Jealousy, anger, disdain: Reports Biden is unhappy with his reelection campaign

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So glad you're here this hour. This hour, we're going to be joined by Scott Besant and Lieutenant Colonel Alan West. We're going to go to the board of the air. And Scott served as chief executive officer, chief investment officer for Key Square Capital, a New York-based investment partnership that he founded in 2015. We're going to talk about the economy, also talk about some of the challenges that Donald Trump is facing and what is happening here in New York.

A lot of people are heading for the hills.

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Number two. Basically, his position is: in order to get any other judge to look at what I've done to you, you've got to come up with basically a half a billion dollars just to appeal. It's like a judge saying, I'm going to take your house away, but you can appeal my decision. You just have to sell your house in order to do it. That is Jonathan Turley breaking down the latest challenges for President Trump.

The Trump trials, the first major crisis for the embattled former and perhaps future President. A five-judge panel has a week to adjust his $450 million demand for a bond. It makes a strong logical argument about it. These companies will not lend that amount and will not look at assets as an asset. And meanwhile, the other term team looks to KO Fonnie Willis from the Georgia case.

Number one. When I read the headline that said he's mad about his campaign, I believe that because he knows that he is losing.

So that told me, well, maybe he's more with it than you think. Maybe he's looking at this going, guys, we're going to lose. Maybe. Jealousy, anger, and disdain. The three emotions on display by our president.

Jealousy over Obama, anger over his poll nervous, disdain for the man leading him in the polls, Donald Trump. We look at the quick response team to Trump's remarks as the 45th president begins to leak out what his second term cabinet might look like. And by the way, you could always. You can always listen to the show on the podcast or get it off the app.

So what what is going on? I want to start with the President's financial issues.

So, you know, they convicted him in a civil case. Of inflating his assets. Even though no banks complained, no insurers complained, no construction company has complained, no individual has complained. This is a targeting of a business person because of his political views. There was no problem that he was hosting.

The apprentice. There was no problem when he owned the USFL team. There was no problem when he tried to buy the Buffalo Bills. There was no problem when he was building building after building. There was no problem when Mike Bloomberg, mayor, said, Please buy that golf course in the Bronx and refurbish it, put the Trump name on it.

And he did. No problem when he was refurbishing the woman rink in the 80s. There's a huge problem because he became president of the United States and Letitia James is trying to make a name for herself. And to her credit, probably honestly, Sustains him.

So Yesterday, it became clear that there was only thirty bond companies in the country that could actually have the wherewithal, the financial wherewithal to be able to lend the President this money. And these thirty companies basically said, listen, if you have a billion dollars, I'll give you four hundred fifty million and you'll have to pay me twenty million. To me, you know, as a guy that's not a billionaire, according to reports, I haven't checked my past book savings account. It's way over my head in terms of big business. But not over the round vacations.

If he does she does not post the $450 million asset. A bond. Then they have a right to take one of his properties, whether it's Forty Wall Street, whether Westchester Country Club, the New Jersey Country Club, whether it's Mar-a-Lago, the Trump Tower, Letitia James can go and grab it. There were huge problems with that. One of the problems is you grab it.

While he's appealing the case, which many experts say he absolutely can win, and they certainly inflated the penalty. They could go sell his asset and then go, okay, the appeals court overturned the civil judgment.

Sorry, sold your tower.

Sorry, we took uh we flipped your golf course. You've lost money on it. Let alone Having a monitor over him. There's a monitor looking over a Trump business right now.

So you can't even say that there's going to be a problem or there's going to be hidden assets. You've got a monitor there.

Well, he's ch he put together a 5,000 page Petition. To a five-member appeals court, in order to say, look at the precedent here of an appeals court. Knocking down the amount somebody would need in bond as they wait for appeal. My hope is there is some semblance of equity and honesty in the New York court system for someone that's a Republican. That has no plaintiff except for being targeted for political purposes.

They don't like the size of his penthouse. They don't like how he assessed certain property. They thought he overemphasized certain things. Banks don't have a problem with it. Realtors don't have a problem with it.

Insurers don't have a problem with it. They had a problem with it. They thought they could target him. They found him guilty before the judge made his final judgment. And in the end, it was as bad as it could be.

$350 million. They added some interest and some other things, ended up to $450 million. The real estate that could be up for docket, unless he can get this down in the next five days, Forty Wall Street. The Trump International Hotel and Tower, Trump Park Avenue, obviously, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, Penthouse Triplex, Tripleplex, and Trump Tower at 7 I know he uh and that's 724 Fifth Avenue. That's the one everybody goes to.

That's where he really works out of now. He works out of Mar-a-Lago all the time until he ships to New Jersey when it gets too hot there.

So I just think it's terrible. And I think politically this actually helps him. No Democrat's going to want him. I get it. The Independent's undecided.

The Republicans on the side say, okay. You gotta be kidding me. This is so over the top. The legal judgment was over the top. But as you wait for appeal, $450 million, as you wait for appeal, you gotta be kidding.

Here's Ryan Goodman on CNN, he's a legal analyst, Cut 15. And Letitia James seizes his property, puts liens on all of his assets, bank accounts, and then Zeric said that doesn't is not restricted to New York.

So she probably at this point understands where he has different assets in Florida, Mar-a-Lago and elsewhere. And what does that mean? He can't go in them or people can't go what does that mean? It does mean that he would not be able to it would be fought out in some part in the courts, but for that period of time it really becomes unusable and how does he get any additional business going when these are under foreclosure or being seized by the court?

So that's a little of the mechanics of it.

Now here's the fairness of it. Jonathan Turley cut 16. This is obviously a situation where you don't have any good options, including getting the bond itself. Remember, if you get the bond, you still lose considerable amount of money on the cost of the bond. And this creates a sort of perverse incentive for judges like this one, who comes up with this astronomical, in my view, ridiculous level of it basically his position is in order to get any other judge to look at what I've done to you, you've got to come up with basically a half a billion dollars just to appeal.

It's like a judge saying, I'm going to take your house away, but you can appeal my decision. You just have to sell your house in order to do it. That's interesting. And listen, we'd never been down this road before.

So, and I'm going to talk more about this. But politically, this does not hurt the present. Because it's not something he did. If he did something, put it up for risk, went to buy a Saudi hotel and put Mar-a-Lago up, and all of a sudden the Saudi hotel project ended up using cheap labor and got caught in scandal, and they got to go seize the property. And that's okay, that's a problem.

This is all about being targeted. This is the reason why he won the primary. The fact that he was on trial. Then he loses the trial. Before he starts, just the way the nature of this civil trial goes.

And they do all the cat they do all the testifying over weeks. And they just give them the maximum penalty. imaginable.

Now, they did say he's got to sell all his New York assets. He petitioned that and they got rid of that.

So he can do business in New York.

So that was changed. And I would love for ultimately this whole thing to be flipped, and we'll see what happens. Today on Fox Nation, I'm going to be hosting at 5 o'clock after the Afghanistan hearings today. I'm going to be hosting a panel on Fox Nation on the Afghan withdrawal and what we found out today from Mark Miller to McKenzie. All these people are going to go up and try to justify their actions, and they can't.

But I want to hear them scrutinized and screened. And I'm going to be able to do that with a great panel. And that will be on Fox Nation 5 p.m.

Meanwhile, we come back. I want to break down the financial challenges here, and I'll be doing that with a special guest. And then at the bottom of the air, we go to the Board of Lieutenant Colonel Alan West. Brian Kilmichio. Politics, current events, and news that affects you.

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So, unless the Biden team goes directly on the economy. And talks about how a second term of President Biden would potentially be better economically than a second term of President Trump. I think that's the argument that they've got to go to. And I get it. I get it a tough argument to make because most people are inclined to believe that Trump's better on it.

That was Lonnie Chen on Sunday. I think it was Meet the Press just saying that it's not going to be an abortion election. It's not even going to be foreign policy or Israel or Ukraine. It is going to be an economic election. Scott Besant is here.

He serves as CEO and Chief Investment Officer for Keysquare Capital Management, a New York-based investment partnership that he founded in 2015. And President Trump let everybody know that you're on the list if he is to win for Treasury Secretary. Scott, welcome. Thanks, Brian.

So, Amit, how did you get to know President Trump? I've known the Trump family for a long time. I've known the Trump family for a long time, and I supported the president in 2016, and they had various chats about the economy. And I agree. I think this election is going to be about the economy.

So you just brought up, and you heard me do the beginning, and you heard the coverage that the president's got to come up with $450 million in a bond, and then he's already been told he has a monitor looking over his business. And if he doesn't do that, while he waits for appeal, they're going to start seizing his assets. You said this reminds you of something. Yeah, it reminds me in Russia. Mikhail Hordikovsky in 2003 was the richest guy in Russia.

President Putin had told the oligarchs, stay in your lane, stay out of politics, you can keep your money. And in 2003, Hordikovsky announced that he might run for president. He was arrested. Over the next 10 years, he was in jail. And the Russian state, the Leviathan, took a Apart his $15 billion holdings in Yukos Oil Company, and he was in jail for 10 years and lost 98% of his money.

And that kind of lawfare isn't supposed to happen in the U.S. It's not supposed to, but we did interview him. I interviewed him before through an interpreter, and that's how he described it. And you said President Trump is not Navalny. That's different.

This is a financial guy that wanted to lead a country, much like he was in business. Is that part of the reason when you see what Letitia James has targeted him? Is that part of the reason you left New York? Yeah, look, quality of life is I could see what was happening. And 800,000 people have left New York since 2020.

I'm not sure what the number is for New York State, but at a point, these officials have to say there is something wrong when people are fleeing to other states. Right. What makes it more difficult to be here? It's convenient to be here. Financial institutions are here.

What makes it difficult? Do you find that they appreciate the wealth that you bring? What I find day to day is difficult in terms of personal safety, those issues, or at least the perceptions of them, have gone up. It's cumbersome doing business, the regulation. And the one thing is, as we see with President Trump, the randomness of anything that could pop out of the blue and the lack of a rule of law.

The one thing I saw in the Wall Street Journal today Is that what part of the reasons why he's getting problems with one of the thirty bond companies might be able to afford to do this is that they feel as though if they lend Trump the money, they will be targeted by Letitia James. Is that a legitimate worry? Sure.

Well, why not? If there's not a hard and fast rule of law, Then any anyone i is subject to it. Used to be in the US, the higher your profile, the more that protected you. But now the higher your profile is the They're they're off the leash. Scott, where's most of your uh financial investment in?

