Weakness from Biden in hostage situations and at the border

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So glad you're here. Been with us all week long and nothing slowed down. When Donald Trump's involved, there's always the unexpected. That happened again this week. We're going to talk to Brett Baer in a matter of moments about that.

And Neil McDonough, he's played one of the finest, mostly villainous characters in Hollywood over the last 25 years. One of his most recent is with Yellowstone. He's got a brand new movie out. He just joined us on television. The new movie is called The Shift.

It's still top five in the country. And him and his wife produced it.

So he's going to be with us shortly. Another reason to get Fox Nation: you'll be able to see the stream and you can catch us on all those devices like Alexa and everything else, like Google. But let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. You know, it's a serious betrayal. It's extremely frustrating. I know that the US has come up with all sorts of proposals, but it's not what the Russians are after.

The only problem is it's my life that's draining away. Why will they do this? It's five years. It's unfathomable to me that they left me behind. That is Paul Whalen talking about being stuck in Russia, weakness.

That's exactly how Joe Biden's foreign policy has us looking around the world, from slow walking and not talking about why we should backer Ukraine, slow-walking weapons, I should say, to allowing a bunch of thugs in Yemen to rocket ships out of vital shipping lanes, plus another terrible hostage swap and also being warned by China. They're just going to go take Taiwan and there's nothing we can do about it. We have to be willing to rumble. Number two. My mayor is blaming everyone except the person who needs to get the blame, and that is President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who are responsible for protecting and securing our borders and for having a functional immigration system.

They're not calling out Secretary Mayorkas for letting asylum seekers come to this country under false pretense and then giving them court cases ten years from now. That is Raymond Lopez, an alderman over in Chicago, a border overwhelmed, a president who could not care less. Blue City is beginning to pay a heavy price for their sanctuary policies, and the CBP is forced to deal with the human flood of illegals like we have never seen before in our country's history. And Congress is going home for Christmas. Number one.

I think this kind of action of stretching the law, taking these hyper-aggressive positions to try to. Knock Trump out of the race are counterproductive. They backfired. They have from day one. Bill Barr weighing in, Trump trials and persecution.

Huge Colorado Trump ban fallout as blue state radical judges try to ban Trump from that ballot.

Now California wants to do the same. We talk about it, what it means for the GOP horse race, and leave it to Joe Biden to make it all worse as he sits down for a year-ender with Bill Mura. No, no. Brett Baer? No.

Oh, I mean, Conan O'Brien. Brett Baer joins us now. Hey, Brett, was it between you and Conan? Uh and why do you think Conan got the nod? His height?

Yeah. Hey, um Listen, we've been asking since Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary. That's how many months. we've been asking every couple of weeks for an interview. With the then candidate, then president of the United States.

And We have yet to break through. We almost had it at the Super Bowl. And we were getting ready for that interview. That's traditional. when we had it, Fox had it, and it didn't didn't pan out.

So Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how many interviews he's doing, but Tony O'Brien will see what um what his basketball looks like.

Well, the thing is, I have no problem with light interviews. They all do the late night hosts now. It used to be kind of unique, but now okay. I think President Obama did Between Two Ferns. But you just got to mix it in with the year-ender.

Brett, just think about any president that is running for reelection and has a shot at saying, I'm going to do a year-ender where you could talk about what you're running on. You could use that.

Okay, I'll answer some of the questions, but let me also use this as an opportunity to rip my future opponent and let everybody know how great I am and what great things I'm about to do. It looks like they're going to pass on that opportunity. Is that what you hear? Yeah, I think so. I think so.

I haven't heard anything about an interview and clearly we haven't received any any word about one.

So. We'll keep trying. I agree with you. Listen, when you're an interviewee, you can answer the questions however you want to answer them. You know, sometimes.

Inquisitors are a little bit more forceful than others. But You have the choice, and obviously, the power of an editorial moment to kind of focus things as you get ready to head into an election year. One would think they'd want that opportunity, but I'm not sure this White House is in that is in that mindset. I want you to hear what President Biden's complaint was about our business, cut one. I think it's beyond social media, I think it's the media generally.

And I'm not blaming the media, but things have changed. I mean, who who are the editors anymore? You don't have somebody saying, No, you can't print that in this paper because that's not accurate. There's no editors anymore. Really?

Where did that come from? I mean, we don't have edit we constantly have editors. Yeah, I d I don't know where that came from. I Listen, I know his broad comment about social media. I mean, there's a lot of Bad stuff out there that gets out there and is misinformation, disinformation.

Um but as far as the media as a whole, Um there's all kinds of opinion programs. But um you know, you you've got to be able to face it head on and realize that maybe some of the problems are not the media. I would say that.

So, one of the interesting things is when an issue like Israel comes up and it divides a party, when an interview comes up with the border, it has divided the country. But now, two-thirds of the country, I would say, Um Unscientifically, see the border and see it as an unbelievable problem that needs to be addressed. It's number two or number one in almost every poll. And listen to a Democratic mayor in New York talk about how the federal government has let him down, cut nine. I am lost and I'm confused on this topic, on why we still, almost 20 months later, we're still talking about this issue and it has inundated the city over $150,000.

It's $5 billion in our budget, $12 billion over the three-year period. It is really impacting the basic services in our city, and we need a relief.

So no one's going to read us the Statue of Liberty anymore when we complain about hotels and cities being overrun, ball fields being taken over by soft-sided tents?

So this has really changed. In 2016, the Republicans were afraid to bring it up. Remember the autopsy, Brett? Don't bring up being tough on the border. It's anti-Hispanic.

That ship has sailed. Yeah, and that listen, you'd look at the polls in Hispanic communities and Latino communities, there is concern about Border and the handling of the border. You're talking more than 12,000 a day. You see these pictures where it's, you know, like a it's the lines of people going across that border, Bill Melugin talking to them as they come across, where you guys want to go. It's it's really staggering.

And I think it has changed. The dynamic has changed. and how to talk about it has changed. And I think that that goes towards the Republican side, but You know, you have a lot of time in between now and then, we'll see how they deal with this issue into the new year. Do your sources say that they're going to get something significant?

Because that's what I'm hearing over and over again.

Something significant is happening in order to get the Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel funding some asylum changes at the border. What are you thinking? Yeah, I think so. I mean, I think it's what your definition of a significant is the key part. I mean, When it talks about border security, that's where Republicans in the House, their mindset is first.

Um so asylum rule changes seem like they're around the edges, but it's important. I think they'll get to some deal. Whether it can pass the House is really the question. It's not going to be H.R. 2, which was the House bill on immigration they passed when they first got in office.

So, Brett Farrigas, lastly, as usual, in the Trump world, nothing is predictable. And that decision in Colorado to decide to take the President off the ballot that's going to end up in the Supreme Court has taken over all conversation when it has to do with Iowa, New Hampshire, or running for president. Here is President Biden on that ruling yesterday, cut 14.

Well I think such a self-evident. You saw it all.

Now whether the Fourteenth Amendment applies or let the court make that decision. But he certainly supported insurrection. There's no question about it. None. Zero.

And uh He seems to be doubling down on about everything. Yeah, right. Tell that to Jack Smith. He hasn't charged him with it. I thought that was an interesting take.

I thought he had a chance to be above it and say, listen, I don't think any state should be taking away anybody's right to run for president unless you're Jefferson Davis. But he didn't say that. He should have, and that would have given him points really across the board, Democrats and Republicans, Independents. Um Listen, there are other states that are trying this maneuver now, but all it has done And you heard Bill Barr say this, but it it is just real. It has fueled not only a fundraising boom to the former president, but also Every other candidate is asked about it at every stop.

Now, so if you're Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley and your question is Uh, you know, what do you think about Colorado? And you have to say it's ridiculous, and blah blah blah. again, the oxygen all goes to the former President. And yet no one can look at this from a political spectrum and say this does not help His cause. Yeah.

You know what I worry about, and no one brings it up, and I even flip the channels. I worry if the Supreme Court punts on this or they don't rule on it. Do you realize what happens? California's next. The lieutenant governor says, I'm doing everything I can to kick him off the ballot.

There's about nine more challenges in nine more states. And can you imagine if some of these states just kick him off? He gets the nomination. No one buys the result because he wasn't able to compete. Senate races, congressional races are all affected because people don't show up if your candidate is not on the ballot.

Uh and then there's going to be redemption and revenge.

Next time there's a charismatic Democrat, I I worry about that. I know.

Well, you shouldn't because the John Roberts Supreme Court, there is no way that they're not going to deal with this. There's no way. It's just too big. Uh as far as um The health of the Republic. It is too big not to come in and weigh in one way or the other.

But I think they're going to get in and get in fast before other states start to dominate them. Good. I could focus on the Giants' offensive line now.

So, Brett, your special is excellent. Your book is excellent. Your special went on last week to rescue the Constitution, George Washington, and the Fragile American Experiment. And then you have a children's book out now as people scramble to get that gift, the History Club, duel across time. Do you want to tell me why you tackle both these?

Yeah, I mean, it's the same issue is trying to get the narrative of history and make it readable and engage, you know, especially our generation and younger. And then to get really young kids, a graphic novel is kind of Where that space is.

So, um. Did both and both are doing great and I've got a lot of great feedback.

So just like your book, it's it gives you pleasure to uh to be able to bring history back to life. Yeah, I just got to apologize to your family ahead of time because I know you had plans Saturday night, but with my show, it's going to be my special Saturday at nine. You have to change your plans to watch it unless you can learn to work your D V R. Mm-hmm. I will record it right now.

You will?

Okay, good. All right, nine o'clock Saturday. Teddy and Brooker T, baby.

So we're going to watch it tonight, Brad. You were you working, you going through the tape? You were playing tonight? I am. I'm going through the tape.

I'm taking off tomorrow, but I'll be on tonight. Jack Keene's going to talk about some of the stuff we're seeing in Ukraine and Israel. And obviously, we'll follow all the latest. It's You know, day to day, even this, you know, holiday season, we're getting breaking news every night. Every night.

I hear you. Brett, thanks so much. And by the way, great job of Louis Cheney. You brought up the point that I brought up to her too, is you agree on almost everything Trump did until the end, and now she's become a huge critic. But I know it's tough because we're both fans of hers, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Listen, I mean, she's spent a lot of time. I know her very well. But you gotta ask questions that challenge her. What was it like afterwards, okay?

Oh, it was fine. It was fine. You know, she knew what she was coming into. And, you know, that any interview that I have, I'm going to go from the other side always. I mean, you're always going to be devil's advocate.

So I think it was great. And she made her points. I think that some of it in history's perspective is going to be interesting to look back on, whether she was right in the moment or over the top. Go get him. Brett Baer, thanks so much.

We'll see you. You got it. When we come back, I'll be able to squeeze in some calls. 1-866-408-7669. Do you think that Donald Trump will benefit from this?

Do you worry, like I am still a little bit worried, despite what Brett said, that somehow the Supreme Court's not going to touch this? You listened to the Brian Kill Me Show. I look forward to your input. And then Neil McDonough, one of America's finest actors, he's got a brand new movie. It's been out for a few weeks, but he's here to talk about it.

