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In Kill Mead. Hi, everybody.

So glad you're here. Brian Killmeat Show. Hope you had a fantastic weekend. We're coming up on Thanksgiving and then the sprint to Christmas and wherever you celebrate. It's going to be fun.

A lot of people are relieved. A lot of people are looking forward to seeing what this new administration is going to be. I look Bill Maher. It says I'm not going to pre-hate. I'm going to be open-minded.

to what Trump's going to do. This hour going to be jumped by Ari Lightstone. Served as senior advisor to the U.S. Ambassador David Friedman over in Israel. He did that for four years.

He is also playing a critical role right now in advancing the Abraham Accords and trying to get that back on track. We have all this news, too, about Hezbollah and Israel possibly agreeing to a ceasefire. We'll talk about that. Jamie Metzel's in studio, former member of WHO and a former national security official with the Clinton administration, author of the book Super Convergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform Our Lives, Work and World. Before we get to Jamie, big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. The entire Democratic Party bears the responsibility, myself included, and the former president, not today an effective campaign, and you have to give him credit for that. To me, the existential question is: if you're working hard in America, can you still earn a good living? And too many people doubt that that's possible.

Well, believe it or not, that's a very cerebral, deep-thinking Adam Schiff, recalibrating and assessing. That's what the Dems are doing as they look at the reality of the failed Biden years and the loss of Americans' trust in their party.

Some are already standing out, especially here in New York, at changes they want to see right away and look ready to work with Trump. Number two. This administration has turned this world upside down.

So now I'm being attacked, right? I got death threats. My family's not even living in my home right now.

So all of a sudden, the guys who want to enforce the law are the bad guys. The guys who break the law are the victims. That is Tom Holman. Very public about what he wants to do. Last night with Mark Levin, caravan is coming into our border, and Holman and company plan to bring the muscle to illegals abusing our system, robbing American people of needed services and safety.

We get to more of how it's going to go down and why missing kids and criminals have to be the priority. Number one. Democrats need to pick, I think, one. They've got three people, I think, that are questionable nominees. Robert F.

Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Pete Hexeth. You got to pick one. Because if you go after all three of them, you're going to probably go 0 for 3. Governor Christie, weighing in. Trump Team 2, as diverse and distinctive as any in modern American history, as all but a handful of major positions have been filled.

We review and look at the headwinds some faces first polling is in on the transition team, and America's approving it: 58 percent. Welcome. Great to see you, Jamie. Hey, Brian. First off, when you look at overall, I know it's a lot of people.

What stands out from you about Trump Team 2?

So far, I mean, we it's just at the nomination stage, of course.

Some of them seem like very straight down the line, reasonable picks. Marco Rubio, John Ratcliffe, who I who was our chairman when I was a commissioner on the Heritage Foundation bipartisan commission on China and COVID-19. Other ones I have more questions about. Tulsi Gabbard is one. Like you, Brian.

Democrat. She's a Democrat. I mean, my feeling is, like you, I don't look at the party affiliation. I just say, well, what have they done? What have they said?

Who are they? The thing that worries me about Tulsi Gabbard is she's been so on record supporting Putin, supporting Assad, supporting seemingly enemies of the United States. And I completely agree with what Bill Maher said. We shouldn't pre-hate, we shouldn't prejudge, and certainly I'm a Democrat. We need to recognize that the American people have delivered a message to us about part of the message, part of what we were presenting, our party, and I certainly wasn't on board with everything.

And we need to listen to that. And that doesn't mean we should be against everything. But certainly, I believe, Brian, like you, these conflicts in Ukraine, in the Middle East, in South China Sea, Taiwan, they're all kind of connected. And America has a really important role to play supporting our allies. And so people who are raising questions, who are supporting our adversaries, it seems to me, like Tulsi Gabbard, I would have bigger questions.

Pete Hegseth doesn't have a lot of experience running a big organization like the Defense Department. Let's see what happens in the hearings. We shouldn't prejudge, but some of them are more enthusiastic about some of the picks though. You know what? I think a lot of it is too.

And so when people look at his experience and say, well, he's never run a big department, you got it. But when you have other people that do know how to run departments that you put underneath you, the deputies, the chief of staffs, like, for example, Mattis didn't really know how to work the wall, the halls of the Pentagon. His chief of staff Or his deputy ended up sending for a brief period of time and taking over as the acting director. Evidently, he was doing everything.

So, Mattis had the big picture. He's doing everything.

So, if you have a major going in there with 20 years of National Guard experience that commanded a battalion that was at Gitmo, went to war three separate times in deployments, instead of staying at Gitmo, says, I need to go back and went into the infantry and got a unit, went to Princeton and Yale.

So, I go, Harvard, excuse me. I said to myself, and then we watched him write a book for two and a half years about what he visualized for the department.

So, I go, okay. If you want to shake things up, you're still taking your orders from the president. You want to shake things up, you get some people there that know how to work. the perimeters, know how to uh to negate navigate. But also you got to be open to reform.

The Pentagon again failed another audit. Eight years in a row, failed an audit. They're unable to figure out where all this money is going. There's no room for RD and innovation. And the private vendors have talked about the frustration of getting a quick answer.

I mean, what could be done for that? And how could that work with Doge? For sure, the United States government does a lot of things great, and we do a lot of things poorly. And all of us, all patriotic Americans, our goal should be to strengthen our strengths and address our vulnerabilities. And not just the Defense Department, but our entire government has gotten bloated.

And so we need to think: how do we help our government work better and really do it across the board? And the Defense Department, it's almost like a big health maintenance organ, a big HMO that also has a side business of military. We have all of these kinds of challenges, and we need to streamline. Part of the role is the Secretary of Defense, and I absolutely agree that having a strong team of experienced people around the Secretary is important. And part of it is at the political level, because for decades, we've had.

Secretaries of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs who said, Hey, we need to streamline things that we're doing within the military. And members of Congress have prevented that because we have a divide-the-spoils system with all kinds of military manufacturers.

So, we absolutely need to improve the way our government functions. It does seem that President Trump has a mandate to do that, but the execution of this is really what's essential. It's relatively easy to be on the side and criticize it. And that's what we saw here in New York City. We had Bill de Blasio, one of the worst mayors in the history of our city, and he became mayor.

And then he put the protesters who'd been inside in front of the city agencies with their placards. He said, All right, now you're in charge of the agencies. And they had a hard time running those agencies.

So it didn't work well here in New York. And so, if we want to have people who are transforming these agencies, it's not just about. Speaking, it's not just about throwing hand grenades, it's about rolling up our sleeves and really doing the hard work of reform. Yeah, uh, and Pete did a lot of the research and putting in that book that he talked about, but I'm sure there's a lot to learn. That's why I believe that when Tulsi Gabbard gets in there, we'll find out who the you know who the Peter Strzoks are out there with the political ideology, who the Lisa Pages are, and other people, and then she'll realize how many more great people are in there sacrificing their lives for a little money, the missions that are taking place, and will believe that Russia is the bad guy in coordination with China.

I fully believe that because she's extremely bright. Yeah, um, can I just pause with that? I think what you just said is really important. Um, we have a great government here in the United States. Generations of Americans have helped build that government, our democracy.

It doesn't mean it's perfect. There are a lot of flaws and shortcomings. Uh, but I was tweeted about this yesterday. I'm there are people on the far left and the far right who are saying, let's just burn it down, and that's really dangerous. If you travel around the world as you do, as I do, we're really lucky to be here.

I'm in New York City. I meet new immigrants all the time, people who are legal immigrants here from Africa, and they're saying this is the greatest country in the world. We don't even know what you guys are talking about. You should be building this, making it better and stronger. And I think that's what worries me a little bit.

But you know, that Trump has talked about having these college students stay here, incentivize to stay here. He does talk about expanding the work visa program. We absolutely should do that.

So, in terms of the Democrat as a party, very interesting. We have this period of time where no one's running for election.

So, that's why it's so valuable to hear them speak honestly before they go to their corners and start speaking politically about each other. Here's what Adam Schiff said: Cut 31. Look, I think the entire Democratic Party bears the responsibility, myself included, and the former president and the not today an effective campaign and you have to give them credit for that. But the challenge that we have is we need to put forward a bold vision for how we're going to move the economy forward, make the economy work for every American. To me, the existential question is: if you're working hard in America, Can you still earn a good living?

And too many people doubt that that's possible.

Simple. And you kept saying, well, no, blue collars for us. We're pro-union. Don't worry about it. And they really believed that they weren't.

And a lot of the free trade that Republicans were pushing and Democrats maybe less so, even though Bill Clinton did a lot of it, it hasn't helped manufacturing. It hasn't worked those jobs. I guess the theory was America doesn't want to do those jobs, give it to Vietnam, give it to China, give it to these developing nations. And now we don't make anything, and these people don't have other jobs. Yeah, I agree.

So there were many of us, and I was part of the Clinton administration, that said the globalization story, and they were right, is going to help economic growth. And that was the case. Keep us from fighting, too. You don't fight with people you trade with. Yeah, that was the idea.

But there wasn't enough of an appreciation is that in any system, there are winners and losers. And even if the United States is getting wealthier, there are actual people, people in North Carolina and a lot of these industrial belts. They used to make furniture. They used to make all kinds of things who were getting screwed over. And we didn't say from the beginning that if we're going to take this action.

