Trump Trials: Former president wins reduction in $464M bond

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So glad you're here. Hope you had a fantastic weekend. We're back in action today. The Congressman Michael Waltz will be with us at the bottom of the hour board, and we need all his expertise today. We also.

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So we have a busy day. I know at the White House, Secretary of State. The State Department, Secretary of State, will meet with the Estonian Foreign Minister, as well as the Latvian Foreign Minister and the Lithuanian Foreign Minister. Why is that important? Because all three of them know Russia is coming for them next after Ukraine.

That's important. We know that Secretary of Blanken will meet with the Vietnamese foreign minister, too. Why is that important? Because everybody knows that Vietnam sees the problem with China, and they're a much-coveted ally these days in the region as much as a communist country can be.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three: If they don't do the things that you've said need to be done, then what? The flow of migrants will continue. Your critics have said what you're doing or what you're asking for to help secure the border is diplomatic blackmail. What do you say?

I'm speaking frankly. Blackmail is what I call it. Mexico's president lets us know the price we have to pay to stop the border invasion. Really? Even as the Biden appointed Border Patrol head can't mask his alarm about the number of border crossers.

Number two. The risk of attack emanating from Afghanistan is increasing. ISS ISIS Coruscant retains the capability and the will to attack U. S. and Western interests abroad in as little as six months with little to no warning.

Russia, victims of a horrific attack, ISIS-K takes credit. The details of the operation and why it has to be a wake-up call for us here in America as hundreds pour through our southern border on the terror watch list. Number One. I actually think that there is risk in not seizing these assets and the open window that exists in him trying to secure these funds through other means. There's a very real risk of political corruption.

Exactly. Thank you, AOC. Lawfare slams into President Trump's financial welfare as he hit the deadline to a half billion dollar bond as Letitia James pushes to seize his assets. Trump is also due in a New York courtroom to see what Alvin Bragg's sham trial will start. We have the breaking details.

So right now, we're waiting for Donald Trump to leave his tower. Tis for now. Because we know at the 10 o'clock hour Eastern time, he is going to be in court. He chooses to be there. He does not have to be there, but they're going to have a hearing to see when his trial will start.

What trial is this? And I try to keep it straight. Alvin Bragg says: even though we gave you 17,000 pages, Last week. From the Southern District of New York, that have everything to do with the case, and we were willing to wait 30 days for the case to start.

Now, I decided only 300 of those pages were new, so we should start right away. To me, he got some pressure from the White House or somebody else to say, get this case going. He's not going to try it, but they're going to do it. It's this whole Stormy Daniels thing.

So we'll think about that.

Now, in the meantime, midnight today is where the President of the United States will have an opportunity to put up the $454 million bail.

Now, why is that important? And what exactly does this mean?

So, in the court judgment, he owes $400 million.

Okay, got it. And he's giving $100,000 a day in fines until he pays it. Understood it.

So, what he said is, don't like the verdict. I'm going to appeal it. And they said, fine, you have every right to do that. But to appeal it, you have to put a bond down of $450 million. There's no bond company that offers that.

So why don't you take collateral as some of my real estate? They go, we don't take real estate, we only take cash. And what the bond companies have told Trump is we need a billion dollars in cash to get a $500 million bond. He doesn't have a billion dollars in cash, and that doesn't say he's not a billionaire. It's saying that nobody keeps that kind of money laying around.

Ever unless You're one of the rare oligarchs who are stealing from in Russia.

So, having said that, we're at this impasse, and they're going to start seizing his assets, they say, or taking some of his buildings. Maybe Westchester Golf Club, maybe Forty Wall Street, maybe Trump Tower. Takes some time, but my sense is. This Letitia James likes the theater. And she wants to do something flamboyant.

But she does not understand how that works against her party. She thinks she's a hero. Here's Eric Trump cut to. Letitia James campaigned on this promise, and now they're making him do something that's not physically possible. Putting up a half a billion dollar bond, bonds that size don't exist in this country.

A $10 million bond is a large bond. A $15 million bond is an enormous bond. A half a billion dollar bond, and Maria, remember one thing. The banks all testified, Trump was the greatest borrower we've ever had. There was no victim.

This is a crooked system with a crooked attorney general in a crooked court. that literally wants to put my father out of business. And look, that's a great booking Maria had on Sunday because he is also fined. And Eric Trump is running the business while the president was running. He's been pretty much running the business for four years, and even the years afterwards, the three years afterwards, he runs everything.

And if you ever met him, I could not be more impressed with the type of person he is and how respected he is for people in the real estate community. If they did cash and they did investments for a living, they're more than likely to have been able to find some type of cash, but they do real estate and it doesn't count as collateral, which is a joke.

So here is the situation. New York Times investigative reporter Russ Buetner was just going through what Trump owes and what he has. Cut a. The truth is always a moving target with Donald Trump's cash. As near as I can figure out, he had some windfalls over the last couple of years.

He sold a money-losing operation, the hotel in Washington, D.C. His gain on that sale before taxes was about $125 million. And he also benefited from a refinancing of a property in which he has a passive investment that brought him a windfall of about $185 million. There's some extra cash he might have had in there, so I would guess at some point last year he had around $350 million. But John, usually what we see on his cash is that it dwindles over time because he has some money-losing operations.

So this is a really steep hill for him to climb to try to meet that $450 million figure.

So we'll keep you up to date what's going on. And I should have said this. They're appealing the amount of the bond. Not only are they appealing the result of the case, they're appealing the amount of the bond.

Now that, I understand the court only opens on Tuesday, not on Monday, the appeals court. And it's five members.

So they should look at this and say this is extorbitant. You know, exorbitant. This is not the verdict. This is the bond. He's not going anywhere.

He's got the assets. You have a monitor in there to make sure he's not selling it off. Here's what's so evil about this.

So Trump, by all accounts, is a great Case for appeal. If he wins on the appeal. And he was not able to put the $454 million up. As a bond. They could sell his stuff off.

Fire sale prices And they go, okay. You win, you know, we overturned it. And guess what? Too late. We sold your stuff.

Think about that. I would, you know, if I heard about that in Brazil with the Bolsonaro, what they're doing there, that corrupt government now in power, if I heard about that in Russia or Turkey, I go, yeah, that's the way these people are, but that's what they're doing here. And I'll take your clothes on that next. I'm just outraged by it. And I'm heartened by this.

And I played it on Friday, but I'm going to play it again because this is what I believe. And this is from a guy who is a master pollster, Frank Luntz, who does not want Trump reelected. Cut seven. And I say this to the Attorney General right now. If you play politics on this, this is what the Secretaries of State did in Colorado and what they did in, I believe, was Maine.

His numbers went up in both States. I don't understand. I'm almost speechless in how. Pathetic the opposition to Trump has been, and how completely misguided. And this is a perfect example of it.

So he looked away from the host and looked into the camera to say it. And whatever you think of Frank Lunds, good or bad, or in between, he knows his stuff. And whatever you think his agenda is, it doesn't matter. He's saying that just judging by the people, this is what you got to do.

So the horrific attack happened on Friday. It turns out in Russia They go into this Crocus City Hall where there's a huge concert going on. And these gunmen, numbers as high as 11, they got four, killed 137 people. That number is probably going to go up. I didn't check this morning.

But the four people they got, they're from Tajikistan. Got a 32-year-old, a 26-year-old, a 19-year-old, and they just went in there. And they just shot and I think they locked the doors because some of the eyewitnesses through the translation said they tried to get out, they couldn't.

So they locked the doors, they set the place on fire with Molotov cocktails and just started shooting everybody. It's ISIS K and they took credit. They said this is us.

Now, who is ISIS-K? Their ISIS-K is for the most part Khurasan, and they're located, I thought, in Iraq. But they moved.

Now ISIS K evidently Love shooting up concert halls. How do I know that? Look what they done. That Bacolon Theater in Paris, they shot that up. The suicide bombing at the Ariana Grande concert, they were responsible for that in twenty seventeen.

In July, attacks were stopped in Germany and the Netherlands from ISIS K. ISIS K is manned at Russia. The best I can Surmise because of Russia haphazardly just killing Muslims in Syria, number one, and number two. Buy this now. Hold on to something.

They're upset that Russia likes the Taliban. And they said they were blowing they were looking to kill Christians.

So if anybody thinks That this is a and by the way, they also blew up They had a huge explosion in Iran during the Soleimani Memorial Service We gave heads up to Iran and Moscow. I think it's a good move to do that, but a lot of people are like, why would you do that? But if you want to know where this starts, And why this is happening. To a degree. It's Afghanistan.

And because we picked up and left, we can't see like we used to what's going on in this terror region. We have no presence. In the bargramme We have no presence in Kabul. We have no presence anywhere. In that area.

And if some people have their way, we'll have no presence in Iraq. And that might please some people, but you're very short-sighted. Here's Michael McCall, Chairman of Foreign Relations, Cut 15. I think that the sitcom commander, General Carrillo, just testified this week before Congress that within six months. That ISIS-K would have the capability to operate outside of Afghanistan, to do external operations, and it only took six days.

before they hit Moscow. Or outside of Moscow. And I think Europe is of concern. And it's sort of like we're going back to that old playbook where history repeats itself. And that's why the fall of Afghanistan, the way it was done, and the way we left it with no ISR capability, that intelligence, surveillance, recognizance, puts us in danger where this is a new battleground, training ground for ISIS.

And just let me button up Afghanistan. The story in Foreign Policy Magazine talks about The Taliban is providing cover and security for Al Qaeda as they continue to breed and train. And they're going into I didn't know they even had this. Afghanistan's got gold mines.

So they're going into the gold mines, hacking it out, pulling it out, obviously selling it. Can you imagine Al Qaeda Able to sell gold, what they'd be capable of, with a training ground where they're running free in Afghanistan. I believe if we just explained that to the American people, if I'm a leader, if I'm a head Secretary of State, I say, listen, I got to have a press conference. Say, listen, I know a lot of people think that this is a twenty-year ongoing war, but it's not a hot war. I would say by staying in this region, we'll keep a looking glass on China, Russia, Turkey.

uh as well as Pakistan. This is a perfect place for us to be as dangerous as it is, because if we leave, the world is even more dangerous and we are more vulnerable. If you explained it to the American people, 2,500 American troops, 2,500 NATO troops, about 1,000 to 2,000 contractors, that would have been it. And women would have had some rights. Girls would have been going to school, and they have more of a chance of getting some traction and keeping the Taliban at bay.

