Biden "eager" to visit Hawaii amid wildfires, doesn't want to "disrupt" recovery efforts

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Now, I want to go turn straight away to something that has been on a lot of our hearts and minds here in the last couple of days, and that is those rapidly moving and very deadly wildfires in Maui, Hawaii. And Fox and Friends weekend co-host Will Kane is joining us. And Will is in Maui. And in most circumstances, Will, when you get the Hawaii assignment, that's a pretty plum assignment. This time, though, it has got to be difficult to deal with, I would imagine.

Will Kane, welcome to the Brian Kilmead Show. Thank you so much. Yeah. It is a paradise, so normally you would be very, very excited to be headed to Hawaii. In fact, I've been heading to Hawaii my entire life, Joe, every summer.

Spend my summers here since I was a child here in West Maui. And I gotta tell you, my heart is just full of love for it because It's paradise. But on the other hand, as you say, today, a little bit of a lost paradise. It is uh it's sad to see the town of Lahaina, which is the heart of West Maui. be completely and utterly destroyed.

You know, I I would love for your listeners to kind of picture in their mind if they would like To Spheres. Connected by a small strip of land in between. And that would be sort of what you'd look at, what you'd envision with West Maui's geography. There's West Maui, which is The upper north western sphere and the lower larger round sphere would be the rest of Maui. West Maui is cut off.

There's one lane in, one road in, and it circumvents the top, and it's cut off physically, and it's cut off informationally. You can't get much information. For most of the time that we've been here, we're the only media, national media presence in West Maui. Most of the images you see are either. Drone footage, stock footage.

of some few individuals who got in and fed it out, or they're broadcasting from the other side of Maui.

So, we've had a really special opportunity here to be in West Maui. We've seen Lahaina. The town that's been lost by sea. We were on a boat yesterday, got an up close look at Front Street, historic downtown, by car, drove in and saw parts of Lahaina, and we uh had a small plane as well fly us over Lahaina. And it's uh it's super sad on a personal level for me, but also I've seen the response.

It's sad for America. And Will, as you are there on the island right now and you're describing the two different spheres there, and you're really the only major media presence that is there, is the lack of media posing a problem in addition to the lack of responders, in addition to the lack of fresh water, of fresh food and more? I mean, is that posing a problem, not getting live reports out of Maui?

So yes, let me address resources. They got The power back on, it took about four or five days, and the power has been back on. for two days in West Maui. Sales service information, very hard to come by. It's very hard to get internet.

You and I are talking by sales. You can get sales services, and quite honestly, it's 3 o'clock in the morning. Here in Maui.

So there's less competition for bandwidth right now. Every broadcast I've had for Fox is through Starlink. in West Maui, another great invention by Elon Musk.

So they did a great job, honestly, of getting people water and sewage, their parts. But most of the parts where you can't get water is where people have already had their homes destroyed.

So there's been a few successes, but there's been much, much more in terms of failure. Leadership is a complete failure because the most vital resource that is missing is information. It's chaos in that turn in that realm. People don't know. They don't know, hey, is our water good?

Is our water bad? They don't know, how do I get in? How do I get out? There are rumors and conspiracies everywhere about what happened, how many people are missing, what caused the fire. And it's an informational black hole.

We were here, and I'd say it was yesterday. The days will run together for me both because of the time change and the lack of sleep. But it was yesterday we were broadcasting from a relief center. And a representative from the mayor's office, mayor of Maui, came over and said, You have to go. You have to go.

This is a West Maui is a media-free zone. What are you talking about? This is still the United States of America. By the way, I was 12 miles. I was 12 miles from Lahaina at that point.

I was 12 miles from the downtown. No good argument about disturbing any of the relief or recovery efforts. No good argument for that.

So, the only argument that really matters is the Constitution of the United States. And that attempt to suppress information, what happens when you do that is the gap is filled by misinformation, real stuff like rumor and conspiracy.

So, and then there's the national leadership, which I think, Joe, is pretty appalling. I think no comment. will not suffice. You know, the people behind him from Joe Biden. And then now there's reports of $700 per household.

For Lahaina. I don't know how many households. There were 13,000 residents of Lahaina. I don't know. What is that?

It's just probably multi-generational homes, so we could say five if we said five people per home, what is that? $700 for $2.5. Yet it's doing my math really quickly. That's like 4,000 households. $3,500.

$700 per household. Whatever it is, Joe, here, let's make the math easy. It's a fraction of what we send to Ukraine. And this is the United States of America. Yeah, we're we're s where we're I in fact, I just read this math, uh that we're sending roughly twenty five hundred dollars per Ukrainian.

Uh meanwhile, we're sending seven hundred and fifty per family in Maui. And when will that money get there, and what will be available to purchase with $700?

Well, that's a big well, nothing will be able to be purchased for $700. But what is purchased, how this is done next, is actually a really big conversation and one that people talk about. What was, you know, one of the reasons people have responded, I'm gonna say a couple of things, first of all. I've had my heart touched in a very profound way in that the Fox viewers and Fox family have responded. Having such deep connections here, friends and family of mine have put together a GoFundMe.

It's GoFundMe to help the people of Maui. You can find it at helpmauinow.com as well. And they have raised for us the viewers of Fox over $1.3 million that I will help oversee guarantees goes to people who lived in Lahaina. But let me just I want to put this into context. People have given because many people have come here.

They've they've honeymooned here. They've vacationed here. And it's so special and it it retains this place of beautiful memory in each and every one of their lives. But a lot of the tourist stuff has survived. We lost Front Street.

We lost historic Front Street. We lost history that goes back 200 years. missions, churches, of course, bars and restaurants. Buildings dating back to the 1800s. The banyan tree they're trying to save, it's the largest banyan tree in America, commemorates the Christian missionaries.

who came to this island. That's been lost. But what also has like what's really been lost are those lives and the homes of local people. Local people lived in Lahaina, not tourists, not hotels. They supported this entire side of the island.

Hawaiians. And what is Hawaii without Hawaii? And there's a lot of concern about what happens next. Is it sold to developers? Does the government try to buy the land?

You can't have this turn into Disneyland. You know, it's still going to be beautiful.

So they're going to build something. But it can't just be Disneyland. It has to be Hawaii. And that means it has to be a place where Hawaiians can still come and rebuild their lives in their homes. We are talking to Will Kane.

He's the Fox and Friends Weekend co-host. He is reporting from Maui, where it is three o'clock in the morning. We've heard reports, Will, of looting and especially in the overnight hours. Have you seen or heard of any kind of problems with regards to looting? Mostly fake news.

I can't say it hasn't happened because I can't be everywhere all at once. But I will tell you this: like you said, it's three o'clock in the morning and I've been all over West Maui at every hour of the night. I broadcast on Fox and Friends from midnight to three. I've been doing hits after that on America's Newsroom and others until about four or five in the morning every morning. And we are up and down this entire coastline.

And I've never seen any of these bandits or looting or robberies that people are talking about. I haven't seen any of that. Again, I can't say it's never happened, but I have never seen hint or anyone tell me about it happening either. I did see the police chief of Maui say most of that is fake news.

Well, I'm reminded of Puerto Rico, you know, an island, an island closer here to Florida. And after Hurricane Maria hit, there were a lot of logistical problems just getting to the island and getting ships to the island of Puerto Rico. Are there similar logistics issues when it comes to the island of Maui? Maui. Absolutely.

I'm glad you asked me that. You know, I saw a guy post this on Instagram, local guy, talking about it was it's been a while, but there's a huge hurricane that hit Kauai, another island in the Hawaiian Island chains. And the response from the federal government and everybody and how they got there so quickly is in stark contrast to what you've seen here in Maui.

Now part of that is logistics. It is hard to get here because again, it's really one road.

So that is a difficulty. But I don't think it fully forgives the response from government. I don't think it does, because let me tell you what I've seen since I've been here. I've seen civilians, I've seen community. be the major response.

I met two 29-year-old women. who have five kids between them. One of them has a seven-month-old, and they have a civilian airlift going from the other side of the island to this side of the island bringing supplies. I know they're running boats from Molokai, a really remote rural island. They're bringing boats over to bring gasoline and supplies.

to civilian boat ramps. I have a friend who owns a boat. He was making runs to the other side of the island to Pick up supplies to bring back to the people. And so it's logistically hard. That doesn't forgive the federal government and the government response.

But it should fill your heart with inspiration the way that Americans and community have responded. And Will, to further make a comparison to Puerto Rico, after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, a lot of tourists said, okay, we're not going to go to Puerto Rico now because of all the damage. Then Puerto Rican tourist officials said, no, no, no, please continue to come to Puerto Rico because people depend on that money coming to Puerto Rico. And some of the businesses were open. I read that Paris Hilton is vacationing in Maui right now, and she has been raked across the coals.

You know what? That's a terrible analogy, and I'm sorry for making it. But she has been blasted on social media for vacationing in Maui. What is the sense there? Is it appropriate or not for people to continue their vacation plans there?

I guess I'm a little unb I hadn't seen that about Paris Hilton, so I don't know where she would be. She must be on the other side of the island. There's a lot of other tourist places you can be than where I am. I'll say there's no there's no tourists here in West Mountain. There's a lot of oper you know, hotels and resorts.

