Biden About to Announce His Reelection Bid Even Though No One Wants Him To

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It has now officially come to a close, but you're going to be informed and entertained, and I appreciate you tuning in. The number to call to be a part of the show: 1-866-408-7669. We saw the dramatic events that took place in Sudan. We also know the revelation of a story that it looks like the Taliban is combining with us to fight ISIS-K. Do you believe it?

Jennifer Griffin will unwind all this, and Ronna McDaniel standing by, chairman of the RNC.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three: Because of our actions in Afghanistan, the global war on terror is rearing back. Sudan, all of these countries, you've mentioned the Wagner Group, they are just breeding grounds for terrorist activity. There you go. That is Kieran Skinner, who used to be the deputy to Mike Pompeo.

Americans deal with the devil. In an effort to curb the rise of ISIS-K, they are actually teaming. The U.S. is teaming with the Taliban while watching the Wagner Group assert itself all over Africa. And we're leaving Sudan, and there's pressure from Republicans to leave Somalia.

Foreign policy lows for any administration, especially this one. Number two.

Well, right now we have nine, but I believe in the end that number will be at least 12. I mean, this was the Biden family influence peddling scheme. Yeah, that is James Comer, the Biden investigations. More from Hunter.

Now, records show the business involves many, many more Biden family members as Hunter's lawyers head to the DOJ to work out, I don't know, some type of deal, perhaps. You will find out soon. And an out-of-wedlock kid with a stripper sues him, meaning Hunter, because he's not paying child support. What an embarrassment to the country. Number one.

My own sense is that most Americans don't want to vote for an 81-year-old man for president. Neither do they really want to vote for a 77-year-old man for president. They'd like to go to the next generation. ABC's Terry Moran, pretty significant. 5%.

That's how many Americans would like a sequel to the Biden-Trump 2020 campaign. It looks more likely than not. Regardless, Biden's announcement officially will come down tomorrow, and Trump's nomination contenders, Ron DeSantis, Tim Scott, Mike Pence, and Chris Sununu, should be in within weeks. What does that mean for Ronna McDaniel and her quest to fill up that debate stage come August? And another one's been announced too right afterwards.

Ronna, welcome back. Great to be with you. And of course, that first debates with Fox.

So we're really excited for that debate in Milwaukee in August. I'm stunned by that poll, the NBC poll, that's only five percent of Americans want to see a sequel. What do you hear when you're out when you're out and about? It's all across the board. I think people are excited about taking on Biden.

More than anything, I hear people really concerned about this administration, what's happening with fentanyl, what's happening with our border, what's happening with crime. And so they're nervous. They want to see Republicans take back the White House. Um I know you're not going to get involved in picking a candidate. That's not what you do.

But Governor Chris Nunu is making it clear that Trump's the frontrunner and he can't win cut eight.

Well, it's not just 2020, right? We got crushed in 2022. We should have 54 U.S. Senate seats. We don't because he is part of that message.

We lost in 2018.

So it's not just about whether he won or lost in 20, which he did, of course, but it's really about we can complain about things or we can make sure that, you know, you can't govern if you don't win. And again, so he drags that ticket down. I think that that reality is going to really come to bear through the primary process.

So I understand folks are supporting him. They think that a lot of this stuff with the DA is political, which I believe it is too, by the way. It's creating a lot of sympathy. He's playing the victim card, right? Believe it or not, former President Trump is now playing the victim card and he's making some headway with it.

So he's been definitive in saying that, and he labels. Uh Trump a loser from 2018 on. Do you? No, I don't. But, you know, this is what's going to happen, right?

We're going to have, and I just gave a speech on this at the Reagan Library. We're going to have a lot of shots fired across the aisle at other Republicans. My focus is always going to be on Biden. My focus is going to be on the families that are hurting under Biden.

So what I keep saying is, okay, we'll have a rough and tumble primary. Guys, girls, that's fine. But once we're done, we need to remember who we're against, and that's Joe Biden. And I think the voters very much want to win. They don't want to see Republicans get so nasty with each other that we can't come together at the end.

And that's going to be my focus as RNC chair. Part of the reason why we want every candidate to commit that those. For the eventual nominee, because we have to remember who we're against, and that's Biden. With Ron DeSantis is now going to Japan, South Korea, as well as Israel.

So it looks like I'd be shocked if he goes in. I don't remember the governor of Florida needing to go to those places. We'll have to see. Ron, the other thing that people have asked me a lot is: you know, you always got to change. You know, you got to be up.

Like when social media came up, if you were reluctant to get involved, you're going to lose that cycle. Are you somewhat giving in to the early voting and just be embracing it? Does that include ballot harvesting too in states that allow it? Have you changed and do you have a plan to implement the rules in states where you have no control? Brian, I'm going to push back on this.

The RNC was doing ballot harvesting in 2022. We won three statewide races in Nevada using ballot harvesting. We won in Montana doing ballot harvesting. And we picked up the Duarte seat in California. Of course, we were going to do ballot harvesting.

And we do need to do mail-in voting and absentee voting. And if you look at every battleground state in 2022, a Republican won statewide except Pennsylvania.

So it wasn't, I think this is a narrative that's not right. Where we really lost in 2022 is independence. Independence went for one Republican candidate and not the other. But of course, the process is critical. It's going to take money.

So, you know, go to vote, text vote to 80810. You can't do these things without investing in process. Republicans like to invest in candidates. We have to invest in process year-round like the Democrats do. But the RNC was there in 2022, and we're absolutely going to be ramping up for 2024.

I want you to hear, some people have talked about the individual candidates, the assets they have, one of which is Ron. DeSantis, the label on him, he's not connecting one-on-one. He doesn't want to do it. Listen to Rachel Bade on Meet the Press yesterday, CUP 15. But here's the problem, though.

If you can't connect with your own delegation, I mean, Stuby told me, Greg Stuby told me that he had numerous times over the past five years in Congress reached out to DeSantis to try to get a meeting to talk policy. Ignored every time. Actually, you know, told to show up at campaign events and then told you can't take the stage with DeSantis. This is a problem for him. And if he's going to alienate lawmakers who understand the electability argument and why that is significant, how is he going to connect with GOP voters who sort of vote with their guts?

So I'm sure you've heard that. You you hear the analysis constantly. What's your reaction? Because you've also known Ron DeSantis. Yes, I think it comes down to Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina.

And absolutely, whoever wins is going to have to do some retail politicking and connect with those voters. These are voters, especially in Iowa and New Hampshire and these early states that are used to being up close and personal with these candidates. We'll see who gets in. I think it's too early to make any prognostications about what's going to happen. We already we all know that these calendars can get upended.

Whatever we think is going to happen doesn't happen. I think the debate stage in August will be pivotal. And we've got a long way till next January where we have that first caucus. But retail politics was key in those first battleground states. Ron and McDaniel, our guest.

So the other big story is abortion. We'll talk about the abortion pill, and they were upheld, so now it's back in play to where it was. I don't know how it works its way through the court system. Bottom line is, it's still a very passionate issue, one that Democrats seem to grade higher on than Republicans. I want you to hear what Nancy May said on this week with George Stefanopoulos, Cut 25.

Well, I want us to find some middle ground. As a Republican, a conservative, constitutional conservative who's pro life, I saw what happened after Roe v. Wade because I represent a very purple district, as purple as this dress. And I saw the sentiment Changed dramatically, and as Republicans, we need to read the room on this issue because the vast majority of folks are not in the extremes. And we just saw a fetal heartbeat bill signed in the dead of night recently in Florida.

There, in my home state of South Carolina, there was a small, very small group of state legislators that filed a bill that would execute women who have abortions and gave more rights to rapists than women who've been raped. That is the wrong message heading into 24. We're going to lose huge if we continue down this path. of extremities.

So what about her advice?

Well, I certainly think we should be showing compassion, and we need to talk about not just the unborn baby, but the mother. And that's part of our platform as our party. And I don't think anyone disagrees with that. I think we need to be able to articulate why we're pro-life, but we also have to talk about the Democrats and how extreme they are with gender-selected abortions, with abortions not just on a baby's due date, but the eighth month and the seventh month. And we know babies can live outside the womb.

We know that taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for abortions that are against their conscience.

So I I think the biggest issue, Brian, is they have to talk about it. Republicans can't just stick their head in the sand and think this issue's gonna go away. This is all Democrats can run on because they can't run on crime or the economy or the border.

So, this is it. And so we have to come out fighting back and pushing back on their lies. And if you don't push back, the lies become the truth. Democrats spent $360 million on this issue in 2022. And most Republicans decided to put their head in the sand and ignore it.

And that's not going to happen in 2024. We can't do that.

Well, that is true. I just saw this poll in NBC. They say 68% of the American public thinks that abortion should be legal. 68% say abortion should be illegal on the GOP side. But overall, in the country, 58% want abortion legal.

So 28% wanted legal.

So for the majority support, Republicans support having it illegal. but the majority of the country supports it legal. And then you have the Susan B. Anthony Society. Who came out and basically warned Donald Trump this, kind of blasted him, says, We will oppose any presidential candidate who refuses to embrace at a minimum 15-week national standard, holding to the position that it's exclusively up to the states is an abdication of responsibility by anyone electing you to federal office.

What's your response to that?

Well, listen, Dobbs did not overturn or did not ban abortion, like Democrats are saying. There's not a single state where it's banned, okay? And what we know is it rightly returned it to the hands of elected officials who are elected by the people. We know through RC polling that the vast majority of Americans, when they're faced against a Democrat with no limits, with no restrictions, and a Republican who supports you know, protecting life after 15 weeks. Republicans win by 22 points.

So we're going to have to make sure that we're finding consensus on this issue, but we can't ignore it and we can't go forward without showing how extreme the Democrats are. Ask one Democrat. What is an abortion you're opposed to? What's an abortion you're opposed to? Democrats need to push, Republicans need to push back on them.

Tell me one Democrat that's tell me one. abortion that's a bad idea. Ask a Democrat that. They can't answer.

