Biden's Easter priorities are out of touch with most Americans

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Brian Kilmead here. Thanks so much for being here.

Hope you had a great Easter or a Transgender Awareness Day. Believe it or not, the White House puts them on equal footing. Unless, of course, you're looking to the Spanish-speaking White House website. They knew you'd salute the Catholicism and you shoot Christianity on Easter. They wouldn't dare do that.

But the rest of us have to deal with this idiocy coming out of the White House. And we have to say, and by the way, the governor of New York, same thing, but about 15 billion buildings. With the colors of transgenderism, which I didn't know there was a color scheme. That's bad on me. We're going to talk to a great intellect, historian, and author of a brand new book, How the Best Did It, leadership lessons from our top presidents, Joe Biden, not in it.

And we'll talk to Talmadge Boston about that. Also, get your take on what's happening around the world.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. President's going to events, he's hearing from protesters, but instead of articulating why it matters to Americans, why having an ally and a partner like Israel matters to the lives of every single American, why it's the right thing to do, he simply begins to cave in ways that will undermine American security. That is Mike Pompeo. Time to decide.

Whose side are you on, America? Hamas in Russia or Ukraine and Israel. Right now, sadly, it seems we are drifting on the wrong side of both. Dems have seemed to be very pro-Hamas these days. And by the way, the Republicans seem very pro-Russia.

Not all of them, but some of them, we will tell you why this week is a big week for both. Number two.

Well, he said much more than that. He said he wants $10 billion essentially just to talk. Mexico just asked for $10 billion a year. They would never ask him. I wouldn't give them 10 cents.

Yeah, Easter unwelcome surprise as one insane El Paso judge decides to release those responsible for running over and assaulting Texas National Guard while another caravan of thousands are just pounding their way through Mexico en route to our southern border. That's the President of the United States who I spoke to last week about this very issue. You'll hear more. Number one. And now my son will grow up without his father.

I will grow old without my husband. And his parents have to say goodbye to their child. How many more police officers and how many more families need to make the ultimate sacrifice before we start protecting them? Stephanie Diller in St. Rose's Church in Massapequa, New York, anger and sadness in Massapequa as Jonathan Dillard is put to rest five days after he was shot to death by a career criminal who had no business even being out of prison.

I was there, talked about to everyone, and I'll tell you what: from the politicians and officials, they got an earful. Nobody was holding back. And I think, as much as people were sad, I think they were angrier. Alvin Bragg, Mayor Adams, and Chester James knows exactly how these people felt. And I'll tell you, it was pretty amazing to see police officers from Arkansas, from Austin, Texas, from Dallas, Texas, from Oklahoma, from Vermont, who else?

Oh, Toronto. They were all there. Upstate New York, which you know is rural America, it's like Iowa, drove all the way down on motorcycles. They had a flyover with helicopters, and they had tens of thousands of officers and other people there to pay their respects because it's not okay. To kill a police officer in New York City, despite the fact that it seems okay to let every criminal out of prison.

Here's more from Stephanie Diller. Cut two. I wish Jonathan were here to see the incredible kindness and generosity that has been shown to our family, but I know in his own way he is here watching over us. I am so proud that thousands of people across the country are calling Jonathan a hero, but the truth is he has always been a hero to Ryan and me. The rest of the world is just catching up.

Yeah, and she was also anger, angry. And she also looked at other speeches from other widows, many of which were there thanks to Frank Siller of Tunnel to Towers, and she wanted to see what they said. And what percentage of this would be a place to vent her anger? After all, it is church, but you had speakers on the outside that. really sounded better on the outside than even the inside.

So these everybody on the street got a chance to hear it cut through. When I would meet people, I would say, If you like me, just wait until you meet my husband. He worked for his family's company before deciding to become a police officer in 2021. Everyone was so proud that he found something that he loved to do, and he was exceptional at it. He would go in early, stay late, work overtime, all because he just loved it.

It's no surprise he was an incredible police officer when you think about the type of man he was. He was always putting people above himself. Dropping everything to help someone in need, and speaking up for what was right. He was a fierce protector of everyone around him. He spoke his mind and wasn't afraid.

I always admired him for his honesty and courage. He was my absolute greatest confidant. but nothing compared to the his best role of all, being a dad. Yeah, so um he Mayor Adams spoke. Stephanie was the last one to speak.

You had, of course, the priest married them, actually did the service too. But I also thought this was important because she stepped out and said, look. This has got to change. You got to be able to put criminals behind bars. You got to empower the police officers to actually arrest people.

Right now, if you know they're going to get out, why bother? If you're going to empty out the prisons, why should I put my life on the line arresting some criminal? Cut one. It's been two years and two months since Detective Rivera and Detective Mora made the ultimate sacrifice, just like my husband, Jonathan Diller. Dominique Rivera stood in front of all the electric officials present today pleading for change.

That change never came, and now my son will grow up without his father, I will grow old without my husband, and his parents have to say goodbye to their child. Yeah. How many more police officers and how many more families need to make the ultimate sacrifice before we start protecting them? And they're not. I I really hope things people get are getting the message because this President of the United States didn't call them, told the mayor to tell give them my regards.

Obviously, didn't show up at any of the ceremonies. Nobody from the Federal Government did. As far as I could tell, I mean, Homeland Security I thought might show up. I didn't see any of that going on. And the President of the United States was at Camp David.

So you can't say he couldn't do it.

So I have no. Interest in people saying that he understands your pain and he's gone through some suffering. Everybody's gone through some stuff. This President loves to talk about it. He loves to go to Dover and then talk about his own son.

But what about showing up for other people and thinking about them first? He doesn't seem to have that gene. And just keep in mind, if you look at the pure electorate, you talk about President Trump being for money. Got it. He was born That had money.

He actually had a modest house in Queens. You can go buy it. It's not a great house. It's just an upper-middle-class house.

So he went in. He's the one who wanted Manhattan. He's the one who wanted the buildings. He's the one who built up his wealth. He's the one who lost it all and then got it back.

He's the one who built it up with a TV show, and he's the one with a high profile and became a fight promoter and then ultimately the president of the United States. But when Barack Obama and Bill Clinton got together with Joe Biden, it was to prop up Joe Biden and also let people know we're the party of the working class, but no one's buying it. You did it at Radio City with all these stars in front of you, or people that thought they were stars like Will Lynette and people with podcasts like Jason Bateman. All right, good luck with that. The average person doesn't relate to that.

Teachers and firefighters don't say, I wish it was at Radio City with two washed-up presidents and one that should be washed up. Here is exactly where one president went. While they were partying, and that was to a New York suburb on Long Island. To go to a wake. In the first session in the afternoon.

And the man sitting there was Father Duffy, who presided over Diller's funeral and their wedding. three years ago. And here's what he said. I did not hear that account. Keep in mind, I was lucky enough to interview the President after.

I asked what happened behind closed doors. He goes, very sad. Anything else happened? He goes, well, that's between us and the family. Then these other stories came out through Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau county executive.

And this cutting.

So it was really beautiful. Stephanie introduced me to the President as the priest that married them. And I was able to just say, Mr. President, thank you for being here. Thank you for your goodness to this family.

Would you be willing to pray with us? And he said, Of course, Father Duffy. And I said, Ladies and gentlemen, President Trump would like to pray with us. Let's all say an Owl Father together. And the whole room, including the President standing right next to me, prayed an Ow, Father.

And then I gave a blessing to everyone present through the intercession of Our Lady of Sorrows. And then the President so beautifully turned and kissed Baby Ryan on the forehead. And the baby clapped at the President, and it just broke the tension. It was just such a beautiful, human, simple moment that meant so much to the family and so much to the people in that room.

So, I mean The president really could have scored points and legitimate points and just said, Let me just tell you what happened. He didn't want to do it. But when I just happened to see the priest outside, I said, Are you going to be doing the mass? He goes, Yeah, I'm Father Duffy. I go, Oh, my goodness.

Do you have a second? He goes, Yeah.

So I was able to interview him right there. But this is what I mean by anger over sadness. This is Lisa Tazula, wife of Sergeant Paul Tazula. Cut nine. My husband was killed seven years ago.

It was well before a lot of the new policies and bills that have been put into place more recently. My husband's perk was arrested 11 times before my husband was killed. As Stephanie said, her Perp that killed her husband was arrested 21 times. And something's got to stop. This is not a one-person problem.

This is a unified problem, and we need a unified front to fix this problem from the ground up. Yeah, wouldn't it help? Things have to get really bad before they get a lot better. And the thing is, just think about how this is all related. Nobody wants to be a cop because they're not backed up.

Body cameras, people with their iPhones want to arrest you and take everything you have. Number two, it doesn't pay enough. Number three, you have physical risk anyway in the best day. And then number four, you know when you arrest people they don't stay in.

So they almost taunt you when you make the arrest. You say to yourself, Should I get out of the car and really enforce this? Should I go and that guy just jumped the turnstile? Should I really go chase him down? What's the point?

Meanwhile, that guy ends up usually being those people that make the small crimes. They statistically, they end up doing the big crimes. The other thing I want to bring up is immigration. And now over the weekend, I guess the paperwork wasn't in order. Do you remember two weeks ago when the Texas National Guard was at the border ahead of the actual wall and they were run over through the razor wire by about A few hundred illegal aliens who got to the fence and got processed.

Well, they actually reviewed the video and they've arrested a bunch of them. Good.

Well, it turns out over the weekend, an El Paso judge looked at the paperwork, saw what the DA did, didn't like it, and it's pretty clear. I think he released every one of them into our country on their own recognizance because he didn't like that the case was put together by the DA.

Meanwhile, this stuff is caught on video. They talked about who did what, what they were here for, where to charge them, but they let them out. To me, that's absolutely insane to think that. But it's on the heels of another story. And this is what the President of Mexico said last week.

Meanwhile, in the backdrop, keep this in mind, there's about 2,000 members on foot, illegal immigrants, on our way to our border. They're already in Mexico. Cut 16. 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. But they're not securing the border. Know what he said? He said: if you don't change your policy on Venezuela and Cuba, we're not going to enforce the border. And they also want $10 billion.

You believe this? You're going to tell me, does anybody out there listening to my voice think that Trump's going to do this if he was president? Did he ever take that for a second? Absolutely not. I want to talk about Israel.

I want to talk about what happened over the weekend. I'm listening to these totally biased reporting from CNN, MSNBC. They talk about in Israel how many civilians have died, how much they need aid. And I'm sure there are civilians that died, and I'm sure aid needs to get in. But one of the reasons that the aid can't get in is because we have to make sure it's not being smuggled through the UN to Hamas in the middle of weapons and other things to help them.

Manufacture their war machine. Number two, they want to make sure the actual aid gets to people, not to Hamas warfighters in the middle of a war zone. And number three, why do we accept that Hamas's numbers when they talk about casualties? Why do we not blame Hamas for putting up their headquarters in hospitals and schools instead of just blaming the IDF for operating in hospitals and schools? How else are you going to get the people that put children into ovens and chopped off limbs and tortured people before they killed them while making hostages of 150?

