Dream Team: Trump assembles cohort of loyalists, former staffers for cabinet roles

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Welcome, everybody. Brian Kill Me Cho coming your way. Big Owl.

Lieutenant Colonel Alan West is going to talk about the new morale boost that Border Patrol just got and the quest to get with the criminals, including those on the FBI terror watch list that are in our country. Tom Holman, big target for everyone on the left, and including the networks no one watches, CNN, MSNBC, and he does not care. He's going to do his job. And Senator Rick Scott is standing by. The senator just won re-election again, this time easily, but he wants to be the majority leader, and we're going to get a vote on that tomorrow.

But before we get to the center in Florida, let's go to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Town of Chimney Rock that I represent, Western North Carolina, totally decimated. They're getting no guidance from the state agencies, much less FEMA, who took forever to get on the ground out here. That is some of the controversy.

That is Jake Johnson, Republican, North Carolina congressman, on these revelations. Outrageous FEMA fires worker who coached FEMA workers not to help anyone with a Trump sign after back-to-back hurricanes. Do you believe that? Allegations. When Trump made him, he was vilified.

They are now confirmed. Will the New York Times apologize? MSNBC anchors release a statement with contrition. I doubt it. They should.

Number two. But certainly, we have to look at this election as well as the lead-up to this. And clearly, not enough voters knew what Democrats were going to do to make their lives better, particularly poor and working-class Americans across this country. Right, but she's not the answer either. Congresswoman Jaya Powell weighing in.

Dem's epic collapse causing massive soul-searching. And now we learn of an elaborate, ill-advised spending spree. Despite raising billions of dollars, they are out of cash and are 20 million in debt and asking for more money from Democrats. They can't be suckers like this anymore. Number one.

Tom Holman was named the border czar before there was an announcement about DHS Secretary or even Stephen Miller going in the White House as Deputy Chief of Staff of Policy. Why? Because Tom Holman, everyone knows in the Trump inner circle, will have direct access to the president and that sequencing, naming him first, makes him more important on border matters than the DHS Secretary to be, Christine Ohm, or even Stephen Miller. Great point. Major Garrett, we'll see if it's accurate.

Filling out the roster. President-elect rapidly filling up his new team as Rubio.

Now, Christine Noam, it's HSS Secretary. Mike Waltz, National Security Advisor, are tapped. Tulsi, Bergham, RFK Jr., Vivek, still waiting for their call as Trump prepares to meet with President Biden on Wednesday, but an important person won't attend, and that person is the future First Lady and former First Lady, Melania Trump. Rumor is that she has no patience for the, doesn't really want to tolerate the Bidens, especially after the raid on her house and what was done with her closet. And they believe that the Biden signed off on that.

Senator Rick Scott joined us now. Senator Welcome. I know you have a lot on the line right now, but first of your reaction to fellow Senator Marco Rubio being nominated for Secretary of State. Titan is great. First of all, Marco is a great friend.

He's been a great colleague. He got elected to the Senate when I got elected as governor. We've had a great working relationship, and he's I mean, this he is going to do a great job. He will represent President Trump well. He'll represent the United States well.

So I'm I mean, you can't be more excited for somebody. When you see somebody that you respect and that's a friend to get a great position like this, I'm really excited for Marco. Senator, you're great friends with the future President. But how could you talk about how that relationship evolved? Because remember, they were brawling it out for the nomination in twenty fifteen, and they got really personal for a while, but that changed.

What happened?

Well, I actually knew Trump before I actually when I was a business guy, before I ran for governor and before he ran for president. You know, and you know, he had the I did an op-ed before the Iowa caucuses about, you know, President Trump had the pulse of the nation. He knew what people were talking about. That's why he won this election, too. He talks about the things that people that are important to people.

So I think that's why he won in 1916, and that's why he won in 24, because he cares about you. He's talking about what you care about. He says he cares about inflation. He cares about the drug crisis. He cares about the border.

He cares about the military. The things he is so focused on what people care about. That's why he's won two elections now. He has a mandate. He has a mandate.

Now, our job in the House and the Senate is to help him get his nominees done, get his tax policy implemented. get the bills that he needs passed. We've got to get that as quickly as we can. This country is in deep trouble. I was at a restaurant the other day, and this lady came up to me.

She said, Governor, she still calls me governor. I moved to Florida from Indiana because of you. She said, I did great while you were governor, but guess what? It's gotten so expensive now. You've got to help me.

I've got two kids. I'm having a struggle. Donald Trump is going to do everything he can. The Senate and the House, we have got to do everything we can. That's why I'm running to be the majority leader.

We have got to get these things done. I'm a business guy. I know how to get things done. I know you do it with purpose, with a team, with a plan, with measurement.

So I'm going to get the Trump agenda accomplished when I win as majority leader tomorrow. Senator, you're going against Senator Cornyn and Senator Thune. Do you think I know you and many people believe in the Trump world that you will implement the President's agenda? Do you believe they won't? I hope they will.

You know, they're friends of mine. I hope they will. It's really, I mean. Trump won. He won big.

His policies won big.

Well, we do know that when Trump first won, there were a lot of people, Republicans and Democrats, that really slowed down his agenda. He didn't get his nominees done. They didn't help him with his policy choices. That's got to change. And that's, you know, I'm running because I believe we have to have big change.

I've talked to my colleagues. We need to be treated as equals. We need to have big change. We need to have a relationship with the House Representative. I got a great working relationship with the Speaker, with Steve Squeeze, with Tom Emmer, with the fiscal responsible people in the House.

I want to build a team and get this done now. I'm a business guy, I'm a doer. How do you feel about the secret ballot? I don't get it. I mean, it's like you know when I vote for a judge So why do we have a secret ballot?

It doesn't make any sense to me. Look, I'm willing to tell you exactly what I think. I put out when I ran against McConnell two years ago, I told people exactly what I would do. And now we have an opening. McCollin decided to step aside.

We have it open. I've been very clear.

So I think we all ought to talk about exactly who we're voting for and why we're voting for them.

So our voters know why. I know that I've got to do everything I can, and I believe in it, get the Trump agenda done, get his nominees finished, and get his agenda done. 27 gets you the majority leader, right? 27 votes? Absolutely.

Yep. All right.

So quick thing. Describe to me how this works. The president said anybody who's a majority leader better be prepared to appoint, get my nominees through. On recess appointments. Recess appointments happen when you're not in session.

So, how would it work? You said, I'll do that. How would that work?

Well, first off, that happened under Clinton. It happened under Obama. It happened under George W. It just didn't happen under Trump. The so what we have to do is we just have to go in recess for ten days.

And then he can do nomina nominations.

So I believe in it. I believe we've got to you know, I believe that we should help Donald Trump get his nominees done.

Now, maybe Chuck Schumer will have a have a, you know, have a complete change and say, oh, Donald Trump's the president, let me figure out how to work with him. I doubt it. I think Schumer and the Democrats will block everything they can.

So if that's what's happening, If it's the best way to get his nominees done, then we ought to go in recess and let him do them.

So when you say they go in recess, that's before the appoint before the President takes power? Or are you going to wait for the first time?

So okay, so Senator, people, I think during the Obama years, they said recess appointments were unconstitutional, right? Only only because it he didn't it wasn't long enough for his session.

Okay.

So they they're it's not that it's they're not their it's not that they're unconstitutional, it's just that they didn't go to recess long enough. Senator Rick's got our guest. He wants to be a majority leader. Senator, could you describe how a minority uh senator j in this case it's Schumer And the cast who was Harry Reid. How do they slow down the process?

Even people that are going to get confirmed, for example, Rubio is going to get confirmed, but they have a way of slowing it down. And number one, Mondays are out and Fridays are out because you guys are off. How do they slow it down?

Well, first off, we shouldn't be off. When I got elected six years ago, I was shocked. That we don't come in until 5:30 on Monday, and then we leave at 1:45 on Thursday. The first thing we have to do is we have to say, look, We have a real job. Let's work like real people.

That means we work five days a week, six days a week, seven days a week. Real people work really long hours. That's who gets things done.

So number one is we have to stay up here until they get done. If that means we have to be up here for 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, we got to do it. But here's what happens. There's a process for everything, and it takes so many hours for each nominee.

So you can allow that to be accelerated by unanimous consent, or you can slow it down.

So if you don't if you don't agree with somebody's appointment, then you say, hey, I'm not going to let this get sped up.

So, and that's what Schumer historically has done.

So, if that's what he does. then you know let's find let's find Pin 2050 nominees, whatever it is that we're comfortable with with Trump. And go into recess and let him do those appointments, and then we'll come back. And if Schumer does continue to do it, maybe we have to do it more than once. But these the president is the one he should be able to put together his team.

Right? This is this. We're not talking about judges, we're talking about the people to run agencies. The president's job is to run the agencies. Our job is simply to if somebody is you know, we we completely disagree with somebody.

But if we if Republicans all agree with these people, then let them go through recessed appointments. Here's what Senator Tommy Tupperville said yesterday, cut seventeen. We had a mandate last week for a change, not just as President of the United States, but we have no time. As you just said, we have no time to spare. We have to get somebody that's different than what we've had.

You know, we have like a 20 percent approval rating in the Senate, and we're not a rolling ball of butcher knives. And so we've got to have somebody with different strategies, different ideas, different communication skills give us a chance to do something different like President Trump's going to do. He needs somebody to work with. Rick Scott knows him. He's a business guy.

He's been out there. He's signed checks before. He understands the business world like President Trump. They can communicate. That's the reason I'm voting for Rick Scott.

So that's a nice compliment. And how many votes do you think have you been told you have?

Well, most people most people don't want to go public. I believe I'm going to get a majority. But most of my colleagues, they don't want to tell people how they're going to vote. But I think I'm going to get a majority. I don't know if I'll get it on the first ballot.

So what happens is there's three people running, if nobody gets twenty seven votes on the first ballot, then the person with the least number of votes, they're out and then you have a second vote.

So I'm hoping look, I believe what I'm offering Is the best thing for Donald Trump. It's the best thing for his agenda. And I will make sure everybody is heard. You know, here's what a lot of people don't realize. If I built a business with 285,000 employees, How do you do it?

You bring people together with a common goal, and then you build a great team. You have a plan. You measure everything. You measure everything to see how you're doing. We need to have a whole plan for two years.

How are we going to get these things done? And guess what? If we get things done, we're going to have a great 26 election. If we don't, people are going to be mad as hell at us because they say, wait a minute, we elected Donald Trump. You guys slowed us down.

I'm not going to let that happen if I'm the majority leader.

So it just happened a short time ago. Chuck Schumer has said that although the AP declared it official, I guess in Pennsylvania they haven't, but he's no longer blocking Dave McCormick from coming in for orientation. And I thought, what's the big deal? But I'm hearing that orientation is a big deal. I didn't get to go through this six years ago.