For the perceived benefit of the country, we need to be doing everything possible to help these people. And so there was a whole group of people who just felt that they were abandoned. And those people are speaking up now. Like coal workers. I know coal and the environment aren't necessarily friendly, but they said, well, learn to code.

Really? I'm a coal miner. Don't tell me go to learn to code. It's like, James, just get out of this business. Go do something else.

Excuse me? My children. Go do coal mining. I was like, how God can't do that? Exactly.

So just about another reason. is that people don't say what we know. Afghanistan was an abysmal failure, pushed apart almost solely by Joe Biden, who was pushing against his generals, who decided not to stand up and speak out. Let me just let you know. Here's what Joe Manchin said: Cut thirty-five.

But in your heart, you know you can't make wrong right. You can't shine certain things in life.

Okay, it is what it is. Looks bad, tastes bad, smells bad, it's bad.

Okay, you can't shine that.

So, certain things don't happen, you're not gonna change. Why they can't just say, I made a mistake. I'm sorry. I can fix that. When you make a mistake and you can't own up to it.

And that means did you make it intentionally then? Since you don't think it's a mistake? That throws doubts. And I said, I can accept your mistake as long as I know you can try and improve something. Yeah, such a great point.

And it's hard for all politicians to do it, but politics is. Human relay relations just on a bigger scale. And so I absolutely think that the Democrats needed to say, hey, here's what we were trying to do. Here's what worked. Here's what didn't work.

And we're sorry. And here's what we're going to do to fix it. On Afghanistan in specific, I have a lot of background in Afghanistan. In 2009, my then mentor, now unfortunately deceased, Richard Holbrook, had asked me to go to Afghanistan to be what he said was the fifth ambassador in the U.S. embassy.

It was a multi-ambassador embassy. And I went there and I spent a couple of weeks, and it was a really rough time. And I actually accepted his offer because I just felt that if there are people from my country and Afghans who are putting their lives on the line and I was asked and I had an opportunity to serve, then it was my obligation to do it. It ended up because of a fight between Richard Holbrook and the White House that they didn't let him put his guy there.

So I've been to Afghanistan twice just as visiting, but really saw a lot. And then at the time in 2000, when the Trump negotiation team was in Doha negotiating. I'm sorry, 2020, you're exactly right. In 2020, when the Trump negotiation team was in Doha negotiating with the Taliban, I was in direct touch with that team. And what I was saying to them is, You are, in effect, surrendering to the Taliban, and the Taliban perceived it as a surrender.

And you need to either own up to that or say that if what they were saying is, oh, no, it's conditional. The Taliban needs to take certain steps for us to withdraw. But my view was once you announce to the American people we're leaving, the only alternative is to re-escalate the war.

So when Joe Biden took office, we only had 2,500 troops there. And even though I was a big critic of what happened in the Biden administration, the Biden administration's option was to re-escalate the war. I do believe that we should have kept a small number of troops in Barbara. But I think coming back to your point of accountability, I think Democrat and Republican administrations alike have a lot of, there's a lot of blame to go around. And I think that part of being honest with ourselves, I think everybody should do, is to say across the board, because none of us have a monopoly on wisdom.

Jamie, hold on. We have a few moments at the other half. We took a lot of this time. More with Jamie Metzel in a moment. Bottom of the hour, Aria Lightstone, we get a handle of what's going on in the Middle East.

There's a ceasefire about to happen in Lebanon. We'll talk about it. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead. This episode is brought to you by LifeLock. The holidays mean more travel, more shopping, more time online, and more personal info in places that could expose you to identity theft.

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Terms apply. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmead. Jamie Metzl here. Jamie, in the time we have, you're hearing about some movements now with Israel and Lebanon and Hezbollah on a ceasefire.

Would that work for Israel right now, or do they have a chance to do more damage to Hezbollah and they might regret taking their foot off their necks?

Well, certainly Israel needs to push against Hezbollah, and the people of Lebanon generally hate Hezbollah. Hezbollah isn't the state of Lebanon. Hezbollah represents Iran's takeover of the state of Lebanon. But the problem, the challenge for Israel is they don't have the means to entirely defeat Hezbollah in Lebanon. Against 200 rockets over the weekend.

Yes, not just militarily, politically. Hezbollah is so deeply entrenched. And so I think the best that Israel can probably hope to do is to get the enforcement of UN Resolution 1701, which is pushing Hezbollah beyond the Latani River. There was an agreement before, and Hezbollah just completely ignored it, and the UN did nothing about it.

So, Israel is going to need to maintain some freedom to get their people back in that part of the country. Yes.

So, to get certainly, the UN and the government, the army of Lebanon, could occupy that. But because Hezbollah is stronger than the Army of Lebanon, Israel is going to have to have some kind of oversight. Hezbollah is degraded, but ultimately, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, these are tentacles. Iran is the octopus.

So, there ultimately is going to have to be a strategy for Iran, which is why I support President Trump's approach of maximum pressure. Looks like Russia is getting Houthi rebels to fight in Ukraine. Yep. And maybe they're going to be the primary source of funding for the Houthi rebels now as Iran is going to feel the pressure from the Trump administration. That's crazy.

All of these pieces are coming together, which is why we can't lose in Ukraine and expect to win in Taiwan or the Middle East. All of these things are together, so we need a tough, aggressive strategy against all of these enemies. And where do people follow you, Jamie, if they want your latest thoughts? JamieMetzel.com and at Jamie Metzel on TwitterX. Jamie, thanks so much for coming in.

It's going to be a fascinating time and a fascinating holiday. Ariel Lightstone is next. He joins us from Israel. You're listening to the Brian Kill Me Show.

So glad you're here. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. In terms of the incoming administration, I actually like what I see in terms of being a very, very strong pro-Israel through that. And I fully support that through that too.

And when the administration will change, my vote and voice won't change either. And that's going to follow Israel through that. And they have made a magnificent, magnificent kinds of progress on the process of generating longer-term peace by destroying Hamas, Hezbollah, and just demonstrating that Iran really doesn't have the kind of capability to deliver any kinds of damage. That is Senator Federmerer makes who's just staunchly in form with Israel as he's with Ukraine and bucking his own party. I actually don't even think he talks to his own party.

On certain things, he's way to the left, but on Israel, he sees it like I see it, and maybe like you guys see it. There's a right and wrong. And Hezbollah is an evil organization. Hamas is an evil organization. And Iran has an evil government that is oppressing its own people and creating havoc in the Middle East.

With me right now is Aria Lidestone, knows all of this, served as senior advisor to U.S. Ambassador David Friedman for four years. I played a critical role in the Abraham Accords. A couple of things going on here. First off, great to see Arielle.

And quick question. We are hearing reports now that Israel is moving towards a ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah in Lebanon. And Hezbollah is also saying that they have principally agreed to this. I'm not sure with the Lebanese decision, what their role would be. And then we have a European Union spokesperson come out and say, I don't believe any of it.

What do you think? I've never said before that I believe a European Union spokesperson, but in this case I might. Uh it seems highly skeptical uh that Israel and The Lebanon and the Kazbalah are going to come to terms that will be lasting. There may be an agreement. The ability for that agreement to hold, I think, is almost impossible to imagine.

Joseph Borrelli is his name. He says, I am not convinced it's going to happen. I do not see the Israeli government interested clearly in reaching an agreement for a ceasefire. If that's what you mean by the anti-Israeli bias, but I saw her over the weekend. Israel was forced to absorb 250 rockets from Hezbollah.

What do you hear about the damage that was done? Was there any? Yeah, no, there was. In my home, we were in the bomb shelter four different times and no immediate damage in our area, but up north. 30 kilometers north of our house, it remains uninhabitable for more than 80,000 citizens of Israel.

And there were people who were wounded in these attacks, and 250 rockets intended to cause damage, do indeed cause damage. Yeah.

So we have a situation now with uh Hamas. Where they have the hostages, but do you even know who you're talking to? They've been kicked out of Qatar. I understand now talks might take place in Turkey where they're located. But on the other ha hand, I hear about Saudi Arabia putting together a massive conference, bringing all sides together.

What could you tell us about this? But here's the most important part. I don't think anybody speaks for Hamas, the people who have the hostages captive today. One of the things that Sinoar did that was so successfully tactically is that he broke up the Hamas leadership into such bifurcated groups that I think each group speaks for itself. And there is no representative of that group.

There is no command and control left of Hamas right now. And Israel, likely to free the hostages, is going to have to go, like they're doing today, tunnel by tunnel, house by house, in order to be able to find them. In terms of what the Saudis are putting together, I love. The fact that the Saudis want to take a leadership position over here, but leadership without the United States of America is just a guy out taking a walk. For this conference to work, in order to be able to have Israel on board, you need strong, authoritative, visionary US leadership, which we will get on January 20th.

Up until then, there's nobody hope.

Well, I mean Being that the US ostensibly is so pro-Israel, do you still think they have the Arab ear? In the Trump administration?