They never bring that up anymore. And that's why Germany, all these other allies, Joe Biden and others, are leaving Israel's side. They have to dig in. They got to finish him off at Rafah and they got to shut all the other outside noise down. Republicans have to speak up because Democrats are realizing that this is not a good war for them politically, and that's all they care about instead of doing the right thing.

1-866-408-7669. We're going to come back and get your thoughts on that. This is the Brian Kilmeat Show. Politics, current events, and news that affects you. Brian's got a lot more to say.

Stay with Brian Kilmead. Pull up a chair and join me, Rachel Campos Duffy, and me, former U.S. Congressman Sean Duffy, as we share our perspective on the discussions happening at kitchen tables across America. Download from the kitchen table. The Duffies at FoxnewsPodcasts.com or wherever you download podcasts.

A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead. Hey, welcome back, everybody. I want to touch a little bit on Israel. I just was just outraged.

They want to blame Benjamin Netanyahu. Oh, he's the problem. Because they're afraid of alienating the Jewish vote. But people should know this. And I was corresponding with our great reporter this weekend, Trey Yinks.

And I said, listen, what is the deal? Would Benny Gantz, who is the heir apparent, if they had an election, evidently he would beat Netanyahu, is he going to be more docile? Is he going to be more for the ceasefire? He goes, There are indications that he'd be more aggressive than even Netanyahu.

So people want to blame like Chuck Schumer, who's got to go. This idiot, Mr. I pulled a fire alarm and then denied it later, even though we caught you on video. Congressman Bowman coming out, I'm calling for regime change in Israel.

Now all of a sudden it's it's it's commonplace and accepted. Listen to Chris Van Howen, Cut 19. There's no doubt that blocking aid into Gaza is a violation of international humanitarian law. With respect to certain individuals in the Netanyahu government, people like Finance Ministers Smotrich and Ben Gavir, who have not only said they want to block aid into Gaza, but have taken steps. to block aid in the Gaza, that is a war crime.

Right? There's no proof of that. Number one. Number two, UN says it's going in too slow, but they have to be able to screen it. Number three, Hamas is making sure this is slowed down.

They make sure their people starve. They're trying to win the PR war, and sadly, it's going that direction. In fact, Iran came out and said something is similar. Look at even America is dividing from Israel. We have accomplished our goal of dividing, getting rid of Israel and driving America out.

Again, you want to hear the blaming of Netanyahu? Here it goes. Cut 20. Netanyahu is the Prime Minister. Is he a war criminal?

Well, we're going to have to make a decision as to what the intent of the full Israeli government is. I mean, these are members of the government, the finance minister and the person who's in charge of the police. But ultimately, that will have to be decided down the road. But in the meantime, let's just get more assistance to starving people in Gaza. One-third of the shipments of humanitarian assistance into northern Gaza have been blocked.

in the last month.

So That been blocked. have been slowed down. Number two, we drive there, driving it from the sky, creating corridors. But when you come in and just dismember people, burn babies alive, throw them into ovens. Uh take innocent people, most of which were left wingers in the Israeli society, who were working and hiring Palestinians and actually out for their cause, and then you take them hostage or kill them there in the most brutal massion uh way possible.

And now you mad at Israel for responding in a way that finishes this problem. Just pick a side. You can't say, well, this is the way I want you to fight a war. It's not General Van Holland. He has never fought in a war.

Leave it to the experts. And even at West Point, they're saying they're doing an admirable job in Gaza. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Kilmead. When you think back on this time so far, what are some of your favorite memories, Mr. President?

Well, my favorite memories are a little girl who's having trouble with her eggs. She looked at me, she's about three years old, can you help me with the predators? Can you help me? I gave her a push. That's my favorite one.

1878 that started with Rutherford B. Hayes. I think I met him, but what is it? What is the classmate now? One of your classmates.

So there's a President of the United States of the East Egg Roll. That's today. It's raining. Talmadge Boston joins us now, historian and author of a brand new book, How the Best Did It, Leadership Lessons from Our Top Presidents. Talmadge, welcome.

Congratulations on the book. Brian, so glad to be with you. It was great seeing you at the Bush Library on your most recent book, and I'm glad we could get back together. Yeah, Teddy and Booker T. First off, how did you pick the presidents that would make the cut on your book?

C-SPAN organizes a poll every time one president leaves the White House and a new one comes in.

So the last two polls have been twenty seventeen and twenty twenty one. And the country's one hundred and fifty leading historians evaluate all presidents from best to worst. In 10 different categories. In the last two polls, Lincoln's been one, Washington two, both Roosevelt's three and four, Eisenhower fifth. Truman 6, Jefferson 7, Kennedy 8, Reagan 9.

I made the decision to cover Reagan in my book and not Truman. Two reasons. One, I think Truman's overrated. And I think Reagan's underrated. But as important, I'm obviously like you trying to sell books to both Republicans and Democrats.

I wanted to have a good balance in the modern era. Democrats, FDR and JFK, Republicans, Eisenhower and Reagan. But historians bear me out in terms of who I chose, with the exception of the Truman for Reagan switch. But I think more people in 2024 want to read about Reagan than they do Truman. All right, you say there's some things we can learn about.

Not only is it great to know more about American presidents, but you say, for example, Washington had a way of promoting himself without being a self-promoter. Yeah, Washington, of course, was a military hero, and then, of course, he presided over the Constitutional Convention, but everywhere he went, He was the leader, and he was such, he had such a command presence from his height to his posture to his dress. to the horse he rode, to his achievements. that people unanimously supported him whenever he entered the arena. And so he never had to be a self-promoter, but he had learned from his service, early service, in the French and Indian War, when in fact he'd been a self-promoter, and time and again it had backfired.

So, one of the great lessons to learn is that great leaders learn from their mistakes and don't repeat them. Right, as a colonel, right, in the French-Indian War? That's right. Yeah, so that that's a very interesting. Do you think it's real when people say that Washington felt a little inferior because he didn't go to have that great education of Jefferson and Madison and the other fan Monroe and others?

I don't think that's accurate. Yes, he did have less education than the others. I don't think he ever felt inferior. But another key trait that Washington had that great leaders need is self awareness. He knew what his strengths were.

He knew what his weaknesses were. If he needed eloquence in a document, For example, his first inaugural address, he brought in Madison. If he needed eloquence in his farewell address, he brought in Hamilton.

So he always knew. Who was better at certain things than he was? And he plugged them right in such that he never missed a beat. And he had the kind of self-confidence to be able to collaborate with others and use their skills. To enhance his own.

So he had a C Head. He's a system guy, put the right people in place, put with their strengths, with maybe your weakness. Is that similar to Eisenhower, how he approached the presidency? Eisenhower knew he wasn't a great speaker, but he knew he was great in all other traits. In particular, he was an organizational genius as demonstrated by his being the supreme allied commander in orchestrating D Day.

But his White House really set a standard that very few, if any, have achieved in terms of the way he set up his cabinet. his National Security Council, his Congressional Liaison Office. All the way set up a chief of staff, which no one had ever had before.

So uh Eisenhower's uh is deservedly ranked number fifth for eight years of peace and prosperity. And a big part of that was what an incredible organizer he was to get people to do their jobs, fulfill their responsibility, and the entire government worked as a well-oil machine.

So many put-downs came Lincoln's way, whether it was his height, the way his appearance, gangly. I've never seen more people write about somebody of note in a more disparaging way about his physical traits. You said that he always managed to take the high road, especially when the war heats up and everything gets personal. And even though he's got personal tragedy. He had all of that during the Civil War.

He started out with a very difficult Union general, McClellan, who didn't think Lincoln was smart enough to be commander in chief because McClellan had graduated high in his class at West Point. But in fact, McClellan was reluctant to fight battles Lincoln saw that, fired him, finally brought in Ulysses Grant, who was willing to fight battles and win the war. He also had to deal with his famous team of rivals, cabinet, three of whom had run against him for the nomination in 1860. It didn't take them long to realize he was the smartest guy in the room. And of course, his wife, Mary, was incredibly difficult, had many more enemies than friends, was always.

Undercutting him or trying to, and yet he never. Sank to the low levels that any of these other people were who were trying to bring him down. And I think this magnanimity, taking a high road, is obviously something that is a good trait for a leader to have. In any era. Talmudge Boston, our guest.

His new book is out tomorrow: How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons from Our Top Presidents. And we're going over a few and how it could help today. I think President Trump, whatever you think of President Trump, and there's a lot of supporters listening, the one thing he could take a little from Lincoln from, taking the high road, right? Yes, uh definitely uh Trump, to his credit, has one of Eisenhower's strengths. in terms of he does know how to play hardball when necessary.

Oh, yes. But in terms of the other traits covered in the book, I think you could benefit by reading about how the other great presidents conducted themselves I think he'd be much better the second time around if he heeded the lessons of history. And you talk about a guy getting better in the job. That was JFK. Remember, it was a changing of generation.

You know, that's what he ran on. He had to quickly apologize or make amends with Eisenhower after he ran because he talked about it's time for us to take over. But when he got the job, he realized he had a lot to learn. But you saw growth in just the three and a half years he was there, right? Absolutely.

I mean, he came into the presidency. He really did not understand economics or fiscal policy or anything associated with the economy. He surrounded himself with the country's top economic thinkers and learned quickly and soon created an economic policy that brought the country back into a mode of prosperity. He obviously didn't know anything about foreign policy, as evidenced by the day of Pigs disaster in the early days of his presidency. But he went on to have a very successful foreign policy, in particular with the way he handled the Cuban Missile Crisis.

And last but not least, Although he had run for president, Proclaiming to be an advocate for civil rights, his first two years, he really didn't do anything. But by 1963, he realized that civil rights was no longer a political issue, it was a moral issue. And he submitted a strong civil rights bill that ultimately Lyndon Johnson pushed through because Kennedy was killed. But in all three of those areas, you see tremendous growth. And that's why, even though he served less than three years, He's ranked as our eighth greatest president.

So interesting because if you talk to many people, leaders in the black community now, the responsible leaders, they really create like Kennedy's walk on water with them. Because between RFK and JFK, there was a sincerity there for these this rich family to help out people and balance out society that maybe LBJ got the credit at the time. But the foundation and the sincerity is really looked at through the Kennedys. One thing that Kennedy had that LBJ never had was eloquence, the power to inspire. And Kennedy's television address the day before he submitted the civil rights bill talked about how the country must change.

The time for patience and delay is over. These are everybody's rights. And truly turned the tide in terms of the national psyche toward the need for immediate civil rights advancement. Johnson obviously was a legislative genius, and but for that genius, I don't know when the civil rights bill would have been passed. But Johnson was not eloquent and never was able to inspire people with his words the way that Kennedy did.

