It's bad: Details of leaked intelligence docs unprecedented

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Killmead. Thanks for being here, everybody. It's the Brian Killmead Show. It's been a wild week, real wild week, nothing like it.

I'm not saying the most impactful, but so much unexpected, especially the details of the series of leaks that have happened out of the Pentagon, I think devastating to our reputation and possibly the war effort. President of the United States, the former one, speaks out. Today he's going to be deposed again by a ridiculous Attorney General in New York about his company, which has no debt. But they say massive fraud. Yeah, right.

The massive fraud that you loved when he was hosting The Apprentice, you didn't like that as a Republican. And then the bottom of the out Ben dominates Jennifer Griffin on the latest on the Pentagon.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. 93% of new cars sold are gas-powered cars. Electric cars are so popular, the government has to mandate them and subsidize them. Look, this whole rule is a failure.

EV madness, the agenda driven. Administration sacrificed our national security to China as they want a mandate and rapid flip to electric cars. Where are the batteries made? Rare earth found. You guessed it?

China. We'll debate the affordability and folly of this crazy quest to control America's movements. Number two. Once again, we are close allies to the US. Vis-a-vis China, the Europan strategy is quite clear.

We don't want to have any decoupling from China because we really think that this is an illusion, but we want to de-risk from China. What are you talking about? The typical French diplomat, Red China threat rising, a betrayal explained in a president on a family vacation. That's the state of America's foreign policy and challenges as turbulence rises around the world. We need a regime change right here, right now.

Number The documents were often listed as Ukraine versus Russia at first.

However, it slowly spiraled into just intelligence about everything. He was a very smart man. There's no way in any world that he would not know that he knew that these were illegal. Clues to the breach, the biggest breach of intel, not from cyber thief and not from a brilliant Russian spy, but some type of military, young, charismatic, gun enthusiastic male. That's how he is described.

Seems to be on a military base. Doc's legit started on Discord, which was a small gaming site. We just got a new trench, and the Pentagon is not telling us where this came from. The New York Times and Washington Post are giving us all this information. What is revealed?

The race to find and stop him. President Jennifer Griffin will tell us and expand on hundreds more documents coming your way.

So the New York Times and the Washington Post predominantly are leading this story. What happened?

Well, starting in January, there began to be a dialogue among one military man in his teens or early 20s and others in a chat room during the pandemic. They were bored looking for leadership, companionship.

So this guy would walk in and talk about and post intel information about the soon-to-be war in Ukraine and other things. And it would happen exactly like the Intel revealed. They realize this guy is special, the stuff is legitimate. They promised not to leak it out outside their small clubhouse, cyber clubhouse. But one person did.

Along the way, Once these guys started getting bored with his little interactions and all this intel that he was posting for his, because he evidently has a security clearance. He got bored.

So then he said, instead of writing this all out, I'm just going to take pictures of it, which is sloppy. And some of the things that we've already been over about the war effort, about the casualties, about the amount of infighting among the Russians, from Vladimir Putin on down to the Wagner group, all through. The fact that we spy on our allies like Egypt and South Korea, and what they actually said with the UAE and more. And Israel, as I mentioned, having a little bit of a war with their own intelligence apparatus, the Mossad. This is devastating.

What is scary is the Washington Post found someone in this chat room. Yes, the Washington Post. Where is the FBI? Why is this leaker still out there? What else do they have?

He was a friend of the leaker's identity, not known. Cut one. He is not a Russian operative, he is not a Ukrainian operative. I'll go as far as say he's not even on the east side of the world. Any claims that he is a Russian operative or pro-Russian is categorically false.

He is not interested in helping any foreign agencies with their attack on the US or other countries. But he's hurting this country, and that's the problem. And he probably knows that. They says he's too smart not to. Evidently, he's about guns, God, and the military also seems to They have a godlike complex.

Figure. His name is OG Online. Um He traversed a range of sensitive subjects. The only people who had undergone months-long background checks would be authorized to see what he sees. Good news is, he doesn't seem to have human intelligence, just satellite and cyber intelligence.

He says there were top secret reports about the whereabouts and movements of high-ranking political figures and tactical updates on military forces, geopolitical analysis, insights, and foreign government efforts to interfere with elections. If you could think it. It was in those documents. Cut to. The documents were often listed as Ukraine versus Russia at first.

However, it slowly spiraled into just intelligence about everything. He was a very smart man. There's no way in any world that he would not know that he knew that these were illegal. And what bothers me most. Is you have the Chinese war games over Taiwan, ships still survi surround uh surrounding the the island, Macron coming out, betraying us, in my view, in China.

You have Brazil's leader going over to China. Germany said to go over to China. China trying to convince everybody to get off the U.S. dollar. I don't know how much success they'll have, but the fact that they're trying.

Saudi Arabia is tighter with China these days than us, they've cut production. And we have a president, he's a zombie president. He's over in Ireland on a family vacation, going through his roots. You have plenty of time in retirement to do that. In fact, instead of going to Camp David, go to Ireland, but do your job.

He answered one question about the leaks were getting close to finding the guy. You should be on the phone dealing with Israel, South Korea, UAE. Find out why Saudi Arabia has left America's orbit and find out what the attraction is. Find out what the attraction is to China. You got to tell China, you do me a favor, Saudi Arabia, pick up production.

And we're going to start buying additional oil to refill our coffers when it comes to the strategic oil reserve. It's devastated. No question about it. For the French They tried to explain themselves in a charm-offensive first-stop special report. This is their economic and finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, cut nine.

course we stand with the US And let's avoid any misunderstanding. We are close allies to the United States of America. I would say strong allies, reliable allies. I participated in the state visit of Eden Macron to the US, to Washington. It was a great success for both President Biden and President Macron.

He just, President Macron, we call what has been always at the core of his willingness for Europe, more independence, more sovereignty. And I really think that this is in the interest of the US Government and the US citizen to have a stronger Europe.

So now we have Germany heading over there, and you have a foreign minister heading over there. He's heading over to China to represent Berlin, but he says he's likely to have more explaining to do about Paris. Here we go. The Foreign Minister says he embarked on a two-day visit starting Wednesday evening yesterday. Officials in Berlin were eager to stress that Germany and the EU care about Taiwan and stability in the region, arguing it mainly China that most contribute to de-escalation by refraining from aggressive military maneuvers.

Thank you, Germany, for saying something like that. Unlike the three-day love fest with Macrone and China.

So I don't know if he's doing it for domestic policy, but he should at least have given us a heads up. I think. Cut 10. Once again, we are close allies to the US. Vis a vis China, the Europan strategy is quite clear.

We don't want to have any decoupling from China because we really think that this is an illusion, but we want to derisk from China. Right. I don't know what that means. It's a little bit of a difference. Anything vital, pull out.

Pharmaceuticals, pull out. Uh fundamental pharma uh Chips, building phones, pull out. Intel opportunities, pull out. You got a company over there that's got to give up their intellectual property, pull out. Let them make t-shirts.

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You're with Brian Kilmead. OG was not hostile to the US government.

However, he had disagreed with several occasions such as Waco and Ruby Ridge and thought that the government is overreaching in several aspects. There was no heavy Snowden-like conspiracy here like some people may believe. People were reading them and they were not commenting on them. They were just sitting there, yeah. I want to keep OG's identity secret because I still care for him like he's a family member.

Yeah, but it's not good for America for him to be out. And as Jennifer Griffin just reported on Fox News. It looks like hundreds of documents could be coming forward. Jennifer joins us now. Fox is Chief National Security Correspondent.

Jennifer, were you surprised as I was to see the Washington Post with such an extensive profile of a guy we still haven't found? Brian, it truly, I'm not easily stunned. This was a stunning piece of journalism. And the Washington Post and Shane Harris and his team deserve full credit. The fact that these documents have been online in this kind of tight server with 20 to 24 young people who are teenagers, some are foreign nationals, some, and one of them was this guy who went by the name OG, original gangster, I think is what it stands for, who worked at a military base and clearly had access to some of the nation's most secret information.

I mean, the fact that he was able to get in and print out and then also get into some of the classified CIA ops center documents as well as NSA signals intelligence. This was not just somebody picking up one piece of one document and carrying it home with him. And this guy, OG, G, if that was his name, he was in his 20s. These kind of young people who haven't been screened, who have access to this intelligence, and the damage that he just did, putting it in a chat room with a bunch of 16-year-olds who formed this kind of a mentally unstable group of kids who's formed during COVID and were like, you know, acted like a cult.

Some of the interview that was done by the Washington Post, and my understanding is they simply reached out and DM'd this chat group when this came out a week ago. The New York Times first broke the story. And at that point, they reached out to members of the Discord chat group. They went out to California and met with this teenager who was a member of the group. He agreed to talk, and he gave, some of his quotes are simply stunning, talking about what it felt like to be on the Mount Everest of this information and how they were going to.

They were all keeping it to themselves and they were very upset when it leaked out. And then just two days ago, he said the group had a final goodbye with O.G., who again works on a U.S. military base with the highest level of classification and clearances. And he said that members of the group were crying. They were distraught and sad, and they felt like they were losing a family member.

And that suddenly O.G., who seemed all powerful to them and who was confused and didn't seem to have an answer for what's next. My guess at this point in time is that the FBI has been watching him and his friends for the last week, gathering information that will be used in the investigation. But it's a little unnerving that they haven't arrested him at this point. He was a he was a young charismatic man who Loved nature, God, who loved shooting guns and racing cars. He did have sort of a bossy attitude at some points, but it was more of a fatherly bossy.

He did see himself as the leader of this group, and he ultimately was the leader of this group, and he wanted us all to be sort of. Super soldiers to some degree, informed, fit with God, well armed, stuff like that. There it is.

So that's the attitude, and that's what we're eventually going to find out. That's the mental profile of this leaker who has caused so much disruption, not only to the war in Ukraine, to shared secrets with the Russians. I mean, these kids and this young 20-something who worked for the government are in for a world of pain. I mean, this is espionage. Even if they weren't working for a foreign government, there were foreign people on that website.

These classifications said they couldn't be shared with any foreign adversaries or allies, even. And what they have done is so damaging to relationships with South Korea, with Egypt, with UAE, with Israel. They have no idea. The cortexes in their brain don't seem to be closed yet to even know the damage that they just did to the U.S. government and to the nation as a whole.

Yeah, I mean, there's a new batch. It contains 20 in the New York Times today, 27 pages. Reinforced has. Deeply American spy agencies penetrated into Russian intel. One is a single source.

They go on to say there's a single source where they say Vladimir Putin had to come in and basically referee between regular army as well as the Wagner group. One thing is clear, and tell me if you back this up. They say they don't seem to have had access to human intelligence. Just electronic or cyber intelligence.

