Biden downplays border chaos despite record number of apprehended

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Everyone, welcome to the latest moment to the Brian Killmeek Show. Hope everyone, respectively, had a great Mother's Day.

Now we're back in action in the Northeast. I know the weather was fantastic. I hope you enjoyed it. But we are covering everything to make this show great today. We're able to wrangle Will Kane seven hours before.

He's going to be hosting his 8 o'clock p.m. show tonight on Fox News. And Mike Rogers at the bottom of the hour, almost as smart as Will Kane. He was the former chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, former FBI guy who might very well be running for president. And before we get to Will, who's swiveling on his chair, let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Put a Republican in there. What if it had been, you know, Jenna Bush had been hired while her father was president or Liz Cheney had been hired while her father was vice president? Would we say there's something stinky here?

Yes, Carl, they would have. We're talking about Hunter. Swing and miss, really? Not so fast. James Comer Crew on Oversight actually laid it out very successfully, I thought.

Wants the media to pay attention. Talking about the Bidens, their family, and how they're benefiting.

Well, what are they selling? They are selling only one thing: the access that Joe Biden had, even though he's not listed yet. Be patient. Number two. And at the end of the day, governing is not about entertaining.

Governing is not about building a brand or talking on social media and virtue signaling. It's ultimately about winning and about producing results. Wow. Ron DeSantis subtle shots at Trump. A lost weekend for Trump.

A big, well, actually, I would say a big week for Trump, but a weekend that belonged to Ron DeSantis. Blame the weather, credit the governor, and oh, yeah, the president goes lower than low in his weekend address. I'm talking about Joe Biden. More on that in a moment. Number one.

You think things are going at the border, sir? Much better than you all expected. Do you have any plans to visit the border? Not in the near term, no. Right, that's a guy out of breath on a bike.

Perilous times at the southern border. Facilities filled to triple capacity. Records set for apprehensions last week in cities battling counties on where the tens of thousands will be housed, fed, and absorbed. And yet, Title 42 ends and Title VIII begins, and Biden officials are already on a victory lap? Don't think that makes much sense.

Will, don't you think it's a little premature to be having a orchestra on every Sunday show celebrating that they cut the numbers in half from 10,000 to 5,000 a day? Premature or false. And I say false, not denying the statistics that might be reported today, but false in painting a picture that hasn't existed before and won't exist after this momentary blip in time. You know, if I could, I'd love to do a quick fact check on the opening of the Brian Kilmead show.

So, first of all. It is one of the most emasculating things that can be imagined to ride a bike. To your point of the president riding a bike, I think the only thing worse would if he were riding a scooter. Right. I don't mean a motorcycle.

Even Barack Obama, who looks cool, never looked good on a bike. You do. I don't care. Look, you could be an athlete. You could be Lance Armstrong.

You don't look cool on a bike. With that helmet. Oh, and then the helmet takes you down another four notches. He has his aviators on, so he can look like a fighter pilot, but he's wearing a. Helmet riding a bike and he's the leader of the free world.

Second, do we really call this uh high atop the Fox News headquarters? We're on like the fifteenth floor and this thing goes way up, and y'all introduce the show as though you're high atop the show. Finally, most approachable radio host? Don't you think? I mean, let's be honest.

I mean, you need directions, you're coming up to me. Who's in the running? Put it this way. I had to buy Dawn, who I married and is the mother of my children. I decided that for her, I'd go to Handenstone and get a gift certificate for her.

While I'm sitting there, a guy walks off the street, walks up to me, two-story, and says, Can I have directions to the dog and cat rescue? Out of everybody in line, he comes up to me, dog and cat rescue. Does not think I work at Fox or anything. I have to look on my GPS device. Oh, you did?

He doesn't have one. I found out that because he had a flip phone. I found out that Dog and Cat Rescue had to write down. If that isn't approachable, Will Kane, what is?

Okay, I'm not saying you're not approachable, but before we crown you with the title, I just wanted to run through my mind. Let's see, let's say Clay and Buck, Dan Vongino, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck. Keep going. If you guys were all standing on a street corner, and I'm trying to think who else could be in the running here, you want to throw some sports figures in there, like, I don't know, like Mike Greenberg. You guys are all standing on a street corner, and someone needs directions.

Do you go to Brian Killmead first? All right. I'm going to say something. Got to put in your Jimmy Phela. Phela and Guy Benson.

Oh, guy. Guy Benson. But everybody you lined up, tell me who's more approachable. I'm going to say this. You're not high atop the Fox News headquarters.

But you might be the most appropriate. Thank you very much. Listen, we were on 18. It made more sense we were on 18. We got to 15, then we're all of a sudden I can I am it's hard to see I just want the listeners to trust you and I just worry.

Coming out of the gates with that kind of thing. No one has ever pointed that out. No one has ever pointed high atop with something of controversy that I've said. Right. You know, Levin's intro, you know, where he's like, what is it in his secret lair bunkered down?

Let me just tell you this. I like Mark Levin. He's done some really nice things for me. But no one is asking directions to the dog and cat rescue to Mark Levin while he's online for a hand in stone massage. Takes off the glasses.

Listen here. You go right at the corner. Then you're going to see the sign. Why are you asking me? Uh it's part of the whole Marxist thing.

I mean, Marxism, everybody's got to get directed from everybody else instead of being on our own, just to get lost like we used to. All right, so what were we saying? Let's talk about 2024. We haven't done that. First off, thanks for hanging around Saturday night.

That was a long day for you. Especially, you got to get primed up for the next day, Sunday, and then you got to get ready to do five days at 8 o'clock this week. Yeah, that's right.

So it's on 2024. I did not realize this when we did the show. Actually, we shouldn't have. I don't know if I could have realized this. But Ron DeSantis, after doing his second speech, went to the one mile from where Donald Trump was supposed to give his speech and canceled it.

And he went over to a famous restaurant and then went outside on a picnic table. And he and his wife took questions and took pictures with everybody. That's good gamesmanship. That's a guy that wants to win, should he get into this race? What do you think about that?

You know, I still wonder so I I t I I told you this This weekend. This isn't a game of should. This isn't a game of preference. This is a game of just simply observation. Ron DeSantis has the track record.

He has the job that he's done in Florida. He has all the stake. The question is: does he have the sizzle? And Donald Trump undoubtedly has all of the sizzle. I mean, he's a rock star.

He's a blockbuster. And the question remains about Ron DeSantis. A, can he be a retail politician shaking hands and smiling and connecting with human beings on a one-on-one level, which I think still matters in politics? And B, can he commandeer or command a stage and a podium in a way that makes people want to follow? I should say, C, can he do it at the same time that Donald Trump is on that same stage going back and forth, throwing haymakers in a debate?

And so I just wonder about all of those elements. And I'm not telling you again that it's right or wrong or should or shouldn't or preference. I'm just telling you the way that I think it is, and it is necessary for him to have that sizzle. And, Will, this is Street and Smith pregame report before the internet when they used to put out the magazines and tell you the chances your team had to win. And they have a section where it says, here's the positives, here's the negatives.

And there's the question. That's called setting it up. I love the fact that you say you don't know because I'm surprised how many people know. They know the best way to deal with Trump is you fight him. The best way to deal with Trump is you ignore him.

You don't have any page. How can they? I don't know. That's such nonsense that somebody suggests they know. No one has successfully.

No one has beat Donald Trump.

Well, Joe Biden did. He didn't beat him in a debate. You know, I think that Joe Biden and the media and the national intelligence apparatus all together in coordination Beat Donald Trump in coordination. And if you think that. In a Republican primary?

I don't think so. Here is what Chris Christie says. He does have a way to beat Trump, cut 15. You can't beat Donald Trump. By playing Bumper Pool.

and hitting it off three cushions and hope that it goes in it goes in the hole. It's that's not the way it works, John. And I think they're all making a marked mistake. As to the audience reaction, let's face it, CNN went in the tank. To get Trump on there, they allowed him to negotiate who was going to be in that audience.

And those were all Trump supporters. I don't care how they introduced them. I know a lot of those people in that audience. I spent a lot of time in New Hampshire eight years ago, and a lot of those are the same faces that I saw eight years ago. You pay no attention to the audience reaction.

Those were all people who, in the main, 80% or so were Trump supporters.

So that was a negotiation deal that the Trump did with CNN, and I think CNN was wrong for doing it. I thought the audience was not a main part of it. You know, they cheered, but that was typical, I think, of a Republican. Uh town hall. of Donald Trump.

I would have liked to have seen more questions. If I was her, I would have got what I had to do. And just say, you know, where do you stand on January 6th? Get it out of the way for CNN viewers. And then ask legitimate questions.

And then you could kind of play off what the audience was doing. Isn't the whole thing, and I was slow to understand this, it was a town hall. It gave her an opportunity, Caitlin Collins, to kind of back out and like, let the people ask the questions in a Republican primary. What happened to that concept? It quickly became a grilling of Donald Trump of grievances of Trump, expecting him to somehow change the answers we all know about.

If you want to have a grilling and you want to do a fact check, I'm not sure a town hall, even with what I mean by that is even with the dressing of a town hall, having a live studio audience, not only does it not. Help, it hurts because he has a crowd that he can play to, and he's really good with a crowd, and that crowd was happy to hear from Donald Trump. That's if you go into it saying, I want to fact-check every single thing that he says and have this be an adversarial interview. If you actually want to elicit information, then you could use the town hall. But the thing is, We it's like I don't know if the goal was to play the greatest hits or what it may be, but like those topics are done.

I agree. January 6th, what else was it? There were several of these right off the top where we just did like elections now. The other one was elections. Four years old.

How about the fact that they asked him about a policy he left while in office was the separation of families? We all know now that we went over it. It was Jeff Sessions' idea to do it. He implemented it. Trump didn't back off of it when it clearly went south and Melania was not even for it, went down with the jacket on.

He left it.

So after a year and a half, he left this idea. She goes, Are you going to go back to child separation? You know, Donald Trump's like, maybe, because when families we have to send the message, these people can't come. That's just Trump being Trump. But he had an easy one on that.

He had an easy one to go, yeah, I left that policy. Where are the 85,000 missing kids that Joe Biden can't keep track of? Did you know about that? Were you going to bring that up? That would have been such an easy parry.

And I think that every time they turned to the town hall and the voters, they did ask forward-looking. Questions. What will you do? And you could even couch it in: hey, you didn't get this accomplished in your first term. Will you get it accomplished in your second term?

