Hunter finally indicted for gun charge; Now how about those business dealings?

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Killmeat Show. We got a big hour coming your way.

Bottom of the hour, we're going to be joined by Andy McCarthy. He wants to break down this case and the impeachment inquiry and so much more. And, of course, the indictment on Hunter yesterday could not have been good news for the President of the United States, who has not had a good week as they have an impeachment inquiry, too. Democrats say, hey, this could be a really good thing for the president. I doubt it.

So, also, Admiral James Javitas is standing by to break down.

Well, listen, the UN is going to be having a special guest. President Zelensky is going to be here in fatigues, trying to tell the world that there's good guys and bad guys, and I'm on the right side.

So, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. I like the idea of really. Going after the source of the problem. But if you don't change your asylum rules, they're going to keep coming.

If you can get to our border and s put one foot in the United States, you never get deported. Wow, getting worse. The border seeing record numbers of migrants. The latest surge from Africa. Dems are joining Republicans in expressing the peril we all see.

But at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, there is no plan to fix it. Number two. Do you think Kamala Harris is the best running mate for President Biden? That's President Biden's choice. I actually think it's a pretty simple question.

I mean, I don't know what else I can say other than she is an excellent running mate. Wow. New polls, Fox polls, show a trend away from Biden and to Trump, and is causing panic on the left and giving hopes to an entire field of GO peers. many of which beat also beat Biden head to head. Number one.

That's one of about a dozen crimes. That Hunter Biden's committed. And ironically, that's the one crime that he committed that you cannot tie Joe Biden to. Right, James. We'll see what happens with the other 11 or so crimes that the president's son's committed.

All right, that is James Comer. Hunter indicted on the one charge Joe had nothing to do with.

Well, let's get to the truth. Either way, taxes, overseas business dealings. Does it have anything to do with foreign policy? And of course, everything seems to revolve around the big guy and Ukraine.

So the one big thing is going to be debated heavily and be a huge campaign issue is support of the war in Ukraine. Admiral James Trafidas knows all about it. He's the 16th Supreme Allied Commander at NATO.

Now he's also his latest book is To risk it all, nine conflicts in the crucible of decisions. He also was with the Carlisle Group. Admiral, welcome back. Good to be with you, Brian. Admiral, first off, what should Zelensky's message be to the General Assembly?

I think you ought to hit three points really hard. Number one, this could happen to you. He's talking to sovereign nations. There's almost 200 in the world. And what happens when the next time a big nation like Russia decides it wants to invade a neighbor?

So, message number one: this could happen to you. Message number two: we are fighting hard and we're not going away. And he'll appear, as you said in your read-in, Brian. He'll be there in his hunting gear. That guy put away his coat and tie 18 months ago, and he's not going to wear it again until the Russians are kicked out of his country.

And message number three is: we need assistance. We are facing a massive neighbor next door. We're fighting courageously, but we need your assistance both politically here in this General Assembly and also materially. And he'll wrap into that, Brian, a very sincere thank you to the nations who have been helping him. United States at the top of the list.

I think that's. Fabulous school play.

Well, that'll be great. That is great to let everybody know this isn't just about Ukraine. And we all know anybody who played game plans this out. You write books about it. They know they're going for the Baltics next.

It might not be an invasion.

Next thing you know, they infiltrate their election. They get a friendly leader in that country and they influence another country. And within 10 years, people say, what were they doing? Why do they let Ukraine go without a fight? And that's what a lot of these people have to think about.

If you just want to come out against the war, Game plan it out. Tell me how that makes America safer. Exactly right, Brian. And as I've said with you before, we don't even have to imagine it. We don't have to kind of like make up a game plan.

We've got one. It's called 100 years ago. This is almost exactly what happened in the wake of World War I. We saw big nations like Germany and Italy gradually start biting chunks out of their neighbors in Europe, and include in that the Spanish Civil War. And Germany kept expanding.

And, you know, we watched, did nothing, did nothing. How'd that turn out?

Well, eventually, we had to stop them, and we did, because otherwise, the Germans would have gone to England and then threatened the United States. All of that is a reality. We need to stop it. And the way to stop it is to do it now with Ukrainians who are willing to fight and die. There's not a single U.S.

soldier there.

So how would you characterize the counteroffensive now? There have been some breakthroughs, but there is real no air cover, and they don't have the proper demining equipment to move at a quick pace. But what has changed over the last month? They have made some incremental gains in the center of the southern flank. I would say that.

Compared to where they hoped to be right now, they're perhaps 40%, maybe 30% of where they want to be. They have work to do. And you've put your finger on it. The big challenge for them is lack of air cover. That's being rectified.

We are bringing the F-16 online. Finally, there's agreement across the alliance about doing so. The pilots are in training. I'm talking to very senior active duty Air Force who are part of that training program. Brian, they're very encouraged by what they're seeing.

But will it get there in time for this offensive? No.

So the bottom line is, I think they've done reasonably well given the tools they have at their disposal. They've still got two months to try and crack toward the Black Sea. Let's give them a little more time and see how it comes out. Otherwise, it'll go into a winter campaign, but that's when the F-16s will arrive on the battlefield. The problem is there are no tanks.

I asked General Jack Keene that about two hours ago. We have promised something, but we have yet to deliver. Cut forty-one. This is a request that was made last year. It's one of the incremental decisions the administration has made, and our audience has seen this played out, where they've made a request and it's delayed for months, in this case, for well over a year.

For the life of me, I don't know why. Only 31. We could have given them a couple of hundred tanks. The Marines aren't using those. We have tanks in storage, and they're not arriving until the fall of the year, and it's only 31.

We have breaching equipment that they need very desperately to be able to get through these defenses. This is engineered, designed equipment to get through minefields and other obstacles. They got a very small portion of what they needed to do that, but yet that is the major impediment on the battlefield.

So, you know, they evidently are going to start giving the 31 tanks this month. Yeah. Yeah, it's too little, too late, frankly. We can still recover this thing. Even within the next several months, we can make some real progress.

But it's going to require some energy behind this logistics flow. And Jack Keene, as usual, has it exactly right. The key word there in his entire cut was incremental. This is where the administration has failed to get the material there in sufficient time. We're always just a little bit behind.

But let me give you two things that are going well. Just worth noting. Number one, the Ukrainians are smashing the Russians at sea. And I know that, Brian, because I'm an admiral and I follow what happens on the Black Sea. Two more significant Russian warships.

Severely damaged by Ukrainian attacks. That's going well. And then, secondly, we're seeing the Ukrainians use more and more drones effectively to include strikes back into Russia itself. Those are two things that are going quite well on the air side and the seaside. We need to help them get the game up on the ground side to consummate this.

Offensive. What is your take on seeing North Korea President Kim Jong-un in Siberia with Vladimir Putin? Uh I mean, he's Kim Jong-un, and he's unpredictable. He's slightly unstable. And I am unsurprised by him showing up there in his ridiculous armored train that goes 37 miles an hour.

I mean, what museum did they get that thing out of? And frankly, he has got not a huge amount that's really going to turn the tide of this war. He's got a bunch of artillery shells. He's got some capability and tanks. I don't see it as a big move other than it gives Kim Jong-un the chance to say, Look at me.

I'm a global figure. Let's close with this, Brian. How pathetic is it? that when the United States looks around at its allies, we're looking at Europe population five hundred million, twenty five percent of the world's GDP. We're looking at Japan and South Korea, two hundred million people, ten percent of the world's GDP.

When Putin looks for an ally, he's looking at this broken little country of only twenty five million people, all of whom are about five feet tall because they don't get enough to eat. And all the money in that country goes into creating some weapons systems. It's a pathetic place. Kim Jong un is a pathetic figure, and Vladimir Putin is pathetic if he turns to a nation like that as a principal ally. And my last question is is Ukraine manufacturing their own drones?

Oh, yes, and doing a damn good job. And by the way, we started by getting floods. Of drones, then the Ukrainians, no surprise, reverse engineered them, figured out how to make them, and are producing them indigenously. I think the Ukrainians are going to come out of this war as a battle-hardened force, not only on the ground, but very capable both at sea and in the air using these drone forces. And they're not going to stop fighting in the winter this time.

They said that was a mistake. Yep. All that does is give Putin and his clowns a chance to rearm and rest. I think they'll press forward, and we should be behind that. Admiral, it's time to get to your five jobs, your five other jobs.

I appreciate the quality time. Thanks so much. Thanks, Brian. Talk soon. Bye-bye.

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He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmead. That was an easy charge. You've heard the IRS whistleblowers testify in the oversight committee as to all the tax evasion crimes. According to the whistleblowers, Weiss, when he was a U.S.

attorney, let the statute of limitations expire. on some of the tax crimes, but not all the tax crimes.

So I'm still holding out hope. that Weiss does the right thing.

So James Coleman made it clear. Democrats, you're not going to beat me to the punch here. I'm telling you, Joe had nothing to do with this. That's not the point. The point is not to take an ex-addict who made some horrendous decisions in his life, let alone to do crack.

To get them 25 years in prison. I don't think anybody really wants. Hunter Biden in prison. I don't. I don't.

I have no interest in that. The crazy thing is. This guy is so reckless. And he also is got the worst judgment. You realize in his book he writes about this gun and the incident?

He talks about his crack use. Why would you, fresh off getting cover from all the Bureaucratic agencies in our country. On your laptop. Why would you go and do a book and a book tour? From Jimmy Kimmel to A B C And get these questions because we're using your answers, and so is Comer.

Now their big push. is to get James Biden's bank accounts. Because where is this money? James Biden is in business with his nephew. Tony Bobolinski was dealing with James Biden, where he got the line from James Biden: you know, what about don't ever mention.

My brother. He goes, you know, he's the big guy. He goes, why does that matter? He goes, If something happens, wouldn't this destroy his chances of becoming President? He said plausible deniability.

Okay.

So You add that.

So what we're seeing with Dave Ignatius, John. Joe Scarborough saying everybody thinks Joe's too old. And then you watch. What was happening with Jake Tapper? Uh when it came to Asking Jamie Roskin.

About number two, Kamal Harris, because they know. The problem is not just Joe. It can't be Kamala. They got two problems. And clearly somebody's meeting behind the scenes, Cut twenty one.

Do you think Kamala Harris is the best running mate for President Biden? That's President Biden's choice, and I think she's an excellent running mate for President Biden. I don't know what more needs to be said about that. I actually think it's a pretty simple question. Do you think Kamala Harris is the best running mate for President Biden?

Yes or no? I mean, I don't know what else I can say other than she is an excellent running mate and an excellent vice president. I don't know whether President Biden has named his running mate. We're going to a convention next summer. It's a year away from now.

