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Welcome to the latest moments of the show. I hope you had a fantastic weekend. It was great hearing from everybody over the weekend. I always had a chance to go right outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Munhall, to meet everybody there. On Saturday, we made our way over to Grand Rapids, Michigan, the beautiful town of Holland, Michigan.

Great to see 600, 700 people come out to see everybody in person. And then it'll go over Wichita yesterday and found a way to avoid the weather and beat it in from the connection fight to Atlanta. Right over to LaGuardia and then back and ready to go today.

So, Matt Dolan's going to be with us. He wants to be the next senator from Ohio. He thinks that state is ready to make that seat red. We're going to talk about that and we're going to take your calls. But let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. In fact, our colleagues at 538 have looked at the historical data and found that no presidential candidate in history has ever been this far ahead in the national polls as Trump is at this point in the cycle and gone on to lose the nomination. Jonathan Carl pointing out on ABC how formidable Trump looks so far. We'll talk about that.

2024, it's getting exciting. A new poll has Haley within 15 points in New Hampshire and Trump opening up a huge gap in Iowa and nationally, and they're all beating Biden. Let's discuss it. Number two. Here's the bottom line.

We do have unacceptably high levels of civilian casualties. We see very loose rules of engagement, way looser than anything the United States would exercise. That is Senator Chris Van Hauen. He wants a big drawdown pullback by the Israelis. I say no.

Do not stop. That's my message to Israel and the IDF, despite the tragic deaths of the Israeli hostages this weekend, as the Biden administration flies in with their Secretary of Defense to tell Israel to wind it down. Number The time is now. The time for a national security package is now. In my district, it is pure chaos.

And people are upset. They're upset because their lives have been turned upside down. People in this country are furious at this open border crisis. And I'm not kidding. He's 100% right.

That is Republican Congressman Tony Gonzalez at the border in Uvalde. That's what he represents. And it is totally broken. The border is. It's not just me.

It's not just you. How about three-quarters of the entire American public who believe the border is in crisis and must be addressed? We bring you inside the talks that could mean a legit fix or at least temporary fix until we get a new president as the war efforts continue around the world, from Ukraine to Taiwan to, of course, Israel.

So let's take a look at the border. What we're talking about with that study is they asked people when it comes to the border, how do you view it? 79% said it's something that needs to be addressed and it's one of their top priorities. 79%, I think 35% said it's the number one crisis in America. And you can't say that that was the story when Donald Trump was there.

Right now, a Fox News poll said: what is the most important issue? Number one, economy, as usual. Number two is immigration the border. And you can't blame anybody else but Joe Biden for this.

Now he refuses to go, refuses to address it, but now he has Democratic Governors. Like the governor of Arizona saying that the federal government has failed. You have the Democratic mayor of New York saying the failure of the federal government to enforce the border has overrun our city. They're now at a cost of $7 billion annually. Then you have Congressman Aguar.

He is a Democrat who wants to be the next Senator from Arizona. He says something's got to be done. And then you have Senator Fetterman, all Democrats who have come out and said this is a crisis. This is out of control. He said this, did Fetterman.

It's a reasonable conversation about the border until somebody can say there's an explanation for what we do from what we can do with 270,000 people who are encountered on the border each month, not including the ones, of course, that we don't know about. To put that in reference, that is essentially the size of Pittsburgh, the second largest city in Pennsylvania. No-co-joke. Katie Hobbes, same thing. Ruben Gallego says, at a time of increasing arrivals to the border, the funding is crucial and the lack of transparency is unacceptable.

These are normally Republican statements. They're not Republican statements anymore. Listen to Lindsey Graham, cut four. 90% of the people who claim asylum are denied.

So, the initial, they're coming here for economic opportunity, not fleeing oppression. Under international law, you're supposed to apply for asylum in the first safe third country. 70% of the people would be denied asylum under international law, but Biden chooses to ignore the law. This is not people running for their lives. They're running here because the border is wide open.

They think if they get here making asylum claim, they never leave. Right, but what the crazy thing is, is that there are people on the left of Joe Biden that think he's already too tough on the border. Really? Seven million people here illegally. You have the number of people on the FBI most wanted list, wanted list, criminal list, not allowed in.

They've somehow come up and we still let them in. And listen to these two Democrats, Joaquin Castro and fellow Oh, the squad member, Congresswoman Jayapal. Cut one. The Democrats in the Senate and others who are considering supporting This proposal. If you do so.

you will be surrendering to right-wing racism. That's right. You will be enabling it. Really? Senate Democrats and the White House must not agree to these extreme demands.

So, some of those extreme demands sound like this: the first country you walk into when you walk out of yours, that's where you apply for citizenship here. You can't just come here because you want to. Number two, immediately return. Rapid return for people who come here illegally. If you do not fill out the app, if you do not reaffirm and go back on the asylum claims and restrict them, and if you don't go, if you do not get in and you try to come in anyway, you're immediately returned to your country.

These planes got to be lined up and it's got to be constant and consistent. You have to finish the wall, you have to add more border patrol, and you've got to have more processing facilities, processing them through and then right out. Those are some of the things that are being discussed right now. But sadly, the White House just now decided to get involved. Listen to Republican Congressman Tony Gonzalez, cut five.

I think it's a good start. I think the devil's in the details. When you start talking about deportation flights, I think, you know, are you talking about one flight? Are you talking about 20 flights? Are you talking about deportating only from along the border?

Are we talking in the interior as well? The credit borrow fear standard, I think that's an area that most people agree that we need to raise, and I think that's one. But are we going to add border patrol agents? If so, how many border patrol agents? And then the Senate is much different than the House.

The Senate is going to have its battle getting to 60 votes. The House is going to have its battle getting to 218. And right now, it's only the Senate involved. The House has gone home. You heard my interview with Kevin McCarthy, the former Speaker.

He said, I never would have let my guys go home.

So let's talk about what's happening with Israel. We saw the tragedy when three hostages either got loose, escaped, or got loose. They had a white flag in their hand, as Israel has reported, and the IDF still took them out. Even the one guy that survived, they've ended up finishing him off.

So white flag, no shirt. We're going towards the IDF, and they still get killed. Why? Because Hamas uses so many deceptive cruel tactics in order to kill as many people as possible. We witnessed on October 7th, and they are witnessing it on a daily basis.

I want to hear their side of the story, but there's no doubt about it. There are innocent people being killed. But that ship has sailed after October 7th. When you get rocketed on a daily basis and get massacred in one single day, you cannot allow that to be your neighborhood. You cannot let that stand.

And now we want to tell them to dial it back, finish it up, call it a day. That's not going to work. And I don't know what happens, but a two-state solution to what I have seen in my lifetime will never happen because the Palestinians do not want it. Hamas does not want it. They say they will keep on attacking.

They found it 500 miles, and there could be up to 800 miles worth of sophisticated tunneling. I mean, in one, there's a huge garage door. You have a huge train inside underneath Gaza. One of these tunnels went right to the border and to the other side of the border.

So you can imagine what risk the Israelis were at on a daily basis, and they did not even know it. I think you have to back Israel. I don't care what you have to say publicly to the Arab world. You have to back Israel. You got to tell the Allies to back Israel.

Stop losing your nerve. The fact that we're going over there, and it's leaked to the New York Times, we're going to tell them to start winding it down, I think, is wrong. Alan Dershowitz, a liberal Democrat. says this quickly there's only one thing you can do He says, you got to finish him off. You got to, you cannot live anymore with Hamas.

Alan Dershowitz also said, he's 80s, in his 80s, he said, if I was 25 or even 35, I would be over there with a gun in my hand fighting. And that's pretty much the feeling in the country. They're torn. They're torn by the over 100 hostages that are there, and they're torn by the fact that they know the scope of the attack on the 7th. I thought Bill Maher had a brilliant monologue.

He just put in perspective. how little any all these protesters know about the conflict over there. How what idiots they are to take on the Palestinian cause on a knee jerk reaction, or they're just being paid. Here's an excerpt from his monologue on HBO. And I just think he just nailed it, cut 13.

The Palestinian people should know your leaders and the useful idiots on college campuses who are their allies. Are not doing you any favors by keeping alive the river to the sea myth. Here's the river. Here's the C. Oh, I see.

It means you get all of it. Not just the West Bank, which was basically the original UN partition deal you rejected because you wanted all of it and always have. You attacked. and lost. and attacked again.

and lost. and attacked again. and lost. If I give you the benefit of the doubt and say your plan for a completely Jewless Palestine isn't that all the Jews should die, What is the only other option?

So evidently Joe Biden says Chris Kuhn says if you don't accept the two-state option, the two-state solution. You're not the solution. Can anyone pick up their head, look around, understand the. Short-term history of this negotiation, and how what an epic fail all of it was, and with Hamas in charge and able to survive, how bad this will be in a year or two.

Now you have this next generation of Americans who come up and don't sympathize or don't understand the alliance with Israel. Where are they going to be? The ultimate goal has to be to dislodge Israel from the U.S. And so far, in some ways, they are succeeding when you see all these demonstrations, many of these people getting paid against Israel. When we come back, I'll take your calls.

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A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead. Not a single voter has voted yet, but with just four weeks until the Iowa caucuses and five weeks until the first primary votes are cast in New Hampshire, it looks like Donald Trump has an insurmountable lead. At least if you believe the polls. In fact, our colleagues at 538 have looked at the historical data and found that no presidential candidate in history has ever been this far ahead in the national polls as Trump is at this point in the cycle and gone on to lose the nomination.

And people should feel good. If you're Donald Trump, I think his campaign's been tight. I think his team has been tight. But they jump on every single thing he says and want to immediately say, drum roll, please, he's Hitler, including over the weekend, where one of the stories was his capacity crowd, the fun he was having on stage. But then when he talked about what was happening at the border, he used terms to describe what many people thought Hitler would say.

What he's trying to say is they're not sending us their best. Everyone was upset by that. Then now they're saying that they're sending their prisoners. And they're talking about poison coming into our country.

So he wasn't out there quoting Hitler. He says the poison mental institutions in prisons all over the world, not just in South America, are coming here. Not just three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world.

So they announced that. They're coming to our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world. Right away, all the questions go to Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, everybody else, on what a racist Donald Trump is. And they, of course, Chris Kirstie believes that, so he'll jump all over it. Nikki Haley says this when she was getting berated about this, Cut 18.

I mean, he's running on retribution. He wants to go out and he talks about annihilating his enemies and using the criminal justice system to do so. What do you think of that? You guys are exhausting. You're exhausting in your obsession with him.