So stop getting ourselves painted in a box and push back on them. Because Democrats are so extreme on this issue. There was North Korea and China. And what Susan v. Anthony and other groups are saying is we want to be where Europe is, where forty seven out of fifty countries are, saying at least at fifteen weeks, that should be a threshold that we should all agree on.

So fact checkbiden.com is what? This is our pushback on the Biden administration. FactcheckBiden.com is a new website the RNC is launching. We know Biden's going to announce tomorrow. And boy, Brian, it's going to be exciting to put up all his lies.

There's no spin here. This is just up or down. Is he lying or is he telling the truth? And it's a great resource for state parties, county parties, but for voters. who want to see how much this president is lying to them.

I have news for you. Susan Rice is out at the White House. Fantastic. Yeah, she's going to be leaving. I think the country is a better place, personally.

She's going to the campaign. Yeah, maybe. She's got three paragraphs of everything she accomplished, working behind the scenes. There's no question she used the advantage of the president being an advanced age and not into day-to-day, according to her reports, to assert a lot of power. She never would have got confirmed if she put herself out there because of her terrible tracker with President Obama.

But you have the former chief of staff, Ryan Clain, and now Susan Rice. Do you sense their going campaigning? I think there is a divide in the Democrat Party that we don't see. I think there is a group of people who don't want Biden to run again, and I think Biden wants is going to run. And so he's putting in his around himself a team that's going to be all in for President Biden.

But I do think there was a group of Obama holdovers who were hoping for a switch in the Democrat Party. And I don't think They think Biden's up for the task. They're not going to talk about it, but that's what I think.

Well, Rhonda McDaniel, thanks so much. Exciting time. And we have the one debate in August on Fox. What could you tell us about the second debate? The second debate is going to be at the Reagan Library.

I can't think of a better president to honor through our second debate. And a pretty winning president, too, still holds the record for most electoral votes.

So we're going to set the stage there in California where we need to keep all those House seats. And we'll have more announcements to come. What kind of spacing are you looking for with the debates? What works for you in the perfect world?

Well, I think typically you do a debate a month until those first primary states start voting, which is January of 2024.

So we're not going to make any more announcements. We now have two out there, and we're going to see how the field develops, too. I mean, we've got to see who gets in. And there will be a threshold to make the debate stage. There will be parameters on polling and small-dollar fundraising to make sure those candidates are putting in the building blocks to success against the Democrat machine.

I know you got your plate full, but have you heard if Jim Justice is officially going to put his hat in the ring to run against Joe Manchin? Yeah, I have heard that I think he's good front. The governor, obviously, of West Virginia is incredibly popular. We have a great Senate map in 2024 with West Virginia. Trump won West Virginia by 40 points in 2020.

So West Virginia, Montana, and Ohio, we only need to flip two to take back the Senate. But you have to invest now. This is my thing, Brian, and I can't say this enough. Democrats invest in process. Republicans wait till we have the candidates.

We can't wait. You got to invest now if we're going to win. And that's why the RNC is so important. You can't say do ballot harvesting and do all these things if you're not investing for the mechanics and the infrastructure to get built before the election. I hear you.

Ronald McDaniel, thanks so much. Thanks, Brian. All right. She runs the RNC. Glad to hear from her.

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This is the Brian Kill Me Show. The immediate problem, of course, is evacuating Americans. There's now a humanitarian crisis of the first order, with thousands of Sudanese going to Eastern Chad, a refugee crisis that the United States and the world may become involved with. And then there's the geopolitical crisis with China and Russia coveting access to the Red Sea through the port of Sudan.

So lots going on here. Kieran Skinner, former State Department Senior Policy Advisor. While I'm extremely glad we all are that all of our Embassy folk got out, and because of the special forces, no one shot at them. But the operation was long, and it was pulled off by all reports.

Well, we have a lot of Americans still behind, thousands of Americans still behind. But I just worry about also the bigger picture: losing influence in another vital country. Joining us now is Jennifer Griffin, Fox News Channel's chief national security correspondent. Jennifer, welcome back. Thank you, Brian.

Jennifer, as far as you know, this operation went well. They weren't targeted. The choppers were not targeted by anyone, the planes or anything, right? They got in and out. That's right.

In fact, Brian, we knew this was a very dangerous operation that was planned here at the Pentagon at the Joint Staff. Chairman of the Joint Staff, Joint Chiefs was very heavily involved with the JSOC commanders down at Fort Bragg, Joint Special Operations Command. It was led by SEAL Team 6, helped by the 3rd Special Forces, the Green Berets. This was a very, very dangerous way to go in to get the about 90 U.S. Embassy personnel and the ambassador.

There were three MH47 Chinook helicopters, they flew in low, they landed at the embassy. They were on the ground less than an hour. They refueled in Ethiopia, but this was a risky mission. We watched all day Saturday knowing that we were given the all-clear at about 11 at night and then had a press briefing just before midnight. But make no mistake, there was no easy way in or out.

The U.S. military from Djibouti has been coordinating and helping the other countries that carried out evacuations over the weekend, helping with the landing of the planes. And they flew in some of the special forces from the Brits, who then helped get their British embassy personnel to that landing site where planes landed. In the last sort of 48 hours, there's been constant movements.

Now, as we speak, U.S. surveillance drones are flying over the convoy route being used by the UN to go to Port Sudan. They're setting up a naval task force that's being led by the U.S. with other international partners because they Recognize this is a huge humanitarian crisis. And as you mentioned, it's so strategically important.

And the Russians have been playing around there with the Wagner group for some time, and they want to set up a port. The Chinese obviously are eyeing it because of the natural resources. But the potential for humanitarian disaster right now, we're already seeing it unfold, and it's very, very serious. Yeah, no doubt about it. Did the Chinese evacuate?

Did the Russians evacuate?

Well, that's a good question. I have to look at the latest. Obviously, the U.S. was not coordinating any Russian or Chinese evacuations.

So those were not the countries that the U.S. was helping. They were helping the Italians, the French, the British, the Greeks. And other allies. The Saudis evacuated.

They've been heavily involved there along with the UAE. And the Saudis evacuated by road and then picked up off the coast there with naval vessels there, the Saudi embassies.

So unfortunately, and seeing these UN convoys, when the UN is leaving, you know it's a serious situation because the World Food Program, they're out in the Darfur area. Their food warehouses have been burned down and attacked. Their convoys were attacked. We heard that a French and a British, in fact, one of the planes, military planes that landed just north of Khartoum, there was one injury. A French individual from the embassy, I believe, was shot during the convoy evacuation and so had to be treated at the airfield.

Very, very dangerous. The U.S. Embassy had a convoy that. That came under attack in the days prior to the evacuation. That's why they started to realize that they really needed to get in quickly and get them out.

We need a comprehensive strategy on Africa. We need a comprehensive strategy on Latin America. It can't just be spending. It's got to be like there's so many strategists in the State Department, I imagine in the Pentagon. We just can't keep on trying to do this as where we see a Russian threat, we see the Wagner group move in, we need a strategy.

Why don't we get a strategy together? We have relationships with a lot of these governments. Kieran Skinner was on with me this morning and said this about what she's seen so far, Cut 33. It's a bipartisan problem. We don't seem to know what our interests are in any sustained way on the African continent.

It's got the biggest delegation at the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, the African leaders. Huge continent. Sudan, one of the largest nations on that continent. It has seven neighbors, some of them who've been in conflict with each other, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Chad, Egypt, Libya. Have we thought through the importance of this region?

And that, I think, is what's at stake here. It's the fact that China is the leading trading partner for Sudan. Russia's not far behind. Where is the United States beyond its aid programs that have ties to social engineering around trans policies and so on? This is not a good moment.

So I mean, to me, I just think it's we definitely need a strategy there. It's not necessarily something to run for President on, but if you're President, you need this. Brian, I mean, let's look back at multiple administrations that have failed in terms of coming up with a comprehensive strategy. The last time I saw a comprehensive strategy for the African nations was under the PEPFAR program that George W. Bush put into place at the State Department.

I remember Bono had lobbied the President because he was concerned about the HIV rates. President Bush was worried because if you have failed states, you have the potential for terrorism regimes or spaces where terrorists can take advantage and set up bases.

So it was this combination of a health program combating HIV and malaria through PEPFAR. That was the last time we saw a comprehensive strategy. If you remember, under President Trump, they wanted to pull out most of the basing. They pulled out U.S. troops from Somalia.

AFRICOM got pulled back. There's a lot happening in the north of Africa in terms of terrorism. And operations that the U.S. military is doing on a daily basis. But again, and we saw recently that the Vice President Harris was traveling through Africa, the First Lady took a trip through Africa, Melania Trump took a trip through Africa to try and do soft diplomacy.

But again, a lot of these countries have so many resources that are going to be needed in the next phase of these great power competition. That's why China is using their Belt and Road initiative to try and make all of these African countries dependent on them. They gave them huge loans, and now the interest on those loans are coming due. And in exchange, when the African country can't pay back the loans, they then say, okay, we'll take over your mining system. We'll take over your electricity grid.

We'll take over resources that we need for our militaries and for our economies.

So this other story, front page of the New York Post today, Deal with the Devil, it talks about how the U. S. is dealing with the Taliban to combine against ISIS-K. What could you tell us about that, Jennifer?

Well As we've been reporting, Brian, everyone knew that once the U.S. pulled out completely from Afghanistan, it was going to be very hard to keep eyes on, despite their talking about over-the-horizon capabilities. Those over-horizon capabilities are 14 hours away drone flight to fly round trip to the Middle East in order to come back to Afghanistan and watch an ISIS cell or an al-Qaeda training camp.

So I think what we can say right now is that there's very little understanding of what's really happening on the ground in Afghanistan. The U.S. does not have a solid intelligence network there anymore because of the roll-up of CIA bases, because there were no longer military bases there to protect those agents. And so now you have a situation where you, as we have seen in many parts of this world, sometimes you have to deal with the devil in terms of keeping other terrorist threats at bay. Very complicated situation in terms of the relationship between the Taliban, ISIS-K, Al-Qaeda.

And if you were having to figure out what was going on there, it would be very difficult without eyes on the ground. It's amazing. It's so predictable. Ukraine, it looks like the offensive is getting into motion to move forward. It looks like tanks have arrived, some Bradley vehicles arrived.

