Trump plucks another FOX star for his cabinet; Media fearmongers mass deportations

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone.

So glad you're here. Brian Kilby Joe coming your way. It's going to be a busy day. First off, our Secretary of Defense, not many people are looking at him right now, but he's in the Philippines. I mean, that is the point of attack where It seems that China is getting the most aggressive.

We are treaty obligated to defend them. He's meeting with them now. We have our president just finishing up at the G20, which looks to me to be a total embarrassment for him. No red carpet when he landed. You might not think it's a big deal, but China got one.

It's an insult to our country. Then you see him making some muddled remarks and then walking literally into the jungle and then missing his photo op. That's why we should be so happy we have a new president. This hour going to be joined by Lieutenant Colonel Alan West. We'll be discussing what's taking place.

Today, with the President's court situation, we find that the New York court case is going to live and his sentence is going to take place. But let's bring in Senator Tom Cotton, the incoming senator. He'll have the GOP conference. He's the third most powerful Republican senator this session, starting january third. Senator, welcome back.

Thank you, Brian. Good to be back on with you.

So let me ask you something. Did you have any second thoughts about taking your position? How hard was that decision not to take a position within the Trump team?

Well, Brian, anytime you have a chance to serve your country by working in a President's cabinet and especially leading our brave men and women and troops, it's certainly an attractive opportunity. But My wife and I had given it a lot of thought. We read a bunch of memoirs, we talked to a bunch of former cabinet secretaries. It's not a coincidence that not many cabinet secretaries in modern times have young kids, especially preteen kids. It's just a very demanding job.

President Trump deserves someone who. about a hundred time and effort to those jobs. And we've made it work with the demands of my tenant schedule.

Sometimes that can be tough, but we've made it work. And I just wanted to make sure that I was. Doing my best to be a good father and a good husband. And I love my work in the Senate, serving on behalf of the people of Arkansas, working on many of the same issues. That any cabinet secretary would work on, but a whole host of other issues across the whole range of issues.

It was the right decision for us and the family, and I think it's best for President Trump. I look forward, you know, in my new roles as the. Chair of the Republican Conference and Chair of the Intelligence Committee that continue to serve the people of Arkansas.

So I was going to bring you up. We know the President made decisions, as usual, way too delayed, way too late, to allow the attackems that we delivered way too late to be used into Russia territory where they're actually rocketing the power grid these days and droning the power grid of the Ukrainians. But do you know what they also did? They told the UK. Keir Stormer not to use his storm shadows, not to allow the Ukrainians to use their storm shadows and leave them restricted, only hitting certain areas within the Ukrainian within Ukraine.

Uh to attack.

So he again going halfway. Yeah. Brian, as we've discussed before, it's half measures that might lead to a Fall the fate. what the President should have done from the very beginning. Even before the war started, it was making it clear that we would back Ukraine.

And we would help them defend their own territory. This war has now lasted a thousand days. When it really should have been over in the first hundred or the first fifty days, if you remember, the Ukrainian army with the weapons that Donald Trump started providing them after Barack Obama had refused them, was able to fight off and win against Russian forces the Battle of Kyiv. They had a chance to put Russia on the back foot in 2022. They, in fact, took back major parts of the territory in the fall of twenty twenty two.

But unfortunately Joe Biden um has. Mm-hmm. For three years and created a situation on the ground that I think is going to be difficult to reverse entirely. What we want, what President Trump wants to do, and I think is the right thing to do at this point, is try to help Ukraine. get to a point where we can have have a satisfactory ceasefire and then a satisfactory Peace deal.

I think we have to be clear-eyed, and President Zelensky is that that's probably not going to result in the reclaiming of all Ukrainian territory lost going back to the Obama administration in 2014. But what it has to do is put Ukraine on a posture in the future from an economic standpoint and a military standpoint that this can never happen again, that there won't be a third invasion of Ukraine under some future Democratic president as we've had under the last two Democratic presidents. But our security guarantees aren't worth anything. In the 90s, we said if you give up your nukes, we got your back. And they gave up their nukes and we didn't.

So why would they believe us now? Yeah, what's what's worth Something, Brian, is weapons that can defend your territory and defend your people. And that's what Ukraine didn't have in 2014 when Barack Obama denied it to them. It's what President Trump started to provide to them and allowed them to win that first battle of Kyiv. And it's what they'll need going forward.

They'll need a military that is capable of defending their own territory, of protecting their critical infrastructure, of deterring any future. Russian invasion. They also need economic growth and development, not just from the battering their economy has taken over the last three years to give their country some prospects for the future, but also to help address Um, you know, the budgetary shortfalls, the corruption that was rife in Ukraine before the war, they need to be integrated into Western European economic supply chains so they're no longer dependent on Russia for economic prosperity. Those are the kind of long-term solutions that I think will prevent a war like this from ever happening again.

So, Senator, are you okay? I heard the sirens in the background and cars. Are you on the street? I am on the way to the Capitol right now. That must have been one of Joe Biden's cabinet secretaries going off to what will be one of their last days at work.

Understood. You're going to have a big vote coming up. We know there's got to be a rapid confirmation, I hope. We had Congressman Zinke in here. When he was Secretary of the Interior, he said he never even got a full staff confirmed.

He had seven of the 17 nominees. They didn't even hear the rest. I mean, that to me is bad governance. You can't run a country like that.

So we need speed. But the one thing you're going to have is some turbulence. It happens in every cycle. This one with Matt Gates, in particular, as Attorney General. Here's what Congressman Jim Himes, a Democrat, said: cut six.

History is a hard judge. And a Republican senator who takes a vote to consent to the appointment of Matt Gates, a chaos agent, a performative social media, no respect for the rule of law individual, the Republican senator who votes to confirm Matt Gaetz or Robert Kennedy or Tulsi Gabbard will be remembered by history as somebody who completely gave up their responsibility to Donald Trump. Your reaction, how history will look at you and your vote, according to Jim Himes.

Well, I don't remember him being on the fainting couch whenever Joe Biden chose a cross-dressing luggage thief. Uh, to be in charge of sensitive nuclear programs at the Department of Energy, and he doesn't, as a Democratic House member, he doesn't have a vote on any of these matters. Look, on all these nominees, uh, we're going to process them promptly and efficiently. They're already starting to make phone calls to senators, to have office calls, complete their paperwork, submit that in. When we're sworn in on January 3rd to the new Senate, we have 17 days before President Trump is inaugurated.

I expect that our committees will begin to hold confirmation hearings just as we did eight years ago in that 17-day period. And then when President Trump takes his hand off the Bible and gives his speech. He's going to walk into the Capitol on January 20th and sign those nomination papers, and we'll start processing those immediately. And I don't think we should stop until we've largely completed the job. It's not going to be like it was in 2017 and the Democrats dug in their heels and only allowed two confirmations on the inauguration day.

I think we should look back to say what happened with Barack Obama in 2009 when he got nine cabinet nominees confirmed in the first 48 hours. That should be the floor for us. And if the Democrats want to do it the hard way and stay on the floor and speak for thirty hours on every one of these nominees until the time runs out and it's time to vote, then that's what we'll just have to do. But after time, I think they'll get the picture that we mean business, that we're going to put the cap the President's cabinet in place and allow them to get to work on his agenda.

So do you think if Donald Trump nominates him, is that good enough for Senator Tom Cotton?

Well, certainly as a Republican President, I'm going to give a lot of deference to his choices, but I'm also going to review each one carefully. I'm going to make sure that they have the temperaments and the skills necessary to do a good job. I want to hear especially what their plans and vision is for each department. how they're going to help. Deliver on the promises that President Trump made on the campaign trail and that Republican senators said we would help them deliver on.

But obviously, any senator will give deference. of some degree to a President of his own party. We by and large agree on those priorities in the Senate with President Trump in contrast to Joe Biden's nominees, where we by and large disagreed with them. And We didn't like people carrying out his agenda at places like the Health and Human Services Department.

So Senator, do you need to see the ethics report from Matt Gates?

Well, I think it's going to in sum and substance, it's going to become known one way or the other. I'm not sure what the House Ethics Committee will do later this week, but obviously, mister Gates will have to address those in the hearing, whether or not it's been released publicly, whether it's been provided to senators, whether some unscrupulous aide or congressman has leaked it out. I think in some and substance, those will be addressed in the process. turned over the ears, Brian, is you can't necessarily always believe what you read in the liberal media. You shouldn't always you shouldn't automatically discount it out of hand, but you should always examine the facts uh fairly and make sure that you're not just jumping to conclusions.

um based on what you read in the New York Times or C at CNN. Understood. Just going back to Israel for a second, as they've gotten more and more into Lebanon, they're finding more and more Russian weapons. What's your reaction to that? We know Russia's role now, arming the Houthi rebels.

They're getting weapons to Hezbollah. Does this tell you something? Because they were also, for a while, kind of somewhat uh friendly with Israel. What are we finding out about this debt country? Yeah, I mean, we shouldn't be surprised.

Russia is up to no good around the world, and there's a growing. Um the axis uh of adversaries. better. Maybe not. cooperating, collaborating.

Russia is relying on North Korean troops in Ukraine now. Russia is relying on Iranian missiles and drones. China imports large amounts Of Iranian oil.

So all of these. Collaborating, even in the absence of any kind of formal alliance. And we therefore shouldn't be surprised to find Russian weapons in the hands of Iran's proxies putting pressure on the United States' allies.

So uh With Israel over the last three months has been remarkable. I think that the Israeli government has. Decided to settle all the family business teams, and they've done an incredible job of devastating Hezbollah's rocket and missile forces and its leadership. That was the main deterrent, of course, against any kind of strike in Iran, a red line that Iran has already crossed twice now.

So Iran, for the first time in decades, is totally exposed on its flanks. And I think Israel has a chance in the months ahead with President Trump taking office again to Fundamentally, remake the security situation in the Middle East for the benefit not only of Israel, but also our Arab allies in the United States. Senator, have you gotten briefed yet? Like out of security briefing on Israel's strike against Iran? Because now they've confirmed as of yesterday, the Prime Minister did, that they took out parts of their nuclear program.

Um Brian, I'll simply say that I've seen those reports in the media, and it sure does seem like something Israel would do.

Well, it would be great. I mean, we should be actually doing it. It would make the whole region safer. And they look like they were targeting it. They said it was a limited strike, and the more you hear about it, the more effective it is.

So, Senator, for who you see right now, for you personally, for this Senate, is there anything immigration-wise you could do immediately to support the President's quest to immediately secure the border and deport criminals? Is there anything you guys can do from the Senate? Here it is, Brian. Although first, I think we should note for your listeners that Donald Trump can do a lot with preexisting authorities on day one. He did that in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty and largely closed the border, things like the Remain in Mexico policy, for instance.