The thing is. The normal people aren't obsessed with Trump like you guys are. The normal people care about the fact that they can't afford things. They feel like their freedoms are being taken away. They think government's too big.

I know y'all want to talk about every single word he says and every single tweet he does. That's exactly why we need a new generational leader. Because people don't want to hear about every word a person says or every tweet. They want to know how you fought for them that day. And they want to know how their life is going to be different.

She actually was being us. She's exhausted. And the other thing I would say is, too, is. Everyone shut off from you. Jonathan Carl used to be somewhat reasonable, but he wrote this second book, and I know he wants to sell it, but he, it sounds like Liz Cheney.

He used to be, well, Trump's got a good point. Look at the polls. But now he's Hitler. They were saying that this language is Hitler.

Now you add a couple of people, staffers of Ben Corden, having gay sex on the House floor, the Senate floor. I think that's a pretty big story, but Donald Trump in an hour and a half speech in front of a capacity crowd used the word poison to describe the amount of people from all different countries that are pouring through our borders, and that becomes your obsession. When Nikki Halley's like, listen, this is why I'm better. What about Trump? This is what I would do.

What about Trump? What's going on? Why are you trailing Trump?

Okay. Why are you tough for him? Listen, this is my campaign. You're telling me how to campaign against Donald Trump? She has an approach, and she knows what you and I know.

That if you insult Donald Trump, his voters and supporters take it personal. That's no way to win over. If your objective is to get the nomination, you're not going to get the nomination that way. Here's Reinch Priebus. Cut nineteen.

She's trying to walk a fine line between not being too much anti-Trump, because the reality is Trump is sitting nationally at plus fifty in New Hampshire. He's about plus thirty.

So she has to figure out a way to prosecute her case in New Hampshire without alienating the rest of the country coming her way on Super Tuesday a few weeks after. The reality is that the Trump operation right now is making it very clear. If they win by plus 10 in Iowa, they're going to say we're the presumptive nominee. They're going to lay that groundwork. And then if they win New Hampshire by plus 10, they're going to demand to be declared the presumptive nominee.

And the pressure on the party, if that was to happen, I think it would be just enormous, and I don't think they'd be able to withstand that. I don't understand. Reince Previous used to run the party. Just don't give in. Donald Trump, I mean, since when?

If Donald Trump's getting you've got to go play this out and hit the threshold. Simple as that. Super Tuesday through Super Tuesday.

Well, understand it. I understand he wants to go for the knockout, but what kind of pressure is the party under? Just say no. We're going to be running these primaries all the way through.

So head-to-head of Nikki Haley in the latest poll in New Hampshire is only down by fifteen. Only in this election cycle, that's pretty significant. She's not going to win Iowa. It looks like Trump's got Iowa. If anyone's going to win Iowa besides Trump, it'll be DeSantis.

And if Nikki Helly gets close and she uses that momentum, along with the Governor Sununu and a lot of money pouring into New Hampshire, it might be close going into South Carolina. As Chris Sununu told us on Friday. He believes if people believe that Trump isn't inevitable, he'll be vulnerable. Right now, it looks like it's inevitable, but since when are we all married to the polls?

Something interesting too that DeSanta said. Little Democratic talking point.

So if Donald Trump loses, he's going to say it was stolen. And do we want to go through that again?

Sounds like Ron DeSantis knows that Iowa is his Waterloo. If they don't win it, or almost win it, they're done, and that's why he's going for the jugular. When we come back, Matt Dolan joins us. If the Republicans want the Senate, they need that seat. Can Matt Dolan deliver?

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He is an Ohio State Senator representing portions of the Cayuga County as well as a candidate for the U.S. Senate. He wants to dethrone Sherrod Brown, and he wants to get the Republican nomination first. He's locked in a pretty tough battle with two others, Moreno as well as LaRose. They all are within percentages of each other and with percentage points right next to Sherrard Brown.

For the Republican Party, it means everything. It could mean the balance of power in the Senate. It's one of the seats they think they should be able to win as Ohio goes more and more red. Matt Dolan, welcome back. Thank you, Brian.

Appreciate it. Thanks for having me. Matt, you didn't pick an easy primary to get through. What separates you?

Well, the first thing that separates me is I can be Sheriff Brown, and every poll has shown that I do come from the same county he comes from. I outperform President Trump in my own county, which means I can get conservative Republican voters and the all important independent voters. And look, Sheriff Brown only wins sixteen of our eighty eight counties.

So, to beat Sheriff Brown, you better have a conservative record, which I do, that appeals to the independent voter, which I've proven I've done, and cut right into those 16 counties. That's how you beat Sheriff Brown. I'm the only one in this race that can do that. Brown says he's a moderate. Do you have any proof of that?

Well, it must be campaign season if Sherrod Brown is saying he's a moderate, because my whole campaign since I've gotten in this is to go right after Sherrod Brown. And there's Washington Sherrod Brown, which is not a moderate, which wants to pack the Supreme Court, wants to have DC estate, wants to have late-term abortion, wants to raise our taxes, wants to take away border security. That's Washington Sherrod Brown. Ohio Sherrod Brown comes back and talks. Like everyday Ohioans.

He doesn't vote that way. He has never acted that way.

So it's my job as the candidate to go right up against his record. And I think the difference is they'll see someone in me who has a conservative record. I've cut taxes, reduced regulation, expanded school choice. I've done the things Ohioans want. Sheriff Brown has never had a candidate like me.

So when you look at your state, the biggest surprise in the last cycle was abortion. It passed giving everyone the right to an abortion in Ohio significantly. Yet your state is leaning more and more to the right. Obviously, a Republican governor, too. What did you learn from that?

Well, you learned that the independent voter in Ohio wants to restrict abortion, but they're willing to have a period of time in which abortion is allowed. And my opponents all want a six week ban on abortion. I have voted against that. I am for more of a fifteen week abortion with exceptions, which reflects most of Ohio.

So I think what we need to do as Republicans is say, look at all the things that I have done to help the pro life movement. I've put money into crisis pregnancy centers. We've increased our adoption. And those are things that are also pro life.

So we have to be reasonable, even though it's an emotional decision, reasonable, but also point to the fact that Republicans really are about Children, about protecting children, whether it's in the womb or when they get born, we want to take care of them.

So the one thing I did see in the latest poll is you do uh trail Brown. Obviously, it's with the Margaret, but you do trail him 47, 46. LaRose ties him. Uh Moreno uh loses by three. And Muchler loses by five.

So you're going to be in a tough fight for the primary. When is it, and what separates you from LaRose?

Well, first of all, the latest poll has a different outcome again with me and Sher Brown and has Frank Leros dropping considerably against Sher Brown. The primary is march nineteenth. And early voting starts February twentieth, so it'll come quickly after the holiday. Look, On a pure political Brian, I have the most cash on hand. I'm already up on broadcast TV, I'm on cable TV.

I have a statewide network and infrastructure. Frank LaRose can't raise money. He's sitting on $500,000 for a statewide race. He says he's battle-tested, yet he can't get the field staff. He can't get money.

And if you look at his performance in 22, when Governor DeWine got 63% of the vote and won in some of those key 16 counties I talked about earlier, Frank lost against a nobody who put no campaign up against him.

So the reality is, you know, Frank is not capable of running in this primary and will suffer against Sherrod Brown.

So there's two things. The top two issues, according to the latest Fox survey, that people care most about the economy. Number two is immigration. Have you been following what's happening there? How is Ohio affected by illegal immigration?

Have you seen it in your cities like we have seen it here in New York? Brian, I have come out of the chute talking about immigration. My first commercial was on immigration or border security. It is impactful Highlands every day. Brian, it's not just in the cities.

When you travel rural Ohio, the amount of overdoses and deaths from fentanyl, the amount of human trafficking that occurs on our interstate highways is record pace.

So it is in our cities, it is in our rural that we do feel the impact. Again, Brian, that's why 23 county sheriffs have endorsed in this race. 19 have endorsed me because they understand I get it. Law and order is just not a slogan. It's what you have to work on.

And they know my days as a prosecutor, my days as a state senator, I've worked with them.

So it is real. I go right after Sherrod Brown. I use his own words against him. He thinks the border security is a far-right issue only. Again, that is Washington Sherrod Brown.

And that's what people are going to find out about. And Brian, you're right. The economy is still, still number one. People feel insecure. I talk to small businesses all the time.

They don't want to hire. They don't want to expand because they feel very insecure in this. national economy. And I want to repeat what I've been able to do in Ohio and Washington, and that's cut taxes, reduce regulations and create an economic growth environment.

So, you know, how do you feel about it? I know the car industry flourishes in Ohio, but if you do this, they continue to try to ban the gas-powered car, they're going to be closing up a lot of plants, number one, and number two, even a lot of dealerships. Because when you think about how much these cars are going to cost after this late labor deal that the President just signed off, I don't want to bat for. Brian, you're so right, but it's more than that. It's the entire supply chain.

Which Ohio businesses rely on will be shut down. The government under Biden and Brown never. Should force a market. And that's what they're doing. They are saying, even though America's not ready, even though the consumer has decided they don't want to buy it at a high volume, the government is saying, we're going to only provide this product for you.

And we are it's a disaster. And and if it continues, You're going to see a lot of businesses shut down in Ohio, in Michigan, in the Midwest.

So that's why it's just so important that we win the White House and we get the majority back and it's going to come through Ohio, that the Republicans have the pen, that we set the agenda for America and we actually execute on it, Brian. That's the key. We actually have to get it done. Yeah, by the way, you know, everyone goes on Joe Manchin, everyone's on mad at Joe Manchin and cinema on the left and the right for not going all the way or even bucking the system at all. I never heard Sherard Brown, who's a so-called moderate, or John Tester, ever stand up and take on this president ever.

Manchin's the one who took the slings and arrows, whatever you think of him. He's the only one, along with cinema, but nobody else did that. Yep. Again, Brian, you're so right. 98.5%, 98.5%.

Brown votes with Biden. And some of those, that point and a half is more recent, and it's some just procedural votes.

So, absolutely. He is a mouthpiece of the Biden agenda, and the Biden agenda is in securing America. We're not strong. We're not strong nationally. We're not strong within our borders, and we're not strong economically.

Sherrod Brown has been shoulder to shoulder with Biden. That's why he's got to go. And lastly, Matt, where do you stand with Trump, Haley, DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, Chris Christie? Who would you like to see get the nomination? Yes, so I've been consistent.

I want a vigorous primary debate because I think it's important that Americans see that Republicans are serious about changing this country back to where we had it. And then I look forward to supporting whoever the nominee is going to be and campaign with them taking America back. What do you need from the RNC? Has the RNC decided, for example, has Mitch McConnell got by any behind any candidate? No, I think they're staying out of Ohio.

