need to have the same opportunities as these woke colleges who are trying to demean, hurt, and turn our kids into activists who hate our nation. We're going to do our best now to not only expose it for now, educate America's people, but when we get the Senate and the presidency, we're going to make some major changes. It's time to disrupt this crazy, nutty educational system that's run now by Marxists. Who do you hope emerges with the Republican nomination for president? I'm going to hold off on that one, be honest with them.

I have a lot of respect for those who are coming forth right now, but I'd like to just make sure I'm hearing more about how they're going to address some of the things we're doing right now. And of course, I'm always getting feedback from my district.

So I'm holding off on that right now. We have some remarkably smart, brave folks who understand our threats. And I'm looking forward to putting that out there and competing in that process. I'd be looking forward to it. It reminds me what they said the 60s were like, where when you were on campus, you know, there was division.

When you were in the real world, there was division. When you fight in the military, there was a draft, there was division.

So this is a little bit like that same challenge. I know that's when you were coming of age, right? Yeah, can I say this, O'Brien? And I've never been, as crazy as it sounds, never been more excited than I am today. Because what's happened is Americans now are kind of waking up out of our freedom bubble we've been living in for a long time, kind of working on our dreams, our focus, and realize we're under attack.

And there's nothing more uniting for Americans when we realize we're under attack. And look back on Pearl Harbor, 9-11, the COVID. We now understand our kids are at risk. That this hard left, this evil ideology is going after the most vulnerable. In the past, I was just People are poor, now they're going as our children.

And our children, no matter how old they are, whether they be four years old, eight years old, they're trying to sexualize them. They're trying to tell us that the state owns our kids, not the parents. That the state now can tell us what books they should be reading. And now Nike and Bud Light are now taking a transsexual and making their cover. That's their cover off.

It's absolutely insane. It's typical of a system in which we now have profit above patriotism. We have ideology above patriotism. And I'll tell you what, there's a reason why I've not watched the NFL game for four years, and I will not until they finally figure out a way to fire that commissioner. I'm sick and tired of these organizations that go to China, go all over the place to make their money and turn their backs on our nation.

And that's what's happened.

So we just understand, keep in mind, remember Nike, remember Bush, remember, remember NFL as we start to get more information about what the NFL has been doing over the last couple of years. Remember them, and let's be principal people. Let's decide, you know what, go for it, do what they got to do, but I'm not going to support them. I'm not going to put one red penny into anything these people are doing. If we understand that, one thing about the hard left, when they started losing power and profit, they started hiding again.

They started pulling back. They started saying, I'm sorry. But we need to make sure that we. We're holding these people accountable, and the way to do that is by hitting their pockets in a big way. All right, go get them.

Congressman Burgess Owens, thanks so much. Thanks, Brian. Appreciate it, Brian. All right, you got it. 1866-408-7669.

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So, did you want to play this now? I think our listeners would enjoy it. All right, so basically, we know, according to reports, Easter's coming up. Uh Sunday. Good Friday.

One day away. Tomorrow. Yeah, then you got Holy Saturday, things kind of quiet.

So a lot of people think, also, Passover was yesterday. Correct.

So he Here is Sebastian Maniscalco talking about a good way to make this holiday better. Italians and Jews very similar. You know, people say same corporation, different division. We get along. There's an obvious, you know, thing with the religion.

I went to my first Passover dinner. That's what she's like, well, my mother's gonna have Passover.

Okay, we'll go to the dinner. 7:30, we sit down at her mother's house. I'm starving. They start passing out pamphlets, like reading material. I'm like, what's going on?

What are we doing here? What's with the... She's like, no, we read for two hours. Two hours. I said, listen, I'm Italian.

As soon as I sit at a table, I gotta have bread within 15 seconds of sitting down.

Alright? The food they start bringing out, oh God, terrible, terrible. Jews have no idea what the hell they're doing in the kitchen. These people have no cuisine. Celery, crackers.

Jam, I'm like, what is it? We're losing people. People are leaving. We need food. After breakfast, they fall apart, the Jews.

After a bagel, cream cheese, locks, where are they going? They got nothing. Has anybody ever said to you, we went to this Jewish restaurant last night? The Gefilta? Amazing!

I respect the Jews, but let's just have the Italians cater to Passover meal.

Alright. That is fantastic. Is that a new one? Is that new? It's not new.

But they posted it this week. It's a little bit longer, right? We had to edit it down because that's two and a half minutes. That is fantastic. It's so good.

So I advise everyone to go follow him on social media and you'll see it. All right, Rex, you're in Florida. Rex. Yes, sir. Good morning, sir.

