America makes history, puts first commercial lander on the moon!

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Happy Friday. This is Griff Jenkins, your humble Washington correspondent, filling in, trying to fill the great shoes of Brian Kilmead on the Brian Kilmead show. We have a lot to talk about, and I obviously am back.

They didn't fire me. I didn't break it, as they said yesterday.

So you got me again today, Griff Jenkins. Here, we're going to talk about everything from the new sanctions on Russia, whether that's going to do anything. We're going to talk about the border, even more news. We're going to talk today about the state of the race. We're also, by the way, going to talk about that little thing happening on the moon.

But we want to start where. All eyes are on South Carolina, on the Low Country, and we have Fox News correspondent Mark Meredith, a colleague, a friend, and one of the best in the business there in Charleston. Mark, I heard you earlier today telling the Fox and Friends crew you were going to work on getting some biscuits and gravy for breakfast, but you'd not yet had a chance. Have we at least accomplished that? Griff, no, they're working us too hard.

You know, you come down to Charleston and it's going to be kind of a break. And no, it's been every hour on the hour. But I'm honored to be with you here, buddy. And of course, thrilled to call you a friend as well.

So you're right. The reason we're here, South Carolina, you've got the primary tomorrow, Nikki Haley versus former President Trump. And the polls, Griff, as you know, have been showing that Trump is just going to dominate here. And that is fascinating, considering this is Haley's home state. She was governor.

She's a household name. And it really hasn't seemed to make a difference yet. And you know, Mark, I think, you know, all of our listeners and viewers, you know, keep asking themselves, why does she stay in since she's from South Carolina, was a popular governor there, and now clearly, I mean, if she came back and actually won this thing tomorrow, it would defy and break all political records of past.

Well, it would certainly create a whole different narrative about whether or not Trump's eventual renomination is inevitable. I mean, that would go out the window instantly, but there's just not been that indication that that's going to happen. And you talk, and the reason I also could say that a little bit more confidence is because you've got the Republican establishment in this state all behind Trump. You've got Governor McMaster backing Trump. You've got Tim Scott, who Nikki Haley appointed to the Senate.

That basically Haley gave him his job and he's backing Trump. You've got Nancy Mace in the first district down here in the low country, who is also a very close friend of Nikki Haley, and she's backing Trump.

So, I just find that fascinating. I would have thought for some of these folks that they would say, hey, look, maybe I'll just stay on the sidelines. They don't want to get on Trump's bad side. Maybe they would just. Stay quiet.

Instead, he has really snatched up the Republican establishment in the state. And just so our viewers and listeners understand, is South Carolina a winner-take-all, or is it proportional that Nikki Haley? It's a winner-take-all. And yeah, it's 50 delegates up for grabs.

So, I mean, again, all indications are that Trump will walk away with this contest with no problem. He's going to be in Rock Hill in the upstate campaigning today. He'll be in Columbia, I believe, tomorrow night. And then we're down here in Charleston where Nikki Haley is going to be. But what I think is fascinating, I don't know if you had a chance to watch it earlier in the week, was her speech in Greenville, in which Haley came out and is like, hell or high water, I'm not going anywhere.

I will be there well after what happens in South Carolina, which could be smart on her part because it takes away the, oh, will she drop out, the suspense? If she's already said that, it kind of prevents people from writing her political obituary. Instead, she has said, I'm going to keep on living well after what happens here. Yeah, that's a great point. Actually, she was yesterday in Georgetown, South Carolina, just a little north of Charleston and just south of Pauley's Island.

I've been spending the last three decades down there, and we'll be there back this summer and going down to Georgetown to get some great shrimp. It just came off the boat. But she was talking yesterday about staying in the race, and I don't want to keep you too long. I just quickly want to play this and then get your reaction on the other side. Here's cut one: Nikki Haley in Georgetown.

Now, we don't anoint kings in America. We have elections. And after two states, there's no way we were going to name him the nominee.

South Carolinians deserve the right to vote. as do every other state after that. Let's let 'em vote. Does that uh in the last thirty seconds, 'cause I don't want to keep it too long, Mark, but d that that that kind of sounds like she's gonna keep going beyond South Carolina. Absolutely.

In fact, she's already released her travel schedule.

So we know she's going to places like Minneapolis, Utah, she's going to Virginia, I think North Carolina on the list as well.

So I think it's really a smart move on her part because if you want the money to keep flowing in, you have to indicate that you are going to need money to go to these places. Uh But to Trump's point and Trump's circus point is that after Super Tuesday, I mean, the majority, I mean, so many of these delegates will have been awarded that, you know, could she catch up? That may be the X factor that nobody sees the math from there. But we're not there yet.

South Carolina votes tomorrow. Polls open 7 a.m., closed at 7 p.m. You got 50 delegates for grabs and griff, no matter what. I'm going to eat well. I had some fried green tomatoes last night.

Tonight, I would imagine I am going to stuff my face after this morning's show. Oh, man, there is no cuisine like the Low Country in South Carolina. I am biased. And it'll be interesting to see what happens. Great coverage down there, Mark.

I know you got to get busy. Thanks for taking time and joining us. Thanks, buddy. Have a great day. All right.

So you heard from Mark Derek's winner-take-all, and it is obviously not expected to be a victory for Nikki Haley. And you've got to wonder why stay in. Give us a call here on the Brian Kinley Show. This is Griff Jenkins, humble D.C. correspondent, filling in for Brian.

Give us a shout at 866-408-7669. 866-408-7669. Should Nikki Haley stay in? I mean, I was having a conversation, and this is the beauty of radio. This is the magic of radio.

And as a kid that started in radio, now does TV, it's so much fun to be back behind a radio mic because I can not only pontificate, but I can share things that happen behind the scenes. And I was talking recently with a colleague about Nikki Haley's really, well, let's make it polite: the uphill climb, if you will. And, you know, she's down 30 points or more in South Carolina going into this. Why would she be embarrassed? As Mark Marathon pointed out, everybody.

Everybody who's anybody in politics in South Carolina, from Governor McMaster to Senator Tim Scott to Congresswoman Nancy Mace, all behind Trump. I mean, if that's not a slight, I don't know what is. And my colleague was saying, you know, what happens if she does keep going and continues to lose? And it occurred to me for fans of Monty Python's Holy Grail, she might end up being the black knight. If you remember that scene where he's getting his arm cut off and his leg, he's all just a flesh wound.

I'm okay. Come back here and fight, you scattered cat. And, you know, there's literally nothing left of this knight. And that is not a good look when you consider the stakes that Nikki Haley has. If the nominees end up being, as it looks like today, Joe Biden and Donald Trump, whoever wins in November, the primary for 2028 starts on The day after inauguration in 2025, because they are one-termers.

Neither can go longer. And so you figure if you're Nikki Haley, why stay in it and go down in flames when you could be looking at a restart and you're going to need to do it in your home state of South Carolina, where you're from. And everyone will remember not that you fought hard and got out like Ron DeSantis, but that you held on so long. Or maybe there's a different thinking here. Maybe the logic is that she thinks that.

Trump doesn't make it. to November, and perhaps his legal problems become so bad that under Republican rules she will have the second most delegates, and she will have picked up more than anybody. And so it would be de facto her nomination.

However, it doesn't look like she's going to add any in South Carolina unless she can beat Donald Trump tomorrow. It's going to be very fascinating.

Meanwhile, I teased something. You know, Allison asked me what I want to talk about. Let me tell you what. matters to me. It was an event, not getting a ton of play, but a little bit of attention.

It was I was two years old. When we put a man on the moon. The race is in space mattered. It is Pivotal time in the Cold War. It changed the trajectory of history.

and yet now is a fifty three year old, I watched yesterday. Private industry Do what God Government could not. Saul casting. Capitalism be a Uber driver. To pick up NASA.

Put her in the back seat, and And say, come along for a ride at a time. When China And Russia are back in a space race. to put a human back on the moon. Here is our Fox Course wanted. Uh space correspondent Connor.

Walsh with a little bit, Hansen, sorry, Connor Hanson, with a little bit of a summary. Of exactly what it is that private company Intuitive Machines has done. Listen. For the first time since the Apollo mission, more than 50 years ago, the U.S. is on the moon.

But this time, it's a private company, Intuitive Machines, behind the mission. NASA helped fund the project with $118 million. The Odysseus lunar lander carried six NASA experiments. It also brought insulating fabric from Columbia sportswear, cameras, and sculptures from a famous artist. It'll be a really important next step in establishing more of a longer-term presence on the moon and testing new technologies for landing on the moon.

Researchers say it's a crucial step towards putting humans back on the moon. Landing on the southern part of the lunar surface, researchers hope Odysseus can find ice crystals that could be turned into water, oxygen, and even fuel.

Now The mission itself was a nail biter. At one point, the crewless, so there's no humans on this, the crewless. Uh uh ship I'm not exactly sure what we call it, that they they landed on it. Lost contact with communications. And unlike the bureaucratic.

mess in Behemoth that government is, this Private industry. These Bold, brave capitalists were able to. Take a risk on some emerging technology, and they said, I think this will work. Yeah, let's give it a shot, and guess what? It worked.

Lo and behold. In We heard, by the way, from former Senator, now NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. Talking About the importance of a commercial company Landing a lunar. on the moon here It's Cut 18. Today, for the first time in more than a half century, The US has returned to the moon.

Today, for the first time in the history of humanity, A commercial company, an American company, launched and led the voyage up there. And today is a day that shows the power and promise. of NASA's commercial partnerships. Odysseus has taken the moon. How about that?

