Trump takes New Hampshire, Haley vows 'race far from over'

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Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. What we had last night were multinational strikes conducted by the United States and the United Kingdom. And these strikes were very specific to target capabilities that the Houthis have been using to conduct attacks. Middle East on fire.

U.S. hits enemies in Yemen and Iraq. And we finally see our Secretary of Defense zooming in from his house as pressure builds on the IDF to finish off Hamas in Gaza. Number two. I believe 2024 is going to be the most important election we've had since 1864.

Democracy's on the ballot. Is he out of his mind 1864 as the end of the Civil War? Are you crazy? Who's the extremist now? Joe Biden loses 20% of the vote in New Hampshire to an unknown challenger, Dean Phillips, and makes his battle plan clear to fight Donald Trump.

At stake abortion and a civil war in our nation. Who has that extreme agenda again and the rhetoric to boot? Number one. You go to South Carolina, just mention all the issues. It's our home state, but the issues based on those demographics that Haley's going to have in South Carolina are profound.

Trump got about a third of the vote in South Carolina in 2016. He swept all 50 delegates. He absolutely could do the same based on what we're seeing right now. Right now, Trump beats Haley 54 to 43. The results are in.

Trump by 11.

Now it's up to 12. And Nikki Haley says, I survived and will go on. We're going to look at the numbers.

So, the GOB telled the overall delegate count five days after Iowa is 31-16 Trump over Haley. This was pretty convincing, though. New Hampshire Secretary of State, you can no longer say, well, the Republicans aren't passionate. 322,000-plus turnout. That's considered an excellent turnout by any standard in any primary in any cycle.

Now, keep in mind, what is next? Nevada on the 8th. Trump runs alone. Then he is going to personally go to Arizona after. That's a smart move.

He is no doubt about it. Trump is ticked off that Haley hasn't bowed out. He wants to think nationally. He wants to stop spending money. He knows he's got to go back and forth to court.

South Carolina is the next contested primary. It will be on the 24th of Saturday. And right now, Trump has 13 endorsements, including the governor and two sitting senators over Haley, who was once governor there. She says it doesn't bother her. She said, because she was a disruptor.

For Ronna McDaniel, she says, Nikki, great job, but you're finished. Cut 17. I'm looking at the math and the path going forward, and I don't see it for Nikki Haley. I think she's run a great campaign, but I do think there is a message that's coming out from the voters, which is very clear. We need to unite around our eventual nominee, which is going to be Donald Trump, and we need to make sure we beat Joe Biden.

It is 10 months away till the November election, and we can't wait any longer to put our foot on the gas, to beat the worst president, to beat a president that's kept our borders open, allowed fentanyl to pour through, allowed inflation to go rampant. He is hurting the American people, and we need to do everything we can to unite so that we can defeat him. What else can I tell you about the numbers and the results?

So that's the establishment speaking say it should end. And traditionally, it does end. If you don't have the money, money usually stops you from going on. And is there a place where you can win?

So far, there isn't. The strongest bet profiles, the profile of a state, would be New Hampshire.

Now, what exactly did the voters tell Fox News pollsters who were standing outside?

Now, I will give you an idea. Trump runs up the score with conservatives, rural voters in New Hampshire. Nikki outpaces Trump by double digits among moderates and unaffiliated. What was told to me by the governor of this state, Brian, don't get it wrong. Unaffiliated doesn't mean they're not Republicans.

It means they don't want people to know.

So that's different from independents.

So that's always important. Voter analysis: Trump's biggest strengths, MAGA supporters, 87%, 68% of conservatives. No college degree, 64%. Rural voters, 57%. Those are strengths for Trump.

Unaffiliated sixty two thirty six. For Haley, for just over half the unaffiliated voters, they consider themselves Republicans. The remainder generally identify as Independents. Trump easily outpaced Haley among registered Republicans, plus forty two. And we do know this.

On foreign policy, which matters as much to me as anything, it is the third most important thing here. The number one issue, immigration. 41% say that's their number one issue. That's over the economy by 10 at 31. And as I mentioned, foreign policy by 8%.

For Republicans, only 5% could really care about. abortion So, what are the other channels saying? First off, I want you to hear from Nikki Haley. She is not pulling up the gas. Cut to.

I want to congratulate Donald Trump on his victory tonight. He earned it. And I want to acknowledge that.

Now, you've all heard the chatter among the political class. They're falling all over themselves saying this race is over.

Well, I have news for all of them. New Hampshire. is first in the nation. It is not the last in the nation. And she has some supporters there.

They're there live. The President of the United States, in hearing that, was pretty angry. Cut seven. I have to tell you, it was very interesting because I said, Wow, what a great victory. But then somebody ran up to the stage all dressed up nicely.

when it was at seven, but now I just walked up and it's at fourteen. But she ran up when it was seven. And you know, we have to do what's good for our party. And she was up, and I said, wow, she's doing. Like a speech like she won.

She didn't win, she lost. And you know. Last week, we had a little bit of a problem, and if you remember, Ron was very upset because she ran up and she. Pretended she won Iowa. And I looked around, I said, Didn't she come in third?

Yeah, she came in third. Yeah.

So He got generally heated a little bit more. He turned around at one point to Tim Scott and says, Don't you hate Nikki Haley? Tell anyone how much you hate her. And this guy doesn't hate anybody. And he says, Christian, I'm not allowed to hate anybody.

But he says, No, I just love you. And we just talked to Tim Scott on television.

So he is going to be a valuable surrogate that can calm the president down. I wish the president had a different tone last night. In fact, you just act like you won. You won by 12 points. That's a pretty significant win.

Nobody, I don't think, ever, non-incumbent, has won Iowa and New Hampshire, let alone go on to get the nomination. Everything is on track. Governor Haley did not give up. You know why? She, to me, is a strong candidate.

It's a strong fight. You know, I have Mark Thiessen coming up a little bit later, and Mark said, Well, Brian, this is exactly like Pat Buchanan, gave a huge run at George H.W. Bush. The main difference is Pat Buchanan was extreme conservative. I'm not saying it's bad or good, but this is not an extreme conservative running way to the right or way to the left of a current president like Bernie Sanders did on the traditional Democrats.

This is somebody that's conservative, that used to work for the guy that she's competing against.

So the MAGA world loved her, but I don't know if they'll ever find her again after this because Trump still looks at her as disloyal. We'll see what it means if she wants to think of a long-term future.

So here are the analysts going out of their way. To make sure that they know that Donald Trump's got some weaknesses still. Cut 12. He's mad. He's angry.

That was not a celebratory Trump. He's angry that Nikki Haley is still in the race. I do think that he looks weak. Basically, there's a woman that says, I want to get you, I want to debate with you, and he looks weak running from one person. Nikki Haley beat Donald Trump among independents by something like 40 percentage points.

That is not a good sign for a sitting former, a former president of the United States. This is a very bad night for Donald Trump looking at the pattern. It's not a bad night for Donald Trump. Are you out insane? He just won after four years out, ninety one charges, four indictments, three civil suits, the controversy over January sixth.

All this stuff going on, and he's plugging the first two contests in double figures, one historically, and this one pretty significantly, over fifty percent. And people say, Well, he doesn't get everybody.

Well, it's because it's a bunch of good candidates in this race, and now there's another strong one. For David Axerod, he does not see a way forward either, like Ronald McDaniel, only he doesn't have a horse in this race. For Nikki Haley, cut fifteen. The fact is, when you set out to win a primary and you don't win it, it's hard to spin it into a victory, and you can't keep doing it. In Iowa, she was going to finish second, she finished third.

In New Hampshire, she was going to win. And tonight, we'll see how the final numbers come in. It seems to be widening a little bit. I really question I mean, I question whether she really ultimately wants to go forward to South Carolina and put her popularity to a test in her home state. And I'm wondering whether her supporters and her finance her financers, her donors are going to want to do that too.

I mean, I think the handwriting's on the wall. Hmm. I think the if you asked me before if she lost by twelve, would she continue? I would probably eight, I would say seventy, thirty, she's done.

Now I think that there's especially talking to Chris Nunu, and even though he seemed pretty angry, even he's such an upbeat guy, seemed pretty angry, and he's still firmly in our court, doesn't think Donald Trump can win. I do think that she's fighting up into South Carolina. I think that she looks at the last poll that we have is October. And she thinks to herself, I know I can narrow the gap despite not having people like Tim Scott in my corner. We'll see, she gets to go home.

She's not going to Nevada, I don't think, even though she has a primary there, but no delegates at stake.

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Code Brian. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Kilmead. Once Donald Trump says he succeeds in winning the nomination early, The attention is going to drop off of them. To some degree, the longer the contest goes on, a reasonable amount of time, the better off he is because it allows him to articulate a vision for the general election. What matters is not so much, you know.

How much she says and what she's doing, as what he does. If he takes on the task of describing a general election message and positioning himself to beat Biden after winning the nomination, if he feels secure about getting the nomination, then he's going to be better off. That's interesting. That's an interesting thought, and that's pretty much what I said this morning: is that when they had that long contest, I'm talking about young first-time Senator Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, when they battled it out for months. Bottom line is it got contentious, it got personal, but it overwhelmed everything else.

And I think he got Barack Obama ready. I mean, you go against Hillary Clinton and the Clinton machine on a regular basis. You can't take one day off after you stun her in Iowa, lose in New Hampshire. You knew it was going to be a long battle that made them both better. I know they had to divide up the money, and eventually Hillary would lose, but it would be a tight race.

She didn't obviously learn enough, but that's what Carl Rove is seeing now. If I'm to extrapolate what exactly he means, for Britt Hume, he weighed in and said this about what Haley did yesterday, and we're talking about a 12-point deficit, but getting in the 40s.

Well, the big question tonight, I think, was whether the margin Trump was going to win. That was pretty, you know, i if he hadn't, it would have been a staggering upset. But the question is whether the margin that Nikki Haley held would be sufficient to keep her going for a while. And I think it manifestly is. I mean, you know, there were polls that had her down 11, there were one poll had her down, what, 16 in recent days.

So, you know, everything is about expectations at this stage. And I think she remains alive and kicking and on to the next place. Yeah, and that's what Chris Unu was saying this morning. Essentially, she did enough to go on. It all comes down to money, though, and that's it.

I I don't know if I look at Trump and see weakness when you get over fifty percent in the two straight polls. I think you have to give Mickey Haley some credit, don't you think? Another expert, Mark Pennwait in, cut twenty-four. First, I was amazed that there's now a Donald Trump who will share the podium with his former opponents. That is, as you say, a new Donald Trump out there.

No question. Look, when I look at these numbers, he has consolidated his opponents except one, Nikki Haley. He's on the way to winning this nomination, but she is holding the critical swing vote in the election. If he doesn't reconcile with her, it will be a fission the Democrats will be able to exploit in the election with their key issues on abortion, on climate change, and in those suburbs.

So he's still got a big job ahead of him. It's not over yet. He isn't.

