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From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Killmead. Hi everyone, welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Meet Show, a really intense week on so many different levels, including internationally, you cannot. Just a week after the big NATO conference and the calling out of NATO of China, which I thought was great. Realizing we're short of 155 artillery, that's not good.

Cluster bombs in theater, in action, and then the hitting of that bridge in Ukraine. You hit that bridge in Ukraine, and the response has been: we're going to stop off grain shipments out of Ukraine, which means a bunch of African nations are going to starve and the economy is going to suffer. Why don't we reopen that up? Why don't we just open up these waterways and challenge Russia once and for all? Because this can't stand.

This hour is going to be joined by Alexei Lawless from Australia, which is covering the Women's World Cup. Carly Shimkis at the bottom of the hour, too, bringing us to all the latest breaking news, including these new revelations about Ukraine as it relates to the Biden family. But first things first, let's go to Admiral James Javitas, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. Admiral, I understand right now that this is Vladimir Putin is not backing down when it comes to these grain sales. What leverage could we get?

The biggest thing we should do, and I would argue we ought to be doing the detailed planning for this right now, is to offer to escort Civilian ships that carry grain, and it's not just grain, it's grain, sunflower oil, potash, which is a form of fertilizer, corn. Ukraine provides 10 to 15 percent of the world's food supply. Vladimir Putin cannot be allowed to simply say, nope, you can't export that anymore.

So, what we should do is get about half a dozen NATO warships, move them into the Black Sea, and set up an escort service. Believe me, Putin is not going to attack a NATO warship, and therefore those grain shipments could move smoothly. I think that's the quickest way to unlock this dilemma.

So, listen.

So you've studied what's happened over the, forget you probably would have done this to begin with, but we've seen what's happened along the way. We don't want to provoke. We don't want to go too far. We don't want to make this between the U.S. and Russia.

Every time we be caught with cost, we end up having to go back on it and nothing happens. We're watching Russia fire general after general. The ones that aren't killed are being dismissed, it seems. Obviously, there's been a challenge to his power. We all witnessed that.

They're not doing well militarily.

So now you're going to starve people out? That's not going to stand. You have a humanitarian angle to this as well.

So when people tell you, well, they're mining the harbor, what do you tell them, Admiral? We've got minesweepers at NATO. We can go in and clear out mines. We can open corridors. And, Brian, we don't have to imagine what this would look like.

Back in the late 1980s, young Lieutenant Jim Stavridis was part of something called Operation Earnest Will. In that scenario, the Iranians were putting mines in the water. They were harassing merchant ships, particularly those carrying, in this case, oil instead of grain. And oh, by the way, out of the Arabian Gulf in those days, 30% of the world's oil flowed. And we said, this will not stand.

What did we do? We sent minesweepers. We escorted those tankers to and from Kuwait. And we broke the back of the Iranian Navy. Ultimately, we sank about a third of the Iranian Navy.

Let's hope it doesn't get to that. We're not looking for a war with Russia, but we simply can't allow Vladimir Putin to impose his will. Cause hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of deaths around the world, and undermine the global food network. It's not. Going to stand.

Here's the CIA director from the Aspen Security Forum, CUT 37.

Well, it's deeply troubling. I mean, first for Ukrainians, where, you know, what Putin is trying to do is wreck the Ukrainian economy and wreak real havoc on innocent Ukrainian civilians. It obviously also does deep damage to some of the most vulnerable societies on earth in Africa and the Middle East that depend on those grain shipments. What Putin is engaged in clearly just over the last several days is a very systematic effort. It's not just about pulling out of the grain deal, it's also about three nights in a row of intensive attacks in Odessa and Mikhailayev and other port cities against grain storage facilities.

And part of that was they hit the bridge, his coveted bridge leading to Crimea. And the trains are allowed to flow, but it's going to take another month to get it back online. And this is the punishment for doing that, Admiral. And you're not somebody that sits there and you're not a pundit just sitting back and going, yeah, this is what I would do. You're saying right now, if they called you up with all your experiences, You would say, We got to do this.

Okay. Yeah, I'm in my 60s, and I don't think the Navy is going to reach out for Admiral Stavrides. But believe me, there are many, many wonderful young sailors and commanders of destroyers and commanders of big amphibious ships and minesweepers that would love this mission. I did this mission in my late 20s. It is a powerful, important mission to open the seaways, and it benefits the United States.

If you think that allowing Putin to shut down grain will not affect food prices here in the United States, you're wrong. If you think that allowing him to starve populations in Africa and the Middle East will not ultimately impact NATO and our allies and us in this country, you're wrong. This is a mission that makes sense for the United States to lead in, but it can be done under the aegis of NATO. And final thought, Brian, you just heard the voice. Of Ambassador Bill Burns, ultimate professional, former ambassador to Moscow, knows Putin well.

He will be one who will help from his current post at the CIA with coming up with some, shall we say, innovative solutions to this problem as well.

So, Russia's top propagandist, Margarita Simonoyan, quote: All our hope is in the famine. The famine will start now, and they will lift the sanctions, I assume, on Russia. Your thoughts? There's another name for all this. It's two words, Brian.

It's war crimes. You can't deliberately attack civilian populations. You can't withdraw Critical food stocks and energy and the ability to maintain life in a country. That's what Putin is attempting to do with this grain shipment.

So I find her comments laughable. The United States and the West will not ease sanctions. I think, quite the contrary, we're going to double down on ensuring that this grain has an opportunity to flow. And I do not believe Vladimir Putin has either the credibility or the capability in the Black Sea Fleet to stop it. William Burns went on to, he was asked about Vladimir Putin, how he's viewed from the inside.

You just outlined his credentials. He would know as good as anyone would know. Cut 36. What it resurrected was some deeper questions about Putin's judgment, about his relative detachment from events, and about his indecisive. In many ways, it exposed some of the significant weaknesses in the system that Putin.

Has built that have been exposed by Putin's misjudgment since he launched this invasion.

So he was saying that they're really questioning him. Number one, he left Moscow for St. Petersburg when Progozhin was zeroing in on Moscow. Progozhin did go to Belarus. He is joined by Wagner.

He did make a statement saying Wagner won't do Ukraine war. That's a mess. We have other missions.

So the guy lives and thrives still. He fired key generals, and you guys know this much better than I ever will. But this guy, Popov, was extremely popular with the troops. He left and then cut a video condemning the operation and the people in charge. This thing, in some way, seems to be coming apart.

Indeed. My feeling about Vladimir Putin is he is diminished but not defeated. If he were a stock, he would have lost about 30, 35 percent of his value at this point, particularly internationally. Think about how all this is received by President Xi in Beijing, who was told by his best friend, Vladimir Putin: hey, don't worry about this. I'll be in Kyiv in four days.

Newsflash, we're on day 513 of this war, and it's the Ukrainians who are on the front foot.

So Putin has lost crazy. credibility. He feels things shaking beneath him. In terms of progosion, I think if you look at further into Bill Burns' comments, he says, Ambassador Burns says, sooner or later, Progozhin will get his just reward from Putin, and he says Putin is the master of long-term vengeance. I would go with that.

Ultimately, Brian, your point is the correct one. The foundations of this rotten tower of Russia are shaking underneath Vladimir Putin. Let's hope it continues to be so. And let's escort those ships out. Lastly, I want to get to China.

You know, since the balloon, we have had our destroyer cut off. We have had at least one. They've also harassed our planes in international waters, over international waters. And then instead, we take, and of course, the balloon, then we take a break, and then we send our Secretary of State, our Secretary of Treasurer, and whatever John Kerry claims to be. What message is that to China?

Here is Daniel Crittenbrick in Capitol Hill. Uh Cavill Hill, he basically wondered. By the way, I just got to just real quick, I just got to get your take on this. Daniel Crinberg asked: Did Secretary of State Blinken? Hold President Xi accountable, or China accountable for the spy ship?

Essentially, they said no. Is that the correct tactic? I don't think so. I think we're sending China some mixed messages here. Two things we need to do.

We do need to communicate with China. I'm worried about the fact that we're sending a lot of cabinet officials, but our Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, has no contact with his opposite number. That's quite concerning. And number two, oh, by the way, the Chinese foreign minister has vanished. He's been gone for three weeks.

There's no explanation as to his disappearance. It's indicative of a lack of communication.

So, point one, we need to communicate better. Point two, we've got to show strength. And we cannot back down in the face of these military maneuvers by China, notably in the South China Sea. I wish you were Secretary of Defense. They'd feel a lot better.

Admiral James Jeffitis, thanks so much. Thanks, Brian. Talk soon. Bye-bye. Over to Australia next.

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So I think that's how we really keep the standard high. There you go. That was Alex Morgan talking about being Vietnam and not taking it for granted, but they will crush them. Alexi Lawis is doing the broadcasting, doing the desk. He's out there in winter in Australia.

He'll be bringing us all the play-by-play as the women get started today. Alexi, welcome back. Thanks, buddy. How we doing down there? I'm doing there, I guess.

The case may be. Yeah, we're up, you're down, but you're up because the tournament's got underway. How have the crowds been in day one?

Well, look, the host nations played on day one, and Australia had a record crowd 80,000, and New Zealand had a record crowd 40,000.

So, so far, so good. We're going to get into the dog days here, and we'll see how the crowds are. But it seems like everybody's pretty jacked up. Like I said, I'm here in Sydney, in Australia. This is being joint hosted by Australia and New Zealand.

And as you mentioned later on today, in the U.S., the U.S. women will kick off their campaign to win three World Cups in a row, never been done, unprecedented men's or women.

So this is a do you think would you characterize this as a transition year for the U.S. team? Yeah, there's a bunch of players that have never won a World Cup and were not part of this team last go-around. But, you know, there's a real identity that kind of gets passed down generation to generation. And the success and the expectation, let's be honest, is something that I think all players, regardless if they're brand new or if they're veterans like Alex Morgan and Megan Rapino, as you mentioned, and we will create new stars here, but ultimately their platform, their voice, is relative to the success that they have.

We love in America what we love. We love winners and we love the best in the world. And these women in this team for now a long time, that's exactly what they've given us on a consistent basis.

So the U.S. schedule, they open up with Vietnam. What else can we expect? When do we see them? Then in group play, they face the Netherlands, who they beat in the World Cup final last time around, and then Portugal, another debutante.

So, this is the biggest Women's World Cup that we've had, 32 teams.

So, it's been expanded, which means that there are eight debutantes.

So, this is a great opportunity for these players, for these teams, to really show their wares at the highest level and also to send a message back home to some of these countries that don't spend the time and the resources, don't have the respect for women's sports in general, and certainly when it comes to women's soccer that we do in the U.S. and that we have kind of put into it now for many, many decades.