Understood. Matt Dolan, a lot at stake for the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, and it's going to be a tough primary. You got some good opponents, and may the best man win. Matt Dolan, thank you so much. Thanks, Brian.

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There's this ongoing debate right now on A wait or if The Israelis should be urged to stop. Their operations in Gaza. And as brutal as it is, they have no choice. If people have just been paying attention to what's going on and noticed that Gaza was given away, and she'd understand that, by Errol Sharon, who sadly went into a coma right after, and the Palestinians were allowed to take it over in parts of the West Bank. And then almost immediately rockets start hitting Israel.

And then there was a sense that there could be elections and the Palestinian Authority could actually win the election. And then Hamas won. And then all they did is spend the rest of their time fortifying their positions, digging up sophisticated tunnels, and then forged one of the greatest, most horrific attacks on any civil society you will ever see. And that happened October 7th. This is the response that has to eradicate Hamas.

That means there's going to be some tough sledding. There's going to be some times when innocent people get killed. I understand that. And nobody likes that. That'll be avoided, unlike Hamas actually tries to target it.

Many of you understand what I just said, and I didn't need to say it. For other people who say, what is going on in Gaza? Why are the American. Why has American armaments been used? We are complicit.

They do not understand what an alliance means, and they don't understand what a democracy is, and how they were beginning to foster relationships with just about every other Arab nation outside the Palestinians who are represented by Hamas. Nobody wants Hamas. Jordan, King Hussein, King Abdullah, does not want Hamas. Egypt doesn't want him. They look at him as a derivative of the Brussels Motherhood trying to oust their Egyptian government.

Don't want Hamas. Don't want Palestinians. Don't want Hamas. So why should. The Israelis be forced to live next to a group that wants to destroy them and do the best they can on a daily basis.

They won. They've been attacked. And they want to live a life in peace. They can't do it as long as Moss is out. And they have not finished them off yet.

They're still discovering tunnels.

So Bill Moore. Who I find more and more Encouraging to make me think that Democrats and Republicans could go back to disagreeing on issues not the worth of the country. Took some time. and went over The brief history of how we got here. And what Israel has to do now that we are here, cut 12.

The Palestinian people should know your leaders and the useful idiots on college campuses who are their allies are not doing you any favors by keeping alive the river to the sea myth. I mean, where do you think Israel is going? Spoiler alert, nowhere. It's one of the most powerful countries in the world with a $500 billion economy, the world's second-largest tech sector after Silicon Valley, and nuclear weapons. They're here.

They like their bagel with a schmear. Get used to it. What's happening to Palestinians today is horrible. And not just in Gaza, in the West Bank too. But wars end with negotiation, and what the media glosses over is, it's hard to negotiate when the other side's bargaining position is you all die and disappear.

I mean, the chant from the river to the sea. Yeah, let's look at the map. Here's the river. Here's the C. Oh, I see.

It means you get all of it. Not just the West Bank, which was basically the original UN partition deal you rejected because you wanted all of it and always have. Even though it's indisputably also the Jews' ancestral homeland. And so, You attacked. and lost.

and attacked again. I lost. and attacked again. and lost. As my friend Dr.

Phil says, how's that working for you? Do you understand what's going on?

So what do you say in attacked?

So the Balfour Declaration Had the Israelis there. In forty-seven They gave them a portion of the area, the other portion of the Palestinians, they didn't want it. And they decided to attack instead with their Arab neighbors from all angles, and they lost. And then 67 attacked again and they were blown away. Seventy three, a surprise attack.

The Israelis got off their back foot, got up and destroyed them all again. We're about to finish them and created all these buffer zones: the Golan Heights, Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip. Because they wanted to buffer some. They wanted to know if these guys are going to invade us, they can't be really, literally at my front door on my porch. We're going to push them back so we can get a look at them.

So after Egypt decides to recognize him with Yasser, excuse me, with Um In the year during the Carter administration. And Marsad gets assassinated for that. But they got the Sinai Peninsula back. Gowen Heights? Was basically annexed by the Israelis under with Trump allowing it.

We'll see what happens, but that's a buffer zone for Syria. You see what a problem Syria is. Here's more from Belmar, Cup 14. Look at what Mexico used to own, all the way up to the top of California. But no Mexican is out there chanting from the Rio Grande to Portland, Oregon, because they chose a different path.

They got real and built a country that's the world's 14th biggest economy now. Because they knew the United States wasn't going to give back Phoenix any more than Hamas will ever be in Tel Aviv. One of the leaders of Hamas says, save yourselves time and imaginary dreams. In a few years, Allah willing, you will have to discuss the situation in the region after Israel. I'm sorry, who's the one with imaginary dreams?

If I give you the benefit of the doubt and say your plan for a completely Jewless Palestine isn't that all the Jews should die, what is the only other option? They move. You move all the Jews. You move all the Jews? And we do this with what?

A fleet of trucks called Jewhall? And to where are we moving this entire country? Texas? Sure, they have room, and I guess we could put the whaling wall on the border and kill two birds with one stone. Or we could just get served.

So smart, so effective.

So accurate. From a Democrat, Liberal Democrat who happens to be a Jewish American.

So now Lloyd Austin is traveling to Israel after the disastrous news that came out that the IDF killed three Israelis. They thought they were a Hamas, but they were escaped hostages. They were holding white flags in their hand and had no shirts on, so they could see they weren't armed. And we wanted to survive. They went back and finished them.

I don't understand it, what went wrong, but they were transparent about how wrong it was. And now there's a sense among the hostage families that there has got to be more careful and more negotiation. But according to Lloyd Austin, he says we are losing, they are losing their allies, and he is traveling and just arrived in Israel during Fox and Friends this morning, and he'll meet with officials and start talking about scaling back the war. That to me would be a huge mistake. You have to finish the job.

Let them do what they do. Understand, Israel is always doing things unpopular, like surviving. And that bothers some people. But they have to Somehow get the hostages back, but they have to wipe out Hamas, if you would see The sophistication of those tunnels and the weaponry and the millions of dollars that the world community is born in. Do you know they found millions of dollars in Israeli money, whatever the conversion is, or whatever the currency is, I should say, in these schools?

They're taking the money that's supposed to be for aid to pave the roads, to help out the infrastructure, and they're keeping it to buy more guns. Would you put up with that metrics anymore? I know you wouldn't.

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Brian Kilmead. All right, a lot of pressure on me now. We're starting the final week until Christmas, and everyone is sprinting around. I know if you're in the Northeast, you're dealing with this. Huge rainstorm is here at Uri Airport.

I can only imagine your frustration. This hour going to be joined.

Well, actually, we'll do a simulcast in America's Newsroom. It'll be great. Michael Goodwin's standing by with the New York Post, so let's get to the big three. Yeah.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. In fact, our colleagues at 538 have looked at the historical data and found that no presidential candidate in history has ever been this far ahead in the national polls as Trump is at this point in the cycle and gone on to lose the nomination. We'll see what the polls do these days. 2024.

Wow, it's getting exciting. A new poll has Haley within 15 in New Hampshire and Trump opening up a huge gap in Iowa. Both are beating Biden. We'll discuss it. Number two.

Here's the bottom line. We do have unacceptably high levels of civilian casualties. We see very loose rules of engagement, way looser than anything the United States would exercise. I don't know that, but Senator Chris Van Hollen feels he knows that. Do not stop now.

That's my message to Israel and the IDF, despite the tragic deaths of those Israeli hostages this weekend, as the Biden administration flies in their Secretary of Defense to tell the country to wind down the military operation. We'll discuss it. Number The time is now. The time for a national security package is now. In my district, it is pure chaos.

And people are upset. They're upset because their lives have been turned upside down. People in this country are furious at this open border crisis. No doubt about it. Tony Gonzalez, a Republican from Texas.

It's not just me. It's not just you. It's now three-quarters of the entire American public who believe that the border is in crisis and must be addressed. We bring you inside those talks. But first, Michael Goodwin, New York Post columnist.

You can get him at m Goodwin underscore NY Post. Michael, welcome back. Good morning, brother. Ryan, thank you.

Well, right now, the Secretary of Defense is going over to basically tell, according to the New York Times, the Prime Minister to wind it down. I hope he doesn't listen, but we do have the leverage, we do have the weapons.

Well, that's That's right. Israel uh you know cannot uh Cannot afford to be against America on the international stage. I mean, we are Israel's best friend, best ally, and if we turn against them in this way, then they're out there on their own. And I think at long term, that may not matter in the short term, but in long term, I mean, for example, we vetoed the Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire. The United States did.

So we're the only ones. Even Great Britain voted present. I think that relationship is a special relationship to both countries, and I agree with you. I think, however, that the this effort to squeeze Israel, to shut it down from finishing the job, is a big mistake. Because if Hamas remains in power, that will be a real uh Uh You know, encouragement sign for the terrorist everywhere that you will pay a heavy price, but not the ultimate price if you attack Israel.

And I think that uh the United States has no right to impose that condition on a sovereign nation, particularly one with Israel's history, with the neighborhood that it's in, and how far it has come. And this idea that The world sort of bleeds for the Palestinians. You know, th the the greatest um criticism is not coming from other Arab countries by and large. I mean, the the Saudis do not want the Hamas types running the Palestinian states. uh or the Palestinian territories.

Uh they don't want that. Jordan doesn't want that. Egypt doesn't want that. They don't like Of course, this bombardment of Gaza at large, but neither do they want Hamas to survive in power.

So Israel is stuck here between, yes, it's a horrible situation in Gaza for the civilians, but that's because the terrorists are hiding among them and using them as human shields. And if you let That fact dictates the outcome of the war, then that's an encouragement to the terrorists to hide among civilians. I mean, the lessons from shutting this down, I think, would be really bad for America in its own battle against terrorism, for Europe in its battle, and for the Arab states. Israel is doing the world a favor in trying to wipe out Hamas.

Well, the only thing with achievement not using precision weapons, 60% of their weapons only are the precision bombings. The rest were dumb bombs dropped. And how do you feel about what happened over the weekend with them killing their own hostages, killing their own Israeli hostages? Look, I mean the hostage uh m Deaths are clearly a tragedy, clearly and a horrible mistake. Um that the Israeli military owns up to.

They didn't say, well, we need to do an investigation. They owned up to it immediately.

So there's no defense of it, really. It was a mistake. It was a tragic mistake. Um But I think that also speaks to the conditions in Gaza. This is not a a battle between armies, national armies.