I I just think you're you're kind of wrong with the Your guest, Mark Thiessen. Mark Thiessen, yes.

Well, where do you stand on Ukraine? What should we be doing? What should we be doing? Well, one thing is I'm retired military. Yep.

And I talk to military guys and They can't make their missions. The military cannot get enough people to join. Eventually, this is not going to work out well, and who's going to want to go to war with these people? They couldn't even get out of Afghanistan, correct? No, it's a disaster.

And that's what Rex, the thing that bothers me is that they're in charge. But the mission, Ukraine, but you can't just let Ukraine go because Joe Biden is president. I know, but But you got to also look down the road because, you know, I don't know. I've heard a few people talk about the draft. There's never going to be a draft again.

Not like this. But Rex, Rex, focus. Focus. It needs to be recruiting reform. You're going to see on Saturday on One Nation, hopefully you'll watch.

I'm on with Admiral McCraven. I had to tape it early. And we're rolling some of the ads to recruit people. They're embarrassing. Not one person will look at these ads and say, sign me up.

They've got to go back to a muscular beat, you know, actually attract warriors into the military. They're down on every front, and this administration does not like the military. They never did. Democrats don't like the military. Not all of them, for the most part.

What Republicans try to do when the budget is to get money for the military, which is crazy. It should be money for our country. And then each party pulls for what they want. Why Republicans have to go back for the military and Democrats don't is crazy. He wants to underfund it again below inflation, but it doesn't mean you don't help Ukraine.

It doesn't mean that if Russia takes Ukraine, they're not going to take Moldova next, start taking the Baltics back right away. They're already starting to absorb Belarus. They already infiltrated the Moldovan elections. They got to be stopped here. But I understand your frustration.

With this administration as a And the slow walking of weapon system that they eventually first say no to, that they eventually. Green light. And you wonder how many more people would be alive. Hell, if they actually got everything on time and the weapons they need. But I understand too there's a legitimate concern about replenishing our coffers.

Let's do it.

Well, it's getting other weapon system. Let's make sure about it. Let's get Taiwan what they need. And if they don't, I'd like to hear why they don't have it already. Don't forget One Nation, 8 o'clock Eastern Time on Saturday.

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A lot going on. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, it's Brian Kilmeet. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kilmeat Show.

So glad you're here. One of the deepest thinkers and great war fighters in Congress, Dan Crenshaw will be our guest at the bottom of the hour. He'll bring us up to date on what's happening in Mexico, what's happening at the border. He called out the Mexican president, too, Dan Crenshaw, with us shortly. And Abby Hornisek in about 15 minutes.

She drove me to work about a year and a half ago. And it was so enticing and intriguing. Uh we're finally ready. To air it, and it's available now on Fox Nation, uh, Abby Hornetsay. Cloud Plus, she could talk about anything.

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 Crunch Fitness at Crunch.com. Number three. And you have San Francisco, and you have in Washington, D.C., we have a woman from Virginia who is murdered.

And you have, frankly, a sloppy and incompetent district attorney in New York that is downgrading 52% of felonies. You believe this? You got to see the cover story. I'll tell you that in a second, about this other criminal that killed a 15-year-old is now out. Crime and no punishment is causing great pain in major cities.

So far, voters don't seem to care. We do. Number two. The problem they've got is normal everyday Americans. Sit down at the kitchen table, they look at their family budget, they look at the cost of gasoline, they look at the disaster on the border.

None of those things fit. What the Democrats wish they were focused on. 2024, a Kennedy is about to challenge an incumbent Democratic president, not Ted going after Jimmy. How about Robert looking to KO Joe, Robert Kennedy Jr.?

Meanwhile, Newsom quietly heads to Florida and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis goes to Michigan. Let the undeclared candidates race begin. Number one. We had a very productive discussion with the President of Taiwan today. It's clear.

That there are several actions are necessary. We must continue the arms sales to Taiwan and make sure such sales reach Taiwan. Masterful meetings with bipartisan delegation in Taiwan as Taiwanese leaders are in California. Does this move us closer to a war? Why wouldn't the Biden administration even offer words of support?

That is the question of the day. Really? In fact, I'll bring you to that right away. And I do, I have not talked about Robert Kennedy Jr. getting into the race as a Democrat, and they're attacking him.

Can you imagine Democrats attacking a Kennedy like this? But that's what happened. I know they're not on much of a winning streak these days, but RFK Jr., the oldest of RFK's sons, Marksley knew he'd got a chance to know his dad. But I'm not saying he's like his dad, I really don't know. But it turns out, you know, his voice, by the way, that is so strained, it happened because of a vaccine.