So we're a global fund. We invest in currencies, bonds, commodities. Right now, we're very interested in the bond market. Has the Federal Reserve made a mistake here? Did Powell loosen financial conditions too much in November?

And so we think interest rates could continue to back up. We're very interested in Japan and what's happening there. What's happening there?

Well, Bank of Japan just came out of negative interest rates. First time. there's a real shareholder revolution in terms of money coming back to shareholders as opposed to being squandered in a Japanese way.

So Abi Nomic started twenty twelve and Twelve years later, we're seeing the benefits Nikes at a 30-year high. And how did they do it? A combination of corporate governance reform and the changing the deflationary mindset. Interesting.

So, right now, just on a more blue-collar way, 57% of Americans don't have enough savings to cover $1,000 in emergency expenses. 25% of student loan borrows default within five years. And 35% of U.S. households have credit card debt. And the total amount of credit card debt in our country is $1 trillion.

What do some of these stats mean to you? Look, it means to me, and I have political views, but. With my firm, we have financial views. And we did a big analysis of the economy within the past four weeks. And I have to tell you, I was shocked to see the state.

Of the lower 50th percentile in income Americans. It's really shocking. And what's happened to them, I wrote a piece that actually appeared on Fox Digital about 10 days ago, and I called it Joe Biden is fighting the three eyes, and it's inflation, interest rates, and immigration. And they've been a toxic brew for lower-income Americans. He keeps pointing out that things are great.

Look at the numbers, look at the unemployment numbers. Inflation's going in the right direction, he says. He says he's paying down the deficit.

Well, look, he's not paying down the deficit. Remember this number: a hundred days. Every hundred days, the US debt is going up a trillion dollars. A trillion dollars. And we are not supposed to run deficits of this size with an unemployment rate at this level.

So, is President Biden has been doing what I call two-footed driving. Is he's hitting the accelerator in terms of fiscal spending, but the Federal Reserve is trying to slam on the brakes. And long run, the economic machine that is the U.S. is not very good for it. But inflation can come down.

That's a rate of change number. The problem is the absolute accumulated level. since Biden became President is very uncomfortable for average Americans. They've lost four percent in real purchasing power and more like seven percent to nine percent In a basket of staples, you know, the rent, insurance, food.

So, you know, that's what the average American's feeling. Wow. For a guy who is dealing with high-value clients, you really have a sense of what everyday Americans are going through. That's a credit to you. Yeah, look, it makes me mad when I see Paul Krugman, one of my least favorite columnists, who writes in one of my least favorite papers, New York Times, excoriating average Americans for not being grateful.

It's not good. Scott Bessett, thanks so much. I hope you are the next Treasury Secretary. You have my vote. A talk show that's real.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Extraordinary success of this mission. was due to the incredible skill Bravely. and selfless courage in the United States military and our diplomats. and intelligence professions.

It was a logistical success, but a strategic Failure. Was it perfect? Of course not. For all this talk of chaos, I just didn't see it. Not from my perch.

And by the way, Admiral Kirby's is the most disgusting. He looked at that video as an admiral. You know, he's just not some spokesperson. Guy's been decades in the military. He knows it's the biggest disaster in American military history: the exit from Afghanistan.

He saw what a train wreck it was: people running up to a plane falling out of the sky from a wheel. saw what happened loading up all these planes.

Some left with nobody, some left with everybody. We didn't know who was being screened. Thirteen people died. Hundreds were killed in the Afghans and dozens were wounded. I didn't see chaos from his perch.

Now, finally, we're going to get an Afghanistan hearing today. And it should be explosive. There's a lot of qualified people who are going to be there, and I'll be able to talk about that on Fox Nation at five o'clock with a great panel of guests. Joining us now is Lieutenant Colonel Alan West. Colonel, what do you want to hear today?

I mean, we know what we know. You have your contacts after decades in the military. What do you want to find out today?

Well, Brian, I don't think that there's anything more that we should be finding out. We all know there was a debacle. We all know that someone authorized a drone strike against an Afghan family, and no one has been held accountable. That's the thing that I want to see. Where are the consequences?

Where are the ramifications for the greatest strategic blunder, operational and tactical too, that the United States military will have ever known? Because if we're not careful, the exact same thing is going to end up replicating itself in our own hemisphere right here in Haiti. Where we have Americans that are trapped there, and we're not sending any type of noncombatant evacuation mission to try to get them out from a place that's being controlled by thugs and gang members.

So we know the story. It's been well documented and well covered. Who are going to be held responsible? That's my question.

So you know what they said over the weekend on on Haiti. They said, we told you to get out a long time ago. We told you, we didn't recommend you travel there. Do you know most of those people you met doing humanitarian work, working in orphanages and doing things just because of that? You can't track them, you can't find them, you can make no effort.

These are probably some of the finest Americans that we have that know that every day is dangerous in Haiti. I don't want to see American military in danger. I get it. People still hike up mountains and we got to go find them. It bothers me, but that's what rescue workers do.

But this is the third time. Remember, Israel? War breaks out. We have no way to get them out. Afghanistan, no way to get them out.

And now in Haiti, not only didn't they learn, they don't want to learn. And that's my point. When you talk about what do we expect to hear from this hearing, we don't need to hear it anymore. It's replicating itself once again. And look, I served in the military, and one of my tours of duty was with the United States Marine Corps.

And this is one of the missions that they have. It's called a non-combatant evacuation order, a mission that they're trained to do. And so why don't we have forces that can come out of Camp Legier, North Carolina, a Marine Expeditionary Unit or Marine Expeditionary Brigade, and go in there and make sure that we're protecting Americans, make sure that we're protecting the embassy that we have there and not allowing this country to devolve into another case of chaos. And oh, by the way, when you talk to individuals, they're just releasing folks out of the prisons. The next thing you know, somehow they're going to find their way across the border here in Texas and into the United States of America.

And there's another level of threat that we have to contend with.

So I want you to hear for General Frank McKenzie. Was one of the people in charge. He was the one who took the call, evidently, from Bararder. And he was the one who said, Do you want me to go into Kabul? He's the Afghanistan leader now.

He said, Nobody's there. Do you want me to go into Kabul or do you want to go into Kabul? And he said, All we want is the airport. Here's McKenzie, cut twenty-six. General McKenzie, do you share that assessment?

Senator, I do share that assessment. Did you ever present that opinion personally to President Biden? Again, I'm not going to be able to comment on those executive discussions. Did General Miller ever present that opinion personally to President Biden? I think it would be best to ask him.

I believe that his opinion was well heard. All right, I should have played this one first. This is General Milley, cut 25. My assessment was. Back in the fall of 20 and remain consistent throughout that we should keep a steady state of 2,500 and it could bounce up to 3,500, maybe something like that, in order to move toward a negotiated gated solution.

So there you go.

So McKenzie agreed with it. And then when the President said, no, I want to get out, he said, then we've got to get all out. Then we can't stay in Bagram. And they get out without even telling NATO. Who would have kept 12 to 20,000 troops that they had?

They were not saying we got to leave.

So what I mean, think about the idiocy.

Well, it's blatant incompetence. And this is, again, when you look at the gang that couldn't shoot straight, Tony Blink and Jake Sullivan, all of these people there. And sadly, you have a Secretary of Defense who was a four-star general. He should know better. But you have a secure airfield in Bagram.

Why do you give it over? Why do you leave all of that equipment? Why do you make sure you don't have the proper footprint to start getting Americans out? I have never seen an evacuation where you pull the entire military out, and then you basically tell civilians to fend for themselves. That's the most backass thing I've ever seen.

And again, we all know these facts. We all know this truth. Who is to be held accountable? And going into 2024, you just talked about Afghanistan, you just talked about Israel and Hamas, and now we see what's happening in Haiti. These are huge black eyes for Joe Biden.

Uh yes. And he's his numbers had never recovered. And no one believes he's competent. And some people say this is directly, we got the Ukrainian invasion. Because of the way we left Afghanistan.

The word was out: we're out. We don't want to do this. But then when I read the Robert Hurr report, I realize this guy was obsessed with getting out of Afghanistan. He has no trust for guys like you in the military. He was always in Obama's ears saying, Don't believe him.

They just want what they want. Don't believe them. And one of his notes that he took in 2009, when General McChrystal briefed him in the situation room and the president, and who knows who else? And he got General McChrystal's request for more troops and he put his own notes on there. Essentially, he said, he doesn't need them.

He's overstating it. I question his competence. And he took the notes with him.

So he was obsessed that Donald that Obama wouldn't listen to him and surge troops anyway. This is one of the things he thought he was going to come out, and he can't see how he screwed it up.

Well, the Secretary, former Secretary of Defense Gates, said that Joe Biden has never been on the right side of a foreign policy issue ever. And I think we need to go back in history and remember that the young Senator Joe Biden was very instrumental in the debacle that happened there in Vietnam and Saigon. He was very instrumental in us undermining our support to that fledgling South Vietnamese government and military at that time.

So this shows a consistency with him that is very troubling because now this person who is incapacitated in some way, shape, form, or fashion, is the commander-in-chief of the United States Military Force, which he has continued to degrade, he has continued to undermine, and he has continued to miss. misappropriate and misuse on the battlefield. I want you to hear Admiral Kirby, and to me, it's just his disappointment. You know, he is not. He is not Jen Saki with no military background.

He is not this KJP with just terrible. This guy knows better. And he does not have you could it's the easy way to be honest and not sell out the president. This is just being dishonest, Cut Twenty two. The President's very proud of the manner in which uh the men and women of the military, the Foreign Service, the intelligence community uh went on and on and on uh conducted this.

conducted this uh withdrawal. Look, I've been around operations my entire life and there's not a single one that ever goes perfectly according to plan. Um uh things happen. Oh my goodness. He's an embarrassment.

The fact that this guy was a rear admiral in the United States Navy is embarrassing. We could look at the evacuation from Dunkirk, and we could see something that was conducted a whole lot better than what happened there in Afghanistan.

So I don't know what has happened to Admiral Kirby, but without a doubt, he is just a shill. He is a charlatan. And, you know, you talk to anyone that was there in the military in Afghanistan at that time period, that withdrawal. And Brian, you remember you and I first met when I was calling back from Afghanistan to you when you had your Brian and the Judge radio show. I'm very familiar with Afghanistan.

