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So much to cover in just three hours to get it done. Keith Kellogg coming up in a matter of minutes. And then we're going to be joined by Mark Green, the ambassador, Ambassador Mark Green, president and CEO of the Wilson Center. He's got a great background. He used to be an ambassador over to Tanzania.
I have a sense of what this big immigration effort is to get into our country and a real sense of what's going on overseas and what we should be doing in terms of helping Ukraine win a war against our arch enemy, Russia, which I used to think was a layup. And before we talk about that, and we do too, have Benny Gantz here, who is the rival of Benjamin Etanyahu in a coalition government meeting with the Biden administration, trying to undermine, it seems, the Israelis. Let's get to the big three.
Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. And given. The immense scale of suffering in Gaza. There must be an immediate ceasefire.
Well, that is the Vice President of the United States trying desperately, in my view, in Selma, Alabama, to get back votes in Michigan. They try to divide us so Israel won't conquer. Yup, the Biden administration invites Sentinel, who rival Betty Gantz to D.C., in the hope of Israel backing off their raid on Rafah, which should be inevitable, and force a ceasefire, which I don't think they're ready for. My hope is Gantz sees through it all and does what the Israeli people want, and that is support the finishing off of Hamas. It is Hamas that is responsible for the civilian casualties.
That's it. Number two. Because Trump took the bait. Biden went to the border. Trump took the bait.
He went to the border too. That means Joe Biden finally broke through on the border and what he's trying to do because we paid attention to both of them. And so I think a way for Biden to break through is to find that direct confrontation. Battle at the Border reaches fever pitch as Dems, with the aid of sixty minutes and most of the mass media try to flip the script and blame Trump and Republicans for the record crossings, for the rise in crimes, for the overwhelmed of blued cities. But I think the American people are smarter than that.
Number one. What matters is how people vote. And we have consistently, as Democrats, overperformed polls, not just in the special election that just happened in Long Island and the midterms in 22, but in election after election. And I'll remind you, former President Trump is underperforming. I don't know what you mean.
For that, is Senator Chris Coons. He's right. A lot of people expected a red wave, but he forgot the main reason why there was not a red wave because the Republicans' inability. To communicate their view on the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
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Meanwhile, let's bring in General Kellogg, General Keith Kellogg. General, welcome back. Hey, Brian, thanks for having me. Good to be with you this morning. Before I get to Ukraine, first off, Benny Gantz, if people don't know, is probably going to be the next Prime Minister of Israel.
And he's in a coalition government because Israel's at war after the October 7th attacks. I he is going to visit this administration, reportedly, despite the protestations of the current Prime Minister, who said reportedly, we only have one Prime Minister at a time. I think this is just counterproductive, don't you? Yeah, I do, Brian. And I just left this room last week.
I was there last week, visited. And Benny's part of the blue and white party that he actually kind of started and former general officer In Israel. And I think it's kind of divide and conquer. And that's what this administration is trying to do when you hear with Kamala Harris talking about a ceasefire. Look, you know, being over there, they're not going to have a ceasefire.
There's no reason to have a ceasefire, especially an extended ceasefire. And everybody should, I believe, after being there talking to everybody over there, they ought to line up behind Israel and say, look, we are behind the Israeli government. I don't care if it's Peter Pan or Snow White, whoever it is. to defeat Hamas. Hamas is a terrorist organization.
They killed Americans. They've got Americans captive. And we need to go they let the Israelis go in and finish the job. And a ceasefire is not going to help. I think I know why they want to do a ceasefire.
They, the Israelis, to try to get some of those hostages out. But part of this is, you know, I also. The United States ought to be leaning on Israel. They ought to be leaning on Qatar because Qatar actually. Hosts.
The Hamas leadership in their country. They also host Al Jazeera's radio network and television network. And you ought to look at the Altani family and say to the Altanis, the Sheikhs, You haven't even allowed supported Red Cross people to come to see those hostages that they've got, and you're not supporting. What the peace efforts in the Middle East at all.
So it's pretty complicated, but I keep kind of right, I just basically go. Right to the chase scene. And the chase scene is we ought to support Israel. Pull up. Benny Gantz is making, I think, a big mistake coming here.
It's divide and conquer. This administration is doing it. And I don't think you're up in the end state, whether you like NetNow or not. Are you for the dropping from the C-130 aircraft of 38,000 meals in coordination with Jordan? Are you for that?
Yeah, I you know, if part of it, I saw this. We actually did the same thing in Bosnia years ago when you dropped the airground. We did the same thing in Berlin when they did the Berlin airlift. It was the same thing to dropping supplies to them. Because what you don't want to do is put a convoy on the ground because what's happening is Homas just takes control of it.
By putting those all over the land out there, it allows very. You know, various families to go get the food. And I don't think sending food in it is a bad thing at all. The airdrop's a decent way to do it. They're putting a lot on the ground, it's okay.
It's not going to alleve most of the major suffering that's there because it's pretty complicated. But I said, yeah, that's okay to do that. I think humanitarian aid doesn't hurt at all. I want you to hear what Congressman Roe Kahana said. And for me, I know, General, you're focused on what it means for this country and our security.
They're worried about elections, in my view. Here is Roe Kahana, Cut 33, the Democrat. Mr. President. Call for a permanent ceasefire.
There's too much suffering in the release of all hostages. The policy of bear-hugging Netanyahu has not worked. Reach out to some of the former Obama officials like Ben Rhodes, Tommy Wyder, who have been saying we need a new direction of policy. We need a permanent ceasefire, release of hostages. We need to call for a Palestinian state, a summit with our Gulf allies.
The current policy is not working.
So? Yeah. You want to take that off? Yeah, that's idiotic. I mean, I just can't believe it.
That's why those guys ought to stay in Washington, D.C., and keep their mouth shut. Look, you need to go to Israel and go look at it. Look, there's not going to be a second two-state solution at all. Israel's going from basically a center-left country to a center-right country as a result of what happened in 7 October. And you've got people, the old school, people like Ben Rhodes and people like that.
That's how come we're in this position we're in today. That's how come they let the growth of Hamas occur. It didn't occur under Trump, they were growing before that.
So you kind of look at it and say, look, this goes back to let's make it really, really simple. Really concise. You turn to Israel, let them finish the job. Hamas is a terrorist organization, eradicate them in the pure definition of the world, and get rid of them. And there's not going to be a two-state solution.
Brian, there's just not, because there's nobody there to be able to create a two-state solution. On the Palestinian side. Look at this, because I remind everybody. You know, it took 12 years to bring the South back after Civil War on Reconstruction back into the Union. It took almost eight years to bring Nazi Germany to Germany back into NATO, which is the same thing that happened with Japan.
They're going to have to realize they're going to have to eradicate a movement, they're going to have to basically re-educate. The Palestinian people, because when I was there just last week, we sat with the speaker of the Knesset, like our speaker of the House. And you have this big chart. That they'd taken from a school in Gaza. And it said, you know, right there, they're teaching the young kindergarten and first and second graders.
you know, you know, from the river to the sea, and basically Palestine Palestine, you know, Israel is Palestine. And that's a you're going to have to change that whole education system to get them to be part of the general public uh you know and understanding public and understanding electric. It's what we had to do with Germany, it's had to do with Japan, it had to do with the South as well. And that's they're going to have to do that. They can't just turn it over to somebody different and new.
There's nobody there, Brian. I mean, I would talk that very subject.
Okay, who is out there in the Palestinians? That can actually have some type of linkage. With the current Israeli government, and there is no answer. There is none. But here's the they're talking about this guy, Berghati, a high-profile prisoner.
They said that is a Palestinian. That evidently really bright but really dangerous. Do you believe that this guy might have learned something in prison where he can come out and be a legitimate leader? No, I don't. This is where they're going to have to kind of find somebody out there that's untarnished.
It's going to be really hard. That's what I mean. It's going to take time. It's not something they can do tomorrow. See, everybody's looking to the near-term solution.
Or we're going to bring somebody out and it's going to be really cool, like we did with Barardo when we brought him out of the Pakistani jail and helped us with negotiations with the Taliban. There's nobody there, Brian. They're just not. They're going to have to start basically from zero.
So let's talk about what's happening in Ukraine right now. They are desperate. They are desperate for material, military aid. Here's Senator, Republican Senator Dan Sullivan on Face the Nation, Cut 42. 60% of this supplemental, and look, it's not a perfect bill.
The House can make it better. 60%. Goes into our ability to build weapons for America. Everything from nuclear subs, by the way, almost 40% of our attack subs are in maintenance right now. We don't have the industrial capacity to protect ourselves.
Xi Jinping is scared to death of American subs. This is about our Our industrial capacity to protect America first. And then, of course, we need to get some of these weapons to our allies who are facing existential threats, whether it's Taiwan, Israel. and Ukraine and I think when you talk Talk about it from that perspective. It should unite Republicans, not divide them.
Ukraine weaponry, 80% of which we buy from ourselves and replenish with more modern versions, whether it's the javelins, harpoons, or the cluster bombs, who knows? Don't you believe that Ukraine is worthy of our support?
Well, you sure it is, Brian, but I'm one of those who also believes that the most important thing we face is our border. Once you've got the border, then you can switch to that. But I'm going to take the border again. Look, a year ago, I was in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee I testified after coming out of Ukraine. I said, guys, there is a solution here, and it's pretty simple.
I'll make it as simple as I can. Armory prepositioned stock two is in Germany. Those are brigade sets of U. S. equipment.
Bradley fighting vehicles, M1A1 tanks. Howitzers, you name it, it's there. Release that SISS those systems. To the Ukrainians. It's there.
It's in Germany. It's sitting there. What it's designed to do, it's designed to beat the older people. Germans don't want to give it up. No, it's our stuff, Brian.
We can do it. We can say no, send it across the border. I made that comment in front of Congress, in front of the Standard Armed Services Committee a year ago. I said, this is really simple, guys. Take the kit, move it out.
What did they say? Symptom. There was nothing.
So when I listened to senators talking about it, I said, look, there are solutions out there. They're relatively easy solutions. You don't want to address them. Would it be hard to do it? Of course it would.
Would it cause a little bit of trauma? Yeah. But then you take those systems and you backfill those systems. and you bring for those forward.
So are there systems available in Europe that you can provide today The answer is yes. It's Army preposition stock two. Why aren't you doing this? And then let's see what they say when you ask them that question. How about the reposset how about cashing in of all the repossessed Russian assets?