I expect him to do that again in the earliest days in office. But we have a bill next year that we expect to pass that will extend and enhance the Trump tax cuts from 2017. But it won't be just tax cuts either. There'll be other measures in there related to fiscal policy. And I think some of those will be to help the President fulfill his promises at the border, help him build the wall to make sure that we have enough officers and agents both to protect our border and to conduct interior enforcement to remove the illegal migrants, especially the criminals and those final orders of removal from the interior of the country.

So there's a lot that we can do, not necessarily on day one. The Congress doesn't work quite that fast, but in the early days of the Trump presidency to make sure that he has not just the legal authorities, but the resources he needs. Yeah. budget and manpower to Close the border and begin to reverse the tidal wave of illegal migration of the last four years. Only got a minute left.

What should Pete Hague say? Should he get the nomination confirmed? What should his focus be first?

Well, Pete has served in the military for an entire career. He knows the troops well. He's written best-selling books about them. He is widely focused. on trying to get our troops refocused On fighting and winning wars, this the military is not designed for social engineering, it's not a jobs program, it's not a child care center, it's not a grocery chain.

It does all those things to support troops, but the core focus every single day has to be on fighting and winning wars. And that means the main thing that our troops at every level should be doing day in and day out is tough, realistic training to prepare them for war. Hopefully, so we can deter our enemies in the first place, not social engineering. Yeah, that'll be good, too. I'm catching the day he takes over, the day recruiting improves.

Uh, Senator Tom Cotton, thanks so much, always appreciate it. Thank you. All right, Senator Tom Cotton, putting the family first. All right, 1-8-6-6-408-7669. At the bottom of the hour, we talk immigration specifically with Alan West.

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Meanwhile, Joe and Mika Brzezinski Scarborough. Who famously warned of the growing threat of Trump's fascism also had an interesting announcement to make. Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to meet personally with President-elect Trump. And for those asking why we would go speak to the President-elect during such fraught times, especially between us, I guess I would ask back. Why wouldn't we?

Because you said he was Hitler. Bye bye. Oh okay. Tap out, tap out. But look, we don't know what the visit was.

We don't know what the tone of the visit was. We talked about a lot of issues including abortion, mass deportation, threats of political retribution against political opponents, and media outlets. Oh, I bet you really laid down the gauntlet, Joe. That is the daily show. Who doesn't really know what to make of the Trump win?

They really don't. Jon Stewart, in particular, it's the only one I really tape. But it is bizarre that the president's not magnanimous of the president to do that, but they're saying we're looking to open up a line of communications.

So there might be a reason to watch, but there should be no reason to watch. They should not get insider status. You want to create communication? I respect the president for doing that. But they have to understand for four years, they'd be totally locked out, and their ratings are plummeting, even though they're probably the highest they are on that channel.

Marty, listening to WDBO and Orlando. Hey, Marty. Hey, Brian, good after good morning. Hey, when I hear that someone like PHEXIS isn't or has no experience to run something as large as the Pentagon, I want to look at the experience level of the people who have that so called experience and how it's being run now. have we've had seven years now we've not been able to complete an audit.

There's billions of dollars the Pentagon cannot account for. They cannot meet their recruiting goals. The Secretary of Defense disappear for a period of time with a major medical issue. why his number two was in Puerto Rico on vacation, no one knew about it and no one was called to account. You have self fight for generals like Millie and McKinsey to idly buy while his Afghan withdrawal plan goes forward I hear you.

There's a lot of reasons. And he's basically the same age, a little bit older, than Rumsfeld was the first time he took over under Gerald Ford.

So Brian Kill Me Chill. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. I think it would wreck our economy. $88 billion to just process and deport one million people.

Do the math. How is he going to pay for it? Separating families, pulling out essential workforce, increasing inflation. None of those are things that our neighbors want us to be doing.

So that's a montage of Democrats upset about the future of mass deportations with the focus on criminals on the FBI terror watch list. But that's still something that they say it's going to be too costly. How costly is it to put 237,000 illegal immigrants in New York City? That's who have come over the last three and a half, now, four years. How costly is it to fill up our airports with illegals?

How costly is it to fly them from Haiti here? Or fly them from Venezuela or from points in Central and South America. Maybe some of that money you could put towards that. I'm pretty sure now that Democrats are worried about cost because you don't want the Republicans or the common sense Americans to get the criminals out of our country who don't belong here to begin with. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West is here, Dallas County Republican Party Chair, American Constitutional Rights Union Executive Director.

Colonel, it's about to happen in two months. The president's getting into detail about it. Tom Homan's talking about it. And yet, Democrats are getting worried about it. They should embrace this.

Well, yeah. Obviously, they did not get the memo from the election that the American people are concerned about this illegal immigration and how it affects them financially, economically, and as well with the drug trafficking, 250,000 Americans dead from Fentanyl. What about that cost? What about the cost of the human and sex trafficking? What about the cost of the terrorists that are here?

And obviously, they have not tuned into the Fox News to look at the coverage of the Lake and Riley trial. What about that cost to that family or Jocelyn Nungare and the cost? to that family.

So for them to align themselves with criminal illegal immigrants, people who have come into this country illegally, and as Tom Holman has said, they're focusing on the domestic security and the national security threats of first and foremost. And, you know, when you have people like the governor of Illinois saying that you're not going to come after my people, are you mean to tell me that he's standing up for people that are here illegally, the 1.5 to 2 million that are here as gotaways? We have no idea where they are, or the 425,000 criminal illegal immigrants. That includes 30,000 rapists and murderers, or how about the 25 to 30,000 single military age male Chinese?

So, again, the Democrat Party on the wrong side of this issue.

So, Chicago, the mayor that wouldn't even put up provoked the Sanctuary City status, and guess who's upset? The people of Chicago cut 39. Brandon Johnson have ignored every. Please call cry. You're gonna protect the undocumented?

Why are you gonna allow for the citizens in Chicago to suffer? You ain't gonna abide by what the President of the United States said. Everybody knows better than that. Loser, get rid of the illegals. Illinois is turning purple.

We're gonna turn red. Listen, why don't they understand? that this is a breaking point. Americans are upset, not Republicans. There's no Republicans that don't like immigrants.

There's no Democrats who don't like immigrants. Americans don't like illegal immigrants. When are they going to understand that? Because they're digging their heels in, because this is part of the fundamental transformation of the United States of America. If you don't have illegal immigrants in this country that are being counted in the census, then you don't see these representative districts being flipped.

If you're not allowing illegal immigrants to somehow be able to vote, because look at the states that Kamala Harris won, guess what? You don't have to have voter ID in those states.

So this is a linchpin to their long-term hope of being able to have a national electoral control of the United States of America. They don't care about the rule of law. They don't care about the sovereignty of this constitutional republic. And they don't care about the legal, law-abiding American citizens. They have an ideological agenda.

And this is why I think that the Democrats, if they continue to hold on to this, they're going to be in political exile for quite some time. But you know what's interesting? They deserve it. They're losing their people. They're losing their base.

So it's almost as if Donald Trump just started abandoning everything he stood for. With the MAGA base.

So they are banning the people that are standing up saying, We are taking the abuse. We have gang members in our own communities, and we don't have the money to hire private security to escort our kids to school.

So at one point, You're going to need something to happen on that side, whether it's Seth Moulton in Massachusetts who's getting blowback for standing up against men in women's sports and they're protesting outside his office, or it's going to be the next Joe Manchin to emerge. I don't know who it's going to be, but it's really important that someone does it. Or the next, I mean, or they need another signal from another election.

Well, I think I do think they need signals from probably uh A couple of successive election cycles, midterm election cycle and the next presidential election cycle, before they finally realize that this shift way left and to be held hostage by this progressive socialist ideological agenda is not the way forward for America. When you have governors standing up as in Massachusetts, as in New Jersey, you see that in California, Pritzker in Illinois, that are saying that they're going to buck the rule of law, that they're going to stand in the way of making sure that we protect the American people. That's not a recipe for success. And guess what? They've created a sound bite for when they try to get out there and run for president on the Democrat Party side in 2028.

Or look at Josh Shapiro. He's being pretty mum about these things to include the shenanigans that they're trying to count illegal values in Pennsylvania.

So they're just setting themselves up for political failure. Yeah, he has a chance to really be a leader, and he's not doing anything as Casey embarrasses himself with these board of electors and these recounts. The guy lost, and Governor Shapiro should sober him up because he's making this whole party look bad. But eventually he'll understand, maybe even today.

So, Kata Truss is a Chicago resident, and she said this to Trace Gallagher last night about what she's witnessing, and this is more of the same. Cut 44. Those are people that I know. Those are people that I've stood alongside with, and I share their sentiment. And, you know, we've been talking about this for over a year now.

We've been talking about what has happened since these migrants have come here to Chicago. And, you know, one of the aspects that we haven't talked a lot about is about crime and about the gangs and about the fact that we know that Venezuela emptied out their prisons to send some of their criminals here. And guess who said that originally? Trump, and guess who told everyone he was being hyperbolic and being racist? And now you have Catatrus, who's black, coming out and saying they sent their gangsters here.

So is she I mean, she's supposed to be pro-gangster in her city? Yeah. No, and that's the hypocrisy of the left when they are basically these elitists in the Democratic Party saying, you know, to this woman, shut up. You know, we don't care what pain that you're receiving. We don't care that you don't feel safe and secure.

And we don't care that we have these policies that don't allow you to be able to protect yourself, especially in a place like Chicago and many of these other urban centers where they have these very restrictive gun laws, such as in Washington, D.C.

So you're seeing an incredible shift. And Donald Trump has broken a paradigm out here with politics in the United States of America because people are coming together based upon their common principles and values, and especially on the issue of security. But I don't want to sound like an identity politics type of person, but now is the time you need a good, strong black American, African-American, whatever you will call it, to put them as part of this effort to restore the sovereignty of this nation because this is not a black, white, Hispanic issue. It's an American issue. And you just further under.

undermine the Democrat Party.

So with New Game, there's going to be mass deportation. I'm sure there's going to be some scenes that Democrats want to capitalize on, but they're going to focus on criminals. And I want Tom Holman to get his podium if this mayor will not allow ICE to go into prisons to export these arrested or these detained or those newly released illegal aliens who have committed crimes. You got to get the American people by you just put that podium, you call a press conference, and you say, I just want you to know. This mayor is allowing criminals to run on your streets.

and could threaten your neighbors, not me, not Trump. We just want to arrest criminals. What is wrong with that? And just put all the pressure on them. Jarrett Polis, the biggest the biggest fail.