So, we'll see at 9 o'clock Eastern tonight. The U.S. will play the Netherlands on Wednesday at 9 o'clock on the 25th, and then August 1st against Portugal right after that at 3 a.m. in the morning.

So, it's going to be tough for Americans to watch. But, Alexi, the other undercurrent is. Club soccer. I mean, now England has rolled out with their premier team. They all have women's teams.

The NWSL and now the USL has a top level women's team. Do you are a lot of club coaches looking at some of this international talent and trying to bring them over? Yeah, I mean, it's really been interesting, Brian, in terms of the way that the women's game has progressed and evolved. And like I mentioned, you know, for many decades now, we have put the time and resources in and even legislated for women's sports. And we've got the advantage and that gap.

And that's why we've been good for so long. But the rest of the world obviously has an existing infrastructure and soccer is king around most of the rest of the world and other countries and cultures.

So with very limited resources, they can make up a dramatic amount of that gap. And so now you're seeing over in England, you're seeing over in Spain, you're seeing over in Italy and places these teams that the infrastructure and the talent is coming from the association with some very big teams, whether it's a Barcelona or a Real Madrid or an Arsenal. All these different things are happening, and it means that their national teams are better. England, for example, are the European champions, and they would love nothing more than to win their first World Cup and to do it at the expense of the U.S., this champion and this juggernaut, that would, I think, warm the cockles of their English hearts. Messi is going to be playing tonight.

I think he makes his debut for Inter Miami. How much would you like to be 25 years old and have a chance to cover the best player in the league? I don't know if you cover him. You just kind of wander around and try to limit the damage. But it's, you know, it's going to be fun to see what he looks like in the context of playing, not just in Major League Soccer, which is a league that has a salary cap and there's manufactured parity, but also playing for Intra-Miami, which is not a very good team at all.

They're sitting in the bottom right now.

So he's got his work cut out for him. And it'll be interesting to see, like I said, in that context, because all we've ever seen Messi do is play for the best teams in the world with the best players around him. And he can't do it all himself. You know, soccer, that's just not how it's done.

So it'll be interesting to see ultimately what this Inter-Miami team looks like from a wins and losses perspective and what Messi looks like in a new shirt, in a new league, in a new country. How ready are you, Lexi? And what is it going to be working with Carly Lloyd? Is she ready for you? She's ready.

She's awesome, by the way. Her transition to television has been seamless. She is a champion on screen and off, and it's a pleasure to work with another Rutgers grad.

So we got that going for us. And we got all sorts of people, by the way. And the, you know, Fox, we like to do it big. And we basically own the Sydney Harbor with all of our sets that we have down there.

So we're going to do it big. We're going to bring you all the stories on and off the field. Obviously, a lot of it's going to be U.S.-centric as they try to get in this moment in history for the team. But look, if it's men's, women's, or co-ed naked, I don't care. I'm there.

I'm talking about soccer. You know. Right. And we're not going to focus on the co-ed naked. We didn't buy the rights to the family.

That would be the rating. That would be great. Alexi's got deal with winter and a lot of soccer. Thanks so much. Information you want, truth you demand.

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Well, it's unfortunate. It's definitely a hinge point, a turning point. You know, the future is different than it's ever been. Is talking about streaming and residuals, and then AI is a completely new frontier that I think everyone's trying to measure about what it really is.

So let's see. Everyone's on pause. It's going to hurt a lot of people, but hopefully it'll be a short-term pain for long-term improvement. And we're talking about the actor strike, the writer's strike. Broadway could be striking.

Why? Because there's a recalculation. Think about how you watch movies now. Do you go to the theater? Answer that question.

Most likely you're saying rarely. And then you say to yourself, do I watch cable television?

Well, maybe you do. If you're younger, probably you're going Netflix, you're going Hulu, you're going Smart TV, Apple TV.

So how do these... Men and women get paid for this. And where these productions are done. A lot of times these big names say I'll take less, but just give me points. This thing's going to make money, you know, doing Batman, doing a Marvel movie.

Just give me some points.

Well, now, when you take a movie, you get points. If it goes right to Netflix, you don't get anything.

So, with me right now is somebody who's negotiated many different strikes, the end of strikes. She's done a lot of this in her career, Carly Shimkis. Carly, how do you end a strike like this, a labor, when you have labor friction? Warm hugs. That's it.

Just cross the picket line, extend your arms. Delve into numbers and get into benefits. Make them feel loved and welcomed. Yes. Carly Shimkis here.

Carly, that was Matthew McConaughey. Yes, it was. Speaking with Brett Baer about a strike, but what he says is the lighting people, the key grips, those set designers. People who aren't at the top of the ticket, you know, like the A-listers that Are really demanding more. And I think the most interesting part of this story is the AI element to it, because there is this suggestion that background actors could be eliminated.

And really, what they would do is take a background actor and they would scan their image. And then that person would never get a job again. They would work one day, get like usually when you do background work, you get like $200 for the day. And then they would digitally have that person's image and be able to use them in the background of a beach scene, in the background of a restaurant scene.

So that person would never get hired. I used to do audition for background acting work and commercial work. Yeah. And I can understand why these studios would want to do that because when you go to these auditions, you go into a room. It's like a, you know, you go into an office space and it's a, if it's like a typecasting thing, you walk in and I would walk, there would be like 150 to 250 other tall, blonde women that look exactly like me.

And then there's a casting director and he spends his whole entire day talking to each one of us and going, okay, deliver the line, deliver the line. And it takes a lot of time and a lot of effort.

Well, that's under, those are under fives. The background, you're just talking about um Background people are what are they what do they call again? They're just in the ba if there's another word for it. I don't know. A background actor?

When you just are in the background, let's say you're in a restaurant and just two feature actors. Like a really small part or really small number. Yeah, extras. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

So, do you audition for the DB and extra? Yeah, it depends on the role. I guess it would be more than a background actor. It would be a scene that have exactly. Like, just a small little line in a screen.

Anyway, so I understand why they would want to do it. But I want to live in the real world. And I think that these people should be getting paid. And I don't like the AI thing, the whole AI taking these people's jobs. For example, Eric, you played, we should probably call that up.

Eric took my voice and surprised me. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right? And the thing is, so let's say I do voiceovers. Oh, wait, no, I heard the Joe Biden one.

I didn't hear the one of your voice from AI. You didn't? No. Yeah, Eric came up with it without telling me.

So you could use my voice to maybe do the 30-second spots, right?

So, do you want to play it, Eric? Welcome back, Brian. Kill me Joe. Just wanted to go over some of these numbers. New poll numbers from NBC show Biden with a huge lead over Trump.

Biden to me. Wait, that is wild. What sort of world are we entering? I don't know. I know that people in past generations have had this feeling about other things, and it's always ended up being okay.

But this one seems really dangerous. I know. You have somebody's image and voice, and you can make them say or do something. And someone walked me off the ledge saying, can't do it.

So if you use knockoff my voice and use it, I'll sue you. Just like if you're going to Drake, remember Drake in the weekend? Yeah. They they wanted to some guy generated, a wrote a song using them, using their voices, and they had this cease and desist in forty-eight hours. Good.

But so we could still do that. Yeah, but then it goes into like a criminal element and dangerous. And like the woman whose daughter uh got the phone call, that's a huge problem and it's scary. And also, do you really want to go through the lawsuits and and all of you know I'd rather not have the AI Mimicking you to make you then have to hire a lawyer.

So let's get it out of the way. But if it goes a long time, that's the danger. And this is what Barry Diller said. I think he's as respected as a producer and studio head as anybody. He considered himself a pu uh a publisher now.

Um here's what uh here's what he said, cut 35. If in fact it doesn't get settled until Christmas or so, then next year there's not going to be many programs for anybody to watch.

So you're going to see subscriptions get pulled, which is going to reduce the revenue of all these movie companies, television companies, the result of which is. That there will be no programs. And at just the time strike is settled, that you wanna gear back up. there won't be enough money.

So this actually. Will have devastating effects if it is not settled soon. And the problem with settlement in this case is there's no trust between the parties. Yep, yep, yep. And I don't like the idea of not having anything to watch next year.

I watch a lot of stuff.

Well, you know, as someone's telling me, that's how reality shows at the last year. Yeah, I know. Yeah. So, I mean, but then again, if you're going to do a reality show, don't you have to shoot it? What production people are going to be using?

Yeah, I guess for the writer's strike, that's, I think it was the last writer's strike.

So that there's no writers for, yeah. I cannot believe that you got to interview Chris Rinolan. Yeah, it was great. I mean, he is, I think, the most legendary director of our time. And he doesn't put out that many movies.

So when he does, you know, it's going to be epic. And did I tell you, Oppenheimer, I saw it, and it's probably the best movie I've ever seen. And he wrote it, and you look at the dialogue. The dialogue is so crisp, there's not a wasted breath. I asked him, too.

I asked him off camera, I said, If someone comes up to you and wants to change your dialogue, because you wrote it, you're the director and producer. What is that? And he said, I'll work with him. Matt Damon, for example, changed a couple of things with me, and so I'm fine with that. And part of it is 'cause he's an Academy Award winner.

You have to write it. Yeah. I mean, Robert Downey Jr. He's that actor, and I was listening to him do a podcast, and he was saying that he has a piece in his ear. For memorization.

Yes, I heard that. Is that true? Yeah, I guess so. That would be you know, to be honest, for me, I don't I don't understand how that works because that would be very distracting to me. To have somebody your own voice.

I mean, you record your voice, I guess. I guess it's a rhythm like anything. Yeah, well, he's a good actor, so whatever works for him. He is unbelievable in this. Wait, Robert Downey Jr.

is in this? Oh, he is? Oh, I didn't know that. I know that. Is it Sillian or Killian Murphy?

He's in Peaky Blinders. He plays the main guy. I don't know anything about him, except for he's unbelievable. Oh, my gosh, he's incredible. Yes, yes, yes.

You should watch Peaky Blinders. It's very good. I think you would like it.

Well, here is Christopher Nolan talking about the strike. At 31. I'm worried right now on behalf of all the families of You know, guild members who are out on strike, but it's an absolutely necessary industrial action. The truth is, the companies we work for. Have arbitrarily changed the way in which they sell the products.

The deals will change in the last five years, and the way in which working writers, working actors are compensated hasn't kept up with that. This is the kind of moment that comes along every few decades in Hollywood, and it needs to be taken care of. And it's not about movie stars like Matt, you know, Killian or whatever, or directors like myself, writers like myself. It's about working staff writers, it's about jobbing actors who need to pay their mortgages to keep food on the table.