You know, it's also interesting, you talk about Reagan. Remember, Reagan at the time, people hitting him on his intellect. His ideas were radical, and he would not get down and dirty. He was always speaking optimistically, glowingly, in a motivating way. You say he inspired people to be optimistic.

And what a huge need for optimism we had at the time. We were coming out of the disastrous Jimmy Carter presidency, high unemployment, low economic growth, long gas lines, hostages in Iran. We couldn't get released. The country was in a malaise. And we needed somebody to bring us back to American exceptionalism where the people would believe in themselves.

And in fact, he did that with his. Spirit of optimism, not only in how he was going to win the Cold War, but also how he brought the economy back. And again, like Kennedy, when he spoke, people listened, and not just people in his own party, but people on the other side of the aisle. Yeah, kind of inspiring.

So, what really prompted you to this book to maybe have these next generation of leaders or the current ones running to maybe tap into this, tap into what Jefferson did, tap into what Lincoln was able to accomplish, and how they were able to do it? What I also think is important about your book: you don't point out perfect people, you point out people that are willing to learn, change, and adapt.

Well, absolutely. You and I both love history, Brian, but we know that it's most important when we not only learn it, but we find ways to apply it. And that's what my book seeks to do: to show that these leadership traits of these eight great presidents. are timeless. What worked for George Washington can work for the head of a nonprofit now, or the head of a law firm, or the head of a company.

And at the end of each of the chapters, I have a mini-workbook for the reader to ask him or herself, how am I doing? in these three traits about Thomas Jefferson that I just read about or about Eisenhower or about Kennedy.

So it really does try to have an interactive component to stimulate people not only to think about the history, but to think of ways that they can use it in their own lives to become better leaders.

Well, congratulations, Tom. It's an important book. I look forward to talking to you about it again. It is out tomorrow. Have the best leadership lessons from our top presidents.

Finally, as we look at this election cycle, everything, every day I feel like I'm saying this is unprecedented. This is unprecedented. Does this battle, this rematch, remind you of anything? Not really. I I think it really is unique.

And I think the level of polarization in the country is has, we've had it this bad before, obviously, the Civil War, the Sedition Act during John Adams presidency. But to have Two people involved who have each served as President of the United States. at a time of high media frenzy on both sides, both networks, both newspapers, et cetera, et cetera. And in the era of social media where it's 24-7, 365 every day, it builds this frenzy every single day, it's harder and harder to figure out the truth or what that happy medium is. Historically, successful presidents have found ways to lead by finding the big middle, the happy medium, the middle way, as Eisenhower called it.

And the challenge for both of these candidates is to walk At least somewhat away from the extremes in their party and look toward the big middle because that's where most of the people are. True, and the independents are growing every day. And the undecideds are hard to find, but the independents aren't. It is getting bigger. And we'll see where the third party, what role RFK Jr.

plays and all the others, Cornell West and Jill Stein, or whoever else jumps in on no labels. Talmadge Boston, pick up his book, How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons from Our Top Presidents. Thanks, Talmadge. Thank you, Brian. You got it.

1866-408-7669. I see you out there in Daytona. I see you from around the country. I'll get to your calls next. Also, you can write me, BrianKillme.com.

Just click on comments, and it'll come to me. Don't move. Expanding your knowledge base. It's the Brian Kill Me Show. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it.

You're with Brian Kilmead. President Biden said Friday that he would visit the site of the Baltimore Bridge collapse because, like that bridge, Biden is no longer connecting with black communities. You had to read the poll. Wow. Yeah, they had a few jokes like that.

They went on at Biden's age. One of the biggest jokes was that Access was reporting that were people that paid that money to get into that fundraiser. It was clear to them. That Joe Biden was the alpha on stage. Really?

Again, something happened behind closed doors we can't possibly imagine. He's the alpha on stage with Obama and Clinton. Does anyone in the world believe that? And the clip they let out, he does not look like the alpha on stage. He slurs his way through it.

And then Obama does another one. They just released a second one. If he was the alpha on stage and looked strong, believe me, we would have seen the whole hour. No one buys it. Darren, listening in Daytona, Florida.

Hey, Darren. What's up, Brian? I can't actually believe that I made it here. I've tried a dozen times at least.

So thank you, man. I appreciate it. And love you to death. And I love your colleagues.

So my comment is simply this. You know, I'm guilty of this crime. When Biden and Trump went face to face. I did not vote because I thought he was a shoe-in. And I wish you guys, you and your colleagues would say something to people to get out of their couches and go vote because it's going to make a difference.

But I didn't vote. I did not because I thought surely Trump is going to win. But I spent four days. Karen, he was trailing in the polls leading up to election day. I mean, he did.

I know, but he's doing better now than he was doing the whole 2020 cycle. Yeah, no, no, but you understand what I'm saying, though. It's like people, it doesn't matter, though, people that actually believe in him now. Should actually get up and vote. They have to.

Right. And otherwise, we're going to get another four years of servitude for bacheling, you know? I mean, can you imagine he's trying to win over some votes where he's pretending to be tough on the border? Can you imagine him on crime and punishment and the border without a reelection to worry about? And with the electric car mandates he's going to put across, it'll be: you think this is bad?

It'll be unimaginable when he's done. And Trump, on the other hand, I think it'll be more free than ever. To do what he wants, but not as a dictator. I think the biggest joke is when people call him a dictator. Of all the things that could happen, that will not happen.

He'll do the executive orders when he has to, but we already saw him for four years. We saw that he wasn't a dictator for four years, or else he would have mandated sanctuary cities. He would have done what Joe Biden did on student loans, ignored the Supreme Court and did it anyway. But that's not what a dictator does. That's not what he'll be.

He's not going to end democracy. He's not going to be a dictator. He's going to be a Republican that'll get Republicans angry because he's going to be looking to do more deals than ever before. The other thing that's coming up this week is Ukraine aid. It looks like Speaker Johnson is determined to put that out there and give us a shot at voting on it.

We need to vote on this and give these people what they need. to win that war. And right now We have not been able to do that at all, and these guys are suffering because of it. We have to come across with some aid. I think people like Mike Turner understand that, and Speaker Johnson does too.

What they say to Johnson, Some Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Chip Roy, if you put just Ukraine aid out there. And I think there might be some Ukraine aid and a little border money. I'm not sure. If you do that, we're going to look to oust you.

Well, at that time, I think Democrats will step up. for their own self-preservation because their president knows They think Ukraine needs to be funded. Their president's screwing it up. They don't ask for the right things. They don't rush the, they slow walk weapon systems.

They don't communicate effectively on the clear mission there. But having done that, that's why I think Akeem Jeffries won't let Johnson go down this time. But people should understand. Tensor only got one Vogue cushion, smallest margin ever. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division.

It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kilmey Show. I come to you from Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. This hour, we're going to be joined by Bhati Agar Sargon, author of a brand new book called Second Class: How the Elites Petrayed America's Working Men and Women.

It is now out. And we'll look forward to talking to Bhati about that, which works perfect with our themes. Sid Rosenberg standing by, just attended the funeral. Of Jonathan Diller, and we'll talk about that and give it his perspective on what it was like inside of that church and what it was like on the outside, too.

So, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. President's going to events, he's hearing from protesters, but instead of articulating why it matters to Americans, why having an ally and a partner like Israel matters to the lives of every single American, why it's the right thing to do, he simply begins to cave in ways that will undermine American security. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, time to decide who's siding on, America, Hamas and Russia or Ukraine and Israel. Right now, sadly, it seems we're drifting on the wrong side of both, and that's Hamas in Russia.

We will tell you the latest. Number two.

Well, he said much more than that. He said he wants $10 billion essentially just to talk. Mexico just asked for $10 billion a year. They would never ask him. I wouldn't give them ten cents.

Yeah, Donald Trump is on Thursday, talking about things that are very much in the news today. Easter unwelcome surprise as an insane El Paso judge decides to release those responsible for running over and assaulting Texas National Guard, while another caravan of thousands makes its way towards the border, and a judge decides to release those who are arrested for storming that border. Number Wrong. And now my son will grow up without his father. I will grow old without my husband.

And his parents have to say goodbye to their child. Yeah. How many more police officers and how many more families need to make the ultimate sacrifice before we start protecting them? Anger and sadness in Massapequa, as Jonathan Diller is put to rest five days after he was shot to death by a career criminal who had no business even being out. I was there, talked to everybody about it, and I'll tell you, as sad as everyone was, I think they were even angrier than sad.

I love the fact that Alvin Bragg, Mayor Adams, Letitia James, and Governor Hoko got an earful when they showed up from the men and women in uniform and those who support them. One of which supports them is Sid Rosenberg. Number one morning show in New York on WABC, 77 WABC. Sid, welcome back. Nice to be back, Brian.

And I have to say that your neighborhood, I know you live very, very close to that church on Saturday. Your neighborhood uh was so inspiring. Yeah. Beautiful on Saturday on an otherwise tragic day. Massapequa, New York.

brought me back to this This state, like it was. Maybe Thirty years ago. Yeah, I mean, it's a very town that's full of people that bleed red, white, and blue. And as of late. Uh all uh Very conservative and all fed up with what they saw.

And you saw people in their homes just open up their homes to the police officers. Sid, you saw how many cops from out of town were there: Dallas, Austin, Vermont, Arkansas. We saw, where else did we see? We also saw Toronto, Canada. What stood out for you?

All of that. Yeah, I actually Today, my beautiful wife Danielle and I drove to Peter King's house. The great congressman by you, and we all met at his house, me and Danielle, Peter and his wife Rosemary, and the great Bill O'Reilly. And the five of us went to the funeral together. And we saw what you saw, Brian, after the funeral as the officers were walking around town.

People were inviting these officers into their homes to use the bathrooms. They were giving them water and soda and cake and cookies. It was beautiful. And again, just the scene in and around us before we entered the church. And after the church part was done to standing out there with 10, 11, 12,000 people.

Now look. Two people away from me. This was some. Uh Brian. I had me, my wife, Rudy Giuliani.

A person and then Letitian. James, literally one person away from me and Rudy. And uh she was there. She did ask to speak, mind you. And the Diller family said No way.

Alvin Bragg didn't even show up. The mayor has spoken. Eric Adams, I thought he was. And that's being nice. He got the least amount of applause.

And uh so you know, of course, and Hochl didn't even show up as she was kicked out of the wake.

So uh to your point, while there was a sea of blue, And and a real real solidarity feel throughout that whole morning. Those people with blood on their hands. Those progressive Democrat politicians, we didn't want them, and you can feel it.

Well, on top of that, they got it. As you know, Alvin Bragg got blasted. He sat there and took it, didn't say anything. They went after the mayor. The mayor quickly turned around.

He looked like he was going to engage and then realized he was outnumbered. It was inappropriate. And then he let everybody know. Stephanie, let everybody know, you have my husband's blood on your hands.