I mean, I gotta tell you, my crew and I, I took a run on the beach, and I mean, there's nobody on the beach. It's empty in West Maui. But the rest of Maui is open for business, and it should be. I can't speak to Paris Hilton, but This economy is mainly tourism. Long gone is pineapple plantations.

Long gone is sugarcane harvesting. The main economy is tourism. And if the rest of Maui can support, and I think that they can, I was on the other side. tourists, they still need that money coming in. And I don't and that's why I gave such emphasis to describing the geography to you, West Maui versus the other side of Maui.

It's West Maui where the problem is, and I can tell you there are there are not tourists up here. And for the other side, they still need their economy. All right, Will Kanan, and it's helpmaui now.com. Is that right? That's right.

Thank you. HelpMauiNow.com. Will Kane, Fox and Friends Weekend co-host, and they're on the island of Maui for us with a live first-hand report. Will, continue to stay safe, get some rest. I know it is very late.

You've got a long day again ahead of you, but thank you so much for getting the update here for Brian Kilmead's listeners. I know that they really appreciate that. Glad to be here. Thanks for having me. You got it.

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And I got to tell you, when I, earlier this week, on Monday, when I first saw that Oprah Winfrey showed up at what is called the War Memorial Gymnasium there on the island of Maui, and I saw video of Oprah Winfrey, billionaire Oprah Winfrey, handing out supplies and pillows to those fire refugees. I mean, they're seeking refuge from the fire. And I thought, wow, you know, I know that Oprah owns a lot of land on Maui. I've read both she owns 1,000 acres and I've read that she owns 2,000 acres.

So she owns somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 acres. Acres on Maui. That can't be cheap in and of itself. But I saw her handing out these supplies and I thought, you know what? That is kind of cool.

Look, my job is to call balls and strikes, right? I don't think, I think that even bad people can do good things and even good people can do bad things. And I call balls and strikes as I see them. Generally, I'm not a big fan of Oprah Winfrey. I'm not a fan of her politics.

But I saw her there in the gymnasium handing out pillows, handing out supplies. And I thought to myself, you know what? At least she didn't bring a camera crew. Good for her. I mean, clearly the video that we were watching was taken on cell phones.

And when it was kind of a wide shot, there was no camera crew there. And so I gave props to Oprah Winfrey.

Well, one day later, I found out the real truth about Oprah Winfrey. And I wasn't remotely surprised by it, but evidently, Oprah did, in fact, show up with the camera crew from CBS News, and they wouldn't let her in with the camera. Crew. And they finally let her in once she agreed to park her camera crew outside. They were not allowed to come inside the auditorium or the gymnasium there for the privacy of the refugees.

And so I walk back everything kind that I said about Oprah Winfrey. To bring a camera crew while you do good things is not. About doing good things, bringing a camera crew while you do good things is all about Oprah Winfrey. It's all about her brand, and she should be ashamed of herself. It's one thing to give out of the kindness of your own heart.

It's another to give out of the desire to promote your brand. And it is disgusting and obnoxious. It is obscene. It's horrible to do that to the citizens and residents there of Maui, to come there for your own self-aggrandizement, to try to make yourself look better in front of people who have lost everything. And I just think that is absolutely deplorable.

And so I had to walk back every kind thing. Again, I call balls and strikes. And in that case, my initial analysis was wrong simply because I didn't have all the information. I do now. And I am disgusted by Oprah Winfrey.

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Joining us now on the Brian Kilmead Show, Fox News correspondent Nate Foy. And Nate has information for us today about a case in New Jersey dealing with parental notification, something, Nate, that we're very familiar with here in Florida, in the Florida Freedom Zone when it comes to parental rights and education. But New Jersey is having the same issue, but in reverse. Nate, can you bring us up to speed as to the case there? Yeah, of course, Joe.

Thank you for having me.

So, pretty much what's happening right now is the state is suing three school districts who implemented new policies that require teachers to communicate with parents if a child changes gender identities. Right now, the state. Does not require it, and essentially it has to be done voluntarily for the child. The state's argument would be that some parents aren't ready to hear that news and wouldn't be able to provide a supportive environment for that child. And the parents who elected school board members to represent their values feel very, very differently.

And their stance is: how can I help my child if I don't know what's going on?

So I'm a little slow on the uptake here, and I just want to make sure I understand this properly, Nate.

So you're saying that in the state of New Jersey, schools are or are not required to tell parents when their children, when students, want to identify as trans? They are not required, and this impacts kids as young as five years old. These policies impact kindergartners.

Now, the state put out, the attorney general's office here in New Jersey, or in New Jersey, put out a statement. Last night or yesterday, clarifying that they're not seeking to ban parental notification, but what they won't do is require it. And these school districts are essentially stepping forward and saying, hold on a second, this is my child. The government is not parenting my kid, and I have every right to know if this is happening. And it's also important to point out that in these three districts, this would only happen these policies would only be triggered if the kid were to request a public accommodation at the school.

So that would mean wanting to play on you know, if you're a biological boy, identifying as a girl, playing on a girls' sports team or using the girls' locker room, those sort of things, officially changing your student records to reflect your new gender identity and your name. Only at that point Would these policies be triggered in these three districts? And the state isn't okay with that.

So um more than that, you know, I mentioned that the state argues that some parents wouldn't be ready to provide a supportive environment, but um You know, I read over the policies. I I've been speaking with the Middletown school board president, and the policy specifically requires each district to assess the The situation of the individual child in regards to any documented abuse or any safety concerns before they would theoretically bring the parents in. The conversation would start privately with the child at school, then it would involve the parents. And the state argues that schools facilitating These transgender kids coming out to their parents, you know, the school facilitating that conversation would cause the words that. that the uh state used in court yesterday were irreversible harm to the children if these policies are to be implemented.

You mentioned the president of the Middletown, New Jersey School Board. His name is Frank Capone. Let's take a listen here as he was on the story. This is Frank Capone Cut twenty six. Absolutely.

This is the hill we all die on, I think, because our parental rights are under attack not only in New Jersey, but across the whole entire country. And we're not going to allow this narrative and agenda and ideology to be portrayed on our children because of Governor Murphy and Matt Placken's thoughts about what this policy they think is taking place, which is totally false. We're talking to Nate Foy, who is a Fox News correspondent, and we just heard there from Frank Capone, the president of the Middletown, New Jersey School Board. And regrettably, Nate, a lot of times conservatives will be painted as just being flat-out anti-trans. And I'm sure that there are some conservatives who are flat-out anti-trans.

But for the rest of us, it's not about whether or not a grown adult identifies as a man or a woman. It's about whether or not parents have the right to know what their children are doing in their schools, particularly something as big as changing one's gender identity. This is not like changing from writing with pencil to pen or from. From print to cursive, this is something so much more important. Yeah, and and you know, it can cause irreversible damage to these kids who are who are going through this process if if drugs get involved.

But um you know, I I was talking to parents, they were saying that w we get a phone call if our child has a stomachache at school.

So why would we not get a phone call if our child is is changing gender identities? The interesting thing um about this this argument uh between the two sides is that both sides genuinely believe that they're protecting the trans students and You know, to your point, I th I I I I think that The accusation uh against the parents is that you're you're endangering transgender kids and. The argument from the school boards, and speaking to Mr. Capone and the parents involved here, we had over a hundred parents come out to support the school boards at yesterday's hearing. They believe this is the best way forward to protect transgender students.

And that obviously it's a very difficult, emotional thing to go through. And parents want to help. Their child if they're going through that.

So both sides are really. They believe that they are protecting uh these transgender kids. I do want to elaborate uh on something that Capone just said he was frustrated. He told me yesterday, he's frustrated after the hearing that it feels as though the state doesn't even understand the policies that his district is trying to implement, or possibly they haven't even read the policy because the Attorney General's office put out a statement after the hearing yesterday. I talked about this on television.

This is the direct quote from that statement. From the state. These new policies mandate disclosure based on certain protected characteristics without even assessing the individual needs or concerns of the child.

Now, this was a point of contention also in the hearing yesterday. And Mr. Capone told me that he's frustrated because his policy explicitly states that the school needs to assess the individual circumstance of the child. And that's a relatively big part of the state's argument for why these policies shouldn't be implemented. He told me yesterday it feels as though the the state hasn't even read Policy.

Nate, I got to tell you, if, if, if, you know, I've got school-age kids, if my kids' school called me up and said, hey, well, we've got an important meeting we want to have with you and your son, we need you to come down to the school. And if I was suddenly, and I'd feel like I was being ambushed, you know, because it would be my own child and his or her teachers or administrators or whomever. And if they said, hey, your son or daughter wants to change gender identities, I mean, I would be apoplectic that the school is facilitating this. Yet I can understand, I can understand from some trans activists how they would think that some parents would handle it poorly. I think a lot of us would handle it poorly by.

Simply because we wouldn't know how to react. You know, it would be, that would be, I would be so gobsmacked, so stunned that I just wouldn't know how to react. And I would have to walk out and take time to soak it in, pray about it, think about it, and figure out how to react moving forward from there. Yeah. And these policies, to be clear, wouldn't be triggered if the kid was.

having thoughts and and even expressing those thoughts even experimenting with you know, a name in class asking a teacher to Yeah. Call You know, Michaela Mike, or something like that. It only would be triggered when the child made. A public accommodation request.

So Theoretically, it's difficult to imagine a circumstance where a child would get to that point and the parent. Really wouldn't know what was going on. If the parent had no clue. And the child was at a point of making a public request, then there's probably some issues there in the relationship. uh al already but um Either way.