When we come back, I'll take your calls on this. We'll discuss it. It's been a busy weekend. A lot of focus right now on the President of the United States, who I believe. We will see leaving Trump Tower, although we're seeing traffic now, which makes me think he might have landed this morning and is making his way through.

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Stay with Brian Kilmead. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead. With our withdrawals in Afghanistan and Iraq, we have lost certain intelligence capabilities. Because of other intelligence priorities like great power competition with China and Russia, we have seen a resource shift. And in light of the expansion of countries of origin showing up at our border, we really need to rethink the kinds of criminal history and terrorism-related arrangements we have with other countries so that the vetting team, not just DHS, DHS alone doesn't conduct vetting, can make the most informed decisions possible based on timely and accurate information.

So that's Samantha Vinograd. She was a counter-terror official under the Obama and Biden administrations, and she was on over the weekend talking about the danger at the southern border. But she was willing to somewhat hold back about the grave circumstances many people feel are facing us, especially after the hit in Iran and then the hit in Russia. And then we have all these 300-plus on the terror watch list who have come through, along with the thousands of God. Ways.

Congressman Michael Walsh joins us now, Armed Services, Intelligence, Foreign Affairs. And the Congressman also was in his previous life, Green Beret. Great to see you. Yeah, good to see you. In person.

Yeah, I know. Always good. Especially great to have you from what's going on politically to what's going on internationally.

So people are looking, and she was just commenting on what happened in Russia, ISIS-K. They have the same objective with us. And why do you think that they hit Russia? Is it Syria? Is it their affiliation with the Taliban?

I don't get it. Yeah, no.

Well, there is, understand, Brian, ISIS is truly an international terrorist movement. They're on a full jihad against the West. There are very close ties with what's going on in Syria. You nailed it. And as Russia's been haphazardly bombing there, right?

Oh, they've been not just hapha hazardly bombing. There are a series of human rights and UN reports of how they deliberately targeted hospitals. I'm talking putting precision-guided bombs into Syrian hospitals, helping the regime with its genocide. I mean, really, truly being the worst of the worst. I'd say probably Chechnya was bad, but the same general, Russian general that led the effort in Chechnya, also led in Syria, where if they can't.

Clear a place out. Let's talk genocide or urban warfare. They just roll in the artillery pieces and start leveling buildings.

So I don't have to tell you this, but for the audience, here is General Carrilla speaking as a commander of U.S. Central Command about what he's worried about here, COVID-14. ISIS surged their attacks in Iraq and Syria earlier this year. and the risk of attack emanating from Afghanistan is increasing. ISS ISIS Coruscant retains the capability and the will to attack U.

S. and Western interests abroad in as little as six months with little to no warning. So we got another minute left in this segment. Your thoughts?

Well remember this is Yeah. This is Afghanistan all over again. What happens in Afghanistan never stays in Afghanistan. And because we have now no bases in the region, our local allies have been hunted down. Unlike in Iraq, where at least we had a government to work with when ISIS exploded on the scene there, we've got nothing around Afghanistan.

The only strategy, the only plan the administration has is to rely on the Taliban. To go after ISIS. Who doesn't like ISIS? Who doesn't like ISIS? But look, there is a difference between local feuds and actually the Taliban caring about ISIS attacking the West.

I don't think they give a damn if ISIS attacks the West. But that's the administration's strategy because we have no counterterrorism presence left in the region. All right, we'll talk about that, how it relates to the border, and also your party in disarray, the House. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

Are you concerned about that, about the potential dangerous people or potential terrorists who may be infiltrating the country because you are so focused on processing asylum seekers, families, and others who are in distress? Absolutely. You ask any law enforcement officer, especially somebody that works in border security, that is what keeps us up at night. We're at closing down on a million entries this fiscal year alone. That number is a large number, but what's keeping me up at night is the 140,000 known gotaways.

That is not part of that tally. That's not part of that tally. And that's just what we know. Is that a national security risk? That is a national security threat.

Border security is a big piece of national security. And how many times and how many officials have to tell us how serious this is? 16,000 border crossings in February alone. That is flying up from what the numbers were in January. And guess what?

This thing called spring is happening when the border always gets more stressed. On the tarot watch list already this year, 70. Last year, 172.

So we're over 300. Michael Waltz in the studio now, Congressman. This is a guy that was appointed by Joe Biden, so he wasn't trying to whitewash this. Yeah, right. I mean uh FBI Director Ray has been making the rounds on Capitol Hill, ringing the alarm bell.

That and I can't get a straight answer of how these people come across. Ostensibly, they get processed by CBP and DHS officials, but then they're released into the interior. And how is that lag happening that then the FBI is informed? That we have someone that may have popped hot on the watch list. And now the FBI has to go try to track them down somewhere in the inner cities of the United States.

But I mean, case in point in the last administration was about a dozen.

Now we're in the to the tune of hundreds. One year was zero. One year was zero. Right. And by the way, there's a lot of countries that don't report, you know, so we don't have everybody.

And not letting a lot of times there's no way to check ID. These are the people that we know of. We're still waiting on the president to actually enter the courtroom. He's supposed to be there at 10 o'clock while putting up $454 million for a bond we think he wants to at the end of the day. And, Brian, if I just go back to the attack on Russia, the ISIS attack on Russia, look, one of the things that the Russians were having to do was admit a lot of from the Muslim former Soviet republics, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, they were having to allow a lot of labor in from those areas, some legally, some illegally, apparently, because of their manpower shortage, because of the war in Ukraine.

So there's a lot of finger pointing in terms of how these elements that were radicalized, they're right on the border of Afghanistan, they had to bring them in because of labor shortages, and now you've got this kind of thing. They're using troops from Nepal. They're trying to convince Cubans to go over there and fight?

So I don't know, a country of 150 million people with endless resources, they say, could always draft, but somehow they seem to be running out of resources. I know they have more people than the 46 million that the U.S. But what Putin is trying to do is to avoid drafting from Moscow and St. Petersburg, that critical Russian middle. Class that a lot of their elites and his security elites come from.

So they're going to pull everywhere they can from the periphery to feed into that war machine down in Ukraine, the grinder. The last thing I want you to comment on, you might not have seen, but this was on 60 Minutes last night. Did you watch 60 Minutes last night? No, I can't see it. I missed it because my DVR does not adjust to college basketball.

But I saw this interview, Cut 20. With the ear of the White House, President Lopez Obrador proposed his fix, that the United States commit twenty billion dollars a year to poor countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, lift sanctions on Venezuela, end the Cuban embargo, and legalize millions of law-abiding Mexicans living in the U.S. If they don't do the things that you've said need to be done, then what? The flow of migrants. We'll continue.

Your critics have said what you're doing or what you're asking for to help secure the border is diplomatic blackmail. What do you say? I'm speaking frankly. We have to say things as they are. And I always say what I feel.

Yeah, I think Your action. This must incense you. Yeah, well, Amlo is a hardcore leftist, number one. Number two, talk to any expert down in Central South South America. Between the corrupt government and the cartels, they take anywhere from 30 to 40 percent of our foreign aid right off the top, which only emboldens them.

And do the math on $20 billion. Heck, do the math on the $4 billion that Borders Ar Kamala Harris was talking about pumping into Central America. Let's try this. Let's go. That same president of Mexico, under President Trump, because he knew how to strike a deal and use leverage.

deployed his National Guard to his southern border, twenty five thousand Mexican troops, and shut it down, prevented the migrants from going through. Ando, by the way, agreed to remain in Mexico. Same president of Mexico, different president of the United States, striking a different deal on immigration. You also said the wall doesn't work, which we know is it's just we know it's not the answer to everything, but you see them cutting holes in the wall to get through. You see them avoiding the wall when it's there.

You see a cry to patch it and he won't. The other thing the wall does is channel. Walls do is channel people to the legal crossings, and our Border Patrol agents can concentrate there rather than getting spread all over the place. And I don't know if you caught this, Brian, but the general commanding Northern Command in NORAD testified last week that upwards of 1,000 drones a month are fired. Penetrating our southern border, carrying Lord knows what into our interior.

So it's not just dropping. They're dropping things. They're dropping things. They're bringing in drugs. They're bringing in.

I mean, some of these bigger drones can carry weapons, but it's just a full-on invasion in our southern border. Air, sea, land. I mean, it's out of control.

So let's talk about your caucus, the Republican majority for now in the House. I've never seen a group of people so determined to be in the minority. It seems like you're going out of the way to do it. Mike Gallagher gone. Kevin McCarthy gone.

George Santos gone. Johnson gone. And Ken Buck gone. I mean wh what is happening here? People are frustrated.

Uh look, at the end of the day, I I don't Personally, I don't care how frustrated you are, you have to step up and stop. You're in the majority. We're in the majority. We have to drive the agenda, not only stop Biden's agenda, but drive our own, conduct oversight. Brian, think of all the things we would not know that we now know from the Afghanistan investigation to COVID to Hunter Biden.

If we had not been in the majority, it would all still be swept under the rug. We have to also focus on what we stopped and go back to just last year. I mean, we had the Parents' Bill of Rights, we had the Energy Independence Bill, we had HR1 and HR2 in terms of border security. If we would only come together and unify, we could drive an agenda and show the American people what good conservative governance looks like. It's not easy without Kevin McCarthy.

Olivia Beavers of Politico, look what you guys, not you, but look what they're focusing on, CUP 36.

Some of the irony of the speaker, you know, coming out swinging and blasting some of his Republican members for going out and campaigning against their own colleagues and incumbents was that the people that should be receiving this message weren't there. Biggest name that comes to mind is Matt Gates, and he was down in Texas trying to campaign against Tony Gonzalez, who is an incumbent, who is in a runoff against a sort of social media pro-gun influencer. But he has also been involved in other races, like Congressman Mike Boss' race against Darren Bailey, which he was not so successful as Mike Boss was able to pull ahead in that one.

So it's sort of already mixed results, but it goes to show that there's a broader fight. For control of what the House GOP conference is. What do you say about Matt Gaetz trying to primary Gonzalez, who's doing great work on the border because he doesn't agree with him on guns? Should that be anybody's fault? And now I'll just remind everyone: Gonzalez had the Uvalde.

uh you know shooting right there in his district. And Mike Bost you know, Mike Bost is also a veteran and our chairman of VA, trying to reform that place. Trump endorsed.

So I I'm not sure what's going on there. I call it in the military a circular firing squad. And I think some people are making a bigger name for themselves by going after fellow Republicans. Let's unify and go after Democrats. All right.

I want to take time out now. And when we come back, talk about Hong Kong, talk about what's happening over in China, and talking about Vietnam has also sent their foreign minister here to talk to Secretary of State Blinken. They're all coming over saying, Guys, do you realize the trouble we're in in respective regions? Back in a moment. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead.