So before she read her, and I get anxious to get your take on her eulogy, but before she read it, she looked under the other speeches of widows that have lost their husbands. And here's what she said: cut one. It's been two years and two months since Detective Rivera and Detective Mora made the ultimate sacrifice, just like my husband, Jonathan Diller. Dominique Rivera stood in front of all the electric officials present today pleading for change. That change never came, and now my son will grow up without his father, I will grow old without my husband, and his parents have to say goodbye to their child.

How many more police officers and how many more families need to make the ultimate sacrifice before we start protecting them? I mean Do you think that people are getting the message, the governor's getting the message, the mayor's getting the message? He's trying to make both have expressed A willingness to rein in some of the bail laws, but they've had no success.

Well, I will tell you this. I didn't know Moya O'Rivera. But I was at that funeral too. In fact, I sat next to the lake crate Uh Chief of Police Joe Esposito at St. Patrick's Cathedral.

And I remember I cried that day, like I cried just this Saturday when Stephanie spoke, in those words especially. Are they getting the message? It doesn't matter, Brian, because Eric Adams, for example, can't change any of the laws. What we are mad at Eric about, the mayor, is we wa we expect Eric to drive up to Albany and yell and scream at people like Carl Hastie. Andrew Stewart Cousins.

The legislators in Albany that refused to change these laws. And by the way, even after Officer Diller was murdered, Hastie had the goal to come out and say, listen, the stats still bode well in my favor.

So it doesn't matter how Eric Adams feels. It may not even matter how the governor feels. But at the very least, at the very least, if you can't change.

some of these bail reform laws. At least go up there and cause hell. Make us feel like you actually care. And neither the governor or the mayor or most of these Democrat politicians. Do even that, let alone change.

Yeah. Do even that, Brian Kilmead. Absolutely. You could raise hell and say, I'm frustrated. And your press conference could be, I'm frustrated.

And you put the average American who feels maybe they know somebody that got punched in the face because they happen to be a woman walking in New York City. Maybe they know somebody that owns a bordega that's constantly being ransacked or a QVC or a CVS that now locks up everything because of shoplifters or a Kohl's that no longer has inventory or stays open because of that. You'll start winning them over by at least fighting for them. I talked to some of the mourners outside. Here's what they said: Cut Six.

Ladies, why is it important for you to be here today? We're just here to show our support for all police officers and the family because it's just a horrific tragedy that happened. There's no sense of humanity anymore. It's really sad what's going on. Innocent lives are being lost.

My brother's on the job, and I know the feeling of having an officer come home.

Well, could you describe the scene, this sea of blue that you're seeing? It's beautiful. It's there's just no words. It's a gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous day to have all these guys in in line with their uniform, seeing all the people with their support. It's just, it's speechless, and you know.

We have to change this world. The state They need to wake up. Could this be a turning point? I hope so. There's a lot of people that go to work every single day expecting to come home, and there's families waiting for their families to come home.

So I hope that this causes change. We're about 6,000 cops down right now. We're asking people to work overtime. And yet we're not supporting them. And then when you see something like this, and you find out the assailant has got twenty one prior arrests.

And carrying around a gun about to knock off a T-Mobile, you realize the criminals don't, the criminals get it. They know this is the time to strike. Oh, there's no question. Listen, 80%. that these cases don't even get adjudicated.

Yeah. Rivera was arrested 21 times. He's only gone to jail twice. Lindy Jones, 14 times, been to jail once or twice.

So they know they've won. They've got the system in their favor. They can do whatever they want, and truth be told, we're not going to do anything about it.

So look. I had a great conversation with Steve Bannon today.

Okay, Brian, the last four days in New York between the two wakes. Obviously, on Friday, on Thursday and Friday and Saturday. And then, of course, the funeral. And then, of course, you look at the pro-Palestinians rushing St. Patrick's Cathedral.

You look at what New York has become when nobody's safe, not the officers, not Brian, not Sid, not even a priest at St. Patrick's. The last four days tells you all you need to know. Yet, yet, coming up in 14 days, two weeks from today, my friend, the guy you interviewed again last week, President Trump, is going to be back in court over a bunch of nonsense, arguing about Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen, because they're still not going to be happy until they destroy him and destroy the rest of this country. This should be a wake-up call.

Maybe not for the politicians, but for the voters. You vote Democrat. This type of stuff will continue.

Well, a couple of things that you were referring to, the people around the country might not have seen. There were protests. A trio of protesters went into the middle of the church in the middle of an Easter Mass and got right up to the altar, started screaming, Free Palestine, Free Palestine. Two of these idiots were at the U.S. Open and glued themselves to a chair: Matthew Mensis, a 31-year-old, a 63-year-old, and a 35-year-old.

They were taken into custody, but they're not. You're not going to be in jail. They should go in jail for six months. These people are creating havoc and they want to be famous. Don't tell me they even understand the Palestinian-Israeli situation.

So I just don't, I don't get it. I don't get why these protesters are treated like that. It's George Floyd all over again. And I use it Mayor Adams out on my show just a week ago why that's the case and he said We live in a democracy. democracy, but church on Easter?

I mean, they've done some other things that are about to be violent as well. I want to see you bash these people across the face with a bat. I don't care what you do to them. Like you said, put him in jail for six months. months.

But to give him a ticket for 15 minutes, that's not stopping.

So just know that every major event, every really special religious day. anything important In New York City, these folks are going to wreak havoc because you elected politicians referred to. You should do anything about it, talking it up to democracy.

Well, guess what, folks? That's not my democracy.

Well, do you how do you feel about this, Sid? You just said when were you in Israel? I was in Israel the last week of January, first week of February.

Well, since that time, since this war started, the amount of support for Israeli offensive action in Gaza has dropped to thirty six percent. thirty six percent. And now you have an administration who is also leading the charge, along with Senator Van Howen and Congressman Bowman of New York, of critical of the way Israel is fighting this war. I'm sure you've heard this. No, I've heard it.

And Mike from Peo did a great job this weekend of really explaining it. And look, the facts are. That we have been their best friend, their ally for a long time. Even Obama, who hates the Jews, trust me, he did a better job of acting. This guy, Biden, his administration, all these cowards and losers from Blinken to Sullivan on down, they don't even act anymore.

I mean, the truth is, the United States is not a friend of Israel. And this administration, going back, two administrations, How can you possibly call them a friend when they've been funding Iran forever, loosening sanctions, loosening restrictions, giving them money, giving them back hostages?

So even before October the 7th, this administration, two of them, were complicit in making this war happen and since our Outside of one five-minute speech on your network box news, Joe Biden has done nothing, and I mean nothing to prove he's a friend of Israel. In fact, as a nice Jewish kid from Brooklyn, I look at Joe Biden as an enemy. But he is giving them the weapons and he's getting pressure to slow that down. That'll be next. And he's saying the red line is Rafah.

And Netanyahu said over the weekend, I'm going in. He's got a hernia operation right now, but he said, I'm going in. And I was talking to Trey Yingst over the weekend, texting with him. And he says to me, I said, listen, is Netanyahu the problem? How is it viewed?

He said, would Benny Gansby be different? He said, no, there's indications that Benny Gansk would be more aggressive.

So people just want to blame the prime minister because he came over here and he was taking on Obama on this all-Iranian deal. And now he looks more towards the Republicans and Democrats. But it's really an Israeli policy. Don't you agree they have to go into Rafah? They have no choice.

Brian, the terrorists are there.

So you're going to fight all these months and wipe out 90% of the battalions and let the last five or six battalions, including Sin War, live a nice life? By the way, the hostage. Are also there. They've got no choice. Listen.

Hamash dropped the playbook. We are playing right by their playbook. The truth is, and this moron Schumer can't figure this out. They've had five elections, Brian, in the last five years. Bibi won four of those five.

He almost won all five. And yes, the other guy, he's right now in the same mindset as Bibi Letanyahu. The left and the right have joined together in this fight in Israel against Hamas. It's not like the United States where these two companies, these two parties hate each other. They're together.

And the truth is, Bibi keeps winning.

So whoever says Bibi's not doing the right thing, he's not doing the good job, they're not paying attention to the real war. Right. So we'll see what happens because they just need to finish him off. They could do it in probably three weeks, go right through there and probably point out, and it's very easy to spin it: why are they in hospitals? Why are they having to go through playgrounds?

Why do they got to work through schools? That is where Hamas is. Final thoughts, Sid?

Well, my final thought is this. That while again, it was a beautiful scene, you were there and you did a tremendous job last week of covering it, including a great interview with President Trump. While it was a really comforting scene on Saturday to be amongst thousands of cops inside and outside that church, when somebody says to me, Is this the turning point? Will things change? To be completely honest, I can't say yes.

Yes. Yeah. Well, maybe you have to change regimes, and then I think the people have to rise up and tell their Democratic mayors and police commissioners we have to get safety first. Sid Rosenberg, that's why you're number one in the morning, 77 WEBC. Thanks so much, Sid.

Thank you. You're the best. I appreciate it. Talk to you soon. Go again.

I'm 1-866-408-7669. We'll take your calls next time. Batia Unger Sargon, brand new book. You're going to love the theme. Don't move.

Diving deep into today's top stories. It's Brian Kilmead. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. LA Node Star.

Shoe Otani was forced to fire his interpreter over gambling and theft allegations. Reach for comments. Otani said something in Japanese.

So Otani was the subject of our one of our one nation One of our One Nation blocks and we had We had a great guest, Craig Cordon, on too, as well as Steve Kennedy. Uh right, Steve Kennedy? I'm trying to look that up. Yeah, I think it's. I forgot his name, but he wrote a great book on Pete Rose.

But just talking about the fact that Otani, if Otani is either the most naive person in the world, forget language, or he absolutely knew what was going on with the betting, and dare I say, partake in it. But over the weekend, the biggest goal. I would say it was Keith O'Brien. Keith O'Brien.

So the one thing that stood out over the weekend, I know we all had busy weekends, but if anyone saw Juan Soto over the weekend, this guy's been a star since he was 19. He's now 25. The Yankees picked him up on free agency. The Yankees beat the Astros, the team they've struggled against more than any other team, including losing in the playoffs. They beat him three straight on his bat.

I've never seen a start like this by a free agent. By the time he comes home, this guy's gonna get a standing ovation by the time he walks into the Yankees Stadium. I know people love to hate the Yankees, and that's fine. I think they like to be hated, but Juan Soto is gonna be loved by New York, and it's gonna be scary. When Aaron Judge hits 100 and Juan Soto wins three games for you, can you imagine when they're bolt hitting?

And they also need this thing called pitching, too. Bat Yonger Sargon comes up next. She does not talk about the Yankees, she talks about lower class, middle class, and who's being ignored. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show.

Hey, welcome back, everyone. Brian Kilmeat Show here. Welcome to. I know you had a long Easter weekend.