Oh, I think that's a great idea, Brian. I'll be the first to shoot in a heartbeat. I think that's a good idea to do that. Yeah, I think there's a lot of things out there that people are going for sound bites instead of solutions. And some of those people are up on Capitol Hill, and they get frustrated.
So, we agree that Russia is the enemy, correct? And that Ukraine should be backed? Sure, of course we do. Look, I've said it repeatedly, defeating a strategic adversary, Russia, is good for America. We had an opportunity to do that.
In the first year, we had Ukrainians have the Russians on their heels. That's when we should have fallen in really, really hard on him, because they could have pushed him. Because the center of gravity for Putin is the Russian army. In Ukraine. If you could have defeated that army, it puts him on his heels.
Look what the Wagner group leader Progozin did when he nearly marched on Moscow. It caused reverberations all through the region. They could have done that. We waited too long to revive. We still haven't provided them aircraft.
Is there F sixteen's? No. A tens? No. We provided them thirty one Bradleys.
Really? That's all? That's less than a battalion's worth. We provided them over one hundred fifty Bradleys. We have a lot more in stock.
So we kind of piecemealed it out.
So I blame this administration providing that you don't fight a war with half measures. And that's what they tried to do. And I don't think you need to do that. I think you've got to give great credit to Ukrainians and how they fought. But here's the concern I've got, Brian, and this is where you're running in the issue you run into.
This is turning into an attrition fact. And I will tell you, Ukrainians cannot beat the Russians in their nutrition fight simply because they've got more mass, more manpower, and they're going to throw that at you. It's how Russians. Traditionally, they fight. They use a lot of artillery.
They use a lot of manpower. They strike human waves. And that's how they beat you. And once they got to that Into that area. Of how they fight is a real problem with Ukraine.
I heard they're having a huge desertion issue, too. I want you to hear what Dan Hoffman said, former CIA Bureau Chief of Moscow, Cut 45. It is in America's best interests, and it's important to frame this war. And this administration has done it. Very ineffectively.
You know, they've said that we would continue to support Ukraine as long as it takes. And that sounds to a lot of folks, especially on the Republican side, like the Biden administration is pursuing another forever war. And that's really not what's going on. Ukraine is winning for every day that Vladimir Putin fails to take Kiev, that's a win for Ukraine. Finland and Sweden, NATO members, also a win for Ukraine.
Over 300,000 casualties for the Russian army, which has been cut down to size. That's a win for Ukraine, for Europe, and for NATO. We're talking about less than 5% of the DOD budget with a huge return on investment and stopping Vladimir Putin at the point of attack. Would you challenge him on any of those assumptions? Yeah, I would.
The the one I challenge him on and and 'cause his comments are really great, would you have to understand the demographics? And you have to go back historically and think about it. In World War I, with the trench warfare in France and the the risk basically have a lost generation. What I don't want to see is happen to Ukrainians is we're willing to just provide every bit of equipment to the death of every last Ukrainian. There's going to be a kind of demographic issue out there, right?
Because the Russians will keep throwing at it.
So you got to figure out that, okay, where do we stand? How do we ensure security? We don't acknowledge any of Of the Russian occupation at all. No. We've got to figure a way how do you get out of this?
But you're not going to get it unless you go offensive, unless you get them on the you can't negotiate now. You've got to push them back and then talk if they're going to do it. Generally, the only concern I've got is being able to do that. It's right now, it's going to be hard for us. If we get them 60 billion of aid, I bet you they can do it.
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It's Brian Kilmeade. I'm always the wrong person to talk to about polling because I told the world, and many of my Republican friends didn't believe me either, that Donald Trump was going to win Michigan and thus won the election in 2016. If you look at the polling now that we're even looking at, there have been three national polls that have showed Biden up, President Biden up, or tied with Donald Trump, the numbers, and all these different polls in the last, but he's done well. I think, I do believe that President Biden is getting that sense of urgency. Let me just tell you something.
She's dreaming, but she did pick out in 2016 this Debbie Dingle Democrat who there was a problem in Michigan and no one was listening to her. And obviously, Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump. But this weekend was probably the worst weekend ever in the history of an incumbent president. The president of the United States found out he's losing, according to New York Times Sienna poll, which leans left by four, which means it's more. Trump up two.
Trump up two with the Wall Street Journal. Trump up two with Fox News on CBS. Trump up four. I'll go inside the numbers a little bit later, too. And it's even worse than that.
And the thing is, they're trying to reclaim the number one issue, and that is. Reclaim or claim it for the first time as theirs, and that is illegal immigration. Everybody knows he broke the border. Elon Musk had a classic tweet over the weekend to say: if you want to know why the border is broken, that 91 executive orders undid everything the previous administration did. Don't pretend like you're not behind it all and pretend like the bipartisan legislation would have fixed it, and that's the be-all, end-all.
Nobody does it. And I'm going to break down in about 15 minutes what went wrong with the 60 Minutes piece last night. Dreadfully inadequate, did not tell a fraction of the story. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Killmeade.
Well look, I voted for the supplemental and I voted for the supplemental, national security supplemental. And I did for a couple of reasons. The first one is what you just said, Margaret, which is this is a new era of authoritarian aggression. We got the dictators all around the world, Xi Jinping, Putin. Iran, the Ayatollahs in Iran, North Korea, they are working together.
We need a strategic response to that. Very dangerous time. Second, The Biden administration, with regard to national security, has not been serious. They cut the defense budget every year, inflation-adjusted cuts. By the way, the Secretary didn't mention it.
They cut Homeland Security every year, too. Those are the two areas this administration consistently. cuts, weakens our homeland security, weakens our defense, but This aid should be much more in terms of how we talk about it. In terms of the supplemental, it's less of foreign. Aid package and more a package about rebuilding our own industrial capacity.
And that is Dan Sullivan. He's the veteran, Marine veteran who's also the Alaska Senator, worked for the Bush administration, and talks about the concern he has as a member of the Armed Services Committee that we seem to be cutting back everywhere that would intimidate somebody not to invade another country or not to take action against us. And that's what we're witnessing in Ukraine. Joining us now, Ambassador Mark Green, President and CEO of the Wilson Group. Ambassador, welcome to the Brian Killmeat Show.
Brian, a longtime listener, first time caller. It's great to be with you. Oh, thanks so much.
Well, first off, on Ukraine aid, I know the politics are complicated and the border needs to be secure, but I also think Ukraine needs our support. Do you also agree that they're worthy of it? Yeah, so first of all, I agree with what Senator Sullivan said. I think we're living in a time when dictatorship's on the march. Remember, Ukraine is a sovereign nation, a member of the UN, a key ally, a democracy that has been invaded and pummeled by authoritarians.
And this is a key moment. Deterrence is not something that can be divided. If we're going to stand strong in trying to push back on authoritarian advances, I think this moment is a crucial one.
Well, I think, number one, you just point out, too, that let's just go back. This didn't just happen two years ago. Ukraine was invaded by little green men in Crimea. All of a sudden, the Russians come in there dressed differently, plain clothes, and just start taking over institutions and say, Well, Khrushchev never should have given it up. We'll take it now.
And then they take the Donbas region. Then they well up troops and just go ahead and invade. It happens gradually, but it happens. Yeah, you know Brian Century, I just came back from the region.
So I was in Ukraine, I was in Moldova, and I was in Poland and in Warsaw. But ten years ago, I was also in Ukraine. I was an election observer. And that was a time when Ukrainians, every day Ukrainians, stood tall for democracy, pushed back against an authoritarian government. And it was a crucial, courageous moment for them.
But what they've seen since then is, quite frankly, the West has let them down. And so they've been under attack, hybrid warfare, if you will, every day since then. And it's gotten to a point where it is late in the game, but this is a moment where I think we can stand tall, send a clear message and I think help a key ally advance. Too late? Is it too late?
No, it's not too late. First off, people should not underestimate the courage and resilience of the Ukrainian people. I traveled 1,300 miles around the country. I went to areas that were at one time occupied by the Russians. I saw the bomb blast.
I met people who lost loved ones. Bullet holes everywhere you look, and yet the Ukrainians kept saying to us over and over again, sort of their national slogan. We're tired but not exhausted. And they're looking to us. They are fiercely pro-West, fiercely pro-American, and they're not looking for a lot.
They're looking for us to send a signal that we will stand with them in their moment of need. And I think that not only pays off in Ukraine, I think it pays off in Moldova and Europe, but also in sending a message to dictators around the world. sending a message to the Ayatollahs in Iran, sending a message to North Korea, sending a message to Beijing that we do believe that America has a leadership role on the world stage, and we do believe in pushing back on authoritarians.
So, right now, we decided when they were first invaded that we're going to give them MREs and we're going to give them blankets. And the previous administration gave them javelins and some lethal defense. But this administration came in, and even though they said it looks like there's intelligence that shows there will be an invasion, they didn't think there would be an invasion, so they go ahead and invaded. We predicted they would get wiped out in four or five days.
Now it's been two years. After getting on the offensive, now they're on the defensive. What do you say to Republicans who say, you know, I got to worry about my own border?
Well, I don't first off, I believe in securing the border. I just don't believe that Ukraine is what's standing between us and securing our border. That's got nothing to do with Ukraine. Ukraine is a separate matter, and again, it goes to American leadership and deterrence on the world stage. Yes, no, it's true.
We have been slow, right? We have been slow in providing what the Ukrainians have asked for in recent months, and that's unfortunate, but we are where we are. But I have no doubts on their resolve. For them, there is no tomorrow and there is no alternative. They said they'll fight to the last man because they know it's a matter of survival.
And when you have a country like that, again, a key ally, a democracy, a country that wants to become even closer to the U.S., I think we should stand with them.
Well, Moldova's already been infiltrated. They have two co-provinces that say, oh, we need some Russian security. We know that story. We know that song, like Georgia, right? Oh yeah.
And you're right. And in these last couple of days, all the signs from that breakaway region, Transnistria, which, by the way, nobody in the world recognizes as separate from Moldova, they've reached out and you're looking you're starting to see Putin sending the same signals with respect to Moldova, in Estonia that he sent in the run-up to the invasion of Ukraine.