So he is very anti-vax, and he has a lot to go on. He wrote this, the real Anthony Fauci book, too, that was a bestseller for a while. And people don't know how to push back on a Kennedy.

So good luck with that. It's easy to push back on Rand Paul. Not as easy as RFK Jr. as he looks to take on President Biden, who is clearly struggling of late.

So when asked why doesn't the president acknowledge the president of Taiwan's here, we have. Admiral Kirby just saying, China, calm down, don't overreact. We always do this.

So here's some of the questions. That even Peter Ducey put out to Karine Jean-Pierre, cut nine. Why did President Biden say about the China spycraft in February, we were able to protect sensitive sites against collection? If that's not true, I'm not going to go into a dive into any reporting. That's not something I'm going to do.

I'm not going to confirm any reporting. Look, we knew the flight. The DNI said today that the U.S. does not appear to have provided critical new insights to the People's Republic of China.

So, is it they didn't provide any new critical insights or They didn't get anything. I would refer you to the ODNI if you have specific questions on their reporting. Yeah, so that was the big story a few days ago. Donald Trump's trial overwhelmed it. We didn't forget about it.

Cut eight. On the Taiwan president visit, if China tries to take over Taiwan, is President Biden still committed to putting U.S. boots on the ground in Taiwan? We've answered this question multiple times. I'm not, I don't have anything else to share.

He said it four separate times: if they get invaded, we fight. His administration walked it back, but he keeps saying it like Rainman.

So who's telling the truth? We'll see. I love the fact that Michael McCall took a group, a bipartisan delegation, into Taiwan. Here he is on the ground. The audio is not great, but he's on the tarmac in Taiwan.

At the same time, the speaker is hosting the President of Taiwan. Cut Tan. It's a very critical time. in this region of the world. We just came back from Japan, South Korea, meeting with potential allies of Taiwan.

as they face Chinese aggression, the Chinese Communist Party.

So being here, I think, sends a signal to the Chinese Communist Party that the United States supports Taiwan and that we're going to harden Taiwan. And we want them to think twice about invading Taiwan. Yeah, that would be great, but I don't think they are. They said they're planning on doing it by 27.

Meanwhile, China is a thorough threat. They are not only trying to get us militarily, try to outpace us with nuclear weapons, with ships, which they have more, but we have bigger and we have more quality. They're also trying to get us off the world off the dollar. They're not having much success, but they are making some gains.

So Larry Kudlow was asked. You know, what's going on here? Why are the Saudis cutting production? Why are they considering switching off the dollar or trading off the dollar at least when it comes to them? And what about our future in the area economically, CUT fifteen?

If you had some kind of dollar collapse, what you would see immediately is a massive inflation wave. If the dollar goes down, the prices of goods and services that dollar buys will go up, whether they're imported or whether they're homegrown. The first problem is going to be a huge inflation, which would drive up interest rates sky-high. Middle-income people, lower-income people, they would suffer the most because the necessities of life, their own living standards, would deteriorate because prices would be skyrocketing. And there's no way wages would be able to keep up with that.

Pensioners, you know, elderly people, Social Security, Medicare, if the dollar plunges, their purchasing power will go down. They're living on fixed incomes. I don't know what they're going to do. There'd be huge trouble. And uh the administration Some would say, the minute you took the Russians off the dollar or started seizing their assets, they had an excuse now to go to the Chinese won.

Now, but they don't have credibility with that currency. It's not like that currency's got this great reputation and security. You're better off in the dollar, but for how much longer? And do we have a plan? Do we have a plan to push back on it?

Now let's talk about 2024 because I am endlessly intrigued by this race. RFK Jr. says he's going to get in. Steve Bannon urged him to do it. Not a big rollout yet, but you got to figure.

He's got his own personal wealth. They'll be more of a factor than Marianne Williamson. And if the president does the president have to do a debate? I mean, he doesn't want to do anything. He just wants to be able to sit in his office like it's the 1940s or 1840s and not run.

Put out a few ads, take out a few ads. If you want me, you can keep me. I mean, Eisenow famously said, I'm not going to run for election. If they don't want to be re-elected, I won't come back. And obviously, he he rolled to an election.

The big thing with Eisenhower would be a Republican or Democrat.

So the thing with RFK Jr., if he goes out there, he's not a great speaker because his voice is so damaged, but he's going to get big crowds and he's going to take on He's going to take on Joe Biden in a few different areas. I'm not saying I want him to be President, but this could be somewhat of a challenge, don't you think? And on the Republican side, the President's at a Republican donors conference, at which time he's trying to convince everyone, stop giving Iran stop giving to Governor Ron DeSantis and start giving to me because I'm going to win. I'm expanding my lead and he's cratering. I'm not sure that's going to resonate.