I mean, he saw Denver. If you've been to Denver, they are overrun with illegal immigrants staying on the streets. That Pristine City is a do a new do not walk or w uh or work zone. And now you have Aurora doing the same thing. They're spilling out into that town.

And yet he says I will stand up against Trump and deportation.

Well, this is the thing, what needs to be articulated. They're trying to make this about Trump. This is not about Trump. This is about the rule of law. This is about the Constitution.

This is about them aiding and abetting human trafficking, aiding and abetting criminal illegal activity.

So we need to get to the point where, okay, if you want to obstruct us doing what the Constitution of the United States of America says that we're supposed to do, then you're in violation of the law, Mr. Governor, Mr. Mayor, or Ms. Mayor. And we're going to hold you accountable.

And we're going to draw up charges against you if you do not allow us to do what the Constitution duly says that the Federal Government is supposed to do out of Article four, Section four, which is to protect this country and every state from invasion.

So uh on the other side. There's got to be an overhaul of the work visa situation. There are jobs that need to be filled, and there are people that just want to work, and we all know them in our communities. And I'm not saying they're illegal, but we just see them breaking their back trying to pursue the American dream. But the work visa system is so backlogged, they can't get in.

So, to be to work in our fields and work in oil and gas, by the way, they're using some illegals.

So, I thought ABC did a very good feature. They talked to a farm owner, his name is Joe Del Bosk. And he talked about what he's worried about with mass deportations, COP48. We do have concerns because our labor is. barely where we need to do.

We can't afford a labor shortage. Back during Obama, we had a labor shortage, and there were times where we actually lost some crop. We left melons in the field unharvested and we lost them. I think people will look and say, but wait a minute, they're Americans who are unemployed. Why can't you just hire them?

They don't want to come out here and work in these extreme conditions. 100-plus-degree temperatures, dust. Hard work. What if you paid them more? It doesn't matter.

You know, we pay some of the highest wages for farm workers in the nation, right here in California, and they won't come out.

So When we get past building the wall, controlling the border, exporting the criminals. Colonel, I know this takes a deeper conversation, but what are your thoughts about that situation?

Well, first and foremost, you cannot continue to pay people to stay at home and not do anything. You have to encourage them. And so, first and foremost, let's get Americans to work. And Americans will go out there and do what is necessary to provide for themselves with good wages and take care of their families. And the other thing is, you create a seasonal worker program.

We've had this once before, where people could come here, work in a season, they are accounted for, they are not allowed to just disappear back into the country. And then, after this quote-unquote season, they can return back to their home or they can go and work at another farm.

So, I think we have to have those controls. And what a great thing that the Office of Government Efficiency can look into so that we can streamline these processes.

So, that's something else on the table. But first and foremost, we've got to stop paying people to stay at home and get them out there with these good jobs. And look, I was in the military, didn't get paid a lot, and talked about some harsh conditions. You still have. Have young men and women that want to go out there and serve in the military?

I think you'll have people that want to go out there and they'll get into the agricultural industry. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know. I literally don't know.

I don't know. Like, I'm not there. I just know these farmers, they don't do it to. They don't feel great about hiring illegals, but they feel like they have no choice. But these are the debate that the student visas that we have to have.

Those are the those are the more intellectual debates. This other one's just raw, right and wrong. You're absolutely right. Yeah, thoroughly agree. The other side, when you talk about legal immigration, this is about violating the law.

When you talk about what you're looking at, you know, having a visa system that allows people to come in and be a part of this country, help us with our economic growth, our agricultural growth, or technology and innovation, that's something that we can also do. But again, it has to be within the parameters of the law. Absolutely. And when word gets out that we're not going to tolerate illegals, that'll also help us with border security, as opposed to come one, come all right now. Lieutenant Colonel Allen West, interesting time to be an American.

Always great to be an American, but this is going to be fascinating time. I really feel like, even though we only got 51% of the vote, I feel like the country is ready to rally around the flag again. They are. I do. And you can see it.

I feel it. Colonel West, thanks so much. Thanks, Brian. 1866-408-7669. Much more to come, including your opinion.

Look, I'm watching these guys, I'm watching the U.S. national team captain. Polissic, score a goal and do the Trump dance. His full-time job, he's in Italy, right? From Pennsylvania.

That's a very liberal organization, U.S.

soccer. They're doing the Trump dance. They're doing in the NFL, black and white players. What's the big deal? I just think it's a bigger deal than just sports.

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This is the Brian Kill Me Show. The stuff that he eats. Yes. is really like bad. It's not campaign food is always bad, but the food that goes onto that airplane is like just poison.

And a lot of people are on RFK for having a Big Mac or a soda near him. Yeah, he's in great shape. Once in a while, he can have it. But I thought it was on CNN they brought up and be like, doesn't he look like a hypocrite for having that fast food after complaining? And the one guy just looks over and goes, We should not Have a problem with that.

This is not something we should be criticizing Donald Trump RFK about. I thought, finally, maybe Americans are sobering up to the fact that you're overreacting to everything, and he's not saying that he lives a perfect nutritional life. The guy might have had a Big Mac on a plane, but one thing he wants to do is just make it. Fast food is good. Just find a way to make it less harmful to the body and knock out the preservatives that maybe let this the food stay fresher longer, but it's worse for us.

So I thought that was excellent, but that was pretty funny. And I hope RFK Jr., I'm really intrigued by his testimony. When he goes up for his nomination, I think that's going to be as exciting as Matt Gates. Exciting because they got to have answers, they've got to be challenged if senators ask questions and don't give speeches. John, let's see on WDBO in Orlando.

Hey, John. Hey, Brian, happy Tuesday. Same to you. Brian. I had this thought.

I haven't heard you talk about this subject just yet. Maybe I missed it. Joe Biden made this sudden decision to give Ukraine the green light to fire long-range missiles into Russia and all that. The first thing I thought when I heard that, and I'd love to get your thoughts on this. Uh it was a sudden decision.

If it was to cause things to really escalate over there. Do you think Biden possibly had the motive of creating an escalation of conflict over there just As Donald Trump is coming into office so that there's a full scale war possibly on Trump's watch, Just had that thought. What do you think? We have a full-scale wall now, war now, and it's in response to North Korea. Putting troops in there, and he's been so slow to upgrade.

I look, I do I think he would have done it if he if Kamala Harris won? No. He wouldn't have because he thinks that Ukraine, by sustaining itself, is good enough. It's a slow, torturous way to fight a war. And he also, by the way, this is how sickening it is.

He is stopping the UK and France from allowing their long-range missiles from being used inside Russia. Only we can get permission for our missiles, but for some reason, we have say over the UK's rockets. If Boris Johnson was prime minister, they would have done this anyway. But why they have to go through us to use long-range missions on a NATO support? It's crazy, we should all be equal in there.

So, I think they're trying to get something done and trying to give them maximum leverage when they do go to talks. That's what I think. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Killme. Welcome to the latest moments of the show.

I come to you from Midtown Manhattan, a city that has over 237,000 illegal aliens who have come through over the last four years, and we hold on to about 65,000 at tremendous cost. You don't think this mayor, Democratic mayor, he may well be, is happy to see a new president who wants to make it his priority to crack down illegal immigrants and start in the cities and double the size of ICE and use the military if need be in order to get a hold of immigration? You betcha. This hour we're going to be joined by Congressman Mike Lawler, just won a tough fight for two more years in his seat in upstate New York. And Roger Severino is going to be with us and we'll do a simulcast with Varney.

But let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. If you look at the removal of criminal aliens, those illegal in the United States who have been convicted of a crime, those removals are down 74%. From the Trump administration. President Trump has promised that public safety threats and national security threats are their priority right out of the gate.

Tom Holman, Trump team, final planning stages of mass deportations already tone-deaf partisan mayors and governors forming their counterplan to stop them, really, from exporting criminals from our midst. Is there any American who would benefit from these democratic policies? The answer is no. Number two. You know, I think people have had enough.

You know, they're coming out of the woodworks right and left. We were in desperate need of President Trump to take back over and get this country back where it needs to be. That is Brett Favre, acceptance. That is what we're seeing for the first time in eight years outside the MAGA world, who's always been there. You want proof?

Notice the Red Hat in cities all across America and the Trump dance in stadiums and arenas? Why now? We will talk about it, and will it last? Number one. Not all of these picks are going to be easy.

I think the president is making these choices based both on loyalty and based on his interest in shaking things up. He doesn't just want to accept what Washington thinks he ought to do, he wants to consider it. No joke. Trump is making his cabinet choices big time. He takes another Fox star, Sean Duffy, as Transportation Secretary.

Okay, Trump works the phones, too, to get Mac Gates accepted. Will he sail through Senate confirmation? That's my first question for. My next guest, Congressman Mike Lauer. First off, Congressman, congratulations on the victory.

Thanks, Brian. Appreciate it. Big relief for you. For sure. We had a lot going on.

My wife and I had our second daughter eight days before Election Day. Wow. But glad that the election's behind us and really looking forward to getting to work with a majority in the House, the Senate and obviously, President Trump reelected in the White House. A lot of really important issues to work on as we hit the ground running in January. Absolutely.

And Mondair Jones talking about it, too. One of the things he said is this illegal immigration was impossible to overcome. You let go of everyone at the border. They pretended like it wasn't an issue. But once you won the election, he says that was the major issue.

But yet, there's still going to be people in these cities, especially and these Democratic governors like Jared Polis in Colorado, who are going to do everything they can to stand in the president-elect's way. Can you explain this? Do they understand what really concerns people? No, I mean, and it's kind of comical listening to Mondair Jones now lecture other Democrats. This is the same guy that supported open borders that wanted to provide blanket amnesty to criminals.

and wanted to ensure that cop killers get the right to vote from prison.

So but that all being said, no, I don't think they're going to learn many lessons from this. I mean, frankly, they're already talking about how they need to go further to the left in some cases.

So At the end of the day, I think we have an opportunity come January to show the American people that we're serious about tackling the issue of border security, that we're serious about deporting criminal aliens That we're serious about building both border wall and increasing border patrol personnel so that we can stop this massive influx. including fentanyl that is poured into our country, killing over 70,000 Americans a year. And obviously, on the economy and energy policy and taxes, we have a golden opportunity to really address the challenges facing the American people and to do so quickly. I think President Trump certainly learned a lot of lessons from his first term, and I think Congress has as well as about the need to really hit the ground running and not get waylaid. On things that really are not where the American people wanted us to focus.