So that might be one advantage. Have you heard about any outrage or any outreach from our State Department or from the administration to talk to leaders and let them unload on us? Absolutely. They've been working for the past week in complete overdrive, reaching out and getting an earful from allies who are furious that this stuff is out there. But let's just step back for a moment, Brian.

What this leak has revealed is just how incredible U.S. signals intelligence is. Look at what we're talking about. The ability to be able to eavesdrop in a room where Vladimir Putin is meeting with the head of the Wagner Group and the FSB and the head of the defense ministry to settle a disagreement. The fact that the U.S.

has an ability to listen into that, the damage that is going to be done, I mean, the Russians should. Should have known that we had that ability, but what has been laid out clear to everyone is that the U.S. intelligence through the NSA and other signals intelligence and satellites. Can listen to any conversation anywhere. And that is, on the one hand, for someone like me who covers intelligence, incredibly impressive.

But on the other hand, does that need to be in the public purview? And isn't it? No, absolutely not. And these kids and this leaker, I mean, if there's not a case for the death penalty, I don't know what is. I know, because you gotta stop the next one because we've got Snowden, uh, Manning, and now this, uh, but now we don't know this person's name, uh, and the WikiLeague situation too.

The other thing, little things, like for I think it's a big thing, but the Russians have been successful in jamming the GPS signals on our smart bombs, making them into dumb bombs.

So we're sitting there trying to target something, and they've been able to jam it. I have not heard that in the Middle East at all when we were using that. That might be somewhat of a first. But how about this, Jennifer? That news that we had about China possibly giving lethal aid was real.

I mean, we see it right here in these documents. It was real and it never happened. The interesting thing, though, about a lot of the information that has come out in the Ukraine segments of these documents, and the bulk of it is dealing with Ukraine, but not all of it. And they're not all from a single, you know, they're not all. All from single tranches.

They're from multiple, multiple sources within the U.S. government.

So you've got CIA documents, you've got NSA documents, you've got different tranches, if you will. But what is interesting about some of these revelations in Ukraine, a lot of this has been reported. I mean, remember, a lot of the new era of reporting on intelligence and these issues in Ukraine, the U.S. has decided to release some of this stuff in advance in order to kind of disrupt and stop it.

So the Chinese have not transferred those weapons. But isn't that because those news reports came out and you heard Blinken and Austin and others and Bill Burns talking about it publicly?

So they're using intelligence in a very interesting way. Jennifer, thank you. Yeah, thanks so much. This is devastating, but I appreciate your insight. We'll see what happens today.

Hopefully we'll get an arrest. Jennifer Griffin from the Pentagon. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. I think there's a perception that the rest of this week is essentially tree planting, bell ringing, and a taxpayer funded Family reunion.

What would the White House say to that chart? I would not surprisingly dispute that characterization. Like I said, the President today is going to have the opportunity to meet with the Prime Minister of the UK. I think the President feels very strongly that there is benefit both here as well as in the United States to mark the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. This is a totally unnecessary trip.

It is about him defining his roots after a five-day vacation in Camp David, after dumping the ridiculous review of what went wrong in Afghanistan, hence everything. And then he goes right to Ireland, one of the few countries where we don't have a problem. We go there. The president's there, where he refuses to even have press conferences, but brags, as people brag, that he does take shouted questions. What kind of autocracy is this?

Ben Dominic, Jones, Fox News, contributor, editor-at-large for the Spectator World, host of the Ben Dominic podcast. Hey, Ben, what do you think? Do you think this is just a taxpayer-funded family outing? It absolutely is that, Brian. It's insulting on its face.

I mean, you said it right in the sense that Ireland's one of the few countries around the world where we don't have problems right now. And look, if Joe wants to be a plastic patty and that kind of thing and go over there and do his find-his-roots kind of experience, he should be doing that on his own time and on his own dime, not on the taxpayers. And I think that this is again a situation where this White House. In its arrogance and its refusal to deal with any of the problems that they have right in front of their face. They've they've really run up against, I think, A media, a press corps that is finally fed up with it and is calling them out, I think, you know, in increasing ways.

We saw Ed O'Keefe responding as I thought was very appropriate to. That Afghanistan dump with being very frustrated saying this is a definition of burying something on a holiday weekend. We saw the frustration with John Kirby. We saw the frustration with Karine John Pierre. We've seen a number of other folks.

It's not just Peter Ducey out there calling them to account. More and more people in this press corps are saying, is the White House even going to grapple with any of these major issues that they have in front of them? Or is this just Joe's on vacation? He gets to do whatever he wants. He avoids any questions.

And he treats people who ask him questions as if they're somehow insulting him by doing it. It's a ridiculous way to approach the job. It's totally out of step with everything that we've seen in terms of increased access to the president over the past several years. And, you know, I'm fed up with it, and I think the American people are too.

So right there, they were lying to us. He's taken 900 questions, shouted. It's just wrong. She kept saying it. The White House had to walk it back.

Press conferences in their presidencies through April. April 12th, Clinton, 92, third year. Bush 45 by third year. Obama 53. Trump 41 Biden 23.

And think about this. We have an unprecedented, maybe unprecedented leak, Snowden wiki leaks, Manning style, devastating our national profile and dependability at a time in which we're trying to unite the world against China. China's trying to divide it, and all this stuff comes out. And then today, he answered one question saying we think we're getting closer to finding the guy, but I'm not worried about the intelligence. Not much of it was contemporaneous.

I'm worried about the intelligence. The Pentagon's worried about it, and nobody's in charge. Look, it's absolutely abhorrent and frankly, I think it's a dereliction of duty to not be all over this story, all over this issue, and to be projecting confidence as opposed to waving it away and saying that this doesn't matter. It absolutely matters. Everybody understands that it matters.

People within the Intel community understand it. People within the military community understand it. And our allies around the world understand it as well. And look, I don't know how much time you've had to sort of dig into this. And to read all of the different things that were put out there and how they were put out there.

But the way that this process played out is really disturbing because it suggests to me that this is information that is getting into the hands of people where it should not be. And then those people are turning around and they're exposing it. In this case, this information looks to have been exposed not out of some kind of deep-seated attempt to achieve some major aim, as we saw under the Snowden or the Manning situation. This was basically just a guy bragging to people online, just bragging about the level of access that he had, as opposed to, and that's something that to me makes it all the more disturbing. In the sense that, like, at least there's some rational reason or something that Snowden and Manning and people like that were trying to achieve by doing this.

If we've reached a point where it's just one nerd boasting to their gamer friends about the kind of things that they're able to have access to, then we. We have a huge problem in terms of that community, and that's something that the President needs to address and needs to really reestablish when it comes to our allies that this is the kind of thing that we will not tolerate and it will not happen again.

Well, I mean, he's got his other problems. Traveling with Hunter, he could not even put together a sentence. He walked over to Irish Children, at which time they're asking him it might not be as audible, it's easier, obviously, with closed caption on T V. They're asking him, how do you be what are the keys to success? And listen to where this conversation goes.

Cut 19. There was a guy named Jesse Helms from South Carolina, from North Carolina, South Carolina, North Carolina. And he was a very conservative guy who was very, very, not very crazy about African Americans. Really? Children, Irish children, need to know about Jesse Helms.

That is an important takeaway? Yeah, I mean, first off, I want to say I know people who've worked for Jesse Helms, and certainly Jesse Helms had his own ways that he meandered through his career, but he actually became someone who obviously crossed party lines in the late stage of his career in order to achieve a lot of good things and really reformed himself over time in ways that I actually think are a key part of understanding how America changed in a positive way. You think about him working with Bono and you two and everything related to that. But it's like when you're talking with Joe Biden, There seems to be some point, and it's usually about twenty minutes in to any kind of event, where he just falls off a cliff. And look, I realize we don't want to compare at this moment.

I've ranted before on this show about how old our leadership class is. But at a moment where we're talking about Diane Feinstein being pressured to resign from the Senate in her aged years, dealing with her own physical and illness problems. You see the problems with the absence of John Fetterman from Pennsylvania. We see even the challenges on the Republican side with Mitch McConnell and having to recover. We are living in a stage now where America's leadership.

Just does not project strength. It does not project that kind of personal and physical awareness of what's going on around them. And instead, you see incidents like this that can only be disturbing for our allies and for those of us who care about American strength, regardless of the party in power. We should care that the president is able to actually do their job. He can't.

And I think in Joe Biden, we have a man who simply can't anymore. I mean, Ben, you're in Washington, but the word was that. Ron Klane was in charge.

So, doing most of the things, the president would have big picture things to say, and Ron Klair was in charge. There's no sense that anybody is in charge right now. No sense that anyone's vision is being implemented. And then the President's announcing this revolutionary switch to gas to electric cars. I mean, unbelievable.

He wants 70% of all cars in nine years to be electric. He's talking about 500,000 charging stations, and there's going to be all types of demands on tailpipes to make it impossible to sell the combustion engine. And the President is walking around Ireland. Trying to find out what his great-grandfather did in a church, which was make sell the bricks. What a great story that is.

It's absolutely ridiculous, and it's also, I think. An indication of How much the media gaslit America about Joe Biden. They made the case for him in 2020 as being a return to normalcy and stability, of being a centrist, of being someone who could work across party lines. Instead, he's been exposed as being this meandering, doddering partisan who is essentially trying to make America into California. You know, regardless of whether we have Gavin Newsom or not in this job, that's essentially the way that Joe Biden is approaching it.

And that's not what most Americans want. And it's one of the reasons why I think the poll numbers are as bad as they are for him in terms of running again. And as much as the Democratic bench is weak, it's astounding to me that someone isn't standing up to take him on with a significant effort to try to essentially take the job from him. And I think that it's really a question of whether one of these younger progressives wants to seize a moment and say, we're not going to just hang around. And pretend like we can't all see the thing that's happening right in front of our eyes.

We need new, younger leadership that's more in touch with what's going on in the country. I would not be shocked if that ends up happening, Brian.

Now, I don't know if it will, but that's also obviously a sign of how weak the ability of their bench is in terms of standing someone up who looks presidential. And I think that that's going to be a problem for them in several coming cycles. Just on the age thing Donald Trump, whatever you think of me, same guy. You watch him for an hour with Tucker Carlson, you watch him, it's the same guy. Whatever you think.

Bernie Sanders, same guy. They brought it, uh, Donald Trump said, I talked to Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot, same guy, Ken Langone, same guy.

So you talk, it's not a matter of age. You have a father-in-law, John McCain. Does anyone think he's getting old? Physically, you paid a price because of what happened in Vietnam, but this guy could have had more energy than anybody we know.