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Why is it okay for the US to be negotiating with a McGirl government? sending back people in Justice Department customers.

Okay, because they're true in American people who are held illegally and we've made a deal with Venezuela at the whole pre-election.

So far they maintain their requirements. And that's it. By giving back Yeah, no, of course not. I've never seen an administration give up so much to get so many Americans back. I'm glad for every American that's back.

I have no idea who these people were in Iran, by the way. We haven't met them. No one talks to them. Who was held in Iran that we gave up those billions for? Of course we keep in a bank that can only use it for humanitarian purposes.

And then they get back two of their criminals, and they decide to stay in New York City. Think about that for a second. And now we know about we're great at hostage swaps. And now, all of a sudden, to get these guys out of Venezuela, which I'd like, it looks like they were unjustly kept. I understand that.

But then we give back a guy that is extremely evil that was really tough to get. You know who knows it? Mike Pompeo. He was at CIA and Secretary of State when they got this guy. And he is a terrible human being.

Cut 24.

So we worked hard in the Trump administration to get this fellow taken off the streets, this guy Kassab. We chased him all around. We got him here. He was supporting Maduro, the regime there, who's got a $15 million warrant to get him back to the United States of America. That's the leader of Venezuela.

I don't think this trade made any sense for the United States of America. When you kowtow, when you bend a knee to these authoritarian regimes, you I'm glad we're getting some people back home, but there'll be more Americans taken hostage. There'll be more Americans wrongfully detained. You can't appease these folks, Kelly. You just saw this.

You know it firsthand. You have to demonstrate American power. And when you do that, you can keep Americans safe, and you don't have to make these terrible trades like the Biden administration has made now repeatedly. You know, so that's the Secretary of State. It's just terrible.

This guy is Fat Leonard. That's what they call him. But he is now going to be in key aide to Maduro again. Victor Boot. He's the number one arms dealer in the world.

They did a movie about him. We get him back for Britney Griner.

So go grab so right now around the world, they're looking at Americans, whether you're traveling or not. What I worry about is if they take somebody of high profile and they want Khalid Sheikh Mohammed back. Think about that for a second. Paul Whalen still being held in the BBC, still being held in Russia. Listen to him, cut 22.

You know, it's a serious betrayal. It's extremely frustrating. I know that the U.S. has come up with all sorts of proposals, serious proposals. But it's not what the Russians are after.

So they keep going back and forth. The only problem is it's my life. That's draining a winnie. Why would he do this?

Now it's five years. It's unfathomable to me that they left me behind. And not only that, he's basically in a penal colony. Incredible.

So when we come back, it's going to be our privilege to bring in to the show Neil McDonough, actor and star of a brand new movie called The Shift. You know him from Yellowstone and just about everything else. One of the most successful actors in the country. Neil also is a producer and a great dad and a great coach and in really good shape. Did Brian kill me, Joe?

Another reason to watch Fox Nation. And I think Carla Shimkiss is coming up just to take a picture with him. A radio show like no other. It's Brian, kill me.

Okay? Yeah, I'm okay. I guess. Yeah. Drink this.

You get a nasty gash right there. I had a kid, so I bandaged it up for you. You seem okay otherwise. Thank you. Remember your name?

Yeah. Kevin. Try it. Nice to finally meet you, Kevin. I'm the benefactor.

Ah, my ears are ringing. I can't hear you. The benefactor. I don't understand. Is that a joke?

So no. I wouldn't do that. Look at you. We're in joke at a time like this. I'm here to help you.

I want to talk to you about business. What business? I want to offer you a job. I have a job.

Well, not for long.

Well, that is just a slice of the shift. A movie that's out for you to download and have a great spiritual Christmas, great holiday season. Neil McDonough is starring in it, actor and producer of the movie. It is now out. It's gettable.

It's achievable. You can go see it yourself. Neil McDonough in studio, if you're smart enough to get Fox Nation, you're seeing him on the stream. Neil, great to see you. Thanks, Brennan.

Thanks for having me. You usually see interviewing with me on television is enough. A lot of times people make excuses not to do the radio, but you're okay with this.

Well, my wife Reve is here, and she says, obviously, I have a face for radio, so this is perfect. I mean, it's just right up my alley. Can you, first off, great to see you. Nice of you to come up. Thank you.

Can you tell everyone what was happening in that moment, in that shift, in that scene, in the shift? Yeah, it's the first moment that, look, the shift is basically the retelling of the book of Job.

So it's basically the devil getting into this uh this guy and tempting him with whatever w it will take to get him to come to his side. And it's it's pretty fantastic. And the the film itself is so powerful. And the audience reaction has been so fantastic to it. I can't even tell you.

And Angel Studios, what they stand for and what they put out there. Rave and I are so fortunate and blessed to be part of the chat system, yeah, that we helped produce this film. And to play this character was just it was such a deep dive for me to really kind of You know, everyone knows what what a method actor I am, and to just to pull all that stuff out of myself to play a character that's so dark. And yet, try to find the lightness in Lucifer at the same time and really make him as human as possible, which in turn makes him as scary as could possibly be. Written by someone else, but you produced it.

Yeah, uh Brock Easley wrote and directed it. Uh And Revere and I were brought on to help produce the film and For me to star as as as basically the benefactor, aka Lucifer. How different was the script from the actual final product? Brock is his first film. He made the little short film or called A Torch that they put on the Angel Studio website.

And if it passes 50 or 60 percent, Of the voters, it's kind of like a crowdfunding thing, and there's thousands and thousands of voters in his past, and then what they can you explain that to me? What do you mean by this?

So, they'll do a torch. Um kind of five minutes of what the film is going to be about. They put it on the Angel Studios website and the Guild. Thousand look six thousand people chipped in to make this film. That's incredible.

Wow.

So so at the end of the film, you'll see all the names rolling in the credits, and the names who invested in the film were longer than the people who made the film. Wow.

That that's how incredible Angel Studios is. And then once they raise an X amount of money, the Angel Accelerator Fund matches that and they have a budget to make the film. And so that's what they did for Brock. They loved the short film. Uh Raise a ton of money to make the film, and here it is out in the theaters now, and it's doing so well.

It's a small little film that's just the word of mouth is fantastic. Can you get it streamed? Not yet. you know, here here it is, this this small little film that has it's just creeping up the charts. It was number ten last week.

Now it's number eight this week and it's third week out, and who knows what's going to happen. But I know that walking down the streets here in New York, it's incredible the reaction that I've gotten from the shift. People have loved this film. They love the message. They love the story of Job.

They love how it has a faith-based backdrop to it. Yet there's action, there's sci-fi, and there's a great romantic love story at the base of it.

So, wait a second. Between Suits, which is a huge hit, Yellowstone's a huge hit. Band of Brothers, one of the greatest movies ever. Walking Tall, Justified, everything's the flash. That's what people are saying.

The shift? It's crazy. The biggest thing ever for me is obviously Banda Brothers. And for me, to be part of it. I met Reve, my wife, the very first day filming there.

Those guys are still all my best buddies. We just did this chain of texting this morning, which is probably five o'clock, six o'clock their time in the West Coast, talking smack with each other. And it's just Those are my guys, and to play Buck Compton. To tell the story of this great generation, I am the most blessed guy. And then to have all these other films that I've done ever since, it's pretty remarkable.

You know what? I have a clip.

So, with Buck with you as Buck Compton, here it is. Let's listen. Cut 26. Don't you two do something stupid like that, all right? Try not to, Buck.

I mean it. And you. Wow, Bill. I've invested too much damn time shaping you into something useful. You do something crazy.

Get yourself knocked out of this thing. I know, I know. You kill me here. Even if you're dead, I'll still kill you. I'm serious.

Sure thing, Buck. Nothing stupid. You got it, right? We got it.

Alright. George? Yeah. Nothing stupid, Buck. When people talk about friendships, they say band of brothers.

We're like a band of brothers. That's a part of our vernacular now. What was happening in that scene? Uh it's it's It's just about when Buck starts to really fall apart and when he starts to see his friends dying and what that was like. I mean I couldn't imagine being 18, 19, 20 years old, 16, 17, guys who just jumped in lying about their age to fight for what was the right thing for the democracy and the freedom of America.

Those guys are just they're superheroes to me. And to get to hang out with those guys And for Buck to be kind of You know, another father figure for me in my life was Yeah, it was incredible. And it it was funny. We're at his You know, here's a guy who was This World War Two hero, Purple Star, you know, Purple Heart, the Silver Star, everything you could ever get award-wise. Then he goes on to become a police officer and then the DA and the chief prosecuting attorney on Sir Hanserhan and Manson and all these things.

Then he goes off to start his own conservative talk radio show in Washington. And becoming such a father figure to me, he was like, Neil, you got to come out of that political closet one day and have the bravery to admit everyone that you're a conservative. I'm like, yeah, but Puck, if I talk about that. You know, it's not the greatest thing in my career. And he goes, Well, it worked for Ronald Reagan.

I'm like, Yeah, but I'm not Ronald Reagan. He goes, Why not? Why can't you run for president one day? I was like, No, hold on a second. And then at his funeral, there he was.

I spoke at his funeral, and it was his casket in front of me. And I told everyone in the church, you know, thousands of people there. Uh I said this is for Buck. I said it's going to sound like an AA meeting, but here it goes. Hi.

I'm Neil McDonough. And I'm a Republican. And the place just lost their mind. It was one of those just great moment. And I could feel Buck in his casket just applauding and and just laughing and having a great old time with it.

So uh yeah, he was just I I miss that guy. Like, I can't even tell ya. It's uh I I can't even watch Bander Brothers because it gets so emotional for me. Again, being a method actor, I g I go back exactly to where I was and what I was thinking with the character any time I see a character that I played, especially of that depth. And it's hard.

Two weeks ago, my son is studying Bender Brothers at school at his Christian high school in California. Why would they study that? World War II was the history class that he was studying, and Banner Brothers was the key to the whole thing. Did they realize who he was?

Well, and then the teacher is like. He understood who Morgan was immediately, and then he had me come in and speak to the class about Banda Brothers. And I can't talk about Benner Brothers for more than thirty seconds without getting emotional because it's You know, it's where I met my wife, it's where everything really started for me. and I had to sit there and I haven't watched Banner Brothers since it came out. And I sat and he said, Dad, I missed He had a golf tournament, so he couldn't watch it in class that day.

So I said, Dad, can we sit down and you and me just watch episode seven together? Because that's the one I missed. And episode seven is the one where Buck really kind of has his emotional falling apart. And it was so hard. To watch it because it just brought me back to exactly where I was and what I was thinking at that time.

And, you know, there's tears running down my face, and Morgan's looking at me and He I think he finally understood the emotional Roller coaster that I went through playing Buck and how much it truly meant to me in my life and how important it was to. tell the story correctly uh and and give honor to the guys that lived, died, breathed, fought for our freedoms. And it was it's the greatest thing that I've ever done in my life. Do you think others felt the same way? They all did.