Parents are concerned that This could escalate quickly, that their child could make a pretty abrupt decision without any advance warning or. or signs that they could have picked up on and They just want to ensure sort of as a backstop that the teachers are actually on their side and that if a child is going through this difficult process, that everyone's working together and one parent yesterday told me it feels like schools are are keeping Their kids' deepest, darkest secrets. Right. And that doesn't feel right to them. You know, we've seen recent studies indicate that the number of students who identify as trans has absolutely skyrocketed in the last five years or so, which speaks to it being a social contagion that some kids, and I think a lot of kids probably go through periods of their life where they're confused about sex and confused about sexual identity.

And I mean, that part in and of itself, I think, makes sense. But as more and more people come out as trans, is there any discussion about it being a social contagion and not real feelings that these kids have?

Well, that's certainly a concern from parents, not only here in New Jersey in these three districts, but across the entire country, that every kid goes through a difficult time as you're learning who you are and your body's changing. And with the amount of. of children who are now identifying as transgender. you know, th there's an argument that Theoretically, it could provide a sense of belonging. You know, if you come out as transgender, there's a community that is ready.

to welcome you. And for a lost child, that could be attractive.

So that's why many parents want to make sure that no irreversible changes are made and that they can work through this challenge and whether or not the child eventually wants to go through with it, that's something that they want to Work out with the child rather than being left out of the process. But this policy is just sort of part of what's happening here in the state of New Jersey in regards to gender identity. Just two weeks ago, a vote was passed for a new regulation in New Jersey where children will be divided. For their sex education courses by their gender identity rather than their biological sex.

So that means that a a biological boy who identifies as a girl Could take Girl sex ed courses. And, you know, I spoke this morning. We just played it on Fox News channel, and it will be playing throughout the day. of you know I I spoke this morning with the Vice President of the New Jersey Board of Education and He was saying that It's already a an extremely delicate and sensitive subject. For just, you know, put yourself in the position of a girl learning in a sex ed class.

It's it's an awkward subject for them to learn about. the idea that biological boys uh could be in that class with them learning about You know. sex from the female perspective is is is something that a lot of parents that I spoke with Throughout yesterday's hearing, also, even though it's not the specific concern that brought everyone to court yesterday, it's another. Similar adjacent topic. That parents are really upset about.

Nate, you know how the brain works. We remember the extraordinary, but our brain tends to forget the ordinary. And you mentioned sex ed in school. I mean, I still remember the awkwardness of sex ed when I was in school. And that was back when we really only had two genders popularly.

And it was all boys in my class. And I still remember the awkwardness of the sex ed class. I can only imagine how awkward it gets when you start bringing in other people who identify as other genders. Last question for you, Nate Foy, Fox News correspondent. What is the next step here?

What are we waiting for when it comes to this New Jersey judge and making a decision on this?

So the judge yesterday, the Superior Court Judge David Bauman said a decision would be coming shortly. That was the word that he used on an injunction being sought by the state to block these policies from taking effect.

So, you know, the judge did not exactly explain what he meant by shortly. Sure. I was told by some lawyers involved in the case, and Mr. Mr. Capone, the Middletown School Board President, that they're expecting a decision to be made by the end of the week.

It could happen any second.

So all day I'm checking to see if a ruling has come down.

So parents are anxiously awaiting that ruling with. Rather immediate impacts on the horizon because school starts here in New Jersey in three weeks. And for these three districts, whether or not they can implement their policy for parental gender notification policies, they will be obviously heavily impacted by what happens. And I get the sense that if the districts don't get their way with this ruling, that they will continue fighting it through other avenues. They would not actually, you know.

Lay out to me what their plans are, but they indicated that they would continue fighting for parental rights.

So we'll see what comes down with this ruling. And once it happens, it will be live on the channel. And then I'll be talking to all the parents and school board presidents that I can and reaching out to the state as well and getting their updated reaction to the judge's ruling whenever it comes down. Nate Foy, Fox News correspondent, great reporting, Nate. I know you'll continue to follow the story and bring the latest to Brian Kilmead's listeners here on the Brian Kilmead Show.

Nate, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks, Joe. Thanks for having me. You bet. And as a point of comparison, I thought it was interesting that he says that school starts in three weeks in New Jersey, here in central Florida, at least.

We are into our second week of school already. We've had temperatures near or at 100. That massive heat wave that has been affecting so much of the United States has been affecting us here in Central Florida and particularly southern Florida as well. It has been blistering hot as these kids go back. Back to school here in Central Florida.

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You heard that right here on the Brian Kilmead show. There are Native Americans who want the Redskins back as the name of the Washington football team rather than the Washington Commanders. You've heard of MAGA, of course. We'll now meet NAGA, the Native American Guardians Association. NAGA.

Boy, I don't like saying that on the radio. They're a North Dakota-based nonprofit organization. They started a change.org org petition meant to bring back the iconic Washington Redskins name, and it is surpassed now. 100,000 signatures. It was created on June 21st.

And NAGA wants to return what they say, the team, its loyal fan base, and the legacy it represents. They say that the Redskins carries a deep cultural, historical, and emotional significance, honoring the bravery, resilience, and warrior spirit associated with the Native American culture.

Well, where exactly was NAGA? Oh, I don't like saying that. Where were they when the commanders, when the Redskins were getting so much grief to change it away from the Redskins? One wonders. I'm Joe Kelly.

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Very excited to have joining us now Fox News legal and political analyst Greg Jarrett is joining us. And, Greg, a lot of people have been asking me questions about the latest of the Trump indictment, and to which I always respond to people: look, I'm not a lawyer, but there are people who are much more well-versed at this material than I am. And, Greg, you are definitely one of those people. Give us a The latest on the Fulton County indictments against Donald Trump, and we'll kind of expand from there.

Well, Joe. Good to be with you. You know, this is less of a legitimate. Legal indictment and more of a political denunciation of Donald Trump. I mean, the DA claims in this indictment that.

You know, every Trump social media post, public comment, speech, message, telephone call. We're all part of this grand criminal conspiracy. heresy. For example, Fonnie Willis insists that when Trump urged his supporters to watch a hearing on T V or sign petitions or Verify signatures or solicit phone numbers, he was committing, and this is a quote. Overt Acts in furtherance of a conspiracy.

He's got more than a hundred of these overt conspiracy acts. The absurdity of that, Joe, should be self evident to any honest person. But she also claims that everything Trump said was false.

Well, even if you accept that, So what? I mean the U.S. Supreme Court has said that false claims or protected lawful speech under the First Amendment. You know, this is, I think, a partisan DA Determined to ignore the high court and criminalize speech, and in the process. You know, she's making it a crime to challenge election results.

That's not criminal. The law allows it. This is a dangerous weaponization of the legal system against. political opponents and a full frontal assault on the rule of law. And yet, it is going to suck up a lot of the atmosphere, a lot of the oxygen, and certainly a lot of the dollars of Donald Trump's reelection campaign.

Yeah, that's what they want. I mean, you know, I think that they realize that if they gain a conviction in Fulton County, Um and you know. which is dominated by Democrats who hate Trump. They know it's not going to stand up on appeal. But they don't care.

What they want is an immediate goal of sidelining Donald Trump. As he runs for the Republican nomination, and he's clearly the frontrunner by far.

So this is an effort to interfere in the upcoming presidential election, and they don't care if they're reversed on appeal, they just Want the trial, they want the conviction, and they hope that it stops Donald Trump. their attitude is, we can't win with Joe Biden honestly, so we're going to try to defeat his opponent by hook or by crook. And it seems as if, Greg, that with each new indictment that comes out, the the Democrats get the reverse effect that they seemingly are aiming for, and that is to tear down Donald Trump, but he seems to be bolstered by each new indictment. Yeah, I mean, Americans are pretty smart. You know, they see this for what it is.

This is not an effort to prosecute. Serious crimes, but rather to stop Trump, to take the choice away from voters across America. And they, you know, look, they watched as Hillary Clinton clearly violated the law in her email scandal and obstructed justice. They saw you know, her inventory. and finance the Russia collusion hoax.

They watch as James Comey and others at the FBI lied to the FISA court, lied to Congress, lied to the American public about it all, and got away with it. Um and they're pretty fed up with this sort of thing. And you know, they look at that absurd New York indictment by Alvin Bragg, in which he can't even State in the criminal codes the crime that Trump allegedly committed because he didn't commit any. And, you know, the The Mar-a-Lago raid, and that's governed by a civil statute. It's not a criminal statute.

So they see all of this happening and frankly, they're angry about it, and it has only increased and solidified the support for Donald Trump. It is, do you find from conservatives, from Donald Trump supporters, or at least people who voted for Donald Trump, sometimes those aren't the same people, but for people who voted for Donald Trump, is it more about outrage that Donald Trump has been charged with all of these issues that are arguably not criminal? Or is it about having that two-tiered justice system, as you just described, that Hillary Clinton gets a pass, so many other people get a pass, seemingly on the left, while Donald Trump is having everything thrown at him? I heard somebody refer to it as like a Jackson Pollock painting. They're just throwing everything at the canvas to see what sticks.

