Biden stumbles, rages and spins his way through State of the Union speech

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Gilmead. Glad you're here. Thanks so much for being with us all week long. We're going to close out strong with Harold Ford from Washington, giving us the Democratic perspective on the president's State of the Union last night: the structure, the effectiveness, and what he's going to say to follow up now.

As this campaign will be about nine months long, and he's going to be in Philadelphia today. Usually, you build on the State of the Union address, but this president does not do a lot of speaking, does almost no interviews, and zero press conferences. How that will change, I'm not sure. But it was fiery, it was loud, he was yelling, and I thought it was essentially. A campaign address.

If I closed my eyes and I said, Where's the speech being given? I would say the Democratic National Convention. And even as Mitt Romney said, who is hardly a right-wing firebrand, he said, the days. These speeches being about unifying the country or the state of the nation seem to be over.

So, before we get to Admiral Staff Reedis, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Users of TikTok are getting a pop-up on the app lying about our bill. saying stop the ban on TikTok. But of course, if you actually read the bill, it's not a ban.

That is outgoing Congressman Mike Gallagher on the China committee. Let's go. Congress, despite protests and lobbyists, is in the process of banning TikTok. If the Chinese company does not sell at all, bad news for the Biden campaign, they'd have to close their account. Number two.

I think he had a strong night, and I think he had a strong night in part because of the economic agenda that he outlined. I still think that if you ask people who watch the speech, the triumphalism about where the economy is today is probably not matching uh not matching their And they did add 275,000 jobs, but the unemployment rate went up. That, of course, David Axarad, the State of the Union, reaction and analysis from the expulsion, there was a few, the 20-minute delay, which was because of protesters, Senator Katie Brits' rebuttals, and Donald Trump's real-time truth socials. It's all coming your way. Number In January.

1941. Franklin Roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation. And he said. I address you in a moment. unprecedented in the history of the Union.

Now, it's we who face an unprecedented moment. Really? History of the Union.

Okay, Russia and who? Uh us? President Biden made it through, put the anger of the partisanship to spin almost too much to take. His obsession with Donald Trump, clearly an issue, and the mishandling of the border and crime he tries to reverse will bring you the highlights. Let's bring in first Admiral James Seraviti.

He's got a great book coming out. I got the galley, 2054, a novel, and I'm sure it's going to be a big hit. Admiral, welcome back. Good to be with you, Brian. Admiral, this is what started the speech, Cut Eight.

If anybody in this room thinks Putin will stop at Ukraine, I assure you he will not. But you're trained. Ukraine can stop Putin. Ukraine can stop Putin. If we stand with Ukraine.

and provide the weapons. That needs to defend itself. Your thoughts about that. I thought it was a strong opener and very, very true. And let's face it, the echoes of the nineteen thirties are getting louder.

When you think back to that period of time, you see Nazi Germany on the march Not at all unlike Vladimir Putin. Or in Japan, the Imperial Japanese armed forces are pushing through China and Manchuria. What did the United States do? We came home. We isolated ourselves.

How'd that work out?

Well, 10 months after Roosevelt gave that speech was Pearl Harbor.

So we can try and decide that these overseas threats really shouldn't worry us that much, but they really should. And here's the good news to conclude: talk about return on investment for Uh $50, $60 billion, which the Europeans have already put into the kitty.

So we're just matching the Europeans at this point. For that amount of money, which is 5% maybe of our defense budget, we don't put a single boot on the ground, and ultimately the Ukrainians will stop Putin for us. But the thing is, Admiral, you missed the best part. We're buying it from ourselves and then replenishing our stocks. Why the president didn't bring that up?

I don't understand. And General Chad Keene said this was also a missed opportunity in this way because he feels the way you do and the way I do about Ukraine aid. Nobody wants to talk about it. Cut nine. I certainly appreciate the fact that Ukraine was in the speech, but I mean, he missed the opportunity to really educate the American people in terms of why this really matters to us.

He started with the right point. Putin wants to go beyond Ukraine. And if Ukraine topples, we've got to move more troops, more ships, more airplanes into the European theater to attempt to deter him. From moving into NATO. That detracts from everything we're trying to do with China.

And that's the issue for the security of the American people. Do you agree? I mean, wouldn't that have been an opportunity to say, guys, I know you're worried about money, we all are, but do you understand what this investment will do? Because without it, We're going to have to bolster all the forces up in Eastern Europe. 100% correct.

And General Jack is very right to pull in the impact this will have in Asia. Xi is watching this speech and how the Congress reacts, whether they provide that aid ultimately to Ukraine, and I think they will, Brian, but it's going to be a near-run thing. If they don't do that, that's going to embolden President Xi to push not only at Taiwan, but against the Philippines, Vietnam, and the South China Sea. You really, the echoes of the late 30s are profound here. And we can either Spend a lot less money in the short term, or ultimately we're going to have to build a much bigger armed force to deal with problems both in Europe and Asia.

And final thought, Brian. And some may say, well, why? I don't care about Asia and I don't care about Europe. The problem is this huge global economy is completely intertwined. And if we break it and allow China to run rampant in Asia and Putin to run rampant in Europe, our markets, our margins, all of that will get squeezed.

It's the 1930s again. We can still avoid it. All right. I agree with you. It's just got to be explained regularly and consistently and conversationally and in speeches without the minute you start saying good guys, bad guys, you're not going to get what you want, but we'll see what happens.

We know the president's going to be in Philadelphia. Let's see if he brings it up in a more bipartisan way.

So. Let's go over to Gaza. How do you feel about the president moving to build a humanitarian? I guess peer in Gaza. Without putting boots on the ground, just bring the humanitarian aid and give it out.

Give it out. Give it away. I think it makes sense, Brian. And look, two things can be true at once. On the one hand, you and I would agree Israel needs to continue significant military operations and do everything they can to find, fix and kill Hamas.

That's true. On the other hand, 2.2 million civilians are starving to death right in front of our eyes.

So if the United States And a lot of the on-the-ground portion of this entirely will be done by partner nations and the Israelis themselves. Not the UN. Not the UN, and that's another conversation. But the idea of building a pier, let me just give you the numbers. Gaza needs like 200 trucks a day and a truck each in a container on a container ship, there's twenty trucks.

You pull in a big ship, you've got 10,000 containers on that big ship times twenty. That's like two hundred thousand trucks loads coming in on each ship. That's hundreds of days of relief. It's a lot better than just airdropping some MREs.

So a couple of things that are coming out now. Evidently, caught on tape is the President of the United States talking to his Secretary of State and saying, I'm going to unload on Bibi Netanyahu. I'm going to have a come to Jesus meeting with him. And he better be ready for it. That was caught on tape last night.

Okay. Egyptian officials say that Sinwar, who is the bin Laden of Hamas, believes Hamas currently has the upper hand in negotiations on hostages, citing internal political divisions with Israel, including cracks with Netanyahu and Benny Gantz, the wartime government, and mounting U. S. pressure on Israel to do more to alleviate the suffering of Gazans.

So that is true. All this stuff is true. But now the enemy also hears this. And that is emboldened the enemy. That's problematic.

It is. It is incredibly problematic. And above all, what we need to do is keep an alignment between ourselves and Israel here, because believe me, the rest of the world is not going to fall in line behind the idea of continuing to go after Hamas. Point one. Point two is the Israelis have to continue military operations, and we've discussed this before.

The military center of gravity here are those tunnels, 400 miles of tunnels. Israel is going to have to decommission those, flood them, explode them, seal them off. And number three, yes, they need to try to get the remaining hundred or so hostages back. And if you're Sinoir, you are reveling in the divisions between the U.S. and Israel.

We ought to do any criticism or disagreement ought to be done in private, not in public. You know, and I don't want to put words in your mouth, but General Jakeen just said. Most military officials believe you cannot let, you cannot not go into Rafa. If Hamas has four battalions left and they've only finished off 18, reportedly, that's a win for them in their world.

So, how could you not go into Rafa? And while this delay is happening, why not just do it? Because the longer you wait, the harder it's going to be to do it. I think militarily, the Israelis have to go after the remaining. Pockets, and they are getting to be pockets, but four battalions is a significant number of troops.

Israel is going to have to do that. And I think there will be a military operation into Rafa at the end of the day. All the more reason it's important to the north to establish food passages because that's what will draw the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians out of Rafah, which is all the way in the south. Set up the food, set up the medical. I'd bring in a hospital ship as well, by the way, a U.S.

hospital ship, set that up to the north. Pull the civilians out of there, that'll be the last days of Hamas down in Rock. But it's got to happen quick, don't you think, Admiral? Yeah, and I think all everything I just described could happen in two to three months. That's not a ridiculous amount of time.

And then you've got to consider what comes after. But I think you can do both things. You can attempt and actually improve conditions for the humanitarian side, and you can continue to go after Hamas, and you've got to do both. What if the President says you're not going into Rafah? Or, I'm going to condition your militaries.

We're going to stop delivering weapons. If he tells him not to go into Rafah, What do you do? I think the Israelis will go into Rafah anyway. And they certainly can handle two, three, four battalions of Hamas, and there'll be a period of real tension between the U. S.

and Israel. But there are divisions in the Israeli cabinet, but they are united on destroying Maz. That's not going to change. Uh okay, uh congratul when's the book coming out? It comes out on Tuesday, Brian, 2054, and it's about artificial intelligence.

It's set in the year 2054. And I think I'm going to be in studio with you next week. Maybe we could talk about it then. Maybe we will. What a perfect segue.

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Thanks so much. Thanks, Brian. Talk soon. Bye. All right, listen, your turn next.

I know you watched the 66-minute speech. I know you heard the interruptions. I know you want to talk about what happened with the Gold Star Dad, with Sid Rosenberg getting tossed out. What exactly did he do? We're going to talk about all that.

Play some more clips and talk about what it all means as we get set for the longest presidential campaign ever. Learning something new every day on the Brian Kilmead Show. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead. I'm told my predecessor called members of Congress in the Senate to demand they block the bill.

He feels political win he viewed as a political win for me and a political loser for him. It's not about him, it's not about me. I'd be a winner. Not really. All right.

Lincoln. Lincoln Riley. An innocent young woman who was killed. Buy an illegal That's right, but how many are the thousands of people being killed by legals?

Okay, worst ad lib ever. And it turns out that Marjorie Taylor Green was bailing him out because he was just in one of those rabbit holes of trying to ad lib off the prompter and making absolutely no sense. And you heard what you said: illegal. Illegal aliens. That's what the name we used to call them.

Now we know we start, some people are calling them newcomers, but the other term is. Illegal immigrants, and now other people call them migrants.