So it has to be dealt with. And yeah, the quicker it's dealt with, the better. But that obviously comes from both sides. Interesting. I don't know a whole lot about the money and finance side of this, but I do think that he brings up a very good and obvious point that people are just consuming entertainment in such a different way because of COVID.

I mean, the fact that you get movies, like blockbuster movies, in 2020, that nobody was going to the movie theater, it was straight to your home, you know, your TV. It was straight to Streaming, and people were willing to spend, you know, $30 to watch a movie because, to be honest, I liked it more because then you get to be in your comfies and you get to have a glass of wine and you be on the couch. And I was willing to spend that money, and I think a lot of people were. And now people are kind of used to that and expect it and go, I'm not going to breathe. theater.

My husband is a huge movie theater guy, though. Oh, my gosh. Nobody likes popcorn more than him. Really?

Well, there's two things that I get the sense that you're totally giving in on. You don't love going to games. You don't like going to concerts and now you don't like going to movies and your husband likes all three, right? Wow, I am so lame. Yeah, what is wrong with me?

I was telling Brian during one of the commercial breaks that I don't even know how this conversation started, but I don't really like Concerts. And I think it's because I haven't ever seen somebody that I really want to see. It's a void in my life that's odd. I've never been to like, I don't want to go to a Carrie Underwood concert. I've never been.

I've been to like concerts that my husband wants to go to. I've seen Pearl Jam twice. And one time, it was, we were in Chicago, which is like Pearl Jam's city. And I was so tired because, you know, you work, this was when I was in my early 20s too. I was working an overnight shift.

I was doing an IMS. I was doing business. Hang on.

Well, thank you. Yeah, I guess I shouldn't. Anyway, I flew in to see Pete, and we went immediately to the Pearl Jam concert, and I fell asleep. You did? Yeah.

And pay. And there's loud, thunderous music, and you're sound asleep. He's like having a good time, but then he looks over, he taps you. I cannot believe that you this is embarrassing.

So, the one thing is, but don't you think, Carly, too, even if you weren't asleep at a concert, I like listening, but like there are people that just like really getting into the concert. I feel a little self-conscious, I don't. You know, I'll take it. I'm not really a big dancer, I understand that they're the show. And then, when you watch Aaron Rodgers, you saw him with.

And you see him with Tanya? Tanya. Um Twitter I don't know, I can't help you. I can Google it. Huh?

Nope. No, I remember what concert did he go to? Oh, he won't draw it hard out, let's see. Yeah, oh yeah, that was right. He went to Taylor Swift.

Oh, he was Taylor Swift concert. Did you see him? No. He is just, everyone's staring at him. He's a big guy.

Oh, I see pictures of him. And he's just like zoning out. I mean, I just admire people that could just relax like that. For me, I think he's been known to do some illicit substances.

So maybe But Right. Maybe they're playing a role. He's very open about it. Right. All right, back in a moment.

We're going to find out if there's need to Carly's going to be on One Nation tonight at eight. I'm so excited. Right. And you're going to see that Saturday night at 8 o'clock.

So, Carly's going to be on. But when we come back, we'll find out if Carly needs to know more. Another thing, I hate soccer. Otherwise known as metric football, it's a dumb sport that nobody should ever play. And if you can't tell, this is an AI-generated voice, I'm not wearing a shirt right now.

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You see the hypocrisy. But the new country music is Hollywood now. The old country is very... Fox-centric, old school. The new country is very Hollywood.

So, I mean, John Rich and company, you talk to those guys. They want a big separation. Yeah, they can't stand you. Can I get a second source on that? No, here's a second source.

You're ugly, too. Terrible. Are you going to apologize now or in the break? I'll just say during the break how much I appreciate you ha being on the show, but then I'm going to rip you to shreds afterwards. That was uh Greg Guttfeld last night.

What is the source of this animosity? Which is a joke. Oh, yeah. You guys actually like each other. Yeah.

Okay, good.

Well, I really see. I like both of you. I don't. It's like. You know, you're two bros fighting, but not really fighting.

Right. How often do you do the show? I just did it last Friday. Uh and I u I keep it to Fridays because of the timing of things. Because they do it at the end of the day.

They do it a little earlier on Friday. Yeah. Yeah. And now with the babe, I gotta get home. Right.

So, you know what's interesting? Because you don't have a babysitter. That means you never go out.

Well, Brock is five months old, and four of those months I was on maternity leave.

So we're still just like working out those kinks. But we have a nanny, and she's wonderful. But all of our weekends have been spent with him, and that's what I want. I don't want a babysitter and to go out without him. He's so cute.

Right. And you just showed me, and I have to verify, I'll be your second source on that. Thank you. Let's talk about, there's a couple of things I want to talk about.

Okay. One of which is. The RFK, the way he was treated yesterday, and before we get into the specifics of it. I've never seen A person of prominence. Treated like that, and then you factor in it's the own party.

The most famous family in America, Kennedy, RFK. Was 13 years old when his dad was assassinated. He was right there. He's part of history. He is somebody who has always been a Democrat.

He always had these strong opinions. But you would think they'd be somewhat deferential. They didn't let him finish. They cut him off. They labeled him a racist and a sexist and anti-Semitic.

Well, I think that you're right. And I also think that. Yeah. he's chipping away at the narrative that he is, y you know, this crazy lunatic vaccine denier. And I I it I think that him running for president is a very good thing for his own History and you know of who he is because his message is now getting out there.

Well, he did the Joe Rogan interview, and I think now people are more receptive to hearing about vaccines and sort of questioning how the CDC and the NIH operate because of COVID. And I listened to the interview, and I don't know if he's right. I don't. And he even admits, he's not 100% sure if he's right. He wants to debate other doctors and they won't debate him.

About vaccines? He's not a doctor, so he wants to debate debate other doctors. He wants the same rigors with vaccines that they give to drugs. One thing that I have to say that made me really listen to him is he said, and it's because of just what I went through. It just happened to be a good idea.

You just talked to him. I did. And he said. He questioned why when a baby is born, the first thing that they get is the hepatitis B vaccine. And within 24 hours of Brock's birth, I mean, I held him for an hour and he already had a vaccine in his system.

And it was for hepatitis B. And I didn't question it because I was like, okay, sure, I'm sure he needs it. I mean, that hepatitis, you get hepatitis B if you are a drug addict or are having risky sex. Why does a one-day-old baby need that? RFK Jr.

says it's because when the pharmaceutical companies made this vaccine, they were marketing it to irresponsible people, and those people weren't buying it.

So they went to the government and said, What do we do with all of this? We just wasted all this money. He said, Well, give it to babies. Give it to babies in hospitals. They'll take it.

So then you start to go, wait a second.

So is there something, is there really something to be said about what he's saying and questioning all of this? I don't know. I mean, I've talked because of I listened to this. But I want to say that I want to hear his side. Yeah.

And so you can now on certain podcasts, but on others, you can't. And this goes back to the censorship thing, where he's trying to become what he calls the podcast president, where he's doing podcasts the way that Donald Trump was the social media president. That's one of the reasons why he got elected because that's how he got his message out there. He's being censored from certain podcasts, and some of these podcast hosts that he's friends with are saying, I can't book you anymore because this is my livelihood. And then you see what happened on.

Capitol Hill yesterday, it was repeat history again. I wish we had more time. I know, but we had a half hour. Oh, no. I mean, that's part of the curse.

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We'll do it. 8 o'clock Saturday. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, Brian Kilmead here.

Don't miss a minute of the show. I come to you from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. We got some breaking news to go over. Sad news: Tony Bennett passed away at Alzheimer's, but still, great guy, great performer. Christopher Nolan, the Director, the writer, producer, superstar, one of the finest strikes in the country.

I had a chance to interview him. This is going to be the only place you hear the unedited interview. Christopher Nolan will be on this hour.

So if you're going to see a movie, and I have nothing to do with the movie, it's not a Fox movie, Fox Network, in the movies. Best movie I've seen in quite some time. I mean, I know people will go, three hours, you will not regret it.

So, Andy McCarthy standing by.

So, let's, and there is some breaking news on the Donald Trump situation.

So, let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. The truth is the companies we work for have arbitrarily changed the way in which they sell the products. The way in which working writers, working actors are compensated hasn't kept up with that. This is the kind of moment that comes along every few decades in Hollywood.

And there it is, Christopher Dolan talking about the strike, we're talking about the movies, we're talking about the writers, we're talking about the actors, maybe Broadway. What is the latest? And are they in danger of killing the entertainment industry?

Some say yes. Number two. When the president travels on Air Force One, more recently, President Biden has started to use the smaller set of stairs that come out from the belly of Air Force One. But it's yet another example of how the White House and his team around him are trying to adjust things to accommodate for his age. That is the Biden decline.

You'll hear the latest mumbling effort: RFK Circus and the GOP horse race. We have everything 2024 related. Number one. One. I never saw that 1023, and I'm the lead case agent from the IRS.

And the fact that I didn't have that information that could have corroborated other evidence that we had in our possession, I mean, that's where it's for me. When I heard that and I saw that, it was frustrating. That is Joe Ziegler, and you saw Ziegler testifying on Capitol Hill. That is cut from a podcast that he did with Megan Kelly. The Hunter Headaches Intensify.

Senator Grassley drops a document that shows VP Biden was cashing in along with his son. If this is in fact true, it is as bad as it gets. Let the Democratic spin begin, and let's find out who this FBI, very credible FBI witness, was. But first things first, Andy, this just got dropped on my desk, and I'm sure you now know. The judge, Aileen Cannon, appointed by President Trump, has decided to start the trial on the classified documents in May.

So he wanted to wait till after the election. They wanted to start in December. What do you think about this decision? I wouldn't set it in stone, Brian. And the reason is As I pointed out before, The p People who have to, and I say this on the basis of personal knowledge, having had to litigate some of these things.

Um When you're involved in a case where the Classified Information Procedures Act, controls. the admissibility of evidence. You have to hash out all of the questions of what evidence will come into the trial before the trial starts. because everything that's coming into the trial has to be declassified so that the jury can see it. We don't give the jury a security clearance.

We have a lengthy process that goes on before the trial to make sure that all the evidence that comes in is can be public and the jury can view it. That takes a lot of time to litigate. I think what Judge Cannon is probably doing is trying to make sure that this thing doesn't careen out of control.

So I would look at May as more of a control date than I mean, I'm sure in her mind, she'd love to get the trial started in May. Um but I I just I think that there are going to be forces beyond their control that prevent that from happening.