You can, you, but I know that the American people, whether or not they're Republican or Democrat, are sitting here going, we need solutions moving forward. And it's reasonable to assume that Donald Trump represents those solutions, but you have to ask him about it. You got to ask him about what's coming. Ahead of us on the road, and how he will handle that. But the thing was constantly conducted through the rearview mirror.

Again. Through the rearview mirror. And just as amazing is they were so surprised by it in that panel afterwards. But here's what Al Sharpton said about Ron DeSantis. You know, every Democrat thinks they're going to beat Trump.

So that's who they're hoping for, Cut 18. More and more every day, people are taking DeSantis less seriously. He's like a baby in a crib with a rattle wanting to be like daddy more than he looks like an adult that belongs in the living room sitting around having a discussion. I think it will come down to Biden and Trump unless something dramatically happens. And I think the more we see the tirades of Donald Trump on Mother's Day, no less, the more it reminds people, wait a minute, I don't want to go back there.

And I think that that is one of the assets that Joe Biden has aside from some of his achievements as president.

Well, there's a lot in that in that From Al Sharpton. And not all of it, Brian, I think, is incorrect. I think that Ron DeSantis does have a lot to prove. I don't think he's a baby in a crib and capable of having an adult conversation. He's doing not just adult conversations, he's executing adult policies in a world where actual solutions are hard to find.

But. he does have to find a way to distinguish himself from Donald Trump. And I don't know that DeSantis has that answer just yet. And I think that Sharpton might be right in his assessment that, I mean, the smart money, if you're betting right now, is a rematch of Biden versus Trump. I mean, that's the smart money.

And I mean, just like if you go to any of the betting apps on politics right now, that's where it lands. It lands on a rematch of Biden versus Trump. I like that, like you said about Al Sharpton. He's also doing gamesmanship because he wants Trump. Number two, the other thing would be that the problem is what he said about Joe Biden.

Joe Biden isn't the grandfatherly nice guy. He comes off angry almost every single day. I have not seen a mediator, a voice of reason, and moderation. That has not been the guy we saw. And when we come back, what he said over the weekend that I think was really pandering, don't move.

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He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmead. A harsh reality. And racism. has long torn us apart.

It's a barrel. It's never really over. But on the best days Enough of us. have the guts and the hearts. This Stand up.

for the best in us. To stand up against the poison. White supremacy, as I did in my inaugural address to single out as the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy. Great, at a historic black college. He decides to say white supremacy is the biggest threat in America.

Will Kane, do you agree?

Somebody should go tell all the people trying to get into America at the southern border. That was a great point. Why? Who are they? Those mostly white Europeans?

Yeah, exactly. They're ready to take care, take advantage of this supremacist culture we have here. Yeah. I mean, it's just such a ridiculous, naked pander. And the line, did we cut off right after that next line?

And I'm not just saying that because I'm at a black HBCU. That's exactly. Because he knew deep down, oh, this is really obviously pandering.

Well, you know, the thing is, I think he got 92% of the black vote in the last election.

Now it's down to 58%. 58%. And the way to get that back is to say things like this: Stoke victimhood. Larry Elder from the Bleefist stats last night when he was on with Steve Hilton. He said there's been 25 African Americans who have lost their lives due to white supremacy.

But in terms of black on black crime and everything else, the numbers are astronomical. This is just not an issue in America. There are always idiots out there. But to characterize America that way, I think it's so detrimental because then it has people going, wait a second, maybe he's right. You know, with those 75 million that voted for him, maybe Joe Biden's right.

Maybe we are a a country controlled by white supremacy. That's what I worry about. We're in the least racist moment in history. We are in inside of that, on i currently, all of us here. In the least racist country on the globe.

And we are in the least racist moment of our own particular American history. Maybe you could argue that 10 years ago, you know, you've seen those graphs like in the early 2000s, 15 years ago, we were somehow. Gallup poll showing moving beyond honestly, yes. If you look at those polls and those graphs, it's what they show. Absolutely.

So the idea that we have this sin that is the definition of everything that's wrong with this country is just this. It is Joe Biden pandering to divide Americans on the basis of race in order to pit us against one another through racial resentment in order for his own personal gain. What could you tell me about your podcast? I know you're recording another one today. I did this.

I did the Daniel Penny case. I'm really upset and fired up. I did this white supremacist thing that Joe Biden said. I did, it's up this morning. I'm so mad that the media is once again showing pictures of 15-year-old Michael Jackson impersonator Jordan Neely, who's the guy that died in his interaction with former Marine Daniel Penny.

It's just such a visual lie that happens in the media. He was 30 years old. And he was a a con been arrested forty times. Can I tell you one thing before we go? You take a left, that's right, I said it!

You take a left, go down the street, you arrive, it'll say the pet rescue. That's it. I'm done. Nice. See you tonight at 8 without Mark LeMet on the show.

I have a sense. You know what? He'll be good booking for you. Not anymore. And you, meanwhile, would read every page on the Google entry to them.

Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. The China Initiative was an FBI operation that was investigating a spy ring in our colleges and universities, which just about every major university president in America would admit there's a problem. China sends students over here. They want to volunteer to be in our research and development programs, and they steal our intellectual property and send it back to China.

This has been happening for a decade. Every university president knows it. But when Joe Biden became President, one of the first things he did was cancel the China Initiative because they said it was racially profiling these Chinese students in the United States.

Now why would he do something like that when every major company in America complains about China stealing our intellectual property? And that's what they're saying. James Comer is trying to say when people criticize him, say, well, just show me one thing, one area in which Joe Biden's foreign policy was compromised, possibly about his son's or his family's business dealings. And you have to suspend disbelief to think that Joe Biden didn't know about or play a major role in what's been uncovered so far, the dealings in Romania as well as China, as well as a role in Burisma, his son getting a place on the board. Remember the meetings with Carlos Slim of Mexico?

How shady does that look?

Well, here are the guy who did that for a living for a long time, former FBI guy, Mike Rogers, former chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intel. Congressman, welcome back. Brian, kill me. It's always good to be back, my friend.

So I watched Comer lay things out. I watched every member on the committee go and speak a little bit. And then Byron Donalds come at you last week, last Monday, actually, and say, I'm in finance my whole life before I get into Congress. There's nobody who has all these red flags up on their transactions, who has all these shell companies set up with no known product that makes you wonder what they're actually selling besides influence that Joe Biden has. What do you think?

Well, and I read a report where I think there was as many as nine family members taking getting pay overseas payments into accounts. of which clearly didn't fit their backgrounds, their As you say, there's no products in those companies exactly. In the FBI, we would call that a clue. good place to start. I mean, something is amiss there, and they're going to have to get to the bottom of it.

And given the complete mistrust the American people is now having with this U. S. government, this is a good opportunity to go in, dig up. If you don't find anything, be honest, say you don't. And if you do, be honest, tell us you do.

And I think if they do that, They're probably going to get to they're going to find something a little goofy. I mean, how does these grandkids? Getting any sums of money from overseas transactions. None of that smells right. And it looks like you're either A, using them to circumvent the law.

uh or are they themselves uh You know, maybe willing or witting participants that would be would yet be determined, I would guess. Mike, is there anything to conclude? Except, I mean, number one, they talk about policy.

Well, why did you get rid of the Chinese initiative? How'd that work to our benefit? Things have gotten so much worse between our countries since Trump left, and he was being tough on them, then they poisoned the world and denied it, and the president wasn't curious about it.

So, you could also say that what about that CEFC company that Hunter Biden was invested in, that he got millions of dollars for, and that this guy had an office that Joe Biden had a key to.

So, no smoking gun yet, but man, you have to suspend logic to think there's nothing there.

So, in the big picture, why isn't the FBI more aggressively pursuing this? A four-year investigation into his son on gun and tax charges? Yeah, I that I don't know. It does defy a logic a little bit if they're withholding. And here's the problem.

And again, Perception is reality. Matter of fact, I'm speaking to the FBI Agents Association this week, and we're going to have a hard conversation. But that perception is reality. If you appear that you have your finger on the scale of justice, It's bad for everybody, and I don't care what party or at what time it happens to be the party in power right now.

However, that doesn't mean the truth shouldn't come out on this. If they were using the offices that his father had at the time to generate cash that was not quite legal, then we need to understand that, and there needs to be correction taken and justice served. I just don't know how else you do it.

Now maybe they're to their defense, they're taking longer because they understand the ramifications of it and they want to make sure every I is dotted. Yeah, well, some of these cases can be difficult because they're the white collar cases are sometimes harder to prove because you have to amass so much evidence and it tends to be data driven, technical, that kind of evidence. It's not one guy who raises his hand and said, I just saw that guy shoot somebody. They tend to get a lot more complicated than that than the shell companies. But four years is about about long enough, I would argue.

So we had an Afghanistan, a guy from Afghanistan cross on the terrorist watch list over the weekend, and the FBI got involved there. How concerned are you from a security standpoint that we were accepting $10,000 a day, $83,000 for the week, an all-time American record that we never wanted to break?

Now it's down to $5,000 a day, probably going to go up again shortly. From your perspective, I mean, that to me is one of the fundamental jobs of being president, and he's not even interested in doing it. Yes, and this is why this is a problem on a whole bunch host of fronts. A, you mentioned it, the terrorist watch list Afghan that came across. Guess what?

If you wanted to run intelligence agents from Russia or China, interesting that we saw an uptick in Russian and Chinese crossings at our southern border. It just makes you ask the question: Does it mean they're all spies? No, I know that. But what it does mean is you've got to have to start asking yourself, do our adversaries understand the weakness of our southern border? The answer is obviously and completely yes.

The other fact is, yes, a lot of these refugees are economic refugees. There is a process for that. There's a way to do this. And the longer you continue to provide incentive for the largest human trafficking operation in the history of the world with these people on our southern border, the more you're going to continue to get these things. And no great country can be a great country if you don't Understand w the people and the things coming across our border.

I mean, we understand that people are probably bringing things into the United States, even if they were not necessarily a drug mule. When you get organized crime is you take human traffickers, let's call them that, they also show up on your doorstep, then they you're getting ready to cross and say, by the way, take this package, drop it off over here. I mean, there are so many bad activities that can happen without this lawless with this lawlessness at the border. And then you have the whole public health thing. There is a reason when you go through legally, you have some public health checks to make sure you're not bringing polio back in to the United States or other horrible diseases.

Well, guess what? None of that happens when they just pour across the border in the way that they do. Yeah, it's just crazy that this is happening worse than ever, and the President will not go down or acknowledge it. You have Sinema Tester and Manchin, who are in tough races for the Senate, who have all said we should have left Title 42 in place. And I'm sure Senator Brown also is suddenly acting like a moderate.