We blew it. And I don't know how he can try to sugarcoat it. Right. I mean, if you want to get out, you get out, but nobody says this is a good move. I mean, if you're game planning this war, you're in a war room and you're saying, what are all the scenarios that take place?

You don't tell the American people this is one of the finest trained armies in the world, over 100,000, and then what? Watch the city slowly fall, not adjust anything, and brag that they're not shooting at us. Really? You're not shooting at you. They're all quitting because we're not covering them.

They're being assassinated. They're being literally chopped up by the Taliban because there's no American backing them, and we're telling everyone we are getting out. Then they go give up Bagram and empty the prisons. And it's the belief, we understand, that one of the bombers came from Bagram prison that killed 13 Americans. Yeah.

No, absolutely right. And you have a commander in chief or president that still has not sat down with the family members of those thirteen who lost their lives there at Harman Karzai International Airport, which again, that's a real shame. Right. We'll see what happens today. Uh Colonel, we know too, a judge stayed The ruling Texas decided on their own they want to be able to arrest people that come over here illegally and send them back on their own.

And then judges stayed the order so they can't implement it.

So these people that do get through your makeshift fence get processed as of now. What do you think your chances are in the courts? Look, I will tell you there comes a point in time when you look at these judges who are undermining the Constitution in the United States of America. They're undermining the sovereignty of this country. They're undermining the safety and security of the American citizens and the citizens of Texas.

And you just got to say, we're not following what you're saying. You're not going to stay an order that is based upon the Constitution of the United States of America. If the federal government is not doing its job to protect our border, then the state has the absolute, abject, enumerated duty and responsibility and power to do that in Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the Constitution.

So, this is where Governor Abbott needs to look at the individual and say, I really don't care what you're saying. It's my duty to protect the people here in Texas, and we're not allowing people to come into this state illegally anymore. We're going to arrest them, we're going to deport them ourselves.

So, just to fy the judge? Yeah. You know, this judge is judges are supposed to interpret the law. This judge is not interpreting the law. The law is very clear.

It's black and white in the Constitution. And if you have a federal government in the Biden administration who is undermining this country, and to me, it's a treasonous action to disavow Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution, then someone has to stand up for the rule of law. And I think that that's what Governor Abbott should be doing. All right. Colonel West, thanks so much.

Appreciate it. My pleasure. Take care, Brian. All right, 1-866-408-7669. Those hearings are today.

We'll bring it back tomorrow. And as I mentioned, I'll be on Fox Nation with a great panel to go over what we went over today and what we still don't know and why the President still hasn't been briefed on what went wrong that day. You listen to Brian Kilmeet Show. Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Killmead.

A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead. There was data from all over Europe. It was very, very clear. I mean, that's the main point, Laura, that I want to emphasize.

It was the government that was the primary source of misinformation during the pandemic. The First Amendment would have protected us against the government misinformation had it been operative during the pandemic. The argument of the Supreme Court today was so frustrating to hear because that the it was if the Supreme Court justices lived through a different pandemic where the government didn't say that masks stopped the the spread of the virus, the the government didn't say that vaccines stop you from getting and spreading COVID, the government didn't say that there's no such thing as natural immunity.

So that is Jay Bacciara, and he was on Lord Ingram last night in response to the censorship case that was brought in front of the Supreme Court yesterday. Should the government have access to call up these social media companies and say, take this down, put this out, go ahead and limit the echo effect of this tweet? Shadow ban them or get rid of them. Especially because a lot of the information that they put out there, as the doctor just brought up, was wrong, saying that if you get vaccinated, you can't get COVID. The President of the United States said that.

For people that aren't getting vaccinated or hesitant about vaccinated, he was saying if you post something like that, you are killing people. Do you want those people in charge of your social media companies? And for those people who say the government doesn't tell you what to do, they will call up and voice their concerns, but it's the government. And if they tell if you get the call from the White House or you get the call from the FBI that says they got a little problem with the way this is trending, the whole. COVID virus came from a lab leak.

Remember when that was considered heresy to bring that up? Don't bring that up. Don't bring it up on the show. What are they responsible? We don't want to make things worse through China.

We got to be able to get our. Pharmaceuticals out of China, and if they think we're blaming them for the pandemic that's poisoned the world, we might not get them out. Remember that conversation?

So, with this, with now Senator Eric Smith, former Attorney General in Missouri. want to do, we say, listen. I don't want them ever. dealing with social media companies. I want to make my own decision, put up good information.

If you think you got bad information out there, you go ahead and say, well, this is Joe Biden. And let me just tell you, that is not the way it is. And let Joe Rogan put up what he wants. Instead of calling up and going, hey. Let's ban that Rogan tweet.

John Rogan uh Joe Rogan talked about ivermectin working. We got to get rid of that.

So, this made all the Supreme Court had a lot of intermediate victories, and we'll see. Here's Senator Eric Schmidt yesterday about how he thought it went. A lot of people did not like the question from even the conservative judges. They're not optimistic. Cut 39.

The power that they wield, and I think what's important here, the context, Laura, these big tech companies have Section 230 protection, right? That was clearly at play as they were telling them what to take down. They created special censorship portals. They had weekly meetings.

So the government was very interested, and you heard in that clip, there's no pandemic exception of the Constitution. People have a right to speak their minds, and the government can't outsource censorship like they did here to big tech giants, which is exactly what happened. Whether it was the lab leak, mask efficacy issues, origins of COVID, all those things, the government was very interested in wielding a lot of power, threats of investigation, Section 230 protections, all that stuff on the line with the full force of government if they didn't do their bidding in censor speech.

So that's the problem. I mean, And I know this is a worthy debate. This is a worthy debate because if you are the government, and let's say we're putting things out there that are totally irresponsible, let's say. you have the Chinese using TikTok to put out things that that vaccine could kill you because the vaccine actually worked. And if we took the vaccine, people would survive and they want us to die.

And TikTok's out there. Do you want some overlord to go take that down on TikTok? Supreme Court Justice Katanji Brown did raise eyebrows, though, when she was concerned that the First Amendment, this is her quote, was hamstringing the government in significant ways. It's the most important time periods. Talking about the pandemic.

Jackson earlier presented a hypothetical situation in which social media platforms were allowing a dangerous trend to circulate in which children were encouraged to jump out of windows at increasing elevations. She asked whether government authorities could not. Encourage social media platforms to take down the information that is instigating the problem.

So he says, I'm really worried about that. Great conversation. Sadly, the debate seems to go in away, and with Section 230. You don't have the threat of being sued. Like, we could be sued.

I could be sued. You know, our companies can be sued for things I say and things I do, not in social media land. And that should go away. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead.

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So, we're watching a few things. We're seeing the President of the United States is now en route to the West Coast. He's going out to Vegas. I'm not sure if he's going to be taking any questions. Evidently, he's not allowed to, and he's frustrated by that.

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Talks, by the way, on another note, and another war, to the Israeli Prime Minister, first time since February, and demands he not enter Rafah and sends a delegation to explain how he plans on having a humanitarian corridor in Gaza. Number two. Basically, his position is: in order to get any other judge to look at what I've done to you, you've got to come up with basically a half a billion dollars just to appeal. It's like a judge saying, I'm going to take your house away, but you can appeal my decision. You just have to sell your house in order to do it.

Trump trials first major crisis for the embattled former and perhaps future president, a five-judge panel, has a week to adjust the $450 million penalty. It makes a strong logical argument. The bond companies just don't lend this amount, especially because there's a huge baggage with it. They want $1 billion in cash to give a $450 million bond. And by the way, in Georgia, they're looking to KO Fonnie Willis still.

Number one. When I read the headline that said he's mad about his campaign, I believe that because he knows that he is losing.

So that told me, well, maybe he's more with it than you think. Maybe he's looking at this, going, guys, we're going to lose. Jealousy, anger, and disdain, the three emotions displayed by our president. Jealousy over Obama's anger over his poll numbers and disdain for President Trump, who's beating him in the polls. We look at the quick response team to Trump's remarks as the 45th president begins to leak out what his second term cabinet might look like.

Now, I'll go over that, but I want to go back to the trials with Andy McCarthy. He breaks it down like nobody else, and he joins us right now. Andy, welcome. Brian, great to be with you. Anyway, looking at this and all the terms around this, four hundred fifty million dollars got to be posted.

You can't just say all my property is worth more than that. They don't want to see the properties. They want to see the money.

So you go to a bond company, they want to see a billion dollars.

So if they want to see a billion dollars, Trump doesn't have a billion dollars laying around.

So we're at an impasse. Do you see a third way? I do. I think that the court will see one too, because this is an unusual case in two ways, Brian. One is There were no victims proved at the trial.

So I think that If you had proved that they were a bunch of victims. And it was clear that Trump was going to have to more than likely fork up money to. Compensate these victims, you'd have a different kind of case, right? Because then it would make sense to demand that he put up all this money. But the only claimed victim here is New York State, and even New York State doesn't claim that it was defrauded by Trump.

Yeah. In the absence of there being a victim, I think the court could easily say. in view of what the second unusual thing here is, which is that you're talking about somebody like Trump who he may not be liquid enough to post five hundred million dollars who is, But he's got all kinds of real estate in New York that he's obviously not going to pick up and take someplace.

So I think I could easily see a court saying If they could get some kind of a confident commitment that he's not going to try to dispose of his. Assets in New York. Um And you know, an undertaking of something you know, maybe substantial, but s significantly less than half a billion dollars. I can't imagine the Court of Appeals not taking that because if the court fails to take that And then she can start enforcing the judgment. The court's jurisdiction is illusory.

Basically, what the lower court will have done. Is prevent the higher court from hearing an appeal, which the higher court shouldn't indulge that at all.

So there's a monitor with this organization.

So you can't even say, I worry about them doing something underhanded that we don't see below the radar. No, you got a monitor there.

So it's up to this, the way I understand it, and I do not mind being corrected, you know that.

So there's a five. judge court, the appeals court, that's got it roughly five days to get back. And they're saying in a 5,000 page appeal, they're saying there's plenty precedent for knocking this down off the 450.

So knock it down because we approached thirty companies. And it's impossible to do it. And they also bring up that these companies and these banks don't want to. Help Trump because it makes them look bad to Letitia James, and they have shareholders an interest in staying in New York. No, I think that's definitely part of it.