Hamas is terrorist. They hide among the civilians, they pretend to be civilians. That's what obviously the Israeli troops thought was happening here: that these were disguised. Hamas fighters who were looking to set up an ambush. I mean, you wouldn't think that normally in a war between national armies, but that's not what this war is.

Right. And so. In terms of the overall casualties, again, it it is a tragedy, but it is war. And we don't know what the numbers are. It's amazing, Brian.

You hear fifteen thousand, sixteen thousand. That's coming from the Gazan Health Ministry, which we know is controlled by Hamas. They don't even attempt to break out the terrorists from civilians. They act as though they're all civilians. We don't even know.

We haven't seen one funeral. All we see is these ridiculous numbers from the Hamas Communications Division. Who pays attention to that? There are civilian deaths, no doubt about it. But that's never the intention.

But listen to what some of the Democrats are saying. Here's Senator Chris Van Hollen over the weekend, of course, going after Netanyahu, cut 10. This is a a a direct uh you know Response to President Biden calling for a two-state solution ultimately is the only political settlement that's viable. And here's the thing about Prime Minister Netanyahu: he has continued to weaken. The Palestinian Authority.

This is the organization that recognized Israel's right to exist decades and decades ago. Instead of trying to find peace or at least preventing the conditions on the ground from changing with additional settlements to allow a two-state solution, he has shut the door on that effort.

Meanwhile, as you've seen, there have been lots of reports that Prime Minister Matt Netanyahu actually supported Qatar's efforts to finance Hamas.

So I don't know about that latter. I did know that I did find out that Hamas was set up, they had a communications division in Qatar because they needed some way to dialogue with them while not ever negotiating with them. But what about Senator Van Howen making Netanyahu the bad guy, saying he doesn't want a two-state solution? Please tell me where Mahmoud Abbas has ever been somewhat reasonable since he took over for Yasser Arafat.

Well and And Arafat is the magic word there. Arafat was around for the Oslo Accords, right? He was part of that. But they would never. sign a document when they when they could have had a state.

I mean, y in two thousand, Bill Clinton had them at uh you know, in the United States, both sides, they were going to sign. I happened to be in Israel just before that. There was a lot of optimism on both sides. I went into the Palestinian territories. A lot of optimism there was going to finally be a peace treaty that would lead to a to a Palestinian state.

And the fact is, Arafat would never sign the document because he knew the minute he did, he was a dead man walking. He said he would be assassinated. By the radicals that are now the types now leading Hamas.

So this idea that there was a glorious moment in the past where Israel could have had a settlement is simply not true. Various prime ministers offered a Palestinian state, and the answer was always no, because they are afraid. Mahmoud Abbas would never sign a document either because he is afraid he will be killed. This is the law of the gun rules the Palestinian people. I want you to hear what Lindsey Graham said about this, because he met with the Arab leaders who want to have a rapprochement with Israel.

Some already have. Cut 11. Here's what's changed after October the 7th. Israel will demand security buffers they've never demanded before because they can't afford another October the 7th. And to my friends in Israel, you do whatever you think is best for the state of Israel, but I can tell you, Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries cannot normalize with Israel if they've seen, if they're having been seen as throwing the Palestinians under the bus.

We have two choices. continue the death spiral or use October 7th as a catalyst for change. I think the Arabs are going to demand some form of two-state solution to recognize Israel. I think Israel is going to demand security buffers different than before, and they need to make those demands. I don't know how this ends, but I'll tell you this.

If we don't get this right this time, we're talking about another generation of just tip-for-tip death. It's it's uh it's a conversation people gotta have, but I just don't know of a solution with the Palestinians living next to the Israelis. Do you?

Well uh And that's the question, who's going to govern this Palestinian state that's supposedly willing to live in peace with Israel? I mean, Brian, a poll came out over the weekend done by a Palestinian organization. 72% of the combined respondents in the West Bank and in Gaza favored what Hamas did on October 7th. Think of that. 72%.

Now, where is the partner for peace? Where is the population for peace? That Israel can make a deal with. Who is it? Show it, because it doesn't, it has never existed.

Yasser Arafat was a terrorist. And he also got rich. Just as the Hamas terrorists are getting rich from all this international aid, they love it. They love not having the responsibility for governing, for building hospitals and schools, right? The Red Cross does the medical, the UNRWA, the UN agency does all the schools, and the Palestinian terrorists are free just to organize and plot against Israel.

That's all they do. They don't have a real government. It's a gangster, it's a gangster group. And for the world to say, oh, you know, there could be a two-state solution, it sounds so nice. What are the borders?

Who's in charge of the Gaza side? How do you deal with issues like security and trade and things like that? I mean, there are no answers to these things. Everybody just wants to wash their hands, have Israel take one on the chin, and move on to the next issue.

Meanwhile, over almost 100 attacks on our guys, we've answered back like five times. We're not allowed to hit the. Back on the Houthi rebels. We have not really destroyed these militias that are easily gettable by us over in Iraq, and we hit a few weapons depots over in Syria.

So we look weak on every fashion. Please make a tough stand right now, and hopefully, Secretary Austin does not do any demands and may only make suggestions. Michael Goodwin, thanks so much. It's my pleasure, Brian. Thank you.

You got it. All right. I'll take your calls next. I see you up there from California and Washington. Also, in about 15 minutes after that, we're going to go on Fox News channel and do a simulcast.

The big question is: should I wear a jacket? I'm going to ask two people who never wear a jacket to work: Eric and Pete. Don't move. It's Brian Killmeade. Radio that makes you think.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. I think if you're sitting in the White House right now, you're like, please, Hunter Biden, we know your dad loves you. Please stop talking in public. This is not helpful to any of them for him to be out there. But at the same time, the president loves his son.

That takes precedent over anything else. That is appealing. I'm thinking of the woman in your focus group who talked about family. He loves his son. He loves his family.

He's worried about his mental health. But yes, the White House would like him to probably go away right now. And that's why I thought instinctively, who okayed that press conference? Because now it's leading every news service. CNN couldn't avoid it.

MSNBC would love to have avoided it. Behind closed doors, you see the back of his head walk in. You see the transcript eventually come out. And then that would be the story. The story would move forward and they would continue to ignore it.

Instead, he went out there and talked about. Everything he went through, what was in his book about his relationship with his dad. They're trying to kill me. I want to go public. I don't want to go public.

You know, this is all trumped up by Donald Trump as behind this. This ends up being that story. And I totally agree with Jen Socky. Number one, she wouldn't say it. She could know it right away.

She would know it. She knows that people inside that White House that she used to work with want Hunter Biden to go away. The other big story is the person financed. This guy Morris, who finances Hunter Biden's legal fees, flies him around and I think puts him up in his Malibu apartment. Why?

I don't get it. Just because you're a Democratic donor, you gotta support a fifty-three-year-old man and his family? What's going on there? They want to bring him in. And they say, well, he's got the holidays coming up.

A lot of people are saying, well, the holidays are going away. Everyone's using that. He'll eventually be in. Alex, listening in California. Hey, Alex.

Hi, thank you for taking my call. I just want to say that a large percentage of the voters who put Biden in office dislike Israel. And therefore, Biden is just catering to them. And glory is Sending an envoy to Israel to tell the Israelis to shut down their war operation. And this will then cause Nossad, which is Israel's intelligence agency, to examine the risk of demographic change in the United States.

on the survival of Israel and will alter our relationship with that country.

So this is actually the first significant international impact of American demographic change. Very interesting. Demographic or philosophical change. I don't think it matters if you're Hispanic or Arabic or British or it doesn't matter what your heritage is. I think Democrats, some people are just being brought up or being told in school that Israel is the bad guy, that they are the problem in this whole area.

And by the way, if you are the Palestinian movement, if you are Iran, this is what you want to do. You cannot move Israel if America supports it.

So why don't you go in and change the mindset of a generation? Hopefully, this is the wake-up call. That's what I think. Hank in Virginia Beach. Hank.

Hey guys, how you doing? Brian, Merry Christmas. The same to you. What's on your mind? Houdis are a Shiite extreme organization and they're definitely a proxy for Iran.

And Saudi Arabia has been going against them for quite a while right now. My problem is with Biden when he went over there and called them um What do you call them um you know, maybe he when they It was a the gentleman that got chopped up. Forgot his name. Danny Pearl? No, no, no.

The other gentleman, he was um Oh, Khashoggi. He was Yeah, so then he went over there and he called them a pariah.

So it seems like he's insulting our friends and then he's backing up the people that we want to get rid of. Hank, it just backs up. His instincts are terrible. He said, My problem, the problem in the Middle East is Iran, so let's be friends with him. Iran says, Really?

Great. Can I trade some oil? Fantastic. Would you lift the sanctions? Great.

Would you want to take the pressure off Europe to lift their sanctions? Oh, fantastic.

So, what am I going to do with that? Build up Hamas, build up Islamic Jihad, fortify the Houthis. And next thing you know, the neighbors of Iran say America's lost their minds. It's time for us to reapproach or revisit our relationship with Iran. At the very least, admit they were wrong.

That would make me feel better, Hank.

So far, there have been attacks over the weekend. There's been 46 attacks from Iraq, 52 attacks from Syria, 98 times total since the U.S. coalition forces went over there to send a message of support to Israel. And we barely answer back, knock the missiles out of the sky, and we sit there like sitting ducks. Breaking news, unique opinions.

Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show.

So, welcome back, everybody. Over the weekend, a lot of people had a chance to go to Holland, Michigan to talk about Teddy and Booker T, but I did a whole show along with my good friends Pat O'Rourke and Rick Thatcher, MC, and doing skits and reenacting great moments in history, had a great time. And then we went over to that was a Saturday, on Friday. I was uh just outside Pittsburgh. Lamal Hall, Pennsylvania.

And then after the show like after we do the show and I I talk about the history, talk about Do the motivational, inspirational, I hope, thoughts and talk about how great our country is in a historical perspective, in a factual perspective. But it's a fun day. I always open up the phones. What did I say open up the phones? I open up to the audience.

We put up the lights and I just take your questions for about a half hour. And Everything with a lot of questions about Hunter Biden. For example, His calling his press conference the other day, and last block I we played Jen Saki coming out saying the White House just wants him to quiet down, go away, we have an election to win. And then Hunter Biden making himself the victim, coming out and saying that you just want to, you want to. kill me so my father dies.

If something happens to me, my father will die. Just saying the most ridiculous things possible. But also the links to his dad are impossible to skirt by. And the investigation has already produced A lot of evidence that the whole Biden family is involved. And you have to suspend all logic to think that Joe doesn't know exactly what was going on.