So, meanwhile, where was President Biden yesterday?

Well, President Biden was out speaking with Kamala Harris, making a Virginia appearance, a state they got to be worried about after the performance of Glenn Young and how popular he remains. It was once a leaning blue state. But he was interrupted 11 times yesterday in making a speech, and he blamed. MAGA Republicans, but he shouldn't because they had nothing to do with them. It was about his foreign policy.

It was about Gaza. It was about his support for Israel. And they are everywhere. And guess what? When you talk about a divided or fractured Republican Party, you have to take into account how fractured Joe Biden's party is.

A lot of them don't agree with his foreign policy at all. You have a huge pro-Palestinian base, probably motivated by cash, who are harassing their own president. I mean, Donald Trump couldn't care less. He'll have security. They'll toss him out in a second.

But listen to Joe Biden. Try to do a rally. The guy never speaks, never does interviews. Here he is yesterday, cut 27. I believe 2024 is going to be the most important election we've had since 1864.

I made it. The horizons are clear. Democracy is on the ballot. Freedom is on the ballot. Like the freedom to choose.

The freedom to vote. The freedom to love who you want. The freedom to go to work, go to school, go to your house of worship without fear of being gunned down by a weapon of war.

Okay.

So if you do not vote for him, you will be shot. And today is like the last year of the civil war in our country, which I guess will be finished. We'll go back to the shooting and killing if you elect Donald Trump. I mean you talk about explosive Rhetoric. Isn't that the definition of explosive rhetoric, irresponsible thoughts?

Freedom and democracy is on the line. He's referring to Hitler three weeks ago, and now 1864, you know what happened in 1861? And of course, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. You talk about a fractured country. We were literally broken in half, killing each other, and wouldn't stop until over 600,000 people are dead.

And he thought, or his speechwriters believed, that making that reference moves our country forward or helps his cause, scare people to elect an incompetent 81-year-old whose instincts are terrible, whose policies are worse, and that's how you want to run?

So good luck with that. I mean, Donald Trump, for all his negativity, he does say this country's over if we don't beginning. I think that's a lot that's saying we're in t heading in a d bad place. President Biden's vision is terrible. But he didn't say we're going to head to a civil war with it.

But I guess he's got to get a pass. We're going to get more of that too. Also, the Middle East is exploding. Our Secretary of Defense has got some type of mystery illness that keeps him at home on Zoom. Are you comfortable with our Secretary of Defense working from Zoom?

I'm not. Rich Lowry next. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. This race is far from over.

There are dozens of states left to go. And the next one is my sweet state of South Carolina. At one point in this campaign, there were 14 of us running. And we were at 2% in the polls.

Well, I'm a fighter and I'm scrappy. And now we're the last one standing next to Donald Trump. And today we got close to half of the vote. We still have a ways to go, but we keep moving up. I don't think you can call yourself Scrappy.

Other people have described you as Scrappy. But I do think that's her message, and that she is not backing down. She's not done. And I think she has the money to move on. She is ratcheting up the rhetoric.

So she can't say he's my friend. She's not saying he's my friend. I just think I'm a better choice right now. His time was past.

Now he is too old. He is mentally not there. And he keeps saying we can't have two 80-year-olds and nobody wants him to run.

So, whatever she wants, I'm not being critical. I'm noticing she's not doing things that would be necessary to try to eventually be a running mate. A guy with a ton of experience in all walks of elections and seen it and done it all is Rich Lowry. Rich is, as you know, the editor of National Review. Rich, that didn't seem like a concession speech.

Do you think that under further review over the next two days, she might come to the conclusion that DeSantis did? Or do you see her fighting on? Yeah.

I think she's going to go the route of DeSantis, maybe not in days, but weeks. I think it's going to be very uncomfortable. For her, you you saw Trump's reaction, which which I thought was kinda preposterous, but it's his reaction. And a lot of mega world, that's going to be be their reaction. They're going to make her a hate figure.

The polling is not, you know, it's not going to magically transform her for her in South Carolina. There's no big event ahead, foreseeable event. There's not a debate where she can change the trajectory. And even with the mainstream media, when your campaign's in this state, the first question every single interview is, when are you dropping out? You know, you've lost the first two.

When are you going? You know, maybe she'll have the money, but it it's it's going to be uncomfortable. And then it's not going to be a good result in South Carolina, right? She's going to lose by double digits and maybe by a lot of double digits. And then what?

So I think she's overperformed. I think she's achieved her goal, I assume, of being the last person standing. I'm sure she'd like to go on, but I'm a little skeptical that in the cold light of day, you know, after after a couple of weeks that that she's not gonna make the I I kinda think she'll make the same calculation that Santa did.

So it's 54, 43, 54, 54.6 to 43.1. The turnout was excellent, so they can't go with the storyline that Republicans are not motivated for Trump. One way or another, over 322,000 in the Republican primary, and that's not with really no Democrat to vote for, although Joe Biden lost 20% to Dean Phillips, which I think is noteworthy, but 60% did write him in. By the way, on a side note, Senator John Cornyn is now endorsing Donald Trump. 13 South Carolina officials, including two sitting senators and the governor, are supporting Donald Trump.

However, he did not win over independence and undeclared. Is that a is is that a worrisome for the Trump camp? Yeah, I I think I think somewhat. Um You know, despite Trump's complaints earlier in the night about the process and that independence can vote in New Hampshire, he won independence in New Hampshire in 2016. And none of his supporters said this is a terrible thing.

He shouldn't have done it. It's obviously it's a good thing to win independence. If you're fighting for a nomination, it's better to win partisans of your own side. And Trump absolutely stomped her. among Republicans, which is a sign, you know, another sign that she doesn't doesn't really have Have a chance.

But I thought that the most disturbing thing, and it's not so much is going to happen in this campaign, is just. how self-defeating how he acted on that stage was. And it was just 'cause he was mad, you know, and he couldn't hide it, didn't want to hide it. And he should have thanked her or said, you know, good race, it's over now, Nikki, so we're not talking about you anymore. Let's talk about the border, you know, or whatever it was.

And I'm sure that's what his team, who's been, you know, very effective and very shrewd throughout, told him to do, but he didn't do it. Not the biggest thing, but a sign of perhaps some worrisome things to come. On temperament. Here here he is, cut eight. You know, you have to have people that speak up.

I can go up and I can say to everybody, oh, thank you for the victory, it's wonderful, it's wonderful. Or I can go up and say, who the hell was the imposter? That went up on the stage before. and like claimed a victory. She did very poorly actually.

She had to win. The governor said she's gonna win, she's gonna win, she's gonna win. Then she she failed badly. She she failed. She did not win.

As I mentioned, I told you the count. On the GOP delegate count, it's still 31-16. She came in third in Iowa, second in New Hampshire. And she says she can't compete in Nevada. They chose not to.

I don't know why. And then in South Carolina, the last poll in her defense, Rich Lowry, was October.

So we want to see a poll. I mean, maybe the poll might might close a little bit or it might distance because all these officials like Senator Lindsey Graham and Governor McMaster, they're polling for Trump. Yeah, it just seems to me a lot of people mocked Marco Rubio in 2016. He had the famous 3-2-1 plan. He was going to finish a surprising third in Iowa and then finish second in New Hampshire and then win South Carolina.

It didn't work out that way. But it seems to me, realistically, Nikki Haley's plan is 3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2. Where is she going to beat him? Michigan maybe is a little bit like New Hampshire, but she lost New Hampshire, you know, and that's her best thing. She had that sitting governor.

Who's popular in the state, working his butt off for? I mean, he may have done more campaigning than she did. It was a little bit like DeSantis and Kim Reynolds in Iowa. DeSantis wasn't going to get another gubernatorial endorsement. She's not going to get another gubernatorial endorsement.

In fact, in South Carolina, we get this, you know, this goes to an odd phenomenon related to Trump, but one of his strengths is he's the outsider and the establishment candidate.

So he still has this outsider way about him. But every elected official in South Carolina is going to line up around him. And Nikki Hilley is really going to overcome that. It's just. It's not plausible.

So I think, you know, going on, there'd be a case for going on if she's just going to be the protest candidate. If she's never going to endorse them and just say, this is a mistake, Republicans, I'm warning you, it's a mistake. It's not going to work out. And then, you know, hope in November 2024 she's proven right. I don't think there'd be, even if she did that and was right, it wouldn't benefit her.

No one would be happy that she made this warning.

So I think, again, it's like. Let reality set in. It's hard to give up these campaigns. They put so much into it every hour, every day. I mean, we couldn't do it.

I mean, you work really hard, Brian, harder than I do, probably, but they're exhausted to enough, like every single day. And to give it up is hard, but I think she'll end up dropping. My guess, dropping and endorsing before South Carolina. Could be wrong, but that's my guess. Yeah.

Well, we'll see.

South Carolina's next contest will be on the 24th of February. On the 27th is Michigan. On March 2nd is Idaho, on March 3rd is Missouri, then Washington, D.C. on the 4th, and March 5th is Super Tuesday. In the perfect in the in Jack Smith's world, he sits for the January 6th case the next day.

But that's all in delays as the President tries to convince the Supreme Court that he has immunity. But I don't care what you think about that, it's delayed. And I think the President will get a boost when any sane Sup Supreme Court will realize you can't states can't kick somebody off the ballot because they perceive his actions on January 6th to be a different way that's been charged. Mm-hmm.

So I think that would actually boost him up. I think Brian, by the way, on the January 6th case, I mean, that's the real one. I mean, New York may never go to trial. It's so absurd. Obviously, George is imploding the classified documents.

Which I think is the most serious and legitimate one, they're not doing it before the election. Those cases are just so complicated dealing with the classified material.

So that leaves January 6th, and obviously they want to rush it, right? That Jack Smith, a way a prosecutor never should, has an eye on the political calendar. He wants to do it before the election. He's doing this, you know, he wants to get to indictment and trial faster, and this hugely complicated and consequential case, faster than a lot of these routine January 6th cases. I mean, it's just absurd.

But the Supreme Court is taking up this obstruction case from some of the January 6th defendants, having to do with how you interpret the obstruction statute that has a huge implications for the January 6th case. It's about half the case.

So is she really going to, the judge there, go with this case before? before the Supreme Court decides this important question of law. I mean, it could be decided in the middle of while the case is going by the Supreme Court.

So it's crazy.

So you'd have to wait. And if you wait, then you're into July, right? Or maybe August, you know, given other delays. And you're really going to do it like into October in a presidential election. I know they're brazen, but even that might be too brazen for them.

So it wouldn't shock me if Trump can tiptoe through the raindrops here and not have any of these trials happen before November. Right, and that would be very fascinating to see, to see an honest election. Then he gets in there and pardons himself, and the Georgia case implodes with scandal, which probably you have to wonder why they waited. They pretend as if they didn't convene with Jack Smith, but we all heard they did. And now we know they're working with the White House, so they can no longer deny it.