Well, we know the Alvin Bragg case starts, I think, February, right? March 25th. It's my anniversary. That's why I know. All right.

So, March 25th, that's supposed to start.

So, we'll see if that gets started right away. Could there be a conviction there and could this guy go could President Trump go to jail?

Well, my my I mean, is it possible? Like, nobody goes to jail for anything in New York anymore, right? I wouldn't think. Except except Trump's CFO, right? Yeah, you got to put him in Rikers.

Right, he's sitting in Rikers whenever when the bad guys are out on the street. But, you know, look, I still think Brian. We're talking theoretically, could he be sent to jail for a criminal conviction? Yes, it's a four these are four year counts and he and Bragg took one thing and turned it into like one hundred fifty counts, right? Or is it to thirty I can't remember the number, but it's close to forty counts, right, that they slice and dice this thing into.

But I still think if sanity prevails, And that's not always something that happens, particularly in New York. That case should never get to trial. It should be thrown out prior to trial.

So from what you see is january sixth, if Trump is telling the truth about the target letter, judging by the witness list and Jack Smith's how he profiles, do you think where an indictment is inevitable?

Well, if Trump really did get a target letter, I would say so. And I have to tip my hat then to, you know, to Bill Barr, who said that, you know, he thought in recent weeks that He was getting the strong suspicion that there was going to be an indictment. I've thought up until now, Brian, up until very recently. But what Smith would do with january sixth because he's a special counsel. Like when I was the prosecutor, if there was no charges, I would just close the file and move on to the next case.

But a special counsel, as we know, gets to write a report.

So I thought what he was going to do is write a narrative report about January 6th and dump it at some propitious time for the Democrats during. Run up to the election. But it looks he's doing all the things that you do when you're going to indict. And if Trump really did get a target letter, that's the Justice Department's way of telling. the suspect that they pretty much decided to indict him and it's more a matter of when than if.

Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler were on Capitol Hill to talk about all the robots that stood in their way from fully investigating Hunter Biden. One of the quotes from you, Adam McCarthy, was, the Democrats ran into a buzzsaw with these two. Why? Because they were such good witnesses. I would just point out to people, and I say this with real modesty of experience, Um prosecutors Usually no.

more about the law. Uh that because there's a lawyer on the case, right? than the investigating agents do. That's just a common thing. Where I found in my cases over twenty years that it was uncommon was in tax prosecutions.

Tax is a very abstruse kind of esoteric area of the law, and it's typical. That tax agents know more about tax law and tax enforcement than most prosecutors do, and certainly than most people on Capitol Hill do, which is not a slap at them, it's just a fact that this is a very intricate and unique area of the law. And these two guys happen to be like their two best agents, right? One of them, Shapley actually ran offices and has run international investigations. He's like his investigations are personally responsible for reeling in about three hundred was it, three point five billion dollars in evaded taxes that have been recovered because of his work.

And he says that Ziegler is the best investigator in the country. who worked for him personally.

So What happened on Wednesday, that was the day if I'm remembering right, that the hearing was. Um Started to ask questions, Jamie Raskin began, he got clobbered. You know, he started out saying, Isn't it true that agents and prosecutors always argue about charges? And Shapley said to him, Not in this case. In this case, the agents and the prosecutors were in unanimous agreement who were working on the case that felony charges were appropriate here.

It was the higher-ups in the Biden Justice Department who put the kibosh on all this.

So the Democrats realized if we try to poke holes in the story of these guys, they know more than we do and they're going to kill us.

So what they started to do after the first couple got clobbered. They use their five-minute rounds to filibuster about Donald Trump and do a justice. But they didn't want to ask any more questions because they were getting killed every time they asked. Here is a little from when Shapley and Ziegler went on together on the Megan Kelly show, Cut One. Even a nuance of us doing a walkby.

And I can recall my testimony saying that a walkby is essentially you want to walk past someone, so you're not in any gear that identifies you at all. You want to walk past someone's residence and to verify that they're home or whatever it might be. And even that was U.S. Attorney agreed with it, but. The leadership at DOJ Tax did not agree with it.

So again, I go back to: did U.S. Attorney David Weiss really have the authority here, or was he being limited by other people in DOJ? See Okay, so Brian, can I tell you the most important thing about this? Because I think we've talked about it before. I've been saying all along that one of the tells on this investigation is that the Hunter Biden case was carried as a tax case.

Now, you know, it could have been a money laundering case, it could have been a FARA case, it could have been a gun case. But they made it a a tax case. And it's not just because there were tax charges. The rules of the Justice Department are, no matter how who the U.S. attorney is, no matter where in the country the crime is committed, The U.S.

attorney does not have authority to bring tax charges. They have to be approved by Maine Justice.

So all the time that Garland was saying that Weiss in Delaware was the final decision maker, I kept trying to point out to people, but it's a tax case, which means the Biden appointees at the Justice Department have to approve it. Weiss doesn't have authority. No U.S. attorney in the country has authority to bring tax charges. Unless the tax division at Maine Justice green lines it.

But they wanted to, but they kept saying that so you're saying it's don't get caught up in the districts that reject Weiss because it was a tax case anyway.

Well, I'd say a couple of things about that. First, It was a tax case, so Maine Justice had to sign off on it. What we hear is that Maine Justice ultimately did sign off on at least some things. But the other thing I would point out is all this nonsense About how they were blocked by the Biden-appointed US Attorney in Washington and the Biden-appointed US Attorney in California. Those guys work for Garland.

When there's a turf battle in the Justice Department, it's not like a U.S. Attorney says, Oh, well, the District U.S. Attorney doesn't want to bring the charge. I guess that's the end of the case. You go down to the Justice Department and fight that out.

And if the If the attorney general, what happens is the attorney general hears out the competing sides, and what he could have done was ordered those U.S. attorneys to work for Weiss, work with Weiss on the case. This idea that they blocked it and like, and Garland is just like this helpless witness figure who doesn't have any control over this is just laughable. But they don't even say, but they don't admit that these Matt Graves and the guy in Los Angeles pushed back on the case. They don't even admit that.

Yeah, well, because they don't want to talk about it, because i the whole the whole story, Brian, doesn't hang together because this is Garland. You know, they don't want to talk you know, they love the idea of saying, you know, Weiss was confused about what his authority was and it wa he wa it wasn't clear whether he could, you know, bump the uh bump the tru the case past the District US it's a bunch of nonsense. The the Attorney General runs the Justice Department. Even when the Attorney General chooses a special counsel, which should have been done in this case. Um Even the special counsel reports to the to the Attorney General.

But what was supposed to happen here is not that you wait for a uh if you're the attorney general, you don't wait for a U. S. Attorney to ask you for special counsel authority because that's like asking to be fired. under the rules that control special counsels, It explicitly says that special counsel has to be brought from outside the government, but that's what makes you special. You have detachment from the government chain of command.

So This idea that Weiss should have asked Garland for special counsel authority is ridiculous. because the obligation is not on the dis on the U. S. attorney to ask for the authority. It's for the Attorney General to recognize that there's a conflict of interest Such that the Justice Department can't investigate the thing in the normal course, which means it's on Garland.

to pick a special counsel. It wasn't Weiss is just the fall guy in all of this. I don't I'm not saying he distinguished himself, I think he's a weasel. But everybody's looking at Weiss. The problem here is Garland.

Garland's the one who didn't do his job. Got it. Andy McCarthy, fascinating time. We need it broken down in civilian terms. You're always willing to do it.

Andy, thank you. Thanks, Ryan. Have a great weekend. YouTube, 1866-408-7669. I have not touched on this 1023 form that has been released by Senator Grassley that shows it was a high-valued confidential source, human source, that told us and witnessed.

uh the CFO and CEO of Burisma. Paying the Bidens. And I'm not just talking to Hunter. This is the Brian Killmee Show. More on that in a moment.

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Based on everything we now know, it's very clear to me that the FBI lacked an interest and a curiosity. In actually pursuing these criminal investigations, both against Hunter Biden and against Joe Biden. And the question is: why? And who decided that there was no curiosity or desire to investigate these to the fullest extent of the law? And this Shokin firing has always troubled me because of the, he was investigating Burisma for criminal acts.

Joe Biden leverages a billion dollars of United States taxpayers' dollars to get him fired, and the investigation against Burisma, who Hunter Biden is very closely associated with, goes away. I mean, that in and of itself should make the FBI want to get to the bottom of this and run it to ground. But as John describes, they just. Decided not to. And I think that is beyond malpractice when it comes to criminal investigations.

So, what they had is a whistleblower come forward and a source for the FBI. He said, Listen, I witnessed this whole barisma thing go down.

So, he came in to the FBI, and the FBI took down his side of the story. It's called the 1023.

Now, originally, they went up and said they got tipped off. Hey, this person who saw and witnessed all this burisma stuff happen told Senator Grassley, said, Listen, I gave my 1023 form to the FBI, asked for it because I stand by that story, and it's verified, and I'll stand by everything. And you take an oath, and you can put me in jail if I'm lying.

So, the FBI took it in. They said, We have no 1023. He says, Yes, you do. Finally, they go, We have it, but we can't let you see it. He goes, It's unclassified.

Let us see it. He goes, Well, there's parts of it that's classified. He goes, Well, we'll redact them.

So, Grassley gets it, and then Grassley released it yesterday. And here's what it says: It says that Barisman. Brisma Holdings hired Hunter Biden to have his father protect the company, hence the firing of the prosecutor that was investigating Brisma. Brisma feared Shokin, that's him, probe would stop its efforts to get publicly traded in the U.S. Brisma knew that Hunter had no experience and said, quote, he was as dumb as his dog, but sought additional counsel.

Now, one of the lines was, why don't you pay $50,000 and defend yourself against Shokin? He said, well, he laughed. He goes, why are you laughing? He goes, well, I used a five, but I had to spend $5 million. $5 million for Joe and $5 million for Hunter.

Wow. The CHS, meaning this guy, believed the payments made to the Bidens were illicit in nature. The FBI received a lead involving cryptocurrency. The FBI long knew that Joe's association called him the big guy. The FBI began receiving information on the Biden and Burisma as early as 2017.

And on a side note, they knew the laptop was real in 2019. And the minute the story came out, They use it, they were told not to use it as an investigative tool, but they said they knew it was real. And then they get all their intel buddies to sign a paper saying they know it's not. Think about how diabolical and fundamentally corrupt that is. I don't know this guy.

But he was strong enough to say, swear me in, I swear it's true. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmade. Hey, welcome back. In the middle of the week, it was so tough to do.