Congressman, when are you thinking when are you going to make your decision about whether you want to run or not? Yes, we're still kicking tires. We're having really interesting conversations. I do find that on the ground in South Carolina and Iowa, New Hampshire, the conversations are a little different. They tend now these tend to be activists.

But they're more clued into what China this great China competition that's coming. They're clued into the fact that our schools aren't teaching kids how to read. I mean, last year, 69% of eighth graders in America were not reading proficient. 69%. Hard to compete against China when you can't we're graduating kids that can't read at past the sixth grade level.

And so we're going to keep having these conversations and see how it goes. You know, when the two big elephants are in the grass, you tend not to get in their way. But there are lots of important conversations to happen. And what we do and what we're offering is very unique solutions to a whole host of really hard challen American challenges, and we're trying to get our politics bigger than our problems. And that's hard to do in this environment.

But we're going to keep having these conversations. And see where it takes us. Right. And it looks like Will Hurd is considering getting in now. I was not thinking about him.

He's been a frequent guest. Then we have, it looks like on the 22nd. Tim Scott's going to get involved. He's going to make it official. I think that Ron DeSantis before May is out first week in June.

And then Mike Pence probably won't last until the middle of June. He'll be in. Will any of those names stop you or increase your chances of getting in? Neither, honestly. We have really focused on, and we did this through leadamerica.org.

Could we find solutions that get Americans excited about being American again? Could we reignite that passion for the American dream? And so that's our focus. If we believe that there's enough voters who are interested in that more sober but optimistic approach to our problems, then we'll get in. If we don't think that that's just quite possible, and by the way, you know, the media has its candidates and has its race already planned out.

And so all of those candidates are going to have to get through, including me, if I become a candidate, get through that media of, hey, we've got the two big people we would like to run against each other. That's a challenge. And so we'll see where it goes. We're going to, as I said, we're going to keep kicking those tires, having those meetings and discussions in places that matter. And so far, and I've said this all along, if people stop inviting me back, well, then I'll stop going back.

And so far, we keep continuing. To get invited back. Yeah, no question.

So I want you to hear.

So if the question is, to know that about it, you're going to have to be able to take on Donald Trump to win. Larry Hogan says he didn't want to do that. Maybe he didn't think he'd be successful. He also thought there'd be too many people on the stage to do it.

So this is what he said that's wrong with Ron DeSantis' approach. And Ron DeSantis came out and said, we need a winner culture of winning. We want to be able to get things done. He also talked about this not about entertainment. And subtly, without mentioning Trump's name, that's how he's approaching it.

Larry Hogan says it's all wrong, Cut 16. You talked about Ron DeSantis coming in. I mean, he's been trying to out-Trump Trump, and that's not going to work. I mean, it's like, why would you settle for Robin when you can have Batman? It's like, you know, you've got to take Trump on and not just be a younger, smarter version of Trump.

Do you agree?

Well, here's what I do know. Trump won six important states in twenty sixteen that he lost in twenty. We ran the We Republicans ran Trump, Trump Light and kind of Trump styled candidates in those six states. And we got shellact in all six states. I worry that any factor of those Trump, Trump-like, Trump style candidates in 2024 are going to have a huge hurdle to get over.

And remember, if you're going to get something done, you got to get a few independents to come with you. It cannot be only our party. And I think big changes happen when you force the issue, show some leadership, and also bring those independents along. And the Democrats who are fed up with the Democrat Party, who's increasingly moving to the left in a way that's leaving a lot of the Democrats I grew up with in Michigan behind.

So lastly, Mike, the 51 Intel experts, including four former heads of the CIA, some of which are associated with Republican administrations. that said that that laptop was classic Russian disinformation. How does that happen? How would someone put their lifetime and their reputation on the line for something they couldn't examine that they didn't even follow up on? Not even a call to Joe Biden to say, hey, is this your son's laptop?

Does it astound you for a guy that spent the first half of his career in intelligence, was on the Permanent Select Committee? Yes, and unfortunately, there's some of those people on that list who are personal friends of mine. I have not even talked to them about it.

So disappointed. And my understanding is the first email that went out. said in the email that there was uh that the vice president, Joe Biden at the time, needed a talking point. Uh and that to me should have been the red flag for any one of those professionals. Many of which would, you know, if I wasn't even sure what their political beliefs were up to that point, that's what's so concerning to me that they kind of nibbled on that thing, knowing it was going to be a talking point for a political run.

And by the way, he used that letter. End his debate. That's the I mean, that's all of that's just wrong, and it just keeps feeding the fire of mistrust. of the intelligence business. And by the way, if you want to avoid a war, you have the best, most aggressive, most modern intelligence service in the world because we have some really tough competitors.

You don't do it by continuing to breed this mistrust in the intelligence products that are getting produced, and that's really concerning for me. Yeah, I just said I know you When you get in there, Mike, if you ever get in there and you win that seat, you've got to clean up the intel agencies.

Meanwhile, they're going to try to blow you up at the same time. That's pretty clear. Crazy times. Mike Rogers, thanks so much, and hope you're able to let us know when you make that decision. John, sounds good, Brian.

Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. You got it. 1-866-408-7669. When we come back, I'll be taking your calls only on the Brian Kilmeat Show.

Yeah. Expanding your knowledge base. It's the Brian Kill Meet Show. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead. Title 42 is required to be lifted by law, right?

Title 42 allows you during a pandemic to stop individuals from presenting at the board and applying for asylum. And now that the pandemic is over, the president doesn't have discretion to keep Title 42 in place.

So for all these Republicans who are complaining that the President acts outside of his authority, in this case, they seemingly want him to violate the law and turn people around at the border.

So What's happening at the border is I feel like it's being totally manipulated.

So you had. Senator Chris Murphy talked about the President had no authority or discretion to keep Title 42 in place. That's totally not true. He easily could have kept it in place, would have had no repercussions of it or a facsimile of and would have been greenlighted. You could say you leave it in place for emergency situations.

Why was it extended three other times? And the bottom line is, he had no interest in keeping it in place because he wants more people to come through. The chaos makes it look bad. I was fascinated to see on Meet the Press, their panel, basically say: listen, no matter how you slice it, the President will not look good with immigration. Yeah, he won't look good.

This is totally self-imposed. And one question. was from Jonathan Carl. Two. The uh Timaeorcus.

Wasn't the vice president supposed to be in charge of the border? And Mayorga said, Yeah, root causes.

Well, where was she? The root causes? Yeah. How about being in Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala, Brazil, Argentina? Where are you?

Shuttling back and forth. You know where she was? She was at a get-together, not even a fundraiser. They would raise funds, but a get-together, kind of a spring outing with the Democratic Party in Atlanta. I'd be embarrassed if that was the case with me.

But now they're taking a bow. Here's Murphy talking about if the president's actually engaged on this. Listen, cut five. The president has not been sitting on his hands like Republicans would allege. The president has been actively engaged in trying to manage this crisis.

He has negotiated important agreements with Mexico so that Mexico takes more of these migrants. He has surged thousands of troops and asylum officials and border patrol. All right, number one, he has been not in emergency talks with Mexico. He had a conference where he didn't even bring up the border face to face when he was in Mexico City, number one. He had a conversation an hour long the day before.

Uh the last week at some point. That is not an urgent meeting with somebody with his hands on the pulse of the area. We're the 20,000. Marines that were there during the Trump years. Where were the threats of tariffs if you don't reign in the drugs and reign in the border?

None of that. Where was the Vice President? Anywhere.

Nowhere. Where was the Secretary of State? This is a foreign affairs problem. You have all those countries that I mentioned. The Secretary of State could put pressure on.

I don't see Anthony blinking anywhere. The President wants us to go away. He had to be forced to get to the border. And now he wants this whole border thing to go away. But the problem is it's not.

Because the whole world is coming here. The same world, the same country that he says is the number one problem, problem is white supremacy. That's why all those minorities come here. They just don't know it yet. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show.

Brian In Kill Mead. Hi, everyone. Brian Kilmeader right here. Hope you had a fantastic Mother's Day and you're back in action today. If you're in the Northeast, I know you had a great weather to deal with.

Michael Goodwin knows all about that. He writes for the New York Post. He'll be with us shortly. David Avella, bottom-of-the-hour GoPack chair. He's got to be intrigued about what took place over the weekend in Iowa, along with what happened last week in New Hampshire with a certain other network.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Put a Republican in there. What if it had been, you know, Jenna Bush had been hired while her father was president, or Liz Cheney had been hired while her father was vice president? Wouldn't we say there's something stinky here?

I love that term. Yup, Hunter, swinging a miss, really? Not so fast. James Comer crew on oversight. Will the rest of the media pay attention to Biden pay for play scheme?

Will we finally find out why the Bidens are making so much money with no perceived skill or talent? Number two. And at the end of the day, governing is not about entertaining. Governing is not about building a brand or talking on social media and virtue signaling. It's ultimately about winning and about producing results.

That is a message from Ron DeSantis' two speeches and an ad-lib appearance in Des Moines to cap off his Saturday. 2024 is getting fun. Donald Trump had to own the week, and he did with that town hall, but the weekend belonged to Ron DeSantis. And oh yeah, the president goes even lower than low in his commencement address at Howard University. We'll discuss it.

Number one. You think things are going at the border, sir? Much better than you all expected. Do you have any plans to visit the border? Not in the near term, no.

Perilous times of the southern border, facilities filled to triple capacity, records set for apprehensions last week in cities, battle, counties on where the tens of thousands of illegals will be housed and absorbed in. Title 42 is gone, Title VIII is in. And so far, the numbers are in half from 10,000 today to 5,000.

So have we solved the problem, Michael Goodwin? Is immigration at the border fine? Oh yeah. Yes, Brian, everything's hunky-dory.

Now it's amazing that Majorkis was saying this last yesterday, cut two. Are you complying with that? With that ruling? We are. We have an obligation to comply with that ruling.

We respectfully disagree with the judge. We think it's a very harmful ruling. When, in fact, our border patrol stations become overcrowded, it is a matter of the safety and security of people, including our own personnel, not just the vulnerable migrants, to be able to release them. And this is something that. Administration after administration has done.

So, what Mayorgas is referring to is the fact that a judge in Florida and soon to be in Texas has ruled that it is not okay for you to not process people and just tell them to find an ICE station in 10 days. A judge goes, That's incredibly irresponsible. And then they said it's sabotage for the Republicans and this judge to do what he did.

Well, Brian, it's a little bit like the old Moynihan statement of defining deviancy down. The initial deviancy here is that the Border Patrol has been reduced to clerks. where they just take down your information and release you. Uh and there's no real vetting going on. There's no real checking even of identification.