Some people call them undocumented. But whatever you do, don't call them illegal. That's what I call them. That's what you call them. But that's not what Democrats call them.

So the President of the United States responded to Marjorie Taylor Greene. I am not for the yelling out. You know, I'm not for it. I just don't think it's necessary. I get angry.

You want to yell at your television? Then stay home. Yell at your television. Stay home. I just think it's a bad way to go down.

Now everyone's just going to think it's England and that's not our tradition. I didn't think.

So Nancy Pelozi was asked about that moment because it's horrible that he doesn't bring her up. She was killed by an illegal alien who was arrested in New York, never should have been allowed to get in. Turns out him and his brother, members of the worst gang in Venezuela, looking to create havoc in this country, but we're going to be six years away from a hearing.

So Nancy Pelozzi was asked about that moment. Cut six. He should have said undocumented, but I that's not a big thing.

Okay. No, no, no. I actually wasn't even going to ask about that. I was just going to ask more about the moment. But you do think that he should have said undocumented?

That wasn't going to be my question.

Well, we usually say undocumented. He said illegal. I don't think it's a big deal.

Okay. I don't think it's a big deal.

But more broadly. Because I think the his focus was on the sympathy for the family. It's a terrible tragedy.

Okay. When people talk about losing it, I had never, she cannot get through a contentious interview. Even when she goes on Democratic, when George Stephanopoulos asks her a tough question once in a while, she just falls apart. But Nancy Pelosi feels though she's got to be a surrogate for a younger man, Joe Biden. And she was on last night, and she was determined to bring up, oh, he shouldn't have mentioned illegal.

That's what she's concerned about. Lincoln Riley was killed by an illegal immigrant, and she's worried about the terminology. You heard Dana Bash? I actually didn't even bring that up. And then Jake Tapper, oh, Dana brought it up.

No, that's not what I was saying.

So they don't want to they don't want to make any news. But the president was not going to bring it up, didn't put it in the copy. I am all for of having A lawmaker asked the president about this. On the State of the Union, I just think it should be. Best behaved.

I don't think you should yell out in church, even if the priest gets you angry. I don't think if you're at a editorium, if you're having any type of event, if you're at a Broadway play, if you don't like the way the play is going, I wouldn't yell out. Uh if you want to walk out, walk out. And that that says something. I don't think she yelled at a comedian.

Just because you pay money to get in. You know, when you get in there, you wear a tie, you wear a suit. You act your way and then you come out and you go to the cameras and you say, what do you think of the President's remarks? And I was not for him last night, and I thought, this is the Wall Street Journal. The State of the Union speeches are forgettable.

But President Biden's address on Thursday was memorable for all the wrong reasons. His address was long, divisive pep rally for Democrats, goading Republicans through a speech and targeting multiple various villains. Here are the villains. Rich people, a villain. Don't pay enough taxes, they're villains.

If you like guns, you're a villain. If you don't give money for Ukraine, you're a villain. And if you're not a Democrat, you're a villain. Because he says it's enemy at home and enemy abroad. The more you listen, the more you'll know.

It's Brian Kilmead. He's the most unpopular president who has ever run for re-election. A lot of what he's done is unprecedented, but tonight, instead of taking responsibility for that, he tried to lay blame. I mean, for one thing, the border, right? That's the number one issue in America.

That's what every American, no matter where they live, wants to hear about. How is this catastrophe going to be resolved? I think it was 41 minutes into his speech before the commander-in-chief even made any reference to the border. And then he made no mention whatsoever about anything that he would do, his actions. I mean, he has executive authority, we all know.

He could solve that problem right now. He's been able to do that for three years, but he won't. And that was a great concern to all of us. Yes, and that was us, the speaker, and you could see his face, Speaker Johnson, when it became clear that it wasn't going to be an intriguing, unifying speech as a President who's running for reelection. It was going to be a reelection speech.

And we haven't heard a lot of it because he doesn't give many speeches or many interviews. A guy offering analysis all night long, and then in the post-game show, too, is my next guest, the co-host of the five, former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford. Congressman, welcome back. Brian, how are you? Brother, thanks for having me and good morning to you.

Good. How'd you feel about what Speaker Johnson just said? You know, how long you waited to bring up the border and how partisan of a speech it seemed.

Well, I think a little differently than the speaker does about it. I thought going into the speech, there were a couple of things that we all kind of we all kind of knew, and I think they're important to lay out. First, this is one of the two most important speeches Maybe the two most, I think, actually, the two most important speeches the President will give over the next. eight months or seven months and twenty five, twenty seven, twenty eight days, whatever it might be before the election. because of the size of the audience that he got last night.

The only time he'll even come close to that audience size again will be when he accepts the Democratic nomination in July in Chicago.

So he was going to be political as a result. That's one element. Two, he was going to be political because this is the first time a president of any party in the T V era has given a speech, a State of the Union speech. when he is already he already knows for certain whom his candidate in the general election will be because former President Trump has virtually locked up the delegates. He will in the next two weeks.

Because he has no opponents now in the race. They've all suspended their campaigns. And at the same time, Mr. Trump was his opponent. No time have we ever had this, was reacting in real time for a good part of the evening to what President Biden was saying.

Now, when I say I disagree, I have a slightly different opinion than Speaker Johnson. Speaker Johnson was right, it was a political speech. But there are reasons as to why it was a political speech.

Now, where I differ with him when he says that the issue of the immigration was. Or border was not brought for 41 minutes. That means that the president doesn't think it's important. He's right. It wasn't brought until 41 minutes, but I differ with him.

The president started out with Ukraine, started out with saying we have to stand up to Putin, which I think is a critical issue also. I don't necessarily think it's Less or more important than border security. But I do believe if we don't stop Putin and we end up having we see Article 5 of the NATO alliance invoked and we end up having to send troops to ensure the configuration, the lines that are drawn right now in Europe, I think that would be a serious, serious issue.

So I Um politics is politics. Most obvious statement of our call. And both sides play a little bit of it. And I think part of the reason that some Republicans were a little upset or a little or a little feisty this morning is that Joe Biden was feisty last night, and he he had to be in command. He had to have some energy.

I mean, there were Democrats yesterday before the speech saying, gosh, I don't know if he's going to be able to withstand an hour or 50 minutes or an hour and 15 minutes of standing up there and not. Uh uh peeling over or not going over his words, not knowing what he was supposed to be saying. And I think he uh I think he surprised a lot of Democrats and I think he even surprised a lot of Republicans with the energy that he that he showed last night in the speech. Right. I just thought I mean, the would you have signed off on that copy?

For him, Brian. No, for you. Like, if you, if you, if you were the president and you wanted to win four more years, is that what you wanted to do, especially when you ran as a unifier?

So I would have, look, I'm a different guy. If I were in his spot at 81 years old last night, that was probably the best he the best he could do. I don't, I'm not, this is not, I'm not quarreling with you about what he ran on and how he is his inauguration speech almost four years ago, three and a half years ago.

Now we talked about working with both sides. Like, I think both sides' hands are dirty here. His hands are not the only ones. Only one's dirty here in terms of wanting, you know, to wanting to reach across the aisle and work together. But he gave a speech last night, and he had two goals that they needed to reach.

One, he needed to show he was alive in command, and two, he needed to figure out a way to unite his party. And both parties, both Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden, need to do that. And I also thought, Brian, I thought the beginning of that speech was the most unconventional and unorthodox beginning of a faith of the union.

I'm 53 and I'm in Congress.

Well, I didn't even start yet. Unorthodox because he forgot to shake the speaker's hand and give him a chance to get introduced.

Well, I think that was intentional, but I think the beginning of his speech, I think at the beginning of it, because I think he wanted to get right into it. I think the beginning of his speech, when he didn't, because normally the presidents within the first 30 seconds say the state of our union is strong, the state of our union is vibrant. He went right into the foreign policy. And I have a theory about it. I think that he did that.

You can like it or not like it, but I think he did it because I think that the Biden team has looked at some of the polling and data, polling data rather, and looked at how do you get we in our network when we when I was on with Brett and Martha and Britt Hume the other the other night during the South Carolina primary they our own uh Fox analysis showed that 60% of Miss Haley Governor Haley's voters in South Carolina and she got about four a little under 40 percent of the vote said that they could not vote for they had reservations at this moment voting for uh president trump and i think the biden team looked at that and and probably extrapolated out nationally and said look what are the issues Animating and informing that decision, or at least at this moment, I'm not saying the Republicans don't come home, but at this moment, why are they so opposed? to President Trump. And I think some of the data shows that on foreign policy, That there are a lot of Republicans, Bush Republicans that they're conveniently, maybe not accurately, but conveniently call. Who believe that our foreign policy, we've got to push back on Putin. This is not a time to not be supporting Ukraine.

So I thought it was intentional how he started this speech. Figuring out ways. How do I go out to the UK? I want you to come to that group. Right, okay.

I mean, that's a theory. Look, I'm pro of arming Ukraine, but I think he missed the opportunity to say why. And here's what Jack Keene said: he couldn't believe he started with Ukraine. Number one, I think that's pretty big news: that you think he intentionally blew off the speaker. I mean, do you have a source that told you that, or is that just your experience?

No one has told me. I think part of it was forgetfulness, and part of it was he was ready to get going. Yeah, but you don't do that. You know, you you don't just walk out before your introduction. But Brian, Marjorie Taylor Greene shouldn't have stood up and said what she said either.

And the things, I mean, look, these guys have gone, there's a whole nother level of decorum that is so foreign to me. I never I feel like I'm 83 as opposed to 53, the way I look at these things. I mean, I clap for the president. I've clapped for President Bush. I didn't see one moment last night where the other Republicans stood up and said, that's just it.

You know what they try to do? Usually they craft speeches where they have moments where they both can clap. But he didn't point that. But they didn't, but he almost had nothing in there to unify. It was even intriguing to unify.

I mean, listen to me, by the way, on the Ukraine thing, this is what he missed. He just keeps saying the same thing, got to get him weapons. But instead, he doesn't try to say why. And this is what I get from people that even today in studio, talking to people, go, Brian, why are you so for supporting Ukraine? And I go, and here's the reason.

But listen to what General Jack Keene said, cut nine. I certainly appreciate the fact that Ukraine was in the speech, but I mean he missed the opportunity to really educate the American people in terms of why this really matters to us. He started with the right point. Putin wants to go beyond Ukraine, and if Ukraine topples, we've got to move more troops, more ships, more airplanes into the European theater to attempt to deter him from moving into NATO. That detracts from everything we're trying to do with China.

And that's the issue for the security of the American people. And I think he just sort of struck the real strategic issue here, Brian, is that the United States is in a much more dangerous place. We're being threatened by our adversaries in three regions of vital national interest. We have war in two, Europe in the Middle East, and President Xi is threatening us in the Indo-Pacific region. And that should have made the case for that.