And we're going to go through that process. What? What? Can you imagine? doing interviews and with Bill Clinton and Bill Clinton, you know, Democrats going, Yeah, I don't know if Al Gore would be a good running mate.

Yeah, I'm not sure if Dick Cheney's coming back. He's already said they're running together. They already announced it. We're going to wait for the convention. That on top of what we heard yesterday, you might want to, Eric, if you have yesterday's Nancy Pelosi, but in the meantime, Jessica Tarlov, who's very tapped in, Democrat, does a great job on the five.

You know, it's no longer going to bat for Joe Biden. It's the party abandoning Joe Biden. I think, you know, w I could be wrong, but it seems clear Cut twenty two. Obviously, some memo went out that there should be a lot of op-eds and a lot of reporting this week about the concerns over Joe Biden's age. And I will point out, you know, Nancy Pelosi was interviewed yesterday about it.

Hillary Clinton was interviewed this morning about it. Jamie Raskin was interviewed about it this afternoon. Hillary Clinton was the only one who gave a full throttled defense of the entirety of the Biden-Harris ticket. And that is something that certainly is sending a bit of a smoke signal up, at least to me as an analyst, saying what's going on. Jamie Raskin and Nancy Pelosi do know how to answer a straightforward question.

Why did they not defend Vice President Harris in the way that you would expect? It's not. I I love it. It's fascinating. Because They don't know what to do.

I mean, you watch it with Margaret Brennan over the weekend, talk about abortion. Did you watch it with Margaret with Margaret Brennan over the weekend talk about the border? She's got no answers and no interest. You know, sometimes you come back from vacation, no matter what your job is, and you think, what did I miss? And you see people talking about incidents, you go, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a second.

What day was that? When I see Kamala Harris, I know she knows the issue, but she doesn't know the intricacies of the issue. And certainly doesn't know how to answer. And what Jessica was referring to was the night before in a show you don't watch with Anderson Cooper. This is what Nancy Pelosi said.

Is Vice President Kamal Harris the best running mate for this president? He thinks so, and that's what matters. And by the way, she's very politically astute. I don't think people give her enough credit. People shouldn't underestimate what.

Colonel Harris springs to the table. But do you think she is the the best running mate, though? She's the Vice President of the United States. And when people say to me, well, why isn't she doing this or that? I say, because she's the vice president.

That's the job description. You don't do that much. This might be my favorite. Favorite sound bite ever. Ever.

It the best is, and it's sad because it's radio. Anderson Cooper's face because his head gets lower and lower, as if he starts to giggle and say, What? I just gave you the easiest question in the world. and you are saying, I won't answer it. Which means you're answering it.

That she's terrible. You need somebody that's going to reassure the American public that they could take over for a very old Joe Biden and she's not it. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. That's one of about a dozen crimes.

The Hunter Mines committed. And ironically, that's the one crime. that he committed that you cannot tie Joe Biden into.

So we'll see what happens with the other 11 or so crimes that The President's son's committed. James Comer, trying to put it all in perspective as Democrats say, see, the Justice Department is treating everybody equal. I try to treat all our legal experts equal, Jonathan Turley and Andy McCarthy. And I think you'll do you do you think I treat everybody equal, Andy? Do you feel as though you're getting the short end of the stick?

I think, Brian, it's like Animal Farm. Everybody's equal, but some are more equal than others. I understand.

So you are more equal than others. Andy, your thoughts about yesterday's charge?

Well, I think that for all the people saying, you know, see, we treat everyone equally, We have to keep in perspective as they try to rewrite history right before our eyes that this is the same prosecutor who seven weeks ago tried to make this case disappear. And the only reason we're here is because a federal judge asked some Common sense questions at a plea proceeding that the prosecutor couldn't answer because he was doing precisely what he didn't want to be seen to be doing, which is politicizing the case. He tried to make even the gun charge, which is a slam dunk that should have been. indicted five years ago. He tried to disappear that.

under a diversion agreement. that was not for a case that was not qualified for diversion Under Justice Department rules, longstanding Justice Department rules. uh and a diversion agreement in which he tried to hide one of the most sweeping immunity terms that you can imagine because He was trying to not put it into the plea agreement that he had on the tax charges. Figuring that the judge didn't have to sign off on the diversion agreement, so that's where he would hide the immunity term. No, this is not a case that's being treated like every other case.

And Jamie Comer is quite right to observe that the only thing that's been charged here is the one single thing that he had that he could charge Hunter Biden with in which Joe Biden is not implicated.

So, Abby Lowell, so there are other charges that could be coming. When do you think, do you have any sense of the timing if they think that, you know, these overseas business deals and the countries have been with Kazakhstan and Romania and the mayor of Moscow's wife and the Chinese energy company and Ukraine and the Prisma. And did he pay taxes, number one? And number two, was he registered as a foreign business agent like Paul Manafort and ended up in solitary confinement? When do we find out if that bothers this prosecutor?

Well, we may never find out. And the reason for that, Brian, is I hate to be a broken record on this, but the statute of limitations on tax charges is six years. and on every other federal crime that's relevant is five years.

So now in 2023, he's never indicted the case. Let's just take the Yelena Batarina 3.5 million transaction. Moscow Mayor's Way. Right. Um that was in twenty fourteen.

That's been time barred for if you were thinking about it for foreign agent FARA purposes. The statute of limitations on that ran in twenty eighteen. Um You know, the way we're now structured, the way Weiss has dawdled on this. Everything that's a five-year offense that's older than twenty eighteen is gone. Everything that's a tax offense that's older than 2017 is gone.

So, all these things that we're talking about, the Kazakh stand stuff, which I took a close look at yesterday. is basically twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen. Just to make it like very simple for people, I've said all along, I think Weiss's job here, even though he's called prosecutor, was to protect Joe Biden and, in particular, to make the case with respect to Biden disappear. And now the way he's handled the case. Everything that's in the three most important years, 2014, 15, and 2016, when Biden was vice president and they were trading on his political influence, it's all gone.

All right, so there's an investigation to find out about what he was up to with James Comer, right? I mean, if you're. of these twenty shell companies that we already know about. We probably know about more. That's a separate track from David Weiss.

Comer doesn't care about 2014 and 2016 and statute of limitations on taxes, correct? Totally right. The only game in town, I think, the house investigations. It's the only way that you'll get political accountability. And you're entirely right.

The statute of limitations does not affect the congressional investigation because what they're looking at is something that's very different, which is whether the national security and the government policies of the United States have been compromised, which is something that is not the statute of limitations is completely irrelevant to. If the if, for example, the Chinese have bought the Bidens, including the President, Um, it really doesn't make a difference whether there's a five or six-year statute of limitations, right? Exactly. Um Bye. All right, so I got it.

So this is Jamie Comer's plan now. He says, I'm going to look for bank accounts of James Biden. Obviously, the Freedom of Information Act to get the suitor name, his interactions with the National Archives has 5,000 emails with Hunter mysteriously CC'd on some of them.

Well, it's been since 2022 the request was in. Still nothing. Having said that, now they say their plan is to get to James Biden's bank accounts. Will they be successful? How long can they hold out?

Well, you know, you can run the clock on a lot of stuff just by objecting and going to court. And the question is going to be: are they going to be like the January 6th? committee or not. Remember the January 6th committee when Steve Bannon didn't cooperate or Peter Navarro didn't cooperate. They didn't do what Congress usually does and run into court and get the guy's legal claims invalidated and then hold the guy in contempt.

They went right to prosecution. They held them in contempt, then they went right to the Justice Department and got them to indict. The problem, of course, they have here is the Justice Department is going to be one of the Biden administration agencies that's stonewalling them.

So they're not going to get any cooperation. They'll probably have to go the judicial route. And they'll be successful if they stay at it. But I don't want to raise anyone's expectations because it takes a long time to litigate this stuff. We've seen that again and again.

So what changes and I read your column, I quoted it probably all day yesterday, when you said with the inquiry, the impeachment inquiry, not much changes because it still stays in committee, correct? Right. What you would have normally, Brian, would be you would enact an impeachment. Committee resolution to open a formal impeachment inquiry. And the importance of that is it would not only designate.

Which committee Was conducting the impeachment investigation.

Sometimes it's the Judiciary Committee, it can be another committee, or they can have a special impeachment committee. But one way or the other, that's what the resolution usually does. And the important thing about the resolution is. It defines the jurisdiction of the committee, including its subpoena power.

So they don't have that now. They have to rely on the well, and this is not the worst thing in the world. I mean, the Oversight Committee has very broad. Jurisdiction to issue subpoenas.

So does the Judiciary Committee, so does the Ways and Means Committee.

So they shouldn't really be much. obstructed by the fact that they're not formally an impeachment inquiry, even if they're calling it that. I think the main thing is political. You know, when somebody is seen. as obstructing an impeachment inquiry That's In the public consciousness, I think that's more serious than obstructing one of these other inquiries.

But legally speaking, you know, a congressional subpoena is a congressional subpoena. All right.

So help me here. Eric Sherwin was the moneyman, he was the guy who told Joe to pay. Hunter, and your dad owes you money here. We got to pay your taxes now. Obviously, he didn't do a great job when it came to paying taxes.

Evidently, in May or in the spring, he did come forward and talk. The Republican says he didn't talk, and the Democrats said he did, at which time he says he didn't know that Joe was getting any payments. He didn't say definitively, I know for a fact. He says, you know, I didn't really see that happening, even though he's been, he was at the vice president dozens of times over the course of his eight years in office. There evidently is a falling out between them.

Why would Sherwin not be on the heels of Devin Archer to get him in front of that committee. And what about the dispense evidently they came in, but no one took notes? Yeah, well be because they have to um if they want to get somebody to quickly agree to sit down for an interview, then they have to agree to limitations on the interview.

So it's often like I won't be under oath, I won't take notes, I can have my lawyer, I won't talk about what I don't want to talk about because for exactly the same reason that we just discussed, If you have to go the judicial route and go into court and enforce your subpoenas, that takes time. And these guys feel like they don't have time, which is understandable. And here's a big thing, Brian, that's different between like a federal prosecutor doing an investigation and a congressional committee. If I was a prosecutor and someone like Sherwin was important to my investigation, I would subpoena all the documents. And I would prosecute anybody who obstructed me from getting the documents.

Before I sat down with him. And then I wouldn't let him give me a cock and bull story, I would walk him through the documents. And tell, you know, tell me what this is, tell me what this is, tell me what this is. But if you don't have the documents, and you make an agreement with him that there are some things he doesn't have to discuss, then it becomes very easy for him to play games with you.