How short are we to what Zelensky wanted? And how prepared is Ukraine to make a difference?

So much pressure on them to show some progress and take some of their territory back.

Well, I think one of the more significant weapon systems that have arrived recently were the Patriot missile batteries that the Ukrainians were training on here in the United States. Those were expedited, and in some ways, the movement of that has been expedited. Certainly, the revelations that came out in the leaks, the intelligence leaks because of that young airman at Otis Air Force Base, that the air defense was going to be a weakness for the Ukrainians, that has pushed. Pushed nations to push in their air defense capabilities to help the Ukrainians. But right now, you know, I would say we're in a watch-and-see moment.

There's some talk that the Russians are pulling back from Kherson. They're gearing up, and we've been reporting that the Ukrainians are gearing up for a spring offensive. And that offensive, I would expect, to begin any time. And the Ukrainians have been underestimated in the past.

So if you look on paper, the Russian military is stronger in some ways, but they don't have the will to fight, and they don't have the ingenuity that the Ukrainians have proven. And so, you know, the Ukrainians would still like to have F-16s from the United States. They would still like, you know, they want more, more, more. A lot of weapons have flowed in there, and they have a lot of capabilities. And I think, you know, at this point, the Ukrainians need to be backed because the Russians are, you know, they definitely don't.

have the will to fight. They have a lot of Bullets and ammunition, et cetera, but they don't have coordinated movements. They don't have generals who know how to coordinate attacks. And so the Ukrainians need to take advantage of this moment in time because these next few months are going to be absolutely crucial. Last question.

Do you think we're beginning to solve the slow pace in which we're able to manufacture and sell and use weapons from the ones that Taiwan is waiting for to the ones Ukraine are waiting for to the ones we need? I would say, Brian, that from what I'm seeing, the industrial base is still very slow, the supply chains are slow, the ability to ramp up production of weapons in the event of a crisis or war still very flat-footed. And that is a combination there is a long history of a combination of reasons between and it certainly doesn't help what's happening on the Hill in terms of the discussion of stalling the freezing the budgets and the debt ceiling of brinksmanship that is going on right now because remember you need to pass budgets in order for contractors and defense contractors to know what they should plan for and what they should build. And when that gets slowed down, we saw this during sequestration. When that gets slowed down, the industrial base slows down for years to come and then the readiness falls in terms of the military and the ability to provide these weapons.

So it's a very complicated. situation that has been years in the making. But no, I'm not seeing the ability to ramp up production of the kind of weapons that either Ukraine needs or the US will need in the future in Asia. Wow. Jennifer, a lot going on.

The Sudan evacuation work, but we still need to somehow get everybody, other people out that need to get out and still have influence in the area. Not easy. Jennifer Griffin, thanks so much. Thanks, Brian. You got it.

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Whether it'll be well before later. But are you leaning in or are you leaning away? from running.

Well, I'm here in Iowa, Robert. He's going to run. No doubt about it. He said he's got to get in before June if you're going to be serious about running. Kristen Uno said something very similar.

But here's the stunning news. I watched the Sunday shows and it's pretty the theme is pretty overwhelming. Nobody wants to see Trump and Biden again. They don't want to see a rematch. Only 26% of all voters said that Joe Biden should run again.

70% said he should not. Is that incredible to me? It is to me anyway. Between 18 to 34-year-olds, 76% said Joe don't run. From 2020 Biden voters, 53%, after what they've seen for the last two and a half years, said he should not run.

Why? I could give you a bunch of reasons, but you know what they're saying? Age. He's just too old.

Now, for Trump, the numbers aren't great right now, but they're better than Joe's. 34% overall voters have a positive feeling about him, 50% to 57% negative.

Now, about the charges in New York. This is stunning to me. Maybe I'm a little bit too much of a bubble. 52% said anyone would have been charged like that, though the whole thing was Stormy Daniels. 52% said, Oh, no, no, he should be charged.

Now, 68%. Say, of GOP voters, say no, it's politically motivated. To me, it's so obviously politically motivated. It's really propelled Trump. But after being down to 51% to about 29%, it looks like Trump has now had his lead cut again by Gron DeSantis.

Now it's 46, 31. Pence got six. Haley's got three, along with Scott Hutchinson and Vivek Ramaswamy has got 2%.

Now, one-on-one, Ron against Trump. The NBC survey found that 46% of GOP voters favor Trump as their first choice, 31% favor DeSantis.

Now, Trump leads DeSantis 57-31. That's where it was at.

Now, when it comes to your first and second choice, put your first and second choice together, Trump by one. Who wins against Biden head to head? Trump loses, DeSantis wins.

Now, it's just a snapshot. These are samples. They're not gospel, but it's important. Get this. Only 5% of Americans actually want to see them run against each other.

Now, for those people, 5%, that's stunning to me.

Now If you want context of the race on the Republican side, because there's so many quality candidates, 2006. December of 2006. Hilary Let Obama 37 to 18.

So DeSantis is closer than Obama was to Hillary Clinton. Pretty cool. To understand how exciting this is going to be, the New York Times let Biden have it. Quote, The only thing I say is the only thing he says is watch me about his ability to be President of the United States. But Mr.

Biden, the time writes, has given voters very few chances to do just that, to watch him. His refusal to engage with the public regularly raises questions about his age, and his health. The Wall Street Journal, the public understands that Mr. Biden apparently won't admit that electing an octogenarian who's obviously in decline, another four years would be a historic mistake. It's impossible to know Mr.

Biden's real physical and mental health because the White House goes to great lengths to hide it. Totally true. This is the Brian Kill Me Chill. A lot to go over.

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You never know what's going to be happening. Michael Goodwin is standing by with the New York Post, and Congressman Mike Johnson is going to be with us too. Vice Chair of the House Republican Conference, member of the House Judiciary Committee, Armed Services Committee. We got to find out if they're going to get a deal on the debt ceiling. I can't believe I'm saying this, but pressure from the Democrats on Joe Biden to deal with Kevin McCarthy.

Big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Because of our actions in Afghanistan, the global war on terror is raring back. Sudan, all of these countries, you've mentioned the Wagner Group, they are just breeding grounds for terrorist activity. Yeah, that is Kieran Skinner.

She used to work with the State Department under Mike Pompeo. America's Deal with the Devil. In an effort to curb the rise of ISIS-K, we teamed with the Taliban while watching the Wagner Group assert itself all over Africa and Latin America. Foreign policy lows for any administration, especially this one. Number two.

Well, right now we have nine, but I believe in the end that number will be at least 12. I mean, this was the Biden family influence peddling scheme. That, of course, is James Comer. We're getting very used to his voice. And he's talking about the Biden investigations more than Hunter.

Now, records show his whole family, up to 12, are dealing with his schemes and benefiting from them as Hunter's lawyers head to the DOJ. And this other story about his out-of-wedlock stripper baby mama suing him for child support. Evidently, Hunter Biden's a deadbeat dad. Number one. My own sense is that most Americans don't want to vote for an 81-year-old man for president.

Neither do they really want to vote for a 77-year-old man for president. They'd like to go to the next generation. Terry Moran of ABC, hardly a conservative reporter, 5%. That's how many Americans would like a sequel to Biden-Trump 2020. It looks more than likely, regardless, Biden's announcement official is likely Tuesday, and Trump nomination contenders Ron DeSantis, Tim Scott, Mike Pence, Chris Sununu, should be in within weeks, and that's where we'll stand.

Michael Goodwin joins us now with the New York Post, and he's a standing columnist there. Michael, welcome back.

So things are starting to heat up with Hunter Biden, even without knowing what this whistleblower has to say. Where do you think it is heading?

Well, good morning, Brian. Look, I I think that what we're seeing Is the impact of the Republicans winning the House? It's a very small margin, but they are using the subpoena power to great effect. And I have to say that the number of these things that have come out so far I think the one that really jumps out at me, I mean, the the whistleblower. the claims of uh preferred Treatment for Hunter Biden, that things are not being done in the proper way with the IRS.

And this is an IRS agent, a supervisor in the case directly.

So this is somebody who knows what he's talking about. But I and of course, you mentioned Comer with the bank records and the number of Biden family members getting some share of these uh money from China. And this don't forget, this is just one part of the China money. Uh uh Tony Bobolinski has said it might be as much as $11 million that came from China. Plus there was the diamond, there was a million dollar retainer.

I mean there's all kinds of money, and it all flowed through these Hunter Biden accounts. which is why the banks were flagging all of this stuff. But Brian, having said all of that, the more I think about it, the I think perhaps the most significant thing so far is this Mike Morrell testimony that Tony Blinken was involved in the crafting of the letter signed by the fifty-one former intelligence officials. Uh saying that uh this was this looked like Russian disinformation, the laptop stories of the post in 2020. And then we have that it was then the Biden so Tony Blinken, then an adviser to Joe Biden's twenty twenty presidential campaign, of course, becomes Secretary of State.

We also find out from this testimony that the campaign was involved in disseminating the letter, that it it told the signers who to send it to at the Washington Post.

So here you have, Brian, in my opinion, a backdoor proof. that there is a corrupt deep state that these fifty one security officials, former Intel officials, using the credibility that they supposedly have by virtue of their past positions and the fact that they would retain their security clearances, gives the impression that they know something nobody else knows. And then they use the media. I don't know the name of the Washington Post reporter yet who got the first leak of this. But I think we will find out.

And so they use their favored lap dog to put out this. sinister letter which is false which they have reason to know it's false. And they did it because, as Morrell said, I wanted Joe Biden to win. This is not about national security. It's not about anything other than raw politics.

So here you have the really, to me, the absolute proof of deep state meddling in an election. And that letter had the desired effect. It allowed Joe Biden to lie at the debate and say this is all just Russian disinformation, and he cites the signers of that letter. And the subject dies. But we know now the letter was what it what it was, a partisan effort, and that the laptop was true.