All right, so we'll see if this is going to happen because people, families being separated, that's a long way down the line. First, it's the criminals, and that's going to take a lot, and they might use the military to do it. Here's Tom Holman, Cut 37. It doesn't require immigration authority.

So there'll be a force multiplier to take more agents, put them on the streets where we need them. But look, we arrest the criminal animal, we take them into custody. They're putting a detention, they're putting in an ice bed. While we make arrangements for the home country, they've got to send us travel documents. They've got to accept them as a national of their country.

It takes several days up to two weeks.

So we detain them, put them on the next airplane out, and send them out. We're hoping DOD will help us with air flights because there's a limited number of planes ICE has contracts with.

So DOD can certainly help with air flights all across the globe.

So, yeah, and they're going to end the Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti special forces you apply, you're in. And they're going to get rid of that app, and they're going to go back to Romania, Mexico, which needs Mexico's permission. But this city, if people don't realize around the country, whatever Denver is going through is terrible, whatever Chicago is going through is terrible in Philadelphia, but nothing like New York. That number, 237,000 of four years, that's insane. Oh, it's absolutely insane.

I mean, it's bigger than major cities around the country. And obviously, in New York, Kathy Hochul and Eric Adams have spent billions of dollars of taxpayer money to provide free housing, clothing, food, education, and health care to illegal immigrants, in large part because of their sanctuary, city, and state policies. And so it is imperative, obviously, that we start with the criminal aliens, those that are involved in gangs and cartel activity, human trafficking, drug trafficking. They need to be deported. There's no question about that.

Obviously, as you work through this process, you're going to have to evaluate individual situations. I think certainly that is going to be critical to get moving quickly on the criminal aliens that are here and engaged in unlawful activity, especially in cities like New York, where you see significant gang activity. You have people getting harmed. You have drug trafficking, human trafficking, women and children being sold into prostitution, and obviously just the overall burden on the city in terms of housing and taxpayer money.

So we're talking to Congressman Mike Lawler, just won a hard-fought victory where a lot of people went down in New York because they really put millions of dollars in to flip everything back. Anthony DiEsposito lost 1%, it looks like. And Swazi kept his seat.

So, Congressman, the other thing is you have a mayor of New York City who clearly is being targeted by his own city council. I don't think he's playing the perfect game. If there are more charges to come, go ahead. But for the most part, he's seeing help on the way with Trump.

Now, looking at his situation, do you think that he's going to work with Trump to try to overcome the Sanctuary City status in the number one city in the country? There's no question that Eric Adams has Highlighted the problem, if you will, both in terms of the migrant crisis and the disastrous cashless bail law in New York. And Democrats have gone after him for it, politically and publicly. But my hope is that Eric Adams. Will recognize the very real need to work with the Trump administration on the migrant crisis in particular, and will do what he can to overturn some of the disastrous policies that we've seen in New York, including the right to shelter and the sanctuary city status.

The problem is the city council is so far left. I know. And it's extremely difficult, obviously. Same with the New York state legislature.

So that's something that Eric Adams obviously has to contend with. But I think if he is willing to go toe-to-toe with these folks, he's going to find support both in the House and in the White House to do it because it's absolutely insane what they've allowed to happen to New York City under these disastrous policies.

So, people around the country, I don't want to make this too New York because we're lucky enough to have stations all across the country, but people should know, especially WABC listeners. That they're doing this thing called congestion pricing, which they're charging a toll just to drive through the heart of the city. They want to do that to make it more environmentally friendly, and they think they're going to raise more tax dollars to rebuild their subway system. This is going to chase people from the city, cost on average people $2,000 more out of their budget. Congressman, this is obscene.

They set up the infrastructure. It's going to be $9, go up to $15. This is a problem.

Some people are calling on Trump to step in even before he takes power. What could he do?

Well, look, Brian, this is one of the dumbest policies that has been enacted. You already have a state in New York that leads the nation in out-migration. People are leaving in droves because they can't afford to live here. They can't afford to own and operate a business here. And you add in congestion pricing.

And the idea that you're going to charge people annually $2,500 just to commute to work. in Manhattan. while you're giving away billions of dollars of taxpayer money for free housing, clothing, food, education for illegal immigrants, speaks volumes to the stupidity that we're seeing in New York. Kathy Hochl cynically paused congestion pricing before the election because she didn't want it to be used as an issue in these suburban swing districts. Then she reinstates it right after the election, and she tells people, oh, I'm saving you $1,500 by reducing it from $15 to $9.

No, you're increasing it from $0 to $9. You're charging people $2,500. President Trump was able to prevent congestion pricing from going into effect in his first administration. The Biden administration then gave the approvals and allowed it to go forward, but they did not do a full environmental review. And so my hope is that under the Trump administration, DOT and the EPA will revoke the authorization that was granted under the Biden administration and stop this debt in its tracks.

If they are unable to do that, then legislatively we need to take action. I have already introduced legislation along with Congressman Josh Gottheimer, a Democrat from New Jersey, that would strip away all federal dollars to the MTA, which is to the tunes of billions of dollars, so long as they have congestion pricing in effect. There are numerous avenues that we can employ, but this program needs to be stopped dead in its tracks because I will tell you, it's not going to just stay in New York if it's allowed to continue. It will go to every major city across the country. They already charge you to go in and out with tunnels and bridges.

Now they're going to charge you to cross. It's nuts. Congressman Lastley, Matt Gates, bit of a show horse. He's brought the Congress House to its knees. You almost lost it.

Surprised you didn't. And almost lost him in ousting Speaker McCarthy. But do you believe that he should get confirmed as the next Attorney General, even though you don't have a vote? Look, obviously, the President has every right to nominate who he sees fit to serve in his administration. My views and opinions on Matt Gates are pretty well established.

You called him a clown and a charlatan. Correct. I'm not a fan personally. But look, there's an approval process. The Senate has that right.

And I know there will be a rather robust confirmation hearing. I think Matt has a lot of questions to answer. Obviously, when you look at the allegations that have been leveled against him, they are serious. And I think he needs to answer for that. And obviously, there's been a House ethics investigation.

I do believe the Senate should have access to those findings even if they're not released publicly. But those are questions that he will have to answer as part of a confirmation process. Joel Lepard, who is an attorney for the two women, said this earlier on another network cut one. Representative Gates paid my client both of my clients for sexual favors throughout the summer of twenty seventeen all the way to the beginning of twenty nineteen. She was invited to a party in July of 2017.

She testified to the House that as she was walking out to the pool area, she turned to her right and she witnessed her client I'm sorry, her friend having sex with Representative Gates, and her friend at that time was seventeen. They said that he didn't know the exact age and waited until she turned 18 to continue the relationship.

So, I mean, stuff like this, do you think that should come out in deciding who the next Attorney General is? Look, you are the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the United States. It is a very serious position. We've seen, obviously, under the Biden administration how that department has been weaponized, how it has been utilized for politics. Obviously, Matt has the presumption of innocence and certainly has every right to defend himself and answer for these allegations.

But I think there's no question that the Department of Justice needs reform, but it needs someone of the highest ethical standard. in that role. To root out the corruption, to root out, obviously, the weaponization that we've seen by the Department of Justice. But obviously, my concern would be that someone who is being accused of what Matt is being accused of will have a very difficult time getting confirmed. And frankly, even if he were in that capacity, he would be dogged by these allegations.

I know Senator Mark Wayne Mullen said that he was showing people videos of this stuff. Did you see any of that? I was not here during the alleged time of this. I came in in 22, so I have not seen any of that.

So, okay, you didn't have the right to turn it down. Congressman Mike Lawrence, congratulations again. It's going to be an interesting time, but it's a good time to be a Republican. There's winds at your back, and maybe there might just be some Democrats that want to work with you. It would be exciting.

Thanks so much. Question. Thanks, Brian. You got it.

Meanwhile, Roger Severino at the bottom of the hour, Vice President of Domestic Policy at the Heritage Foundation.

So I look forward to getting his take on what the agenda should be and how it will look, how he thinks it should look from the conservative think tank perspective. You listen to the Brian Kilmey show. Expanding your knowledge base. It's the Brian Killmeat Show. Breaking news, unique opinions.

Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. President Biden is in Brazil, where he became the first American head of state to visit the Amazon rainforest. He went there to highlight the dangers of climate change and the need to turn away from fossil fuels. What the f? In the middle of all this, he disappeared to the rainforest?

Listen, while he's down there, hopefully he has some inspiring words for us. Mr. President, history is literally watching us now.

So let's preserve this secret place for our time and forever for the benefit of all humanity. Thank you very, very much. Where are you going? Where are you going? And just literally just walking away like that.

Mr. President, I'm sorry, the tribe has spoken. Extinguish your torch. What is that? You know, maybe this is how we should do the transfer of power.

The winner moves into the White House, and the incumbent just wanders off into the jungle.

So that is nutrients. may be returned to the soil.

So what you see is him sitting out there with a weird shirt on. And making a speech right in the standing in front of the jungle. And instead of maybe walking to the side, he walks back and into the jungle and just disappears. It is bizarre. A couple of things happen.

Number one, the communication was terrible, horribly wrong, reportedly. And they don't have three people from their group shot at the end of the G20 meeting. They always do the family shot because leaders rotate and it's historic, I guess. And. He did not show up.

And Maloney did not show up, and Trudeau did not show up. Also, when he landed, no red carpet. You don't put the red carpet down for the United States at a G20. I don't put the stairs up. I don't go down the stairs.

Believe me, you do that stuff with Trump, you're done. And Lula is Joe Biden's pick to run Brazil, 100% behind him. That guy was mentioned by Fidel Castro. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead.

Need to be able to debate contentious issues without just being shut down. And this is a problem that we have in politics today. We can't, as Democrats, feel like we can debate some of these contentious issues at the risk of offending people. We can't represent the vast majority of Americans and the concerns that they face if we're not willing to actually engage in debate. And that's really my core point here, because there are definitely some people who just say you have to oppose every single thing that Trump does.

And I disagree with that. I think that we need to work with Republicans where we can, and we need to stand up and fiercely oppose Trump where we disagree with him. I am trying to moderate the party. This is not about me, though. This really is about how we get the party back to a winning position.

And we're not going to win the midterms. We're not going to restore some balance in Washington between Democrats and Republicans, you know, just if I'm trying to advance myself. We're going to do it if we get more people elected to places like the House. Seth Moulton weighing in on Fox and Friends today. He's the Democrat from Massachusetts.

I don't even think he's that moderate, but he just came out and said I got two daughters. I don't really want them playing against men in sports or boys in sports that want to be girls. It's just not fair. And now he's got protesters in front of his offices, colleges saying we won't send you any interns, like that would be a problem. But I just think that there's people that want a future in the Democratic Party.