So what is Joe Biden doing through all this? After all, he doesn't want to go to New Hampshire. It's too white, evidently.

So here is Joe Biden's message on the stump yesterday, cut 27. I believe 2024 is going to be the most important election we've had since 1864. I mean it. And the reasons are clear. Democracy is on the ballot.

Freedom is on the ballot. Like the freedom to choose. The freedom of vote. The freedom to love who you want. The freedom to go to work, go to school, go to your house of worship without fear of being gunned down by a weapon of war.

All right, so it's 1864, and you think Trump is being incendiary? I know that my audience heard me do this 20 minutes ago, but I want to play it for you. That's the last gasp of the Confederacy, 1864. Our president would be assassinated the next year after winning reelection, and we know that the country was fractured at the time with only the North voting, and he was going against General McClellan. Are you what kind of irresponsible speechwriter does he have?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's the same thing he did when he was inveighing against the Georgia election law, which is supposedly going to end democracy. That was another end of democracy and the Geor law stand. And somehow democracy is still here, especially in Georgia, where it's incredibly robust. 'Cause everyone's registered and everyone can vote vote easily, uh but in a secure way.

So yeah, this this is the message. Um it's a partisan message. Do they sincerely hate and fear Trump? Yeah, they they do. But if Joe Biden thought the stakes were that high, the first thing he would have done is say, I'm stepping down and Kamala Harris can't be the nominee and I'm endorsing whoever, ex, you know, Gavin Newsner, whoever that he thinks would be a stronger candidate or be a stronger candidate Than him for the good of the system, right?

If the stakes are that high, he'd immediately close the border. Because this is, if Trump wins, that's going to be a huge reason why. Just to reinstate all the Trump policies. But they don't really think it's existential.

So all these other priorities, Joe Biden's personal ambition, the ideological goal of having a de facto open borders in many ways, all that plays.

So it's ultimately a partisan argument. All right, lastly, I don't know where you stand. I really don't. But when it comes to foreign policy, it's interesting where the Republicans stand. This on foreign policy, which ranks fourth: 50% of Republican primary voters say the U.S.

should pay less active role in solving the world's problems. And if you're one of that 50%, 68% of those voters voted for Trump. Just 25% went to Haley. She has a different view, so do I. What about aid to Israel?

64% of Republican primary voters in New Hampshire favor continuing. And of those, 54% of them voted for Trump, compared to 40% of them voted for Haley. On Ukraine, New Hampshire Republicans are split. 49% of New Hampshire Republicans favor aid to Ukraine. Among those, 63% went for Haley.

31% did for Trump. There's a push, and Trump is behind it or is not pushing back enough on it to forget about Ukraine, pull back on Israel, don't worry much about Taiwan. I worry about that. Do you? Yeah, I do.

And I think it's a delayed reaction still to the Iraq war. And if you want to say that was a debacle, we shouldn't have done it and we shouldn't do anything like that again, that's an entirely reasonable, maybe correct view. But then to go So, what we shouldn't do is fund someone else who's fighting an enemy of ours in a pretty effective way, and it's not costing us anything except for some money. I think that's absurd. And the problem is, if we pull back from, we might not like our international commitments, but we're not going to like it when China or someone else fills the gap.

Thank you. 100%, Rich. It's got to be explained by somebody who's sane and sober, and we don't have either one in the White House. And that's his mission. And he's half-assing all the weapons deliveries, making the anti-Ukraine segment helping fortify it.

Rich, we'll pick up National Review. It's going to be an exciting time. See how long Haley hangs in there after the Big Trump victory prior to a Big Trump victory. Thanks, Rich. Awesome.

Thanks, Brian. 1-866-408-7669. I see you up there, Scott. See you up there, Joe. See you up there, Bobby.

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This is the Brian Kill Me Show. New Hanser. The president said a double digit win in New Hampshire and you delivered a double digit win. But I'm gonna invite you. to my home state started tomorrow.

Where this election It's over. It is time for the Republican Party to coalesce around our nominee and the next President of the United States, Donald Trump. Let's get that party started tonight. And Tim Scott over the top last night, and he has been over the top since he joined the Trump cam. He says that I just talked to him, and he just says behind the scenes Donald Trump was even madder than he was in front of the camera.

And so he was disappointed. I just think the president's got to learn to deal better with disappointment. This after a double-digit thirteen, twelve-point win over Nikki Haley, who's a formidable foe. Scott, you're listening in the villages in Florida, hey, Scott. Yes, sir.

Good morning. Yeah, I saw Mark Thiessen on Fox and Friends this morning, and he was talking about 64% of the independent went to Nikki Haley, and that leaves 36% to Donald Trump. And then he also said that's 36% of independents that won't vote for Donald Trump.

Well, they're going to go somewhere once Nikki Haley's out of the race. And so the idea that Trump won't pick up some of them is just not true. And it certainly doesn't mean that Joe Biden's going to get those 36% of the Independence. Thank you, Brian. Yeah, there was a poll last week that said there was a percentage, a pretty large percentage of people who, if they don't vote for Haley, wouldn't vote for Trump.

It didn't say they were going to vote for Biden, so that's interesting. But this is what Trump's got to do: you've got to go to school on things you didn't get, and that is independence undecided. And there's nothing wrong with that. You can't have everybody. Bob in Naples.

Hey, Bob. Yes, I have your own. He made the point that Chris Sununu was saying that 30% of Nikki voters wouldn't vote for Trump. 37% of the Trump people said they wouldn't vote for Nikki.

So that's a wash. The important thing is, however, that she only beats Biden in one poll, whereas Trump beats him in every poll. And the only reason that she's as strong as she is is because nobody's laid a hand on her. John Glenn was a good friend of mine, and we used to fly back, and we served in Congress together from Ohio. And I remember when John Glenn was beating Ronald Reagan in the polls.

Well, once you get in there, it gets totally, once they take her apart, here's the final point for Governor Sununu. Nobody can lead a landslide in America. Yeah, they were too divided. Good point. Thanks, Bob.

I wonder what Bob did. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. And it was a great primary, especially I think Donald Trump. And according to Nikki Haley, she had a great primary, too.

We're going to go inside those numbers. Trump wins by about 12. I got a great guest, two great guests this hour: Byron York standing by, and Senator Tommy Tubberville of U.S. Armed Services Committee. We know he's a die-hard Trumper.

I think he should be happy about these results. We'll discuss it all. And I appreciate everyone being here. If you ever want to get the show and you leave our family of affiliates, you can watch us on the app. You can listen there to watch and listen.

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So let's get to the big three and I'll give you more.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. What we had last night were multinational strikes conducted by the United States and the United Kingdom. And these strikes were very specific to target capabilities that the Houthis have been using to conduct attacks. Here we go again.

The slow ramping up of doing something you should have done two months ago. That is the Joe Biden playbook. But now we're opening up hits of the Hezbollah version. Those terrorists over in Iraq, we're trying to blow them up. We're trying to blow up the Houthis.

The UK are helping. Where have I heard this before? Joe, always late. Number two. I believe 2024 is going to be the most important election we've had since 1864.

Democracy's on the ballot. Yeah, I guess so. Joe Biden's always more effective when he screams.

Someone should tell me he needs a he has a microphone. Joe Biden loses 20% of his vote to Dean Phillips, an unknown challenger, and makes his battle plan clear. If Donald Trump wins, it'll be worse than the Civil War, and women's rights will be eliminated. Number one. You go to South Carolina, just mention all the issues.

It's our home state, but the issues based on those demographics that Haley's going to have in South Carolina are profound. Trump got about a third of the vote in South Carolina in 2016. He swept all 50 delegates. He absolutely could do the same based on what we're seeing right now. All right, let's hope we'll see where that goes.

That is Steve Cornacky. The results are in Trump's win by 12, and Nikki Haley says, I survived and will go on. Will she really? I want to ask Byron York that. Of course, a Fox News contributor, Washington Examiner.

He's with the chief political correspondent with the Washington Examiner, and you see him all over the channel. Byron, assess what we experienced last night in New Hampshire.

Well, you know, it was an interesting ride for a little while there because if you remember, first of all, the polls going in, the Real Clear Politics average of polls showed Trump ahead by nineteen point three points.

So people were thinking total blowout. And then as you know, maybe in the hour before the polls close, the word began kind of going around that, you know, Trump, of course, was going to win, but His margin wasn't going to be as big as was thought.

So then first results start coming in, and they are never definitive, but there they are, they're the first results. And Trump is up by about seven points. Between seven and eight points, and it's at that moment that Nikki Haley runs out. To the microphone and gives her speech. You know, it's close.

And we've fought a great fight here and on to South Carolina and on to Super Tuesday. And this is going to be a long race, and I'm going to win.

So that was really interesting. But what had happened, of course, was that the The early results were from places that were more Haley friendly. And the later results, more from rural areas and small towns, were more Trump friendly. His lead began to grow after Haley's speech.

So by the time he comes out, about an hour after Haley's. His lead is growing, and he's really mad at Haley for going out quickly and claiming a semi-victory. Uh in the end It looks like as we speak, Trump's lead is about eleven point four points. probably not going to grow much more than that. I think we have ninety plus, ninety three percent of the votes counted.

So it might grow a little bit more, but not much more. But it's a double digit win, eleven points. For Trump.

So here is Nikki Haley showing not only is she not quitting, but she's not looking to make amends. Cut six. Most Americans do not want a rematch between Biden and Trump. The first party to retire its eighty-year-old candidate is going to be the party that wins this election. And I think it should be the Republicans that win this election.

That's not gonna get you on the ticket. No. That's basically part of her stump speech. And she she tended to give the same stump speech almost word for word everywhere she went. And you know, as far as her being on the ticket, clearly lot of people around Trump do not want her be to be on the ticket.

Trump seemed to sh it seemed like she really got under his skin last night. I think you you noticed when you when he came out and finally gave a speech, he was clearly angry that Haley had gotten the first word of the evening And acted like it was a a win when in fact Trump won, and Trump won big. You know, as far as her ultimately being on the ticket, I will say Trump is one of the most transactional human beings on the planet. And he can do business. Of course, any anything could happen.

My guess is, no, it won't happen, but It could. Right. I want you to hear a little so for people that didn't see it see it last night or listen to it, listen to how ticked off Donald Trump gradually got in Nashua Cut Nine. But I felt I should do this because I find in life you can't let people get away with bullshit, okay? You can't.

You just don't do that. And when I watched her, the fancy dress that probably wasn't so fancy. Come up. I said, What's she doing? We won.

And she did the same thing. Last week, But he was much more angry about it than I was. I said, Get up there and you let him know. And when he was talking about his Ron DeSantis, when Nikki Haley said, I came in, I won, or I did, I reached my goals, indicating that you came in second. Ron DeSantis goes, Oh, no, I came in second.

So that's what she was describing.

So he was frustrated by it. And I just wish something I wish there was somebody that could tell him, What's your tone? Going out. What's your tone? Show everyone.