So it wasn't this you know, you could say you're out of touch, you're looking for a Victrola instead of a uh and instead of listening to your uh Pandora, I get it. Uh but that type of stuff, cultural I can deal with. This guy is just not with it. He can't get a line out. And there's a reason why there's a delay here.

I got to just ask you about Hunter Biden real quick. The thing that's different about these bank records and now these White House records, it shows 80 visits from different Hunter Biden Business Associates. We also have a situation where the stenographer under President Obama. Has come forward to say he has sold them, that he sold our country down the river, that he's trying to get a hold of the FBI. This guy, Mike McCormick, can't get anybody to listen to him.

I want you to hear a little bit what he told Jesse last night, Cut 20. Joe Biden was in the front of the plane. My job as a White House stenographer was to be in the back of the plane. And if Joe or a senior administration official came back and did a briefing, then I would record it and make a transcript. And that senior administration official was Jake Sullivan.

I didn't see anything wrong with it at the time. Years go by. I'm writing books and I get a hold of the Hunter Biden laptop. About a year and a half ago, I started writing a sub stack based on what I find. And then I go back over what I knew happened.

I found the transcript that I wrote about that briefing. That's when Jake Sullivan starts talking about fracking. Because of what I'd read in the laptop and reported in my sub stack previously, I'm like, wait a minute, Joe Biden knew Hunter Biden was already on the board on April 18th. He directed Sullivan to go back and talk. to the press So, do you understand what's going on?

Here's a little more cut 21. Public corruption. That's what the FBI is supposed to investigate.

So I wrote a Substack about it in November. Nothing happened. I went to the FBI and filled out their witness tip line, and I submitted it. If you lie to the FBI when you're submitting a tip like that, you can go to jail. I'm not lying.

I'm telling the truth. Joe Biden is lying. Joe Biden is a criminal. That's the bottom line. I don't care if he goes to Timbuktu or Island or anywhere.

He's a criminal. And I've got the evidence. If they put me in front of the grand jury that's right now seated in Wilmington. with Special Prosecutor David Weiss. My testimony becomes the evidence that will put him in jail or lead to his impeachment.

Well, we've got to get a few lines crossed, and we got to get some details, but that's an emphatic guy. Yeah, look, I think that this absolutely merits attention. One of the things we need to understand here is that there's inevitable consequences to the weaponization of lawfare that we've seen going after former President Trump. I think that this is one of those consequences that will come sooner than people expect, which is that there's going to be stepped-up efforts to investigate what Joe Biden knew when he knew it related to Hunter's businesses in ways that, whether they prove to be criminal or not, Make very clear that there was an incredible amount of unethical behavior going on on his part working in favor of Hunter's interests. And these are not things that we should ignore.

We have to pay attention to them because they speak to the high level of power that was being exercised to benefit the Biden family. And that's something that we need to investigate. Until we get to the bottom of that, until we get to the actual root of everything that was done, I think that that question remains something that has to be a high priority for the country. We should not tolerate it in any of our elected officials, and certainly not in, at that time, the Vice President of the United States. Ben Dominich, Fox News Contributor.

Look forward to expanding on this in your podcast, the Ben Dominich Podcast. Thanks, Ben. Great to be with you. All right. When we come back, I'll take your calls.

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By the way, worst intro ever. I've been introduced on Martha McCallum had me on at 3 o'clock today. Beautiful intro. Talked about my shows and my impact on society. What did you basically say?

My books are gag gifts? Yes. Because they make people throw up. Right. I need a crisis manager after doing this show.

So that was uh one of the worst decisions I made, the Gurlin Gutfeld show last night. Uh that's pretty true. Quick thing, we did discuss this on Gut. We actually had some great topics, one of which was these electric cars. We're not ready for them.

They are going to put all types of demands on the tailpipe if he's allowed to get re-elected. That's going to make driving a combustion engine almost impossible. The problem is, these electric cars are about $15,000 more than a gas-powered car when they're used.

Well, batteries have about seven years' lifetime. If you have a $45,000 car, it's estimated that your battery is $25,000. Why would anybody buy a used car that's maybe two or three years old, like I do? I've never bought a new car in my life. If you know your battery is going to blow up or blow up, it's going to blow out, and then you got to get a new one for $25,000.

The other thing is, there's no small fender bender. Once this thing is hit, it's done, it's finished, it's through. The other thing, there's not a place to charge it. There's going to be 500,000 charging stations. They're not going to have them on side roads, rural towns.

They're going to be major cities. Why would you do that? And You don't have a grid that is carbon-free.

So you're just moving fossil fuels over to your grid, giving off emissions that you're trying to avoid. In the cleanest country on the planet, I think maybe save Norway or Sweden or Finland, we have got it down. They are actually doing something that's going to hurt our national security because to get the rare earth and get the batteries, you've got to go to China. And you talk about environment. Who's throwing out the batteries?

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We're going to be joined by Dave Rubin in a matter of moments and at the bottom of the arrow, Elgebridge Colby, deputy assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force between 17 and 18. Definitely wants to weigh in on what's happened with China, the threats they continue to make, the president's ridiculous trip to Ireland, as well as the horrible leaks that have come out of the Pentagon. Rosso following the president's trip, he took one question that I could hear. One question: We have a press going around the world, not one press conference. I've never heard anything like this, especially with so many issues pressing.

This is a personal vacation for the president at the worst possible time.

So, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. 93% of new cars sold are gas-powered cars. Electric cars are so popular, the government has to mandate them and subsidize them. Look, this whole rule is a failure.

Yeah, Steve Malloy weighing in EV Man is the agenda-driven administration sacrifices our national security to China as they mandate a rapid flip to electric cars. Where are the batteries made? How do we get rid of them? Where's the rare earth found? You guessed it?

China. Number two. Once again, we are close allies to the U.S. vis-à-vis China. The European strategy is quite clear.

We don't want to have any decoupling from China because we really think that this is an illusion, but we want to de-risk from China. Yeah, good luck with that distinction. Red China threat rising, a betrayal explained, kinda, and a president on a family vacation. That's the state of America's foreign policy and challenges as turbulence rise on every corner of the world. Number one.

The documents were often listed as Ukraine versus Russia at first.

However, it slowly spiraled into just intelligence about everything. He was a very smart man. There's no way in any world that he would not know that he knew that these were illegal. Identity Hidden. A friend of the leaker to the Washington Post just spoke about the man who leaked it in his early 20s.

Love God, love guns, love the military. Clues to the breach. The biggest breach of intel, not from the Cyber Chief, or a brilliant Russian, or from China, a young charismatic gun enthusiast. That's how he's described. It seems to me he's on a military base.

The New York Times has additional documents. We expect hundreds more, all of which put us in jeopardy. This was mostly electronic intelligence, so that is extremely disturbing.

So, the Washington Post says more than the FBI because this guy is still out and about. Dave Rubin, welcome. Brian, it's good to be with you. Dave, first off, can you believe the extensive story the Washington Post had? Great journalism, no question.

That reveals this leaker in his twenties in a small chat room on a gaming site was able to Get documents where he spent time in a military base, evidently, take pictures, maps, and charts, and share it with this group. One breaches confidence, it ends up in a bigger group, then ends up on 4chan, then ends up on Telegram, and now it's one of the major embarrassments of American intelligence. What are your thoughts? I mean, Brian, I mean this quite literally. Is there anything that would surprise you at this point related to our government, related to leaks, related to coordinating things that get out to the media, related to one random guy jumping on Discord and putting information out there and then how that information travels?

This story doesn't surprise me. I think we're going to probably find out a lot more about it. What I'm honestly most concerned about is not the leaks specifically and what's in the documents. What I'm concerned about now is an extension of what we've seen over the last year related to the Twitter files and so much more, which is that the government will now probably use this as an excuse. To either shut down sites or survey sites a little bit more, be watching sites a bit more and possibly tracking people's data, listening to their conversations and a whole bunch more.

So this is one of those things where we're open up a Pandora's box. And like most things in America these days, it will not work out that well for the American people. But to think a 20-year-old could be on a military base, get security clearance, be able to leave with that information. And be able to post it, rewrite it in real time, post it and be a mentor to 20 to 8, some teenagers who seem to be lonely. Listen to some of these accounts of what happened.

By the way, how unbelievable is it that Washington Post is getting to talk to this guy? The New York Times gets documents from this guy. And so far, we have not even broken who was in that small 20-person clubhouse. Listen to this guy, Toe, who's a friend of the Leaker Cut One. He is not a Russian operative, he is not a Ukrainian operative.

I'll go as far as say he's not even on the east side of the world. Any claims that he is a Russian operative or pro-Russian is categorically false. He is not interested in helping any foreign agencies with their attack on the US or other countries. But he knew what he was doing, cut to. The documents were often listed as Ukraine versus Russia at first.

However, it slowly spiraled into just intelligence about everything. He was a very smart man. There's no way in any world that he would not know that he knew that these were illegal. So we're talking about things that let us reveal that we're spying on South Korea, we're spying on Israel. We've been able to get listen in on Russian conversations.

As Vladimir Putin, according to the New York Times, was refereeing between the Wagner Group and regular military, the FSB, it was Putin that called them all together. We know all this. This is pretty incredible. We see that South Korea, the Polish leader, was pressuring the U. S.

to get Joe Biden to pick up the phone to pressure South Korea to provide some type of ammunition to a fellow ally in Ukraine. And he wasn't going to do it.

So, just this interplay, we find that Egypt was going to sell on a backdoor way, Russians, this hardware.

So, all this stuff is out there. How are we ever going to be trusted again on the global scene? Yeah, that's a great point. And, you know, we may just be entering this stage of the internet. We may be entering a new stage related to information and the ability.

For states to have secrets. You know, I'm a believer in transparency as a general rule. And Brian, obviously, you know my feelings about free speech and the importance of.

Societies to be able to communicate honestly with true information about things. But I also do believe that states are allowed to have some degree of state secrets. There are things that the general populace cannot know about at all times related to absolutely every military or intelligence-related thing. I think the problem is right now for an awful lot of people, I'm seeing a lot of this online, they're not concerned about any of the leaks because their feeling is our government is now so corrupt. That if this exposes it further, that that actually is good.

I think there's some legitimacy to that argument, but we have to be wary of once everything is fully out there and we really all see how the sausage is made, it might be jarring for pretty much everybody. Dave, it's so interesting that you project further where we're going to be in a few months when people start going into chat rooms. and saying, well, we have no choice. You guys were talking about you were talking about national defense, or you're for or against the Ukraine war. We had to lift find out what Dave Rubin was talking about with Michael Schellenberger.

So you I know you were part of the Twitter file situation where they brought you in, right? Yep.