So of course, the Democrats come out of that and say he's cooperating, and the Republicans are like, we're not getting anything out of him. And probably the thing is, he did show up And answer some questions, which allows the Democrats to say what they say, but the Republicans didn't get to conduct an effective. interrogation because you would want to have all the bank records to to walk them through them as you interviewed them. I want you to hear what Cash Patel said about the gun charge. He says it might not be a dead end.

Cut 16. There is a tie directly to the Biden family with this gun charge. You have what we call a percipient witness, the witness that shows Hunter Biden possessed the firearm in this case. That witness is Haley Biden, the former wife of Beau Biden, who's now deceased and carried on a relationship later with Hunter Biden. That means she's been in the grand jury.

She's been sharing family information, not just about the gun charge, but about the narcotics addiction that Hunter Biden had surrounding the gun charge. And she's going to have to testify in federal court. court should Hunter Biden not wrap this up in a plea deal.

So the Bidens are coming in, but I do agree there's a two-tier system of justice here at play. Any indigent client I represent as a public defender, if they possess the gun, they were charged overnight, not five years down the road. What do you think? Could this go to trial and would Haley be asked to come in? I think Cash is wrong about the grand jury.

In federal grand jury proceedings, you're allowed to proceed by. Hearsay, so you don't have to call the d the direct witnesses. And Haley and Hunter were both interviewed by the police when the gun was lost.

So they could have just used the statements that they gave to the police at that time. Um my sense is that they have you know they have police witnesses. who could testify to that. They could subpoena and call her As a witness. Um that's a down the road issue.

I do think that the The reason that Weiss indicted that count. You know, he didn't just leave it at that the guy told lies in order to get the gun. He charged him with also illegally possessing the gun for 11 days. That does allow him to get into at the trial all of the ways that they mishandled the gun. Um and I I think that's actually to ratchet up pressure on Hunter.

Plead guilty, but we'll have to see how that plays out. Yeah, we'll have to see, see where this goes and see if both sides just get dug in. Already a lot's been exposed that he was not, didn't tell everybody. He said, I have no idea about my son's overseas business dealings. Nobody believes that anymore.

He says, Well, I wasn't involved at all, but yet he's meeting with them on the phone with them, so no one believes that at all. And I was struck by the amount of polls that seemed to be coming around to the facts that I believe they're true, that Joe knew all about it and probably took, and I believe Tony Bobolinski took part in it. A total of 28% of voters were, quote, not very confident, and 22% were not at all confident that the DOJ probe into the first son's alleged tax and gun crimes were being handled in a fair and unbiased manner. That's more than Democrats and Republicans. That's just logic.

You agree? I totally agree. And I, you know, one of my hesitancies, Brian, about the, you know. Getting into this whole thing about whether it's now an impeachment inquiry or not, I thought that Comer in particular. was making a lot of headway in the last eight months.

I mean, eight months ago, nobody paid any attention to this. I saw a polling last week that said over 60% of people now believe that Joe was up to his eyeballs in the family business, and over 40% of people think he committed a crime.

So obviously this investigation is making Headway. And even if the press wants it to go away and the Democrats want it to go away, the public, I don't think, is going to allow it to go away. I hear you. Thanks so much. Andy McCarthy, great work.

Thanks so much. Unfortunately, we still have four Trump cases to go through, and maybe six because the civil trial, and we don't know an endless amount of Hunter investigations.

So do make sure you pick up your phone, even if it says unknown caller. Yep, my my meter is running, Brian. It's going to be a huge bill in 2023. Much bigger than 2022. Thanks so much, Andy.

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From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmeade. They love their son and they're not going to hide their son. And they never have. And their kids and their grandkids are always invited to events and White House gatherings. They go on trips together.

That is not unusual on. There's no exceptions for anyone. They treat all their kids and their grandkids the same.

Well, I mean, in fairness, I mean, first of all, they don't necessarily treat all their grandkids the same. We do. There was one that they did not acknowledge for a long time. We don't have to get into it here this morning, but I just want to put that out there. Wow.

Sh that was uh MSNBC.

Now it was CNN, so um Oh, Casey Hunt. Yeah, now Casey Hunt's over there, but it was Michael La Rosa. He's like worked with the Biden family. But I mean, what a puts to be like they love all of their family unequivocally. They invite everyone, um, except a little like stripper issue they had with Hunter.

But at least you called him out.

So that was very refreshing to me. My ears really perked up when I heard that. I mean, I saw Martha, not Martha, Laura. Go do through an anchor on a full screen. I'm like, oh, why would she be showing so much CNN?

It showed every Untruth. big and small, that Joe Biden has said. And I'm saying to myself, something's going on. I mean, no, Kamala Harris can't get a thumbs up from Nancy Pelosi and Jamie Raskin. He's too old, Joe Scarborough.

He's too old, Dave Ignatius. What is going on after 2022, the midterms? Otherwise, it's going to glide to the nomination. By the way, they're still having huge problems with New Hampshire. New Hampshire will not back off.

So they can't even set up their schedule because New Hampshire is saying, whatever you do, we're coming before you. Yes, the news relentless with that. But to be fair, ignoring his past, Mark Halperin wrote about this months ago, that he was hearing rumblings that Democrats are not happy with Biden. They're going to try to push him out. That was, I think, in the spring or early summer.

Listen to what he said yesterday: Cut 19. Our democracy is under attack. And we gotta fight for it. I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for four years. I used to teach.

Political theory. And folks. You're always here. Every generation has to fight for democracy.

Okay.

Never happened. You never taught. He had that office where he kept those classified documents. Everybody knows he didn't talk. He would make a couple of appearances and did something on a book tour.

Now everybody is fact checking them. He also said he practically grew up in synagogues. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? It's just sad.

It's like elder abuse, I just played. Right. But, I mean, why even say it? It's inconsequent. I guess he wants to act like the Jewish people should vote for me.

You're a lion dog f. From high? Tom, Fox News Headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead.

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So glad you're here. Andy Card, White House Chief of Staff for both bushes, will be with us shortly. Bottom of the hour, Trace Gallagher in studio. You know, he's hosting out in Los Angeles every single night, 8 o'clock local, 11 o'clock. He is live Eastern Time.

So he's going to be with us too. He's going to be joining me on One Nation. We also have some news I want to share with you. Teddy and Booker T is coming out November 7th, how two American icons blazed a path for racial equality. And we have a special coming out, but now tickets.

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So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. I like the idea of really going after the source of the problem, but if you don't change your asylum rules, they're going to keep coming. If you can get to our border and put one foot in the United States, you never get deported. That is Lindsey Graham getting worse.

The border is seeing record numbers. Again, with the latest surge from Africa, Dems are joining Republicans in expressing peril and worry. But no one is home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to act. Yeah. Do you think Kamala Harris is the best running mate for President Biden?

That's President Biden's choice. I actually think it's a pretty simple question. I mean, I don't know what else I can say other than she is an excellent running mate. Jamie Raskin, new polls, Fox Polls show, a trend away from Biden and to Trump and to three other Republicans beat Biden head to head. It is causing panic on the left.

Could they be looking to rotate Joe and Kamala out? Number one. That Hunter Biden's committed. And ironically, that's the one crime that he committed that you cannot tie Joe Biden into. We'll see what happens with the other 11 or so crimes that the president's son's committed.

Hunter indicted on one charge Joe had nothing to do with, and that's guns. Oh, let's get to the truth on these taxes, overseas business dealings, and see how much went, if anything, to the big guy. Joining me now is Andy Card. Andy, welcome back. Great to hear from you.

Great to be with you, Brian. Thanks for having me on.

So, you know, everyone thinks of you when we talk about organizing a White House and selfless service. It was never about you, but you always knew the President where he would be, advice on what he should say. And I can't help but notice on the outside. No one seems to be helping Joe Biden even get off stage. Have you noticed, from a Chief of Staff perspective, there seems to be a lack of execution?

You know, I always have great empathy for the White House, especially the White House Chief of Staff. And I think Jeff Zeitz is doing a pretty good job actually of managing the people there. I think the challenge is the leadership that comes from the literally the Oval Office and from the number two slot, the Vice President.

So I do worry that there's not as much follow-through as I think there should be from the leadership. And I'm not talking about the staff, I'm talking about literally the President and the Vice President. to recognize the challenges, acknowledge the pr problem, and recognize the various solutions and try to minimize the number of unintended consequences. we've got we still have inflation challenges in the country, but we've got a foreign policy that is really struggling to find its footing. And I think that there's great concern over what's happening between China and Taiwan, obviously North Korea.

We've got Russia and Ukraine. We've got the Romanians worried about what could be happening by the Russians happening on their territory. The NATO allies are Together, but they need America's leadership. And so I worry about the nature of our standing in the world at the same time that our democracy is a little more tarnished than it should be.

So I call on all of those candidates for President to think about polishing that democracy rather than tarnishing it. I mean, you guys had an investigation ongoing that was more than distracting with Scooter Libby and Carl Rove under investigation. And, you know, the President was constantly, I imagine, on your things to do list, things to handle list, questions you knew if you had a press conference. The President would be getting questions on this. And that's what's beginning to happen in a big way with the President's son.

as well as maybe ties to the President. There's an impeachment inquiry along with an indictment in one week. And then the President continues to say some things that I think are a little weird about not being in control. Like listen to this. Cut twenty.

Let me close with this. There's a lot more I know we could talk about. I wish I had a chance to take all your questions, but I'm going to get in real trouble if I do that. You keep saying that. When does the President get in trouble?

It all I ache for the President right now. I'm not a big Biden fan, but I ache for him. This can't be comfortable. And the whole world is watching as he's dealing with this internal family problem that could fall out into lots of consequences that are unintended, but uh we've got to learn from it. But with regard to policy, I think everyone who is running for President should be thinking about who who would they be looking to right now to advise them, especially in the foreign policy aspects.

And I don't know whether the Republican candidates, and I'm not even sure the Democratic candidates. are getting the best advice from people who I would go to. George W. Bush had the benefit of Condoleezza Rice being very involved in not only f the campaign, but getting ready to be very involved as the National Security Advisor and then the Secretary of State. And we had Colin Powell he could talk to.

We had Richard Haas he could talk to. We had Bill Burns he could talk to. James A. Baker III gave unbelievably wise counsel for a lot of people who are running for President in his service.

So I just don't know if anyone is reaching out to these Wise, former superstars that understood the world and would help us manage our way through the challenges that we have today.

So you guys know how important it is to communicate when you're at war. You guys had Iraq and Afghanistan and 9/11. And constantly, the President would be giving addresses like: this is why we're here, this is what we're doing. And we're seeing a conflict in Ukraine that just needs funding, not blood and sweat, and tears and deployments. The President does not feel compelled, nor does the Secretary of Defense.