Chuck Schumer blocked me. Six years ago. Um so I mean, I never went through orientation. I mean, this is just the way Chuck Schumer and the Democrats just try to cause problems. They don't get that we're here to help the American public.

Let's do our job. Let us do our job. Let's look, if you don't if you don't agree with my policy, try to talk people into not agreeing with my policy. But just to be just to be a pain in the butt all the time, which is what Schumer is, just a pain in the butt.

Well, he's in the minority, and there's no sense. It's not clear when he's going to be in the majority again, because in two years, it still looks like it's going to be your Senate if things go according to planning you guys produce. Senator, it's 24 hours. We'll find out if you're the majority leader. Thanks so much for coming on and telling America why you should be the right choice.

Appreciate it. Thanks, Brian. Have a great day. Bye-bye. You got it.

1-866-408-7669. Just to go over what we know: Marco Rubio is going to be nominated Secretary of State. Mike Waltz, who texted me and said, until it's on Truth Social, I don't believe it, but he's about to be nominated a National Security Advisor. Christy Noam, who will be Secretary of Homeland Security. Lise Eldon, EPA Administrator, powerful position.

I'll go over that later. Elise Stefanik, U.N. Ambassador, already meeting with the Israeli president today. Tom Holman, Borders Are. He's already causing earthquakes.

Stephen Miller will be deputy chief of staff, the same position called Rove Hell for George Bush. And Susie Wilde is one of the most powerful people in Washington now, as White House Chief of Staff, the first woman to hold that position. You'll listen to the Brian Kilmead Show. Calls next. Newsmakers and newsbreakers.

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He is someone who is very simpatico in his thinking when it comes to Donald Trump's foreign policy. And I think that what this signals from the get-go is that there's no JV team this time around. Donald Trump's coming to Washington, D.C., and he's not relying on some of the regular run-of-the-mill Republicans who might be skeptical or apathetic about his agenda. Instead, he's falling back on folks who are bought in from day one. And I think that this pick, as well as some of the others that we heard of today, really reflects that new reality.

I love the pick. I mean, if it's Michael Waltz, like I said, if it's not on true social, he doesn't believe it. But it would mean for him, he's not running for governor. Bad news for Florida. And then you think to yourself, well, Byron Donalds will run, okay, for governor.

But if they want Byron Donalds to have another prominent position in the administration, I don't think he can do it. Brian Mast, I don't think he can do it. For example, if Marco Rubio becomes Secretary of State, which is happening, that opens up the Senate seat. Good. Byron Donaldson, another great pick, wouldn't you think?

Yes. But they can't lose another seat in the House. This means they've lost two. Right now, they don't even have the House. Mark, listening in Ohio, Dayton, Ohio, WHIO.

Hey, Mark. Hey, Brian, just real quick. First of all, I want to say I was completely wrong. I called in after the midterms and said there was no way Trump would win, but I was shown wrong. But What I'd love to see is this administration come up with some dashboards.

Evidently. To them, and then report out to the American people, you know, every six months. Say, this was our goal. This is where we're at, this is what we're doing right there. We never do that.

Our local government here in Centerville, Ohio does that. We have dashboards. Do people open it for everybody to see? Do people look at them? Yeah.

All right, you're breaking up a little, Mark, but I appreciate it. Alex in Brooklyn. Alex. Hey, good morning, Brian. Thanks for taking the call.

I just want to say about Harris's communication director that said now Joe Biden should step down and give Harris the last two months of the presidency. Why didn't he say that when Joe Biden was pushed out of the race because he was too old to be president? He should have said it then, and the American people would have seen what a disastrous president she would have been. I mean, she lost anyways, but the results would have been even, I think, even better for Trump. And that's why they didn't do it then.

So don't give us her now. If you weren't willing to sell Drill Biden to step out. Alex, I'm done with this. They wanted us to believe he was okay. We never believed it.

When they finally admitted he was okay, they threw him out. Then they told us she was great. We never believed it. And then when she fails, they go, she was never great. You lost all credibility, Alex, I know, with you in Brooklyn and with me right here at 1211 6th Avenue.

Lieutenant Colonel Alan West next. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Killmead. Rile is through the roof. We received hundreds of calls, texts, emails.

Uh just saying how happy The agents are. There's a lot of agents that had originally Said that they would retire if President Trump did not win. And now, those same agents are saying they're going to hold back on their retirement. Because they want to serve under this administration again, because they knew that. They know exactly how it was during his first administration.

They know this one's going to be even better. That's so interesting, isn't it? Paul Perez, a National Border Patrol Council President. And that's what Tom Holman told me yesterday, too, that his phone blew up with people wanting to come out of retirement and coming back. And he's got to bulk up the ICE numbers.

They got to track people down. They got to do investigations. They got to set people up. And these men are dangerous. And you got to be sure about it.

And then people like, you know, in Massachusetts, they get, we're going to fight back. We're not going to cooperate. We're going to make sure Sanctuary City status stays impacted. They're just going to overcome it. And I also talked to people that said they've talked to sheriffs in sanctuary states, and the sheriffs are going to cooperate in the way they know how, without telling anybody, under the wire, and let you know where the criminals are.

Lieutenant Colonel Alan West knows how it works. East Dallas County Republican Party Chairman, American Constitutional Rights Union Director. and former Congressman from Florida. Lieutenant Colonel, welcome back. Your reaction, number one, to this election, overwhelming result and what it's going to mean for your the border communities.

Well It's great to be with you, Brian. And when you look at the county by county breakdown for that electoral map from the election last week, it's just phenomenal. And I just heard, I think, his Congresswoman Jaya Paul talk about how progressivism is on the rise. I don't know what kind of stupid sauce she's drinking, but she is completely delusional. And what you are already see happening is now there is a an energy, there is a You know, restoration of desire and commitment to get out there and do the job that they're supposed to do with the Border Patrol and also the ICE, because they know that they will have someone that has their back.

And so I think that you will see the exact same thing when President Trump makes his announcements for our Secretary of Defense and the service secretaries, because people want to know that they have a leader, they have a commander-in-chief that's going to enable them to do what they're supposed to do and be focused on the mission and not identity and ideological agendas. I like Lee Zeldin, four-time congressman, the EPA. They paused permits for liquefied gas. They scrapped new oil and gas pipelines. They attempted to bar new permits for drilling on federal land.

He could reserve, he could fix all that. He also wants to ramp up new power lines for AI. Let's go do it. Doesn't mean you're irresponsible with the environment. Everyone should be conscious of the environment, but not when it comes to our national security.

And that is our national security. Our allies need liquefied natural gas. We told them to stop getting it from Russia, so we have to be their supplier. No, you're absolutely right. Your energy security is part of your economic security.

It helps to grow your economy. And we've seen what has happened with the Biden administration going after our oil and gas, fossil fuels industry and what that meant for the American people. That's the nexus of what we saw happen with the inflation rise. And it's also part of your national security, as you just articulated, getting our allies to come to us for the liquefied natural gas. And that means a lot here in Texas.

So we are going to see a change in the border, but also we're going to see a change as far as Texas, once again, helping America to be energy independent, be a net exporter of its energy resources. Last week, I was down at Port Arthur, Texas. Port Arthur, Texas, under the Trump administration, was the number one exporter of liquefied natural gas in the world. Then comes on the Biden and Harris administration. What did they do?

They put a moratorium on it, and you give the advantage to Russia and to OPEC and to everybody else. I want you to hear Anna Navarro, a fake Republican, on the view, cut three. Mr. President, I mean it's chilling what he just said. You realize that when he says yes, families can be deported together, what he is saying is that US citizens can be deported.

There's not enough criminals, aliens in the federal prison system for it to be mass deportations. What it means is grandmothers, what it means is brothers and aunts, what it means is abuelos, yahuelas, it means dreamers. Those of you who voted for Trump This is what you wanted. This is what you voted for. You screwed around, and you're about to find out.

Can she be stupider? I mean, you really think we're going to get American citizens with accents and ship them out? Yeah, that's beyond stupid. That's stuck on stupid, as we say in the military. Look, the bottom line is: if you voted in the elections in the United States of America, that means you're a citizen, unless you are in one of those states where, you know, the blue states, where they allow non-citizens to vote.

We know that the Biden-Harris DOJ went after the state of Virginia, who wanted to get non-citizens off of their voter registration rolls. But again, coming back to what the original premise, 425,000 criminal illegal immigrants have been allowed that we know of, allowed into this country by the Biden-Harris administration, to include 30,000 of those individuals being rapists and murderers. That's what we know. There's 1.5 to 2 million of the gotaways. We have no clue who they are, where they are.

We've got to find those individuals and get them out. There's some 25 to 30,000 Chinese single military age males that are here illegally. We've got to get them out. And that's what Tom Holman is talking about. And so the fearmongering that you hear from the stygian witches of the view.

Is not what Tom Holman is talking about or President Trump, and it's not what the American people voted for. The American people don't want open borders, and the folks that came into this country legally, they want them removed. They want us to be a country that abides by the rule of law.

So right now we have National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, Secretary of State Marco Rubio. I think they have very similar views than we have. I really think we have to almost double our defense budget. Marco Rubio knows that Venezuela needs to be choked out and Cuba does not need to get normal trade status. He also sees the danger, obviously, of China and Iran.

Now, I think that he would be more apt to supplying weapons and support for Ukraine than I think President Trump is. He's a president. I get it.

So your reaction to naming a guy like Mike Waltz who fight in wars as National Security Advisor, and who also worked with Dick Cheney when he was vice president, your reaction to them being named?

Well, you know, I just jumped into Normandy with Michael Waltz in June for the 80th anniversary, and he is someone that understands from the warfighter perspective and then also from a policy perspective what has to be done. And that's very acute. That's what you need because so often the strategic policy decisions don't line up with what affects the person on the ground.

So we're going to be able to have a national security policy that is based upon that which we know will affect that person on the ground and will give them all of the right guidance and mission and task and purpose and objectives to be successful. Look, again, I think if you restore your liquefied natural gas and you start exporting that, you undermine Russia. When you make us energy independent again, you undermine these OPEC nations. When you put the sanctions back on Iran, you undermine what they're doing in supporting militant Islamic terrorism. And I think that Marco Rubio also brings a great perspective on what is happening south of our border where we see Iran making incursions, and we see countries like Russia trying to get a foothold over there in Cuba, which is just what, 60, maybe 90 miles away from the coast of Florida.

So I think we've got two very good people there: Marco Rubio, senator who is on the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Senate, and Michael Wallace, who understands tactical and strategical-level military decisions and national security policy.

