Brian Visits Fort Liberty in North Carolina

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Thanks so much for listening. We've got a big hour coming your way, three hours. And hopefully, you can listen to all three in any order you choose. Or if you're watching on the listening on the podcast, or if you're watching on your app, just click on watch and just page over until you get Fox News Radio. Today, we're actually just now going on the stream because it's our privilege to be at Fort Liberty, formerly Fort Bragg.

It was once Camp Bragg, fell into Fort Bragg over 100 years ago. And now you're looking at Fort Liberty, where about 87,000 men and women train on a daily basis, 23,000 family members, 11,000 civilians, all to keep America safe and the world safe. It's pretty encouraging to be here and an honor to be here, especially knowing so many people sacrificed so much, and we are just days from Memorial Day. This is All-American Week. And we'll be talking about that throughout the show.

But before we do get started, this hour is joined by Professor Alan Dershowitz and Riley Gaines. She's got a brand new book out, and we'll also be talking about everything going on in the world.

So as we wait for the former President of the United States to make his way to the bike racks and at some point make some statements, it'll be echoey, but I'm sure it'll mean a lot. Let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. In this case, Israel. They lost the equivalent of what would have been 40,000 dead Americans in one day. And it would be similar to after 9-11 saying, oh, we're going to do the same thing to George W.

Bush because he dared to fight back after 2,977 Americans were slaughtered on 9-11. Yup, outrageous International Criminal Court comes for Israel's leadership and misses George Clooney is behind the offensive. No joke. Arrest warrants for the Prime Minister and Defense Minister. The world is upside down.

Number two. I mean, that speech would have made sense some years ago. I think we should acknowledge that racism still persists and we should always be making remedial remedies for it. But we're not in the past. I always keep saying, let's live in the year we're living in.

There you go. Bill Maher on with Greg Guttfeld last night. It was just a great show. 2024. Shock poll as Joe Biden in a dead heat in a traditional Democratic stronghold of New Hampshire.

And Trump set for a rally in the Bronx. We look at the state of the race. Speaking of race, the fallout from Biden's cynical commencement address at Morehouse rippled through the country. It was a shocking moment. We were hitting each other, saying, Do we know this yet?

Because it was a stunning revelation.

So I think the real question for the jury is: is Michael Cohen the worst witness of all time? Kerry Kupek Irvan, who's just fantastic. Talking about what happened in the trial on Monday as Michael Cohen went back on for the final day, the fourth day on the stand. Bob Costello, his former attorney and advisor, after their brief stint together, sent shockwaves in the case and for the system. We'll talk about that.

And the ball is now in the defense's court. The prosecution rests. And I don't think the defense is going to be doing much. And I'll talk about that a lot with Alan Dershowitz, so I won't get too deep into it now. I want to be able to get to the other talking points in the A-Block here in 4 Liberty in beautiful North Carolina.

Just to talk a little bit about this.

So, Bob Costello did, he told us on Friday. I asked him flat out. And, Eric, it might be my most brilliant question. He would not tell me if he was coming on Monday, but what did I say? You don't even remember.

I said to him, okay, answer me this. Are you going to be in New York City on Monday? And he paused and he said, I have an office in New York City, but he ended up going right to the courtroom, at which time he got in trouble for staring at the judge, because my sense is Bob Costello understood how imbalanced this judge has been, making him don't give me the side eye. He clears the courtroom, don't stare me down, don't make verbal noises when I sustain an objection. But the big story is.

The Michael Cohen. Said, I stole at least $30,000 from the Trump organization. He said, Well, I figured I was owed it since they cut back on my bonus. Here's Carrie Kubek-Urbana on what that all means. Cut one.

It was a shocking moment. We were hitting each other, saying, Did we know this yet? Because it was a stunning revelation.

How many days into the case, and we're almost at the end of it all. The prosecution didn't front it last week. In fact, Jesse, we were all led to believe when Michael Cohen was on the stand under direct examination last week that he was just trying to get his money back and his Christmas bonus and feel bad for me when, in fact, he was stealing from Trump as he was negotiating this payment plan.

So I think the real question for the jury is: is Michael Cohen the worst witness of all time? Maybe, but he's the one who said that Donald Trump he told on Donald Trump's behest to put $130,000 into somebody's account, then he got repaid, and then they said Donald Trump did it. Therefore, it's a violation. We've got to put him in jail for four years. It's a joke on its face.

I can't even explain it anymore. I know you're tired of hearing it. They do say this. Court experts say it comes down to the jury instructions. And so far, this case has not been proven.

There's been two revelations that show the prosecution has been surprised, if not just willingly unprepared or inept. Number one, saying that he stole money. Number two, coming out and saying that the text message that he said was the time in which he contacted the aide of Donald Trump at the time, Keith Schilling. And Schiller and said, Hey, I got to talk to him about Stormy Daniels. No, it was about a fourteen-year-old that was harassing you.

So, when both those revelations came out, it lost a lot of credibility. And we'll talk about that. Overall, what does it mean for twenty twenty four? That I find more interesting. Matt Towery was on the Ingram Angle.

He's a pollster. And he talked about what it would mean. Instead of saying what it means if he's convicted, What it would mean if Donald Trump Was convicted, and what would it mean if he was exonerated? Hung jury, whatever. Cut nine.

I have to tell you, the tide is turning. Kellyanne nailed it. It's the economy in almost all of these locations. And I see even the suburbs are beginning to move in the direction of Trump, which everybody thought suburbs would never move. I don't think democracy is an issue except if you're watching this trial on television, because the trial and the coverage of it probably is causing more people to have sympathy for Donald Trump than any one issue I've ever seen.

And if he's convicted, It will probably win him the White House. It's phenomenal the way I'm in Cincinnati, Ohio right now. I've talked to people on the street that I don't know that well. This trial, no one thinks it's fair. And so they're kidding themselves.

If they think that somehow democracy is a threat with Donald Trump, they're watching it right now in New York. Yeah, and let's talk about this. For the first time, I think ever, since it's been pretty clear that it's going to be Biden-Trump too, Donald Trump and the Republican Party have raised more money last month than Joe Biden. That is a terrible sign. Here's another terrible sign.

President Biden will be in New Hampshire because the last poll that he saw internally and the one that we all saw shows it being a dead heat. The Republicans have not won. New Hampshire since Al Gore was running and George Bush won.

So That's trouble. And that shows maybe a wider spread. Maybe Virginia is vulnerable. Maybe Minnesota is vulnerable. Maybe Wisconsin is vulnerable.

Although it's a battleground state, the Trump administration feels as though they have, even though they've been trailing traditionally by one or two points almost the entire time. But get this: if you look at New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Journal. New Hampshire Journal, it's 36.6 to 36.5. Trump is on top with RFK in the race, and RFK has already gotten through on New Hampshire. Remember, Governor Sununu said, I worry about New Hampshire because it should be a Republican state.

He's got elected a bunch of times, and Nikki Haley did pretty well there and is somewhat moderate. But I feel as though you can't win it with Trump. I cannot wait to talk to Governor Sununu, perhaps next week, to say, have you changed your mind?

So last month The Trump administration, excuse me, the RNC had $124 million raised, which is pretty impressive. Overall, they outraised by about $10 million or $20 million the other side. What does it mean? More momentum towards a guy who's stuck in court, can't even campaign. More momentum towards somebody who picks his spots and gets 100,000 people in Wildwood, New Jersey, a state who lost by 15 points.

More momentum in a guy that's got winning in five or six battleground states. Big day in Georgia. Why do I say that? Because in Georgia, there's a primary. Fannie Willis and Scott McGee McAfee are there.

Remember Judge McAfee, remember Fonnie Willis? They're having a real run for their money. What would happen to the Trump case if Fonnie Willis loses the election? Who can vote? Georgia opens her primaries all day.

They could choose either party on the ballot. All right, I'm Brian Kilmead. We are on the road in North Carolina at Fort Liberty, thinking about Memorial Day and thinking about All-American Week here. When we come back, Alan Dershowitz brings me in on what to expect as the defense wraps up. They do have a witness lined up, but there will not be closing arguments tomorrow.

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Today it was proven their star witness, Michael Cohen. Has lied over and over and over again. He lied to Congress, he lied to Senate, he lied to the Attorney General of New York, he lied in the DA trial in New York, he lied to the Southern. District of New York. He lied.

To his wife he lied to Judge Palsy, which is the judge. That sentenced him. He paid vendors in bags of cash. He stole from our organization. Right?

So then we asked the judge for a motion to dismiss after all these lies, after Michael. Agrees that he lied to all of these people, right? He's a serial perjurer, he's a serial liar, he can't. Be trusted, and he is their star witness. We asked for a motion to dismiss and it just goes nowhere.

Eric Trump is frustrated. He has been the one. that uh he's been the one that has been showing up in court and members of the family.

So let's bring in Alan Dershowitz, who was also there yesterday. Professor, you've seen a lot of court cases. What makes this unique? What did you see in person that you couldn't have imagined unless you were there yourself? Like I've been in courthouses in every part of the world, in China, in Russia, in Ukraine, in Israel.

I've been all over. I've never seen a spectacle like this. And that's why it should have been on television, so the American public could see how outrageous this judge is. And CNN just does his bidding. CNN lies, lies through their teeth about what happened in court yesterday between Judge Marshon and Bob Costello.

Bob Costello testifies. Marshon rules against him at every point, keeps out his testimony, makes outrageous rulings that any first-year student taking evidence would know was wrong. And Bob Costello does what I did. He rolled his eyes and I rolled my eyes. I said, I couldn't believe the judge was making these rulings.

And the judge, thinking he's a tyrant, clears the courtroom, throws out everybody from the media. For some reason, they allowed me to stay. And I watched as the judge berated him. And the judge did something I have never seen in a courtroom. In my history, 60 years.

He threatened. to strike the testimony of the main witness For the defendant because of punishment of the witness For Staring at the judge. Can you imagine? The violation of the Sixth Amendment. The Sixth Amendment allows any defendant to confront witnesses and to present evidence at his defense.

Can you imagine if this judge had actually struck the testimony of Bob Costello, it would result in an automatic mistrial, new trial, and a verdict against the prosecution. The judge was bluffing. He ought to be disciplined from making that threat, because the threat was an idle threat. He obviously didn't act on it. If he had acted on it, the judge should be removed from the bench.

You can't throw out a witness's testimony. And punish the defendant that way. It's just an outrageous threat. And we didn't see it because. Television is not allowed in the courtroom.

By the way, television is in the courtroom. There are television cameras in the courtroom. There's an overflow room that's Shows it on television. Even us in the courtroom could see it on television because the witnesses are sometimes blocked. They just won't allow the American public to watch this trial, and I don't blame them.

If I were the judge, I would never want this trial to be on television because he's behaved so outrageously.

Well, so Professor Dercy, with all your years, you never heard that, because I'm listening to this. Obviously, I'm relying on a transcript, and I'm at Fort Liberty today, so I wasn't able to stand on the court case like I usually do in the afternoon.