You had a well-spoken Donald Rumsfeld could command a room. There is nobody out there explaining to the American people why it matters, and I think it's going to cost them a lot of support. I think it already is. Do you find the same thing? I agree with you, and that's why I would say why aren't people talking to Condoleezza Rice, get her wise counsel?

Unfortunately, Colin Powell is no longer with us, so we can't go to him. But they were very valuable. And Jim Baker, that there's probably the greatest chief of staff in the history of the country who was also Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of State, James A. Baker III, very, very wise. I hope he some people are reaching out to him.

And you know, where are the on the Democratic side, where are the Warren Christophers and and Leon Panettas? And And on the Republican side, we've got Bob Gates, but Those are people that I would be looking to right now if I were running for President. If I were the sitting President, I would be comfortable reaching out to them. I know Henry Kissner used to come by every once in a while and talk to the President. and it was always very valuable because he had a different perspective.

Absolutely.

So the president on 9-11 was in Alaska. And essentially the word came out when asked, you know, why are you out of the country and 9-11? Vietnam is important. The alliance is valuable. But is it more valuable than being there 22 years later?

And the retort was essentially this. 1963, you know, 23 years, 22 years later after Pearl Harbor, we weren't still making a big deal of it. What's your reaction to that, Andy Card?

Well, you know, I know that he was overseas on a very important mission, and I understand stopping in Alaska. I was glad the President acknowledged that he was in Alaska. and and not at one of the venues where we lost so many on nine eleven. But I I'm going to give him a pass on this one. I think that He was Completing a long trip in a tough series of meetings, he did at least pay tribute to it.

I was giving a speech in Utica, New York. I try to do something about nine eleven all the time. I promise never to forget, and I want to be a guilty conscience to anybody who thinks they can forget. And but uh you know Yeah. I missed the The leadership that we had from the Republican Party with regard to nine eleven, and let's not forget that.

On when 9-11 happened, George W. Bush came. Came into office with a controversial result. The Supreme Court basically had to decide that he would be the president. And On 9-11, he rallied the entire country.

Partisanship disappeared. We gathered together. Institutions were changed. The Department of Homeland Security was created. The FBI changed its mission from being investigation to being protecting America and preventing the next attack.

And our intelligence community got a wake-up call when they got hit by two by four saying, you've got to communicate with each other and we've got to focus on protecting the country. And that was leadership that came from George W. Bush. It made a huge difference and is still needed today. And I'm glad that the institutions are in place so that we can be safer than we were in two thousand.

Yep. So here is one of the remarks that the Vice President made, excuse me, the President made. Uh and it turned out not to be accurate, cut twenty. Twenty-eight. I join you on this solemn day.

to renew our sacred vow. Never forget, never forget, we never forget. Each of us. Each of those precious lives stolen too soon. When evil attacked.

Brown Zero, New York, and I remember standing there the next day. and looking at the building, I felt like I was looking through the gates of hell. It's not true. Yeah, well He embellished his response to the attack kind of real time. And that's unfortunate.

But he's right to say never forget. And I'm going to give him credit for saying never forget. Obviously, he deserves a ding for embellishing his role on the day following. But look, anybody who lived through that time can't be a good thing. can't forget it.

And it's very important that the younger generation understand the magnitude of the challenge and the way we rallied to meet the challenge. First responders ran towards the disaster and helped save lives, and many of them gave their lives in that process. Others thousands of other people rushed to help America. And lots of people joined the military, the intelligence services, and many of them made huge sacrifices. And it's important that we remember all of that.

The victims on 9-11, those who were first responders and became victims, those who were first responders and helped save people, and then all the people that said, I'm going to sign up and join the military, I'm going to join the intelligence services, I'm going to join the federal government and the institutions that are so important to keep our democracy alive. And that's what we celebrate.

So I'm not going to get in into complaining about how people are Remembering their experiences. I think it's important never to forget the consequences that day and the need for us to come together and the value of having America lead the world. And George W. Bush did a tremendous job of building a global coalition to help win the war on terror. And we probably will never have terrorism completely eliminated, but thank God we've been safer than we thought we would be in the years following 9/11.

So, are you still in touch with Bush 43? I keep in touch with him. We usually do it by text message. He's very efficient. He does not waste zeros and ones.

So, but he's very responsive, and I'm responsive to him when he reaches out to me. And I have great respect for him and great appreciation for the leadership he gave. And I obviously was honored to serve President Reagan, President George H.W. Bush, but most significantly, George W. Bush.

Andy, I was shocked today, yesterday, when Nancy Pelosi said, Well, the vice president really doesn't do much. That wasn't the case with Dick Cheney. I mean, and that wasn't the case with Mike Pence. And I don't know where that came from. Didn't the vice president's role really change in modern America?

More much much more active. Yes, probably the most relevant Vice President was George H.W. Bush to Ronald Reagan. He did a phenomenal job helping President Reagan, and they had been political adversaries. They ran against each other.

Dick Cheney was a tremendous help for me. His office was right next to my office in the West Wing, and I can't tell you how grateful I was to have him so close to me. He had great empathy for me because he'd been chief of staff to a president. And the leadership team that George W. Bush put together was remarkable, starting with Condi Rice and Colin Powell, and obviously Dick Cheney.

remarkable leadership team considering that the President, George W. Bush, didn't have a lot of foreign policy experience. But he certainly listened well, learned from wise people who had the courage to speak truth to power, and made some brutally difficult decisions, many of them which helped to create a climate of safety, not just for the United States, but for the world. And I'm very grateful to his leadership. Andy Carr, it's always great to hear from you.

I'm glad you're doing so well. Thanks so much. Thank you, Brian. Good to hear you on the radio. Yeah, absolutely.

And meanwhile, nobody listening, especially in WABC here in New York, needs to be reminded no one will ever forget. And they do a great job here. In fact, when you come home after 9-11 and you get on a train in the afternoon, it is full of men and women in uniform. And that just shows they still go in and they still remember and they make sure to go into formation. And we're going to be up on 25 years soon.

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Hey, we are back. Let me take a quick call and get to them. And then, bottom, yeah, then Toris Gallagher joins us, Tom in Myrtle Beach. Hey, Tom. Hey, how you doing?

Doing good, thanks for taking my call. No problem. What changed your mind? I came in late on the I just got into the vehicle and turned on the radio. There you are.

And I'm your last guest. I am Yeah. I know my frustration is just like all other Americans, most Americans, I'm sure. most Republican voters. I'm so tired.

Uh People giving Joe Biden a pass on his gas, his incapacity to. lead well? And it's a stay focused You know, it's that. That's one thing that I'm worried about. And I'm also feeling that, you know, the.

The uh Both sides, Republican and Democrat. We are no longer, in my opinion, we are no longer a A government of the people, for the people, by the people. I just feel that we are a massive separation, huge division between government, and they're looking more of it as a job rather than serving the people. I hear you, that's why you keep it for 60 years. It's not like you're in a soup kitchen.

You're there for power and influence. Is it power and influence for the people you represent? If there was, think about Nancy Pelosi. You think they would have that crime if she cared about San Francisco? Think about Chuck Schumer.

You think we'd be overrun with legal immigrants if he really cared about New York? Absolutely not. In fact, people should be ticked at him by thinking: hey, I'm using my majority status. to think New York only. A radio show like no other.

It's Brian Killmead. There is a tie directly to the Biden family with this gun charge. You have what we call a percipient witness, the witness that shows Hunter Biden possessed the firearm in this case. That witness is Haley Biden, the former wife of Bo Biden, who's now deceased and carried on a relationship later with Hunter Biden. That means she's been in the grand jury.

She's been sharing family information, not just about the gun charge, but about the narcotics addiction that Hunter Biden had surrounding the gun charge. And she's going to have to testify in federal court should Hunter Biden not wrap this up in a plea deal.

So the Bidens are coming in, but I do agree there's a two-tier system of justice here at play. Any indigent client I represent as a public defender, if they possessed a gun, they were charged overnight, not five years down. That is Cash Patel. He's on the Trump team. Obviously, he's going to go.

Back if Trump wins here in studio, fresh off a trip from Los Angeles, right, Trace? Or Los Angeles, yes. Yes, anchor of Fox News at night. You watch it every night at 11 o'clock Eastern Time. Trace does it a lot earlier.

Some say that it's 8 o'clock Eastern Time. Would you confirm that? It is 8 o'clock West Coast time. It is 11 o'clock in the East, and we say it every day. They say, So, when do you tape this thing?

I said, It's live, it's live across the country. And you love it, right? Congratulations. It's a great show. I think we have kind of picked up the pace, and our whole goal is not as much to inform you, but to keep you up, to keep you awake, Brian.

That's our mantra. How glad are you that you don't have to do a handshake toss from Guttfeld?

So glad. No, I would love it. I mean, you know, in fact, I'm going on Guttfeld's show today. Tonight, I know it's a big mistake. You know, I'm here, so I figure, why not just jump in the alligator pit and give it a shot?

And you're doing outnumbered too. I'm doing outnumbered, too, which is going to be fun, right? I can't believe it. Right. No, that show has been a big hit, too.

So, so, Trace, you know, Cash was on with you last night. He was on the night. On, yeah, we led with Cash last night because he was great. And he makes a great point. In fact, everybody makes a great point about the whole Biden indictment thing: what are you doing now?

Why are you bringing gun charges now when you could have brought the same charges five years ago? Nothing has changed. Zero information has changed. It's not like they got this new revelation of, oh my goodness, I forgot about this.

Well, the deal blew up, but why not charge him five years ago? I mean, forget the whole sweetheart deal indictment, mean the plea deal. The whole concept here is that you had the evidence. You could have charged, like Cash was saying, I would have charged this within a week, and nobody charged it, and the deal blows up, and all of a sudden they charge it.

So, why are you charging it now? What's the explanation? And we still really haven't gotten that. It's not been a good week for Joe Biden. No.

No, it hasn't, because even though the gun charge is as far away as David Weiss could possibly put Hunter Biden from his dad, it still goes down that bad road of discovery, new stuff. And every time you kind of delve deeper into the Biden family, something else comes out. Even if it's Not the smoking guns, something comes out that is evidence of wrongdoing and evidence of some kind of shenanigans going on that leads people down a different path, and you never know what's at the end of that path.

So Comer came out and said, Look, Joe had nothing to do with this. This is the least charge. Hold on tight. We've got about 11 others. Here's what Abby Lowell said about future charges.