The other thing is, And Trump's taper is still a good Good job. I read their submission yesterday. They do a good job of explaining this. You know, when A bondsman or a bonding company Are asked to do a big undertaking like this and take a lot of risk. They want liquid assets.

They want either money or the equivalent of money, which is like commercial paper, cash securities that are the functional equivalent of cash. The reason for that is that real estate goes up and down pretty dynamically in value, and it what it's worth is pretty subjective unless you are actually trying to sell something and somebody puts up an amount of money that they're willing to buy it with. Otherwise, it's all estimates and the bondsmen don't want that. That's understandable. But from the court standpoint, It's not like again, it's not like if you if you let Trump post a more modest bond.

Good.

Some victims. of of a fraud is going to be left Without being compensated, and Trump's property in New York is not going anyplace.

So the New York State ought to be satisfied that If they win their appeal, Trump's got plenty of property that they're going to be able to execute against. They don't need it now. But there's no practice.

So in other words, practicality. You've answered all their questions. It just becomes it becomes punishment. They were.

Well, yeah, but I think that if I'm mistaken, Brian, what I don't want is, you know, Trump's argument here: if the court doesn't isn't reasonable. Is all right, well, then let's go, let's cut right to the Eighth Amendment problem. And there's a similar provision in the New York State Constitution. Constitutionally, you can't impose an unreasonable fine. And what they have here is a case where There were no victims.

where Trump is essentially Um accused of inflating his asset values in transactions Where The other side of the transaction is a sophisticated financial player who does his own due diligence, and where Trump's own nondisclosure, I mean, Trump's own. statements of financial Uh condition. admonish the other side to do your own diligence.

So the thought that that oughta be worth four hundred and fifty four Million dollars with interest, and that the interest is continuing to accrue. You know, every day. Uh this goes on. There's $112,000 that's added to that judgment amount because of the interest.

So you know, if I'm Trump, if if they if they're not going to be reasonable with me, in terms of what I'm o uh what I'm able to post. Then I say, all right, well then fine, let's cut right to the Eighth Amendment thing. And if I don't get satisfaction here, I go to the New York Court of Appeals and then to the Supreme Court. But this is a ridiculous find given what was proved in court.

Well, who's going to rule on that fine?

Well, ultimately, first in the first instance, it ought to be the appellate division. uh which is the court he's in front of now. There's good reason to think that the appellate division will give him a good proceeding, that is a fair proceeding. Earlier in the case, Judge Engeron. Tried to do all kinds of stuff that the court of that the appellate division didn't allow them to do, including stripping uh business certificates away from some.

entities that were connected to Trump that I think were not even part of the lawsuit.

So I think this is a court where he's going to get a fairer shake. than he got from Judge Engraw. Not that that's a high bar. But ultimately, if he doesn't get satisfaction in the Appellate Division, then he goes to the New York Court of Appeals, which is the highest court in New York. And then he can appeal to the Supreme Court if he has a constitutional claim, and I think he will.

It's unbelievable. I mean, if they also take an asset, Andy.

So let's say the city is going to take 40 Wall Street. Right. Okay, you got it. You're taking it. You're taking it.

You're not paying me anything, are you? Are you just taking it? You're taking it from me with if I'm Trump, you're just taking you're not even going to pay me for what it's worth?

Well, now it depends on the context of that, right?

So, are you saying? Post-40 Wall Street as a security in the opinion. No, I thought they just get to pick the bones that they want. I thought Letitia Dams gets to pick what she wants.

Well, she can pick Within rea well She can she can't just pick what she wants because the way the law works there's all kinds of creditors and you have to some creditors have priority over other creditors. Like so for example, if I'm if I gave Trump a mortgage on Forty Wall Street, Then I should have priority over New York State if 40 Wall Street is changing hands.

So she may have to litigate where. She fits in terms of like who the creditors are here. But basically, you can execute against his property, which means you can try to enforce the judgment up to the amount of the judgment.

So, for example, if he had a building Say that was worth a billion dollars, just for argument's sake. She can't take the she what she could do is force a sale of the building. get what she owes and the and the rest would go back to Trump. If, let's say, he had a billion-dollar building.

So, okay, I got it. In the meantime, while it's waiting on a sale, who's keep doing the maintenance? Who's servicing the clients? It becomes the city's building, right?

Well, no, it doesn't become the city's building right away. I mean, what would happen is the city would say, We're forcing a sale of this property.

so that we can get what we're owed And then he gets to keep the rest.

So it's in his interest to maintain the property, right? But the title to the property doesn't change hands Unless, let's say, let's let's change the hypothetical a little bit, right? Let's say Trump's got a building that's worth $250 million. And she's got a judgment that's five hundred million.

Now she can go in and say, we want to take that. And then if she if she wins in court because she's got a judgment that's that exceeds the amount of the property, then it gets turned over to the city. It's their property and then they have to maintain it. Amazing.

So, in the Georgia case, it looks like we're talking to Andy McCarthy here, and we're going over the Trump trials. In the Georgia case, Uh they are Trying to push to get Fonnie Willis off this case, and so were the other defendants. How do you pose that? And do you think it's in their best interest to do this because she seems so incompetent and she seems so compromised? Do you think that maybe their best offense is leaving her in place?

Yeah, if I didn't have you see, the thing with this, Brian, is that Trump has two different Um Two different motivations, right? One is delay. He'd like to get all of this push beyond election day for. Political reasons. And then, one obviously is legal liability, like what's his best chance of winning the case.

Now, if I had no timing concerns, if the only thing I cared about was legal liability, if it were me, I would send a limo to Fanny Willis's house every day to make sure she made it to work. Because she's a catastrophe. And I think her continued involvement is Trump's best chance. In fact, you and I have talked about this. I don't think she's charged a competent RICO case.

I don't think she's charge a competent conspiracy case. I think that's evident from the fact that she's taken four pleas so far and nobody's fled to anything serious, even though these are not lower down defendants in the case. of them. And I think it goes to the fact that she way, way Overcharge this case, and it's way beyond her. And now her reputation is in tatters.

So, just her continued association with the case brings discredit to it.

So, if I'm a defendant in this case, I want her to stay on. I don't want her off. And in the New York case, the delay is necessary. They got this paperwork at the last minute. The Southern District just delivered it to both sides, correct?

Yes, that's what I understand. I suspect what's going on here, Brian. Is that that's my old office, the 7th District of New York? I have a feeling. that they're not very happy with Bragg's case.

Because if you remember, what happened here was the Southern District had this case first. back in twenty eighteen. And that's where Michael Cohen was prosecuted. You know, that's where this case began. And they looked at it.

It wasn't just under the Trump Justice Department, the Biden Justice Department that you know took over in 2021. And the federal the so the Justice Department under two administrations and the Federal Election Commission looked at this case and decided not to charge. Trump or not to prosecute him. were federal campaign finance violations. And what Bragg is trying to do, and I think this is what has the Southern District I would imagine annoyed is that Bragg is calling his case a falsification of financial records, but that's actually a falsification.

What Bragg is actually trying to do is prosecute a federal campaign finance case. Right. And I think what the Southern District and the Federal Election Commission are the two agencies that Congress created to enforce Federal campaign finance law, not the New York District Attorney. Wow. Andy McCarthy, a lot to break down.

Crazy world we're in right now. This is the Brian Killmee Show. Andy, thanks. Thanks, Brian.

Your call's next. It's Brian Killmead. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. Yeah, I mean, we have so many court cases to go over.

It's almost as intriguing as what's going on politically. But just real quick, the Bloomberg came out with a story. I don't necessarily think anything in it is inaccurate. But perhaps it's incomplete. They talked about who the President is zeroing in on as a Vice President of his short list.

Here it is. J. D. Vance. Greg Abbott.

Christy Gnome Byron Donalds. Tulsi Gabbard. Tim Scott The reason why Sarah Huckabee Sanders not in accordance with this report, she was very slow to endorse him. He didn't like that. Why is um Why is Stefanik not there?

They say at least Stefanik does not have a huge political base and can't deliver New York. All right. She's also fiery and effective. Who is likely to be the chief of staff? This is my pick.

Kevin McCarthy. Perfect. Evidently, he was asked once before, but he wanted to be speaker. He was convinced they were going to flip the house, and he was right. Didn't know that Matt Gates was going to try to flip him out, and he was right.

So, Kevin McCarthy would be perfect. Other people that look like they're going to have a job: Doug Bergham. I heard he is on the short list too. Robert Lighthizer, man, he is fantastic and he's extremely smart. For defense, Waltz, Keith Kellogg, and John Radcliffe.

Although John Radcliffe would be strong as AG. And Robert O'Brien and Ben Carson higher up on the list. Christopher Ray would be out. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

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About 1 o'clock, we're going to have the Afghanistan hearings. I cannot wait for that to get started. Just a quick note: on Fox Nation, 5 o'clock, I've got a great panel. We're going to analyze what we learned today and the mistakes President Biden won't own up to. Joining us now is Tim Corney.

He's got a book out now. It's called Family Unfriendly. I know you can relate to How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be. But you also know that in Tim Courney, you have a guy who's very politically oriented. He's a member of the American Enterprise Institute, writes about the Washington Examiner a lot about politics and the economy.

Tim, welcome. Thanks for having me, man.

Well, my wife and I, we raised six kids, and we know the difficulties, we know what we need to do it. And then you look out and you see there's an epidemic of anxiety. Kids are so much more anxious. Parents are stressed. And then the birth rate's collapsing.

You know, we're at record lows on the number of babies, the total fertility rate, all that stuff. And so you realize that our culture is not doing its job. It's due to the fact that we have a family unfriendly culture in a hundred ways. For starters, parenting culture is out of control. We're little Lee gives way to some Super intensive, expensive travel sports.

You got dating and mating culture is crazy. People in their 20s aren't getting married. The apps seem to have broken their brain. Feminism is seeping in there, causing problems. And ultimately, our families, our culture's values are not family-friendly, where we don't value commitment, tradition, family, and faith.

And so you see all these problems. People aren't having kids, and the kids are being stressed out. And you realize our culture is not doing its job. You also talk about with your kid, you let him travel for the travel team. And in baseball, soccer, baseball, basketball, it never stops.

You call it a trap. Yeah, the travel team trap is absolutely one of the worst parts of parenting culture today, where you do it because maybe some people are super hyper ambitious parents and they want their kid to get a D one scholarship. Maybe you just somebody's like, oh, they got better coaches if you go to travel. Or maybe you just do it unthinkingly. That's what we did.