He was in and around almost every single deal. He was on Air Force two when he did the China deal. He was in Ukraine. He was in Ukraine right after he did the Ukraine deal. He won and met in Washington with some of his business partners, but they want us to just talk about the weather.

James Comer says because of that, I was able to put to a vote. Speaker technically was, and asked people if you want an impeachment inquiry. This is not impeachment. Can we continue the investigation with some teeth so people stop blowing off? The subpoenas Believe it or not, banks were being very cooperative.

It's the shell companies that are helping to open up to all this.

So here's James Comer just outlizing with Trey Gowdy what's already been done and how disappointed. But yet not surprised he was. By the Washington Media. I told the D.C. media a week ago, I said, you all had an opportunity to be the next Woodward or Bernstein, but you've squandered that.

Poll after poll shows an overwhelming majority of Americans agree that something's wrong here with Joe Biden. 70% believe that he did something either illegal or unethical with his family. That's a pretty good percentage of Americans that are curious about this investigation. The Americans want the truth. They want to know, did this president sell access to our enemies around the world?

Because it sure does appear that they did. I mean, we've already traced $24 million from bad people in bad countries that went into various fake companies, what I've been calling shell companies, of the Bidens, and they can't say what they did to receive the money. That should alarm every American. Inform every American. That's why I don't get when people come out and say the investigation hasn't made progress, Comer hasn't proven anything, where is the crime?

They're building an investigation to expose exactly what the Bidens were up to, to let you know. Not to put him in jail, but to let you know who you're voting for. I don't think there should be an impeachment. I mean, if something egregious happens and emerges, but right now they're finding that his daughter didn't pay taxes. They're finding that Hunter Biden didn't pay taxes.

The investigation is expanding to other investments. You got a guy paying $5 million to pay his back taxes. I don't know anybody who has family members that owe $5 million outside the unbelievably rich, the exceedingly rich, that would ever do that. Here's more from Comer. I went on Meet the Press last week and I've watched Meet the Press my entire life.

I've never seen a host attack me, you know, attack me for having the audacity to investigate. And then you look at what the Washington Post wrote and the New York Times after we voted unanimously to proceed with the impeachment inquiry. They said Republicans vote for impeachment inquiry despite no evidence of wrongdoing of Joe Biden. We've already produced five direct payments to Joe Biden where we traced the funds tray directly to influence peddling schemes. There's no question Joe Biden received at least five payments that were derived.

from his family's influent Pelinski.

So that is James Comer. I think he's done a really good job. Andy McCarthy came out and said he's done a really good job. Jonathan Churley did.

Now, if you listen to Andy McCarthy, he doesn't walk around saying that Trump walks on water and that Joe Biden is a genius or that Joe Biden's so evil he needs to be jailed. No one says that. He goes the other way. And he says, just looking on the pure evidence-based situation, you have a lot to follow in an investigation. And so, for people to say, where's the criminal enterprise here?

Where isn't it? What doesn't make you more curious to see what he was up to? Already, between 60 and 70 percent of the American people think that Joe Biden was involved in his son's business dealings, and nobody thinks it was on the up and up. You mix in the hookers and the crack and the horrible behavior with the Adam Wedlock child and refusing to accept the paternity of it, and the father after that. You unwind who the Bidens really are.

It's not Uncle Joe, this great guy that just wants to write the right ship and bring normalcy back to the White House. It's the guy that lied to you repeatedly, had nothing to do with my son's overseas business dealings. We never discussed any of that. The 51 Intel agents has expressed this laptop as classic Russian disinformation, as opposed to my son's laptop with my deceased son's foundation. Bumper sticker on the cover.

And you have a guy. who basically is blind As a repair shop. A computer repair shop owner who Hunter Biden dropped all the laptops off to.

Now he's the bad guy.

So if you want to vote for Joe Biden next time, I think that you get the complete character.

Now let's look at his opponent, Donald Trump. Is there anything that Donald Trump owns that you don't know about? Did you not know he owns a golf cart and golf club in Scotland? You can vote for him or not. Does it bother you that he's got hotels in Turkey?

Vote for him or not. Does it bother you that he dealt with Saudi Arabia before? He's looking to do business there? Vote for him or not. He's got a golf course in Westchester, New York.

Buildings in New York City? Believe he still has one in Chicago? Whatever you think of Trump, that's it. He's going to do business. He was doing business here, doing business there.

It's a private company. And then you try to sue him and say that he defrauded banks who never complained that they were defrauded and insurance companies that never complained that they were defrauded. And contractors who never complained they were defrauded?

So it's just important to know who you're voting for. And when it comes to Hunter Biden, they'll just go up to somebody like Senator Grassley and say, Did you find any evidence of wrongdoing with President Joe Biden? He goes, No, I haven't found anything impeachable yet. And then they say, see? Republicans just doing a revenge impeachment.

And for people who are halfway paying attention. It might look like that. And if they just went right to impeachment, I'd feel the same way. And it would be slitting their own throats because. If you go into impeachment right now without evidence, it fails and he gets stronger.

Same way Bill Clinton got stronger, the same way to a degree Trump got stronger. Here's Andy McCarthy, cut twenty-seven. This was a situation where felony evasion counts were warranted. There are three in the new indictment. And I just think the most interesting thing about it is that for all the attention on how Hunter spent his money, the salacious details of which I think took up much of the media attention, the real issue in the case, the real issue for the country, is how the money was generated.

And the interesting thing I find, Trey, reading the indictment, is you can't really tell the story. Of Hunter getting all this money and spending all this money without. getting into why and how the money was generated by influence peddling.

So why can't you be mature enough? To understand that this is not about hunters, addiction, and hookers. These are horrible decisions made by a young guy with a lot of responsibility on his shoulders who had to deal with a lot of. Drama early in his life, trauma and drama early in his life. I got it.

But having said that, you're 53 years old. And still your family put all the International business dealings on your shoulders along with your brother, but you want to discredit people like Tony Bobolinski, the repair shop owner, anybody else that came forward, Rudy Giuliani, on down. I mean, it's pretty bad character. And Abby Lowell, someone's paying him a lot of money. And he's actually working against his father now.

On some level, I'm not a psychiatrist, but I know one, Dr. Drew. I think he's getting back at his family. Because the things that he did and what he keeps on saying while his dad tries to queue up a reelection team. It's pretty self-destructive, isn't it?

In a matter of moments, we're going to go on FBN. They're going to go on America's Newsroom with Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino.

So they're coming in off of Fox News Alert. This is the Defense Secretary right now.

So we want to share that with you. And when Lloyd Austin rather makes a headline, we'll bring that to you coming up shortly here. Dana.

Well, it's game over for crime-ridden cities as major sports teams announced plans to leave dangerous downtown streets in the nation's capital, driving their business and fan base to a Republican state instead. There must be something there, that something that they see in Virginia. We will be a place that they can live and work and raise a family. You want your employees to be safe. Look, we are bringing two Not one, but two major league franchises at one time.

That's never been done. Joining us live from his show on Fox News Radio is Brian Kilmead. He's also the author of the book Teddy and Booker Tea, which is available now, and I hear such great things about it. I loved it, but everyone else is loving it too.

So, Brian, I know you follow sports and you follow cities. Here's D.C. Mayor Bowser last week on the loss of these two teams. experience with crime is kind of a blip. It's a phenomenon, and we can look back over the last several years and see a lot of contributing factors.

But we will drive it down. But not in time to save these teams from leaving. What kind of a gut punch is this for that city? It's huge. And by the way, Bill and Hammer have some Bill and Hammer and I have something else in common.

We both started in sports and never lost our passion for it. But I was fascinated by the sports business portion of it, and that interests me the most. When I saw these two teams lift themselves that seemingly, I know a lot can go wrong still, out and into Virginia, I thought that's a moment for the city of D.C. to realize when you get when Washington commander running backs get carjacked or others get shot, you realize when you take a sitting member of Congress and his car gets carjacked, you realize nobody's safe.

So if I'm with the Capitals and I'm trying to get free agents, if I'm trying to get fans and I'm with the Wizards, why would I stay in that city when a suburban community in northern Virginia wants me and they're willing to maybe split the difference? Ted Leonis has got a lot of money, I got it. But you could be part of that investment in the area. And then when you see what's happening, guys, in the city of Of Washington, and see the mayor says, This is a blip. Are you kidding me?

We have watched this crime go out of control for the last six years. You've looked the other way and blamed Trump.

Now you're facing it down and you're losing a team and you're saying this is temporary. Not when you defame and defund the cops. Yeah, you know, this northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., which we spent a lot of time there because of our jobs, it hasn't been the same since COVID. You know, then you had all the George Floyd protests, and you set up Black Lives Matter in that boulevard today, and on and on and on. You remember that?

All those kids going through those. Stores breaking the windows night after night after night. It's a really hard thing to recover from. This is Michael Berman. He owns the downtown holiday market.

He calls it a gut punch, takes the energy out of downtown. You lose a leg of the stool. It could fall over if you don't replace it. What's going to turn downtown around? Do they even have a vision?

Now, the other side argues: don't use our tax dollars to pay for big-time sports teams. I ask you this. When you lose them, how do you feel about it then? Yeah, and Bill, when you do that, you bring people in theory to the community if you do it right. And if you cut a good deal, you just don't sell your soul to a billionaire owner, you get part of that revenue that brings in concerts and the parking and part of the concessions.

You figure in that becomes a source of revenue if you cut a good deal. My sense is Glenn Young probably can cut the best deal in the country with his business background and win some Sears too.

So with that military background.

So my sense he'll do it. And then I think about what's going on in San Francisco. When you have the stars, the best player in sports, pound for pound or in baseball, say, I thought about going to San Francisco, but the city was so overrun with homeless and so out of control with crime, I end up going to Los Angeles. And when you lose the Oakland Raiders and the Oakland Athletics to Las Vegas, simply because the city has no money to finance them, it is falling apart around them. They couldn't rebuild the Place and this made it a hard place to go to.

Nobody wants to go to the games. It's incredible. It's a big loss for D.C., and I think that the holiday market owner's point is a good one. Where do you go from here? If they don't have a plan to replace that, all that redevelopment was it for nothing because you didn't focus on the crime element?

That's a shame. Right. Hey, good luck with the book. Good to see you. And thanks for coming on.

Nice to see you guys. I'll see you in the hall. Thanks, Brian. Thank you, Brian. Appreciate it.

All right, 1-866-408-7669. I'm up against a break. I want to have some time on the other side. We'll come back and take your calls and get your comments. You listen to the Brian Kilmeet show.

You're with Brian Kilmead. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. He deserves due process, as you know, but the facts remain that this family has had the reputation for a long time of being for sale. We know the president's family's in trouble because the son continues to get indicted in multiple courts, and we have serious questions about our national security.