A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead. We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way. that any Major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake. Let me tell you something.

I have studied the maps. There's nowhere for those folks to go. And we're looking at about a million and a half people in Rafah who are there because they were told to go there, most of them. And so we've been very clear that it would be a mistake. To move into Rafah with any type of military operation.

Are you ruling out that there would be consequences from the United States? I am ruling out nothing. Congressman Michael Waltz still with us. Kamala Harris didn't have a map, just to be straight now. It's a globe.

And she was able to find Israel.

So that's a big improvement. Congressman, she was looking at the maps. There's no way to escape. There are corridors that are being set up now. She should talk to the defense minister, who, by the way, is on his way on the demand of Joe Biden.

I hope everybody listening pull out a map. Right. And right to the south of Gaza is Egypt, big open space called the Sinai. It would be quite interesting if the administration would put pressure on Egypt, put pressure on the Gulf states like Saudi, UAE, and others to write checks. You could have a release valve for a lot of these civilians to the south into Egypt, but it is more politically convenient for Harris and for Biden to pressure our ally Israel because of the progressive left.

Look, Brian, they are freaked out about Michigan. The numbers are horrible for them in both Michigan and Minnesota. Over 100,000 people in the dead of a Michigan winner during a primary with an incumbent president that drive after work to go vote uncommitted, 100,000? That was a real wake-up call. And everything they're doing now is about politics.

At the end of the day, the Israelis have to take out the four battalions of Hamas that are hiding, the 30,000 fighters that are hiding amongst a million civilians, or otherwise, October 7th is going to happen all over again. You know, I believe that TikTok plays a role in this. The reason why the next generation of Americans seems to be anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian is some of the news that they're getting on TikTok, which is pumped in by China, who supervises what's going on. You know, people say, well, wait a second, three Americans are on the board, but one of the people on the board is directly affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party, and nobody, no tech firm can ever refuse the Chinese government for any information or intelligence. You also have licensing agreements.

You're in violation of Chinese. Law. I don't care if you're an American company operating there, a Chinese company, if they say hand over the source code, if they say hand over the data, you have to hand it over or they will come after you, period. And so that plays all into it. Um In the end, our Defense Minister is going to be here.

There's pride that the Israeli Defense Minister is going to be here this week. Bibi is coming next week to address the Republican House. Is that true? I understand he's been invited. I don't know if it's been confirmed.

Okay. The other thing would be There's pressure from the US to accept this swap. 40 hostages for 700 Palestinian prisoners. And you know who's saying no? Hamas.

Hamas is the one that continues to say no. And their mindset is: I'm weakening the bond between America and Israel already. Why would I?

Well, the time's on their side in the sense that if their objective is to sacrifice Palestinian civilians, which they are perfectly willing to do, to turn world opinion against Israel, this administration is playing right into their hands. And Iran made a statement that America is almost out. They said that we're going to get them out of the region. They're going to be out of Iraq, and they're going to be several times. Why does that matter?

Because the forces in northern Iraq are the ones keeping a lid on tens of thousands of fighters, ISIS fighters, that are still in Syria in camps and elsewhere. And that might as well be the Iranian government if we leave, because they'll have no choice. Yeah. Look, at the end of the day, the entire region is going to explode until we go after Iran's cash. You have to go back to maximum pressure.

That's what's fueling all of it. And who Who is Iran selling its oil to? To China. 90% of Iran's oil is going to China. It's not hard.

This is fixable. There's a way to refocus and be smart about it. Congressman Michael Waltz, our guest. Congressman, now you focus on another problematic area that you'd be more comfortable if we were focused on it now, and that's the Pacific. And you say you look at Hong Kong and the reports coming out of Hong Kong, what's happened over the last two years.

They arrested all the protesters. They created calm, they say, in Hong Kong, what has been the blowback?

Well, look, at the end of the day, the entire international community did it early.

Now, some are finally getting the message that they've got to leave, that that money is fleeing, that tech talent is fleeing. A lot of it's going to Singapore, to Japan, and elsewhere. But this fiction that what they call one country, two systems, where you can have a kind of a vibrant democracy and free market in Hong Kong but still be part of China, was total propaganda. And Taiwan has gotten the wake-up call by watching what is happening in Hong Kong. And also.

Just about every major firm is pulled out, so people don't feel safe. And that sends a message: what will happen in Taiwan? We all know that. What have we done in terms of getting the weapons that they paid for into that country?

Well, I led a task force to streamline both weapons that Taiwan has already bought, over $20 billion, to streamline that bureaucratic process. What's interesting, Brian, is I had some Democrats that were fully on board with that, but it got now conflated with the Israel debate and a number of these Democrats who are relatively moderate. And believe in supporting our allies.

Some of them had to back off because they were getting hit from their left, because the left thought it would streamline weapons going to Israel. You mean they're against weapons coming to Israel? They're against going weapons to Israel, so now they're against streamlining weapons to any of our allies. Keep in mind, they bought it. They paid for it.

This is American jobs.

So that's frustrating as hell. The other piece is that when you hear all of our ships in the Red Sea shooting down. $30,000 drones with $3 million missiles. When you hear about all of this activity in Iraq, because we won't just hit back on Iran, all of that is a distraction from the Indo-Pacific.

So you've got Chinese cash buying Iranian oil, that cash then going out to all of these terrorist proxy groups. And rather than shutting down the cash, our military is getting totally exhausted in the Middle East. And my fear is it won't be ready for what's needed in the Pacific. It's so maddening. And Haiti, how concerned are you about the Florida coast as Haiti empties out?

I just passed a bill out of committee unanimously that would double the amount of water, the amount of territory the maritime customs and border patrol units can cover to intercept these migrants. It would bring them in line with the Coast Guard. I'm hoping to get it out of the House in the next couple of weeks. Very concerned. Florida coastline is just as long as the Mexican, excuse me, as the Texas border with Mexico.

I don't want our coastline to look like that border. Very real possibility. What are the chances? Yeah. We're putting the pieces in place.

We're looking at it. It's a huge job, Brian. 17th largest economy in the world. And, you know, I don't know. There's been two Navy guys there.

Maybe it's time for an Army guy. All right. Let's say you can see if you can do it. I'm pretty sure that's a good background.

Someone like Byron Donalds might also have a BI. Look, we've got a lot of talent in Florida, but we need people who have led companies, have led units in combat, people that know how to lead. It's a huge job that should be humbling for anybody. But how do we take Florida to that next level after Rick Scott, after Ron DeSantis? What is that next big step for the great state of Florida?

Your big step is Varney and Company and then Harris Faulkner, right? Deal. Go get him. All right. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show.

Brian Kilmead. All right, hold on tight. It's a busy Monday. I hope you had a fantastic weekend. We're back in action today.

But this hour, we're going to be joined by Michael Goodwin, New York Post Columnist. That's where everything's happening today, right in New York, right in Midtown, Manhattan, and Brooke Singman. Brooke is going to be coming up from Fox News Digital direct hooks right into the Trump campaign, the Trump team, about what their method of going forward with not only the trial at ten, which is now the trial, the hearing today, as well as the bond hearing that's going on, where the President's got to post $454 million.

So there's a lot happening. About thirty minutes ago, we watched the President come into the courtroom.

Now keep in mind, just to get clear on this, he's meeting Alvin Bragg's case. Alvin Bragg last week said, All right. We just got twenty seven thousand new pages from the Southern District of New York of background information that's desperately needed that definitely needed for this court case.

So I will not stand in the way of a request to delay the beginning Of our court case, you know, the whole hush money thing with Stormy Daniels. Then out of nowhere, last week he goes, No, you know what? Forget that. I want to start right away because only 300 of the 27,000 are new. Really?

I am sure the Trump team has got an answer for that. That answer is coming today.

Now, it's in a delay now. It should be 30 days. It's only been seven days. Why they need to come back quickly, I think, is pressure from the White House.

Something's got to get started. Georgia is a mess. The immunity case is not going to be heard until April. And then the verdict's not going to be until June, which is going to hold up the documents trial, which is going to hold up. The January 6th case, all for Jack Smith.

If you can keep all this straight.

Now, let me dive into what's going on with the bond. four hundred and fifty four million is due.

Now It is just a bond. And the president's appeal is underway. We know what a sham this other trial was. He basically said he was guilty before the trial started. They didn't listen to any of the testimony from the bankers and the insurers who said they have no problem with Donald Trump and doing business.

Everything's on schedule to be paid back or has been paid back already. We know about Letitia James and the goal that she has to go after Trump from before she was elected. That's how she got elected. She found a crime, she thought, and she went after it, overvaluing properties to get favorable business deals.

So they want, as a bond, while they wait for appeal, $454 million.

So having said that, let me add this. The president said. I believe that's too high. And I like to appeal the $454 million. On top of that, he said, I could do less.

I can't do 454 million more.

Now why? Because, like, you and I don't know anything about the billionaire lifestyle or to have that much in our bank accounts, Eric Trump does. And here's what he said. About the bond business, cut one. They go out and they ask you to post a half a billion dollar bond.

Maria, I want to put that in context. I went out to the largest sureties in the world, the largest sureties in the country. They said, Eric, the last time we've seen a bond of that size is when we did the big dig in Boston, which was a $25 billion construction project that lasted almost 25 years. They're trying to put my father out of business. They're trying to take all his resources that he would otherwise put into his own campaign for presidency.

This is New York State. This is what we're seeing. Joining us now, to put in perspective, a guy who knows the Trumps really well, just spoke to Donald Trump a couple of weeks ago, Michael Goodwin, New York Post columnist. You can follow him at m Goodwin underscore New York, NY Post. Michael, your reaction to what Eric just said, that's the reality of the bond business.

I don't know much about it. I don't even know much about the billion or multi-million dollar lifestyle. Your reaction to where we're at right now. Good morning, Brian. Look, I think this is now we're beginning to see the poisoned fruits of all of this effort to to prosecute Trump.

to ban him from the ballot? Right? I mean, all of these things that the Democrats have been trying to do for the last Three years, three plus years, are now coming to fruition.

So, I mean, you're right. You see some of the hair on some of these cases now more clearly. The Georgia case. Is obviously, I think, been destroyed by the lack of credibility of the DA. I mean, I just think the if Fonnie Willis is allowed to continue in that case, and if it should lead to actual convictions of the President, I think there will be such an uproar.