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, former Senator understands, talks about the Promise of the future. In the most important part of that sound bite, is that it was the first time in history that The private industry The commercial industry, capitalism, partnered with NASA and did what NASA could not. If you recall, then Vice President Mike Pence announced the Artemis. program spent Billions and billions of dollars. And in fairness, NASA is there.

Obviously, as a partner, But the important part of that sound bite is when Administrator Nelson says It was an American company. And in this day and age, when there is so much disdain for America, when Americans march openly in our streets, condemning the evils of our past, In talking about what a terrible people we are and the evils of capitalism. You look at History going full circle, fifty years apart. And yet what matters? That space race.

And guess who got there first? We did. An American company. With capitalism. Driving.

The ship. Griff Jenkins on the Brian Kilmead Show. We got a whole lot more coming up. Stay right there: 866-408-7669. Let me know what you think about going to the moon.

We'll be right back. Educating, entertaining, enlightening. You're with Brian Kilmead. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Killmead.

This is the Brian Kilmead Show, and the more you listen, the more you are going to know. This is Griff Jenkins filling in. Honored to get the opportunity to fill in for my great friend Brian Kilmead, your humble DC correspondent, taking a break. I flew all the way from the border, which is a mess, ground zero now in California, to try and fill the great shoes of Brian Kilmead on the Brian Kilmead Show. Give us a call: 866-408-7669, and let me know if you are impressed, if you think it's a big deal that we went to the moon, or you don't.

And that's okay too. Maybe you don't care. But I'm here to tell you. That the event that isn't getting that much attention. a private company, Intuitive Machines, putting a lunar back on the moon after more than fifty years, an American company.

It's just another chapter in the most exceptional Generous Kind Compassionate Country on Planet Earth. And if you don't think Then it was Symbolic to other countries like China, like Russia. Our enemies, Iran, North Korea. to show them again why we are the world leader. The greatest nation on the planet.

You're wrong.

Now there was also Very significant scientific advancements with this.

So, just to kind of summarize. Briefly, they wanted to go. Everybody wants to go to the South Pole because of this water ice. That's what they're calling it, that they found that exists on the moon. And the associate NASA administrator Jim Free sort of talked about that, about this water ice on the lunar South Pole.

Listen here. A cut twenty.

Sorry, sorry about that. large amounts of water ice. Will allow us to extract that for use by the crew just from a water perspective. We'll also be able to split it into hydrogen and oxygen to use to make power in fuel cells or even propellant for rockets somewhere in the future. Ha ha, somewhere in the future, our great producer Eric here telling me at the break, he said, you know, he put it best.

He said, There is a sense that we could basically use the moon and turn it into a gas station on the way to Mars. Remember, we want to go to Mars. But. Just to recap, and you know, it's Friday. I'm all sorts of excited, but I'm excited to know not only that America is still the world's leader in all things, particularly in this space race, but also it's a good day to celebrate the fact that capitalism and private industry.

Was able to succeed where government Hadn't yet. It's a partnership. But the government and NASA could not be able to I'm not sure if I can do it. Without good old American ingenuity and private investment. Griff Jenkins on the Brian Kilming Show.

We'll be back. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. Morning, I had the honor of meeting with. collection of violines.

wife and daughter. As you state the obvious, he was a man of incredible courage. And it's amazing how His wife and daughter. Or I mean, I mean that. We're going to be announcing the sanctions against Putin, who is responsible for his death, Tomorrow.

And uh But one thing I made that was made clear to me. is that uh Yolanda is gonna she's gonna continue to The fighting had underway. We're not letting up. That was President Biden out in San Francisco saying he had met with Alexei Navalny's widow and her daughter yesterday. And of course, teasing that announcement today of what is being billed as some of the harshest sanctions against Russia to date.

I'm Griff Jenkins, filling in for the great Brian Kilmead on the Brian Kilmead Show. Give us a shout, 866-408-7669. If you want to weigh in on the moon or these sanctions, we're lucky now to go to the White House and talk to my colleague and one of the best in the business, Jackie Heinrich. Hey, Jackie, listen, what's going on over there? I know this announcement, I've seen you reporting a little bit out there that this is being billed is some pretty tough sanctions, but the question everyone's kind of thinking is: will it work?

Hey, thanks for having me, Griff. And very sweet compliment. You're so kind. Yeah, this is being billed by the administration as the most crushing single round of sanctions yet. It's going to target people that were involved with Navalny's imprisonment and his death, but also target Russia's industrial base and some of these backdoor networks that they've relied upon to evade the sanctions so far.

Up until now, the Biden administration has really tried to go after Russia's economy in a way that hasn't had the impact that the administration said that it would, at least, not in a way that we can see. It would take effect over time, sort of going after the flow of technology and equipment that Russia's military depends on, sanctioning the central banks and capping oil prices. But even that has not been effective. You have countries like China and India and Brazil buying cheap Russian oil in record amounts. Russia uses that money to prop up its war machine and stimulate its economy.

And while all this is happening, the U.S. has avoided having any sort of friction with these countries that are partnering with Russia, not limited to countries like Turkey and the UAE, who have been serving as these supply chain middlemen to allow technology to get through that is banned by US sanctions.

So we will see what kind of impact this last or this new tranche has. There are about 500 entities that the Biden administration is going to be targeting. But it's also caused speculation that you recall when the administration imposed the first round of sanctions, they said this is going to be sweeping and crushing, and it didn't have that effect. And so it begs the question, why didn't they pull every lever that they had in the beginning? And will it have the impact that they have been hoping for all along?

That's such a great point, Jackie. And I was listening to Fox News military analyst, General Jack Keene, this morning talking a little bit about, you know. Since those initial sanctions, and to this point now, Russia's economy grew by some 3%.

So it's like if we're trying to cause economic difficulty, how do they grow their economy? He also pointed out that they're spending some 9% of their GDP on defense spending, which is more than the U.S. spends.

So there must be some head scratching and some anxiety maybe in the White House in the Situation Room over whether this is really going to have its intended effect.

Well, and the GDP increasing is directly tied to Russia spending the income that it's getting from selling its cheap Russian oil and, by the way, selling it in record quantities to China and India. And Brazil also, they're spending that on their military, which is propping up their economy. And then what happens is it looks like the Biden administration has willfully allowed that to happen because they haven't gone after some of these countries that are facilitating that effort because it would have a ripple effect on the US economy and on our diplomatic relationships with some of these countries that we want to maintain ties with because of any number of reasons. If you're talking about the Middle East, there's a whole other follow-up there. But it has been criticized as weakness from the administration in terms of not enforcing sanctions and has undercut the effectiveness of the regime so far, the sanctions regime.

You listen to White House correspondent Jackie Heinrich on the Brian Kilney Show. Griff Jenkins, her fellow correspondent here in D.C., filling in for Brian. And Jackie, I don't want to keep you much longer because I know you've got to do some TV business. But quickly, if you can, so we do have President Biden and Vladimir Putin sort of exchanging words. It appears that maybe Putin is indicating he would prefer to have Joe Biden's second term as opposed to a Trump return to the White House.

Yes, I don't know that we can take that at face value. This is the same Vladimir Putin who calls the war that he's been waging in Ukraine for two years a special military operation and regularly pumps out propaganda. You don't know if he's trying to pull a move where then it would look like Biden has been endorsed by Russia and what kind of political impact that could have on Biden domestically in the U.S.

So, careful not to take anything that Vladimir Putin says at face value. But former President Trump has certainly capitalized on those remarks and said Russia would love for Biden to be in office, and so would China. And he has made use of those comments from Putin.

So we'll see where it goes. Biden did not.

Sort of echo any of the love bat. We've heard repeatedly from the White House that Putin should just stay out of US elections, and recently Biden called Putin an SOB. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Exactly. We live in interesting times.

That's for sure. Great advice from Jackie Heinrich. Take Vladimir Putin's words with a grain of salt at the very least. Jackie Heinrich, thank you very much for your coverage. Have a good day.

We'll be watching you on Fox News. Thanks so much, Griff. Great job. All right.

That was White House correspondent Jackie Heiner at great insights in talking about the new round of sanctions, some 500. The State Department, you've got Victoria Newland, the political affairs person and Under Secretary of State, saying that they're going to directly target folks involved with Alexei Navalny's death. That sounds great. It looks good. The question is: is it all smoke and mirrors?

Will it do anything? And as we were just discussing, obviously, when the Russian economy is growing three percent because, as Jackie points out, they're able to sell this cheap oil to China, India and the like. And when they're spending all of their money, nine percent of their GDP on a war machine, well, it certainly doesn't seem that additional sanctions are going to work. By the way, I didn't get into it with Jackie, but I also saw where the EU is going to launch their new package of sanctions. And I can't I'm scratching my head trying to remember the last time that the EU sanctions were effective at all.

But you figure if the US was worried about upsetting partners like India, for example, and didn't want to get cross with them and smack them for buying this cheap Russian oil, then why in God's name, can't the EU I mean, wha what what else Could the EU be possibly doing? I don't know. I do want to, by the way, tomorrow is the two-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. And as a correspondent who did the first interview with President Zelensky just a few months after the war began in Kyiv, and you know, they've compared him to our modern-day Winston Churchill. And I'm here to tell you, whether you like him or not, whatever opinion you have of Ukraine in the war over there and the U.S.

supporting Ukraine or not, he is very much in every way the real deal. And Vladimir Putin would love for you to think that he's not. And while the war has really been a stalemate in the eastern Donbass region, in places like Kharkiv, where Brett Baer was just doing his interview with President Zelensky, it has certainly not moved much of an inch. And hundreds of thousands are losing their lives. In the case of Ukraine, good.

Good men and women with promising lives fighting, though, because they believe that Putin won't stop in Ukraine. And the threat to Ukraine is a threat to the free world.