We don't know who these people are. We didn't in cases know what country they're from.

So now there are so many people, there isn't even time to do all that.

So you just lock them up and then you release them. And that's what he's mad about. That's what my orcas respectfully disagrees with the judge on. That this is what we have to do to prevent injury, right? The old world safety first here.

Safety first, you may be releasing killers into the country. How is that safe? I think anything that slows this down is ultimately a good thing. This is just too. too much for the country to digest.

It's too big of a pot. Population that's moving here in the middle of the night, all around the daytime, just a constant flow of people into the country. We don't know who they are. Let me read to you what the judge said after he was told his ruling was sabotage. You go: the ignorant and dangerous rhetoric ignores the fact that the evidence.

Presented in this case shows that the chaos that the President acknowledged has been going on at the southern border for a number of years is largely a problem of the defendants, the administration's own making. If it is sabotage for a federal court to tell the federal government it must comply with the law, then so be it. That's good. That's a very strong statement from a judge in response to. the administration and Look, uh Brian, what has happened at the border is almost beyond belief.

And I think I've mentioned to you before that there are times where I just can't stand to read the stories because they make me so not just angry but helpless about what do we do about this because this is now a problem for a generation. You have taken in five to six million people. Many of them, at least a quarter of them, you don't even know who they are. They didn't even bother to give you a fake name because they just rushed around the agents.

So they're in the country. We have never seen this level of uh the illegality and most of the rest Claiming asylum will not qualify under the law as it is now, which is religious, ethnic, yeah. political persecution. Yeah, because you don't like your bad government in Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela. That's not new.

And they say this is a big migration crisis. No, these countries have been doing this for 20 years, but now they say it's go time.

So, for people around the country, you should know this: the ripple effects are being felt in New York more than any place else. 140 sites have been set up on the taxpayer dollar. Eight mega shelters have been opened up in the city. And now, New York City is arbitrarily shipping people around the state. They have now sent them over to Orange County and Rockland County against their will.

I guess they're bribing these hotels like the Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh, who are kicking out everybody, including stopping weddings, say go find another venue. And they kicked out 20 veterans, homeless veterans, who are being put up there. I mean, this is unbelievable.

Well, the numbers are just overwhelming. That's what it is. It's a numbers game. The country cannot handle this. I mean, I read a story the other day in the Boston Globe, the lead story in the Boston Globe, migrants overwhelming Massachusetts officials.

So it's happening around the country. You can almost follow it, you know, in real time as the migrants move from city and city to place to place. They're just going to overwhelm every facility where they go because there are so many of them. It's just a numbers game that the country cannot swallow. And now they're converting gyms in Coney Island and they're taking over.

By the way, what are you going to do in Coney Island after you sleep? There's nothing for you to do. You're not going to play basketball. Oh, be careful there. Be careful.

But you've got to be able to work in the city. You've got to be able to walk around, apply for a job. They're going to put him in jail at the hangar. That's the thing. You can't work.

And so, what the Democrats are doing, say, Governor Hochle in New York, they're saying. you we have to speed up the federal government has to speed up work authorization. And she said, we're going to put them on a path to citizenship.

So you come into the country illegally. The government, you're so many of you, the government will speed up work authorization papers for you, so you'll be undercutting American citizens and immigrants who played by the rules. Oh, and we'll put you on the path to citizenship too. I mean, what is the purpose of waiting for a visa? You don't need one, as it turns out.

All of you people who stood in line at foreign consulates and at the airports, you were fools, you're suckers, you played by the rules. Generations of you. You should have just rushed the border.

Some nice man like Joe Biden and Majorcas and all those AOCs, they would have cried if you were stopped.

So we're going to just let you in, take over the country, go right ahead.

So you wrote in your column this week, the protection racket. Basically, the media plays duck and cover with Joe Biden. Because look at his policies. We got stubborn inflation. They said that wasn't going to happen.

They got economic growth at 1%.

Now you have a situation where the border is totally broken. You have China on the move, a foreign policy in tatters. And now you have the media just basically ignoring it. Here's the biggest thing. We remember that picture of that child of one and a half years old basically grabbing at their mother's leg because the mother was told they have to leave and separate the families.

That was quickly abandoned after two and a half weeks with the President, the former President of the United States. We have lost track of 80 plus thousand children in our country. Nobody even brings that up today.

Well Yeah. Thousands who died en route because of this open border. It is not humane. It is not a humane process. It is not a humane situation.

But look, in the column that you referenced, I focused on two main areas, which is the border, Right, and the New York Times writing that it's beyond anyone's control factors. I mean, I was surprised they didn't include climate change, but in today's story, they include climate change as one of the factors making the border beyond control. And the second issue, of course, is the corruption, the Biden family corruption, how the media has covered up for that. The New York Times last week said that a four-month inquiry by Republicans fails to find any wrongdoing by president. But you know, tucked in that story, Brian, it says the President has given false and misleading statements in some cases.

Oh, really?

Well, why would that be? And if since you've authenticated the laptop, why don't you follow the reporting? I mean, the media is just stuck. They don't know what to do. Biden has created so many problems for them that they're contorting themselves trying to protect him.

I mean, it's really shameful what's happened. Jonathan Turley asked the question, do we have a state media now? Is that what we're witnessing, the way they are covering up this corruption, especially? Yeah, I know what you do talk about, too, is they talk about Donald Trump. When in doubt, you talk about Donald Trump.

That's why Wednesday's town hall was a gift for Trump and a gift for other people to cover and say how outrageous it is and kind of overwhelm the collapsing border and Joe Biden's collapsing intellect, which is falling apart before our eyes.

Now, one thing that people are forgetting about is they're trying to rehab the vice president. And they're asking about putting her in old spots. They're going to give the commencement address at West Point. What a disappointment that's got to be. She has no link at all to the military, but Jonathan Carl couldn't avoid the question.

Listen to the ridiculous answer, cut three. It was back in two years ago, more than two years ago, that the President put Vice President Kamala Harris playing a critical role in terms of trying to stop the flow of migrants across the border. Where has Vice President Harris been on this? Are you in regular contact with her? When was the last time you spoke to her?

Vice President Harris reached out to me earlier this week. That effort is a years-long effort, and Vice President Harris has led the investment of more than $3 billion in the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Wow, so they open up a target in Guatemala. That'll be great, and you can go right there to the Home Depot.

So fantastic. Yeah. The orchestra is beginning to sound like Fauci. Absolutely.

the Anthony Fauci of immigration. I think that's your next column. I'm sensing it. I can smell it, Michael. That's 100%.

Everything he says is wrong and gets you angrier the more he speaks. But he just keeps doing it because there is an audience, and the audience is. You know, the democratic media, which is there to support the administration. I mean, look, Brian, I think we're at one of those great moments in history, and great meaning huge, not good, where we're seeing a change, a dramatic change in an institution, in the institution of the media. You know, uh we talk a lot about democracy.

And of course I know we're a democratic republic, not a democracy. Strictly speaking, But However, you frame that description of America, it depends on an informed voter. It depends on an informed citizenry. And when you don't have that, when you have a misinformed citizenry, then you whatever you call the outcome of your elections, they're not strictly democratic because they have been guided by the state. The state has pushed the argument and the media has amplified it.

And so we don't really have an informed citizenry. We have a disinformation media complex, which is designed not to tell people the truth, but to determine an outcome that they favor and that the state favors. I mean, look, Brian, you and I have lived through one of the most remarkable transformations where the media, which used to be in the forefront of the battle for free speech, has now become the cheerleader for censorship. I mean, it's crazy. It's a remarkable thing that's happened in our country.

Yeah, I just think it was almost funny when Byron Donald says, You want to pull it to a prize? Follow the Biden money trail. Go ahead, anybody. And all they said was, Well, swing it and miss. Swing it a miss?

They did everything. And they're getting closer and closer to the big guy. Michael, thanks so much. I agree. With you.

I think Joe Biden is in for a fall. I do too. M. Goodwin underscore NY Post. Thanks, Michael.

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I just got this in. Talk about outrageous. I told you they're converting grammar schools and putting gyms. I told you what they're doing at old hotels.

Now get this. They are going, Mayor Adams is planning to house recent arrivals in the housing sector at SUNY Maritime under the Throgsneck Bridge, a historic facility. It's very disturbing as a parent of two student cadets. Unbelievable. They'll just put people anywhere.

Ron, listen on WABC on Long Island. Hey, Ron. Hey, how are you? Good. I hope that you can hear me okay.

What's on your mind?

So I'm wondering with everything that's going on, with all of this right in our face, mal and nonfeasance of duty on behalf of our government, DOJ, FBI, even the governors of the states, the mayors, the district attorneys, assistant and this and that. And as Americans, we can't make citizens' arrests, so we just have to sit here and grin and bear it and talk to each other and say, this is crazy. How come we don't just all rise up and do something? And then everyone looks at each other and says, look what they did for the people on january sixth.

Well, a couple of things, Ron. Right now, the mayor has flipped. He's no longer taking the side of let's just wait and see and let the court case play out when it comes to the 24-year-old Marine, the schizophrenic lunatic on the subway that sadly lost his life.

So he's getting blowed back for not taking the position.

So he quickly flipped that position. You know, he was giving a commencement address at a city college, and they turned their back and booed him when he walked on stage and talked about that.

So not only are people not fed up with the crime and overrun of illegal immigrants in the city, they're mad at this mayor for not being more. More liberal. Oh, and the same thing in San Francisco, in Chicago. They just elected a mayor that's more liberal than the crazy one they had before.

So they're allowing these DAs and these mayors are allowing crine to run rampant. And people are basically told, go jump in a lake, deal with it, or move. And so many are deciding, I'm just going to move.

So it's just crazy what's going on here. All preventable, all man-made disasters. This is no hurricane. Listen, when we come back inside. The GOP.

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That is Governor DeSantis. Talked about winning. That's a shot at Trump. He also talked about not about branding, a shot at Trump. He also talked about trustworthy.

That's a shot at Trump. But not taking him on directly. After all, the governor of Florida is not technically in. David Avella is with us, back with us, GOPAC Chair, GOP strategist. David, good to see you again.

Good to see you.

So I think Donald Trump owned the week after the town hall. But the weekend belonged to Governor DeSantis, didn't it, in Iowa? He focused on a message Republicans like, which is winning, as all Americans like winners. DeSantis. Framed it in kind of the election side of winning.

The way you win elections is by having ideas that people say that's what we want. And how he brought more voters into the Republican coalition, whether it would be what happened in Florida with his victory, or you look at what Brian Kemp did in Georgia, you look at what Joe Lombardo did in Nevada, and it was their ideas that brought and ultimately their accomplishments that brought more voters into the Republican election side, and that's what voters want.