Well, with this administration, do you think that with this administration, they have nobody's ear? I can't imagine anybody takes the President seriously today because who's the President speaking on behalf of? And when he has people out in the region, do we believe that those emissaries are speaking on behalf of the President? Do we think that President Biden knows what's going on right now? And I doubt it.

Do you think what is your take on the reports now? That Yemen is sending over fighters, essentially the Houthi rebels, to fight in Ukraine. Doesn't that show you the direct linkage between Russia and Yemen, the Houthi rebels providing intelligence in order to shut down the Red Sea, ship locations? And doesn't it tell you when they find a cache of new Russian weapons in Hezbollah tunnels, the role they're playing in something that seems so far away from their points of interest? You and I have spoken about this now for almost 13 months.

It is not an Israel-Iran war. There's an unholy grouping of Israel, of Israel, pardon me, of Iran, China, and Russia that are actively trying to exploit American weakness around the globe. One of the places that that is happening is in Israel. Russia is behind an enormous amount of that, certainly with Kazballa and the Houthis. Their weapons are everywhere, their intel is everywhere.

And we saw it just as recently as when Israel attacked Iran from the sky. What anti-aircraft did they take out? They took out Russian anti-aircraft machinery.

So, yeah, we know that they did have an aircraft just go down. That's very interesting. I just don't know a country. that economically is struggling like Russia is struggling, how can they possibly Be financing this war, financing other proxy wars, and still somehow serve their 150 million people.

So, one of the interesting things for us to note is they don't have inflation in Russia. Do you know why they don't have inflation in Russia? Because they buy their energy for free or close to it from Iran. We've put sanctions on Iran that we don't enforce.

So we can't pay for the price of gas has gone sky high, right? But who is getting cheap energy in order to fuel their economies? China and Russia, because the United States of America are not enforcing those sanctions.

So ironically enough, through this process of building a war, Russia's actually been able to expand its reach, not decreased its reach, without being able to put all three of these adversaries in a box. All it is, is money is fungible and enables each one of them to be able to continue funding their proxies wherever they feel like it. What is your take on Ambassador the nominated Ambassador of Mike Huckabee to Israel? I know you love Ambassador Friedman, and I think he did a fantastic job. What do you think about Huckabee?

Mike Huckabee is going to be a spectacular ambassador. President Trump has made one good choice after another. And certainly, when you look at Israel and you look at the Middle East, whether it's with Steve Witkoff or Pete Hegset or Mike Huckabee, Marco Rubio, and more, he's chosen fantastic individuals to represent an America first policy in the Middle East. It's going to be unbelievable. Waltz and Rubio also play into it.

I mean, you swap that out for Blinken and Jake Sullivan. It's like picking up Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippin versus people on the middle school JV team. It is unbelievable the delta between the caliber of the adults that will be in the room versus those who are there today. Do you think that's the reason why we have not heard Iran follow up on their threat, which they did two times before to hit Israel for Their last strike on Iran? I wanna be hesitant to say that the Iran threat is not there because of President Trump, I I will say that they are watching carefully.

Uh and what's interesting about President Trump is Our adversaries know what he will do. They're not guessing because they've seen him in action beforehand. And therefore, while these 100 days are normally the scariest days of foreign policy, because President Trump has been at the helm before, there's much more. Confidence in knowing what he will do and how we react. And that's been able to stabilize the situation somewhat.

But with Iran, they are not rational actors. And it would not surprise me if they still did something irrational.

Well, I'll tell you what, in terms of missile defense, you've basically Israel's destroyed it. And number two, we understand they're totally blind right now, including any type of defensive radar that they had in, we understand, in Syria and Iraq. And the other thing is, it turns out they just basically confirmed that they took out a portion of their nuclear program in that last hit. That's absolutely correct. What Israel has demonstrated is that the emperor has no clothes.

Iran does not have the defenses, and Iran no longer has a smoking gun of Khazballah pointed at Israel's head. It would be an enormous mistake. If the Trump administration walked in and pretended as though the last four years of the Biden administration did not exist, the opportunities that Israel has created will enable Mike Huckabee and Marco Rubio and certainly President Trump to be able to create a Middle East that was not imaginable even four years ago.

So, what do you do with the West Bank in Gaza? I mean, it's going to be hard enough with the security and the challenges. In Gaza, I understand the objective is to wipe out Hamas and get the hostages back. But five years from now, How about six months from now? What does what is a secure how does Israel stay secure with Gaza not in their control?

Or do you annex both?

Well, I think the key question here is: Does Israel have the superpower of the United States on its hands? And what I mean to say is that at the end of the day, the West Bank, Judea and Samaria, Gaza without Hamas, become I would call them details, important details, but still details. What's existential is Iran and Hezbollah and Gaza ruled by Hamas. Once those are gone as existential, then there's an opportunity from a position of strength. To come up with a win-win for all peoples of the region.

I think what President Trump demonstrated last time, he will demonstrate again this time, that if you are on the bandwagon of a positive and prosperous future, there's an enormous future for you, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, it doesn't matter. If you are against that, if you are not with that, if that is a system that you're going to actively work against, this is not the region for you. Find another place to do business. How much damage has been done to Hezbollah, say 100% wiped out and one to 10? How much of their personnel and their arsenal has been destroyed?

Do you know? Saturday Somewhere between a six and a half, and I said, No, no. I said, out of one to ten, I would say that Israel has been able to damage them up to a six or a seven. Uh and there's a moment. uh here with real leadership to actually enable cosmological packing.

There's something interesting about Hezbollah. In the past, they intend to fight in order to live. Hamas, terrorists in general, have been suicidal. Hezbollah intends to actually live and conquer territory. When Israel is able to win, That means Kazbala is actually able to surrender and to lose.

Camas will fight to the last person. Kazbala, you can actually wind up defeating strategically with the correct American leadership. Right. You just gotta find a way to stop the the flow of weapons to replenish them. And I know it's so easy for me to sit here in New York in a studio and say that.

You're in a bombshell to going back and forth waiting for that. Is there a plan in place to stop it, or does Iran just have this tunnel to replenish them? I guess you could begin to starve Iran, and the last thing they want to do is. starve their own people to give to, I guess, Sezbo. Iran, under President Trump, did not have the ability to fund the Houthis and Hezbollah and Hamas.

Again, under President Trump, they won't have that ability. The first decision that President Trump is going to have to make is what type of box can he put Iran in. And once that decision is addressed, then all the rest of the decisions flow from there. Right now, what's happening on the world stage is Hezbollah is playing chicken with Israel. We think we, meaning we, Hezbollah, think we can outlast you because the U.S.

government has you on an embargo of arms. We think we can last longer with our resupply than you can with your resupply. And as soon as America shows up and changes that balance, Hezbollah has got nowhere to go, and Israel will be able to take care of itself by itself. Aria, I think that it's pretty clear that America showed up at the ballot box, which means Israel is about to have any type of restrictions released. There's just no question.

Rubio is firmly into support of Israel, and the president obviously is too.

So it's good news, I think, for the region. It's good news for Saudi Arabia. It's good news for continuing with the Abraham Accords, too. Have they approached you at all? Uh who is that?

The administration? Yeah.

Back. I've told the administration to the degree that they're listening, if there's an opportunity to serve in a way to advance things, Ari Lightstone is here. In the meantime, I've cheered on every single one of the president's appointments. They're all spectacular, and I hope that they will exceed anything that the previous administration was able to do. Ari Lightstone, thanks so much.

Appreciate it. Have a great day. Stay safe. Thank you, Brian. All right.

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But I'm just not going to prehate. I can't get into that mind graph. Let's see what the disruptors can do. Because quite frankly, the experts have just sort of like let something go for so long that it's just sclerotic now and constipated. You know, Bill Maury, I've said it, you've heard me say this before.

He just makes a lot of sense. He said, I'm mad because I wanted Democrats to win and they act like idiots, they act like smug jerks, and the whole Political correctness. He's been saying it for the longest time. But he never wanted Trump elected. He never wanted Bush elected.

He didn't change who he votes for. But you also knew that this was not working. John on the Fox News Radio app in California. Hey, John. Good morning, Brian.

I just want to tell you how excited I am since the election. I mean, I'm so happy. The people in my neighborhood are happy. It's like a whole new energy. And I just wanted to point something out that I've noticed.

Since twenty sixteen, how amazing. Trump has been with his discipline. Because you remember in 2016, if something came up with a bad selection or picking fights with broadcasters on other networks, he's staying amazingly disciplined. And I think that's going to be, if that's any indication of his future, it's going to be an amazing administration. I'm so energized.

I know. And the thing is, they want to say so conservative, so liberal, so moderate. It's none of that, it's everything. I mean, you they say it's one of the most diverse. Eclectic groups ever put together, and I don't need to run through the bigger names.

Tulsi, a Democrat, that was very critical of Ukraine. You have RFK, he was very critical of the vaccine system, but more of our food system. And he's got 47% of the people when asked are approval of him. You have Pete Hagseth, who's a warfighter, a major, an Ivy Leaguer. Also, even observed that Gitmo wrote a book about what's wrong with the Pentagon.

I mean, I'm looking at all these, I'm looking at this Oregon lawmaker. I didn't know anything about her. I'm reading about her. She's pro-union. And the Teamsters call them up and say, Look, you're for the working class.