Now, he was on a multi-part interview with Brett Baer talking about the stalemate situation and how complicated it is. And I've tried to sort of set it up. But here is cut 10. This is Zelensky speaking with Brett talking about the front lines and where things stand right now as we mark the two-year anniversary tomorrow. First of all, it's not a stalemate.

Indeed, it's very complicated in the East. There's a lack of certain weapons. They do have air superiority, and they have superiority in terms of manpower. This is the fact, truly. And therefore, there's a stagnation on this part of the front line.

We understand it. We need to de-block the air. Our partners not to forget that it's not a war that is taking place over one day, but two years. Only the joint efforts would be able to kind of fight back Russians and to have Russians go to concessions.

Now, there's one other soundbite I want to give to you, and that is the one that.

Well, it piqued my interest the most, and that was when it came to Trump. You heard Jackie Heinrich talking about how the whole Trump is picking up on Putin, who actually said in Russian language, Biden is preferable. Those are the actual words, whether he means it or not is anybody's guess, as Jackie points out. But the part of the interview with Zelensky and Brett that really was like, wow, that would be something, was when Zelensky invited Trump. To come to Kyiv.

Listen here, cut eleven. We'll tell him what's going on. First of all, why I said please come. I'm happy to see all the candidates and all the people who are decision makers. or can support Not to be a guest.

Just to understand what the war in Ukraine means. Who opened this work, who began it, and what's going on? What's wrong? What brilliant Ukraine we had, we have beautiful country, but in the war it's another picture, another lives. I suggest him just to come.

I'm ready to go with him. Should Donald Trump go to Ukraine? And meet with Zelensky? As we pointed out yesterday, talking with Mark Thiessen, with a great op-ed he wrote in the Washington Post about how Republicans really should support Ukraine, because then President Donald Trump was giving javelins and millions of dollars of arms to Ukraine.

Now, this, to have Trump, and of course, Donald Trump says he can fix anything to include getting a peace deal and ending that war in 24 hours, it would be remarkable. And Vladimir Zelensky is not a stupid politician. He's looking at the polls. He's looking at what's happening in our elections. He knows that the next head of state in the America that he may be dealing with is named Donald J.

Trump. And if the House Republicans don't support Ukraine aid and end up getting a President, next President Donald Trump, a weaker hand in this issue, well, then Zelensky wants to have a seat at that table. And that's why he's telling him to come there.

Now, I I would submit to you. I think if I was advising Donald Trump politically, he's got nothing to lose to go.

Some may say, well, you know, the people that are upset about the aid we're given to Ukraine, it's a bad luck. But it is definitely and undoubtedly one of the main pressing issues of our time. And so if you want to be president again, you're going to have to show you can lead in every way.

So I think they should pack their bags and take Trump Force One all the way to Kyiv. We'll see if that happens. What do you think? Should he go or should he not go? 866-408-7669.

I'm Griff Jenkins on the Brian Kilmead Show on this amazing Friday. Get excited. We'll be right back. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead. Radio that makes you think.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. And the problem is. Donald Trump can't win a general election. Look at any of the polls. He's down by five.

He's down by seven. On his best day, there was a Marquette poll that came out today. He's margin of error with with Joe Biden. Yeah. I'm in every one of those same polls.

That Marquette poll has me beating Joe Biden by 18 points. 18 points! Oh, we got a scrap in the low country down in South Carolina. The primary winner take all tomorrow. That, of course, Nikki Haley.

This is Griff Jenkins on this Friday on the Brian Killmead Show, filling in. And we are taking your calls at 866-408-7669-Jacob in Columbia, South Carolina. Happy Friday, Jacob. What do you think is going to happen in your great state tomorrow? Hello, Griffin.

Basically, I think it's not going to matter too much whether Haley wins or loses, and the reason for that is. She has no Midwestern support so far. She didn't do very well in Iowa. She lost a one-person race against herself in the state-run primary, not the caucus in Nevada.

So basically, you can't win on just the South alone. You need the support of the Midwest to win a presidential election that's happened every well, election ever.

So she doesn't have the Midwestern support. I don't think tomorrow is going to matter that much in the long run, even if she does win, because she's just not that popular in the Midwest, it looks like. Hey Jacob, let me ask you a couple of questions. Yes, sir. One, if you're comfortable telling me, who will you be voting for?

And two, I'm fascinated by the Overwhelming support from Governor McMaster, Senator Tim Scott, Congresswoman Nancy Mace, all, you know, the who's who of the political Republican elite in South Carolina jumping all lockstep behind Trump. Why?

So To answer your question, one, I'm going to be voting for Donald Trump tomorrow. One, I was not going to bring this up, but since you played the sound bite, it made me think. Haley keeps going on about Trump can't beat Biden.

Well, if Haley can't beat Trump, then it's kind of a moot point, isn't it? Um About the South Carolina government's Supporting Trump. You know, Nikki Haley, I've met her a couple of times. She's a nice lady. She's good and all.

She's really not what we need right now. We do kind of need a Trumpist, well, yeah, a Trump character. To go up against buying to fix this mess that we're in. Chump was really good for South Carolina. Things were really good in South Carolina.

Things have definitely declined in the last four years since Buying took over.

So I think that's why we're all kind of throwing our money behind Donald Trump. And lastly, Jacob, before I run out of time, I'm dying to ask you, are South Carolinians looking at this potential landslide victory for Trump? And if the polls are close and Nikki Haley loses by 25, 30 points, How damaging? Does that end her political career? Does she can she run again later or will she lose too much face?

That is a great question, and I really don't know. I think she could have a political career in the future. I think that would work. would it end her career? Maybe not.

I think she might damage I appreciate what she was saying, sticking into Super Tuesday, because I do believe that the primary system is critical. But at the same time, it might kind of look a bit desperate if she stays in to Super Tuesday. I think you have got it exactly correct. Jacob in Columbia, South Carolina. Jacob, have a great Friday.

And all the rest of you on the Brian Kilmead Show, this is Griff Jenkins with a dream job on Friday, filling in for the great Brian Kilmead. From Hia Top Fox News Headquarters in New York. City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead.

Happy Friday, America. This is Griff Jenkins, your humble DC correspondent, with the huge honor and tall task of filling in for my great friend, Brian Kilmead. Nobody does it better. I mentioned yesterday when I had the same opportunity and honor to fill in, and I'm glad to be back today. And, you know, for a guy that remembers producing Brian Kilmead when he was filling in for Tony Snow, I've come full circle here, and now I get to sit behind the mic.

Oh my goodness, are you in trouble? We have got so much to talk about. Obviously, the border is on fire. It's actually worse from a national security risk standpoint than it has ever been. We'll talk about that.

We'll talk about the White House announcing new sanctions. The other sanctions apparently didn't work on Russia because the economy in Russia grew 3%. They're spending more than the U.S. of their GDP, 9% Russia is on their war machine. And we're also going.

To talk about that little thing happening down in the low country in South Carolina tomorrow, the primary winner-take-all. You have Nikki Haley trailing by massive numbers behind Donald Trump. But yet, Nikki Haley makes the case that, well, come general election, her competitor, who's up some 30 points on her. Can't win. Here is Nikki Haley.

Cut two, go. And the problem is. Donald Trump can't win a general election. Look at any of the polls. He's down by five.

He's down by seven. On his best day, there was a Marquette poll that came out today. He's margin of error with with Joe Biden. Yeah. I'm in every one of those same polls.

That Marquette poll has me beating Joe Biden by 18 points. 18 points. There you have it. She's making her final pitch.

Now, I am not smart enough, experienced enough, bright enough to tell you what's going to happen in South Carolina tomorrow and beyond. But fortunately for this show, we have somebody, the amazing Byron New York Chief, political correspondent for the Washington Examiner and Fox News contributor, and a guy I run into every now and then off camera in South Carolina. Hey, Byron, how are you? Where are you in South Carolina right now? I am in Columbia right now.

Went to a Haley event in Georgetown, South Carolina, which is on the coast yesterday. And then am planning to go to a Trump event in Rock Hill, South Carolina, which is about an hour away from Columbia today. And then tomorrow is Election Day. It is indeed, and I want to get your prognostication of what's coming.

However, you've got a great piece in the Washington Examiner today that I would encourage all of our listeners to read: which is: you say that even if Haley gets crushed tomorrow, she's not quitting at least for 10 days. Explain. Yeah, well if you if you've heard Haley, she vows to stay in the race. She's not claiming that she's going to win South Carolina, which is her own home state, by the way. Usually, politicians plan to win their home state, but she's not going to win here.

And so the question is: well, how long is she going to stay in? And she's, if you listen to her carefully, she's only planning to stay in. Until Super Tuesday, which is only 10 days after the South Carolina primary. But if I could go into a little history here, I looked at 20. 2016, the big last big race, the one that Trump won, of course.

Um that race went till May 3rd. But what happened was Every one of Trump's competitors, his main competitors, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and then John Kasich, every one of them won something. They won some primaries somewhere. That's how the race got extended because, I mean, if if if nobody if they had not won anything and there were plenty of candidates who didn't, they dropped out.

So I think that if Haley loses here, This where can you win question is going to get louder and louder for her. Such a great insight. And you know, you're talking about 2016, Byron. You reminded me, you jogged my memory a little bit. And just in short form, I'll tell a long story.

I was a reporter for, you know, Fox on the campaign trail, just doing the, you know, all the stops. And they'd sent me, if you remember, Ted Cruz was coming in with all the momentum into South Carolina and it's conservative country and they loved him. And it was a day or two before the primary, and Cruz had a sold-out standing room-only event at this very old historic beach resort in Myrtle Beach. It's like, I don't know, castles on the sand or something like that. And I mean, you know, it was packed.