He is the attorney for Hunter Biden Cud 6. I was involved in impeachment a couple of years ago for President Clinton, and I can tell you that whatever they're doing is only going to prove that there's no basis other than, again, catering to the right-wing screamers. Uh that's Well we'll see. I mean, already in nine months, we found out Joe didn't tell the truth about not knowing anything about his son's business dealings. He sat in on him.

He was on the phone 10, 20 times with him, minimum. And then we also know, too, when he said, I have no idea what he's doing, what he's up to. We have him calling. Calling his son on voicemail saying, I don't think you're out of the woods with a Washington Post story. Yeah, and if you listen closely to Abby Lowell, you have Abby Lowell kind of walking this back a little bit too, because he was asked, Listen, are you still saying that Hunter Biden had nothing to do?

Joe Biden had nothing to do with Hunter's business deals? And Abby Lowell is saying, Listen, I don't know what's going on over on that side, but I can tell you from my side, from our client, he had nothing. He didn't share any money with his dad. He didn't share any business deals with his dad. There was no connection from our client to the White House, which is an entirely different narrative than we'd heard from the Biden White House.

And I want to get that new narrative, but how great is this? I mean, I was pointing this out: that Trump sat down with Megan Kelly for over an hour, and then he sat down with NBC's Kristen Welker from Eat the Press, and that was obviously contentious. He doesn't care. He just does it.

So here's a clip.

So she actually asked this question, Trace, as if to say, This shows. Megan or Kristen? Kristen.

Okay.

This shows. That it's equal. Justice is equal. Mr. President, can you continue to say that there are two systems of justice?

Well, I think there's no question about it. He had a plea deal that was the deal of the century. The art of the deal. You could write a book on it, The Art of the Deal. And all of a sudden, that was broken up by a judge who was able to, a brilliant judge, actually, who was able to see through what was happening.

And it's a sad situation. I mean, nobody should be happy about this. But she actually thought, well, this equals the playing field, she'd get him on that. Does it They're unmoored in the facts around them and where this is heading. Right.

And by the way, I think it's a great idea for a book, The Art of the Deal. I mean, I think somebody should remember that. No, yeah, maybe not. But it seems like a catchy. Yeah, I just want to push back on that.

Yeah, I mean, I just am amazed, Brian. I mean, you know, people talk about why shouldn't he go in the debate?

Well, he was pointing out last night, why would I go in the debate? Nixon didn't go in the debate. You know, some of these people who were guaranteed to win, they weren't going to go in the debate because they were so far ahead. And it's a good point, but it doesn't matter because he could go in the debate. He could stand there, not say a word, and then he would still go up three points.

He can go on four points. He went up four points. That's the whole thing: Trump is now at 60. The latest poll, Trump's at 67, and you have the rest of them, DeSantis and Ramos. They're either running in place, Brian, or they're running backwards.

They just cannot gain any traction. And he sits there and does these things and goes on social media and continues to resonate. And you're thinking people are latching on to something they think is wrong in this country, and they think. That he's the elixir.

So, Trace, I'm sure you noticed there's been quite a few Democrats who suddenly realize that Joe Biden is old. Yeah. Yeah. And that Vice President Harris is not good. Right.

Why all of a sudden are people realizing this? Because the clock is ticking and they're getting closer to the election and they see the numbers and they see when 70% of the population doesn't like the economy, it's a problem. And when you have, you know, even Democrats 60 plus saying, yep, he's too old, including from his own party, and they're taking little kind of snipes and side shots at him on all of these different shows, you know that they are looking for a remedy, an alternative. And right now, there just doesn't appear to be a good remedy. But they all recognize the thing that we recognized two years ago, which is he's not fit for this position.

Right. I thought this was hysterical. Jamie Raskin, the day after Anderson Cooper can't get Nancy Pelosi to say that Kamala Harris is a good Vice President, then we have this, Cut twenty one. Do you think Kamala Harris is the best running mate for President Biden? That's President Biden's choice, and I think she's an excellent running mate for President Biden.

I don't know what more needs to be said about that. I actually think it's a pretty simple question. Do you think Amala Harris is the best running mate for President Biden? Yes or no? I mean, I don't know what else I can say other than she is an excellent running mate and an excellent vice president.

I don't know whether President Biden has named his running mate. We're going to a convention next summer. It's a year away from now. Um and we're going to go through that process. What the hell is going on?

Are you going to nominate a vice president in the summer of next year, really? Yeah, it's just not going to happen. And I think Jimmy Raskin must go home at night thinking, why are they putting me doing every single day? I have to say something to cover somebody's backside, and I'm always the guy to do it. I look ridiculous, whether it's, you know, whether it's Devin Archer coming in and testifying, and I've got to go out there and say, nope, Deb, nothing wrong with that thing, or whether they're asking me about Vice President Kamala Harris.

They know the answers. Everybody knows the answer is obvious, that she is not the person, that her ratings are lower than the president's ratings, which is saying something because he's at 41%, she's down at 39%. These are historic lows, and they send these people out to try and back him up. And they can't, I mean, without saying, yep, she's the best, you can't do it.

So you try to kind of work. You can do it. You can. You can. And you say, yeah, she's doing great.

I know. She is so smart. That's what I thought. Unless you want her out. They go, we can't move Joe.

But we move her to reassure the American people that when Joe Resigns after he wins the election. Yeah. We got somebody else there. Right now, everybody knows that she can't do the job, especially Democrats. Yeah, I mean, listen, it's a great point because everybody knows that Kamala Harris is a liability.

The question becomes: how in the world do you separate from Kamala Harris and bring somebody else in? How do you do that? How do you navigate that? How does Joe Biden? I mean, does Joe Biden decide he's going to preemptively pardon his son, right?

And then say, okay, I'm out of the race. I'm going to pardon my son. I'm going to let somebody else take the mantle. Who knows what's going to happen in the next three or four or five months? But I'll tell you, something's going to happen.

Somebody is going to come on the scene who is a bold person in the Democratic Party and say, you know what, it's time to move on and they're going to make a decision. I think someone has to pressure Joe to step aside. I don't think there'll be a Ted Kennedy situation or Barack Obama, the insurgency campaign over Hillary. No.

No.

You mean you're here thinking, oh, Michelle Obama's going to run. No, these are. She's never said that. No, and that's what I'm saying: these are all, this is nothing. This is fictitious.

What's going to happen is some major player is going to say, okay, we need to have a talk. And whether we go forward and Joe Biden does something where he comes out and says, Says, you know, I've decided that in the best interest of my family, I'm going to stand behind so-and-so and so-and-so. My intention was always to be a four-year president. That was the thing. My intention was to get it away from those MAGA extremists, and I've done that.

I've achieved my goal. I'm the greatest president who's ever lived, and I'm going to step aside and I'm going to go to the next one. But the minute he says that, he becomes invisible.

So he'll wait for that for the longest time.

So here's Dave Ignatius. He didn't just stop at Joe Musco. Cut uh twenty-four. This combination of Joe Biden at the top of the ticket, and the polls show people feel uneasy about somebody who's 82 serving another four-year term. The combination of that and people's uneasiness is reflected in polls about the Vice President succeeding him.

Time is running out. In another month, it's going to be too late to have this conversation.

So I thought before it was locked in stone, it was worth at least raising. And he went on to say the American people Have not Embraced Kamala Harris. He has attributes. We just haven't seen them. Yeah.

And I think what. The biggest read of all of this is all of these Democrats are kind of looking at the new polls, and they're actually seeing that Trump's moving up, and he's not only moving up against his own party, Brian, he's moving up against Joe Biden. And that's the whole thing is they had Biden up by three or four points a couple of months ago, and now they are dead even. And in six months or eight months, it might be Trump up by five.

So their biggest fear is that all of this stuff, all of these indictments, all of these things, we're going to give Trump the nomination, right? But not give him the presidency because Biden could beat him again.

Now the thinking is not only have they given him the nomination, but they've given him a leg up on Joe Biden, and that's the most dangerous thing in the world in their estimation.

So right now, head to head, Trump beats Biden by two on the Fox Poll. Right. Head to head. Vivek Ramaswamy beats Biden. Head to head, Nikki Haley beats Biden, and so does Mike Pence, all in the margin of error.

Right. And that's the whole thing: when you see they're all beating Joe Biden, I mean, listen, some of those things you can think: well, I think if you really had Mike Pence going against Joe Biden, it's going to be a battle, right? I just have a hard time believing that Mike Pence is going to beat. I have a hard time believing that Vivek Ramaswamy is going to beat Joe Biden. But I have an easy time believing that Nikki Haley could beat the president.

I have an easy time believing that the former president could beat the current president.

So, I mean, the polls are, the polls are shifting. That's the big news for the Democrats: the polls are shifting, and they are starting to get very concerned because we're not even into the heart of the campaign. If they're shifting now in the pregame, if you're doing the pregame and the polls are shifting, when game time comes, those polls could shift even faster, and then there's no way to get out of it. Trace Gallagher is here. When we come back, we find out if Trace needs to know more.

Expanding your knowledge base, it's the Brian Killmeat Show. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Kilmead. Hey, we are back. Trace Gallagher's here in from Los Angeles. We did not pay for his travel, but we are taking advantage of the fact that he is in studio.

His show is every night at 11 o'clock, Fox News at night. And tell you what, Trace, you're going to be on One Nation this weekend. It airs for the first time in a new slot at 9 p.m. Love it. Right after Mark Levin.

Love it. One Nation, by the way, is paying for dinner tonight at the end of the day. Yeah, so I'm happy about that. Hey, Allison, can you confirm that? That is on our budget.

It's going to be good. Apparently, there's a two glass of wine minimum on One Nation. I didn't know it was across the board. Gotcha. Hey, let's find out if there's more to know.

Okay.

More. To know. All right, so Trace, I'll begin.

So here we go. This guy tells the story of going to Los Angeles to a party. And tell me, since you live there, if this happens a lot. He said, when I arrived for the party, a naked woman holding a glass of wine filled with hibiscus tea greeted me at the door. Inside, I could see everybody was naked, 15 people in the backyard.

He asked, Should I take my clothes off? She said yes, and he did, and he felt comfortable. Your reaction: I don't know where this guy's been. Every party I've been to in the past two years is that true. Everybody just did a wife.

I haven't been to a clothing party in God knows how long. Listen, I like to see my wife walk around the house naked a little bit, Brian. Beyond that, I don't want to see anybody naked. I don't want to see anyone. I don't want to see my friends.

I don't want to see you. I don't want to see anybody walking around naked. And I'm not sure the whole world wants to see me walking around naked.