So I think this is, again, a key moment and we need to stand strong because i if we don't, if deterrence somehow dissipates and falls away, let's face it, we're going to start seeing skirmishes like this all over the place and not just in the immediate region, but again, Taiwan. other parts of the world.
So it is an important moment. Right. And we're watching China's influence in Central and South America, watching Iran's influence the same places. Russia evidently took a great deal of Venezuela's wealth. We notice they've always had connection to Cuba.
It seems as though even though China's economy is reeling, And Russia has gone a pure military economy with some sanctions. It seems like we're not taking advantage of this moment. No, we are. And Brian just pointed to something really important. With respect to Russia, Russia has made some tensions very clear with its actions towards Ukraine and Moldova and elsewhere in the region.
But also, countries should be judged by the company they keep.
So, who is Russia supporting and relying upon? North Korea, Iran, China. China, Venezuela, Nicaragua. These are not exactly stalwarts of democracy and liberty.
So Russia's made very clear what their intentions are. And again, it's a chance for us to stand strong with allies who support the same values that we hold dear. Right, that would certainly help.
So when you look at the fact that we repossessed a lot of Russian assets, whether they're apartments or yachts, why are we not melting that down and selling them? What are the international obstacles? Is there anything stopping us? I don't think there are. I mean, I'm a believer that we should be using seized assets and seized accounts to help support Ukraine and to push back and help build Ukraine's future.
So I think that is the case. I know that there are some in Europe who are apparently hesitant, but this is, again, an opportunity for leadership, and I think we should. Should definitely stand strong on this. What's it going to take to rebuild our industrial capacity?
Well, and you're hinting at something that's very important.
So Europe has now surpassed the U. S. in terms of overall assistance, but we are far and away the largest Provider of military assistance. And that military assistance that we're providing is actually a drawdown of older stock.
So, in an odd way, this is of huge benefit to us, what we're supplying to Ukraine, because we're replacing what we supply with modernized, better weapons, the latest and greatest.
So, at the same time that we're helping Ukraine, we're actually helping ourselves and modernizing our own military and defense resources. What are we going to do to make the Red Sea passable again? When these bunch of tribesmen seem to be bouncing back, no matter how hard we hit 'em. You know, and again, I know that the administration and others are saying that we don't want the war to spread in terms of the Middle East. It has spread.
With the attacks that we're seeing from the Houthis over and over again, every day it seems. Clearly they perceive weakness and it's very important, I think, for us to draw a line there. All right.
So, in the big picture, how much time do they have, being the Jews in the region, before we get them the weapons they need? How long can they hold on?
Well, they'll hold on desperately for dear life no matter what. But I think we have to move quickly because you Russia sees weakness and sees a moment of opportunity, and they're certainly ramping up. And I think that's part of the signals they're sending to Moldova and Estonia. My money's on the Ukrainians. Their resourcefulness, their resilience is really quite remarkable.
And so it's moving as quickly as we can to help them get them the weapons that they're asking for. If we do that, I think Ukraine's going to win. I think they're going to succeed. Do you think the wake-up call we thought Europe was getting two years ago is resonating, that France has got to realize they need more in their budget? Not forget the 2%.
Just go beyond the 2%. Let them realize that they might have to do more. You know, I think conservatives here in the U. S. Should be proud of what they've helped to achieve.
Europe is awakening, slowly, but awakening. They are ramping up the support that they provide to Ukraine. And it may be slow, painfully slow for many of us, but they are starting to take their obligations to NATO more seriously.
So I think we have succeeded in sending a very clear message that we'll be there, but we're not going alone here. It's very important for Europe to do its part. I think they are starting to do their part. I think they should be the ones that lead the reconstruction of Ukraine. Ukraine wants to be a member of the EU.
Europe should lead. It's good for them to lead. We'll play a role. But we shouldn't go alone and go it alone, and we aren't going it alone. All right.
Ambassador Mark Green, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Oh, thank you, Brian. You got it. 1866-408-7669.
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I don't know additional food. and supplies in Ukraine. and seek to continue to open up other avenues into Ukraine, including the possibility of a marine corridor. deliver large amounts of uh Humanitarian assistance.
So let me set the scene for you on Friday because you might have been busy and obviously over the weekend, maybe you want to get away from it. But that was Joe Biden reading from his cards instead of saying drop. Humanitarian aid on Gaza. He's reading from his cards and saying Ukraine twice. Even that struck Face the Nation's Margaret Brennan cut two.
This was a big decision, this was a big announcement. and the President of the United States twice got confused as to the country. And place where the aid was being dropped. He said Ukraine twice. Doesn't that concern you?
I just misspoke earlier when I said we need to stop transferring weapons. I said, A, I mean, people misspeak on television. He misspoke. An announcement of a major policy change. Here's the thing.
I have been very direct in criticizing the President's policy in the Middle East. I have spoken with the President. He is fully coherent. He is on top of details when I have talked to him just a couple of weeks ago.
So I would be remiss if I didn't point out that Donald Trump said something similar. But you understand that Rokahana is there to spend. Governor Newsome's there to spend. They said the most ridiculous things like this guy's on top of things. I can't believe his energy.
No one believes it. Nobody believes it. I'm looking at all the polls now. They obviously you guys don't believe it. But Donald Trump It had a long speech.
And one of the things he said was this, cut three. Putin has so little respect for Obama that he's starting to throw around the nuclear war today. You've heard that, nuclear. He's starting to talk nuclear weapons today. I was waiting for that to happen.
But we have a fool, a fool, as a president. He said, We will never leave until there is complete and total victory. We might be there for a long time.
So once again, this president messed up Biden-Obama.
Now, for the record, we know Obama was also not Vladimir Putin kind of laughed at him, did not fear him, mocked him when he got rid of the air defense system in Western Europe. He thought that would be a friendly notion to reset the relationship. And then he basically mocked him, took advantage of him, took a portion of Georgia and Crimea. And the Donbass region, so he never could solve Vladimir Putin. And he started off with Medvedev.
Who was uh legitimately was a handpicked successor for Vladimir Putin, and Putin ascended to a higher position, ceremonial, and then of course he came back and took it over.
So obviously Trump misspoke. Obama and Biden. But it's a lot different than Ukraine and Israel, number one and Gaza. And number two, it's not Iran Iraq, right? They almost sound alike and you say to yourself, Iran, Iraq, I haven't.
But my goodness, he's reading off cards in the Oval Office announcing going to circumvent the Israeli government and drop humanitarian aid, and he was not even corrected.
So it's crazy, and if someone like President Trump Goes on a prompt that goes off for 45 minutes to an hour, and misses a name that's much uh more understanding. Especially as a broadcaster, I understand that, than someone with pre-prepared remarks talking about a change in policy. No reason to add lib or add some color.
So, over the weekend, in the Sienna poll, Trump up 48.44. In the Fox News poll, Trump up 49.47. The Wall Street Journal poll, Trump up 47.45. The CBS poll, 52.48. How could people not think this is terrible news for the current President of the United States?
What I thought was the telling thing that I think was an interesting question to ask, and especially what they got back.
Now, the Obama administrative see, I just did it, the Biden administration just brought up, always brings up, look how low the unemployment is, look at how fast the economy is growing, look at the infrastructure we're getting done. When asked, Whose policies help you? More than twice as many voters believe that Mr. Biden's policies have personally hurt them. and believe uh uh uh as believe that his policies have helped them.
Forty percent of voters said Trump's policies have helped them. Only 18% think they have hurt them.
So, think about that for a second. The majority of voters who supported Biden in 2020 now say that he's too old to do the job.
Now, you may think, well, he's in striking distance, what's the difference? When you see these numbers, 55% of those who voted for him in 2020 say they believed that he's too old. The majority of voters think the economy is in poor condition.
Now, you could blame it on the press. But when Donald Trump gets ninety seven percent literally ninety seven percent bad press, and Joe Biden gets eighty percent minimum good press, how can you blame the press? Only 23 percent of the Democratic voters say they are enthusiastic about President Biden. Trump is winning 97 percent of those. Who voted for him in twenty twenty?
And people are saying not the hypothetical matchup, they say it's a rematch. They're not saying how would Trump govern. They're saying we'll compare the way he governed to the way Biden governed. That's so that to me is significant. Hey, go to BriankillMe.com.
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I hope you had a fantastic weekend. We're back in action today. I mean, got State of the Union on Thursday, Super Tuesday, in 24 hours, and we got the Supreme Court already taking action. Before I tell you what exactly the ruling was, and it's good news for President Trump. Special welcome to WRVA listeners over in Richmond, Virginia.
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Now, the breaking news that just came across about one minute ago, the Supreme Court. has decided The Supreme Court has decided that Donald Trump cannot be kicked off the Colorado ballot. They're citing a Civil War doctrine, citing an argument that dates back to when the rebels tried to, Confederates tried to get back into the Senate and to state houses. You can't say that he was an insurrectionist because he hasn't been charged with that, certainly hasn't been convicted of that.
So, as expected, Donald Trump gets reinstated officially on the Colorado ballot. Hours went until Super Tuesday voting begins. And that means all those idiots in Maine and around the country and these attorney generals that want to get famous and get their moment on MSNBC or CNN, forget it. You lost, Trump will be on to fight another day. And it's a great precedent because I don't want some Republican governor in Oklahoma kicking off a Democrat because they might think that that person's a threat or don't like his personality.
That should not stand. Let's get to the big three.
Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. And given. The immense scale of suffering in Gaza. There must be an immediate ceasefire.
Yeah, there it is, the vice president today making those announcements over the weekend, making her vision and thoughts clear. They're trying to divide so Israel won't conquer. The Biden administration invites Netanyahu's rival Benny Gantz to D.C. in the hope of Israel backing off their raid on Rafah and forcing a ceasefire before they beat off Hamas. My hope is Gantzk sees through it all and does what the Israeli people want and support Netanyahu at this point to finish off Hamas in Rafah while doing it in allowing a special corridor for innocent women and children.
Number two. Because Trump took the bait. Biden went to the border. Trump took the bait. He went to the border, too.
That means Joe Biden finally broke through on the border and what he's trying to do because we paid attention to both of them. And so I think a way for Biden to break through is to find that direct confrontation. Jennifer Palmieri is just a Democratic hack, making it clear the battle on the border, it's reached a fever pitch. And she thinks she could do a jiu-jitsu and make Trump weak on the border because he didn't go for the bipartisan bill. Not a chance.