We let them try out for travel baseball instead of playing in local Little League. They have these winter workouts in the gym. You're not allowed to play basketball too. It's got to be baseball year round. And the first thing the coach says is, Baseball isn't fun.

Winning is fun. This is to 12-year-olds telling them, we're about to do something for the next six months that's not even fun unless you happen to win. And so it's a real problem that instead of just letting kids be kids, We we professionalize everything. And it's the same sort of thing with the fear that, you know, you have to watch your kids at every minute, watch all of their they got to meet all the milestone. You can't let your kids wander the neighborhood without worrying about some neighbor calling child protective services on them.

So these are the cultural problems. Remember when we were kids, it was ride your bike, come home when the streetlight turns on, or you don't get dinner.

Nowadays, parents feel they can't do that anymore. You said too, uh Living close to each other, having that connection with the extended family used to be important. It's not really being. Take advantage of now, right?

Now people think that growing up It means getting away from your parents. You have no idea how many colleagues I have in the media who the main thing they're proud of is now they live in New York or DC instead of in Woodburn, Indiana, the backwards hometown where they grew up. Guess what? Their friends who stayed behind in Woodburn, Indiana are now married with kids and getting help from grandma and grandpa. And so, what I do in Family Unfriendly is I do reporting where I'm on the ground talking to families.

I talk about my own experience raising six kids, but I also crunch all the data. And a couple of the numbers that really jumped out at me. If you have help from your own parents in raising kids, you're more likely to have a second kid or a third kid. And that in Israel, the only wealthy country with a birth rate that's above the replacement level, They're 70% of moms get help raising kids from their own mom. And the rate is down like 35% in Europe.

So, actually being close to family is one of those old-fashioned things. that really has value.

So that's so interesting because you say in uh in Israel They they have double the birth rate, right? They have yeah, they're double Europe's birth rate, three babies per woman instead of one point five. I mean 'cause they live within twenty miles of each other, usually. Yeah, and so but then religion is at the core of Of that.

So it's not only religious people, though, who are having babies. In Israel, the secular Jews are 2.0. And I walked all around Tel Aviv talking to people, and there were people who said, Oh, I'm not religious at all, but what's happened is Israel's built up a culture because of the religion, built up a culture where it's okay to bring kids, but you don't have to apologize if you bring your kids on a plane or to a pizza place or on the train. You and everybody's helping out everybody else raising kids. It's normal to let your kids walk to school.

And it's just kind of expected that that's what you're going to do when you grow up. You're going to get married and have kids. Not everybody has to do it, but it's not some, you know, intentional living, totally deliberated choice. You grow up, you get married, you have kids. That's what you do.

And guess what? You're going to get help from your mom. You're going to get help from the community. You're going to get help from the religious institutions. America has that in some subcultures.

I visited Mormon places, my own Catholic schools. They really support families. But that's not the norm in American culture, unfortunately.

Well, there's a couple of things going on right now. I look at, for example, Hungary. They were concerned about their population. They wanted to make the Hungarian culture flourish.

So they incentivize. They almost pay you to have more kids. Is there a role for government in this? It can only do so much. I mean, Hungary, what they're trying to do is trying to change the culture, and that's what you have to do.

But just paying people money, that will drive up the birth rate a little bit. It'll make it so that there are some families that are financially on the edge who desperately want a third kid who say, okay, you know what, we can make it buy with a few extra thousand dollars.

So Hungary has stopped its decline, but it really hasn't caused things to go up. Certainly, the Biden administration's pro-family ideas are really bad. They just want to subsidize daycare because what they want to do is not help families, but make sure that every mother is in the workplace 40 hours a week. But most mothers don't want that. Most mothers want to work part-time or have their full-time job be raising children.

But the Biden administration has an ideological approach to this where they say, no, we want you, what they call it, off the sidelines and in the job market. How horrible is that raising your kid, teaching them how to read? Take them to the park, that that's the sidelines in their mind.

So, there is a role for government, but really it's a very limited role. The main role for government is that cities and towns have to have more sidewalks, have more playgrounds, take down the sign that says you're not allowed to play on the baseball field unless you have a permit. Have to make a family-friendly infrastructure. I don't want government getting really involved in families because we know that that will be ideologically infected and not in the favor of my own view of a conservative view of family.

So, you mentioned a couple of things to do, Tim Carney, who wrote this brand book, Family Unfriendly. You guys can probably relate to this listening around the country right now.

So, what are a couple of things that you would like to do or pick a community that is supportive of this?

Some things you're looking for. You mentioned, you know, let the kids play pickup ball on the official field. Don't tell everyone you need a permit to go out there. Play pickup soccer, pick up baseball, football.

So I mean, we could start with sports just 'cause that's what I love. That's sort of my language is baseball. But yes, so encouraging kids to play pickup stuff, not over scheduling them. I would want schools to say, to tell parents, hey, by the way, if your kid's already doing a sport and an instrument, maybe cut it off there. And if your kid's doing one sport year-round, stop doing that.

Talk them out of that. Schools, though, where they're most important is they need to encourage, discourage. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Smartphones and social media for kids.

In some school districts, they basically force kids to have a smartphone. One place, the bathroom pass. Is an iPhone app.

So they need to help parents say, Hey, you know what? If you don't want to give your kids phones, we'll support you on that. Because it's another place where you need community support to make the right decision for parents. And finally, parents need to be empowered to do the primary education of their own children. Schools are our partners in raising kids.

Nowadays, so many public schools try to take over and pull kids away from their parents. Schools have to say, no, parents, you're in charge, and we're going to be your supporters in this regard. That would be a huge change. That would be family friendly. All right, Tim.

Tim Corn, congratulations on the book. Go pick it up. It's called Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture. Maybe raising kids. Much harder than it needs to be.

Tim Carney, thank you. Thanks, Brian.

Appreciate it. All right. When we come back, we'll take your calls. And also, we're going to go over the some breaking news as we get ready for those Afghanistan hearings and also find out what the President's got to be up to on the West Coast.

Well, their quick response team starts throwing out ads utilizing the President's former President's word words bloodbath. And mischaracterizing in my view. What he actually was saying that everybody in the audience understood. I understood, but they have taken out of context. And I'm going to play something showing what all those critics have been saying and using the term bloodbath in their own life, on their own shows, on their own network.

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All right, we got some couple of minutes there to Stuart Barney comes to us on FBN, so it's going to be exciting. Stuart's been kind enough to do simulcasting once a week for the longest time. And we'll talk about what's on your mind, too.

So, if you're the biggest Trump hater, you're on the fence about him. What has really galvanized people back with him? And I do agree he's right that he's never felt momentum like this before. A lot has to do with President Biden, but the way he's been attacked with these cases and how they seem to be falling apart. But not totally.

I don't think he's out of the woods yet. But this latest one, this civil trial, just asking for money because they feel he overinflated his. The price of these buildings, of these golf clubs, of his penthouse at Trump Tower, $400 million bond. While you wait, To find out if your appeal will be effective and you make your appeal.

So there's no bond companies that actually do this. There's only thirty out there and they don't want to do it. They said, okay, I can give you collateral, I can give you put up some of my golf course, the one in Westchester, the one in New Jersey, the one Mar-a-Lago or Doral over in Florida. But what about the one in Ireland? They said no.

We need money, so let's talk about that. Here's Stu. Here we go, there he is. Donald Trump's having trouble securing his $454 million bond. His legal team says almost impossible to come up with that money by next Monday, six days away.

Brian, I'm saying there ain't no justice for Trump in New York. What do you say? Absolutely. And I'll tell you, it was brought up by a previous guest I have. This isn't like Novalny.

This is like Kordakovsky. Remember, he was the billionaire, multi-billionaire, who was making a ton of money in Russia. And Russia said, and Vladimir Putin says: keep making that money. Don't run against me. And he said, You know what?

I think I'm gonna run against you.

So, you know what they did? They put him in jail, they took all his wealth, and after 10 years, they kicked him out of the country. Isn't this the same thing they're doing? He's going to run for president. Kordakovsky probably could have won in Russia if they had a legitimate democracy.

And now you have a guy that's beating Joe Biden in every battleground state.

So suddenly, Letitia James, a big-time Democrat who got elected by saying, I'm going after Trump, has a judgment against him. They overinflated the values of his properties. At which time he loses and they say, You owe me $450 million in a bond while you wait for appeal. There's only 30 companies that do this, none of which said we'll take collateral properties. They all want cash, Stuart.

Nobody's got a billion dollars in cash laying around.

So now he's appealing to say, What about $100 million? Because I'm not going anywhere. You already have a monitor looking over my entire business. You've studied it for four years. You know where the money is.

There's no damage to the city while we wait for appeal. This is all punishment unless you back. Back off, and I think that this does not hurt him politically at all. I think it helps him, but in the meantime, He's clearly being attacked, and I think it's a terrible precedent. For rich people in America, stay away from New York, especially if you're not a Democrat.

This this city is spiraling down. Yep. W I I don't have much faith in the legal system like this. I don't have much safe uh sa I don't feel safe in this city. And all around this city I see migrants camping out on the street and begging.

I mean this city is going down and it's the authorities who have authority in this city that are dragging it down. I mean, how bad can this get? Will Stewart look? They don't b we have a guy in Long Island that Two, four people that chopped up two people, literally, and left body parts in the woods. They left on zero bail.

We have the CFO, seventy six-year-old of the Trump organization, who they felt as though didn't do the taxes right or had his kid get a car service and put it on the business, and he goes to Rikers Island. Then you've got a billionaire who builds buildings and gets jobs and builds those buildings and people have jobs and the ripple effect is well known, and you're going to go target him. And then you're going to tweet about you winning a verdict that was already rigged to begin with, rigged because you got a left-wing activist judge who already said before he took court. This is absolutely insane, but I think the people have figured it out. They're not saying I like or dislike Donald Trump.

They're saying that that might be true, but come on. This is ridiculous. I got to get to this, Brian. Caitlin Jenner says she supports Nassau County's new executive order banning biological men from competing in female sports at county-run facilities. This is your county.

What's your reaction to Caitlin Jenner? I give Bruce Blakeman a lot of credit. He's getting ahead of it. There's no kid that wants to play right now, high school or college, but he watched these girls get crushed by these trans women, and they see him getting hit in volleyball, bounce off her head, thrown to the ground. We see it all around.

He says, I'm getting ahead of it.