Yeah, I mean I you know I think they're increasingly seeing Donald Trump, not as a villain, but as a victim. And people who might not have been inclined to support him have now become so incensed at what they see. That they've decided, you know, I don't care. The Biden administration, Mara-Carlin, Department of Justice. FBI, CIA.

I mean, they've all gone rogue. And they're not just going after Trump, they're going after Republicans, and they're fighting back. You know, it's not a crime for somebody to say that an election was stolen. Hillary Clinton did it. She still does, and so did Steve.

Stacey Abrams in Georgia, who still thinks she's somehow the governor of that state. Nor is it criminal to challenge the result as Democrats did in three prior elections. You know, the question here in this Fulton County indictment is whether the steps taken were illegal. Even if a candidate thinks he or she Uh lost.

So what? They're still entitled under the law to challenge the result. That's not fraud. It's not a racketeering criminal enterprise. In Georgia and elsewhere, Trump and his lawyers complained in court filings about ballot irregularities, faulty machines, violation of laws.

valid votes not counted, invalid votes that were counted.

Now in the end, those challenges failed. but they're still entitled to make them. Is that somehow racketeering? Absolutely not. Exercising your legal rights to challenge the integrity of voting systems is perfectly lawful.

Democrats do it all the time, and that's okay. But if Donald Trump does it, Whoa. That's a crime.

Well, I find myself, well, we're talking to Greg Jarrett, legal and political analyst for Fox News, author of Trial of the Century. And, Greg, I find myself being one of those conservatives that you just described. And that is, look, I voted for Donald Trump twice in both general elections. I had pretty much set myself that I wasn't going to vote for Donald Trump again moving forward. You know, being a Florida guy, I'm kind of looking at Ron DeSantis, but boy, he's really flaming out and failing to launch his presidential candidacy.

So I don't know where that's going. And at this point, as I see the Democrats throwing more and more and more at Donald Trump, I'm at the point now where I'm like, all right, fine, fine. Let's get Donald Trump back in there because this is ridiculous. What the Democrats keep doing to Donald Trump. Rather than just trying to beat him at the ballot box, they're trying to throw every single possible thing they can at him.

Now, Greg, if you were the Trump campaign, of course, you're going to be juggling legal issues and campaign issues. Issues. But are there out of the nine by my math, ninety-one counts for jurisdictions? Are there any of those counts in any of those jurisdictions that would concern you if you were on that campaign? What concerns me are not the legitimacy of the charges, but rather the unfair venues where three of these cases are being tried in Fulton County and Washington, DC.

Um and in New York. A guy like Donald Trump in a highly politicized, politically charged case cannot get a fair trial. He can certainly win upon conviction in the courts of appeals in the Supreme Court. That's what concerns me the most. And, you know, for example, in Georgia, I mean, this tactic, Joe, of bringing.

Racketeering charges is an egregious abuse of the statute. You know, that's used for the mob, organized crime. Racketeering requires proof of a corrupt organized criminal enterprise and a repeated pattern of systemic illegal behavior. It involves extortion, money, profit or control of property on a recurring basis. But here, the DA is treating RICO like this elastic rubber band, and she's stretching it until it snaps.

The chilling effect on all of this is severe. In the future, are losing candidates going to fear criminal prosecution if they file election protests?

So beyond doing damage to Trump's campaign. They're doing damage. to our system of justice. And Greg Jarrett, help us understand the timeline here for the court cases, the desired timeline for the court cases, juxtaposed with the timeline of the campaign. I mean, there's going to be a lot of scheduling problems for Donald Trump moving forward.

Oh, absolutely. And that was by design. This is exactly what we're doing. What two? Two of the local prosecutors, as well as the federal special counsel Jack Smith.

Wanted. This is how they calculated it. It's by design. I mean, think about it. For Jack Smith's january sixth indictment, Fonnie Willis' most recent fourth indictment, two point five years after the events of january sixth, and they suddenly bring it, especially at a point in time.

where the incriminating evidence against Joe and Hunter Biden seems to have reached a crescendo and probably will only get worse.

So they wanted to time these indictments so that the trials would take place. during a stretching which Trump is supposed to be campaigning in the primary states, beginning You know, in Iowa, The Iowa caucus and then the other primaries to follow. They want to sideline him in a courtroom so that he cannot get out and campaign. Ty Cobb, who is the former White House counsel, appeared on CNN Cut Four. This is all Trump PR.

This is generating chaos. I mean, frankly, there's a good chance that whatever document he produces ends up as evidence against him. It could even could even end up As the basis for an obstruction count against the author, because it's likely to be fiction and solely for the purpose of. Contaminating the jury pool.

Now, I'm pretty sure he's talking there about a document that Donald Trump is set to release Monday at 11 a.m. where he says Trump says he'll be completely exonerated by that document. Any idea what that could be? No, I don't really. I mean, I suspect they have put together some further evidence of election impropriety.

ballot irregularities and violation of election laws and so forth. Whether it is a pivotal, substantial document, I mean, I don't know. But frankly, I never pay any attention to anything that Ty Cobb has to say. That's Greg Jarrett. Greg is a legal and political analyst for Fox News, author of Trial of the Century.

How about a plug for your book there, Greg?

Okay. Yeah, look, this truly was the trial of the century almost 100 years ago, the Scopes monkey trial. And, you know, America was on the precipice of. getting rid of free speech rights and civil liberties and banning books. And the greatest trial lawyer who ever lived, Clarence Darrow, saved the day.

It's a fascinating story. The book Trial of the Century is available in bookstores everywhere and online. Greg, thank you so much for your time here on the Brian Kilmead show today. Hey, Joe, always good talking to you. Thanks for having me.

Thanks, buddy. That's Greg Jarrett, legal and political analyst for Fox News. I'm Joe Kelly, in for Brian Kilmead. We'll get to some of your phone calls here in the next segment. You can join us now at 866-408-7669.

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Warren Zvon gets my blood going here this morning. I'm Joe Kelly in for Brian Kilmead. 866-4087-669. Let's go to Canton, Ohio. Jim is on the Brian Kilmead Show with Joe Kelly.

Hi, Jim. How are you? Hey, Joe, I'm doing well. How about you? Excellent, thank you.

Great. Hey, I'm calling just because I've we're looking my wife and I were talking about the situation in Maui. And it hit me. I'm kind of bewildered. I just don't understand why they're having so many problems getting things going there with the U.

S. Navy at Pearl Harbor right around the corner. They could drop in CBs, they could drop in military police, they could drop in supplies. They have landing craft that could bring in construction equipment Well, you know, they can't go anywhere, Jim, as you all know, without the order of our commander-in-chief.

Well, if our commander-in-chief won't call for it, I would sure hope that President Trump would start calling for it. I don't know that President Trump has that authority anymore, other than just the bully pulpit, which he loves. But I don't think Trump has that ability anymore. And it's a good point, Jim. You make a very good point there that Pearl Harbor is so close.

Not to mention that Hawaii probably has more helicopters on their island per capita than any other state in the continental United States. They've got so many helicopters there for tourism. I would think that they would be able to drop in all kinds of aid and supplies there. But certainly, with the military capacity there at Pearl Harbor, Jim, I think you're spot on that that is a wasted opportunity there for response for those poor victims there.

Well, I'm just thinking of, you know, even things like the landing craft that they have, where the backhand opens and equipment can just roll off right onto the land. And if nothing else, nothing else that's housing? Yeah, that is a great training exercise for the Navy, and it's a great way to utilize the resources that we have. Jim, I'm so glad you called. Thank you for listening to the Brian Kilmead Show.

My name is Joe Kelly. Coming up, we're going to be talking about the blind side and Michael Orr and the new dirt that has been dug up about that. We'll get into that coming up next. Stay with us on the Brian Kilmead Show. A radio show like no other.

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Coming up in a moment, we're going to talk to Fox Business reporter Jerry Willis about the latest goings-on with the movie The Blind Side, Michael Orr, former NFL player, and of course the family that may or may not have adopted him, the TUI family.

So we'll get into that coming up in a minute. Here in Orlando, which is where I broadcast from and make a home, my twin sons, I've got twin 17-year-old sons, Black and Decker. And one of them, Black, already has his driver's license. And Decker and I have been going out and driving. And we went out driving the night before last.

And I looked down and I noticed he was driving with both feet. And I said to him, I said, hey, man, do not drive with both feet. And he said, Dad, that's how I see them doing it on Fast and the Furious. And I said, well, okay, hang on. Hang on, hang on.

All right, there's two things. First, fast and the furious uh is not A good guide to safe driving.

So stop that right away. And B, fast and the furious, most of those or all of those cars really have clutches and they require the use of a second foot. And I don't think my son will ever need to learn how to drive a stick shift because I don't see him driving a stick shift in the future. I always get amused when I hear about an attempted carjacking or a car theft and the car jacker, would-be carjacker or car thief doesn't know how to drive a standard transmission and can't thus steal the car. That always makes me happy.

But I don't see a scenario under which my kids these days are going to need to learn to drive a stick any more than they're going to need to learn how to write in cursive. You know, times change. And look, I learned to drive on a manual transmission. That was my first car, a manual transmission. And so I learned on it.

I could teach it, but I wouldn't even know where to borrow someone's car to teach them how to drive a standard transmission. I'd have, if I called a rental store, you know, a car rental place, would they even have a standard transmission? I truly would not know. I wouldn't have the slightest idea how to find a standard transmission car to be able to teach my kid how to be able to drive one. Your thoughts on whether or not our kids even need to learn how to drive a standard transmission rather than an automatic transmission.