You got to go to the middle. That's what I think. Well, let's ask Roger Severino, a vice president of domestic policy, and the Joseph C. and Elizabeth A. Andre Andrelich Fellow at the Heritage Foundation serve in HHS department during Trump's first go-around.

Roger, welcome. Thanks for having me, Brian. Roger, how do you characterize where the Democrats are right now?

Well, they're in chaos. They don't know what to do. They tried everything. First, they tried to say President Trump's a felon, then January 6th. Then abortion was the issue and they failed.

pretty soundly.

So they're going to have to try something new. Their coalition of identity politics also failed them. President Trump got historic margins with Hispanics and African Americans on the cusp of getting a majority of Hispanics.

So, the whole idea of the last time around when you had a Republican, when Romney lost, they did the autopsy and said, you know what, it's got to be identity politics. Republicans have to embrace that. No, that was wrong. The left went full-bore identity, they lost. If you have a vision that helps a common person against special interests, President Trump showed that that wins.

So the DNC is. Yeah, the DNC is falling apart. There are surprise layoffs raising questions about campaign spending. Person from the current DNC staff told Axios: the scale of the layoffs is shocking. People who have been here for decades, people are blindsided by this.

I've completely lost faith in the Democratic Party, and I'm still working for them. Harris's cost, $1.5 billion in 15 weeks, $10 million for a star-studded election night evening event, Oprah $2.5 million, $900,000 ad space on a Las Vegas spear with her face on it. I'm not sure who that helps. She lost Nevada anyway. Al Sharpton got $200,000 for his nonprofit.

Rowan Martin, three hundred thousand for the nonprofit. Uber Eats, fifteen thousand.

So it was an absolute train wreck over there. And they're looking to rebuild, and they're still talking about, in many cases, just outside people like Seth Moulton blocking Trump when they can. Yeah, and didn't they spend ten million on Beyonce and she didn't even sing? No, we've crossed the line here with these celebrity endorsements, people just don't care. They want to listen to their music, they don't want to accept their politics, just sing and we'll pay you for that, but we don't want your politics.

And now we got big tech. Siding with President Trump, you know, the most innovative man in America, Elon Musk. Is part of the team with Trump. It's extraordinary. And of course, X, that's the platform where people get their news.

That's where young people exchange ideas. That's where free speech lives. And it's all in support of President Trump, who has changed the debate. And now it's a breath of fresh air in America again. People could feel like they could breathe free again.

You have the football celebrations now in the end zone. They're doing the Trump dance. It's like the fever has broken, and people could just be themselves again without fear of political correctness and cancel culture. And it's all because of President Trump.

Well, yeah, I mean, we never thought of it. When you came into office, when you were working with Trump, it was all about the Russia investigation, the Ukrainian, I guess, impeachment. And then you had the pandemic hit. It was just one stop. Everybody's hair is on fire.

It's much different now. Brett Favre weighed in last night, cut 25. If you took away my word You know, I think people have had enough. And, you know, they're coming out of the woodworks right and left. And when I woke up election day and saw the Don't Well landslide.

Big trick. It it really puts Put where I think everyone's perspective is on this country right to the forefront. I mean, we. were in desperate need of President Trump. to take back over.

And get this country back where it needs to be. I mean, we were definitely going in the wrong direction.

So I mean, you're sensing that now. I think Trump, people get caught up in, well, it's not a Reagan-like mandate. This country is ready for a change, even if it's thirty he won thirty states, improved in forty nine of them. Even though it's not a Reagan or Nixon second term-like mandate, it feels even bigger. It does because of the odds he had to overcome.

He almost got killed. This man is extraordinary, the resilience, and trying to put him in jail. And now he went through all that. He's the ultimate underdog story, and he came out on top. And the American people recognize that.

And now it's a new day, right? Look at how much we've gone. We've gone from inflation from a society at each other's throats, and now we have a new hope. And now the weight has been lifted. And we're going to see the economy come roaring back.

Just watch. I think the oil and gas sector is ready to roll. You know, with Lee Zeldon in there and Doug Bergham in there, and there's the new oil nominee, the energy nominee, seems extremely strong and dedicated. If there's coordination between them, and I think Bergham will provide that, it'll be really something to see. Responsible with the environment in mind, what else do you see as domestic policy?

Because you were at HHS. It looks like RFK's been nominated for HHS. Do you see him getting through? Oh, yes. He is exactly what we need.

Right now, we face a health crisis of chronic disease. then he has shown a light on it. And President Trump has said he's the man to make America healthy again. And it's like we've seen it in front of us, but didn't realize the scale. We have extraordinary levels of obesity, of prediabetes.

Autism a few decades ago was one in fifteen hundred. In California, it's now one in twenty two kids Are diagnosed with autism. 18% of teens have fatty liver disease, 30% are pre-diabetic, and we are creating a country of permanent patients. On drugs for the rest of their lives, when we could do prevention, we could do the cures, all these steps to fix the toxicity in our environment, in our food in particular. And there's something wrong.

The rest of the industrialized world is much healthier than us, and especially our kids. We have to do it. And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the man to do it.

Right. But you know he's going to have a lot of pushback. And I want you to hear some of it is taking shape. And I want you to think you'll let you know if you think it's going to be formidable. Cut 10 is Dr.

Richard Besser, former CDC director.

So it's not a matter of saying, oh, yes, you have access to your vaccines. It's pushing the idea that vaccines should be something that is totally up to the individual. We have a social contract in our country. There are things we do for our own health, but there are things we do that are good for ourselves, our families, and our communities. And vaccination falls into that category.

And having someone who denies that in that role is extremely dangerous. Yeah, I got more pushback on the vaccines than pushback on his realignment when it comes to our foods. But what about that?

Well, we're in a new era where the trust that CDC built up over decades was broken over COVID. That's the thing that has to be restored. If you want to have to have bigger vaccination rates, you have to restore the public trust in our public health authorities. And the COVID experience, which was pushing mandates, many of which, for example, masking and social distancing, were proven to be grossly ineffective. And that sort of thing led to a breach of faith, a beach from trust.

And it's going to take some time to restore that. Part of the reason there's lack of trust is because you have this revolving door of lobbyists, of money to interest. where they capture the regulatory agencies. Our public health agency folks They're human beings too. They could be subject to all sorts of temptations.

We have to make sure we stop that treadmill of from the public interest, sorry, the special interests into our regulatory bodies and they get their cushy jobs right afterwards. That sort of broken system needs to be addressed to help restore the public trust. In our health agencies. And RFK has spoken out about precisely that: end any corruption and the conflict of interest.

So, who is the type of person on the minute we have left? Who's the type of person that could be his chief of staff or somebody to navigate this huge or this huge committee, this huge official? I don't know. I'm sure people are lining up because he has brought a new excitement with President Trump focusing on the issue of chronic diseases. He's going to have tremendous support from the country.

And people want to get on this train because it's a new day and our kids will benefit it. Imagine if we could stop being permanent patients and make America healthy again. It's a beautiful decision that we could do it. Roger Severino. RFK, he's the one to do it.

All right. And Roger Severino backing up a Kennedy at the Heritage. What country are we in?

Sounds great. Barney and Company next. I'll be doing a simulcast with them. Roger, thank you very much. Lewis of the Brian Kill Me Chill.

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And you just scroll over until you see Fox News Radio. But now we're about to go on the Fox Business Network with Stuart Varney, which is the top-rated show on the channel.

So we're going to be talking about a few things that are going on, including something I can't possibly watch, and that's The View. But we are getting a report now. That the hush money sentencing of Donald Trump was supposed to be for today. If he had lost, it would have happened today without explanation. Has been called off, so let's go and listen to Stuart Introduced.

Brian, good morning to you. Morning, Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Nika Brzezinski. They responded to their critics after their meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Just watch this briefly. Roll it.

Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to meet personally with President-elect Trump. And for those asking why we would go speak to the President-elect during such fraught times, especially between us, I guess I would ask back. Why wouldn't we? Because you said he was Hitler. Kinda obvious, I would say.

Brian, maybe this has got their meeting. Maybe this has got something to do with MSNBC's catastrophic 50% drop in the ratings. Maybe, huh? Look. I don't think you need to apologize to someone for disagreeing with them.

But what they have done over the last seven years. Since he took office and called them the worst names possible. I mean, Joe Scarborough sits there like an earthquake and he talks and he rages, and his panel sits around for an opportunity to agree with him, along with his wife, saying, as you just heard, called him a Hitler, a fascist, an absolute monarch, just saying that elections are over if he wins. And when he wins, they go, Yeah, let me go down. And instead of saying we apologize, we got too, you know, we got caught up in the moment, we got too emotional, we overstated things and said, We came down to talk to him like it's a privilege, re-characterizing what the meeting was actually about, not saying that they asked for it.

And my thing is, they want access. They want to be able to say, I talked to President Trump today and make their show relevant. My hope is Trump did the night thing and said, Listen, if you're going to come in and apologize and want to reestablish communication, fine. But don't make them insiders. Don't give them information nobody else gets because they haven't deserved it.

Not because they're critical. I don't think critics have anything to do with it. You should just be fair. You don't like Gates, but you like Rubio? That's being fair.

What don't you like about Gates? Do you want to hear it first with RFK? That's called being fair. Just by saying I disagree with the nominee is still okay. But when you call someone an unhinged, Alzheimer-ridden, fascist Hitler character, it just goes to show you the minute you walked into Mar-a-Lago, you didn't believe a word you said.

And when President Biden says the same thing and then says, hey, Donald, shake my hand. Any way I can help. Then people say, like, Charlemagne the God, wait, I thought he was Hitler. Why are you greeting him in the Oval Office? Oh, we don't believe anything you say.

Now, people can exaggerate. I get it. But over the course of seven and a half years to somebody that you used to call a friend, don't you think that's a little crazy to think you're going to change? I mean, the only thing crazy would be if Jimmy Kimmel did it. Jeevi Kimmel or Stephen Colbert?

Because actually I think that they've all three of them have been the worst and the least fair. I'm just trying to work out who's going to take the lead inside the Democrat Party. In the early stages of Trump's presidency, his second presidency. Is it going to be the left? Because they're making a lot of noise.

What do you think? Well, I'll tell you what, if I was a moderate, if I was a Joe Manchin type person, I'd be stepping forward right now if I was a Democratic lawmaker and saying, hey, I'm going to try to work with the president when it comes to illegal immigrants. I'm going to try to fight for families that have been here for years, but I'm going to help them work with ICE in order to get them out. If I'm Josh Shapiro, I wouldn't have missed that opportunity to stand up to Senator Casey and/or my election board and said, You're breaking the law. And Senator Casey, grow up, you lost.