So that's why we're doing this investigation. I think the American people are behind us 100%, but the media continues to attack me. They're here in my little town as we speak in Kentucky trying to dig up stuff. They're trying to say, I have a shell company. My LLC has.

a lot of assets. A shell company, by definition, has no assets or no purpose. But I mean, they continue to just make stuff up. Not only are they attacking me, Trade, they're making stuff up to try to discredit me as an investigator. Yes, it's pretty amazing.

And I see that in the New York Times the headline, but then I realize there's nothing to it. He has other investments, and he lent money to his brother or something to that nature, and he paid him back. We don't know about this loan that Joe Biden evidently gave that was being repaid by his brother Jim. I do you guys doing your taxes? Does anyone here work freelancer in their own posi pos uh uh or in their own business?

Do you know the detail you have to show to do that? Does it just drive you nuts that now Naomi Biden also didn't pay her taxes? We got money floating around between Jim and Hunter Biden, and no one's itemizing anything? Are you kidding? Just a quick look.

So, remember what I was mentioning before about Kevin Morris?

So, Kevin Morris has decided just to save Hunter Biden's butt and pay his taxes, house him in Malibu. I don't get why. And I think it's worth pursuing. Here is Congressman Jason Smith of Ways and Means, Cut twenty nine. The IRS whistleblowers have highlighted where Kevin Morris paid almost $2 million of Hunter Biden's taxes, plus an additional almost $3 million just to subsidize Hunter Biden's lifestyle.

What's also important is these IRS whistleblowers released an email from Kevin Morris to Hunter Biden's tax preparer three weeks before Super Tuesday in 2020 saying that they must pay these tax returns or there will be great political risk. The only political risk is Joe Biden. And that's exactly why the IRS whistleblowers wanted to look into campaign finance crimes into Joe Biden's campaign. But the Justice Department has refused to do that.

Okay. Why wouldn't you want the answer to that? Why wouldn't you want to know? You want to know if the Bidens owe any country any favors. You want to know if this guy's got crazy investments that might compromise him in the future.

And also, I'm a little curious about somebody who's able to lie with impunity, lie with impunity. They always say: Trump lies, Trump lies. Trump exaggerates. And Trump is not perfect. But please, can you maybe even get close to The equal treatment close.

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Thanks so much for being here, everybody. It's a Brian Killmeat show.

Thanks to everybody who came out over in beautiful Wichita, Kansas, as well as Mulhall, Pennsylvania. And then, of course, we started. We actually had Saturday night. We flew into Grand Rapids and then went to beautiful Holland, Michigan. I'm not kidding.

I found out so much about this town. It's truly a Dutch town. The Tula Festival it's known for. It looks like it's cut out. I mean, they should shoot a movie.

Um, they should shoot a movie. I thought Fair Hope. Alabama was idyllic, and it was, and it is. But Holland, Michigan, again, just a fantastic theater, fantastic people. And then have a chance to talk about Teddy and Booker T, how two American icons play the path to American for racial equality.

But then talk about everything. I think America wants to talk about patriotism again. I think we want to talk about our country, reinvigorate our history. I get that sense, especially when I open up, we bring up the lights at the end of the show, and mostly you see a lot of people who want to learn more and want to feel great about our country again. Bob Cusack is coming on at the bottom of the hour.

He's with the Hill. We're watching a press conference going on between our Secretary of Defense and the Minister of Defense for Israel right now. They're talking about Hezbollah picking up the rockets into Israel proper and how 70,000 people have been displaced north and south because of Hamas rockets and because of Hezbollah rockets, let alone the people that have moved out of the town that was massacred on October 7th.

So a lot going on. Before we get to Mike Rogers, an aspiring senator in Michigan, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. In fact, our colleagues at 538 have looked at the historical data and found that no presidential candidate in history has ever been this far ahead in the national polls as Trump is at this point in the cycle and gone on to lose the nomination. Jonathan Carl saying it like it is so far, 2024. It's getting exciting.

A new poll has Haley within 15 points in New Hampshire, the first one since the governor endorsed her. This Open up the, by the way, Donald Trump is surging nationally and in Iowa. We'll see if that pays off. We know DeSantis is Iowa or over, so we'll discuss it. Number two.

Here's the bottom line. We do have unacceptably high levels of civilian casualties. We see very loose rules. of engagement, way looser than anything the United States would exercise.

So Count Van Hauen, Chris Van Hauen, off the reservation, but don't stop Israel. That's my message to the IDF. Despite the tragic deaths of three Israeli hostages this weekend, the Biden administration now flies into the country to tell them to stop and wind down the Israeli offensive. But they have no choice. They must continue.

Number The time is now. The time for a national security package is now. In my district, it is pure chaos. And people are upset. They're upset because their lives have been turned upside down.

People in this country are furious at this open border crisis. That is Congressman Tony Gonzalez, Republican at the border. It's not just me, it's not just you. It's now three-quarters of the entire American public who believe the border is in crisis and must be addressed. And that's one of the reasons why Mike Rogers is running for Senate in Michigan.

He's the former Congressman on the House Select Committee, former FBI guy, military guy with a rich military background. Congressman, welcome back. Brian. It is always good to be back. I hope you got all your Christmas shopping done.

Not close. Not close. That's what those bins are at the pharmacy stores. That's what those big bins are on Christmas Eve. You go in there and grab something.

It's going to be a week. I promise a productive week. But I appreciate you thinking I got it done. But, Mike, first off, I got to get your take. Right now, our Minister of Defense is and our Secretary of Defense and Minister of Defense is meeting.

They're having a joint press conference. They were really concerned, I'm sure you were too, how three Israeli prisoners, hostages, could have escaped, it looks like, shirtless, holding white flags and still be killed. And they think there's just way too much rampant carnage in Gaza, and they want Israel to stop. I don't think they should. What do you where do you stand?

First of all, it is an absolute tragedy that those three hostages were killed. But remember, it's pretty easy from an antiseptic view five thousand miles away saying, well, that you shouldn't be doing that.

Well, of course not. Uh and we have to remember these people have been you know sniper uh on the IDF in Gaza, sniper attacks. RPG attacks and people are trying to kill them and they're trying to lure them into traps and they have booby traps everywhere. That's the decision-making matrix that these folks had to to uh deal with uh versus sitting in a nice comfortable office back in the Washington. And I think what's really important.

To make that determination. Nobody wanted that to happen in the IDF or the government of Israel. Israel or the families of Israel. And I don't believe it was some willy-nilly thing. I just think that stress of combat, fog of war.

Uh you know, led to a tragedy on that particular day. But you're right. It's not helpful. You know, Tehran is using this disinformation campaign, getting people half you know, across college campuses in America to believe that. You know, anti-Semitism is the new cool thing, and that's really, really dangerous.

And so when the administration starts pontificating how Outside of normal confidential conversations that should happen between two countries It's just not helpful. If they have a problem, fly there, talk to them about it, and fly home and say, hey, we support Israel. We want them to do the right thing. We want them to be concerned about civilians, and we continue to support them. done.

But this whole thing about making it more difficult to do what they already knew was going to be very, very difficult. And remember, Brian, Hamas Publicly states that civilians are all a part of their plan. They believe they're martyrs. And they believe that's part of their whole narrative. Pretty hard to dismantle a group that's willing to use men, women, and children as Shields.

For sure. Congressman Mike Rogers with us now. He wants to be the senator from Michigan. It's an open seat. Congressman, what are your thoughts when you see the detail of these tunnels and the expertise in which they were done?

You can drive a tractor through them, a tunneling machine through some of these tunnels. It's unbelievable what we're seeing. They look like full subway systems in some circles. 400 miles have already been uncovered. They raided summer homes of Hamas officials, some of which one tunnel was underneath a baby carriage, a baby's crib.

They found 30 tunnels. I always mispronounce this city. Con Yunus over there, where most of Hamas is located.

So they're finding all these things and they're in there, but they cannot go halfway or we'll be back here in 18 months.

So what do you do knowing that there's also innocent people there that are hostage to Hamas? I mean, obviously, the Special Forces folks and the soldiers who are trained to deal in those in that type of environment need to use as much caution as they can. and still understand that they have to diminish and eliminate the Moss fighters. I mean there's just no way around that. If you do not, But they will be back.

Remember when we didn't do anything in 1993 when the Al Qaeda tried to blow up the World Trade Centers at the time. They drive drove a truck into the basement and blew it up and it didn't work. And we all went, well, that didn't work. They don't know what they're doing.

Well, they came back and slaughtered 3,000 people nearly. Uh on 9-11. And so, what we have to remember is they will be back if we don't diminish their ability to do what they do, or excuse me, Israel does. Yeah.

Yeah.

what they do. And yes, it's difficult. It's hard. They were using all of that money. They were using, by the way, concrete and steel and other things that were donated.

To Gaza to try to have a better life for the people of Gaza and Palestinians. And you know what they used them for? Building tunnels and defensive systems. And when they got it big enough, Uh they had the opportunity they believed Uh and they felt America was weak and And uh Iran had plenty of cash because we started allowing them to sell their oil, some thirty billion dollars worth. I mean, all of these things trigger to them saying, let's do it.

And they're not even half they don't believe that 400 miles, Brian, is half of it. Think of that. It's not even half of it. And they're finding them under mosques and schools and all of this. Right, it's subterranean culture down there.

I mean, they literally they have this terror culture. And one of the hostages said this: they warned the other IDF members, don't go down into the tunnels. They said this, one of the hostages who has since been released. Every passing day is terrifying. You have no idea what kind of monsters we're dealing with.

If they're feeling threatened, they will use the captives. Don't go into the tunnels. They're moving around in there in vast numbers. It's a colossal danger to soldiers and to hostages. I don't know if there's a choice, but they're thinking about flooding them, literally, to actually flood them out and force them out.

It is an insane environment. But I do want to get from you how you're handling Michigan, because Joe Biden's losing. popularity in Michigan among the Arab Muslim culture because of his support for Israel. But a guy like you, Mike, you support Israel more than President Biden or just as much. Is there a way to let that be known and still collect some of the votes that Democrats are losing?

Oh yeah. Absolutely. The Muslim community in Michigan tends to be entrepreneurial. And that's an opportunity for Republicans. If you want to be a small business owner and better the life of you and your family, and listen, will it attract all of them?

No. But we think that you know, the conversations were Mm-hmm. can be fruitful. Are they happy with my uh uh mas to terrorists from Palestinians, which I do. Two different groups.

for having those conversations.