So, yeah, just to talk about gamesmanship and tactics, Donald Trump's tactic was: the minute I declare, I've eyed Governor DeSantis, my main opponent.

So, I'm going to say that Florida is not a good place, not a good place to be, which is tough. Ron DeSantis needs a personality transplant. Ron DeSantis eats pudding with his fingers. And Ron DeSantis begged me for an endorsement or else he never would have won the governorship. That's fine.

That's what you want to spend your money on.

Well, Governor DeSantis did an interesting thing, made a surprise move to Des Moines to talk to voters at Jethro's BBQ Southside. You know, it was just a couple miles from there, the place where Donald Trump was supposed to have his event, but weather prevented him from doing it. He decided not to. That's a pretty good move for DeSantis to change his schedule and add that to his stops, right? For folks like you and I, it's the stuff we love to watch and analyze and talk about.

And it was, you can see the DeSantis campaign is trying to hone in and make them. Make DeSantis the heir as the one who can defeat Trump. And he's getting his look right now at voters. And we'll see if he has the staying power. I always remind folks: look, only 46 people have become President of the United States.

This is very hard. DeSantis is getting his chance to show that he can defeat President Trump for the nomination. If he stumbles, someone else is going to be. And guess what? President Trump will then be attacking them.

Right. The thing that I disagree with, I disagree with Trump's attacks on Florida. He's done a great job in Florida. He said, well, I wasn't that great on the COVID virus. The president, excuse me.

The Sanders was great on the COVID virus, and I don't fault the president either. We're dealing with the pandemic first time in 100 years. You have these doctors breathing down your neck, so we had to make a lot of decisions. I don't think President Trump should be vulnerable on the border and not finishing the wall. We know the ramification why that was done.

He had the repurposed defense money. I don't think he should be held responsible for China because he was hard on China. Nobody anticipated that pandemic. And he was the first one to say we're cutting off flights.

So Sununu and Christie are going after him on that.

So here is Christie, yeah, yesterday on ABC, Cut 15. You can't beat Donald Trump. Probably playing Bumper Pool. and hitting it off three cushions in the hope that it goes in it goes in the hole. It's that's not the way it works, John.

And I think they're all making a marked mistake. As to the audience reaction, let's face it, CNN went in the tank. To get Trump on there, they allowed him to negotiate who was going to be in that audience. And that's what people are complaining about: the audience. The audience were Republicans.

It was a GOP. It was supposed to be a GOP town hall. It should not be surprised that they're cheering him. It's head-scratching to see some of this reaction, even from Republicans, about that town hall. This is exactly what we saw in 2016.

This is exactly what we saw the four years of the Trump administration: that Donald Trump plays by his rules. And that he is going to say what he believes, and you can like it or not like it.

Now, for the president, if Twenty For primary becomes about The results of the 2020 election, he makes himself very vulnerable. If we start again talking about the 2020 election, that does not put our best foot forward to winning in 2024. We have to start thinking about 2024 and moving forward. And for a smart Republican, that's what they're going to focus on. You know, what they did is what Trump did is answer the questions.

You know, he didn't want to talk about January 6th, but he was asked like 20 questions about that. Then he didn't want to talk about the past, but he was asked about that. But it would have been so asked about the border and child separation policies. When it comes to 2020, just go, yeah. 2020, you know how I feel about it.

It's been well documented, but let me just tell you about 2024. I'm leading him by eight point in the last poll. Why haven't you brought that up? And then when it comes to what's happening at the border and child separation policies, I think I'm figuring kind of rich that you're asking me about something that I stopped in the middle of my term when we can't find 85,000 kids under Joe Biden just lost somewhere in our country, and two died over the weekend, by the way. You mentioned the border and the COVID on the President's accomplishments from 16 to 20.

Forgot the economy. That you had a record income for individuals. You had more businesses bringing their tax dollars back to U.S.

soil. That if you think about some of the moves the Biden administration is making, you could see companies wanting to shelter their funds again offshore, thus hurting economic development here in the country. I mean, there are many things Republicans can tout about, and we need to be doing it. Not only what we did at the federal level during the Trump administration, but also what's been happening at the state level. David Arvell, our guest, and we'll talk about that.

But Joe Biden did something, I would be honest, I would think is so obvious pandering, he wouldn't even do it. He's in front of an HBCU. It's Howard University, historically black college. And this is what he says, cut thirteen. A harsh reality.

But racism. has long torn us apart. It's a battle. It's never really over. But on the best days Enough of us.

have the guts and the hearts. Just stand up. For the best in us. To stand up against the poison. White supremacy, as I did my inaugural address to single out as the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy.

Let me, is this the guy bringing us together? There's no stat that brings that up. Why would you do that? Is beyond me. I guess it's because he's losing the black vote, and he thought this is a great opportunity to reaffirm it.

But don't they see pandering? Can't they spot that?

Well, it's certainly the results of surveys show that the president's coalition is falling apart. He is struggling with base Democratic voters. And it's why you constantly have this drumbeat and this drip, drip, drip of Democrats who throw out other candidates' names. I mean, for a while, it was, well, Joe Manchin might take him on in the primary. Of course, you have our Robert F.

Kennedy Jr. running. Today, in the Wall Street Journal, you have Doug Schoen promoting Michelle Obama as a nominee. Look, Democrats understand they have a very weak president to go up for reelection. And until he actually secures the nomination, you're going to have Democrats want to go a different direction.

Yeah, just real interesting. The last thing is the links on the Biden businesses and Joe Biden. We know he lied when he looked in the camera and said 51 Intel experts said it is his classic Russian disinformation. Outlier. He knew it was his son's laptop.

He knew the communications was real. He had no problem doing that. And now we see these family businesses that took place over the last 20 years, at least 10 shell companies, three different nations, two of which are enemies of ours, especially the one in China. The only type of service they could be providing is the influence their dad has, but they're at the one-foot line, and the media doesn't even want to investigate the point to get into the end zone. Do you think that plays a role?

It plays a role. Again, you're. As you think about 2024, it's ultimately going to be about who puts a better vision together. And we know President Biden is lacking in every major area, whether it be economic. Six in ten Americans disapprove of how the President is handling the economy, whether it be foreign policy, where the majority of Americans don't like his foreign policies.

In every area, this President is weak, and you see his coalitions falling apart.

So, you talked about voting and how people execute.

So, you might have the popular vote, or you might be on momentum, have a lot of momentum, but who's got the districts in Wisconsin that are vulnerable? Who's going to do the work in Pennsylvania and get the vote out? Who's going to show up in Arizona and try to get that state back? And who's going to make sure that Ohio stays in your column? And if you want the Senate Republicans, you've got to find a way to beat Senator Brown, I would think.

So, you did a poll. And you said on the preferred voting method, for the Republicans prefer, 54% prefer voting on Election Day, 22% early, in person early voting, and 5% early via Dropbox, 17% early by mail. on an openness, which is key, to voting early. The majority of Republicans on voting early, 56% said yes, they're open to it, 37% say no. Why is that important?

It's important because we have to do everything we can to get Republicans to cast their vote, use every method that is possible. Democrats have used it in the last couple of elections. You know, the great irony to all this, Brian, is we used to master Republicans, the early voting, particularly the military ballots, and making sure that we had that as to our advantage. The Democrats utilize technology, kind of passed us on that. And we have to get back to saying to voters, whatever the method is, whether it's early voting, whether it's absentee voting, whether it's voting on Election Day, you have to be willing to do whatever it takes to cast your vote.

It is good to see that 56 percent of Republicans are open to early voting or voting by mail. Because that's where it's trending. And sooner or later, you've got to stop complaining to the refs and just play the game where the new rules are. That's right. And that's simply it.

You may like it the old way. And do you think one of the key reasons for this was Donald Trump, the leader of the Republicans, saying, don't, I want you voting on Election Day. Don't trust it. And that's the problem. What happens to my ballot once I put it in?

You have a lot of Republican secretary states that are good examples, whether it be Frank LaRose in Ohio or Mac Warner in West Virginia, where you're able to track your ballot all the way through the process. Ballot tracking. There are good ideas out there to show Republicans and all voters that elections are secure, and that should be our message. And we should say, go vote early. Right.

You should, I guess, go vote early just to make sure it's counting. You could track it. That'll be great. Where do you stand on ballot harvesting? Because I understand Republicans are doing it in states where it's allowed, even though.

By definition, I hate it. I mean, you go into pick go to a nursing home, you go pick up a bunch of ballots because you're a good Samaritan, and you drop it off at a voting location. There's something fundamentally pr problematic about that.

Well, you have to make sure the systems are in place, that the actual voter casts the ballot and that. You uh The rules are in place that are followed to make sure that that ballot stays secure once the voter has cast it and that it's actually getting voted.

So, David Avella is here from GOPAC. He's the chair. David, the key is Florida was the laughing stock of the country for about 20 years. They fixed it. They did.

Ohio.

Solid, always been a battleground. Arizona hasn't. Georgia has.

So, has Arizona making any effort that you can tell, not that it's your job, to make their voting system?

Something that could actually give us a result on voting day or someday within two weeks? Keep in mind that the current governor is the former Secretary of State who put many of these procedures in place now that Arizona lives under. Republicans need to keep a focus on the message of we need to make sure the voter rolls are clean. That's the number one thing we can do to make sure our Vote. Boats are secure.

Who's dead? Who moved? That's right. And you were able to do that. And that's why you see a number of Republican states moving away from the ERICS system, the big national voting database, because you have Democratic Secretary of States who don't want to clean up the voter rolls.

They want everybody to stay on it no matter whether you've moved or you've passed away or whatever the circumstance is. And Republicans say, no, we ought to make sure that voter rolls are clean and that eligible voters are actually the one keeping it. What other state worries you? For twenty four?

Well, you have to look at Michigan, you have to look at Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. I mean, it really is those are the states that President Trump won in sixteen that he lost in twenty, and then you have to make sure you hold on to North Carolina, Georgia and Arizona. What do you pick up from Fetterman winning? Obviously, you got this great intellect, this wonderful surgeon, this fantastic talk show host and Dr. Oz.

And then you have Fetterman, who sadly has a stroke and is even worse than we ever thought, was able to not campaign, raise money, and win. And he still really can't do the job. What does that tell you about the system that Pennsylvania put in place?

Well, it goes to what we were just talking about with the GOPEC Education Fund poll. You have to make sure folks are casting their ballot. We have to be much more aggressive with Republican voters to get those votes in. Get Republicans signed up for early voting or absentee voting or vote by mail, whatever the law allows. We have to do a better job at making sure our folks go to the ballot box and cast votes.