That would have been an opportunity as a Democrat to stand up and speak out in a very purple state. I don't really see who's going to emerge, but it's not unusual. Think about it. When Romney lost, we didn't know who the Republicans were going to put forward. When McCain lost, he certainly wasn't going to lead the party again.

He was already in his 70s.

So it's not unusual. But the thing is, Trump is going to be pressing on all levers: oil, gas, border, international. He's going to be pushing on the Middle East. He's going to be pushing on Iran. He's going to make Democrats step forward and clap for them or try to block them.

So I don't think it's going to be Schumer, I'll tell you that. Nancy Pelosi, does she have any credibility left at all? Absolutely not. Too old. All right.

Brian, I'm out of time, but thanks for being with us. See you again real soon. No problem. I mean, the other thing that I was just talking about, the big story, this hush money sentencing was supposed to be today of the president. This Juan Merson just mysteriously inexplicable.

No, he hasn't explained it. I'm not saying it's unbelievable. He has not explained himself. The hush money case was adjourned by the court as the judge weighs how to handle the prosecution in the wake of the former president's reelection victory. He was convicted in a sham trial by 34 to 36 counts, at which time, for a long time, they were calling him convicted criminal Donald Trump.

He is a felon, including President Biden.

Now They stopped doing that. More people started examining this case. People like Governor Cuomo and others said the only reason it's been tried. at all was because his last name is Trump, and more and more people doing it to the point where the Democrats are embarrassed by the case. The law affair has boomeranged.

It cleared out the primary field. It swallowed all the news. I remember Governor DeSantis saying, I'm over here in Iowa, walking the fields talking to the people, and no press is even following me.

So they're awaiting an update on the Trump conviction, but Bloomberg is reporting that it's been adjourned and the judge has not offered explanation. There's not a lot of tension here. There's no way This New York judge is going to sentence the Future President of the United States to jail. The question is, are you going to wait four years when he's 82? And then sentence him then and put him in jail?

Or are you going to let this hang over his head so you stay famous for a little while longer? I want that to go away. The other thing I can't wait to see. Is when the court rules on the case that Letitia James brought forward on him defrauding banks. No banks complained.

Let's hitchhiker James complained.

So that civil trial, I want that reversed too. Very hard to do business when you have a monitor looking at you and you have this hanging over your head. thought the Trumps had found a way to persevere. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kill mead.

Hi, everyone.

So glad you're here. Brian Killmee Joe, coming your way. We have a lot going on this hour. Although, like foolishly, I put down my rundown. I threw out my rundown for the 11 o'clock hour and I kept the one for the 10 o'clock hour.

I've since made adjustments. This hour going to be joined by David Horsani, a syndicated columnist, co-host of the podcast You're Wrong with Molly Hemingway, author of the new book, The Rise of Bluenon, How the Democrats Became a Party of Conspiracy Theorists. He's going to be with us in Max Lugavier in about fifteen minutes. He is the he is a host of the pod The Genius Life and director of the documentary Empty Little Boxes. He is a He's been on before.

He's an expert on food and disease, and it just fits right in with Casey and Callie Means, with RFK Jr., with Dr. McCary. We got to find out what we're eating. And I really think there's a groundswell of interest in doing that.

So we do have some news. We do have some news on the Trump team front. Before I give you that, let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. If you look at the removal of criminal aliens, those illegal in the United States who've been convicted of a crime, those removals are down 74%. From the Trump administration. President Trump has promised that public safety threats and national security threats are their priority right out of the gate.

That is Tom Holman talking about the Trump team and final planning stages of mass deportation. How to do it, how to get it done, and the pushback. Number two. You know, I think people have had enough. You know, they're coming out of the woodworks right and left.

We were in desperate need of President Trump to take back over and get this country back where it needs to be. Brett Favre, who had courageously came out in the battleground state of Wisconsin and said, Donald Trump's my man, acceptance. This is what we're seeing for the first time in eight years outside the MAGA world, who's always loved Trump. Want proof? Notice the Red Hats in major cities and the Trump dance in major stadiums.

Why now? And do you think it's going to last? Number one. Not all of these picks are going to be easy. I think the president is making these choices.

Based both on loyalty and based on his interest in shaking things up. He doesn't just want to accept what Washington thinks he ought to do, he wants to consider it. That is Ben Dominus. Trump takes another Fox star, Sean Duffy, Transportation Secretary, as Trump works the phones to make sure his most controversial pick, Matt Gates, sails through. I do have some news for you.

Punch Bowl is reporting that Howard Luttnick, the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, is the co-chair of Trump's transition team, has accepted a position as cabinet secretary in. Commerce, not treasury. Interesting. I hear. I'm going to someone close to the Trump team.

That Scott Bessett is in good stead again. He's a good friend of the show. And he could be joining them as Treasury Secretary. They were having a war because Lutnick said, I interviewed everyone, and I'm the best choice. Besick said, Wait a second, I'm the best choice.

And they went to bat against each other. And then Trump says, I'm just going to look for other people. I don't like this infighting. I don't like Howard Luttnick hanging out in Mar-a-Lago all the time. These reports not denied.

So he's got that cabinet secretary done.

So Lutnick will pass. I mean, there's no doubt about it. I mean, he was a Democrat for a while, too, and now he's firmly there, fascinated. Fascinating conversation too by Peter Thiel listening to that on the Barry Weiss Podcast. To hear how he was just ahead of the game when he was one of the first big Silicon Valley execs to say, I'm with Trump.

And he was the first gay executive, I guess, to speak. Not that I love these firsts and these landmarks to speak at the RNC. And then he backed out. He said, I'm kind of sitting on the side. And they thought when they named J.D.

Vance, they'd get him back in. He's like, no, I'm not against Trump. I'm definitely for Trump. I'm going to help him. He just pointed it out that Trump is really on top of things economically.

He thinks the team is extremely strong, and he thinks they are ready to do huge things. And I think the country feels that right now. I think they just, I never saw it. I mean, as if he won 49 states. People are relieved because we're getting back on track.

We're getting rid of the pronouns on our emails, getting rid of the whole dumb conversation of trans men and women's sports. We stop talking about the whole cancel culture and that we're a country built on 1619 project principles. I feel like we're coming up on year 250 and we get it.

Meanwhile, when we talk about the Trump team, they took. Sean Duffy. I think Sean Duffy is a fantastic host here. But when people describe Sean Duffy, They keep on saying reality star. Reality star, he's in his 20s.

That's like saying, whatever sport you played in college, that's how you've got to be known. The guy's in his 50s, got nine kids, former congressman, I think multi-term. I think three or four sessions in Congress came over. He was CNN contributor, now a Fox News host. And you say reality star?

An endless effort to put down the Trump people. I hope you're not falling for it. He was a co-host of the bottom line, and I guess he's out right away. Served nine years in the U.S. Congress, so 2468.

So that's three and a half terms. Politico calls him the potential Trump pick of Department of Transportation, a reality star. And a a real a real antagonist. and a former Uber exec. Luck.

He'll do better than Mayor Pete. And if a trail if a train derails and poisons a town, he will show up, he will make everybody accountable, he'll do everything he can to fix their water and get their town uh going again. I love it. I don't love it here because I think he plays a vital role. He could do Fox and Friends.

He can anchor on the weekends. He could anchor any show during prime time.

So it's a kind of a loss here. Pete's a huge loss here. But everything moves on. People have a real sense of serving their country.

So there's other cabinet secretaries who are more controversial, including RFK. I think that he has got to go out and be ready to back him back his beliefs up And he's going to be talking about that. He's going to be talking about that in front of the whole country and around the world. He's respected for his environmental causes for the most part. He's done some real impactful things, but.

I also think That when it comes to food, he's not going to have as much pushback as when it comes to vaccines. That's where he's a little off the mainstream. It doesn't help that his family members keep coming out against him. I don't understand. Just keep your mouth shut.

Do you have any respect for your brother at all? At all? I mean, he's the oldest one in the RFK. Caroline Kennedy came up and spoke out against him.

Well just keep your mouth shut. I mean, can you give the guy a break? You already condemned him for going with Trump. Then he gets this cabinet secretary position, which is apolitical. It's just there trying to keep people healthier, fight chronic disease and food, and you're coming out speaking.

But when it comes to Matt Gaetz, that's going to be harder for the president. And he's doubling, tripling down. We told you yesterday that Reince Priebus came out and said this is no three-dimensional chess. He just wants Matt Gaetz to be the attorney general. And there's people like Senator Kramer who have gotten calls to say, hey, give him a chance.

Give him a chance. Take a look. Hear him out. Here's Matt Continenti last night. From the American Enterprise Institute, talking about the path that Gates has to take, cut five.

Trump is all in on the pick, which means he's going to be lobbying people. Another thing that strikes me is Matt Gates is famous for playing the outside game, being a presence in the media. But since the nomination, he's been playing an inside game. We haven't heard much about him because I think he understands he has a lot of work to do. But more broadly, the way to think about these nominations is look at the two most important statistics from the election result.

One, incredible levels of dissatisfaction with the direction of the country. And two, an incredible desire for change. That's what people were voting for. And so I think for a lot of voters, they expect Donald Trump to shake up the system, even if many people in Washington, D.C. and the media were too distracted by Kamo's joy campaign to pay attention to what Trump was staying on the stop.

I mean, are they going to go to the personal stuff? Number one, number two, has he ever tried a case as he's supposed to be the leader of the Department of Justice? What's he going to do? Who's he going to surround himself with? He's got to answer those questions.

You can't just yell back and say you're anti-MAGA. I'm not a fan. I know there's much better people than that. But the president really wants someone who's going to watch his back. Matt Gates will watch his back, but so will other people.

A lot of people.

So we come back, Max Lugavier will join us. Spot on the hour, David Harsani, big hour.

So glad you're here. We're also following a report that Bloomberg has that the judge has decided not to sentence Donald Trump, not to vacate, not to sentence, not to postpone. He's just not going to have the session. We're trying to find out more on that in a moment. Don't move.

It's Brian Killmead. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. The stuff that he eats. Yes.

is really like bad. Yeah. It's not campaign food is always bad, but the food that goes onto that airplane is like just poison. That is RFK having some fun, but it's true. The president likes his fast food.

We all know it. And RFK said, we got to change that. He's not against fast food. He said, can we just make it like it's been in Europe over the last 10, 15 years? They've gotten a lot of the chemicals and preservatives out of there, cereal and other foods.