I had so much going on. And But I had an opportunity to interview Christopher Nolan, you know, the legendary producer and director of Batman, the trilogy, and all that stuff. Dark Knight, or whatever they call it. And everyone just says, You listen to actors talk, they say he's the best of the best. And with all the actors on strike, he's doing all his own publicity for Oppenheimer.

And I've watched some of the interviews, I see how passionate he is. And they said, Brian, you have an opportunity to do the interview, but you have to see the movie. And I said, Do me a favor, just send me the clip. You know, said I'll watch it on my iPad. And they said, Absolutely not.

You need to see an IMAX theater. They've rented one, 53rd Street. You got to go. I go, you want me to sit down from 12:30 to 3:30 in the middle of the day and watch a movie?

Well, I'm so glad I did. It is Oppenheimer. It is fantastic. And bringing us inside the process and the man and why you did the movie. Here he is, Christopher Nolan.

I am not here to help Robert. I knew you could do this without me. Why did you come? To talk about after. The power you're about to reveal will forever outlive the Nazis.

And the world is not prepared. You've lifted the stone without being ready for the snake that's revealed. We have to make the politicians understand this isn't a new weapon. It's a new world. I'll be out there doing what I can, but you.

You're an American Prometheus. The man who gave them the power to destroy themselves. And they'll respect that. One of the most anticipated movies of the year, Oppenheimer, is finally hitting theaters today. And joining us now is Oscar nominated director.

One of the best in the business, Christopher Nolan, is here. And it's great to meet you in person. I have everything you accomplished. And this is one of the best movies I have ever seen. What made you feel that this is a story that the world needs to see?

The story of Robert Oppenheimer is simply the most dramatic story I've ever encountered. I mean, whether you're looking at fiction or historical fact, it's a story with incredible stakes, incredible suspense. You know, this is a a person who changed the world forever. We live in his world, like it or not, and we always will. When did you realize that?

How did you come on the biography, the story that made you want to know more to research to the point where you could write a script like this?

Well, I think for me, the real hook was an incident that I actually referred to in my previous film, Tenet in Dialogue, which was the fact that Oppenheimer and his fellow lead scientists on the Manhattan Project, in the lead-up to the first test detonation of an atomic device, which they called Trinity, they couldn't completely eliminate the possibility that when they triggered that device, they might set fire to the atmosphere and destroy the entire world. That's just the most dramatic situation I've ever heard of.

So I was interested in exploring Oppenheimer as a potential film project. And then I read American Prometheus, a great book by Kai Bird and Martin Sherman, 25 years. 25 years to write the book. 25 years to write the book. And so I'm standing on the shoulders of those giants.

25 years of research, of incredible detail. It's a beautifully laid-out book. That gave me the confidence to take on such a complicated project. I felt like I had that basis of knowledge to work from. And, Christopher, the way you line it up, you got the World War.

you have nuclear energy. You also have communism, Nazism, all turn into one, and it all really happened. I mean, the drama that was taking place, and what was happening here. uh was really crazy because there was a sense that If the r if the Nazis got it and beat us to the bomb, the world would forever be changed. And you gotta figure that Hitler was gonna use it.

So not only did you have to invent something, you had to win the race to invent something that didn't exist. Yeah, it was a crazy race once the atom was split. A lot of the scientists, a lot of the great physicists around the world, pretty quickly figured out the potential for some kind of doomsday device, some kind of bomb, based on that fact of nature. And so there was a race that started, and Oppenheimer was recruited by General Groves to lead the laboratory at Los Alamos. One of the things I found most dramatic about this is that Oppenheimer knew all the German scientists.

He knew the chess player on the other side of the board, Heisenberg. In his early years in the 1920s, he'd gone to Europe and he'd studied and collaborated with a lot of these scientists.

So he's sitting on one side with his team, putting his team together, knowing what they're doing on the other side. And the stakes were very, very high for the whole world. Can you say the casting, Killian Murphy, unbelievable? Just I think he's going to blow people away with this. How you guys don't walk away with every award possible is unbelievable.

But you mentioned chain reaction, and that when asked a couple of times, Oppenheimer asked, are you going to blow up the world? They couldn't be sure they wouldn't. Here's a look. Neutrons smash into nucleus, releasing neutrons to smash into other nuclei. Criticality, point of no return, massive explosive force.

But this time the chain reaction doesn't stop. It would ignite the atmosphere. Yeah. When we detonate an atomic device, we might start a chain reaction with... destroys the world.

He's talking to Einstein there. Think about that conversation. Amazing. Uh in the later years after the war, Oppenheimer wound up uh running the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and Einstein had been there for years and was there and so they would meet and talk and you're looking at two generations of the leading scientists of their of their day and that's Einstein played by Tom Conte who I've worked with before is a wonderful British actor um and Killian and Tom they really brought an incredible sense of intimacy to those those scenes and really really love those parts of the movie.

So, I think the story is really about a guy, too, Oppenheimer. You think he invents the bomb, he's a hero for a brief period of time. But you make it pretty clear that this is a mixed blessing. He might have ended the war and the good guys won, but he's saying to himself, we've got to stop the hydrogen bomb. And his interaction with Truman does not go well.

Truman feels a big victory that Oppenheimer should get some credit for. He's like, no, I don't think we should really do this. I think we should look into the future and understand where we're heading. How was he able to see the future? How did you make sure why did you want so much to make sure people understood not only was he brilliant, he also could foresee how complicated the world we're in right now is getting?

Well, that's one of the things that really drew me to the story, is this is not a story about naivete. This is not a story about scientists who had no idea what was going to happen with their work. They made the atomic bomb because if they didn't, the Nazis would. They had no choice. They had to do what we needed for the Allies to win the war.

But they must have known, as very, very brilliant scientists, where this could all go. And Oppenheimer, more than anyone else, as things developed, after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he's somebody with incredible vision and foresight.

So he's looking to the future. He's looking to where the arms race against the Russians is going to go during the Cold War. And he's trying to do his best to have a voice of policy. But of course, this is the first time the scientists were ever asked by the military to try and win a war. That had never happened before.

And so suddenly, science finds itself in the position of: okay, we've created this thing. What say do we have in how it's used? Do we have a say in how it's used? Or is that the politicians? And so Oppenheimer wound up in this.

post-war years he wound up in this really complicated situation between science, government and the media. Um and he did what he could to try and influence policy as best he could until the point at which things turned against him and it it got really ugly. And in the end, do you think when he passed away, we don't have his death in the movie, when he passed away, is he looked at as a hero? Because he did get his security clearance taken away. People who associate him with communism, his wife admitted she was a communist.

Do you think that when he passed away he was viewed as a hero in America? I think that his reputation has changed over time. He was rehabilitated to some degree by Leonard Johnson giving him the Fermi Medal. And then over years, it's taken a very long time, but just This year, the Department of Energy revoked the finding against him in the security hearing. It took that long for the U.S.

government to acknowledge that this great wrong had been done to him.

So I think his reputation will always be an ambiguous one. He was an incredible hero for his country, a great patriot. One of his great quotes is: you know, damn it, I happen to love this country. That's a big part of who he was, but he also. Had this past that became inconvenient to where the world went.

Once fascism had been defeated and communism became the big threat. And so I think he'll always have this very ambiguous position in history. And I think his story, it's a cautionary tale, it raises all kinds of troubling questions. And the film doesn't pretend to have any kind of easy answers. It's really, it's just incredibly dramatic to.

live through this guy's experience, you know, sit in his shoes View things through his eyes for a few hours. They talk about drama, real life drama, where we're in the battle, we end up in a Cold War with the Soviet Union in a race to make sure we keep the bomb. Here's the moment in the movie when they realize the Russians might have it. Listen. One of our B-29s over the North Pacific has detected radiation.

Do we have the filter papers? There's no doubt what this is. White House sensitives are down. Wishful thinking, I'm afraid. Are those the long-range detection filter papers?

So it's time to test. The Russians have a bomb. Russians have a bomb, and they had people inside Los Alamos in the Manhattan Project. No spoilers, please. Strange to talk about spoilers when you're talking about historical drama, but the way in which we tell the story, there are surprises along those lines, a lot of accusations flying all different ways, and some incredible revelations.

And that is Robert Downey Jr. playing Louis Strauss, who had a very complicated relationship with Oppenheimer. And Downey working with Downey, who's one of the great movie stars of today, but also one of the most incredible actors, losing himself in that part. And the relationship between the two men develops, I think, in some really extraordinary ways, particularly post-1945, as. The threat of communism, the Russians and everything supplants that of fascism.

The world changes again. The whole game changes, and Oppenheimer and Strauss are kind of caught in the middle of it. There is a, you're out here doing it, and I'm thrilled. But normally you'd have Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., doing a lot of publicity, and you're the man pushing it. You wrote it, you produced it, and you're attached to it.

I'm so glad you're here. How do you feel about this strike? I know Barry Diller came out over the weekend and just said if it goes too long, it is really going to be detrimental long term to the business. Because if you go out with Christmas and there's no movies and you can't shoot by September, you're in trouble. When does Christopher Nolan get worried?

I'm worried right now on behalf of all the families of uh you know, guild members who who are out on strike. You know, um Nobody's working when both the writers, my guild and SAG is out on strike. The sooner this is resolved, the better. But it's an absolutely necessary industrial action. The truth is, the companies we work for Have arbitrarily changed the way in which they sell the products.

The deals have all changed in the last five years, and the way in which working writers, working actors are compensated hasn't kept up with that. They haven't changed those deals yet, and they have to do that. This is the kind of moment that comes along every few decades in Hollywood, and it needs to be taken care of. And it's not about movie stars like Matt, you know, Killian or whatever, or directors like myself, writers like myself. It's about working staff writers, it's about jobbing actors who need to pay their mortgages and keep food on the table.

So it has to be dealt with. And yeah, the quicker it's dealt with, the better. But that obviously comes from both sides. Right. In the meantime, you do have something to see in the theaters.

Oppenheimer in the theaters today, this weekend, and this is a huge hit. I can't imagine what it'd be like writing it, let alone producing it, and how gratified you must feel right now. Are you nervous? Very nervous. Never gets any easier.

I mean, the film's not finished till it's out there for the audience to tell us. us what it is we've done and and that's happening tomorrow. Not much. I mean, we make the films for audiences, and it's great to have a film like this come out in the summer, which is when people are really primed to go see things on the big screen and hopefully have an exciting experience. That's what we do it for.

It's 118 degrees outside, so go inside. The air conditioning goes in the theater. Chris Bernolin, thanks so much. Thank you. I appreciate it.