And that's what we got here. I mean, the Alvin Bragg case, The uh T Letitia James forfeiture case. When you get into the details of it, none of it makes sense. All of it smells of overreach. And overreach not just because it's a bad decision, it's an intentional decision to try to find some way to punish Donald Trump, to stop him from being reelected.

I mean, this these cases, it sort of boggles your mind. You know, you think about it There must be something more to it. There must be more to these cases than we're seeing. No, there isn't. There isn't really a case there.

They've made it up in both of these cases in order just to get them. I mean, these are amateurs, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg. I mean, Alvin Bragg doesn't prosecute murder cases. He prosecutes the the uh young man who uh wrestled a a nut job to to the ground on the subway case, Daniel Penny. He'll prosecute him.

And he'll prosecute Donald Trump, but he'll turn virtually every street criminal loose. Um Letitia James, she is just a headhunter, as you said. She campaigned on prosecuting Donald Trump. I mean, this is the United States of America, and this is happening before our eyes. It is, and I would feel the same way.

If Trump was in office and let's say RFK or somebody had the nomination, or he was going after Biden like this, I'm telling you. I would not be for this. I mean guys, you gotta be kidding me. Four totally different cases. And in this case, it was a misdemeanor.

In order to get the statute of limitations lengthened, they had to make it a felony.

So, to do that, they had to trump up a case that the Southern District of New York walked away from. And they just delivered the paperwork on the background of a case they said there wasn't enough there. Good luck. You got Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels. 22015 is when all this thing happened.

The incident happened in the 90s. Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. That's going to be the trial that'll last about three weeks, but we don't know when exactly it'll happen. I know people get confused.

So just keep in mind, Trump's got two things going on today. He's got the hearing that started now. It's already started at 10 a.m. And then he's got the other thing going with the posting $454 million.

So no one will give him the bond. I'm not sure who's going to trump up and get the go step up and give him the money. But evidently, if he could just use his buildings as collateral, that should be fine if the objective is to make sure he doesn't mess with his finances or leave the country. But that has certainly changed. We're also waiting for this five-panel judge to decide if $454 million is excessive.

Michael, the chances you think of that being knocked down, because they submitted a thousand-page document to show different precedentes for knocking this down to something more palatable.

Well, look, I mean, I think the whole case is rotten. As you point out, I mean, this is a civil case, so as opposed to the four criminal cases. But the the amount is a fiction. the I mean, it's about what he do what it it's based on Letitia James's argument, this is what he derived from from the fic fictitious documents. But There was no crime.

I mean, she makes it sound like it's an ill-gotten gain that has to be taken from him. But what was the ill-gotten gain? Bankers testified that they received 100% of their payments. They saw no crime. They didn't rely on the documents.

No banker does.

Now, did Trump overestimate? Sure, he did in some cases. But as a real estate lawyer told me, if that's a crime, every developer in New York belongs in jail. I mean, it is so routine in the business to single him out and then to exaggerate the amounts is beyond the pale. But this is what's happening in these five cases: the civil case and the four criminal cases.

They are all doing things that you would not do were it not Donald Trump. Even the documents case, the classified documents, which comes the close. Closest in some way to an actual piece of wrongdoing that you've got, but you don't hold Joe Biden to the same standard. And that's the problem with that case.

So every case is riddled with this sense. that it's singled out for this one purpose to keep him from being president again. That is just shocking. Every time I think about it, Brian, I'm shocked anew. I'm not arguing.

This is something. I could hear your voice, but you know what was amazing on Friday? I love to read Naxios and Politico and see what these breaking news stories are from all elements. And they were saying. Merrick growing under fire.

I'm thinking to myself, okay, they're saying they never should have brought these cases. It looks really bad. You know what they're mad at him for? It took so long. Why did it take so long to appoint Jack Smith?

Why did it take so long to send one of your emissaries into Alvin Bragg's office to get this case going? Why did it take so long to try him? Why didn't they anticipate these types of delays?

So they don't even get it. They're upset that he's not convicted already. They're not upset how bad it looks. for that. is almost certainly the White House or Biden defenders.

Because way back in twenty twenty two The New York Times reported, sort of buried, right, not a headline, but that Biden was unhappy that Merritt Garland had not prosecuted Donald Trump on january sixth. Wouldn't you know it? And and and the Times is very careful because Biden has not spoken directly to Garland. No, he just told the New York Times which Garland will read.

So he doesn't have to speak to him differently. But again, imagine if Donald Trump did that. If Donald Trump said to his Attorney General, I want my predecessor prosecuted. Imagine the storm that would happen in the media, and rightfully so. But here Joe Biden does it, and here, as as you point out, Brian, almost two years later, Axios and others are talking to Biden people who are faulting Garland for being too slow.

I mean, we're living in an upside-down world. I just like when a guy with your type of experience has been seen so much, you're totally flabbergasted. It shows you the magnitude of it. And you're hardly an apologist or a Trump, right or wrong. You're not like that.

You call him as you see it. And famously, you've told me the first time you voted for Barack Obama in the first term over John McCain. But a couple of things. I think that Tish James, judging by her profile, is going to look to do something flamboyant. I don't see this day going by and the time ticking off and paperwork being submitted.

I see her showing up at Trump Tower, going to 40 Wall Street, or going for his plane.

Something that will absolutely keep her in the headlines. She's oblivious to the political ramifications of it. I wonder what you thought. No, I look, I I think uh you're right. Uh she she knows no limits.

And the really sad part, Brian, is that there is a constituency for this. Right. There are those people, millions of them in this country as it turns out, who would stop at nothing. They think there are no restraints that apply to Donald Trump. And that whatever you can do, however you can do it, go ahead and do it, and we'll be there cheering you on.

I mean, that's how sick this has become, this Trump derangement syndrome. She is suffering from it, but she is also playing to an audience That supports this. I mean, that's almost as scary as anything you can imagine: that so many Americans have fallen into this trap, that none of the restraints of government, none of it applies when it comes to Donald Trump. Get them however you can.

So Michael, it would be very bleak for the Republicans if Trump was trailing, let's buy ten points and trailing in every battleground state. It would feel hopeless. But it's actually the opposite. He trailed in one Quinnipiac poll over the last three months. Besides that, he's in a dead heat in Wisconsin.

He's up in Pennsylvania. He's up six to eight in Michigan. He's up two in North Carolina. He's up four in Georgia. This is on average: four or five, four or five, three or four.

He's up everywhere. And he hasn't really campaigned yet. And he had opponents ripping him apart on a daily basis, whether it was Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley.

So now that you have some semblance of a unification. Let's see what happens now. And that's why I think that he's got to name his entire cabinet. They have to, in lieu of money, they have to go out and put Robert O'Brien out there, put John Radcliffe out there, pick your vice president, put your Homeland Security, get Vivek Ramaswamy out there, let them know what this government will look like, because he cannot do it by himself. He's got too many court cases.

How do you feel about that?

Well, look, I mean, I think you make an interesting point because that is effectively what he did with the Supreme Court in twenty sixteen. He put out the list, the Federalist list and said, I will choose from this list. I think and that really worked. I think that assured a lot of people that his judg Nominations for the court would be acceptable. They would be moderate.

They'd be within the political spectrum. They would not just be wackos that he met somewhere.

So I think that was a very good idea at the time. And what you're suggesting reminds me of that. That, in other words, it's not just me. I'm coming with a team. And we are going to fix this country.

And here's my team. Here are the leaders of my team. I think that that could work, Brian, and we might well see him do that at some point because he Look, the Pauls do show him in a pretty good light at this point. I also believe that. Given how bad Biden is, Yeah.

Trump should be winning by 20 points, not two or three or four. I mean, it speaks, of course, to the divisions in this country, but there's still a lot of resistance, and I would say legitimate resistance of people who think Donald Trump, I mean, you know, he's made a caricature of himself in some ways. The media has amplified that by a power of 10. And Biden, every day, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA. It's having an effect.

There is this anti-Trump sentiment on millions of Americans. Yeah, I hear you. Thanks so much, Michael Goodwin. Appreciate it. A few more minutes when we come back.

Brooke Sigmund joins us on the latest Inside the Trump camp. Don't move. Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Killmead. The more you listen, the more you'll know.

It's Brian Kilmead. All right, I see the calls lining up there, and I'll be able to get to you. I went a little along with Michael Goodwin, but I have never seen him that exasperated. Trump did shout out something before he went into the courtroom, I understand, moments ago. Kind of shouted out to the press.

It didn't seem audible to me. I actually was listening, watching our closed captions. We were coming back from break. That's what he uses this for. He goes in there.

He does not have to be there today, but he wants people to see this is me. I'm going to be you every step of the way. Understand who you're dealing with. But so far, it's been a very compliant judge. It's kind of gone along with what Alvin Bragg wanted.

We'll see if he does it with Trump there. But to think that you can get 27,000 pages of documents and only have what? 10 days to go through them, knowing that each one's explosive, that it was acquired over four years of investigation through his presidency, actually six years of his presidency, and now through the second term, and now he wants to get another term.

So we'll see if we get this trial going sometime in April. I thought we were 30 days in. And then so far, nothing's been posted as far as we can understand for Trump and his big $454 million bond. I'm going to go inside the Trump camp with Brooke Singman, Fox News digital political reporter, and then we'll be able to take your calls right after that. We'll take you in the order you were received.

Brian Kilmicho. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. The entire Florida real estate community is laughing at this. The entire real estate community in general is petrified of New York.

You know how much business New York State is losing because of this? Because they see this radical, and you even have the governor Kathy Hochl comes out and says, you know, we're going to do this to Trump. But we're not going to do it to any of you. Don't worry about it. We'll do it to him, but we won't do it to any of you.

And that is just not the way it's resonating in the business community. I haven't seen anyone pull out yet, but I have not seen one pull in. And I'll tell you, when you had Kevin O'Leary say things like this and other people come forward and say this is a bad message for New York, who's already bleeding a lot of money, especially in the financial district, it's a huge problem. And of course, they're talking about the bond that's due, and they're talking about the prosecution that went through and had Trump guilty right even before he went to trial, and they didn't really listen to his argument.

So we are following that story. We're following Donald Trump. Did he post his bail, his bond? No, not yet, but he is in the courtroom. And he is going in to find out if they're going to delay the Alvin Bragg case anymore, the Hush Money case.

Brooke Singman's here, Fox News Digital Political Reporter. Hey, Brooke. Hey, Brian. Got you up early today. I know.

Extending your day a little bit. We've been a fun day together. Yes. This is so impactful. I mean, the whole world's watching Donald Trump again.

How's you talk to him over the weekend? Is he stressed? You know, he doesn't really seem stressed. At this point, he's used to this. This is par for the course for him.