I know you're not union. She has an affinity for unions. Let's put her in.

Now, Trump's going to make the decision. But as Labor, a Republican who lost in Oregon that doesn't hate unions, that's going to be a fantastic debate, isn't it? I mean, this is this is what you want. This is, you know, nobody doubts John Radcliffe, he's classic. Marco Rubio is going to get about 95 votes in the Senate.

Mike Waltz, if he needed approval, but he doesn't, he would have gotten 95 votes in the Senate. Traditional, his assistant, Alex Wong, is somebody that worked within the North Korean situation.

Okay. About the same time. You have people around the president that of for just ending the Ukraine war like J.D. Vance and not supplying anything. If you sit in that room and that door closes, those opinions are going to fly.

But when Trump makes a decision, the leaks are not going to break because they're all in. And they have Trump's back, but it doesn't mean they're sick of fans. That's why people are excited. People want to get stuff done, it's not Republican or Democrat. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division.

It's Brian Killmead. All right, from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. This is the Brian Kill Meet Show. Jimmy Phail is going to be joining us now from Fox Cross Country. And Michael Goodwin's standing by.

But we have a lot going on in New York. This is going to be a big one.

Well, actually, next week, December 2nd, is going to be the big week for the president and his law affair. Everything comes to a head. They're going to find out what Jack Smith's going to give his recommendations, what happens to his indictments, and New York should know, possibly, although it's in somewhat of a delay of game at this moment. Alvin Bragg wants a full prosecution after the president's done, but the judge has yet to make a ruling. We'll talk to Michael Goodwin about that.

But first, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. The entire Democratic Party bears responsibility, myself included, and the former president. Not today, an effective campaign, and you have to give them credit for that. To me, the existential question is: if you're working hard in America, can you still earn a good living?

And too many people doubt that that's possible.

Right, recalibrating and reassessing. That's what the Dems are doing as they look at the reality of the failed Biden years and the loss of American trust in their party.

Some are already standing out, especially here in New York. Robert Holden speaking up, a Democrat who says, stop with the sanctuary cities. Richie Torres, not far behind. These are New York lawmakers standing up to other Democrats. Number two.

This administration has turned this world upside down.

So now I'm being attacked, right? I got death threats. My family's not even living in my home right now.

So all of a sudden, the guys who want to enforce the law are the bad guys. The guys who break the law are the victims. It's crazy. The world is upside down right now, Tom Holman. Caravans coming to our border, still 1,500 strong.

They're trying to get here before Trump takes over.

Meanwhile, illegals are abusing our system and our people. Virginia, the latest, we heard about, we watched Lake and Riley last week. They're robbing American people of needed services and safety. We get more on how it's all going to get done and fixed, and why missing kids and criminals have to be the priority. Number one.

Democrats need to pick, I think, one. They've got three people, I think, that are questionable nominees. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Pete Hexeth. You got to pick one.

Because if you go after all three of them, you're going to probably go 0 for 3. Right. Trump Team 2, as diverse and distinctive as any in modern American history, as all but a handful of major positions have been filled. We review and look at the headwinds some face as the first polling on the transition team in America is approving so far. Let's bring in Michael Goodwin from the New York Post.

Hey, Michael. Good morning, Brian. First off, you see that Tom Holman is doing what the other cabinet secretaries and people and other czars aren't doing. He's speaking publicly. I think it's a good move.

He's talking about what he's going to do, how he's going to do it. While everyone else is the energy secretaries and labor secretaries, they've been told to keep it down. I like the fact that Holman's been public. Do you?

Somewhat. I think maybe a little too much of him right now. You don't want to get too far ahead. You don't want to over promise and under deliver. And look, he knows the field, right?

He had this job. Before basically, I mean, he ran most of the Border Patrol.

Now he's gotten a promotion, but he still I think needs to sort of Wait, because if you over promise now, and we're still in November. You don't take office until the third week in January, and then it's going to take some time.

So I wouldn't get too far ahead of the actual operations because I think it could create a sense of expectation that you can't meet because it's simply too early. I'm hopeful that some Democrats are going to realize their own political fortunes and their people. There's no midterms coming up right now. And I listened to Robert Holden this morning. He's with a, you know, he is a Democrat who says we've got to change the sanctuary cities, cut 45.

We have to remember, especially in New York City, nine eleven, what happened? We didn't communicate. The NYP didn't didn't communicate with obviously federal agents.

So that's how the terrorists got in.

So we need some communications. And what we're doing here is we're like shielding them. The the governors, uh, democratic governors and the mayors of of these sanctuary cities are shielding criminals and terrorists, Brian.

So this is why it's so very important to start cooperating with. Yeah, he doesn't see it. And he thinks Adams can do more. Cut 46. He can also petition the governor.

He could possibly do a call on the city council. Let's negotiate this. Let's try to amend some of the sanctuary city laws. There's four of them over the years that the council has passed to have less cooperation with the feds. We need to cooperate with ICE, especially on the illegal aliens that are committing crime.

And that's what I'm really focusing on. And also the possible terrorists that are in New York City. We saw Richie Torres call Governor Hokul the Joe Biden of New York, that she's done. She didn't even run for reelection again. Her ideas are bad.

Your thoughts. Uh I'm always Happy, Brian, to see Democrats waking up and speaking out against what are clear failures. Promulgated by their party. There's just no question about it that the sanctuary cities. is o there it's only true in democratic run cities, particularly like New York, like Chicago.

And the whole border thing is a total creation of the Biden-Harris administration.

So these are the problems. I wish there were more Democrats speaking out. I mean, Holden is and Richie Torres. Torres is now in Congress. Holden in the city council.

I mean, I think there are six Republicans out of 51 council members. Holden is one of the few Democrats who. who dares to vote with Republicans and talks talks in the same manner about these things. There you know, Donald Trump won 44% of the vote in New York State this time. Lee Zelvin won about the same, closer to I guess 46% when he ran for governor in 2022.

So New York is getting closer to being a real bipartisan state. But it's still got a long way to go. And you don't I mean, if for if, for example, the New York State legislature was comprised of the same percentages that Donald Trump got to vote, if there were 44% of the legislators in Albany were Republican, that would be a great experience because people would then be able to choose between ideas. Right now, the Republican voice isn't really heard. The conservative voice is drowned out.

And so people have to start voting in ways that make it a two party system. Because without a two party system, you get this lopsided policy, which is what Sanctuary Cities really is. It's a one party policy.

So when you look at this formation of this Trump team. And you see how diverse they are. I'm encouraged by it. Also, it must confuse people to a degree. I mean, we know about Michael Waltz and traditional Marco Rubio and Susie Wiles, who's expected to be there.

Pam Bondi is a fantastic sub for brutally false Congressman Gates. But when I see the Labor, when I see the Trump cabinet, now you have Laurie Chavez. Deremer. She's an Oregon Republican who lost her seat this month. She spoke of the father's membership to Teamsters.

She won support from about 20 labor unions during her reelection bid. And then you have Brooke Rollins. She's a typical America First Institute. She was America First Policy Institute co-chair.

So that's more traditional, but agriculture. Alex Wong worked for Mitt Romney, now working with Waltz and President Trump.

So he's trying to. Bring people in that he can trust but don't necessarily agree with. Look, the assembling a cabinet is is a fascinating experience, I would guess. You know, Brian, so when Joe Biden became president, He had this whole democratic government on the shelf. right, they were all veterans of some of them the Clinton years, the Obama-Biden years, and so they were sort of a government in waiting.

When Donald Trump came to Washington the first time, there was no government in waiting. He had broken with the Republican Party.

So there was he had to assemble out of sort of whole cloth. He had to assemble a government. This time, he's got more experience, he knows more of what he wants, and he knows the kind of people he wants.

Now that doesn't mean everybody's going to work out or that he's even going to be happy in the end with his choices. I think Matt Gates I'm actually amazed at how quickly the President gave up on Gates. I think it was the right decision. I think appointing him was a mistake. And Trump effectively acknowledged that by throwing it, you know, just saying that's it, can't do it, can't be done.

I think that was a great move.

Some of the others, I think, you know, we have to see, A, can they get confirmation? I mean, I think Tulsi Gabbard may have a fight on her hands. I think RFK is not a good choice at all. I think he's a gadfly at best. I think this is too important, too big, and a lot can get done, but not with the wrong leader.

And that's what I worry about. I think Hegseph is in many ways the most intriguing choice. I think that he is a he's a soldier soldier. He is clearly not of the bureaucracy, not of the high top chain of command.

So to catapult him into the secretary's chair, that's a very bold move. I don't know whether he can handle that. But the reality, Brian, as you and I both know, once the President's in office, once the policies get going, once the Congress sets up and starts debating all of these things and then, of course, the Senate confirmation process, Some of these secretaries will naturally just sort of. fade into the woodwork. It really is ultimately about the presidential leadership.

It's about the president and the vice president. It's about the White House team and how well they direct the Cabinet, because the Cabinet is really just functions at the behest of the President. That's what I think gets lost in these early days. Yeah, I think that, you know, if you got somewhere in the interior and you want to get maximized out of energy, you got Bergham in there with really one and a half jobs and lab I mean, I could see people doing things and for the major decisions Trump weighs in because I think he's got that much trust.