So I'm reading this and I'm saying to myself, did he strike the actual statements from the record? Bob Costello coming out saying, I told Michael Cohen, I asked him, Do you have anything on Trump? And he said no. All those blatant, direct declarative statements. Are they struck from the record?

No, no. He threatened to strike it, but it was an idol.

Okay. But what was he sustaining then? What objections was he sustaining? Oh, just, you know, he tried to get into conversations, the judge's hearsay. The judge said this, the judge said that.

The judge restricted his testimony, didn't allow him to testify about a lot of things. And all of his rulings were wrong. You know, I tell you, I sat in from what, nine o'clock in the morning until five o'clock at night, a whole day in court. I have seen, I saw more errors. In one day, committed by the judge.

Than I've seen in cases that last a month. And this is just one day. I was only there for one day. I can just imagine. How many errors?

Because nobody cares about whether this case is reversed. The goal is to get a down and dirty conviction. Influence the election, and then whatever the appeal decides, they'll decide. It doesn't matter because it'll be after the election. And and part of the the spinning is happening on MSNBC too.

I don't watch it either. But here's Lawrence O'Donnell cut eleven. He very effectively got Michael Cohen to say, to agree that yes, he stole $30,000. Later, when Cohen was asked about that on Redirect by the prosecution, it didn't really sound like stealing $30,000. It sounded a lot like Michael Cohen doing the little that he could within that calculation to rebalance the bonus he thought he deserved.

And it still came out as less than the bonus he thought he deserved and the bonus he'd gotten the year before.

So he's spinning from like a coherent lie. Just a dead. Straight out lie. He's right. It wasn't $30,000, it was $60,000.

And under the law of New York, that's called grand larceny. You can't engage in self-help. If you think somebody owes you a bonus, And he didn't give you the bonus. You can't break into his house at night, open his safe and steal his money. You can't go in and kidnap his children and hold him hostage and say, pay my bonus.

And you can't just take money, put it in a bag, paper bag, and pay $20,000 of the $60,000 you owe the vendor and keep the other whatever amount of money for yourself. And you know, but it's typical of MSNBC. They're not a tip station. They are a propaganda mill, they are provided. And and that's why It's so essential to have these trials on television.

Professor, having said that, we have about a minute and a half left. I just want to get your take on what's going to happen. Defense, do you think it looks like prosecution is going to get a shot at Bob Costello today, and then what? And then it's probably over because the defense tried to put on an expert witness, which they should have been allowed to put on, because there's a letter which was read to the jury, which says that the payments were illegal campaign contributions. And this witness, who's a real expert, would have contradicted that, but the judge said, No, he's not going to let him testify.

To that. And so we see error after error after error. This is not a trial. This is an Alice in Wonderland conviction first trial thereafter. And it'll be reversed on appeal.

It should be in any event. But it'll be too late to affect the election. This is election interference, pure and simple. I was proud to be in court yesterday. I'm not a political supporter of the Republicans or of Donald Trump, but I'm a supporter of justice for everybody, no matter which party they're on, no matter whether I vote for them or against them.

Twenty seconds. You looked at the jury. Do you do you have a sense of w how they're leaning? I couldn't tell. They were very interested when the testimony came up about the $60,000 stolen.

They looked a little shocked at that. I expected a Perry Mason moment. The police would walk in and put handcuffs on him and take him out, but it didn't happen, unfortunately. It should have. You know, it's just so weird.

I've seen more people involved in the law who are just so upset about this, not even fans of Trump, because it just abuses what you've spent your whole life doing and being so proud of. I got from new emails, I got from people complaining that I even went to the trial. How dare I go to the trial? What can you do, Professor? We can't impress you.

You just got to do the right thing. Keep doing what you're doing. Alan Dershowitz, thanks so much.

So when we come back, we move ahead. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. We are in the outlier now, the United States. It's so funny the way sometimes the woke stuff, you know, and I always try to make this point that liberalism is not, you know, the same thing as woke.

Woke, they would like to think they're an extension of liberalism. I'm an old school liberal. They're not. It's very often the opposite. And they think they're going so far in the right direction and it actually turns out that they're in the wrong direction.

They've actually reversed it. And that was Bill Maher last night with Greg Gutfeld. He's got a book out, but he was just talking. He's been on the right side of this transgender thing. And what I like about it is, he doesn't have any kids, he's not an athlete.

Necessarily. He just says it's ridiculous. Of course they shouldn't be competing with men in sports. It goes without saying. And I like when people on the left understand that, that it's not being biased, it's being fair to women.

Riley Gaines doesn't need that explanation. She has a book out now, former NCAA Swimmer, Division One, Riley Gaines Center at the Leadership she just started. And the name of her new book is Gains for Girls. And she's got that podcast on Outlook, Outkick that is doing great. And now the new book is called Swimming Against the Current: Fighting for Common Sense in a World That's Lost Its Mind.

Riley, at least Bill Maher hasn't, right? That's so true. First and foremost, Brian, I just have to tell you, I sat on your seat this morning on the couch on Fox and Friends, and now I'm sitting in your host chair in your studio.

So I think I'm taking your job. I think you could. That's the scary part for me. You're doing great work out there.

So, thank you for where you are and what you're doing. But, yes, to your point, look, you hit it on the head. No, Bill Maher doesn't have kids. No, obviously, he's not a female athlete. But he's a common sense, everyday American who intuitively knows that men and women are different and that children should maintain their innocence and that parents.

have their own rights. Uh, parental rights are important. That I mean, it's it's really that simple. I cannot believe that we are being governed and led by people I mean, a whole administration in the White House who is actively opposing All of those things.

So, Riley, what made you say to yourself, I've got to stop down for a second, even though I'm in the middle of this firestorm, and write this book?

Well, gosh, really the book is something that I wish I had when I was in the midst of dealing with what we were dealing with, competing against a man, being silenced by our universities, changing in a locker room with said man. I didn't have the resources. I didn't have necessarily the support to know what to do, to know how to take a stand. And so I had to figure a lot of that out. seemingly on my own.

Uh I've met some amazing people along the way, and now I realize that, yes, the support and the resources are there. Um but that's what this book is. Uh it's a more in depth account into what we experienced at that national championships. Of course, other stories, other girls who have been impacted, who have lost out on opportunities, who have been injured in their sports, the broader picture of what this issue means, why it matters, the direction we are headed as a nation, and again, what we can do as parents, as coaches, as female athletes, men, women. This is not up to one demographic to come up with a solution and to help solve this problem indefinitely.

It's up to all of us. You know, you took a lot of crap for doing this. I mean, I remember when you were boxed in and you were kept basically hostage in a classroom after you made a speech. People try to harass you at your events. And at some point, did you say, This is not worth it.

I want to be a dentist, right? I did want to be a dentist. I was in school to be an endodontist, which is root canals, weirdly enough. And I kind of joke now and say this position that I've been thrusted into is definitely more painful than a root canal. But yeah, uh the vitriol That we're up against, and I say we because I know you see it too.

The vitriol that we're up against, the violence in many instances, as you said. Uh yes, it's real, yes, it exists, but it is. 110% worth it. Uh the broader picture here Much larger than just women's sports.

Okay. The premise of this debate is that we're denying. Objective truth, the most basic of truths at that. Man and woman, the sheer essence of humanity. Hate to break it to you, Brian.

You and every other person on this planet are here for man and woman, and we're being asked to deny that. That's as if we're being asked to deny that the sky is blue. And so this is and will always be a hill that I am willing to die on. And to those people who don't feel it worthwhile or necessary or urgent to take a stand. My question to them is.

If this isn't a hill you're willing to die on, then what in the world is?

So today's New York Times. A group of elected parent leaders in New York asked the city to review Education Department rules allowing transgender students to play on sports teams that align with their gender. The parent council represented the diverse local district, too, that weaved through the West Village. Hell's Kitchen in the Upper East Side said the current policies present challenges to youth athletes and coaches and fail to consider the well-being of girls.

So they are demanding change in liberal New York. The elected officials include Representative Jerry Nadler and Assembly Tony Simone, who are now critical of the parents for coming forward. The officials argue that while some parents say they were simply asking for a conversation, the resolution was based on anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and that has helped fuel harassment and mental health issues for young people. Is that what you're doing, Riley? You and those parents in liberal New York City trying to make life bad for LGBTQ plus people?

Look, I'm not surprised by. Anything in this story. I'm not surprised by the parents pushing back, and I'm not surprised by the pushback that they're receiving from, again, our leaders. And I put leaders in air quotes there. We saw this in New York out of Nassau County.

We saw executive Bruce Blakeman. He issued an executive order saying, In my county, we're not going to have boys competing against girls. And this was huge. Again, it's in New York, one of the largest counties in New York, to which the Attorney General here in New York is ultimately suing Executive Blakeman.

So this story doesn't surprise me. And it's very. We're very quick to get labeled. You, myself, Executive Blakeman, anyone who even not even opposes the gender ideology movement, anyone who even dares to question the movement. You're labeled as anti-trans or transphobic or homophobic or racist or white supremacist, domestic terrorist.

You're called a fascist, whatever else they can think of, derogatory term they can label you. But I have said this time and time again, and I'm very intentional in my messaging. The stand that I have taken is not against anything. I'm not saying that trans people shouldn't. Be able to compete.

I'm not saying that they're not worthy of safety and fairness. Actually, quite the contrary. I'm fighting for their safety and fairness as well.

So the stand is not anti-anything, it's pro-woman, it's pro-fairness, it's pro-reality, pro-common sense, it's pro-science. What happened to all of the science?

So much for that, right? That's the stand that I have taken, and I can certainly guarantee you that's the stand that those parents in New York take.

Well, would you help these parents? Because the Manhattan Borough, here, get this. This is the message. When you sit up and say, I want my girls playing against girls, this is the answer. They go, the message to trans students that they are not welcome has reverberations, and the consequences can be dire.

This must be fighting, we must be fighting for every student and not attack, ridicule, or marginalize the vulnerable. The Manhattan Borough president went out and announced earlier the month that one parent who voted in favor of getting rid of the transgender with women sports was fired from her position. But yet the Siena College poll found that two Two-thirds of registered voters, including 83% of Republicans and 77% of Independents, support requiring high school athletes to only compete with others of the same sex they were assigned at birth. 52% of Democrats supported that policy.

So who the hell are they pleasing? The majority of the country believes what Riley Gaines believes. The majority of the Democratic Party believes what I believe on this topic. And so that's why it's utterly confusing, really. I think we should be asking ourselves the question of why.

You know, who's pulling the strings? What's the big ploy here? Why has the Biden administration and the Department of Education rewritten Title IX entirely, abolishing its original intent? Title IX and its original intent. Of course, Title IX is the Some clarity: it's the federal civil rights law that once prevented sex-based discrimination, specifically on educational programs that receive federal funding.

So, colleges, YMCAs, things like that. It's what gave me the Opportunities that I had, the benefits that I reaped from playing sports in college. But now, President Biden and his administration. Rewrote Title IX and changed it from its 37 words and its original implementation in 1972 to almost half a million words, 1,577 pages from 37 words, Brian. And so we ask ourselves, why?