And we know that the FBI had the laptop already. Why didn't it come out and say that this is not Russian disinformation? On the other hand, the FBI was working with Twitter and Facebook and the other tech giants to say, watch out for Russian disinformation involving Hunter Biden. Right, I wish. Even as they had the laptop themselves.

Yeah, I know that. It's really. 51 space. They did push back over the weekend, and they're waiting for Jordan to answer him again. They said they took Mike Murrell out of context.

It doesn't sound like it, but he's not complaining, but other people are. Here's just formally what James Comer said on Murillo yesterday, cut two.

Well, we went into Treasury after a long battle to have access to those Treasury reports, thinking that there was a certain number of suspicious activity reports, the number that had been previously reported. And we thought that there were two or three Biden family members that would be implicated in these bank violations. Nearly three weeks later, we walk out of Treasury having read and poured over thousands of pages of documents. I can tell you that there were more suspicious activity reports than had been previously reported, and many more Biden family members that were involved in the influent peddling scheme. We now have nine and counting Biden family members who are zinged by at least one bank for receiving suspicious wires from our adversaries around the world.

So, as you listen to this, people see on the Democratic side will say, Well, what's the illegality? What are you selling? You know, if Eric Trump is buying a golf course, you'd say, well, Charlie Don, he's trading off the father's name. What are you talking about? At least I could point to the golf course that he bought.

What exactly was Joe Biden selling?

So and then who else why would everybody benefit from it? What do they want? in return.

Well look Brian, I To me, Yeah. Is going is that Joe Biden was very involved in this. He didn't just profit from it. He was involved in it. And I think that's where they're going to end up here.

Look, it m it beggars belief to think that Hunter Biden dreamed up the names of all of these people. who would uh buy his influence, who would buy the family name. Joe Biden. And again, in my opinion, had to be directing this. It's somewhat ironic to call him a mastermind, but somebody excuse me, somebody has to be picking the targets.

Somebody has to say Yeah.

Somebody must have been modeling this for him. Here's who you talk to. Here's who will give you money because of me. Right. And how about this, Michael?

That's true. And how about this side note? They have this stripper that he got pregnant have a two and a half-year-old girl and him not pay child support. And they evidently he's hiding out in the White House to not get served. I mean, think about how scummy that is.

You got to be kidding me. And no one's saying a word about this? I mean, they wouldn't be running commercials on CNN if this was Trump's family. But just so you know, the Democrats are not running to his side. For example, look at the guy who replaced him in Delaware, Chris Coons, cut one.

The CBS reported back in October that the FBI had gathered evidence sufficient enough to charge Hunter Biden with tax and gun-related crimes and sent it to the U.S. Attorney in Delaware. And we know that in the coming days, Mr. Biden's attorneys are set to meet with the U.S. Attorney in Delaware.

Do you have any sense if this is going to conclude soon? It's been ongoing since 2018. No, I don't, Margaret, nor should I. It is an ongoing investigation that, as you say, has been conducted for years. The U.S.

attorney here in Delaware is the U.S. attorney who was appointed by the previous administration. And look, if there are any charges ever brought, we'll discuss them at that time. Yeah, you got senators, no one's rushing to say that didn't happen. There's nothing witch hunt or anything like that.

I was struck by that in two or three opportunities. And CBS is pursuing this story, Michael. Just for a final thought and I want to get one more thing in with you. Go ahead. Brian, as we say in the media, I I think you buried the lead there.

The lead is that CBS is pursuing this. And this is a big turning point, I think. As I write in my column, you have CBS, ABC, NBC, The Washington Post, New York Times, all of them writing about the whistleblower. That is a big, big issue, big deal. And of course, it's not what it was with Trump when a whistleblower over Ukraine led to an impeachment.

But I think that the Allegations from the whistleblower, from within the IRS, that there is preferential treatment, that there's politics being played with this case, is a very big deal. And I think Democrats are going to be hard pressed, just as the media is now, forced to cover it. I think Democrats are going to be hard-pressed to defend the way this case has been handled.

So, I want you to see the scandal, how it's handled. The NBC does this poll: 41% approval rating for Joe Biden. It's pretty terrible, is as low as 38 with Reuters. Only 26 percent of voters want him to run again. 35 percent want Trump to run again.

Now, Trump is leading on the polls against DeSantis and is relentless attacking DeSantis, but he's going about it all wrong. I think he's misreading his own base because they like DeSantis too, and if he's vulnerable, it's not going to be this way. Listen to this remark and the lack of response. And again, except you don't see that tabulation, we did much better. In 2020, in Florida, I got 1.2 million more votes than your successful governor's campaign.

You know that.

So we got 1.2 million. Sir, I'd love to have your support, sir. I'd love to have your support. I'm down at about three. I'd love to have your support.

All right, let's think about it. And it was like a rocket ship after I gave it. Otherwise, right now you'd have a lawyer someplace looking for business. If that It's just not working. I mean, that was a packed house.

I mean, going after Florida? You're saying that Florida isn't successful? They've added 700,000 people in 18 months, and Governor DeSantis is successful. That's not where he's vulnerable. Clearly, it is: I've done this job.

I know this job. We can't afford to have someone learn on the job. That type of thing. But to go after him as a governor, to me, if you're not, unless you're a Democrat and Gavin Newsom or Joe Biden, it makes no sense, Michael.

Well look. Look, it makes no sense if you want to win the presidency, if you want to build a team to govern with. Uh But that's not how Donald Trump plays. Uh he plays uh One Gear, Smash Mouth. Uh Crush everything, crush everybody.

It it look, it doesn't work as a governing principle. And I think he he's apparently learned nothing about that from from the way his presidency was roiled by constant turnover, By the media attacks, of course. I mean, he just could not govern. And I agree with you, Brian. He has not learned from that past, and he is repeating it.

And I think that is going to hurt him at some point in this campaign. It may not be in the primary, but I think at least in the general election, there will be, oh, no, not again. We are not going to go through that again. I will defend Trump this way. To go after Trump and say he didn't finish the wall and didn't clean up the swamp is ridiculous, too.

That Chris Christie and Sununu were doing. You got to be kidding me. He did a big dent in the swamp and he did everything possible to build a wall, 450 miles, and repurpose defense. I'm thinking to myself, what the hell is going on here? Do you guys not understand what you're saying?

No one worked harder and took more heat for that wall. And if you want to criticize anyone, it's Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell for not delivering from Congress. We don't live in a dictatorship. Final thought? Yeah, look, I I I think that uh Trump is getting, unfortunately, What he dishes out.

He's getting it back. He's getting these unfair attacks from other Republicans. This is, you know, sort of the shine is off him in the sense that he's no longer untouchable. You're seeing these other Republicans now go at him very hard. DeSantis hasn't.

But the others are doing it. We're entering a new phase, I think, Brian, of the Republican fight. I just thought the Republican would be a fair fight against each other that wouldn't make things up. And I'm just, you know, Trump's not the only one who's always going over the line. I can't wait.

I I love this stuff.

So let's keep analyzing it, Michael. It's fun. I'll stay with you the whole way, Brian. I appreciate that. Michael Goodwin, check him out in the New York Post, 1-866-408-7669.

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Like, most of the shootings are young black men killing other young black men. Is that not correct? Yeah, that's correct.

Okay, much more than what the cops do. Why doesn't anybody talk about that?

Well, I mean, why aren't there, you know, a hundred... Giant black celebrities who would have the respect of those people, saying, What are you doing to yourselves? Why are you killing each other? This is no way to live. This dishonors our community.

Come on. We're better than this. I feel like it's never addressed. That is Bill Maher right on the money again. I mean, the numbers are overwhelming.

It was 70% of. of those shot in the Euro in cities are of people of colour. These numbers are overwhelming, but everyone says the cops are the problem. And the numbers just don't add up to that. You want cops to play the perfect game.

I get it. Every time something happens, people want to see race. For example, the best example is there were two tragedies. There was a group of girls that pulled into the wrong driveway, and as they backed out, they got shot. One got killed in the passenger section.

They just made an innocent mistake. Another was a 15-year-old black kid who was shot by somebody else who was standing in the driveway. Total tragedy. Never should have been shot. But they're both tragedies of the same magnitude.

Who does the president call? The family of the black kid. Why not call both? Please. I mean, does the President even try to simmer things down ever?

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Well, right now we have nine, but I believe in the end that number will be at least 12. I mean, this was the Biden family. Influence peddling scheme. And when people say, well, they were involved in ventures around the world, I haven't found a legitimate business on the Biden end, Maria. I found legitimate businesses that were paying the LLCs that were then turning around and laundering the money back to the Bidens.

So James Comer is getting the bank records and things are really picking up the pace to the point where there's not many people defending Joe Biden and going off or even showing emotion, Carville-like emotion, to say, why are you so obsessed with Hunter Biden or trying to deflect? I was just struck by that, especially when these polls say so few people, Americans, want Joe Biden to even run again. With me right now is Congressman Mike Johnson. He is Vice Chairman of the House Republican Conference, member of the Judiciary and Armed Services Committee. Congressman, this is getting interesting.

Now we hear the DOJ is going to be welcoming in the Hunter Biden lawyers. Yes, they are, and they have a lot to sort out. No one is defending this, Brian, because it's indefensible. I mean, the evidence is clear. Jamie Comer and the team on Oversight and our committee on the We're doing the weaponization committee, of course.

The more we uncover, the more scandalous it appears that corruption's deeper than even we imagined, and they've got a lot to answer for. What can we expect this week? For example, the banks are now being cooperative, correct? They are. They're required to, of course, congressional subpoenas and the like.

They're not going to get wound up in this thing. There were a lot of transactions that have raised lots of questions and now we know what it's all about. In my district in Louisiana, I was around this weekend and they're calling it the Biden Crime Syndicate. The family is all involved. And uh it it would be comical if it were not so dangerous for the country because the implications here are huge.

You know, that we're talking about China. It's our number one adversary and they they have no fear of US retaliation right now because the the Biden family ties to the CCP and the Chinese Communist Party, its affiliates and its business entities. And, you know, they Biden is somebody they can take advantage of because obviously they've got goods on him.