How great was that? I mean, when you see the movie, I think you'll appreciate it more. You're going to want to go see a documentary on Fox Nation. There is a documentary on Robert Oppenheimer, and it was a great primer for me before I saw the movie. You might want to do the same thing.

Are you listening to the Brian Kill Me Show? Back with your calls in a moment. 1866-408-7669. Learning something new every day on the Brian Killmeat Show. The more you listen, the more you'll know.

It's Brian Killmead. Thank you. Thank you. That's what flaw sounds like, Brian. Brian uh what is the Real outrage here.

You work at Fox and Friends, you have the antenna of outrage. You know exactly. What is really like if you were doing this on Fox and Friends, what would piss you off most?

Well, first off, a few observations. When Kat, you were talking, he looks at you like you're Zeus, Apollo, and Plato. That's how outrageous. He is so look at me. When I talk, you are just waiting for me to take a breath to say something.

Do you notice the different way you treat people? All I hear when you talk is, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. See? This is, this is, you know, we're on. I know, no, I know, I know.

Okay, come on. We're on at 10 o'clock now, so it's like I'm not. Oh, wait, why were you looking at him instead of me when I was talking? Oh, more outrage, okay. Does that come out of my time?

Yes, it does.

Okay. No, no, no. I give back your time. Thank you very much. Reclaim it.

So that was last night with Greg Guttfeld. You know, this comes out since that show as his 1023 forum where this witness comes forward and talks about the Bidens and how much money they made. And he did it under oath. He did it to the FBI. And the Republicans finally got what they've been requesting for almost six months now.

And remember, they're in the minority in the Senate, and Grassley is the one who released it. He looked at it, finally saw it, and said, I want everyone to see it. At which time they say the Bidens made $5 million each for this Burisma contract. They knew that Hunter Biden had no qualifications. They called him as dumb as their dog, according to the CFO and CEO of Burisma, but they did it for the influence and they did it to get certain things done to preserve Burisma and bring it public.

So. Craig Wright says this: The thing about the Biden is amazing that people even try to question it now with a straight face after the documents get released. The GOP, we have cooperating evidence, galore, complete timeline of events, 17 plus million in hidden wires from foreign governments or foreign entities directly aligned to said government of the Bidens. All of these shell companies owned by the Bidens and their companies are constructs that financial experts advise are only done for laundering lots of illicit money. Hey, Democrats, it's all based on old debunk lies.

That's all they say. Just distracted from our indictments of Trump. This goes back and forth, back and forth, and people are finding it extremely frustrating. I do too, but sooner or later. If the money is there and it can't be accounted for, and people see all this stuff front and center, and they can prove it illegality.

I think if there's enough time. The Democrats turn on him and say, You're too old anyway. And they'll do it in a more subtle way. And they'll g they're gone.

Now that might be bad news for Republicans. They might think that there's a better, he's their best chance of winning the White House. I don't know. The establishment candidate, everyone consolidated behind. I'm pretty sure getting Joe Biden out of the way would probably be best.

For the country. Listened to him yesterday, Cut 25. You know, I came to office determined. strengthen the middle class. I often say, and I mean it sincerely, Now Wall Street, good folks down there, but they didn't build the middle class.

They didn't build America. The middle class was built by the middle class. and the union has built the middle class. and to change the economic direction of this country. Because we I got tired of trickle-down economics.

I've never been a big fan. If the wealthy do very well, I'm a capitalist. I like the wealthy to be able to be wealthy. But if the mere fact they do well doesn't mean everybody else does well. You feel better now?

I don't. Brian, kill me, Joe. Don't forget One Nation Saturday at 8. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead.

Hi, everyone. Brian Killmead Show, moving your way through the week. Thanks so much for being with us all week long. We come to you from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan. We're heard around the country, around the world.

Kennedy will be with us, hosts of Kennedy Saves the World podcast, of course, Fox News extraordinary talent. And Shannon Bream is standing by. Talked about extraordinary talent. She's got her Fox News Sunday show ready to go. We got One Nation still formatting.

We'll have Christopher Nolan interview on that and also get his take on the strike.

So before we get to the channel, let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. The truth is, the companies we work for have arbitrarily changed the way in which they sell the products. The way in which working writers, working actors are compensated hasn't kept up with that. This is the kind of moment that comes along every few decades in Hollywood.

And that is why the strike is real and could kill entertainment as we know it. The strike is writers, actors, maybe Broadway play, Broadway going dark. If it doesn't end soon, Look out. Number two. When the president travels on Air Force One, more recently, President Biden has started to use the smaller set of stairs that come out from the belly of Air Force One.

But it's yet another example of how the White House and his team around him are trying to adjust things to accommodate for his age. Yeah, Laura Egan of Politico, the Biden decline. RFK Circus, and the GLP Horse Race. We have it all. Number.

I never saw that 1023, and I'm the lead case agent from the IRS. And the fact that I didn't have that information that could have corroborated other evidence that we had in our possession, I mean, that's where it's for me when I heard that and I saw that, it was frustrating. Yeah, Joseph Ziegler, Hunter headaches intensified as Senator Grassley drops a document that shows VP Biden was cashing in all along with his son. If true, devastating and could destroy any hope he has of getting another four years. I would think, if any of this stuff is true, is and a lot of it, I mean, i it is so hard.

To read some of these disclaimers and to watch Hakeem Jeffries call it a clown show and say it's a waste of time, old leads and conspiracy theories. There's nothing conspiratorial about this stuff. These are people coming forward, witnessing things that we all know there's something up. Fundamentally, how does somebody get this rich making $200,000 a year? Why is Hunter Biden Making millions internationally with no experience and no skill.

The skill is influence. On a superpower.

So this FD1023 doesn't mean anything to us unless you're an FBI agent. What does it mean?

Well, what happens is when you come in and you have some serious charges They come in, they swear you in, and they say, tell me your story. And the story is so serious. They kept it. But the person or the source, the human source, is called a confidential human source, CHS. The confidential human source.

Must have told Republicans, listen, I I gave this testimony. These Bidens are up to no good, and I got proof of it. Much like mister Lutz, that we talked to and we heard do a tape last week, said, I've dealt with the Bidens. They got all these international deals going. When I told the FBI that I want to come forward, this guy shouldn't be elected, shouldn't be nominated.

Next thing you know, I'm labeled as an international arms dealer and an illegal foreign agent. And he had to cut this tape to explain his story because he thinks he's going to get arrested. He can't go back to the country. Yet he shares a think tank with James Woolsey, a former CIA director.

So, how bad can he be? Shannon Breem joins us now.

So Shannon, I watched you on a special report bring this story forward about the ten twenty three forum, highlighting conversations between a confidential human source, a CHS, and a Burisma CFO and CEO. Grassley put it forward. In layman's terms, I know you got this deep legal background. How significant does this seem? The brain Significant only because the FBI has identified this source who is the source of this particular document as somebody they found reliable in the past, that they have worked with through numerous presidential administrations.

So, they clearly gave it some weight. I mean, this is something that I asked Bill Barr, former general attorney general, about this a few weeks ago on Fox News Sunday. And I said, What is the deal with this document? Because Democrats are out there saying there was nothing to it. It kind of went nowhere.

He said, That's not true. He said, I it went through the Pittsburgh office. They vetted it. They actually found some additional information. It was worked up and then sent to places where there would be an open investigation that may be relevant, including in Delaware where the Hunter-Biden investigation was going on.

So then the question is. Did it kind of die there? Or was it picked up and investigated? Maybe there was found that there was nothing to it. But the trail kind of goes cold at that point.

We don't know. And really, U. S. Attorney David Weiss is one of the only people who could answer that question.

So this is separate.

Well, I mean, this would help an investigation to find out what Hunter Biden is paying taxes on, obviously. And is he acting illegally as a foreign business doing foreign business as an agent like they said that we heard that Paul Mataford was doing, didn't register. I mean, that is one thing.

So the CHS suggested this This confidential human source, as you said with credibility, that it would be best if Burisma simply litigate this is an exchange I thought was so significant.

Someone would recommend it that the CHS it would the CHS suggested to the Burisma executive, the CFO, said, Listen, you're worried about being investigated by this guy, Shurikin. Yeah. He said, Well, why don't you just get a lawyer and fight it? And they say, Wouldn't it be best if Brisma simply litigated the matter in Ukraine and pay someone $50,000? And the CFO laughed.

It laughed at the number five and said it costs $5 million for one Biden and $5 million for another Biden, and that would be how they defend themselves. And the next thing you know, Shoikin gets fired. And the president bragged about firing this guy. He said, Shoigu, as everybody wanted him out. That's why I fired him.

Well, it's kind of weird to walk over with a billion dollars of taxpayer dollars and use it as if it's your own as leverage to get a country to do something. Uh as if you were a real estate agent.

So what about that exchange? How significant of this proven true? Yeah, and a Fact is, I mean, all of these things could be completely legal. They could be completely shady. But when the president, he wasn't president at the time, but this is between his vice presidency and presidency.

When he's out there telling these stories, it gets a laugh. You know, he knows the punchline there saying, like, I told him you're not getting the money. And, you know, bleep, baby, bleep, or, you know, you fire that guy or I shut this down. That taken in context with these allegations, which were made in 2020, leave a lot of questions and optics that are not good for the Biden administration that they have to answer because the whole allegation by this whistleblower, or not whistleblower, confidential human source. not verified, but the whole claim he's making is that this conversation, listen, we had Hunter on the board because we knew his dad could help us with problems or he could potentially run an interference for us while we're trying to do business in the U.

S. So All of that together with the public comments that the president made before he became president, mean he's got some questions to answer.

So, RFK Jr. was at a hearing yesterday for censorship, and he was cut off and treated so harshly. That I couldn't believe what I was watching. Especially it's the Kennedys. He.

Looks a lot like Bobby Kennedy, his dad. Uh he was tied with Ted Kennedy, an esteemed senator. And yet he was in front of Democrats who wanted to bring him behind closed doors, were embarrassed by him, and personally insulted him, and was calling him a sexist. Anti-Semitic and a racist. Here's Robert F.

Kennedy trying to defend himself and talking about this on the story yesterday, Cut 22. I want to say something because they, you know, the charge is. That I made these statements that were anti-Semitic. All of those statements are taken out of context. And those statements themselves, I have literally, and I said this under oath today, I've never made a single anti-Semitic statement in my life or racist statement in my life.

And the statements that are being twisted and distorted to make them seem like I said these controversial things are is simply another way. Um that the you know, that I'm be that that the the w the DMC, et cetera, and its allies are using to uh to silence me, to marginalize me, to make me look crazy.