So Matt Taibbi, I guess, is out because Well, it shouldn't be out because he's off Twitter because there's a problem with Substack in Twitter. I heard Joe Rogan talk to Michael Schellenberger, and I thought in a half hour they really boiled down to what this is about. That after the US and the war on terror wound down, and we're still trying to find out what ISIS and Al-Qaeda is up to all the time. They're looking to do something with this information.

Next thing you know, after Brexit, it freaked them out. It freaked them out that the people the people would do something as they thought irrational as break from the European Union. Then up comes Trump using Facebook and social media to upset Hillary Clinton. And we know what happened with the Russia hoax and everything that went down from there, and then putting your hand on the scale when it came to the 2020 election. And Michael Schoenberg just talked about how this cycled.

And and what we were able to witness. What is your takeaway as you've got inside Twitter in the cyber world? Yeah, well, it's interesting. You know, Schellenberger, what's most fascinating about this guy is he's a lifelong lefty. I mean, this is a guy who still, if I'm not mistaken, lives in San Francisco and is trying to fix that dystopian nightmare.

So, you know, a lot of people are looking at him like, oh, he's on Rogan now, and he seems to be liked a little bit more by conservatives as if that's somehow a bad thing, which, of course, I don't think it is. But the point is that this is not a partisan guy, as the whole mainstream media tries to treat Elon as if he's, you know, some sort of far-right maniac or something. I think, in essence, what we're finding out here is basically what Schellenberger laid out to Rogan is true. The security state needed something to do, basically, and started looking at us. And we are now the ones being investigated.

And, oh, you went to this school board and you talked to this person and the rest of it.

So we have to be very wary of that. I'm deeply concerned that these machines are so ingrained in our society right now that these These industries basically exist to data mine about us, and you know, at some level. You know, there's a certain sci-fi element to this. If you think about Terminator or the Matrix, it's sort of like the machines are on, the algorithms are on. They know more about our click habits than, in some ways, we know about ourselves.

You know, you're just scrolling. Or you're on Facebook or whatever all day long, they're monitoring, in some essence, what you're doing. They say they're monitoring metadata, so they're not looking at the specifics of what you're doing, but the patterns. Of what you're doing. But in some ways, they then can decide: okay, you'll see this video.

We could maybe push you to believe this, or you won't see this particular opinion, so you won't be exposed to that idea. And we're all now within that. And then, Brian, when you throw in what's going on with Chat GPT and AI, where in essence, you know, organ information is being organized and spit back at us as if it's authoritative, but we're quickly finding out that ChatGPT has a massive, massive far left bias, we have a major, major problem. On our hands, and it may be just that we are too deep in this thing to turn it around. And then you throw, well, of course, with AI, what you're next going to get is all these deep fakes and a whole bunch more.

And it's on the way, man, whether we like it or not.

So here's Elon Musk is now enemy number one with the so-called mainstream media. Like, for example, he decides to sit down with the BBC and they're focusing on hit Twitter. And what he did, he said, basically, it had three months to live when I took it over. It's only made money, two years in the history of Twitter. It's only made money.

He cut 60% of the workforce. Thousands of people, and it's still running fine, and he thinks he righted the ship. But listen to this agenda-driven reporter get nailed. Cut 35. You've asked me whether my fade.

whether it's got less or more. I'd say it's got slightly more. That's why I'm asking for examples. Can you name one example? I honestly don't know.

Honestly, I don't know. You can't name a single example. I'll tell you why, because I don't actually use that for you feed anymore, because I just don't particularly like it. You said a lot of people are quite similar. Hold on a second.

You said you've seen more hateful content, but you can't name a single example, not even one. I'm not sure I've used that feed for the last. Three or four weeks, and I've got to. But then how did you see the hateful cont content? Because I've been using Twitter since you've taken it over for the last six months.

Okay, so then you must have at some point seen the four you hateful content. I'm asking for one example. Right. You can't give a single one. And I'm saying, I've.

Then I say so that you don't know what you're talking about. Really? Yes, because you can't give me a single example. of hateful cont uh content, not even one tweet. and yet you claimed that the hateful content was high.

Well, right. And the thing is, this guy's mind is so open. If this guy had four or five examples, he probably would have said, Well, you know what? I probably should have taken that down, or what's hateful about it. But this guy had nothing.

But isn't that typical of the attacks without substance? It's so perfect. It's like Chef's Kiss moment. Close down the internet. This is exactly what the media does with everything.

They run. With these narrative stories as if they're true. And then, when they get the slightest pushback, they fold like a wet paper bag. You know, I can tell you from being on Twitter for a decade at this point, there are times when I get a ton of hate. There are times when I get a ton of love.

Sometimes it's a little bit of both. I actually personally have seen the hate go down significantly since Elon has taken over. But that's just anecdotal, obviously. But I would definitely say that since he has taken over, one of the fascinating things that's happened is he has really cracked down on the child porn problem on Twitter, which there has been a massive problem with. And it's interesting because suddenly when he took over, there were all these articles: you know, Elon's not doing enough about child porn.

Meanwhile, they were doing nothing about it before Elon, and nobody was writing about it.

So, all of these mainstream corporate press outlets, whether it's the BBC or it's NBC News or whatever, they have an agenda which is they don't like Twitter now because Twitter is the one social media platform besides Rumble, which is on the way up. That they do not control. And what they want more than anything else is control. And Brian, you know, I was at Twitter a couple months ago. I sat with Elon, I sat with a bunch of programmers for hours, hours and hours, no limitations on anything.

And we hadn't agreed on anything, whether I was even gonna say anything publicly about it. I said to him, it was about two in the morning, and I said to him at the end, I said, hey, do you mind if I put out a Twitter thread about what I've seen here? And without hesitation, he said to me, as long as it's true. What other CEO of a company would do that, regardless of whether it was big tech or banking or a freaking sneaker company, who would do that? Like, yes, anything you've heard here, he had no idea how many engineers I talked to and everything else.

So that tells you what they fear. They fear that transparency and they fear that they're losing narrative control. 6,500 people is down to 1,800 people, and now he said they had three months to live. He was able to save it, and he said it's been very painful. But he thinks he's got it on the right track now.

And I think it's helped this world, the cyber world, social media world immeasurably. And I just think people have somewhere to go now. It's amazing. Even though he's got this major social media platform, even though he's not a Republican and he has the most successful electric car company on the planet, he is persona non-gride at the White House. Final thought?

Yeah, what a darn shame. I mean, they care more about, you know, divert co-diversity, I would say, and equity and all of this nonsense, as opposed to bringing people into the administration or industry leaders who are at the top of their game. Let's not forget, not only is what he's doing with Twitter, but as you said, what he's doing with Tesla, what he's doing with Neuralink and Starlink, and everything this guy touches, he turns into gold. Wouldn't this guy be the exact type of person you would want involved in? thought processes related to the government, and yet he's the one pushed out.

Even when it comes to electric cars, they're bringing in everybody else except the guy that has put the best product on the market. I have a Tesla myself. It is true engineering marvel. Dave Rubin, thanks so much. Check out his podcast, The Rubin Report.

Dave, you're always the best. Thank you. Thanks, Brian. 1-866-408-7669. I'll take your calls next.

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Welcome back. Let's go to Matt Listen at WK, WXJB. Hey, Matt. Hey, Brian, great show this morning.

So, basically, what I want to say is. Um This problem with this leak, not that I agree with it at all, is detrimental to our country, our security, and all of that. But This starts at the top. Biden's administration started this ideology of allowing the work. A youth that works within to Um do the Yeah.

Be empowered, okay? We've got Corporal Kleener taking over the military, and the guys that want to go into the military, that want to fight for this country, are being pushed out to allow. Matt, I keep hearing that. I hear that from so many people serving. They're basically discouraged.

From staying on. Staying continuing their service. Because they just want to serve, they want to fight, they want to be there. Don't worry about it. You don't have to come back.

Not only is recruiting off. The messaging off, the ads terrible, but the people that are there Are not encouraged to stay. It makes no sense. If I was president, I'd be knocking heads. Austin would be in my office, and I'd want to get an explanation.

Instead, he's asking Irish kids what they think of Jesse Helms in Ireland. Children. And Hunter Biden's there to tell him what state he's from. Not him, but Jesse Helms. You listen to the Brian Kill Me Show when we come back inside this war effort.

Eldred Colby and more. Don't move. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Killmead. The Chinese military exercises uh these couple of days have been uh very serious. Uh they're coming very close to Taiwan.

and any accident might spark an uncontrollable war between Taiwan and China. And if other countries are trying to intervene, it might be the start of a war of a grand scale. Yeah, the Taiwanese are worried. They say by a two to one margin, they think that Nancy Pelosi going over there six months ago made things worse. And of course, showing some strength.

Going over to visit Taiwan, welcoming the Taiwanese president to California and New York, aggravated the Chinese. I don't think we should live or die by what the Chinese want ever. They are truly our rival, but we should be prepared to defend and fight and deal with the ramifications. And this administration doesn't seem to be able to. We don't get a coherent game plan from the Secretary of State.

Our president is shaking hands over an island, looking at bricks and churches and golf courses and meeting with children. At a time in which we're in an absolute crisis in Taiwan, in particular, as well as a diplomatic crisis with China, and we have some leadership coming from Senate and House. We're not getting it from the White House. Joining us now to discuss this is Elbridge. Colby, Deputy Secretary, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development from 2017 to 2018 with the MA and principal of the Marathon Institute.

initiative. Eldridge, welcome. It's great to be with you, Brian.

So I'm just amazed. It's like a zombie presidency. We have all these opportunities and necessities for leadership, and I'm not seeing any of it. Are you?

Well, I'm seeing a huge mismatch between sort of rhetoric and reality. We talk a lot about China, but we're not acting in anywhere near the level of seriousness. And, you know, the way I think about it, Brian, is I don't know if you remember Rocky IV, but the beginning where Dolph Lundgren, the Soviet guy, is all business and he's training in the snow and all that. And then Apollo Creed's wasting his time, and then he dances around the ring, and Dolph Lundgren clocks him and kills him in the ring. And that's what I'm concerned about now.

I agree with you that our leader should not be. To not be sort of getting their cues from Beijing. But I also think we are in a very, very, very dangerous time. And we need to have a sort of seriousness and sobriety and a realism about what we can and can't do. And I think that's, you know, the administration is falling down on that.

There are people and there are entities in the administration. They're trying to do the right thing. But as you said, President Biden, he's. He's over in Ireland, he's doing high fives, he's having photo ops. That's not what needs to happen.

Why hasn't he, for instance, Done a lot more to catalyze the defense industrial base that we know is a huge problem. That kind of thing hasn't happened yet. That's the real problem because in a sense the worst situation to be in Is to be peacocking when you're on, you know, potentially vulnerable. We should be hitting the gym. I love your examples, and you never fail with me when you use a Rocky analogy because I believe that everything goes back to at least one Rocky.