Who are they pandering to? Me personally, what I think this is about, and we've seen this, we've seen this be the case in Ohio, other states, you think of Ohio, right? Republican Governor Governor DeWine, who vetoed HB sixty eight, which was their safe act, the women's sports bill, because he received forty thousand dollars in funding from these these um hospitals that performed these surgeries and administrative and his heart went out to them and he said they should let it be play. How many parents would you like to talk to that get uh were playing soccer or lacrosse against a male and have their uh head or knocked unconscious, go up for a headball against a male in in soccer and we've seen video on lacrosse and wind up for a shot and what that's like. I mean, these people they just don't even think or they're just so they're just non-athletes who never even watch a sporting event or have no girls.

Exactly. Same thing with someone like Megan Rupino. This is an athlete who, no doubt, has accomplished incredible things. Same thing with Don Staley, right? No doubt they've accomplished phenomenal things in their career, fantastic athletes.

In the case of Don Staley, a fantastic athlete and a coach. But what they're doing in their virtue signaling is pulling up the ladder behind them. They're done competing. They don't have daughters to protect. They don't care.

Um, so I I couldn't agree more with the idea that what we're seeing here is, one, it's corruption of language. We see u the word compassion and inclusion used all the time, but Again, It is not inclusive to ask girls to step aside and allow these men onto our podiums. That is exclusive. And it's not compassionate to ask a young girl to undress in front of a fully grown, fully intact man. That is not what compassion is.

And if that's truly your definition, I think there's a separate conversation that needs to be had, especially if you have daughters with CPS, because that's disgusting, it's perverse, and you're a sellout to your own child at that point. Absolutely.

So Riley, woody in the big picture, you'll continue this fight, but you've established yourself as a very great really excellent communicator. You give great people love your speeches. I followed you at Heritage at an event at Sea Island. People are just raving about your speeches.

So you have much more to give than this issue. You're an accomplished athlete.

So what do you want to do with your career now? You know what, Brian? What I would love to do with my career is go back to being a dentist. How in the world.

Well, it's just. This is a fight that I never wanted to fight. I still don't want to fight. I can't believe we have to spend our time even saying out loud that women don't have penises. I can't believe that, Brian.

But that's what we're spending our time doing. It's wild.

So, no, this isn't necessarily something that I want to be doing, but it is worthwhile. It is necessary. It's a fight that I'm willing to pursue. I'm willing to take the arrows, the heat, the fire that comes with it, because if I don't fight for my future daughter, then who will?

So, I mean, would you ever do swimming events? Would you start getting into regular broadcasting along with this fight? We'll see. Of course, I have my podcast with Outkick, the Gains for Girls podcast.

Now, I have the author of Title by my name with my new book, Swimming Against the Current.

So, I've got my hands in a lot of different pots at the moment, do a lot of policy work with the Independent Women's Forum, do a lot on the legislative front, which I love that side of things. I love having real impact, being on the Hill in D.C., traveling state to state, testifying, helping lawmakers even understand how to talk about and frame these issues. I love that.

So, we'll see what the future holds, but I hope this issue is fixed in a matter of by November. That's what we're aiming for, which I know that's wishful thinking. And then we can move on to the next issue. Gotcha. Riley Gaines, congratulations.

Go out and pick up her book. Great Graduation Present: Swimming Against the Current, Fighting for Common Sense in a World That's Lost Its Mind. Riley, thanks so much, and thanks for sitting in my spot. And please don't take my stuff. I'll keep it warm for you.

Thanks, Brian. That's all I can ask. When we come back, open up the phones if you want. 1-866-408-7669. We'll also get the latest from the trial.

Right now, Bob Costello is on the stand. We'll give you an idea of what's been going on. The prosecution is on redirect. Don't move. Brian Killmee Joe.

On the road in Fort Liberty. Watch it. You won't pull or tear anything listening. Brian does all the heavy lifting. You're with Brian Kilmead.

Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. Hi, everyone. Welcome back. Thanks so much for at Fort Liberty in beautiful North Carolina.

It used to be Fort Bragg, which then Camp Bragg before that. You know, this is All-American Week where these men and women come back that were at one point here, and it's almost like Alumni Day at a college campus. They come back and talk about their generation, their era, their time, reacquaint themselves with families, and, of course, salute those who lost their lives. That'll be more towards this weekend. Today, and last night, I had a chance to go on a Blackhawk, go to Flyer and Apache, go in a tank, the brand new generation of Bradleys, shoot our latest generation of rifles, grenade launchers.

What else did I do? Drone? You wouldn't believe this new generation of drone attack vehicles. But I also had a chance to, with the 82nd Airborne, go out of a tower. They say that they jump, they use this tower to get people used to jumping out of a plane for the first time and/or they haven't jumped in a long time.

It's off a zipline, but you literally jump. Out, and you go about you're about to hit the ground, and all of a sudden it grabs. It's pretty amazing.

So, I'm not sure this is gonna transfer to audio, but here's how it sounded. On Fox and Friends this morning.

Now, how do you feel if I told you to be totally candid? I'm extremely nervous right now. I got that feeling in my stomach. I'm about to do something that isn't the brightest thing I've ever done before. Is that an unusual feeling?

No, sir. If you're not nervous, you probably shouldn't be doing this. All right, then I definitely should be doing this. All right.

So give me some advice. This is what you brief everybody. All right, so one command standby. You're going to rotate into the parachute door. Look out at the horizon.

Don't look at the ground. You're going to place your hands on the end of your zero parachute. I'm going to give you a tap and go. You're going to exit the aircraft, count to 6,000, and then don't touch any of the metal pieces as you go down the zipline. Don't touch the metal pieces.

So I'm going to leave the aircraft or the tower.

Alright, so let's just don't do it.

So I go right here. And I should jump like there is a, like I'm not going to be falling thousands of feet. Yes, sir. Do you have to hold the microphone? Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Wow. That was jarring. And that was extremely scary. And look what's behind me: my reinforcements.

Wow. Oh well wow. Jesus. Oh, what? Wow.

And I'm telling you right now, in retrospect, I would have loosened up my jockstrap a little. That was quite interesting. You don't get that at Disney. And then I lost my IFP and I lost transmit. I lost transmission.

But it was really fun. But they did tell me after that they said, you know what, it's easier to jump out of a plane than it is off that tower. One of the guys came up to me and said, Yeah, I don't like the tower. He goes, I'd much rather jump out of a plane. It's actually less jarring when you jump, which I thought was interesting.

And they asked me, too, before I did it, would I want to try it first? And I said, no, because let's say it goes really bad, I cannot not do it.

So I did it, and it doesn't take much skill. It just you have to get used to it. I could see doing this like dozens of times in order to feel comfortable jumping out of a plane, if that isn't all comfortable. But I also am heartened by the fact that they say that for the most part, you always get that feeling before you jump out of a plane that you're doing something that could potentially be very unhealthy.

So don't forget, we're for Liberty here, days away from Memorial, days from Memorial Day.

So we appreciate everybody making the trip. Who came out here and made this day so special. Also on Memorial Day, I hope you make plans and find some way in between barbecues and visits to the beach because the weather is supposed to be good in most of the country. And in my area in New York, you're going to have the Blue Angels, which is always fantastic. Hope people find a way to get themselves to the cemetery, especially if you live near Arlington.

Brian Kilmicho. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Thanks so much for being with us.

I come to you not from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan today. I come from the legendary. I guess camp uh Fort Liberty. Uh Fort Liberty was known as Fort Bragg for years because uh the links to a Confederate general. They said, let's rename it.

They came up with Liberty. Everyone embraced it. And now they are in full mode. Everything has switched, but yet they haven't forgotten their history. I mean, this is a.

A fourth that opened up in 1918, and then it became Camp Bragg, and then became Fort Bragg, and now it's, as I mentioned, Fort Liberty. You've got 87,000 people here, 57,000 military personnel, 11,000 civilian employees, 23,000 family members, the largest military complex, one of the largest military complexes in the world. And I had a chance to work with these men and women. It's so impressive. And I'm talking about, I have a 47-year-old who became a paratrooper at 47 years old after serving in the military for 20 years.

Other people in their 30s people have seen multiple deployments. Others who have gotten in their 20s met a guy this morning who told me I joined and I said, Why did you join? He goes, I was born in 9-11. I thought I had to.

So how great is that? I mean, I think we get caught up in seeing what's going on on these college campuses and get down on the next generation. You want to feel better about yourself? Come out to Fort Liberty. But for now, we have a lot going on, including an ongoing court case I'm about to update you on.

That's how I'm going to be joined by Colonel Randy Lenneman. The colonel is a chief innovation officer at Fort Liberty. They actually go to school on what's happening in Ukraine, go to school on what's happening in Gaza, go to school on what's happening with 300 rockets heading towards Israel and how they knocked it out of the sky. And then I'm going to be joined by Commanding Sergeant Major Brian Barker. He's had eight deployments overseas.

Really impressive guy, West Point football player. And he's just a key component here for General Donahue, who runs this whole complex.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. In this case, Israel. They lost the equivalent of what would have been 40,000 dead Americans in one day. And it would be similar to after 9-11 saying, oh, we're going to do the same thing to George W.

Bush because he dared to fight back after 2,977 Americans were slaughtered on 9-11. That is Sean Hannity, outraged as I am about the International Criminal Court coming for Israel's leadership, and Mrs. George Clooney is behind the offensive. No joke. Arrest warrants for the Prime Minister and Defense Minister.

The world is upside down. Number two. I mean, that speech would have made sense some years ago. I think we should acknowledge that racism still persists and we should always be making remedial remedies for it. But we're not in the past.

I always keep saying, let's live in the year we're living in. I'll tell you, Bill Maher was great last night and was contentious with Greg Guttfeldt. 2024 shock pollers. Joe Biden in dead heat in traditional Democratic stronghold of New Hampshire. Trump set for a rally on the Bronx.

No joke. We look at the state of the race. Speaking of race, the fallout from President Biden's cynical commencement address at Morehouse as it ripples through the country. Number one. It was a shocking moment.

We were hitting each other saying, did we know this yet? Because it was a stunning revelation.

So I think the real question for the jury is, is Michael Cohen the worst witness of all time?

Well, that's a good question, Kerry. The Trump trial resumes. Cohen's four days on the standard are done. Bob Costello's brief stint sent shockwaves for the case and for the system. The prosecution is questioning him today.

The ball is now in the defense's court as the prosecution has rest. This is a redirect.

Meanwhile, the court is back in session. Bob Costello is really getting combative, it looks like, according to reports of our reporters there, back and forth with the prosecution. At which time the jury ended up was laughing. They were getting so into it. Or it was somewhat entertaining.

Bob Costello is a really good arguer. I mean, he's a litigator, so these guys know how to go at it. And now that he's a witness, it doesn't mean he's backing off. And you heard Alan Dershowitz last hour. Alan Dershowitz came out and just said, I've never seen such poor behavior by a judge in his career.

He's been doing it 60 plus years. By when he had to brush back, decide to brush back Bob Costello and says, I will threaten to strike your comments from the record because of your behavior. Really? How do you do that if it's a witness? Here's what Alan Dershowitz said: cut eight.