So what I mean, you've seen a lot. And you know who these guys are. And you know that he has a he said vaccines should get the same coverage and scrutiny as any type of pharmaceutical drug. Why don't they? Why are we taking all these vaccines now?

You know, he vaccinates his kids, he says he gets a flu shot, but he doesn't like the way and believes it in many ways and wrote a book about it and was a bestseller for a long time that we're getting all these all these vaccines.

So he's a crackpot, he shouldn't be hurt, he should be taken down, he should be shadow banned or banned entirely. That was the whole point of the hearing. How do you make sense of this, Shannon? Yeah, and that's what Republicans were saying. We don't agree with all the stuff he says either, but we agree as Americans with his ability to say it.

Now, Democrats did not want to hear from him at all. They didn't think he should be a witness at all. It is a weird juxtaposition to have this, you know, Democratic dynasty family member with the last name Kennedy being, you know, hit at by the Democrats, being lauded by the Republicans, again, who say, we don't agree with the content of a lot of what he says, but just the ability to say it is one thing. Democrats had been saying, you know, this is overblown. There isn't this, you know, tech and social media censorship.

Well, you know, Thomas Massey, Republican congressman, comes out and says, you guys are trying to censor this guy who's standing here trying to tell us a story about censorship and hearing about censorship that you guys say isn't happening.

So, gosh, I mean, it was a very heated on all sides kind of hearing. I don't know that it solved anything, but it exposed where some of the fault lines are for people when it comes to unpopular ideas. As we always say, the First Amendment isn't there to protect ideas that we all like and feel good about and agree on. It's a unique. American creation, and that we protect offensive speech so that everybody has the room to say what they want to say.

So, for President Trump, we know that he thinks he says he's got a target letter on Sunday. Who gets a target letter on Sunday?

So, I never heard of this. And now we wait to find out if he is, in fact, going to be indicted for a third time. But on this second indictment, there's the Mar-a-Lago documents, and there was a hearing in front of Aileen Cannon, a Trump-appointed judge. And it looks like Jack Smith wants an immediate trial. He said, let's just get this trial going by December.

And President Trump says, I'm running for president. Make it after 2024.

Now, a judge just ruled the trial will begin next May.

So in 2024, but here we'll find out right when the nomination is taking place, they'll be in the heat of the primaries, the first primary. You know, they'll be in the heat of this whole thing. And he's going to be on trial. They could land him in prison. Do you believe now, Andy McCarthy was doubtful that it'll get started in May?

What do you think? Yeah, I doubt that as well. You got to remember, of course, this is a federal trial. There will be tons of pretrial motion, strategizing, and all that kind of stuff. There are classified documents involved, so you have a lot to do before you get to trial with vetting those, how the jury is going to handle them, who can see what.

It's just unique in that way. But any federal trial could get done that quickly. I think the May thing is a target. I think that a lot of pretrial stuff will happen that will probably push that. I think it's much more likely it comes after the election.

But now when we wait, you know, for another batch potentially of federal indictments and charges on the January 6th stuff, you know, the former president's already facing a couple of state trials. Remember, I mean, he's got the Eugene Carroll thing, he's got the Alvin Bragg thing in Manhattan. That stuff is in the spring before you even get to the May federal trial.

So we wait on Georgia to find out if that special grand jury dumps something from there and if there's another round of federal charges as well.

So I mean, that would be overwhelming for any defendant, any legal team to try to prepare for all those things. But to do it in the middle of a presidential election is literally unheard of. And we'll never hear Ferman again, hopefully.

So with the Eugene Carroll thing, he doesn't want to pay his $5 million, but he's not looking at jail for that. And with the AG Letitia James saying unfair business practices, whatever she's claiming is pure politics, that's also civil. They're looking to destroy his business. We'll see how successful they are. I don't think he will be.

But to a degree, you never know. You saw those taxes. And then, you know, how complicated it can be, and how people can find things in anything except for Hunter Biden's taxes. He doesn't really pay them, but he's not that interested in doing it.

So let's not really look into it. And then you have Georgia go find me votes. And then you look at the January 6th that could be happening an indictment there. Where do you stand on January 6th? If that target letter came in, will we see an indictment next week?

I mean, it could come any day, literally. You know, Fridays in July in DC are good days for big things to drop. It could be this weekend. That's why we have a legal panel booked on Fox News Sunday, so I won't be the only attorney on the show. Because I have a feeling we're going to have some things to break down.

You know, remember they had given him, he says, the former president, according to the letter until yesterday to tell them whether he was going to testify for the grand jury or not. Most people felt like he's not going to do it. But that means that that was kind of the last puzzle piece. They're offering him a chance to come defend himself. And he says, thanks, but no thanks.

They may be ready to wrap up.

So, I mean, both of the last two indictments have come in sort of. surprisingly swift manner, um I would say stand by. But the thing is, Shannon, how can you get a fair trial i if you're Donald Trump in Washington? That's going to be very tricky. I mean, the voter makeup here is, you know, most years of presidential vote here is about 92, 93% Democrat and maybe 5% Republican and the rest, something else.

It is tricky, but I would think one of the pretrial motions, if he does get indicted on charges that it has to stand trial here in D.C., one of the things they're going to do is like they've tried to with the Manhattan case is try to move it. They'll try to change venue. And I think that's one of the arguments they'll make. Like, look at the results of the last two elections. This man is not beloved in D.C.

Like you are. Yeah. According to you. Right. Who's on Fox News Sunday?

So Vivek Ramaswamy is going to be with us in a brand new exclusive poll Sunday morning from South Carolina and from Iowa, two critical early states. People didn't know who he was, couldn't pronounce his name four or five months ago, and he's just leapfrogged right over big names in the GOP. Will he do it with these new test results, new poll results? We will see. Mplectam had some controversial things he's had to say about Ukraine and 14th Amendment and some other stuff.

We've got our legal panel. We have someone that that is the D side of the aisle that we can't announce just yet, but we will have balance on the show, should be able to put that out shortly. And our political panel, which has always fantastic. Yeah, I regret. I had him last week and I d I regret not asking about the Ukraine situation because his it's ridiculous, his idea.

They can keep 20% of Ukraine if you. Yeah, you can keep 20% of Ukraine if you promise to break up with China. That's just that just that's beneath him because he's so smart and he's been dynamic on the stump and he's a great store. Regardless, he has benefited the most. He can go anywhere at any time.

He even handles Shannon Bream in a bad mood on a Sunday. Not that you're ever in a bad mood, but if you are. I'm going to get fired up. I'm going to promise to do that. Maybe some pushbacks.

What are you watching first? What are you watching first before your show? I'm going to be watching Brian Kill Me on Saturday night, like I always do as my indispensable show prep. Thank you so much, Shannon Bream. See there.

All right, back in a moment. It's Brian Killmeade. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. Well, it's unfortunate.

It's definitely a hinge point, a turning point. You know, the future is different than it's ever been. is talking about streaming and residuals and then AI is a completely new frontier that I think everyone's trying to measure about what it really is.

So let's see. Everyone's on pause. It's going to hurt a lot of people, but hopefully it'll be a short term pain for long term improvement. That is Matthew McConaughey just talking about the strike. That not only the actor's strike, but that's still in existence.

The writer's strike has destroyed all. You know, I don't care. The late night shows. Nobody's working. But I care about the staffers.

I care about the cameramen and women. I care about the directors, the ones that, you know, not saying paycheck to paycheck, but you do count on an income. I care about. Are the movies And even though Matthew McConnell will will have has generational wealth, I imagine, almost everybody else in the industry doesn't. They live for the next job, the next movie, the next production.

But they're trying to rejigger the construction of it because Netflix, Hulu, everything's streaming, which means you have no back end and all these actors and others get money on the profits they make. When you have subscriptions, it's the number's the number.

So a lot of these contracts are no and void. See if they can work it out. Hopefully, they realize the pandemic, we got used to life without movie theaters, and so far the theaters have not come back. This could be their death knell. Like the big trolla when it comes to music.

Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

And they're going to have to admit that they went to Central District of California to request approval there.

So as U.S. Attorney Weiss's stories have changed in his ongoing letters, You know, he's going to say, well, I asked him to partner. But when the key point from DOJ is how you can trust the American people that trust this investigation, is that it's being run by a Trump-appointed US attorney. And you go to a President Biden-appointed US attorney once, not once, but twice. I mean, it's just on its face, it's just a clear misrepresentation.

Of the level of authority that he has.

So that was Gary Shapley on with Megan Kelly with Joseph Ziegler on the Megan Kelly podcast, fresh off their testimony the day before. I know Ziegler's going to be on special report tonight to move forward on the investigation, which was a sham. Kennedy, what do you think emerged from I thought was one of the most explosive, riveting conferences I've seen in quite some time with two very credible witnesses? They were credible, and I was surprised that. Democrats retreated to, you know, the Typical tribalism and entrenchment where it's just like, well, What you're saying hurts my guy.

Therefore, what you are saying is false. And you are politically motivated instead of just asking some questions because maybe we don't want a justice system where The IRS or the FBI could be weaponized against someone, or could be weaponized to shield someone to protect. their father politically.

So you have the investigation, which went for five years.

Sooner or later, David Weiss has got to go in front of this committee. And he's got to go say yes or no. Were you free to do whatever you wanted? And then if they're not going to be together, this is playback to sound bite. Is he lying?

Is he lying when you said you were in a meeting and you said that I don't have control here? Is he lying when they said that you tried to go to Los Angeles, you tried to go to DC and you rejected twice? Is he lying? Because he lied under oath. Maybe we should prosecute him then.

Unless, of course, you're lying under oath. Then what's then where are we going with this? Both people can't be telling the truth here. And, you know, and if you've got one person, Gary Shapley, saying that David Weiss sought special counsel status and he also wanted jurisdiction in California and D.C., but was denied that, why is he saying that? Does he have proof of that?

Does he have emails? He's already got whistleblower status.

So release those emails, release some proof so people can stop attacking him on that, saying that he's making it up. It doesn't seem he's got enough evidence right now that's pretty damning. It doesn't seem like he really needs to make something up in order to nail the coffin shot.

So, Kennedy, the other thing. Is that I don't think there's any way President Biden could actually get in front of an audience and say it's time for the rich to pay their fair share. They only pay 8%. You know, these numbers are adding up to something like $17 million. He said, Where's the money?

as he left the stage about a month ago, haphazardly. If that, if all of this money is, where is the money? That's a great question. Bottom line is, you pay no taxes on $17 million. Yeah, just because you pay for it from there.