There's so much to learn. My wife agrees with you. Yeah, she loves Rocky. You know, so I mean, Apollo should not have been in the ring anyway. He was retired.

You don't take on a big robot like that, but we could always, there's always a few. There would be no creed if there was no, there would be no creed to one, two, and three if there was none of that. But here's Young Kim. Talked about what Taiwan's experiencing. The fact is, three years ago, they ordered weapons, defensive weapons.

They paid for it. They have not gotten it yet. CUD 15. Things are heating up, it seems. But when we talk to President Tsai and government and military officials in Taiwan, nobody wants war.

Nobody wants conflict in the region, in the Taiwan Strait. What they're asking is they have the will to fight and defend themselves, just like the Ukrainians did, but they need help. What they're asking the United States to do is we need to deliver the arms that they pay for and purchase. $15 billion backlogging arms that we didn't deliver.

So that's what we need to do first. Oh, but they didn't ask for a discount. They wanted to pay. Where is this stuff? Yeah, it's a huge problem.

I mean, again, a lot of this goes back years and years and decisions that were made, say, in the 90s to sort of our defense industrial base atrophied after the Cold War for reasons that were understandable 20, 30 years ago. But we're in a much different world. We should have been after this a long time ago. And we're still, the administration is still not clearly prioritizing. Taiwan arms deliveries, and they have paid for it.

I mean, I think we need to be more serious, we need to be more rigorous and more focused, but I do think the Taiwanese also need to. I'm not as. Frankly, as positive about the level of urgency on the island of Taiwan among the people there as I think it needs to be, because I think my view is Taiwan is worth defending, but it's not, you know, it's something we can't break our spear there. The analogy I like to use, if you'll forgive me, Brian, is Winston Churchill wanted to send a whole bunch of RAF aircraft to help the French as the front was collapsing in 1940, but the RAF said if you do that, we can't protect the home islands. And that's the same kind of logic here.

We've got to have that the Taiwanese have to be able to step up and defend themselves. And we've seen a lot of talk, frankly. But we're not seeing like they spend less as a proportion of their GDP than we do. That's completely unacceptable given the scale of the China fight. And one thing I would just softly disagree with the Congresswoman about is there is somebody who potentially wants a war, and that's the People's Republic.

I mean, they are deadly in earnest preparing for war. They've got a huge industrial base. Their troops are preparing. And Xi Jinping's openly talking about it.

So if you're sitting in Taiwan, they may not want a war. But as Trotsky said about communism, you may not be interested in the conflict, but the conflict may be interested in you.

So with the people listening right now If we had, let's say we had the wherewithal, they got the $19 billion worth of equipment, able to get the defensive weapons in there. We have a handful of Marines on board. Maybe we'll get some more and get some more training in to make it the porcupine. That they could be. If they were doing it, for people listening right now.

Why should they care about Taiwan? How does it affect America? Really, really practical, Brian. Thanks for asking, because I think this is the nub of the issue, because taking on China's is the huge consequential decision. I think the reasons are it's basically about the future of the world and the future of Asia.

What China's ambitions will not end. if they conquer Taiwan. And we know that and I wrote a piece in the Japanese press last week in Nikkei about this point. You know why we know? Obviously Xi Jinping talks about it, but they're building a military to go way beyond Taiwan.

If Taiwan falls, two very bad things will happen for the United States. One, our coalition could just fall apart, and the only way we're going to stand up to China and prevent it from dominating Asia is through a coalition, because people won't believe us. And secondly, they'll break right out of what's called the first island chain of Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines, if you look at a map. And they'll be, you know, people think Leyte Gulf, Philippine Sea battles, Midway, Saipan were a long time ago. We could be thinking about that kind of stuff again.

In fact, the Chinese in their military literature are thinking about the Battle of Midway.

So we shouldn't be deluded. Why is that important for Americans? Because if China controls Asia, basically, the geoeconomic, if you think about it, that kind of broad market area, that's well over 50% of the future global economy. They are definitely going to undermine our lives here at home, our economic prosperity and our political liberties. We're going to become a lot poorer.

We're going to become a lot less free. And that's a very real reality. And think about what President Macron France just did while China is just the Chinese economy. He went and kow-towed to Xi Jinping. Imagine what the Europeans and the Middle Easterners and the Latin Americans are going to do if China's that dominant.

There's very low likelihood they're going to stand with us. It's going to be a terrible, terrible situation. And the problem is, this is a hard call. This is a really tough military problem, but it is feasible. And the point is, it's better to stand here, which is where we've decided that we should stand since 1945.

It's not easy. It's not a great choice. I wish we didn't have to make it. But it's not going to get any easier. We're probably going to have to do worse things if Taiwan falls.

The key, though, Brian, and I think especially for us on the right side of the spectrum, is we've got to focus on Taiwan. There's been a lot of rhetoric, and we've got to deal with reality. We probably haven't been spending enough on defense for the last 10 or 15 years, but here's where we are. And Xi Jinping's talking about 2027. It's not a prediction.

We don't know. But how much warning do you need, right? I mean, to go back to a rocky analogy, I mean, does a guy need to punch you in the face before you take him seriously? I think that we have plenty to be worried about this happening in the next couple of years. We got to deal with the reality of where we are.

It's interesting, Sylvester Lone told us a couple of months ago that he was the bad guy. On Rocky Four, because the Cold War was melting. We were coming together with Gorbachev and he goes, You guys, now you have this hit movie that talks about the Cold War again, makes the Russian look bad. Just talk about it at the different time it was, but I thought you'd enjoy that.

So, just to build on what you said, Chinese warned the Philippines yesterday that the military tides of the U.S. will eventually backfire because we had these massive, supposedly massive military exercises over the last few days. Here's what Jack Keene says happens when we war game it out and what we have to worry about with the Chinese. We don't fit right in terms of the kind of war that we're going to experience there. A high-tech war, our surface fleet is very vulnerable.

If it moves in where it can be effective, where it's missiles, And airplanes can range China's capability, those surface ships are going to be destroyed. as high capital assets on a scale we have never even seen or experienced during World War II. the Chinese will swarm anti-ship missiles and hypersonic missiles. at those ships. If we stand them off, where they're out of range, then our fighters cannot reach the coast.

And our missiles cannot range China eat this, so they're not making any contribution.

So If we move them back, then they can't reach us, then we can't fight.

So we have to come up with something. In the meantime, I think this is the good news. The American people are on board. We get it. I think Republicans and Democrats are working together in a way I haven't seen in a really long time, really since right after nine eleven.

You talk about they're serving willingly on this China Select Committee. They're coming together on TikTok on different things. I don't like the Restrict Act, but I like that they came together and recognized the threat.

So if you are a true leader, Elbridge, you will recognize this opportunity to capitalize on it. I think you're exactly right on that, Brian. I think there is a lot of encouraging movement together in Congressman Gallagher's leadership, along with his Democratic partner, her co-chair, on that, is very encouraging. But I think we've got to not spike the football yet. We're just at the beginning of our training measurement.

And I'm glad you brought up General Keene, because General Keene and Senator Graham wrote a piece in Fox News yesterday that I think implicitly was critical of the point of view of people like me, which is that we need to focus on Asia. I think General Keene is exactly right. We are in bad shape in the Pacific. But this is the most important thing. I think we all agree, as you just said, Brian, China's the big priority.

Okay, well, we've got to live with that reality. I wish it weren't so. He wishes it weren't so. We wish we had maybe a two-war military or something. Which means you could fight multiple wars at the same time.

We don't. And we can argue about whose fault that is, but we got to live in the here and now. And the critical thing is the way that we can deal with it, we got to narrow the problem. A lot of this is about the right missiles, munitions, artillery, air defense systems. And we know that those are in short supply.

I mean, this has been reported now.

So, you know, my view is we should support the Ukrainians, but we have got to genuinely prioritize China and Taiwan, because I think what the Chinese are probably trying to do is bog us down in the Ukraine. And I know that's not as stirring in some ways, but I think the American people are owed a real, kind of, frankly, realism and grappling with the real problem. And I think if we can hold the line and avoid a war on good terms, the way to prevent the Chinese from attacking Taiwan is for them to see they'll fail. Mao Zedong, he wanted to get after Taiwan in 1951, but he knew he couldn't get after it because Dwight Eisenhower was right there. That's the kind of mindset that we need.

We got it. We got to take what General Keene is saying about the problem, but we also got to take that where if we don't have enough money to spend on both fixing the kitchen and plugging a massive leak, you fix the leak first. No, it's so interesting is remember Shankai-shek was the guy. He was the guy we were backing. And he fled to Taiwan.

And I always wondered, never really researched heavily, you know, why didn't Mao go for the kill? Because we stopped it. It's an interesting story. Originally, Truman was going to let him go. He was going to let Chiang Kai-shek go, and the Communists were preparing to cross.

But then they launched the Korean War, and Truman said, I'm going to put the Seventh Fleet in.

So it's a good example of how history has these twists and turns. And here we are a long time later. And I think one of the things we should say, communicate to the Chinese is. You lost Taiwan because you intervened and you launched the Korean War. You don't know what's going to happen if you attack Taiwan, but it's certainly not going to be we're not going to make it better for you.

And that's the kind of message. But the critical root of that is, Brian, to your point, is we had the Seventh Fleet and the Chinese had nothing. And that's the reason we've people talk about Kissinger and Nixon. I'm a big admirer of them in a lot of ways. But the real reason that's kept the peace over the Taiwan Strait the last seventy years Dramatic U.S.

military support is superiority in the air and naval department. And that's what the Chinese have been working to undermine, unfortunately, very successfully over the last 25 years. Yeah, very interesting because it also is a big symbol of what China could become if they had freedom, if they had a free market, if they had the ability to travel. They see Taiwan as an example, and the government hates it, but the people must be wondering how the hell are they doing it? Their quality of life is so much better.

Their resources are so much less, but yet they continue to thrive. And on a practical note, they have 90% of the world's chips.

So we can't let them be absorbed by our chief economic and military enemy. Elbridge, thanks so much. Thanks, Brian. Pleasure. All right.

When we come back, we'll take your calls. 1-866-408-7669. So interesting. Brian Kilmead show. It's Brian Kilmead.

A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. when I went to the courthouse, which is also a prison. in a sense. Uh they signed me in.

And I'll tell you, people were crying, people that worked there. Brian. Yes. You, while we were listening to the interview, said, I was, you completely bought that everybody was crying. You even said that.