It was hard to get in there. And the campaign had agreed to, you know, let him do a short interview with me. And I had to muscle my way in there. And the Duck Dynasty guys, that awesome reality show. I remember they were with Cruz.

Which I believe were. Watched now on Fox Nation some episodes, and they were introducing them, and it was just really a big deal. And it was about 10 in the morning, and got the interview sent in, and they're like, Great job, Griff. Got the exclusive interview of the day.

Okay, here we go. Ted Cruz is going to win. Here we go. Ted Cruz is going to be president. Got all this momentum.

And they said, By the way, can you go? Donald Trump has a rally. He's doing some rally at a marine, an aquarium, you know, the Myrtle Beach Aquarium about 10 miles inland. If he could stop by and get some of that, who knows what happens? I'm like, okay, let's do that.

I was thirty or forty minutes late. And I thought I was going to arrive an hour early. Because roads were blocked.

So Block after block after block. Parking lots were spilling over. The aquarium thing held like 400, and there was a thousand, 2,000 people outside. And I remember at that moment early on, I called our political team and said, You're not going to believe this. I'm telling you, something's up.

And then, of course, that turned into it. And now, here we are, and I'll finally end this long diatribe, but here we are watching Henry McMaster, the governor, Senator Tim Scott, Congresswoman Nancy Mays, the who's who of the South Carolina GOP powerhouses, lockstep behind Donald Trump. What do you make of it?

Well, yeah, th it it it's particularly bad. For Nikki Haley being the favorite son in Canada. I mean, she won. Won the governor's office twice in South Carolina. And you're right, the governor of South Carolina, the two senators of South Carolina, Graham and Scott, most of the Republican House delegation, all of them have endorsed Donald Trump.

And it just shows you how uphill. the ra this battle is. And you know, t talking about rallies, Going to Haley Rally, she's she's she's conducting a very conventional campaign. She's got a bus and she goes around and she gets good crowds in Georgetown, maybe 300, maybe 350, something like that. And um And the the the everyone's Polite.

I mean, the people are polite, the staff is polite, the applause is kind of polite, which is not really great. political rally.

Okay, last rally Trump had here. Was in Conway. You remember, that's the one where he got in trouble for the stuff he said about NATO. Yeah, but that was. That was intense.

I mean, if you were, I was really going to just kind of judge the intensity of his voters. Um it was much bigger. The the the event held about 3,500 people and then they had a lot of people outside.

So maybe 5,000 people or so came. And um And just the relationship between Trump and his voters is so Intense. Uh it was loud.

So it's just a very different phenomenon. And it appears the polls may not be exactly right, maybe closer than The polls say, but it seems like Trump still has a substantial lead. Yeah, and actually, Trump, you know, is being, oh gosh, how should I put this, Byron? Maybe passive-aggressive in his commentary and saying, yeah, sure, she's got a right to run, but she's got no chance. Here's a cut I'll play for you.

Donald Trump cut five talking about Haley and how much he's going to lose by. Listen here. You see the polls today? I'm up by 12 points and 14 over crooked Joe Biden. And in a national poll, I'm up by 91 points on on I won't use the term because it's some people think it's a little bit nasty, but Some people you don't like very much.

Uh Haley. Hairy. I'm up ninety-one points. That's a lot. Yeah.

And in South Carolina, Nikki Haley is losing to me. It looks like she's going to lose by 25 or 30 points. That's a lot. She's governed her, but people don't like her too much.

So there you go. Only in Trump fashion.

Now, you know, I was talking with Allison and Eric and our producers on Brian's great radio show here about, you know, if Haley really does lose by 20, 25, 30 points, and stays in, as you say, through Super Tuesday, and there is no win out there, at some point, like the image that pops into my mind is Monty Python's Holy Grail when King Arthur is trying to pass the Black Knight on the road, and the Black Knight simply won't give up. I think we've got a clip from him. Is this the future for Nikki Haley? Listen here. Now stand aside, worthy adversary.

Tis but a scratch. A scratch? Your arm's off. No, it isn't.

Well, what's that then? Other worse. You liar. Come on, you pansy. You're indeed brave tonight, but the fight is mine.

Oh, and enough, eh? Look, you stupid bastard. You've got no arms left. Yes, I have. Look!

Just a flesh wound. Just a flesh wound. I know you recall that movie. Like, it's like turning into the Till Money Python Holy Grail. I do recall that scene.

And, you know, look, the the polls have tightened a little bit. In South Carolina, but they still show trump up by 25 points. I mean, that is a devastating loss in one's home state. And Haley is just kind of acting like that's just a given, and now she's going to move on. To supertuity, but your point is correct.

At some point, uh the candidacy seems kind of pointless. If she doesn't win somewhere. And the cliché is that political campaigns end when they run out of money. But there are a lot of donors who want Haley to stay in. And some of those are small donors, but a lot of them are big donors.

The Rep a lot the Republican donor class is pretty anti Trump.

So she appears to have the money to stay in past Super Tuesday. But unless she wins something on Super Tuesday, Yeah. Really? It's there's not going to be a lot of point to it. Byron Newark, joining us now on the Brian Kilmead Show.

I'm Griff Jenkins, your humble D.C. correspondent, trying to fill those great giant shoes. Byron, thanks for your time. I don't want to take too much more. I just got one last question for you, and that is this.

We heard in that interview with Trump on Laura Ingram this week that he named some potential running mates. I think it was six of them total. And Nikki Haley wasn't among them. Do you think Haley is in the consideration for the running mate?

Well, at her rally, she said, Look, I don't want to be a running mate, and I think everything I've done recently kind of proves that. She was referring to the fact that she's attacked Trump a lot, and there's kind of bad blood between them. The only thing I would say is, I think it's pretty unlikely. But Trump is the most transactional human being I think I've ever seen. It's all really business.

I mean, he can be transactional. trading insults with somebody. one day and be doing business with them the next. Yes. It's Just business.

So I'm not saying it's impossible. I think she's really very unlikely, but it's not impossible. That's right. Byron New York, Washington examiner, chief local correspondent, and Fox News contributor and smart guy, all-around great guy, and good friend. Byron, thanks for taking time today.

Have a great weekend. We'll see what happens. You want to make a prediction, by the way, on. Should I get out on a limb and say maybe Trump will win? I don't know.

I'll just leave it to the prognosticators. There you go. Thanks, Martin. Have a great weekend. Thanks, Riff.

All right, this is Griff Jenkins, your humble correspondent, talking to the great Byron York. Really got some insight. He's on the ground there in South Carolina. Who knows? But, you know, he points out in his column today that, you know, Haley's probably not going to quit for at least 10 days.

That would get us to Super Tuesday on March 5th. And our callers also talking about how important the primary process is. Who knows where it goes? 866-408-7669. Give us a call.

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Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. America's greatest radio show, right here, the Brian Kilmead Show. I am Griff Jenkins, your humble D.C. correspondent, trying to fill those great big shoes of Brian, filling in from D.C. And we got politics on the brain right now because, as we were just talking with Byron York, chief political correspondent for Washington Examiner and Fox News.

Contributor down there in Columbia, South Carolina, following it, expecting, you know, will Haley not actually lose by 25 points? Would she only lose by, say, seven points? What's that mean? Is she going to go, as Byron predicts, all the way to at least Super Tuesday, March 5th, 10 days from tomorrow? Who knows?

But On the Democrat side, on the other side of the aisle, what an unprecedented situation playing out. You have an incumbent president with some of the lowest Ratings certainly unprecedented when it comes to the issue of the border and immigration. Biden's latest approval rating. Is seventy-five percent. Three out of four don't.

approve of his handling of the border because It looks, by all accounts, and on the videos and drone cameras that Bill Meluja and I have been showing, like the entire southwest border is just wide open. to the entire world. You've got the spike in Chinese coming. You've got a record number of criminal migrants. You've got people from Syria, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, you name it, they're coming.

And Maybe that's Part of why you have Democrats, David Axelrod, the guy that made Obama, and Don Peebles, who was talking to my friend Neil Cavuto. He, of course, was a former Obama, not as well known as Axelrod, but certainly as important when it comes to fundraising. Very wealthy guy and a great fundraiser. Here's a little bit of what he said about turning the page on Joe Biden. Listen here, seven.

Barack Obama, you're a very close friend. You were very helpful getting elected president. He's apparently concerned about his former vice president. In fact, he's quite alarmed. Are you?

Yes, I mean, I think that the Democratic Party should turn the page. President Biden was to be a transitional president. I even said it on your show that I thought that he would be president and Kamala Harris would be waiting in the wings learning how to become president. I think she has disappointed a lot of people, including me. And I think that the team that's in place now ought to step aside.

I mean, I don't see how he can beat Donald Trump.

So, what does Democrat Senator John Fetterman think about that?

Well, he says it might be time to put your MAGA hat on if you're going to say that kind of stuff. Listen here, cut eight. And we also have to start having all kinds of Democrats criticizing the president too, publicly. I don't understand why. I don't know what's in it for you to do that, whether you're just chasing clout or you want to make it in the news or anything like that.

But if you're not willing to just support the president now and say these kinds of things, you might as well just get your MAGA hat because you now are helping Trump at this. Apparently, in the Democrat Party, there is no Ronald Reagan 11th Commandment, which says no Republican shall speak ill of their fellow Republicans. I'm Griff Jenkins from the Brian Killmead Show. We'll be right back. The fastest three hours in radio.