866-4087-669. My name is Joe Kelly. This is the Brian Kilmead Show. Let's go to Eric, who's joining us here in Orlando on my station on WDBO. Hey, Eric, you're on the Brian Kilmead Show with Joe Kelly.

How are you? They call that the millennial anti-car theft device. Yes, it is. That's exactly right. Um I just wanted to weigh in on Maui.

Um Sounds a little fishy. twenty five meat processing plants burned down. Then we find out that in Maui, so many of these large companies have been trying to buy land from the homeowners and they won't sell.

Now it's burned down. As you know here in Orlando, you can't build on wetlands This big developer wanted to build. All of a sudden, there's a controlled burn that went awry, and now it's no longer wetland, and there's track homes there.

Something just smells fishy in all this, because all the millionaires' homes were nice and safe, and Oprah should be ashamed of herself. Why ain't she on the SAG picket line? Just saying. That is an interesting thought. Eric, thank you so much for that.

I do appreciate it. I don't know. Preliminary reports indicate that the power company, in fact, the power company's stock prices have absolutely tanked. The Hawaiian Electric has tanked. And sometimes, frankly, sometimes a kiss is just a kiss.

And sometimes we don't need to read more into something. It's not beyond the realm that that could be a genuine wildfire there in Maui. After all, the winds were whipping at 60, 70, 80 miles an hour thanks to a hurricane. Further out in the Pacific, that was Hurricane Dora, I believe it was. And so it seems as if that was just a genuine wildfire that they were dealing with and not something more problematic from there.

We're going to get into the two E's and Michael Orr for you coming up in just a couple of minutes. Out of Canada, a 40-year-old man who believes he. is a woman. Demolished his competition in a women's powerlifting event in Western Canada.

Some saying the weightlifter set an unofficial women's record in the process. The 40-year-old lifted a combined weight of 1,317 pounds, blowing away the second-place female finisher who only lifted 854 pounds. Of course, your mileage may vary as to whether or not you think that was a man or a woman who lifted that weight. All right, we know she's a woman. Jerry Willis is joining us just fresh off of TV in that wonderful green dress.

She was just on America's newsroom moments ago. Jerry Willis, Fox Business Reporter here on the Brian Kilmead Show. Hi, Jerry. I'm Joe Kelly. How are you?

Hey, Joe. I'm good. How are you today? Yeah, this story, I mean, this has layers like an onion like you have never seen. It goes on and on.

No, we're talking about Michael Orr. Yes. I just want to make sure we're on the same page because there's a lot of stories that have lots of layers.

So, the Michael Orr story, now that. The movie The Blind Side, that was my first exposure to who Michael Orr even was. And I love the movie. It had such a great story. Of course, there is a film trope of the great white savior, and that certainly was the trope in that movie of a white person saving a person of color.

But now. I don't want to say that there are facts coming out, but there are certainly a lot of allegations that are coming out. Why don't you bring us up to speed?

Well, there are a lot of allegations, a lot of finger-pointing going on. And much of this got underway with a petition that was filed by Michael Orr earlier this week. He is saying that, you know, look, this family gave me no money for the blind side. I'm receiving nothing for a film that grossed $330 million, and I should get some money. And the family is saying, well, that's not true.

Yes, he did. He shared in the profits with us.

Now, he says that they got individually, everybody in that family got $225 million each plus 2% of the gross. And the family is saying, the Tewys are saying, Sean and Lee Tui are saying, well, no, we only got $14,000 for that movie. I was going to say $225 million each. That math doesn't work because that's. Far more than the movie made.

Oh, sorry. $225,000. Pardon me.

Okay. Joe, apologies.

So the right number is 225,000. I just added three zeros. That's how that goes. But let me tell you, there's all kinds of things popping up. Just today, for example, a red flag in a 2017 video from a reality TV show called Below Deck that surfaced.

It shows the father. Uh Sean Tuwee. Talking about how he negotiated with Steven Spielberg and Harvey Weinstein for rights to their names. Strange. He never mentions this in any conversations about this.

And then they have pictures of the couple traveling all over the world flying in a Cessna. I mean, like Richie Rich. The reality is, of course, this couple had a lot of money to begin with. They owned a ton of food fast food franchises. They had their own money.

Whether the money they used for What's shown in the pictures is from that or from the proceeds from the money. Nobody knows. They are saying, like, They're just very sad about what's happened, that they want to defend their name, that. They're not going to allow or to make them look like bad guys because they're not. I mean It's hard to know what's true here, and I'm shuffling through all this material, including the lengthy document that Orr filed in probate court in Shelby County, Tennessee, looking at his allegations here.

Now, you should understand just one quick other fact. The family of the Tuesday say that Orr has not been cashing the small checks they send him with proceeds.

So, Orr says he got nothing. They say they're sending checks he's not cashing. A lot of this is not adding up. We're talking to Jerry Willis, Fox Business Reporter, and Jerry, you know, we're hearing extortion now as the TUI family is saying that in text message threads that Michael Orr had had threatened them that he would go public with this information if they didn't pay him.

So, what's being said is that he threatened to plant a negative story about the family unless they paid him $15 million. The two weeks are calling this a shakedown. And if this is in some kind of text message where you can see it on a phone, that's going to be very problematic for Michael Orr.

Now, the family, the two weeks say that he's been complaining for a long time to them privately about what's going on and asking for more money. While they believe they've lived up to their obligations.

Now, you should know that, so. Was in a conservatorship. He wasn't adopted. A lot of people believed he had been adopted by the TUE family. Not true.

He was in a conservatorship. And you're going to remember this because. Remember, Brittany Spears was in a conservatorship. She blew that up two years ago. Her dad ran her money, ran every detail of her business life.

And so. Since he was in a conservatorship, all of this money would have been guided and managed by them, right? By the TUIs.

So he's trying to blow that up right now. They say they're happy to unwind that. But how this issue of payment from the movie is completely unresolved now. You know the book. The book originally that the movie was based on was written by Michael Lewis.

So presumably he got money from this. I reached out to him. I have heard nothing back. Warner Brothers released the movie. I reached out to them.

I haven't heard back. Sandra Bullock is being hounded on social media. I can't even believe that. Oh, my God. People are saying she should give back her Oscar.

That's insane. Uh uh that yes. I mean Really? This isn't Millie Vanilli, where their performers were committing the fraud. Sandra Bullock was not committing a fraud.

She was. Doing what she was paid to do, and that is act the part, probably without any idea of the underlying accusations that would come out years later.

Well, you should know that the blind side star who performed the Michael Michael Orr part? Yes. His name is Quentin Aaron. He's defending her, saying that he was shocked by the lawsuit. I mean, clearly this is, you know, they had no idea this was coming.

But everybody in a corporate position on this story is standing pat, their mom, they're not saying anything. And this is all playing out in a Tennessee courtroom. Where this goes, I have no idea. And the real. Strange, bizarre twist is that Orr appeared, did a round robin of interviews.

He had a new book out last week. He was all over the place interview, you know, here at Fox. He was just on Killmead last Wednesday. I don't understand. I mean, like, it didn't really come up in those interviews.

Why? Yeah, if he was going to drop a bombshell like this petition, it's technically a petition, not a lawsuit, why didn't he talk about it then? It it's very unclear. Let's take a listen to Michael Orr just last Wednesday here on the Brian Kilmeet Show. With the movie in particular, did it roughly tell you a story?

I know you didn't love the way the movie came out, but were you happy with the fact that Michael Orr's name got out there and what you overcame to be what you became? No, I'm thrilled to have a movie made about me. It's surreal, actually. I think What it did was gave me A position to be in, and that I'm honored to be able to motivate and inspire generations behind me. No, other things led to me, you know, saying, Well, people may think I don't like the movie, but no, being where I'm from, the roads that I had to travel to have a movie made about you that inspire the world, know your name.

No, it's all good. Michael Orr just last week on the Brian Kilmed show, and Jerry One could argue that if not for the intervention of the TUI family, that Michael Orr would have never had the opportunity to play college ball, would have never had the opportunity to play in the NFL, and may well have ended up dead or behind bars or doing menial work, manual labor, or something else, that the TUIs gave him quite an opportunity.

Well, so at at eleven years old he was essentially a ward of the state. Because his parents weren't around. He was on his own. He was sort of moving from. Friend to friend's house.

I mean, he had a very rough growing up. There is no doubt about that. And the two we've at one point step in. And decide that they're going to help him. Uh What I can't square is how he talks on Brian's show, this show, about how this was a great thing that they helped him, and then, you know.

What is it? Five days later, files a petition in Tennessee court saying, Hey, you know, this isn't right, I want to get some money. It's like he's been taken over by somebody. I don't know. I don't understand.

These two things are in contrast to each other. And honestly, he made millions in the NFL, and he could probably make millions on the lecture circuit because he had such a compelling story to tell. I would think that that guy would be booked non-stop on the lecture circuit, but now the whole story is besmirched. Everything we thought we knew isn't as motivational, perhaps, as we thought we knew it to be. And I think that would kill some of the ability to get out on the lecture circuit and make a continued name for himself.