You know, he's fighting these indictments and charges in four separate jurisdictions, plus a few civil cases here in New York. Of course, we have the New York State Attorney General case with Letitia James. She is expecting him to postpone or do something in this $454 million judgment tonight. The deadline is 11:59 p.m.

So they're talking about their options there. And when I spoke to him, he told me he's going to take that fight all the way up to the United States Supreme Court if necessary, because he said his team is appealing that decision, and he says that they cannot take his property away from him in the middle of an appeal.

So there's that. Of course, he's in the courtroom right now in a totally separate case here in New York, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's case about a year ago. I think you and I sat right here, Brian, talking about the indictment being handed down against Trump, and he pleaded not guilty to all of those charges. Of course, his team is trying to delay that trial until later this year. Year.

Right now, the judge has pushed it. It was supposed to start today with jury selection, but it was delayed because of thousands and thousands of documents that were discovered by the DOJ, turned over as part of the federal investigation into these hush money payments, which it's important to note that Trump was never charged in that federal case related to these hush money payments.

So he's in court trying to push for a further delay. At this point, that trial is supposed to start mid-April.

So got a lot going on for him. I mean, last week we left off, and Alvin Bragg said, Yeah, I'm going to need some time to go through these papers too. Then he comes back and says, No, no, I want a hearing because I want to start right away. Only 300 of those pages are new. Right.

And why should the Trump team take his word for that at that point? I mean, if there, what is there? Is there 17,000 or 170,000? I'm maybe missing a 10,000. It's something like that.

But, you know, of course, the Trump legal team wants time to go through that. And honestly, the judge thought that it was necessary for them to have that time. The judge made that decision to delay the case until mid-April instead of. Starting today. Sister James seems to care, the AG here in New York City.

She seems to be thinking that she's a hero and that she wants to take Trump down. She said it before. She went through it. It happened with a very compliant judge who sits for elections every year and he's got to get reelected again.

So this is the judgment. This is the bond. I get the sense that she's got something else planned.

Something where they're going to try to take his plane or freeze his accounts and make it impossible for him to go to Starbucks or something like that.

Well, that's her plan. I mean, she said it. We've watched those clips dating back to 2018. And throughout her election, her campaign for a New York Attorney General, she talked about how she was going to get Trump and she was going to be a real pain in the you-know-what. She said that.

She told supporters that that is what she ran on in part, at least. And she's here. She brought the charges against him and sued him. And now here he is. But she does have these options.

She can freeze his accounts. But what I think is Being misunderstood is she can't just go and seize his properties. At this point, the Trump legal team is appealing this civil ruling. And they're waiting for a ruling in. That appeal.

Trump seems to think that you cannot seize properties while. A case is in appeal.

So that's the first thing. You would think? You would think. And of course, he has said, you know, I have the money to post this $454 million bond, but I don't want to. Just because I have $500 million cash, why should I have to pay that money?

And he actually truth socialed on his way to the courtroom for this brag hearing today, of course, not to confuse everybody, on the way to the brag hearing talking about the James case, said, Why should I have to sell my quote-unquote babies, his businesses, his properties, just because of this ruling? It's in appeal. And I think we're waiting. I don't know exactly what the Trump team is going to do today. They have until 11:59 tonight.

So we'll see.

So Charles Gasparino goes inside big business all the time. These investigative things are right up his alley, knows Trump well. This is how he said what could happen. You might just say, okay, I got the building. I've got 40 Wall Street.

I got Trump Tower. I'll take the Westchester Golf Club. I'll take Mar-a-Lago. I'll take Doral. Not so easy.

Listen to him. Cut 10. Trump could literally just say, here are the keys, figure it out. And she will be spending the next two years trying to figure out which part of which buildings he owns when you go through the subleases and leases and the various limited partnerships. It's a very complicated mess.

Trump generally doesn't own a lot of the land under these buildings. He owns pieces of them. A lot of the pieces that he owns are, you know, they have mortgages, so the banks have first lien on them.

So, you know, he could do that. Say, take it. It's yours and try to figure out why we appeal this. I don't see him doing that, but he could in the long run. But the fear is he's going to get it overturned on appeal, and they've already sold out his property for fire sale prices.

Right. I mean, w it's all to be seen at this point. It all is crazy, and it at this point we are all speculating here. I mean, there was an article in the New York Post last week that said, you know, Trump team, they might just do nothing and let Letitia James go in and seize all the properties and hope to get them back on appeal. That seems very risky, does it not?

And I was told by people close to the former President that that is not a viable option that was being considered. People have been floating the fact that he could sell his shares of his Truth Social company, which the parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group, just merged with its SPAC on Friday.

So that is now. By investors, has now been voted to be a publicly traded entity, which I believe started today. And Trump actually owns 78.7 million shares of that company.

So that's the parent company of Truth Social, which, if he sold all of those shares, he would be sitting on about $4 billion. Those shares are frozen at this point because of rules surrounding that six months. And the board can vote to unfreeze those shares for him. But again, His argument is why should he have to give the money just because he has it? He's in appeal.

So I don't know how this is all going to play out. Maybe the appeals court will come back with something for him tonight. Will you sell enough shares for $500 million as opposed to selling for $3 billion? Right. Well, remember, he truth socialed on Friday and said, hey, I do have nearly $500 million in cash, but I don't want to pay up.

But that sounds the smartest truth social in the world. No, it's not. Right. No, it's definitely not. Don't share what you have.

But that appeals court, actually, Trump always says that this judge, Ngoran, was overturned a few times. And at this point, the appeals court did not rule in Trump's favor in terms of delaying the judgment date to post this bond. But what he did do was allow Trump to take over overseeing his business again while the appeal is ongoing. Because that Ngoran ruling said that the Trump family couldn't run their business for three years. At this point, they can still oversee their business while they are in appeal.

So they have a monitor there. There, right, Brooke? Yes, they do.

So the monitor overseeing it.

So let's think about this. If your goal is to make sure you don't leave the guilty party doesn't leave the country or doesn't screw with his financial wherewithal in order to not be able to pay if it is not overturned on an appeal, you got everything handled. He's not leaving the country, he wants to be president. And number two is you have a monitor there looking over all the financials. Exactly.

So this is total retribution. And at this point, you know, he repeatedly has said this is election interference. Every case he says is election interference. And of course, he's in a courtroom right now instead of campaigning, but the campaign has kind of learned how to deal with this. This, in and itself, is a campaign event for him in the sense that he can campaign on the fact that.

You know, the words he uses is the Biden White House's opponent, and his Justice Department is after him. That is what he tells his supporters every day. And, you know, We'll see if that energizes his supporters even more. I want to play this quick for you because the last world leader to identify that Joe Biden won the election was President Arbrador of Mexico.

So, believe it or not, this left-wing socialist actually got along with the former president.

So, you know, he says, I'm not going to shut down the border unless you recognize Cuba, give $20 billion of aid. throughout Central and South America and also change your policies on Venezuela, which is insane. He would never say that to Trump. In fact, he didn't. Trump came up in the interview, and here's what here's what he said.

I think you'd find it interesting, cut twenty one. President Trump is saying he wants to build a wall again on the campaign. But what about the people that'll say, oh, but the wall works? It doesn't work. And President Lopez Oberdor says he told that to then President Trump during a phone call.

They were supposed to be discussing the pandemic. It was an agreement not to speak about the wall. Because we were not going to agree. And then you talked about it. That was the only time.

And I told him. I'm going to send you, Mr. President.

Some videos of tunnels. from Tijuana up to San Diego. That pass right under U.S. Customs. He stayed quiet and then he started laughing and told me I can't win with you.

Well, who knows what the reality is. Bottom line is, for some reason they did get along and he put twenty thousand Marines on his southern border and he put in the remaining Mexico. He says we could do that.

So that that was even better under Trump. Right. Of course, looking at the border right now under the Biden administration, it's a stark contrast. And the White House can continue to say that they have a handle on the southern border, but it's very clear that they do not. I don't know if you I'm sure you did see that video last week.

The New York Post had captured hundreds of hundreds of migrants running through the border, and Trump is campaigning on his record on Basically, everything. He says that everyone was better off under his administration, whether it was having to do with national security, immigration, border security, the economy, everything. And that's what he's running on right now.

So the Biden White House can continue to warn that he is a threat to democracy, but what Trump will continue to do is instead say, Biden's the threat to democracy because he's targeting me through all of these legal cases, which you know, there's it's Biden is not targeting Trump directly with these legal cases. These are all separate people. But, of course, you know, he's saying he's the threat to democracy. And look at his record. And is your life really that much better now than it was under my case?

Well, here's the one thing. When you have the Georgia case, and it turns out that Nathan Wade invoiced for two meetings in Athens with the White House counsel, and you are the Fonnie Willis going to see the vice president. Exactly. So there are direct links there.

So they could be talking about other cases. Not a chance. You've got to be kidding. And of course, you have the special counsel, Jack Smith, who was appointed by, of course, Biden's Attorney General, Merrick Garland, to investigate classified records in Florida, and then the January 6th situation. And President Biden's making a huge mistake, continuing to bring it up on the trail and pulling a Trump.

He was like, broke Donald is this, and Donald Trump, don't ask me for money. Is it? I thought you were supposed to stay away from it. It has nothing to do with you. Exactly.

You can't out Trump Trump. That's a huge mistake. Marco Rubio tried that. It doesn't really work. Brooke, thanks so much.

Thanks, Brian. Brooke Singman, Fox News Digital Political Reporter. She's going to be all over the Trump camp. Probably speak to Trump or his affiliates today and give an idea of what's going to take place because there's plenty of drama to go around. Oh, yeah.

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It's not working. It's not working for them or for us. Democrats are hemorrhaging the very voters they think they're pandering to. The Financial Times writes: Democrats are going backwards faster with voters of color than any other demographic, and suggests the reason is that a less racially divided America. Is an America where people vote more based on their beliefs than their identity?

Exactly. Far-left liberals are living in an old paradigm. Americans don't fit into neat little boxes anymore. Who has the number one country song right now? Beyonce?

And he goes on to give just a great example. And I just saw this editorial, and I thought toward the end they'll just hit on Trump, but no, he didn't. He said, the same thing we've been saying: why is everything black, white, Hispanic within the Hispanic community got divided further? Women, women, single women, older women, suburban women. Why are we so divided all the time?