So it looks like they spent a billion dollars to get Harris no battleground states and lose almost every county in the country. And, you know.

So we know the numbers are overwhelming. A billion dollars, and they might be twenty million in debt, and we find out how much is left with these celebrities. Get this Oprah Winsfrey, a billionaire by any account, multi billionaire probably. And I don't have any problem with that. I think that's great.

Whatever you need to do, and she was the best talk show in the country for a while. Turns out she wanted a million dollars into her foundation in order to do an interview on a set that took maybe a million dollars to construct. She was they uh TMZ caught up with her. Here's the exchange, cut twenty seven. Oh, is it true that they paid you a million dollars for the endorsement for Kamala?

Not true. Not true, okay. I was paid nothing ever. Right, you weren't paid, but didn't say your foundation wasn't.

So, and by the way. I hope we're done with celebrities. Uh endorsing anybody. Yeah, well I don't know if we will be because that's the only thing that the left has. The left has become a party, the Democrat Party has become a party of the elites.

being in the entertainment elites, Hollywood elites, sports elites. academic elites. And the fact that, you know, it shows that Oprah Wimfer's heart wasn't in it. I mean, you had to give her a million dollars to her foundation, as we just articulated, for hust for her to come out there and have that interview. And if you go back and you watch that interview, she was not in the least bit impressed with Kamala Harris.

I mean, she showed a lot of trepidation on her face with some of the responses and answers that were given.

So these these stars that came out, Bruce Springsteen, John Bon Jovi, Katy Perry, Beyonce, you know, their heart wasn't in it. They weren't doing it for the right reasons for America and the American people. They were just doing it because they got their pockets lined. No doubt about it. Colonel, would you accept a job?

Have you let it be known, or are you interested at all in working with this White House? Hey, look, you know, one of the things you've got to understand about my family, my family's been serving this country since World War II. That was my dad as a corporal in the Army, a segregated Army. And he taught me that there was no greater honor than to serve this country in uniform. And I will continue to seek to serve this country.

So if President Trump wants an old soldier in his cabinet, I'd be happy to be something like a Secretary of the Army because I think that we've got some issues with our Army. We've got to get them back on track to make it once again a superior and fine fighting force. Have you with them now? Look, I mean, I don't go around and I'm not a lobbying type. That's not me.

But I will make it known. And I've had some people back channel call me and said, yes, I'd be willing to serve in this administration if they deem me worthy. I think it would be great. I deem you worthy. I'll see if I have any poll.

Lieutenant Colonel Allen West, thanks so much. You got a lot of poll, brother. Thanks so much, Brian. God bless. You got it.

1-866-408-7669. I'll take some calls when we get back. There's so much more to cover. I do want to go over what happened with FEMA. I mean, can you believe this?

They're in the middle of a hurricane, two hurricanes, back-to-back. And then Trump came out and said in certain areas in North Carolina and Florida, if you have a Trump sign, the Trump supporters are not getting service. That's outrageous. Majorca, it is crazy. How would you do that?

It's so irresponsible. Misinformation. The New York Times blasting headlines. It turns out it's true. And you want confirmation?

The director of FEMA fired the person that put that in text. And my sense is this isn't just one person. We'll go over that and more with your calls. Brian, Kill Me Cho. Both sides, all opinions.

It's Brian Killmeat. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. They're not there at all advising on just something as simple as water quality in the lake where all this debris is washed in. They've given the towns, the last I spoke to them, which was very recently.

The Department of Environmental Quality had given them no guidance on how bad it was in the lakes and rivers, and that's a huge issue. You're seeing on screen right now, that's the town of Chimney Rock that I represent, Western North Carolina, totally decimated. And they're getting no guidance from the state agencies, much less FEMA, who took forever to get on the ground out here. And maybe we know why, because it turns out that FEMA decided if you have a Trump sign, Don't go there. That, according to some FEMA workers out in the field, if you see a Trump sign, don't worry about it in Florida as well as North Carolina.

A woman named Deanna Criswell, who incredibly broke the glass ceiling to become the first woman to head the agency, announced that FEMA would be conducting a thorough investigation to, quote, uncover the source of conspiracy theories hampering Hurricane Helene relief efforts. Among those conspiracy theories were that FEMA was directing funding to illegal immigrants and that FEMA was withholding assistance to certain demographic groups. As Criswell put it, it is really unfortunate.

Well, it turns out it was true. I don't know about the illegal immigrants, but we do know that the text messages revealed that there was an urging to avoid helping those with Trump signs. Despicable. Here is Congressman Byron Donald's Cut 33. With Donald Trump coming back into the White House, I will assure you that is not the America we're going to live in.

Look, my district went through Hurricane Ian two years ago. We got a piece of Hurricane Milton this year, not nearly as bad as places further north. Hurricane Helene, the damage done through North Carolina. Look, we can't have officials deciding that they're only going to support their favored political interests. It's un-American.

I'm glad that official was fired, but there's a lot of questions that FEMA needs to answer because the truth is, Sean, the response in too many of these communities has been slow and it's been bureaucratic. We need a quick response action agency out of FEMA, not an overly political one and not a bureaucratic one.

Well, number one, they owe an apology to Donald Trump. They called him misinformation. The New York Times ripped him. Go apologize. MSNBC, you better apologize.

So the agency confirmed that an employee had advised her survivor assistance team not to go to homes with yard signs supporting Mr. Trump during rescue efforts after the Hurricane Milton. And hit the state last month, a category three hurricane, pretty strong, as you know. FEMA said the employee whose name was not revealed, we got to get it, has now been terminated. It said that it believed that it was an isolated incident, which is now under investigation.

Quote, this is a clear violation of FEMA's core values. That's according to Criswell. She added the agency has referred the matter to an internal counsel office, and she will do everything she can to make sure it never happens again. And she goes on and makes some grandstanding statements. But my feeling is, by the way, Ron DeSantis came out and says we're seeking answers for what was said, partisan activities in FEMA.

He said, on my direction, the Division of Emergency Management is launching an investigation into the federal program. and discrimination against those who support Donald Trump. This is insanity. Actually, when that came out, I thought that cats and them there eating cats and dogs was more of a chance of happening. Then this FEMA story being true.

And it turns out the FEMA story is true. And just think: we see the text messages out there. The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro's group, deserves credit for finding the source. But my feeling is if one person's texting that freely, do you really think that is one Wildcat situation? Or do you think that's everywhere?

And they they feel like they're impervious to ever getting caught and ah, Jones doesn't matter. Joe Biden, Kamal Harris will be president. No one's ever going to know. I'll continue that. Steve in Prescott, Arizona.

Hey, Steve. Hey, Brian, how are you? Thanks for taking my call. No problem. This is off topic.

I had actually called in prior, but I've been dying to ask since before the election, all of these people that were coming on these commercials, especially in Arizona, we were getting hammered with them. that they're die-hard Republicans, lifelong Republicans. supporting Kamala Harris. Were they paid actors, do you think? I mean, were people really That's hateful toward America that that Or that stupid?

I'm not sure. I mean, I wouldn't know. But there is a lot of high-profile so-called conservatives that didn't like Trump. But 95% of Republicans were voting with Trump. But they wanted to get high-profile people that just weren't with it.

You know, Mitt Romney just said, count me out, but you know how he felt. Paul Ryan says he can't win. You know how he felt. And we know about Adam Kinziger. We know about Liz Cheney.

We know about John Kelly, who says he's a Republican.

So. You know, we know how they felt. And then just to think there's other people out there who felt that, sure, you know, there's a lot of people out there that Trump could have put on commercials that said, I'm a life-productive Democrat and I'm voting for Trump.

So I don't know if they were paid actors. That would be an additional scandal. You know, I I don't know if they have to say I'm pretty sure you have to say paid actor if it was.

So that would be an additional violation. But you know what, Stevie, did that affect your vote? Did you see a lot of these Republicans turn Democrats? Was that affecting how you would vote? It made me angry.

It made me work twice as hard to campaign on his behalf.

Well, tell you what, Arizona flipped. They said it might have been gone forever after the Senate races and the governor's race went Democrat. But man, not after you delivered what the president just delivered. He got Kerry Lake within a point. And she had some issues there, but we'll see if she joins the administration.

Brian killed me, Jay. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kilmey Show.

I come to here from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, where I think the president's going to be coming to the UFC event on Saturday night, right in MSG, back at a place that he sold out big time. And of course, where Dana White spoke, and he'll be back with his great show. And MSG will be rocking for the longest time. I think New York was the only place that was not legalizing. UFC and they finally got it.

It meant a lot to Dana White, but they were already huge successes. It was really New York's fault because the New York Boxing Commission wasn't allowing it. I was there for the first few. There were only maybe two states that allowed the UFC to come there, bring the Octagon. It was Denver.

And I forgot the other one. It might have been North Carolina. It might have been Charlotte, North Carolina.

So I did the first four, just play-by-play, ringside, octagon-side reporter, right after they came out of the ring. It was fun. Today, the president meets with Isaac Herzog, President of Israel, President Biden, that is, and the President and Vice President will have lunch. That should be interesting. Also, Speaker Johnson, Leader Scalise, Whip, Tom Emmer, the Chairman of Hudson.

a chairman of Hudson Institute, hosts a press conference on the Republican election victories. They have not locked up the House yet, but they've lost two members already of the House to the Trump administration.

So that's going to be tough. They can't lose another, and there's a lot of great people that would help out, but vacated Senate seats on down. Interesting time. This hour going to be joined by Dan Bilak from Ukraine and Varney and Company, who do a samo cast. Ed Whelan standing by.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Town of Chimney Rock that I represent, Western North Carolina, totally decimated. They're getting no guidance from the state agencies, much less FEMA, who took forever to get on the ground out here. That is Jake Johnson, part of a controversy.

Outrageous. FEMA fires workers who coached FEMA workers not to help anyone with a Trump sign on their lawn during two back-to-back hurricanes. Allegations that Trump brought out last week, two weeks ago, and was vilified for doing it by the New York Times. Will the other networks and the New York Times apologize to Trump? They should.

Number two. But certainly we have to look at this election as well as the lead up to this, and clearly not enough voters knew what Democrats were going to do to make their lives better, particularly poor and working-class Americans across this country. The Dems Epic collapse, causing massive soul-searching, and now we learn of an elaborate, ill-advised spending. And despite raising over a billion dollars, they seem to have ended their loser campaign out of cash and perhaps 20 million in debt. Stunning.

Number one. Tom Holman was named the border czar before there was an announcement about DHS Secretary or even Stephen Miller going in the White House as Deputy Chief of Staff of Policy. Why? Because Tom Holman, everyone knows in the Trump inner circle, will have direct access to the president and that sequencing, naming him first, makes him more important on border matters than the DHS Secretary to be, Christine Ohm, or even Stephen Miller. That is Major Garrett of CBS filling out the roster.