No retribution. Remember, you got to fix the country. It was funny, you know, because you're right, in in Iowa, Uh Haley was supposed to finish second. To Trump, and she was going to claim that as a big victory. And obviously, she finishes third, but it was like she had prepared a speech for a I finished second scenario.

And when she finished third, she went out and gave the same speech anyway. And she did kind of claim to have won, and DeSantis was irritated by that. Going a little further in history, somebody pointed this out, and I think it was pretty smart. Way back in 1992, Bill Clinton was running for president, and he had really blown the Iowa cocks, not done well. Um and he didn't win the New Hampshire primary, but at the very beginning, just like last night, at the very beginning, the poll showed it pretty close.

And he ran out and immediately declared himself the comeback kid. And as that stuck and everybody started using the phrase, come back kid. But what happened is as the night went on, the votes got tallied and the actual winner of the primary, who was a Massachusetts senator named Paul Sangas, he won by a bunch of points. But Quentin had made use of that moment to call himself the comeback kid. Very interesting.

So what about the other so first off, are you surprised that Nikki Haley is going to move on and fight for five weeks until South Carolina, where we have not seen a poll that I saw since October, she's traumed by thirty there. And she lost a lot of popular a lot of politicians. Is he going to last five weeks? No, well, I don't know. You said, are you surprised she's going to go on for five weeks?

Well, we don't know what she's going to do because basically they all say that. They come out and they say, our race is just beginning. We're going to the next state. In this case, it's South Carolina. And then on to Super Tuesday, and we're going to go, go, go.

And then they get it a night's sleep and they think about it and they talk to people and then they withdraw.

So is she going to stay in for the duration of the race like she says she is? I don't know. Might maybe she will because maybe there'll be some donors who want her to keep up her um attacks on Trump. On the other hand, it is South Carolina. It's her home state.

She was elected governor twice. And if, in fact, she's not going to do well, that's going to be pretty embarrassing. She may want to avoid that.

So we'll see.

So I want you to hear the the advice Or the analysis from other channels and tell me what you think. Has anything changed for Donald Trump should he get to a one until he gets to the general cut twelve? He's mad. He's angry. That was not a celebratory Trump.

He's angry that Nikki Haley is still in the race. I do think that he looks weak. Basically, there's a woman that says, I want to get you. I want to debate with you. And he looks weak running from one person.

Nikki Haley beat Donald Trump among independents by something like 40 percentage points. That is not a good sign for a sitting former, a former president of the United States. Well, this is a very bad night for Donald Trump looking at the pattern. Is it really a bad night for Donald Trump? No, it wasn't.

It wasn't. You can always point out some group in which your candidate did well.

So well, among independents, Nikki Haley won big or Trump won huge last night among Republicans. But of course, there were more than just Republicans voting in the Republican primary.

So the fact is, you count all the votes, Trump is up by double digits, so it was a solid win for him. Yeah.

So the case is so the answer so the question is, you know, what comes next?

South Carolina does appear to be even better for Trump than New Hampshire. New Hampshire was probably Haley's really best chance. to do really well. And we'll see. Maybe they'll, you know, the South Carolina primary, it's kind of a weird schedule.

It's not until February the 24th. I mean, a month. from now. And uh there's going to be a month of you know um full tilt campaigning between now and then? I I d I have no idea how it's actually going to work out.

But uh seems to be in very strong position.

So here are the top four issues that people in New Hampshire care about and perhaps the country. Voter analysis. Most important issues facing the country: 41% say immigration, 31% say economy, third with just 8% is foreign policy, and last is abortion at 5%. Dramatically different on the other side. But these issues really go to Trump's strengths.

And in 2016, immigration was not number one. In 2024, it is. Yeah.

And also, immigration went to the top of some people's list, of course, because what's happened on the border, which has happened because Joe Biden dismantled Donald Trump's policies. I mean, it's very, very specific cause and effect here. Joe Biden dismantled the policies and sent the message to the world that if you cross illegally into the United States, you will be allowed to stay. That was a powerful message and a powerful magnet for people to come to the United States, and at least 8 million of them have come and crossed illegally into the United States since then.

So but that was a specific Repudiation of Trump's policy.

So Trump is saying, we're going to do it again. As a matter of fact, it was interesting, he had Tom Holman. the former top Customs and Border Patrol official come up last night and talk about how they were going to stop the flow at the border. He that Hohmann was like the only non former candidate who got to speak last night. Yeah, and he says, I'm going back.

If Trump wins, I'm going back. Lastly, I'm going to see if Bayern New York is going to give the same advice as Van Jones to President Biden, cut 26. If I were Biden, I would I would stay hi hidden. And I'll tell you why. Um he doesn't inspire confidence.

Byron York, would you agree with Van Jones' assessment? That is absolutely true. He does not I mean, that's as a matter of fact, that's a good and obviously Van Jones is a Democrat, so he's not gonna just trash button. But that's a very s a smart way to say it because, uh, I you know, I was looking the other day at something Joe Biden had said. during the campaign in 2019, so we're talking four years ago.

And the decline in the strength of his voice. uh the clarity of his his enunciation The way he spoke and what he said, the decline was obvious in the last four years. It's much, much more obvious when you look fifteen, twenty years ago. But I Yvat Jones' advice is good. You just he should probably stay out of the public eye as much as possible.

Right. I'd like you a lot as long as I don't see you. The better, the better. We'll get along great if we just never see each other. Thank you.

Byron York, exciting time. We finally have results to talk about. It's always great to get your analysis. Thanks. Thank you, Brian.

You got it. Listen, now it's time for your analysis. 1866-408-7669. I have a lot to say also, the Middle East is on fire. I keep on wanting to get to it, then I get caught up in these numbers, but I want to go over some of the things that are taking place now.

And our Secretary of Defense is running things. Apparently from Zoom. Brain kill me, Joe. Covering this election year like no other. It's Brian Kilmead.

The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. And one more thing, Jake. I heard him say that people are flooding in from mental institutions across the border. I asked Trump's campaigns for evidence of this claim, which he says at pretty much every rally.

Find me some source, some anything, to suggest that foreign countries are emptying their mental institutions as he's claiming to send people across the border as migrants. His own campaign could not find a single shred of evidence. What an ass. This guy, what a jerk. Daniel Dale, fact-checking the president.

You want me to tell me any criminals? How many criminals have been coming from Venezuelan prisons in Cuba and around the world? You think these are all Boy Scouts coming through? Then you're fact-checking the President? Joe, you're in Long Island.

Hey, Joe. They brought Brian, good morning. You got me? Gotcha. What's on your mind?

Oh, listen. I love your coverage up there in New Hampshire. I enjoyed it so much. The Fox Couch, it was great. Haley's hurting the Republican Party at this point.

And American doesn't need on-the-job training. America needs Trump. We are dying out here. I wanted to talk about Chris Sununo because I've been watching him. I didn't know anything about him.

I heard this mystique about the Sununu's up there. He's embarrassed himself because he lost his hometown. I lost my training. He lost his hometown by 70% in Salem, New Hampshire. 70% to 30%.

He lost. And you're there for 100 years, your name. He called Trump a weak candidate to you this morning. Trump got 76 million record votes last time. That's a lot.

And that's probably not all Republicans. And You know, she was tone deaf on the couch, Haley, with you. She called you insulted you guys. You're on the couch and you insulted people. She showed her true colors.

She's a used car salesman, Brian. That's what she is.

Now, uh, Joe, the blame in the media. The blaming the media thing is not new, but it was surprising coming from her, being that you know what was happening at the same time, Donald Trump put on Truth Social that Fox has become the Bird Brain Network, which was his nickname for her. And at the same time, DeSantis was going talking to Axios, saying the the media iced him out and want and wouldn't call Trump out.

So everybody's unhappy. She was nasty, Brian, last night, that she was nasty calling him a loser. And you just got lost by twelve percent. She got a buck ticked and she came out nasty. Right.

You know what, Joe, the thing is, I think there might be something to that the Obama-Hillary Clinton fight that made Obama a better candidate. I don't think it's necessarily bad for Trump to fight it out a little bit more. If she wants to do it and burn through money, I just don't know anybody who sees a passage for the nomination for her. But I don't have anything negative to say about her. I don't.

She's trying to win. She's got a really good resume. I think she's she's worked extremely hard. Uh when you come out and you want to blame Fox for things that are ridiculous, you know, John Kerry blames Fox, the President blames Fox, now you have DeSantis. Trump and Haley blaming Fox.

We have to be doing something right. A lot of people are watching and notices and notice what we're saying.

So that's always good news. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. This race is far from over. There are dozens of states left to go.

And the next one is. is my sweet state of South Carolina. At one point in this campaign, there were 14 of us running. And we were at 2% in the polls.

Well, I'm a fighter and I'm scrappy. And now we're the last one standing next to Donald Trump. And today, we got close to half of the vote. We still have a ways to go, but we keep moving up. And that is how Nikki Haley interpreted the results yesterday.

She lost 54, 43. It's still somewhat in flux. We don't have 100% of the vote in. It's between 11 and 12 points. And the Delegate Count is 31.16.

There will not be another contested race until February 24th. The next one is the 8th, but she is not in it. She's not in the Nevada caucus. And the big day, another big day is on the 27th. Right after that of February, in Michigan, March 2nd, and Idaho caucus.

And in Missouri, March 3rd. Washington, D.C., March 4th. Senator Tommy Tubberville joins us to offer his analysis and talk about everything that he's been working on. Senator, what's your take on Governor Haley's interpretation of the results?

Well, uh, she's she's begging. Uh And she's run hard. She's this has been in her mind for a long time. I heard her spoke about four or five years ago when I was actually running for my Senate job in Alabama, and she said the same things. You know, she doesn't talk about policy that much.

She just t attacks President Trump. We know what he stands for. Let's hear about what she stands for. But she got a lot of vote. I was a little worried about this New Hampshire because it's a Democratic state.

You got a rhino for a governor up there in Sununu that we tried to get to run for Senate, but he didn't want to do it because he's afraid he couldn't win. But President Trump did well. I picked 55% before it started. He almost got 55% in a Democratic state. And now he's getting down into the South.

Nikki Haley is not going to like what she's going to see when she gets to South Carolina. But again, President Trump's going to have to keep working, but that's good. You know, he doesn't mind working. Yeah, Senator, I tell you, I've got to push back on Governor Stanley would have won that Senate seat, no problem. He's really conservative.

I know I've known him for a while. The thing is, he doesn't think Trump can win. He says I will support him, but he doesn't think he can win. What do you say to doubters? I know you're all in.

I know he really likes you, the president, was with him on Monday. But what do you say to people who think that he can't win the general because he didn't because of what happened in 2022 and with what happened in 2020?

Well, all I can tell you is that, you know, I'm not a politician. You know that, Brian, as a football coach. I've been up here three years. I've been out politicking. And, you know, I listen to all these people up here.