Right. You don't think Pennsylvania flipped for good. It was a get-out-the-vote issue. I think it was partly a get-out-the-vote issue. Yes, I think partly messaging information.

Mastriana was a terrible candidate. That's right. And when you have a terrible candidate on top, you probably go straight down the line. You don't go to Dr. Oz.

That's right. And you also have to acknowledge that. Pennsylvania is a winnable state for Republicans. It favors the Dems. It's huge, too.

David, thanks so much. We'll look forward to Jan Varney and Harris Faulkner. Can you do both? I can. I'm on my way.

All right, good. David Avella, thanks. And guess what? You're next. 1866-408-7669.

What did Al Sharpton say about Ron DeSantis? You'll find out. Yeah. Giving you everything you need to know. You're with Brian Kilmead.

The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Kilmead. More and more every day, people are taking DeSantis less seriously. He's like a baby in a crib with a rattle, wanting to be like daddy more than he looks like an adult that belongs in the living room, sitting around having a discussion. I think it will come down to Biden and Trump unless something dramatically happens. And I think the more we see the tirades of Donald Trump on Mother's Day, no less, the more it reminds people: wait a minute, I I don't want to go back there.

And I think that that is one of the assets that Joe Biden has aside from some of his achievements as president.

Believe me, don't think that Governor Santos is worried about Joe Biden. It's can he get through Trump? Alex in California. Hey, Alex. Alex, thanks for waiting around.

What's on your mind?

All right. With Ralph Shorpton, I think, is trying to do He's trying to say that for Ron DeSantis is not ready for Trump. But I guess he's saying that DeSantis isn't ready for Biden either, when head to head they basically at the same distance. I I don't I I kind of laugh at people that say this is the way you fight Trump. Even Governor Chris Christie, as brilliant as he is as a politician and analyst, I don't think there is a way to beat Trump.

There is you can beat him, but I don't necessarily think there's a formula or a past candidate where you say this work with him. For example, if you attack, you're playing his game, but he'll do it better. If you want to talk about his record, his people are going to get defensive about it.

So what you got to do, I think, is what Larry Elder said last night. And I'm not saying that Larry Elder is going to win the nomination by a long shot. Larry Elder told Steve Hilton this. He said, All across the country. Family members aren't talking to family members.

Friends aren't talking to friends anymore because of Donald Trump. Where it matters where you stand, he said, I love Donald Trump, love his policies, but he divided the country. Ike you could get the policies with me. Without the hate. Or without the anger, or without the disdain, and I won't be dividing families.

He goes, I have a sense of humor, I have a unique background, I'm a little bit younger. That's your answer.

Now, if you're on DeSantis, you're a lot younger. You maybe don't have the warmth of a Bill Clinton or George W. Bush. Got it. But he's pretty proud of his record five years in.

He knows how to legislate and understands Washington being a congressman. Got the military background. He's got the legal background. He understands our history. That's where you could be selling.

And when engaged, you engage. But I don't think going after Donald Trump personally, even if he goes after you, necessarily works. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kelmead. Hi, everybody.

Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Meet Show. Coming to you from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. This is the epicenter now. Outside the border, the second hotspot for illegal immigration has been here. I mean, you're talking about over 60,000 illegal immigrants, and we have nowhere to put them.

144 facilities in eight special buildings have been put aside, and it's growing for illegal immigrants. And we got to feed them, we got to house them. And in many cases, especially last night, it looks like we had to break up another drunken fight at a big facility, five of which had to go into the hospital where, of course, they're treated for free. It is insane how many buses come here, and I don't blame Texas. What do you want them to do?

Let their whole state get steamrolled because the President of the United States doesn't want to do his job? And for the mayor to stand up and say a few things against this White House and now has taken off his reelection committee, I'm talking about Mayor Adams, at the same time going halfway. You should not be taking these illegal immigrants and throwing them into Orange County Hotels, which is a suburban hotel about 30 miles outside the city, or Newburgh or Rockland, and soon to be Nassau. It's insane what's happening. And Chicago can't seem to handle.

About a couple of dozen. They'll put him in police stations, which is a total affront to police, just showing so disrespect there. With me right now is a man who lives this and is seething about it. Tom Holman, retired Acting ICE Director, Heritage Foundation visiting fellow. Tom, welcome back.

Hey, thanks for having me, Brian. Hey, it looks like mission accomplished, it seems like. Listen to the President of the United States now that Title VIII has taken over Title 42, cut one. We think things are going at the border, sir. Much better than you all expected.

Do you have any plans to visit Porter? I think. Pardon me. Do you have any plans to visit the border? Not in the near term, no.

No, it'd just be disruptive, not Anything else?

So instead of 10,000 a day, they got 5,000 and Mayorcas is taking a bow. Should it be taking a bow, Tom? No, you know, if you're playing a shell game, the number of people coming into this country has not dropped at all. I I know for a fact They got NGOs. government funded NGOs in Mexico meeting with thousands of illegal aliens.

and getting and helping them fill out the CBP One app and putting them through a port of entry.

Now the border numbers, illegal crossings may be down uh uh uh slightly. They say 50%, it's nowhere near that.

However, the the illegal a aliens coming through a port of entry is up two hundred and fifty percent.

So what they're doing is basically playing a shell game. The secretary created this program, CBP1 app, so people can apply for asylum and simply even just walk through a port of entry. which is holding up illegal entries in trade and travel. But they just simply shifted the population to port of entries, and they're up 250%.

Now, I'll tell you, the border numbers may be a little down right now, but they'll be going back up. Once they figure out, now the Haitians, the three Central American countries, Venezuela and others, they're soft in the border trying to figure out where to get into the country because Texas governor is doing such a great job, the DPS, the National Guard, of holding line.

Now the cartels down there are trying to think of a strategy where they can enter.

So give it a few weeks and you're going to see the numbers go back up, but let it be known. That they're playing a shell game. They simply are making illegal immigration legal by letting them come through the port of entry. And again, these people won't show up in court. And if they get a court date, it'll be seven, eight years down the road.

By then, they'll have U.S. citizen kids, and no one's gonna wanna remove. This is nothing but a shell game by this administration. The number of people come to this country. Has not reduced at all.

So I want you to hear what Senator Murphy said: that they had no choice but to get rid of Title 42, cut forward. Title 42 is required to be lifted by law, right? Title 42 allows you during a pandemic to stop individuals from presenting at the border and applying for asylum. And now that the pandemic is over, the President doesn't have discretion to keep Title 42 in place.

So for all these Republicans who are complaining that the President acts outside of his authority, in this case, they seemingly want him to violate the law and turn people around at the border.

So he had no choice, Tom Holman?

Well, look, here's what I say to that. They have a choice of remain in Mexico. They could have very easily remain in Mexico is a game changer for us under the Trump administration. The federal courts have ruled that it's legal. Matter of fact, the federal courts ordered the Biden administration to put the policy back in place, which they never did because this administration simply doesn't care what the federal courts say.

They've ignored it, they violated the law.

So, regardless of Title 42, they could put the remain in Mexico program back in today. and make a huge, huge debt in the illegal alien populations coming across that border. We proved it on the Trump administration. That was the biggest game changer of all the policies, the Thirty Safe Country Agreements, the building the wall and Remain in Metro. Remain in Metro was the biggest Game changer of everything we did on the Trump administration.

The courts have said it's legal.

So if this administration Wants to secure the border, like they say they want to, they can put the remaining Mexico program back in. People can still claim asylum, but they're going to wait for their hearings in Mexico rather than being released and not showing up in court. And by the way, the Mexican government, Albrador, was the last one to say that Donald Trump lost the election. He wanted to hold out. I think they got along.

And so far, he has done nothing at his southern border to help our southern border, correct? Because we got a president who doesn't have a spine. President Trump used a lot of box stick. Look, people are going to think they want about President Trump. I work for the man.

The man was a game changer on the southwest border. He did more to secure a border than anybody. It will immigration was down 83%. It will immigration at a 45-year low. And he told Central America, you will sign the safe third country agreements.

I'm going to hold international aid from you. He told Mexico, you agree to remain in Mexico, or I'm going to tariff the hell out of you. And he said, you're going to put military in your southern and northern border. President Trump. He didn't take no financer.

He protected his country. He did what he could to get those border numbers down. And look, it's against the law of Mexico, Brian, to traffic in women and children, but they don't enforce it. It's against the law for aliens to transit to Mexico without a Mexico transit visa, but they allowed it. But under President Trump, he demanded they enforce their own laws.

And stop the mass illegal migration across the hemisphere. Oh, here's going to not give them money, take money away. This administration wants to give millions of dollars to Central America to say, Well, we won't create opportunity zones down there so people won't leave. That's a bunch of garbage. We've done that for decades, had zero effect because the money never gets where it needs to go.

President Trump told me, I remember sitting in the White House office, he goes, Hell no, I'm not going to give them money, I won't take money away. And within weeks, we had an agreement with all three Central American countries and Mexico to do what President Trump wanted them to do. Tom Holman, our guests, we had 83,000 migrants crossed the border last week. You know, at the ATT Stadium, it holds 80,000 where the Dallas Cowboys play.

So that puts it in perspective.

So if they got it down to 5,000, still unacceptable. They expect 13,000, and we'll see where it's going to go. What I think is also interesting is the fact is, Florida went to court, and they said because these facilities are so packed, the Biden administration started just not processing these people and letting them, just giving them, tell them to go to ICE. And report themselves within 10 days. Nobody was doing it.

So Florida sued, at which time the press secretary said it was sabotaged because the court ruled in Florida's behalf. What's your reaction to this? God bless Florida. God bless Texas. And look, this administration has no intent in securing this border.

They haven't done a single thing to slow the flow. Not one. I wish I could ask the White House for spokeslaying: can you name one thing this administration has done to secure the border and slow the flow?

Well, this is what they're going to say. This is what they're going to say: I gave you 1,500 military members to process people. I increased the number of border patrols. What's your reaction? They sent a message to the entire world.

If you cross this border illegally, you're going to be released. You can go to you can go get a dr you know, like New York, we just talked about New York. People are going to go to New York anyways because of Sanctuary City. But this administration destroyed every policy that we did on the Trump administration and gave us the most secure border in lifetime. Again, this administration Unsecured a border.

Brian, I worked for six presidents. I started on Borderland 1984. I started with Ronald Reagan. Every president I worked for took actions to secure the border. Even Obama and Clinton did some actions.