I know $11 million for Nikki Haley, that's 'cause she's impressive. I'm telling you, she's a formidable candidate, tough as nails, who actually has a. A lot. I mean, think about this. Not a major thing, but a husband in the military understands it.

Former governor gets it.

Somebody who's a mom understands it. A minority grew up a minority in her area in South Carolina, Indian descent, understood it. Mom, first generation, comes over here, knows what it's like to assimilate. Get it. On top of that, she's got the international experience, so she's got some money.

So Meredith McCraw was on last night on special report, and she's with Politico. And she's just talking about what's going on with the timing of the trials for Trump when he takes the old news cycle away, as well as the debates. The primaries, three hundred days to Iowa caucuses. Cut 21. Timing is just going to make for an incredibly dramatic primary that we've already seen have fireworks.

I was at Mar-a-Lago last night covering the President's speech. He was angry, he was defiant. And when I was talking to his campaign today, they said he's raised over $10 million. They're expecting even more money to pour in today.

So, there really has, in the short term, been a rallying effect around Trump over these charges and what some people think are politicized charges from Bragg. Here we go.

Some people Everybody. And you heard, you see the aggression of Jack Smith, Andy McCarthy, who says there's nothing with the Bragg indictment. He he says for if Trump's camp is worried and they should be worried about what Jack Smith is doing at the Mar-a-Lago documents and what he's trying to do, asking Secret Service, telling Secret Service you have to testify, flipping his lawyer, saying they're going to testify. Then you have Mark Meadows coming in there on January 6th, along with Robert O'Brien and the Vice President of the United States. I mean, I don't know.

This guy's on steroids. Is he trying to make his career on this? All right, so we'll take a timeout. I'm going to talk more about that shortly. But when we come back, Abby Hornisek is going to be with us.

Abby can talk about anything. Not only is she a great athlete with a great sports family, a fantastic feature reporter with her own series of series on Vox Nation, including the quality time she was forced to spend with me in a car. in traffic. I hope it's good television. I have not seen it yet, but it's available on Fox Nation.

Preview next. Diving deep into today's top stories. It's Brian Kilmead. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead.

So, when I signed up to do the show, I didn't sign up to drive someone all the way home to mass people up. No, it's your idea.

So, you don't want to get up at 2:30 or 3 o'clock in the morning.

So, Abby, you said, What if I drove you home? I did. And I said, Do you realize how much traffic we're going to hit? I wanted to sit in traffic because that means more conversation with you, Brian. I'm not that interesting.

I know, that's what I told them.

So, you know what? We'll put the music on. Perfect. And that is, I get, I have not seen the edited piece yet, Abby Hornisek. You haven't?

I have not. I thought you were dedicated to my show. I'm offended. But you know what? I'm dedicated to you, but not me.

I don't. Do you like watching your stuff, Abby? No, I hate it. Same with me. I haven't honestly watched the edited version either.

And why don't you watch? I just find myself very annoying. You know, like, who hired her? I need to talk to my bosses and ask them why I hired me. Yeah, I just feel, I just see for you, I'd watch you.

I'm going to watch this. Abby's here, one of her mini-series, along with Parked. She also does ride to work. She will pick up people, sometimes against their will. Yeah.

And you will bring them home or bring them to work, depending on where they're going. Usually I bring them to work, but you wake up at what, two in the morning? 220. 220. So we drove you home from work.

Yeah. I called you. I just keep getting voicemail. At that time, I'm like, Abby, are you here? I guess I'll hop on the train again.

Well, funny story. You told... I think our producer that it was fine if I dropped you off at the train station so that you could train to Massapequa. I thought you were being just nice because you're such a kind human being, but it turns out you just wanted to skip the traffic and I was an idiot. And I was like, oh, you know what?

It's fine. I'll drive you all the way home. It took three and a half hours for such a trooper.

So, Abby, I said, just drop me at Jamaica, Queens. Yeah. And you're like, I don't know what you're talking about because you don't know Long Island, right? No, I don't know anything about Long Island, but now I do. I've got a great car.

We had a lot of chance to see things very slow. Stuart Varney is episode one. Yep. That must have been a nightmare. Yeah, he's so rude.

Was he in GPS? I'm just kidding. He was amazing. He was in a vest, I believe, if I'm remembering correctly. He was like a nice little vest, and he was casual.