They all did. It's something that we're all so proud of and I will never be able to thank you. And it was Steven Spielberg's birthday the other day, and for 23 years I've sent him champagne on his birthday to say thank you, pal, because without that, I wouldn't have met Revere, I wouldn't have five kids, I wouldn't have done a hundred movies ever since then and thousands of hours of television and The life that I have, and how blessed I am to have been part of Band of Brothers.

Well, Steven, as you since you're so involved in sports. This is for someone who's never been involved in acting. Good directors are coaches, aren't they? They know the combination of you.

So certain people need to be in faith. Yeah, you got to get disciplined. You got to pay to other people you know they're sensitive. If you say one thing, they're going to overreact to what you say.

So what is it about him that he was able to read you enough to get the most out of you. Steven Spielberg is he's uh He's just amazing. You know, to have worked with him several times, you know, he did Minority Report in Boomtown, one of my favorite characters I ever played, Flags of Our Fathers, and there's a great TV series I did with Ed Burns. Uh called Public Morals. Um He he's always casting me in things.

And it's I'm so fortunate because he knows what talent is, he knows what confidence is, and when you mold those two together. Yet the greatest acting tip I ever got was from Steven Spielberg. Second best acting tip, the best acting tip I ever got was from my wife, Reve. But the second best acting tip was from Stephen. And I've studied at some of the greatest schools in the world.

And he's he saw me on set the first day of my nerdy report, and he could tell that I was probably nervous 'cause there's Tom Cruise standing in front of me, there's everyone else, and I was kind of new to the to the to the bigness of of of that kind of film. And he walked up to me and and he says, Look, Uh can I give you a tip? Yeah. I want you to be great on every take. And he just sat there for a second, and he was waiting for my reply.

I'm like. Uh what does that mean? is I hired you. Because I know you're great.

So if you just be yourself on every take, you're going to be phenomenal. And it's it's been in my brain ever since that God gave me a gift of being a really talented actor. I can't pound a nail. I'm terrible at telling jokes, but man, I can act. And that's Rivet quoted that once.

Uh and He gave me the confidence of realizing that I'm where I should exactly be in front of a camera, and it's my most. I'm more comfortable in front of a camera than I am in person. You know, I can. On the last segment we were on your show, you talked about. When we were off camera, you said, What are you more comfortable in this or more comfortable as a character?

And I'm always more comfortable as a character because I get to make believe. And for me, Neil McDonough, I'm much more shy and introverted. By nature, but I have to put on a persona when I go out in public and when I'm walking down the streets and talking to people and such. I have to. What about this?

Is this you? Th this is me right now, the much more would I be different if we were at lunch? And there's no cameras or no microphones? It doesn't seem very natural. Right now, here I am with you, Brian, just talking about life and talking about me.

And I generally don't talk about me very much. I'd much rather talk about my characters and my craft and what it's like. But when I get to talk about being a dad, and I get to talk about being a husband to an amazing woman, I get to talk about my career of. You know, hundred and something films and and working for the people that I've worked for and worked with and Here I am now. You know, on our fifth project that Revere and I have produced together and to do films with Angel Studios.

to be able to do the films that I've always wanted to tell. to do films that have a backdrop of faith. And how we can be better by watching some entertainment to make us think, hmm, how can I be better as a coworker? How can I be better as a teammate? How can I be better as a dad or husband or whatever?

How can I be better as a child of God? And You know, it it it always makes me come back to to this one thing. We're all children of God.

So we're all brothers and sisters. We should all be rooting for each other as one big family. But instead, we divide ourselves for certain reasons. And I still can't understand.

Well, I'm not sure what the the correct faith is. I'm not sure what the correct You know, anything is, but it doesn't really matter what your race, your creed, your color, your background, we're all in it together. And if we just did that more, would in the world be a much happier, simpler place. But we we As humans, we get confused, and there's so many messages out there. To confuse us and You know, as a dad having five kids, you look at all the social media, and we try to really limit the social media w for our kids because it just.

It bends their brains, and it's hard for a 13-14-year-old kid to figure out what is actually reality and what is just pumped into you to. You know, I was reading this thing the other day. Every ten times a day kids see commercials about soda.

Soda's not the greatest thing in the world for you. Uh Or alcohol commercials. You know, I used to drink alcohol. I drank too much alcohol. That's why I stopped drinking alcohol eight years ago.

'Cause I knew it wasn't the best thing to be a child of him. And so I had to really focus on how can I be the best for him? How can I be the best for my family? And that was one thing I needed to get rid of. Uh and Reve helped me get through that and and you know, it was the greatest thing that I ever walked away from.

Do you see beer commercials and say to yourself, I'd love to have a beer? No. Is that what you were saying? No, I'm not sure. But you're saying the negative images.

Why couldn't we go out of our way to make these images more positive and sell things that are more beneficial? I had this great question. Quote the other day from my pastor back in Massachusetts, Willie Ewing, who I went to school with as a kid. And it was something, I can't remember the exact actual quote from the Bible, but he was saying: We spend so much time cheering for our sports teams, we spend so much time cheering for this and that. And screaming at the top of our lungs, Go, team, go!

But we don't ever scream out loud for our faith in Him. We don't scream out loud how fortunate we are to be loved by God. Hold that thought. Back in a moment. Listen to Neil McDonough.

Call pick up and make sure you find some time to see his movie, The Shift. It is out and it's doing exceedingly well. Great reviews. Back in a moment. Learning something new every day on the Brian Killmead Show.

The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Killmead. Do you know the story of Susan Rawlings? Real estate attorney from Hamilton. That's right.

We gotta mutually. beneficial relationship. Until she figured out a way to bend the law to benefit her business. More than my business. That's the problem with playing dirty.

Bless. Because when someone plays dirty back, there's no one to cry to. There's nowhere to scream about the injustice you endure, because if you do, All your Filthy laundry just spills right out in the open for everyone to see. Susan finally realized that. They moved her.

Somewhere in California where they could help her move past the trauma. We'll see how tough you are after I give it to you. Neil McDonough on Yellowstone threatening Beth Dutton. Your thoughts when hearing that?

So. I had when I got to the set. And I have ne I had never met Kelly. I said, Would you like to meet Kelly? I said, No.

Wait till after the scene. And because when I go into those situations I'm not there to become friends with cast members and such. My job is when I'm the villain. Is to be. Villainous.

Even at lunch. Even at lunch. I'll go to have lunch in my trailer. I won't talk to I'll talk to the crew. I'm I'm great with the crew.

But when it comes to the other actors, I don't really generally speak to them at all. Because it makes it much more intense. There I was sitting on the set and there's Kelly in her chair behind the d I remember like it was yesterday. And she's getting her makeup all done. I'm just sitting there calmly.

I'm just staring, and she's like, I could see her starting to look over at me, and she's starting to shake a little bit. And as I and the They have roll camera. Did you want it? And I said, can you have the camera on her first for her reaction? And I'll do my reaction after.

And they're like, yeah, we usually don't do it that, but okay, sure. And as soon as I walk towards her, I see her hand start shaking on the desk. I'm like, ah, this is going to be good. Hey, listen, that's just a few minutes of Neil McDonough. It's not enough time.

The name of the movie is The Shift. It's a great holiday movie. You're going to love it. And he produced it and he stars in it along with his wife. Neil McDonough, thanks so much.

Brian, thank you for everything. I really appreciate it, Pal. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead.

Hi, everyone. Brian Kilmey here, coming to you from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan. Heard around the country, heard around the world. And of course, you can get us on the stream on Fox Nation, BrianKilmeShow.com. Also, if you go to Fox News app and you click on the headsets as well as your smart devices, the headsets just get you the show live.

But of course, you could always look at past shows too. We've got a big hour coming your way. We're going to do a simulcast with Stuart Varney. I'm going to go out to Dan Hoffman, who used to be in the CIA and used to have Moscow and Iraq as his return address, and where Mark Thiessen is standing by.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. You know, it's a serious betrayal. It's extremely frustrating. I know that the U.S.

has come up with all sorts of proposals, but it's not what the Russians are after. The only problem is, it's my life that's draining away. Why will they do this? It's five years. It's unfathomable to me that they left me behind it.

That is Paul Whale, and you can hear his exasperation. He's actually in a deep prison in a penal colony in Russia for years. Weakness. That's exactly how Joe Biden's foreign policy has us looking around the world. Think about it.

The Houthi rebels rock at us. We do nothing back. We've got hit 102 times. We've hit back four times in the region. China tells us they're going to take Taiwan when they're ready.

And think about all the hostage exchanges that were given and the ones that have been taken. Joe Biden's got to go. Number two. My mayor is blaming everyone except the person who needs to get the blame, and that is President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who are responsible for protecting and securing our borders and for having a functional immigration system. They're not calling out Secretary Mayorkis for letting asylum seekers come to this country under false pretense and then giving them court cases ten years from now.

That's true. That is Raymond Lopez, an alderman from Chicago, feeling our frustration. A border overwhelmed. A president who could not care less. Blue cities begin to pay a heavy price.

They are turning on their own party. And the CBP doesn't have the luxury of taking off for Christmas like Congress. Number one. I think this kind of action of stretching the law, taking these hyper-aggressive positions to try to. Knock Trump out of the race are counterproductive.

They backfire. That is William Barr. No fan of Trump anymore, but the Trump trials and persecution. Huge Colorado Trump ban fallout as blue state radical judges try to ban Trump from the ballot.

Now California wants to do the same. It looks like pure folly and pure politics. It looks like they're trying and are afraid of. Donald Trump.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden ends the year with a big sit-down with Bill Muir? With Brett Baer? No. Conan O'Brien.

Now for a review of that great interview before you even heard it. is Mark Thiessen, big Conan fan. Hey, Mark. Hey, good to be with you. Hey, by the way, can I tell you, you are one hundred percent correct on how Reese's peanut butter cups came about.

It was two guys walking down the street bumped into each other and got and and he said one said, You put chocolate in my peanut butter and you got peanut butter in my chocolate. All right, we're going to try to get the commercial to know. Thank you, Mark. Thank you. Because we're about the same age.

I'm more mature. It's a great taste, it tastes great together. Right. I love documentaries, I like true stories. And you're not going to believe it, but in the commercial.

Robbie Benson and Donnie Most. In the commercial that we found this morning, which will be aired tomorrow, you referred to the fact that Reese's Peanut Butter Cups came up in the news. And I said, What I love about Reese is not only the taste, but how it was invented totally by accident. And they're looking at me like I have 10 heads. And I go, No, no, it was chronicled on television in the 70s.

So nobody knows what I'm talking about. But what they have since done on YouTube. What are you talking about? Because we're both old. Yes.

I think that we're peaking. That's what you call it. Exactly, yes. We're finally hitting our stride, is how I look at it. There you go.

There you go. So let's talk about serious stuff. This Colorado case. Brett told me, don't worry about it, but I worry, and here's what I worry about: this case, 4-3 decision, decide to ban Trump from the ballot. It's going to go up to the Supreme Court quickly.