Some of you are still taking off today. Not me. A lot of you took off on Good Friday, I understand it, but not me. I was able to work with Laura Ingram yesterday on Friday and be able to cover the story of this ridiculous statement coming out of the fundraiser on Thursday night that on stage with Barack Obama. And Bill Clinton, it was Joe Biden, clearly the alpha, the clearly the one in command.

Can we see some of those tapes? No, we only have one clip. And then I got a second clip this morning of Barack Obama.

So nobody believes that. Bhati Unger Sargana is here. She's the author of a brand new book called Second Class: How the Elites Portrayed America's Working Men and Women. And she joins us now. Bhatti, great to see you again.

Thank you so much for having me. And you were on Saturday night. Yes, I was here. We see a lot of each other. And your book was announced then.

So I want to get to that. Too, but I do want to talk about what happened over the weekend. Transgender Awareness Day. The president backsaw doesn't back off, puts that front and center in the White House. On the White House masthead.

It's also called Easter. Why would you do that? Yeah, it reminds me a lot of the sort of pro-Palestinian protesters attacking worshipers in a church on Easter. St. Patrick's exactly blocking traffic.

The point of this is not actually to bring people over to your side, it's to make it clear to your base who the enemy is. It's to make people offended and upset. It's a provocation, right? To good-hearted Christians who feel like Easter is very important to people. Why do you want to provoke them?

That so that's the difference between activism and good politics, right? Activists don't want to bring people over to their side. What they want is the right to feel morally superior to their political opponents. Use Donny Deutsch on another network. Trying to rationalize why people might be offended.

CUP 53. Here's why I think the Republicans so heinously seize on the trans issue. It's not obviously the numbers are not there. The amount of trans athletes competing as men and with women is 0.0001%. But it's an issue that if you're an American, and this is sad, and things don't make sense to you anymore as far as what's going on, that the country is becoming white, you're a minority, and globalization, and everything that's happening.

This is an issue that, oh, wait. Boys can be girls, girls can be the boys. That is this simplistic. I know the world doesn't make sense to you anymore. Pause that one second.

This is fun thing. Nobody cares about white or black. Don't make it about white or black. People want the border enforced law and order. Those aren't looking to go back to yesteryear where we go back to vinyl records and sock hops.

I don't think that's going back. What's he talking about? There's so much wrong with this. First of all, we have seen with our own eyes. Trans athletes beating up young girls.

The idea that caring about that makes you a bad person, this is your brain on woke mind virus. But they want to say homophobic, transphobic, so gross. They are training their public, their audience, their viewers to, when they feel horror at seeing a man beating up a woman, that they should think, oh, I'm bad for feeling that. We must allow listen to the rest of this. The irony is it's an issue of inclusion, it's an issue of what America is all about.

But they'll turn it upside down and say, you see, it doesn't make sense. The world is not yours anymore. The world is coming to hell and it doesn't make sense. And come with me, I'll make it make sense again. That's the dumbed-down simplistic issue of why they go after the trans issue, and it's tragic and it's disgusting.

Second thing that's wrong with this, he has it exactly backwards. The Democrats who abandoned the working class and sold out the future of their children to China and Mexico with bad economic policy, they are the ones who obsessively promote the trans issue and this invented white supremacist threat to distract from the way in which they have made the lives of the working class so much worse than they were 10 years ago. And these millionaires sit there on cable news from the perch of their privilege and lecture struggling working class Americans who they sold out. That's where all that money came from for the top 20% with the college degree. And then they sit there and call them bigots.

It's so disgusting, Brian. And the thing is, they got $26 million off that as opposed to the president says, I'm not making any money. I'm going to fly into my own dollar. I'm going to go to a wake and I'm going to go home. And they sit there.

Bill Clinton did have the working class vote, right? Barack Obama had more of it, correct? And what they're trying to do is tell Joe, you got to go get it back. And maybe we're the guys to do it. But Rick Klein of this week with George Stephanopoulos, who never has George Stephanopoulos on, cut 50.

But I think just as important, the messaging. Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, two former presidents who were able to get working class voters on their side, those same voters that are now so much flirting or maybe potentially going over to Trump entirely. There is a roadmap that you hear from Clinton and Obama to try to make an affirmative case for a Biden second term. And they come at it from different angles, from different directions. And I thought that part of the messaging to me was just as interesting because that's how Democrats are going to get engaged in this election.

So he says, go out and tell the working class we're for you, he said, more than the rich guy. But what do you think they'll think of that? Oh, I think it's total nonsense. Bill Clinton was the guy who signed NAFTA into law, right? That trade deal that shipped 5 million good middle-class jobs out to build up China and Mexico's middle class.

Barack Obama was the guy who showed up and said those jobs are not coming back. And then Joe Biden was the guy who opened the border.

So all of the remaining jobs here suddenly are paying much fewer wages because you brought in 12 million people to compete with the American working class. I will say there is a roadmap in my book, Second Class, which comes out tomorrow, for how either party could get essentially a permanent majority. Because the working class, Brian, whether they vote for Democrats or Republicans, they have a very similar ideology. There is a consensus in the working class about what policies they want to see. And right now, each party has 50% of it and is undermining the other 50%.

The first party to realize that is going to have a permanent majority.

So people think working class win over the unions. Is that what you're saying? What do you think?

So, first of all, I think it's great that Donald Trump is trading unions. I think that's amazing. A historic $45,000 donation from the Teamsters unions to the RNC. I mean, that was amazing. That shows that the Teamsters union leadership, unlike most union leaderships, is listening to rank and file.

And why would they be interested in that? Because of electric cars, his push for getting off fossil fuels are hurting a lot of the working class. 100 percent. Yeah. The Democrats like to say Joe Biden's going to lose Michigan over Gaza.

He's not going to lose it over Gaza. He's going to lose it over 600,000 auto workers who want to have a future for their children, right? I would say that the unions are important, but they are seen even by the workers in them as extremely woke. But they still do protect workers. They protect wages.

I think that the winning combination is, I'll tell you that the views that I heard the most often from 90% of the 100 people I interviewed for the book, whether they were Republican or Democrat, they want good jobs, good wages. They want vocational training, which leads to a pathway to the middle class for the working class. What they want is a strong border and pretty much total moratorium on immigration.

So that is the piece the Republicans have.

However, they want affordable health care, and that is the piece that the Democrats have. And if the Republicans would wake up and come up with a good, market-driven health care plan in which they said, screw you to the pharmaceutical companies and the insurance companies, they would get the working class even after Donald Trump. But somehow get to the pharmaceutical companies without destroying the innovator quality, the biotech side, because they're the one leading the charges. It's delicate in Israel. It's delicate.

Absolutely. Now, do you think, you actually think it would be good to plow into the health care in this cycle? Because being the... Obamacare is maintaining, is going getting slightly more popular. Outside Social Security, which is an emergency, do you think they're better off just not bringing it up?

I love that Donald Trump came out on Truth Social and said, I'm not going to get rid of Obamacare. I'm going to make it better. I think that is the answer. I'm going to make it better. Americans want some sort of catastrophic health care government situation.

They can't stand the idea that people will go into debt over medical bills. They don't like welfare. Working class people, whether they're Democrats or Republicans, they don't like people who live off the government. They all know welfare scammers and they really resent it, but they don't like feeling like they who work and work and work and work can't get the help when they need it. And how much does it burn them from your book and research that you have people coming here illegally, staying in hotels, now getting debit cards in New York City, $350 a week?

More kids you have, the more money you get? Let me tell you something. Donald Trump is polling at 25% of black Americans, of black voters, and we know that black men outvote for Donald Trump black women by two to one. And so he's looking at 35% polling of black men, which could turn into double that. We don't know how much.

But we know from 2016, 2020, when he was polling at 8% of black men and he got 18%, that is immigration. That is rage that they are using the mantle of the civil rights issues to open the border and give the American dream to all of these migrants instead of to Americans. And so we have that, we have the whole thing of illegal immigration. That's something Donald Trump always talked about. Even when you and I, maybe in 2016, go, okay, top five issue.

President Mayton, number one.

Well, sometimes things happen. When you go to war, you kind of see all of a sudden a general or a war hero is running. You go, okay, perfect timing. Eisenhower, you know, or McCain originally, then it flipped to when the economy.

So now you have a guy running who's strong on immigration, strong on law and order and had a great foreign have very successful foreign policy at a time which all three of these things are falling apart. And I'm just wondering, when did it switch When did it switch to The working class No longer comfortable with Democrats, and the upper class more comfortable with Democrats. Right. So we saw that total realignment happen, right?

So nine of the 10 richest counties in America now vote for Democrats. 65% of Americans who make more than $500,000 a year now are Democrats. 97% of Silicon Valley donations go to Democrats. Wall Street gave Joe Biden more money than they gave Donald Trump.

So what you're pointing out is totally accurate. The Democrats lost the white working class, I think, around NAFTA. I mean, I think that was it for them, right? The the cratering of Even though Bush won uh wrote it, it was Clinton that okayed it. That's exactly right.

And they associated that with um the Democrats Leaving behind their past of supporting labor and starting to cater to the suburban and the more college-educated urban voter. And everything you see in the Democrats platform today is basically an upward transfer of wealth from the working class to those college-educated elites, whether it's through mass migration, right? Open the border, get in a bunch of cheap laborers, because the consumers of that cheap labor are the Democrats-based. They're the college-educated elites, right?

So that you bring them in, they put money back in the pockets of the people who hire them, the college-educated elites, at the expense of the working class. It's wage theft, but everything else is like that, too. You look at the Green New Deal, you brought up the EVs, right? You know, rich elites love electric vehicles because they drive, you know, six blocks to Whole Foods, right? But working-class people can't use those cars.

I mean, rural people can't use those cars, and they screw over the people making them, right? As you pointed out, the auto workers, they take a third of the amount of time on the line to make them. You've got student loans, right? Student loan forgiveness. An upward transfer of wealth from the working class to the college credentialed elites.

That's who the Democrats have become. I mean, if you take a course on welding, if you take a course on truck driving, you're just earning a living. All of a sudden, you turn around, those guys and women that went to college, they're 32 years old.

Now they get their loan paid for. Really? How is that fair? But the President of the United States thinks he's got to get the younger vote.

So we'll see how this changes. I know you keep it all in your book, Second Class: How the Elites Portrayed America's Working Men and Women. Bhat, do you have another segment in you? Sure. All right, so she's going to stick around.

You listen to the Brian Killmee show when we come back. Also, I want to talk about Israel. I want to talk about where we go from here, especially because the President of the United States feels as though he's going to lose Minneapolis, excuse me, Minnesota, as well as Michigan if this war continues. Don't move. Giving you everything you need to know.

You're with Brian Kilmead. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. All right, welcome back, everyone. Bhati Angre Sarganis here, author of a brand new book, Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women.

It is now, it's out tomorrow. Yes, out tomorrow. Out tomorrow. Very exciting. I want you to hear The movement on the Democratic side.