He was so super funny, did a bunch of accents for me. And I quizzed him on capitals across the world. And I offered him $5. I said, you know, this $5 doesn't get much in New York, but I'm going to give it to you. Why did you do that?

Because you're here. He knows every capital. Yep. research his i've worked with his daughter angie and she gave me a lot of inside knowledge i did right see i call i call her angela it just shows you there's a distance between us uh lawrence jones number two what's the most interesting thing about lawrence lawrence his height his loves crime he does he does loves crime we did talk about crime his crime reporting how he stays kind of in that meta he does and he does such an incredible job i think lawrence he i really I learned a lot. I called his mom unprovoked.

I just, I called her right up. She had no idea who I was. Such a sweet woman. She was nice to you? She was very nice.

And I learned a lot from her about Lawrence and how he used to dress up as a sheriff when he was younger.

So that was one of the most interesting. Which it tracks. Looking at his job now and the things that he does, it makes sense why he dressed up as a sheriff. And of course, Texas, where he's from. Yep.

Dana Perino. There's nothing really to talk about. Did you find just long periods of silence? All right. She was at the White House for a while, just got back from Africa.

I mean, yeah, you know, didn't do country music overnight. You know, she, she did.

So I learned that she used to DJ a country music station overnight. She also wakes up at 4:30, not too long after you, because she does newsroom, and then she goes and does Pilates. Then she goes back home, does the five. I mean, the woman never stops working just like you. Right.

Well, she's very interesting because her husband's, they're in Manhattan.

So she'll come home sometimes for lunch.

Sometimes she'll work out through lunch. This is a tough schedule. I don't know how long because there's such a huge gap. It is. And I the fact that she can fit in working out, also she's written Multiple books, and she has time for that.

I mean, you guys are so similar, such hard workers. But yeah, Dana was incredible, gave me great advice. She said, Don't worry away your 20s. I said, How do you do that? She goes, You make sure that any anxiety you have, use it for fuel.

Don't let it inhibit you. And also, she gives a lot of advice. Like, she, that's why she wrote the book, Everything's Going to Be Okay, because she said, Everyone keeps coming up to me asking me for advice, and she loves giving it.

So, she thought, Why don't I put this in a handbook and then put, you know, do not disturb on her door? And I think it was right. Then you have me, episode four. Do you find everyone's going to episode four? Yeah, it's everyone is just flocking to episode four because they hear that you don't like when people chew gum in front of you, and I did it to you.

You did. They wanted to see your misery. All right. You understand? That's real.

I mean, do you understand? Did you like it? Doesn't that bother you?

I hate chewing gum.

So I think I said this on Fox and Friends. I was just as bad of an experience doing that to you as you had me doing it to you.

So, one thing I realized, I don't mind chewing it, but I realize I can't ask people to give up something they're doing if I did. Yes, you can. Good. Yes, you can. I should go back to it.

But it's good for your teeth. I will say this: that's one of the main reasons I didn't play professional baseball because everyone's chewing gum, spitting. That whole. That is the only reason that you didn't play baseball. I knew that already.

Right. See, if you did your research, you would know. I did. You do. Do you agree with me?

Harris Faulkner. Yes, Harris, we picked up and drove her to work. She was in her rollers, amazing woman, so low key, down to earth, learned a lot about her travel and how she prepares for segments. She she was a hoot. Um and uh how long did it take?

Not as long as yours. Will Cain, did you drive him from Texas? I picked him up from the airport. Did you really? He must have loved that.

I battled the traffic at the airport. Did you know he was in the Kinsenyera business? What business? The quinceanera. I know I sound like Kermit the Frog.

What is that? Quinceinera, like when you turn 15. And they throw you a party, and he's such an interesting guy, too. Got bit by a mule right in his thigh. I said, That must have been your fault.

You were too close to the mule. Right. S why would you buy a mule? Do you for a fifteen roll parties you bring a donkey? Separate.

I'm sorry, that was confusing. Separate things. He's in the Kitsanera business, and also was a ranch hand.

So you could do two things. Separate. Yeah, you could get multiple jobs. I mean, to me, it's a lack of focus. I mean, right away.

Jack Paul Trades, Master of Non. Right, and that's his problem. He spreads himself out too thin. And knowing there's a fallback, see, Abby, we can't have fallback. There's should be no safety net.

Yeah, you can't you there's no such thing as a safety net. Just full sense. Right. Take the risk. And if he gets suspended for bad behavior or anything like that, he knows the heck with that.

I'm going to go back on the ranch. Which, by the way, pays better than that. What would you do? I would probably be Will's assistant. I know.

I would be unemployed. Yeah. Because I pay enough in taxes. I would feel as though I deserve it. There you go.