Most of them never had a job in their life. You know, most of them are lawyers. And, you know, they're career politicians. The one thing that I can tell the governor from New Hampshire is Donald Trump better win. Because what I see here, what I see every day, not just from Democrats but also some Republicans, we're losing our country a little bit every day.

We're losing our freedoms. We used to be the land of the free home of the brave.

Now we're the land of free stuff. We give more money away to people that doesn't want to do anything. You've got to go out and earn your keep. Uh but Donald Trump Everybody says, well, give me the main reason that you are for Donald Trump. He's a leader.

Now, in the White House today. We don't know who's making the decision, whether it's a bunch of Generation Z kids or young adults behind the scenes. Is it Obama? Is it John Kerry? It's surely not Joe Biden.

He might be involved some, but not very much. We have to have a leader in this very tough time, not just in our country, but the world, that's going to stand up and say, this is what I believe in, that's what we're going to do. and we can't have ifs, ands or buts. That's what happens in politics. We've got to have a leader, Sean, in that White House because if we don't, if we don't, we will not make it as the country we you and I have grown up in in the next four years.

It will be so far gone, I don't know whether we can ever get it back. We're almost gone as we speak. Senator Tommy Tubberville called me Sean Hannity, which is an honor, but he doesn't start working yet. The guy's still working on preparing for his radio show. But, Senator, I want to bring it to Lloyd Austin.

He emerged yesterday on Zoom to talk about strikes in Yemen and in Iraq. CUP 35. Good day, everyone. Thanks for working across time zones. to join us for the 18th meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group.

We're eager to enter this new year with new energy. enroll here to reaffirm our support for a free, secure and sovereign Ukraine. Is he in charge? I think he is to some degree, Brian. Excuse me for calling you Sean, but it's been a long morning already.

But I think he is. I'm on the Armed Services Committee, and he always makes good statements and. And I think that uh Uh You know, he understands the situation. Of course, I had been sick for the last month, it's been a tough time for him. But at the end of the day, we're having a big conference today.

With Republicans about Ukraine.

Now, I've studied this for three years or two years, read everything. Um I want to know how we get out of this. What is the goal here? It's just standing money and paying for their government officials and their first responders 57,000 of their pension plans and sending over materials to fight a battle that they can't win. They've gotten so many people killed here.

What is the end game here? Is anybody negotiating, getting us out of this mess? Because we've got China looking at Taiwan and we've got a huge mess in the Middle East. And we're still trying to push a narrative that Ukraine can beat Russia. Ukraine couldn't beat Russia in a month of Sundays.

They couldn't be, they don't have the people. It's a people's game. We can give them all the weapons they want. They don't have the people to fight a war. They have been massacred.

Well, I mean, they've taken out 90% of the Russian army that originally invaded. They've killed, I think, three Russians for every one Ukrainian, but they have 150 million people. The Russians are now drafting like 60-year-olds. But you're right. They're using North Korea's artillery.

We didn't do anything about that. They're using Iran's drones. We did nothing about that. And if you let Ukraine fight, they are taking out our enemy by the day. But I would love to see a plan.

I would love to find out why we can't, the F-15, why they have no Air Force, even though we have our allies willing to donate, give them F-15s and F-16s. We have taken six months to train them. I don't know one pilot that's been trained yet. And the president never. Communicates what he wants and how he plans on doing this stuff.

He plans on letting Republicans explain it. Yeah.

And Sean, excuse me, Brian, you can't. F-16s, a handful of them are not going to help.

Okay, it's not going to help. The high Mars they ran out of. We can't make them fast enough. They're shooting them. Again, they don't have the people.

I wish since we'd gotten in this that they could have beaten Russia because Putin is a killer. He's the thug. But there's a lot of things that we could do to end this war. We could help the Ukrainians. This push in NATO.

uh on Ukraine. Not having an election really Upsets me. You know, y everybody has elections during wars. And for him, for Zulinsky to say we're not going to have an election, that's not right. You need to contend.

You've got to listen to your people. I don't think anyone in the United States. But do you think the people of Ukraine want an election right now? They need to have one. We didn't need to have one in World War II, but we had one.

I mean, you need to get the voice of the people. I mean, we're. we're cheerleading for Ukraine to win this war, and I'm one of them since we're in this thing. But you also got to listen to the people that are going to fight this war. They get a vote.

They get an opportunity to express their opinion. If they want to vote him in, fine. But you know, you it's a it's supposed to be a democracy. Shut do you ever see any footage of of the fight? In Ukraine on television.

I grew up watching footage every day of Vietnam. You know, we had live footage, and you see live footage of what's going on in Gaza, but you never see anything happen in Ukraine with the battles over there. There's a lot of things going on, Sean, even being a senator and being able to go to these classified hearings, there's a lot of things that don't add up. With all this going on right now. But again, it goes back to leadership, and the reason that we need somebody that can make a decision like President Trump is we need Joe Biden to get somebody to sit down with Putin and say, listen, we're going to continue.

funneling money to Ukraine, but can we work on a An option here to get out of this thing. We cannot continue this. We can't continue to do it. We can't afford it. The only way that we're going to stop this war, and I've told the Republican Party, the only way that we're going to stop this because we have people that want to fight, even in the Republican side, is financial ruin.

We're already broke, and we continue to spend the money. We don't have the money. It it's three percent of our defense budget, right? I understand that, but the problem is, you know, we're 34 trillion already before you start the defense budget.

Okay, I'm for spending whatever we need on the defense budget. But we need Europe to step up. We need NATO to step up. We need everybody to get involved in this and then get a plan. Tell us what your plan is.

Again, I'm on armed services.

Well, I want to get you. I want to get you to the Middle East. Yesterday, U. S. forces struck Kitab Hezbollah and tried to diminish their capabilities in Iraq.

We also, along with the UK, struck Houthi rebel sites in Yemen. Can you tell us what you know about this and what the plan is there? But there is no plan, Brian. There is no again, somebody come tell us so we can help you, so we can help fund this. I've talked to people that have been on some of our ships in the Red Sea that have.

Uh, knock down and these attacks on their own ship. I talked to a Navy uh crewman the other day, and he's and I said, Well, what happened?

So, well, they sent a drone at us and we shot it down. I said, But he said, Here, he said, This. Here's the problem we got, coach. They're sending in these $4,000 or $5,000 drones to attack us. I know.

And we're. Shooting a two to three to four million dollar missile to knock it down. We can't sustain that. We can't sustain it. We have to have options to do this.

Now, we don't want to lose any military people. We don't want to go on the ground in Yemen. They're going to continue just to keep us tied up, using our money, using our missiles. That's their plan. They're trying to drain us.

They're trying to prolong this, not just in Yemen, but in Ukraine, in the Middle East, and attacking all our bases. But when you have an appeasement present like we have that won't. that when they slap us in the face, that we won't slug them with something coming back other than just stepping back and kind of looking at the situation, we're going to have huge problems. I mean, our world is on fire. True.

Senator Tommy Tumberville, you also say momentum is building for a bicameral legislation preventing Veterans Affairs resources from being used on illegal immigrants. I can't believe you need to do this, but is that indeed what's happening, and how can we stop it? Sure it is. Sure it is. First of all, God bless Governor Abbott for standing up down there and protecting the people of Texas.

I don't care what anybody says, protect your people, but the border's a mess. You've been there. Uh, Brian, it is. I mean, it's embarrassing that we can't protect our own borders, but what's happening now. I'm on the VA committee.

We have nineteen million veterans in this country. We can only Um look after about half of them, about nine million, ten million, because we don't have the facilities, even though we spend billions of dollars. We don't have the facilities.

So we started these community care systems In the rural areas all over the country, where if you're a veteran, you don't have to drive three or four hours to a VA. You can go to a local place and be seen.

Well, now Joe Biden, he's got to find a way to feed. All these illegal immigrants, he's got to find a way to house them. And now he's got to find a way for health care.

Well, guess what he's doing? He's taking money from the VA, letting them go and get in line at these community care systems, kicking our veterans at the end of the line. It is It's embarrassing. It really is embarrassing now that we're attacking our veterans With these illegals, and it's going to continue, and it's going to get worse. Uh but again, there's no plan.

There's no answer. There's no endgame here other than, hey, we're just going to leave it open and let them all come in. Not acceptable. Thanks so much. Appreciate it, Senator.

Where could people go to support you? I can't imagine a Democrat or Republican wants to stand in your way on this. You have nineteen co sponsors.

So is this going to get a vote?

Well, not with Chuck Schumer in charge, he doesn't bring anything up that makes any sense. Uh now he's gone today uh Try to bring up a bill, well, maybe not that in the near future, about getting rid of menthol cigarettes and Zen, which is a Uh nicotine pack that you put In like dip, he's totally against those two, but he's not against fentanyl coming across the border and getting the answer to that and killing 100,000 Americans a year. I mean, he's not against that. Brian, you can't make this up. You really can't.

And I know, you know, I sound disgusted. I am disgusted because nothing right is going on in our country right now, and the American taxpayer deserve much, much better. I hear you. Senator Tommy Tuberville, always a man of action. Appreciate it.

Thank you, Brian. You got it. 1-866-408-7669. We come back. I'll finish up this hour with some of your calls and get your feedback.

We do have a result in the primary. It looks like an 11-12-point win for President Trump. Linkie Haley says, I will fight on another day. Ron DeSantis has spoken out two days after he decided to get out. How does he feel?

You're going to be interested to hear what he had to say. Only if you keep here on the Brian Killmeat show. On the road to 2024. This race is far from over. She's doing like a speech like she won.

She didn't win. She lost. The latest polls. Instant analysis. There are dozens of states.

Left to go. And we'll be there for everyone right here on the Brian Kill Me Show. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmeade. President Trump, I would go home tonight.

I'd go to my victory party. I would celebrate. I've made history yet again. But then I'd go home and I'd look under the hood. And when you look under the hood of our Fox News voter analysis data, you find that.

32% of Republicans say we won't vote for Trump. I've got to unite the party. That's the argument Nikki Haley's making. And number two, I would look, Nikki Haley won independence, according to Fox News voter analysis, 59 to 33.

So I go home if I'm Trump, I celebrate, and then I say, I got to unite this party, I got to win independence. That's how I beat Biden.

So that is Kayleigh McEnany, the former press secretary for President Trump, offering some great advice. Trump did not love that advice, which is crazy. He says, I don't need any advice from her. You should. Not only does she know politics, she knows you and knows how to defend you.

I'm not sure why. President Trump does not understand that she's an analyst now. And I'm sure George Stephanopoulos, when he became an analyst on Channel 7, he w on ABC, he had to say negative things about the Clintons. I know they were not happy with him, but he has a different job now. I'm sure there was softball softballs, but Kaylee's got a different job.

When he does something, he I think the President has a hard time understanding how somebody who used to work for him could say negative things about him. It's only negative in the what his actions are. It isn't on him personally. But that is just some of the feedback he got. Last night because he came out last night and he was definitely angry.