We see the 37,000 illegal immigrants in New York City. We see that came in from Texas. We see the broken border. We see the 8 million expected to come through illegally this year and the 2 million or 3 million gotaways. And we know exactly who is to blame.
Number one. What matters is how people vote. And we have consistently, as Democrats, overperformed polls, not just in the special election that just happened in Long Island and the midterms in 22, but in election after election. And I'll remind you: former President Trump is underperforming. Yep, you better hope.
And that is Senator Chris Coons, who replaced Joe Biden when he became vice president. He was the senator from Delaware. But the Wall Street Journal, Fox, and CBS all agree, Trump is out in front.
Now, we know there's a long way to go, but we know this: by pure performance, Biden is losing. And the only reason those waves didn't happen in 2022, I didn't love some of the candidates Trump picked, got it. But it's basically because of abortion, the Republicans' inability to address it and message it. Joining us now to discuss this and more is Michael Goodwin. Michael, first off, not a big surprise, but a 9-0 Supreme Court decision.
Colorado cannot kick President Trump off the ballot, which means all those other idiot DAs and attorney generals should back off too, don't you think? I do, Brian. And it's It's good news for Trump, obviously, but I think it's very good news for America. If you're going to go down this road, if states could use this Civil War era statute, and by the way, Donald Trump has not been convicted or even accused of being an insurrectionist. And that's what the measure was aimed at.
The Civil War, it was the Confederates.
so that they could not come back into the government. To call January 6th or anything Trump said or did an insurrection, to my knowledge, not a single person has actually been accused of that. In all the hundreds of cases, more than a thousand actually, I don't think a single one has actually been accused of insurrection. And so for judges, that's what's so striking about Colorado and other states. Judges, people we assume have some knowledge and some integrity about interpreting the law, they declared Donald Trump an insurrectionist and on that basis tried to ban him from the ballot.
I mean, that's how crazy the far left has become. It has seeped throughout the Democratic Party. As you said, a number of other states. I think it was at least a dozen other states had made some moves or talked about banning Trump from their ballots as well. What?
It's not enough to Prosecute him, you have to ban him. I mean, you're going to drive a stake through his heart at some point, too. I mean, what are they afraid of? Why are they afraid of elections? I thought they were trying to save democracy.
You know, it's like that Vietnam line, we to save the village, we had to destroy it. I mean, that's their view of democracy. We have to destroy democracy in order to save it. I mean, it's really outrageous. And so I think it's a great thing that the Supreme Court did, and even better, that it was unanimous.
Right, so 15 states are going to go to the polls. And now, Colorado was going to be having the poll, but if this was ruled against it, they would just not count it. But Maine and others who have voted to get rid of it, some of them were reversed on appeal anyway within their state. But now we have 864 delegates available through 50, excuse me, through 15 states. Nikki Haley did win Washington, D.C., about a few thousand voters, but she did win.
But 68 to 33 percent. Haley says she's no longer bound by the RNC pledge and to support the party's nominee, which is going to be Donald Trump. He's up 244 to 243. What do you think she is up to? Is she just trying to give the sense that I'm still in it until she's not?
Or do you think she has decided just to sit it out? Look, I think um given this latest point that she's not bound by her pledge to support the nominee, it's kind of a strange pledge, I guess. But Trump never made it at all. But nonetheless, it does strike me, Brian, that in the last week or so, the tenor of Nikki Haley has changed dramatically. I wrote about a speech that she gave Friday and an interview she gave with a bunch of reporters before she gave the speech.
I mean, I described it as a burn-it-down moment where she just torched the Republican Party. She she says it's no longer the the party of economic freedom. And in this very strange section, she talked about her parents coming here fifty years ago as immigrants, and she wants to return America to that that land that was full of it was strong, it was full of hope and opportunity. And proud.
Now, if you think go back fifty years, that's pretty much, let's say, nineteen seventy-five. Um I don't know that most Americans look back on that era fondly. I mean, we're Jimmy Carter is in the shadow of Watergate, Vietnam. Jimmy Carter is about to be elected. Interest rates are in double figures.
Yeah, so I don't know saying things like that, I don't know what she's really thinking, I don't know what she's talking about. She seems to have this great desire for a Republican Party that I think in most views was comfortable with losing. It was except for Ronald Reagan, many, many can't, you know, John McCain, Mitt Romney. I mean, what is she talking about? What Republican Party?
She doesn't invoke Reagan, really. I'm not sure who or what she's talking about.
Well, you want to hear the closing arguments, Michael? Here's the closing arguments yesterday. Cut 10. We lost in 2018, we lost in 2020, we lost in 2022. How many more times do we have to lose before we realize maybe Donald Trump is the problem?
Get everyone you know to the poll so we can trounce Haley. She's I haven't heard about her in about a week. Has anybody known?
So he was trying to do that, but he did rip her personally. He called her bird brain on Truth Social. I don't think that's a wise move. I would just leave her in the backdrop if I was him. And I think Nikki Haley, every time she comes out, she sounds like a Democrat.
And as Gavin Newsom says, she's the best surrogate we have.
Well, and she has turned down the idea of running with the Democrat on the no labels ballot, the third party in effect. I don't know if that's maybe that's changing now because she said that before she went on this tirade against the against the party, not just Trump, but against the voters she had been courted been courting for more than a year.
So I at this stage, Brent, I would not be surprised if she did run as a third party candidate because she clearly is not a good fit for this Republican Party. And look, I also think that one other point worth making is that this idea that Donald Trump has underperformed the polls. That's true by modest amounts in some cases, well within the margin of error. But the New York Times pollster had an interesting analysis that he thinks the reason between what the poll showed and what the results showed in states like South Carolina and New Hampshire was simply Democrats Voting for Nikki Haley. And the Democrats were never polled, he said, because it's too expensive to poll both in that way.
So that the Democrats who voted for her may be, in his belief, that that is why she did better than her poll said, and Trump did worse.
So what does that tell you about the Republican Party? Nothing. It tells you that Donald Trump has roughly three quarters of Republicans on his team, and it'll probably get to 90% by the end of the primary process.
So now the so I have nothing against Nikki Helly. I'm just wondering about her tactics down the stretch. Obviously, she's not going to win. Obviously, it's going to be Trump's. Obviously, those court cases are her hail Mary.
If one of these cases ends up in Donald Trump's conviction and he goes to jail, she wants it to be clear it's her and she wants to set herself up for the future. I imagine, just real quick, on the border itself, 60 Minutes did a terrible job trying to explain what's going on at the border. She made it between Abbott and Biden when it's just about Abbott desperate to seal the border with millions coming through. They showed the footage. But I thought this was the most telling soundbite that I give credit 60 minutes for including it.
The former chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, this president said it was broken before I got here. It's a broken immigration system. Listen to what he said, cut 25. I've never had one.
Conversation with the president or the vice president for that matter. And so I was the chief of the border patrol. I commanded 21,000 people. That's a problem.
So If you are s if you were serious and want to pretend that you were serious about the border, and you never car call the chief of the U.S. Border Patrol for three years, you can't possibly try to sell that to the American people. Do you agree? I do, Brian. And I think it is one of the fundamental mistakes the Biden administration made, and it's paying for almost all of them.
I mean, it came into office on issues like the Mideast the border, the economy, uh trans the transgender sort of big big ticket issues. it said to itself and even to others, whatever Donald Trump did was wrong, and we're going to do the opposite. That's effectively what it did on the border.
So it broke the border. It broke I mean, its conduct in the Mideast has been atrocious. the way it has played FTSE with Iran this whole time as opposed to taking on Iran directly. On and on and on. It treats our allies like enemies and our enemies like friends.
It it reverses the world That was working in so many ways. Trump was hardly a perfect president, but he had some real successes. And the Biden people seem to hate him so much that they could not find any reason, any good in even his successful policies, even though it would have made their lives better. It would have made the country better. They broke things that were fixed.
It just doesn't make any sense, but it is back to Barack Obama's idea. Don't underestimate Joe's ability to F things up. Non-detained asylum seekers from 3 million in 2020 to now 6 million in 2023 and projected to be 8.1 million. Those numbers don't lie. That's on him.
It's not climate change. It's not the weather. It's him. Final thought? Absolutely.
And it was intentional. I mean, he had to know it. And the thing, Brian, I mean, Fox has done a great job of covering this. It was the only people really covering it for much of his time. And you would sit there, and you would see these people streaming across day after day in caravans and huge, huge numbers, the trains coming north, all of that stuff.
How could the White House sit there and do nothing? Gotcha. When you think back to Abbott, when he sent his first buses to New York, that was in the summer of 22 or early 22. They never reacted to Michael. We'll have to leave it there.
Mike, we're up against the break. Michael Goodwin, New York Post writer on the breaking news. By a 9-0 vote, the Colorado Republican Party can now put Donald Trump on the ballot and everybody else who wants to kick him off. The Supreme Court has ruled you cannot. Don't move.
The Brian Kilmead Show is here for Super Tuesday. Get everyone you know to the poll so we can trounce Haley. How many more times do we have to lose before we realize maybe Donald Trump is the problem? Instant analysis: the latest polls. We're going to come out so good.
I'm more popular than I ever was.
Well, first, let's see what happens on Super Tuesday. On the Brian Killmead Show. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Joe. I think that this case is actually a 5-4 case on what may be the most important decision.
If I'm reading this right, what they're saying is that Section 3 cannot be enforced unless Congress legislates through Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, which it has done in enacting a criminal statute, which would allow someone to be convicted of insurrection. What I glean from this is that they're saying that in the next January 6th, the next time that Congress is called on to ratify an election result, that Congress cannot... Use section three of the 14th. The Fourteenth Amendment to try to deny Donald Trump the presidency. That's interesting.
So they think that if the January 6th conviction happens, they still can't deny him the presidency, I guess, is what I'm ascertaining. And of course, that is the great Andy McCarthy referring to the fact that the Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump cannot be kicked off anybody's ballot, not in Colorado. Obviously, Maine and all these other states that want to challenge it. They're all partisan. Super Tuesday will potentially be super now for the former president.
Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. I think you need to have the Supreme Court settle this. I don't think that a president should be immune from anything. I think that the president has to live under laws, too.
Should Trump's classified document case go to trial, do you think, before November? I think all of the cases should be dealt with before November. We need to know what's going to happen before the presidency happens, because after that, should he become president, I don't think any of it's going to get heard. A couple of things. I was shocked to hear her say that.