And I know you got to do it to organize possibly your campaign, but why do you have to say everything about that? Because it insults people. And then when you break out, if you're African-American, you want to vote Republican, you look like you're committing heresy. If you're Jewish and you want to vote Republican, you're giving up, you're abandoning Israel because of the new stance the Democrats have on Israel. And James Carville kind of made things interesting over the weekend.

He, of course, the Democratic strategist with opinions and that Cajun accent, he argued that too many preachy females in the Democratic Party could be to blame for President Biden's bleeding support for his key voters. In an interview published with The Times opinion columnist Maureen Dowd, Carville voiced concerns. Concerns about the culture of the Democratic Party and how it's been impacting Biden's support among the voters, especially that are male. I guess men don't like preachy women housing. I mean, I've I as a man I don't you know, preachy period doesn't fly with me.

You don't really need to be dictated to about how to feel.

Well, that is true. But he said basically if you want to hear the Democratic elite, you l he listens to NPR for that. And they're saying how this election is going to be turned on the female vote. And he said, you know, if you don't mind, you know, 48% of us are men and we matter too. That's sort of his point.

That's true. Hey, Tony, you're on WABC in Clifton, New Jersey. Do you also dislike preachy women? I do. And I have to tell you, I feel like socially the country is so confused about the messages they're getting from women who are saying things that are totally untrue, like Corinne Jean-Pierre to our vice president.

I think America is sick of it, and our country has been turned upside down. And today, Brian, we're seeing our former president in the court system. We're seeing our borders are still open. Our country is really up in arms. And you know what?

This is what I call President Biden's Democratic Party. It's called Welcome to the Newcomers. It's the Newcomers' Republic of Biden. Meaning in this country, if you're an American citizen, You're third class. You fly third class.

You don't have those benefits. And our President and our party are friends. This doesn't look concerning. that people are preaching to Americans who are not stupid. And they're telling Americans everything's fine when our government is friends with China, Iran.

American people are very smart, Brian, and they get it. And it's going to show at the polls. I know they say that foreign policy doesn't matter much. Only 50% of the electorates said that. How could it not?

I mean, when you see what's going on in the world, he's allowed these acts of powers to combine. He's allowed Ukraine to get plowed over, the embarrassment of Afghanistan.

Now he's turning on Israel at the most important time. And now Mexico's government says we have to hit these demands in order for them to stop the border invasion that we're experiencing right now. Really? Venezuela emptying their prisons? And what are we doing?

And the one country that needs us, Haiti, we took our foot off the, we actually just stopped looking, and now it's a total disaster. We told our people to get out of there. And because they didn't, because they're doing many of which humanitarian work. They've stuck behind enemy lines. I think we've abandoned nine or 11 embassies since President Biden took over.

How could that not matter? All right. Thanks so much for listening. Keep in mind, you can see me April 27th on stage with the History, Liberty, and Laughs Tour. Go to BrianKilme.com, and I will see you in Henderson, Nevada, just outside Las Vegas.

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Come anyway. Bottom of the hour, inside politics with Josh Crash Hour. Gonna be great. Jonathan Turley standing by. We are watching two huge stories take place today in midnight.

The president's got until midnight tonight to come up Eastern time with $450 million. Uh in a bond. Uh in order to Have his appeal. And while he's waiting on his appeal of the civil case and won against him. In New York City, he's got to put up that bond.

He's waiting on something inside that bond, and that is. He has appealed to lessen that bond, say an extraordinary, put to a thousand-page document that said, listen, all these other examples of other bonds that were high that you revisited and knocked down. Do it here. Because it's impossible to get that amount of money, especially when you don't use real estate as collateral. With me right now is.

He's not quite ready yet.

So, why don't I do this? While we're waiting on that, we also know that Donald Trump is inside the courtroom. He spoke to the press from afar, and either Bullhorn just screamed out to him basically about the court case. It's the Alvin Bragg case. He did not have to be there today, but he's at the hearing to find out.

And hear for himself why Alvin Bragg's got to start this case right away, even though they just gave over something between 20 and 27,000 pages of new paperwork.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. If they don't do the things that you've said need to be done. Then what? Your critics have said what you're doing or what you're asking for to help secure the border is diplomatic blackmail.

What do you say? I'm speaking frankly. You're blackmailing the country and you don't have the power to do it, President of Mexico. Mexico's President, let us know the price we have to pay to stop the border invasion. Really?

We're taking orders from Mexico? Even as the Biden administration's appointed Border Patrol head can't mask his alarm about the number of border crossers. Number two. The risk of attack emanating from Afghanistan is increasing. ISS ISIS Coruscants and Western interests abroad in as little as six months with little to no warning.

That's a warning, isn't it? That is General Eric Korea, Russia's victim of a horrific terror attack. You saw that on Friday. ISIS-K takes credit. The details of the operation, why it has to be a wake-up call for us, that's coming your way as over 100.

Well, for in Peso's southern border. I actually think that there is risk in not seizing these assets and the open window that exists in him trying to secure these funds through other means. There's a very real risk of political corruption. Right, that is AOC. And Kamala Harris just called and said, try to be more direct.

Lawfair slams into President Biden's financial welfare as he's hit the deadline to a half-billion-dollar bond, as I mentioned. Let's just pushing to seize his assets, as I mentioned. Trump is also in court today for that Alvin Bragg trial to find out when it will start. Everybody's waiting on that.

So well waited on Jonathan Turley, but this is going to be really interesting. I really think the judge has done everything Alvin Bragg wanted. Will he actually do this? Will he actually say you have to digest almost 30,000 pages of paperwork, decide in discovery in a matter of days, what what's worthy and what's not worthy of defending and what their explanation might be, whatever might be in that case? Are they really going to rule against him?

Is it that bad waiting till the middle of April as opposed to the middle of March? To me, it's a non-starter. Of course you can wait. I mean, at least give the semblance of fairness. And right now, Democrats are beside themselves for one big reason.

They want to be able to pull Donald Trump out of play. They don't want him to be the nominee. That failed. They don't want him to be leading. That failed.

So they want to hamstring him. That's failing. Because it's so rurally, the president doesn't necessarily have to be in the middle of Michigan today. He can be at this hearing. And guess what?

Everybody's talking about it. Nobody's talking about Joe Biden. There's not really much to talk about there either because he hasn't been doing much. He's kind of watching a series of foreign affairs failures, and he's also looking at the border, trying to blame Republicans. But I was a little taken aback by the number of people who don't even hear it when it comes to the border.

When it comes to the pollst polling on the border, listen to this. When asked, who's better and who do you trust more on border security? In Georgia, Trump up 21, overall up four. In Michigan, They trust Trump more by sixteen points. He's up six to eight in the state.

In North Carolina, they trust him on border at nineteen points more than Biden. He's up by about two there. Wisconsin, a flat footed tie at seventeen.

Sometimes Biden's up there, but 17% of the people in Wisconsin say, no, on the border, I trust the former president.

So that's pretty significant too. On the border, we do have a lot of action taking place. And I want to bring you to the interview with 60 Minutes yesterday.

So here is that aired yesterday. I have no idea when they did it. Here's what President Arbador Told 60 Minutes about how we could shut down the border. These are what his demands are. Listen to this, cut 20.

With the ear of the White House, President Lopez Obrador proposed his fix: that the United States commit $20 billion a year to poor countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, lift sanctions on Venezuela, end the Cuban embargo, and legalize millions of law-abiding Mexicans living in the U.S. If they don't do the things that you've said need to be done, then what? The flow of migrants. We'll continue. Your critics have said what you're doing or what you're asking for to help secure the border is diplomatic blackmail.

What do you say? I'm speaking frankly. We have to say things as they are. And I always say what I feel. Yeah, I think If they don't do those things, will you continue to help to secure the border?

Yes, because. Our relationship is very important. Right. And if, by the way, it is fundamental. Yeah, by the way, if it's that important, why haven't you scored the border?

And if this is called securing the border, don't bother. I don't need any more help. Is that possible? Don't need any more help. Kamala Harris was asked, as usual, every Democrat says, well, if we only passed that bipartisan Senate plan and said we wouldn't get a vote on it, we've this all would be fixed.

No, it wouldn't. Nothing really would have kicked in for about eighteen months in terms of the money, in terms of the manpower, fixing the wall. Nothing would have changed. You'd still have that surge. You'd still have the National Guard being overwhelmed.

You still have the seven hundred forty people that overwhelmed our National Guard getting in. Right now, Tucson is the busiest sector in the entire country because Texas is beginning to crack down. It is indeed possible. Kamala Harris was asked: what about executive orders, the ones that Trump had in place that slowed the spread? Cut 22.

As of right now, is that executive action on the border still on the table? Could we see that? That does not absolve the fact that the real fix is going to be when Congress acts. Mm. Still on the table though.

Yeah, for consideration. She has no idea. They gave her a bunch of talking points. She just says it. You know what she said?

I'm going to meet with the Guatemalan President, at which time I'm going to say my program of getting the private sector involved in giving hope to Central and South American countries has yielded $4.5 billion worth of investment. Great. Why do we still have a problem? Why is it worse than ever, Mrs. Root Causes, when we come back?

I'm gonna welcome in Jonathan Turley, and then we'll have Josh Crash Hour, and then your calls. You listen to the Brian Killmee show. Don't move. Politics, current events, and news that affects you. Brian's got a lot more to say.

Stay with Brian Kilmead. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. There's several things that could happen. I mean, he says he's got some cash now, but he doesn't want to use it.

I mean, that could happen. He's got I think he t he put out on Truth Social, he has 500 million in cash, but he doesn't want to use it. He wants to spend it on the campaign, so that's a possibility. You know, it's a possibility Tish James backs off and says, you know, I'm not going to be a big real estate holder. And that is Charles Gasparino talking about the options he has.

He knows big business. He is a true business journalist. Joining us now is Jonathan Turley. He's a legal expert who wants, but we're in so many ways in unprecedented waters. Jonathan, your thoughts about the way things develop so far.

So far, no bond and no news emerged from the hearing. What do you expect?

Well, the only word that we're getting from the hearing is that the judge's reaction thus far may not have been positive for former President Trump. There's a report out from Fox News that the judge indicated that the number of relevant documents was, in fact, smaller and that it's unlikely that the trial date a month from now is going to change.

Now, we haven't really heard anything directly from the judge. The Trump people view the judge as hostile. The former presidents made that clear. He is an experienced judge. The biggest problem from what I can see is the underlying case itself.

This Brad case. really stinks to high heavens. I mean, it is an absolutely ridiculous case in my view. They took a misdemeanor under state law that had already expired in terms of statute limitations. And they bootstrapped a federal felony essentially and used that to file late against Trump.