And I just imagine if this is a 5-4 decision. If they say we're not going to hear it and it works, and Colorado does ban Trump, do you realize, forget Trump? Our election system is forever changed for the worse. I'm just saying, let's play this out. Ten years from now, there's a charismatic Democrat, and he's fiery, or she's fiery.

And she gets people all emotional and lets them know that the the country's being taken away from them. And after their rallies, they begin to wreck cities like after the Detroit Tigers win a World Series or the Philadelphia Eagles win the Super Bowl. Right? And then they go, wait a second. Oklahoma governor goes, you know, this guy's too dangerous.

I think these are mini insurrections. I'm banning them from, I think he's dangerous. I'm banning them from my state. Nebraska, I'm going to ban them from my state. Texas, I'm going to ban them from my state.

It's just like the filibuster. Yeah, it's ridiculous. I mean, first of all, this whole concept of it being self-executing, like, you know, you don't have to be found to have been guilty of insurrection anywhere is just ridiculous. Trump was not charged with insurrection. There is a law.

you know, an anti-insurrection law on the books. And the the uh the special counsel hasn't charged him with it. He chose not to charge him with it.

So he was he wasn't he was acquitted by the senate. The impeachment when they impeached him for this. He was acquitted by the Senate, and the special counsel hasn't charged him with insurrection. which is a specific crime on the books that he could have charged him with. Why?

Because it wasn't an insurrection.

So, you know, the idea that you can suddenly, that the courts around the country can, like, step in and claim that anyone's an insurrectionist based on, you know, whatever, you know, whatever random per person shows up and says they were. is just patently absurd. And this is why I mean, this is why Donald Trump is is winning the nomination, is because these people these people say that Donald Trump is a unique threat to our democracy, but then they absolutely are willing to tear apart our democracy in order to stop him. They become everything they complain about in him. And worse.

Great point. And if I told you that Alvin Bragg's indictment was going to spur a surge for Trump that we witnessed, you'd go, no way, Brian, are you kidding me?

Someone getting indicted, a president getting indicted? You know, the circus, it's going to reinforce all the anti-Trumpers that they were 100% right. But what have we witnessed? We've witnessed each time. People say this is ridiculous.

You know, we both think the Alvin Bragg thing is a farce. And to make that be the first time that the president does this is absolutely incredible. The civil trial is an abomination, in my view.

Now you have the documents case, self-inflicted wound, but you compare it to what Joe Biden does. We don't get any news out of that. The Georgia, January 6th, so we're seeing this. And you see, instead of someone trying to seek justice, maybe like Robert Hurr is doing in theory with Joe Biden, you see Jack Smith, who looks absolutely motivated to take down somebody rather than seek justice. Yeah.

This will be a different situation, though, because I think even I mean, you saw in my paper, Ruth Marcus, who probably hates Trump more than any human being I know alive, had a column today saying that the Supreme Court should overturn this unanimously. I think that it's likely that this will be a 9-0 decision by the court. And I think also that the justices on the liberal justices will not only come around, will be will rule correctly on this, but they also understand that this would be an absolute, you know, all these people are saying that the conservative justices have politicized the institution and are ruining the reputation of the Supreme Court and dragging it into politics. This would be the liberal justices doing that. And so I think for the sake of the institution as well as the law, I think this is just going to be thrown out.

So Fox Business is a poll out, and it's probably the last one until the Iowa caucus in a couple of weeks. Donald Trump now up from 46 in September to 52. DeSantis from 15 in September to 18. Nikki Haley from 11 to 16. And the rest doesn't matter.

Your thoughts on Iowa?

So, I mean, it's likely that Trump will win. The question, I mean, one of the things that's always interesting about Iowa is that, you know, there's this huge focus on who comes in second, right? And so this is really a Haley-DeSantis race in Iowa for second place. If DeSantis can't come in with a very strong second, he's finished because he's put all his eggs in the basket there. And so if Haley's, you know, within two points, that's a margin of error.

If she could eke out a victory over DeSantis in Iowa, and then she goes to New Hampshire and she could win New Hampshire if Chris Christie got the hell out of the race. Because most of his voters would go to her. I mean, this this has got to be a two-person race to challenge Trump. And then it's got to become a one-person against Trump race, or else Trump is going to win it, which is a likely scenario at this point. But it's not out of the realm of possibility that something can happen.

But Chris Christie has got to get out. He's got zero path to the nomination. I don't understand why he's being so. You know, Mike Pence looked at the writing on the wall and saw that this wasn't his time. Tim Scott did the same thing.

Chris Christie doesn't have a path to the presidency or to the nomination. He needs to get out. And if he does. You could see a scenario where Nikki Haley comes in second in Iowa, has an upset win over Trump in New Hampshire if she's the only one on the ballot against him, and then wins South Carolina. that that is a within the realm of possibility, and then you have a competitive race.

So, Mark Tees and our guest, Mark, it's just so interesting. In the Fox Business Poll, they say the number one issue remains the economy. It was at 46 percent in September, now 38. But immigration's gone from 15 to 27, which builds on your column, by the way. And you talk about a compromise on the border would be good for Biden and the Ukraine, but I hope that doesn't stop Republicans from doing it.

A good deal that changes asylum rules. And the first country you come into, you have to apply, or you're forbidden to come to our country. A rapid return when you come here illegally. Sending the message: this has got to stop. Because I'm just looking at some of these statistics that are overwhelming.

You have 12,000 in a single day, a new record, over 12,000 in a single day on Monday, 24 hours, 18,500 in custody, another new record, 256% above capacity. We can't possibly handle this.

So, this is a five-alarm fire. But you say if he's smart, It's a big if. He'll do what Republicans want on the border: get his Ukraine and Israel and Taiwan funding and be in a stronger position. Is he smart? I don't know if he is, but he ought to be.

I mean, if you're Joe Biden, wouldn't you rather have The levels of people encounters at the southern border down to the same levels as your Republican and Democratic president for the three representatives. Republican and Democratic predecessors before the election. Wouldn't that help you?

Okay. You know, I mean, you you this this situation is indefensible. And so why would you not want to do that? And then on the other hand, I think Republicans are doing the right thing, including pro-Ukraine Republicans are doing the right thing by holding his feet to the fire and using Ukraine aid as leverage to get this, because it's good for the American people. It's good for the country if we can secure the border.

And it's also good for Ukraine. Because what do all the anti-Ukraine Republicans always say? Biden cares more about Ukraine's border than our own. And the reason that's a devastating argument is because it's been true. And we're a superpower.

We can secure our border and also lead the world. Ronald Reagan did it. But we're not. And it's by choice.

So, you know, the question is, is Biden going to make the right choice? I think he has no choice. I think that he understands that he's not going to get Ukraine aid if he doesn't secure the border. And so I think they're doing the absolute right thing. They're doing the right thing, and they're not betraying Ukraine by doing it.

They're helping Ukraine because they're taking away, if they succeed in this, they're taking away the strongest argument on the right against helping Ukraine. No kidding. And Ukraine, by holding, now they're in a stalemate and people are acting like that's bad. They're killing tens of thousands of Russians a day. I know they're outnumbered.

They got to get the weapons they need, but they've already taken back 50% of the land they lost since this conflict started. They're also willing to activate 400,000 people if they could finance it. They've been incredibly resourceful and driven.

So we need to have somebody lead this charge who can actually speak. Austin can't speak. Blinken looks scared to death. And we know what Joe Biden's not capable of. The guy that can speak the best is you, General Keene, and Lindsey Graham.

Put us in charge, man. And you Four of us will go in and solve the problem. Look, here's the thing also that people are not focusing on: when they say there's a stalemate, they're looking at the land border. The Ukrainians have won the Battle of the Black Sea. What happened was the British gave them Storm Shadow missiles, which are long-range missiles similar to our long-range attackums.

The French gave them their version of that missile. And they use those missiles plus sea drones to drive. Every Russian ship out of Ukrainian territorial waters and into Russian territorial waters.

So they've literally liberated the entire Ukraine. coastline Including the coast of Crimea. The Russians can't bring their ships into. If we were to give them. Three more Patriot batteries.

and long range attack on missiles, they would be able to take out every uh airfield, every plane, every ship, every everything in Crimea. They would be able to to take start taking back their territory. And also, where are the F sixteen? You know, we promised them F-16s at the start of the year, and they still haven't. The training thing has been stymied because of program delays.

We're not giving them the weapons. We're being incredibly unfair to the Ukrainians because people are saying, you know, look at them. They're not making as much progress as we hope. There's a stalemate.

Well, we haven't given them the weapons in order to. We've given them enough weapons not to lose, but we don't give them the weapons they need to win, and then we complain that they're not winning. This administration has a strategy not to lose. They don't have a strategy for victory. And that's, quite frankly, one of the reasons why support is dwindling, because Americans want to back a winner and they don't understand why the Ukrainians aren't winning after they had so much success early on.

What's your reaction to Lindsey Graham or the NBC report that President Xi told Joe Biden in San Francisco that he will be taking Taiwan at a time in which he chooses? There's nothing we can do about it. What is your take on that? My take on is that listen to the words of your enemies. I mean, one of the lessons we've learned through history is that we when our enemies tell us what they intend to do, we need to take them seriously.

You know, Hitler wrote Mein Kamp. And he said that he's going to build an Aryan superstate, eradicate the Jews and retake Europe. And we didn't pay attention. He rearmed and he did it. Osama bin Laden in nineteen ninety six wrote a fatwa.

Tell declaring war in America. We didn't pay attention and 9-11 happened. And Vladimir Putin a year before issued a 6,000-word manifesto. It's still up on the Russian presidential website, declaring that the Ukrainians and the Russians were one people and they had to be reunited. And we weren't sure he was going to do it.

Well, Xi Ji Jinping has been just as clear about Taiwan. I mean, how many times are we going to make the same mistake? When your enemy tells you, I'm going to do this. Pay attention. Do it.

We should be we should be arming Ukra uh Taiwan to the teeth right now. Mark, it seems we need a new president. I hope we survive this year. Mark Thiessen, have a great Christmas. Thanks for everything.

Great holidays. Merry Christmas to you, Brian. Take care. You're the best. 1866-408-7669.

Bottom of the hour, we do Daniel Hoffman of the CIA. We'll move this story forward.

So glad you're here. Giving you everything you need to know. You're with Brian Kilmead. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead.

Welcome back, everybody. I'll be I went a little long there, but Mark's got a lot to say, and there's so much going on right now. One thing is abundantly clear. If things go as planned, almost every legal expert from Jonathan Turley to McCarthy To every legal analyst I've seen that they have overstepped in Colorado, that there's nothing, there's no there there. This is going to help Trump.

It's going to help Trump big time because it shows he's been targeted. It shows the system has been gamed and it shows the system worked. And now when I watch Nikki Haley, when I watch Ron DeSantis, when I watch Chris Christie, When I watched Vivek Ramaswamy, do you know who they were talking about? Trump. You know what they were talking about?

Colorado. Know what they were talking about? Actually coming to his aid inside.