I mean, that's Chris Christie-esque, and I'm a fan of Chris Christie. You're not going to get me say anything negative about him, but his approach was taking down Donald Trump. He's not right. He can't be president. The indictments are whatever it was.
She was not like that in the beginning. And she would say, I like work for him. We're friends. I told him I'm going to go down. I'm going to compete.
See the best person will win. And at first, she said she wasn't going to do it. It's fine. Everybody can change their mind. After the midterm, she did.
And now she's gotten gradually angrier and angrier.
Now she's taking Democratic arguments. You really believe the Alvin Bragg case needs to be settled before the election? It is a joke. You really believe the documents case as opposed to what. The documents case, which President Trump never should have taken, but having said that, Over the course of forty years, the sev former Senator, Vice President and President currently should never have taken those classified documents that he took over decades and bragged about to his ghostwriter, saying, Look, I have classified documents, nobody knows I have them, and they weren't in a safe.
They were hanging out in a garage behind couches in a place where his crackhead son was. Bring in hookers because we saw him in the very car that those papers were surrounded by.
So I was surprised to see Nikki Haley go that way. And also surprised to see her super PAC buy $1.4 million New York Times Square ad on 43rd Street and Broadway. It says Donald Trump, grumpy, Joe Biden lost with Alzheimer's or whatever the indication is. I'm the choice.
So she's not slowing down with 15 states and her not scheduled, not predicted to win any of them. Winning D.C. yesterday, she's burning down the house. Cut 15. If you talk about an endorsement, you're talking about a loss.
I don't think like that. When you're in a race, you don't think about losing, you think about continuing to go forward. What I can tell you is, I don't think Donald Trump or Joe Biden should be president. I don't think that we need two candidates in their 80s. I don't think we want a Joe Biden who calls his opponents fascist or a Donald Trump who calls his opponents vermin.
No one wants that. I think people want a new generational leader that is going to go back to what the American dream is, what we want for our kids, in a place that's something that we can be proud of again. Wow.
So, how How do you turn around and endorse President Trump when you say he can't win and he shouldn't be president? The answer is you don't.
So That doesn't help Trump. If Trump wants every vote possible and every state possible, especially the battleground states, and she does have some fans.
So what you want to do is show that you're united. That's not going to show you United. But the one issue that I don't understand her going after President Trump is on the border. Remember Kristen Nielsen? He fired her, got rid of her, got rid of somebody else because they were not strong enough on the border, HHS Secretary, two of them.
Do you remember the Border Patrol meeting with people, firing people, sending Stephen Miller out, doing the separations of families, getting Defense Department money and putting it into the border because he couldn't get it from Congress? Remember all that? But yet, still, she says he's not tough enough at the border. And they want to go now sell that it is Donald Trump. That is susceptible at the border, that is weak on the border, which I could not believe.
But listen to what they're trying to do. They're trying to do a jiu-jitsu, and they're trying to make sure that they know that this bipartisan legislation would have solved everything, but because Donald Trump didn't want to go along with it, the Senate and the Republican senators didn't sign off on it, and it didn't get done. Listen to former White House Communications Director Jennifer Palmiery, cut nine. Trump reacted this weekend, which I think is a reaction to Biden taking him on directly at the border. If there's one thing that comes out at the New York Times poll that's productive, it is that we have attention deficit disorder when it comes to paying attention to what Joe Biden is doing and what his positions are.
And I think because Trump took the bait, Biden went to the border, Trump took the bait, he went to the border too. That means Joe Biden finally broke through on the border and what he's trying to do because we paid attention to both of them. And by the way, it matters because now 63%, there's one poll that showed 63% of people think that House Republicans are to blame for stopping the bipartisan border bill. And they did it because they wanted to help Donald Trump. And then Trump freaks out and he has, you know, he has three days of the kind of display that we saw over the weekend.
And so I think a way for Biden to break through is to find that direct confrontation. Okay, a couple of things where she's totally wrong. Donald Trump was supposed to go to the border. He was booked to go to the border for three weeks. Why do I know that?
Because Sean Hannity set up a one-on-one interview with him three weeks ago. Last week, Joe Biden decided to go to the border with two days advance and said he didn't know Donald Trump was going to the border. It was in response. But I thought Elon Musk had the best tweet over the weekend. Which I think he call I don't know what you call that, an X.
Said Biden took 94 executive actions in his first 100 days to decimate border security and has the all-time and has all the authority he needs to reverse course and end the border crisis. On Biden's inaugural day, he signed the executive orders that incentivize illegal immigration. He paused deportations. He suspended Remain in Mexico. He stopped border wall construction.
Since these policy changes, over 8 million people have illegally entered the country, with millions more slipping past Border Patrol undetected, the so-called gotaways. Elon Musk absolutely nailed it, and he's not a right-wing conservative. He is standing telling people, do not be fooled. This guy said to surge the border, people did. He says we remain in Mexico, he wouldn't fight, so they'd no longer stay there.
He didn't do the wall, it's now rotting in the desert. All of these are related to the number one issue in America right now, and that's what's going on. And that's what people are looking at. It is the number one issue on both sides, and that's why President Trump is on top right now in the three polls with a lot of runway left. The one thing I do think that Christopher Koons is right on: it is true that Democrats overperformed their poll numbers so far in 2020 and 2022 to a degree, brought It is really solely around, in my view, the abortion, the Roe v.
Wave, the Hobbes decision, being unable to message it, hoping people duck out of it.
Well, now, a lot of these states, this is all up to the states now, a lot of these states like Kansas, like Ohio, have put it in already. They already had their moment. They already had their upsets. They put it in. Nobody's budging in New York.
We know that. Nobody's budging in these other places. And Glen Glenn Youngkin in Virginia has put a certain week ban on. I think it's fifteen weeks.
So you can only do this so many times. And now we're in a situation where the Middle East is on fire, the Ukraine is on fire, the border can't be done, has to be addressed. And I think it's a different time. Listen, when we come back, a special treat. We take a break from politics.
We take a break from talking about war. We take a break from talking about Gaza, humanitarian aid, and a ceasefire. To talk to Ann Wilson, a Grammy-nominated American Christian musician and songwriter. She has debuted, made her debut in 2021 through the release of her single, My Jesus, but she has mixed. Christianity and country.
A lot of that stuff is in the country music already, but her unique brand has not been done before. She'll be here to talk about it. You'll listen to the Brian Kilmeat Show. Educating, entertaining, enlightening. You're with Brian Kilmead.
The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. My knees with my hands. I say, dear Lord Jesus, you know I can't do this on my own. I can't do this on my own.
Lord knows I tried, but I could have fallen down. Thank God you could have picked me up off the crown. The world's gonna try to break me, but I know the one who makes me strong. And there you go, that is Andy Williams. Mm-hmm.
Grammy nominated American Christian musician and songwriter. She had made her debut back in 2021 and is rocking up the charts, especially with her appearance yesterday on Fox and Friends weekend. That song was called Strong from Strong, right? Yeah. Wow.
Great to see you, Annie. Yes, thank you so much. Thanks for having me. Man, you just tell me your schedule. I mean, is it hard?
Tell everybody what you've been doing. Where you've been. Yeah, I've been on tour with Scotty McCrary. And then we got here yesterday, played Fox and Friends, and we leave tonight and go back out on tour. But you were up in Syracuse too in between?
Yeah, we were in New York and Pennsylvania and Boston. What happened to that? What happened to your album once you were on Fox and Friends? Apparently, it spiked really high, which is awesome. That is fantastic.
So, how would you describe your mix and genre of music?
Well, I grew up on Christian and country radio.
So I love the message of Christian radio and or Christian music. I'm a huge believer in my faith and everything. But then I also love the sound of country music.
So I really like had this vision when I was about 18 years old as I was starting to write songs of what would it look like to combine these two genres and actually combine them, like the message of the gospel, but also like the sounds of country.
So that's what I've tried to do. See, I know in country music they sing a lot about God, but they always mix in the drinking. Yeah. So have you left out the drinking? I have a little bit, but I do.
You still have some of it. I I really like I just write about what I believe in and what I have found that has, you know, filled me up in life and what's given me joy and hope and all of that.
So so who taught you the fundamentals of music? Oh, well, I grew up. My mom and dad kind of forced us to take piano lessons growing up. And so I had taken piano from about five years old up until I graduated high school. Picked it up right away.
I took piano lessons. No, I actually didn't. I took a while to get there. But my mom's brother is a phenomenal musician. He sings and plays guitar.
And he was one of those people growing up that really kind of poured into me and helped me. He saw something in you, you think? I think so, maybe. I didn't really sing ever until I was about 15. But I do think that he saw in me when I was younger, like when I would play piano and stuff, that maybe I had a gift.
So tragically, your brother passes away at 23 in a car accident. And then at his funeral, you sang. Yeah. Could you talk about what led to that and then what happened after? Yeah.
So, yeah, my brother was killed and my life obviously forever changed. I have an older sister and me and my parents and we were devastated. And I remember like my faith really becoming real at that moment in my life. I knew that I couldn't survive his loss without God and I knew I wasn't going to get through it.
So I remember kind of making a decision just to trust God really. It was like, I'm going to do this with you. As hard as it is to trust you, I'm going to trust you right now. And that led to really me feeling like God was calling me to sing at the funeral. Which was very weird because I'd never sang in front of even my parents.
Like, I did not sing at church. Never. I did not sing. I had no desire to be an artist or to sing. Was it clear to your family how how Great, you sang.
No, they never heard me sing. Wow.
I mean, like, if I was at church sitting next to my parents, I would sing like the hymn that we were singing or whatever, but it wasn't like I was up on the stage or in choir or anything like that.
So, my parents, my mom overheard me singing, like, like maybe two days after he passed away. And she runs in the room crying, and she was like, Ann, I had no idea you could sing. Like, where is all this coming from? And that was the moment that she really was just like, Would you be willing to sing at the funeral? Because we can't find anyone to sing, and we really want someone to sing at our son's funeral.
obviously, and it was like so heartbreaking. And so then I ended up singing at the funeral. I got some friends together that I knew that could play guitar and uh violin and I played the piano and we put together a version of of this worship song called What a Beautiful Name and and sang it and it was Such a special moment.