So if I get to the door and they say, listen, drop clothes over there, I don't want to take my shoes off when I go to somebody's house. Right. I said I was among 26 people who paid $150 to experience a. Foodie? Is that how you say it?

A foodie plant-based gathering that invites people to leave their inhibitions and self-doubt and clothing behind. I would eat a lot more than just tea. Why can't they just spell it F-O-O-D-I-E if you're going to do foodie? What is this? F-U-D-E?

Food. Fude. I know. I'm not sure. Naked.

That's naked. Tell me the next story on your list. The next story is: public parking spot leads to a heated fight between homeowners, driver rudest, blank, starts with an S, ends with a T. I've ever seen. Steve Haas is visiting your friend in Santa Clarita, California, when he found a note from a neighbor that read, Please do not park in front of our home.

Thank you. I'm parked at my homeboy's crib, and I get this letter.

So I went and knocked at the door and asked why. It's a public street, and he says she owns this parking spot. She owns it. Listen, when you're in California, Brian, the whole concept here is parking is tough. Everybody's got a car, sometimes two cars.

And if there's a spot on your street that you park every night, you own it. The other thing is, do you feel it's rude to park right in front of somebody's house anyway? Never. Unless you park in their driveway, I don't want to park in your driveway, but if you're right in front of the house and the curb is open, I'm parking there. You go to athletic events for your kids and you're in neighborhoods, you park there.

Next. All right, get this. And I don't know if this happens in the LA Bureau. 501 and done. Patience for after-hour work socializing is wearing thin.

After initial burst of post-pandemic happy hours, people are now going home. U.S. workers say they're trying to draw thicker lines between work and rest.

So this is a study that's done. Is this a good trend? I think the trend is based on the fact that nobody works a five-day work week anymore.

So in essence, you're already partying three or four nights a week because you're only working a couple of days. And then when you get to work, your cohorts are saying, hey, let's go have a drink. And you're thinking, listen, I'm drinking seven nights a week. I can't do this anymore. Trace, that's a theory.

I have another one.

Well, people get in so much trouble these days about the accusations and scandals of being canceled. You might be saying, do I need this? And I think that the last theory on this is that Uber rides are now like $100 to go a mile.

So it doesn't matter. In California, you pick up an Uber or a Lyft. It's expensive. And nobody wants to go out drinking and take an Uber. Bill Maher has announced his show's coming back without writers.

How big a story is this in Los Angeles? Drew Barrymore, too. Drew Barrymore, I'm not really sure about. I think, does she have writers? She's coming back.

Okay, she's coming back. I mean, maybe it'll be better without the writers. I have no idea. But is the strike a big deal in Los Angeles? It's a big deal.

I mean, it's a big deal because it's an entertainment-focused industry. I mean, that's the city is kind of built around that for the most part. It used to be aeronautics, now it's entertainment. And I think thanks, Brian. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show.

Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, I'm Brian Kilmeat. I'm so glad you're here. Brian Kilmey Chill, final hour of the week.

So glad you've been here all week long. It's not been a great week for the President of the United States, no doubt about it. He's got an indictment inquiry, and now he's got an impeachment inquiry, now he's got an indictment to deal with. I'm going to talk about the economy that the president's proud of, but the American people, he's underwater. He's under 40% approval.

David Bonson on that. And Chad and Bream, fresh off a one-year anniversary, doing a great job on Fox News Sunday. But first, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. I like the idea of really. Going after the source of the problem. But if you don't change your asylum rules, they're going to keep coming.

If you can get to our border and put one foot in the United States, you never get deported. Ha ha ha. Getting worse. The border is seeing record numbers with the latest surge from Africa. Dems are joining Republicans, expressing peril and outrage.

But no one is doing anything at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Number two. Do you think Kamala Harris is the best running mate for President Biden? That's President Biden's choice. I actually think it's a pretty simple question.

I mean, I don't know what else I can say other than she is an excellent running mate. Yeah. Why is that a hard question? New polls, Fox polls, show a trend away from Biden and to Trump and many Republicans. It's causing panic on the left, and maybe that's why they are no longer endorsing Kamala Harris, because they can't get rid of Joe, but they can't get rid of her.

Number one. That's one of about a dozen crimes. that Hunter Biden's committed. And ironically, that's the one crime that he committed that you cannot tie Joe Biden into. We'll see what happens with the other 11 or so crimes that the president's son's committed.

Yeah, and that is Jamie Comer. We're talking about the gun charge. He's indicted on the same charge, on one charge that Joe had nothing to do with.

So let's get to the truth on taxes. Let's get to the truth on overseas business dealings and seeing how much we got for the big guy. The big woman joins us now. She's not a big woman, but she's powerful. That's what I mean by big.

1106 is my guest, Shannon Bream. Hey, Shannon. Are you referring to my bench press? Yes. Or my squats.

I don't know. What do you do? Do you do both? I do unfortunately because of the mean trainer I paid to make me do them. Do you do free weights or do you do one of those machine free weights?

I prefer free weights myself. What about you? Is it a man? Yes. So I let him yell at me and tell me to do stuff.

So it's good. He doesn't yell. He's actually very good. Does he live with you? He does not.

That's a strange question to ask. By the way, though, during COVID, when we couldn't go to the gym, he would come and in our driveway would set up all of these workout stations and we would just it didn't matter if it was thirty degrees, we would just work out outside. Right. And you paid him. Yes, I do.

I pay him for the privilege of making me do stuff. That is great. First off, your reaction. Uh maybe you could help me with this. First off, earlier in the week.

The Impeachment Inquiry. I can't see exactly what changed. Maybe you, the lawyer, could.

Well, I think it's just the formal launch of this with the Speaker giving it his full formal pledge of, all right, let's move this thing forward.

So you've got the three committees, obviously all controlled by Republicans at this point in the House, that are each going to have their lane that they're going to handle, ways and means and oversight and judiciary. They've all got prongs. They say they can work together well, and they're committed to doing it. And now they have the Speaker's blessing.

So, what changes? They're still in their committees. We're not seeing any impeachment. I don't necessarily have any power, right?

Well, they will have subpoena power. They had some of that anyway as committee chairs and as committee leaders.

So what this does is formalizes it.

So the White House has said this whole time, like, we want to work with you, we want to do documents. You know, McCarthy's kind of calling their bluff, like, well, no, you didn't work with us. And so these committees are now going to have the power to handle this as an impeachment inquiry. And most people believe in Washington, like, once you start that, there's really only one way that it ends, which is probably in an impeachment trial. You know, and people wonder here in Washington, do you spend all that political capital?

Because it's going nowhere in the Senate. But is the whole purpose of it to have a juxtaposition of, okay, President Trump is sitting in all these various trials, he's in these courtrooms, he's being dragged in there during the campaign year. All right, we're going to drag the current president, which is probably going to be his head-to-head competitor, so that people can watch these two different trials and see two men who have some real issues to deal with as they try to get back to the White House. Usually the issues were psychological and emotional. Our issues are actually legal now.

And I think maybe some of the other. Yes, okay. Shannon, what about this letter that Fox News Digital got? That the White House issued a memo that urged news outlets to ramp up scrutiny on the impeachment inquiry on Republicans. The White House memo included a 14-page fact check of Republican claims made throughout the Biden investigation.

It went to the New York Times, CNN, other outlets. That's unbelievable to me. Is it to you?

Well, it's not surprising. They have been bracing for this. I think they knew this was a very strong possibility and that it was coming, and they want to make their case. And so they're going directly to the media. You know what it reminded me of?

If you remember years ago, I don't think that Vice President Harris was on the ticket yet, but she was running. And we got this memo from all these groups that said, We're going to be watching you. And if you criticize her, it's sexist and it's racist. And we're going to call you out. This memo they sent to the media.

So it kind of made me feel like that. Like somebody else wants to tell us how to do our jobs. Uh Crazy.

So yesterday we found out about another problem Joe Biden has. It was expected. Hunter Biden's gun charge. He had a gun. He bought it and filled out a form saying he had no drug problem.

And no criminal past. And he had the drug. And we later find out that his girlfriend at the time, who was Bo's former wife, he passed away. She got nervous. He was going to kill himself, reportedly, and she threw it in a dumpster.

When he got word on that, evidently the Secret Service dug it out. Obviously, a carnival of a drug-addicted life got it.

So yesterday he was charged. But James Comer said, Are you kidding me? This is nothing, cut one. That's one of about a dozen crimes that Hunter Biden's committed. And ironically, that's the one crime.

that he committed that you cannot tie Joe Biden into.

So we'll see what happens with the other 11 or so crimes that the president's son's committed.

So, what's next?

Well, remember, every time we've pressed for answers about is this it, is there more to it, remember when the parties, the DOJ and Hunter Biden and his team, were in court, there was conversation about, oh no, there's ongoing investigation. There's something else.

So is it the FARA violations? Would there be allegations that there's something nefarious with the way that foreign governments are being represented by Hunter or foreign entities or foreign money flowing in? We just can't get a straight answer, but we are continually told there's more. Like this is not a closed investigation. Listen, the statute of limitations is run on a lot of the tax charges, so we've got the gun thing now, but are there other avenues that Justice Department is pursuing?

We've been led to believe there is something else. Yes. And what would that something else be knowing that he could file in Los Angeles? Yeah, well, again, does it get to him improperly registering to represent foreign entities? Is it something like that?

You know, critics of Hunter Biden will say that laptop was full of all kinds of things that they would like to dig further into. At the same time, you know, White House defenders and Democrats will say, you've been searching, you found no smoking gun that directly ties President Biden to any, you know, illegal transactions or to being fully involved in Hunter's business.

So they say they feel confident moving forward that impeachment is going to look like nothing but politics.

Well, here's his attorney. He does not think that this is anything. This is all politics. Cut for it. This office has never brought a charge like this against anybody.

When they are bringing this charge, it's either because somebody has had the gun in the commission of a crime. They have bought multiple guns, they are a straw purchaser for somebody else, or they're a felon in possession. None of that is true about Hunter Biden. Is it unusual to hear to get a charge like this? Yeah.

But if you will read what our buddy Andy McCarthy has written up on this in the last day or two, he says, actually, more of these things should be charged. I mean, the laws are on the books. If we're not charging them, that's one thing. And so, yes, this is not something that happens every single day, but it is, you know, in complete agreeance with the law and what's on the papers. You remember, again, back in July when they had that hearing before the judge, when she started to sort of ask questions and the things started to fall apart, she said, Yeah, I've had people who are struggling with addiction who've come through with charges on these issues.

So she was kind of seeming to say it. And she said, I'm not trying to tell you how to do your job, but I have seen cases that are similar in some ways to this one, kind of suggesting you can't just say he was an addict, he was out of control, this thing happened, and it doesn't get charged.