I don't know where Michael Orr goes from here in making these accusations at this point. The son of the TUIs, the birth son of the TUIs, was out yesterday talking about this and saying how shocked he was by everything and how much the family really loved Michael and wanted to support him. You know, Even the first day this was out, they were out saying, Oh, well, we don't really want to talk badly about Michael.

So. I guess we're going to have to wait for more information. But this is certainly a fascinating story. And really, I have to tell you, I think a sad one because you hate to see a narrative like this that was so positive. You know.

Yeah, I just think it's bad news all around. Jerry Willis, Fox Business Reporter. Jerry, thank you so much. Thank you. Great to talk to you.

Yep. Great talking to you here on the Brian Kilmead Show. We'll continue. We've got some time for your phone calls. Coming up next, and we've got a line open for you right now: 866-408-7669.

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It's Brian Killmead. My name is Joe Kelly at Talk Radio Joe, filling in for Brian Kilmead today. BK is good to be back with us tomorrow. You can join me here on the Brian Kilmead Show at 866-408-7669. Tracy is checking in from Dayton, Ohio.

Hi, Tracy. You're on the Brian Kilmead Show with Joe Kelly. Hi, Joe. Two comments. Just real quick: Sandra Bolock should not give the Oscar back.

No. And regarding when Brian Kilmead had asked Michael Orr if he was happy with the movie. He did stumble just a little bit when he answered his question. He was at that moment. I know first.

He had some things to say. Um he has to do it.

Well, no, it was because he said something like, Well, I've said other, and then he stopped and just answered the very direct question about. What you know, what basically the movie did help him, and he stayed on that focus, but he did stumble a little bit, like there was something else he wanted to say, but chose not to.

Well, and I would imagine, even when he talked to Brian Kilmead, he had to have known in the back of his mind that he was going to be filing this petition with a judge. He had to have known that that information was going to be coming out later in the week or the following week. There's no way he did not know that this was on the horizon. Tracy, I'm so glad you called. Thank you so much for listening to the Brian Kilmead Show.

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I am the host of the, well, the Joe Kelly Show here on WDBO in Orlando, Florida, right in the heart of Central Florida. Walt Disney World is to our south. We're just a couple of miles away from SeaWorld, from Universal Orlando Resort. And then we're about an hour away from the Kennedy Space Center and, of course, our beautiful beaches, both on the Gulf Coast and the Atlantic coast.

Now, speaking about the Space Coast, we do have a rocket launch tonight from Cape Canaveral. These are more of the Elon Musk Starlink internet satellites. It's scheduled for an 8:14 p.m. launch.

Now, today is going to be kind of special because today the sun sets at 8:00 p.m. 4 p.m., which means by the time the launch happens at 8:14, there will still be a little bit of light left. But as you guys well know, when the sun sets, the clouds sometimes remain illuminated because the clouds are up higher than the ground is, right? That makes perfect sense.

Well, when a rocket launches, you've got the contrails coming off of the back of the rocket that are as high as 100,000, 150,000 feet up in the air. And when the sun hits those, it is so beautiful. I can only liken it to what I had to imagine would be, say, like the northern lights or something, but it ends up making these beautiful contrails way up in the sky. And invariably, someone will call 911 and report UFOs, but it does not. It's a rocket launch.

We do have severe weather potentially in the forecast today here in Central Florida after we get through our 95, 98 degree temperatures. It's going to be another hot one here in Central Florida before the rocket launch tonight. Again, that's for 8:14. If you've never seen a rocket launch, In person, which I had not until I moved. I moved to Orlando from Tulsa, Oklahoma, beautiful Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2011.

Shout out to our KRMG listeners. But I moved here in 2011 and I I don't know if you guys are aware of this, but standing in Orlando, Florida, on a clear day, clear day or clear night. We can see rocket launches all the way from Cape Canaveral, from the coast. I mean, I can walk outside my front door again, clear day, clear night, and see the rockets taking off. It is quite a spectacular sight.

You get a little bit closer to the rocket launches. You get out on the space coast. You not only can see it, but you can feel the blast wave and hear the blast wave as it comes over you, you know, minutes after the launch takes place. My kids were very little the first time I took them to a launch, and when the boom finally hit us, I said, that's the sound of the rocket. No, dad, no.

I was like, no, no, let me explain this. We had to discuss the physics of the speed of light versus the speed of sound.

So, anyhow, exciting place to be here in Central Florida. Speaking about Central Florida and Florida in general, the senior senator from Florida. I take that back. I'm so sorry. The junior senator from Florida.

Senator Rick Scott. Hello, Senator. How are you? So, you just made me way younger. I did make you way younger.

The junior, and I think senior, because you're our former governor as well.

So, I know you have been leading Floridians for quite some time now. But, Senator Scott, it's glad, great to have you here on the Brian Kilmead show. We've got a lot to discuss. You are up for re-election this time around. The United States Senate, one-third of the Senate, is up for re-election every two years.

And this is your time. How are your prospects looking? We're gonna win. Um, you know, we've won I've I've won my two governor's races and the Senate race by talking to Floridians. and by listening to what their needs are and solving their needs.

And so when I got elected in 2010, I told people we get our state back to work. And we worked hard to make sure the private sector did that, and we did it. We added actually one point seven million jobs, and I said we get seven hundred thousand. We did the same thing in our reelect, and I've been in Washington four and a half years. To make portions of work the way we made Florida work when I was governor.

Accountability. You know, treat people with respect, but balance the budget. Watch how you spend all the money. Focus on the things that are important to Floridians.

So I did that, and I'm continuing to do that. It's not the easiest thing in the world, but we're doing it every day. I put out my plan, how we're going to rescue this country, which needs to be rescued. The country's in trouble. And we're going to do it.

We're going to go to rescueamerica.com. I put out my ideas. The last week and a half, I've been traveling the state to talk about how we're going to keep our kids safe. There's a lot of things we did when I was governor that are applicable, but there's new things that are happening like AI that we've got to really focus on.

Now you took on the gargantuan task of turning the Senate red during the last election. That didn't work out. Is that going to inhibit you at all moving forward?

Well, that was disappointing. But I think the what happened is The same reason I ran against Mitch McCollum to be the Republican leader. We have to have a plan. Um we have to tell people why why we're what are we running for. Why should you support us?

And that means we've got to fight like hell to balance the budget Watch how we spend our money. Make sure we have the most lethal military, not the most woke military. Make sure we do everything we can to hold China accountable, do all the things that we know we have to do. It always comes down to. How do you help a family in three ways?

Number one is make sure their livelihood is intact. I focus on jobs.

Now the big issue is inflation. We're not going to get inflation under control until we start balancing our budget.

So I'm working really hard to balance the budget and stop wasting the money. Number two, keep our kids safe. You don't need more IRS agents, probably, like most Americans. We don't need more of them. Let's take that money and put it into school safety and in armed law enforcement, all of our public and private schools.

On top of that, make sure we help our law enforcement. I had forty nine sheriffs endorse me a couple of weeks ago because they know that I'm very focused on keeping families safe.

So I think my election is going to be about how do we deal with the issues that are most Um Relevant to Floridians, and I'm doing it every day. We're talking to Florida Senator Rick Scott. Senator, I read the statistic that with the inflation that we have been dealing with, it comes out to an average of $709 per household in America that they're having to pay extra. And that's $709 a month extra that we weren't paying just four years ago. $709.

Two and a half years ago, actually, Joe. I was elected two and a half years ago. It's $1,000, I think, in Florida. For Floridians, it's even more than that. Nationally, it's $700, but Florida, it's even higher.

I mean, people are struggling to get by. Government spending. People are struggling to get by. Consumer credit card debt is at an all-time high. People are now digging into their four hundred one Ks to help make ends meet.

What is the solution here other than getting rid of Bidenomics?

Well, that's what it is. We've got it. It starts with balance the budget. Get the economy going, get people back to work. I think we have a hundred million people of working age not working anymore.

You can't have 132 million people, that's the only number of people we have working now in this country, to pay for all of these programs. We're running a trillion dollar plus. I think it's going to be almost $2 trillion of deficit. That means what's happening? Your mortgage rate's up.

It's over 7.5%, I think, now for a thirty-year mortgage. Your credit card interest rates up, your car interest rate if you're going to buy a car, that all comes out of your pocket.

So I think we've the big thing is balance. I balanced the budget when I was governor of Florida. The state did not balance its budget in 20 years before I got elected. We said this is what our revenue is going to be, this is what our expenses are going to be, and then our job is to allocate the dollars the best way we can the most important issues. like you do, like every family does.

And then if we're going to do anything, we've got to say it's got to be held accountable. There's four thousand lines in the budget and photo. When I was governor, I went through every line. We had a written purpose. If you didn't make your purpose, I vetoed your money.

We got to have the same attitude about our federal spending. And we can't have people just going on government programs without if they're able-bodied, like if you're disabled, it's completely understandable. If you have young children, that's completely understandable. But otherwise, if you're able-bodied, go to work, don't be on a government program, that's not fair to the rest of us. I want to talk about a Florida man, if you will.

He's kind of a half Florida man. As Donald Trump is what we call here in Florida a snowbird. Snowbirds are those people who live in Florida during the winter, but they live up north during the summer. And that's where the president, former president, stays in Bedminster, New Jersey during the summertime, but in the wintertime he comes down here to Mar-a-Lago.

So he is a part-time Florida man. Still, as we got the latest indictments on him this week, what do you make of all of the different jurisdictions that are coming after Donald Trump?