Now, if I'm trailed by 20 points, 25 points, 30 points, and I gotta praise the guy that's in front of me, let alone choose not to criticize him. works to Trump's advantage. Brian Kilmershiff, Daniel Hopkins. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

It's a serious betrayal. It's extremely frustrating knowing that the U.S. has come up with all sorts of proposals, serious proposals. But it's not what the Russians are after.

So they keep going back and forth. The only problem is it's my wife. It's draining a winnie. Why would he do this?

You know, it's five years. It's unfathomable to me that they've left me behind. Maybe not to Dan Hoffman, who was at the Moscow Bureau when he was with the CIA, knows Russia well. I want to talk about Ukraine, the mindset, Putin's four-hour oppressor. But that was Paul Whale, and he's been held for no reason for years.

Brittany Griner came and went. Others came and went. For some reason, they don't want to deal and get him out to let his life. Take shape again. Daniel Hoffman joins us now.

Hey, Dan. Hey, Brian, good to be on the program. You can just hear the pain in his voice and the frustration. Can you give us an idea of what this guy's going through in a penal colony in Moscow or in Russia? Yeah, and that That clip makes its way out into the media because Vladimir Putin is using it as leverage.

He's extorting us. And he knows that by allowing that clip to be played, he's driving up the price he's going to demand in return for Whelan's release. Look, there's no rule of law in Russia, and so Vladimir Putin can hold Paul Whelan as long as he wishes. until he gets what he wants. And it's over to the Biden administration to figure out what that is and then decide whether we can pay the price.

The hostage business really paying off. Think about what it's done for Iran. Look at Venezuela, just got one of their Fat Leonard or whatever they call him back. Evidently, this guy is a notorious criminal, according to Secretary of State Pompeo, former CIA director.

So you're getting a lot of people back. This seems to be what you, if you want to get something from America, arrest an innocent person and get back a criminal. Yeah, it's it's Asymmetric judicial warfare. We do enjoy the rule of law. We do arrest.

criminals like Victor Boot, for example, the arms dealer, Um And uh And Russia knows that. And so what they have to do is arrest uh detain and arrest innocent civilians, journalists like Evan Gershkovich and then hold them. And demand a trade. And we're never going to get anything like we should in return. uh we're not you know it's just It's just the way Russia and the other dictatorships are playing the system right now.

All you can do, I mean, the the idea that Russia would d would detain a journalist extrajudicially. That hasn't happened since nineteen eighty six and to hold them for as long as they have. It's just absolutely horrific, but it reflects the state of Vladimir Putin's. Um you know, KGB dictatorship. That's what we're seeing.

How would you characterize where he thinks he's at right now, Putin? I think he feels pretty good. I mean, he doesn't have to. worry about any oversight for his Awful handling of the war in Ukraine, where he's lost over 300,000 troops and failed. In to achieve any of his strategic objectives, beginning with toppling the government in Ukraine.

which he preposterous preposterously calls group of neo Nazis. But what what gives him a lot of hope, I think, and we saw that in his In his all-day question and answer session last week, is that The United States still hasn't given Ukraine the $60 or so billion dollars Ukraine desperately needs to stay in the fight. And so, thanks to Republicans and Democrats unable to come together with some bipartisan consensus on a national security priority like Ukraine, not to mention the border and Israel, Vladimir Putin wins. And that's, I think, what makes him feel like he's accomplishing his objective. He's in a proxy war against the United States.

There's no question about that. That's how he views the fight in Ukraine. Uh And he feels like time is on his side.

Well, I mean, Ukraine says they're going to call up 500,000 people. Can they?

Well the the they're fighting kind of a losing battle when it comes to the size of their economy and the demographics. Russia has a significantly greater population, and our sanctions have never really been able to Uh to dent The amount of money Putin can draw on for his war effort, he's using Uh A shadow fleet to deliver oil around the world at more than $60 a barrel. Yes, Russia is subservient to China and they're forced to import Chinese cars and export their oil to China, but that's okay for Vladimir Putin. He's happy to jump into bed with the other dictator, Xi Jinping, even if it means that Russia's kind of on their knees and doing it. That's how he survives another day.

We've got to oppose. The democracies, that's what scares Vladimir Putin the most, democracy. No kidding. And he was so if you do think about it, the way we're spinning it, oh, I'm watching different hosts on this channel and others say, oh, wait a second, everyone knows you're not going to be able to win this war. Wait a second.

What are you talking about? Can you believe the Russians have lost 300,000 minimum soldiers? They're putting it into a meat grinder now, something like $1,000 a week. They're just throwing them out at the Ukrainians, who have taken 50% of their land back, but they wanted more this summer.

Now they're holding. They're holding when they should have been wiped out, according to all the experts, in weeks, two years ago, right? Right. Well this is a failure of communication from the Biden White House, specifically from the President, There's one thing that President Biden ought to know, is that the Americans are kind of fed up with endless wars. We had one in Vietnam, we had them in Afghanistan, and we had them in Iraq.

Bill Clinton actually had a plan to go in and get out. and the plan to get out was right there before we went in. in the form of Yugoslavia, for example. In the case of Ukraine, he's framing it as that, as long as it takes. What does that mean?

I he's got to frame it better that actually Ukraine is winning. You're right. We're cutting the Russian army down to size. We're defending Europe from Russian aggression. Um And we cannot allow Russia to take over Ukraine for all that that would mean to the world economy and national security, U.

S. national security in Europe and what it would mean for our fellow NATO members. All of those reasons why it's important that Ukraine doesn't lose. But the idea that we're just as long as it takes is It's frivolous, frankly. The President hasn't been able to get up on the bully pulpit and explain to the American people why we're doing this.

Nikki Haley has pretty effectively. But that's the administration has to do that. And yes, Republicans are are demanding, in the Democrats' view, certainly some extreme things on the border. But it's over to the administration. They've got to solve this one.

President Biden is supposed to be able to come up with some ideas about About bipartisan consensus, he's done that on some big legislation. And man, if we don't get this right, we're going to really suffer the consequences like snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. And they're fighting, and they're using with the training that we had given them, you guys had given them, and they're doing so effectively, so innovative. And listen, a lot of Republicans are disappointing me too. You see, Senator Josh Hawley.

Listen, what happened? There's some jiu-jitsu. All of a sudden, we don't see the threat of an expansion, expanded Russia. That was what Republicans tried to convince Democrats of for about 50, 60 years. If you don't stop Russia everywhere they try to expand, you lose.

And that's how we won the Cold War. We frustrated them, wore them out. They had a bad economic system. We're able to be more productive in every way. We're legitimate friends of people.

They just want to take over people.

So we have a better product. I want to bring it to the Houthi rebels. What are we so scared of?

Well, we shouldn't be as scared as I think we are. There's some grave concern in the Biden administration about escalating. And so we're not targeting the launch sites. We're not targeting the HUFI network, the networks of terrorists. We're launching these ballistic missiles and the drones.

And so as a result, We've got major oil companies, BP and MERS, they're not even going through the Red Sea. They've got to go way around. It takes ads, days. To travel over the Horn of Africa to ship the oil, and it's causing the price of oil to go up. We're not deterring the hoopies.

And when we fail to do that, Um we run the risk of our our soldiers, sailors Um and commercial shipping falling under fire and people could lose their lives. It's the same story in Syria and Iraq, where we're not deterring Iran's proxy militants from targeting us there or Lebanese Hezbollah. Iran has been deploying their proxy terrorists against us with impunity.

Now the Houthis, they're gaining a measure of legitimacy for themselves by taking the fight to the United States and Israel. And They're trying to drive a wedge between the Saudis, the Emiratis, key Gulf state allies, and the United States by. Taken hitting the price of oil and launching these attacks. And we're not, I don't think, I think we're being overly cautious. No kidding, 102 attacks, 102 attacks.

We've hit back about five times. And by the way, do we know exactly where they are? We could do an instant damage, correct?

Well, that's the intelligence challenge. I can tell you from having served in war zones like in Iraq, where we were always concerned about. The launch sites from Iran's proxy militias in Iraq. You can put your full Uh the the full power. Of your intelligence capability to bear and collect that intelligence and then do something about it.

And the the even more escalatory Uh, decision would be to target Iran directly. Iran doesn't want a direct conflict with the United States or Israel, they're just hiding behind their proxies. But the next step has to be to target Yemen. They're shooting at us. And we're not shooting back.

That's painful. I have a major problem with that. Daniel Hoffman, thanks so much. Have a great Christmas. Coming up next, Simocast on FBN.

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So we always love coming on. He's been doing it all year, every Thursday. Keep in mind, Teddy and Booker T, it is still out. Great Christmas gift. It's still now on the New York Times list for the fourth straight week.

And also, to keep in mind, there's going to be a special 9 o'clock Saturday night on the whole thing. It's taken a year to shoot, but to see about these two great Americans, a great American story. And they rose up at the right time to lead us through a very difficult time in our history coming off the Civil War, which they were both born. Uh into.

So let's listen. We were a couple of seconds over. Forgive me, Brian. But I want to go right into the Colorado decision. First of all, just a general position on that.

What's going to happen? I mean, it seems clear the Colorado Supreme Court didn't seem to think there would be this much pushback, or am I wrong on that? I think they want their moment in the sun. I would assume that these judges understand that the other cases were challenged and dismissed. I would assume that they knew that they would be the only one and they'd be first.

Now, within hours, we find out the lieutenant governor of California says, I want to do the same thing. I will do whatever I can to keep Trump off the ballot.

Now, almost every legal expert says this is not going to stand. They're going to go up to the Supreme Court, and John Roberts won't permit it. But I just think in my head, already getting used to the prospect of possibly kicking different. candidates off states. If this is by any chance successful.

The round vacations would be cataclysmic for our country. Think about this. Let's say eight years from now, there's a charismatic Democrat, and he's out there and he gets people so pumped up they turn around and maybe do what you do after you win a World Series game.

Sometimes you wreck your city. Look at Philadelphia, look at Detroit, look at different cities. They get so crazy, they're lighting cars on fire. We understand that.

So let's say that happens to a city with that charismatic leader, man or woman, is a Democrat. And all of a sudden, the Oklahoma governor goes, you know what? I want that guy off my ballot. I think he is a danger to the country. I don't think he should be voting.

And what about Nebraska? And what about Texas?

Well, Texas already. We had the lieutenant governor suggest that he was thinking about it actually taking Biden off the ballot. That was California. No, no, no, no. But the Texas, Dan Patrick, the lieutenant governor of Texas, was asked and he said he would think about taking Biden off the ballot in Texas and sort of a payback.

I don't think it's a great idea. Do you? But with your say, same thing with the filibuster. Remember, we said, okay, they want a simple majority vote on the filibuster. Fine.

Well, then in comes Donald Trump, becomes president. Simple passing on all these Supreme Court justices. Good job, Chuck Schumer. You brought that on yourself. Good job, Colorado.

Now we're going to start looking at all this. And maybe some people are going to run like Letitia James did as Attorney General in New York City. I'm going to run on getting Trump. Really? You're going to get Trump on what?

Well, I'll figure out something. Sure enough, two years later, we're in court. Because somebody wants to get famous by suing somebody famous. It's nuts. All right, let's talk about Biden and particularly his family troubles.