So you thought you leave the church, special moment, tragedy, you're never going to forget it, obviously for your family, your brothers, passed away. Did someone post it? Yeah, so we ended up filming like a video of it a few months later just to kind of have it to look back on. For just to say, you know, this was the moment that. Um That, you know, to honor my brother really was what the plan was.
And then it went viral in like a couple of days. And that was the first time I'd ever really put anything out there before. Instagram, Facebook, and it was on YouTube. Yeah. And then some manager found me from Nashville and said, Hey, I'm a manager from Nashville.
Can you come to Nashville and meet with me? I want to talk to you about what it would look like to pursue music. And at the time, I was 15, I was living with my parents. It was in high school. Obviously, I was in my sophomore year of high school.
So at the top of the year of 2018, me and my parents went to Nashville and met with him. And then, really, the rest is history. I signed a record deal the following year when I was 17. I was still in high school. And then I moved in 2020.
I graduated high school that year and I moved to Nashville all by myself. And do you want you chose to write your own songs? I mean, there's so many songwriters around who would love to have got you a song, but you wanted to write your own. Yeah. I think I've always kind of had a vision for my music and a specific vision of what I want it to sound like and what I want the lyrics to be about, especially because of my brother passing away.
There's just certain things that I really believe in and just that I think should be in a song. And so I really wanted to be at least in the room. with people when we were writing songs together. How unique is the genre? Uh of uh Christianity and country.
How unique is that mix? I feel like God is, like you said earlier, a lot in country music.
So that was something that's kind of already there, that connection point. But it is different, I think, to write a song that I think for me, I view my music as not necessarily worship music, but more like songs about God or songs about my faith. And so that's probably been a little bit easier for me to go, I'm going to write a song about God and faith, but also country and where I came from and my roots and all of that. And so it's definitely unique. Yeah.
Am I right that the name of your name of your album is Rebel? Yeah. How does that fit in with who you are?
Well, it's funny, people always say that. Like, you're just this little short girl. Like, why are you calling yourself a rebel? For me, no tattoos? No, I don't have any tattoos.
Okay, because I would think a rebel would have to have a tattoo. For me, it was a moment about two years ago. I had a song come out and it was a Christian song, very like Christian message. And people were like, well, we're not going to play it because it's too country sounding. And honestly, that kind of like lit a fire in me.
To go, well, I'm going to just be authentically who I am, play my songs or not. I'm going to write songs about my faith, but they're going to sound country. That's who I am. And then it was also the message of being a rebel because I feel like for my generation, to be a Christian in the world that we live in today literally makes you a rebel. It's like everybody's always trying to tell you what to be or you know, or who to become or whatever.
But it's like the people that have faith and they believe in Jesus and they stand firm in it. Like, we're the odd ones out. And so that really made me feel like, you know, I'm just going to dive deeper into this and put out a country record that's all about Jesus. And I know it had a big impact on Fox and Friends. I heard it was fantastic.
Thank you.
Now, there's a couple of things. I remember Taylor Swift's star in country. I guess she goes back and forth.
Now, Beyonce's going into country. How do you feel about that? It's, I don't know. I mean, I feel like there are some artists that can do all of it, you know, and they can do it amazing.
So.
So, you're right with that? Yeah, I'm fine with it. Whatever they want to do. Have you met other established? Scotty McCreary, I remember when he came on.
I remember when he was a finalist on American Idol. Yeah. Yeah, he's amazing. He's not gone away. He's gotten bigger and bigger.
He's such a good guy.
So, what is it like on the road with him? It's been awesome. We do, yeah. We have separate tour buses, so we don't see each other a ton, but when we do, he's such a good guy and he's just a phenomenal singer and artist and performer, and so it's been awesome to be able to do it. Do you find that Nashville looks at you and says, Is it is it like sports, very competitive?
Where okay. Who's this Annie Wilson? Like, she comes out of nowhere. She's 21. I got to look out for her, or do you think they're supporting you?
I think, I mean, obviously, I definitely feel supported. And I also do think, like, the more and more time goes on, I do think every artist kind of has their own lane. It doesn't even really feel competitive to me anymore as much as it just feels like everyone has really come around me and championed me in this season. All right.
So, with strong men, the song we bumped in on means. Strong? Yeah. I wrote that song um Really, after, well, I mean, through the last couple of years of just going through life without my brother and needing a reminder of a strength that's greater than my own. And Wilson, how do we download your album?
It's everywhere you listen to music, and it'll be out April 19th. It's called Rebel. And Eric, what are we bumping out with?
Okay, this is you. This is called My Jesus. All right.
Ann Wilson, great to see you. Thanks so much for stopping by. Hopefully, it will not be the last time. Yes, thank you. Just the first.
Best of luck. Thanks. She's singing us out. A hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, baby, hallelujah, a hallelujah, a hallelujah. Let my peace and shake your life from the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan.
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And then the next day we'll be doing a show from Richmond, Virginia, and hopefully we'll be announcing that location soon. We do have the breaking news. On a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court has said that Donald Trump cannot be kicked off the Colorado ballot. Therefore, all the other challenges in all the other states on the eve of Super Tuesday have to leave him on the ballot. I know that drives a lot of you nuts, but this is how overwhelming it was.
90. Nino Decisions Straight ahead, we're going to find out about immunity too in the next few weeks and what the Supreme Court feels about a president having immunity to being challenged with any decision in the court of law.
So let's get to the big three.
Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. And given the immense scale. of suffering in Gaza. There must be an immediate ceasefire.
That is the great Vice President Kamala Harris saying, I have an idea. Let's take an ally that's depending on us and stop them before they wipe out the terrorists that actually killed almost 3,000 of them. They try to divide us, and Israel won't conquer. The Biden administration invites Netanyahu rival Benny Gantz to D.C. in the hope of, I guess, having Israel back off their raid on Rafah and go for a ceasefire.
My hope is that Gantz stays on the same page as Netanyahu and they stay a united front. Gantz will eventually be prime minister, but my sense is it's very important for Israel to stay together. Number two. Because Trump took the bait. Biden went to the border.
Trump took the bait. He went to the border too. That means Joe Biden finally broke through on the border and what he's trying to do because we paid attention to both of them. And so I think a way for Biden to break through is to find that direct confrontation. Ah, there you go.
Jennifer Palmieri, battle at the border reaches a fever pitch. And Democrats actually believe that Joe Biden should go on the offensive at the border, which he smashed, that has millions coming here illegally, and he ignored it.
Now he's finally forced to pay attention because the polls are so heavily weighted for his challenger, Donald Trump. Nobody's buying that they're on equal footing. Number one. What matters is how people vote. And we have consistently, as Democrats, overperformed polls, not just in the special election that just happened in Long Island and the midterms in 22, but in election after election.
And I'll remind you: former President Trump is underperforming. And that is Senator Chris Coons. And he'll be the last one standing. He's very loyal to the guy who used to have his job, Senator from Delaware, 2024. The Wall Street Journal, Fox, CBS, all have one thing in common.
And the New York Times. They say that Donald Trump is winning head-to-head against President Biden. That is something that has people panicking on the left because there's no fixing a lot of it because their candidate. Does not have the charisma necessary to be able to do what Obama has done, what George W. Bush is able to do, what Bill Clinton was able to do, which 41 was not able to do, and that is go out, work, do four or five events a day, and try to get momentum back on your side.
It's not going to happen. And here's why: here's an example. When people talk about an incumbent president and having the advantage of being incumbent, It's not just because you're known, it's because you control the news cycle in many cases. You're able to call a press conference and let everybody know and do certain things that I'm in charge. Look at me, I'm in charge.
I'm in your living room, I'm listening on the radio, I'm in your car, I'm everywhere. And when you have to make consequential decisions, I'm the one in charge. There's no substitute to looking presidential as president, as obvious as that sounds. But then there's President Biden. And nobody's mistake free.
No one's playing a perfect game. But here he is announcing that he's going to be able to drop in humanitarian aid without getting the Prime Minister of Israel's permission and just dropping Gaza. In Gaza. Yes, for the Palestinians. But he says this: cut one.
In the coming days, we're going to join with our friends in Jordan and others in Friday and airdrops of. Of additional food and supplies into Ukraine and seek to continue to open up other avenues into Ukraine, including the possibility of a marine corridor. deliver large amounts of uh Humanitarian assistance.
Reading from cards, can you spot the word that doesn't belong? Ukraine? Listen. I want Ukraine to get aid. That's a different point.
That's a different subject, though. But when it happens, not only do you have SNL mocking him now, Jon Stewart challenging him, Bill Maher challenging him, even Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation, listen to her voice. Cut to. This was a big decision. This was a big announcement.
And the President of the United States twice. got confused as to the country. And place where the aid was being dropped. He said Ukraine twice. Doesn't that concern you?
I just misspoke earlier when I said we need to stop transferring weapons. I said, aid. I mean, people misspeak on television. An announcement of a major policy change. Here's the thing.
I have been very direct in criticizing the President's policy in the Middle East. I have spoken with the President. He is fully coherent. He is on top of details when I have talked to him just a couple of weeks ago.
Okay. Rocahana, same as Gavin Newsome, same as all the surrogates, Governor Pritzker, Governor Whitmer, they have to make excuses. Or they can embrace it and say he might mispronounce a few names, but he's on top of things. But we just never see it. Look at Bill Maher over the weekend.
He du he fears Donald Trump winning. Spears it, but still said this. Too old to be president slams, Joe must embrace them. Stop with the I'm sharper than ever. Nobody's buying that.
Okay. Don't try to deny the age thing. Lean into it. Lean in. Lean in like you're eating soup.
Just admit it. Say, yes, I'm bad with names, and I walk like a toddler with a full diaper. I say, he should let his old fart flag fly. Right. I mean, I think he wants him to drop out.
He said it. He goes, Leave is a hero. I listen to Bill Maher Stew, his podcast, too. He has a lot of people like Candace Owens on, find it interesting. He likes having people on with him that disagree with him.
But now he finds himself agreeing with a lot of conservatives. And what I find most interesting about Bill Maher is he loves the country. And I think there's a lot of people when they speak don't love the country. Instead of saying, well, this is my image of how to make it better and this is what's wrong, they seem to be coming out of a place where the country is not worthy of their time. That's why I find that I guess some people are mad at Bill Maher.