So the question is, are they going to get past the senators? I looked at Anna Palmer this weekend. She's the founder of Punch Bowl News, Cut Eight. It's a flood the zone approach, right? Yeah, is what Donald Trump is doing.

I think Matt Gates, for the first couple of weeks, took all the oxygen out of the room. Everyone was focused there. And now there is this kind of drumbeat of meetings by all these cabinet nominees. There's going to be vetting. These committees and the senators themselves take it seriously.

Even those that are very supportive and will likely back all of Trump's nominees, they're still going to be going through that process. And people are going to have questions that need to be answered. And you got two months to go through it. But almost Gates was able to block for a lot of the people that I think are going to be, their goal is to get almost everybody through by the end of January. And if Biden can do it, he can do it.

I mean, look at the cross-dressing luggage stealing guy. You know, look at Xavier Becheira, what an abysmal failure he was. The transportation secretary starts his job by going on paternity leave and then disappears on all the holiday traffic days. How he was an epic fail. And these guys were on the glide path.

The team that Trump put out there are a little different. Yeah, yeah. Look, I think Trump the advantage Trump has, of course, is having been there and then having four years to think about the mistakes he made and what he would have done differently.

So I have very high hopes for this administration. And I think the speed with which he made these announcements was breathtaking. I mean, people couldn't keep up. Uh, you know, there'd be an announcement at ten AM to people and then another one at six and sometimes at eight and then the the media just trying to catch up and just list them and then a day behind, uh viewing them more in depth. But look, I There are always going to be some turkeys.

Inevitable. There will be some who are not good at it, not the right fit, don't get along, don't see eye to eye. It'll take some time. The important ones, of course, are the reasons the president was elected: the border, right? The economy, the inflation issues, and of course, foreign policy.

I think he's got a good team. As I say, I think Hegseph needs to prove himself through this process and not have any more hidden bombshells. Um By the way, on that issue, I read the police report. I think he did nothing wrong. Certainly nothing that should keep him from this seat on that case in California.

But look, there are always issues with some of these nominees, and I think some of them will sail through. Others will be a problem. And don't forget, the Democrats will be looking for some way to trip up Trump, to give him a black eye. And some of these Republicans are, you know, don't like him any more than the Democrats. And so he'll have his handful, but he'll survive it, and he'll have a good team at the end.

And I think he's going to have a very good presidency. Yeah, I think what's going on in the Middle East, what's going on in Europe, what's going on in China, you have no ramp-up time. There's going to be no grace period. They have to hit the ground running. And I think this personally, I think this president has signed out.

He is done. He doesn't talk to the press. He doesn't make appearances. He doesn't go to the White House. Tell you he's going to go to Staten Island for good.

And then he's going to go fly back.

Meanwhile, do you tack him? You're not going to explain to the American people why you lifted restrictions? You're going to explain to the American people why it's not a big deal. The Houthi rebels are now fighting in Ukraine along with the North Koreans. You want to mention that to people?

What your strategy is in the Middle East? Are you still saying ceasefire?

So this guy is totally checked out. America is vulnerable right now, and I really worry about that, Michael. But thanks so much. We'll continue to write. It's almost as though Trump is already president in some ways.

And they're not pushing back on that. They're not at all. No, no, as you say, Biden is checked out. Harris is still on vacation. Hope she never comes back.

So it's almost as though the Trump era has already started. Michael Goodwin, thanks so much. My pleasure. Thank you, Brad. Home balls and strikes still.

Your calls next: 1-866-408-7669-First Stop, York, Pennsylvania. Giving you everything you need to know. You're with Brian Kilmead. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show.

Hey, welcome back, everybody. Let's go out to Bruce in York, Pennsylvania. Hey, Bruce. Hi, this is Bruce. Thank you for taking my call, Brian.

Can you hear me? Go ahead, you're on.

Okay, so So the reason for my call is I know they want to have a peace treaty there in um Israel between Hezbollah and Israelis. I disagree with it 100%, and here's why.

Now that it's still True. than Hezbollah overall. and Hezbollah are the ones that want the peace treaty. They have to say, if you want any kind of truce, you have to get all the hostages out of Gaza first. That's the conditions, period.

I wonder if they have the reach. I mean, they're all spread out. You heard some of the reports from Aria Lightstone earlier in the show. They're all spread out across different leadership, Islamic Jihad on down. I don't know if they could.

We'll see if they were able to do that. But I would say that for the most part, I understand more my sentiments more towards your direction. Finish them off. Take out any leadership that's remaining. Leave the remnants of what Tezbohla is.

Trump comes in in two months and then begins to squeeze them and enforcing the sanctions and hitting China with secondary sanctions for buying the oil from Iran. And we begin to all of a sudden realize, they begin to realize they can't finance Omaz Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, as well as the rebels in Syria, and including the Houthi rebels in Yemen. And things start really turning around. The Middle East hates Iran. And there's good reason.

They're boys. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back, everyone. I have some great news for you.

Jimmy Phale is in studio. It's hard to see him with his camouflage jacket on. But, Jimmy, you're getting sent to your show in short time. Yep. But that's not all you're doing.

No, we got a lot going on. The night, it's called A Night. Just a night. You only get the one night. Yeah.

It's a night of comedy. It is December 12th. It is at the Tillis Center. CW Post, your alma mater, I am told, reliably am told. It's LIU now, correct?

Much more sophisticated. Very, it sounds fancier. Yeah, you could get into LIU. You'd get into post. I can see you getting into post, but not Long Island University.

But it's myself, Adam Carolla, and Jim Brewer, and Anthony Rodia, phenomenal Italian comic, are doing a show there Thursday night, December the 12th. We're shooting it for Fox Nation. Anybody who wants to go, foxnation.com/slash night of comedy. How could you not want to go? I mean, I can't think of a single solitary reason.

This is kind of, I've been reliably informed, this is the comedy event of the year, not counting MSNBC's election night coverage. Right, which is it, but they had no, but they had a laugh track.

So they killed it, though. It is crazy. Before we leave this topic, the Tillis Center is beautiful. It is such a great place to be. Was it 2,500?

2,500. All right. That's a big venue. Right, but it's a beautiful, like you feel like it's a comedy club. Yeah, I feel like it's the tightness.

No, it's set up well. And the nice thing about the Tillis Center, if you've never been there before, is every sight line is incredible. I'm not like a seat snob, but I just spent a lot of money on Yankee playoff tickets and learned to appreciate the value of a seat that's actually of quality. And I did that right at the Tillis Center. But unlike the Yankees, you guys will play.

We don't quit after the ship in it. We don't stop catching flyballs in the fifth inning. In the beginning, you just don't start with punchline. And forget how to do it. You're going to get knocked out of it.

Aaron Coach forgot how to play. Completely, though. Right. I mean, there's no way Jimmy Phale will go up there and say, I'm sorry, why am I here? No, we don't have the 10-year, $350 million contract.

That's the other thing. In comedy, you got to run out the grounders every single bat. Right, absolutely. And just when you think that you've arrived, what happens? You know how this works, man.

Right. Just when you're like, okay, I'm Jimmy Phale. No, ma'am. It is a hamster wheel of comedy. You just keep running, man.

All right, so it'll be great. And I'm going. I'm definitely there, Killman. December 12th, I left your name with security. They waived all the restrictions.

They did. Finally, it's about time.

So, Jimmy, there's so much going on right now. First off, the Democrats are recalibrating what they've done wrong. Yes.

And I'm amazed at what among people that are standing up is Adam Schiff yesterday came out and just basically, for a guy that won an election, he seemed pretty grim. He seemed pretty daring. Down. And in fact, this is what he said when he said, What went wrong with my party? And I was a little shocked.

Here he is, Cut 31. Look, I think the entire Democratic Party bears responsibility, myself included, and the former president and the Mod today an effective campaign, and you have to give them credit for that. You have to give him credit for that. Wow. His effective campaign.

But then they rolled in a clip of him saying that he's more dangerous than Russia. Yeah, yeah. That's with Trump saying that. Yeah, yeah. But he does feel that way.

There's people like Adam Schiff. They weaponize the government against him. But I feel like Trump is more concerned about that than he is about Hezbollah. Oh, I would be 100%. I mean, Hezbollah hasn't made half the effort to take Trump out that the government has.

They didn't indict him 91 times. They didn't keep the agents off the sloped roofs of Butler, Pennsylvania, as the story goes. I'm not saying they did that on purpose. But the point is, the Trump man. Is going into Washington, and you can tell from the voice of a guy like Adam Schiff, there is a genuine concern right now because turning over the slate, you know, when you turn over the slate in the backyard, you see all the weird bugs and stuff like that.

You know, the slate they're trying to turn over right now is going to reveal some horrific things. We already saw him on the Twitter files. Yep. Remember, Shellen Berger and Matt Taibbi. He was all over it saying, take this down, do this, because he's out there with the Silicon Valley crowd out in California.

So what was he doing? Yeah, if anyone's looking for a job as a food taster, a lot of people are hiring in DC right now. It's a crazy time. Kamala Harris came back and said she's got two options. She wants to give some speeches and then she wants to see the run for governor for president again.