Well, serious stuff. I mean, let's just think about electric cars. We know that 70% of the electric car market, the cobalt, the lithium, the iron, it's all locked up by China. They control the battery industry. And who's trying to destroy the fossil fuel industry in this country and around the world?

Joe Biden. And guess what it's going to mean? Electric cars. And guess who are going to have to go for that? China.

And China rolled out their electric cars over the weekend. They're as good, if not better, than anything that we have.

So they're ready to lead there. And we're trying to play second fiddle. We're trying to be customers. Yeah, exactly. It defies logic, and people have been scratching their heads for the last two years trying to figure out what in the world would motivate the president to declare war on the fossil fuel industry.

I mean, I'm in an energy state in Louisiana. It's decimated our state's economy and all of us around the country, around the globe for that matter. Energy prices are sky high because we shut off our production. Why in the world would we do that? It looks like national suicide.

Well, now we have some answers. I think China is orchestrating some of this. And it sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory, but that's where the facts are leading us. And we're following those facts as far as they go. I mean, do you talk to people that have the big picture in mind?

Do they understand how China's taking over Latin America, what they're doing in Africa, how they're trying to court our allies in Europe, and now making comments as if to say, I wonder about the legitimacy of those Soviet countries spinning out onto their own. I'm not too sure that was legitimate at the end of the Cold War. I mean, are they up for this challenge?

Well, we're going to find out. I mean, look, I think the American people are onto this. I think they're deeply concerned about what they're seeing. That the Chinese spy balloon floating around the country doing circle eights over our military installations. Again, people scratching their heads.

Why in the world do we allow this?

Well, Fight and couldn't Wasn't allowed to shoot it down, perhaps. You know, didn't want to provoke his the people that have got his number over there. It's a serious threat. You know, we're we're in in Congress, we're we're doing uh, you know, war or dame war game scenarios. You you saw some of this uh at the end of last week with the China Select Committee and our other committees.

I'm on armed services. We talk about this every day, all the time. We are concerned, you know, since World War II, we have always had the the wherewithal and the plan to to be able to wage two wars at at once. And right now. To be very frank, we're not sure how we would match up one to one against China.

If they invade Taiwan, if they start some other ruckus somewhere, are we going to be able to match them Fire for fire. And I, you know, there's a question about that. And that's scary stuff.

Well, before we move on, I just want to talk about what's going to happen tomorrow. And that's the President of the United States going to make it official. He's going to run for another four years. He'll be 86 at the end. We see how that trip to Ireland was the biggest embarrassment.

Not only wrong country, wrong place, wrong time. He stayed way too long. It was a personal vacation, and he kept on screwing up. He does not look comfortable. I am always uncomfortable watching him.

Here is Terry Moran of ABC, Cut 16.

Well, I'll leave that to our Democratic form official here. My own sense is that most Americans don't want to vote for an 81-year-old man for president. And neither do they really want to vote for a 77-year-old man for president. They'd like to go to the next generation. And I think part of the Modesty.

Is the is the Biden White House operation aware that people are uneasy with his age. Yeah, to say it, but I thought was significant that ABC is saying it, and that's their reporter who just spent all his time attacking Trump. Is that pretty much understood? I think so. That was a rare moment of candor by Terry Moran, it shows you how desperate they are.

You know, the problem the Democrats have, of course, is that they have such a weak bench. They've got nobody they can put up. Who are they going to run? You know, Kamala or Pete Buttigieg or Gavin Newsome? Bring it.

You know, so I mean, they're in a real bind and they do have a lot of trepidation about it. They've seen the polls, as we all have. The American people. What is it, 70%? One of the polls today says 70% don't want Biden to run for reelection.

But what are they going to do? They have no alternative.

So I think he is going to go for it, and I think he's going to lose. I think we've got to get our act together on the other side because if we can't win this one, I'm not sure we can save the Republic. I mean, the stakes couldn't be any higher. They couldn't be.

Now you have a debt ceiling where the President of the United States is getting great joy saying, I'm not going to deal in the debt ceiling. We're not going to default on our debt. And it looks like Kevin McCarthy is in the process. He's trying to sell his Republican caucus on his 340-page proposal on how to reduce the deficit enough to raise the deficit to the spending enough to raise the deficit. He only has a four-vote margin.

From what you've seen in McCarthy's proposal, do you think Republicans are ready to get on board?

Well, we're all working on this. I mean, I'm vice chairman of the House Republicans, so I'm on the leadership team. We've spent countless hours working across the conference. I'm a fiscal conservative, and I'm, you know, talking with Freedom Caucus guys and Republican Study Committee guys, all my team, about our concern. Look, our number one driving motivator here is the national debt.

It's the greatest threat to our national security. We talk about China, but the Pentagon, Joint Chiefs of Staff, everybody for years has reminded us that the debt is the first and greatest threat because if you can't fund your military, you can't defend your nation. And so we've got to change the spending trajectory.

So what we have in the Save, Limit, GROW Act, which is what we rolled out, is very reasonable demands. They're sensible. They're responsible. It's about the trajectory going forward because we don't bend that trajectory line. We are literally going to bankrupt the country.

$31.5 trillion in debt is nothing to sneeze at, and it is a threat to everything about our way of life. Our security. But are the Matt Gates of the world and the Scott Perrys of the world going to buy into it? Matt and Scott, both I spent a lot of time with Thursday, Friday of last week. And Matt's hang up right now, just to get down in the weeds, is he wants to really depress on the 30-hour per week work requirement instead of 20 hours per week.

And it sounds like a little nuance, but symbolically and otherwise, that's an important thing.

So there's some little tweaks in it that we're working through to get everybody on board, and I'm helping with that. And I'm optimistic I think we can because we have no margin for errors. I'm talking to Congressman Mike Johnson in Louisiana. Congressman, you know what? I get the sense, and you could dissuade me of this.

I will not hurt my feelings. I get the sense that Democrats are enjoying regular order. I think that they're you I mean, I'm watching what you guys are doing on the on the China Select Committee on China. I'm seeing some of them comment. Are you getting that sense?

I don't know. They're hard to read, to be honest. And this is an interesting time in Washington. We're in unprecedented days and uncharted waters, so to speak, choose your metaphor. But there's not a lot of bipartisanship, right?

I mean, the two sides have gone to their respective corners, and there's a wide chasm between them. And it's unlike in any previous generation, maybe since the Civil War.

So it's a shirts and skins situation, right? The only thing that there's bipartisan consensus on right now is the threat of China, and that's why you see that select committee working together. I wish we could forge that kind of consensus in all of our committees, House Judiciary, Armed Services, but we've got a lot of distinction and difference between us. Are they enjoying regular order?

Well, it slowed the process down, but that does serve the American people overall. And because single subject bills and all the rest, no more of these omnibus bills, that helps the people because we know what we're voting on. There's not 4,000 page pieces of legislation filed. Before anybody reads it, and it serves the American people.

So they may be delighted that we're not pushing our agenda fast enough. But at the end of the day, I think this is the right thing. Congressman, I want to bring you to something else. I love that you guys came to New York and just highlighted these victims because I read about it every day. I live it, worked in the city through the pandemic.

We never stopped. And we saw the fact that this used to be safe, and there's a sense of disorder and cops feeling powerless. And you highlighted that. I thought it was great. Here's what Bill Maher pointed out: that no Democrat can do.

Everybody knows how liberal he is, but when it comes to crime, who the victims actually are. You saw that in your committee, but maybe that doesn't get across to the average American. Cut 29. Why isn't anyone ever talking to Chicago? Like, most of the shootings are young black men killing other young black men.

Is that not correct? Yeah, that's correct.

Okay. much more than than what the cops do. Why doesn't anybody talk about that?

Well, I mean, uh w why aren't there uh you know uh a hundred Giant black celebrities who would have the respect of those people, saying, What are you doing to yourselves? Why are you killing each other? This is no way to live. This dishonors our community. Come on.

Uh we're better than this. Right. I feel like it's never addressed. How important is that statement coming from a guy firmly in the left?

Well, it is important because, you know, people are realizing how this is truly destroying our cities. And, you know, we went to New York, Brian, because we wanted to sound the alarms. We wanted to draw the attention to the witnesses, the victims of these crimes and their families. If a few radical politicians can destroy a once great American city like New York, then they can destroy every hometown around the country. And that's what's happening.

These Soros-funded DAs are perpetuating these systems. They are, you know, they're more favorable to the criminals than they are the victims. And this is what's happened. All this is the logical result of prosecutors letting criminals roam free. They're literally doing that.

And they often do it in the name of restorative justice or equity, which is the great tragedy here. It hurts and harms the most. The very communities that they're purporting to serve. And it's just madness. Cover in the New York Post today: Deal with the Devil.

Are you comfortable working with the Taliban to ice out ISIS-K? Gosh, it's surreal, isn't it? It's unimaginable. Our foreign policy is in complete shambles. The idea that we would team up with the bad guys to fight other bad guys just it it defies logic.

It's pretty frightening. We heard about that, by the way. When everyone did. I learned about it on Fox News this morning, on Fox and Friends, okay? And I'm on the House Armed Services Committee.

So they're not exactly communicating and coordinating with us. And we're going to have a lot to say about that in the days ahead. I hope so. Thanks so much, Congressman. We covered a lot of ground.

I appreciate it. Congressman Mike Johnson, thank you. You got it, my friend. Kentucky. You got it.

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And then he went out, become one of the best coaches in the history of the NBA, and was a terrible general manager for the Knicks, leading to, who am I discussing? Phil Jackson. He weighed in on the state of the league that he used to dominate with the Bulls and the Lakers. Listen. Do you still watch a lot of basketball?

No, I don't. And they had things on their back like, you know, justice and they even had slogans on the floor. It was catering. It was trying to cater to an audience or trying to bring a certain audience into play. And they didn't know it was turning other people off.

People want to see sports as non-political. We've had a lot of different type of players that have. gone on to be like, you know, Bill Bradley is a senator, a number of baseball players, been representatives and senators and political, but their politics stay out of the game. It doesn't need to be there. Wow.