Against Nenyahu in Israel yes. Here's James Clybern. They know exactly what they're doing, cut 21. We stand with the people of Israel. We do not lack the fact that this country's policy is a two-state solution.

And Netanyahu has undermined that two-state solution for as long as he's been in office. He sold his soul to the right-wingers in Israel in order to maintain power for himself. And those people are opposed to his two-state solution. Your answer to that. Um Like Can you imagine?

If China had funded an attack on the United States. From you know, the Mexican cartels in which they entered the U.S. and they mass raped and dismembered babies in front of their parents and murdered and carnage and screaming kill the Jews. And after that. They said, America, you must make concessions.

Two the terrorist cartels. I mean, it's so Backwards, it's just so backwards. Of course, there are, you can have criticisms of Bibi Netanyahu. He did support Hamas as an alternative to the Palestinian Authority for a long time. That's, you know, he thought that was the best way to protect Israel.

He did partner with far-right extremist politicians, people that I don't like. How is that relevant to this moment in time when the Israelis are waging the most humane war that has ever been waged in human history? And they are every day minimizing civilian casualties. Do you know what they do, Brian? They tell the enemy what their game plan is before carrying it out.

Have you ever heard of a military that cares so much about the civilians of its enemies that they reveal their game plan to them before carrying it out? I mean, it's so. And yes, the Democrats have this new thing. They can't say we stand with Israel anymore because of Dearborn. I get that.

Domestic politics, okay. Can't really hold that against them.

So instead of saying I support Israel, I stand with Israel, they say we really don't like Benjamin Netanyahu. You know, the truth is that what he's carrying out in Gaza right now reflects the will of the Israeli people. And if you care about sovereignty, you should support it. With the agonization knowing that the hostages are still there, especially over in Rafah.

So Senator Chris Van Howen trying desperately to get the Arab vote back, cut 20. Netanyahu is the Prime Minister. Is he a war criminal?

Well, we're going to have to make a decision as to what the intent of the full Israeli government is. I mean, these are members of the government, the finance minister and the person who's in charge of the police. But ultimately, that will have to be decided down the road. But in the meantime, let's just get more assistance to starving people in Gaza. You know, one-third of the shipments of humanitarian assistance into northern Gaza have been blocked in the last month.

Have you thought that? But they're dropping him from the sky. They're getting him through. How come they never talk about the fact that 100% of the aid is stolen by Hamas and that civilians who try to get some of it are shot and murdered by Hamas? Like, how come they never bring that up?

How come they never bring up the fact that Israel is not fighting Gaza, it is fighting Hamas? Like, they really are struggling to frame this in a way that, and I struggle to understand why that could possibly be. And in the big picture, you think this is going to be more, this election is going to be more about what your book was about, about the working class against the ruling class. Yeah, the honest truth is that 80% of Americans stand with Israel. The American working class, because of the unique form of American Protestantism, is very Zionist.

And I just want to, I have to take a moment and say this, Brian, with your permission. There has never in the history of this globe Been a population that decided. Actually, we're not going to hate Jews in the way that American Protestants decided that. They simply decided, despite immense pressure. Constant, immense pressure from the fringes of both sides.

Actually, we're going to protect the Jews and we're going to stand by the Jews. Right. That's never happened in the history of the globe, and we owe them such a debt of gratitude. It is beyond. And you know, sometimes President Trump says, why would any American Jewish person vote Democrat?

I know what he means. Back in a moment. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone.

Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kilmey Show. So glad you're here. We're going to do the Faulkner Focus to a Samo cast.

Well, I'm going to share you guys. With their audience, and we'll get a chance to hear each other. And you'll get a chance to see what it'll look like. If you have Fox News channel, then Ben Dominich, one of the real insightful guys out there today, will talk at the big picture. We're just months away now from, as President Trump told me, November 5th, the most important day in modern American history.

It'll really show the different directions of the country. I will say this: any referee. Nonpartisan, let's say a Canadian that liked America, standing on the outside, has to agree with that statement.

So it's just amazing. You know, I watch all the Sunday shows. I want to get a perspective on what these editors are doing, what they're looking at. Not one person, not one show outside Shannon Bream painted the dichotomy on Thursday with the star-studded event with Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Bill Clinton against what the president's going to awake on Long Island. Not one person pointed that out, the way he was received, as opposed to the way Governor Hokul, where Alvin Bragg, and others were received.

I could not believe it, but I should have expected it. Let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. President's going to events, he's hearing from protesters, but instead of articulating why it matters to Americans, why having an ally and a partner like Israel matters to the lives of every single American, why it's the right thing to do, he simply begins to cave in ways that will undermine American security. What's the sense of having a friend when things get tough if you just change? That's what's happening now because going into Gaza is something Israelis never wanted to do because it was going to be so difficult, because the population was so dense, because Hamas hides among civilians and makes its headquarters in hospitals and schools.

Now they have to go in to hospitals and schools to get Hamas. They have to finish him off in Rafah. The president knows this, and he's still turning on them publicly, as is Bowman, as is Schumer, and the entire squad. Number two.

Well, he said much more than that. He said he wants $10 billion essentially just to talk. Mexico just asked for $10 billion a year. They would never ask him. I wouldn't give him 10 cents.

Absolutely, and you know what? He's not talking in hyperbole. He's talking about what he did Here we go. Easter unwelcome surprise. You got an El Paso judge decides those idiots that store those illegal aliens that stormed the border and ran over the Texas National Guard a week and a half ago.

So about nine were arrested. The judge said, I don't like your paperwork, DA. I'm going to let them go on their own recognizant.

Meanwhile, we have another caravan of illegals, 2,000 plus, in southern Mexico right now, making their way up to the border. And the Mexican president let us know he's not stopping them. Number one. And now my son will grow up without his father. I will grow old without my husband.

And his parents have to say goodbye to their child. Yeah. How many more police officers and how many more families need to make the ultimate sacrifice before we start protecting them? Anger and sadness in Massapequa as Jonathan Diller is up, is put to rest five days after he was gunned down by a career criminal, had no business even being out of prison. I was there, talked to all of you, where you were and what you feel.

And by the way, as sad as it was, it was more anger that I felt that things absolutely have to change, and perhaps it will. Just to give you an idea, I thought it was amazing that Stephanie Diller, whose husband was gunned down, spoke. Number one, that's not easy. Number two is she reviewed the speeches of past widows because she wanted this to work. And she knew that with Frank Siller from Tunnel to Towers, who immediately paid off the mortgage of this house.

Now, think about it, they just bought a house a couple of years ago. It's probably got a full mortgage on it, probably not the best rate in the world, and he comes in and pays it off. You don't understand what a burden that is off your shoulders. You got to worry about your one-year-old, worry about your own life, and then you have to worry about your bills.

So here she is making the most of the moment in which the world was watching Cut One. It's been two years and two months since Detective Rivera and Detective Mora made the ultimate sacrifice, just like my husband, Jonathan Diller. Dominique Rivera stood in front of all the electric officials present today pleading for change. That change never came, and now my son will grow up without his father, I will grow old without my husband, and his parents have to say goodbye to their child. Yeah.

How many more police officers and how many more families need to make the ultimate sacrifice before we start protecting them? Absolutely, and I couldn't agree more. Kathy Hochl got an ear full when she came into the wake. According to people very close to the scene, she was there with her contingent. She waited outside.

They said, You cannot go in. Why? Because it's a personal family viewing right now. She got tired of waiting with her detail. They stormed in, at which time the casket was open.

They did not want it open for people that were not family.

So the funeral director had to come in and they were blocked by Jonathan. Diller's detail and the Diller family's detail, while the funeral director had to close the casket. and then, after she went up, She got an earful and we're told, My husband's blood is on your hands. Alvin Bragg showed up. He got blasted from every angle.

Why? Because he wants to pursue Trump. He wants to go after Danny Penny. He wants to put the CFO of the Trump organization in Rikers, but he lets these two mutants run about. Hopefully, he had a moment where he was staring at that helicopter window that he took to land at Burns Park and he said, wow, you know what?

I really have to rethink this. This is real human cost for my horrible policies. They all got it, including the mayor of New York. Because you don't come into an area like this that is full of law enforcement and expect to come out unscathed because your policies are not Republican or Democrat, it's your week on crime policies. We're going to do a simulcast with Harris Falkner, and then I'll be able to take some calls this hour, I promise.

Ben Dominic's going to offer some insight. I know you have a lot to say. You listen to the Brian Kill Me Show. It's Monday. The talk show that's getting you talking.

You're with Brian Kilmead. When you think back on this time so far, what are some of your favorite memories, Mr. Brown?

Well, my favorite memories are the little girl. Was having trouble with her egg. She looked at me, she's about three years ago and said, Can you help me with the Predator?

So I gave her a push. That's my favorite. You know, 1878, this started with Rutherford B. Hayes. I think I met him, but you know what is it a classmate?

He was one of your classmates. Yeah, they're trying to spoon feed him the senior jokes. Al Roker, nice man, was always invited to the White House for the Easter egg roll to handle that. He always adds color and personality. I'm not going to say anything bad about Al Roker.

I will say this: the President of the United States is going to go out of his way to make every joke about age to try to diffuse it, but it's not going to diffuse it for the most part. You have comedians saying it freely now. A couple other things. Actually, you got to see, Allison, you should check out the opening, not the cold open. The opening.

I never heard of this guy, Ramsey. The Yusuf? But the opening, they actually were, the guy was really funny. They took out this one area where he wants. You know, he wants to cease fire.

And they wanted to make it seem like it was political, but it was really a very fair open, very well done. But he. Basically Said things about Joe Biden. They were all saying about Joe Biden, which I found pretty amazing. And they also snuck it into the weekend update, too.

But let's just take a look at the polls right now. And if you put RFK in the race, first of all, on favorability, according to a Fox News poll, RFK's got a 47% favorability. Trump's got 45%. Joe Biden, 39. Kamala Harris, 38%.

If they go head-to-head right now nationally, and they don't, but they don't. RFK Jr. is not in all 50 states. But let's just put Jill Stein. Um Uh west.

RFK Junior, Cornell West, Joe Biden and Donald Trump. It goes forty-three Trump, thirty-eight Biden, twelve for RFK, West two, Stein two. If I'm Trump. I lay out. I don't even bring anything up.

If people ask, oh, you know, he's a very left-wing guy, he's all about the environment. This guy will get rid of your gas oven, gas stove. He'll be Mr. Electric Art. Whatever, he'll just do that.

But I would not even bring it up. Do you know already there were protests scheduled and permits granted for protest at the convention, the Democratic convention in Chicago already? Already. And did you know it's the largest Palestinian population in the country in Chicago? You think it was embarrassing seeing that high-end fundraiser at Radio City being interrupted by protesters.