You do a lot of career counseling. What do you think is best for her? What do I think? I think she'd apply. She should apply a Chick-fil-A to work on a Sunday.

Right. She should go in when they're not even open. Terrible. In terms of image rehab, though, I mean, California, that's winnable for her. Although the state is kind of trending red.

I mean, it's not obviously going to win the popular vote, but. You know, I don't see her as having a big future in the Democratic Party. I don't know if she got the memo yet. I know the early polling says there's a lot of sentiment towards her, but that's also people just coping with what just went on. I mean, subjecting her to a primary, this doesn't end.

She shouldn't be running California. She shouldn't be running a 5K, let alone a state. A couple other things that are going on, one of which is you have a city that is now having to realize that they won't really have the best message. I see Richie Torres and Robert Holden ripping the Democratic governor, and then Robert Holden this morning on with us talking about how we got to learn to get rid of sanctuary cities. A Democrat cut 45.

We have to remember, especially in New York City, 9-11, what happened? We didn't communicate. The NYP didn't communicate with, obviously, federal agents.

So that's how the terrorists got in.

So we need some communications. And what we're doing here is we're like shielding them. The governors, Democratic governors, and the mayors of these sanctuary cities are shielding criminals and terrorists, Brian.

So this is why it's so very important to start cooperating. And he loves seeing Tom Homan goes, I see Tom Homan on the channel. Yeah.

I mean, there's people out there that don't, that really are concerned that Democrats have the wrong message. Oh, entirely. You know what the problem was with sanctuary cities? It sounded fine when they didn't actually have to take in any migrants. Meaning, taking that position during Trump's first term, you know, it was trendy and you didn't have to concern yourself with actually putting your money where your mouth was because people weren't getting in at these numbers.

You know, when folks started to see how being a sanctuary city would affect their own personal quality of life, that kind of brought the consequence of this policy to the forefront. And of course, it's politically a disaster. Yeah, I mean, here's the other thing. They were saying that, you know, the landscapers, the people washing our dishes, the people I go to. My kid goes to school with.

These are good families. Of course they are. If they were affected by a crime, they didn't want to come forward because they're going to ask about their status. That ship has sailed. A long time ago because they started to see their cities resemble cities that they fled.

I mean, it's the one thing. It makes me feel bad for the migrants getting off the bus at the Roosevelt Hotel. They look around 46th Street and they assume they've already been deported. Like, wow, what the hell? What happened to Caracas?

This place used to be nice. And then we're giving them free flights to other places. And then you get the murder of Lake and Riley. Yep. Because we say, hop on a plane, get out.

Young, promise, go. These guys are here just to kill. Yep. And uh To be honest, the Democrats are getting the bill for that, and they should get the bill for that. And one other thing, because you've heard a lot of this in the post-election analysis, this happened on The View.

You've certainly heard it on MSNBC a dozen times. They're like, I can't believe these Latino people just voted to deport their own families. I'm like, hey, liberal, a lot of Latinos are here legally. Their families are here legally. This blanket assumption that any Latino is an illegal migrant, also a bad message for the Democrats to be peddling to that community.

I 100% agree. Here's more from Robert Holin, CUBE 47. I'm looking to President Trump because I think President Trump could say, you know what? If you're not going to, if you're going to violate the laws, federal laws, the statutes that we have on the books, it's a felony to shield and harbor illegal aliens who have committed crimes. And you can't do that.

You can't shield them from ICE.

So the president actually could say to the governor and to the mayor, cooperate with us, or we're going to charge you with felonies. How's that one, Brian? That's a reverse now.

Now we can have the governor. And the mayor charged with a felony for shielding and harboring illegal aliens. And can I just remind you, Jimmy, that is a Democrat in New York. People listening, this is a state lawmaker of Queens. Yes.

No, they got the memo on this one. And they also understand, like, Tom Holman ain't doing this for the story. You know, in the movie Pulp Fiction, he's the wolf. You know, when they're in a real pinch and you need the best guy imaginable, Tom Holman is the wolf. He lives and breathes the border.

Can I ask him what was Pulp Fiction about? When it was over, I still don't know what I was doing. It was a collection of things. Right. I'm a Jackrabbit Slims man myself.

I just liked watching the Twist Contest, Travolta, Uma Thurman, stuff like that. A lot of good references. What is it ultimately about? Two hitmen trying to find some sort of redemption, is what I think it was. Really?

Yeah.

I don't know that it would mirror the plot of the you and me movie, you know, because we'd make a good buddy cop movie, don't you think? I think so, too. I don't know, would we be friends, or would it be? I feel like that's part of the challenge, though. We get on fine, so we might get in and have a lot of similar tastes.

What we might find is, you know, usually in these movies, fighting crime brings them together. Yes.

We might go the other way, right? We'd get along in the opening scene. Maybe by the end, we'd be like, I can't fight crime. We're good at the ride along.

So just when we get out of the car, we have different philosophies. It's a totally different movie now, though. It's not bad boys. In the woke New York that we live in, it would be called Bad Them. That's a whole different story.

Right. We'll see what happens. I get when you talk to people in your life, how happy are they? Right now? Thrilled.

But you know who also is thrilled with the electoral outcome? Seriously, liberals. Because a lot of them are glad they don't have to pretend we're all going to die. You know how that was the fashion in 2016? We've clearly moved on from that.

You don't have all the protests outside of Trump Tower right now, they're not harassing the electoral. College to recount on the merits of Jill Stein and the 13 votes she got. And people, I believe, feel just a sense of relief this time around. Do you know that Joe Biden, I know he's going to Staten Island today, he's going to partner. What is he doing?

I mean, do you realize that the Trump team is basically starting to take over? Yeah.

And there's no pushback. There's no like one president at a time. No, we'd like one president. Anybody. Could someone stand up and do something?

I think my personal best Biden highlight last week, you know, where he gave the speech and then wandered into the woods. Yeah.

Clearly, clearly trying to find the cannibals who ate his uncle. I respect that. That's a man who sticks up for his family. The second that he walked in there, did you have that punchline? In my head, yeah, immediately.

I was like, we're always going to avenge Uncle Bosey. Wow. How do you remember it's Uncle Bosey? Uncle Bosey. Right.

Now, if you would use that on how often, how much Biden material do you have? This is what's sad for me because it's now becoming a retrospective. You used to do your act. With him as the sitting president.

Now you have to repurpose your act. I was doing this on the road this weekend as I'm going to miss Joe Biden. And now you just do the meatball of greatest hits about things we observed during the course of this presidency that were kind of endearing. Do you want one? It's one of my favorite things about Joe Biden.

He's the only president in the history of the country who makes the sign language interpreter shrug.

Okay. You've never seen a president speak and stump a sign language interpreter, but Biden, you know, makes up words. I thought it was so funny on the couch last week when you said, essentially, comedians have been leading the way towards the end of political correctness, and you're not equipped to do this. No, you're like, we should not be able to do this. We did not want any assignment.

We did not wake up. We didn't sign up for this. You spent your whole life not leading. That was the point. You don't want to lead.

The premise of being a comic is you don't ever have to be taken seriously. And now we're kind of driving political discourse, and it's insane to me. It's not good. That's when you got worried about the country. Yeah.

Nothing to do. To do with illegal immigration or the inflation. It's more than $36 trillion. When I saw my own words having an impact, I got concerned. The groceries prices and the crime prices didn't concern me.

But when I saw the comics, I was like, there's a problem.

Well, Dave Chappelle is considered courageous because he refused to be canceled. And he exposed them for what they were. They didn't have any power. It was just harass corporations so they behave the way you want them to and then move on with your life. And once someone actually stood there, there's nothing they could do but continue to tweet, at which point they moved on.

All right. I got to get to this. Christian Polsick Polisic is the captain of the national team, U.S. national team. And he goes ahead, and after scoring a fantastic goal, he does the Trump dance.

Huge pushback. And one of the quotes, one of the quotes is from people that are offended. He goes, for non-heterosexual people that saw that dance who are not heterosexual, they were insulted.

Now, Trump is a danger to gays. He just hired a Treasury Secretary who is outwardly gay. You don't have to guess. No. That's the thing.

You see, there are people out there, okay? Two types of people. It's a lot of people that they want victim status.

So they gravitated towards all these falsehoods that Trump was coming after, gays and minorities and women. And they just didn't get the memo that he wasn't, and they don't know what to do now.

So people are going, you know, I said I'm transitioning with my Biden material? There's a lot of liberals that are transitioning with their oppression material. They're like, oh, what do we do? There's 10 women in the cabinet. I guess he's not taking away our rights.

Oh, there's a gay treasury secretary. I guess we're going to be okay. And they don't know what to do yet.

So they're still kind of playing the old card. Absolutely. Good point. The athletic says, Jeff Reuter says this. He worried that the soccer star has not considered the impact of the dance and the move, why he may come to regret it.

Hey, Jimmy Phalera, in just one more moment, he's going to tell us again why we should watch him and everybody should watch him at a night of comedy, December 12th at the Tilba Center. Jimmy, you have two minutes to think of other reasons. Corn pop was a bad dude. Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Killmeat.

The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. So, Jimmy, you know Thanksgiving's coming up? That matters. Right.

Are you going to confirm it or not? Yeah, no, I can confirm. You know that Butterball has a hotline, and you can call in with any of your questions. They've had it since 1981.