And how we have to unite to come together to deal with these major threats. Threats that we're facing.

So that, and the fact is that 80% of the weapons that we bought, we're buying it from ourselves. And that our European allies are beginning to buy from us. The main focus could be just expanding our military-industrial base. He never brings that up.

So Jim you you would help people like me. And other people on the fence make that argument. But well, how many more people does he have to brief him or speechwriters does he need to tell people why we need to be there? I never like disagreeing with you, and I certainly like disagreeing with Jack Keene on matters. And I don't disagree with you on a national security matters.

I disagree with you on how you thought, you and General Keene about how you think you presented it. He started that speech talking about 1941. He included in his defense of why we should be funding Ukraine. He said that if we didn't stop Putin, he said, if you believe that Putin's going to stop in Ukraine, you don't know Putin.

Now, no one can say it as eloquently. I think you say it very eloquently, but I don't believe anyone says it with the credibility and eloquence. that that Jack King does.

Okay. My only point, Brian, when he said all these things about Ukraine, even if he didn't say it the way Jack Keene says it, and I might add, Jack Keene says it three times a week on our network, and then you echo it a lot of the times, and we still you still get pushback from Republicans in the House and the Senate, they didn't clap on that. They didn't clap when we said in world hunger. All I'm saying, look, they have every people have every right to behave how they want to behave. But when I was in Congress and the president said, we want to ensure that every American is fed every night, I got up and clapped because I actually believe that.

And a lot of my colleagues did too. But we just, we've reached a, we've reached, I don't want to get in the weeds on it. I think, I just think he did what he had to do last night. And I don't think the point should be lost on anybody that he is the first president to give a state of the union because state of the unions are generally given in the first quarter, sometime the first month of the year, if not no later, in the second or third month, where he already knows who his opponent will be. And his opponent is going out.

His opponent gave a pre-buttle. Mr. Trump did.

Now that had never happened. That they have nominee. No, he's not present. But Harold, I'll give you this. Here we go.

He knows who his opponent's going to be. He is the president, and he's the president of the United States. He mentioned him 13 times, but not by name. And he said, FDR, we have a war. He goes, We had war on two fronts.

I'm thinking to myself, okay, two fronts: Japan and Russia.

Now, I get Japan and Germany.

Now, I get Russia's going to be one front. He actually says the second front's at home. How the when you start like that, how can you possibly expect to make progress with moderates converting a Nikki Haley voter, you're just saying to yourself, hey guys, I'm breathing, I'm yelling, Uh I'm passionate. And I'll probably last an hour. That's in my view.

Look, and you you I I respect your view. I just don't agree with it. I think if you look at the if you look at the polling around Some of the people that many of the people that support it, or at least the plurality of the people that support it. Nikki Hayway. They are many of those who are the the supposedly never Trumpers, and if this is not me preaching a book, these these are just a number, these are Box.

Polling numbers. And we talked about this at length two weeks ago, two weeks ago, when after the South Carolina primaries. And a lot of what those people were saying were foreign policy.

Well, what they were saying, they didn't like some of peop those people didn't like what happened, or things that are happening here in our country, including what happened on January 6th.

Now, I'm not looking to invoke this to inspire or instigate a terrible debate between you and I, or even your listeners. My only point is: this is what the data shows. When President Trump says to the American people, as he's eloquently and rightly saying, that I'm appealing more to black voters. And Hispanic voters, provinces of voters that generally vote Democrat. You know what I say?

Let me see the data. And you know what I say after I see the data? He's right. He is appealing to a lot of those voters.

So what's wrong with Joe Biden in his speech saying, you know, I'm going to go and try to appeal to the Haley voters. I just thought you could be president, Harold. But I thought as President of the United States, if someone gave me this speech, I'd go, guys, I can't act like I have an enemy at home. I could say I'm competing another party, but I can't compare my adversaries at home to fascist Japan. I mean, the FDR was facing the same challenge.

Okay, what challenge is that? Oh, the challenge of Germany and Japan in 1938 is the MAGA group and Russia. I thought I'm like that. I go, guys, rewrite. Understand the sentiment, but let's be a little bit responsible.

Well let's leave that to the firebrands on both sides. Look, you and I would have given a different speech, but you and I probably would not have told people to go to the Capitol on January 6th, or if we did tell them and they mistook us, we would have probably said while they were there, guys, that's not what I meant. But if you're going to keep on bringing up, but if he's going to keep on bringing up January 6th, it's like if the Republicans every day talked about the disaster in Afghanistan, I go, guys, no one's more upset about it than me. Enough. We'll bring it up when foreign policy pops up.

We'll bring it up when he talks about what you would do different. Bring up the 80 billion he left on the ground. Bring up the Taliban's back in charge and women are back being repressed. But not every day. Because by the end of the week, by the end of the month, by the end of the year, I am no longer listening.

When you bring up January 6th in the first five minutes, you lost me.

So, Brian, I don't, brother, I don't disagree with you. My only point is this: there are a lot of Americans where that's not lost, and that's not what you and I would have done. But unfortunately, that's where we are. Our country is there. And I thought that you asked me about his speech and what if he accomplished what he needed to accomplish last night.

He has. The other reality is, Brian, as you and I know, more than two-thirds of the country. Wishes that this was not a rematch occurring between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. But guess what? That's what we have.

So we now have, at least today, and what we have is two guys running against each other who are going to do what you do in campaigns, contrast your visions, your accomplishments, and your agenda for the country over the next four years. And guess what? Over the next eight months, or seven months, and 28 days, whatever it might be. We're going to have the most spirited, the most divisive. And the thing that worries me the most is that each of these guys, their supporters, Each of them brings out the worst than the other supporters.

So Trump brings out the worst and Biden supporters, and Biden brings out the worst and Trump supporters. And for the country, that's just not good. Because I don't know how whomever wins the race. It's difficult then to go work with the other party. You told the country that the other party.

Whoever loses, there's a sense that again, the world is the country's over. They both made it clear. If my guy wins, the world is saved. If my guy loses, the world is over. Our country's over.

So it's going to be. And as a result, their supporters believe that.

So that's why a lot of times people don't like it when Democrats work with Republicans and Republicans work with Democrats because the supporters say, wait a second, I thought you told me they were evil. I thought you told me they were less than humane.

So anyway, but the speech did what he needed to do politically last night. And I hope we don't descend to the point where you and I are lamenting right now. No, no, no problem. Congressman, I look forward to seeing you on the five. Thanks so much for joining us.

I appreciate it. We're up against the break. Back in a moment. Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Killmeat.

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Sal, what's on your mind? Yes.

So I think I think the Republicans missed an opportunity last night.

So Uh Biden supposedly during the investigation of his uh You know, into the classified documents, he was He didn't have the memory to withstand the prosecution.

So they didn't go after him, right?

So last night either he shows up as that bumbling person that should not be investigated because he doesn't have a good memory. Or he shows up where he did, you know, he is acting in accordance that he does have good memory, good faculties, all that. I see where you're going, Sal. And guess what? Robert Hurr is going to be front and center in a couple of weeks.

And he's going to have to just bring some color to his report at which time, that's a great point.

So if he goes and says, Yeah, you know, you misinterpreted my report, good.

So charge him. Right? And if he is that competent, that great behind the scenes, then I think he put on an act for Robert Hurr. But I think we're going to get the tapes and see how the Tatsi actually was. But he did what he had to do last day.

The good news for Trump is he's got his opponent. I think he's much better off going against Biden than against all these others, even though they have flaws.

So now you know who you're going to go against. It's going to be very hard to challenge and say that he's incompetent now.

So, game on. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kill Mead. Wow, coming to you from Midtown Manhattan, what a week we've had. What a show we're in the middle of.

We got Congressman Kevin Hearn. Of Oklahoma joining us now. He's the chairman of the Republican Study Group. What does last night mean with the State of the Union address and so much else going on? And Kennedy at the bottom of the hour, she can handle it all.

She is a Swiss Army knife. We'll discuss that too. Keep in mind, if you ever can't, if you ever have to leave your local affiliate, you can always get us on the app. You just go on Fox, the Fox News app, and on the bottom it says watch. You just swipe over, and you could see the show because we have a video stream.

So let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Users of TikTok are getting a pop-up on their on the app lying about our bill. saying stop the ban on TikTok. But of course, if you actually read the bill, it's not a ban.

It's not a ban. It's a sell. Sell off Byte Dance. Let's go, Congress. Despite protests and lobbyists, we're in the process of banning TikTok if the Chinese company, ByteDance, does not sell.

Simple as that. That's bad news for President Biden because his campaign just opened up an account and wants to get the young people. Can we possibly put our country first ever? Number two. I think he had a strong night, and I think he had a strong night in part because of the economic agenda that he outlined.

I still think that if you ask people who watch the speech, the triumphalism about where the economy is today is probably not matching their misplaced. And that is why President Biden does not like David Axelod. The State of the Union, reaction and analysis from the expulsion, the 20-minute delay because of the protesters, Senator Katie Britt's rebuttal, and Donald Trump's real-time truth socials. It's all coming your way. Number In January.

1941. Franklin Roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation. And he said, I address you at a moment. unprecedented in the history of the Union.

Now, it's we who face an unprecedented moment in the history of the Union. He actually puts Republicans in the same basket as Nazi Germany and fascist Japan. President Biden made it through, yes, but the anger, the partisanship, the spin almost too much to take. His obsession with Donald Trump is abundantly clear. And also, the clear mishandling of the border and crime in America, well, he's looking to flip it.

We'll bring you the highlights. Congressman Kevin Hearn joins us now. Congressman, you sat in the chamber. What are your thoughts?

Well What I saw, thanks for having me, Brian. What I saw was somebody that's been in politics for 50 years as a Democrat, the old same Democrat narrative. Raise taxes, spend more, and life will be better. More big government, more regulation. I think that's what every American heard.

And if that's where you're coming from, then you loved his speech. But we've got $34 trillion in debt. We need to compel spending and get America back on a fiscal track that makes sense.

So, for one thing, it must drive you nuts when he says, I've been cutting the deficit. That is a flat-out lie. What happened is the pandemic money sunset. We're not in a pandemic.

So he says I cut the deficit by a trillion dollars. When he has really outspent everybody with the infrastructure plan, with the rescue plan, with the inflation reduction act. He also vilified rich people. I don't hate rich people. I don't hate successful corporations.

Now, I don't know. With the current tax system now, a lot of the money they save helps them buy other buildings and start other companies. But is it possible to have a rational conversation without trying to have a class warfare?