There's no okay. I find it hard to believe in New York City at the courthouse, they were weeping. I didn't think Ron DeSantis had tears in his eyes begging for a tweet to endorse him as governor. But what he's doing is he's underlying the situation that everyone real loves him and he's being railroaded. But as I mentioned to Kellyanne in the green room, because you're so busy going over your other show, The Five, we had a chance to talk.

We were just going over the green room. He seems like he's having a good time. Trump. Number two is the best line of that interview was, I shouldn't say this, but the Chinese interpreter, very attractive. That was the best line.

I forgot about that. That was so good. I mean, so. He's really attractive. Yeah, really.

He had to say he repeated it. We should have had that in the next one. Tucker, don't get me sidetracked. Let me go back to you.

So I do think that was last night on Gutfeld. But in fact, do you want to hear it? This is what Donald Trump said while he was trying to describe his first meeting with President Xi.

So when I dealt with President Sharge with him the whole weekend, he had an incredible I'm not allowed to say it because it's very impolite and very politically incorrect. A beautiful Female interpreter. She's very beautiful. Today, if you say it, they'll say this is terrible. You're not allowed to say that.

But she was very professional. She spoke every word for him. Very professional. had another couple of them too, but She was there. What does that have to do with anything?

Right? I mean, what does that have to do with anything? Really, listen, I walked into this club, it was on fire. I'll tell you, the woman that came running out first, really attractive. She was screaming for her life.

Her child was inside, but she was very attractive. I shouldn't say that. But I mean, yeah, three people were mugged. I got to the scene. The one person that wasn't mugged, very hot.

Great body. But listen, I shouldn't say that because, you know, people were beat up and mugged and lo and were robbed. But the first person who wasn't mugged, very attractive. But it's a very bad thing to say. It's just you have to stay with the program with the former president of the United States, whose poll numbers, he's up in South Carolina, he's up in New Hampshire, he's up in Iowa, he's up nationally.

Now, I talked to Chris Noonu this morning, the governor of New Hampshire I thought has a legitimate shout and be a totally different choice. And he's not anti-Trump. He just doesn't think Trump can win. He said he was a real good president, but his time is done. That's his philosophy.

Tell me if you think it'll work. He said, We've got to see if DeSantis' ready for prime time, and we're going to see if there's no way. that these polls matter. The poll's not going to matter until the fall and maybe after the debate in August. I don't know if I agree with that.

I do think uh what polls do is show momentum. And when that weird one pops up like the cube poll or a Reuters poll that shows something totally different, you kind of lay out and you say, Well, I wonder if someone's gonna mirror that. But with the President's doing so far, Is not making any major mistakes, not having lunch any white supremacists. That's all you can ask. But today, part of the problem.

Back in New York. Politically motivated, the Attorney General will question him for hours about what she claims is massive fraud with his organization.

Now Am I not hurt em? If there's eight people in. The Republican primary. But in the general is a big thing. And that's what I looked at: independence thought, recognize.

That the Alvin Bragg's situation was political. But still, over 50% said They were supportive of the indictment, even though they knew it was political. Not Democrats, independents.

Now the president's got a real good team around a foreign president. If he's gonna win... He's gotta answer that question. From Hia Tom Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead.

Hi everyone, welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Killmeat Show. Coming to you here from 48 Sinclair, Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world, where listen to this study in New York City. They did a study, they asked the people of New York, what do you think about staying? They say 27% said they will be leaving within five years. You wonder, and their answer is to jack up the taxes and everyone left.

And by the way, 14,000 plus by this time last year had already left for Florida. This time it's already 10,000 have already left. In a matter of moments, we're going to be talking to Tim Stewart about how you'd power yourself to leave in the future. You have to plug in first, then pack up your electric car and go. He's president of U.S.

Oil and Gas, and we want to go over what the President announced yesterday and the impact on American life. John Levine here, too, New York Post, writer all over the Hunter Biden story. Major revelations this week as Hunter travels with his dad on a family vacation instead of running the country. Big three.

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Electric cars are so popular, the government has to mandate them and subsidize them. Look, this whole rule is a failure. No kidding, Steve Malloy weighing in, EV madness, the agenda-driven administration sacrifices our national security to China as they mandate a rapid flip to electric cars. Where are the batteries made? Where are the rare earth found?

You guessed it, China. We're going to debate the affordability and folly of this crazy quest. Number two. Once again, we are close allies to the US. Vis-à-vis China.

The European strategy is quite clear. We don't want to have any decoupling from China because we really think that this is an illusion, but we want to de-risk from China. Yeah, here we go Red China threat rising, a betrayal explained in a president on a family vacation. That's the state of America's foreign policy and the challenges as turbulence rises around the world. Number one.

The documents were often listed as Ukraine versus Russia at first.

However, it slowly spiraled into just intelligence about everything. He was a very smart man. There's no way in any world that he would not know that he knew that these were illegal. Clues to the breach, the biggest breach of Intel, not from a cyber thief, a brilliant Russian, a very sophisticated Chinese member of their intelligence apparatus, but it turns out a young.

So-called charismatic gun enthusiast male looking to impress a bunch of teenagers. It seems to be on a military base. The documents are legit. It started months ago, and the pain. Is not done.

Hundreds of documents still out there about to be released into the public mainstream, and we don't have the guy. The reason I have the details is because of the Washington Post and New York Times. Better than the FBI at tracking down other people in his small social media. Uh cubby hole. Let's talk about the other major story.

Even though this is major news, the President of the United States didn't think he should announce it. Michael Regan, one of the most talented guys in this administration, by the way, the EPA administrator, came out and announced such strict tailpipe regulations that he believes that he's forcing every American to think about buying an electric car. They want 70% of us to have an electric car within nine years. Tim Stewart is the President of U.S. Oil and Gas.

Tim, what's your reaction to these new emissions standards and the President's quest?

Well, when you've got 87% of Americans who haven't embraced this sort of utopian approach, and they say that either can't afford or they're not going to buy an EV, this rule is designed, Brian, to punish them until they understand that this is for their own good, don't you think? I mean, these regulations essentially regulate cars with combustible engines out of business by making these rules so stringent that automakers just can't afford to comply and so they'll force them into this transformation of the automotive industry. And the fact of the matter is socialists are going to socialists and socialists say get in line in either the breadline or the gulag. And so they're telling automakers to get in line. And it's bad for the rest of us to do that.

Well, our grids aren't carbon free? The batteries, we have no way to get rid of them. We don't have the rare earth or we refuse to mine it here. China has locked up most of Africa and the Congo, so they pretty much run things over there. They have other rare earth themselves, and they are the chief battery maker, so we're going to be subservient to them.

And we don't have the power stations.

So that led, here's Michael Reagan, Reagan, the administrator. Let's listen. Most EV batteries right now are produced in China.

So how do you balance the administration's climate goals while also trying to achieve its goal of reducing reliance on China? That's a great question. And so we look at it in twofolds. We have to walk and chew gum at the same time. This proposal doesn't kick in until model year twenty twenty seven.

So we've got some years to ramp up. We hope that we can take advantage of that runway. Yeah, take advantage of that runway. We don't have a we haven't paved the runway. There's no pathway there.

There's no incentive on manufacturing. Government's not going to bring it here. And again, the problem with the EVs, and you're not a car expert, but oil and gas, is that a small fender better could cost you $25,000. Because if you damage the battery, that's how much they cost. And every five years you're rotated out.

The average person listening to us lives paycheck to paycheck. Can't afford these cars initially, and it can't buy them used because the battery is going to be gone in five to seven years.

So I can speak from experience. I actually own an EV, and yesterday I got the bill from the shop, and I'm looking at a $5,000 repair bill and a month for parts because my son took the car out in the snowstorm last week and damaged the drivetrain when he slid into the curb. This is this, you know, it's more than walking, chewing gum, okay? This is the classic sort of utopian EPA approach, which is, oh, we can make this happen because we want it to happen. The reality is, look, fuel economy standards were implemented in 1975 in response to the oil embargo.

And we were relying on foreign oil for our energy security. It took us four decades to get off that. When you have 80% of the global supply chain, most of the batteries and materials of the railroads are controlled by China, and there's no plan to change that other than chewing and walking, you know, walking and chewing gum at the same time. You know, we can subsidize factories to build batteries in the U.S., but we can't get the raw materials to manufacture parts, and it's no value. EPA is essentially managing.

That U.S. energy security be completely reliant on China by no later than 2032. We've gone from relying on OPEC to energy independence to relying on China for our future energy security in my lifetime, and I'm not that old. This is horrible policy, and we're all going to be paying the price for it. You know, we're not trying to pan for gold.

We have this natural resource, oil and gas, Tim Stewart, and we have not even replenished the strategic oil reserve. And we watched the uh Saudis cut production to help Russia. And China, so they're cutting production on the world market. What's it doing to the price?

Well, and this is part of the plan overall. I mean, at this point, it's going to take them seven to ten years to really fully replenish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. But if they figure that where they're moving eighty percent of the new vehicles to EV, they don't need to do that. And so there's the petroleum reserve isn't an issue to them anymore because it's been overcome overtaken by these more glorious events that are laid out.

So but we are we are in we are one twentieth of what our capacity is there. And it is really, really frightening because there are a lot of global events that will happen before we ever make this full transition to EVs. And the world too.

So Tim, what is the state of oil and gas right now? And what is your response when people say they're still making a great profit?

Well, you know, and we're also yeah, we're also paying much higher wages. We've been hit with the same inflationary pressures that everybody else has. The U.S. producers have done a really good job, and we will never get credit from this administration. But if you you know, Call, when you and I were talking a year ago, the issue was you got to ramp up, you got to get up there.

And we did, and our production is going to hit pretty, you know, almost near record levels this year so long as the economy remains strong. But the reality is our refining infrastructure is still weak, and the administration has not done anything to help the refiners on that side. And we're in a good position to keep providing a product for the American people. But if the Biden administration says that in seven years there's no need for gasoline, it's going to cause us to reconfigure our investment as well. We're still going to need petrochemicals.

We're going to need plastics for these cars. And the fact of the matter is they're going to need us for the next hundred years until they kind of they find substitutes for all the materials that are going to go on these cars.

So I want you to hear, this is good news for you, what Kevin O'Leary of Shark Tank said. Listen. At the end of the day, we can make our own energy here very clean. We haven't built a refinery in America in decades because we can't permit it. You know, I don't think, I wasn't going to, I wasn't planning on saying this, but I'm at that stage in my life where I want to do something big.

And the task that I've decided I'm going to take on is I'm going to build a refinery in America. Oh, wow. I'm going to do it. I'm going to syndicate the 14. I don't know why I broke it here, but it's going to cost about $14 billion.

I'm going to syndicate that debt and that equity. I'm going to find a state that wants to work with me. I'm going to get a permit, and we're going to do the right thing for America. We have to have more refineries.