So where do you think they get the most questions from? From people who don't know how to make a turkey? Is that what it is? How about the region? Maybe I should have phrased it differently.

I actually think it's our region. I think it's the Northeast. You're right. They said they received the most calls was California, and the top city was New York City, followed by Chicago and Nassau, New York, Nassau County. Nassau County, Strong Island, my people.

So how many people are just like, they strip a turkey down, they take the net off, undo the ankles, the ankle bracelets, and then they go, what the hell do I do now? I mean, can you look at, we're online now through the internets. There's no excuse. Should be able to do this. Come on.

That phone number should be getting zero calls. Right. Okay. And you know, it's funny. I would like to see the stats on where the fire department gets the most calls.

I bet it's our region also because everybody up here decides once they're going to deep-fry a turkey. They only do it once. Right. Okay. It's a lot of work.

The potential for disaster is everywhere. Do you think they should hand out Strite X pads with that? Because don't you never be eating fried food? Yeah.

Isn't that supposed to be the plan? But yeah, I heard the Frank Purdue numbers. I want to hear the McGruff numbers.

So you know that, Jimmy, you know, we're on WABC. Yeah, lovely. In New York.

So one of the things that they could do, the WABC listeners, to go out and see a comedy, but with the elegance. Can I just bring that out? Yeah.

It's a little bit elegant when you go to the Tiller Center. The New York used to have sympheses. They do the nutcracker thing. Yeah, yeah. How do I know?

I was the bartender outside on a roller cart when only serving beer and wine when I was in college there. That's classy. Yes.

Yeah, well, this ain't Swan Lake. But these are classy comics. Thank you. It's myself, Jim Brewer, Alex. Adam Carolla, Anthony Rodia.

Right. A night of comedy, December 12th. December 12th. And Subby, December 12th at the Tillis Center. Tickets are at foxnation.com/slash night of comedy.

All tickets available for the pre-show cocktail party. Pre-show cocktail party? That's what I'm saying. This is going to make us look, our acts look a lot classier than they are. This just in.

There's a post-show meet and greet. Yes.

But you know what's funny? What? They're emphasizing the pre-show because they don't expect any of the comics to be presentable for the post-show. But are you someone that always goes up sober? Yes, I have.

My brain's a lot sharper, oddly enough, sober. Like, you slow it down a little bit if you start drinking. One of your biggest fan fears is that you have a few drinks and you kill, and then you think to yourself for down one. You need to drink. This is the new production model.

I've seen this done a few different ways, but no, I will put up all of my numbers at the after party, and it's going to be a rowdy one.

Well, you're going to do a breathalyzer? I don't know that there's a, it'll come to the point of a breathalyzer. I mean, I've been in a show business 20 years. We're on the thing. Much stronger than alcohol.

I like show business.

Sounds nice. Do you have anything planned for your show, your radio show? Fox Across America today. I actually have a great comic, Danny Polishock, who makes all the AI videos that swept the internet. I'll tell you how later.

Thank you, Jim. 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 there. I'm here getting ready for Thanksgiving. It's going to be a sprint we know to the finish. We have a big hour coming your way, and of course, we'll be covering all the breaking news. The President of the United States is coming to Staten Island to a soup kitchen, try to feed some people, a homeless shelter.

Then he's going to pardon a turkey and probably go back into hiding. I have no idea why he's still president. He doesn't seem to want to do it anymore. Yesterday, he thanked stoners to dance a little bit. Jerry Willis, Fox Business Reporter, host to Real Tough Women on Fox Nation, will be here shortly at the bottom of the hour, talking about the naming of Scott Besick, who is going to be the next Treasury Secretary, despite the fact that Elon.

Didn't want him. Said he's more the same. But Trump shows he's making his own decisions, which I think is great. We'll talk about that, the expanding of the Trump crowd. But let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. The entire Democratic Party bears the responsibility, myself included, and the former president. Not today, an effective campaign, and you have to give him credit for that. To me, the existential question is: if you're working hard in America, can you still earn a good living?

And too many people doubt that that's possible.

Democrats, where do they go from here? Recalibrating, reassessing. We'll discuss it. Number 10. This administration has turned this world upside down.

So now I'm being attacked, right? I got death threats. My family's not even living in my home right now.

So all of a sudden, the guys who want to enforce law are the bad guys. The guys who break the law are the victims. Caravan coming to our border. Tom Holman weighing in. He wants to turn them all around, but he's not in power yet for two more months.

But our system is abusing the people who are paying taxes. They're taking away services that we need. They're taking away safety we require. We'll talk about it. Number one.

Democrats need to pick, I think, one. They've got three people, I think, that are questionable nominees. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Pete Hagsett. You got to pick one.

Because if you go after all three of them, you're going to probably go 0 for 3. Well, I don't think they should pick any, but Governor Chris Christie, still a big fan. Trump Team 2, as diverse and distinctive as any in modern American history, as all but a handful of major positions have been filled. Maury, we review and look at the headwinds some face as he was talking about.

So let's take a look at the Trump team. Tulsi Gabbard, his DNI, they say is controversial. Pete Hagseth, I think, is getting more and more dug in as the day goes by as defense secretary. And then people have a problem with RFK, like people I respect, like Michael Goodwin of the New York Post. But I think Mike, the RFK, I think he's going to do a great job.

I think he's going to surround himself with fantastic people. And I think he's going to really challenge. I mean, number one, we're talking about fluoride in water. Why is it there?

Well, they say there's a study out there, and a few studies out there that says a flexibility to learn. Number two does. Does it stop? A tooth decay. Maybe.

When do we start doing it? Is it worth a study and look? Yes, I like that we're talking about it. When you look at what's in our food compared to Europe, we have this huge conversation. We have somebody that can implement it.

Casey and Callie Beans wrote a book about it. Dr. McCary also wrote a book about it, how it might all be hooked to pharmaceuticals.

So, RFK, get in there and make it work. And maybe you'll find out some of your theories are incorrect. And that's great, too. But it makes everybody stand up and question why they're doing things.

Now for D and I for D and I you have Uh Tulsi Gabbard.

Some people are upset that Tulsi Gabbard's picked there. I don't. They say, well, she's too sympathetic to Russia and she visited Assad. She's a lieutenant colonel in the military. She's got opinions, but she's going to see from the FBI and from the CIA and all the other intelligence apparatus, DNI, we're going to find out what's going on inside the intelligence apparatus.

They're going to have to be accountable. And maybe she's going to step back and go, you know what? Most of the people here are phenomenal, and most of the intelligence the president's getting is right on target. And the people that aren't, like the Andy McCabes of the world, the Peter Strux of the world, the James Comey of the world, egomaniacs that are out there with a political agenda, they're going to be sidelined.

So, if she changes some of her positions, she said as a democratic lawmaker, that's called evolving. Did she thought the President's move on Salomani was wrong? She's changed her mind on that. And the president said, You know, you used to be a Democrat, now you're a Republican. She changed her mind on that.

But what does she stand for? That's the key. Nikki Haley is one of the people on her serious show that has a problem with Tulsi Gabbert. Let's hear it, cut one. This is not a place for a Russian, Iranian, Syrian, Chinese sympathizer.

DNI has to analyse real threats. Are we comfortable with someone like that? At the top of our national intelligence agencies? Maybe. I'm for someone that learned.

She's going to talk about that. She's going to get familiar with it. John Radcliffe at CIA. John Radcliffe had the job at DNI briefly for a while. And you know, he was in the intelligence committee over in the House.

So is she.

So they are working with Michael Waltz. And his entire staff, they're going to find out what intelligence we're getting. And he's going to make these people accountable. And those people that just despise Trump better leave. Because if she gets through, and man, you're going to have a hard time stumping her.

Have you ever met her? And if you haven't, it's okay. But if you ever met her or debated her or listened to her on T V, see her on The View, see her on our network. You better be ready. And she'll have the answers.

So, between that and Pete Hagseth and others, there's going to be Republicans that are going to ask some tough questions, but then they're going to go to bat, and they know they have 53 votes.

Some are always going to be a struggle. Mitch McConnell is very old school. Murkowski and Collins have to be won over two moderates. One of the people who is going to join us on the next edition of the show is Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. He's going to do a lot of the shepherding, a lot of the meeting.

And he talked about that. And he also talked about people like Tammy Duckworth, who called Tulsa Gabbard. A Russian asset Beyond insulting, cut for If they do have a file on her, we'll obviously see it. The thing is, they don't have a file on her. What she did as a member of Congress was not out of line for her to do that.

She had the right to travel. It was open. It was well documented what she was traveling for. And that was a full stop. She was a member of Congress when she did that.

Now, people can make more out of it if they want to. It wasn't hidden. It was in the spotlight. And keep in mind, she's ran for president since then. She also came back and served in Congress since then.

So, and she's went through classified briefings since then.

So, there's no document, there's no background there for anyone to see. She is a true patriot of the United States, and there's no reason why the Democrats are going after her other than the fact they're upset that she left their woke party. Yeah, maybe she was considered a rising star, and she saw what was going on. She spoke up and stood out, and they basically kicked her to the skies, kicked her through the curb. And little by little, she said, I'm going to run for president anyway.