If I sat in the front row, literally just feet away from where all the action occurred, I rolled my eyes when the judge made some rulings that were absurd. Any first-year evidence student would understand that he was making biased rulings in favor of one side. I stared him down, but Costello didn't. He acted like a normal witness, and the judge went berserk. The judge violated Trump's constitutional right to a public trial by kicking the media out of the courtroom.

I don't know why I wasn't kicked out. And I heard him lecture Costello. I'm you what you did was contemptuous.

So look, uh Cohn was terrible. And there was the Sammy the Bull concept. My words. Sammy the Bull, a murderer. Yeah, murdered dozens of people, but John Gotti's worse, and here's the proof.

So they say, Sammy the Bull will give you a new identity, move you to the middle of the country. Of course, we know what happened after that. He ends up committing another crime, getting involved in stuff, and coming out, and now he's public with a podcast. But. Then no one ever said Sammy the Poe was a saint.

But they said John Gotti was worse.

So that's what they're saying about Michael Cohen. Not a saint. But Donald Trump is worse. Nobody thinks that. Nobody.

He is reviled by everyone except for Rosie O'Donnell. And here's how it's played going into today, Cut 10. I'm still kind of reeling from the revelation that Michael Cohen stole money from the Trump organization. I'm shocked that we are hearing it for the first time on day three of cross-examination.

Now, there's an argument to be made that actually you're just an opportunistic thief stealing $60,000 through fraud. which would be larceny in New York State, is more serious of a crime than falsifying businessmen.

So that's CNN. That's MSNBC. That's why I thought it's important because I'm not saying The uh These legal people, professionals, are dishonest. I'm saying that they can spin things. I mean, that's what they do.

They try to defend guilty people and do the best they can to get their point across to a jury. And that's what they are. They are almost marketers. This is the point of view that I'd love for you to digest. But so far, Michael Cohen has not helped and Bob Costello has knocked it out of the park, it seems, if he can get a word out without upsetting the judge.

And the way the judge acted obviously is concerning. I think it's concerning because I just hope the jury doesn't like the judge so much that they're going to go along with the sentiments, which is, of course, Donald Trump is guilty.

So the other big news that I want to discuss is the International Criminal Court, which we don't sign on to, but they essentially put out a warrant for the arrest of Prime Minister Netanyahu and their defense secretary. Why would he do they do that? They said that they're acting in a genocidal fashion in Gaza. Really? So they're going up against a terrorist organization, and it's time to arrest them.

So your big problem in the world is Netanyahu, a democratic government who you're going on Hamas's words that you think that they have violated. They said in an attempt to starve its people. Here's President Biden. He is right on this one, cut 17. My administration is working around the clock to free the remaining hostages.

just as we have freed hostages already. And here is a day as Hirsch Gobert-Poland is still, he is not here with us, but he's still being held by Amos. And Rachel and John are here with us. Stand up, guys. Her love, strength, and compassion inspired the entire world.

I pledge to both of you, and I mean it. And I know you know, Mom, that I mean it. that I will not rest until we bring your loved one home. We gotta bring them home.

So he came out and he didn't hear in that sound bite. He he came out and said, The International Criminal Court is absolutely wrong. We should just say we're not subscribing to it anyway. I mean, you believe in a time like this where one group assassinates another group, they don't like where the counterattack is, so the ICC prosecutors apply for an arrest warrant for those two leaders. Among the people that are upset by this, Tom Cotton.

He came out and made it pretty clear that this should not be a fly. This is brutal and we should not be able to do this. How about this? Naftali Bennett, who wants to be the next Prime Minister of Israel, said on Monday he called for decent nations to defund the International Criminal Court after a court prosecutor filed those applications for the prosecution.

So they're upset by it. Most people are upset by it in the free world, not in the other world. I'd also like to know the State Department genius that came out and decided to express condolences for the loss of the President of Iran, a brutal dictator that assassinates his own people and abuses his women, Amal Cluny. Helped convince the ICC prosecutors to issue the warrant for Benjamin Etanyahu, Hamas's leader. Even though, in a separate soundbite, the President of the United States said he does not subscribe to this and wants it released and relinquished and rescinded.

Amal Clooney was asked to be on the board, said absolutely. These guys should be arrested and jailed. Good. Her husband, George Clooney, will be featuring in a major fundraiser for President Biden in L.A.

next month. What else can I tell you about 2024? You see about New Hampshire. New Hampshire, well, the President of the United States is going to be going there. He's going to be traveling to Boston for more campaign events and going to New Hampshire, too, after his campaign announced $190 million cash in hand.

Well, good luck with that. You spend $20 million to convince everyone the economy is great, and it isn't. And therefore, Bidenomics is fantastic and no one believes it.

So now you're going to spend more money and tell people of New Hampshire you're doing a good job. Right now, in the latest poll, it's 36.6 for Trump. Biden, 36.5. That's with RFK Jr. on the ballot.

But guess what? He's on the ballot.

So good luck. You want to say that maybe he'll drop back? I don't know. He's at 14 points. That's basically where he's always been.

It was the New Hampshire Journal. Analytica poll.

So, this is a legitimate poll that we looked at during the primaries.

So, if you are saying Donald Trump is now even in New Hampshire and he's in double-digit lead in Nevada, which he lost, and now you see he feels is he's in striking distance in Minnesota, and because of the success of Glenn Youngkin, what's possible there, and the military community there. Maybe Donald Trump feels he can flip some of those states that if he does lose Pennsylvania, he can still actually win the race and Michigan, which will be tough. No doubt about it. It will be tough. I'm going to take a timeout and come back.

And we're going to be joined by Brian Barker. He is the commanding sergeant major here at the Eighty second Airborne at Fort Liberty. And then we're going to talk about the end of talk to the innovation officer in charge of innovation when it comes to battlefield weapons. What I saw yesterday, what you're going to see online wherever you go, what we can do with drones is simply outstanding. It almost looks like a Star Wars movie.

You look at the Brian you listen to Brian, Kill Me, Joe. Don't move. Listen and pick up on some things you didn't know before. You're with Brian Kilmead. The fastest three hours in radio.

You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, we are back. And I told you we're at Fort Liberty. And with me right now is Command Sergeant Major Brian Barker with the 18th Airborne Corps right here at Fort Liberty in North Carolina. How many times were you deployed, Brian?

I believe it was 15. 15 times. 15 times. How long did it take you, after any of your deployments, to calm down and get relaxed again? The pace of it, you kind of constantly stayed in that state because coming back from a deployment, you are getting back and getting geared up and ready for the next one.

And so you kind of always kind of stayed at that level. Right.

So when you came back, you did go in for the surge, right? I did. What was that like? It was the tempo of most of our operations prior to the surge really were kind of similar. And so there's just a lot bigger presence of forces over there and more concerted effort for it.

And when it was complete, was there a sense of accomplishment? Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.

Over the deployments, you kind of get to see the evolution of the s security situation and how things are going there and can get a better sense of stability. And so it was definitely a sense of accomplishment.

Now, how does it mentally? Did it aware in you mentally at all? Because physically you look like you're ten years younger than you are. You said being been in how many years? Almost 28.

28 years. You joined at 18. I did. Wow. So you knew what you wanted to do.

Absolutely.

So h how was it mentally getting used to a life, let's say even on the base? Was it tough? No, I think it was actually pretty comfortable. It suited me very well. I liked the pace and the purpose.

Having that purpose definitely makes it easy to keep going. Right.

And what would you describe the mood now among the men and women here, the 87,000 that are here, the 57,000 that are in uniform?

Well, I think you saw it the past couple of days. The energy's high. You know, we've got a dedicated group of professionals that are committed to the security of our nation. Right.

And what do you think the challenges are right now that are so different? For the longest time, we knew exactly two hot wars and other threats. But now you don't have two hot wars, but man, do we have other threats? Yeah, I think as we've seen over the past few years is the The threats are from everywhere. And it's, you know, all it takes is a small flash point, and we're right back in the mix of things.

How much do you study this stuff to get ahead of it? Every day. Every day. You know, it's part of the nature of the business, and so we have to stay in tune with where those potential flash points are and make sure we're adapting to be able to be prepared for any of those contingencies. For the civilians.

What are you taking from the Iraq war? Not Iraq war, Ukraine conflict with Russia. How is that different? Yeah, I think what we see in the Ukraine war right now is Yeah, yeah. A large-scale combat operation that is kind of unprecedented since World War II with the use of mass with fires, with artillery.

And what we're seeing is really back-to-trench warfare, things fighting to almost stalemate, and things shifting just back and forth, inches by inches. And the logistical challenges that it's required to be successful in that battlefield. And I think with the aid package getting pushed through to support the Ukrainians, those are the types of things that's absolutely crucial. Have you worked with them? I have, I have.

I actually was uh back in uh after the the initial uh annexation of Crimea. Uh I was stationed in uh in Germany in the uh part of the one seventy third Airborne Brigade. Uh and we got uh tasked at the time by General Hodges to go over and uh train their National Guard forces to to be able to uh you know for uh security operations. And so we went to uh Lviv uh it back in I think it was January well, we got the mission in January of about twenty fifteen and we were over there training in uh March of Absolutely. You know, what was so remarkable is not the talent so much, but the commitment.

And so you had men coming from all over Ukraine volunteering to protect their nation. You know, a nation at war, and that, you know, doing that out of necessity is pretty significant. Right.

And do you have a how do you feel about The integration of NATO forces. You're working with Sweden? Are you guys working with Finland, the two new? Yeah, absolutely. We just actually finished up a training exercise with Finland working on integration with them.

And so, you know, as we look at the future of warfare, we don't fight alone anymore. We fight as it's not just the army that goes to war, it's all the joint services working together with our allies and our partners.

So there's got to be coordination, and there's got to be rehearsal, and there's got to be exercises. Absolutely.

And there's got to be trust. And you can't surge trust in a time of conflict. For the longest time, I don't want to get you in policy, but you could not convince the Europeans that the Russians were a threat. Do you think they're convinced now from talking to those commanders over there? You know, from my experience in Europe, the time I spent over there, I think proximity to Russia plays a big role in it.

I think the further you are from the border, the less of a threat Russian seems. But I think what we're seeing is that Europe waking up to the real risk that Russia is. Yeah, I mentioned your commanding general mentioned that recruitment's up. What are you finding about the new recruits that are coming on base? I think what we're seeing is a different set of skills.

We talk about the digital generation. I think one of the great things about this is a lot of the leaps ahead in technology, we have the workforce that's comfortable working with it. Um interesting because You definitely need that, but we also heard the fitness level.

Sometimes you've got to grade on a curve.

Sometimes you have somebody who's a good candidate, just not ready physically. But you get them ready. Oh, absolutely. We've invested heavily in holistic health and fitness, and we're getting getting taking civilians from the streets and turning them to combat soldiers. Thanks so much, Commanding General.

Commanding The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. Turn to the previous century is when Camp Bragg became Fort Bragg, and now it is Fort Liberty, where you have tens of thousands of great Americans here training on a daily basis to fight the next war or to fight a war that might be active right now or train others to defend themselves in democracies around the world. It's my privilege to be there for the last two days and I'm finishing up the radio show right here in the middle of, I think, the innovation laboratories of Fort Liberty. I did not know we had an innovations unit, but man, we do.