I think he's it's been been great. And not because I think that he's some conservative or even a moderate. He's way to the left, but he can't even recognize those people on the left.
So for Senator Chris Coons. He's not panicking. And why would he panic? I just want to run you through some of in case you missed some of these polls. I was just stunned when I was reading in the New York Times Sienna poll.
So uh Trump wins by f Trump's up by four. And the Fox News poll is up by two, and the Wall Street Journal poll up by two, and CBS up by four. But listen to how this breaks down. Trump has significant support now among people under thirty years old. Fifty-one percent And di uh by with 51% of the vote.
Democrats. Have 8% with 8% of near-record support for Hispanics.
So here's what the President has now: 48% support among Hispanics. With suburban women, his biggest weakness, according to the Fox poll, 45% support. And as I mentioned, 51% support there. If you look at the Fox News poll, how would you vote if the candidates were Biden against Trump? Sixty-six percent would vote for Biden.
What? That leaves 28% for Trump. Do you know what Mitt Romney got in the black vote? 8%. Hispanics Wow, the more Hispanics that come to America, Republicans aren't going to like it because that means the whole vote is going to go to Democrats.
Well, someone should have told the Hispanic community. There's not only Cubans, but generally some of the hardest working people in our country's history. Joe Biden, 49% of the vote. Trump 48. He's up by four in the Siena poll in that.
Suburban women, thought to be Trump's biggest weakness, it's still a weakness. He's down by seven. And under thirty, fifty one forty-five for Trump. Who would think that?
Now the question you might have is, is Biden losing it or is Trump winning it? I don't know, Ron DeSantis was actually trailing to Joe Biden. Duran DeSantis is arguably the most successful governor of the country. Running off the a huge win. Still was not trouncing Joe Biden.
The one who wins by about 10 is Nikki Haley, and I'll give her credit on that. She seems to be an alternative, but you have to understand, too, the reason why Nikki Haley does better is no one on the left is attacking her. They're not probing into her background. They're propping her up, if anything else. They're actually, in many cases, giving her money.
I'm not saying that she should reject it, but they are. How about this question? The administration has made America weaker or stronger. 58% say Joe Biden has made it weaker. 36% made it stronger.
And what I think is the most telling. A New York Times poll asked this question. And here it is. More than twice as many voters believe that President Biden's policies have personally hurt them. More than twice as many people say the things he has done.
He keeps saying unemployment's low, infrastructure's rising, prescription costs are down. Really? Uh he says crime is down. I don't know anybody that feels that that's what he was trumpeting last week. Can you imagine coming up with policies and people saying, not only are you not helping me, you're hurting me?
40% of voters said that Trump's policies had helped them personally. Majority of voters who supported Biden in 2020 now say he's too old to run. If you were a Democrat, And looking at these numbers, you could spin them all you want to me or to you, but when they're sitting down that road, that door gets closed. You have to say to yourself, how do we make this better? And scaringly for the country, the way they make it better, It is to make Donald Trump unelectable and make him the worst heath, the second coming of Hitler.
Democracy's in the balance. But Republicans should be ready for that type of argument. Because when it comes to democracy in the balance, when you see what he's done with student loans, you see what happened with our border, you see what he's saying with people coming here and being able to stay. I'm pretty sure you got a democracy argument there.
So when we come back, I'll be able to take your calls for the first time. 1866 408 7669. Bottom of the hour, we talk about Selena Zito. She's done a great article on the lessons from Michigan From the Democrats, and maybe Vice President Kamala Harris gave away their game plan, and that is get Israel to stop bombing Hamas. Yeah.
Brian Kill Me Chill. On the road to 2024, is a Trump nomination just a Super Tuesday away?
Well, the numbers are far greater than we even anticipated. I hope she'll drop out. There's no reason for her to stay in. You can't win a general election if you can't get 40% of Republican primary voters. All eyes on Super Tuesday, right here on the Brian Kill Meet Show.
The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. But can he make that case with the speed and sharpness that someone like you can? Dana, Joe can do it better. I was just with him and behind closed doors, Joe is incredible.
Yesterday we had a big meeting about the border and God he had such command. He had charts, tables, PowerPoints. He had an interactive AR display on the Apple Vision Pro that he programmed himself. The software might be in beta, but the man, he's in alpha. Governor, I have to.
You don't have to exaggerate to make voters feel better. I'm not. What we are saying about Biden is true. You want to call him? Let's FaceTime him.
I'll bet he's probably just right in the middle of a bike ride. All right, can you put my phone up on the screen? Hey, hey, all right, Mr. President. Hold on, we're just gonna turn up the volume.
It's got a Find a button. He goes there we go.
Well, looks like he hung up. Yeah. So that was the cold open that had Dana Bash making fun of the fact that all the Donald excuse me, all the Joe Biden people and surrogates talk about him being totally different than the one you see. And no one's buying it, including Face the nation, including in real life Dana Bash. You know why they're starting to own up to it?
Because they're panicking. Not because a Republican can win, I think more than Donald Trump can win, and they can't figure it out. And here's what I think really freaks them out. What freaks them out is they've done everything. I think 90%, 97% of the coverage of Donald Trump is negative.
They talked about the January 6th, the trials that happened, the two impeachments that took place, the midterm elections that in many cases didn't go as well, the red wave that didn't happen. They want to focus on 2018 as if it's not typical. Every time a sitting president has a midterm election, they usually get pushed back a little in one chamber. He added some seats in the Senate. He lost the House.
Got it. We have now Speaker Pelosi. For the last two years, it resulted in an impeachment. Got it. Understand.
But having said all those things, It really freaks them out that Donald Trump could actually be winning in every single major poll. And that's been the case for a while. In fact, The uh approval rating of Donald Trump is at 45%. And the approval rating of Of Joe Biden is behind Trump, is behind Obama, is behind George Bush, even in the second term at this point.
So that's the figure out. They don't have the power that they once had. And now they're kind of mocking it. I don't know if it's to push him out. 'Cause I don't think he's going anywhere.
At all. But tomorrow is Super Tuesday, and it's still a chance for Republicans to go out and let their voices be heard. And when we look at what's at stake, It's really simple. Fifteen states. A total of 864.
Uh, delegates, right now, Trump's up 244 to Haley's 43, to DeSantis 9, Saramaswamy 3. Nikki Haley did win last night at Washington, D.C. She got sixty two percent of the vote. That's great for her, a little bit of momentum, but I can't quite figure out what she wants to do Afterwards. Here's what she says.
Here's what Donald Trump had to say about the court cases. And by the way, I should add, in case you're just tuning in, by 9-0 decision, Donald Trump has won the Supreme Court decision to keep himself on the ballot, that you can't use a Civil War-era ordinance, the 14th Amendment, to keep him off the ballot. And I think that's good news for the country. Here he is, cut 11. It's really impossible for me to get a fair trial in D.C., but that's okay.
Don't worry. I don't know what's going to happen. I wrote up, but it's all going to work out. We're going to come out so good. I'm more popular than I ever was.
Because of these people. Yeah. So, on the other hand, Nikki Haley has not backed off. Here's what she said about people who say that she's just running against Trump instead of for herself. Cut 16.
There's a huge difference between me and Chris Christie. Chris Christie ran. Because he just didn't want Trump. I am running because it's not about Trump. I voted for him twice.
I was proud to serve America in his administration. This is not a never-Trump movement. This is the fact that I see America going into a bad direction, one that's going off a fiscal cliff, one where our kids don't think they're ever going to be able to afford a home, one where we've got only 31% of eighth graders in our country reading, one where we have a ridiculously open border, and one where we're about to fall into war if we don't go forward. I think that's dangerous. I think that's not what Americans want.
And that's what I'm trying to say: we need to stop this direction and go in a new direction where we can be safe and healthy, economic freedom, freedom of all types, so that we can have Americans that feel like they have a government working for them again.
Well, here's the problem. How can you possibly ever endorse President Trump when that's your closing statement? And they actually got worse from it. I do think there's a slight difference. It used to be a major difference in the way Chris Christie was running and Nikki Haley's running.
Now, not much of a difference.
So you listen to Brian Kill Me Cho. Selena Zito's next. She talks about the damage done by the, in Pennsylvania, by the President of the United States deciding no more new licenses for natural gas and more, and the lessons of Michigan. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmead.
We lost in 2018. We lost in 2020. We lost in 2022. How many more times do we have to lose before we realize maybe Donald Trump is the problem? Get everyone you know to the poll so we can trounce Haley.
She's I haven't heard about her in about a week. Has anybody known?
So that is the final thought, the closing arguments for both Haley and Trump. And I don't see Nikki Haley going past Super Tuesday. If she pulls off three or four state wins, absolutely. They say she might have a shot in Virginia and the suburbs. That's where she's strongest.
That's where Donald Trump needs to make up the most ground. I think it's worth having a strategy session on that, which is why I would never insult her personally. I would stop with all the bird brain stuff. It doesn't apply to her. She's extremely bright.
You know, it's not like she's got a history of being dizzy and something, you know, like she's. Like she's one of the characters from Friends. She's not like that. But I find it very interesting. I think things really change after Super Tuesday.
I would not think, I think that if it becomes a route on Tuesday night late. And when everything starts coming in at 9 o'clock, if all the 15 states are going away, I would think that that might be the time for her to say, I had a great run. I have these uh major concerns about the future of the party. Congratulations to Donald Trump, and then maybe in a week or two, go back at it. But it was brought up to me.
They were just to remind you, they go, Brian, remember you. Ted Cruz was the runner-up. Kasich lasted the longest, but Ted Cruz was the closest. And he never endorsed. President Trump.
In 2016. In fact, famously, he was at the RNC, got his moment on stage, and still never endorsed him. Joining us now is Selena Zito, Nationally Syndicated Columnist. Our latest column really is enlightening because it is a warning sign for Joe Biden for the rest of the Midwestern states, and that's the lessons from Michigan and the primary and the uncommitted. Selena Zito, welcome back.
Hey there. Thanks so much for having me.
So you heard some of the closing arguments from both before we talk about Michigan, can we talk about Super Tuesday? Outside Virginia, do you expect Nikki Haley to be competitive elsewhere? No. I don't. I mean, I think that if we're all being honest, this was pretty much started to be locked up.