So Letitia James, of course, we love her. She comes and she has a suit against him.

Now he's getting sued by a roller derby. Nassau County's getting sued by a roller derby team. And Caitlin Jenner says, listen, I was the best athlete in the world in 1976. I am still biologically a man. My license is female.

I should not be allowed to play women's sports. He's saying that. I think it's a very strong argument. He flew. Himself in for free.

He's just going to bat for a cause he believes in. And I think his credentials. are pretty strong. Relatively unique. I think they're relatively unique, I'd say that for sure.

Brian, thanks for being with us this morning. All good stuff, and we'll see you again later. Thanks, Stuart. All right. Let's go out to James.

Listen on WABC. Hey, James. Hey, good morning, Brian. A couple of quick things. For Vice President, I think a great pick would be Marco Rubio.

reason being that I think he would bring in Latinos across the aisle.

So, I think that he would be more universally appealing than the other people that you mentioned. The way I understand it, though, there's a rule. A law, ye can't be from the same State.

So would he have to establish residency somewhere else as a sitting senator in Florida? I know I I tell you what, I know they have mutual respect, I know for a fact. And I think he'll be Secretary of State or something extremely prominent. He definitely loves dealing with the Caribbean and Southern and Central America. I think he's a strong pick.

You know who believes like you believe? Kelly A. Conway. She also said that Marco Rubio would be the best pick. Or one of the best picks that he could make.

I'm not sure Ashley Overcome the Florida thing because Trump used to be a New Yorker and left. Still having problems in New York, obviously. But that might be it.

So the t the short list is Tim Scott It is Tulsi Gabbard. It is. Uh Christy Noam. I believe Doug Bergam's there because I have a pretty good report that he's been thoroughly vetted. Regardless, Robert Leidheizer, John Radcliffe is going to be in the cabinet, John Waltz, Michael Waltz, a Lieutenant General.

Keith Kellogg, Robert O'Brien, Ben Corson, all will have prominent roles. Chris Fray is out. They think that maybe Uh you know um You know, maybe Radcliffe fits in there.

So we'll see how that goes. Who is out? Ramaswamy. And Vivek said, Yay, listen, we're going to have a role for you, maybe Homeland Security Secretary. But it's not going to be vice president, and it makes sense.

Like young guy. Proved himself in business, extremely bright. but doesn't necessarily deliver any states or any political and doesn't really know his way around Washington. All right, listen to the Brian Kilme show. Go to BrianKilme.com.

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Brian Kilmead here. Thanks so much for listening. We've got a big hour coming your way. We're going to be joined in a matter of moments by Senator Capito of Shelly Moore Capito of West Virginia. And the bottom of the hour, Jennifer Griffin did a great interview with the Prime Minister of Estonia to talk about the urgency to help Ukraine and Vladimir Putin's ultimate design.

She knows what Vladimir Putin's up to. Her parents were kept in Stalin's gulag and her grandparents. And they escaped, obviously, and she has made the most of herself. But she knows the threat of Vladimir Putin, who will now outlast Stalin as the longest-serving Russian leader ever. That's nothing good about that.

So, before we get to our great guests, And we give you up to date. By the way, within two hours, the Afghanistan hearings will begin. And we'll do a special tonight on Fox Nation. I'll be hosting a prestigious panel that includes C.J. Douglas, who did the after-action report there, as well as served over in Qatar and fought in Afghanistan.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three: extraordinary success of this mission. was due to the incredible skill, bravery, And selfless courage of the United States military and our diplomats. It was a logistical success, but a strategic. Was it perfect?

Of course not. Yeah, of course not. How about the biggest disaster in American history? Incredible. Falling short, showtime for those who witnessed and authored the disaster's exit from Afghanistan.

As the first hearings take place, America's image has not recovered, and Joe Biden's numbers have not bounced back, and they will not bounce back as we find out now that Joe Biden is threatening to stop weapon shipments to Israel if they go into Rafah. Number two. Basically, his position is: in order to get any other judge to look at what I've done to you, you've got to come up with basically a half a billion dollars just to appeal. It's like a judge saying, I'm going to take your house away, but you can appeal my decision. You just have to sell your house in order to do it.

That is a great analogy, Jonathan Turley. The Trump trials, the first major crisis for the embattled former President and perhaps future President. A five-judge panel has a week to adjust the $450 million bond that he could not get. He makes a strong logical argument how the bond is totally unnecessary and why all these companies feel threatened that Letitia James will have retribution on any bank that helps Trump. Number When I read the headline that said he's mad about his campaign, I believe that because he knows that he is losing.

So that told me, well, maybe he's more with it than you think. Maybe he's looking at this going, guys, we're going to lose. Dana Prino weighing in jealousy, anger, and disdain. The three emotions on display by our president: jealousy over Obama, anger over his poll numbers, disdain from our former president because he's trailing him in the poll. We look at the quick response team to Trump's remarks on the 45th president as it begins to leak out what his second term cabinet might look like.

And let's bring in the senator from West Virginia. Senator, thanks so much for being with us. Thanks, Brian.

Thanks for having me on. First off, you're feeling that you have an excellent chance of having a Republican in the Senate with you. I think it's pretty much a done deal. I think it well, I have endorsed Governor Justice for that seat. I think that he will definitely win, and I think that will be an R.

So that puts us to the point as Republicans, we just need one more to take over. That is true. And where that could come from? Pennsylvania perhaps. Montana perhaps.

Right. And we're looking at possibly Ohio. All will be tough sledding. Also, Maryland. You got to figure with Governor Hogan.

Very popular governor, great guy in Maryland. See, Ohio's having their primary today. We get a lot of, as you can imagine, in West Virginia, we get a lot of that Ohio advertising.

So I'll be glad when that one's over. And then, you know, I think New Mexico, Arizona, and Montana for sure, there's a lot of opportunity. And I don't think President Biden's Turning the ship for his party, so I think it just seems to be sinking further and further. How does the RNC changing leadership? The money is not flowing in yet, hasn't been.

How does that affect the Senate?

Well, I think what it one of the things that really encouraging things I've heard from the new leadership at the RNC is the way we're voting now is different. Remember, we got all into that around COVID and should you early vote and all these things. You know what? This is can you vote harvest. We've got to figure out a way to be as good at that as the Democrats are because it's legal in a lot of places.

And deal with the legalities of we have early voting in West Virginia. We just need to turn our people out. And that, I think, is where the new leadership at the RNC is going to be really, really good to get the metrics to turn out the voters that we want to vote and to have those votes counted. Do you think you convinced the President the former President of that? Yes, I think so, because I think obviously that was his daughter-in-law who Laura Trump who said, you know, we've got to get better at early voting, which we do.

And I mean, I think we just have to deal with each state differently. But I know the ballot harvesting issue has been an issue, and we've tried to prove that it's not fair and it's not done right and all those kinds of things.

Well, we've failed at that.

So let's get better at it. Let's best them at their own game and harvest the votes, you know, in a legal way, of course.

So uh President Trump Is it looks like he's your nominee? Are you supporting him? Oh, yes. I uh endorsed him several months ago. I was gonna endorse one day and we had at the uh our uh state convention, uh GOP convention, and then they had to call it off because it was bad weather.

So I had to wait a week. Uh but he will he will rock and roll in in West Virginia probably as many as 40 by 40. He's very popular in West Virginia. Right. Are you surprised Joe Manchin's not going to run?

You know, that didn't really surprise me. I mean, obviously, I've known Joe Manchin for years, and we talk and we're friends and work well together when we agree. And I just got the sense that Joe's ready to move on no matter what. And so when he announced that he was not going to run, it didn't really surprise me. You know, this attempt or at you know running for president obviously is ill-fated, and I think he came to that realization pretty quick.

So, you know, we'll just see where he goes. I know he's traveling the country and You know, it'll be nice to be the senior senator from West Virginia. I know. It'll be great. I really like him, too.

I just think he's a good guy. And I think because of him, you have a filibuster in the Senate still, and you don't have two more states. And I don't think that could be understated.

So a couple of things. I was outraged when Senator Schumer spoke about regime change in Israel. And I don't know who he thinks he's benefiting. Maybe those protesters in the streets, maybe those people spray painting anti-Semitic phrases on Jewish delis in the upper west side of Manhattan that happened last night. I don't know what he's talking about.

Can Can you put in perspective how unprecedented those remarks are? Extremely unprecedented, Brian. I mean, I was when I saw it, I almost couldn't believe it because it just didn't seem, it just seemed like he's sitting there in the United States Senate telling Israel, a free country, sovereign country, how and when and who to elect as president.

Now, if we reversed that and Netanyahu was over in Israel saying, well, we need to replace the leader of the Senate, United States, you need to have an election to get rid of that guy, we would say election interference. We would say, you know, let us be the captain of our own fate in terms of our own elections, which is what Israel should do. They're a democracy. They've had free and fair elections for years, and they should have those when and if they're ready. And to have Schumer call it out like that, I can only say I think it's political because they're losing people.

You saw that in Michigan in the results, where a lot of people, I guess, voted noncommittal. They wouldn't vote. for President Biden. They're mad at him for because of whatever side of the policies they're on. And so I think they have to step away from their support for Israel, which is terrible.

Israel was attacked on october the seventh, and we shouldn't forget how and by who. He's talking to Senator Capito right now.

So, Senator, I want you to hear, as you know, yesterday, Donald Trump made it clear it's going to be impossible to get a company to give him $450 million bond, need $1 billion in cash in order to get $450 million bond. I think I don't have to convince you that the civil trials are sham and politically oriented. Letitia James has said as much. He has just spoken on WABC about an hour ago about his situation. I want you to hear what he said.

These are crooked politicians, a corrupt court. And it's a disgrace, and they don't even give you a chance to appeal. They want you to put up money before the appeal.

So if you sell a property or do something and then you win the appeal, you don't have the property. What was that all about? And nobody's ever heard of stuff like that. Number one, number two, the award is ridiculous because nothing was done wrong at all. Everybody was paid.

The banks love Trump. They testified that they love Trump. The loan that they were talking about was paid in full. In fact, I paid it off early. There were no defaults, no nothing.

They just didn't like the way I got it. And I got it perfectly. It was a conservative financial statement with disclosures, non-disclosure, perfect non-disclosure clauses.