President-elect rapidly making his completing his team. Rubio is Secretary of State. Christine Omitz, HSS Secretary. Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor. Tulsi Bergham, RFK Jr., Vivek, still waiting for their call as Trump prepares to meet with President Biden tomorrow.

But an important person won't attend. How about the First Lady? We'll explore some reasons why, but let's bring in Ed Whelan, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Sculia and the Sculia Chair over the Constitutional Studies. Ed, welcome. Thank you, Brian.

Hey, I know we're going to talk about the recess appointments that Donald Trump says he's going to need to get his cabinet going, but I want to talk about something that just happened. Today, Juan Mershon, the judge in the New York criminal case against Trump, where he was convicted on 34 felonies and is appealing to the appellate court, was ruling today whether the immunity statute now handed down by the Supreme Court eradicates the need for this case and the verdict. It looks like the judge is delaying ruling in that criminal case. Why would that be? Why delay?

What more time do you need to study a ruling that was handed out two months ago?

Well, that's a good question. I think the ruling itself probably does not apply directly to what the judge does. I think maybe be trying to think through its implications and also just what authority he might have to penalize someone who will soon be President of the United States.

So I think there are issues there that he's trying to sort through.

So right now, when you look at that case on its face and the convictions it followed, was there merit to that?

Well, I confess I have not followed that closely. I thought we were talking largely about Donald Trump's private conduct.

So that may well not be protected at all by the court's ruling. Yeah, although what happened was happened when he was president. All right, let's talk about Ed, what's going on? The President of the United States says: look, when I make my nominees, any Senate majority leader has got to use reconciliation. In order to get recess appointments, in order to get my people in place, I don't want delays like there were last time.

He doesn't want the Senate to take forever to go through the confirmation hearings and the process. Can he do that?

Well, it's a deeply anti-constitutional approach. At the heart of the Constitution, at the heart of the separation of powers, is that the Senate reviews and approves, gives its consent, or refuses to give its consent to presidential appointees, especially major ones.

Now, obviously, there's a residual recess appointment power, but that's intended to apply only in narrow circumstances. And the fact of the matter is that Donald Trump, especially with the Republican Senate, can get his nominees through very, very quickly.

So I don't really understand why this very bad idea has been raised at this point. It's also the case that recess appointees to these positions would not be able to receive pay.

So I don't think you'd be able to attract any very talented. Oh, is that true? They won't get paid? There's a federal statute that specifically bars uh recess appointees uh s uh well there's some exceptions that don't apply here, but r uh bars recess appointees from receiving pay.

So uh that's one of the many problems uh with this with this uh approach. I'm not quite sure y you know, what Donald Trump tweeted out is not very clearly stated, but if he actually uh intends to try to get the Senate to go into recess so that he can get his Cabinet officials confirmed. I think that's an awful idea, and I don't understand why anyone would support it. You know, I think one of the things that he was doing it, number one, I thought with the recess appointments, too, there's a time limit on it. 'Cause I remember Ambassador Bolton was put there during the Bush administration to be UN ambassador.

He waited for a recess, everyone to go out and he just put him there. But didn't he get up in 18 months? And that's that's when you have to be re you know, r uh you know, reassessed.

Well, you're right that there is a limit to the time that a recess appointee can serve. For someone who is appointed during an intracession recess, which is, I guess, what Donald Trump contemplates, The appointment would last until the the uh senate um recesses in 2026.

So it would be nearly two years. But, you know, the details aside, it's a terrible idea that there could be some place for recess appointments when you actually have a Senate that over time isn't confirming someone that you think needs to be confirmed. But the idea that you're going to have the new Senate Majority Leader adjourn the Senate on January 20th so that Trump can recess appoint his cabinet officials is, I think, just a bonker. It's a really awful idea that would have Alexander Hamilton turning in his grave. Trevor Burrus, Jr.: Right.

That was his idea, wasn't it?

Well, Alexander Hamilton explained quite clearly in the Federalist Papers why it is that the Constitution divides the responsibility between the President and the Senate on appointments. As the President nominates, the Senate decides whether to confirm, the President then appoints, and the recess appointment authority is residual to apply in narrow circumstances.

So it wasn't just Hamilton. It was obviously the framers of the Constitution as a whole who adopted that division, and it works quite well. You tweet out it can hold hearings on Trump's intended nominees before January 20th, just as it did on many of them last time around. The Senate should aim to confirm good Cabinet nominees on January 20th. And you go on to say what you just said about recess appointments.

But there was a lot of delays last time, and there's frustration on both sides when they get into power, how long it takes to get people in place. I had Darrell Issa in here. Last week or two weeks ago, and he was trade representative. He was nominated. He waited over a year and then finally said, just re withdraw my name.

Other people wait. They got to give up their jobs and just wait for a hearing time, let alone a vote.

So you understand the front. Don't you think there needs to be a little bit more personal responsibility when it comes to this? Or does there need to be something changed to make these people get votes in a certain amount of time?

Well, there has been a significant change that occurred in early 2019. I don't know whether that was before or after Darrell Issa's experience. I suspect it was after. After.

So Senator Republican leader Mitch McConnell led an effort to reduce. The hours of post-closure debate that are available on a nomination. It sounds awfully technical, but what it does is it dramatically diminishes. the leverage that a minority has to to block um a nominee. No longer can they say, hey, we're going to force uh thirty hours of floor time on this, instead it's a mere two hours.

So it's a lot easier to get mid-level Appointees through. There might be some circumstances where recess appointments are warranted, and I'm entirely open to that happening in those circumstances. But the idea that there should be some sort of blanket recess appointees of cabinet officials at the beginning of the administration is, I think, deeply unsound and, as I say, anti-constitutional. Not unconstitutional, but contrary to the scheme that the Constitution sets up and exactly what the framers understood in terms of separation of powers. Got you on that.

Just last question. On the Jack Smith and the special counsel and the indictments that came with that, he says he's winding them down. Should we expect anything different than what we see? You know, the state cases are the state cases. Winning Georgia and New York.

Both the Jack Smith cases, are they done? They're done. I mean, the d detail, I suppose, is just in how he wraps them up. I'm actually surprised he didn't drop the cases right after the court ruled on immunity, but clearly there's nothing left for him to do. And I don't know why it's taking more than a minute from now.

Right. And lastly. When it comes to Hunter Biden getting pardoned, He has to be sentenced first, correct? No, no, you don't need you can you can be pardoned at any time. Recall, Richard Nixon was pardoned by Gerald Ford before a conviction, so before even an indictment.

So pardons can happen at any time. What do you look for in the Supreme Court? I mean, it looks like you have Alito and Clarence Thomas, the two oldest people look like this might be the period in which they'll decide when within this four years to retire. Would you be surprised if they didn't?

Well I think that there are lots of good reasons why they would choose to step down. It's really a golden opportunity to entrench their legacy and make sure that they're replaced by justices who they see as worthy successors. I think it would be a shame if any of them either of them repeated the mistake that Ruth Bader Ginsburg made of staying on so long that she ended up getting replaced by someone who was her ideological opposite. That said, these justices have their own views and make their own decisions, but I would be Very surprised if both of them are on the court four years from now, and I think it's likely that neither of them will be. And just there's a push on the Democratic side, get Sodomoyora out.

She's got diabetes, not that healthy. She pushed back. Do you have any inside information on that and where it would go? And you could understand the trepidation some Democrats have.

Well, it's crazy to think that they could count on uh getting her um successor confirmed uh before January 3rd when the new Senate comes in. Uh I think it's it's far-fetched all along that she would have any interest in um uh you know deciding right away that she was going to retire. If she were interested in doing that, she um you know would have would have done that in the spring.

So I think this is a um you know Far-fetched, and with every passing day, it becomes even less likely. Hey, Will, and thanks so much for your time. Thank you, Brian. You got it. 1-866-408-7669.

We'll talk about that. You know, I just want to get that down again. This is the story. The judge has delayed the ruling in the tribunal case. It's going to go on a little longer.

Look, he's not going to get the sentencing comes supposed to come up next week, I think. How's he going to sentence a future president, a future president-elect? A couple of weeks.

So, what's going on here? Should the case just go away? This guy wants his time in the spotlight. He had a photo shoot before the trial started. He was so into his look and how he's doing, and he wanted his great press.

And he wants to have his more moments in the sun. But just the other problem, the other thing we're going over: Marco Rubio, expected to be named Secretary of State. Mike Waltz, National Security Advisor, Christy Noam, Secretary of Homeland Security, Lee Zeldon, EPA Administrator. That is a huge, impactful move for the Trump agenda. You're talking about releasing the leases and the ban, the freeze on leases now for natural gas.

You talk about drilling on federal land. Everybody wants to be responsible with good air and good water, but we also have some natural resources we've got to take advantage of. Lee Zeldon will be leading the charge there. Lee Stefanik will be the UN Ambassador, another New Yorker. Tom Holman, Borders Are.

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This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Many Trump supporters told us they cringe at the things he says and the things he's done. but the economy to them. is more urgent. And there's something more.

a connection an emotion, really, they find hard to put into words. Did you feel like he was someone you knew? Yes. Did you feel that He knew you. I feel he knows the American people and the working class, yes.

And that's what I don't think Scott Pelley, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, everybody else, New York Times, Washington Post, just can believe. They say, well, we all shake our heads sometimes at stuff that he said. Hey, I want to, you know, if you have to, you can shoot through the press in order before you got to me. And some of the comments he made at the end, you thought to yourself, oh my goodness, this is going to hurt him. But people don't judge him, they deal with it because they think he has their best interest in heart.

And that's what I hope when the doors close in these newsrooms. And they talk to each other about where to go from here and how do we cover four more years of Trump that the American people overwhelmingly want to see. The Russians didn't put him there. I know you never believed that. And he didn't get there by fluke.

And it's he just got the Electoral College, an antiquated system. Or we just don't like women in this country in power. Whatever thing they made themselves up to think in twenty sixteen while he became President, they never accepted it. The other thing is, it's going to be interesting to see. Tomorrow's tour with President Biden.

I think it's a good movement for America. I regret that President Trump didn't do it last time. But in the wait of January 6th, I don't know how we would do it. But the person who's not going to be there is Melania. And according to reports, one of the reasons is they raided her house.

She's not a fan of the Bidens. Felt as though they said some really bad things about her. And Maria Trump made it clear they went through her closet. They went through her closet. All her stuff was all over the place, and she said, Just leave it there.

She wanted to see it. Uh she declined an offer to head over there. Um here's one source told the New York Post this. She ain't goin'. Jill Biden's husband authorized the FBI snooping through her underwear drawer.