Abby, just another reason to go to Fox Nation, all right? All right, thank you. I wish we had more time. Me too. Radio that makes.

Makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show, our long-term strategy. Has got to be Deterrence in the Pacific.

So, this is how do you show strength?

Well, one, if you take a look at the defense budget. Both for 2023 and the proposed budget for 2024, it is all about China. It's about building more F-35s, more submarines, more ships. It is about making sure we are incredibly strong in the Pacific. At a pace in which you're comfortable with?

Well, it's never at a pace in which you're comfortable with. This is the nature of dealing with Capitol Hill. There are pork issues, there are strategic issues, there are shipbuilding issues. No, I'd like to see more ships, more planes quicker. Admiral William McCraven, that is not a strange voice to Dan Crenshaw, the former Navy SEAL himself, Texas Congressman, joins us.

Congressman, how do you feel about what the Admiral views as the priorities in the budget? Is he right? Pretty much right, yes. I mean, I'm not on the Armed Services Committee. I don't go into the details of that budget.

I think one thing he's missing there is that one of the biggest problems we face is the ability to build these things. It's the industrial complex, right? It's the military-industrial complex that everyone talks about. Everyone says it's so rich and so. you know, so bloated.

No, the actual problem is is that it's it's been hollowed out. When we're looking at Taiwan, for instance, and the weapons deliveries that we're supposed to be giving them, they're years behind. And we could add another $100 billion to the budget and pay it right to these defense contractors, and they would say, okay, well, the timeline's the same. Because the supply chains are the same. Like they're it's not about money.

It's about their actual production lines that haven't been used in so many years. That they can't just stop. start back up again. That's the real problem. And he's right.

Yeah, look, there's some pork here and there, but I'm not really sure exactly what he's talking about. The real problem is we can't build this stuff fast enough. I mean, are we picking up the pace? Are there any signs that this is increasing? That people understand the urgency?

In some cases, it's a physical impossibility again, just because. of the supply chain.

So look, over the years, let's say We don't decide that we want this many Tomahawk missiles or this many harpoon missiles per year. And so the people who make those things Well, they they shut down production. And the suppliers who supply that little part that they need for that production line, that little small business.

Well they shut down production. You know, and those people retire, the people who know how to make that thing. And so it's really difficult to start that back up in mass quantity. You know, we look at back at World War II when we did this, but back then, like these weapon systems were not very complex. They didn't even have semiconductor chips, right?

It was just metal and just move over the Chevy Make a 10. Right. It was it was very different.

So this is this is hard stuff. Um, and I don't I'm not sure that anybody has a real solution, but but I but we do understand the problem and we're we're I mean, I think everybody's working hard to fix it. Yeah, I I want you to hear what Merith McCraw said. It said that They know that the conflict is coming, but I don't know if we're willing to step up for that conflict, and Taiwan knows it for sure Cut 12. The goal here was to bolster ties, but also not provoke China in any real way.

Last year, when Nancy Pelosi went to Taiwan, this time Kevin McCarthy met in California because the President of Taiwan was passing through. But I think it's so interesting watching this. There are a few things in Washington that can bring together such bipartisan support as pushing back against the economic and national security threats that China poses. Nancy Pelosi praising McCarthy and that bipartisan group of lawmakers. It's not something that you see every day on Capitol Hill.

And she did. She praised McCarthy for doing it. Do you feel as though the commitment's there on both sides? In Congress it is, yeah. Yeah, I do.

Um I I don't know about the President. The President wouldn't even acknowledge that the President was here. The President of Taiwan was here. No, no, no, no, I mean Biden. No, that's what I mean.

President Biden didn't even acknowledge the President of Taiwan was here. Yeah, exactly. I mean, this is the problem. And when Pelosi went to Taiwan, which I thought was great. President Biden underminer said, Oh, we're not so sure.

You know, his administration said, We're not so sure about security issues at this time. It was so weak.

So look, Democrats and Republicans in Congress seem pretty united on this. The the President needs to get on board with that. He he should have met with her. you know that would have that would that would have made a that would have made a really strong uh statement of support and This presidency has a has a problem where he listens to our adversaries a little too much. And takes them a little too seriously.

You just have to accept that people like Putin and Xi Jinping will just saber-rattle. Right, they're big talkers. And that's their form of deterrence against our action. We have to be more realistic about what they're actually willing to do. Putin's proven that to us over the last year or so, right?

He's always saying, if you guys do this, Well, I'll I mean, it'll be the end of it, you know, and you better not. And then we do it and nothing happens.