Well, certainly not with this president. You know, this is typical of somebody. I spent 35 years in business before I came to Congress six years ago. And what you're seeing with President Biden is, you know, he's never done anything his entire life. In fact, he alluded to it last night, his entire life.

He's been in politics and he doesn't have a connection with the real world. He's isolated in the White House. He gets told by staffers what he's supposed to say and it just doesn't connect with the American people. He had a campaign speech last night, not a State of the Union. If he'd done a State of the Union, they'd boot him off the stage.

It's been terrible. Here is a little montage of how he's obsessed with Donald Trump. Cut to. My predecessor. A former Republican president tells Putin, quote, Do whatever the hell you want.

Just pause that right there. Do whatever the hell you want.

Now, that bothers me because some people aren't as into it as we are. What he's trying to say is, I want NATO to pay their 2%, which this president should be saying too. And he said if they don't I told Vladimir Putin to do whatever the hell you want. That's Trump being Trump. That's not abandoning NATO.

It's not urging Russia to act. It's urging allies to act. Let's listen. Keep going. My predecessor.

A former Republican president tells Putin, quote, Do whatever the hell you want. My predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about January 6th. Many of you in this chamber. and my predecessor are promising to pass the national ban on reproductive freedom. A president, my predecessor.

fail the most basic presidential duty. My predecessor, And many in this chamber, my Republican friends, owe it to the American people: get this bill done. My predecessor. So, I mean, he mischaracterized it. There's plenty of things that go against Trump.

Why don't you just be accurate? When he talked about January 6th, that's like, as I mentioned earlier, that's like Republicans every day bringing up Afghanistan. They were both epic, bad days for the country. But if you bring it up every day, people just stop listening. Your thoughts?

Well, certainly he's living in the past. He's not in tune with what's going on currently. He doesn't want to talk about the fact that pricing is in America up 20% since he's been in office. He wants to make everybody think that everybody's just doing well, that they've got somehow more money in their pocket. And he didn't fool anybody last night talking about the past and trying to divert from the real problems, which what he's undone at the southern border to literally have hundreds of thousands of people crossing every single month.

And when the law has not changed, and President Trump, through executive action, albeit at that time, but he did fix the border and he did solve some of our problems. Remaining Mexico alone would stop 70% of the people crossing. And Joe Biden undid that. And now we have 100,000 people a year dying from fentanyl overdoses. He needs to tell the story, the real state of the union, instead of campaigning against his predecessor, which is his opponent today that's leading him in the polls.

So he took advantage of the American people last night. He didn't tell them the truth of what's going on in his failed leadership.

So, Congressman, what is your goal now? We know that the RNC is a mess. We know there's new leadership there. We know that you guys are at a deficit when it comes to raising money. You do seem unified from Senator Thune to Mitch McConnell.

There's very few outliers. They have said they will not support President Trump.

So, what do you see as chairman of the Republican Study Committee as your greatest challenge?

Well, I'm a person that came into the workforce in nineteen eighty five under Ronald Reagan, and I remember vividly what he said as a very young person. He asked the question, I think is Salient today said, are you better off today than you were four years ago? Then it was under President Carter. Today it's going to be, you know, you're certainly better off under me if you were with President Trump. And we need to get back to the Trump policies where we had unprecedented unemployment, real unemployment numbers that were unprecedented.

Certainly more people working than ever. what we saw was a country that we we were feared and revered at the same time around the world. We didn't have the issue of the unsettled places like in China and Russia and the Middle East and what's going on in South America right now with China infiltrating South America. All the chaos that's going on, we did not have under President Trump. And we need to get back to that.

We need to all work together in unity in the Republican Party to make sure that happens. Also, one thing the President did is he, right now, there's a big movement in the House to get rid of. To get rid of ByteDance, no longer owning TikTok if it's going to stay in this country. You also see ways in which. You put together a bill.

You believe it's the strongest anti-China measure in history. Could you explain on that? Sure. I just came out of a group, just spent forty five minutes meeting with a bunch of folks downtown in Washington, DC, talking about this. It's a very comprehensive umbrella of all the different policies brought into one place.

Just just to demonstrate and show the invasion of China, And Xi Jinping, the communist, the general secretary of the communist people, of what he is doing in many fronts. We mentioned Fentanyl, mentioned the southern border, mentioned what he's doing in South America, South Africa, mentioned what he is also doing in funding all of the nefarious actions in Iran, buying 700,000 barrels a day of oil from Iran, which is about 91% of their production, and also in turn supplying the chips for the drones that Iran is sending to Russia. Trying to, you know, they're also funding 30%, increased their trade with Russia by 30%. working with Russia to try to get access to their submarine force. I mean, China is the central.

Hub of what's going on around the world, and they have an economy that's almost the size of ours. And so it's not something that we can put aside and just say, oh, this is struggling, it will not go away. They are struggling. Right? Well, they are struggling, but do we really believe they are?

We're not really sure. You know, they're very good at not revealing the truth. And so we're always trying to figure out what it is, what we do know. I was reporting out today that this so-called Document 79, where they're trying to get rid of all American companies in China, all of our technology companies. And at the same time, we're looking at the adversarial nations like China, Iran, Russia, North Korea, and Venezuela, making sure that those countries don't have access to our data of our people and our companies.

And that's really what this TikTok conversation is about. By Dance sells down to less than 20% ownership, they can keep their equity investment. Otherwise, TikTok has to go. Wait a second.

So they can own a piece of ByteDance? ByteDance can own a piece? Yeah.

So our bill and the conversation there is that they can own a piece, but they won't. And that's why they said in their narrative that making them get rid of some of their ownership or down to that level where they're not a majority owner is basically essentially killing TikTok in America. And what we're seeing and through the hearings that we've seen in Congress is that Bike Dance has the ability, they have the algorithms, the ability to stop doing what they're doing, yet they continue to collect data. They continue to collect data not on individuals, but also on businesses in America. And with AI, that data is very valuable.

Have other countries banned TikTok? I don't know about other countries, but I'm sure a lot of countries will follow our lead based on what comes out of this. And we saw the vote yesterday, it was 50 to zero. And that was significant bipartisanship in this. And this is something that the former speaker worked on trying to get Pelosi to do this.

And she refused to have a bipartisan kind of select committee to address these four years ago now. And when we got the majority back last year, put this in place, and a lot of bipartisan work coming out. And what this bill does that I introduced. It takes all the great work that's been done in Congress and highlights that and gives an umbrella for these individual bills like TikTok and others, border issues, to be addressed and shows how they all fit together.

So, what you're referring to is a Wall Street Journal story that talks about. Deleting America. China intensifies push to delete America from its technology. And it's called Document 79. It was written in 2022.

And it's a big push to make sure that they basically produce and diminish Cisco's role, Oracle's role, Microsoft, Dell. Uh Uh IBM as well as Apple. And try to do what they're doing inside their country. And it's bolstering Huawei. Remember that name.

So Huawei is getting stronger because China is trying to keep it nationalistic.

So why don't we just help them? Since big businesses won't make the mature decisions because all they see is profit. Why don't China's saying I'm giving you a shove? Is there anything else you could do while keeping the spirit of capitalism alive? Uh instead of being shoved, can we just jump?

Well, certainly we're seeing an economic war like we've never seen in our existence. You know, we separated ourselves, obviously, 247 years ago from the largest economic power in the world. And now we're seeing this, the rise of China, certainly in just the last 20 years. And what they're doing is trying to crush us economically and control us militarily. And when you couple this, and the China bill talks about this also, about the size of the Chinese military growing be double our size as far as growth goes, doubling our size and growth.

o over the next 10 years. And we see this, you know, the Indo-Pacific. People are very, our allies are very nervous about what's going on. If you look at the third largest economy in this, Brian, is that Is Japan and it's at four trillion dollars and China at sixteen trillion dollars. and we're at twenty three.

There is a huge chasm between number two and number three. Germany is very close to Japan. The real concern we should have as an American government, as an American people, is what China is trying to exact on us with trade, with finance sectors, with What's happening with the southern border, what's happening with the different continents they're on, and what they're trying to do with their Belt and Road Initiative. Again, we address all this, pull it in a comprehensive package to show everyone that it's not just an isolated that Republicans are going after TikTok.

So it's really a comprehensive look at the entire China relationship. I'll tell you, the next president, you don't have to divide America when you're going against China. It's a unifying stand that you're making. It's something that you are not saying Republican or Democrat saying, hey, if you're an American, read this. Understand what we're doing, understand what we're up against.

So, this is not a divisive issue, and that's why your committee, in my view, has been so affected and respected. Congressman Kevin Hearn, thanks so much. Thanks for having me, Brian. Have a great day. You too.

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So it was great to find out what everyone's thinking about. Uh in Oklahoma. Don't move. It's Brian Killmeade. Radio that makes you think.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. This was his How About Them Apple speech for me. I mean, we've said this is what the fourth or the fifth, you know, we've watched this before. I think that grabbing the room by, you know, he started with World War II and the Civil War and rooted the threat facing our country from my predecessor in those two, you know, epic battles. And then he quoted Ronald Reagan.

It was like a punch in the face to every Republican in the room. Was it a punch you in the face? I actually, you know, Reagan obviously would have been strong on Ukraine. Absolutely.

So would George W. Bush and H.W. Bush. Absolutely.

But what they did is what Reagan was brilliant at, and no one can contend this, is explaining it.

So was George Bush. He was relentless. I used these examples before: is that if George Bush wanted to get funding for the Iraq war and it was going bad, you know what he would do? He wouldn't duck. He would do a sit-down.

Dick Cheney would be on Meet the Press. Colin Powell would be out there. Donald Rumps would be talking about it. Bob Gates would be aggressively pursuing it, letting his side and the Democrats know why it's important and where we go from here. I remember it because he was losing some veteran Republicans, but he was explaining it.

And this president doesn't explain it, and that's why they're there. And if you're trying to get hurt Republicans' feeling, it's not going to happen because most of the base does not agree with me that Ukraine should be. Financed, and I think we should be supporting them. Not the way Biden's doing it. But I would get them the missiles they need because I think they'll win, and I think they're a country with a lot of promise, although far from perfect.

But that is a little of the feedback they're getting today. Democrats seem, for the most part, pretty happy with what they heard from their president. Also, good news for President Trump, I think. And that is, you know, your opponent, they're not going to be able to pull him now. Here's Van Jones cut 14.

Man, very proud, very proud. Look, strong at the beginning, strong on Ukraine, strong about January 6th, strong in the middle. He was willing, he put his chest out to those Republicans. He ain't scared of the Republicans. He said, Hey, let's fight right now about the border.