We've seen a lot of Hunter Biden, by the way, traveling with his dad, but he's never been listed in White House or Marine One visitor logs. What's going on there?

Well, a couple of things. I mean, this is a perilous time for the family.

Now, think about this. He's going to get arrested, I think, next week. He's got to turn himself in in Los Angeles. He's going to be brought up on charges, and I think they want to get their story straight.

So, also, sadly, this is the anniversary, 51 years, I think, since his first wife got killed along with his daughter in that accident.

So, they were together. I don't know the protocol, but it seemed to astound many in the press room that they weren't listed as travelers. We should know that. We should know whoever comes to visit to. We know they were taking Donald Trump's guest book logins to find out who might have been visiting him prior to January 6th.

So, this White House seems to do their own thing. I mean, the biggest thing that they've done, I think a bigger story, David, is with student loans. The courts told him, you can't do it. He's doing it anyway. The Supreme Court told him that.

The Supreme Court. It doesn't get any higher than that. But he's billions and billions and billions of dollars of credit to the student laws. I quickly want to talk about whether or not the president has been giving advice to Hunter about what he decided to do last week when he essentially defied that subpoena. KJP, the White House press secretary, said that Joe Biden had seen that statement that Hunter made in Capitol Hill before he actually defied the subpoena.

Is that obstruction of justice very quickly? I think there's something there. Just real quick. Almost everything that his legal team has done has hurt the president. And when Jen Saki has to come out, who's still allied close with the president, and say the White House needs Hunter to go away and quiet down, that's almost like KJP saying it.

They're trying to give a message, and this is all about Hunter Biden.

Someone's paying this multi-million dollar bill, and it's It's hurting the President, and the President thinks he's hurting Hunter. Briding hard buying hard out, so we got to leave it at that. But great to see you, my friend. Have a great radio show. Appreciate it.

Thank you so much. And hopefully, I'm in the middle of having a great radio show. Although it's always good to wish me that.

So, I'm I'm all for that.

So we'll see where that goes.

So the Hunter Biden situation, I haven't brought it up over the last few days. But I think the only thing to keep in mind too when you go home for the holidays and if you're en route to seeing some relatives and they start telling you that the Hunter Biden thing, there's nothing there. Just to run through everything that he has done and how it relates to his dad. And it's not about his porn pictures. It's not about his porn stars.

It's not about him speeding at 150 miles an hour through the desert on who knows what type of drug or alcohol. It's not about him disavowing the kid that he had and being sued for paternity, saying he's broke and he has no money to support a kid that the dad once denied. This is all about international business deal his dad was well aware of where the money ended up benefiting the family. And at 78, 80 years old, you pretty much are smart enough to know it can't turn up in dad's account. It turns out in others, and he benefits.

And we're seeing loans from Jim. We're seeing loans from Hunter. We see the back and forth with the surrogates, with the Eric Sherwins, who is in control of it and talking about paying taxes. We see all these things. That's what it's about.

As it relates to Joe, As it relates to his foreign policy decisions. That's what this is about. It's not about taking a guy that was addicted to drugs and making him a sympathetic figure. Obviously, that guy is a train wreck and will never stop being one. And the worst is he blames everybody else except himself.

And he's getting away with it.

So far. Brian kill me. Brian kill me, Chill. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian.

In Kill Mead. Hi, everyone. Brian Kilmead here. Thanks so much for listening. We're moving through an exciting week.

A lot of times people are like, well, towards that week leading up to Christmas, nothing happens. Not in the Donald Trump era. Everything happens all the time, most of which you didn't expect. And the President seems to be enjoying it as much as anybody could who has as many legal challenges as he has. Kellyanne Conway is standing by, and Dr.

Nicole Sapphire at the bottom of the hour. And I just got a quick announcement, too. And I hope everyone's listening on the smart devices. You could watch on Fox Nation, or you could just go on the Fox website and click on the headsets and hear it there. But just quick note: Saturday at 9 o'clock Eastern Time, I'm going to have Teddy and Booker T, the TV special.

Shot it for over a year. I think it's one of the best What America Grades ever. But talking about Teddy Roosevelt, Booker T. Washington, how two American icons blazed a path to racial equality. I think it's a great American story.

Hope you guys enjoy it on the big screen as well as the book.

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

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. You know, it's a serious betrayal. It's extremely frustrating. I know that the U.S.

has come up with all sorts of proposals, but it's not what the Russians are after. The only problem is it's my life that's draining away. Why will he do this? It's five years. It's unfathomable to me that they left me behind.

Paul Whalen, the Marine in Russia, suffering weakness. That's exactly how Joe Biden's foreign policy can be portrayed. Think about Ukraine. Never talks about it, never sells it, never explains it. Think about the bunch of thugs over in Yemen, the Houthi rebels rocketing our ships, reconfiguring shipping lanes, plus another terrible hostage swap with Venezuela.

And China tells us they'll take Taiwan when they're ready. We've got to change regimes. Number two. My mayor is blaming everyone except the person who needs to get the blame, and that is President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who are responsible for protecting and securing our borders and for having a functional immigration system. They're not calling out Secretary Mayorkis for letting asylum seekers come to this country under false pretense and then giving them court cases ten years from now.

That is 100% true. That is Raymond Lopez, an alderman from Chicago, a border overwhelmed, a president who could not care less. Blue cities, as you just heard, begin to pay a heavy price. They want things to change, and the CBP will not be going home for Christmas, but Congress will. Number one.

I think this kind of action of stretching the law, taking these hyper-aggressive positions to try to knock Trump out of the race are counterproductive. They backfire. Nobody doubts that. That is Bill Barr. Trump trials and persecutions.

Huge Colorado Trump ban fallout as Blue State radical judges try to ban Trump from the ballot. California trying to do the same thing. It's up to the Supreme Court to straighten everybody out. And Joe Biden gives an end-of-the-year interview to Bill Muir. I'm sorry, Brett Baer.

Oh, wait a second. Oh, it's Conan O'Brien. Kellyanne Conway joins us now, former senior counselor of President Trump and author of the book, Here's the Deal, and from one of the best pollsters in the country. Kellyanne, welcome back.

Well, thank you, Brian. It's great to be with you and your listeners. Right. So there's nothing wrong with doing light interviews. I really don't.

I think it's great. It shows a side of your personality. For years ago, like in the 80s, I know it was so unique. You don't see JFK doing a lot of that back in the 60s on Kinescope. But your thought about what might have emerged from that interview.

It's just silly. I mean, for a President whose favorability rating is 34%, and he's outdone by one percentage point for his hapless VP, she's at 35% favorability. It really gets us no substance. It doesn't even get us any sizzle. And look, he can go talk to a comedian about this, that, and the other.

But Conan O'Brien was trying to create sympathy for Joe Biden, going back to how marginalized Biden felt as a child. Because he stuttered, or because he was made fun of. And my goodness, he's the President United States Commander-in-Chief now, Brian, and there are just crisis and chaos everywhere we look at our southern border, in our streets, in our communities. At the gas pump, in the grocery store, and then everywhere we look abroad. Last night I filled in for Sean Hannity on his 9 p.m.

Eastern show, and I interviewed Secretary Mike Pompeo, and I asked him squarely: Are we going to have about one major foreign entanglement, foreign policy crisis a year under Biden? I want the listeners to hear that on your radio show today, Brian Kilney, because 2021, the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. 2022, Putin invades Ukraine. 2023, we know what happened with Israel and Gaza and Hamas. 2024, we may have China, according to Xi Jinping, casually mentioned to Biden, by the way, I'm going to reunify Taiwan, which we would use a different verb, militarily indeed.

And so. This is what's going on for the guy who's who former Obama Pentagon Chief Bob Gates in 2014 warned us all, I think Biden has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy, national security issue over the past four decades. Gates right. Guess what? The decade after 2014 hasn't been so hot either.

The problem with it is he's now President of the United States.

So if you're going to go on Conan O'Brien, at least have a substantive interview. Uh metric-wise. Joe Biden has only done nine sit-down interviews, one-on-one interviews this calendar year. And he hasn't had a press conference to speak of in over 100 days here.

Now that's the problem I see. In his first year, he had like seven or eight. Trump had 22, 24. That's what you need to do. I am very proud that I worked in a White House, Brian, where we had what I call the democratization of information.

If you make the principals, the senior staffers, the cabinet secretaries, and indeed the president and vice president available to the public on a regular basis, the public then increases its confidence in your competence. They at least know you're transparent, you're focused on the issues of the day. You can even disagree with the commander-in-chief and the president, so long as you know what's happening. And so in the Trump White House, we tried through social media, through constant interviews. I think I was with you on Fox and Friends at least once a week all through those four years.

Brian, why? Because we want to make sure that people who aren't billionaires, who don't have access to politicians and government officials and highfalutin postgraduate degrees, have the same access to information at the same time as everyone else. And that's the democratization of information. That's all been lost. Joe Biden he can't even speak to the press.

Usually, unless he's in those yellow chairs in the Oval Office because he needs a teleprompter and you can't have one in there. Unbelievable. Yeah, it's true, Kellyanne. Put it this way: it's a great opportunity if you're running for re-election to have the bully pulpit and you casually say, I'm going to update you on the country, but at the same time, you lay out your vision for the country while ripping your opponent.

So listen to Conan O'Brien. He was. I want your take on this. Cut five. As you know, the Washington you came to in the 1973, Republicans were always tough on foreign policy, tough on Russia.

And now MAGA Republicans, they've kind of flipped the script and they're saying, Well, we can let Ukraine go. It's not really in our interest. And I don't understand it. It's confusing. I was going to say, the other guy says, We can work with Putin.

He's smart. Yeah. The other guy, I like that he's the other guy. It's like Voldemort now. His name shall not be mentioned.

He always says that. He never mentions the President by name, almost never. And then that even got a comedian to talk. What are your thoughts on that and his approach with that? I probably at this point, Brian, I'd rather be known as the quote other guy than be known as the big guy, the one that's being referenced by my.

Hapless, drug-addled, corrupt son, as he is complaining to his own daughter, Hunter Biden, complaining to his daughter that he's got to give Pop and the big guy a certain percentage of his ill-gotten gains from countries that are in the news every day, Brian, kill me, like China and Ukraine.

So it's The other thing is, if we're going to go back to 1973 and Joe Biden, then we're going to go back to a very different Joe Biden. He was pro-life then. He was a much more moderate center-right, as was the Democratic Party, frankly. He also was in cahoots with people like Byrd, former Senator of West Virginia, who was a Klansman. But I don't think Conan O'Brien helps Joe Biden's case much by mentioning that Joe Biden was in Washington in 1973.

So thank you, Conan O'Brien, for reminding us all. He's been there for over half a century, and this is what we have to show for it. The other thing is, Biden's making a mistake. By not mentioning Trump, because he's castigating, denigrating his voters, the Trump voters calling them mega MAGA, you know, deplorable, irredeemable. insurrectionists, whatever negative trope they can lay at the feet of Trump voters.