I think that will be his focus if he can get confirmed. Max Lugevir has dedicated his life to what we're eating and our overall health and chronic illness. You hear about that in his podcast, The Genius Life, and he's director of a documentary, Empty Little Boxes. We've had him on before. Max, welcome back.

Hey, Brian, it's great to see you.

So, Max, are you encouraged that RFK got the nomination? Oh, I'm incredibly encouraged. I mean, I think we do need to take a bull-in-a-china shop approach today because our Health issues are serious. They're significant. Today, about two-thirds of the American population is overweight or obese.

About fifty percent of us almost are not just overweight, but obese. We're seeing obesity in children now. We're seeing adult onset diabetes now in children. And the food environment has become highly problematic. I mean, today, 73% of the items in your average supermarket are ultra-processed foods, which are now being considered at the foundation of the epidemic of non-communicable disease.

And so I think putting the magnifying glass on how we've been led so far astray, particularly under the watchful eye of the so-called experts, I think these are really important questions to be asked. And I think. Today, more so than ever before, I think RFK Is uniquely qualified. He might actually be the most qualified candidate that we've had thus far to head up the HHS because of his status as an environmental lawyer. Today, our problems are environmental.

Whether we're looking at the food environment or our exposure to innumerable environmental toxicants, I think he's highly qualified for the position. And of course, I don't know how things are going to go. But all that is to say, I'm optimistic. And his heart seems to be in the right place, his conviction, his passion. He seems to be aligning with the right people.

Um so yeah, uh again I'm I'm optimistic. When he comes out there, he's going to have a lot of critics coming at him right away, and he has to be prepared to defend himself and his beliefs. He's kind of new to the food game where he was focusing for decades on the environmental game. Are you concerned he can't go as deep as, let's say, you can or Casey and Callie means can? Yeah, it's a great question.

I mean, ultimately, it's about who he surrounds himself with. It's about the panel of experts that he surrounds himself with. He doesn't necessarily have to be a nutrition expert for this role. But again, I think the fact that he is, and I would call him an expert in terms of environmental health, today our problems are not genetic. Our problems are environmental.

It's the food environment, it's the compounds that we're being exposed to unwittingly, untested environmental pollutants in the environment like forever chemicals, PFAS compounds. You know, the pharmaceuticals in our water, PFAS chemicals in our water, heavy metals in our water. These are all environmental problems. Our disease problems in the past might have been largely infectious, might have been genetic. But today, our problems are, again, they are related to the environment.

And I think so long as he surrounds himself with people who have expertise in nutrition, I think that's going to be a good thing. Yeah, I don't know if he's going to have them in the actual hearings himself, but having said that, The couple of things. People are concerned, number one, when it comes to people are concerned about dementia. More than ever, Alzheimer's. I know you focused on that.

You said it's definitely related to what you eat in your gut. And they're also focused on why we have this rise in autism. Have you seen food or things in the environment contribute to the rise in both those things?

Well, specifically with regard to neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer's and dementia, these are intricately, these conditions are now being seen as intricately tied to what are called modifiable risk factors. And we have over a dozen of them elucidated recently in the Lancet, the 2024 Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention. But for example, obesity increases your risk for developing Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. Hypertension increases your risk for developing Alzheimer's disease. Type 2 diabetes, which now 50% of adults have at least prediabetes or full-blown type 2 diabetes, but 90% of us are metabolically ill in one way or another.

illustrated by the presence of at least one component of metabolic syndrome.

So it's the environment that seems to be there's this there's this saying that we often use in You know, the holistic health community that genes load the gun, but it's our diets and our lifestyles that pull the trigger. And our diets and lifestyles are. are variables related to environment to our environment. And so it's no it's no yes, it's no surprise.

So Max, how do we adjust?

So if people are going paycheck to paycheck and they tell me to go to a farmer's market, my grocery bill triples.

So what am I supposed to do? Yeah, first of all, we need to, I think, divert some of the subsidies that are currently going to Crops like corn, soy, and sugar to make fresh fruits and vegetables and eggs and beef more affordable to your average person. You're right, whole foods can be more expensive than ultra-processed foods. But a lot of people today on Snap spend some of that money, some of those funds on sugar-sweetened beverages, which we know are the most nefarious from a health standpoint. About 10% of Snap spending goes towards soda.

Which is, I think, a a crime. We need to ban that. And we do need to incentivize companies to make healthier products, companies to reduce the added sugar, reduce the cheap oils, reduce the additives, and ultimately to steer the population more towards a whole food centralized. Where's the biggest pushback then?

So, what would stop people from just getting on board with what you just said?

Well, I think that it's a lack of awareness, to be honest. I think there are still many people that are confused about nutrition, even getting to granular details like whether or not eggs are healthy or unhealthy. An egg is a cognitive multivitamin, one of nature's multivitamins. We need to stop confusing the public. And this confusion comes from the top echelons of academia.

I mean, there are studies that come out left and right, which of course make headlines linking whole nutrient-dense foods like red meat to type 2 diabetes. Nobody is developing type 2 diabetes because they've overconsumed red meat. Today, I mean, in actuality, our red meat consumption has gone down over the past few decades, while rates of type 2 diabetes have continued to soar.

So, we need to actually plant a flag and say, look, You need to prioritize whole foods in your diet. These are single ingredient foods. These are not foods that have innumerable ingredients. These are the foods that you might use in a recipe to cook at home, for example. And we need to actually incentivize people to reduce their consumption of ultra-processed foods, which now make up 60% of the diet of your average adult.

And for children, that number is even higher. It's about 70%.

So we need to find these incentives whether or not I mean, I'm not an economics expert, but maybe it's tax breaks for people who are doing everything right, because chronic disease is a massive burden on our financial system. Do you think Big Pharma wants to get us sick? I mean, a lot of people think they want to keep us sick. Are you under that belief?

Well, there is a massive problem with the revolving door of pharma and our regulatory agencies.

So over the past 20 years, 11 of twelve FDA commissioners have then gone on to take cushy jobs at pharmaceutical companies. And I think that's a massive problem, the conflicts of interest. I think one of the things that Bobby can do, which he said that he's interested in doing, is getting the conflicts of interest out of these regulatory agencies, whether we're talking about the FDA or the USDA. I mean, from a health standpoint, from a nutrition standpoint, I mean, just consider the fact that in 2020, The Dietary Guidelines for Americans Committee, 90% of those individuals had conflicts of interest with the FDA or, I mean, with the pharmaceutical industry or the food industry. One thing is clear, listening to your podcast, you're out for us, the genius life.

Max Lugavir, thanks so much. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmead. Hey, we are back, and we have a lot going on today. We're trying to follow what's going on with that Trump case.

It looks like the judge is not even making a ruling on it. It was supposed to be sentencing day. Had Trump lost, this would have been cataclysmic. You know, this guy would have tried to do something with prison. We're trying to find out.

This is one that he was convicted of. And we also are chasing down the fact that it looks like the president of his name as Commerce Secretary Howard Luttnick, Scott Bessett, who's a good friend of the show, looks like he's in line to be the Treasury Secretary. We'll follow that. With me right now is David Arsani, syndicated columnist, co-host of the podcast You're Wrong with Molly Hemingway and the author of a brand new book called The Rise of Bluenon: How the Democrats Became a Party of Conspiracy Theorists. David, welcome back.

Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. So David, when did you realize and I should probably sit down because we're on Skype here. When did you realize that the Democrats, not only do they believe different than Republicans, but that they tend to believe things that they couldn't prove, conspiracy theorists.

Well You know, the consensus in most of the media is always that the right wing is more susceptible to disinformation, misinformation. But the more I thought about it, the less I believe that that's true. But the main difference is, and why people say that, is because the left will take conspiracy theories, launder them through the media like they did the Russia collusion hoax, which was the main reason impetus for writing the book. and then have experts come in from institutions we used to trust and all this. You know, calibrating the whole thing for plausibility so that when you see it, it's very difficult to debunk because these are people we're supposed to believe and trust.

These are institutions we always have trusted. And the more I thought about it, election denialism, this, that, and I went back in history and I lay it out in the book, you know. It's more prevalent on the left. But what's more important than that, is that it's much more effective. And dangerous.

Obviously, everyone believes every side has conspiracy theories. That's not new, but the way they do it is new.

So a couple of things. When people say election denialism, they'll point to 2020. But you do your research. Outside 2020, it's the Democrats that are most likely not to trust the outcome of elections. Yeah, I mean, first of all, election denialism is kind of a dumb term.

Really, what they mean is that someone's questioning. If an election was run. Correctly or fairly, or whatever. And that's completely a legitimate thing to do in a free country, you know. But go back to 2000, ask any Democrat who won that election.

They're going to tell you Al Gore was stolen from Al Gore. I mean, there have been, I think, three independent recounts of Florida, and each one showed that George Bush actually expanded his vote, but yet they'll never admit it. People forget now, in 2004, almost every major Democrat Went out of their way to say something hinky had happened in Ohio, that diebold machines had been taken over or whatever. Thirty Democrats tried to stop the certification of the election. We're over thirty.

And then obviously in 2016. Wh which Democrat said that? Trump was the legitimate president. Not none of them. None of them.

I mean, and they destroyed. His first term with conspiracy theories.

So They have really have no reason to point fingers because they've been doing it for a long time. Even you point out, too, when it comes to 9-11 and the Truthers, which I find despicable, led by Rosie O'Donnell, they're the ones who say, well, maybe it was an inside job. Yeah, I mean, in 2006, there was a poll that showed that over 50% of America of Democrats. believed that George Bush knew nine eleven was going to happen and that he benefited from it. You were I'm sure you remember, two thousands, like two thousand and six Michael Moore had put out a cons Brown Knight 9-11, which was just a crazy conspiracy movie.

He wasn't relegated to the fringes. He was at the Oscars getting. Standing ovations, you know, the theories about Bush were all over.

Now he's regarded as a statesman and all this, but at the time they were calling him a Nazi as well, all the time. I want you to hear some of what they're saying now, even about Trump being shot. Joy Reed, Michael Steele, Keith Oberman, cut 61. We still don't know for sure whether Donald Trump was hit by a bullet, whether he was hit by glass fragments, whether he was hit by shrapnel. We don't have those details.

We actually have no details from his physician. We know almost nothing. What is the extent and nature of the damage to his ear? Was it caused by a bullet, as opposed to some reports from those on the scene, other reporters, saying that it was actually shards of glass from the teleprompter itself, not the bullet? Five days of no confirmation that the injury to Trump's ear in the assassination attempt was actually from a bullet.