Let's fight right now about these tax cuts for gazillionaires. Strong at the end, owning his age issue. Um I thought that was a remarkable fiery, powerful, vigorous guy. I want to bring all sides. Uh that was Van Jones thinks.

And it was a campaign speech. It was like something you would get at the convention. That's fine. That's not how you lead. I mean, to me, I just think you need people that got to be leaders.

And I didn't see any leadership there. I saw a partisan fighting for his political survival. But Right now, in terms of making his case and getting things done, it's not. No one believes he's tough on crime. No one believes he didn't set the table for this disaster and the defunded police that he never pushed back on.

And no one believes he's tough at the border.

So we'll see what happens from here. The people that actually are on the border know he's not tough on the border. Break him. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show.

Now he should have said undocumented, but it's not a big thing.

Okay, what's the big thing about that? No, no, no, I actually wasn't even going to ask about that. I was just going to ask more about the moment. But you do think that he should have said undocumented? That wasn't going to be my question.

Well, we usually say undocumented. He said illegal. I don't think it's a big deal.

Okay. I don't think it's a big deal.

But more broadly. Because I think his focus was on the sympathy for the family. It's a terrible tragedy.

It's to me so hysterical. Kennedy's here. You're noticing we're on Fox Nation. And he's responding to the fact that Joe Biden came out and was kind of badgered into mention Lincoln Riley instead of Lakin Riley, who tragically was killed while jogging on the campus of the University of Georgia by an illegal immigrant that should have been never been let in, deported after he committed a crime in New York, goes to Georgia to join his belligerent gangster brother, and then kills this. His brother was working illegally at the university.

He already committed and on top of that, committed two crimes and is a member of the this notorious gang in Venezuela with neck tattoos. Who, by the way, one of the things they do with this this notorious gang, they wear Chicago Bulls stuff. This guy in his picture Not a bull nat. They don't necessarily looking for Scotty Pippen. In the picture, he's wearing a bull's hat.

I believe that Scotty Pippen was born here. Right. And was not in a gang. I I don't believe I've read that he's in a gang. Right.

So For Nancy, I just thought you would enjoy that because Nancy Pelosi, Dana Barris, like, I never even asked you. And what you're referring to is Joe Biden. He's preemptively getting defensive. Yeah, cut five. I'm told my predecessor called members of Congress in the Senate to demand they block the bill.

He feels a political win he viewed as would be a political win for me and a political loser for him. It's not about him, it's not about me. I'd be a winner. Not really. All right.

Lincoln Riley, an innocent young woman who was killed. by an illegal. That's right. But how many thousands of people being killed by legal?

Okay. So he has the Ed Lib was horrible. He was about to go into a ditch at the speech, but then he held up the button that Republicans had with Lacan. Yeah, Lincoln Riley is the troubled USC head football coach. As a UCLA Bruin, not a fan of his.

Was very curious to hear his name.

So it's supposed to him for using the word. Illegal. It's not a big deal. Like, really? I didn't even ask you.

Yeah, he should never ad lib. I love that their whole new campaign strategy is: let Joe be Joe. This is what happens when Joe is Joe. He name-checks a football coach instead of a young. Beautiful woman who was murdered had her skull bashed in.

By a Venezuelan gang member.

So. Obviously, the federal government not doing a great job of vetting people and people who are who are displaying Troubling attributes are like, yeah, come on in. I think it's great.

So what did you think of the speech? Um, I thought he was definitely juiced up. Uns what do you mean? Red Bull? Hard to say.

Red Bull, Blood Boy, I. V. Drip, Disco Dust. I don't know what it was, but it was something. What are the other what did you make that up?

No. Are there things out there called disco dust? That's a euphemism for cocaine. Oh. I'm not saying the president was on cocaine.

I'm not saying he wasn't. I have no idea. I don't have. I'm not privy to his idea. He didn't seem like the same guy that was nodding off the day before.

Absolutely not. No, they do something to him. And my whole thing is: whatever that is, they need to bottle it and market it. Right. And allow the free market to decide if that is a viable product.

And senior homes all around the country are not. They would mainline it into their clients. Whatever they're giving them. saying they're giving him something. They can't give him all the time or else they would.

So, I mean, obviously, it would have given him for the Robert Hurr interview, which is so horrendous that, like, he committed a crime, but he's so sympathetic and forgetful, we can't charge him.

So, that story is going to come up again. And when people say, I had a caller before, a brilliant caller said, Okay, congratulations, Joe. You know, you're all right. You are coherent.

So let's charge you.

So they were wrong in the Robert Hurric report, but your actions were wrong also. Yes.

So let's charge you.

You can't have it both ways. Very inconsistent energy levels.

So they need to charge this president. It was a forceful. Angry campaign speech. It didn't hit the emotional high notes that State of the Union speeches have in the past. Um he you know.

Super partisan from a guy who promised to be the Uniter in Chief. That's over. That never existed. And, you know, he's fighting for his political life, but At the points where he is slipping and he is tired and it's very obvious that the job is too much for him, that's when his wife and everyone around him they're committing elder abuse. And they should be ashamed of themselves.

Last night, without any irony, he talks about Uh responsible gun use. Last night he talks about Paying your fair share of taxes. Come on. We're built on the back. And last night he also talked about the threat of China.

And bringing business back. Basically, can he just talk to Hunter one-on-one at the table? I mean, why do we have all the things that Hunter screwed up? This guy brings up. Does he understand who's in his family?

All the things his son has been federally either investigated or indicted for. Taxes, China, guns. And right away, by the way, CEFC, they also talk about the Belt and Road program. CEFC was part of the Belt and Road program created to upend American interests in developing countries around the world. He had no problem investing in a company for China.

No, and that's, you know, that's China's point is to skip the RD part because that's very time consuming. You steal everyone else's great ideas, you know, best practices, is I guess what the commies think it is. And then. You catapult your country. Into hegemony.

So I want you to hear what Marco Rubio said about last night's speech, Cut 22. The whole thing was just bizarre. You say hyper-partisan, no doubt about it. I've never seen a State of the Union ever. I don't recall any.

Maybe there's been one in the past. Where a sitting president mentions his predecessor and future opponent so many different times and misleads people with it.

So I think the only thing he achieved tonight, there's a bunch of Democrats seeing, breathing a sigh of relief that he's not weakened at Bernies, that he's not, that he's alive and that he was able to get through his speech and that apparently he's still able to scream. That was Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio did a way better job responding to the State of the Union than when he was actually tasked with the Republican rebuttal. Did you see that? Remember Thirsty Markle?

Marco? Right. Yeah, that was great. I know, like, a year later, he came onto our set. We were in Washington.

And we made a joke about it, he was not ready to join. No, he's he's not he's not a warm guy. I do I do think he's one of them. I g I get along with him. I never hugged him, so I wouldn't I don't know his body.

You're not a hugger either though. Are you a hugger?

Sometimes. Depends. Right. I don't see you as a big hugger. I'm I'm not a germ person.

I I don't like germs. Right. And I feel like you can transmit a lot of germs with too much hugging. But w you know what the worst is? I'm not a hugger.

But let's say you make the commitment to go for a hug and you're not hugging somebody that doesn't want to be hugged. It's awful.

So I'd rather never know if I should have hugged somebody. Because if you try to hug, you can only, there's only a lose situation. If they hug back, And I'm like, I should have probably hugged earlier. Yeah, it's it's but then it gets weird. Right.

Thank you. And I don't know. Does it make you feel better? I feel a lot better. Right.

So, Katie Britt. I watched that. What did you think? Weird. Cut 13.

And despite the fact that what he tells you. Our communities are not. safer. For years. The left has toddled.

criminals I defunded the police. all while letting repeat offenders walk free. The result is tragic but foreseeable. From our small towns to America's most iconic city streets. I mean, she delivered it fine.

She wasn't nervous, but she, and she was very deliberate. She didn't miss a word. Her cadence was interesting. Very odd. But do you see talent?

At some point, but I don't think you put uh someone with potential. In a position to fail. I think she has to realize a little bit more of that potential before we fall all over ourselves, congratulating her. Right. The best ever was Tim Scott.

I mean, Tim Scott basically, people said you better run for president after that. After that, remember Joe Kennedy III drooling? They tried to do a little town hall with him, and he spoke in front of people, and he had drool all over his face. It is a no-win situation. I yeah I've well we'll see.

The other thing was RFK weighed in last night. And if people think that they're sleeping on him, he if he goes on a libertarian ticket, that's your ticket. That's all 50 states. I'm not a registered libertarian. I'm a philosophical libertarian.

Really? Yeah, I'm not a member of the libertarian party. What party will have you? None of my business. Pants party.

The pants. The pants. Here is Robert Kennedy, Coffee 25. What we once were, we can be again. How do I know that?

It's because everywhere I go in this country, I see a profound determination among Americans. To heal. 80% of Americans say they don't want to be forced to choose in this election between the lesser of two equals. They're tired of voting against something or someone. I see it in the crowds of mixed Republicans and Democrats and Independents who attend my rallies that a growing number of Americans are rejecting divisiveness.

Right. When I'm playing the soundbite, do not play the violin. That really bothers me. I can't help it. You know, I'm a string hobbyist.

Did you see that? It was like a weird noodle. It was like a cello or a violin. It was like, hey, you know what? I don't want to tell him to stop playing, but I got to get this speech off.

I got to do this tape.

So, could you just keep it down a little in the back? I appreciate your talent. Put the bow down. Yeah.

Oh. I just, well, then he started playing the devil went down to Georgia. But listen, I think if he gets 4% in all these states, I mean, this is going to change the entire race.

Well, it's interesting because. There are people who think that he'll take votes away from Trump, but when you insert him into the polling, he actually does more damage to Biden. Right. I know I saw it early on. It was early Trump said that Trump got that poll and just eviscerated him.

One thing about Trump, he was born with opposition research.

So, whatever you do, it's like, oh, you cross me? I got everything on you. That fifth-grade girl you broke up with, still angry. And in fact, I got a quote from her. And that's why one thing I regretted when we interviewed him on Tuesday is like, do you have opposition research on a possible other opponent?

If at the last minute they take out Biden, do you have Whitmer, Newsom?

Well Pritzker. Who else would it be? I mean, these are the people that would run. Michelle Obama. Mm's done.

She said no. Yeah, I said no. Megan Markle really wants to do it. What did you say? Oh.

Wesmoore, Governor of Maryland. No. Absolutely not. He's not really. No name recognition at all, whatsoever, would do absolutely nothing.

Too much ramp-up time you need. We don't know who he is. Yeah, presidential. Contests Are th they start three years out, unfortunately.

Alright. Kennedy's going to be here a little bit while where do we get your podcast, by the way? Oh, one o'clock P.M. today. Kennedy saves the world.