Here's some more of the president last night going after the governor of New Hampshire, cut 10. You have the very, the now very unpopular governor of this state. This guy, he's got to be on something. I've never seen anybody with energy. It's like uh hopscotch.

And you know, I'm watching this guy and Two weeks ago, he said, We're going to win, we're going to win in Atlantic. We're going to win. About three days ago, I said, What we want to do well. That's a big difference. I'm not sure what Hop Scotch means, but he does have a lot of energy.

He does talk very fast. But Governor Stunny is extremely savvy, grew up in politics, has never lost an election, and helped close the gap between Nikki Haley and President Trump. I think the president had a great win last night. I think Nikki Haley, two things could be true. Nikki Haley did well, and the president had a great win.

It's unprecedented. No non-incumbent has ever won both these states. And by the way, lost, obviously, afterwards, won both these states. And now they move on. He's in really good stead.

It seems like he has plenty of money. He's got some breathing room now with no court case looming over him. Even in March, Alvin Bragg could be first in April, but I don't know. Is that even going to work? I haven't heard much about that since they had their ridiculous indictment last year.

So I think there's more good than bad, and I wonder if the president's going to go out of his way to maybe meet with the press today and kind of walk back some of the anger from yesterday. And as you remember, he's saying about Don DeRon DeSantis when he got out. I know it's tough stuff. Going to give him some time. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show.

Brian. Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest minutes of the Brian Kilmead Show. We come to you from New Hampshire.

Now, the day after the much-anticipated primary, we now have two contests in the books. Straight ahead is Nevada, where Nikki Haley will not compete, and then South Carolina. Then we got a bunch of carcasses in a certain to be Super Tuesday. With us this hour is going to be, we're going to bring back my portions of my interview, not yet heard, with President Trump. I will let you know what else is going on besides what's happening.

But right now, in studio, and this is really a hotel room, I should not overstate it. The former chief presidential peacewriter for Bush, 43, Fox News contributor, Washington Post columnist, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. What takes more of your time, Mark Thiessen? AI is my home. Really?

You go there every day? Do you have to play? That's my point. I don't have to go there every day. It's a think tank.

Yeah, it's one of the best. It's the best free market think tank in Washington. And I've got a podcast there called What the Hell is Going On? Right. And that's that I'm in the Foreign and Defense Policy Department there.

My image of a think tank is you get up every day about ten, you report to a conference room and you think. With other people. I mean, do you think out loud? Do you think that?

Well, I'm thinking out loud now with you, and I think out loud on my podcast, and then I think with use my fingers to think by writing.

So actually, it's great. Who else is there?

So Daniel Pletka, who's my co-host on the Fred Kagan, who's the guy who was the author of The Surge, who came up with The Surge Strategy in Iraq. We've got a great department in the Foreign and Defense Policy Department. And actually, it's interesting.

So when I did the piece on the America first case for Ukraine and I did the recent piece I did on how actually all the money stays here, I often what I do is I go off to all I send an email to all my colleagues at AEI and say, so what are the best arguments for this? And all of a sudden we'll get an email conversation going and it's like having some of the smartest people in the world in there in a conversation and it gives me great ideas for columns and great ideas for articles. Do you find you're the smartest? Only on this podcast. This is a radio show.

Thank you. And eventually it's going to be a pipe. It's a floral wax and a dessert topic. You know, I was just looking at Tommy Tubberville. He is not, last hour.

He is not for this war. He's like, I want to end this war. We can't afford this war. You've heard people.

So I called him out in my Washington Post column because I did a big essay on the fact is people don't realize this 90% of the military aid we give to Ukraine doesn't go to Ukraine. It stays here in the United States and it goes to create manufacturing jobs here, defense industrial base jobs here. What we do is we either give the Ukrainians weapons from our stockpiles and then we replace them with new weapons which are more modern and better for us.

So it's helping Ukraine and it's also helping modernize our military. Or we produce new weapons for Ukraine here in the United States and that's creating our strengthening our defense industrial base for China, for the Middle East, for other challenges we face. And his state is one of the states with the largest recipients of Ukraine aid money. And so I called him out on that and he and Jay. J.D.

Vance wrote a very nasty letter to the Washington Post critiquing me, and J.D. Vance then tweeted that he has total contempt for me.

So he said, you know, Toby Tubberville, when he votes against Ukraine aid, he's voting against jobs in his state. He's voting against jobs for his constituents. He's voting against strengthening the industrial base here in the United States to produce weapons for our own national defense.

So, yeah, we can't afford that, I guess. When I disagreed with him, the good news is he thinks it's Sean Hannity that's integrated with you. That's good. That Hannity is a rock warmonger. Yeah, he's a Ukraine warmonger.

But, Mark, this is what bothers me because I have no way of seeing and finding this out. But is our industrial base getting replenished? Are we picking up the pace? Are we spreading out the contracts? Are we building?

Are we making ourselves a little bit more? I will give you an example.

So the United States defense industry had not produced a single Stinger missile since 2005. And the reason was had. Plenty. We had them, but also we were fighting terrorists who didn't have planes. Stinger missiles designed to take down a plane.

So Al-Qaeda didn't have planes, but China does. And so we started giving them out of our stockpiles, and then we started producing Stinger missiles for the first time. I even talked to the defense industry folks who were doing it. They actually had to call people out of retirement to come back and teach workers how to make Stinger missiles. And we are now producing hundreds of millions of Stinger missiles.

That's going to be necessary to deter China for a conflict with Taiwan. We were not producing them. Do you know any way to get access to find out about the replenishment pace and what kind of pace we're on? You could read my column. I wrote a 4,000-word essay in the Washington Post explaining all this, listing out all the weapons that we were producing that we hadn't been producing.

No, no, no, no. But do you think we're keeping up with the invoices that are coming in? We are. In some places, yes, in some places, no. It's hard because what we're doing is we had allowed our defense industrial base to atrophy after the end of the Cold War, right?

And so n like, for example, we're having trouble building uh doing uh uh the uh the milit the rounds, uh the one one fifty five millimeter rounds. And and so now we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars building new plants to produce those. It's going to take a little time for those to get going, but they're but we're increasing the production. It's going to take a period of years, but we're not it's not like we have these stockpiles and we're still producing the capability. And it's like J.D.

Vance, he you know, we have one tank plant in the United States, in in Lima, Ohio, and we're sending tanks to Ukraine. That's how that tank plant stays alive. It's foreign military sales because we don't need that many tanks in the United States.

So, you know, we build our tanks, and then there's no more orders because we're just going to keep building them in ad finitum. The way you do it is you sell them to Poland. Why is Poland buying tanks? Because they sent their old Soviet tanks to Ukraine, and so then they come back to Lima, Ohio, and order 250 Abrams tanks. That's because of the Ukraine war.

They wouldn't be doing that if it wasn't for that. Great point. You know, what I also think, too, it's the responsibility of these new NATO nations to upgrade their defense systems. I'm not saying they've got to match us. But that's what they're doing.

But it seems like we unwrapped that, we took off the canvas. We go, what are you using? A 1980 plane for a MiG? That's exactly right. I feel like we're just exposing all that.

You know, you got to go ask the Russians for those spare parts. By the way, we're fighting them. They're probably not going to give them to you.

So that's one thing you probably should have been done as we brought them in to NATO. And by the way, the first thing is you've got to hit some marks. Not just spending, but spending in a way that's going to. To make NATO more viable.

Well, that's what they're doing right now, though.

So, one of the biggest direct aid to Ukraine, what they are doing is they're sending their old tanks to Ukraine and buying new tanks from us, sending old fighter jets, big fighter jets to Ukraine, buying new F-35 fighters from us. And so, what's happening is because the Allies are sending so much equipment over to there, and by the way, they're doing more than we are in a lot of ways. Proportionally, as a percentage of GDP. We used to be in fourth place as a percentage of GDP, then we slipped to ninth. We're now in like 30th place when it comes to percentage of GDP.

The European allies, particularly the Eastern European allies, are way outpacing us in terms of their aid. But what they're doing is also they're giving their equipment to the Ukrainians and then buying it from us.

So, it's creating defense jobs here, it's strengthening our defense industrial base, it's preparing us for future conflicts, and it's helping the American economy. How astounding it is, not after you did that, Colin, that nobody's picked up on that. Admiral Kirby will sit there as press secretary or whatever he's supposed to be now and not have that answer and not say, This is how it's benefiting. How could a president not sit down with any other network and just say what people don't realize, fill in the dots? Isn't that part of making it?

I've already started saying it now, but I'll tell you, Brian, to be honest, Sean, that when we sent what we did is we did. Several months of research, and we literally did this from scratch with two of my researchers at the American Enterprise Institute. And we went and we went into the con we found the contracts, we found everything, we did this database, we sent it to the Pentagon because we wanted to make sure we got it right. And they said your dad is better than ours. Wow.

So, I mean, they weren't even tracking this.

So, we created a database of these defense contracts. You find that Senator J. Devance is not a dumb guy, he's a bright guy.

So, what is his argument? Just I have that we are doing too much too many places. We have a border. Yeah, we can't afford this, and that we don't need, you know, we need to st he says we need to strengthen our defense industrial base, but not by giving aid to Ukraine. But how do you do it otherwise?

Because, you know, we're literally the Lima, I mean, my wife worked for Rob Portman, and he's the one who saved the Lima tank plant. The Obama administration wanted to shut it down, the only tank plant in the United States, and the way they saved it is foreign military sales. The only way you keep the industrial base going is by selling weapons to our allies at that. And so that's what's going on.

So when you say you don't want aid to Ukraine, we can't afford it, you're saying we don't need the Lima tank plant. We need a good salesperson, and Victor Boot is now out of prison. Thanks to that. And we also have a great women's basketball player. We could use some of our assets.

Say, Victor, would you help with sell some tanks? You got the plan. Let's go. Right, right.

Okay, fantastic.

So, yesterday, almost 11 or 12-point win, depending how closely already counting all the balance for the Freds of the United States. And after he won and found out that Nikki Haley had come out already, congratulated him, and then said, I'm sticking around. Here's what he said: cut seven. I have to tell you, it was very interesting because I said, wow, what a great victory. But then somebody ran up to the stage, all dressed up nicely.

when it was at seven, but now I just walked up and it's at fourteen. But she ran up when it was seven. And you know, we have to do what's good for our party. And she was up, and I said, wow, she's doing. Like a speech like she won.

She didn't win, she lost. And you know. Last week, we had a little bit of a problem, and if you remember, Ron was very upset because she ran up and she. Pretended she won Iowa. And I looked around, I said, didn't she come in third?

Yeah, she came in third. So, your thoughts about what took place last night and the President's tone last night? He's definitely pivoting to the general election and unifying the party. Sarcasm for those scoring at home.

So here's the problem Donald Trump faces and what the results showed us yesterday.

So he's, as he said, he's won three New Hampshire primaries in a row. The last one, he won 86-9, beating Bill Weld. You can't use that comparison. I can't use that comparison. He was the sitting president, Bill Weld.