And that really turned off a lot of people. I one hundred percent agree with Phil Jackson. The league just kowtowed to the players after we saw what happened with the George Floyd riots. Jalen Rose of ESPN, listen, You can't make this up. Hall of Fame coach and 11-time champion Phil Jackson claims to have stopped supporting the NBA because it became too political when it went into the bubble and was catering to certain audiences by putting slogans on the back of jerseys and Black Lives Matter on the floor.

The same Phil Jackson that won championships with some of the greatest black athletes in the history of the game: Michael Jordan, Scotty Pippen, Shaquille O'Neal. Kobe Bryant made millions on their backs and off their sweat equity. You're sitting up watching the game with your grandkids and y'all think it's funny when justice passes the ball to equal opportunity? When somebody shows you who they are, believe them.

So stop watching forever.

Well, I mean, I can understand why Jalen Rose would be unhappy, but Jackson did not just benefit from them. He led them. If you talk to any of those players, almost all of those players, those players that just feel you're overrated or underrated, but he played a vital role and had the respect of all races. That's his point. He's got the credibility, Jalen.

He's allowed to say it.

Next. Ryan Reynolds and Rob McClinney. McLaney, Rob McLaney, shared an emotional celebration after Wrexham, which is a reality show, but is really a team, a football club, in professional soccer in London, won their final game in order to ascend to a higher division. Reynolds spent about $2.5 million to get it. With Paul Rudd on hand, they went on to win it.

He said, quote, did one of the owners. I don't remember this moment, but you can see something leave both of our bodies at the same time, and then we're filled back up with indescribable joy. Wrexham secured the promotion back to the English Football League after a 15-year absence. He took control of the Welsh team in 2021, and they just filmed the whole thing. I think they posted everything on Instagram, but the reality show has been on and available, and I've been thinking about watching it.

Now I'll definitely watch it.

Now there seems to be a rage of celebrities buying soccer teams, including USL teams here in the United States. It's another reason to thank Brian Reynolds. Right. I think we should try to get him on. That would be a great guess.

And as you say, he is endlessly sexy. That's a fact. Back in a moment. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead.

All right, boy, welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Me Show.

So glad you're here. Hope you had a fantastic weekend. We're back in action now. And if you're like most of us, you don't really take off from what's going on in the world, it's so intense, and you're probably into it. Especially with 2024 heating up and these polls coming out and they mean more and more.

We're finding out more and more candidates and what they're doing. Looking for Ron DeSantis. Check Japan. Looking for Tim Scott. Wait for an announcement sometime, I think, this week.

And then, who knows, Mike Pence, I think it's just a formality at this point. Jason Chavitz, according to the rundown, is going to be on the show. I look forward to seeing him. Brett Baer at the bottom of the yeah, will not be in the studio, but he'll be contributing and bringing us the inside story about what's going on with these investigations, the whistleblower, as well as 2024, which makes me think we should get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Because of our actions in Afghanistan, the global war on terror is rearing back. Sudan, all of these countries, you've mentioned the Wagner Group, they are just breeding grounds for terrorist activity. And basically, taking over Africa.

America's Deal with the Devil is an effort to curb the rise of ISIS-K. We team up with the Taliban. Is that worth it? While watching the Wagner Group assert itself over Africa, Latin America, and Ukraine, foreign policy lows for any administration, especially this one. Number two.

Well, right now we have nine, but I believe in the end that number will be at least 12. I mean, this was the Biden family influence peddling scheme. James Comer, Biden investigations more than Hunter.

Now record show business involved in businesses involved as many as 9 to 12 Biden's as Hunter's lawyer heads to the TOJ and out of wedlock Stripper, Stripper mom is suing Hunter Biden, wants child support. He is hiding in the White House. You ever hear anything like this? Number one. My own sense is that most Americans don't want to vote for an 81-year-old man for president.

Neither do they really want to vote for a 77-year-old man for president. They'd like to go to the next generation. That's ABC's Terry Moran. 5%. That's how many Americans would like to see a sequel between Biden and Trump of 2020.

And it looks more than likely that it will indeed happen. Biden's announcement officially tomorrow, and Trump's nomination contenders include Ron DeSantis, Sim Scott, Mike Pence, and Chris Sununu. They will know their verdict and their decisions within weeks and maybe be done with this. I think we're going to be done right after that. Jason Chaffetz, right in the studio.

Congressman, first off, great to see you. Yeah, always good to be here. All right. I want to get to Utah and what Spencer Cox is doing with transgender sports, but first things first. Comer's investigation.

Slow start. Do you like where they are right now? Do you like the way he's approaching this? I don't think he's off to a slow start. I think he came running out of the gates.

But what you don't do is we had the delay of 14 rounds to pick a speaker where we might have had a few questions.

Okay, yes. I do think, yeah, because you can't get staffed up. You can't do some other things. But by the time they actually finally got to announcing who the speaker is, then they could populate the committees. Then they could hire the staff.

But you've got to understand all the groundwork that needs to be laid before an investigation. You don't just call Hunter Biden and say, hey, come down here and start testifying. You know, going to get all the bank records, I think, was a huge win for. Because it's really not about Hunter. It's about Hunter breaking the law.

Absolutely. But what was he doing it for?

Well, and you've got to follow the money. And that's what Comer's done. When you have 175 or so suspicious activity reports, you and I normally, nobody normally gets these. This is by law what banks are supposed to do, financial institutions have to do in reporting abnormalities in financial transactions. And these people have north of 150 of them.

I mean, that is crazy. And I thought it was very interesting what Comer said. He said the most legitimate country of all was China.

So I think what you're going to ultimately see is a lot of funny money coming out of very Kazakhstan. Dagestan. I mean, you name it. They're going to start seeing a lot of flow.

Some of it was coming out of Romania. I mean, there was one hundred thousand dollars that went into Joe Biden's grandkids' accounts. Explain that one to me. What could they have possibly been doing? Can't they work in a restaurant, earn their own money?

Cut to.

Well, we went into Treasury after a long battle to have access to those Treasury reports, thinking that there was a certain number of suspicious activity reports, the number that had been previously reported. And we thought that there were two or three Biden family members that would be implicated in these bank violations. Nearly three weeks later, we walk out of Treasury having read and poured over thousands of pages of documents, and I can tell you that there were more suspicious activity reports than had been previously reported, and many more Biden family members that were involved in the influent peddling scheme. We now have nine and counting Biden family members who are zinged by at least one bank for receiving suspicious wires from our adversaries around the world.

So he's discovering things through the bank records, which makes it hard to push back on. Easy to say, well, you sh why were you here? Why were you traveling? But the bank records are the bank records. Right.

And if you can compile those with the telephone records, I still think they need to go through that process of subpoenaing the telephone records because we do know that Biden, specifically Hunter Biden, had acquired phones that Joe Biden, as vice president, was using surreptitiously to communicate around the world. Oh, I didn't know that. Yes. But can you follow a burner phone? By definition, it's impossible, isn't it?

This is the type of sleuthing that you have to do in tracking those actual telephone numbers because somebody had a credit card on it and they weren't that smart and they actually have the ability to trace those. You know, I thought it was interesting. Dick Durbin and Debbie Dingle both had a chance to say, well, those Republicans are crazy and there's no problem here and there. They didn't do that because the whistleblower came forward. And the whistleblower is asking for a bipartisan hearing.

He has no interest in just being on one side or the other. We don't know the difference, but now we know the lawyer says involved is the AG. and the hunter is the subject.

So, if you are a lawmaker and you might have been on the other side of this, you might know that a Republican is in trouble and they ask you about it. You can't just act emotionally because that tape is going to be on file if something could make you look bad. Right? I think this is going to be a game changer because when you have a government employee, somebody with a 10-plus-year record at the IRS, non-political, stepping forward as a whistleblower, it adds a degree of credibility that they cannot simply. What kind of path are they on?

We hear about it, the lawyers out doing interviews. And I understand they have to get bipartisan permission to go forward as a whistleblower? No, no, they don't need bipartisan support. The House can call this person before them. There are whistleblower laws.

This whistleblower did it the right way. Because your IRS, don't you have certain limitations? Is your IRS? You do. You do.

Just like you handle classified information, the IRS also has limitations. But if you come in and claim a whistleblower status and they're able to share information, testimony, go through a transcribed interview, then you have clearance and there can be no repercussions. We went through that when I was chairman. We had a lot of TSA employees that were stepping forward, Secret Service agents that were stepping forward and basically gave them immunity and protection so they couldn't just be summarily fired or moved. And we had to go back and fight for them.

But this is, they're doing exactly the right way. His lawyer has been through this game before. He's not some lawyer out in the hinterlands. This guy's actually been through it. It shows how serious it is.

All right. So let's talk about what's going to be happening now. It looks like, and odds are, if you're a betting person, I'm sure people are betting on this. That it's going to be a rematch. It's going to be a Trump-Biden rematch.

I'm not saying that it's not going to be very tough for Trump because Biden doesn't seem like much of an opponent right now, RFK. But look at these numbers. This is stunning. You want to diminish polls? I'm with you.

But this substantial, it is eyebrow raising because the NBC poll says 26% of all voters think he should run again. 70% said he should not. 35% say Trump should run again. 60% say he should not. Biden should not run.

What's the main reason? Age. And who are the what's the one group that's most offended that he's going to run again? 18 to 34. That's 76%.

He owned them last election. Yeah, I think Biden is in real trouble here. Do you think they care about this? Yeah, of course they carry on. By the way, Susan Rice has resigned, by the way.

Yeah, I don't think that's a coincidence either. I I think Susan Rice with her domestic portfolio now, the international portfolio as national security advisor, I wouldn't be surprised if she didn't put herself in as a candidate as well, or certainly try to position herself as vice president. We thought that she was a candidate for vice president, but Biden didn't pick her, probably. You know why? Because she was such a horrendous advisor to Obama.

She wasn't confirmed. That's the reason she went into that slot, no doubt about it. I'm not saying she's qualified. I'm just saying she has tens of millions of dollars in the bank, doesn't need the job, but does perceive herself as somebody of that. Caliber, and I don't think it's a coincidence 24 hours before this announcement, by the way.