It's your new favorite podcast. Go to Foxnews.com or Fox News Podcasts. And you can find Kennedy Saves the World Today. My happy hour, which is a quote unquote mocktail hour, includes an in-depth and stunningly satisfying conversation with none other than Brian Kilmead, my mentor. Oh, I'm not your mentor.

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Wow. As well as John Christ. Have you seen John Christ on stage? Not yet. Really funny.

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You're with Brian Kilmead. Oh, come on, we're in a house of God. First, um, simmer down. Thank you. I want to thank Commissioner Cavanaugh.

and Chief Hodgins Four. That recognition.

So I want to give you an idea of what's going on there, Kennedy. Letitia James went up to speak because of this promotional ceremony for FDNY. They had captains and battalion heads and family members there. And when she got up to speak, everyone booed her. And then After she said settle down, they started chanting Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.

I mean, this is in New York City. And maybe, well, the more you think about it, you think about how close Zeldon got. You see what's going on now. He. The the civil case against E.

Gene Carroll and they had the $450 million that he owes the government for no reason here. I mean this keeps happening. He might win New York. He could. Absolutely.

Do you realize it? Yeah.

No, but people, like, there is such a disconnect. between cops and firefighters and the pencil pushers. Like Letitia James and even Eric Adams, who was supposed to be, oh, he's he's cop adjacent. He loves cops. Finally, we're gonna have a mayor who backs cops.

But if you talk to police officers in the city, they're like, no, no. He's he's as bad as the rest of 'em.

So so now You have Letitia James. Do you think on some level she's stunned? Me. She thinks she's a hero. Yes.

She thinks she's a hero. She's taunting Trump online, saying every week that goes by, you owe another. I dunno, million dollars. Taunting him after a decision that she sat in court how political it is, and that's what she ran on. You know, this is this is just politics, this is not justice for her, which is dangerous.

So, Alvin Bragg, who's the DA here in Manhattan, I saw him next door at Del Frisco's. And I went up to him and I said, You are single-handedly destroying this city. And yeah, and he goes, Excuse me. And I said, You are ruining this city, ruining it. And he glared at me with daggers, and I just went, Yep.

Was he eaten by himself? No, he was there with some lackeys.

Well, you're 100% right. I give you a lot of uh Uh I give you a lot of credit. Uh because he is a mess. He is a mess. And I think he is an embarrassment.

And my hope is that that guy Gascone loses the runoff. In Los Angeles. The guy in San Francisco is already out. I think there's big pushback in St. Louis.

My hope is that we're a self-correcting country and we're beginning to turn it around. When Hokul takes 750 National Guards media and put them in down the basement into the subway, She is not sincere. She has no interest in cracking down, but she understands politically she has to. She put a bunch of people, put them in camouflage, sent them down there to not profile. Kennedy, they're going through your stuff like they're going to go through the 19-year-old with a hoodie and a tattoo the same way.

They're going to look at you the same way. They go through everything. I think suddenly they're realizing When it comes to criminal uh crime and punishment, there is no pol political remind me to keep some baked goods in my knapsack so I can give them out to the men and women in the National Guard as a little thank you. For them. I mean, they were like, what do we want?

They don't want to do this. Right. They should be doing their normal job. This is a part-time thing for them. They want to flood a catastrophe, an attack.

They're like, really? I got to go down, walk around, and camouflage down below. And guess what happened at 12:40 last night, yesterday, in the Bronx in the subway? A woman was attacked. A guy jumped up to help and he gets stabbed in the hand.

A Good Samaritan. Nobody was there. And we'll probably get charged. Right. Go check out Kennedy's podcast.

Kennedy Saints the World with Brian Comey today. Right. And it's probably the best episode you've ever had. Ever. Right.

And ever will. Back in a moment, Brian killed me. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. All right, the day after the State of the Union address and a few days after essentially the Republican Donald Trump locked up the nomination, this has been a consequential week.

Putting it in perspective, bottom of the hour, Victor Davis Hansen, we're still getting the, I would say not fallout, but the reaction for the present State of the Union. He's going to be heading to Philadelphia, try to put an exclamation point on it, and they'll discuss more about what he had last night. That's usually what you do. But last night was the campaign speech, it seems, and I thoroughly agree with Speaker Johnson. He looks so uncomfortable up there because it's disappointing.

You know, you thought here's my vision, this is what I'm going to do, and you kind of wonder how hard people will clap. But for the most part, I don't think the guy clapped at all. There were no applause lines for Republicans in it. In about 20 minutes, we're going to do a simulcast on Fox News channel. You'll get a chance to see this great studio.

But right now, let's bring in Shannon Bream, fresh off. Uh sh uh fresh off Yeah, uh fresh off America's newsroom. But um But she's also got to work this weekend on Fox News Sunday. Is that correct, Shannon? And plus, we've seen you all week long with the legal cases and the election coverage.

Go to Siski. Keeping us busy and yeah, Super Tuesday and everything else this week. I am doing my Brian Killmead impression today, and then I'm doing like 83 different jobs at Fox. I know I'm not going to get to 84, which is your standard, right? But I'm going to do the best I can to get close.

And I'm going up to do the five now. Yeah, you are not. Are you doing that? Wa wait, wait, you're in New York? I am in DC, but after I talk to you, I am getting on the train, and Lord willing, I'll be up there for the bus.

Wow, that's great.

So, Shannon, first off, where was tell me about this Bill Hammer situation. Oh my gosh, he's at the North Pole.

Now, Hemmer is a true tough journalist who's traveled the world. Dana and I have decided that that is not our assignment. By the way, he said it was 18 below. Remember, Iowa, it was like 30 below.

So I'm like, I don't know if I can be that impressed by this North Pole thing. But I am. But he showed up in the Arctic today, and that was it. It was a big mystery. He's getting a nice.

a nucle a nuclear submarine to shoot a story. Wow, that's fantastic. Is that what we're keeping them? What's that?

Well, we do. I mean, he's a valuable national treasure. No, the Arctic I'm saying do we keep nuclear submarines up in the Arctic? Oh, oh, oh.

Well, I don't know if Bill just gave away a national security secret, but I you know, he said that's what he's gonna do today.

So I assume that's where at least one of them is. All right, Shannon. First off, let's talk about the speech last night. The President of the United States really made it a partisan speech. But he was, people are happy.

People are happy because on the left, because he showed a lot of vigor, a lot of energy, much different from what we see when he comes walking out. First off, why was he late? Was it protesters? Yeah, I think it was, because you know D.C., they try to make a clear path for everything. When the president moves, I mean, I think that's the thing I would miss the worst about not being president afterwards is like Air Force One and motorcades everywhere you go, because the traffic here is maddening, just like New York.

But yeah, they had protesters on the route. And, you know, Dana and I talked about this this morning, a little bit surprised that Secret Service didn't have them cleared before that close to this beach. But there's a protest at all times every day in Washington, and that one just happened to be on the on his past year. And so we're told, yeah, that that supposedly is what slowed him down. All right, so Shannon, here's how this speech started: cut one.

My fellow Americans. In January Nineteen forty-one. Franklin Roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation. And he said. I address you in a moment.

unprecedented in the history of the Union.

Hitler was on the march. War was raging in Europe. President Roosevelt's purpose was to wake up Congress and alert the American people. that this was no ordinary time. Freedom and democracy.

We're under assault in the world. Tonight I come to this same chamber to address the nation.

Now It's we who face an unprecedented moment. in the history of the Union. And yes. My purpose tonight is to wake up the Congress. And alert the American people that this is no ordinary moment either.

So obviously, he's buddies with John Meacham, who always writes about FDR. And he really thinks that comparing Japan and Germany on the march is like comparing Russia and Donald Trump supporters. This is the same moment. I'm pretty sure that's a stretch that I think he's getting away with for some reason.

Well, and I felt Like, I mean, obviously, that's a very specific choice that they made to start the speech that way, but it felt odd that not with the line, like, we all here love America, and tonight we know she can do better and we can all work together, like something that gives everybody something to applaud for in the beginning. But coming out of the gate with that imagery and that level of accusation, I think. I think it felt like an odd choice to start with that subject matter.

Okay, fine. Odd choice has very diplomatic of you. What about the fact that he's yelling at people to pay their taxes, like corporations and rich people?

Meanwhile, does he remember his son? Used to live with him. That guy doesn't pay taxes. Remember, he's talking about guns. Do you remember the problem his son's having with guns?

Remember, he's talking about divesting from China? Has he mentioned that to his son? Isn't that kind of odd? I mean, those are all issues that his son is facing. I mean, there's ongoing litigation that involves those things, but you know how he feels about Hunter, that Hunter is collateral damage in the political hit job on him, and that he's a recovering addict and his remaining son who needs to be protected at all costs and is being mischaracterized.

Even drug addicts should pay taxes. Oh, who's coming up on your show?

Well, Senator Katie Britt is going to be with us this weekend. We're going to talk with her about, you know, the response now, how it has been received, what she is fighting for in the Senate as the youngest working mom over there, and where they go on aid packages and the border and everything else. We've also got Tim Tebow with us. He is using his celebrity for very important things. Not afraid to go into some really uncomfortable topics because it means saving innocent people around the globe.

He's the best. He's almost a perfect human being. He told me that you beat him in arm wrestling one time. Right. We were both shirtless, too.

And that was, and we have video. We're going to show that next week. We're going to show it this weekend. Shannon Breen, Fox News Sunday. Thank you.

The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back, everyone. Brian Kill Me Chubb. I'm going to go on with Harris Falkner shortly on Fox News Channel.

We'll get a chance to join major networks. We've got all the stations with us, Fox Nation, as well as the Fox Nation, the Fox News app, and then our family of affiliates. And then we got the Fox News Channel, number one network in the country.

So everyone's going to be watching and joining. At the bottom of the hour, though, Victor Davis Hansen is going to be with us. And we're going over the state of the union. Yesterday was a campaign speech. I actually think in the big picture it helped.

Unify Republicans. I mean, there was nothing there that would force a moderate to say, well, you know what, Joe Piden made a good point. He was not looking for that. I actually think it hurt his quest in order to get Nikki Haley voters because. Essentially, he was saying, I don't really need you.

And if you are somebody who is with Donald Trump or considering it, I'm the you're not on my team anyway. I mean, he actually labeled Trump supporters on par, the way I understand it. With the same threat that America was under in 1938 when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and then we subsequently declared war on Germany at the same time. That's basically what he said. And what I think is, too, he always looked at himself as a historic figure, and I think he meets with all these historians all these times, and that's why you start off in a similar time.

If he wants to talk about the challenge of Russia, Then you should talk about the challenges of China. And how we need for America to come together because of this. And we might have different people that look at threats differently. But right now, we're seeing North Korea, Iran, China, and Russia get together. I'll listen in.