Now, I think that there's an opportunity for us. And again, we don't have to get. 80% of them. We just have to get a share of them. uh to get us over over the top and uh I that's happening.

I think you're going to see a lot of Muslims just stay home. uh in the in the next election in Michigan. uh because of the you know biden's approach and and again They're all over the map, right? If they're four, uh you know, Israel going after Hamas, but they publicly state, you know. things that probably aren't in Israel's interests.

So they've managed to kind of honk off everybody. In something that is, to me, is very clear. You're either for Hamas terrorists or you're against them. Uh and you can still be for the Palestinians. And I think Uh that's the conversations we're having.

And Brian, and we're finding it fruitful because, again, you know, cultural issues and and the fact that their education system In America, is graduating kids. 57% of our high school seniors last year couldn't read at the Sixth grade level. You don't come to America to have substance. standard schools and no opportunity to do something better by opening up in your own business and being a leader in your community. And so those are the messages that we're talking about.

And they understand, the Muslim community in Michigan understands, hey, listen, the Democrats have really And we're talking about the future. just like that. What are you going to do differently? We're talking to Mike Rogers, who's running for the Senate. Michigan's going to get their nomination.

Mitch McConnell is already fully in support of you. What are you going to do differently than John James did? What did John James do wrong?

Now he's a congressman, but he ran for the Senate, ran for governor. What are you going to do different? What did you learn?

So, how you deploy capital is important. And I thought John was a great candidate, did really good across the state. Last election, down. lost by like a point and a half. We believe that our issue sets line up better in this election cycle, number one.

to how we communicate to folks.

So we're going to do a lot of data modeling. We're going to find out how people get their news. Think of this, almost 20% of the electorate will not see a TV ad. That's huge, right? That's a change, a fundamental change.

And the other thing is, I think there was a little more reliance on the State Party on a ground game. And we're going to bring all of that inside of the campaign.

So we're going to have a ground game, voter influence, voter contact. of that. ballot chase. is all going to happen inside of our campaign. And that really was I think will be a big difference for us going into this election cycle.

And uh you know the good news is I think the Democrats here are just really, really nervous. They've already tried to spend. Money in a Republican primary the Democrats have. Uh and uh and by the way, it's not on my behalf, right? They're they're definitely afraid I'm going to get out of this primary.

And win the election in November. And that's why the National Republican Senate Committee has said, yep, you're the guy. That's why today we announced. Over two dozen county sheriffs across the country. the state who have And said Mike Rogers is the The police officers are so.

Association of Michigan. I mean, it is the it's starting to gel. We had Joni Ernst from Iowa and Katie Britt from Alabama and Shelly Moore Capito from or West Virginia all endorsing us And we have our own congressional delegation. Dean, Tim Wahlberg's five. And lots of grassroots.

All across the state.

So it's starting to gel, Brian. That's how we're going to do this. We're going to get started early. We're going to start. going to be organized, we're going to be in depth.

And by the way, I'm going to get to your calls in just a second. My last question is: just give us the timing. When's your primary? Not till August of next year, but we can't wait. We're going to build a national a Fall campaign all through this.

Yes, we're going to win the. Primary, but we've got to start now building that infrastructure, and that's exactly what we're doing. All right. I tell you the truth, I'm going to admit my bias. If you were a Democrat, I'd say the same thing with a military background, with your known intelligence, with your calmness under pressure, willingness to work with the other side, and the person that you are, you're the perfect person to be in Congress.

I'd say the same thing in a different set, similar attributes with like a Harold Ford. These are the people because you care more about the country than you do fame and acclaim. And we lack that. A lot of people are just looking for camera time. You're looking for efficiency and effectiveness.

So, Mike Rogers, thanks so much. Thanks, Brian. Appreciate it. Rogersforsenate.com if you want to join the team. You got it.

Let's see if Michigan will respond for that for a candidate of this quality. When we come back, I'll take your calls. I see you all around the country. 1-866-408-7669. Expanding your knowledge base.

It's the Brian Kill Me Show. The talk show that's getting you talking, you're with Brian Kilmead. I mean, he's running on retribution. He wants to go out and he talks about annihilating his enemies and using the criminal justice system to do so. What do you think of that?

You guys are exhausting. You're exhausting in your obsession with him. The thing is The normal people aren't obsessed with Trump like you guys are. The normal people care about the fact that they can't afford things. They feel like their freedoms are being taken away.

They think government's too big. I know y'all want to talk about every single word he says and every single tweet he does. That's exactly why we need a new generational leader. Because people don't want to hear about every word a person says or every tweet. They want to know how you fought for them that day.

And they want to know how their life is going to be different. And if you watch the interview build, you see her frustration. Every question was about Trump. Let's see his rally. Look what he said.

What's your reaction to it? Why don't you do this? Why don't you do that? Can you please just ask me about me? Because you just want to get some headline about Nikki Haley going off or apologizing for.

And it's maddening for people that are out there talking to people because I talk to people too. They're either for Trump or not. They're not talking about what he said lately, they know exactly what they're getting. Alex in Brooklyn. Hey, Alex.

Hey, good morning, Brian. I just wanted to say I think it's irresponsible of left wing media outlets that are focusing on the numbers of civilian causalities in Gaza. And they're mentioning exactly what's going on over there, which is tragic. But I think they should stop doing that because it elicits sympathy for something that people shouldn't be sympathetic for right now. Because then people are like, stop the bombings.

And, you know, during the World War II, we didn't have the media focusing on the deaths of the people in Germany, which was also tragic for the innocent civilians, because we had to continue. And the facts don't change because someone gets emotional because people are dying. Israel needs to defend.

So let me get a word in. This is what I think. Number one, I don't believe any casualty numbers because Hamas is giving it to us. And the Gaza Communication is Hamas's communications division.

So I don't believe it. Are there some civilians who died? Yeah.

But I do not believe the 18,000. Not for a second. Number two is you got to report the news. I don't think you should soften the blow for anybody. I don't think you should decide what to do and what not to do.

You report the news. But just remember in context why we're here. Because they want high casualties. The IDF looks to avoid high casualties. They want Hamas dead.

They want the Palestinian, innocent Palestinians, to not be dead. Hamas targeted innocent Israelis. They have no interest in fighting Israel's army. Israel has every interest in fighting the Hamas terrorists and no interest in fighting the Palestinian people. That's the way you report the story.

But give it context. Yes, context. Can you imagine? He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmead.

Not a single voter has voted yet, but with just four weeks until the Iowa caucuses and five weeks until the first primary votes are cast in New Hampshire, it looks like Donald Trump has an insurmountable lead. At least if you believe the polls. In fact, our colleagues at 538 have looked at the historical data and found that no presidential candidate in history has ever been this far ahead in the national polls as Trump is at this point in the cycle and gone on to lose the nomination. And that Jonathan Carl painted. He has turned into a vicious anti-Trumper.

He used to be leaning away from Trump, but Trump gave him great access. And that this time, this book just eviscerates him. And he's just so obsessed when you watch him host about how much he hates Trump. Bob Cusack joins us now, Editor in Chief of The Hill. Hey, Bob.

Hey, Brian, how are you? Good. What do you think about Jonathan Carl looking at these? And a lot of people feel that way, maybe you do too, looking at these polls and thinking their results.

Well, yeah, you never know. Right. I mean, you're right. I mean, Trump has such a huge lead. The media does want to race here.

So Nikki Haley does have some momentum. But listen, I mean, she's going to have to Do some serious damage in one of these early states, and Trump is winning all of the states right now.

Now, some pollsters have said, yes, Trump's base, he's got a firm grip on it. Others have said, including Mark Penn, has said, well, he's got a big lead, but some of his support is soft, and that's obviously what Nikki Haley and DeSantis are hoping for. And of course, Christie, I don't see a real path to the nomination for Christie, but he's still in it, of course.

So I was amazed that I watched it over the weekend. You know, I have a bunch of events, things going on with the book, but I'm doing the best I can to watch and read. And all of a sudden I'm seeing the size of the Trump crowd. And he's having a good time, and I'm thinking to myself, okay. I guess they're not going to have much.

You know, we covered it, we picked up some of it live, and I said, wow, this is pretty good for him. How are you going to say he doesn't have momentum when he has a crowd like that, emotion like that, and you see the Donald Trump smiling? Little did I know, people were looking through the old Hitler speeches and seeing some catchphrases.

So people are saying that he sounds like a fascist because he said a few things that result in, I guess, he talked about the poisoning of our blood. But what he's trying to say in Trumpes is, we are Americans. We have to guard our border. They're sending their prisoners in back onto. They're not sending our best.

What do you think about his choice of words and the way the media is playing it?

Well, certainly Trump does not give boring speeches. And along the way, as you know, Brian, he He creates some controversies, and certainly he has a very contentious relationship with the media. And I think sometimes the media should kind of fire back at him. At other times, I think the media should hold its fire because sometimes that just kind of reverberates and doesn't make the media look good when they're whining about candidates or whining about anything. And this is going to continue.

I mean, it's going to be a very nasty election. 2024, the relationship between Trump and the media is only going to get worse. But why is that? I looked at that and I thought about that a second. Do you think at any moment they realize they had the January 6th trial, and I don't love the way Trump acted after his election.

I've said that a million times. January 6th, I don't think you need to make that speech. I got it. But what happened after the January 6th trial, and then after the midterms, and then his mounting his campaign back, and the reaction to all the court fights and the indictments, at one point, Do they ever gonna realize that nobody's listening? That he's actually more powerful than before, and then maybe they can't dictate what the electorate thinks.

Well, you you'd hope so. You know, we we you know, we're at the at the hill. We we'd like to be the referees and we don't care who's up or down. And but I I do think and I honestly, I didn't think there was a bias in the media until I was in the The media. Most bankers are Republicans and most journalists are Democrats.

And that doesn't mean all of them are biased. But at the same time, when you think about 2023, 2022 was a rough year for Trump. Polls show that he did not help Republican causes with either recruiting candidates. 2023 has been a great year for Trump. His decision not to participate in the debates has worked out.

And he is. He is gliding to the nomination. Will there be some bumps? Yeah, there there always are some bumps. Will they be significant bumps?

I don't know. I don't think so. Certainly not at this rate, unless the polls are completely wrong. Right, which is always a chance. I want you to hear just here's a cut from the speech.

I think he went over an hour. Uh, you know what he does? He I mean, they're basically at concerts, Cup Twenty One. They're poisoning the blood of our country. That's what they've done.

They poison mental institutions and Prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world they're coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.