This is a mistake because that's how that's that's a vote multiplier. That's a turnout intensifier for not the Trump base, but the Trump base plus. And if you're Joe Biden, Brian, and you don't have your base right now, that very tenuous Very odd base that you, base of voters that you scaffolded together. Right. Fairly late in the game in 2020 to win the first time.

He doesn't have that now. He's got fewer young people, fewer voters of color.

Well, you know what he's doing now. He's got many fewer independents. Killian, you know what he's doing. Yeah, he's going to do the same thing that Barack Obama did to Mitt Romney, only he's going to be more aggressive. He's going to make.

Donald Trump The worst person in the world will absolutely destroy the country, destroy the ruin our relationship with our allies. Totally unacceptable. You'll have no choice but to vote for them. Knowing that that's going to happen, they basically said it. What do you tell Trump to fight back on?

Well, Trump mentioned Spider. See, they're doing the opposite thing. Trump long ago pivoted to a general election strategy, Brian. He didn't show up for the primary debates. He sometimes talks about the primary opponents.

If he has to, if somebody asks him, or he's having a little fun with it. But by and large, he's been running against Biden for a while.

Okay. And he's putting up his presidential record against Biden's.

So Biden ought to do that too. Look, it worked on Romney because after the first debate, which Romney clearly won. against Obama. A lot of the Obam Romney people told him Just wait out the clock. You're going to beat Obama.

Don't make any errors. And I thought he was a little more limp in those subsequent two debates. But the difference here is Trump has a presidential record.

So when you're Romney or McCain or anyone for that matter, you're promising what you would do. Trump has an advantage. He's saying, no, no, no, don't go by what I'm promising to do. Go by what I delivered. And compare that to buy them on every single issue.

Biden's going to run this on personality. Trump's going to run it on policy. I hope. I mean, right now he's running it on policy and he's doing very well.

So I think that's the way to tackle Biden. And look, the other thing to do is to make sure that we can engage toe-to-toe against the Democrat machine, the turnout machine they have now. They own the mechanics right now. I'm glad the RNC has banked your vote. I'm glad President Trump has endorsed that.

I hope these individual states, if not counties, Brian, are on the job. You have to invest in what I call the non-sexy parts of politics, ballot access, ballot harvesting where it's legal, making sure people know not just for whom to vote and why to vote policy and philosophically, but where to vote, when to vote, and how to vote, meaning which method. That's all changed in the last couple of years. Right now, the Democrats, somebody like Fetterman beating Oz four to one in the early vote, Oz with his two million votes on election day, that's impressive. You cannot possibly make up a four to one disadvantage on one day election day.

So we've got to get people out early, and we've got to make sure that they have confidence in casting their ballot. Absolutely.

So we're going to see that. What about Trump's terms that people keep pointing to? Hey, Hitler says that. Poison or well, he's talking about the border. Do you look at that as an unforced error or just an example of the press trying anything to make Donald Trump the story, or both?

Well, I've worked with Donald Trump. He's not Hitler. I don't think imploring or ever mentioning certain words and figures is advisable. But I'll say this. The second part of what you said is important.

The media, of course, they're going to do anything to get rid of him because they have no shame. None of them ever lost their jobs for getting 2016 so achingly wrong. I mean, it's just embarrassing. They all embarrassed themselves. No one lost their jobs.

That's not what happens in the mainstream media.

So here they are eight years later thinking they got rid of this guy. They peached him twice, January 6th, and all these indictments. And here he is. He's beating Biden in all the swing states, nationwide polling, sure, but that's less relevant than the swing state polling.

So sure, they'll say and do anything they can. Here's the rub. When President Trump gives you an interview or most recently he did an hour-long town hall with Fox News's Sean Hannity in Iowa, when he had that earlier conversation last May with the CNN's Caitlin Collins, the difference between what the media hear and they pick up on one phrase or one line or one paragraph in an entire hour-long interview, and what the people hear could not be more fundamentally opposite.

So with Caitlin Collins, I forget what Trump said, but everybody focused on the same thing in the media. They were obsessed with it. The Sean Hannity thing, oh, he's going to be dictator, but just for a day. Oh, my God. He's going to put people in jail and destroy democracy and all sundry lists of nonsense.

What the people heard was drill, baby, drill. and fewer regulations and lower taxes. and more solid justi more justices ju judges on our federal courts who believe in the constitution won't do what the Colorado Supreme Court just did. And so and it goes on and on.

So the difference is always what the media hear and pick up on like lemming predictably lemming like You know, running with one phrase for three weeks and calling it breaking news, which by definition can't possibly be breaking news if you've been vomiting it for three weeks in your headlines and bylines. And then what the people hear: they hear policy. Here ya. Kellyanne, right now, if you look at Iowa, the president's up considerably. But in New Hampshire, even though he's got a lead, you see Nikki Haley basically doubling where she was six weeks ago, two months ago.

Well how would you gauge the Governor Haley threat to Trump?

So the governor Haley threat to Trump is if she got him one-on-one, if DeSantis dropped out, if Christy dropped out and endorsed her. And then maybe, you know, maybe it was just a one-on-one, but it's still, it's probably too little, too late. And in fact, it is, it looks like too little, too late. And even if she were to win New Hampshire, the big test for her. Is to go down to South Carolina, the state where she was governor, until she left early to be Trump's UN ambassador.

I know she never bothers to say, she says I was the UN ambassador, but she never bothers to say who put her there.

So that's important. But look, she's got to go down to South Carolina and stop Trump there. I will tell you, the Trump campaign is pretty bold that they can wrap this all up by March 19th, which would put them roughly seven or eight weeks ahead of where they were in 2016 when he wrapped it up on May 7th in Indiana. And that March 19th being Super Tuesday.

So again, he's already pivoted to a general election strategy. I know that Governor Sununo endorsed Nikki Haley in New Hampshire, and maybe that'll count for something. I don't know how much these endorsements really matter. But everybody who's running has always tried to be the alternative to Trump. I think they've made an error.

They should be the alternative to Biden. DeSantis should have said that from the beginning. Haley should be saying that now. They still seem just a little too focused on Trump. He said, We can't lay in, they have to beat him in the primary.

Got it. I understand how these things work. But the way that I think they would they would have been able to just strike a little bit more gold had they made this about Biden and done the one-on-one against Biden. Because let's face it, the Republican primary electorate, which includes a lot of independents in these states where they qualify to vote, cross over and vote, Brian, that's solidly for Trump. And I think that they're struggling to get enough to animate and electrify enough of the Republican primary electorate base that they haven't even tried to move over and get some of those swing voters who voted for Biden.

I'll say this. There are a lot of people who voted for Biden who are going to vote for Trump in the general election. I can't think of many Trump voters who are going to vote for Biden. And that's really the problem here. And I think that's what people are looking at.

They're saying the electability argument that was supposed to help the Sandra, that was supposed to help Nikki, it's gone. It's totally gone. And that's the thing that was always supposed to be vexing and perplexing to Trump. Kellyanne, are you hosting for Hattery tonight? I am.

I'm guest hosting for Sean Hannity tonight. We had a great lineup last night, and we're going to have a good one tonight for the sequel. Thank you. All right, Killian Conway tonight at nine. Back in a moment.

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Not saying it's too much. I say it's just perfect and you're going to see a lot more of her. Dr. Nicole Sapphire, full-time is a medical doctor and plays it on TV. She's a Fox News Medical contributor here, has a great column out talking about the holidays.

Everyone's talking about family get-togethers. You see these great Folgers commercials and these great depictions, a Christmas album, the Christmas specials, and you see all this fun. And what if you're somebody without a great family or any family? What if you don't fit those molds? What does it do for depression?

What does it do for your self-esteem? What does it do for your life? She writes about that in a column on Foxnews.com, and she talks about it here now. Dr. Sapphire, welcome back.

Hey, Brian, great to be on you before the holidays. I know, and we did work together with Tyrus' version of late night television on Saturday night. Yeah, we sure did. I mean, I don't know about you, but I kind of like the chemistry on the couch. It's fun doing Saturday night together.

Right, I know. I thought it was great. And, you know, Tyrus was okay, too. He does a great job at night.

So, Dr. Sapphire, you had a ditching angle. What made you say to yourself? I got to show someone some of the dark side of what could be happening on this holiday season.

Well, you know what? I think everybody has battled in sometime during their life, you know, feelings of, you know, not being tip-top shape mentally.

So whether you're feeling sad or if you're feeling worried, or you're just feeling, you know, frustrated or in a rut, you know, just because it's the holiday spirit and you hear Christmas carols and, you know, bright lights everywhere, that doesn't mean that everyone is really in that Christmas spirit. And now that doesn't mean that we should shut down Christmas because we don't want to make anybody feel bad, but I just think it's really important that we also recognize that there are some people that are struggling and especially during the holidays. You know, for me, Christmas, New Year's, the entire holiday season is all about togetherness. I want to spend as much time as possible with my friends and family. I love getting together.

But some people don't necessarily have that. And as we have seen increasingly over the last few years, the importance of family, that family unit, is becoming less and less important to these younger generations. And so it's really a call to action of: hey, everyone, you need to remember that your family. Is always going to be there. You should do anything you can to kind of rekindle that magic, whether you've had a falling out, whether you're separated, do what you can.

But that feeling of togetherness, we have to bring that back. Yeah, you point to a Pew Research study that shows the public cannot even agree on what the family unit is. 40% feel pessimistic about its future. More Americans now point to their job, 71%, or friends, 61%, as the place they find fulfillment, rather than having kids at 26%. We've been seeing that more and more.

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you know, millennials, Gen Z, or whatever the heck these terms are these days, you know, people are saying we're going to have kids later. Maybe we're not going to have kids at all. We're only going to have one kid because it's bad for the environment. I mean, come on.

You know, the most important thing that you can do, and not necessarily everyone needs to have children. But to preserve that family and that family unit is so crucial for us as a society moving forward. I mean, we've really lost sight of what our values are and what they should be. Right. You you point to your you and your son wrote a book, a children's book, called That's What Family's For.

What what prompted that and what was the message that can help today? Yes. So about a year and a half ago, and we haven't talked much about this, but about a year and a half ago, my son was given a medical diagnosis that kind of rocked our world, to be honest. Certainly, it wasn't we weren't expecting it, and it comes with some long term consequences. And you know, both parents, myself and my husband, being physicians, you know, being a parent is hard.

Being a physician parent is really hard because you have maybe some intricate knowledge that other people may not.

So we really shut down. But that was a time where we realized the most important thing to us. Was being together as a family.

So all of a sudden, you know, parents, our kids, we all kind of rallied around my son to just make sure he knew that we were all there for him. And maybe. Future is going to look a little bit different than we're expecting. But the bottom line is, as long as we have each other, We're going to be there and we're going to all be okay as long as we're in it together. One thing I did notice: if anyone's struggling with addiction or things like that, the holidays are the worst because the stress is when they feel they might be evaluated or they know that they're not going to be hitting their marks because have they been working against themselves with every substance they're wrestling with or whatever behavior of gambling on down.