Someone paid $250 minimum to protest inside a private fundraiser with three presidents there. They're in trouble. And that's why there's pressure on Israel to lock this up. I think there should be two. Go into Rafah, get your game plan together and go.

It looks like Benjamin Etanyahu, before he went in for hernia surgery, said that they signed off on a game plan there. But they're in trouble.

So Donald Trump Donald Trump's Press crew said this, Carolyn Levitt. Sadly, there are just two more examples of Biden administration's year-long assault on the Christian faith. We call on Joe Biden's failing campaign in White House to issue an apology to the millions of Catholics and Christians.

Now, what is she responding to? Why did they put that out? Because yesterday, they actually trumpeted. Sunday being Transgender Awareness Day. And this idiot governor in New York told fourteen separate Landmark buildings in New York to light up on the transgender college, which I didn't know everybody's sexuality gets colors.

So I'm not sure what heterosexuality is, but I look forward to wearing those colors eventually.

So he said you ought to apologize. It is Easter. Why are you making a big deal with it? What's so interesting for me And um Rachel Campostuffy pointed this out to me today. Said, Brian, this is perfect for your radio show.

It says. On the White House, Transgender Day on the website, which is English version. They talk about that before Easter. But you know what I on the Latino/slash Spanish version, where they're trying to get the Hispanic vote, they knew not to mention it, and they knew lead with Easter. Talk about Christ because they are the Typically, the most religious sect in our country.

And if you want to know why he is at least in a flat-footed tie or losing the Hispanic vote, All this transgender athlete protection, all this transgenderism, having somebody working in your nuclear division who wears a mustache and a dress, not a good combination. In my book, I don't know how you interview that way. He ends up stealing luggage, and it gets a total pass on that.

Meanwhile, the President of the United States has gone a VP search. They said they're going to do it almost like The Apprentice. They're going to have Susie Wiles, Pat Sommerall's daughter, who is running things brilliantly in their campaign, best run campaign Trump's ever had. It turns out they're looking at these names. None of them are a real big surprise.

Senators Tim Scott. J.D. Vance of Ohio, Katie Britt of Alabama, Marco Rubio of Florida, Governor Christy Noam of South Dakota, Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas, Doug Bergaman of North Dakota. I know Doug Bergman's been heavily screened, is in the midst of it, and I know he was there on Easter Sunday. Number two, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

I don't see it. I think she wants to continue and get her first term as governor done. I think she eventually runs for president. J.D. Vance would probably do it, although to abandon that tough one seat.

And opening up again would not be smart for Republicans. Katie Britt, I don't see it. She's very young. She's promising. Senator Marco Rubio, much more of a match than I ever dreamed.

Governor Christy Noam is all over the place. She wants it bad, as is Byron Donalds.

Now, if Donalds doesn't get it, he's going to run for governor. I think Mike Waltz is going to do that too. And Tulsi Gabbard is a dark horse, too. The former Ohio Democrat has gone independent, and she really gets along with Trump. First of all, this is what we're waiting for.

So let's listen in. Harris Falkland and I will go on simulcast. Hosted the White House's annual Easter egg roll after a weekend of holiday outrage.

So he came out. It's kind of a rainy day here on the East Coast.

So there it is. That's video from moments ago. Cute bunnies and all the rest. But they've said, you know, no more faith symbols for Easter at the White House. And that's only part of the outrage.

It all began when Biden proclaimed the Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter. Which has been observed every year since 2009 on March 31st. But this year, it did happen to fall on Easter Sunday. And yesterday, the President posted: Today on Transgender Day of Visibility, I have a simple message to all trans Americans: I see you, you are made in the image of God, and you are worthy of respect and dignity. Critics were not pleased.

A New York Post op-ed with this headline: Joe Biden's Easter insult in the name of trans activism. Republicans, also furious. It's one thing to say, hey, it's always on March 31st, but it's another thing to say, what are the press releases coming out of the White House on our social media accounts? We don't recognize every single holiday, but we recognize things like Easter. Joe Biden should be ashamed of himself.

They are insulting every Christian who holds this day as a sacred day. The White House defended the move with this. As a Christian who celebrates Easter with family, President Biden stands for bringing people together and upholding the dignity and freedoms of every American. And that's Andrew Bates, the White House spokesperson, saying that. Brian Kilmead, Fox and Friends co-host, also host of One Nation and the Brian Kilmead radio show, which is on right now, Fox News radio stations across the country.

And we welcome you and your listeners in as we simulcast. Brian, first of all, your reaction. It's stunning. When I saw that out, I'm just stunned by it. Like you mentioned, I guess it's on the 30th of every March.

My family doesn't. 31st. Yep. 31st. My family doesn't celebrate that.

Transgender Visibility Day. Best of luck with that. It seems to be his mini mission. I don't know who put that out or if he okayed it. I don't know what's worse, a staff that thinks that works or a president that thinks that works.

Rachel Campaus Duffy pointed something brilliantly to me. He said, Did you notice on the English-speaking White House website, they have Transgender Awareness Day? They don't dare mention it on the Spanish-speaking website because in the Spanish community, they are much more traditional for the most part than any, I guess, American or I guess non-dimensional, no without ethnicity when it comes to the Christian religion. And the last thing I want to do is alienate more Hispanics. I just thought it was just totally numb to it.

But for the guy that ignored the police officer's family, the Diller family over the weekend, sent a message through somebody else, to then look at Easter, a guy that's supposed to be Catholic and a president of the United States, to think it's a good idea to trumpet transgender visibility. Day is just asinine. It's more than a Catholic holiday. It's the holiest day on the Christian calendar. I mean, we share it with Catholics.

It's our shared history.

So the New York Post with this: religious theme designs banned from the White House Easter Egg Art Contest. What in the world is that about? Uh more stupidity? Uh you'd Again, their main focus, along with having losing 20% of the black vote, they are now losing by four or five points to the Hispanic vote. They thought that was going to be impossible.

What about the Christian vote? Don't we count? Not only that, but they're the most Christian community out there, and he does not seem to care. I mean, the same way you don't send your vice president to an abortion clinic and say to yourself, I'm going to look to win over Christians. And I think this is just more.

I think it's not only is it. Callus. And tone deaf. I don't think it's smart politically. To me, who are you trying to impress?

You know, when I think about the transgender community, I mean, if you really have a heart and you want to help people, would you have an open discussion about how do we do this so that everybody is feeling protected, revered, supported? Would you move it on a day? We move stuff for days all the time. I don't know. I just think that to do it this way is really, really hard.

It's hard. It's hard on American Christians, and I would imagine it's not easy on the transgender community, but I can't speak for them. Brian, you're up against a hard commercial break. I gotta let you go. Great to simulcast with you.

Thank you. Yeah, I'm more worried about the women getting punched in the face than anything else. I wish he would have referred to that, because that's happening in New York City. Wow. I don't know.

He was sandwiched between two bunnies. I don't know. But you're right. Thank you. All right.

A new report says. All right, 1-866-408-7669. We're going to take a short time out and come back with Ben Dominic, and I'm going to end with a few of your calls, I promise. A lot going on. I also want to hear what's on your mind.

You listen to Brian Killmeat Show.

So good you're here. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmeade.

Well, my heart goes out to the slain police officer's family and his sacrifice for the community and the country. And I don't want to in any way diminish that. I think President Biden's event with President Clinton and President Obama was about unifying the Democratic Party, showing that this Democratic Party is going to be energized and inspired and is going to be prepared to win in 2024. That is a Rokahana. He's a loyal subject and surrogate for President Biden.

They made the optics look absolutely terrible. And I thought one person that brought that up is hates someone who hates to give Donald Trump credit, Bill Crystal. He said they lost the optics war. You go ahead. You made your $26 million, and that money will come in handy.

Good luck with that. President said he's going to make 30 million in Florida next week. We'll see. But if you told. If you asked me, you could have done both.

And we'll see what it means in the big picture. Joining us now is Ben Dominich. Ben, great to see you. Great to hear from you. You've got the Ben Dominic Podcast, also editor-at-large for the spectator world.

Ben, welcome back. Good to be with you, Brian. I mean, look, when even Bill Cristol is out there, it's dedicated of a Trump hater as he is saying that the optics were obviously in the former President's favor. You have to admit, That it's something of significance. I don't know if you saw the response that David Axelrod had to that comment where he said, Yeah, he responded to him and he said, Well, yes, it probably hurts for the day, but that he said twenty five million will probably become will be more useful in the long run.

I'm not sure that's true. I think probably is doing a lot of work there. And I think that the the truth is that this is something where the President obviously could have done both. There's nothing preventing him from doing both except for, as you know, the limitations on how much interaction he can actually have with people during the course of a day. And I think that in this sense, it just seemed very out of touch.

And the other thing is, look, these glitzy things that the Democrats put on Yeah. In a time of economic plenty, they don't really offend a lot of people. You know, I think that we can complain about them a little bit, how they love to rub elbows with Hollywood and these billionaires. They've become the party of billionaires over the last several years in a really big way. But I think that, again, in times of economic plenty, I don't think that people really mind that much.

I think in times when people are struggling, they absolutely mind. And so when they see things like paying $100,000 to get Andy Leibovitz to take a picture of you with these former presidents, it's just something that rubs people the wrong way. It just doesn't come across as being something that puts you in touch with what normal people are dealing with. And it's one reason why, as the Republican Party has become the party of the small dollar donor, it's something that I think Democrats are going to have to try to figure a way out of because it's going to continue to be a problem for them in the years to come. I think a couple of things.

I think that the working class is a big deal for them. And I think they got to try to get it back. Barack Obama had more of it. Clinton had a lot of it. And that's how he beat that's one of the reasons why he beat Bush forty-one.

And I think that's what they were doing on stage. Here's Barack Obama at Radio City. They only released about two cuts, but we hear that that Joe Biden was the alpha on the stage, really in command. Right. Cut 46.

And at the end of the day. What you're what you want Not just out of your president, but out of your government. is People whose values are rooted in wanting to make sure everybody Gets it shot. And that's who Joe Biden is. And so.

Who is it that really sees you and cares about you. I can. Yeah. I'm pretty confident the other guy does it. This guy does.

That's why we're gonna have to fight so hard. I don't know if that's enough. And by the way, that's kind of a, I know he's trying to be too cool for the room, but that's not the biggest endorsement. No, it's this bad. backhanded even.

I mean, you know, the the truth is that uh look Obama has finally fulfilled his destiny in life, which is he was always destined to grow up to be a podcast host. That's what he does, it's how he approaches politics. And I say that as a podcast host myself, but the point is, he never really wanted to be president. He wanted to be someone who can give this kind of commentary regardless of the fact that he had the job. And I think that that's something that.

You know, when we look at this situation right now, what pains a lot of smart Democrats, and I include Barack Obama among them, is they see how bad this is. They can read the polls. They can tell the dynamics of the room. They can see the trajectory that Joe Biden is on. And with that, I think if you had the true, honest assessment from former President Obama, he would be saying, look, this is my legacy on the line, too.