And that's why we have Colonel Randy Lineman with us right now. Colonel, great to see you. Good to see you, sir.

So, Colonel, I'm in this biggest, cleanest, quietest room that I never thought existed in the Army. What happens here? Yeah, so it's only quiet because you're here. We kind of agree. Is that true?

You're on your best behavior? Best behavior for you.

So, this is the Innovation Laboratory. We have a partnership with Army Futures Command that actually resources not just this post, but all the posts in the 18th Air Force Corps and other posts in the Army if they want to be able to. Have innovations lab.

So, what we do here is 3D printing, additive manufacturing stuff, bending metal, everything from that on the manufacturing, kind of the mechanical engineering side, all the way up to software coding, writing applications, writing software, doing in-platform coding to make some of the software that we use in the Army a little bit better.

So, what do you bring to the table? From the innovation lab aspect?

So what we really do is We know that the war is going to move so fast whenever war happens, it's going to move so fast, it's going to iterate so quickly that we'll have to be able to adapt and integrate everything that is out there and available to us to bring it to bear rapidly. When we look at what's happening overseas with the other wars that are happening, We just see how quickly it's moving, how quickly the enemy and the opposing forces are adapting to the threats that they see. And so we don't want to be left behind having to wait for things to happen.

So we're making sure that we have the ability to do that ourselves for whenever we would go overseas. And you also want to see how this stuff works in theater. And I was talking to some other officers and said that Ukraine has been a very big learning tool for everybody, correct? Yes, yeah.

So we watch it, we study it, we see everything that's happening.

So many drones.

So many drones.

It's really unprecedented, if you will. How we see technology being employed there at scale. And so there are other conflicts that happened prior to Ukraine. You looked at it and you said, man, there's something going on there. We see something.

But then, when Ukraine happened and we've seen all of the success that the Ukrainian armies had implementing commercial technology, and a lot of times they're bolting that commercial technology. Onto legacy systems. They have a whole bunch of Russian inventory still for their ADA systems. And they turn their tubes around, they point them at Russia, and then they're taking commercial technology and bolting that on there, adapting and integrating all this commercial tech to make their tubes work better to give them that ADA threat. Same thing with their drone economy that they're doing.

So you have to learn every day. You've got to think about the next generation weapons. Do you have a own budget like the within the Army to say, okay, we need to innovate here? This is the budget we have to work with.

So the Army has a budget for innovation, but not within the 18th Airborne Corps or FORSCOM in general.

So the Army spends its money for budget on science and tech, in research development, training, things like that.

So all from that heading. There are other commands that do that. We do it out of hide with our own money that we're given for training.

So what role does private industry play with this, from Google to Palantir?

So private industry is an incredible partner. the partnership between the military and our industrial base Is uh I mean it's It goes back. We've always had the industrial base with us. You think about what happened with World War II and how quickly the car companies in Detroit were able to turn their machine development from making commercial products and cars to tanks. Commercial industry has always been a partner for the military.

We see it now, not just the commercial industry, like our traditional partners. all the other tech giants that are coming into play. Everybody's pretty on board with it, and we see what they have. And again, what we're really doing is we're taking what's available commercially and we're adapting it and integrating it for military use.

So I can't imagine anything. More intriguing and more demanding more of your attention than drone technology. And how surprised, I don't know if you can say this, are you that? Uh Iran has made so many advances that they have to really affect the battlefield for Russia.

So Yeah. You know, I won't say we're not surprised about it. A competitive advantage is a competitive advantage. Everybody sees the values of drones. You shouldn't be surprised that everybody sees the values of drones and everybody wants to use that to their advantage.

Are robots the future of warfare? Is there going to be a time when you have pilotless planes and you have robots fighting our battles?

So it's a great question, Brian. I mean, it's a loaded question. I want to make sure I address it as fully and completely as I can. Because what I don't want to do is answer the question incompletely and then have you think that we're not considering the ethics of it, which the ethics comes into play very, very much with it.

So to answer your question directly, robots are going to have an incredible part in the future of warfare as we use robots to become the new forms of mass.

So when you watch old War War the old World War One movies, you see troopers getting out of the trenches and running and machine gun fire. We don't want to do that with our sons and daughters. That's not what we want to do anymore.

So we want to use robots as a new form of mass. to kind of do that for us so that we're not wasting our sons and daughters On you know, pointless cavalry charges into tanks, if you will.

So that's what we see robots doing, but now is it going to be like the Terminator with like autonomous robot systems and no human in the loop? No, we don't see that. There's always going to be a human making the ethical decision and a human making the decision on is this a righteous target, is this something that we should shoot? Is this what America is going to do? Do you uh when you saw on a separate note The breach at the military base, I believe in Maryland, of those two Jordanians, and they were detained.

How aware are you of? different terrorist targets at a pla a legendary place like uh Fort Liberty.

So I mean, if the terrorists in Maryland, they were detained, right?

So, like, our force protection. Got them. Our force protection worked. I mean, like. People think it might be a trial run.

So I haven't talked to those people and those people haven't talked to me. Um What I know is that our force protection worked and we did what we were supposed to do. I feel very I feel very safe here. My family lives here. Like we right.

We feel very safe at home, like we're in America. The one thing people would love to do, our enemies, is keep us worried at home.

So we're not worried about overseas. Is that a is that a something that you guys think about when you talk about command in battles? The next battle, how do we protect the homeland while fighting overseas?

So uh Personally, I don't think about that because we have all of the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security that solves that problem for me.

So I think only about fighting. Overseas against America's enemies. I don't think about defending the homeland, if you will, because we have the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, our law enforcement agencies that really handle a lot of that for us. And so, like I said, I feel very safe here. I love that we have a futures command.

I mean, I just love that. How important is it to recruit people that are going to bring you forward? What do you offer them to make them think the Army is a good place to hone my skills? Like, you've got so many great medical professionals because the training is so fantastic, and everybody wants a nurse or an Army doctor.

So or physical therapist. Have you done the same with electronics and innovation? We have and we are.

So I believe that we have in the past, and we are continuing to do so going into the future. We offer people who want to come into the Army or come into the military at large just incredible opportunities to work at the cutting edge of The application of various technologies.

So it might be fun to work for another company. But fundamentally all you're doing for them is making money by having people watch cat videos on the internet. You come work in the military. You get to be a part of something bigger than yourself, protect the nation. Have a real purpose and meaning in your life, and apply this incredible technology into something that's bigger than what you're doing.

I think when I talk to all the soldiers, because we have incredible soldiers in the military, just incredible soldiers who come and work for us. And when I talk to them about, hey, why did you join? It always comes down to they want to be a part of something bigger than themselves. They got incredible talent writing code, writing software, applications, doing things that would make them a lot of money in the civilian sector. But it's absent of purpose.

Right.

But the good news is that'll be a skill.

So 20 years when your knees are shot from multiple missions, hey, I can go get a job that's going to put me in a suit and it's going to be less physically taxing, but I'm trained to do anything, right? Yeah. I mean, I've so I've been in the Army. I hit I went over 20 years in the Army three days ago. Maybe 18th, 2004 is when I came in the Army.

And so why did you join? Literally, like I said, I joined right after 9/11. I was a college kid. I didn't really know what I was doing. I was an English major.

Didn't have a lot of purpose in my life. And I looked at the ROTC unit on our base, or not on our base, at my college. And I was like, man. Those guys that kind of have it put together. 9-11 had just happened.

I want to be a part of something bigger than myself. And I was going to make a joke about it, but really, every job I've had in the military was going to be my last job. Every job is like, all right, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do company command, I'm going to get out. All right, I'm going to go to the range regiment, I'm going to get out. And every job was going to be my last job.

And every next job was just so fun and so cool. I wanted to keep doing it. And that's what we offer people who want to come in the military.

Well, Colonel Randy Lindemann is our guest. And Colonel, I guess you have done your 20 years. Over that time, I have not seen in my life, I only read about it, the disrespect that the Vietnam veterans got unjustly when they came home. I've seen nothing. But respect for the military, left or right.

When you go on a plane, when you walk the streets or go shopping, and when you're wearing the camouflage like you're wearing now, do you guys get the respect? We do. We do. Yeah. America's just so supportive of us.

It's incred it's an incredible blessing and privilege to be in the military. Everybody's so supportive of us, and honestly, sometimes it makes me feel embarrassed. Because I mean, we're just regular people. We're soldiers. And everybody's still a supportive of the military?

I'm just so grateful for what they've done because I'm in the military because I love it. I enjoy it. I'm enjoying what I'm doing. I'm having great fun every day. And so when people are like, hey, thank you for your service, I'm like, no, thank you.

Like, thank you for being a good American. Thank you for paying your taxes and doing everything that you've got to do so that I get to be in the military. Wow, tha that's uh that's great.

So when you look at where we're at right now with the numbers going up, do you have a sense of why that's why that is now, where it was such a worry even six months ago? Or is it still a worry recruiting wise? Um I mean I And so on. You know, I'm not a recruiter. I'm not a recruiter, but you guys talk about it.

Honestly, no. Like, I don't really talk about recruiting. You have empty positions that you think to yourself: wow, we really need some more people here. Because I know the cops tell me that all the time. We're down numbers.

Yeah, but so that's the thing, though. I'm not a cop. What I have is an incredible team that's here. The people are showing up for work every day and working with us. They want to be here.

They're motivated to be in here.

So if it's a team of eight when it's supposed to be a team of ten, Those eight that I got? They're getting it done. They're getting it done, they're doing it. And um I'd rather have the eight that I got Then, you know, ten, and maybe it's two that don't that I don't need. Like the people are showing up every day.

They're fantastic.

So that's what I was going to say. I don't really look at Recruiting that way because I'm just focused on doing my job and you're doing a ton. Yeah. And, Colonel, this is all American week. Can you describe what that is for people who are not now at Fort Liberty?

Yeah, so, and it's funny because I'm actually a veteran of 10th Mountain Division and the Range Regiment and the 101st Airborne Division. Never served in the 82nd Airborne Division, but now I'm in the 18th Airborne Corps here with them. And so, All American Week, every division has it where they celebrate their lineage and their heritage and what they do. And that's really what All American Week is here to do: they celebrate everything they've done from. You know, jumping into World War Two, and I believe that they're all Americans because it's the first division that was put together in the Army where it drew from all parts of the country.

In the old days, you used to recruit everybody from a single city, and that single city fielded their army.

So, like, you look at the Civil War movies. You know, you had the twentieth Massachusetts or the twentieth Maine and things like that, and it was that all-American division. It was the first division to recruit from all aspects of the American country to bring them into a single division. And so they celebrate that. They celebrate their heritage, jumping in Normandy.

They celebrate everything they did in Iraq, everything they did in Afghanistan, you know, Panama, all their contingency response missions.

So that's what they do. They have a lot of games, a lot of competitions. I think there's a couple of boxing matches, some alternate fighting matches I want to get to see. Wait, so some of these guys will fight each other in a salute to All American Week. Yeah, I mean, just hey, it's just like competition.