So they say that those words and poisoning our blood of our country, those are from Hitler. The one thing you can't have it both ways. Either he's somebody that doesn't know anything about our history and is not that smart, or he's somebody that goes back to World War two and thinks these are some of the great speeches that Hitler used that maybe I can use. You can't have it both ways.

Okay. Yeah, no, I see your point. And listen, you know, if you look at polls and specifically on the border, you have a number of Democrats, especially now in blue areas, because the whole tactic of Republicans sending migrants to blue cities, you know, they're realizing the pressure. And you have Democrats on the border, Senator Mark Kelly from Arizona, very critical of the Biden administration. And that's why and I do believe them.

You know, sometimes Republicans say, like when they shut down the government trying to get rid of Obamacare, it's a terrible strategy. It didn't work. They're not going to cave. They're going to have to get something on the border in order to do these other fiscal deals, whether it's the foreign policy bill or whether it's keeping the government open. I don't think they're going to cave because polls show that most people agree with Republicans.

Bob Cusack, our guest from The Hill.

So here's Ron DeSantis. He's trying to turn it up a notch. And Bob, you know the deal. And outside Chris Christie, you attack Trump, but you agree with him on two the bottom line is Haley and DeSantis agree with Trump probably two-thirds of the time on almost all the policies.

Some of their criticisms of his four-year term about not finishing the wall and not draining the swamp, I don't think I don't think have much resonance. But here's what DeSantis took a bit of a risk, I think, in Concord, New Hampshire, Cut 23. If Trump loses, he will say it's stolen no matter what. Absolutely. He will try to delegitimize the results.

He did that against Ted Cruz in 2016, and he will do that. I mean, even when, like, The Apprentice didn't get an Emmy, he said it.

So I don't think there's been a single time he's ever been in competition for something where he didn't get it, where he hasn't, where he's accepted.

Okay. I'm saying, okay, this is, you know, you have the Trump. I don't want to offend his people, but that's something that you do think to yourself. Even Trump. Fans say he does have a trouble ever accepting losing.

Yeah.

And certainly, you know, DeSantis has really struggled in trying to make the case of, you know, yeah, I like Trump policies, but vote for me, and I'm the one who can beat Biden. But that doesn't really work when you're getting pounded by Trump in the primary. And now, now, Haley can certainly point to some polls that show recent ones that show her double digits on Joe Biden. The problem, though, is Donald Trump may not be up double digits on Biden, depending on what poll you look at, but he's definitely beating Joe Biden. CNN had a recent poll where Biden's losing Michigan by 10 points.

That's a stunning result.

So I understand the whole, hey, we want to win, but at the same time, it's not like Trump is losing to Biden now. He's winning.

So a couple of things. Do you know what Jen Saki said over the weekend? And not only, I think she does a really good job as press secretary, but also her contacts to the White House are strong. And she said they like that Trump is beating Biden in the polls because they want to put the fear in the Democrats to say, you may not like Joe, but democracy is over and Trump can win. He is winning.

Almost saying, what choice do you have? Our country will fall apart if he and he'll never leave if he gets the job.

So that fear is real. What do you think about that resonance? And you know the the mindset of a of a voter. Would a Democrat run to Joe Biden even though he can't run? Even though he can't physically run?

Yeah, no, I mean, it's certainly this is Joe Biden is the underdog. Joe Biden is not really embracing the underdog's status, at least himself. He's saying, I'm going to beat Trump. I think that's a wrong approach. I think you've got to embrace the underdog.

You know, if you're the underdog, you've got to admit it. Barack Obama said he was the underdog a year before his reelection win, and he was. He was really struggling, ran a very good campaign. Romney could have run a better campaign and didn't, and Obama won. And this president, you know, I think they're going to have to shift to where they're talking more like Saki because they've got to get people out there and just assuming.

I mean, listen, Joe Biden won in 2020. He barely won. COVID is over. He's going to have to campaign. He's older now.

This is a problem for Biden. Bob, it's not one of those things where he's not good at it. He's not capable. I mean, they said to him at the end of the year, it's going to be an end of the year press conference.

Now, think about it. You've got two major conflicts brewing. Ukraine and Israel, you got a major package that needs to be cut. You have to set a tone for what you want to do by the first week in January, second week. And then you have always the threat of China, and then you want to win re-election.

Basically, you saw KJP run from that statement. I don't think he's going to do that. He did a press conference the other day. He said, Well, that was two questions with another world leader. I don't know.

You don't know? What president doesn't want his thoughts on a reelection year in everyone's head? Come Christmas time. Yeah, it's hard to use a bullet pulpit to your advantage if you're not using it at all. And they're really not using it that much.

You know, this is something that listen, we talk to senators and congressmen. I mean, they on both sides of the aisle. They're saying we need to have Biden get more involved in these negotiations on the border and keeping the government open. That's the only way we're going to get things done. And you'd think he'd want to use the bully pulpit for Ukraine aid, but he has not been.

And this is another thing that the media has gotten wrong. Talk about much is that Donald Trump was a lot more accessible than Joe Biden in his presidency. The first time I interviewed Donald Trump and Trump Tower when he was a candidate, they said, okay, you have 15 minutes. And then they gave us 80 minutes because we were tough but fair. But I mean, you know, and that year, Hillary Clinton, we tried to sit down with her, but she never wanted to sit down with us.

And that was a mistake. You have to go for the presidency, even if you're running for re-election, you got to go for it. You can't fail. Absolutely. And by the way, you know what?

I always found out. Ms. McBend, in the middle of the steroid scandal, when I first started out, I go to do an interview with him. You know what he grabbed my arm? And I said, Listen, I grew up watching you and I remember these Bugsy McGraw and Ivan Putski and Bruno San Martino.

And as we're walking to the studio, he grabbed my arm. He said, Don't be easy with me. You know why? Because he thought he had the answers to the whole steroid scandal, which I'm sure no one remembers. But that back then, he was afraid I was going to make, he's basically saying, you're wasting my time if you don't ask me direct questions.

And that always stays in the back of my mind that if you have the answers, you want the tough questions.

So just I thought I'd bring that up. Maybe it's not a second. And he's one of the rare politicians who actually answers direct questions. You know, he will say yes or no. And that's where I think DeSantis, and Christy's hit DeSantis on this, he has not been clear.

As a politician, you have to be clear. And anytime you hear a politician say, I've been clear about this, they've been anything but. That's why they have to say, I've been clear about it, because they haven't been clear. Trump is clear on where he stands on most issues. I got two things.

We know about the Freedom Caucus and the chaos with the Republicans. I just spent an hour with Kevin McCarthy over the weekend, so I haven't got the inside and outside story to it. I got it. But you cannot be an observer and see what's going on with the Democrats. They're divided on Israel.

Now they're divided on a massive border change when it comes to asylum rules. Listen to Joaquin Castro and Congresswoman Jayapow. Cut one. I want to speak quickly to The Democrats in the Senate and others who are considering supporting this proposal. If you do so.

You will be surrendering to right-wing racism. That's right. You will be enabling it. Senate Democrats and the White House must not agree to these extreme demands.

Listen. 70% of the country thinks the border has fallen apart, but they aren't, that's not them too. I mean, that is a portion of the Democratic Party who thinks if you stop someone at the border, you're a racist. How do you deal with that if you're Joe Biden? How do you deal with that?

That kind of rhetoric, and it's only going to intensify in 2024. You know, this is something that, because of those stats, 70%, you know, and I think that Trump is going to do a better job. I don't think he did a very good job in 2020 trying to reach out to independents. I think that's going to change in 2024. Biden won the presidency because of independence.

A deal at the border of changing immigration law would actually help Joe Biden.

So it's going to be interesting to see if he takes on the left. And those Democrats who you just played, because if he doesn't, some people think that that's just going to ensure his loss in a year. Interesting stuff, right, Bob? This is going to be a fantastic year. I appreciate it.

Appreciate you coming on. Hey, thanks, Brian. Merry Christmas. You got it. We're going to wrap up this hour in just a moment.

And if there's some, yep, there's some calls up there, so we'll get to them. You listen to the Brian Killmeat show. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

Alright, so over the weekend, we've never, Allison Mansfield is working, but she's not in the studio today. But Allison and I, and Rick and Pat, who always do the stage performances, these stage shows with us that Fox Nation sponsors, literally America, great from the start. Able to go through some of my sports books, the inspirational moments that I was able to chronicle and the games do count, and it's how you play the game. And then I segue over to the war on history, and I want to win it. And I just talk about our past and how significant it is, and how great it is, and how proudful we should be of it.

These people were before us. And I have a great time on stage. But it was an unbelievable amount of travel.

So we had to fly out of here, we get over to uh Pittsburgh, we get over there, we get right on stage, do a two and a half hour show, meet a bunch of people before, uh, sign every book after, then we get up right in the morning and then we gotta fly to the next city. I'm not complaining, just citing. At which time we gotta switch two planes, we gotta go over to Beautiful Holland, Michigan. And once we get there, we still have an hour drive from the airport. And we get there, we have about a half hour to get ready.

Next thing you know, we're doing the VIP and greeting, we're doing everything else. And then after that, we go sign books at the end.

So it's a fantastic night. Then we go get dinner with Crystal from One Nation was there too. Got to meet her husband. I fully approve. And I'm sure that's a relief to them.

And then we get up the next morning and then we go over to Wichita and we're able to see our great affiliate out in Wichita, KQAM, and we have a fantastic time. But then we got to quickly get out of there and we know the storm is coming.

So we get one plane, no problem. We get to it. I know on one thing, I have to try to get to work and get home before 12 o'clock because I got to get up at 2:30 in the morning.

So we quickly switched to La Guardia from Newark. And I said I could probably, if I can get home by 11:30, that's so much better than 12:30, which means I wouldn't have slept at all.

So, at which time I have to get a connection, and we go to pull up and we land about five minutes late and we just sit. We've all happened to all of us. They can't get a runway. And when they finally do get a runway, 15 minutes go, I got aboard in 30 minutes. And then we finally pull up, they cannot line up the jet bridge.

The jet bridge can't, and they're both blaming each other. The pilot's blaming them because they said they were supposed to move up. This guy's saying he can't work it. Then he's saying he doesn't normally do it. I can't believe this is happening.

I am asking the flight attendant to do me a favor. Can you call and say I'll be coming? He says it would be no difference. They'll never wait for you.

So finally, I get out. I have 10 minutes in Atlanta to get through three gates. I gotta wait for the train and I get there. It's impossible to look cool running with a backpack. Knowing that a lot of these people recognize me is doubly embarrassing.

When I finally get there, they're actually announcing my name, Brian Killme, last call. I literally got in and they closed the door behind me. And that's why I'm here today. Thanks for listening. I feel better now.

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