The Bidens are disgusting. Jill Biden isn't someone Melania needs to meet. She is working on a transition and showing signs of building up the East Wing office. John Rogers, a top executive, Goldman Sachs, and member of the White House Historical Association board, will help Melania staff up the East Wing. Look, she's going to be in both places.

She'll do things the way she wants them. She's tired of the criticism, but she steeled herself to deal with it. I don't blame her. Uh you know, the dynamics between the first ladies Kinda iced her out. And when the Bidens okay to raid on their home.

That was they were done with her. She's got she's got some pride too. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, welcome back, everybody.

In 15-20 minutes, we're going to be joined by Stuart Varney. We'll do a simulcast in FBN. Daniel Bilak is with us now, member of the Territorial Defense Force of Ukraine, former Chief Investment Advisor to the Prime Minister. Daniel, welcome back. We understand there's 50,000 troops welled up to knock you out of Kursk.

You are your troops out of Kursk, some of which are North Korean soldiers. How true is this?

Well, I think the troops are there, Brian, but you know, it it it just goes to a much bigger issue is that you know that Putin is on the back foot. He's got to rely on North Korean troops to defend his own territory because he's only making incremental gains, even though he is advancing in the Donbass in our East. He's only making incremental gains there.

So things aren't going so well inside Mother Russia. And that's something that doesn't get reported much in the mainstream press, unfortunately.

So right now, we understand the drones are picking up pace. You guys are hitting back. Everything's picking up with intensity. Would you characterize it the same way? I think there is, yeah.

I mean, we're seeing in huge intensity. And I think that that's no, especially on both sides, but especially from the Russians. They started launching you know, they've been really escalating since the election. And they they fired one hundred and forty five drones against us just a couple just on the weekend. And these are now tipped with thermobaric warheads, which are almost like nuclear warheads.

They incinerate people when they hit and they're targeting apartment blocks and shopping centers and stuff. And this is just ramping up and escalating terrorism, right? And the reason that they're doing it is because they want to test the new president. The president has said, you know, he wants peace through strength. The Russians don't want peace.

They want to take this, they want to annihilate Ukraine and they want to take. America down. You know, they've got their allies. The North Koreans aren't there to do yoga, right? I mean, the North Koreans, the Iranians, and the Chinese are all in cahoots with the Russians.

I call them the four horsemen of the apocalypse. To challenge American power. And, you know, President Trump had talked about peace through strength. And he's totally aligned with Ukraine on this and President Zelensky, when they met in New York back in September, President Trump even said that they had talked about a just and meaningful peace in Ukraine. We never wanted war.

We've always wanted peace. But not at any price. They invaded our territory. And Putin always escalates in the face of U.S. weakness, of American weakness.

And his biggest Strategic victory to this point in time was that he weaponized Biden's fears of escalation. And every time the Biden administration pulled back and didn't give us what we were being promised, Putin just escalated. And he's escalating now. And this is going to be a real issue for President Trump. I understand that they were losing over, in October, they lost over a thousand, on average, they lost over a thousand soldiers a day, a day.

The Russian Brian, they're losing 1,700. They've escalated again on the front lines because they wanted to create facts on the ground before President Trump takes over. We're killing 1,700 a day, between 15 and 1,700 a day. They've lost the British military intelligence. Came out with a statistic that the Russians have lost 700,000 men since the beginning of the war for this idiotic.

Enterprise that Putin has launched. But again, it's not just about Ukraine. Yeah, he wants to crush us and annihilate us and exterminate us, but he's after America and he wants to bring America down. And we are very hopeful. The mood in Ukraine, I get asked this all the time: are you guys worried that you're going to get thrown under a bus?

I'm telling you, people have the hope of the uncertainty of the Trump administration over the near certain deaths by a thousand cuts of the Biden administration. And, you know, who is fighting Putin down to the last Ukrainian? That's how we feel.

So former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused European leaders of seeking to dangerously escalate the Ukraine conflict after the reelection of Trump. Medvedev said to telegram. They're pushing the conflict with Russia into an irreversible phase while they could and be warned against for allowing Kyiv to use Western long range missiles to fire at targets inside Russia. How much are the Biden limitations hurting you guys? I'm telling you, you know, I hate to say this, but he's got Ukrainian blood on his hands.

I mean, th you know, by not we had to go into Kursk.

So because we didn't have long range, we couldn't we weren't allowed to use long range weapons to take out the facilities that are bombing us every day. From Russia. Essentially, what the Biden administration did was he granted Putin. Sanctuary on his territory so that they could bomb us at will, knowing that we couldn't retaliate. It takes 30 seconds for a cruise missile to go from Vilgorod into Kharkiv, which is 18 miles from the border.

You can't even get into a bomb shelter in time. And had we had the green light to use those missiles, We could have taken out military targets. You know, we're not terrorists. We wouldn't have attacked the civilians. But we were taking out, you saw the damage we did with our own drones.

Taking out their ammunition dumps and some of their petroleum, their oil refinery facilities, petroleum facilities, et cetera. You know, they were so confident that the Americans had their backs. that they had this huge ammunition dump just inside the Ukrainian just inside the Russian border near the near Ukraine. And when we hit it with our drones, it burned for four days. It was six square kilometers.

of just secondary explosions. And that's the kind of battle. You wonder who your friends are in this kind of thing. And we're really hopeful that there is going to be a resolution, but it has to be a judge. Daniel, have you seen the victory plan yet that Zelensky says he's been showing European leaders and the Americans?

Okay.

Well, I think everybody sees the outlines of that plan. And I don't know the secret protocols that we're talking about. But do you know what? Like, where's the give? Where's the negotiation?

Why do you think that Putin might go for it?

Well, the negotiation was that was really it wasn't really about what we're going to give Putin. The negotiation was that if we are going to have a meaningful discussion, we need to have security guarantees so that this doesn't happen again.

So if you're if we're going to be going to the negotiating table, we need to understand that, yes, we're going to get into NATO, we're going to have some security guarantees, we need to understand who's going to police Any arrangement that's going to be put on the ground because the paper that Russia signs isn't worth it. You know, they're not uh they're they're you can't trust them to to abide by anything. And so there are lots of things in there that are the start for some sort of a discussion. But you know what the bottom line is, peace through strength, which is what President Trump talks about, means you've got to arm Ukraine to defend itself and to defend the rest of Europe. And by the way, Europe's got to step up.

In what way?

So we keep hearing diverse things. We hear the European Union is not getting enough credit. Your NATO allies not giving enough credit for what they're doing. What are they not doing? We know they've stepped up, but what are they not doing that you need?

Yes, over I mean, what everybody's been not doing is providing us with the armaments and the weapons that we that we've already been promised. like even shells and and and other and other equipment heavy armor etc but the nature of this war has changed dramatically brian i mean this is now a technological war this is this is the future of of warfare is being played on the drones and robots drones robots all that kind of stuff and we are we're actually ahead of them in this we're actually now match them in electronic warfare which is you know countering drones But what we need is help, especially from the United States, in ramping up that technology and fighting asymmetrically. As you know, we took out 50% of the Black Sea fleet without having a ship. We used their own water drones and knocked them out. And this is a benefit for America, too, because it's only costing 3% of the Pentagon's budget to give us 30, 40-year-old kit that you now have to replace with new stuff to create drawbacks.

Right, that's true. Daniel, so how many we understand that the North Koreans gave between 10 and 12,000 troops. If that's it, okay. Not good. But is there indications they're going to continue 10,000 every month, every week?

Nobody knows. Nobody knows what the deal is. It's not a good sign. It means that this thing has been globalized. But it is a sign that Russia's on the back foot.

And what if you're going to have peace through strength, America now has an opportunity to for example, double down on sanctions against Russia. And really squeeze it economically. People are stealing butter from shopping centers because the price is so high. I know. Listen, if we lost 700,000 people, we'd have the government with turnover.

We didn't lose that in two wars over the course of 20 years. Daniel Billak, thanks so much. Keep up the fight over in Ukraine. We come back. Stuart Vaughn, you do a simulcast.

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So it's going to be fun. Also, we're looking at Florida's losing. A very good congressman and Mike Waltz. He's going to the White House.

So we've got Apple still absolutely up 50 cents on this. 10:51, it's Brian Kilmead time. Brian, Judge Murchin just delayed the ruling in Trump's hosh money trial until November 19th. Gee, I wonder why he delayed, Brian. Any ideas on that?

Well, how about this? How about I want to stay in the spotlight a little bit longer? I want more attention. I want to stand up to the president-elect. Look how tough I was and how well it worked out for me in May.

Everyone got to know my name. Then I'm back to that horrible, very cold courtroom again where I have to just drudge around with unnamed faces and unknown cases for the rest of my career. But now I do a photo shoot to get ready for the Trump trial. I get the conviction, the 34 felonies. And guess what?

It became so unpopular with the American public that they stopped mentioning that the president was convicted on 34 counts in his court of law because everyone knows the case is a joke. Remember, Stuart, Governor Cuomo, of all people, came out and said, Said the only person that would have been tried in this case, his name was Donald Trump.

So now you delay a little bit longer, you get to come back again, cost Trump even more money to go appeal this, but it is going nowhere. Right, I hope so, truly. This guy, this judge, I think, has lowered the reputation of the New York judicial system. He's really trashed that reputation. But I'm going to move on.

Wait, listen to this. Liberal media pundits disparaging Latino voters after Trump's win. Watch this. Y'all voted with Stephen Miller and David Duke and against your own sisters. You own everything that happens to your mixed status families and to your wives, sisters and abuelas from here on in.

It's not just misogyny from white men. It's misogyny from Hispanic men who do not want a woman leading them. Maybe they were voting on economic issues, but at the end of the day, maybe voting against their own self-interest. The number of Latinos and Latinas that voted for Donald Trump, despite his racist rhetoric, it kind of makes me want to pull my hair out a little bit because not only is it voting against your best self-interest here. Brian, voting against their own interests.

Are you kidding me? In whose interests is ten million illegals migrating into this country that we pay for? Whose interest is that? Stuart, especially you who know the immigration system so well, it has nothing to do with being Hispanic, nothing to do with misogyny. She was a terrible candidate.

She actually was doing better than Joe Biden. Joe Biden was got his butt kicked by the former president. The internals were so bad, even though he was lying about it or was not told about it, they had to flip to an unpopular vice president who ran a terrible campaign, managed to spend a billion dollars and owe $20 million. Congratulations. Even on the business channel, they couldn't figure out how to make that possible, I imagine.