What's up with them taping it? Like, you know that Biden can't just extemporaneously go out and give a speech and be rousing to the crowd, but the reports we're hearing is that they have already taped it.

Now they're just editing it. You know, that they're going to make an NFL film's John Fasenda, like 30, you know, two-minute piece, what he's done, reimagined America, put a windmill in every home, you know, take gas scopes out of every kitchen. Change everybody, yes. Exactly. Among the people who.

We're honest. Terry Moran of ABC.

Now, by the way, in the past, has he been very conservative? Not, I don't recall ever. Ever?

Okay, fine. Cut 16.

Well, I'll leave that to our Democratic former official here. My own sense is that most Americans don't want to vote for an 81-year-old man for president. And neither do they really want to vote for a 77-year-old man for president. They'd like to go to the next generation. And I think part of the Modesty.

Is the is the Biden White House in operation aware that people are uneasy with his age.

So, Wall Street Journal writes this in the editorial: The public understands that Mr. Biden apparently won't admit that electing an 80-year-old in obvious decline for another four years would be a historic mistake. It's impossible to know Mr. Biden's real physical and mental health because the White House goes to great lengths to hide it, but the decline is real. New York Times: the only thing I could say is watch me, is what Biden always says.

But Mr. President, the Times writes, he has given voters very few chances to go do that. Quote, watch him. And he refuses to engage with the public regularly, raises questions about his age and his health. What's going on?

NBC. New York Times, Wall Street Journal, what are they trying to say? I don't think by the end of the year, the calendar year, I don't think he will actually be the nominee. I think he has to. It's getting so awkward.

That would be a disaster for Democrats. But it's so awkward right now that he hasn't announced re-election. We got debates on the Republican side coming up in August, and Democrats are going to have to start scheduling some of those as well. But I don't think he wants to become the leader. Will he still debate RFK and Marion Williams?

No, look, he got there by the canon in the basement. But I think there will be more people. I think those candidates getting in the race almost give an excuse and an opportunity for somebody like Gavin Newsome and potentially a Susan Rice to also get into the mix. That's not the end of the day. An advisor can't come out against a president, can he?

Angie? Yeah, that'll. That's happened in the past. I'm just saying. I don't advocate for it.

I'm not the campaign manager for them. I'm just saying I think this is how they think. And I don't think that 24 hours before the announcement of the reelection is a coincidence. All right. When we come back, Ron DeSantis in Japan, South Korea.

Israel, and I think there's one other stop. I'm forgetting it. But going over there, it looks like he's going to come back and announce. I would imagine no one's doing what he's doing and doesn't. Not until.

The state legislature passes law and changes the law so that a sitting governor announcing for president can continue to be the governor. Right now, it's against the law. Right now, we would do, I think that's May 20th, is the last day to do that, so it'll be a couple weeks in. Yep. But I want to see what you think about the attack plan that Donald Trump has on Ron DeSantis.

I'm not comfortable with it, but I'm also not comfortable with what some Republicans are saying about Trump. It's just totally inaccurate and not a vulnerability. But you're the pro, Jason Chavitz. Back in a moment. Both sides, all opinions.

It's Brian Killmead. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. All right, we're back. Let's go back to what I was saying before we went.

Jason Chavet stayed here. I tried to get him to go do something else, but he would not go anywhere. I'm only kidding. I beg you to stay. The food here is so good.

It is fantastic. Please feed me somebody. You brought your own Gatorade. Uh so I have uh I want you to hear uh If Josh, would you just pull down? I want you to hear a little bit of President Trump's attack on Ron DeSantis.

And I don't get it. You guys are the pros, but I don't get it. Listen. And again, except you don't see that tabulation, we did much better. In 2020, in Florida, I got 1.2 million more votes than your successful governor's campaign.

You know that.

We got 1.2 million. Sir, I'd love to have your support, sir. I'd love to have your support. I'm down at about three. I'd love to have your support.

All right, let's think about it. Then there was like a rocket ship after I gave it. Otherwise, right now you'd have a lawyer someplace looking for business. If that He says that Uh the place is a mess, the state's a mess. He got more votes than that.

He's the reason why it's no longer a purple state. That's just not the case. He won by one after Ron DeSantis showed up. Then they say he wins by 19 out of pure performance, stood up and worked together with Jared and everybody else during the pandemic. I think that's a non-starter.

I think attacking Ron DeSantis as a governor of Florida is a non-starter, Jason. I think in general, if Republicans are going to succeed, they better take on the mantra of Ronald Reagan. I don't think it's playing well to go out and attack each other personally. Yeah, but you know, when the primary Reagan even attacked. Yeah, but you can attack on policy.

That's a totally different, fair, and legitimate. That's what voters want to hear. But to try to disparage somebody's personal character, that isn't going to play well. I'm not saying that about anyone candidate. I'm just saying that as a sweeping generality.

That just doesn't play well.

So the other thing I would say for Ron DeSantis, he attacked without using his name. He said, if you're President of the United States, you've got to be a leader, and you should never outsource pandemic to Anthony Fauci. Yeah. You know that when this first happened, we didn't know what hit us. And then after a while, he told Fauci, take a walk.

And he took heat for that. Ron DeStansis was brilliant during the pandemic. I'll give him credit for it. But I don't think President Trump is vulnerable in that respect. People were mad at him for sidelining this at that point, the man that solved AIDS.

Why do you feel about that? No, I again, I I think these will be shallow, soft, quick hits. They won't necessarily land the blow. Debates are going to be fascinating. You know, starting in August, they're going to start to have debates.

Um you know, De DeSantis has to actually declare, but boy, if you watch the ad wars that are already going on between these super PACs. Uh again Go after the Democrats. Show leadership. I think there are a couple of people, if they play their A game, they can become the nominee. And showing how you're going to take on Joe Biden and the woke left is the number one issue.

I want you to hear what Rachel Bade said of Politico real quick. Cut 15. But here's the problem, though. If you can't connect with your own delegation, I mean, Stuby told me, Greg Stuby told me that he had numerous times over the past five years in Congress reached out to DeSantis to try to get a meeting to talk policy, but ignored every time. Actually, you know, told to show up at campaign events and then told you can't take the stage with DeSantis.

This is a problem for him. And if he's going to alienate.

So that's what they're saying: is that he doesn't connect. He's not friends with Rick Scott. Ruby hasn't talked to him in months. Greg Stuby can't get him on the phone. Reality?

For those individuals, yes. But I tell you, for the six years that Ron was in Congress, I was with him on judiciary and on judiciary. I find the guy to be accessible, fun, knowledgeable, and stood shoulder to shoulder with me in fighting against John Koskin and at the IRA. He likes to work. He's not like a hangout drinking buddy.

And neither am I. I am. I have no friends, though. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

We gave up all of our bases. We don't have bases in any neighboring country. Our allies, what few are left, are literally being hunted down as we speak. Billions of equipment left behind. Our drones.

Spend about 80% of their fuel just to get from the Middle East to Afghanistan, and they're dependent on. On the Taliban's buddies in Pakistan.

So it is a very difficult situation. The thing that's worse is they've made a deal with the devil with the Taliban and want us to believe that we can depend on the not-so-bad terrorists to help us go after ISIS. That didn't work at Abbey Gate. It's not gonna work now. And Mike Waltz making a lot of sense as usual.

He's a go-to guy and all this stuff. But you see the cover of the New York Post today: Deal with the Devil. And it looks like. The Taliban is aiding us and taking out ISIS-K. But we were doing that to a degree even when we were at the airport, because ISIS-K is an enemy of theirs.

But the Taliban, it couldn't be more evil and. Untrustworthy from what they've done over the last year. I don't have to tell Brett Baer that, host of Peshawar Report. Brett, great to hear from you. Your reaction to this news.

Yes. I mean, listen, it's a mess and it is something that a lot of people foresaw when the withdrawal happened. And it kind of emboldened different elements that we're facing. And and it's just uh it makes it tough. Um I don't know where it's going to go.

I mean, if if the terror if you look at some of the leaks, terrorist manifesting itself back in Afghanistan as guys like you know, uh, who actually sto stared and studied the war and terror just didn't ride the news, that's where it's going to go. It's going to go to the weakest point and where they can operate freely, and that's where they can operate freely again. But I don't know who's thinking this through, Brad. It just everybody has to know what you're dealing with. The other story was we see the Inspector General who's doing the report saying, I cannot tell you for sure that the aid we're sending to Afghanistan is not going right to the Taliban.

Yeah, I mean I I think that They have made so much of the relationship they had with the Taliban, and then the withdrawal happens, then it is super messy, now they're trying to do some diplomatic dance, and the aid is still going to the Taliban, and you have essentially. a setup that is a lot like it was before nine eleven, where it is uh setting the table for terrorist groups to have a Lily pad launch pad from Afghanistan. And we are unable in the long distance, over the horizon, to take those out effectively. I mean, we do in ones and twos, but they're able to set up a lot better than we ever thought they would. And I wanted to bring you to this.

I thought when I saw this interview, I wanted to bring this back for you, especially today. Benjamin Netanyahu was on Face the Nation. And he was asked about a poll that showed more Democrats sympathized with the Palestinians over Israelis in the United States. And he was asked to comment on that, Cut 19. Yeah, I do think it matters, and I think we have to work harder to persuade our Democratic colleagues or those of those our Democratic colleagues who Who forget perhaps that Israel is this solitary democracy in the Middle East, that America has no better friend and no better ally than Israel.

But I'll tell you why I think this happens. First of all, it's happening over time. It happened over time. It's not related to this or that administration in Israel because it happened, it continued under the previous government as well. I think there's a demonization of Israel in some of the reports, many of the reports that come out of here.

And I think there's a portion of the American public that finds it hard to understand that once you you enter the the realm of nations, you have to act to defend yourself.

So there's been a lot of anti-Israeli action on campus. And I think the people are getting older, and many of them are Democrats. I think that's pretty telling. And he understands this country. He went to college here, he knows America very well.

He does. You know, he has a good sense of where America is, and I think that it's interesting to hear him talk. Obviously, Israel has its own issues internally, but You know, he's right in a lot of aspects. And, you know, this is going to be a big issue for a while.