They realized you can't have national security without border security. President Biden's the first president in the history of this nation who came into office and unsecured a border on purpose. And the White House spokeslady wants to get up there and run her mouth, and she lies as much as my orchest lies when she said, We stopped building walls, it wasn't effective. Lie. Go to cbp.gov and look at the number of illegal aliens that didn't cross the border when the border wall is being constructed.

Where's the migrant crisis crossing right now?

Well, there's not a wall.

So they've cost you life from day one, and they perfectly unsecured a border, and they don't care. They haven't taken one action, not one action. To secure the border, they keep coming up with these policies, which they'll lose. Everyone in court, believe me, they're like 0 and 4 right now. They create these policies to try to shoot the American people that they're trying to secure the border.

They're not. They're bringing them in other ways. They have no intention on slowing down the increase in illegal aliens coming to this country. Not even speak, you talked about the 5,000, but we're not even speaking about the 1.7 million gotaways that we know about, and we don't know how many gotaways we don't know about. That is the biggest issue.

What do you say to people listening to us right now in New York and say, do we have any say over this? They're converting elementary schools without asking. They're converting hotels without asking. They kicked out 20 veterans. They have to go find another hotel.

Homeless veterans in the area over in Orange over in Newburgh, New York. They stop weddings because they want to sell out and get their big check, so they sell out every room from the government to illegal immigrants. Do people have any say over this? Since when is it? a mayor of New York City deciding what's going to happen in a county.

People do have a say. And and and that's why they should have brought them the right way. It lectured has consequences. Again, this I don't care what anybody's opinion is on illegal immigration. regardless.

But they need to understand when you cause a crisis this big, That takes up to 80% of agents off the line to process, change diapers, make paper form, make hospital runs. When you take 80% of border agents off the line, off patrol, that's when a fentanyl comes across to kill over 100,000 Americans. That's when the women and children are sex trafficking in the United States. That's when no suspected terrorists cause, they've already arrested 200 that caught. Out of the 1.7 million people, how many of them know suspected terrorists?

They've arrested people from 171 different countries.

Some of these countries are sponsored for terror.

So if you don't think that anybody out of that 1.7 came here to do us harm as a terrorist, then you're ignorant to the data.

So people need to understand. They get to the voting booth. You need to vote for border security because there's a lot more than illegal immigration. This is the biggest national security failure this country has seen since 9-11. If they care about American wages, if you care about our schools, if you care about having your trauma centers actually there for you and not being overcrowded, being run bankrupt by illegal aliens, then get to the voting booth and make the right choice.

What about Anthony? I want to hear what Tony Gonzalez said, who oftentimes goes against the grain with the Republican Party. And he, of course, is in Uvalde. His whole district is on the border. Here's what he said he'd like to see Biden do: cut 11.

The president should have surged, should surge immigration judges to the border. And that person should get their case heard in days, not years. Right now in El Paso, if you apply on the one app, I was at the port of entry. If you apply on the one app, your court date is 2031. I mean, that's eight years from now.

The president can surge, instead of surging 1,500 troops, surge immigration judges, this is America, get your day in court. If you do not qualify for asylum, with nine out of 10 people don't, you get sent back to your country of origin. What are your thoughts of that? What? Two things.

On the right. I agree with him. I wish you could send immigration judges to the border, but he needs to understand the system, the law created by Congress. These NGOs represent these illegal aliens and they can request extensions, time for study of the case, time for research the law, and that happens all the time. It never happens overnight if people want it to, but Congress certainly changed the laws to make that happen.

As far as Tony Gonzalez is concerned, he plays both sides. I like what he's saying, but his actions need to follow his words. He voted against H.R.1, the Chip Roy bill, which was the toughest immigration bill I've ever seen in my career. And he went out and said it was anti-immigrant, it wouldn't allow people to claim asylum. It was anti-American and it's anti-Christian.

If he would have read the bill, And took it honestly, it was none of those things. They just took, because Chip Roy's bill is basically saying what the law says: an arriving alien will be detained. They won't be released. They shall be detained. That's what the law says.

So the HR1 written by Chip Roy basically implemented existing law and says we will enforce those laws. And it also included the remain in Mexico. But, you know, Tony Gonzalez didn't, for some reason, I don't know why, was saying the bill was not what it was.

So I was really disappointed on that. Hopefully, he's learned his lesson because what you just played is promising, but we'll see. Right, and I just think that all of a sudden we're pretending that Venezuela, Haiti and Cuba are problematic and Nicaragua. They've always been problematic. And then now, well, we don't have diplomatic relations with those countries.

Well, they've got to apply in some other country and then we'll take a look at their application. But they have yet to set up facilities in Guatemala and Colombia like they chose to do. How long does it take to put up a building and take people in and process them? or not process them, or evaluate them.

Well If they do that, that's going to have an effect, right? And I told you this administration simply doesn't want. To they don't want to change course. They want open borders. This is why I was most irritated when President Biden killed the central third safe country agreements.

We had agreements with Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras on Third Safe Country. That if you're really escaping fear and persecution from Honduras and you get into Mexico, have you not escaped that fear since you left that country and that government?

So you should be claiming asylum in Mexico. We have those agreements in place. Why would anybody say, you know what, we don't want agreements that help You know, as you can see, that's why Trump did it and he's got immigration groups breathing down his neck. Tom Holman, thanks so much for telling us the facts. He's Fox News contributor, retired acting ICE director.

Appreciate it, Tom. You got it, Brian. Thank you. You got it. 1866-408-7669.

Your calls when we get back. And then bottom of the air, we welcome in Brett Baer. And we have so much more. Don't move. Brian Killmead Show.

Coming to you on a need-to-know basis because, Mandy, you need to know. It's Brian Kilmead. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. There's a shift in Saudi Arabia foreign policy in the past few years.

I think now the normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran has been very significant and it was basically brokered by China.

So what you have now is that the Saudis are trying to really exit Yemen. Yemen has been really very costly for Saudi Arabia, both financially and reputationally. They're trying to really live in cold peace with Iran. Why? Because they have come to realize they cannot really rely on the United States.

That they believe that the United States is retrenching, has been retrenching from the region. And also, they're terrified of what comes next in the next five or ten or twenty years. They believe that the international system has shifted and that the future, China, is the future.

So we're really seeing a much more complex, much more dynamic. What the Saudis call in Arabic tenuiya diversify their foreign policy and economic policy and regional policies as well.

Well, that's for Oz Gurgis. He's professor of international relations on the London School of Economics. Talking about why the Saudi Arabia out of nowhere just had basically a peace deal with Iran. How the heck, all of a sudden, China is brokering it and what they get in return?

Well, Iran was fomenting the violence and being behind the Houthi rebels lobbing rockets into their country. That is why Saudi Arabia took action. And they got a lot of pushback because their military is not too good. They were just dropping bombs arbitrarily. But you don't want the Houthi rebels to get a foothold.

They don't want a neighbor at their gate as if Mexico was bombing us. How long would we tolerate that before we took action? And then when the U.S. basically says, oh, they're a pariah nation, Joe Biden wins the election.

So they thought, okay. How is this going to work out for me? Iran already sent a cruise missile into my country when I had an ally in the White House. What's going to happen now? And that's why they cut their losses.

They're wrong, though. If they think that it's going to be China's century or decade or whatever, they have not put any incentives into their economy. There's a huge unemployment problem there, and there's an innovation issue there. I would still be, you'd be crazy to bet against America. Radio that makes you think.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Everyone is saying it's not that bad.

So, on Friday, I visited El Paso. I went to the Central Processing Center, and you're seeing these videos. And this is what Not That Bad looks like. In the El Paso sector, there's over 6,000 people that are in custody. In this particular facility, it's meant to house 1,000 people.

It's housing over 3,000. In one of these rooms, it's meant the max capacity is 90 people. There was over 400 in here. That's a 450% capacity. In another room, meant to house 120 people.

There was over 700 people in there. We can't allow not that bad to be the normal. That is Tony Gonzalez. He has a Uvalde sector Republican congressman in Texas. Just seeing how everything is so overcrowded, so overwhelmed.

And when people start saying, hey, this Title VIII is really working out. We stopped migration 50%. He wanted to get a reality check. Also, I think what helps, he's not known as a firebrand partisan. In fact, he angers a lot of people on the right because of that, but he does stick to the facts as he knows them.

He wants to solve problems. And I know Brett Baer appreciates that with his Common Ground segment and his podcast. He's Chief Political Anchor at Fox News. Brett, welcome back. Hi, Brian.

It's kind of rare to get some video from inside these facilities. You know, it's not easy to do. He has that access. And it does tell the story. And also, compounded by a judge's ruling, it doesn't allow the Biden administration to quickly send all these guys on their way without being processed anymore.

Yeah. You know, listen, um When Title forty two went away, we all thought there would be this massive influx, and that's what the Border Patrol expected. The massive influx didn't happen but This these numbers are unsustainable. And you know, to his point, Not that bad. is really bad.

And these processing facilities are overwhelmed. And the Border Patrol. is overwhelmed.

So I think it context is needed here. Um you know, we were building up to this one day, but it's really maybe not a tsunami, but it is a very, very high tide of Um Migrants coming across. The way we understand it, our reporting reveals and confirms it. They're still there on the other side of the border. They're biding their time.

That rule is a good one that says if you apply early, just walk across the border, you're banned from coming in for five years.

So use the app and apply, and then we'll let you know your status. I don't know if they fixed the app, but people are waiting before they come off. They don't want to play their one card. The other thing to keep in mind is the thing that's missing, and no one denies this, there doesn't seem to be any pressure in any of these countries to control their own borders, Brett. No, and you know, the diplomatic pressure, the the vice president was supposed to be the um You know, solver of this issue on the triangle countries and it's not happening.

There's not a diplomatic pressure. There's not some kind of sanctions for those countries We are in a position where China is taking a bigger role in Latin America. And we just don't have a lot of leverage. And you can see that in what's happening on the border. Yeah, why do we have a State Department?

I mean, that's a huge building, a lot of people. Can someone go and fan off to these countries before we lose another continent, like we have Africa, it seems? But when you talked about the vice president, the borders are who wants to go to the root causes, there's no element that's working.

So you can't even say, well, her element of the border has been solved.

So that question came up with Jonathan Carl on ABC, Cut Three. It was back in two years ago, more than two years ago, that the President put Vice President Kamala Harris playing a critical role in terms of trying to stop the flow of migrants across the border. Where has Vice President Harris been on this? Are you in regular contact with her? When was the last time you spoke to her?

Vice President Harris reached out to me earlier this week. That effort is a years-long effort, and Vice President Harris has led the investment of more than $3 billion in the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Okay, great.