So, have you seen that and talk just from others, whether it's your medical profession or real life? If you do have some type of addiction that you're dealing with, it really gets challenging now. Certainly, addiction, mental health illness during the holidays are terrible. You have a lot of people who are, even just alcohol, there's more social events and there's just more temptation. And so, people who know that they are struggling with addiction, you know, not saying that you have to avoid all holiday parties, but make sure you're surrounding yourself by people who support you and who are aware of your struggles and try not to fall into some of those dangers and make sure you're leaning on people, friends, families, and those who are there for you.

And don't go look for any sort of satisfaction in superficial findings, right? Superficial people and things. Just a quick thing about what you deal with on a daily basis. You have to often go up to people, and you're the first one to tell them they have cancer. And does that give you a perspective on life that maybe people not in your profession?

Uh wooden experience.

Well, yes.

So I mean, tomorrow morning, I have about five biopsies scheduled. That means I'm going to have their pathology the day after Christmas. And I can guarantee you, a couple of those biopsies are going to be cancer. And these are certainly difficult words to hear, especially around the holidays. And again, all I can say is people when they feel that they're alone, that is when things start to spiral out of control.

And so you have to lean on those around you because there's a huge support system: family, friends, even groups who are going through the same thing you are. You can't be afraid to lean on those for support because that is what we are social creatures. If you look in the blue zones, the areas where people. Live the longest, it's because they have strong social connections. It is crucial for mental and physical health to lean on those around you.

Gotcha. Dr. Sapphire, do you have a list? And do you hope that is this really for you more about getting everything on your list? You want to receive, is that true?

More than give? I love giving Christmas time. And I'm telling you, Brian, we just moved into a new house this weekend. This weekend. Wow.

Yeah, it's been a lot. Kids had the flu, COVID, stomach bug. I mean, we've got it all. But I'll tell you, all I really care about this Christmas season is that everyone is happy and healthy. And I would love if there was a little chocolate under the Christmas tree, maybe a bottle of champagne.

I understand. Uh so what are you going to be hosting now? You're going to be on uh the big show this weekend? No, I'm actually hosting Fox and Friends, stepping in for Rachel this weekend. And then the big show the following weekend.

Wow, that's going to be exciting. I know you're going to be ready for it and all aspects. And the good news is, the news doesn't slow down because it's the holiday.

So you're definitely going to have your hands full. Dr. Sapphire, you move into a house, host two shows over the weekend, dealing with COVID. There's nothing you can't handle. I'm Indian O'Brien.

I'm just trying to keep up with you. Right. We're exactly the same, except you went ahead and did that easy thing called medical school. You could have done it. I'm sure you could have.

Yeah, it was just a matter of time. Dr. Sapphire, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Thanks for having me, Brian.

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It's Brian Kilmead. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Killme. And Santa would drop off some. And there's a lot of kids watching up, right?

Five nights. I'm just saying.

So what you're telling me, Brian? Is that my dad took credit? For Santa's work, that's what I'm saying. Wow.

Right? And he's a lovely man. I met him last year. Yeah, but he was taking credit. He wasn't being totally clear.

Which is not like him. It is not like him. That's not like him. Yeah, it's not like him. Thank you.

Big save. I'm the Marion Rivera. You know what? I got to tell you. You're the Marian Rivera of the show.

Big save. You are a wingman. You know, that's what you do as the face of the show. You saved me. I did.

In the moment where I was getting ready to blow up something. I'm no middle reliever. No closer. I'm a saver. This may be a shack and Kobe.

And Kobe relationship in the making. Right, you're 7-1, and I'm not. Um that of course was We were talking about our youth when Santa would used to come and the excitement that kids have, and Lawrence misremembered his youth. He absolutely misremembered, and you helped clarify that for him and all of your viewers. Because we have families listening to the show right now in the car.

Exactly. And they might be going Christmas shopping right now. Yes. And Santa cannot get enough credit. And Lawrence was in, Lawrence misremembered his youth.

He totally misremembered it. And Santa has so much magic, and Christmas morning is you just have to thank Santa for everything. Exactly. Why wouldn't we? I know.

It was pointed out to me. I love this. It was pointed out to me that there's only six reindeer. That goes around the tree. We have this animation that goes around the tree, and I'm getting people writing me saying, What's with the six reindeer?

And I'm thinking to myself. What are you talking about? Two plus Rudolph. They are. I mean, graphics, like someone should call graphics on the carpet and be like, wow, that's a good thing.

But it is amazing to have Santa go around a real tree. It was pretty amazing. That is, I will say, the first time I saw that, I was very impressed. It really was magical to see it. It's great.

Right, but we should make it right. If we're going to go that far, we should make it right. They need to count the Rangers properly. I mean, who do you have? You have Blitzen?

You have dasher and dancer. Prancer. Vixen. Comet, Cupid, Donna Vixen. I got too many.

I got like 10. Your fingers in counting. Did you name two? No, I haven't. No, I started counting my way and then you started doing it the sing-along way.

'Cause that's the way the best way to remember. Right. Oh yes, um scenario. Before Rudolph How does Santa get through without that nose? I think Mother Nature.

Do we even know? Mother Nature always cooperated, and it wasn't foggy. It was a clear night, so they didn't need the nose. Right. You're welcome.

It's also, some people are upset with the Rudolph story because it shows bullying. You know that, right? Yes, but then they it helped him find his inner voice and he overcame it and he had great determination and he didn't live by being the victim. He powered through and now he's the leader. A lot of people think that we This might be controversial, but we need a little bullying.

When you're young, because it gets you stronger.

Some of the most fascinating people were bullied young. Could yes, that's one way to say that. I'm not pro boy. No, but maybe uh maybe what you meant to say was everyone needs to fail a little bit so they can overcome it and know what it feels like and the the uh feeling of success when you overcome some failure. Uh it reminds me of this movie that's so underrated.

Not my not the Kevin Costner. Bodyguard. Do you remember my bodygu my bodyguard? No. Pete's not here.

I'm sure Pete remembers. Pete would remember. Um but it was a story of this this little kid. And he's getting beat up all the time, and the other guy decides to guard him, and then the f they finally find somebody that intimidated the bodyguard. And not only does the little kid step up and step up with his nemesis, but the bodyguard steps up against somebody else.

So it's a good f story where in the end other kids get beat up. It sounds like a a great holiday movie. Right. Yeah, I don't know necessarily about the holidays. Might want to wait till January 2nd.

So I said. But we all know the best holiday movie. Um What is it? With breadclaws. Oh, that's right.

Right. I mean, to me, it has everything. It has what do you do when your older brother is more famous than you? Which your younger brother or your brothers need to I guess.

Well, Vince Vaughan plays the other brother. He plays Fred Claus. And the best scene ever is the therapy where all brothers are famous people like Frank Stallone, Stephen Baldwin. Vince Fawn is Santa Claus. I mean, if we ever if we ever had that moment, you could play that back.

It is so underrated in terms of comedy. We will get it for next. Or maybe for tomorrow.

Okay, good. But yeah, I have not seen Fred Klaus. But Pete with the wind, Matt Dylan and Adam Baldwin, I'm guessing maybe Alec were in my bodyguard. Does that sound right? Matt Dylan?

Matt Dillon. Matt Dylan, he was the one writing something. I remember Matt Dylan. Matt Dylan would have been the bully. Oh, yeah, Matt Dylan was the bully.

Pete knows his movie trivia. All right, so Pete just wrote you? He did. All right, so yeah, so Matt Dillon is a perfect bully. He's he he's in he reminds me of like the typical bully Guy.

C could Neil McDonough have played the bully or no? 'Cause he does play villains.

Well, he would have been too old. This is kids. This is kids. Gotcha. All right.

So I want to play.

So Cody O'Brien sits down with the President of the United States. And I just, I didn't read that. I didn't see it, so I read it.

So I want you to hear, this is what worries me about the President. His other result is that he acts even older. He actually tells the same story within three minutes. Cut four. My mother used to say, remember, Joey, the best drop of blood in you is Irish.

My mother was five foot one. She was everybody's mother confessor. I had a mother and a father that my mother would say, don't let this define you. My mother, God love her, I remember her going to identify my family. They actually said, Joey, out of everything terrible, something good will happen if you look hard enough for it.

I thought it was the cruelest thing she ever said to me.

So I yeah It's all over the place. I don't know if I'm Colonel O'Brien, I'm thinking to myself. I've done a lot of interviews. I can't even keep up with this guy. Cut three.

My mother, God love her, I remember going to identify my family. They actually said, Joey, I'd have everything terrible, something good will happen to me. Look hard enough for it. I thought it was the cruelest thing she ever said to me.

But look what's going on in the Middle East now. You know, I was able to get a resolution passed through the G20, leaders of the 20 largest nations, to build a railroad from Riyadh all the way through into Saudi Arabia, Jordan, up through Israel, all the way into Europe, because there's much more reason for them to be together than to be apart. What is he talking about? I mean, they're talking about it wasn't his idea to do a railroad. They talked about eventually linking it up.

They didn't commit to a railroad. Number two, why are you repeating the same story within three minutes? That is insane to me. But I mean, why are they just having him go on with comedians as opposed to sitting down with other people? They're thinking he's going to screw up less and yet he's still screwing up.

Right. It's it's incredible. I mean, I have I actually feel a little different than Kelly and Conway. If you I have no problem with this interview and picking Conan O'Brien. To do a person is nothing wrong with it.

You do a personal look to talk more about the person. Because if I'm him and I'm looking for re-election, you want to get people reacquainted with who you are and less of your decisions. But then you have to sit down with a Brett Baer, Bill Muir, right after, and just say, you know, I'm going to, if you don't want to do that, do a press conference. And you watch, remember Barack Obama used to sit there in a press conference in an hour, he would take four questions. Because he would take it over, barely answer the question, then talk about Obamacare or how bad Republicans are.

And that's how he launched his reelection. It was frustrating. But now you have a guy calling on reporters and he's reading his cards on the answer. On the answer, this is unbelievable. You know what they'd be doing?

They'd have a drone camera. From Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos Blue Origin, over Donald Trump's shoulder in order to see what his notes said. Incredible.

I mean, it is, but it's not a problem. But you can't end the year without an interview. He has to do an interview. I mean, but does it look like he's going to? No, it doesn't.

But the sad thing is, too, like, I know a lot of smart people that they just don't follow the news. I was with them. They didn't even know about the Hunter Biden stuff. I'm like, come on. Are you kidding?

But it's also like. it doesn't get covered as much as it should, but then also because of the way the media is today, like everything's so segmented and people don't have the attention spanned.

So we think it's all over, but there's still so many people that don't follow it at all. Right. But a couple of things. That's what made his press conference so detrimental to the White House. That made other outlets cover it.

When Hunter Biden calls a press conference and then makes all the accusations and wax poly about they want to kill my dad, you have to cover it. That's why they want him just to go away, but he is too selfish or on some level wants to destroy his dad. I'm not psychologically smart enough to figure that out with him. Listen to the show ad-free on Fox News Podcast Plus, on Apple Podcast, Amazon Music with your Prime membership, or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Mm.