You're with Brian Kilmead. The fastest three hours on the best radio show in the country, the Brian Kilmead Show, your humble DC correspondent, Griff Jenkins, trying to fill the mighty shoes of Brian Kilmead on this Friday. We have got so much to talk about. We're just talking about the South Carolina race, whether or not Nikki Haley is headed for a Monty Python, Holy Grail, Black Knight future, or will she surprise us? Does she hang on until Super Tuesday?

We've talked a little bit about the border. We're talking about these new sanctions, which may or may not do anything like the last sanctions. It did nothing in terms of dissuading Russia's aggression. And we are talking about that exceptional event that occurred yesterday with such little fanfare, and that was America bombing. Back.

On the moon. Not a human, but a lunar craft landing in the south pole of the moon. Hopefully, we will soon have perhaps some of the most amazing images of a crater in the south pole there. We'll find out, but one thing is important: it wasn't China, it wasn't Russia, it wasn't Kazakhstan, Peru, Ecuador, or any of these other countries that are illegally crossing our border that had the fortitude and the ability to put a craft on the moon after 50 years. It was America that did it.

And not only did America do it, it wasn't even the government. NASA went for a ride, but the driver of that Uber trip was private industry. Intuitive machines putting a Craft on the moon and bringing NASA along for the ride. What a feat it is. We are lucky, though, now on the Brian Kilmed Show, 866-408-7669, to talk to one of the smartest, insightful, important conservative voices in the conservative movement today.

You see him a lot on Fox News. He is a contributor and colleague of mine, a friend in the editor-large of the spectator, Ben Dominich. Hey, Ben, there's so much to talk about today. And I know you just got back from South Carolina. I've been having fun here.

I'm out of my reporter's shoes for a moment. And I'm looking at Nikki Haley comparing her to the Black Knight scene in Holy Grail. But before I get there, did you pay attention to the moon? And be honest here, maybe people don't care, but I was really struck by the exceptionalism of putting an American lunar craft back on the moon after more than 50 years. What's your take?

Well, my take is that as somebody who grew up just inhaling every kind of book and piece of media that I could about the moon landing and everything related to the NASA space program, I think it's a great thing. I think it's a great thing for America to achieve. I think that we should do things like this more often. And in an era in which A lot of Americans feel uninspired or feel like America can't achieve certain things. I think that this is a noteworthy corrective, something that can help people understand that, yes, we are capable of doing and achieving incredible things, and particularly private industry that has become such a source of innovation and technological acumen.

I think it's just great. And look, I know that you are putting on a different hat for the moment today, but in South Carolina, I think that that's something that I really hope is sensed by the people who are there. I felt like there was a lot of grimness, frankly, among the electorate there about the situation of the country, about the direction that things are going and headed. And I feel like they really are not all that hopeful about where we're going to be in the near future. A lot of them are worried about the things that they see happening all around the world.

world, at the border, et cetera. And I think that, that flows into one of the reasons why we're going to see, I think, former President Trump do as well as I expect him to do tomorrow, in part because they believe that this is a moment that demands hard men for hard times. And it is hard times. That's such a great insight, too, you know, in South Carolina. I also talk about now, I'm biased because I do spend every Fourth of July for the last literally 25 plus years in a place called Paulets Island, South Carolina, which is near and dear to my heart.

But, you know, it was basically just off that South Carolina coast that when China decided to fly a spy balloon, interjected the the the Traversed the entire country over some of our most sensitive areas and intelligence. Giving us the equivalent of a floating middle finger that ran across the whole country. Exactly, a floating middle finger. Where to get shot down? Off the coast of South Carolina.

But I think, you know, the inspiration, you're right. I mean, I. I I think And you're a better historian, if you will, so we're going to put things into context. It does feel very much like, though, we are a little bit in a Cold War again with the likes of China, who, by the way, are trying to get to the moon before us and Russia. It seems like we're kind of in the Cold War part two, the sequel, 50 years later.

I think you're absolutely right. And I think that the difference, the gap between the people. Who recognize that in our politics today and the people who refuse to recognize it is getting wider and wider. The one thing that I, you know, it's very rare that I will credit the Biden administration with doing anything right. I think they've done so much wrong.

But one of the handful of things that he kept in place, you know, because I think that there would have been too much uproar, were some of the new rules and sanctions and requirements put in place under President Trump as it relates to trade with China. And part of that, I think, is just that people have woken up to the idea, to the understanding that basically the politics of 20 years ago as it related to China was completely wrong. That there was not going to be a path for them to modernize and democratize or move in a direction toward freedom. Instead, they've only become more authoritarian and they've only become more interested in projecting their power. We didn't realize when we were importing all these cheap Chinese goods that people could afford now, that we were importing the Chinese value.

along with them. And they've really invaded so many different institutions, particularly our universities, but also, frankly, every one of our devices. The presence of TikTok truly is something that is unlike anything we experienced during the Cold War with Russia. The ability to reach out and affect the minds, sentiments, feelings, emotions, and mental health of America's children in a way that Russia could never have hoped to achieve. It's a huge propaganda boon for China.

And I think that this new Cold War that we are embarked on with them is the central question of this coming election and the ones that are going to come after it about whether we elect people who understand that or not. And You know, you talk about that in such an eloquent way, and it's so on point. I just got back, I was spending the last past week out in Hacumba, California, which is ground zero for the Chinese migrants coming across. And you may have seen, we've aired a bunch on Fox News, played on this radio show yesterday. A Chinese migrant, you know, most of them are single adults, many of those single adult males.

And you've got to wonder why all of a sudden are they coming? And, you know, Ben, there were only 450 total Chinese migrants across the entire Southwest border for the entire fiscal year of 2021.

Now, 2024, fast forward, in just over four months, we've had more than 20,000, the majority of which, more than 90%, were right there in Hacumba, right there where we were. And they tell me, the one guy told me on camera, he said, why'd you come to the US? He said, think of the money. I'm like, jobs. Like, yeah, jobs.

I went back later when the camera. Wasn't wrong. I said, by the way, what kind of job do you hope to get? He said, computer. Computer jack.

And I was mentioning it to a border official off record because this administration muzzles those officials from being able to talk and be transparent, which is why Bill Meluzha and I are constantly trying to leak this stuff. I asked them about the job stuff, and they said, you know, at the end of the day, there's the national security risk. And what we know in my own reporting, I was several months ago, reporting about, you know, border officials briefing members of Congress behind closed doors over the concern of this rise in Chinese migrants having ties to the Communist Chinese Party. But even from, you know, step back a few degrees from the national security risk, just the threat to our IP, the threat to intellectual property, knowing how good they're on it. You know, I actually haven't told this story, but Elon Musk, of course, revolutionized the way our cars are in America now.

However, he also started this company, Starlink, which allows you in remote places to set up a satellite. And So, in Hacumba, California, there's no cell signal.

So, we have, thanks to Elon Musk, a Starlink satellite.

So, I set up so I can get my little live view transmitter so that you can see my live shots from there and see all these migrants. And yet, at one point, my cameraman said, There's 37 people on our Starlink. What the heck? It's bringing the signal down. And sure enough, all.

All the Chinese migrants are sitting there with their phones out because they're on. And we said, How did they get on there? It's like, well, they. This is what they do. They're very good at this.

They invented this stuff, and it just sort of is a snapshot. I think that's a very, I'm glad you shared that story. That's a fascinating experience. But, you know, you said something really important there, which is that it's not just about the national security risk. Because people sort of, they could play up and say, oh, well, this is, you know, you're just assuming that they're, you know, terrorists hating Americans, terrorists who hate Americans or something like that.

That's not actually the assumption that we're making. We're making a very logical assumption about knowing that when a Chinese national comes here, that they have family back home, that they have people who they care about back home, and that the party reaches out and touches them and can demand anything of them. And that includes, of course, stealing IP, stealing information, engaging in activity that is designed to harm America and is designed to help China and boost them. And that's something that they're going to continue to do, whether they get that computer job or not, once they. Come here, and it's it's very telling that you've seen this increase.

And the thing that I hope everybody understands who watches that footage: when people of that in that kind of mass way from one nation cross the border in a particular place, it is not something that's just happening organically, it is planned. They all, you know, this is planned ahead, it runs through the cartels that control the border. Everybody has to pay them in order to be able to cross. And it's something that really is an indictment that the southern aspect of the border, controlled by the cartels, is more functionally controlled than our side of the border. And with these people coming in, they know more about where we are than we know about where they are.

And that's something that is really an indictment of this administration and every bit of its approach to. To the border, which has been, I think, just an absolute travesty. It's something that, you know, I frankly think that impeaching my orcas is something that should have been done day one when Republicans took the House back. That's my own opinion. But it's one of these things that is just an absolute failure.

No one can actually defend it. And that's why Democrats are worried about it. That's why they're trying to navigate around it. That's why we saw the Long Island situation with Tom Swozzy basically trying to say, well, it's Republicans who don't care about the border issue because of shooting down. that Senate package.

But that's something that I think it was is just a messaging equivalent for it's a messaging approach that the Democrats are using. It's not real. We all know it's not real. And that's why when the President announces whatever he's going to announce about using various orders and the like to try to clamp down on the border, we can't take that seriously because he's been saying all along that he needed Congress to act in order to do what he needed to do on the border from the get-go, which is reverse his ridiculous policies. Boy, and we'll see exactly what this, you know, President Biden's talking, Ben, about he's going to finally do some executive orders, gonna take action.

After, by the way, saying on camera that there was nothing he could do and Republicans won't give up in the money.

Now he's actually gonna do something. And I will submit to you this: if whatever executive order they do, because they're gonna try and do this, I think, around the State of the Union and do a reset, whatever executive order they do, if it's not something akin, if not verbatim, to remain in Mexico. Which was very successful in the Trump administration and bringing the numbers down because migrants don't want to live in Juarez, Tijuana, Matamoras. They want to live in the United States. If it is in an executive order like Romania, Mexico, I just think it's going to not be even taken seriously by those whose jobs.