Nobody even knows who he is. He's effectively the sitting president for the Republican Party today. He's the Republican incumbent, and he's lost 30 points. Remember when Tay Kennedy ran against Jimmy Carter? Yeah, that's what this is what this is like.

Right, yeah. But see, this is like Nikki Haley's a legitimate candidate. I agree with that. But why is a legitimate candidate challenging Donald Trump? What's the problem?

And why are so many people voting for her? We'd have to go back to what year did Grover Cleveland do this? This is all new. I know it's all new, but my point is that he'd attacked Nikki Haley for saying, oh, independents and Democrats are voting for her. Oh my god, a demo independence of Democrats voting for a Republican?

What a terrible thing that is. That's how Ronald Reagan won the presidency. That's how he beat Jimmy Carter with the Reagan Democrats. We need Haley Democrats. And the problem he faces is that 44% of New Hampshire voters.

who voted in the Republican primary, uh didn't vote for him. And they might not vote for him in November. You know, peop people say, well, where are they going to go? Maybe no labels. Maybe there's a third-party ticket.

There's lots of places they can go, or they could stay home. This election is going to be decided. By a few hundred thousand swing voters in five or six swing states. And he's got to win those people over if he wants to be president. MAGA is not going to win the election.

Well, 100%, and we both agree on that. And he's got to go out and have a plan. He's got a machine now. He's got a machine. He's got to and Susan Weil's been fantastic and say, listen, we need a game plan for this.

But I'm just looking at the real clear average. Trump beats Biden by 3.8. Biden beats DeSantis. It's a dead heat. Haley, Biden.

Haley by 1.1.

Okay, but so but if you look at the polls that are underlying in that There's not a single poll that shows Donald Trump beating Joe Biden by double digits. There's like four or five of showing Haley beating him by double digits. If you look at the New York Times Sienna swing state poll that he spent a lot of time touting because it showed him narrowly ahead of Biden in a bunch of the swing states, she crushes Biden in all those swing states. In that poll, Trump loses Wisconsin by two points. She wins it by 13.

So you obviously like Haley better. Did you like Haley better, period, or is she just the only other survivor? She's the survivor, and she's the candidate who can win. I think that she would absolutely. If you ask any of the Democrats who've been with us this weekend, Juan, you ask Jesse Tarlov about that, who are you most, Marie Harf?

Who are you most afraid of? Everyone will say Nikki Haley. One of them told me yesterday, if we nominated Haley, she would beat Biden by 20 points.

Well, with this way, I want to win. I don't want another 40 points. You understand that I like Nikki Haley. I like it. What I have been seeing, I'm open to seeing things as they change in the landscape.

And what I've noticed, the reason why. Yeah, I don't think you know how bad Joe Biden's doing on the key issues that matter most. I never thought the border would be number one. I thought it would be number one. Me.

I never thought it was going to be number one for Republicans and number two for Democrats. And this guy doesn't have to say, take my word for it. I say, I'll tell you the exact plan. I'm going to wheel out the guy that's going to do it. He's done it before.

So certain things are happening. The Middle East is going on fire. He has no argument anywhere. He can't even say, look at what I've done to the economy. I've got electricity.

Because he has literally underwater on every single issue. He's the most unpopular president in the history of presidential polling, and yet he's within the margin of error with Donald Trump and the RCP average. And with Miki Haley. I'm just telling you that, again, that's the average. There are tons of polls showing her crushing him.

And, you know, I just, who do you think would be more attractive to independents and swing voters? If you lose the base, I can't pretend that.

So the base is going to let Joe Biden get elected because Donald Trump's out the base. I'm not sure they wouldn't. You know how loyal they are to Trump.

Well, that would be insane. I mean, truly. We are in an a goal period. I agree with that. But we you the goal is to beatfeet Joe Biden.

I'm going to pick up on that when we come back. Brian, kill me, Cho. Mark T in a few more minutes, unless he takes a swing at me in the break. Hear the ins and outs of the 2024 election right here. The Brian Kill Meat Show.

Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. If I were Biden, I would I wouldn't stay hidden and I'll tell you why he doesn't inspire confidence. His fan Jones with his advice for Joe Biden: don't talk, don't be seen. For more on this, here's Mark Thiessen for the Washington Post, Fox News, AEI.

That's the advice you gave me. No, you gotta talk. You do this for a living.

So so what do you think about uh Van Jones? Yeah, he's right. I mean, look just don't do anything. I mean, truly. So here's the problem.

This is another problem with the Trump candidacy, right? That uh and I hate to do this, but but I I gotta s I gotta speak truth. And you know, if people ignore me, then they ignore me and the chips fall where they may. J Joe Biden, the only way he wins this election, he's the most unpopular President in history, the only way he's underwater on everything, the only way he wins this is by making this election a referendum on Donald Trump. To win this election, we have to make this a referendum on Joe Biden and focus the spotlight on him.

Joe Biden wants to make this a referendum on Trump, and so does Donald Trump. Donald Trump always wants to make it about him because he thinks that's great. And then we're going to, he's been sort of in the basement for the last three years. He's not been in the news every day. It started more as the trial started and everything like that, as the campaign started heating up.

But now we're in full campaign swing. He's going to be out there every day. He's going to be in the courtroom all the time talking about his cases, which is not what we want to be talking about. And so it's pitched perfect for the Democrats. They just sit back and let Trump be the focus of everything, talk about his cases, talk about January 6th, talk about the stolen 2020 election, talk about whatever else they bring up against him.

And they just let that be the news story, and they win. If Donald Trump does one thing that you just said, he'll be okay. Compare my four years to his three. I told him a couple of years ago. I said it was just I told him after he went back to Mar-a-Lago, I had a phone call with him and I told him, Stop talking about 2020.

Talk he has begun. I mean, it really is doing well with that.

Well, let's see how that works out when he's on trial for 2020. Right? You know, I mean, what he should be talking about all the time is: wasn't it great when I was president? And look at how it is now. And if he talks about that, that's a successful message.

But I don't know that he has the discipline or the structure for him to do that. I love when you enter the question. It makes people want to keep listening because maybe we'll give them the answer. We don't know.

So interesting. Mark Thiessen, thank you. Thank you. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead. Joe Biden is a good man.

He is a fine man. Yes, he is, everybody. He's our president. But I gotta tell you, everyone. He cannot win.

The polls are saying he cannot win. His approval numbers are saying he can't win. And the fact that an unknown congressman from Minnesota two weeks before the election said, I'm going to come up here and run for president, just got 21 percent, that's saying something too, my friends. I mean, I was very impressed with Congressman Phillips when he was on our show yesterday, and I got some texts from people that I didn't even know were listening who said to me, Who, man, it's the first time I ever heard that guy talked about his dad dying in Vietnam when he was just months old and all the success he had in business, the ups and downs along the way, how he got involved in Minnesota politics and everything like that. But there he's just being honest and candid.

This is what we say all the time. I don't know if Joe Biden's a good guy. I don't know. I know that he's had a rough road and through no fault of his own between his wife dying and all the tragedy with the accident, then his son dying of brain cancer. No one wishes that on anyone.

I don't know what he is personally. Got it? Don't love the way he's lying constantly with his son, the 51 Intel agents, and everything that he's done. He's obviously had some problems. I don't like any of his issues.

But the thing is, what Dean Phillips is saying on the left is what they say. In public, is what most are saying behind his back, that he's not ready, and they can't believe his wife is not stepping up and stepping in and saying, You got to step out.

So he got 21% of the vote. 61% of the people wrote in Joe Biden's name. But the state of New Hampshire has to be ticked off at Joe Biden. This guy went out of his way to change tradition that has been decades old in order for them to have the first primary. Dean Phillips walks in, beats Marianne Williamson, who's been doing this, what, six years, nobody cares?

Dean Phillips walks in, makes some sense. He's a Democrat, says the border's a problem. You know, and starts talking about things that John Fetterman's been talking about and Bill Maher has been talking about. And immediately the Democrats run over and say, I'm going to vote for this guy. That should give you a clue.

Here's a little more cut thirty-four I want to celebrate Nikki Haley tonight. For the tenacity she has to stay in this race and still try to take that man down because you know what? I think we need to. And I think having her in the race and me in the race could be the most important decisions for both of us in our lifetimes. This country deserves options.

This country should not have coronations. And I know. I know the exhaustive majority of this country, center-right and center-left Americans. I know they'd much rather see a Nikki Haley-Dean Phillips matchup this November, and we're going to try to get that done. Right, but the polls don't say that.

Senator John Cornyn said, I've seen enough. I'm endorsing Donald Trump. We saw that 13 members of lawmakers in South Carolina endorsed Donald Trump. I don't know why Nikki Haley does not want to compete in Nevada's caucus on the 8th. That would have been an interesting interim step instead of waiting on the 24th.

It's a lot of money. I know she spent $4.5 million in South Carolina, she says, but people have told me, watch to see if they did a projected money, pre-projected spots, if they actually paid in advance.

So if she in fact did, $4.5 million, that's a lot of money to burn for a candidacy that's actually over. And remember, too. Is when you look at NYU Langone, that is Ken Langone. When you look at Home Depot, that's Ken Langone. He's 88 years old, extremely bright, top of this game.

He said, I'm going, I'm going to leave Trump. I'm going to Nikki Haley. But he said, if she does not win in New Hampshire or get really close, I'm out. I'm curious to see if he is out. He goes, I don't burn my money or throw it away or just bury it in a hole.

Interesting. How many other people feel like that?

Now, Brian Yennis is our reporter with the Haley camp. He says this is the mindset that he's getting from their officials. He says there are now two states where Donald Trump barely got half the vote. That's incredibly weak for an incumbent. Everyone said he was going to win by 20 points, and that did not happen.

Why is he so angry for someone who threatened, but who's not threatened by Nikki? He sure talks about her every chance he gets. Obviously, there's spin within there.

Well, who else do you want to talk about? Nobody else in the race, number one. Number two, he's angry because he won by 12. He thinks those two decisive wins, not by 20. He never said by 20.

His goal was double figures. And I Think that you can't say that in a primary that once had 12 people, not getting over 50%, it's not incumbent. Incumbent was 2020. Incumbent was Uh twenty twelve. Barack Obama against Mitt Romney.

Obama, incumbent is Joe Biden, is the incumbent. Just because in our lifetime we've never seen somebody lose an election, go back win an election, lose an election, go back to try to win an election, and is up in most of the battleground states in overall and popularity head to head with Joe Biden. I don't think that makes him incumbent. But I've listened, Nikki Haley feels as though she can go ahead. I think the key is that she has the money to continue.

But I bring this into what David Axerott said. Oftentimes, before we get into the heat of battle, somebody who speaks words of wisdom 10 months before an election, here's what he said that really is going on in the Haley camp, Cut 15. The fact is, when you set out to win a primary and you don't win it, it's hard to spin it into a victory, and you can't keep doing it. In Iowa, she was going to finish second, she finished third. In New Hampshire, she was going to win.