Here's my introduction. And again, there were hundreds of these anti-Israel protesters trolling the President. Progressives very angry over his policies on the Israel-Hamas war. The progressive squad, far left, seen at Biden's speech last night, wearing white and black scarves, signaling their support for Palestinians. Several members declined to clap for Biden when he walked in for the speech and did not join chants of four more years.

They also held up signs as Biden spoke about his message to Israel. I've been working non-stop to establish immediate ceasefire that would last. for six weeks to get all the prisoners released, all the hostages released, to get the hostages home. The United States and the leading international efforts to get more humanitarian assistance to Gaza. Protecting and saving innocent lives has to be a priority.

As we look to the future. The only real solution to for the situation. is a two-stage solution over time. All right, so protesting the president over this issue is not new. We saw it even in the primaries.

Hundreds of thousands of Democrat voters. Chose uncommitted or no preference over Biden in recent voting contests in key battleground states like Michigan, North Carolina, Minnesota, and others. Brian Kilmead, co-host of Fox and Friends Now. Again, we are simultaneous. You're on the radio, I'm here on television.

First of all, tell me about this uncommitted vote and the protest even on the floor last night with the scarves. A couple of things. As you know, huge impact in Michigan, over 100,000, 12,000 in North Carolina, of course, Minnesota is a wake-up call. But what you had is the squad, all the members basically holding up signs, various say, stop the bombing, call for a ceasefire. They didn't stand up reportedly.

I wasn't in the room. They sat there solemn the whole time.

Now, keep in mind, with What we're witnessing here is a lack of leadership. You should just ask yourself: there's sometimes in life, especially as president, especially at his advanced age, we just got to make the right decision. Even if it upsets people in your own family, your own party, you make the right decision. But we're witnessing now, Harrison splitting the difference in a time of war in which they're paying an awful price. I'll give you another point.

He was caught on camera, but by microphones, talking to Anthony Blinken. Saying tomorrow, don't tell anyone, meaning today. I'm gonna have a come to Jesus meeting with BB. You know what? I think we've got a little bit of that.

Pause for a second. Let me just play it. And President Biden, after the address, tried to, as Brian just said, secretly tell somebody about his criticism of Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Etanyahu. Let's watch. I told you.

Easy on the pizzas. This is the idea of college. That was good. See, I see this a little bit differently.

Somebody who's been around microphones for a long, long time, and you too. He knew he was Mike'd. That's why you said good. I think you're giving him too much credit. Way too much credit.

Yeah.

And I think this, and if you read some of the stories today, do you know what? One of the reasons. that Hamas broke off talks for a ceasefire? They see a fracturing of American support for Israel. Do you know what else?

They see Benny Gantz invited to the U.S. and the War Council and the cabinet. And they say, well, we're not giving up hostages. We're not going to back off now. We're not going to have these talks.

And that's the danger of bad leadership. You try to appease the left wing. The pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas wing of your party, instead of doing the right thing. Yeah, absolutely, humanitarian should be a factor. Absolutely, should make sure there's a corridor there.

But they gotta be unbreakable in support. Because if you leave a battalion of Hamas fighters there, we're gonna be right back here 18 months later with a brand new October 7th. And Israel knows that. And he knows that.

So, make the tough decision, and people will appreciate that. I got news for you: that if you don't like Joe Biden on Israel, you're gonna really hate Donald Trump on Israel.

So, Mr. President. They're not going anywhere. There's a chance they could stay home, take that chance, and do the right thing. All right, an alarming new report from the House Judiciary Committee finds broad surveillance of Americans' financial data.

The Biden administration is accused of asking banks to search for private transactions that use terms like MAGA, Biden, Kamala, Trump. Banks were also asked to flag items bought from stores including Bass Pro Shops and Dick Sporting Goods. And here's Committee Chairman Jim Jordan. This is scary where things are headed. All this being done with no process, no warrant, no notification to the customer that the banks are actually supposed to serve.

Big government's not supposed to use big tech. To censor Americans, and big government shouldn't be working with big banks to target Americans for behavior that is legal and constitutional. And that's the concern.

So we first learned about this about a month and a half or so ago, Brian. What is happening now that will keep this in the headlines? There's no proof that it's going to stop. And there's no acknowledgment that they want to out of bounds. And if we go back to after 9-11, one of the things we did is unwind Hezbollah and a lot of the Islamic extremist activities within our country by following the financial ties.

Did a great job of cutting off the money supplies to ISIS as they cropped up, and Al-Qaeda and all their affiliates. Hamas in that area.

Now we have Hezbollah K or K Hezbollah in that area.

So we find out who's financing, we follow it down, and we do it. But now He never thought. That the FBI CIA would be turning it on us, and maybe ostensibly they say, well, this is what we had to do to find out who was behind January 6th. And we had to look at things like Camp Auschwitz. Antifa, Proud Boys, Capital.

Death, murder. All right. And when a bank comes up to you, and the FBI comes up to the TD bank or another bank and they say, hey, listen, I need this for the security and sanctity of the country. You're a patriot, right? They go, yeah, and I'm sure you're going to want to help us, correct?

Maybe you're going to get some scrutiny that could be the threat around the corner, stuff that's unsaid.

So they give it up. And now, if they don't give it up, like a lot of Silicon Valley was not given up for the Defense Department and helping out, they're looked at as unpatriotic. But when it comes to the banks, if you're following people that are trying to take our country down, they think they're doing the right thing, they're powerless. That's why you need Congress to come in and prevent. Our intelligence services for cracking down on Americans using American intelligence systems, especially if the CIA is getting involved looking after us.

Nobody can stand up to that type of scrutiny. That's a dangerous police state. At least the foundation's being laid there. That's why Jim Jordan's committee is doing such a great job. I wish they'd watch the border that closely and people could be watching the border.

Yeah, well, it'd be safer. It's a little bit easier. Look for the border. We actually have real national security at the border. Brian Kilmead, simulcasting with you is always fantastic.

Thank you. And thank you, radio listeners. Absolutely.

Thanks so much, Harris. We appreciate it. I'll see you on One Nation Saturday at 9.

So everyone should be watching Eastern Time. Thank you, Harris Faulkner. Appreciate it. All right. 1866-408-7669.

I'll be able to take some calls. Also, Victor Davis Hansen will put yesterday's speech in perspective. I do want to play one clip for you. Yesterday, in the midst of all this news, Letitia James, one of the most horrific figures right now in politics today. She's used her Attorney General's spot for pure politics, going after Trump.

Now she's going after Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County executive, for trying to keep girl sports just for girls. And yesterday, when she spoke at a promotion ceremony for FDNY, this is how she was greeted. I believe Cut 36. Oh, come on, we're in a house of God. First, um Simmer down.

Thank you. I want to thank Commissioner Cavanaugh. and Chief Hodgins for That recognition Have you ever in your life Heard that In a deep blue city like New York. Where the FDNY in New York City, fighting fires in New York City, saving people's lives in New York City, were so offended by what they've witnessed here in New York City, not just because she's a Democrat, and I'm sure there's a lot of Democrats there. They see, in my humble opinion, the injustice that's taking place with Donald Trump.

They see he's pro-law enforcement, he's pro-firefighter. He stands for them. And in New York, they boo her. She's stunned. And they chant his name.

She thinks that she's a hero. By going to court with a biased judge and deciding prior to the actual hearing that President Trump is guilty, maxing out the penalty at $450 million. Dancing over the fines that increase by a million each week that go by, through social media is who everyone wants to see, shows up in court every day and kicks her shoes off and just smirks. And she thinks that people don't care. Because it's New York?

I get the sense that Lee Zeldin sit the table. But maybe Donald Trump does have a shot here. Maybe he is going to fill up Madison Square Garden after all. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmeade.

As a lifelong supporter of Israel. My entire career, no one has a stronger record with Israel than I do. I challenge any of you here. I'm the only American president to visit Israel in wartime. But there is no other path.

that guarantees Israel's security and democracy. There is no other path that guarantees Palestinians can live in peace with par with peace and dignity. And there's no other pass that guarantees peace between Israel and all of its neighbors. including Saudi Arabia with whom I'm talking.

So he brought up Gaza, he brought up the two-state solution, he brought up, he's setting up a corridor. We're going to have no troops on the ground. We're going to bring aid to the shore of the Gaza Strip and we're going to bring it through a corridor so the Palestinians get it. I don't want one innocent Palestinian to die. None of you do either.

But Is anyone concerned that we're going to be fortifying Hamas? Do you know that Hamas did with all their money, they made this intricate. A tunnel system. The people never got any of that money. Do you really think the people are going to get the food they need?

I don't know if he could do this half-assed. Victor Davis Hanson joined us now, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute.

So, Victor, I was surprised he started with Ukraine, and when it came to When it came to Israel, I was glad he didn't call for a ceasefire. But once again, two-state solution. And on his own, he's going to do humanitarian corter. Your thoughts?

Well, in general, I thought it was a very angry. old man get off my grass rant. think it came across that way. I've never seen a more partisan State of the Union address. I don't think the American people want to start off with Ukraine.

It was an It was a necessary topic, but not the signature topic. You seem to be accusatory as if it was a campaign speech. I've never seen a president address. and get in an argument basically with people in the audience or attack Supreme Court justice. in the middle of the Congress.

There were a lot of firsts there. The Israel thing is very, I think, dangerous. The idea that we're going to make a port on Gaza and then we're going to bring American ships in, given what we see with food distribution and the violence it entails, we're going to get into a Kabul like situation there. And From what? October seventh looms, when he c talks about a ceasefire He didn't call for one, but that's where it's leading.

There was a ceasefire on october seventh. Israel did not break the ceasefire. And there would be a s Ceasefire now, if they would just simply turn over the head of Hamas and release the hostages, there would be a ceasefire. He didn't make that point clear.

So General, it was a very angry speech. It polarized the nation. Uh I think He succeeded in showing that he's animated, but he's only animated, Brian, when he's angry at his domestic opposition. That's the only thing that brings life into him. Otherwise He's not angry at the Iranians.

He's not so angry at the Houthis. He's not so angry at the Chinese. It's only the MAGA Republicans and Donald Trump and the people who support him that seem to bring him back to live. Here's some of that exchange you discussed, cut three. In November My team began serious negotiations with a bipartisan group of senators.

The result was a bipartisan bill. with the toughest set of border security reforms we've ever seen.

Well, you don't think so? Oh, you don't like that, Phil, huh? That conservatives got together and said it was a good bill. I'll be darned. That's amazing.

So, is that what is some of the exchange you thought about? And that was the Senator Langford bill, where Senator Langford worked with Murphy and Cinema to put together a bill. And by the way, you have to talk to Langford.