Sometimes it does, and this time it did. Who's on your show this weekend? I have got Elise Stefanik and Rochana, so both sides of the aisle represented in the House as they have the impeachment fights, the spending fights. Are we headed to a government shutdown? Lots to talk about with them.

We'll also have the vape Ramaswamy with us as some new polls. He's very happy about them, although everybody is a long way back from President Trump.

So, what does it mean? He's got some foreign policy stuff that people feel is pretty controversial.

So, we'll dig into that. And not to mention here in D.C. his very unpopular position that he's going to get rid of a million federal workers. Wow. So, here we go.

Now You're going to watch this over the next few weeks, a Democratic attack on seemingly this ticket, Kamal Harris and Joe Biden. Dave Ignatius, Joe Scarborough. I'm watching CNN talk about a list of all Joe Biden's lies, and then they know Harris would be the next up, and there's a problem with that. Jamie Raskin went after him and listened to Nancy Pelosi. Is Vice President Camilla Harris the best running mate for this president?

He thinks so, and that's what matters. And by the way, she's very politically astute. I don't think people give her enough credit. People shouldn't underestimate what Come on, Harrisbrings to the table. But do you think she is the the best?

Running mate though? She's the vice president of the United States. People say to me, Well, why isn't she doing this or that? I say, because she's the vice president. That's the job description.

You don't do that much. What? Yeah. That's an interesting take. Right.

I do think that we all know the vice presidents give their really difficult, sort of intractable assignments. They do often. Regardless of party, they get stuff that's hard to get done. But but the fact that she would not endorse her and say that she's the future and well, her ratings, as we all know, are worse than the President's and he has not had good ratings through the vast majority of the men. You weren't shocked when you saw that?

What? That Nancy Pelosi said not really into the vice president? No, no, no. I do think for her to be publicly doing that in the leadership role that she's in is like, well, she's on the ticket. She's the current vice president.

He thinks she's the best option. You know, that's not a ringing endorsement. But Democrats know they've got a problem there, so what do they do? I mean, like you mentioned, David Ignatius' piece, he wasn't just saying President Biden shouldn't run. He was also, he went to that next level and said, yeah, not the vice president either.

So we're going to watch you on Sunday. We've been on the street. We're going to watch you on Saturday. But now I'm on at 9 o'clock. Does that make you feel like you're a new friend?

Yeah, does that make it easier for you? My DVR is set no matter what.

Now, I go to bed earlier. But I'm going to try to still watch most of your show before I go to bed. Would you DVRing it? Right, so I always have a backup. Great.

So, do you have people over when I'm on? And do you make it like a big party? I do, but then it's sort of hard to get them out of the house. I'm like, I gotta go to bed because I'm getting up at 4 o'clock, which is sleeping in for Brian Killmead. I know.

By 90 minutes. All right.

Shad and have a great show. Congratulations on a great year. Thank you, my friend. See you Saturday, then see you Sunday. Go get them.

Bye. Back in a moment. Honest commentary, unique opinions, no agenda. It's Brian Kilmead. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it, you're with Brian Kilmead.

I were back, chaos in New York, and I'm not going to make the mistake I did yesterday. I got some of my email. I'm from people from Arizona. Brian, stop saying that you're in the epicenter and the target point for this illegal immigrants' problem. Listen, you're right.

Arizona, you got it worse. You're getting 2,000 dumped into your cities every day, 7,000 in Texas.

Okay.

Having said that, when they leave the border cities, this is the worst. And it got so bad at Roosevelt Hotel here. There was a press conference with AOC and others, and counter-protesters showed up, and people are strewn everywhere. The Roosevelt Hotel was shuttered, they opened it up. People don't work.

They just live there. They have three meals a day there. There's chaos going on. We have nowhere to put these people. And there's no answers.

And AOC has been invisible. Chuck Schumer, MIA, listen to what just went down. But I think these are folks that will take New York City to a better place. Every crisis presents great opportunity. There's hope and opportunity in this building.

So I wanted to thank all my colleagues for coming. As you can see, this is a contentious issue. But we are all Americans. And we all believe in the American greed. That's the common denominator here, the American greed.

We believe in it. And we will fight for it. With that? Ultimately, I think that there are three points of consensus here that are very important in getting a solution to this issue. The first is that there is consensus here across geography and states on increased federal resources to cities of.

Municipalities dealing with this issue. The second is to allow for work Authorizations.

So that the folks in here can get to work and start supporting themselves as soon as possible. They are prevented from getting jobs, they are prevented from employment, and that is part. Yeah. The faster that folks can access the work that they're asking for legally, the better you can solve this problem. And the third is extension of temporary protected status for Venezuelans who are the largest population that are arriving here.

So, with that, we thank you all. And should I let go? Wow. In New York City. As bright blue as it gets, they are screaming close the border.

She actually says, Just get us more money. and also let them work. The problem. Of giving them ability to work. Is that if you just up the magnitude of the magnet, people will be coming from everywhere.

You think it's bad right now? It'll be off the charts. That's the time, that's the type of short. That's the type of short scope thinking that will totally make things worse. And she's terrible.

She was down at the border dressed in all white, screaming as people are in cages. And guess what we saw in Arizona? We have illegal immigrants in wired fences. because we have nowhere to put them in the middle of a open field. Is that the cages that Barack Obama claimed that Donald Trump put everybody in when it was really him?

Those are the cages that had AOC crying three years ago? No, there were fences to control the same way they were back then. It is insane, which has taken place in New York. And I'll tell you. I just love it because it's their policies that started it.

Eric Adams got blamed by the White House. He says, you have no long-term plan. Listen to this, Cut 33. It is ridiculous to say Eric Adams is anti immigrant. My administration is reflective of probably the most diverse group of first time, first generation.

It's ridiculous to state that Eric and his team has not been on the forefront Here he goes on, cut 34. And it's an insult to the hardworking New Yorkers in government and New Yorkers. New York City taxpayers and civil servants have carried the burden of a global issue on our backs. are long for the most part. It is not a global issue.

It is an American issue. And you are dumping people everywhere. The latest place was Staten Island. Cut thirty five, veto for Sala. We are here to ask the judge in this case to do what the mayor and the governor have not, and that is hear us out, to hear our case as to why St.

John Villa Academy is the worst possible location for a migrant shelter. We need to have accountability in this process, and we have not received any from the city of New York. We've said this multiple times, and I'll say it again. I am the son of immigrants. My parents came here for the American dream.

They worked hard and they achieved it. We are not anti-immigration. Right. And you can't just dump people in a borough without telling them, especially when it's not equipped to handle the illegal immigrants. Back in the morning.

Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. In terms of the trend in inflation, I think we probably have a disagreement there as well. The trend in the PCE, the trend in the CPI, whether you look at headline or core, and in fact, well, it's not here anymore, but that draft that was just there showed a very clear trend in the year-over-year CPI. If you take the more timely, say, three-month analyzed average, then you see an even clearer result.

Inflation is easing. It continues to ease. Is that the case? David Bonson's here from the Bonson Group. You know, he's the managing partner and chief investment officer of the Bonson Group.

David, good to see you. Wanted to get a real economic expert in. I think Jared Bernstein does a good job communicating, but is he working with the right numbers?

Well, look, when it comes to the issue of inflation, it's a trickier one. There's so many data points that they're lying about, they're distorting, that are truly negative in the economy. If he's simply stating, as a matter of fact, the rate of inflation has come way down, that's obviously true. What's ironic is the one thing that's holding it up right now is energy prices, which is probably the only thing they actually have control over. See, I'm really critical of the administration for a lot of things economically.

I never believed the inflation was mostly their fault. I think it was partially their fault. Even the big spending stuff, really, I've always said, and I said it on your show before, I thought the bulk of the inflation came from them shutting down the economy and then reopening it. Demand was normal and supply wasn't, and that pushed prices up. And then Biden did things to make it worse.

I think labor shortage was a big problem. But now the energy thing is fascinating to me because you have food prices that are year-over-year flat. You have many categories, used auto prices, for example, are deflated. They can't take any credit for it because the energy prices have gone up. And now at $90 oil, you're looking at much higher gas prices.

Do you think that the rescue package, the infrastructure package, do you think the Inflation Reduction Act played a significant role? You don't think it plays a significant role in the inflation that we're experiencing? The Inflation Reduction Act, which came after the inflation had been there, played no role in reducing inflation. No, that's what I mean. Do you think it added to the inflation?

I don't think it added to the inflation. I think a lot of people believe that the first spending bill, which was that $2,000 that President Trump wanted to do, that Biden ended up doing, and I thought it was completely ridiculous. It was in April of 21, and they added $1,400 a month to people's pockets. There was a whole lot of money sloshing around. And if we're just being fair, a bunch of it was before this administration, a bunch of it was after, and I think a bunch of it was reckless.

But the inflation to me was really because of a shortage of goods and services. And so that part is to me a bit more nuanced. The problem I have with what he's saying is bidenomics to define It is a success, we have to know what its goals are. And it seems to me the United Auto Workers would say it isn't a success. And he's the most friendly union president in history.

What is it that they're after that would determine it's a success? Real wages are down. That's the standard for a presidency. It has been. 100% of the time when real wages grow, presidents get reelected.

100% of the time when they don't, presidents don't.

So I think median income has lost $4,000 from it went down, it went from $74,000 to $70,000. Real median income, meaning net of inflation. Right. But the average person, I guess, down $4,000.

So these guys, this whole auto strike, now we have 150,000 auto workers who are threatening to strike, and they are doing a, I guess, wave strike. They are going to pick different plants in order to do that.

So it's already begun because these two are that far apart. How much of this seems to be about the EV?

Well, it's a huge part of it, and it also is the part that is going to become the biggest problem for President Biden because it's the solution, right? He can really pacify the upset blue-collar workers in the unions that are so frustrated. They probably could accept the awful offer of a 20% pay increase. They're turning down a 20% pay increase. They probably could accept that without all these EV things lingering.

Who is President Biden going to make upset? AOC or the unions? Because he's going to have to pick.

Well, yeah. And a lot of these, the EVs, for example, Ford, are deciding to open up their plants in right-to-work states.

So, this is where they can avoid the union situation. And it's a different skill set to build batteries and cars as opposed to the horrible combustion engines. Yeah, well, and so that's exactly what Musk has done, although he seems to be catching all of them, right? Nevada and Texas. I mean, you see where Tesla's gone, but I think it's the big automakers that aren't using.

Yet, really, that present in the electric vehicle space that want to grow significantly, that are being told they have to grow significantly, that have mandates to basically get out of combustion engine, as you say. They're not going to do more of that in these non-right-to-work states. They will grow in the places it makes the most sense to do business.