I absolutely agree. And I think that Democrats, frankly, who are running for reelection, many of them in red states this time in the Senate, if Democrats don't understand they need that in order to be able to send their team back and keep hold of the Senate in Washington, then I think that they're being very foolish. And these red state Democrat senators should be clamoring for the White House to do as much as possible on this because it's their Achilles heel and they know it. And look, I think it's top of mind for a lot of people in terms of the concerns that we have among many others that are going around the world at this moment. But it's something where it really is, again, a choice that the administration made, a choice to back away from.

From these hard edged policies that worked to please their progressive base, and now they're stuck with the political ramifications of it. Always insightful. One of the most important conservative voices and an all-around awesome guy, Ben Dominich, editor-large, the spectator. Hey, man, have a great weekend. It'll be fascinating to see what happens in South Carolina and whether or not Haley gets out.

It's really fascinating. I was talking to Byron New York and telling him I remember in 2016 when Ted Cruz came in with a head of steam and all the momentum. And all of a sudden, a guy named Donald Trump took South Carolina almost organically by surprise. He didn't nearly have the ground game that Ted Cruz did. And of course, we know the history.

Fast forward to today. You have got the Governor McMaster, Senator Tim Scott, Congresswoman Nancy Mace, the who's who of the GOP in South Carolina, all lock and stuff with Donald Trump. It's going to be an interesting primary down there in the Low Country DeMara. Ben, thank you. Have a great weekend, my friend.

Take care. All right.

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Give us a call, 866-408-7669. I'm talking in the break about something with Eric and Allison, the great producers here, about a topic that is like the water cooler topic everyone's talking about, but there's not that much news, and that's that cell phone outage, right? ATT cell phone outage goes out. And in full disclosure, if I'm being honest, I have an ATT phone, and it doesn't work all that great all the time. It depends on where you are in the country, but it can be very frustrating, particularly when you use it for your job, like calling into things like radio shows.

But the question is: do we know everything about what happened? Was it actually just a glitch of sorts, or was it something more sinister that they're not telling us? Because we do know that there are attacks, hacks happen constantly. I was just a month ago or so covering a threat hack to our most sensitive military. We have had the colonial pipeline that we know that was very debilitating.

But there's always this fear that sinister actors such as China, who we know that the Chinese hacking threat. Is greater. They have more hacking actors for the Chinese operation we know of. That is more than all of the combined countries that we have enemies with, from North Korea to Iran to Russia. China has more.

Who knows? I don't know. Maybe I'm biased because I've been watching a lot of China spill across our border illegally in Hakuma, California. We'll dig into it. We'll find you some answers.

And we want you to have a great weekend. Griff Jenkins filling in on the Brian Kilmead Show. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian? In Kill Mead.

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For anybody just tuning in, it's a special opportunity and great honor for me, not only because I love Brian and he's such a talented radio host and TV broadcaster, but also because I I first met Brian when he was filling in for the Tony Snow show, God Rest His Soul, a mentor of mine. Filling in as the guest host for Tony's radio show, which I then produced, sitting on the other side of that glass, pushing the buttons, and now I get to get behind the mic and look out, buckle up. I get to say all sorts of crazy things that I wouldn't otherwise say, and perhaps expound on and extrapolate some of the coverage of important stories I've been doing, like the border. We've been talking about that, and we've been talking about the sanctions, and we've been talking about that winner-take-all primary down in South Carolina, whether or not Nikki Haley ends up being the black knight from Monty Python's Holy Grail and won't get out, or whether she might surprise us. And maybe it's not over.

Maybe Trump hasn't locked the nomination. I'm not sure that's the case, but we'll find out.

Meanwhile, we are also talking about that little moment of American greatness, that signature exceptionalism that we were so great at 50 years ago did again yesterday, put an American moon lunar on the south pole surface of the moon, not China, not Russia, not North Korea. It was America, baby. That did it and Capitalists did it. NASA went for a ride. This time, we took a capitalism Uber with Intuitive Machines being the company that put that together.

And NASA, of course, was partner, and it's a commercial government partnership. And I can't wait to see the images we get from that.

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We've got it kind of backwards, but it's working. We're having a good time. I love it. Hey, listen.

So I don't know. You know, they're scraping the bottom of the barrel, dragging me on, but I'm so excited. You heard me say that in the control room? You heard me say that? I'm kidding.

But, you know, I think I was like, hey, where's Brian? This guy took some time off. But I heard from secret sources whispering in my ear, there's an outside chance he could have gone down under, maybe even went as far as Australia. Wow. And all of the sudden.

It occurred to me, oh my God. He went to a Taylor Swift concert because, as one of Fox's resident Swifties, and I unabashedly love Taylor Swift. And let me tell you, I have reasons for it, which I can justify with a 22-year-old daughter who basically I feel like I grew up with Taylor Swift. I think it may have been the first or the second concert I ever took my daughter to back in the other eras, or whatever album was popular, then the Romeo Juliet song.

Now, you know, full circle, like Taylor Swift has, and I know that a lot of people like to attack her. And of course, football fans are all mad about the Kansas City Chiefs. And by the way, I bet on Taylor Swift. She should have gotten the MVP in the Super Bowl. But, you know, you look back at here, we are heading into a presidential election, and the country is economically struggling.

No matter what, you know, obscure core inflation metric that's reduced. People are feeling the pain at the gas station, at the grocery store, and elsewhere. But let me tell you: Swift Nomics, right? This is Taylor Swift's economy, as the Wall Street Journal had a headline. We're just living in it.

She is awesome, and she has added nearly, if not in excess of $5 billion. Billion. That's what the B to our GDP. Wow. Going to all the American tours.

And now she's doing the same thing for other countries. Melbourne, Australia, the most recent concert where she just teased this new album and some new songs she's got coming out. Two new songs. One's called Albatross. The other's The Bolter.

I don't know what any of this means. I just love it. And I like to ride SoulCycle and listen to Taylor Swift. What say you? What insights on Swift Mania can you give us?

Well, first of all, I don't know anything about the Australia swing. The only time I visit Australia is at the Outback Steakhouse. I'm not the most cultured guy here at Fox. Most of my foreign travel took place at Epcot, you know, down in Florida. I haven't really been to that many countries.

You love the bloomin' onion. Yeah, I love a good bloomin' onion. But the Taylor Swift thing, I am not one of those people who like resents her or resents her exposure to the NFL. I mean, if you looked at it this way, even if you really did hate Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift. As Americans, we'd have to admit that it's nice to see someone pretending to be a chief besides Elizabeth Warren.

Hey, oh, there it is. Good night, everybody. But now it's good. And listen, you want to know what I love about Taylor Swift for real? I'm a big fan of the feel-good economy, the feel-good economy, music.

Movies, sports for the most part, comedy. That's what I come from. That's, you know, kind of where I make my living, is in comedy clubs and in theaters and stuff like that.

So, the feel-good economy, when you see it, you know, flourishing, I consider that a good sign for the country, if only because people are investing their money in things that bring them joy as opposed to things that bring them anger and agitation, because there's enough of that in the world, which is why everyone listening, and you know this, Griff, I'm just beating you to the punch, but everyone listening should just be logging on to my website to buy comedy tickets right now. It's foxacrossamerica.com. And you should come see me on a 40-city tour. It's better than Taylor Swift because this is the one tour where you're better looking than the star. You go to see Taylor Swift, it's going to demoralize you.

She looks good in those rhinestone outfits. I don't look that good in those rhinestone outfits. Like, I'm going to wear them, okay? I'm going to hit the dance moves, but I'm more like a Lizzo than a Taylor Swift, I think. No, you got moves like Jagger, baby.

And I've seen those outfits on the 20th floor of Fox when I've been up there filling in for something. And, you know, it's very interesting that you bring that up. And we need to plug the 40-city tour. Where are you going to be next?

Well, it's the Everybody Calm Down Tour. It kicks off March 1st. I'm going to be in Idaho Falls at the Colonial Theater next Friday. And then Saturday, I'm in Sacramento at the Crest Theater. The word on the street is Gavin Newsom is coming to heckle me.

I've been back and forth with his comms team.

So if they show up, that would be hilarious. Because I'm not picking a fight with a guy. I'll do comedy and we'll have fun. That would be dynamite. People listen right now.

How do they get tickets? How do you get tickets? If you go to my website, every show that's currently on sale is at foxacrossamerica.com. And that's tickets to every site, every show that I'm going to this summer.

Some of them aren't on sale yet, like the July dates. I'm going to be in Vegas and Colorado Springs and Pike's Peak. I'll be in Biloxi, Mississippi at the IP Casino, but those dates don't go on sale until like May. But everything else that's on sale, foxacrossamerica.com. Free tickets for you, of course, Griff.

Listen, I'm going. And you bring up a really great point, and that is, you know, we've lost that love and feeling. The joy. That love and feeling. But we've lost The the real art of performance and having performers and talented artists like yourself and in the same vein, Taylor Swift, you know, it's all on our phones, it's all Netflix, it's all on TikTok.

Like, we don't get to go in, and you know, in New York, people still buy Broadway tickets, and of course, we lost a little bit in COVID. But, but, you know, if I can just tune out my ever-love and miserable life for two hours and just sit and watch Jimmy Phela entertain me and make me laugh and maybe have a beer, or go dance and scream and yell with, you know, 20,000 young women to Taylor Swift, which, by the way, I can't afford a ticket to those shows. Like a gazillion dollars to get there. It's lost. It's really lost.