In the beginning, end of December, beginning of January, voters had made their sentiments known in polling. And he's really never had to look back. I agree with you on the insults, but I think he, you know, that's part of his. That's part of his way of communicating with people. And I think what he's trying to project is, okay, I want to go one-on-one with Biden.
It's time to go. And so and I agree with you also. I think that that Haley more than likely drops off tomorrow. She thanks everybody. She, you know and and just is more aspirational in terms of let's all be in this together.
Because Americans, at the end of the day, respond the most to aspirational messages. Let's be part of something bigger than ourselves. Right. And that's what I thought one of the best messages that Trump has changed You know, in the beginning, before the votes really started and the pr and everything started taking shape, He was talking about, I'm going to get back in there, I'm going to clean this out, and I'm going to basically pay people back.
Now he says, I'm going to have no time for retaliation. I got too much to do.
So I think that that's a pie. I think the whole country is done with retaliation, although I don't think it's going to stop on the other side at all. Yeah. I 100% agree with you. I think when he was falling flat was like last year at this time and going into through the summer, a lot of his message was sort of an airing of the grievances.
I think it's like festivis, right? And the poll, he wasn't that strong in the polling. But you know, one of the things that a lot of reporters miss. was the aspirational aspect of make America great again. That is an aspirational message, and it is appealing to Democrats, Republicans and Independents.
And while the word MAGA has now been turned into almost like a negative slang term by my profession, it still holds the the essence of it. It's still very near and dear to the heart of the people, in particular the ones that I cover in the Great Lakes, Midwest and in Appalachia. See the the one thing I hold to And I think it's a really good point. That came out of some conversations we had. I thought the longer Nikki Haley stays in, as I flip channels and I always do, just to find out what everyone's saying, the more they have to talk about these positive stories on Trump because he's winning by 20, he's winning by 40, he's winning by 50, he wins this category, wins the next category.
And it's the less time that we have to go over something we're going to be obsessed with over the next eight months, and that is Biden Trump. And he keeps talking about. You know, keeps talking about, you know, they have to keep saying, well, Donald Trump is stronger than we thought. Nobody ever thought there'd be a comeback like this. But the minute he officially hits the nomination, that's going to change.
Yes, it's going to change the tone and tenor of the campaign because now no one has someone to compare him to. Although I think Kennedy might rise up and become part of the conversation.
So that is a bit of a deflection. But then I think that is a deflection away from Biden. And so I think that what Trump needs to be prepared for right now is to have a strong message. I believe after covering Michigan this past weekend or was that this note, two weekends I can't even remember, last Tuesday. And but also the poll that I just put up Um at the Washington Examiner uh on on uh uh the energy, the LPN, the decision to that Biden made in terms of the liquid national um natural gas and halting that.
These kinds of in Pennsylvania especially. Yeah, I mean, the poll came back in Pennsylvania, and it's devastating for Biden. It is absolutely devastating. I mean, this is a sector that creates hundreds of thousands of jobs and puts millions and millions of dollars back into the economy in places where energy, you don't think of energy, right? Like in agriculture.
But, you know, and these are jobs that aren't just working class, they're not just welders. They're also AI, they're geologists, they're engineers, they're welders. The industry has a broad range of but Selena, it's crazy. Not only that, it hurts our national security. We're supposed to be delivering natural gas to Europe because we're with Nord Stream 2 and 1 down because of Russia's belligerence.
Now we're supposed to be supplying them. We'd be their best supplier and they'd be our best customer. And instead, he tries to kiss up to the environmentalists. Who is he listening to? He does not earn wealth.
One vote. with this. That is the astounding thing. Elected Democrats have been talking to me privately in this shape. And they have said this doesn't earn him one vote, this doesn't earn us one vote, and it actually subtracts vote.
And what I think votes, what I think is really fascinating in the polling is that 22% of people who are undecided are more likely to vote against Biden because of this, and only 3% of voters are more likely to vote for Biden. I mean, those are stunning numbers to me. Yeah, I mean it's not even politically savvy. It'd be different if you went the other direction because drilling has picked up over the last two years eighteen months. But whatever the drilling is, the drilling would be quadrupled if Trump was in office responsibly.
He also got Venezuela back on the market as well as Iran allowed to sell. That to me was a selfish ploy to keep the price of gas down. It is a stunning move to me. And I think the biggest lesson right now. is for people to pay attention to the working class voter and people will always say, oh, white working class, no.
Black working class, Hispanic working class, whoever. Is working class. They are going to be the most important cog in this election cycle. Yes, you need coalitions of other people to win on election day, but their motivation, their drive are going to be the most important thing. And if you look at the numbers out of Macone County, which who works there?
Macone County, it's UAW workers. Look at the numbers in Michigan. I have a story up right now on the Washington Examiner. And you look at the numbers out of Macone and you look at the numbers Trump got and Biden got and it's It's mind-blowing. They should be very concerned about their message.
And the message of what are they calling it? Greedflation? Yeah, they don't think their local grocery store is greedy. Like, that doesn't work. See, Selena Zito, our guest indicated columnist.
What you're pointing out, too, is important.
So if the prices are still high, Even though the president says inflation's bending down, blame the greedy grocery stores. Really? The greedy grocery stores with their margins, they're the problem. It's always somebody else, the oil, the oil companies, they're the problem. They're trying to get greedy.
Really? So everybody's greedy.
So how much is capitalism? How much is greed? Also, people have to make a living.
So when you raise prices and rage wages on everybody because you want to be kind to the working class, fine. But do you understand that's now going to be $19 for a Big Mac? He does not under it's like as if they've never been in business before. Right, and let's just think about, let's unpack this for a minute, Brian. Um your local McDonalds.
Is not opened by owned, more than likely, by big McDonald's corporations. It's located by a local husband and wife or a local, you know, a local businessman. That's who owns it. Then think about your grocery store. At least 50% of the people in this country shop at a local grocer.
The grocer in your community likely coaches your little league, sits with you shoulder by shoulder in church, volunteers and speaks at the Rotary Club. They are not going to look at them and said, oh, oh, they're greedy. No, they're going to look at the way government is behaving. It's mind-blowing to me that this is the message that they're settled on. Absolutely.
So, what is the lesson of Michigan? Is it just about the Arab-Muslim vote, or is it something else? No, it's not. It's not at all. That is a small part of it.
Democrats can't lose that percentage, that small percentage. It is a small percentage. And an overall tight race.
So it's going to be tight there. Yeah, but what you have to worry about is your working class voter. who may have voted for Biden in 2020, but is now seeing their paycheck smaller. And what I mean by that is their paycheck doesn't go as far because of inflation. And they're insulted that people keep telling them, who's that?
Paul Krugman is always saying there's no inflation. Or people put books out called Rural Rage. Y'all just don't understand the things that are in peop you know, people sit down and do a budget at home. Lots of people use envelopes and they put their money in it and do their budget. And those envelopes are not going far enough for the families.
They're not, and we're seeing it right now as Governor Whitman tried desperately to reverse things in Michigan, but the noncommitted matter. Just a final statement. When the DNC takes place in Chicago, even regardless of what takes place, more than likely the Gaza fighting might subside because I think they've taken out 18 of 24 battalions and there's only one major city left. But let's say that happens. Do you still see protests in Chicago?
Yeah, absolutely. I feel like we're going to see, what was it, 1968? Yeah. I remember that being said, I remember that just sort of seared in my head. I was eight or nine years old and watching that and thinking, there's so many angry people, and the people, the Democrats, aren't listening to them.
And I think the Democrats have the same problem within, you know, people talk about the base is split or the Republican Party is split. I would argue that the Democrats have a bigger problem. Not that dismiss the problems that the Republicans have.
However, the Democrats have a larger problem that has been building since Gore v. Bush that is only fracturing and splintering more. Right. Republicans getting in their own way a lot, especially in the House. What they've done over there is just a travesty.
And then listening to their extreme right. I don't care if you personally are extreme right, that will not get you elected. No, it won't get you elected. And I think this is an important point that a lot of analysts and reporters miss. A lot of working class voters were part of the New Deal coalition with the Democrats.
And they started kicking them out in 2000, and then they shoved them out in 2012 for this new coalition of the ascendants. The Republicans inherited them, and for most re for a lot of reasons, they agreed with the Republican principles. But these Republicans that run campaigns and live in DC do not understand these voters. They are not strident freedom caucus voters. They just want government to function.
Right. So neither party really gets these voters. And sometimes you need Selena.
Sometimes you got to compromise. You know, maybe in election year it's tough, but in the Fed you don't want to be called a rhino. And you just got to risk losing your your seat. People have to understand it's different governing in Oklahoma than it is having a congressional seat in New York. And you can't it's not people lack a spine.
They got to represent the people, and some of them are moderates.
Some of them vote Democrats, some are Independents. In Oklahoma, maybe 85% are Republicans. You don't govern the same way. It doesn't mean they're stronger in Oklahoma than New York. It's just you have to represent the people that put you there.
That's exactly right. That's why the name is called Representative. Yep. Selena Zito, thanks so much. Thanks so much.
For having me. Have a great day. And you can follow her at Zito Selena. When we come back, I'll try to squeeze some calls: 1-866-408-7669. Brian Kill Mecho.
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in that he's old timey and held together by strings. That is pretty funny. I must have missed that one. Hey, just a quick note: I'm going to be at Politics and Pint. It's going to be the WRVA is doing this great event over in Richmond, Virginia.
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You win Republicans, still think they can win Virginia. And Governor Glenn Young gave them that sense that things might be changing there, especially in the military communities there.
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David, what's on your mind?
Well Thank you for taking my call. These types of shows throughout the day. And one of the things that I've been missing. Uh is the mention of the book Blood Money by Peter Schwartz. This is a must-read for every U.S.
citizen. You mean Peter Schweitzer? Sweetest Schweitzer, yes, sir. I just got the book yesterday, and I've already read the first five chapters. It's just I was enthralled in the book, and it just gives so much information.
But it basically talks about the corruption within our government and the influence that China continues to have on our government and why our government is turning a blind eye to the fact that China is our main source of fentanyl. I know. They're out to kill us. They even give the pill compressors to Mexico, and we pretend as if Mexico is up to it on their own. They're incentivized to do it.
Peter Schweitzer does a great job, too, and he also talks about the Biden relationship there. Thanks so much for the call, David. Listen to this show ad-free on Fox News Podcast Plus, on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music with your Prime Membership, or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Mm-hmm.