I picked Joe. I ran with Joe. And then I ran with him again, at a moment when we could have gone and shifted to perhaps a younger generation. You could have had more of a backing for people who could do this job for a full eight years without the age question. But he went all in for Joe in 20.

And obviously, this has turned out the way that it has. And I think it's left him feeling very frustrated given the way that this White House has not lived up to a lot of the hopes that Democrats had for it. How do you explain some of the things that they're doing? I mean, not putting religious symbols on those eggs. Why does that work if you want Christians?

Why does it work to bolster Transgender Awareness Day? How does that work police? politically.

So this is the most fundamental thing that I think people don't understand. in uh about what's going on in Washington today. This White House is terrified of young progressive voters. It is terrified of them. It's terrified of them on Gaza.

It's terrified of them on the TikTok issue. It really took pressure from Democrats on Capitol Hill to have them shift on that. They're terrified of them on all of the different trans-related subjects. And that's the thing that really sticks out about how this presidency has gone in a direction that not a lot of people expected, becoming far, much more of a culture war, you know, progressive-minded White House than the one that Joe Biden sold to voters and the one that really he represented for most of his career, where he was much more in the center of where the Democratic Party was, as opposed to appealing to its fringe elements.

Now all they are doing is catering to that. That religious symbol thing is totally unnecessary. Who votes for you based on that?

Okay, who what one voter do you get because you say you're not going to tolerate religious symbols on Easter? That's ludicrous. It's absolutely ludicrous. It's out of step with the Joe Biden that we knew in the past, who, if anything, was absolutely about this embrace of a sort of. Civic, valueless religion in the way that he typified himself.

And now it's like that, even that's too much. And it's just ridiculous. And it's also the reason why they're losing and the reason why I think that they're going to continue to lose. I don't know if you had a chance to see what's going on with the Israelis. As you know, they're trying to move the IDF is trying to move through Gaza, and they'll lose a different Democrat every single day.

There's no doubt about it this is related to this is related to the election. I got it. But they also are, we're looking at a time in our country where it doesn't seem like the majority of Americans, Americans, 36 percent, are even pro-Israel. Listen to Senator Chris Van Hollen, cut nineteen. There's no doubt that blocking aid into Gaza is a violation of international humanitarian law.

With respect to certain individuals in the Netanyahu government, people like Finance Ministers Smotrich and Ben Gavir, who have not only said they want to block aid into Gaza, but have taken steps to block aid into Gaza. That is a war crime. They're looking at control at number one, and they can't trust the UN because some of these guys at the UN organization actually are in on the October 7th attack, but they're trying to be smart about getting it in. I don't think they're denying it. No, I agree with you.

And also, I think that type of remark from Senator Van Holland is just completely. I mean, that's just. That is so completely irresponsible. You know, you can't go after America's chief ally in the region and accuse them of war crimes just flippantly like that. And again, I think they're catering to this loud voice of progressives in the room that does not actually represent the opinions of most Americans, I believe.

And also, I think it's just completely divorced from the reality on the ground here. Look, Israel cannot be paralyzed by the fact that the business of war and getting involved in it is going to create all sorts of other problems for people in the region. They can't be paralyzed by that fact. They have to eliminate Hamas. They cannot allow anything like this to that, like what we saw on October 7th, this act of genocidal targeting of women and children and everything else that we saw happen on that terrible day to ever happen again.

And whatever they need to do to prevent that, we need to back them in doing it. We cannot micromanage this war for them. Advantages themselves.

Now, whether Netanyahu comes out at the end of this, at the end of his political career, that's a different question. But it's something that I think we cannot put ourselves in the business of. Telling an ally what they can and cannot do according to what they're seeing on the ground. Right, and Ben, I want to bring you to something else in 60 Minutes last night that stuck with me, and that is the Havana syndrome. We know about these high-frequency headache attacks that are debilitating.

It turns out they're targeted at the most lethal intelligence experts we have. And it didn't start there, it started in Germany. One thing is pretty clear: they're aiming at Americans, and this is a new form of attack. And according to a former DIA official, Defense Intelligence Agency official, who ran this operation to try to investigate it, he knows who's behind it. Listen to this, CUT 34.

Are we being attacked? My personal opinion, yes. By whom? Russia. Greg Edgreen ran the investigation for the Defense Intelligence Agency.

He would not discuss classified information, but he described his team's work from 2021 to 2023. We were collecting a large body of data ranging from signals intelligence, human intelligence, open source reporting, anything regarding the Internet, travel records, financial records, you name it. Unfortunately, I can't get into specifics based on the classification, but I can tell you at a very early stage, I started to focus on Moscow.

So they say the evidence is overwhelming. And that they don't want to hear it at the White House. Because it looks like I mean, for them to attack our leading intelligence officials with a devastating microwave brain, it's really attacking the brains. I mean, that's a declaration of war. That's a risk the Russians are taking.

Well, and keep in mind, it would be completely in their character. I can't obviously speak to any of the intelligence that they've gathered, but it would be completely in their character to engage in this type of behavior. They're always looking for innovative ways To attack and undermine us and, particularly, our intelligence gathering efforts overseas. And look, we should not turn a blind eye toward this, but it's also one of the reasons why I think the level of naivete that was exposed really early on in this administration, both as it related to the pullout from Afghanistan and as it related to the idea that we would be able to have some type of negotiated back and forth with the Putin regime, it's just a complete indictment of that. I think that we need new blood within our foreign policy, within the security advice positions that are so critical at this point in time.

And that includes, of course, people who have experience and have been sort of on the front lines over the course of the past many conflicts, but also just people who are going to look at things with, I think, an eye on understanding the capabilities of America's foes around the world. And that unfortunately does not include the people who are currently in charge in this administration.

So let me see. Iran can wreak havoc in the Middle East. And tangenti attack our guys and through the Houthi rebels continue to attack us even over the weekend. In Venezuela, we cut a deal with them, relief, get some sanctions relief, let them pump a little bit of oil. And in response, we told them also to have free and open elections.

They said, fine. They arrest his opponent, Des Mendoro, and then they send us all their prisoners. And we're going to let them still pump oil? It's absolutely, I mean, I am laughing, but it's absolutely pathetic. And it's something that I think.

You know, it was one of the reasons why people have seen kind of the two different sides of this. They were told that the Trump administration would bring total chaos to the world, that it would be, you know, this the media engaged in all these different scare tactics about things. And now you look back at it and you see, you know, with the 2020 hindsight, actually that was more stable. Actually, it was one where America was more respected. It's one where people were actually more afraid of what America was capable of doing.

And that to me is far more consistent with the approach that the American people want and deserve in a foreign policy that is clear-eyed and has no imaginary assumptions along the lines of what we've seen from this internet. And Ben, lastly, are you under the impression the race is tightening? I think that the race is tightening, but I think that that was always inevitable. I think that some of the polling data that was happening there really was in the absence of the kind of criticism that the former president is going to receive, and that's going to get even heavier and heavier. But I will say that I think the Democrats are more scared at this juncture than Republicans are.

Republicans, when I talk to them, they're a lot more confident than the Democrats that I talk to. And they're worried for a reason, and that's because they think things are more likely to get worse rather than better in the coming months. I think Speaker Johnson is going to put Ukrainian aid on the table when he gets back. Do you believe that too? Yeah, I think it probably is going to go on the table, and you're going to hear a lot of the same folks come forward who have been critical of that as they have been in the past.

I do think that, you know, really, what's happened with Speaker Johnson has been an indictment of all the people who thought that somehow changing the person in charge was going to change all the dynamics in Washington. That simply hasn't been the case, and it's slowed down, I think, the Republican agenda in Washington in a way that has not helped them. And it doesn't help, too, when everyone keeps leaving, especially Stonehenge. No, that's also true. That's also true.

I have some problems with that myself. Yeah, I think you should finish out your term. You got two years. My goodness. How big is going to be?

Two years. Unbelievable. I agree with you, Brian. Ben Dominic, it's always great to talk to you. One day after Transgender Awareness Day, I hope we make it a traditional.

Great to be with you. All right, fantastic. And check out his podcast. Back in a moment with your calls. Both sides, all opinions, it's Brian Killmead.

Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Pet experts are warning people not to bring their dogs to watch next month's solar eclipse, saying that it could be too stressful for them. Pet experts also want you to know that they're looking for real work. Pretty funny.

They had some quick one liners. I was amazed at the way they balanced it out a little bit. I think you'll see with the open that it's a little bit different. that they normally you know, they just pretend that Donald Trump's the only one in the race usually. You know, we'll grab that definitely for tomorrow because actually we have one of Guttfeld's finest Joe DeVito in.

So I'm sure the two of you can dissect that very well. Big mistake. Did you book Joe DeVito? I might have. Is there any way to get out of it?

I mean, we can try, but when he just shows up tomorrow, then you can also tell him to his favorite. Right. I remember, I mean, he is a writer behind the scenes, extremely successful stand-up comic. But he just talked about being on Gutfeld and talking to Jamie, too. Yeah.

And and Mike Loftus. really helps. Help sells tickets. Like, I wouldn't say like Carson. Carson changes lives, but they say they go on the road now and they go from Guttfeld.

It's just amazing.

Well, 'cause he always has it on the bottom of the screen where all these comedians are. And I mean, they're funny. They make you laugh with some serious and non serious topics. It it makes sense. If you're watching Gutfeld, you're gonna also like comedy.

Right. Uh and I also think people aren't afraid to be somewhat not necessarily be all in For Trump, but not be against him. People are more willing to accept it, and they'll be a little bit more bold.

So we'll see where that goes. We have to get Seinfeld now. Seinfeld's got a new movie out. He's got a trailer out about pop-tarts. Not sure how it's going to go.

Looks funny. But this has got to be the moment where you get Seinfeld.

So is there public plea to Seinfeld saying, please come to the show? I mean, it's WABC, he's always in New York. He is. I mean, he wants to sell his movie. Doesn't does how big our audience is?

Plus you have the massive people connection. I'm hoping that works. It has not worked to date. That's what I realize that. Yes, and to remind everyone, you worked for his dad.

That was your first job. Yes. I've since moved on. I got out of the sign business. See me April 27th.

I'll be on stage with History, Liberty, and Labs. Seinfeld, if he wants to check me out and watch me there in Henderson, Nevada, BrianKillMe.com, if Jerry Seinfeld's listening. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't, or at least Alec Faldwins is, or Steve Gutenberg, all from Aspeople. From the Fox News Podcasts Network, in these ever-changing times, you can rely on Fox News for hourly updates for the very latest news and information on your time. Listen and download now at FoxNewsPodcast.com or wherever you get your favorite podcasts.

Listen to the show ad-free on Fox News Podcast Plus, on Apple Podcast, Amazon Music with your Prime membership, or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Mm-hmm.