Well, that's the key. How's that? You know, the shark is smart and the shark follows the smart money. The smart money stays with the oil and gas industry. And we'll back him 100%.

Getting that permit is probably going to require a different administration, so he may be waiting for a year or two. But again, Kevin, I don't know him, but they get the smart money stays with the industry, and that's been proven over the last two years when the administration was trying to make us go away in January of twenty one. Here is the host of Power Hungry Podcast, Robert Bryce. He put in perspective the practicality of what they're doing. Cut 23.

The average price of a new EV is $58,000. Who's buying EVs? It's the Benz and Beamer crowd. These numbers are very well known. The average household income for an EV buyer is $140,000 a year.

That's twice the national average household income. This is very much a class issue, and it's not just about the affordability of the vehicles themselves. It's about the upgrades to the grid that we're all going to have to pay for through the rate base and through our taxes.

So, what is this going to require? Massive upgrades to the electric grid that are going to be rate-based and then make every ratepayer will have to pay for these upgrades. And these upgrades are going to be very expensive because the grid simply isn't ready to handle all this new demand. That's how you do it. And the president's not even around to back it up.

They don't even have people around to take a series of questions to pound them into this. And these new emissions standards are just going to be impossible to comply with. Tim, we thought we'd have permitting reform at the very least. But among the people disappointed, Joe Manchin.

Some people have combined it. I think what came out of the House is they'll combine it with permitting for windmills, too. Hey, well, speed up the windmill permitting. If you speed up the oil and gas drilling, whatever happened with that?

Well, it's still the Senate is going to be taking it up here by the end of the year, hopefully, because it has to be done. But can I point something out? Nobody's talking about this is really interesting. The Department of Interior last week announced they're going to put a brand new emphasis in regulatory form on conservation and management of public lands. What that will do is actually that actually will kill a dozen or more large scale renewable projects that were planned to be sited on public lands because they haven't taken into consideration the conservation impacts.

So with this one hand not knowing what the other hand is doing, permitting reform is crucial. And we are linked at the hip on this. With the renewables and the oil and gas industry are both linked at the hip that if you are that we have got to have permits if we want to function in a in a in an industrial society, we've got to be able to get get the permits done to do what we need to do. And yet your administration itself is keeps nailing with our foot to the floor trying to accomplish things like this. Amazing.

Tim Stewart, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Great green, mister. Thanks. Appreciate it.

You got it. 1866-408-7669. We go inside the Hunter situation when we come back, but also straight ahead when we return. The latest on the investigation into the biggest leak that I can remember, bigger than Snowden, bigger than Chelsea Handler and WikiLinks. Brian, Kill Meet Show.

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There certainly is, as the CIA director was saying, some concern as to what else is out there, because usually someone doesn't just take just a handful of documents. And we'll have to learn as this goes on whether or not we have additional vulnerabilities that we have to address. This is espionage. If it's an American, they're a traitor. They'll be brought to justice.

And we're going to continue the search so that we can plug this leak and keep our secrets safe.

So they were able to get inside this one chat room, this gaming chat room, where about 20 people were. And the guy that emerged as a leader had Intel access and was able over the course of months. We don't know who it is, but we know the initials. Over the course of months, was able to share with the people in his group. On giving their word they would not share with anybody else or any other site with intelligence on the war, on American interaction with their allies and our enemies, and what we knew and what we didn't know.

Now, it doesn't look like it's human intelligence, but it looks like it's signal intelligence, stuff that you get off the internet, stuff that you're able to put sound devices into various rooms. It looks like we have great sources and great contacts and great electronic ability with the Russians. We're able to find out that Vladimir Putin had to personally come in and referee a dispute between the Wagner Group and the head of the FSB, which is their military, I was saying, DOD, on weapons. And still least of it.

So this pl this site called Discord Washington Post was able to convince somebody under 18, got the mother's permission for them to go into a to back shadow. And in order to speak and tell exactly what was going on there, how this intelligence got out, what they were able to see. That's more than we can find out the FBI is doing.

Now, it's been speculated by people like Mike Turner, who you just heard, that the FBI has got their eyes on the person already, just waiting for them to make a move and they're going to grab him almost like a stone-cold killer. But what are they waiting for? Knowing that the worst is not done yet, this guy disappears. No one will ever have a career that was involved in this surveillance. And believe me, if I think they had him, they would have got him.

Here's Mike McCall cut seven. Very uh damaging uh to the United States and our allies, essentially given the road map, if you will, to our strategy in Ukraine against Russia. Whoever did this, in my judgment, is guilty of espionage by giving away our secrets, which will only empower and embolden Chairman Xi in China and Putin in Russia. And just having gotten back from Taiwan, we were circled by 10 battleships, an aircraft carrier, and 70 fighter jets. It's very serious.

And it's really going to hurt Ukraine, which is very sad, as they're building their counteroffensive in the springtime.

So they're able to adjust, they think. able to see pretty clearly that they definitely desperate for arms, desperate for missile defense rockets that go in there and knock them out of the sky, desperate to get their allies to pull their own weight and make sure duplicitous acts like the UAE and Egypt aren't able to supply Russia in this extremely desperate time. But Rush was able to get this intel on Telegram, change it, and then put it back out there.

So some of the stuff is disinformation, but most of the stuff isn't, or else, believe me, we would have been walking it back. I seemed a member drawn to this guy's name is OG. All these guys were drawn to his bravado. They said that he could use weapons. He always talked about God.

He always talked about the military. They felt a certain kinship for each other during the pandemic. Quote, I was one of the very few people in the service that was able to understand that these documents were legitimate. It felt like I was on top of Mount Everest. I felt like I was above everyone else to some degree.

They felt special. 'Cause they're able to take in some of the intelligence and post it up and nobody else had it. Think about this. He also went on to say that they knew it was wrong cut to. The documents were often listed as Ukraine versus Russia at first.

However, it slowly spiraled into just intelligence about everything. He was a very smart man. There's no way in any world that he would not know that he knew that these were illegal. And if he's that smart? He's always looking at a lifetime in prison.

And uh at least domestic derision. And he has jeopardized our relations with all our allies, who are never going to look at us the same way. Just like it took forever to come back from Snowden, WikiLeaks, and from Chelsea Manning.

Now it's gonna take forever to come back from this and we haven't even ended it yet. Just can you imagine? We saw 33 documents and 27 documents. There could be hundreds out there that could be flooding our way. You listen to the Brian Killmee Show inside the Hunter Biden case in a moment.

The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmeade. Mr. Vice President, how many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings? I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.

I have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else. and they haven't to do with our businesses, period. And what I will do is the same thing we did in our administration. It will be an absolute wall between personal and private and the government. Do you stand by your statement that you did not discuss any of your son's overseas business dealing with the state?

I stand by that statement. President Biden multiple times saying nothing to do with Hunter business stuff. We kind of accept we had a big wall up there. Not so. As vice president, 80 visits from Hunter Biden's business associates multiple times with a lot of the same people.

What were they talking about? Golf, sports, hunter's crack? What were they talking about? Let's put logic in there, and then we have an additional witness and a guy that's been following it. John Levine, New York Post writer.

John, welcome back. Those words, we knew when he said it. He got the sense they were going to come back to haunt him. Are we there yet? Oh yeah, no, Peter Peter Docey, that clip with Peter, that should be in the Smithsonian.

because that really defines the whole era we're in. That's the heart of everything is what it's not this is not about Hunter Biden. This is about Joe Biden and what potential involvement he had in his son's business dealing and what to that that involvement now potentially compromised him as President of the United States. But we can't have this conversation in a real way because they continue to deny. The the reality As he says in that clip and over and over since, I've never had any involvement in my son's overseas business dealings.

But now we have now 80 different documented visits to the White House or the Naval Observatory by different Hunter Biden business partners. Just when we thought we'd looked under this rock and there was nothing left to see, up pops another business partner. Her name was Joan or Joan Mayer. Vice President of Rosemont Senate has 17 visits to the White House and Naval Observatory. 27 for naval.

What are they doing? Yeah, Eric Sherwin, John Walker, 16. Katie Dodge, 9. That's a personal assistant. Another longtime in.

Your colleague Dana Perino, who's a White House veteran, says this is crazy. When she was there, something like that would have been completely abnormal. This is a completely abnormal situation. And as you say, they're not talking about golf. They're not talking about the weather.

They're not national security experts. They don't have expertise in any specific. Field that would require them to be there, would they just it's just kind of a black hole what business they have before these people around President Biden. And by the way, they were not meeting Obama people. They were not meeting with Obama people.

They were meeting with aides and staffers to Vice President Biden. It was never Obama people.

So, you know, I always wonder in the back of my mind, I've said this and people laugh, do you think Barack Obama. Is ticked. As he reads this, he goes, he understands. He's not waiting for the investigation to play out. He already knows there's something disturbing.

Remember the interchange? You cover this. Remember the exchange back and forth when he went over there because he had the Ukraine portfolio and his son was working on the Brisma board and his bow sadly had just died. And his staff was going back and forth saying, This looks terrible. It looks terrible that his son's serving on the board at the same time he's over in Ukraine trying to figure out if Russia's going to try to take the rest of the country.

And on some level, it's actually worse than just looks. Mike McCormick is a stenographer in the Obama White House and witnessed this. Listen to a little what he said last night, Cut 20. Joe Biden was in the front of the plane. My job as a White House stenographer was to be in the back of the plane.

And if Joe or a senior administration official came back and did a briefing, then I would record it and make a transcript. And that senior administration official was Jake Sullivan. I didn't see anything wrong with it at the time. Years go by. I'm writing books and I get a hold of the Hunter Biden laptop.

About a year and a half ago, I started writing a sub stack based on what I find. And then I go back over what I knew happened. I found the transcript that I wrote about that briefing. That's when Jake Sullivan starts talking about fracking. Because of what I'd read in a laptop and reported in my sub stack previously, I'm like, wait a minute, Joe Biden knew Hunter Biden was already on the board on April 18th.

He directed Sullivan to go back and talk to the press. Is this unbelievable? You know, the Obama people knew Hunter was a liability from the get-go. Because I remember he was working in 2008, Hunter was working as a lobbyist. And they ordered him to stop doing that because it was a bad look for the campaign.

And then you have to remember things like when Joe Biden was considering a run for President in 2016, he ultimately didn't do it.

Now, the Obama people were against this. It's been widely reported that Obama put his thumb on the scale for Hillary Clinton. and against his own vice president in that contest. Because you have to wonder what played into that decision. And I have a it's it's it's certainly plausible to assume that he would have been aware of Hunter's vulnerabilities and liabilities.