So we opened up a Targ in a Home Depot there, and they have some gift cards. That is not the way it works. Yeah. It's um you know, he was He could sense he was grasping at some straws there. We talked earlier this week.

I mean, Um, I I don't know. I mean, i you can't put Any Success. In Vice President Harris's column. And And arguably you could say not present. Mayork has, to his credit, has been out answering questions.

not with great answers or substance, but Answering them. And um And they are touting this lack of a major tidal wave. as a success. I want to talk about 2024. And over the weekend, it looked like I was Saturday.

I thought he was tossing to a Trump rally. Instead, it was a DeSantis speech. And the Trump rally was called off. And I think DeSantis owned this weekend in Iowa, where the president owned the week after the town hall on Wednesday leading up and the post-game and everything like that. But I thought DeSantis pulled off an interesting move.

Instead of just calling it quits after a second speech, he won about a mile from where in Des Moines, where the former president was going to give his speech and talked about how nice the weather was and gave a mini speech and stood on a table with his wife and took some questions and took some pictures. That's a pretty savvy move for a guy that's not quite in the race yet. You know, he's trailing. significantly.

So you have to do something Uh to make make a move. And I think this one was. Was pretty significant. Not only that, but the Lawmakers who endorsed him are not You know, no names. There's significant people that are in Iowa.

endorsing DeSantis in the face of the former president.

So I agreed. I think it was a savvy move to go Talk to people, say the weather was great. when the former President canceled his rally.

So I want you to hear what Larry Hogan said: the problem with DeSantis' strategy, Cut 16. You talked about Ron DeSantis coming in. I mean, he's been trying to out-Trump Trump, and that's not going to work. I mean, it's like, why would you settle for Robin when you can have Batman? It's like, you know, you've got to take Trump on and not just be a younger, smarter version of Trump.

Chris Christie, similar strategy, cut 15. You can't beat Donald Trump. If I play in Bumper Pool. And hitting it off three cushions and hope that it goes in if it goes in the hole. That's not the way it works, John.

And I think they're all making a marked mistake. As to the audience reaction, let's face it, CNN went in the tank. To get Trump on there, they allowed him to negotiate who was going to be in that audience. So I don't know that for sure. Maybe Chris Christie does.

But how do you feel about it? I mean, people think going out Trump directly is the right way. That has not worked before. It didn't work for Ted Cruz, didn't work for Marco Rubio. And what you risk is not only if you do win, you don't have the Trump people with you.

And I don't know if you can win without the Trump people.

So I just want to know your thoughts. You talk to so many people on and off camera. Yeah. I actually think DeSantis is backing into this in the right way as far as strategy goes, which is. Most Republicans will say to you, if in their heart of hearts, even if they're Trump Republicans, will say, listen, I really love the policies.

of Donald Trump. Really loved them. And they'll list them. But I could do without the chaos. And If you run on that, bringing back the Trump policies.

With maybe a little caveats here or there. And then you don't go head to head. you know, punch him in the nose like Chris Christie wants to do. It's possible that you could be the alternative. You could be the You know, I don't love the chaos.

candidate. But I do love the policies.

So I hear what Christie and Hogan are saying, but Christie may be the suicide bomber that he was with Marco Rubio in New Hampshire. He may be the guy that takes him on head-on and really dings the former president up. But Historically That really hasn't worked. Marco Rubio, to your point, tried to do that, and he went down in the weeds and lost. If you go down that far, you lose with a guy like Connel Strong.

Ironically, they both end up being pretty tight with him through his four years, and even today, both Ted Cruz and Rubio, and they're not going to run again. Brett, the big stories that you'll probably cover that don't get a lot of traction today, but I think are huge, is Zelensky doing this week, last week, goes to the Vatican, goes to Germany, goes to France, goes to the UK. He's making sure everyone knows he's out there. He's squeezing hands and thanking people and taking pictures. And he's.

basically making sure they are all still in. and letting him know he's still there and how important this summer is. This really could be the summer by what we're reporting, what we're seeing of Ukraine taking back a lot of land. What are your sources telling you? Yeah, I I think that this So-called counteroffensive is real.

They're going to really try to push. I think all this stuff about Ukraine hitting inside Russia. Uh is probably real. And there's a lot of angst about that in the Pentagon and elsewhere in the White House. because that's not what they signed on for.

But I think Ukraine is is getting bold, and they think this is the time to make the move. We'll see. You know, I think that the Republican Party is iffy. It's definitely split. about staying on this track.

And it will be a big, big issue in the twenty four election. I cannot see a scenario where Ukraine is not in America's interest to make sure they're successful. All our enemies are watching, and their ramifications would be cataclysmic for our foreign policy. It's amazing the UK has to give them long-range missiles. We didn't, isn't it?

Yeah, I mean, it's a a big deal. And you could argue that somebody on the other side could take the Biden administration on for screwing this up from the beginning. From the side, that they didn't help fast enough, better, you know, they didn't do it quicker. And yet most of the hits are coming from the other side, which is we're doing too much. Uh which is fascinating to watch.

The other big story is Turkey, and if Erdogan loses, it is a major sea change in that part of the world. Yeah, I want you to hear what Admiral James Darvita said this morning, cut twenty eight. Turkey is a big country and it finds itself in between Europe, a volatile Middle East, Asia. It's got a dynamic young population, and it's got the second largest military in NATO after only the United States.

So a big geopolitical actor, very important to the alliance. You've got to consider that Erdogan, if he wins this election, will have completely consolidated power in Turkey. And he's edged up to it. I think the odds, unfortunately, are 75 to 80 percent. He'll probably achieve that in the coming runoff in two weeks.

Let's wait and see. But it means you're going to see peak Erdogan. He will be in complete control of the country. And that's important too, because that's a victory for Russia, because he's been somewhat of an ally to Russia, and he's been problematic to Sweden, who wants to get into NATO. Those are just two of the issues.

Mm. Yeah, and it's problematic to the US, frankly.

So if you were to lose, it would be a major sea change. If you were to win, he would feel emboldened and maybe do some crazy stuff.

So that's an election that people inside America probably say, well, why do I care about this? Uh we should care. I agree. Brett, good luck tonight. I'll be watching everything you do.

I'll be listening. All right. Go get him. Brett Baer, thanks. 1866-408-7669.

When we come back, we find out if there's indeed more to know. Learning something new every day on the Brian Killmead Show. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. You know, I'm just looking at the clock and I'm just wondering if I need to know more.

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Go to caskdeeds.com. C-A-S-K-Deeds.com to learn more. Paid for by Spirits Capital Corporation. All right, let's start with Ted Lasso. Jason Sudekis, the creator and star of Apple TV's Ted Lasso, spoke about how former Donald Trump, President Donald Trump, influenced the show.

He says it follows an American football coach recruited to manage a British football team.

Soccer meaning. In an interview with The Guardian, Sudekis revealed how the political climate in 2015 shaped the character. He told the Guardian's Tim Lewis was told that the first iteration of the character, Ted Lasso, was very belligerent. When Sudekis decided to revive the character for Apple, he knew the audiences would need a more kind and caring American character. It was the coach we were living in.

I'm not terribly active online. It was even affected me. Then you have Donald Trump coming down with the escalator. I was like, okay, this is silly. I hated how people weren't listening to one another.

Things become very binary. I don't think that's the way the world works. And I was like, boy, I don't want to add to this. I don't want to portray us that way.

So the third and final season is currently airing on Apple TV with a possible spin-off series premiering in the future. I'll tell you what, I liked the last episode, but I've been extremely disappointed in this season, though, I would have to say. Really? Yeah. But you're going to watch it all the way through.

I'm like, it's so, I mean, get to the point. And I'm like, I'm watching two or three at a time because I wait, watch two or three. And over the weekend, I caught up. The last episode I thought was decent, but I mean, some of the stuff is like cartoonish. And you had one great, I don't want to ruin it for anyone, but remind me in two weeks to tell you the big mistake they made.

Okay, we'll do. Eric, you remind me because Allison will forget.

Next, Tom Brady was reportedly discussing becoming a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders. He needs permission from Fox to do so. He has secured that permission from box coin to ESPN.

Okay, that's weird. Discussion between the two sides have been going on for weeks.

So, can you own a team? I guess you wouldn't talk about the team. Let Howie Long do the Raider talk, I guess. Never call any Raider games. I don't think that'll be that much of a problem, would it?

And you just do a giant disclaimer, right? I mean, I feel like everyone has their fingers in everything.

So you just let the audience know, and that's that. You also can give probably great insight in another way now, besides actually being on the field being a quarterback. What's it like to do? Yeah, but people are going to say, well, he's skewing it towards one person or another. Just like, but when you get people in the booth, like Troy Aikman calling a Gowboy game, of course, Troy Aikman is going to be, everyone's like, oh, he's pulling for the Cowboys.

Brady and Davis, they said that they still got to have all these guys sign off on it. Evidently, all the current team owners would have to bet and improve Brady's limited partnership. I'm sure that'll be fine. Brady also is a part owner of the Las Vegas Aces. All of a sudden, he loves Vegas.

Next, self-checkout machines are now asking for tips in the last squeeze. Companies, including airports, bakeries, and coffee shops and sports stadiums have now introduced the self-service tipping option. You can leave tips, including a typical 20%, despite facing minimal or no interaction. Of course, you should not be tipping a machine. Do we agree on that?

Where's the money going? Right. I totally agree. I mean, if it goes to the cart, we discussed this on TV. If it goes to the cart guy, would you like to give 5% to the other or 10% to the other cashiers?

Would you want to give it to the cart guy who will way underappreciate it? Or cart people? Yeah, no, it's a great point. You like name the person. But do you feel like whenever you're checking out anywhere at this point, if the machine doesn't give you a prompt to give extra money, whether it's a donation, a tip, or something, it's like they're missing out.

I agree. What also I hate is this. On the smoothie place I go to, it says, oh, before you check out, they have something on your screen. It's a tip sheet.

So every time I will tip. And the person's pointing that out to you, so if you don't, you feel like. Right, no, but they never acknowledge that I tip. Oh. They can't even say thank you?

Right, but either they don't see it on the screen. Or they just choose to like, of course, you better tip me. Or they're not paying attention. Right, or they're not paying attention. The smoothie's good.

That's good. And I feel good about myself. But tipping should come from the inside. Always tip, though, in phobia. Don't tip privately.

Because then you don't get credit for it. Exactly. It's all about credit. Listen to the show ad-free on Fox News Podcast Plus, on Apple Podcast, Amazon Music with your Prime membership, or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Mm-hmm.