And even you look at, like, you know, it seems to me, you know, I don't, but it seems to me there's fewer or fewer comics. Like when I do go on social media on Instagram or TikTok, I. I particularly like to see the comics, and there's not as many out there. But you know what that's reflective? Musicians don't play instruments anymore.

Well, what's in your feet is usually reflective of what you've previously liked.

So maybe lay off the feet pics. You'll probably start to see more comics come your way. I kid. It really does depend, though, because your phone, like you and me, cover news.

So we click on a lot of news.

So the phone just gives us a lot of news. But there is like comedy right now is going through a boom. Not as much on social media because the problem with social media, and this is why you don't see a lot of it, is because in a comedy club, we're safe. And what I mean by that is 99.9% of the people who come to the comedy club show up to laugh. And even if they do get offended by a joke, you have 99% of the room on your side and you can kind of make fun of them non-maliciously and you'll be okay.

The problem for comedy is the internet in the sense that people are now consuming comedy and they're not in a communal environment where they've consumed a two-drink. Minimum, and they're in on the joke with 300 other strangers. And that's where the internet gives comedy a hard time because it's now being consumed by scolds who just want the credit for being offended. I don't mean they are offended, I mean we've incentivized outrage.

So there's a lot of people that'll go after, say, a Dave Chappelle because there's a relevance that comes from doing it. There's a clout you get from victimhood. And that's where I get frustrated with people going after the feel-good economy because the whole point of comedy is: hey, the world's on fire. We're just over here roasting marshmallows. You know, we're supposed to be the respite while we're waiting for the fire truck to show up because comics ain't saving the world.

We're just holding it together and controlling the blaze. Listen, if you have to laugh to keep from crying, that's the saying my mom always told me, and it works. And, you know, this is an interesting perspective that listeners are getting right now because you're on the front lines of this. And you wrote a great, amazing book, Cancel Culture Dictionary, the A to Z guide to winning the war on fun. And this cancel culture we live.

When you are asked the question that a lot of us have said that are of our age, I'm 53, you know, could movies like Blazing Saddles or Airplane be made today? Could comics, you know, like, oh, gosh, Eddie Murphy or, you know, who are the greats of that jerry. Yeah, but I get what you're going for. And you're basically saying, could the modern speech standards get past that content? The truth is, like, if you'd make Blazing Saddles Today, you'd have to remove the offensive joke.

So the movie would be 38 seconds long. Long. It would be a third, it'd be like a digital short. But listen, the truth is, okay, we push the envelope pretty hard at my shows and certainly on my Saturday Night TV show because it's just comedy. And at the end of the day, you've got to curate for the people who know the difference between a joke and a hate crime.

And that's the vast majority of people because you don't want the other folks determining what we can and can't make. I mean, think about it. If the people get upset by comedy become the arbiters of what joke you can tell, these are people with no understanding of the medium. If you opened a steakhouse tomorrow, you're not hiring a vegan to be the executive chef. You're just not.

You need a steak guy. And so that's what we've got to do as comics. And one note I would give to everybody who listens to The Kill Mead Show for comedic direction, and I know that's most of the industry, is you're never going to break out by fitting in.

So, this idea that there are these new speech rules we should adhere to, you're never going to break out doing that. I'm not saying you should be provocative for the sake of being provocative, but I'm saying you should absolutely own your space because, as a comic, the people who pop are the people who go for it. You know, if you think back to like Andrew Dice Clay in the 80s, he was such an over-the-top persona with the leather and the glasses and the rhinestones and the cigarettes, but it popped because it stuck with an audience. You're like, hey, the guy with the cigarettes and the thing and the poems, you know, and that's what you need to be as a comic, the superhero version of yourself that allows you to save other people's days because you couldn't save your childhood. And that's why you wound up in showbiz.

And you get an opportunity to see the superhero self of Jimmy Phela. If you go to foxacrossamerica.com, you get a 40-city tour. That's amazing. I promise, mark my word, I am coming to a show. I would encourage all of our listeners.

Well, if you're coming, I will alert security. All right, that's good to know. You definitely better do that. You do do that. All right.

He's Jimmy Phela, a funny guy, a friend, and an insightful artist out there doing that great thing called stand-up comedy. Be sure and check it out. Jimmy, have a great weekend, man. Thank you, Griff. You're the best.

See you, brother. All right, buddy. See you later. This is Griff Jenkins, your humble D.C. correspondent, just a news guy, a reporter, trying to fill the great shoes of Brian Kilmead on the Brian Kilmead show, 866-408-7669.

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He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmead. This is what we came to see. The legacy of Pablo Esquimar. It's almost nightfall, and the hippos are beginning to get a lot.

more active. We know already one is going out of the water on the other side. We're getting closer. see if we could get a look. while maintaining a safe distance.

But this is when They come out to feed, they spent the day in the water. Docile.

Now, when they come out to eat and they'll eat all night long, they're also active.

Well over. A half a dozen or more. is a large, maybe a male, Opening its jaws. We're navigating the paths that come out of the lake. to go and find food.

They eat all night. long, but when they come out of the water, it's when they're most dangerous. They are Colombia's most invasive species. Three tons of pure muscle that can run 30 miles an hour and trample humans into a horizontal. Horrific pain.

painful, gruesome death. They are, of course, the drug lords' hippos. This is Griff Jenkins, your humble D.C. correspondent, filling in for Brian Kilmead on the Brian Kilmead show, 86640-87669. A shameless plug.

Thanks to Eric and Nelson letting me give a plug for a Fox Nation special that I did. You know, every so often, and people ask me all the time, they're like, You have the coolest job in America. And I said, I really do. I get to see a front-row seat to history, interviewing Zelensky to The Border. And every so often, a story comes down the pike, and you're like, Man, that was the coolest story I ever did.

I love it. And that was, we had seen, the Fox Nation producers had seen. I believe it was a New York Times article that was talking about this invasive species crisis that. Colombia, the country of South American country of Colombia, has. And this is because in 1993, when Pablo Escobar was killed, the famous drug lord, he had a private zoo at his cocaine mansion ranch.

He had zebras, tigers, giraffes, you name it. He had all these animals. And the government went in and got rid of all the animals and donated them to South American zoos and the like. And there were four hippos. And they were so violent, so aggressive, so difficult, so large, they said, eh, they'll die off wrong.

As one expert told me in Columbia in this special on Fox Nation, she says it is hippoheaven. In that they have a hippo time bomb because four, just four, turn into a dozen, turn into dozens, turn into a hundred, turned into a hundreds. People are getting hurt, and now they don't know what to do with them. And you can see them up close and personal. And of course, my terrible version of trying to be Steve Irwin in the bush, but you'll enjoy it nonetheless.

They're scary beasts. Griff Jenkins on the Brian Kilmead show on an important Friday, on a happy Friday, on a Friday when America is still exceptional. We'll be right back. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

In response to Putin's brutal war of conquest, in response to. Alexandra Valmy's death. Because make no mistake, Putin is responsible for Alexis' death. Yesterday I met with Alexis's wife and daughter in California. where his daughter attends college.

Alexei was an incredibly courageous man. His family is courageous as well. I assure them his legacy Will continue to live around the world, and we in the United States are going to continue to ensure that Putin pays the price for his aggression abroad and repression at home. President Biden at the White House saying that Vladimir Putin will pay a price. This is Griff Jenkins, your humble D.C.

correspondent, filling in for the great Brian Kilnead on this Friday afternoon. And let me just say: as the president makes those remarks, unveiling at the Treasury Department the President's second round, or however many rounds, but what is billed is the toughest round of new sanctions on Russia, reportedly, according to Victoria Newland at the Under Secretary of State saying that it's going to actually target some of those believed to be involved in Navalny's death. But the problem is that the sanctions going back almost two years that were already on Russia have simply failed to have an impact. You have, in the past two years, you have had the economy of Russia grow by some 3%. They spend more on their war machine, their spending on defense issues, 9% of their GDP, more than the U.S.

And so the question now is: is this going to have any effect? And part of the problem of why the previous sanctions were ineffective was because the U.S. wasn't able to hold their feet to the fire on these sanctions. And so Russia was selling cheap, dirty oil to places like China and India and others that would buy it. And they were allowed to continue to.

Go forward. We'll see if the sanctions enforcement will ramp up and whether or not the friends of Russia will continue to be in place, an issue that needs to be dealt with on the world stage. We'll find out more. But one thing is for sure: as we approach tomorrow, the two-year anniversary of the invasion, Russia's invasion in Ukraine, an issue that I covered and traveled to Kyiv, interviewed President Zelensky, the world really is at war. And young people, our children, see nothing but conflict out there.

And of course, when you talk to voters in this election, we're about to have the primary in South Carolina. Everywhere you go in this country, it seems there's a grim view of life as it exists today. And no one absorbs that. more than our kids. I remember having a teenage daughter starting high school during COVID, another dark chapter of our lives, and that clearly impacted her and all of her friends.

And as we we face all of the the the terrible things like war and the situation going on In the Middle East, children need an escape. And thankfully, there is literally a guy I'm calling Hollywood's hero. And I, of course, grew up watching. I mean, it's amazing the important player in Hollywood that he has become, not just the talented actor that he is. Kirk Cameron, actor, writer, producer, and author, joining us in the studio.

Hey, Kirk, it's Griff Jenkins. Listen, man, I am so honored to be able to talk to you, and I want to talk about a new project you've got going. But just even before we talk about this latest kids' show, which by the way, I've read you call one of the most important projects you've ever worked on. I'm really, I just want to give you kudos and tell you how impressed in the accomplishments you have made in Hollywood in trying to get some of those with a woke agenda, as you will, to influence our kids in a negative way. Thanks.