So now you're going to blame misogyny? Listen, Nikki Haley would have beat her easy. I'm pretty sure if Nikki Haley, according to reports, was Indian. That's a minority, I guess, in this country. Number two is continue to talk about Hispanics like that, and you'll never, you'll lose more and more Hispanic votes.

You continue to put them down for not voting the way you choose for them to vote. Listen, many Hispanic families take great pride in going through the system the right way. Maybe getting work feasas, setting up the And getting that full visa. But if you are a criminal, you're going to be gone. They're going to hunt you down.

If you were on the FBI terror watch list, they're going to hunt you down. If you were here in Overstay and didn't show up at your hearing, they're going to hunt you down. And you deserve it. I don't care, mixed status, in love, whatever. You had a court date.

You didn't show up. That's on you. You know, I have a court date. If you miss a speeding ticket, they take your license away. And if you keep doing it, they actually put you in jail.

That's for American citizens. That's not anti-Irish. They're not anti-Italian. They just say someone broke the law.

So by continuing to make these universal statements, it shows you know nothing and have learned nothing from your horrendous loss one week ago today. I think Tom Homan, as the border czar, has put the fear of God into him. Good. That's a fact. Good.

Yeah. Fair enough. Absolutely. You're all right. Thanks very much for being here.

We'll see you again next week. Appreciate it, Stuart. Thank you. Yeah, thank you very much. Yep.

And Tom Holman was part of the people one of the ones that a lot of people were back now to a solo show. But Tom Holman is one of the people that's causing Somewhat controversy, but they can't really touch him. He's saying, I want to arrest illegal immigrants, I'm going to go for criminals first.

Now you're at home. How is that bad? Oh, you want criminals out of here? People overstay their their uh their visa? Why is that bad?

Rules are rules.

Next, the They're going to go against these gangsters, probably first, right 1B, right after criminals. They are criminals, gangsters, but you just get them out.

Well, excuse me, you're linked to a gang, you're gone. You're linked to a gang, you're gone. Then they're going to expand the ranks of they're going to expand the ranks of ICE to do investigations. You ever see these guys? They go in there, they're ready for anything.

But one at a time, they're going to drag them out. And then other people who are making their way here are going to say, I can't get in. Time is done. I worry about this. What's today?

We're still in November. President Trump doesn't come in until January. You have a president that can't even walk on the beach, literally walk on the beach. He is totally checked out. A vice president is going to spend the bulk of her time in California.

Most of his staff has left to work on a failed campaign.

So he's got KJP as his lead advisor. I sense that Mayorkis, who was bad on his best day, is going to watch an influx and a surge at the border. And I think that Trump should bring up. Two Biden, look. I don't want to take over a collapsed border.

Bulk it up.

Now what Biden wants from Trump is don't abandon Ukraine.

So maybe Trump does a deal. Don't blow open the border. I don't want to be making things even markedly worse by the time I take over. And in turn, he says, I'm not going to slow down the weapons when it comes to Ukraine. I do see this.

Trump has already seen that this Vladimir Putin is how evil he is. Reportedly, Trump came out and told Putin directly. Don't escalate the war while in the interim between my election and when I take over in the inauguration. He put 50,000 troops in Kursk and then denied they even had a phone call. Mr.

President, President-elect, understand what you're dealing with. You could try, but he is just evil. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Gilmead. Hi, everyone.

Really exciting time. One week ago today, the biggest election, I guess, outcome, biggest surprise to more people than any time in American history. You have people that would say, oh, you know what? I hope Trump wins, or I hope Harris wins, or Trump's going to get killed. But the biggest, the greatest insider did not know the outcome of this election.

And ban, was everybody off big time because it was really never in doubt. Not only did The blue wall fall. Every battleground state fell, the Senate flipped, and it looks like the House will hold. We don't know that for sure, but there's no scenario where I hear that the House won't. With us this hour, Ian Bremer, president and founder of the Eurasia Group.

You want to get a hold of the conflicts in this world and find out where they're heading. He's where to go. And with me in the studio is Fox Grade Steve Hilton, and he just might be running for governor out in California. He was served as director of strategy for Prime Minister David Cameron. And Steve, I don't want a name-drop, but in your very seat a week ago, Boris Johnson.

You had Boris. He's the best. He's great. I think it was because he's insane that they got rid of him. I couldn't follow why they dumped him.

Because he had a party that he denied or something. Whatever. I mean, the whole thing was ridiculous. By the way, the most ridiculous thing, because Boris is a great guy and he's a freedom-loving guy. And the thing I couldn't understand is why he in the UK led...

probably one of the most insane lockdown policies in any country. It was like worse than what we had in California.

So to be honest, I couldn't figure out why he did that. But to get rid of him over some footling thing, when he was the greatest election winner they had since Mrs. Thatcher, he did exactly the same kind of thing that Trump has done now, put together a coalition which is totally different to what the Tories had before, just like Trump's created this new Republican Party. And they've just totally thrown it away. Right.

And they've had a bunch of leaders since, and it was this guy's way to the left, correct? Who? The guy you have now. Oh, the Prime Minister. Yeah, I mean, look, he's a kind of technocratic guy.

I mean, he's grey. I think they've made a terrible start. It's going to be very difficult to fight back because they were so heavily defeated, the Conservatives. They've got this massive hill to climb. Their new leader, I think, is great.

She's very cool. She's very strong on the kind of anti-woke stuff. That's how she made her name.

So I think she's going to be great, but it's just so difficult to get back when you're so far behind in a parliamentary system. They've got hundreds and hundreds of districts that they need to win.

So you do this stuff for a living? What's the biggest surprise for you with the Trump victory? The biggest surprise really.

So I've got to tell you, I always thought he would win. I I never thought that was in that. I just had this gut feel that there's no way well, when it was Biden, I thought there is no way this country is going to elect someone who's clearly incapable of doing the job. And then when you get Kama Kamala Harris, Same thing. She's clearly incapable of doing the job.

And they're very similar in a weird way, Biden and Harris, because they're both these completely kind of ridiculous machine politicians. They don't believe in anything. They just go with the flow. And that kind of thing just doesn't cut it as a leader.

So I never thought that she would win. The thing that surprised me was how quickly we knew the result. I really didn't expect to learn the result As quickly as we did. In fact, one of my little moments for you. I was actually on air from our Fox Bureau in LA with Trace Gallagher.

And as I've said since then, I've never been so happy to be cut off mid-sentence because I was just talking about how this looks like a victory for common sense. And we got the rap sign, and it was straight to Brett in New York. And that was the moment that Trump was declared the winner. And it was so much sooner than I thought. I thought we'd be in for recounts and legal stuff and all that kind of stuff.

I thought he would win in the end. I didn't expect it to be so quick and clean. Right. And the thing is, it was so massive. That it's impossible to take shots at Trump.

Exactly. Oh, you know, oh, so is it victory for white men? Not really. Victory for white and male and female white people? No, not really.

Did just for just for the red states? No, not really. I'm looking at his gains in blue states. In Illinois, he lost by 17 in 2020.

Now he lost by nine. In Maryland, from 33 to 24, same in Massachusetts. New Jersey was a 16-point deficit in 2020, now 5. California from 29 to 18. New York from 23 to 12.

I mean, come on, this is gains everywhere. And in New York, he got 30% of the vote, the biggest increase in the Bronx. Guess who went to the Bronx twice? Exactly. And that was what was so exciting about the campaign and the connections he was making.

And it really reminds me of something I said back in the day, you know, when we first met, probably back in 2016, when I first started at Fox, it was just after Brexit. And I was talking about this new populist movement. And back then, I said that the Republican Party has the opportunity to become a multiracial working class coalition. Trump has absolutely delivered that, like more than anyone could have expected. And that's what explains these blue state gains.

Because actually, what unites people is the economic interest. And that's why this is an amazing class realignment.

So I want you to hear, so did you see this? It's okay, if you didn't, 60 Minutes, the A block of 60 Minutes. Did you see that by any chance? I'm really sorry to disappoint you. I didn't see it.

But I've heard about these guys talking about why did he win? Yeah, I've seen some of the clips. Exactly. So he goes, I just, he really, they seem befuddled. How did he win?

So he said, let's just go to Pennsylvania.

Now, we heard all about the diner owner that was a waitress, and they kept saying, he goes, you know, inflation's gone down. He goes, I don't think so. Comprices have come down. I don't think so. Wages have gone up.

I don't think so. And she's like, yes, they have. No, they haven't.

So this is the whole thing. This is the first time this interaction. We do this interaction all the time. I know. And that's how you find out stuff.

So then at the end of this, the most underappreciated part I thought was this part. Many Trump supporters told us they cringe at the things he says and the things he's done, but the economy, to them, is more urgent. And there's something more, a connection, an emotion really, they find hard to put into words. Did you feel like he was someone you knew? Yes.

Did you feel that He knew you. I feel he knows the American people and the working class, yes. Isn't that amazing? It comes down to that. That guy who you never met, who's been famous since the 80s.

looks at you and says, I don't want to hang you, Elon Musk is my friend, sure. But I'd rather hang with you. And the people that show up aren't rich. I know. Well, this is the thing that I always said about Trump, which is that it's very important to remember where he came from.

So, of course, in the last few years when he was really famous and on prime time, you know, week after week, year after year, with the apprentice media guy, but he made most of his career was in construction. And so, where are you when you're in construction? You're on construction sites, you're talking to all sorts of workers. That's why that label, the blue-collar billionaire, really fits. That's his industry.

He's working with real people. And so, I think all through his life, he's had that connection. And that's why things like the McDonald's moment in the campaign. Yeah, of course, you could say it's a clever stunt. People use the word stunt.

It's way more than that. It shows a respect for working people. And people would say, and I saw critics say, Oh, it's so ridiculous. He goes in there with his white shirt and tie and puts on the apron. What a fool.

No, that's the whole point. It's he's who he is. All the time. He doesn't pander. He just went there and could relate to people because he's on their level.

And Steve, you know why it worked? Because he eats it. He loves it. Exactly. This is the other thing I said all the time.

You could go back and watch the tape on my show. For years, I said, every time this kind of story came up, I would say, one of the reasons the elite hate him so much is kind of aesthetic. They think he's vulgar, he's not to their taste. And one of the things they hate about him is that he loves McDonald's. Do you remember how they lost their minds when he had the sports teams come to the White House and he's so fast food?

How dare he? That's so insulting. Guys loved it. Exactly. Here's another point.

You know when I think his career really revived his political fortunes after 2020, the moment that I could see, right, he's coming back. It's when he went to East Palestine and he made that visit before anyone else got there. And he went, where did he go? He went to McDonald's and he bought everyone McDonald's. And you saw that spark, that connection with working people.