Well, I mean, this is what you see in other countries. Um No, it and and you know what the FBI, DOJ, these district attorneys should do, they should go hold a press conference. And explain the difference, like in Georgia.

Now explain what Stacey Abrams did. pursue what Donald Trump did and how it's different. Maybe they can. Maybe they can explain it. But they won't do it.

FBI and DOJ explain the difference to what Hillary Clinton did when she went and tore up. Her phones just smashed her phones and got rid of and got took all the emails off a server when she was under federal subpoena. And that's okay. Or Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, all the information is coming out that they took basically bribes from around the world. Tell tell us why they're not being prosecuted, but the main political opponent to Biden, Donald Trump is.

So I think what's what we're all seeing now is there's two levels of justice. If you're a Democrat, you get treated one way. If you're a Republican, you get treated another way. Certainly conservatives see it as a two-tiered justice system. I'm not sure the Democrats see it the same way, but the conservatives certainly see it that way.

Well, I th I think why don't we just be transparent? Tell us what the difference is. Mean you know how was that like When you're when you are in involved in government, You don't own the government. You work for the American people. You have an obligation to be transparent.

If there's questions, DOJ, FBI, anybody that wants to go indict Donald Trump, you've got an obligation to explain the difference. I mean, one thing, when I was governor and when I do this, if somebody is saying something that I that I did or something you put out, we went and did a press conference. We explained what we were doing.

So we got rid of all the ambiguity. If I if you know, when you know the Parkland School Bill that you know try to make our school safer, I've done press conferences on that and I can to this day will explain why we did what we did and how it's kept our schools safe. And that's what we all should be doing. But FBI, DOJ, these you know, these state attorneys that warn district attorneys, whatever they are, they want to indict Trump. They don't want to do that.

They don't want to explain the difference. They just want to say it's nothing.

So and I mean, it just it just looks it looks like there's two tiers of justice. Let's talk about another Florida man, and that would be Mickey Mouse and/or Ron DeSantis, both of whom Florida men. As Governor DeSantis is now throwing it out there that he would like to move on from the dust-up with Disney, I'm not sure Disney is ready to move on from the dust-up with Ron DeSantis. What is your take?

Well When I was with uh When I was governor, I had a very good working relationship with Disney. They're probably the biggest economic driver in the state. I'm disappointed when they got politically active over whether grade school kids should be taught about sex. I don't think they should. But here's we've got to have cooler heads prevail.

There's a lot of jobs at Disney. It's an economic driver in our state. We've got to figure out how to work together. We've got to continue to build jobs in this state. The most important thing we can do for a family, I grew up in public housing.

I watched my parents struggle for it. The most important thing we can do is build a better economy. And that part of it is working with companies. You can still be disappointed in a company that says the wrong thing. And I don't know why Disney wanted to engage like that.

But let's figure out how we continue to build our economy. We're talking to Florida Senator Rick Scott. He is up for reelection this time around. I don't know if you know that one of your competitors is a reality TV star. I don't know if you've even heard, I'm not sure our listeners have heard of the tan mom, but this woman, her name is Patricia Crentel, and she hit everybody's social media radars a few years ago because of her obsession with tanning beds.

She was so tanned that she truly looked like she had donned blackface, and it was just absurd how tan she was. And then she took her five-year-old daughter into a tanning booth with her, which caused a lot of outrage. She has truly, literally, filed paperwork now with a federal election commission to run against you in 2024. I don't know if it's a publicity stunt, but have you ever heard of this woman? I never I didn't hear she she had done that.

I mean, I look, I if you want to run against somebody, you're gonna have to you're gonna have to explain how you're gonna do something better than what they've done.

So, you know, my job is to continue to do my job, and we're going to win because, you know, we've worked hard. I have a great team, by the way. My constituent services team in the state won for the best constituent service team of every House member and every senator in the Senate last year. And I'm going to continue to work with my team to make sure we're the best U.S. Senator there is out there.

I didn't know we had such competitions for best constituent services. Yep. Yeah, I have I have the best team in the country. Senator Rick Scott, in Maui now, are we doing enough to help the victims there?

Well, you know, I have not been there, but boy, your heart goes out to them. It's like what I went through with these hurricanes. Your heart goes out to the amount of loss of life because the most important thing in a disaster is to keep everybody alive. And so I, you know, they keep saying that the death toll is going to go up. You know, look, the devastation of the homes is horrible, but gosh, the loss of life is just devastating to people.

So I don't know. I think what they have to do is do what I tried to make sure we did with every hurricane is learn. What can we do differently to keep people safe, keep people alive, and get people back to a normal life as quickly as possible? And that's something we're going to have to find. Find out what happened there.

Senator Rick Scott, thank you so much for joining us here on the Brian Kilmead Show. My name is Joe Kelly. Coming up next, it's going to be all phone calls for the rest of the show.

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You can join me at 866-4087-669. I know a lot of you guys have been trying to get your calls through. I've been waiting very patiently, and we're going to be taking calls all the way through the rest of the hour. Let's go to John in Michigan. John, hey, man, you're on the Brian Kilmead show.

How are you? Good, good. Thank you for having me.

I was listening to your show this morning, and I heard you mention about the Maui fires. They are referring to them constantly as wildfires, but you mentioned that the electric company was doing some type of controlled burn on the island. No, they weren't doing a controlled burn. It's just believed that the electric company started the fire because of the high winds caused the lines to arc or fall over. Ah, see, I'm sorry, I thought you said that they were out doing a controlled burn.

In my question, why would they be doing that in 80-mile-an-hour winds? Yeah, yeah, that was the that therein lies the problem, was the 80-mile-an-hour winds. And it is the same way, by the way, that the second deadliest modern fire in American history is the campfire in California from 2018. That fire also started by power lines, which they're saying is the likely cause of the fires in Maui. John, thank you so much.

More of your phone calls coming up next: 866-408-7669. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Man, I'm so glad you're joining us here on the Brian Kilmead Show. My name is Joe Kelly.

Brian is going to be back tomorrow. You can join me at 866-408-7669. If I can take just a minute to say that if you ever get the chance, you know, if you love listening to Brian Kilmead, and I know you do, if you ever get the chance to see him in person, as you well know, he tours the United States on a pretty regular basis. He has a lot of appearances. He gets out and promotes his books and other things.

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So take advantage of it if you ever get the chance to do so. To expand a little bit more on something that we mentioned earlier in the show, the typical American household spent $709 more in July than they did two years ago to buy the same goods and services. $709 a month we are now paying extra because of inflation. And this is just in the last two years, $709 a month.

Now, I'm not really a foodie. In fact, I'm the opposite of a foodie. I am a culinary simpleton. Right? It doesn't take much to please me when it comes to food.

And so, you know, a lot of times, no, every day I have to eat when I'm here at the radio station.

So I decided yesterday I was going to stop at my neighborhood Publix and I bought one loaf of bread, one jar of peanut butter, one jar of honey, and a bag of Cheetos. And I said, all right, I'm just going to make peanut butter and honey sandwiches at work for a while. Just buying those those items, again, bread, honey, peanut butter and Cheetos was $25. Just for that.

Now, fortunately, I can make a lot of sandwiches out of that, and I can stretch that a pretty long way. But man, things are so out of control right now when it comes to prices and to affording living. I don't know how some people do it. I truly don't. No wonder people are digging into their credit cards.

No wonder our credit card debt has exceeded a trillion dollars. Personal credit card debt has exceeded a trillion dollars. More people than ever before are taking hardship withdrawals from their 401ks. I mean, this is bad. This is really, really bad for our economy.

866-408-7-669. The show is yours here until the top of the hour. We've got nothing but phone calls ahead at 866-4087-669. Let's go to Naples, beautiful Naples, Florida. JR is joining us here on the Brian Kilmead Show.

Hi, JR. Hey, Joe, you're doing a great job today. Very fascinating topic. Thanks, bud. I used to live in Hawaii, and don't take this as a criticism.

We got to be really careful about throwing out why this started right now. Just very careful. The west sides of all of the Hawaiian islands are beyond dry, they're desert-like conditions. And Lahaina was an old beach town. It was almost like, you know, everything was built of wood.

The the town is so old. It's one of the oldest towns, if I remember correctly, in Hawaii. And the the It was a perfect storm of awful. How it started right now to me. Is is it that's a done deal.

What what what needs to happen now is the people need to be helped. And my mom and I can barely look at the pictures because there's no recognizable structures to pick a landmark and go, oh god, yeah, that's that one street we used to go to that one restaurant. No, there's nothing, it is gone. And and the loss of life is obviously number one. And it just breaks my heart that that this happened.

And these people that live in Hawaii are so sweet and so helping of others. It's spooky. You know, they It's hard to explain Hawaii. And it just I I just pray that everybody can come through and help their friends and No doubt. You know, grieve with them.

And it's just, you know, but, you know, the looking for blame right now, I think is too soon, Joe. I really do. I think it's just too soon.

Well, and I brought that up only in that, you know, somebody had mentioned a bit of a conspiracy as to how the fires got started. And there does not appear to be a conspiracy, at least not yet. Rarely ever is there actually a conspiracy, but it does appear that it would be the power lines that arced it and started it. But as you pointed out, it was the winds. It was the dry grasses.