So they you know, they're full of crap. And we need to, they are not our national security advisors. We are our own national security advisors. And we're the strongest person in the room.

So let's act like it. Here is an example of what you were saying yesterday, cut eight. On the Taiwan President visit, if China tries to take over Taiwan, is President Biden still committed to putting U.S. boots on the ground in Taiwan? We've answered this question multiple times.

I don't have anything else to share. He said it four times he would have a confrontation, all four times they walk it back. Yeah. The problem with what Biden did is he's He's Departed the long time American policy of uh strategic ambiguity. You don't actually want to make a very definitive statement on what we're going to do because, look.

The truth of the matter is, it depends. It's hard to say. What exactly we would do to defend Taiwan because we don't exactly know. how that situation unfolds. We don't exactly know what the nature of an invasion will be.

We don't know when it will be. We don't know what the world circumstances will be. It's all hypotheticals.

So It's on the one hand, it is good to say, you know what, we're going to defend it at all costs, because that's that in itself is a deterrence, even if you don't mean it. That in itself is a deterrence. The problem is, Biden doesn't know foreign policy all that well. He doesn't think very far through these things. And so it says something, his staff is like, whoa.

Whoa, sir, there's like forty years of precedent here. be careful. And then he has to walk it back and then we look stupid. No, this is again, this is the problem when you when you when you when you elect someone who's not that right. And also clearly has cognitive issues at this point in his life.

And these things matter, and words matter quite a bit in foreign policy.

So I want to talk about a couple of things. You were on with Databash a couple of weeks ago, at which time she seemed surprised by almost everything you said, especially when it comes to Alvin Bragg being left wing, being no charges, being there, the oil and gas, and what the reality was. It seemed just to catch everything seemed to catch her by surprise.

So When you went on there, were you surprised that she was unable to answer to respond to a lot of what you were saying? Um Well I don't know. You know, keep keep in mind I can't actually see her when I'm doing the interview. I you know, you you know how these interviews go. Every time I every time I interview with you on T V, like, I have no idea what your reactions are.

Um You know, I'm not that surprised. Look, in in some senses, I I think she's smart enough to know what my answers are probably going to be. I think she's got to look to her audience, and I've got to look to my audience.

Well, I'll give you an example. Here's what she said on guns.

So the Nashville shooting happens. We still don't have the manifesto. We have this guy that wants to be a guy, and somewhere in between with psychological issues, they're able to get seven guns. And then this is how the conversation went. I visit a lot of schools.

I do talks at various schools. It's very rare that I go into a school, especially the newer ones, and they don't have some kind of armed police presence there at all times. That's a preventive measure. That I know will stop this. And there was nothing like that in these last few mass shootings.

There's no armed guards there. I'm just looking for actual solutions. That would be it.

So the answer is more guns. No, the answer is armed guards. The answer is armed guards, right? Armed guards. Yes, more guns.

The kind of guns that protect the president, that protect you all at CNN. Is it easy to get into your headquarters at CNN? Absolutely not. There's armed guards there. There's single points of entry.

I think we should look at our schools as a place that is precious and have the same kind of security that your corporate offices do, that we do in Congress. You know, if we consider a place to be important where our children go to learn every day, it should have the same level of security as every other place, whether it's a shopping mall or a corporate office that's hard to get into. You're not going to get rid of guns. And I'm not going to say that. That people can no long that law-abiding citizens cannot defend themselves anymore and exercise their Second Amendment rights and think that's going to stop mass violence.

People will figure out other ways to commit mass violence once they've unfortunately reached that point in their life. It's tragic and it's sad in a lot of people. We don't understand what's happening, what's inside their heads. And so we look to these other solutions that I think aren't viable. There were supposed to be armed guards at the schools in both Uvalde in your home state of Texas and Parkland, and that didn't help anything.

Let's just move on because I know energy is a big problem. But they weren't there.

Well, okay, but they're humans and that also happens. I'm not sure about that follow-up. Um So where we're at right now is there's the President has not gone to Nashville. We hasn't really talked about any of the the six that lost their lives, including three children, and we don't even know what this person was on. We don't know what kind of psychological challenges they had, how what they said to the gun store owners, and what's in the manifesto.

Are you going to do anything about that to find out the cause and reason?

Well, I mean, it's out of our jurisdiction in Congress. I mean, it was since you played that clip, and he asked about this. The one thing I wish I'd pushed on. Was because they contradict themselves, right? They hate this talking point that we have, which is: look, Good guys with guns do stop bad guys with guns, all right?