It's just like John MacArthur said, right? I mean, I'm going to butcher the quote, but I think you'll know what I mean. On the friendly fields, a competition, right? Or sowing the seeds of the seeds of camaraderie later.

So that's what it is. Yeah, competition is a great thing. Constantly testing yourself. And lastly, on Memorial Day. I know I was talking to the general, commanding general, and he was at Donahue, and he was saying, We like to fan our people out to speak to groups because every day you understand Memorial Day.

What are you going to be doing?

So, on Memorial Day, it's funny. You know, I'm going to have a cabin in East Tennessee. And so, on Memorial Day, my family, another couple veterans that we're friends with, we're all going to go to the cabin in East Tennessee. And I think we're talking about maybe going to Dollywood Splash Country. Awesome.

I mean, not an endorsement, just kids. They really want to go. It's cold to go swimming still up there in the mountains. And so, I think we're going to go to a water park. That sounds great.

Colonel Randy Lineman, thanks so much for your service. 20 plus years. And stay safe, all right? Thanks, sir. And keep innovating.

Yeah, I love the futures unit. Back in a moment, Brian, kill me to Fort Liberty. Don't move. A radio show of the people for the people. You're with Brian Kilmead.

He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmead.

So the defense rests. That's it. And now, the instructions to the jury prior to this were: if we get done before closing arguments, we'll send you home for Memorial Day.

So, to decompress and get ready, which I find surprising because at one minute, this judge is in a massive rush. Let's get this done. Let's get this done. Let's start at 8:45 in the morning. Let's do it.

Now, all of a sudden, hey, guys, slow down. The defense rest. Why? Is he afraid of having his life back for the holidays? I don't know.

If you're thinking about the jury, that's fine. But Friday, they did have off because the juror needed it, something personal. If Donald Trump can go to a graduation, I'm sure you got to look out for the jury. I'm sure that's fine.

So They don't convene tomorrow anyway, so Thursday they'll be back. But now he says he'll give you off until after Memorial Day, so that's a lot to think about. Going in, I personally think that maybe, but it might be good to get closing arguments done and maybe say, Do you guys want to work on Wednesday? in order to think about it. over the holiday.

I don't know. It seems it just seems bizarre. It seems like this judge, in a way, does not want this to end. He loves the spotlight. He loves people talking about him.

He loves that Donald Trump rips him almost every single day. It seems he does. And that's what I'm what I'm getting. Last night I thought Bill Maher was great on Greg Guttfeld Show. And he said this, and I thought it means a lot.

It has a lot to do with people on this show. Listen, you might not be voting for the person that your neighbor wants or your family member wants, but we got to stop hating each other. This was his message, Cut Twenty One. Let's not pretend that these disagreements are not profound. Let's just say, okay, they are profound, but you know what?

There's 90 other things we could talk about which we wouldn't disagree on. And I can't hate you. I've said it a million times. You can hate Trump. You can't hate all the people who like him.

It's half the country. And I am certainly not blind to Donald Trump's faults. I get it, why people choose to vote for him. You know, somebody who's conservative once said to me, what you don't get, you liberals don't get about Trump is that we don't like him either. We just see him as a bulwark against the nonsense on the left.

And I understand that, because there is a lot of nonsense on the left. And so the greening of the economy when the technology is not ready, destroying oil and gas, refusing to let things like things like pipelines could be completed by working class people who are in unions, by just thoroughly opening up the border. Did I say anything political just now? And you know what? Bill Maher said the same thing.

The times in which we change is, oh, they like Obamacare, maybe you don't like Obamacare. When it comes to defense, you want to spend more if you're a Republican, then Democrats want to spend more on that. They want to, of course, fortify the social programs traditionally more than any Republicans want to do. And somehow they split the difference. But now, there's such a lack of common sense in this president's policies.

It makes people just say to themselves, where did the rationality go? For example, do you really look at that trial that Donald Trump's under and think, well, we'd all be tried like this? Did you see a civil trial? They're trying to bankrupt him. And did you see that they're trying to analyze even the bond he put up for $150 million, trying to find a way around it?

You're not going for justice. You're going for retribution about a crime that's not been done to you, and nothing's personally been done to Letitia James or anybody else. There's a lack of logic and there's a targeting. And I really believe in the big picture that if Joe Biden does some things that are unethical, and it seems like he has done in the past, clearly, I don't think that Donald Trump should be going after him, even though people are mad at Donald Trump, including Ron LeSantis, for not going after Hillary Clinton because it's bad for the country. Bad for the country.

And that's why when Mitt Romney came out and said, I saw this case, Joe Biden should have pardoned Trump from this case. because what's better for the country. Once in a while you should circle that. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian.

In Kill Mead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Killmee Show. I come to you from Fort Liberty, right in North Carolina, and it's been a privilege being here over the last two days. Get a real shot at seeing the latest generation of American great warfighters, the ones that have been fighting the last two wars for the last 20 years, and the ones are getting ready for the next while training others to defend themselves.

Bottom of the hour, a man that needs no explanation, does not need to be explained to how special this military is. Gary Sinesi arguably does as much for the men and women in fighting as anyone in the country. As we get closer and closer to Memorial Day, he's hosting a major event for PBS. And Senator Rick Scott has got his hands full in Florida, mainly because of the six-week abortion ban. That is not sitting well with a lot of people in Florida.

It is why Marco Rubio came out and said. I'm not going to do it. I am a pro-life. I'm for zero weeks, but Florida isn't. But when Governor DeSantis came out with the six weeks, that puts a lot of women on the march.

But I do think Rick Scott will prevail. He always is trailing, and he always comes back and wins.

So, Rick Scott in about ten minutes, so let's get to the big three. With the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. In this case, Israel. They lost the equivalent of what would have been 40,000 dead Americans in one day.

And it would be similar to after 9-11 saying, oh, we're going to do the same thing to George W. Bush because he dared to fight back after 2,977 Americans were slaughtered on 9-11. Hey, that is Sean Hannity laying it out. It's outrageous. The ICC, the International Criminal Court, comes for Israel's leadership.

And Mrs. George Clooney Amal is behind the offensive. Really? Number two. I mean, that speech would have made sense some years ago.

I think we should acknowledge that racism still persists and we should always be making remedial remedies for it. But we're not in the past. I always keep saying, let's live in the year we're living in. Thank you, Bill Maher, 2024. A shock poll as Joe Biden reeling in a dead heat now in normally safe Democratic stronghold of New Hampshire.

If we look at the state of the race, plus the fallout from Joe Biden's pandering speech at Morehouse University, that historically black college, all-male, they were just told that you have to work ten times as hard to make it in America today. Really? Is this 1950? No one. It was a shocking moment.

We were hitting each other saying, Do we know this yet? Because it was a stunning revelation.

So I think the real question for the jury is: is Michael Cohen the worst witness of all time? There you go. Closing arguments are set for the day after Memorial Day in the case against Donald Trump, who faces 34 counts of falsifying business records. You know about it. But now the closing arguments are set for after Memorial Day, not now.

Whereas defending Trump at his criminal trial in Manhattan rested their case, neither of them, the former president, the president will not take the stand, obviously. Nobody really thought he would. And that's where it stands. Bob Costello was on today. The one to bring up a defense wanted to bring up another witness that was going to say that it's no violation of election law, but they didn't want to allow it.

So the judge doesn't allow it. Isn't that interesting?

So what's going to happen now? Donald Trump's going to keep quiet and campaign. He's going to be off Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, which is great. And his lawyers are going to work extremely hard at a crisp closing argument. And they get it to the jury, and we should know.

By the first week in June. And then you just know they're all done. Donald Trump is a convicted felon if he is found guilty. And they're going to say, Would you ever invect uh would you ever elect a convicted felon? And that'll be what they're going to run on.

Because as you saw over the last few days with the Hail Mary debate offer coming up now at the end of June, and then at the end and then in September, you know that wouldn't have happened if the internal polls aren't even worse than the public polls that we're seeing. I mentioned to you that the New Hampshire poll is basically with Donald Trump with a slight lead if RFK is in a race. And guess what? He's on the ballot.

I don't see him dropping out unless someone strongarms him. 36.6 to Biden's 36.5. It's the latest New Hampshire Journal Analytica poll. It finds Biden tied with Trump. Those numbers may explain why Biden is making his second granite state stop in two months.

An unusual travel pattern for Democratic president in a competitive national election. For Biden, who rarely travels from D.C. or his Delaware Beach House, it is very notable. Why do you think that he was doing All black radio on Wednesday? Why do you think he was speaking to the NAACP on Thursday?

Why do you think that he was speaking to Morehouse College on Friday? Why do you think that he was in Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday? He's trying to tell everybody that you have to vote for me or else the world will end with Donald Trump, and I'm doing a good job. By the way, also on Monday, the Biden campaign said they have raised $51 million in April, along with the DNC, which was just over half as much as they raised in March. Also, a touch less than they raised in February.

Biden's campaign committee reported taking in $24.2 million in April compared with $43 over in March.

Now, Trump's campaign still is behind in total cash on hand, but the April filings show promise. Biden's campaign ended with $84.5 million in hand. Trump's got $48 million in hand, up from $45 million in At the end of March.

So, so far, they did outraise them last month. Interesting.

Something else happening in Georgia today, I think, is interesting, and that is it's Election Day in Kentucky, Oregon, Idaho, and California, but most of all, Georgia. Why do I find that interesting? For Donald Trump supporters, you know, Supreme Court Justice Scott McAfee, he provided over that circus with Fonnie Willis, pretending as if Nathan Wade was in a relationship and he got his money legitimately. He ruled that only one of them could stay on the case, and Fonnie Willis says it'll be me. At which time that she is being primarily, and the primary, her primary opponent is pretty close to her, although she's in the lead.

She thinks that she's a martyr and working hard to do all this. She was favored easily. She was not going to have an opponent until people saw her in court, embarrass herself, and saw her lack of judgment. To me, the people of Atlanta deserve better, and Donald Trump does not deserve to be on trial, especially there.

So my hope is we don't have to go through this trial stuff alone. Let's just see the election. Donald Trump has never been this disciplined. I think it helps him. Because of the gag order, I actually think works for him.

There's just no doubt about it. But so far, he's got some encouraging news. They saw Victor Davis Hansen was on last night with Uh with Laura. And I thought Victor was real good because he was just talking about, in general, how the President has taken a more disciplined approach to everything that he's been doing. And a lot of the things that he was doing prior to that were not panning out in real time, but now they're more applicable in this time.

So here is Victor Davis Hanson last night, CUT 24. We've never seen a Republican candidate that's appealed across racial and ethnic lines on the basis of middle-class values and solidarity. That's what he's doing. And almost every Hispanic male that I know in this area, and I'm living in a community of 85% Mexican Americans, is going to vote for Donald Trump. It's not necessarily women or young people, but Hispanic males have had it with the border and inflation and all of these cultural issues that people talk down to them about.

transgenderism and late term abortion and Green power, etc.