We have to now assume that they're lying about something that happened to Trump on Saturday.

So that's Keith Oakman, who I who has been totally debunked. At one point, he was going to visit Barack Obama because he was thought of as thought leader. But you see, this is something we all saw in front of our eyes on video. Yeah, that was quite the lineup of insane people right there. And people died behind him.

I mean Someone's killed. I mean Think about JFK or in the past, going back all the way to ancient history. Things happen and we don't really, and a lot of people don't trust what they're told because they don't see it with their own eyes, or something happened that they believe powerful people control something behind the shadows. But with Trump, we had every angle imaginable. It was on TV and still Democrats had to try to come up with some conspiracy to try to steal a moment, frankly, a tragic moment, but a moment of bravery from the president.

So, the other thing, by the way, we're talking David Hersani. He's a syndicated columnist, and he's got a brand new book out called The Rise of Bluinon: How the Democrats Became a Party of Conspiracy Theorists. Because I think if you don't like the results, you always want to say there's something else happened that was beyond your approach. I think the pandemic is another one that you could have done a whole book just on that. Do vaccines work?

Do they not work? Was Donald Trump's vaccine going to be used by Republicans by Democrats? I thought the vice president-elect was saying until she was vice president, she basically wasn't going to use it. And now can you imagine, David, what they'd be saying if Donald Trump's vaccine resulted in so many of these physical ailments that stopped some twenty-one-year-olds from playing college sports because of inflammation around their heart? They'd be saying Trump brushed it, that was his plan to hurt Democrats or whatever.

But the pandemic is something that left everyone distrustful about everything. Yeah, I I think that was a tipping point I guess in in that No one really trusts any institutions anymore, our public health officials, but also who trusts most of the media anymore, who trusts a lot of the expertise. When I was a kid, if the former CIA head came out and said something, everyone would believe it. It's not going to make something up, right? But now we don't trust them.

They do make things up. And my book's also not just about conspiracy theories, but and this speaks to what you were just mentioning, but. A paranoid style of politics. There's a paranoia within the Democratic Party where they don't debate anymore. They just accuse you.

They accuse you of sedition. They accuse you of racism. They accuse you of being controlled. Whenever I say something people don't like, they're like, Who bought you? Are you a Putin stooge?

You know, big drugs, big pharma, whatever.

So that's a kind of a paranoid style. And part of that is always accusing and projecting, accusing the other people of being conspiracy theorists for asking. Give you a very quick example. Hillary Clinton in 1998 began this by saying there was a vast right-wing conspiracy to undermine her husband when really all those stories were true.

So it's almost like a gaslighting, a conspiracy about a conspiracy.

Well think about this. And you can't put probably put this in your paperback. We have President Biden said, if Donald Trump wins, democracy is in the balance. This is the last election we'll have. Horrible things, Hitler, fascist, all these things.

And then you have the same thing with the morning show host over at MSNBC. And next thing you know, they say, hey, Donald Trump, can I have lunch with you? And then you have President Biden say, How would you like to come to the White House? Which that's the way tradition has it.

So for those people that bought in that the country is over. If Donald Trump wins, they know that the people that were telling him that were lying. Yeah. So, there are two types of people that work in Blue Anon. One are the cynical people, the Joe Scarboroughs, who tell you that journalists are going to be shot and sent to camps.

and the people who believe it. The guy who picks up a rifle and tries to kill the president, for instance.

So it can be very pernicious. I'll give you another quick example. The idea, for instance, and this is spread by Democrats and Joe Biden and all of them, that black people are being suppressed. They're vote. They can't vote, they're being stripped of their agency.

That is a It's not true. It's easier to vote than it ever has been. Ever in society, but yet you're telling a whole class of people that they're being hunted by police, that they can't vote. It's that kind of paranoia that really causes a lot of harm in society. And I don't know if it's going to be difficult to get rid of it.

I mean, if you talk to a law enforcement, you're 100% right. I mean, they're into the oppression. If they do anything by pulling over someone, an ethnic minority, they know that they have an excellent chance of losing their job and getting arrested themselves because people have overemphasized when things have gone wrong. And some are race-related and some aren't. Just like there's bad people that do our jobs too, David, that just write things to incite as opposed to offer insight.

Here's Jon Stewart, I think, echoing a lot of Democrats what he said last night.

Meanwhile, Joe and Mika Brzezinski Scarborough, who famously warned of the growing threat of Trump's fascism, also had an interesting announcement to make. Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to meet personally with President-elect Trump. And for those asking why we would go speak to the President-elect during such fraught times, especially between us, I guess I would ask back. Why wouldn't we? Because you said he was Hitler.

Yeah. They laugh, and and he's sophisticated enough to know Jon Stewart. I mean, he'll you're not gonna dupe him. But a lot of people out there, like you said, might take a shot because they think democracy is in the balance. Listen to Al Sharpton.

Al Shorpton said this, cut twenty one. With Donald Trump. He's going to be the president. If you can meet with him, meet with him. That, to me, is no different than when people said to me, why would Kamala Harris go talk to Bret Baer?

So on one side, she can talk to Bret Baer, but on the other side, he shouldn't come on Morning Joe. I don't think we've got an equal judgment here because I think all sides need to be talking to all sides. Look, that last statement, true. But Brett Baer wasn't saying that Kamala Harris was Hitler, that the democracy's over if she wins. No.

I mean, just hearing that guy, for instance, reminds me. I have a whole chapter on Jewish conspiracies. You know, he was a terrible human being who sparked programs in Brooklyn. You know what I mean? And he's still just on MSNBC, never reckoning for anything.

You call. It could be They hid Joe Biden's. For years, they hid that he was unable really to perform in the presidency. And then, on a dime, after gaslighting you, they just turned the corner. Never any reckoning, never any reckoning for Russia collusion, never any reckoning for Al Sharpton.

And now, you know. A lot of the conspiracy theories he spread about Jewish people are kind of mainstreamed on the left right now. I mean, there are people in Congress who spread that stuff. There are marchers at Harvard and elsewhere who are in higher education who spread that stuff. Alex Jones or whoever on the right, they're on the fringes of society.

They're not in the institutions running them. They're not on. Fox News. You know, Vebre is not a conspiracy theorist. like Joe Scarborough is.

So, you know. David, fundamentally And by the way, David Orson wrote the book The Rise of Blueton.

So, fundamentally, they're saying things that they don't believe, or are they just more susceptible to believe it? They say that both because some of them say things that they don't believe because they know people will believe it because they were in institutions that mattered in American society. But let's face it, the last election proves that a lot of people are not listening to them anymore.

So perhaps the fever has broken. I don't know. We'll see. David, thanks so much. Appreciate you joining us today.

Pick up his book, The Rise of Blue and On. This is the time to evaluate. Make your own conclusions, but get as much research as possible because soon we're going to be back in the election cycle, and you're going to have nobody doing any reasonable analysis on their own party because they're worried about gaining power.

So, David, thank you. Appreciate it. Thanks so much for having me. All right, you got it. 1-866-408-7669.

So. We are continuing to follow the other breaking news stories around here. And I guess I can't say it yet. We'll have to see. We get confirmation, the latest on that trial, the latest on Danny Penny's trial.

And we're seeing now confirmation that Howard Luttnick's got another job. I guess he's got to leave his own company. You listen to Brian Kilmeek show. Politics, current events, and news that affects you. Brian's got a lot more to say.

Stay with Brian Kilmead. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Technically. Yes, Democrats have less seats, but haven't you heard who's in those seats?

In this freshman class alone, and I'm going to stop for cheers for each one of these because they're remarkable, we have the first Iranian American Democrat in Congress. We have the youngest member ever elected to the House from New Jersey. That's not a thing. How did you go from the reasonably impressive first Iranian Democrat to oldesty to the, I think, somewhat reaching for youngest person ever from New Jersey? And by the way, to the audience, if you think that that framing is not that interesting, wait till you hear that this record-breaking young phenom from New Jersey?

It's 38 years old. 38 years. Yeah, and that just goes to tell you, it's just so weird. And just goes to show you the difference with party. When Joe Biden was rolling out his cabinet, all you heard about was first woman, first lesbian, first cross-dresser, first transsexual, first bisexual to wear a mustache, whatever, non-stop, first lesbian minority, and that ends up being the press secretary.

We're just naming people today. Yeah, there's women, there's men, there's Hawaiians. I assume Ben Carson was meeting with the president today. He's going to get a job somewhere, whatever he wants, what's left. But just can we get back?

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All right, Jersey Mike sold to a private equity firm, Blackstone, for $8 billion. Not bad for a guy that just started a sandwich shop. Quote, I intended to help enable. The Jersey Mics to accelerate its expansion across the country and the U.S. market.

So now they got Blackstone in their corner. Blackstone and Jersey Mics did immed did not immediately disclose financial terms. Bottom line is, hardworking guy. He would be, by the way, if there was a games do count, too. He'd be one of the people because he was an athlete.

No, he was amazing. Yeah, he started it. Like his baseball, like his coach was really influential, I think, in baseball in Point Plus in New Jersey and just grew it to this giant company. Yep, fantastic.

Next, India has overtaken China as the biggest source of international students at American universities. The number of Indian students surged 23% in one year, just over 330,000. Good. Quote, you graduate from a college. I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country.

Donald Trump feels that way. And that could be something good. This pushback from the Steve Bannons of the world, they don't like that. But I like that. As long as the people are properly vetted and then the students aren't admitted simply because their parents are making these ginormous donations from other countries.

I mean, because we have no idea, the undergraduate what China is doing in their undergraduate. We just come back and think these students are eligible because they can pay full tuition.

Next, Jake Paul and Mike Tyson breaks a record with an $18.1 million gate. Paul's most valuable promotions dropped the official numbers on Tuesday morning, which beat the previous record at $9 million. With Canelo Alvarez, that was a real fight. But Paul v. Tyson and Taylor v.

Serrano, too, rewrote the record books. Look. But it was a total waste of time. Everyone feels duped. Tyson didn't even try.

The fight was a snoozer. It took forever to get done. And my screen froze. We literally had, I had 10 people over at my house. We went from the den to the living room, standing in the kitchen, watching the match.

I thought it was my cable box. I had no idea the next day everyone was having the same problem.

Well, it's not on cable. It's on the router. But yeah, but every, I know they weren't expecting, so they just didn't prepare for the number of people streaming it.

Well, look, they got football. They got football coming up. And Beyonce's going to be singing on Christmas. Oh, really? Does she get a singer just speak?

Because it went so well and she just spoke. I can't wait to hear a speech from Beyonce. At halftime. Right. Fantastic.

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