So I mean, he's obviously going through the types of pressure you can't even imagine while winning in almost every battleground state. What is the buzz in Capitol Hill about what's going on right now? Is there anything you could do to like an attorney general who's gone rogue? You know, I don't think that any congressional action could actually save this situation. I think it, to me, what what I hear and what most people are saying is this is a two-tiered justice system.

Obviously, the vengeance with which Letitia Drains has gone after President Trump is unprecedented. And then the amount of award, uh I I don't know how he keep he can keep it I don't know how he gets up out of bed in the morning thinking, you know, what am I going to do next? And you see he does that and he does it very well and pushes back because he knows it's it's crooked politicians. I mean, she sat there and campaigned on the fact that she's going to do this to him. What kind of fair judicial person does that.

And I don't know how she's getting away with it in her own state, quite frankly. And then it just seems like she has the judge going right along with her. And it just seems like the fix is in.

So I I don't think there's anything we can do about it. Uh it would seem to me they're I think they're appealing to try to figure out some way that he can uh meet the demands of this bond without having to sell all his properties.

So I understand that, and I know it hasn't got your body yet, but Speaker. Speaker Johnson might be putting up a standalone bill for Ukraine. I know you guys passed something out of the Senate. It has just not resonated in the House. They wanted border, but they didn't want your bill.

You guys didn't like your bill that Senator Langford helped write. Would you have signed off on that? If it was put up for a vote? You know, I didn't vote for that bill with the border security in it. I did vote for Ukraine because I feel that we need to support any way we can to neutralize or push back on Putin.

So I do believe that strongly. I understand there's some ideas out there with maybe a forgivable loan, have it phrased a different way so that it has more controls on it, on the Ukrainian money. I understand the negativity towards it because we have that in the Senate as well.

Some people don't like it because of corruption, or they don't like it because there's no defined end. And so those are all understandable goals.

So I think probably the Speaker is feeling the pressure because I think he feels like, like we do, if we can keep Putin out of NATO, that makes us safer, and it's less expensive for us in the long run. But I think it's choppy waters for him. I don't even know if he can pass that quite frequently. Frankly. Right.

Yeah. We'll see what happens. I thoroughly believe we've got to upfund Ukraine. I thoroughly believe Vladimir Putin is putting pressure on the Baltic states. I see what he's already doing in Moldova.

And I think it's a time to stand up in the region. There's no doubt about it. And, Senator, what about the spending bills? I mean, the appropriation bills are actually emerging from the House. Are they emerging from the Senate?

Yeah. Yes. They apparently reached an agreement early this morning or late last night on the final six bills. That means that by the end of this week, the House will have considered it. There's a shutdown looming again.

I don't even remember when we started talking about shutdowns.

Now I feel like that's all we talk about. Oh, my God. And so there's a looming shutdown, which I don't think will happen. I think we'll pass these bills. I'm not sure what margins.

It's got Homeland Security in there, which you know is very controversial. I understand it doesn't have any wall money in there. It's not. It's not the best situation to try to afford some kind of border policy that we want.

So I think there's going to be a lot of frustration with that. We'll see. It should come through the House maybe on Thursday or Friday, and then it will come over to us to the Senate for consideration. I'm hoping that they all pass simply because we need to go ahead and fund the budget. Everybody's got to remember this is for money that began spending in October.

I mean, we're six months into this now. We need to be considering what we're going to be spending for next year before too much longer.

So it's very frustrating. We had 12 bills that we passed, and Senator Schumer only put three of them up. He wants to have one of these big mega spending bills at the end so he can have all his priorities.

Well, we're not going to do that. And so I'm on appropriations. I'm on the health subcommittee. I'm the ranking Republican. It does spend less money than last year.

So this is better than having a continuing resolution for all the way to the end of the year. Senator Shelly Moore, Capitol. Thanks so much for joining us. I appreciate it. Hey, thanks, Brian, and thanks for coming to West Virginia.

We love it when you come. Oh, yeah, absolutely. And I love seeing everybody there. They're such supporters of the show. We appreciate it.

Senator, thank you. All right, when we come back, I'll be able to take some of your calls. Bottom of the hour, Jennifer Griffin brings us insight what's happening over at the State Department and Defense Department and the Pentagon, I should say. This is the Brian Kilmeat Show. Newsmakers and newsbreakers.

Here at first on the Brian Kilmeat Show. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. I actually think they hate Israel. Yes.

I don't think they hate Israel. I think they hate Israel. And the Democrat Party hates Israel. Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats. hates their religion, they hate everything about Israel.

And they should be ashamed of themselves, because Israel will be destroyed. And what he's talking about is what he's done for Israel is he's moved the embassy. What he's done for Israel is he recognized they can acquire the Golan Heights. What he's done for Israel is backed off condemning them for their West Bank settlements. He's also helped them set up for Peace Accords with four more Arab nations, something called the Abraham Accords.

They've named blocks after Donald Trump, and he can't figure out with all these anti-Israeli demonstrations against Democrats by Democrats. Trump is just befuddled that like Democrats who are pro-Israel. When still vote Blue. He doesn't get it.

So people are condemning him for condemning them. But that's the way Trump talks. We all know that. He talks directly and in extremes. If anybody votes, you don't like Israel.

Obviously, there's a point of view there. Harry Truman, the Democrat, this is the theory, was the one who recognized Israel. The Democratic Party says they identify more with the oppressed. Israelis feel oppressed, even those who are wealthy, always under attack. I don't think people would dispute that now.

And that's why, traditionally, with Harry Truman, a Democrat recognizing Israel, made sure there was an Israeli state, a Jewish state, they named it Israel. He seemed surprised by the name in reading his memoirs. But. That's why.

Okay. Having said that, It was FDR who turned away. ships full of Jewish people looking to leave Europe because of the concentration camps and send them back, many of which they died. FDR, a Democrat.

So Trump is just fed up. He's saying, look, you know forty three Was so much better with Israel than 44. That was Barack Obama. And then you see how great I was with Israel. Got it?

And then you see how bad Joe Biden is. He gave him an initial reluctant hug. Goes to visit, fine. And now he's putting parameters. Never talks about defeating Hamas now.

Now he's talking about two-state solutions. And he should know, maybe he doesn't. that the Palestinians don't want a two-state solution. That 85% of them support Hamas, that Hamas doesn't want a two-state solution, so don't even think about pressuring Israel. But he does, because that's the UN thing to do, that's the blinking thing to do, that's the Jake Sullivan thing to say.

Nobody believe it. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. Russia's Interior Minister recently issued a warrant for your arrest. Does this worry you, especially after what happened to his main opposition, Alexei Navalny?

We heard what happened to Navalny's chief of staff. He was brutally injured with a hammer attack in neighboring Lithuania. Are you scared?

Well, Russia's playbook hasn't changed, and that is how they operate. What they are really good at is pouring fuel into the fires that are already existing in our societies, so we have to be aware. Right. She does seem fearless and did not seem worried by it. That's Estonian President Kaha Kallas, who interviewed with Jennifer Griffin last night.

Obviously, the Baltic states, these smaller states, members of NATO, are extremely worried about the results in Ukraine and what it means for an expansionist Russia as Vladimir Putin gets six more years in a sham election. Jennifer, welcome back. Thank you, Brian. Thank you. Hey, Jennifer, how did you catch up with the Estonia Prime Minister?

And maybe you should explain her interesting life story that led to this, including her parents.

Well, she is. She's an extraordinary woman. She, Brian, I caught up with her because she was in town for the Gridiron dinner, which of course is the oldest journalist gathering in the country, 139 years they were celebrating, and she came as the special guest. President Biden spoke, and it's an off-the-record event where journalists sort of roast politicians, et cetera, back and forth.

So she was here for that, and I had the opportunity to meet her. And she's the youngest prime minister, female prime minister. She's the only female prime minister of Estonia. And I think what people need to understand is that we think of Donetsk and we think of the front lines inside Ukraine, but in the Baltic states and in Finland and Poland, that is the real front lines in terms of what comes next with regards to Russia and Putin. And so Prime Minister Kalas is so impressive and so strong.

Her family, her mother, was sent to the Gulag when she was six months old by Stalin, Joseph Stalin. She lived in the Gulag in the prison camps for 10 years. It's so reminiscent of what Putin is doing right now in terms of there are up to 300,000 Ukrainian children that have been deported to Russia. I think a lot of people forget that. Prime Minister Tyrkalas is known as a hawk in Europe.

Putin is so threatened by her that he and the Russians put out an arrest warrant for her saying that she had defiled the Soviet-era monuments. It's a trumped-up, obviously, charge that and they will not be able to arrest her because they can't come into. But I've never seen so much security around the prime minister as when she came to Fox and we sat down together. Amazing.

So it's people uh who I get all the time, it's like Brian. Ukraine is Ukraine. They're not going to invade another country. They've lost three hundred thousand people. They got their hands full of Ukraine.

Obviously, they're not nearly as formidable as they claim to be. These other countries are not under threat. What is the reality, Jennifer, as you know it?

Well, the reality, Brian, first of all, you remember that I lived for three years in Moscow, so I know the Russians. I know Putin very, very well. I've studied him for years. And all you have to do is talk to the ambassadors or the prime ministers from the Baltic states, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia. Lithuania is where the attack by a Russian sort of HIP agent on Navalny's chief of staff occurred just two weeks ago.

Finland is so concerned right now that they, not only have Finland and Sweden, which have historically been neutral, have decided to join NATO, and they are starting to reinforce their borders. The Baltic states have closed their borders with Russia. Poland is spending 3.9% of their GDP on defense right now. In fact, that's the thing about Estonia that Americans may not understand. Estonia, Little Estonia, is spending over 3% of their defense budget on on defense, that is well above the 2% required of NATO members.

And they've spent 1.35% of their GDP in sending weapons to Ukraine. The equivalent of that for the US government would be $379 billion.

So while we are debating in Congress right now, and the aid to Ukraine is held up, it's about $43 billion worth of weapons that are held up that are badly needed right now in order to turn the tides back against the Russians who've made some advances while the Ukrainians are running out of ammunition, which is unthinkable that we would put another country that is bravely defending basically the boundaries of Europe without ammunition that we could be sending. But you would have to be spending $379 billion to do what Estonia is doing right now. I want you to hear more from your I want to let the audience hear more from your interview. When asked what happens if Ukraine falls, What happens if Ukraine does not get the supplemental weapons that are currently stuck in Congress? If aggression pays off in Ukraine, so Russia wins, Ukraine loses, then the security architecture of Europe, but also the wider world, is at stake because what we have learned from the 1930s is that if aggression pays off somewhere, it serves as an invitation to use it elsewhere.