It's all working just way too hard. But this judge has not indicated that he's prepared to dismiss the case.

So we may be looking at a trial in a month. Judge Juan Murshant, I guess his name is. There were 300 new documents. That's what Bragg claims in the 17,000 or 27,000 or whatever it is that have been released from the Southern District of New York. Only 300 are valid.

Well, that's not up to him, correct? Yeah, you know, I'm leery of those types of statements from the prosecutors and judges. I've been in that position before as criminal defense counsel. And the prosecutor always says that there's very little here that is material and of a concern. And sometimes courts will just go with that.

It's ridiculous. They're not in a position to tell me or my client what is going to be material. And usually the judge doesn't look at all the documents.

So the judges are relying on that estimation from the government. These documents are clearly important. Bragg has an exceptionally weak case, and supporting that case is a known perjurer, Michael Cohen. And not only did the feds reject this underlying theory of a crime, but they prosecuted Cohen. And the word on the street was that one of the problems with making a case against Trump was that they would have to rely on the most unreliable figure in New York, and that is Michael Cohen.

And Michael Collins also cut that deal, and then he came back on this deal. Uh he said, Well, I didn't really do it. I just did that to to to, you know, get out of prison. And now he's asking for release from his cut. I guess he's got limited ability to travel and do things because of his uh conviction on unrelated crimes, correct?

A lot of the what his problem was uh not related to Trump.

Well, I it's it's really quite remarkable to watch uh the train wreck that is is michael cohen And he games the system, and he has this this strange skill set. He's willing to say most anything, according to critics, to support powerful allies. And he just switches allies and switches what he says. and it's paid off. What's um what is really amazing to me Is that he went on the stand and admitted that he committed perjury in a previous case?

you would think that the Department of Justice would then say, okay, well, this would make prosecution easy. You just stated under oath that you lied before under oath, so we'll just prosecute you now. But the Department of Justice just pretended that that didn't happen. And a lot of us are just scratching our heads because you're prosecuting people on very controversial perjury and false statements cases. And you've got Michael Cohen, who said it under oath in court that he had just lied.

And so he's going to be the star witness of Alvin Bragg. It's getting to be like a Fellini movie in New York. It is, and both things are happening at the same time. Jonathan, a couple of things. Let's say the midnight date goes by, tonight goes by, and we get up Tuesday morning and the President did not even make an attempt to post the bond.

We are still waiting to see if they will lessen the bond, and we know the court doesn't open until Tuesday.

So does Letitia James, from judging by her past actions and judging by traditional courtroom behavior, does she make moves at midnight? Is there a camera with her as she walks up to Forty Wall Street and puts Condemned on it or something, or goes up to the plane and says you no longer can move it? Does she send National Guards to this plane in Florida? Do you see something flamboyant like that?

Well, first of all, this is why I keep a jar in the kitchen for bonds. And you put a million away here and there, and it amounts to a lot. Uh i th it it is laughable that this judge hit Trump with this size of a of a judgment, because he knew Had to know that Trump would have a great difficulty in floating a bond with this amount of cash. He's been the judge has been in that system a long time. He had to have known that.

Now when it comes to James, she has always taken the most flamboyant possible role. She sat in the courtroom and she didn't have much of a role just so she could be constantly in the frame. But the fact is, it is theater. You know, James has the only thing James has ever built was her own career. She may be radically overestimating or she just is misleading the New York public.

Because everyone is thrilled by these promises that she's going to padlock Trump Tower. That's just crazy talk. I mean, first of all, Trump Tower is a condominium. Building.

So most of those units are owned by other people. You can't padlock it. There are areas in there that are still owned by Trump, but it's a heavy leveraged property, very likely. Most of these other properties have leveraging and partnerships that have to be unraveled. The most direct route for her is to try to grab any cash and accounts that.

Trump has.

Well, wait a second. I just got to interrupt you. I've got to interrupt you for a second. The Trump bond has been reduced to $175 million as he appeals the decision.

So your reaction to going from $454 million to $175 million. I would call that progress. And I still think it's really high. I don't even see how you could have a judgment for that amount. In my view, the last order From Engron, was they actually the order should have been the only order?

If he thought that Trump was ripping off banks, then put him under supervision for three years. There's no there's no money lost, there's no victims. But this reduction will make I think is a wise move And I assume that Trump can probably come up with that amount of cash. Yeah, I mean, but now you need a second, right? I mean, if that's me, it's easy to say I can do it, but then you got to get the paperwork together.

You got to get the bond company.

So, will they give him a day? Are they going to continue with the fines on top of that? Are they going to start taking his property? I said a deadline's a deadline. I doubted that they would move against the property in that short amount of time.

He's already said he's got 100 million. And for someone with his portfolio, he could theoretically come up with that extra 75. I know we're talking about it like this really is the jar in the kitchen, but this is a guy who is a billionaire.

So I do think that he could come up with it today. But if not, I think he could probably come up with it fairly quickly. You know, we'll see what happens then. Yeah, the amazing thing is he's still getting hit. By a ridiculous amount of interest every day.

And once again, it's because the court has this huge interest rate running against him. I and hopefully much of this will come back because I really do worry about the New York legal system. They have to redeem themselves after this combination of James and Engron. They were the perfect legislature. They're delivered in a bubble, Jonathan.

I think I like you the same thing. We go outside the bubble, they don't. And I just don't think they care. It's bizarre. They don't care about crime.

They don't care about the congestion pricing. And they don't care how they look going after Trump. John the Choli, you're the best. Thanks so much. The fastest three hours in radio.

You're with Brian Kilmead. The entire Florida real estate community is laughing at this. The entire real estate community in general is petrified of New York. You know how much business New York State is losing because of this? Because they see this radical.

And you even have the governor Kathy Hochl comes down and says, you know, we're going to do this to Trump. But we're not going to do it to any of you. Don't worry about it. We'll do it to him, but we won't do it to any of you. So that is Eric Trump yesterday.

Obviously, exasperated that he had his father, his company, the Trump organization, has come out $454 million while they wait for the decision to be appealed.

Well, we do have breaking news on this. I was able to touch on this right before he went to break. An appeals court has slashed President Donald Trump's bond payment on Monday, saying that Trump must pay $175 million within 10 days. Good.

So it's not today. Forget about midnight tonight. The deadline's been moved. Because you got to do the paperwork, even if you have a zillion dollars. Trump has previously faced $454 or $5 million, it goes on to say.

So back off with Tisha James and your theatrics of going to 40 Wall Street and claiming it as your own and the press conference you probably had planned, much to the disappointment of just about everybody.

So Trump has got some good news. Less than half, still way too much. You heard Jonathan Turley do an instant reaction to it five minutes ago, and he thought it was still way too high. But if Trump can do 100 million, you got to feel he could do 175. And he's about to get $4 billion worth of stock in Truth Social, a social media site that he founded after being banned from all other social media until Elon Musk bought Twitter, renamed it, and asked him to come back on, which he didn't.

He already had Truth Social up and running. And why is Truth Social worth so much? One of the reasons is. there's an excellent chance he's going to be President again. I'm not I we know there's a lot of unknown things straight ahead, but right now he's leading in almost all the polls in the battleground states.

It would be the number one source of communication for the President of the United States, the most famous person in the world. Josh Krashara joins us now. Josh, welcome. Hey, great to be with you, Brian, on a very as always, a very newsy Monday. Yeah, and I didn't even touch on the breaking news from Prime Minister Netanyahu because you do are editor-in-chief of the Jewish Insider, but you're also a political analyst.

First off, your reaction to this news.

Well, look, it's a win for Donald Trump. You know, politically, the tougher and the more unreasonable Leticia James and uh the New York uh prosecutor's look uh it helps Trump politically. I mean, it kind of gives it gives uh Republicans a sound bite that this is not about uh coming up with a just uh outcome in the case, but it's about trying to bankrupt Trump for political reasons. And it it almost Fuels this Trump argument about what he calls the deep state and then people using their jobs in key legal positions to play politics and to punish people politically. And look, the appeals court narrowed, I guess, what was it, 175 million now?

About a third of of what was originally asked for as as part of uh the appellate court ruling.

So yeah, I mean, I think it's a big, big win for Trump, but uh it this is just chapter one. This is going to be one of many legal battles to come in the coming weeks and months. Yeah, so we'll see what happened to the courtroom. Just some uh play-by-play on the court. Evidently, Bragg went in.

There were some protesters that also came in when the president went into court today. It's the New York case, the Alvin Bragg hush money case. He walked right in, he yelled a couple of things to the press, not in anger, but just so they could hear. They were camped kind of far away. Alvin Bragg was actually at the hearing today, and this is supposed to start now at the end of April, but they want to start right away.

I mean, my goodness, you have to rush three weeks. It seems like a ridiculous hearing. Your thoughts about the Alvin Bragg case, how it's viewed from the outside?

Well, well, the Alvin Brad case, Brian, was always seen as sort of the the most kind of the biggest stretch legally and and and was either the most political case. Uh at first.

So, I mean, look, I I always say you have to kind of separate the politics and the and the legal kind of trajectories with with all of these cases. I think Bragg is at the bottom both both politically and and legally. And look, we you talked about the polls at the outset. Trump still is in pretty strong position given where things stand right now politically against Joe Biden. And I don't see anything that that's developed over the last few days in the Bragg case having any impact on the race.

All right, so we understand this, and we'll keep you up to date on this. I want you to first respond to this. We'll keep the court cases in one section.

So, I saw to Ashley Merchant over the weekend. And she, of course, works with the Georgia case, was able to discover all that information about the Nathan Wade-Fonnie Willis relationship, as well as his business partner, who basically said this relationship's going on forever. He's gotten obscenely high payments. He does not have the background to prosecute this case. Yet he's getting paid more than anybody else.

They got all these trips. She only paid in cash. To me, multiple examples of her lying and him lying. In the end, we know Nathan Wade was asked to step aside.

So then we get a report on Friday that she wants to get this thing done by July. And Ashley Merchant doubts that. But I think the bigger story here, and you stop me if you think I'm wrong, is what Ashley Merchant says next about the relationship between this case and the White House. Cut 13. I think there's definitely a link to the White House.

You know, we have also done open records for all of Ms. Willis's reimbursement, her travel schedule, things like that, and they've denied that. And those are things that we should be able to get through the Open Records Act.

So we actually had to file a lawsuit under the Open Records Act because they're refusing to give us all those. And those would show if she was reimbursed to travel to the White House: dinners, hotel flights, things like that.

So I think there's something that they're trying to keep away. Out of our view. We know Nathan Wade met twice with White House counsel in Athens, Georgia.