They've got non-native grasses that grow there. They get very, very dry. And the wind was whipping at 80 miles an hour that from a nearby, not real close, but a nearby hurricane that had altered the weather pattern and whipped up these 80 mile an hour winds, which fan flames, and they were moving at a mile a minute. I mean, you can't run at a mile a minute. I mean, that is remarkably fast.

JR, thank you so much. Let's go to North Carolina. Russ is joining us here on the Brian Kill Me. Show with Joe Kelly. Hi, Russ.

How you doing, sir? Good. Let me ask you a question completely off. and Decker, if you really have twin sons, namely. Black and Decker.

I have twin sons. Their names are not Black and Decker. I refer to them that way on the radio. Yeah, you know, transmission, manual transmission, stick shift. Hang on a second, Russ.

Let me set this up for our listeners who might have missed this. I took out one of my twin sons driving. He's studying for his driver's license. And I took him out driving a couple nights ago, and I caught him using two feet to drive. And he said, well, I see them using two feet on Fast and the Furious.

And I said, well, A, don't. That's not a good model for you for safe driving. And B, that's because they have a clutch and you need two feet to drive with a clutch. And I would love to be able to teach him to drive manual transmission. I wouldn't even know where to find a manual transmission car.

So go ahead. It's amazing. I am, I'm 71. I grew up learning how to drive. G or Willie's four-wheel drive G.

four-cylinder motor. Three-speed standard transmission, and I thought that was the easiest thing in the world to drive. And everything since then has been easy. That was a hard thing to drive. That thing, but I tell you, if you can't drive a manual transmission, I pity you because sooner or later.

Somebody's going to need, all of us are going to need to drive a manual transmission, even if it's a couple of hundred yards. Why would you say that? Why do you think we're all going to go back to manual transmissions? I don't think we're going to go back to it. I'm driving a manual transmission right now.

I wouldn't have anything but. But are you a truck driver? No, no, come up. I'm a cheapskate. I drive cheap cars, manual transmission.

Yeah. I've got a car that I'm getting 40. I'm driving right now, 44.1 miles a gallon. I'm running at 70 miles an hour with air conditioner on. And I never have had a problem with any manual transmission.

A car this small with this little bitty engine, you're going to come out better. And most of your cars are going to these little bitty engines. You're going to come out better with a manual transmission as far as service, performance, and also the initial cost of buying a manual transmission. And it's all, you know, $17,000 car, which is cheap now. Yeah.

You're going to pay roughly a thousand dollars for an automatic transmission that will eventually give you. Yeah, Russ, thank you so much for your call, man. I appreciate that. Honestly, you know, as fewer and fewer drivers know how to drive a stick shift, I wonder how long it's going to be before fewer and fewer mechanics know how to fix a stick shift. Let's go to Midland, Texas.

Steve is on the Brian Kilmead Show with Joe Kelly. Hi, Steve. Hello, Joe. I Just wanted to say The uh environmentalist have the influence in Hawaii that the ones that they do in California the electric utilities are restricted On uh trimming vegetation away from the power lines. That's just Wanted to let you know that.

You know, that's really interesting. And somebody said that on my local show as well. And I find that. I don't want to doubt what you're saying because I have been involved in projects. Oh, God, I don't even want to get into this, but I used to be, I was the reluctant president of my homeowners association.

And I had to deal with a power company when they came in and said we want to trim all the trees back from the power lines. And they just did an absolute hatchet job, quite literally, a hatchet job on our trees. And I ended up negotiating with them to get some replacement trees back from them. But, you know, as I drive by these major transmission lines, at least here in central Florida, I mean, they're very well trimmed back from nearby trees. But you're telling me that other areas don't trim the trees.

Trim the vegetation back. That is that is correct. They didn't used to do that in California. But the past few years. They have stopped clearing around the power lines.

And that's Strictly the Uh influence of the environmentalists. I mean, that's It's obviously it's it's the local government or the state government. that is the one that's actually enforcing the restrictions. Yeah, no doubt. Steve, thank you so much, man.

I appreciate your phone call. Let's go to Linda. It says you're calling from France. I'm going to assume that's like France, Texas, or France, Tennessee, or France. No, no, no, no, I'm actually calling from France.

Oh, I'm originally. I am, but I'm originally from Dallas, Texas. Gotcha.

Okay. Well, how was France today? It's good. It's good. So no, it's very nice.

I was calling in to talk about the manual transmission, the idea of automatic or manual transmission. I actually love driving emanuals, even as a girl. Um, there's so many positives to it. For one, you um better gas mileage. But if you do end up moving overseas or even just taking a vacation overseas and you want to rent a car, Pretty much You have to be able to drive a standard.

That's interesting. You need to know what it is. Yeah, that means you need to be able to drive a stick shift. And you know why?

Well, all right.

So when I graduated from college, which was in 1988, my very first car that I bought on my own was a stick shift. And at that point, I was just kind of this rebellious girl that my dad said, oh, you could, you're a girl. You'll never be able to drive a stick shift.

So I bought, so that I went that way. I was rebellious and said, yeah, I can. That sounds like a challenge to me. If my parents were to say, oh, you couldn't do that, I'd be like, oh, yeah, watch me. Exactly.

Yeah. And in fact, it's kind of interesting. I've got a 19-year-old also, a daughter. She goes to the University of Tennessee, and she drives a Jeep.

Now, her Jeep is automatic transmission, but it does have a gear shift knob, if you will, to switch it from two-wheel drive to four-wheel drive. And I said, when I was riding with her as a passenger, I said, Do you know how to switch it to four-wheel drive? And she said, no, I do not. And I said, well, here, let me show you. Damned, if I could not figure out how to switch it from two-wheel drive to four-wheel drive on her Jeep.

I'm like, well, we might want to look for a YouTube video on that one.

Okay. Hey, you know what? I have to compliment you on that because I think it's really great when fathers can show. Their vulnerability to their daughters to say, Hey, I don't know this, and instead of acting all tough and oh, well, it was the car's fault. Yeah, no, that's a compliment on that.

Clearly my fault. Linda, thank you so much. Give our best to France. Would you please? I w hey, one more one more point?

Go ahead. There's another thing about driving a standard. When you're driving a standard, you got your hand on the clutch all the time, which means you're not on your phone. Oh, what a great point. And as you kind of alluded to, driving a standard is fun.

I mean, it makes driving fun. Yeah. I like that part. Thanks, Linda, so much. I'm so glad you called.

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So, make sure you're tuning in tomorrow for Brian Kilmead as he is back. You can join me now at 866-408-7669. Let's go to Oklahoma. Oklahoma, Barbara is on the Brian Kilmead Show with Joe Kelly. Hi, Barbara.

How are you? I'm wonderful. How are you? Excellent. I just wanted to let you know that my daddy taught me how to drive a manual.

You were not allowed to drive a car until you could drive a six shift. I drove an old bus with him down to Florida that had the six speed. You pulled it up, you went through the six gears again, and we drove it up there and down there and back and then up to Illinois and back.

So you learn how to change oil, change the tires, rotate tires. Change your spark flux, you did it all, or you didn't drive. I will, you know, I'll tell you these days, absolutely, teaching the kids how to change a tire is an absolute must. Changing oil, I don't know. I honestly don't think I will teach my kids how to change oil in a car because I.

Honestly, I don't know that I could change oil in a car anymore. It's been a long time since I've been underneath a car. I did it a lot in high school and college, but lately, I have not changed my own oil in a very long time. If for no other reason, just because of disposing of the oil is much more difficult than it once was. I mean, used to be, I don't know if you guys know this, but back in the day, there were guides on how to dispose of engine oil, and it dealt with digging a hole in the ground, pouring the oil in, and filling it with rocks.

And clearly, today we know better than disposing of oil that way. And it is just easier to go get your oil changed and have them dispose of it rather than doing it yourself. Let's go to Steve, who's joining us in Georgia. Steve, you're on the Brian Kilmead Show with Joe Kelly. Thank you for calling.

Sure. I'm calling about convenience stores and them ripping people off. I did my research. I was buying red hots for 25 cents for the little boxes. little over two years ago.

They're now 92 cents. I ask a friend of mine who owns a convenience store what he pays for them. He says twenty-seven cents. Another example Yeah. The gummy lifesaver.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, hang on. But what was he paying for it, say, two years ago? I mean, what is what is this profit? Probably half at about twelve cents.

So if he doubled his price at 27 cents, he'd been at 54 cents now instead of. 92 cents now. Steve, I'm so glad you called. Thank you so much. And, you know, they are convenience stores.

And when you're paying for the convenience, one might suggest that you buy Red Hots elsewhere. If Red Hots are something that you really enjoy, I would even suggest maybe going online and buying it in bulk. And then you won't have to really worry about, you know, buying it at a convenience store because, you know, buying in bulk, you're always going to have them. Brian Kilmead is going to be back with you guys tomorrow. I'm very excited about that as a fan and regular listener of the Brian Kilmead Show.

I'll be glad when B.K. is back as well. But thank you so much for being a part of the Brian Kilmead Show. My name is Joe Kelly here in the Florida Freedom Zone. You can check me out weekdays, afternoons, 5 till 7 p.m.

on WDBO in Orlando, host of the Joe Kelly Show. And of course, great to fill in for Brian as he is out today. Have a fantastic day today. Listen to the show ad-free on Fox News Podcast Plus, on Apple Podcast, Amazon Music with your Prime Membership, or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Mm.