To me, that visit to McDonald's in East Palestine, that was the moment that Trump was back. You know, and again, he had the instincts. Here he is two weeks from the election. Mm-hmm. And North Carolina gets hit by a hurricane, and he shows up before anybody with Samaritan purse.

And he says, I didn't just show up and say, I'm here. Franklin Graham's got to help. Here's what these people need. And he stayed with it. Then it turns out That FEMA was deciding in many cases, I will not help homes devastated by two hurricanes if they had a Trump sign.

Exactly what he said was happening. They said misinformation, irresponsible. The New York Times should apologize to the president-elect.

Well, of course, but I mean this is just the latest in a string of these things. I mean the the fact that they lie so brazenly and they just totally assume the worst. It we've just got so used to it now and no one really takes it seriously. That's what's so fantastic about this result because it's such a repudiation of all of that and it shows them up so massively. Of course they should apologize.

But I mean look at the the they want Pulitzers for their lies about about the Russia. They haven't handed them back. I mean these people have no shame. I knew that they were in a parallel universe. When Barack Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize, he did nothing.

He had the job for three weeks for not being George Bush. Exactly. Wait a second. What are you talking about? You had to wake him up and tell him, and he said, for what?

What did I do? I did nothing. He didn't even bring peace. He didn't, even in fact, he didn't do anything. He took our troops out of Iraq and then we got ISIS.

Yes. Do you remember that movie, Wag the Dog? Yeah. There's my favorite line in the whole movie where he gets the Nobel Prize, the character gets the Nobel Prize for this made-up war that they literally manufactured to help his political career. And it's the Robert De Niro character.

They said he got the Nobel Prize. And the woman said, well, he didn't, there wasn't a war. He said, All the greater the accomplishment. Great line. Right, I got all these lines.

So here's uh the bait. Uh, no doubt, Thomas, uh, uh, Tom Holman being named first. Oh, yeah, so much. Here's uh Tom Holman on his approach to being the border czar. I have Hear from people that he was offering a HHS secretary.

He goes, No, I only want the border, but you'll the HHS Secretary is going to answer to him, cut too. Criminals and gang members get no grace periods. But while we're out prioritizing the public safety threats and national security threats, if you want to self-deport, You should salty pork because again We know who you are, and we're going to come and find you.

So, if you want to self-deport, that's fine. But criminals and gang members, they get no favors from this administration. You came to this country illegally, which is a crime. You committed crimes against a United States citizen, some heinous crimes. You get no grace period, so we're coming for you.

But for those others, the non-criminals, if you want to self-deport, I'm all for it. Because when they self-deport, they can put their orders, put everything in order, their family business, if they got homes or whatever, they can put all that in order and leave with their family altogether. It makes perfect sense.

So he's letting everybody know. They want to make him the bad guy. Nothing's sticking. New York ICE officer says the emotion now is super high, especially with Holman news. Arizona Border Patrol agent, ecstatic to go to work.

Morale is even higher. California Border Patrol agent, we've all been hopeful, but the give-ups are still trickling in. Nothing will change until Tom Holman takes over and unleashes us. Texas Border Patrol, people who are going to retire are not, and everyone is happy. He told me he had to shut off his phone.

So many people want to come back to work and want to essentially. Re-enlist. It's the most fantastic news. I think, again, it's something that's not at all surprising. I mean, Homan's great.

I've known him well, talked to him so many times over the years. He's just so strong and clear. And all he's doing is saying we're going to enforce the law. That's all that he's saying. And so it's amazing that that is even something that's controversial.

It is. Ana Navarro, a fake Republican on The View who's delusional, arrogant, and well, let her words tell her story. Cut three. You realize, I mean, it's chilling what he just said. You realize that when he says, yes, families can be deported together, what he is saying is that U.S.

citizens can be deported. There's not enough criminals, aliens in the federal prison system for it to be mass deportations. What it means is grandmothers. What it means is brothers and aunts. What it means is abuelos, yahuelas.

It means dreamers. Those of you who voted for Trump, this is what you wanted. This is what you voted for. You screwed around and you're about to find out. Yeah.

It's so offensive. It's an insult to the intelligence. I mean, look, first of all, the point that's made in terms of the prioritization is just so clear and incontrovertible, which is like, let's take the violent criminals, the gang. And the Venezuelan gang, can we get rid of that? Like, what are you talking about, grandmothers?

And then the fact that you've already got over a million. I mean, I don't know the exact numbers, but like people who've already had deportation orders, right? And they're just not being deported because for various reasons. They've been through the system. They've been through the process.

And so to conflate that and turn and to use this kind of emotional, kind of, you know, like exploitative and cynical language in order to whip up fear and hate, it is so disgusting.

Well, put it this way: just in terms of numbers, the Hispanic vote, they lost by 44 in 2020, pre-Trump with the Republicans lost when you were in England. Republicans lost by 44. Post-Trump, it stems by six. I know. Asians, it's another stem by forty-seven.

Dem by 47, now it's down to 15. Blacks, Dems by had 80 was Dems by 87.

Now it's down to 72.

So you start making inroads with minorities, along with keeping the message straight to level the playing field for everyone. We're not going to pander to you, but we're going to remove any barriers that may remain that stop you from reaching your potential, whatever that is. 100%. And that story of the American dream, that's what people want. And they don't want all this other crap.

And that's why I have to say that particular aspect of this is what makes me so excited and optimistic about California. We are the most Latino state in the whole country. Latinos are the largest group now in California. 40%, 35% white, 15% Asian, 5% black. It's the largest group.

Look at the future of California. 56% of kids in public schools, Latino in California.

So this movement towards Republicans, if we can stay on this same, what I used to call positive populism, upward mobility, that is the future. That's how we win back California. Minutes with Steve Hilton, where he reveals to us whether he's running for governor. Brian Kilmicho. It's Brian Kilmeade.

The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back.

So, Steve Hilton, are you thinking about running for the Republican nomination and run for governor of California? Yeah, I'm thinking about it. How close are you?

Well, you know, it's 2026. I've been working on. A whole bunch of policy areas because everything that the Democrat, we've had this one party rule. For nearly twenty years now in California, and it's a total failure on every front.

So I set up this organization about a year ago called Golden Together. We've been publishing policy reports on how we fix the business climate, which is the worst in America. Unbelievably, California should be the best. You know, our water situation is a nightmare for the farmers.

So, you know, we've been going through the issues. There's still more of that to do. You know, we're just seeing what the landscape is after this election.

So there's still a while to go.

So I haven't made a final decision. Anything about the proposition success or failure make you think that California is more ready for a Republican? Yeah, I definitely think that. I think the ingredients are there. It feels like the tide is turning.

Obviously, a lot of coverage of the big crime proposition, Prop 36, reversing most of the negative consequences of Prop 47, which was pushed through when Carmelo was the state AG, but actually less high profile, but with some of the other ones on limiting tax increases, on rent control, on the minimum wage, on a whole bunch of these statewide measures, what you could call the Republican position. Won a majority. And also, if you look below the kind of top of the ticket, you look at how they kicked out the mayor of San Francisco, the mayor of Oakland, the DA in Alameda County, where Oakland is, of course, George Gascon in LA. You look at the fact that the Democrats said their path to taking back the House majority was the California congressional seats. Most of those Republicans are going to hold, and we're probably going to win at least one more.

So, right across the board, there's a really great story in Huntington Beach, one of our great cities, surf city, USA. A couple of years ago, that was a 6-1 Democrat majority on the city council. Friend of mine a couple of years ago led a group to take control. It was 4-3. They immediately started bringing in common sense Republican policies on crime and homelessness and whatever.

Guess what happened last week? 7-0. They flipped the whole thing. Total Republican control. Paving the way for Governor Steve Hills.

It's changing. I'm thinking, Steve, we've missed you here, but I'd love to see you out there. Thank you. See you later. The talk show that's getting you talking.

You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back, everybody. It's my privilege bringing one of the guys that probably knows more about hotspots in the world than anybody else, Ian Bremer, president and founder of the Eurasia Group. Ian, welcome back. Brian, always good to see you, man.

All right.

So, how's the world reacting to Donald Trump, too? It depends on what part of the world. I mean, you've got some countries that are in a great position no matter what. Like India didn't matter who won. Modi was going to have a great relationship with the United States going forward.

Some countries, clearly, much happier with Trump, both allies and adversaries. On the allies front, I would focus on Israel and the Gulf states. That was, of course, Trump's first trip as president, first time around, very successful. He's maintained and built those relations out of power over the last four years. They're all very happy to see him back.

There are also adversaries that want to see him. Putin is much more comfortable with Trump than he would be with Harris. On the other side, most of the core Europeans and the Canadians, Japanese, South Koreans are more anxious and nervous with Trump. And I would say the Iranians certainly are much more nervous and anxious with Trump. Though on the Allied side, I would definitely say, Brian, that the appointments that we've seen in the last 24 hours, people that both you and I know well, Rubio and Waltz, I think are making allies feel a little less anxious that indeed Trump is going with capable people, not the biggest bomb throwers, not the biggest ideologues, but folks that they actually know and have worked with over the years.

Yeah, Ian, there's people in the Republican Party that don't really agree with me on this, but I thoroughly believe Ukraine has got to be successful within reason. I don't know, you know, they got a country of 25 million, taking on a one with 150 million. They've fought with such valor, we can only, you know, almost look like a movie, coming up with their own innovations without a navy, blowing up half the Russian Navy. But now you've got 50,000 troops welled up in Kirst to take back that part of the country. And you got North Koreans now reporting for duty.

And you have people in America who go, well, it's not our problem. We got a border issue. I believe that it is our problem, and we have to take a stand there. Trump's view. Is that Ukrainian national security is in American interests, but it's primarily the Europeans' problem, not the American problem.

So he obviously has a difference. From you there, JD Vance has a bigger difference. from you there. But I think that Waltz and Rubio are going to be much more cautious and much more aligned with where the Republican Party has been, which is don't sell the Ukrainians down a river. Um and certainly Zelensky understands.

that the war is not going well for him. and that he is not in a position to retake His land militarily. And best I can tell, Putin isn't going to just hand it over voluntarily.

So, that being the case, there is more. Recognition. That we need to move to a negotiated ceasefire. The question is: what does that ceasefire look like? What kind of guarantees do the Ukrainians still have so that if they stop the fighting and they lose de facto some of their territory, the Russians can't come back and take even more in a year or two or three?

And the thing that worries me the most, Brian, what we need to watch carefully is that Trump should not be doing this deal. By himself. With Zelensky and Putin. He should be coordinating with America's allies who have been fighting with the Americans and spending a lot of money. Cheek to cheek, right, shoulder to shoulder, over the last three years, he needs to be working with the Europeans.