And tonight, we'll see how the final numbers come in. It seems to be widening a little bit. I really question I mean, I question whether she really ultimately wants to go forward to South Carolina and put her popularity to a test in her home state. And I'm wondering whether her supporters and her finance her financers, her donors are going to want to do that too. I mean, I think the handwriting's on the wall.

Makes a lot of sense. I don't. I mean, she seemed so definitive that she was moving on, seemed very happy last night. I think that's what threw Trump a little bit.

So here's Steve Cornacki. He oftentimes does a great job. They actually use him on football games and sports now. Cut 14. He's with MSMEC.

There's a two-person race right now. And in most of these states that are going to vote Super Tuesday, the rule is basically: if you get 50% plus one, you get all the congressional district delegates. If you get 50% plus one, you get all the statewide delegates. And in a two-person race, it just means win. If Trump's getting 51% and Haley's getting 49, he will take all in a district or he will take all statewide.

And you just look, Michigan, go to March 5th. It's a 50% rule in Alabama, in Arkansas. California is statewide. 50% plus one, closed primary. Trump's at 66% in the latest poll in California.

You get all 169 there.

Now, North Carolina's proposed. Proportional. Haley could have an opportunity there. Texas, 50%. You win the district, all the votes.

50%, you win the statewide, all the votes. Haley could do well in Vermont, I could see, but this is just a recipe looming on the 5th of March for what the Republican process is designed to do: to get a nominee early. Yeah, I mean, it's 10 months. It's pretty early. Right now, if it came to a close, and Trump would save some energy, save some time, and save some money.

And maybe that's what he sees. He sees he's got to spend some money. And a lot of money has to go to his A lot of money has to go to his legal defense. What I thought was interesting, and just keep your eye on this: Ron DeSantis is not happy. Even though he said, I'm going to endorse Donald Trump, he's not helping them.

They called him up. He didn't really respond. And then yesterday, he was telling Axios a few things. He said, just one day after dropping out, DeSantis publicly vowed to veto any Republican proposal to authorize the use of Florida tax dollars to pay Trump's legal bills. He said, DeSantis appeared on the Steve Dee show, whatever that is.

The Florida government claimed that after months of boosting Trump as a juggernaut who will defeat Biden, the corporate media has flipped to warning of the former president's vulnerabilities. I don't know what are you talking about? He wanted to talk about the pandemic and press about how big Trump's lead is, and all everybody wants to talk about is how big Trump's lead is. Who wants to talk about the pandemic? No one wants to talk about the pandemic.

When asked, say how great you did. But nobody cared about the pandemic. That's nobody's fault. Brian Kilmicha. Breaking news, unique opinions.

Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, welcome back, everybody. You know, this week I had a chance to catch up with the President of the United States, the former President of the United States, who wants to be the 47th. And I said, let's do something different. And they said, All right, uh what ideas do you have?

They said, Why don't I just meet him when he lands on his plane? And and guess who it's like then he has as he Caravans off. And he goes over to his event.

Now, we're supposed to have multiple events, and the courts got cases got moved around. His mother-in-law died. And next thing you know, he's got one event. It's nine o'clock at night, and he wasn't going to land until eight o'clock, which means an hour ride. I'm saying to myself, oh my god, this is going to work.

We get there at 4:30 in order to be on the tarmac for his plane at 7.

So we're waiting in a van that time. And then when we finally get out, we wait at the bottom of the stairs, another 20 minutes, and it was about 10 degrees. And then finally, we walk up to his plane, talk to him, he gave me a tour. It was awesome. Then he went down.

I could see what a game face he had on. I could see how focused he was. I got a speech coming up, and this is what I'm going to be saying. I'm looking to lock at this primary and win by double figures.

So after we had a chance to do that, then we have this caravan, and the video exists. And just go to Brian, go to any of my social media sites. You'll see the whole piece. It should be on FoxNews.com, too. We did that interview.

I showed it. And then we got actually to the event where he said, Let me talk to you right before I go up. Here is that interview. And I deliberately. Want to talk more about him and his family and the sacrifice on his third run.

We can talk about the issues and we will to nauseum.

So here's that moment. We're here after an hour ride from the airport. We find ourselves in dead center of New Hampshire. Beautiful Laconia, capacity crowd inside. The president just beat us in, so let's go meet him.

I love the state. You know, the state was very good to me, New Hampshire, very good to me. If you remember a little while ago, number one. We want to thank the people of New Hampshire, right? You started it.

Remember, you started it. And it was a big deal. And we went from there we went right down the East Coast and Midwest and then we went all over the place.

So we ended up getting it very easily and winning the election. The word is you're thinking more national platform and less about the primary. I think that's true. We have a very big job. We have to beat the Democrats.

We have to beat We have to beat Biden. I mean, he's the worst President we've ever had. And we have to he's destroying our country. You have some uh some opponents that are now allies. Tell us what to expect.

Well, we have some great people. Uh we have Vivek, Good old Vegg, we have Governor Bergham. It's here. who's from North Dakota, who's uh actually a very, very high quality person. And we have Tim Scott.

And he just, as you know, endorsed. And we have some other fantastic people. But do you have a sense who you want to bring to Washington with you? And maybe who are you thinking about when you want to be on your team?

Well, I think about it all the time. I can't tell you now. I want the best people. And the beauty is that when I first went, I didn't know anybody in Washington. I was a New York person.

And now I know everybody. I know the good, the bad, the dumb, the smart. I know every single. I know everybody. And we're going to have an incredible team.

Right from the beginning, we're going to have an incredible team. About your family. Word is Milani is going to play a bigger role when you feel as though you got the nomination. Can you tell me if that's true?

Well, she's going to play, and she always did play a big role. She was somebody that you could rely on. She's very smart, a very compassionate person. She wants to, she really wants to see, she wants to make America great again, too. And I would rely on her for advice and all of the others.

It was really. I think she's going to be very active in the sense of being active. At the same time, I don't want my family to be too active because they did such a great job last time and they really were gone after by people that were very unfair, I thought very, very unfair. Eric's fanned out all over. Don Jr.

gets big crowds, so they are still involved. How has it been for them, being that you are probably one of the most famous people in the world, constantly in the spotlight? I think they handle it very well, but you know, it's difficult when you're in politics, you have a certain group of people that no matter what you do, they're not going to love you. But I think they were treated very unfairly. They had to go through investigations over nothing, all nonsense, and you know, years of it.

It was politics, it was actually politics. It's a very sad thing because we should be focused on America first, on just doing great things for our country, and instead you're always fighting with it. And by the way, if it weren't me, if it were somebody else, the same thing would happen. They'd find out, they would be, they put them through the mill, and it's a shame, it's a bad system, and we shouldn't allow it to happen. How tall is Baron at this point?

I mean, Yeah, I'd say 6'8. 6'8. He's a tall one. He's a good boy, too. He was a good student, always good, and good athlete.

And he's a very good boy. My observation. It seems like you're uh you're relieved. That now we're getting some results. That instead of just anticipating what it's going to be like, you're relieved when this stuff is coming in.

Well, I like it. I like seeing it. I like the process. I was honored by Iowa last week. I mean, you look at those numbers, they were incredible.

Those were incredible numbers. The best ever, actually. And I think we're going to have the same thing here. I think this is going to be, I can feel it. What are they going to hear?

I think I hear a speech from Trump talking about this country. We're going to win New Hampshire and then we're going to defeat crooked Joe Biden and we are going to make America great again. Mm-hmm.

Nervous? Not too nervous. Not to where I was.

Well, I've done it before, and I've been interviewed by you before, and you've always treated me fair. You've come a long way, actually. I'm very proud of you. Thank you. I was there first.

You might have done my first interview walking down Fifth Avenue. Is that what you're talking about? Where I asked you, you said, Brian, do you think I'm going to run it? Nobody thinks I'm running. You think I'm running, right?

My gut tells me there's an announcement coming in May and June in Urania.

Okay, let's see what happened. That's true. We were walking down Fifth Avenue, everyone. It could have been my first. Thanks, Mr.

President.

So that's Trump one-on-one. I know He is not happy with Fox. Nikki Haley's not happy with Fox. Ron DeSantis is not happy with Fox. Maybe they're all not happy with me.

I don't really care. They're all being ridiculous. When you're blaming the press because you're not getting the numbers you want or getting it spun the way you want, I think they're all wrong. And I just think these people are just flailing. Just win votes.

Be happy. Having said that, it makes me wonder while I'm talking about the primaries, and I love it, it makes me wonder if I need to know more. More. I don't know if you heard, but Harvard needs a president. It's not like they fired her.

They just kept, gave her a salary and told her to do something else important and not screw that up like you did this one. Guess who they approached? Barack Obama. He mentions Harvard how much he loved it. He could be hired.

Why? Do I say that? Because last week when they asked him, does he want the job? Obama did not say no. He said, I want to defer.

Defer my answer. Instead of rejection, I think after a while, you know, he's in the prime of his life. He's 60 years old, 62, 63. I think the guy wants to do something. I think he loves the academic environment.

You know, he always talks like a professor anyway. I think that is a great move for him.

Next. Start spreading the news. Timeout magazine ranked the 50 best cities in the world. And guess what? New York wins.

I guess they don't count crime. The world I'm talking about the whole world, not even the country. I was shocked by this. They said they rank it on food, culture, and nightlife.

Now, nightlife is great. I don't experience much of it, being that I go back to Long Island. But culture, there's a big I guess there is, you know, you got these museums and you and you got uh You got punk rock and you got comedy.

So you do have a diverse. I did not know other cities did not have that diversity and the nightlife and culture.

So we'll see.

Quote: Even though the city is imperfect, the results speak for themselves, says the editor Shane Weaver. That despite some of its challenges, New Yorkers love the city for what it is. Second was Cape Town, South Africa. London, England, third. Berlin, Germany, fourth.

Madrid, Spain, Faringot, the top five.

Next. How about this? Turns out that Bill Maher almost scored a Seat as an SNL weekend update host right before they named Norm McDonald.

Now, Jim Downey, the legendary writer of NBC sketch comedy show SNL. Was doing a forum with Al Franken. It says Al Franken podcast. Oh, he actually was doing a podcast with Al Franken. They shared that he and Danny heard a lot of the political stuff for the show back when it was really funny, by the way.

They were trying to get a replacement for Kevin Nealon's weekend update. I forgot he actually did that. Uh and they were settling on one of those two, Al Franken. Or Bill Moore. And they end up going with Norm McDonald.

And Bill Morris said later he never knew about that, how close he was. But they all made the right decision. And good news, Sweden gets the thumbs up from Turkey. It will join NATO. I'm Brian Kilmead.

That is a look if there's more to know. Thanks so much for following the coverage here in New Hampshire. See you back in New York. Listen to the show ad-free on Fox News Podcast Plus, on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music with your Prime membership, or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Mm-hmm.