So, a couple of things. You know, I love the 2024 race. I think you love the horse race, too. In fact, you actually gamble on it. I never understood exactly how to do it.

And when I screwed up, I think the last time I was on the panel, I messed up the rules so bad. You haven't had me back. Allison, could you look that up? We have official bread killed. We have Bear killing.

I mean, you totally, you know, you said like $100 or I gave you $100 in chips and you put $50-50. That's not like making a bet. Right. I'm not a good gambler.

So, right, I'm just not. But I didn't know really what you meant by that. I guess other panelists are more astute. I should have paid attention in college.

So or at least had some type of recreational activity that helped me out in the long run.

So let's talk about this race in particular. And some of the attacks between DeSantis, Trump, and others. I was shocked to see that Chris Nunu. Um Went at Trump this way, cut nine. At the end of the day, it has to turn into votes.

Look, I talk all the time about, you know, we want a fighter, right? Republicans want someone that's going to fight for them. But we also want a fighter that can win. He said he was going to go to Washington and drain the swamp. He didn't do it.

He said he was going to build a wall and secure things. He didn't do it. He said he was going to give us health care reform and be fiscally disciplined, not add $8 trillion to the debt. He didn't do any of those things. And so we want fighters that can actually win and take accountability.

And if you hear the scribbling in the background, it is Joe Biden jotting down, because he's going to say the same exact thing. But I was surprised about that style of attack. Were you? Yeah, um I I I think that, you know, listen, they're going to have to carve their own lanes. And that style of attack is interesting to watch.

But it's going to be, you know, otherwise you're going to have the same race that we had, you know, in 2020. And it's shaping up to be that right now.

So each one of these opposing candidates is going to have to have something that has traction. And maybe that's what they think it is. But the thing is, Brett, we all know this is not an absolute monarch situation. That you build a wall and if you only get $1.4 billion from Paul Ryan for two years and Mitch Bocano, you could... Suck it up, and then you do repurpose defense funds, and then you build 450 miles of wall.

I thought that there might be oversweeping statements like that from the left. I was surprised where Chris Christie. And I'm a fan of both these guys. They're great personalities. I think you agree with that.

But these are such astute politicians. that they think that Trump is a val Trump is not Trump's not going to lose one vote on that. No. No, I and you know, no they're not going to flip votes on that. And so it's not really a a interesting take.

I think more interesting is the battle between like Pence and Trump over You know, entitlements and your fiscal discipline and the long term, and the fact that you have to do something that Turn the aircraft carrier upstate a little bit in order to save those programs in the long term.

So I think that's far more interesting because it's substantive. Yeah, I also don't think that going after DeSantis saying Florida is a mess. I don't think anyone really thinks that. Even Democrats. I was bad in COVID or that he was the COVID lockdown governor.

I don't even get that. Right. And I also wouldn't criticize. I heard people that I know you do. 700,000 people they actually got in 18 months, not because it's a terrible place, including the former president.

But the thing is, to defense DeSantis without using his name, went after him saying you listened to Anthony Fauci too long. You should take control yourself. I thought that was unfair. But. I don't think he's vulnerable on that because not many Democrats think that the president was too easy on Anthony Fauci.

I thought he sidelined him right away, and people were critical of that. And Joe Biden was going to restore all that. And then that's when the fight happened. But the other story that I can't get away from is only 26% of the American public want him to run again, and he's meaning Joe Biden. And he's going to announce tomorrow.

Why do you think that poll comes out? And then you have Terry Moran, you have others go to bat. This is before he announces. And now the Hunter Biden investigation is heating up. I get the sense that people are taking their hands off the scale and almost stopped trying to shape.

The narrative and letting things go for a while just to see where it's going to land. I agree with you, and I think that there's a lot of angst in the Democratic Party about President Biden. And I think that uh it's just Yeah. There's the age thing, um, there's the substance thing, and I think that they're really hungry for another person. Um but On Tuesday, tomorrow, he's going to put out a video and we're told, run for reelection.

The thing that will point out by the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal over the weekend, not available. We'd love to talk to you, see what's there, see what's not there, see what details you remember. He is just never available. Why would you want the job for four more years if you're going on a family vacation when Latin America is being dominated by China, Russians on the march through Africa through the Wagner Group? There's all types of tensions and weapons problems getting to the battlefield in Ukraine.

We have the France President Macron over in China saying, I don't want to take sides. I mean, my goodness, we need an engaged president. Yes, and I think that there's all kinds of criticism, and it's not just conservatives. And increasingly, there are people on the left that are wondering about his abilities. But They don't right now have an alternative, and I think that the party for the most part is going to unify despite the polls, despite the angst.

They think that he's the guy that can beat Donald Trump, and they think Donald Trump's going to be the nominee.

Okay. Hardest question yet.

Well you you couldn't go to the uh tournament. But the live tour was in Australia. Evidently, 100,000 people showed up. You had the sensational hole in one by. Chase Kepka.

Chase Kepka. And then you had. Uh Dustin Johnson win it and call out the PGA president. What are you thinking about this tour? You know what?

This they needed something like this to happen. because it it seemed like it was floundering and and wasn't doing well in the US. It was pretty impressive to watch some of that video. And obviously, the turnout in Adelaide was was huge. And it goes to show that that golf has an international there's a want to have good good golf and good golfers in person.

Can that translate to momentum? You know, I don't know. The ratings on CW are still not that good. And. But they needed a shot in the arm, and they got it.

I also think that the Masters, Brian, where live golfers performed really well. Mickelson came in second. Kepka came in second second second second second second. Came in second, and there were a bunch in the top 10.

So, you know, they prove that they're not just flash in the pan.

So, we'll have to see.

So, that was the hardest for you ever to be fair and balanced, wasn't it? Out of everything you had to have, because you love the PTA. We could not break Brett Phaer's professionalism, even when it comes to golf. All right, Brett, so who's on your panel tonight? I have no clue.

I'm getting on the call with my staff here in a second. We had a delayed morning meeting, and I wanted to take care of you first. I am honored. I'm gonna even if that's not true. I am honored.

I'll never know. I have no second source. Brett, go get them. I'll see you. All right.

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Hey, welcome back everybody. Just a lot going on today. Just a special thanks to everybody that watched One Nation over the weekend. We did that what I thought was the perf for me anyway. Hopefully I'll find out from you, so I'll get our ratings tomorrow.

The perfect analogy for me last week was John McEnroe because he was just astounded. I watched it back. John McElro was almost like a savant in tennis. He knew all the rules. He knew what was right and what was wrong.

And his argument was he couldn't take other people that didn't do it. You remember that? But I I just thought I was watching last week in all the hearings. The Democrats, for the most part, were asking us to suspend logic and understanding and forget what we're seeing and try to believe. What their course of events was, whether it was a situation with crime in New York City, Chicago, into Los Angeles, San Francisco.

or whether it was Afghanistan not being that bad? Would have happened anyway under Trump? The immigration system was broken under Trump, and they just tried to fix it. It was impossible. All that stuff we know is not true.

So I thought I'd mix in macaro. I hope you like that mix. But it makes me also wonder about. Um If there's indeed more to know. More.

To know.

Alright, research shows that young men, and this is not a surprise, copy their father's masculinity or a lack thereof. An Australian National Survey, by the way, they are very manly men in Australia, don't you think? Is this just because most of their movie stars are masculine? And the accent, right? Right.

They just seem like little funny but angry. But I think also Australia, right, they have all like the scary things, right? They have the alligators, the crocodiles, the snakes, the sharks. Yeah, the sharks, the reefs. Yes.

Surrounded by water.

So you have to just be that like rugged masculine to say. Case for emergency, run to New Zealand or drown. Australia, they did a survey of 15 to 20-year-old men and their fathers. The survey asked men a set of 22 scientifically validated questions about how they felt and behaved in relation to many issues around masculinity. For example, they were asked about the significance of work and social status for their sense of identity, their take on showing emotion and being self-reliant, their endorsement of risk-taking and violent behaviors, the importance they assigned to appearing heterosexual and having multiple partners.

That's interesting. The heck of a lot. What is it, 1961? Could be, yeah. And their beliefs about winning dominance in others.

Taken together, the answers to these questions offered as a window into whether the men participating in the survey adopted more of the traditional or progressive type of masculinity.

So I don't know. I guess, I mean, I do notice it if you think about it. Most men are like their dads, right? Yeah, I mean you like you grow up seeing what they do and how they act and it's sort of the normal thing to do then you also have more like you know if you have kids of both sexes like all right you take you know Jimmy to go mow the lawn and I'm gonna take Sally to go food shopping. It's sort of just what happens.

Although Jimmy should be mowing the lawn by himself I shouldn't have to take them to mow the lawn.

Well, that is true. They gotta learn at like three or four if you want them to do it. By the way, if you're a kid and don't want to mow the lawn, allergies. Start sneezing. Because the parent has no plan B.

No, it's called Benadryl. Oh, you mean give them medicine? Yeah. Give them medicine. Or wear long pants and a hat and gloves, and you're fine.

Right. And there's a way to take the sting out of the rashes. They no longer itch after a certain amount of time. Cortisone. Right.

All right. I'm not going to do the next one because I feel it's too inside baseball. Although I did go to Cooperstown over the weekend. What'd you think? I was could not be more impressed.

with the Baseball Hall of Fame. And I love the fact that they put it in a place that is a town that needs some reason to go. And they say that I went there basically, and the town was. Like going to a resort in the dead of winter, nobody was around. Um except the pizza place was open.

But I just thought it was fantastic. I was fascinated to see this. What do they have, Pepe Rose? They have a little display for Pete Rose, but they don't they know he's on the Hall of Fame. What do they have for the steroid guys?

They have glass, there's Mookawair, and there's Sosa, there's headlines, but a big explanation about what happened. I didn't see, I gotta look closer, I didn't see anything for Barry Bonds.

So, can you imagine having a Hall of Fame? The guy with the most hits, not in. The guy with the most home runs in a single season, not in. The guy with the most home runs in his career, not in. Crazy old fame, but I loved it.

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