And the Europeans are worried about that. I think it's a great idea. That's what you got to learn from the Doha Agreement. Nobody in NATO knew what the heck was going on. And in fact, the Afghan government initially didn't know what was going on.

And when they did find out, we could go over that at a different time. Having said that, Joe Biden, evidently, tomorrow is going to say primarily to Trump: don't abandon Ukraine. And I thought that'll be his one, and he's going to try to get as much weaponry out the door. But, Ian, I know we're not we don't we're both not four-star generals. But how much better would it be for the Ukrainians to have the restrictions lifted on the equipment we gave them?

to allow them to hit the areas where the Russians live.

So Brian, you and I together aren't even a four-star general. True. But when I talk to the military leaders, not just from the US but also from NATO, they tell me that strategically, The permissioning of the Ukrainians to use those weapons to strike deep into Russia would not actually make a meaningful difference in the war.

So useful thing to offer, sure. A little bit of risk in terms of Russian escalation, sure. But this isn't the core thing we should be arguing about. It's more about: are you giving them security guarantees long term? What are you going to do for the rest of the territory that the Ukrainians still occupy?

Will you continue to provide them the economic support and the military support they need to defend themselves? And look, I think the Ukrainians have made mistakes. You mentioned those troops in Kursk. Those were some of their best-trained troops, but that they took away from the front lines and the Russians ignored them for almost a couple months while they were going in and taking more territory in Ukraine. Zelensky couldn't afford to take that risk, in my view.

It was spectacular. It looked like a win. And it turns out it's an overstretch.

So that's a problem, too. And they used North Koreans now because they didn't have enough troops to push them out to use North Koreans, which is incredible.

South Korea.

Now, South Korea says, hey, maybe we're going to start giving weapons to Ukraine. Have they made a decision yet?

So, first of all, it's a problem with their constitution for them to do that directly. They've even talked about the potential to send troops as observers of what the North Koreans are doing. And the opposition in South Korea went apoplectic, and the president had to back down.

So, the South Koreans are not going to be meaningful on this issue. But I will tell you, Brian, that the Biden administration has made it clear to Russia that if those North Korean troops were deployed on the ground in Ukraine, not in Kursk, where they're fighting. in Russian territory that there would be NATO troops sent to Ukraine from Poland, from the Baltic states, from the Nordics.

Now, that would be a major escalation. What we don't know. Is to what extent that policy is dead on arrival because of Trump's election? We have no idea, but we know that a lot of American allies are absolutely prepared to do that. Ian Bremer with us now.

He's on Skype if you're watching on Fox Nation, president and founder of Eurase Group. Ian, if President Trump wants to get clear on who he's dealing with with Vladimir Putin, I don't want to insult him and say he doesn't, but Vladimir Putin not only did he ignore President Trump's request not to escalate before he took office, but he also denied that they had a call on Thursday.

So what are you talking about? What do you mean they put 50,000 troops to take back Kursk, and they denied that there was any call on Thursday?

So why deny there was a call?

Well, I mean, you know, Putin's propaganda machine, you'll remember when he was saying that he was asked at a question in a press conference a number of months ago who he would support and when Biden was still running. I mean, he was like, oh, yeah, Biden looks pretty good to me. He's very serious. He's very stable. That was completely trolling the Americans.

I mean, Putin loves the fact that the United States has a democracy that is vulnerable to his attacks and that you can't, we cannot do the same to him because he does not, if you're in opposition in Russia, you get thrown out of a window. You get imprisoned. You get assassinated.

So, I mean, he doesn't have that vulnerability for his political system, and that's what he's doing all day long. Let's fast forward to the Middle East right now.

So, if I'm believing reports that it looks like Israel has taken out the missile defense of Iran, and yet Iran says we have promised we're going to hit back.

Now, President Trump's word to Netanyahu in three separate conversations: you got to think there's some substance there, said, whatever you're doing, get it done. Before I take office. I mean, is this a historic opportunity, maybe a last opportunity to take out? The nuclear program of Iran? I wouldn't call it a last opportunity in the sense that the Israelis and the Americans have escalation dominance militarily in the region, and we've seen that.

Both with Hamas, with Hezbollah, and with Iran. Their ability to effectively respond and do damage to either American military assets in the region or to the Israelis, defense forces, or civilians, is actually very limited. And the Israelis can do basically what they want. They've taken out the leaderships, they've taken out the military capabilities, they've taken out the pagers, right, in the walkie-talkies of Hezbollah, and Hezbollah has been able to do very little.

Now, I do think the potential. That Netanyahu and his government, much more popular now than they were a few months ago because of the military successes, that they will decide to themselves. Go after Iranian, the IRGC, the Revolutionary Guard Corps leadership, that they will go after some nuclear facilities, is higher now. And it's particularly higher if Iran decides that they're going to make good. On any further strike against Israel, either directly or more likely through their proxies in Iraq.

In other words, if they give the Israelis even a hint. Even a scintilla. of a reason to hit back. The Israelis are ready. And Trump will be backing them fully.

So I think that the Iranians, the Iranians made those threats. before the election. And I think they're going to be much more cautious now. Right. And a couple of things too.

Iran has to know that they're going to start getting their sanctions enforced. There's going to be pressure put on China to the degree that Trump can to stop buying Iranian oil. I think it's going to get a lot harder on them almost immediately. I think that's right. I mean, you know, look, the United States is probably going to put another 500,000 barrels of oil on the market in export in the coming six months with Trump coming in.

OPEC already has a couple million off the market, and they're going to have to decide do they want to, you know, have a price war with the Americans for market share, or are they prepared to keep the price up and keep oil off the market? I mean, Iran exporting about a million barrels a day right now, there's no reason the Americans allow them to continue to do that.

So that is absolutely going to be a focus of the Trump administration. Ian Bremer, do you have any idea who would be Secretary of Defense that Trump's leaning towards? And who would you like to see?

Well, I actually wanted to see someone like Tom Cotton in that role. We see that he's going to be in charge of the Intelligence Committee in Senate, and that's a long and illustrious career that he's got in front of him, so he decided to pull himself out. Waltz would have been acceptable as Secretary of Defense, and of course, he's got the nod for NSA right now.

So I don't think I have a leader, a leading candidate for defense. But again, I will say that most of the appointments we've seen so far are they come across as adults. I mean, of course, you know, sort of Trump immediately publicly, before he made a cabinet appointment, said Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo aren't getting anything. He could have just chosen not to appoint them, but he decided to rub it in a little because he thinks that they've been personally disloyal. Fair enough.

That's the way that Trump is. But there are a lot of people out there that are angling for these jobs, and he's got some talent to choose from. Absolutely. And lastly, the thing I read, you go, I read and talk to people about China's economy. It is really bad.

And he's trying all these things, and he's not the most, he's not the greatest economist in the world. He says, President Xi, I'm against the stock market or he doesn't trust it, whatever it is.

So they're trying all types of artificial means to juice their economy, but their young people are out of work. 20% don't want to work.

Some seem to be, you know, have somewhat of a malaise, if I can steal Jimmy Carter's word. You know, they could be bulked up. They could build their military, but their command economy is not listening to commands. The only part of their economy that's working well right now is manufacturing. And because there isn't consumer demand for it domestically, that's created all of these surpluses that they're running with countries all over the world, causing a lot of political backlash.

So they're in a lot of trouble. All of their provincial governments are basically bankrupt. And this is a financial crisis. They need structural reform. They need to bail out a lot of these defunct actors and just hold their nose on the moral hazard.

I was in China four weeks ago. They were still unwilling to do that. They were talking about piecemeal stimulus.

Now, I met with a lot of senior economists in China that, unlike the leadership, Actually, they wanted Trump to win. And the reason they wanted Trump to win is because they were hoping that the fear of like 60% tariffs and hitting the Chinese hard would be enough to finally get the Chinese leadership to take these issues seriously, give them cover. To do the structural reforms they actually need. But so far it's been a week. We've seen no indication of that.

Well, yeah, I guess we're gonna have to see. The other thing is that the trade experts have said this time Trump does have a much stronger hand doing a trade deal with China than he had last time. Is that correct? Yeah, and I want to watch Elon Musk on this. You know, I mean, Kissinger's dead.

And Elon is the one guy that could potentially act As an interlocutor directly. Between Trump And Xi Jinping. And the Chinese leaders that I have spoken with have asked, you know, hey, when Elon was here, he was saying that he wants to make sure we continue to have like a stable relationship. Do you think he's going to have that juice? Is he interested in doing that?

On the technology side, the answer is probably yes. On the tariff side, on the trade side, I mean, that's an untested proposition. We'll see where it goes. But it wouldn't surprise me at all. Everyone was up in arms that Trump had Elon on his first phone call with Zelensky.

I think the more interesting question is: well, must be on the first phone call with Xi Jinping. Interesting because they do build the Tesla cars there. That's pretty clear. And they've had their own car that's supposed to knock Tesla off the market. I guess to a degree it has.

I guess it's a little challenging. It's outperforming Ford globally right now in manufacturing. We've never seen a takeoff in the automotive industry, is what the Chinese are doing in electric vehicles right now. Have they flooded the European market with it yet? Absolutely.

Not just the European market, everywhere. It's everywhere around the world except the United States with our 100% tariffs. Yes. I mean, they're better cars. They're cheaper cars.

They're more efficient. At the luxury end of the market as well. I mean, it literally it's massive subsidies. But the fact is they've been doing this for a lot longer. Others haven't taken it seriously.

The China right now there is a COP summit, the climate summit in Azerbaijan. And the Americans, of course, Trump is going to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord. The Chinese are driving the COP summit because they're the ones that are investing the most in post-carbon technologies, in nuclear, wind, and solar, and EVs. This is a real issue globally. While still building coal plants.

Absolutely, while still doing everything. Look, I mean, it's like Texas. I mean, Texas in the United States is our leader in oil and gas, and it's our leader in renewable production as well. There's not a surprise the Chinese are doing the same thing. Ian Bremer, always education.

Education, it's always a benefit for me to have you on. Ian Bremer, president and founder of Eurasia Group. Thanks, Ian. Louis, when we come back, we're going to find out if you need to know more, but you know a lot. You're with Brian Kilmead.

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I've been used as an example of what to not do if you want to continue to work. No apologies. She just says UTA dropped her, a fine talent agency who quickly dropped her after these comments. She was worn once and dropped a second time. Plus, she did.

What can she do? She was a great actor in a prime. She's way faster prime. Nobody really needs her. She's got a bad attitude, always an activist, always polarizing, way to the left.

I mean, does she want to be an actress or does she want to be out there to like champion causes? It's hard to do both. I mean, yeah, and by the way, she doesn't apologize. She's not like, well, I flew off the handle and people don't forgive me. She's saying, this is what I think, and now I can't get a job.

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