Well, the White House had an official in there the whole time, was hindering any type of progress. Was not very cooperative, not happy with the final product, but when he real but they didn't want to sign off on it in the Senate, and that's where he's jumping off. Will he be able to get traction with that? I don't think so. I mean Andrew Mayorka's quoted chapter and verse bragging about each of the border item that he had that Trump had initiated that secured the border, that he overturned Biden when he was a candidate.

Beg people to surge to the border. We have eight to ten million people who did so. This issue only came to his attention because it was an election year, and his polling found out that his own constituents. felt that he had been lacking or wanting in this topic and it was hurting them.

So then he cooked up this bipartisan Senate bill and lured Mitch McConnell foolishly to buy into it. And what it really did was it gave the President all sorts of authorities to exempt illegal immigrants and had a threshold of 5,000 people, which Before Biden would have been considered outrageous. And the worst thing about it is we don't need new legislation, Brian. We don't need new money. All we need to do is have the President restore the executive orders that Trump initiated, and there would be a secure border.

Everybody knows that.

So the question is, why are they doing it? And they're doing it because they feel that these are new constituents. In two cents. They'll grow government and they'll need more entitlements, and that's always a plus for the left. And then number two, under this new post-COVID change in balloting where seventy percent of the electorate does not show up on election day in swing states, they feel there'll be less audit and rigor and a lot of people who should not be voting will be voting.

And that's that's why they're doing it.

So there's two things. There's something else going on. And that is now they suddenly are on the border, they see it as a problem. And number two is San Francisco. the State of Oregon, New York City Philadelphia, Washington, DC All have come out.

Needing to reigns declaring we need to rein in crime. Time to be tougher on crime. Let's try to bolster up with National Guard troops in New York City. In Oregon, the open air, whatever drug you want thing is not working out. It's time to crack down.

In San Francisco, it's time to crack down. What's going on here? Is there sincerity behind it? Or is there a panic underneath it? I think there's two things going on.

One, it's an election year, and they see that crime, homelessness and the general sense of blue state implosion is now A big election issue, especially the independents and swing voters, and they've lost them at least for now. And then number two, I think the bicoastal left was willing to sign on to all of these things, feeling that their money, their zip code, their influence Would exempt them from the consequences of their own politics and ideology. I can't. They have to go downtown, they park in San Francisco, they park in a parking garage, they get their car broken to, they have to walk over people on Market Street. And they get carjacked.

They go into their Walgreens and everything's locked up.

So they're now seeing, wow, I thought this wouldn't ever get to me and now it's got to me, and they're angry about it. And so they're trying to pressure Joe Biden and the left to do something about it. And that's what's happening. Is it sincere? It's sincere in the sense that it's self-interested.

But um it took a long time for them Has had to get pretty bad, and I think it has to get a lot worse until they'll really do something and stop it. These are helpful measures, but they're not going to solve the problem. Look. It's hard for me to imagine the average American voter, citizen, is actually going to think that Joe Biden wanted to do something at the border and wanted to crack down on crime when we know he ran got into office vilifying police officers, never until late, not going back and pushing back hard on To fund the police. Corey Bush still says it every chance she can, wants to fund the police.

Now we're left with hollowed out police officers precincts all across the country, including in New York. I don't think any cop or the cops family or any type of or illegal people believe that he the Democrats are going to get tougher on crime. And I don't think they could possibly run on it. I can't believe they're trying.

Well, they don't have anything else to wrong. I mean, are they going to say that We lowered energy prices and we helped Push. Um Fossil fuels as a transition fuel? Are they going to say we store deterrence in Afghanistan, the Chinese balloon? Middle East, Dick Sullivan said, was his Quietest portfolio that he inherited.

Are they going to say that? Are they going to say, wow. Um inflation's a little bit restrained, but you know, thirty percent increase in staple foods, energy, shelter, Are they going to run on that? They don't have anything else to run other than january sixth. abortion Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump and Russia, Russia, Russia.

And that's about it.

So that that that speech was just the most disingenuous and partisan speech I've ever heard. And I think it's going to be f uh and it may have excited the Democrats that he didn't that he finished the speech, that he was alive. But I think in the aftermath, the quips and the and the The cuts and the video excerpts are really going to not be very well because he just yelled the whole time. They won't find one clip where he was. Normal.

and quiet and conciliatory and statesmanlike. They didn't exist. Eugene Carroll, by the way, you know, the former president had $84 million due today in a bond. He just posted it. He got $91 million.

So it's out there and he's okay.

Now he's got to come up with $450 million. And what's happening in New York might be enough to close the gap on what Lee Zeldon started. As you know, he got within five or six points of becoming the next governor of New York as a Republican. But listen to how Letitia James was greeted yesterday. I want you to hear this out on the West Coast.

Cut 36. Oh, come on, we're in a house of God. First, um Simmer down. Thank you. I want to thank Commissioner Cavanaugh.

and Chief Hodgins for That recognition So I don't know if you can make it out through the through just audio only. But they rocked him, and it was the FDNY promotion ceremony in the heart of New York City, letting Letitia James know we know exactly what you're up to. Does that matter? I think it does. Especially the the Jean Carroll was the worst of all of them, even worse than the criminal suits because the woman Can't remember the date and Her dress, she said, that proved she was there, wasn't in existence.

The Law and Order episode was basically where she got her narrative. She praised Trump as her favorite TV show, The Apprentice in 2015. You made an app about how to break up people's marriages. The whole thing was just a joke. And everybody knew it.

And uh I guess People are starting to see now that if you're in New York, and you're a conservative and you're prominent and you're in business, you're going to have to give money to Eric Adams or Letita James or Alvin Bragg. And you better be very careful about your social life because these people are going to go after you. and there's no justice. And so it's really going to hurt New York, and it already has. But at some point It's not just empathy for Donald Trump, it's worry that they're destroying the whole system of law and jurisprudence.

And it's very funny how what they have done, they have made Donald Trump the return to normality candidate, the moderate. Every one of his positions is considered pretty much where Bill Clinton was. on the border, on fuel, on for so he's the moderate and Joe Biden is the radical reactionary and crazy person. And that is true of also their compartment. When Donald Trump gave a State of the Union, he may have been animated, but he didn't do what Joe Biden.

Joe Biden is the angry, irrational, weird candidate. And so they have somehow, and if they keep doing it, it's going to convince independents that they want to return to normality. Policing. deal with the homeless, restore deterrence, Make poodle. you know, affordable, energy affordable.

Stop the crime, stop the 8 million swarming into our cities, and then Donald Trump stands for that. All he has to do is just. Forget the tweeting. and call for unity and he will win. And Joe Biden is not the good old Joe from Scranton.

He is an aberration. I don't think we've ever seen anything like that that we saw on that State of the Union. And I'll tell you what, I don't like the cataclysmic terms of if the one guy if your guy loses, the country's over. But you know without cinema and manchin in the Senate, if Joe Biden finds a way to beat Donald Trump, And the Senate does not go Republican, there's nothing blocking the end of the filibuster. And that ridiculous detrimental agenda.

That there's a danger there. Yeah, absolutely. They feel that America was flawed at its beginning, it got worse during its maturity, and now it's hopeless. without fundamentally transforming it. And Joe Biden doesn't know any of that.

He's just a veneer. He's just a construct. that this hard left, Obama, Earl Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders squad, wing of the De it's not the wing, it's the Democratic Party now, are running via his veneer. And it's very dangerous. And if they get control of the Senate and the House, it's going to be nightmarish.

So I agree with you. And so this is a civilizational election, Brian, that you either for civilization as we knew it or you're not. Yeah, I mean It's chaos versus civilization in November. And I heard you say something last week that I really based my monologue on on Saturday night, and that is. While we're all caught up in the day-to-day on this race, The comeback of Donald Trump, it's easy.

The water gradually got hotter. You don't realize how hot it is. We're witnessing the greatest comeback in American political history. It's not over. He's got to finish it off.

But this comeback was unthinkable in years past. It's unthinkable. In January of twenty twenty one, he was written off as an insurrectionist. He was even people in his own party said we want DeSantis. And he persevered.

He was libeled. He was indicted. Everybody each Times that he'll be in jail, da da da da da, he'll be broke. And he's it was almost Nietzsche. And every time they tried to destroy him, he got stronger in the polls and then.

He lost weight. He looks more dynamic. He looks as young as he was when he was President. He I don't know any other person who could have taken that personal invective and that damage to his family and this effort to destroy him in every dimension, and he survived. Nixon had that ability after 1962 when he lost the governorship, but He didn't experience a fraction of what they're doing.

The Nixon hatred was not a fraction of what Trump has experienced. Victor Davis Hansen, always educational, interesting to get a perspective. Thanks so much, Victor. Thank you, Brian. Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institute.

Always great. Listen, we come back. We'll wrap up this hour. Don't forget, One Nation Saturday night at 9 o'clock. I'll tell you what's going to be coming your way.

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Some of you might know what a big speech like I have to do is coming up to State of the Union. Any advice you have for me in my delivering my speech.

Well, sir, in my capacity as president, All I had to deal with was a meteor. There's no crying in politics.

Well What I hope is my politics doesn't make anybody else cry. Don't forget to save a dance for the First Lady in the East Group.

So, those are all the people that played Presidents on TV, and it looks, it's even worse than it sounds when you see it. Because President looks 120. Uh, all these guys, and everything just seems so scripted and stilted. I mean, you have to do it over again. If you have a director there, do it again.

But why even do it? Why are we wasting the presence of the people who are talking about Michael Douglas and Samuel Jackson and whoever else is not Samuel Jackson, who is a Denzel? Morgan Freeman, thank you. Yeah.

Um, but like and plus they all look so old. I mean everybody. I mean they like buy Michael Douglas. Michael Douglas looks wildly old. All of them.

It um I A waste of everyone's time. Right. On the other thing, there's some really good ads that Trump people are running out. He's going to be very aggressive. His ads are done so well.

Yeah, and they're going to be quick and they're going to be thorough. He's going to go for the knockout. You know why he sees the finish line now? And also, he sees all these court cases are coming up.

So But it must have been on some level, even for him, overwhelming. But now he sees exactly what has to happen: delay, delay, delay. And if I have to go in, like with Bragg, I got to win.

So come on, guys. You're getting paid a lot of money. Bragg's case is a joke. You win that. I think it'll go a long way to put in a substantial victory.

Over Joe Biden, who probably will get a bump from his base and close the gap. temporarily, if Trump continues as he was doing. Listen, I'll be on with Chris Russo, Ruffo, Tom Cotton. John Crist on Saturday. Peter Antia.

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