We know the tensions in South China Sea, we know Iran, North Korea.

So we're going to have more conflicts around the world because the aggressors or would be aggressors in the world are carefully taking note.

So I don't think there's any doubt about it. And I think that the standalone bill is working its way through. I know it's not necessarily your beats more Chad's, but I think a standalone bill will be offered by the speaker. Have you heard that and the timing of that?

Well I've heard three things, Brian. I've heard that Speaker Johnson does want to bring forward a standalone bill, but he's also talked about adding in some border arrangements.

So that's being currently debated. And then there's also this issue that Lindsey Graham brought up. He went to Ukraine yesterday, I believe, and met with President Zelensky, and he explained how he thinks some of this money will be through a Lend-Lease program. It will be basically a loan. That's something former President Trump has suggested was a way to maybe push this through.

But you should also keep an eye on the possibility of a discharge petition. It's a little known. It's something Chad can explain better than I can. But basically, it would be an end run where Democrats and Republicans would team up and bring the bill to the floor. And Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania is taking the lead on that.

He's the head of the Ukraine caucus in the House. He was a former FBI representative who was based in Ukraine, so he knows. Ukraine incredibly well. He knows the security dangers, and he's a member of the problem solvers caucus.

So he's willing to hear from both sides and add in things that would be amenable to Republicans and Democrats. And so his bill, I think, is one to watch, and it's one that really just needs sign-off from the White House and from Democrats at this point because he says he has enough Republicans to push that bill through. All right. And lastly, today there's going to be Afghanistan hearings. It's hard to believe, but we haven't really had them since the House flipped.

So what are you going to be listening for, Jennifer? I know you know so much about this. You lived it. You know these people. Mackenzie's retired.

Millie's now retired. What are you going to be listening for?

Well, I'm going to be listening for if there's any new information that comes out. And I think what I've been hearing behind the scenes is that there's a bit of frustration that the military is having to be the ones who are walking point on this and answering the questions. When it was a political decision, it was a decision by the Biden administration to pull out. The military was told to salute smartly and execute. That's what the military does.

That's what we want the military to do. These were political decisions.

So why are they not having the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense up there to answer questions? That is really the question. I think you're going to hear a lot of what we've heard before, going back to the interview I did with General Milley shortly after the Afghan pullout in Landstool, when all those Afghan displaced people were at, you know, before they were being brought to the U.S., we stood above those camps and talked about, you know, why leave Bagram when he did.

Well, we have the answer to that now. It's because the President gave very firm deadlines of having to go to a certain number of troops. And Milley and Scott Miller and other generals did not have enough troops to protect Bagram.

So there were hard choices that had to be made. And so I want to hear if there's any new information that came out. You'll remember that after Tyler Vargas, the Marine that was at the Abbey Gate, testified that he felt that he had the suicide bomber in his sights, that CINCOM called for a new investigation to open up and look at the Abbeygate bombing. My understanding, and that investigation has been complete. It's been briefed to the families of the Abbeygate victims.

And my understanding is, unfortunately, Brian, I don't think there's any new information or any smoking gun that suggests guilt on the part of any of the higher-ups. Who were based either at the Kabul airport or else back in the US. But that's I would be listening for whether there's any new information. I think at this point, the questions really need to go to the political leaders, not the military leaders.

So you would love to see Secretary of Defense Austin there, and you would love to see Secretary of State Blinken there. Yes, because based on my reporting for the last Several years, the tension was between the Defense Department wanting the State Department to go faster, the holdups that preceded the Biden administration that went back to the Trump administration in terms of getting SIV visas passed and through, and not leaving behind the translators who had worked with the U.S. military. Those are all issues that really got sort of bogged down at the State Department. Here is Secretary of Defense Austin earlier in March of 2023, Cut 23.

Do you have regrets about their withdrawal or how the withdrawal occurred? From Afghanistan, that cost the lives of 13 of our service members. I don't have any regrets. Uh that was stunned by that.

Well, I mean I would have to say, knowing Secretary Austin as I do, I think that there's probably a more nuanced explanation. He obviously regrets the death of 13 service members, but I think he's put in a terrible position as a political leader to have to, if the commander-in-chief says that you have to pull out, he had to execute that.

So nobody at the Pentagon would tell you that they don't regret the loss of the 13 American troops. That would be misleading. But I think that the loss of the more than 2,000 American troops in Afghanistan, and that is what weighs on all of them every day. And I know many of them wear bracelets for those that they lost, and they certainly feel a deep responsibility for the Abbey Gate bombing. Here's General Frank McKenzie.

We only got a couple of minutes. Here's General Frank McKenzie, September of 2021. Cut 24. I have a lot of regrets about how it ended in Afghanistan. I have a regret with the basic decision, which I think was the wrong decision.

And I particularly regret that we did not choose to begin to evacuate our people, our embassy personnel, our American citizens, and our at-risk Afghans at the time we made the decision to bring out our combat forces. I think that was a serious mistake, and I think that led to the events of August 2021 directly. It's pretty honest. Pretty honest, and that was my interview with General Mackenzie. You'll remember I sat down with him, and that was the first that we heard about the real feelings of regret.

But again, if you read between the lines of what he was saying, there was tension, interagency tension, between the State Department and Defense Department about the timing of withdrawals. The State Department always wants to keep an embassy open for as long as possible, and the Defense Department knows that there are increased security dangers as a result. There's always that natural tension, but there was a real delay in terms of evacuating the embassy that then led to some of the scenes we saw at Kabul airport. Jennifer, great interview, great perspective. And of course, you, I'm sure, you'll be watching this afternoon.

Jennifer Griffin, thanks so much. Thank you, Brian. You got it. All right. Listen, I want to find out there's more to know when we come back.

But just a little bit of announcement. Today at 5, I think I mentioned a couple of times on Fox Nation on the app you gotta get. I'm gonna be live with a prestigious panel reviewing what we're gonna hear today. In this, I guess, 1 to 4 p.m. You can see it on our little bit on our channel, a lot on C-SPAN.

And what went wrong? A lot went wrong. We're still paying the price for it. I think we're going to find out this: if all honesty, it is one man's decision, forcing his people under him. To leave Afghanistan because he never wanted to be in there in the first place.

And he wanted Barack Obama to get out. He did not want Barack Obama to surge. Until I read the Robert Hurr report, it wasn't as clear to me as it is right now. And then when he turns around and tells his Secretary of Defense to get out, and when he tells the Chairman of the General Chiefs of Staff to get out, instead of putting their stars on the ground, They said, okay.

So they knew this could happen like this. I'm sure this is the worst case scenario, and we witnessed it. And they still did it.

Now, I brought it up to other people and they say, Well, if I put my stars on the ground, I'm quitting. No, but if you put your stars on the ground, he's just a few months into his first year of his administration, he knows it would be a political disaster. He'd be forced to rethink it. That's my view. What is yours?

And we come back, we lighten it up a little bit, and we find out if there's indeed Mordanelle. Doesn't mean the stories aren't significant. It means there's more to know. Who was in the brain? Kill me, Joe.

The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back, everyone. Brian Kilmead Chow. Thanks so much for listening.

It just occurred to me. It might be time to find out if you need to know more. More. To know. All right, here we go.

First off, ex-Olympian champion Caitlin Jenner in Nassau County, where I live, with Bruce Blakeman to say, get this, he was the best athlete in the world. The Cathlon, I think you have to be the best athlete in the world. 1976 Squeeders boxes. He was a man. He became a woman.

Now follow me. He was on Long Island to back Bruce Blakeman's rule that girls, not transgenders, should be only playing with girls and boys only playing with boys. He's saying, look, he's got all his equipment as a guy. He thinks he's a girl. His license is a girl, but he was born a guy, so he's uneligible.

Can you follow any of that? I can absolutely follow that. Basically, if you're born a biological male, you shouldn't play sports with girls. You agree? Yes.

Of course, right? Yes. So right now he's being... Letitia James is taking a class action suit against him. Other people are suing him.

And a Roller Derby team is suing Nassau County, a Roller Derby team. It's exciting to know there are Roller Derby teams. But I mean, did you see last week, I think Riley Eans and others are suing over having to... Change with biological males in the locker room.

So, I mean, this is going, it's got to. It's got to be a national thing. It's got to be a national thing. And he says there's nobody right now that's doing it in Nassau County.

Next.

So to speak. Buck Showaltz has got a job back in Major League Baseball Network. Does that mean anything to you? Actually, no, I remember him when he was with the Yankees way back when. But no, he was just with the Mets.

I know it's more recent. I've met him a couple of times, a great guy. At 38, though, I thought he was too young to manage.

Now he's in his 70s, and he's going to go on TV. He provides great insight. I was really surprised he's not doing more.

Next, the linebacker of the Cowboys, he's just 26 years old, a layton Vander Ash, has announced he's retiring at 28. After a six-year career, he says his body's just not cooperating. How weird is that? I mean, I think that makes complete sense. And he's thinking about his life long term versus just the immediate next three years.

No, but no one else is going to pay you $7 million. I mean, does he have a backup plan? Oh. I mean, is he talented in other ways? Maybe I'll start a player.

He's a very handsome man. At least that's what Eric was saying.

So you're saying a model. Yes. Okay. Next.

Elon Musk says he's leaning away from President Biden after meeting with President Trump, and he said it to Don Lemon. Did you see this disastrous interview? I saw some clips of this. What a Don Lemon came out like he hated him, asking the everything's race. Don't you think America's racist?

Don't you think the country's racist? Why do you think you made your success because you're white? It was the craziest interview ever. I know, but here's like a good rule of thumb: if you're interviewing your boss, tread lightly. Who is giving you this new platform?

By the way, if your boss is probably one of the most impactful people of the last few generations outside Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, I would have more questions than statements and opinions. But it just goes he was You know, he left CNN for a reason, and he still has that chip on his shoulder, that mentality that he is better and. More right than everyone. Allison, you just watch. They're coming after Musk.

They're coming after his companies. They're giving him a hard time everywhere. They don't acknowledge Tesla, even though it's the greenest company around. They're coming after him. He's going to be supporting Trump somehow because he's a survivalist.

He knows Trump's not perfect, but now he gets it. I think more than ever. You just watch. Brian Killmee show. Keep it here.

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