So we're in a really revolutionary time if Trump can pull it off. I think he can, but he's got a campaign. He's got a campaign in these areas. I I would love to see it. And I think it's good for the country.

Hey, and you know, the same thing with from Joe Biden, go to Oklahoma. It helps him out to him congressmen. You want to get the House, right? You're not going to win Oklahoma, you're not going to win Nebraska, but go. And for Donald Trump, he said, you know, you're going to keep me in New York.

I'm going to rally in the Bronx.

So he's going to do it. He's going to be in a camp, he's going to be in a park. I worry about security, I really do. After while going to Columbia, you know, after Speaker Johnson went to Columbia, he told me that he's never been in such a hostile environment. He goes to give a speech and he gives it, and it's great.

And as he gives his speech, he's being yelled at every step of the way and being sarcastic chants about him. Why? These pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas protesters, these people who pretend to be college students or actually were, was shouting him down. This guy goes into I think it's a great sign, go into very democratic, very liberal, bastion of liberalism into Columbia, go speak with the President, you're the Speaker of the House, then speak to the people, get shouted down. I worry that Trump, who You know, unlike John McCain was the best at it, he would just have town halls.

He didn't care who showed up. He wouldn't mind arguing with people. I love that idea doing it, especially if it's not combative and you just don't yell back. And when it devolves, sometimes Chris Christie's would devolve, but they were always entertaining and interesting. I love that he's gone to the Bronx.

My hope is security will be strong enough that he can get the speech out. You see what happens with the President of the United States, with all the Secret Service. He cannot get through his speech without being interrupted for pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian speakers. But I love that he's trying. And I think that even if he gets shouted down.

in the Bronx and he maybe only gets fifteen minutes out. You've got to say, listen. I only got 15% of the vote in the Bronx, but I know those people matter. I see them all the time. I want them to know that if I win, I'm going to care about them too.

And then they look around and they say to themselves, what has really happened with under the Democrats? What has happened under Mayor Adams? What has happened as Mayor Adams was ignored by the President of the United States? What is he going to do if he gets in? He's going to crack down on the border.

What's he going to stop? Guess what? Governor of Texas will stop sending illegals here because he's going to be stopping at the border. And there'll be leverage there. And that's my hope.

Not every event's going to be 100,000 people. Not every uh of love people that love him. But if you're the proxy you get 80-20. And you get a crowd of two thousand instead of a hundred and ten thousand? Still think it's great.

I'm here. They love me in upstate. They love me on Long Island. I'm going to take a piece of New York City. I'm going to make you campaign here.

That's the message I would send. While you make him stay in court here, and don't tell me President Biden has nothing to do with it. You don't send Matt Colangelo and you leave your Justice Department as the number three guy and end up there. You don't say and complain, and Politico had this story in 2022 that he's mad at Attorney General Merrick Garland for not bringing these cases quicker. Against Donald Trump and say you had nothing to do with it.

You don't have Fonnie Willis meeting in the Vice President's office in Washington, and you don't have Nathan Wade twice meeting with different White House. Legal officials in Athens, Georgia, if you have nothing to do with the case against Donald Trump. You listen to Brian Kilmead Show. I'm at Camp Liberty on All-American Week. Chance, if you served here, to come back and talk to people about the era in which you served and give everybody that's serving now a sense of perspective and how vital they are in the chain of keeping America safe.

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This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, we are back. Welcome back, everybody. The Trump trial. In case you do not know, the defense rest, the prosecution is rest.

Now it looks like they're going to be off until after Memorial Day where they'll have closing arguments. And then the jury will finally get this thing.

So. It's been a joke. It's been a sham. And I just find it hard to believe that anybody thinks that this case has been proven. But we don't know anything about anything at all about the jury.

Senator Rick Scott was there. He went and visited Donald Trump last week, and some others have shown up just about every day to talk because he can't. And Senator Rick Scott, fighting for another six years as a senator from Florida after two successful terms as governor. Senator, welcome back. Brian, it's nice to be with you.

It's really frustrating. I've known Donald Trump since before I was governor, and so I went to support him. But what this is criminal, what they're doing. They're using the court system to attack a political opponent. Biden sent his number three guy from the Department of Justice down to work at a state district attorney's office to just try to put Trump in prison.

So this is an unethical political thug theater. It's wrong. It happened to a lot of people. I mean, Hillary the Clintons went after me because I fought against Hillary care. If we don't stop this, they're going to Brian, they can go after you if they don't like you.

They can go after any of us. This has got to stop.

So Senator Schumer says today he thinks you're vulnerable in Florida because of abortion because it's now a six weeks ban and not 15 weeks any longer. And he says they will not stop America until they get a federal abortion ban, meaning Republicans. Our Republicans keep hoping this fallout from danger this is for Senator Murray, fallout from their dangerous abortion bans will just kind of go away. What do you say about them doubling and tripling down since the Dobb decision?

Well, I think it's as Americans know where the Democrats stand, like my opponent, Biden, Harris, all the Democrats, here's what they support. They support crushing the baby's skull at nine months. They support letting a healthy baby born alive, just put him in the corner, let him cry itself to death. That's what they support. What I support I support contraception, I support IVF.

I know it's a very difficult decision for a woman with regard to abortion. I've got a family member going through IVF right now.

So we ought to have reasonable limitations.

So in Florida, and this should be a state decision, We've got the most people in our interstate, they'd say, maybe at fifteen weeks, something like that, with all the exceptions of life of the mother, rape and incest, that's probably where we ought to be. But the Democrats are extreme. They want you to pay for abortion. I mean, where they are is extreme. And as people understand where they are, what's going to happen is it's going to be good for Republicans because this is something that Americans believe we ought to have reasonable limitations on.

The other big story yesterday was there's a couple of them, but one I want to bring you to, the death of the President of Iran. This guy's an evil guy, killing his own people, raping his own women, making sure they go back to a more orthodox way with their headgear and everything else. We know what they've done in fortifying the Houthi rebels, Hezbollah, and Hamas, to create havoc in the area, and everything anti-American is okay with him. But now he's dead, along with the foreign minister. But it didn't really I was shocked to see Matt Miller, State Department spokesman, offer condolences over the death.

The United States expresses official condolences for the death of the Iranian President and Foreign Minister, the members of the delegation in a helicopter crash. As Iran selects a new President, we reaffirm our support for the Iranian people. Is that necessary? No, we should say good riddance evil man. I mean, this guy, the world's safer, he was evil.

I'm glad he's gone. He was a tyrant. He's a terrorist. He brought death and chaos to the Middle East. He was respected by no one.

He will be missed by no one.

Now, look, I hope the Iranian people get a better leader. They've got to take it back from these murderous dictators. But you're right. I mean, this is a guy that wants to chance death to America, wants to kill Americans. He you know, he'll do everything he can to help Hezbollah and Houdis and Hamas kill Jews and kill Americans.

So I'd tell I say good riddance to this guy. We there should be no condolences by anybody with in their right mind. What the United Nations did with the moment of silence on the Senate floor, they did a prayer. I mean, this stuff is wrong. That shouldn't have happened.

We should say, thank goodness this guy's gone. Let's talk about the ICC. It wants uh has a warrant out for the arrest of the Prime Minister and the Defense Secretary Secretary of Defense of Israel. And now we don't we weren't subscribed to it. We're not a we haven't signed their charter.

What do you think significant is? And what about George Cloney's wife signing off on it? I mean, look, this this is this is this this is embarrassment. I've spent a lot of time in Israel. I was there about six or seven weeks ago, met with the Prime Minister.

You know why they're out to kill Hamas? Because Hamas came and killed one thousand two hundred people for simple reason they were Jews.

So The Prime Minister Netanyahu, Galanta Defense Minister, the IDF, has no choice. They have to destroy every Hamas terrorist. And to say there's anything equivocal or equal to Israel and Hamas, they're just the absolute opposite. Hamas wants to glorify killing civilians. Israel wants to try to save civilians' life.

But the per the who they ought to be after is everybody in Hamas. I mean, what Qatar is doing by hosting Hamas leadership is wrong. What the ICC is doing is wrong.

So we need to make sure there's zero ever any American support, and we ought to sanction everybody involved.

Well, Senator Rick Scott always working hard for the state of Florida and making a difference for the country. Senator, thanks so much. Thanks, Brian. Alright, uh of course we're all over Florida. Kind enough to have some great affiliates over there.

Uh very patriotic affiliates too if you come up on Memorial Day. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead. I think it's not helpful. First of all, it's anachronistic. I mean, that speech would have made sense some years ago.

I think we should acknowledge that racism still persists and we should always be making remedial remedies for it. But we're not in the past. I always keep saying, let's live in the year we're living in. We're not living in the year where you have to be 10 times better. To succeed if you're a person of color.

And in some instances, Um It's an advantage. Yeah. In some places it's not an advantage, but we're not living in that world that he's talking about. And and I I don't think that helps Anybody? I agree.

And he was talking about the speech that Joe Biden made. Obviously, his staffers wrote it, but he feels that way. He started telling everyone life sucks. Cops are terrible to you. You're going down the street.

You get too many black people being shot. And you have to work ten times as hard to be successful. Here's some of that Joe Biden speech, which I just think just sets everybody back. Does he remember who he was vice president for? Does he remember what the country he was in compared to the one he is in?

Has he traveled around to see the inequities around the world? Cut 26 is what I think is just especially reprehensible. I got more Morehouse men in the White House telling me what to do than I know what to do. You all think I'm kidding, don't you? You know I'm not.

And it's the best thing that's happened to me. What are you talking about? I mean, d uh do we even know if he means that, if he's he's going on anything? He continues to tell his own story, which is tragic back from thirty, forty years ago. But everybody sitting in that audience has their own story, has their parents have their own story.

They don't walk around telling it to everybody, especially when they need something from them, and especially when a lot of it's inaccurate, too. I thought that when people look back at that, I thought that you don't want to bring up the fact that people have turned their backs. At the commencement address, and speaker. And by the way, if anyone ever asks me, don't even bother. I'll never do it.

I will never do a commencement address. I have no interest in doing it. If people don't want to hear you, if maybe the administration does, and I've done them before, I have no interest in doing it and letting some 22-year-old make a judgment on whether my words are worthy of their attention. Here's Kayleigh McGee White, great guest of ours. She was talking about the reaction from this four-day stint to get the black American vote.

Cut 23. Think back to even a couple of administrations ago, to the Obama administration. Do you remember Barack Obama's famous campaign pitch, which was about hope? Think about how far Joe Biden has gotten from that message, which he ran on as vice president. And as Kevin mentioned, this is doom and gloom over and over again.

And it's why he's losing minority voters faster than he loses his train of thought, because people don't want a constant message of negativity, and they don't want the constant negativity that accompanies his policies. I agree. I mean, but he does when he talks positive about the economy. It seems inaccurate.

So, when he talks about where the country is, it seems ridiculously negative. It's not bad if you're not as bad if you're looking to get the job. But what if you have the job? And just to talk about race in a way that's just unnecessary, and then to bring up George Floyd is just dumb. And to do that and bring people back, especially an all-black audience, to me looks like flat-out pandering.