So for the longest time, they said there's a total wall between them two. I see that coming out pretty evident that there's a blend there, especially in the Georgia case. Look, I I'm not surprised we're with what Ashley Merchant said. I mean, she's she's been, you know. Being a bulldog defending, you know, Michael Rose.

Yeah, I mean, she's doing her job. I don't think this is going to. you know, I July seems very fanciful that there would be uh you know, I I think that that's a very, very aggressive timetable. Um but look the the the the politics of this it's tainted. I mean, and anything Georgia related now is is tainted by um Fonnie Willis's dallions with Nathan Wade and now the fact that he's off the case.

Um she's gonna be on I mean, she's gonna be playing defense politically speaking, even if legally she's just as aggressive as she was prior to to to this to these issues.

So Look, I think we're going to be in a holding pattern in Georgia for quite some time. I don't see that getting resolved before the November election.

So it's a report out now that Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to pull back his defense minister in his imminent trip to New York on D.C. at the president's demand. He wants to see the plan up close and personal of how all these millions of civilians, Palestinian civilians, could survive in Rafah if there was an attack.

So he says he has suggestions. He wants them to send a high-ranking official.

So they're sending the defense minister.

Now, the Prime Minister Netanyahu says if this resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza is not vetoed by the U.S., he's pulling back the defense minister. This is getting. really bad between these two allies, isn't it? Yeah, Brian, we're at the the lowest point right now since October seventh in U. S.-Israel relations.

And BB officially we we just reported this at Jewish Insider that he he canceled Ron Dermer. He has canceled. He has canceled the the visit. Dermer was already headed to the DC, headed to the United States, to meet with top US officials. That now is canceled because the United States did not veto a ceasefire resolution at the United Nations.

That basically is something they they've done in the past. They I guess the U.S. negotiated some compromises, some middle ground, but they're putting more pressure on Israel. They are opposed. You heard the Vice President over the weekend in an interview that she there could be consequences for Israel if it goes into Hamas's final stronghold in Rafah.

That that's different than what we've heard before from this administration, which says we don't support it right now, but there could be humanitarian provisions that could be in place that would make it okay. And look, there's been a lack of there's been a muddle from the US. Do they support Israel going in to take out Hamas, to finish off Hamas, which was the original purpose, the original backing that they gave in the in the aftermath of october seventh? Or do they want to put pressure on Israel? Do they want to condition everything on Israel, even when Hamas is not doing anything to release the hostages or even come up to a you know, reach an agreement or support some kind of swap between Palestinian prisoners and and the hostages that they've taken?

So, I mean, we're at a, you know, it does seem, if you're just looking at this from afar, it looks like the U.S. is putting a whole lot more pressure on Israel than they are on Hamas. And that only, frankly, fuels Hamas' intransigence and makes it harder to get a lot of these negotiations through. And you saw Iran saying we have basically succeeding in our goal to create a schism between the U.S. and Israel and get them U.S.

out of the region forever. Here's what Senator Marco Rubio said, and I can't dispute this, Cut 31. I'll be frank. I think the President is worried about losing Minnesota and Michigan. He's getting a lot of pressure from the pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic Party, a lot of activists and people like that.

You know, he's getting heckled at speeches. He's hearing a lot of complaints. And so I think he's trying to have it both ways, still stick with Israel to some extent, but also do things that signal to these people and try to appease them.

So they got to go into Rafa. What they found in that hospital was just a trevor trove of. It's basically a huge headquarters. For Hamas and where the fighters are located. And they've killed some high-ranking fighters, and they really have a sense of why Rafah is more necessary than ever before.

And they offered, I guess it's been forced on them, forty hostages, come back in exchange for 700 Palestinian prisoners. And guess who walked away? It looks like Hamas is not interested in doing it. And that's because the U.S. has made it clear they're not all in on this.

Yeah, it's this diplomatic catch-22 that is. You know, the US has said just over the weekend it it wants Israel to take out Hamas, but it still has its reservations, if not outright opposition towards an operation in Rafah that would allow it to finish off Hamas.

So we're in this sort of We're in the circular sense of logic. We're, you know, if if if the goal is to take out Kamaf and Ra and that's their last stronghold and that that's what Israel needs to do to finish off Kamath, but the US doesn't want that to happen even though they support Israel. doing the broader mission of of taking out a moth. It it can make your head spin. And and it's it's because I mean, Rubio alluded to the domestic political pressures that this White House is under, uh, the Democratic Party is facing.

It it goes beyond sort of the hard left. Pro-Hamas faction, if you will, that he talked about. But it's the broader liberal wing of the party. You have 19 Democratic senators last week called for. you know, a Palestinian state being created in the near future, which doesn't seem very realistic given given the realities on the ground right now.

You have about a third of that Democratic caucus in Juk Chuck Schumer's Senate that is trying to put pressure and put conditions on on Israel's ability to fight its war against Hamas. And that's the dynamic right now. They're getting more and more Democratic Party voices, wary, keep wanting to keep some distance towards Israel. It's not politically popular overall, but it is pressure from that base. And it's not just the AOCs and the Ilhan Omars of the world that's getting Broader and broader as the war goes on, and as the images of the humanitarian suffering in Gaza are broadcast across the news.

I just wonder what Israel has in their stockpile, if the U.S. says then we're not delivering you weapons, do they have enough for iron dome? Do they have enough for weaponry, artillery, to finish off the job? Do they need us? Yeah, well I think that's a good idea.

look, I I don't think we're gonna get to that point. Biden has then the administration has has been pretty clear that they're not they're not looking to condition uh military aid. There has been some talk about you know offensive uh provisions, but I I I I'm very skeptical that we're gonna get to that point. But I think you know, leaving Hamas in place, right, that that that itself would be uh a real blow to to Israel's uh uh military uh you know, record and and and the fact that that was the the White House pos it has been the White House, it still is the White House position. you know, ousting Hamas from leadership in Gaza.

But if you're not willing to, you know, s relight an operation that will allow that to happen again, it's going to create a a circular effect where I and I don't understand the politics of this for the Biden administration. There is some logic to letting Israel finish off Hamas, having some leverage on the day after, the nation building, so to speak, and then just making sure it goes. I mean, the issue would go away if a Famas is defeated. It's a win for the White House. Instead, they're kind of making this linger on and on and on.

And I think you're going to still be talking about this getting closer to the November elections. Not good news for Joe Biden. Josh Crash Arrow, thanks so much. We just watched Alvin Bregg leave the hearing room. Maybe he had other plans.

Maybe it's like Congress. He got a bunch of courtrooms you got to be in. Or maybe this thing has closed up. There are some pictures that have been released. The sketch artist is there.

We'll find out. This should be pretty quick. In and out and find out if the trial should start right away or next month or even after that. Man, so many moving parts today, Josh. Thanks for rolling with it.

Appreciate it. Thanks, Brian. You got it. 1-866-408-7669. I'll give you the latest what we got in the courtroom.

We have a reporter out there. I'm going to be trying to talk to them in the break. And we just give you the other headline news. The president no longer has to post a $454 million bond.

Now it's down to $175, and he's got 10 days to post it. The theatrics of Lachissa James walking up and grabbing Wall Street, 40 Wall Street, and putting tape out there or putting a padlock on the door.

Well, that's at least going to be delayed 10 days. You'll listen to Brian Kill Me Show. Don't move. Giving you everything you need to know. You're with Brian Kilmead.

The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. Look, let me deal with the elephant in the room. Yeah. I think our bosses owe you an apology.

for putting you in this situation. because I don't know what to believe. She is now a paid contributor. by NBC News. I have no idea whether any answer she gave to you was because she didn't want to mess up her contract.

Ooh. Um She wants us to believe that she was speaking for the RNC when the RNC was paying for it.

So she has credibility issues that she still has to deal with. Is she speaking for herself or is she speaking on behalf of who's paying her? Once at the RNC, she did say that, hey, I'm speaking for the party. I get that. That's part of the job.

So what about here? What is he talking about? I don't even get the logic. The whole network, NBC, is crazed because Ronna McDaniel got hired as a contributor. Evidently, she did a Meet the Press interview without.

Announcing that.

So what? Did it I mean all the Meet the Press interview was all about her and not on January 6th and when she told Trump okay all right how would that have changed if she's a contributor or not and when you represent the RNC you represent the RNC do you want her to say well personally as Rhonda McDaniel I wouldn't have voted for Trump I would have voted somebody else but now that I'm here for the RNC I'm gonna vote for somebody else by the way this guy Chuck Todd just eviscerated his own company On what planet is that okay? I don't even know how you think about doing that. Even behind the scenes, if you say, hey, I'd like to go see management today, I think you're making a big mistake, they're upset that they didn't check it out with them before they hired them. Who's the boss?

They make the decisions. Can you imagine if somebody here was to do that? I'm not happy with this. You might hear some subtlety and some comments.

Something might pop on page six or axials where such and such is not happy with this person. That's part of the business. Just like going to the water cooler, you might not like the vice president or president, but to go on the air and just eviscerate your own company is insane. Were you surprised by that? I mean, you would think that they'd also just learn, right?

Don Lemon and Elon Musk. You don't criticize like. You're a boss or bite the hand that feeds you. Even if they disagree with it, voice their concerns internally. At the same time, you're a news organization.

You're supposed to have all viewpoints, especially like on NBC. MSNBC might be a lost cause at this point, but I mean, That's what they're supposed to be doing. Hear all sides. And Trump is essentially. You know, the nominee they need to hear.

that part of the story.

So here is more from Chuck Todd to Kristen Welker right after Cut39. This interview is always going to be looked through the prism of who is she speaking for? Right? I think you did everything you could do. You got put into an impossible situation booking this interview and then all of a sudden the rugs pull out from underview, you find actually being paid to show up.

That's it's unfortunate. For this program, but I am glad you did the best that you could, and that's why the three of us are on here to try to bolster that editorial independence. And by the way. He's got to be bitter that he's no longer hosting Amend the Press. Evidently, there was a story today that he had to get security because the right and left both hurt him.

You know, he ousted the guy before him, and nobody was better than Tim Russert. That's impossible if they didn't fill a Tim Russert. It's like filling in Johnny Carson. It's just whatever Jay Leno did, he'd never be enough. But he wasn't Jay Leno.

So I can't believe it. It would never fly here. People are going to have opinions, but to yell at your boss for hiring the wrong people without checking with you, you've got to be out of your mind. Hey, April 27th, I'll talk about it. History, Liberty, and Laughs in Henderson, Nevada, BrianKillmee.com.

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