And this exact same situation we're now experiencing. He didn't want that to come out. Here's more from McCormick, cut 21. Public corruption. That's what the FBI is supposed to investigate.

So I wrote a Substack about it in November. Nothing happened. I went to the FBI and filled out their witness tip line. I submitted it. If you lie to the FBI when you're submitting a tip like that, you can go to jail.

I'm not lying. I'm telling the truth. Joe Biden is lying. Joe Biden is a criminal. That's the bottom line.

I don't care if he goes to Timbuktu or Island or anywhere. He's a criminal. And I've got the evidence. If they put me in front of the grand jury that's right now seated in Wilmington. with Special Prosecutor David Weiss.

My testimony becomes the evidence that will put him in jail or lead to his impeachment.

Or not running again. And the bottom line is, doesn't seem to be that much curiosity, but the bank records could be key, John. Can we expect more on the bank records? Because it seems as though Comer is having some making some progress there. It's very slow, it's very plotting.

So they got the SARS, the suspicious activity reports. Hunter Biden and family have over 150 of them. Most humans go through their lives not generating one. And so apparently they've been trying to get these for months. And they got them.

And the Treasury Department has fought them, but now they're letting them look at them, but only in camera, which means they can go to the Treasury and physically look at stuff. And they can like take notes and leave. They can't take pictures. But I have to tell you, I don't know that the American public's ever going to see them. I'm being told there's a lot of bureaucracy and regulations and protocols that they have to follow.

And I don't know if the American public's ever going to see these suspicious activity reports, which would be very sad because I think we all have a right to know what's in them. And I I just hope we can keep going through them, and maybe the banks that were involved. It can cooperate so that they don't necessarily have to come from the Treasury, but from the banks that generated them. But it's still very slow going. Of people that have visited the White House, including Rob Walker down the list, John Walker.

I don't know if John's his full name, I'm not sure, but Rob Walker's been asked to testify. And the word is: there are people, business partners, willing to testify. I'm not sure if they want their name out there, it's going to be behind closed doors, but that would be key. Besides Tony Bobolinski, whose credibility is beyond reproach, but his testimony has just been ignored outside Fox and the New York Post.

Somebody else walks up and goes, Yeah, I was doing this deal. Joe was involved. I made sure he got a piece of the action, which means he has no problem lying multiple times, making up stories on a regular basis. This would be one that's going to be tough to outrun. And this might be a time, John, to factor politics in where maybe Democrats won't scurry to block.

'Cause they might say, man, if if this gets worse, it will be too late. Maybe this is our opening. I'm very curious to see how this plays out this summer.

Well, in terms of business partners cooperating, the best lead here is Eric Schwarren. Eric Schwarren was the president of Rosemont Seneca, that was Hunter Biden's investment firm. He acted sort of as a family CFO consoliere for a decade. He's all over the hard drive. He was.

very intimately aware of both Hunter and Joe's finances. He's like the key, he's the Tom Hagen. to use a a godfather, you know, a reference. And he's cooperating with the Oversight Committee. As far as I know, they're in talks with his attorneys, and he's going to offer his testimony to them voluntarily.

There's no need for a subpoena. And there could be, he knows everything. He knows everything, he knows where all the bodies are buried. If there is a there there. then Schwarn's going to have it.

So that's probably the thing we should all be watching very closely. Absolutely. And then these paperwork turns up in his house. It's Ukraine related. The guys at Sun's on the board.

It's amazing. So, yeah, so this is basically where we're at right now. John Levine, thanks so much. Continue good work. Thank you.

All right, John Levine, working with the New York Post, trying to hunt out to the bottom of this, get to the bottom of this, as well as James Comer. And if Joe Biden, if this is about Hunter Biden, a crack addict who loves hookers and did some bizarre international deals which he had no business to be in the middle of. Good luck with that. It's over. It's Billy Carter.

It's uh Roger Clinton. But how it relates to the president is key. And how comfortable he is not telling the truth is disconcerting. You listen to Brian, kill me, chill. Don't move.

Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead. Um If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. Thousands of Xi Ji and King, I've spent more time with than any world leader has over the last 10 years. Get it over and keep Meticulous count, as the former teacher will know, and over now.

Yeah. 87 hours worth. And I was in the Tibetan plateau with him. I traveled 17,000 miles in China over 10 years. He asked me, he said, can you define America for me?

I could say the same of Ireland. I said, yes, I can. I said, in one word. possibilities. We believe anything is possible.

Anything is possible. Anything's possible if we set our mind to it. That's who we are. That's what we believe, in my view. That is the President of the United States telling the same story over and over again.

We have not heard it echoed from President Xi, and the relationship has not really panned out for us here in America. Welcome back, everyone. That's a little of the President's ridiculous trip to Ireland, totally unnecessary. And I speak to you saying that I'm half Irish. I have relatives still living over there in Ireland.

That's fine. I would not say. I'm going to go through Ireland, take the show, take the whole staff, take all the press court, not talk to them, even though multiple things are blowing up around the world, including this major breach of intelligence out of our Defense Department. Think about this. I'm sure the press is having a good time in Ireland to a degree, but you're there not to have a good time.

You really wanted your good time. For our guys and for everybody else who follows President Rounds, getting an interview, getting a good question off, having a press conference, making news. Doin' a Better Story And doing a better story isn't going to see old churches in Ireland and hearing stories that probably didn't happen that the president made up. Let's find out if there's even more to know. More.

To know. Live with Kelly and Ryan will be no longer Mark Contuelis, who married Kelly Rippa, not just to get the show. This is just on a side note. Pete's pursuing this story. But the final episode.

Will be very nice and emotional for Ryan. They'll do some surprises and a retrospective look at his five years on the show. All right. Um he does a lot, unbelievably successful. But I would hope that my final show you'd do better than Joe Biden.

That was gonna be my question. Who would you want on your final show many years down the road? I could start on it now. Probably Mark Teason. I think that can happen.

All right, good. And Alan West. Th those those are the guys who drove the shell. And Sylvester Stallone. We might get him back in May.

He's got a reality show. I'm trying to convince him to do radio. Hopefully he'll come up. Oh, nice. What's the reality show called?

His whole family. Oh, the Stallones? Yeah. Something like that. Nice.

Next. Jamie Foxx suffers medical complications. According to his daughter, he's already on his way to recovery. You know how good an actor he is. Luckily, due to quick action and great care, he's already on his way to getting out of the hospital.

We know how beloved he is and how appreciative his prayers are. The family asked for privacy. It's currently unclear what kind of medical condition he has. What is that about? Guy's in great shape.

What could possibly have gone wrong? Yeah, I mean. Thankfully he's in, he's doing well well ba better, but It's a rough thing to just yeah, we'll find out.

Next, billionaire Jeff Bezos will not pl uh place a bid to purchase the Washington Commanders. Why?

Now the world's third richest man out of the picture. The Harris Group is now seen as Commanders' chief buyer, led by the Seventy Sixers and Devils owner Josh Harrish. The group also includes Magic Johnson. How many gay teams is he going to buy? I know.

He owns almost every sport. And Mitchell Rails, another group led by Canadian businessman Steve Adanopoul, is also placing a bid. I don't even know if Snyder's going to sell. Is he being forced to sell? That's what it looks like.

And I also saw, that wasn't in this one, that Bezos knew that Snyder was never going to sell to him, but he opened up an exploratory committee just in case he would change his mind.

Next, shorter games in Major League Baseball.

Now they have to make an adjustment. People are happy. Fans are happy. Players are happy. Pitchers are not happy.

But the problem is no one's buying beer or enough beer.

So instead of the seventh inning stretch and a cutoff after seven, they will now extend it to the eighth inning. A group of teams currently, including the Arizona Diamondbacks, Texas Rangers, Minnesota Twins, as well as Marquee Brewers, will do that. Is that okay with you? If the games are going quicker, they need to get their sales. Yeah, but the problem is they don't want people leaving.

Well, that's the thing. And I saw that the brewer's owner, or somebody from the brewers, made a comment saying. In print, that we care about the fan's safety.

So, if you're gonna do this in the eighth inning and the game goes so fast, you're gonna guzzle down a beer and be on the road. within minutes. Right. Uh you're gonna have to warn before you're gonna have to drink before you go. It's the only way to solve this problem.

Yes. Next! Hmm, I'll skip that. Air Jordans, 13s, worn by Michael Jordan during the 1998 NBA Finals, sold for. $2.2 million plus, the highest price ever paid for smelly sneakers.

Soda Bees announced the historic sale on Tuesday. Uh, warned in game two, the pivotal matchup against the Utah Jazz. It should have been the last game he played, right? The Michaels' original deal with Nike was worth $2.5 million. Who would think all these years later his sneakers would go for that?

Other bulls were down 1-0. Jordan lived up to the clutch. His reputation scored 37 points in those shoes. I don't know why they're selling them. Why didn't you keep 'em?

Well, he didn't have them. And these shoes apparently travel, but what makes it unique, it's the complete pair, because apparently a lot of the shoes that have been sold or sneakers have only been one of the two.

Next, LeBron James leads the NBA's jersey sales. Steph Curry is second. Curry, Jason Tatum, Giannis, and Luca rounded out the top five. Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, Jamor Morant, as Morant, as well as Damian Lillard and Kyrie Irving make the list as well. How could Kyrie Irving make the list?

Additionally, the Los Angeles Lakers sold more merchandise than any other team. The Warriors, Celtics, Suns, Bucks, Pulls, Knicks, 76ers, Mavericks, and Nets also made the list. What first time? I think second time ever. All five New York teams made in major sports made the playoffs.

First time since 94, I believe. Yeah, and so it might be the second time ever.

So you got the Rangers, Islanders went in last night, the Devils. And in basketball, the Nets incredibly. The best coach, I believe, in New York area is the Nets coach, Jock Vaughan. What he was able to do with that team. Even though they traded the Two best players will not play.

Ben Simmons won't play. He's hurt or his head's damaged, psychological problem, and they still make the playoffs. Not only that, they don't have to worry about the play-in game either.

So they're in and they're just waiting for their opponent. Yeah, I think, yeah, they play on Saturday. They're going to play 76.

Okay. Yeah. Best football movies, top five ever. Number five, Brian's song. I got it.

Got it. Any given Sunday, I put Brian's song above that. Remember the Titans? Awesome movie. Friday Night Lights.

I believe it or not, I never saw it. And Rudy. But Rudy's even bigger than a sports movie, don't you think? Yeah, Rudy definitely transcended. He only had one play.

So does remember the Titans, because I know people that do not follow football at all. They love Remember the Titans, I guess, because of the message. Yeah, because it was segregated South, coming together, force busing, and they were able to come together and do exceedingly well. I interviewed both those coaches in real life, too. Oh, wow.

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