And that's really what I think everything's about. You have them panicking now because they're in a dead heat in New Hampshire's going to New Hampshire. They look at the numbers with African American vote. The president of the former President's got over 20% of the vote. The best anyone's done since Nixon is 13% of the vote.

And they see that going in the wrong direction and think they've got to do something, something extreme. What I know is going to come soon and it's going to be detrimental to the country. They're going to wait for the verdict. If the president is found guilty, they say this guy's a convicted felon. He's a cheat.

He's going to bring up all these other things because he can't run on his own record. And here is Senator Tom Cotton yesterday. Not only was Tom Cotton weighing in on the ridiculous move to salute. Iran's president, after he dies, offered condolences in a brutal helicopter crash. They said the copter is at least fifteen, maybe twenty-five years old, all beat up.

And number two, he was also outraged about the ICC, co-putting a warrant out for Prime Minister Netanyahu, cut twenty. Joe Biden is a weak and failed president. That's why he's trailing in almost every poll, and that's why he's now starting to throw Hail Marys before we even reach Memorial Day in this campaign. He knows that under his watch, we've had runaway inflation, families can't afford groceries or gas. Our border is totally open.

It's a chaotic disaster with more than 10 million illegal aliens in our country. And Uncle Sam has a kidney sign on his back all around the world.

So he's resorting to lies and distortions against President Trump. But I don't think the American people are going to fall for that because they remember that with Donald Trump, we had stable prices with rising wages and good jobs, and we had a secure border, and we had America respected around the world. That's the choice they have this fall. And that's right now where it stands. We'll see what's going to happen after the debate.

I love the idea of having a drug test before it because nothing else really makes uh makes much sense. The other thing that Bill Maher said last night, which is true and accurate, they don't want to admit it. They're but roughly the same age. There's two hours, there's two years befi between them. But Donald Trump does not skew yo the school s uh skew too old.

He just doesn't. You don't look at him and say he's too old. You might be tired of him, but you don't say he's too old. You see that with Joe Biden every day, and I look at Jim Kybern. Yeah, he's older.

The guy's got it all together. You might not vote for him outside South Carolina in his district. But you don't say he's too old. You say, Okay, he's up there. You know, he relinquished leaderships in the House, but he did that because they wanted to just bring in a new generation.

I think he was one of the last ones of the old guard to leave the leadership position. And then, when you look at Ben Corden, the guy's retiring in Maryland.

Now, he looks old, yeah, but I don't think he's too old to function. I mean, he's going 100 miles an hour. It just, it's not that. You look at Senator Chuck Wresley, I don't think he should be the next president. But if he was right now as president of the United States, you'd go, okay.

runs five times a week. Works out like crazy. Looks good, goes to all his counties before he runs for election again. I'm sure he ran his last election because I think he's pushing ninety. But it's just it's not an ageism thing, it's the way you hold yourself.

That I think is important, and I think that's the thing that's resonating with him.

So, Donald Trump's got four trials he's got to worry about. This is one of them. The other three look like they're on hold. I am not sure that they're not going to have one rise up in August, and they're going to say that's far enough away from the election, let's go do it. Can you imagine Donald Trump stuck in a courtroom with another debate coming up, stuck in a courtroom in the backstretch of an election, which he's winning by two or three points, but it's all something that's recoverable.

So, I just think that that's one thing you got to worry about, especially the inequity when it comes to how these trials are being perceived and what other people are saying. Here's former President Donald Trump yesterday asking for the judge to do what's right, especially when Bob Costello comes out and says this Michael Cohen told him he had nothing on Trump. And then it turns out he was found out to be stealing from Trump, and then he lied about the content of a text message, which they said was about. Stormy Daniels, and it was about harassment, cut 13. I think the case is.

Going very well. We've asked for termination of the case. This case should be terminated. This shouldn't go anywhere. It should be terminated right now.

And New York State has been building up its system again. New York State can't let this happen. Can't let this happen. There were no crimes. We did nothing wrong.

And I want to get back to campaigning. I'm representing millions and millions, hundreds of millions of people. Yeah, and he's going to be doing it in the Bronx today. I think it's going to be fantastic to see him actually go out there and campaign. John Hugh also brought up a couple of things.

And John Yu brought up the inequity when it comes to judges ruling that Stormy Daniels can go on and on about things that don't matter, and that is the details of our alleged interaction with the former President, as opposed to shutting down Bob Costello. John Yu used to work as a legal advisor to President Trump, Cut 15. How can this judge have, on the one hand, let the prosecutors lead Storemy Daniels all over the four corners of the earth without limiting her? Prejudicial testimony, which had very little, if any, relevance to the actual legal charges here. And then he's all over the defense witness that's questioning the credibility of the central evidence, the central witness that the prosecution puts on.

But second, I think it might backfire because juries are going to, I think, be taking Costello. He's made a lifetime of work telling the truth to New York juries. They're going to wonder: why isn't the judge letting us hear what he's got to say? Absolutely.

And it just made no sense to keep shutting him down, sustaining the objection. Just let him talk. Let him talk. If he says something that's not going to help the case, that should not be a reason to interrupt.

So, when we come back, I'm going to talk to you, as we get closer and closer to Memorial Day, just a few days away, of course, Memorial Day weekend. I'm going to talk to Gary Sinice. Him and his foundation have done more or as much for veterans and those in active duty than anybody. He's going to be talking about the 35th annual National Memorial Concert hosted by he and Joe Montanga. Montanga, Montaigne.

That's right. What am I saying? The G is silent. They're going to have an all-star cast there. It's going to be on PBS, but he's going to be talking about that.

Joining me on One Nation on Saturday, too, for a special that we're putting together.

So we are, this is a special edition of the Brian Kilmey Show. We're at Camp Liberty in beautiful North Carolina, where we've had a chance to see how 87,000 people live their lives. You're talking about 11,000 civilians. You're talking about 23,000 family members and 57,000 men and women who serve the U.S. Army.

And ladies and gentlemen, we are in good hands. Don't move. Questioning everything. It's Brian Killmead.

A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, we're back, and it's my privilege to bring in Gary Sinise. Very few people have done more for the military than Gary throughout his career, Emmy-winning actor, director, veteran's advocate, author of The New York Times bestseller. And now he's promoting the 35th annual National Memorial Day concert.

That he co-hosts. He's got an all-star cast. It will air on PBS, a stream nationwide on PBS.org National Memorial Day concert. On YouTube, too. It'll be on Sunday, May 26th.

And you got an all-scar cast together. Gary, welcome back. Hey, thanks so much for having me, Brian. Hey, I'm at a place you're probably familiar with. I'm at Fort Liberty in North Carolina, home of the Airborne and Special Operations.

You got about fifty seven thousand people here. I know I appreciate all you do. When you think of Memorial Day, what comes to mind for you?

Well, um I first of all, I have many, many veterans in my own family, so.

so much of what um You know, it has engaged me and uh activated me. in service to our defenders starts at home with The members of the military on my side of the family, but also on my wife's side of the family, Vietnam veterans. Cold War in Afghanistan. There's a lot of veterans in my own family, I think about them. I think about No.

My wife's brother, Mac, who um l lost his battle with cancer in in nineteen eighty three. while serving in Fort Leavenworth. I think about my Vietnam veteran brother brother in law, Jack Trees, who was a combat medic in Vietnam. I think about my uncle Jack, who was a navigator on a B 17 bomber over Europe. I think about my dad, who served in the Navy during Korean War.

And then, of course, I serve I I think about all those who've given their lives and service to our country. That's what Memorial Day is is for, it's to remember and honor and celebrate those who have given their their lives for for for the freedom that we All benefit from No doubt about it, and how does this how does that play into your special?

Well, gosh, I mean, we're doing all kinds of things. Every year at the National Memorial Day concert, we tell amazing stories that the producers always Put together a great cast and a great group of stories. Obviously, we have. you know, the eightieth anniversary of Normandy coming up, and you know, we're honoring our World War two veterans again, the greatest generation. uh through telling a very personal story.

Brian Cranston will be uh telling that story. We have tremendous music in the concert. Gary Lavox will be. Performing Cynthia Arrivo performing Jack Everly in the national. Uh symphony orchestra.

Uh just it's it's a great cast, as usual. Great group of stories. We're telling the story of Kirsty Annis. Um She lost a leg in a hell of a copter crash in Afghanistan. And she's just taken that adversity and and and just uh turned it on its on its head.

I mean, she's really the kind of person who took a very tragic and difficult thing and turned it into a triumph. She's climbed like every peak. In the world with one leg. I mean, she's amazing.

So we're telling a group of wonderful stories. honoring the people who serve our country. And of course, We have a our Gold Star Family segment segment that we do every year. Uh remembering the fallen.

So I know it means a lot to you too. And when you do that, you always got your band together and you'd play around the country among the people that are going to be on your special. Brian Cranston, Gary Levox, Mary McCormick, Jamie Johnson, Jack Everly, and you have Pattina Miller.

So it's going to be a big show. It's going to be Sunday. It's on the 26th at 8 o'clock. But I know, Gary, for you personally, this year has been tough with the passing of your son, Mac. How are you dealing with it?

Well, it's you know, it is some days are harder than others, but every day is is is somewhat hard right now. We We lost him in January, early January. Um, you know, after a five and a half year bat battle with cancer and uh He was an amazing guy in the way he he dealt with his his challenges was was I'm Very inspirational. I mean, I never Heard Mac complaining about What had happened to him. even though c the cancer really disabled him quite severely.

throughout the five and a half years. But at the end, Um, you know, he he was a musician and composer and set the music aside because he was fighting cancer and then the the final year of his life He went back to composing and uh completed some music that he'd written about ten years prior. And uh Then and they went in the studio in uh July. They I did a couple of uh songs that Mac had. Uh one one that Mac had written and he teamed up with his buddy Oliver Schnee, who's also a composer.

composer and Oliver helped him finish it and They recorded that and then they went back into the studio in November and recorded some more music and it turned into an album that Mac called calls uh resurrection and revival. I put a story on the Ariesine's Foundation home page. Uh Gary Sinise Foundation dot org. And that's all it's all about Mac and this journey. And the way he fought and what he did at the end of his life.

It's very inspirational. I've been proud to, you know, kind of talk about his record and. really wonderful to see how many people have been purchasing it, all the funds go to the Gary Sinise Foundation. And Mac worked for the foundation, so he wanted He wanted any proceeds to go to the foundation. Yeah.

Know it's a tough year, but you're always helping out other people. And you moved over to Nashville to raise more money and keep the tax bill down, too. And have a more supportive community, perhaps. Gary, Sunise, thanks so much. We'll look forward to watching your special.

I know you're going to be on One Nation with me Saturday night, so that'll be great.

So check out CBS on Sunday at 8 p.m., correct? A P B S. On PBS, yes. Thanks so much, Gary. Appreciate it.

Don't also check out on YouTube, too. All right.

Thanks so much for listening, everybody. It's been great. Thanks to everybody at Camp Liberty making this special day possible. And don't forget Memorial Day and All-American Week right here in North Carolina. Keep it here.

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