So, there's a real pickle here.

Now, look, if I were trying to solve it, I'd have enemies too. It's just that they're natural enemies, right? Like, in other words, they're people that wouldn't much like me, anyways, whether it's the radical environmentalist or whatnot. President Biden's problem is that, and the whole left is in a pickle here because they're going to have to pick between a natural constituency and another natural constituency. They're not going to please both of them.

All right.

Here's more from Jared Bernstein. He has no problem with his oil production. Cut 45. Gas prices are a large part of the increase we saw in the CPI. Then why is the President then restricting future growth of the oil industry?

He made the decision in or the Interior Department made the decision in Alaska just last week. American oil production now is at an all-time high. It's just below 13 million barrels a day. There are thousands of available permits, places where oil companies could drill. They've been highly profitable.

They've been highly productive.

So I don't think that's the problem. Yeah, you know what they do, and I got to be honest, there's always a little bit of truth. It's not like a total out-of-line, but then it's a spin because, first of all, getting up to like $12.7 million a day ignores the fact that they were running at $10.5 million, $11. They were running a couple million below for a while. And now it has come higher, but trend line, that's an all-time high.

But trend line is nowhere near. To price demand and supply accordingly, we need to be about 13.5, maybe 14. And I know that's true because Biden told me when he went to Saudi Arabia, it begged them to produce more. And when he went to Venezuela, it wanted them to produce more.

So the Biden administration knows they need more production. They've not denied that. They've gone to enemies and asked them to do it. How crazy is it? It's crazy.

It's nuts. And we do it cleaner. We well, we definitely do it cleaner. We definitely do it more economic leverage, but we also do it more geopolitical leverage.

So it represents a kind of hedge against the autocratic control of Middle Eastern enemies and Russia. Refineries are an issue, correct? And there is a refinery, I think, in the Caribbean that we could unmothball and get going. Yeah, and we could also start you know, part of the problem with the politics is, Brian, is we talk about things and like I want to you and I want to criticize them. Like, go do this tomorrow.

But, you know, it takes years in advance. That's the big issue at Keystone. They say, well, it's not taking any oil offline.

Well, okay, but we're talking about years down the line. Do markets look forward or look day to day? They're forward-looking mechanisms. But what Jared Bernstein did not address is strategic petroleum reserve. Oil is $90.68 a barrel right now.

It was $67 a barrel for a couple months just five minutes ago. And they bought back 3 million barrels out of 300 million. There's a massive need to refill Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The only reason oil prices came down even from above 100 back down to 70 was because of what they were manipulating with SPR, and they did nothing to re-fortify that.

So they have left our energy policy in a very precarious position. And this has massive, like you said, environmental, but also geopolitical and certainly economic implications.

So I was a couple of people who own dealerships have written me and said, Do you realize how devastating it's going to be if this strike continues? It's basically rippling now. It's a wave. And he says, you know, we already had a hard time getting new cars. Then we got cars where they weren't ready because they need missing chips, the supply chain.

Then people finally up to speed. Along with the shutdown of new vehicles will be the transport the transports too.

So they're not even going to be able to get anything transported to them on top of that.

So in all those dealerships across the country, that's going to make a huge difference. Jim Farley, who has been front and center for Ford, he's a really good face for them. This is what he said about the current situation, Cut thirty eight. There's no way we can pay people $300,000 to work four-day work weeks. We would have lost $15 billion and closed most of our plants in the last couple of years.

That's not a future.

So we're not going to do a deal like that. There's a different line, a line in between those two things. But you can't negotiate with yourself. And he says, up until they didn't even get a counterproposal. Last Friday, he was on with me saying, This is my proposal.

It's a lot better than everything else. Didn't get anything back. Yeah, I think it's important. For myself, as a movement conservative, I got to remember here, as critical as I am of the Biden administration for the fact that this position is happening and they've pretended to be this grid union wand holder. The fact of the matter is that unions are being completely unreasonable.

And that's the history with automotive. They don't care. They put them into bankruptcy once. They basically were companies that existed to pay legacy benefits, retirement and pension and employee health benefits.

Now, in this case, the requirements, the margins aren't there. You add to that the EV pressure and those that are trying to destroy the business the automakers are in. Jimmett Ford is right, and I appreciate him being willing to stand up and defend himself. They're all in a precarious position. They need to negotiate, and yet, honestly, the party they're negotiating with is being unreasonable.

He also says if you shut a plant down. We can't just turn it back on, cut 39. Just because a plant goes down doesn't mean it's going to come back up quickly.

Sometimes it takes days or weeks for a plant to come back up. We learned this from COVID, actually. And so this could be very destructive for the business. But also the UAW may get surprised along the way because it takes a long time for a plant to come up to speed.

Now we learned that from COVID with the plants. And by the way, back to our other topic on energy, we learned it with oil rigs. See, so Bernstein is saying we can get this production back up. You shut rigs down. Forty percent of rigs have closed this year.

All right.

You don't just flick a switch and turn them back on. That production takes time to ramp back up. All right, we're going to take a short time out. David Bonson's here. David, stick around.

We've got a few more questions. And also, look at where our economy is going right now: 34% approval rating amongst the American people, not Democrats or Republicans, American people, even though the President's running on it. What is he looking at? Don't move. Politics, current events, and news that affects you.

Brian's got a lot more to say. Stay with Brian Kilmead. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. We now have two inflation ports in a row where year over year the headline inflation number has gone up.

You couple that with real average hourly wages are actually down since the day President Biden took office about 3%.

So is that Biden Omics? Yeah, no, I think we have a disagreement on a fact there, so and we can certainly uh show you uh CEA's data on this. Uh real wages uh are up. relative to before the pandemic. They're up for all private sector workers and those wages are actually above the prepandemic level in real terms.

We just have a factual disagreement there. You know what? It's not a factual disagreement. What he just did there is so weird. I was talking about this on Karlo's show yesterday.

Why is he saying since before the pandemic? He wasn't president for over a year later. He's starting the game.

well before he was president. Real wages are down since he became president. Uh they're down significantly since the pre-pandemic high. And then he's taking an arbitrary uh date, which is I believe he's using February of twenty twenty, a year before he became president.

So they're not even close to the pre-pandemic high, and they're not even back to where they were when he took office. Is it possible to grow an economy from the bottom up?

Well, it depends what that means. I don't know what it means. Yeah, I mean, effectively, I would say if you mean bottom-up, that people wake up every day and go exchange goods and services and produce things for one another, and one buys, one sells, and they do economic exchange, and that creates economic growth.

Well, that's certainly true. But I think that when we talk about trickle-down, top-down, things like that, we're referring to the fact that generally there's companies that are hiring people and so forth. There's policies that affect it. Mostly, this is platitudes that don't make any sense, what they're saying. He said, what, bottom-up, then inside-out, and side in, and he used all these different things that didn't make any sense.

Biogenomics is going to be the most interesting possibility. Political experiment in a long time because I've never seen somebody, you know, like Bush ran for re-election in 04 on national security because he was pretty popular post 9-11. That kind of made sense. And there are different themes that Obama would have used or whatever when they ran for re-election. Biden looked at his approval ratings and took the lowest one and said, let's run on that.

Why is that? Like, what is he seeing?

Well, I'm not a conspiracy guy, so I hate saying what I'm about to say, but I do think it's not a total conspiracy. It's a little bit reasonable. But my personal guess, Brian, is that they believe the Fed's going to be accommodating going into the end of this year, early part of next year, and that right now they're going to be able to flip the narrative to say, okay, yeah, things have been a little tough. But then all of a sudden, the Fed magically starts cutting rates and loosening, and then it can help change the script.

Now, even that doesn't make a lot of sense to me because we learned from Bush Sr. back in the day when he ran against Clinton. An economic narrative gets baked in and doesn't go away in the year of an election. You know, like, I. I think that the economy in 1990 had hit its low point, and by 92, Clinton was still beating up Bush with it, even though it had really improved by then.

So it's a risky move, if I'm right, that that's what they're doing. But Janet Yellen is his Treasury Secretary. She was the Fed chair. The White House and this Federal Reserve have a very close relationship, a little creepy, in my opinion. And I suspect that the Fed is probably going to be an ally to the White House next year.

Well, and you mean cutting rates or just not touching it? Not touching it will be good enough. They're certainly not going to touch them. I can promise you that. They're not going to raise rates in the election year.

2016, they were supposed to raise four times. They raised zero. They didn't raise once. Because? Because it's an election year, and they don't want to be perceived as having their thumb on the scale.

So they just let rates stay at 0% for a whole nother year back in 2016.

Now, I don't know how severely they'll cut, but holding rates at 5.5% will be a form of tightening.

So. The president feels as always kind of he even said the Inflation Reduction Act, I really named it the wrong name. Yeah, we knew that, and people disparage you for bringing it. How dare you? No, it's going to reduce inflation.

He goes, no, it's really about green energy. Is he not getting enough credit on the left for totally putting all these subsidies into green energy, from wind to solar to infrastructure for electric cars?

Well, it's an interesting dynamic, and I always am hesitant to speak for the left, just like I wish that they sometimes wouldn't speak for me. But, you know, I think that they're frustrated that Build Back Better died. And so even though they did get green subsidies and they didn't. Can you imagine? Oh, it would, well, we wouldn't even be having the conversation.

I mean, it would just be an absolutely impossible scenario for him to even run or even finish this term. It would have been such a disaster. And in fairness, this is what I love about the American experiment. The reason Build Back Better didn't pass is not because we got lucky. And it certainly isn't because Biden backed down.

He can take credit for deficits having come down, but they only came down because he failed, not because he succeeded. But Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, that's why we didn't get Billback better because we have a form of government that kept it from happening. Joe Manchin, Kirsten Sinema. That's right. And guess who didn't do anything?

Senator John Tester, all these other people claiming to be moderates. And they should hang that around their heads when it comes to running in a red state. And Tester should lose over it. But what's interesting is Tester decided he didn't have to make the Democrats mad when it was going to fail, anyways. And I hate this.

I had Republicans tell me that they only voted against TARP back in 08 once they knew that it had the votes to pass, things like that. I believe that Tester really committed an act of cowardice that he should be thrown out of office. And that's why she, he could win there. And then you have Mike Rogers running in Michigan. Yeah.

And that could be, and we know that how popular Jim Justice is in West. West Virginia, you got a few seats that you conceivably flip. And Justice is going to win that seat. He's up by about 20.

So that makes me think Manchin might run no labels. We'll see. He says he's not going to. We'll see. The Bonson Group is where you invest.

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