That's a common thing that we say, and I think we're correct. They have this they they have this very strange mentality where They they they believe that's impossible. Like if one bad guy with a gun is bad, then another gun must be doubly as dangerous. And of course, that logic is faulty. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

And they know very well that their own corporate offices are armed or are protected by armed guards.

So by their logic, they should be protesting that. By their logic, if any gun, no matter who has it, is more dangerous, then by their logic, They should fire all of their security. But of course they don't. Of course they don't. Just like you guys don't.

Because every headquarters has the same thing, right? Like, every corporate office has some kind of security. I'm like, All I'm saying is let's just put it in our schools. You know, and I got slammed by Peter Stroke, of all people. Remember that guy?

You know, the liar who single-handedly has destroyed the FBI's reputation? I just took him to town. 'Cause he's like, Oh, well, it would cost ten billion dollars. I'm like, ten billion dollars isn't actually that much, but it comes down to our kids' safety. Yeah, and I think everybody wants it.

What about what's going on in Austin, Texas? You got a convicted criminal, this guy Chasmore, head of the Austin Justice Coalition. He wants to partner with criminals. He thinks police are the problem. This is the capital of Texas, for goodness sakes.

And it's going and the Texas got huge problems, setting a record for homicides in 2021, cutting the police budget. Nothing's really bounced back in the state's capital. Is Austin part of Texas? Are you sure? I'm just kidding.

It's a look. That kind of stuff does happen in Austin. It's um Austin's a a a very different crowd, right? They're trying their best to be like San Francisco. The politicians are oftentimes.

Like it it's still not going to fly. Um you know, we're we're it's the there's kind of left wing thinking. uh doesn't sit well with Texans. And I and I think even people in Austin, you know, they've they've they've They've had to vote down certain crazy proposals on homelessness and crime and things like that. Because yeah, look, these left-wing politicians are out of their minds.

They they they've uplifted criminals to victimhood status somehow. They want to protect them more than they want to protect the citizenry it's out of they're out of their minds. Yeah, but then we see in Chicago, as bad as everything is, they elect a mayor that's more left-wing than Lori Lightfoot that thinks they're cops, they're going to send social workers with cops. Those are the issues. You've got about 1,100 cops who are going to immediately resign.

How do you figure the disconnect between logic, forget party, between logic and living a safe life and blaming police. It's a longer conversation, Brian, because we got to dive into their psyche. We really do. We've got to try to understand this psychologically. And then we have to try to understand how voters are so easily tricked.

You know, in some of these cities, like in California and Chicago. I don't know where rock bottom is for these people. And I think, too, one of the problems is a lot of the problems in places like Chicago. And in places like California. The problems are very isolated in specific neighborhoods, in specific areas.

The rich white liberals that vote for these people because they want to feel good, right?

So they want to feel that sense of compassion. Like they're standing up for poor minorities who get thrown in jail unnecessarily. They want to stand up for them. They want to feel good.

Now, of course, they can afford armed guards around their neighborhoods. And they don't really have problems in their neighborhoods.

So for them, Chicago is beautiful. Chicago is a cool, really cool, beautiful city as long as no one's, you know, hijacking your car or or or mugging you. Um and they can live that life. But the rest of Chicago can't. And unfortunately, so they believe the lies and they vote that way.

So the same thing is: there's left-wing politicians stopping any bail reform in New York City. And then you have all these felonies being knocked down to misdemeanors, all these criminals with 100-plus arrests who don't spend time in jail. And at the same time, you've got to clamp down on Donald Trump from something that happened almost two decades ago that a payment may have taken place six years ago. I mean, do people understand the logic behind this? I do.

You know what I mean? Like, I mean, when you try. I can only answer for myself. I just, I just. Look, I I I mean, you do talk to left wingers, you you know, you live in New York, right?

Like I mean, you tell me, Brian, like, what what do people say about this? I it's It's confusing to all of us. You know, I mean, I I think, look, once once partisanship takes over your mind, and I see it on the right and the left. Once it takes over, like there's nothing you can tell someone. There's no amount of facts and logic that you can tell someone.

That will persuade them to see it differently because emotions are so much. stronger than than the logic. For most people, But for me, that's obviously not the case. I think emotions were beaten out of me when I went through Hell Week in Puns through all my experiences.

So, like, they they were truly just beaten out of me. Like, I I really don't I really don't get emotional about this stuff. But for your average person, it's very natural to have that emotional sense take over, and I think that's what you see here. Yeah, get your emotions and check grips from Kev Laurie and just try to go shopping. Dane Crenshaw, thanks so much.

Have a great Easter. See? All right, thanks, Brian. Happy Easter. Back in a moment.

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