Doesn't mean that there hasn't been any malfeasance. It just means that you've been doing this for so long. This is how the operation was set up to enrich yourselves. And it's very interesting because now there is so much of a spotlight on this family because Joe Biden is president. That they cannot engage in these schemes.

It was a lot easier when he was vice president because people weren't really paying attention. They were raising some red flags about Hunter, but you still had Uncle Jim and obviously other family members who, you know. didn't have a particular trade. They didn't have. A product.

They didn't have an area of expertise, none of that to sell. All they had was proximity to power. But that was very, very lucrative, but that the spigot seems to be shut off because there is so much focus on the president. With the news cycle, it's easy to get caught up in this. But remember, it was a few weeks ago when they said we need to see this ten twenty-three.

You had this credible witness come forward and talk about Hunter Biden's illegal business dealings with Ukraine specifically and under oath tell the FBI we'd like to see it. And the FBI says, We don't have it. I don't know what you're talking about. Then finally, we have it. You can't see it.

They go, It's not classified. Let me see it.

Well, we're going to have to redact it. It's going to take some time. Finally, they get it. And Grassley released it yesterday. And it came out, and this credible human source, credible because he's worked with him before, basically says that Hunter Biden was hired to protect them against a would-be prosecution that would stop Burisma from going public and other things.

And it was even brought up in the dialogue that you could pay $50,000 and get a good lawyer to defend yourself. And he says, no, I have to give $5 million to Joe and $5 million to Hunter, known as the big guy, Joe.

So they both get $5 million, and this prosecutor gets fired. The prosecutor gets fired, and they say, well, when you say Joe Biden was there on camera bragging that he fired this guy, he said, well, because he was corrupt and everybody wanted to get rid of him. And that's the story they're going with.

So here we go. The question is, does the confidential human source need to come out for this story to move? I mean, at this point, even if that confidential source came out, Democrats would still find a way to vilify this person. But it feels like if you're looking at the evidence, the walls are closing in. At some point you you Can't just keep denying.

You have to acknowledge what is happening and what has happened. And you also have to look at the threshold you created for impeachment. And if not impeachment, then punishment. And if you are creating the rules, you have to play by them. I would think so.

An impeachment was so tedious to go through that again. I don't think anyone wants to go through that again, but also, I hope people are paying attention so we don't keep electing politicians like this. And sometimes, experience and being so entrenched in Washington for decades and decades and decades is actually. An incubator for corruption and corrupt activities. It is not a net positive just because you've been there so long, you've figured out every way to game the system because you are creating the loopholes that you and your family jump through.

And just so you know, for people out there, this is what this confidential human source says. The FBI began receiving information on the Biden and Burisma back in 2017. The FBI long knew that Joe's association called associates called him the big guy. The FBI received a lead involving cryptocurrency. That struck me.

I said, wait, what were you saying? Cryptocurrency? What does that have to do? Is that how they were going to get paid? I mean, back then, yes, it was not traceable.

Um it was gaining in value and you know for A lot of people who don't want to trade in fiat currency, who want to be paid in something that cannot be tracked and taxed, yeah, crypto is a very attractive. The CFO bragged he had covered his tracks on the Biden payments. Maybe that's how. And the Confidential Human Source believed the payments made to the Bidens were illicit in nature.

So he knew what he was up to. He knew what he was paying off. And this is what turns off so many Republicans who say, Ukraine war, really? The people that impeach my guy for many people, Trump, they got in so much trouble, they weren't candid enough to admit they were corrupt enough to have all these backdoor ways of payments. Rudy Giuliani pursues it on the behest of Donald Trump.

It ends up resulting in his first impeachment. They don't fundamentally want to support a country like this, even though they can't see past it, in my view, to see why I think it's necessary to do everything for Ukraine to be successful. But when people see Ukraine, their eyes roll in their heads. And now they're seeing again more of what happened in the past in 2017 and 2018. And at the base of this is the Exchange among Obama officials saying how bad it looks that the guy holding the portfolio for Ukraine has a son on barisma with no qualifications.

But Bo just died, we don't want to be a burden to him. He's mourning. Leave him there. Little did we know how he was handling his grieving. I think that unfortunately, and this may sound very cynical, he has used family tragedy to his benefit in the past.

How many times are you going to hear that speech? And by the way, The trucker that It was noon and it was a tr a car accident. The trucker hit him. He goes, he decided to drink his lunch. You ever hear this?

He tells the story as if he goes, he tried to have a liquid, he decided to have a liquid lunch. The guy's family say, enough. He didn't have a liquid lunch. He wasn't drinking. It was a tragic accident that killed his first wife and child.

But you can't accuse someone of drunk driving when it didn't happen. How much does this guy make up in his life?

Well, and. He's he's operating now as though the media landscape is the same as it was in nineteen seventy six. And it's not. It's it's a vastly different time. And we can find information.

You know, it's like we have this thing called the internet where every document that was ever created is stored. And you can go back and you can find primary sources. You can find human sources. You can find records. You can find all sorts of information.

So saying things and denying them Used to equate to reality in the 70s. That's not the case anymore, but that's still how they're playing. And because of the internet, Uh your denials that you were on MTV have fallen f flat. I appreciate that.

Well, I went on I went on the internet. Malleable Tokyo. Burgent. Exactly. And I looked that up using the the regular term, that term, not MTV, the abbreviation.

And I found tapes of people that look exactly like you.

Well, that's that's a coincidence, and they're probably deep fakes. More on that in a moment. The fastest growing talk show in America, you're with Brian Kilmead. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show.

Me to the moon and let me play. They among the stars. That is Tony Bennett, and Tony Bennett sadly has been suffering from Alzheimer's since 2016 and passed away today. This is one of these guys who every performance was as if it's his first performance, just loved it his entire life. I just know that I haven't heard anything negative about a previous generation, just worshiped him.

He had so many great crooners: Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, mutual respect. Um it's a sad day, but When someone has Alzheimer's, I almost feel relieved for them. Because also for the family, because you see a person there that's not there anymore. You know, what's heartbreaking for me is, I mean, not only losing someone like that, who is an absolute icon and legend. I met him a couple of times and he was absolutely lovely to every person he spoke to.

Didn't matter if it was a PA or an assistant or a security guard. He was so kind and decent and would draw portraits of people, and he was absolutely lovely. The thing that makes me so sad is I feel like we're so close to a few different Alzheimer's breakthroughs. And, you know, some of these cognitive decline conditions like dementia, and you could even throw Parkinson's in there. We're so close.

And it's heartbreaking for a family to lose someone knowing that we were on the precipice of maybe not a cure, but for treatments. that could help people stave off the effects of the disease for years. And even if they just stabilize for a while, not being robbed of so much so cruelly as Alzheimer's does. That's why the biotech industry, as it was explained to me, Is so great in that it's got the mix of saving lives, revolutionary health care, and entrepreneurship.

So, you see the breakthrough. You provide the financing. You let the scientists get the support. You save people's lives, whether it's the next innovation when it comes to heart, circulation, major diseases, whatever it is, polio on down. And then you bring it to market.

And those people become extremely wealthy. To me, there's an incentive there to have this breakthrough. That's what I don't want to lose in this country. Yes. And the more socialized medicine you have, there is a direct cost in innovation.

You pay with innovation. And that is the last place that we should be trimming anything or sacrificing anything because it really is the innovation, the thinkers, the non-traditional researchers who find different ways of solving problems. But you can't do that in a top-down economic and political environment.

So it brings me to the movie I saw, Oppenheimer. Oh, how was it? It was awesome. Yeah. But.

What they use as a model. Is still used today as a model, the Manhattan Project. Yes. So we need an answer to something. We needed a Manhattan Project type approach where they literally built a town, built a village, brought their families, all the scientists came together and they raced for one objective, beat Hitler to the bomb.

And they did. Because they had this collective mindset and this big push. And everyone to this day, every time you want something done, the Manhattan Project.

So I'm just wondering, because we hear that with cancer, a couple of years ago, they're like, we are so close to curing cancer. you know, and we do better all the time, but we never quite get there. Yes. We never quite get there without somebody. I mean, one day, wouldn't it be great?

They're talking about a preventative shot and things to that nature. But the other thing is, When Ronald Reagan had it, you almost have a separation because your body almost betrays you. He was so healthy, except for his mind, his body wouldn't portray him. His body kept him for 15 years past to probably where we know who he was. And that's what a couple years ago, Tony Bennett's doctor said.

Acknowledging that he had Alzheimer's, but the fact that he was constantly moving, constantly singing and making music and constantly painting and using different parts of his brain and body to keep functioning, and 96 is a pretty phenomenal age. Did you ever the other thing on a side note?

So many people paint. I'm listening to Howard Stern talk about painting. George W. Bush paints. Are you ever going to paint?

No, I'm actually not a good painter. My mom is an artist. My mom is a fine artist, and she's an abstract painter. And I grew up with that. I don't have a brain for painting and drawing.

I do calligraphy. Really, what's that? It's like, you know, beautiful writing. It's like when when. You see something and the letters are big and beautiful and Celtic.

Will you do that to spell something out? I usually already have the spelling for the word that I'm writing in calligraphy. That helps a lot. Like good spelling helps in calligraphy. No vowels.

It's really hard to cross something out and try and pass it off as a piece of work.

So will you do this like commercially? No, I did in high school. I did sell some of my calligraphy in high school. And I have addressed a lot of people's wedding invitations. Wow.

And what is in, because not being an artist, what's enjoyable about that? It's very soothing. It takes a long time. And, you know, you just have to be very, very precise, and you have to be patient. And it's more precision than flourish.

I wish I had one of those qualities. You have so many. You're probably painting. You're always kicking a soccer ball. Do I have any of those qualities?

Very surprising. Right. Do I have any of those patient and precise? No. Have you got patient?

You're a patient person, obviously. I mean, there has to be precision in what you do.

Someone the other day was like, I think I'm the hardest working person in the building. And someone else said, Kill me by far. And they're like, oh, yeah, I forgot. With no precision. He's so imprecise.

He can do anything. Right. I do show up on time. That's it. But listen, we just found out something about you.

Calligraphy. Right. I will address anyone's wedding invitations. You just hit me up. For the right price.

A lot of money. A lot of money. Kenny, how do we get your podcast? Spotify, Apple, FoxNewsPodcast.com. What do you call it?

Kennedy Saves the World. And okay, don't forget to watch One Nation Saturday Day. I'm going to. Listen to the show ad-free on Fox News Podcast Plus, on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music with your Prime membership, or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Mm-hmm.