Thanks for being here. Hey, it's great to be here. Thank you very much for all of the encouragement. You know, I'm a father of six children. My wife and I have lived in California.

We worked in Hollywood. And so this is our background. And I feel like you need to bloom where God has planted you. And so I want to lean into children's television and entertainment because this is one of the greatest ways that we can positively impact the future is by investing in the culture forming Places like Hollywood. And music Uh television Film industry.

The more we vacate those places, people with lesser values fill the void and they end up controlling the future. Why not? Go into those places and actually make the future better.

So well spoken. And, you know, I think, at least in my experience, and I have two daughters, they're 22 and 18. And so, you know, they're getting older now. One graduated from college, another is about to go. But you really don't realize just how pervasive and how quickly those with an agenda will fill the void.

until it's almost too late. And in in From your perspective, because you're on the front line actually trying to change it, how bad is it? It's really bad. It's extremely bad. We just turn on the news and we have this sickened feeling in our guts, in the very heart of our soul.

We know that there is something very, very wrong with regard to the core values of the leadership of our nation. And the problem is, it all happened on our watch.

So we can't really point out there to other people and say, well, it's these guys' fault. I get it, but. When we founded this nation and we understood the value of life and liberty and property, and we looked to God for our help, and we owned the responsibility of educating our children and controlling forces of evil and keeping them at bay, somehow we decided that maybe comfort was better, maybe safety was better, give the job over to the government, and we've essentially handed our children to Caesar. To be educated, and now we're shocked and surprised that they've come back Romans. with one third of Gen Z now buying the the the government line, which is, hey, I'm nonbinary or I'm I'm I'm gay, lesbian, transgender or queer and I'm only eight and a half years old.

Well, that happens on our watch. And so, if we want it to turn around, we've got to get back to nourishing the root. that produces sweet fruit. not just complain that the fruit has gone rotten on our watch. You're so right.

It is our watch. This is our fault if we don't do anything. Which is good news. That's actually good news, I think. My personal view is that that gives us hope.

If this happened on our watch and we're the ones to look to, that means I don't have to convince. The woke industries out there and get them to come over to the good side. Because I think that. We as the family of faith, we as people who love God, who love this country, who love our families, if we stand for what we know is right, I believe that God then comes to the aid of our cause and the winds of justice that blow from heaven. will help us along our way.

So well said, Kirk Cameron, actor, writer, producer, and author, joining us on the Brian Kilmead Show. You know, Kirk, let's talk about this latest TV, children's TV show, you know, bringing some wholesome entertainment for the families, which, by the way, will be so gratefully appreciated. It's called Adventures with Iggy and Mr. Kirk. Tell me, what is it?

What was the idea behind it? And what do you hope to accomplish with it? It's kind of a funny follow-up. The Adventures with Iggy and Mr. Kirk, after talking about political science and the source of moral authority.

But it really. It it is important. Listen, how are your children being brainwashed politically? How are their morals being turned inside out and upside down? Through Blues Clues.

Through Coco Melon. Through Sesame Street. Through through Children's programming. It's amazing. And so the stories that we tell kids are important.

The power of storytelling is able to shape human beings' identities. It not only unlocks their imagination, it transports them to other realms of belief where they identify with their favorite characters and want to become like them. That's why we're seeing this infection of wrong ideas, and we have such an identity crisis in America.

So, Adventures with Iggy and Mr. Kirk, think of a brand new Mr. Rogers neighborhood, only greatly updated with beautiful animation, with hilarious dialogue, high energy, guest stars at every turn, and we're crowdfunding the whole thing so that Hollywood and a streaming platform cannot take down the values and turn us woke. And we want everybody to participate and be a part of this. Just like we did with The Chosen, we want to make this children's program of timeless moral values in a show that parents can trust.

And we're inviting everyone to join us at watchbrave.com. That's watchbrave.com. And help us. You'll see all the cool rewards. You can even have one of your kids or grandkids be in one of the episodes of the show or get red carpet premiere tickets to the grand opening and hang out with me and the rest of the stars of the show.

And it's going to be a great time. Let's do it together. I can't wait. My niece's son is primed for this, like five years old. We're going to get him all.

Oh, man. He's going to love Iggy. Watchbrave.com. I can't wait to watch Adventures of the Game, Mr. Kirk.

And, you know, you mentioned The Chosen. Boy, was that amazing. And, you know, it just occurred to me, I was like, gosh, I've never gotten to talk to Kirk Cameron in person or over the radio about the chosen. Myself, like millions of Americans, were really taken by it. You know, did you.

Did you foresee the success that the chosen would have? Did you think it was going to be that big of a smash hit? Or did you sort of put it out there and hope it would lead somewhere? I think we always have to put things out there and hope that it's going to lead somewhere. We shouldn't be arrogant enough to believe that everything that we do is so good, it's going to be a big success.

And it's also encouraging that a smaller organization and Dallas Jenkins and his team put together something that has clearly been blessed by God. I think that's the way it works. God multiplies what he loves. And I think all of us, when we sat in the movie theater and watched The Passion of the Christ, we understood that there is a whole new market here because for our whole lives, we've read the scriptures and now it comes to life in such a magnificent way that. You know, I want to see more of this.

And the chosen gives us that very personal relational side between Jesus Christ and his best friends, the people closest to him throughout his three-year ministry, not just his death, his crucifixion, but all the times when they laughed, when they joked, when they sat by the campfire, when they had breakfast and dinner together, through all the betrayal and all of the joy. This is the kind of stuff that makes, that thrills the human heart. And we need to make more of it. And I want to be at the center of it. Kurt Cameron joining us on the Brian Killman Show.

You're right. God blessed it. And when you were saying that, and I've been here today and yesterday getting to the huge honor of filling in on the radio, and you wouldn't know this, Kurt, but I was a producer for radio back in the 90s. And so it's kind of a full circle life moment for me to be able to sit behind the microphone and talk. And I remember when I started my young career in the 90s and talk radio, you know, there was only one, the one and only king, Rush Limbaugh.

And he always had one of his great monikers was talent on loan from God. And he always drove that point home. And he was, you know, the best of the best. There'll never be another one like Rush, who died nearly three years ago to the day. It was mid-February, I believe, when he passed.

But I digress. I want to, before I run out of time, because I've only got a minute or so here, I want to ask you, you know, I have covered as a reporter the stories when we get these polls out there. And you talk about the number of particularly young people, 20-somethings, that have really left the church, have left religion altogether. And not even just young people, all Americans that say that they don't identify with any religion. It's clearly going in a very troubling way.

What are your thoughts? Listen, I think there's a lot of churches that need to shut down. I think there are a lot of churches that closed their doors during COVID who ought to just lock them and keep them shut because they're not staying loyal to the truth of God's word. And many of them are just failing to understand the very structure of our country and our constitution based on the biblical principles that they preach. And we need to stand against tyranny.

So I like to see this as a sifting, as a filtering. I see this as a time of shaking, and the true and the real, the genuine, will stand up. And I'm finding more and more people. Are coming to congregations of people who are authentic and genuine, not this religious syrupy, sappy stuff that ought to go away anyway. Yes, so well said.

And that optimism and encouragement, I hope you're right. Kirk Cameron, he is, of course, the active writer, producer, and author. And he's got a new hit on the way for children adventures with Iggy. And Mr. Kirk, you can go to watchbrave.com and find out more about it.

Kirk, thank you very much. Have a blessed Friday and a great weekend, my friend. Thank you, my friend. Thanks for this this morning. It was great having you on.

It's Griff Jenkins, your humble D.C. correspondent, trying to fill the giant shoes of Brian Kilmead on the Brian Kilmead Show. We'll be right back. It's Brian Killmeade. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead.

Why the southern part of the moon? Because there's water on the moon. Who would have thought? Frozen water in the form of ice crystals because of cometary impacts over the last 4 billion years. That area of the moon is under shadows, permanent shadows.

Comets that impacted that area left telltale signs of water crystals. And so we think that the moon could become a refueling station for astronauts. Astronauts going to Mars, they stop on the moon to re refuel because we think there's enough ice crystals left over from these cometary impacts. This is potentially a game changer. A game changer, says Michio Kaku, a space genius, talking about the moon may just be, as Eric Albein, our great producer, pointed out, a gas station on America's road to Mars.

A huge, significant accomplishment that's happened here late yesterday, afternoon, early evening. I'm Griff Jenkins, filling in on the Brian Kilmead show, having far too much fun than any human should indeed have. And I wanted to take just a few moments here and there throughout the show to talk about why, for a guy that's 53, that was literally just two years old, a toddler when America put a man on the moon, and then having grown up in the wake of how great it was. And remember, there was a time in this country when we were as united as we were perhaps after 9-11 when people came together, but just in any general. Any old, say, late February Saturday across this great country from California to the East Coast, where Americans were just simply proud of the exceptionalism, of the fortitude, of the sacrifice, and the commitment and the faith that they had in one another, the belief that they could do anything, the belief that there wasn't anything Americans couldn't do when they decided to come together to do it.

And now, here in what is, by all accounts, a new modern 2.0 Cold War with China who wants to place us, with Russia, and China, by the way, wanting to put something on the moon as well. But guess what? We got there first, and we did it with capitalism. Private industry, intuitive machines gave NASA a ride. And hopefully, we'll soon get some moon crater images from the South Pole.

And the advancement of space continues with one person in the driver's seat, one leader, and that is these great United States of America. This is your humble D.C. correspondent, Griff Jenkins, filling in for Brian Kilmead. He'll be back next week, but boy, it's been fun sitting in. Have a great Friday.

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