Tore apart Kamala Harris because she's an inch deep. And she was not able to get the votes needed in the Democratic primary to be successful. Then she didn't run again. Stayed active, stays in the military. Been deployed multiple times.

And what they're referring to is there an FBI file on her. They got her on the Do Not Fly list. When she got on the Do Not Fly list and she found herself being followed whenever she traveled with her husband, that's when she said, I'm out. I'm out of the Democratic Party. I'm going to go help Trump.

And she did. She helped a lot of Republicans in 2022, or at least appeared with them, because she's got a lot of presence about her.

So the prisoner puts together His team. And it's a big Florida, there's a big Florida presence on his team, no doubt about it, because they've stood out under, I think, Governor DeSantis' leadership: Marco Rubio, Florida, Mike Wells from Florida, Pam Bondi from Florida, Susie Wiles from Florida.

Meanwhile, they named Representative Laurie Chavez Remmer. She's an Oregon Republican who has about 20 labor union endorsements. Teamsters are thrilled with that. Believe it or not, so was the education union, teachers' union. Their labor choice was under, was very criticized by the Wall Street Journal.

Brooke Rollins, somewhat typical, was with the co-founder of the American First Institute, Policy Institute, a sort of Trump government in waiting. You knew she was going to get a prominent job, and you know that farmers really in the rural community deliver the presidency, help deliver the presidency. She's going to have a big role there. Alex Wong worked for Mitt Romney. in twenty twelve.

Those are usually the Republicans that had trouble coming over to the Trump side. Wong also worked at senior levels in the State Department on North Korea, helped to set up Trump's two meetings with Kim Jong un, the North Korean leader. That's important.

So the president doesn't mind tapping into some old school people. Yeah, I wouldn't doubt that, you know, maybe Um Jeb Bush's son. Might be entered into the fray. We'll see what happens. But overall, he's got a very diverse cabinet.

Of all people, Axios calls him as diverse. Diversity of ideology and opinion is usually seen as a strength, not a defect, for presidential candidates. They write in Axios. But if there's a surprise about Trump's choices in recent days, it's the range of experiences and worldviews that in some cases lie just beneath the veneer, just beneath the surface of the Make America Great royalty, the MAGA royalty. There is some ideological diversity that's expected.

A big critic, Michael Beschloss, a historian, said if you look at this group in the context of history, there is some potential here for arguments and debates. If those debates are allowed to unfold in a civilized, open manner, history shows that such conflict has sometimes led to policies that worked. Grudging Openness to watching them work. Here's what Jay Johnson said, another guy who I think is worth listening to: Democrat, cut five. There's a larger point about these cabinet picks this president this time around seems to want pass-throughs.

When I was general counsel of DOD, the secretary was Bob Gates, Leon Panetta, who brought a lifetime of wisdom and experience that is value added to any President. Presidents need to hear things they don't want to hear from their cabinet, and I'm worried that these nominees will not be able to be in a position to do that. I'm not at all. What he's going to do, these nominees are going to be able to give their point of view, and I think Marco Rubio is going to win most of the fights because I think he's going to make sense. Everybody's pro-Israel, but when it comes to Ukraine, they just wanted to see it end.

But when you see the stakes of letting it end in the wrong way and the message it will send to China and other nations in the area, as they bring in Yemenis, as they bring in North Koreans to fight. I think that this is You cannot let Putin emerge stronger and I think the President will realize that. Among the people giving Trump a chance is Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman. Cut ten. Of course, I'm a fan of my colleague from Florida, and I'm going to enthusiastic on a vote yes for Senator Rubio.

And then, you know, with Dr. Roz, I mean, everybody understands that we ran in the same cycle, and it got kind of ugly, and I don't have any kind of bitterness. And I just expressed I'm open to a dialogue to hear what he has to say about these things. I'm not sure why that's controversial, to say, hey, I think I saw a great from Bill Maher. He just said, I'm not going to prehate, I'm not going to prehate a lot of these things, and I'm not going to prehate this.

Love it. By the way, he makes more sense than anybody else. I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up being running as a moderate in Pennsylvania and trying to win again if he's healthy enough. But look, when he was running against Doctor Oz, I thought Doctor Oz would be is going to be great in the in uh as a as in charge of Medicare and Medicaid. I think he's going to be fantastic.

I think he would have been a fantastic senator, just really bright, smart, diversity of background, communicator, and Fetterman couldn't get a word out.

So I could not believe he won. But in retrospect, these are the exact type people you want serving. And I mean that for Republicans too. If you think, you know. Right now, the MAGA movement says get out of Ukraine.

Russia's been poorly betrayed. But if you're a Republican that doesn't agree with that, you got to be able to speak up. And my hope is that they are going to understand when they get in there. Abandoning Ukraine would probably be the worst thing possible. I'll take a time out, come back, talk more about that, then talk about the economy.

And we'll talk about the economy and more. And we're also going to talk about a good friend of the show. Uh Scott uh Scott Bessett. Is now the Treasury Secretary. Why I think that was a great choice.

Eno agrees. The great Charlie Gasperino, don't move. Expanding your knowledge base. It's the Brian Kill Meat Show. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin.

It's Brian Killmead. you Believe in the MAGA agenda. Scott Besant is the best guy for that. He not only has the air of Wall Street, he believes in Trump's policies as they, an economic nationalism as they relate to trade, using tariffs as a tool. To craft strong policies or to craft better agreements with other countries.

He's for low taxes, less regulation. He's a damn smart guy. I'm telling you, this is a great choice. The markets will react, my belief, very positively. And Charlie's right.

Again, they did. And they won up. And the thing is, what I like about it too is Elon Musk said, no, he's more of the same. I would go with Lutkin. And the president said, Yeah, thanks, but I'm going to go with my guy.

And that's what you need. People are looking for something to create some friction. There's problems between these two headstrong guys. We knew it wouldn't let.

Okay, this is my suggestion, I'll do it. You know, you do all these extraordinary things, I get it, but I'm still not going to give subsidies for electric cars, even though it would help Tesla to keep that in place because we've got to do what's better for the country. And he's fine with that. I know it. Um On One Nation last night, on Saturday night.

I talked about another trend is a lot of celebrities like Sebastologne, I think The Rock personally, it's a matter of time before they come out and just say they're all for Trump. They already said nice things after he got shot and about his message. and political correctness. That's a subtle way to say they're coming over.

So I asked him, Are there going to be more people like you, Hulk, that were friends with Trump but wouldn't do it publicly? Cut 19. When you go to that Trump dance, brother, I was the first one to do it in Madison Square Garden, and the place went crazy.

Now all the other athletes are on the team. And it's kind of like the same way with me hiding and being a coward because I did vote for Trump. But I was afraid to wear that hat.

Now, back in the day, you know, 16, I voted for 20 and I voted for Trump. But I was afraid to wear the hat. I was afraid of the bumper sticker because everybody was hating so much. But it's all changed now. Just like everybody's following Donald Trump, Hulk's doing the dance, and all the athletes are doing the dance.

Everybody's wearing the hat. Everybody's got the bumper stickers on, man. We're taking our country back. Thank you, God. Right.

I think so, too. Not that celebrities matter that much, just that it would just show you how mainstream it's gotten. And also, I don't understand why politics is so pervasive. And I'm somebody that does it all the time, doing it on the radio. I just don't understand it.

I used to have to tell people when they say, what's going on at work? I'd go, yeah, we got an election, a midterm coming up, and you got a primary here. And, you know, there's a chance a Republican could be successful here.

So I'm going to. And they were ahead of me. They're ahead of me. They seen my my stuff, find out what I talked about, watched Annity, uh, had a chance to take in Mark Levin or w listen to, you know, local r uh talk radio, and they already have opinions. And I'm thinking to myself, How does it happen?

It's almost as if it's almost too much that we all need to take back and just start living our lives and understand that the president's really not going to affect you that much. But I don't want to take you down, you know, take it down too much. But I will know one thing that does affect it, always would be war. And defense and defense spending and missile systems and things like that. I remember MX missile and Pershing missiles when I was in grammar school and putting what Persian missiles in in in Europe was a big debate.

But now I think it's time to focus on our defense because I think the world's getting more dangerous. But I have a different approach. I think we should double our defense spending absolutely, at the same time reforming and streamlining it with different emphasis on RD and advancement. But I also think it's time for our allies to invest in their defense. And we could be the main supplier if we expand our industrial base.

I'm talking about Japan. I'm talking about South Korea. I'm talking about the Philippines. I'm talking about France and England. And I'm talking about Ukraine and Lithuania and Estonia.

And Norway and Sweden have done their thing along with Finland. But help them out. Same missile defense systems, same weapon systems. We provide all the ammo for it. We provide the maintenance for it.

We train them to do it. This way we get customers. We turn a profit with a friends and family discount. And we have our allies defend themselves. That to me is a way of recognizing the world is a different place now.

But at the same time, understanding we still gotta lead. And we are part of the good guys, and the good guys gotta win. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, we're back.

Jerry Willis is in the studio. Be smart enough to get Fox Nation to see her, Fox Business Reporter, and got a great show, a series on Fox Nation. But she's here with us now. Jerry, great to see you. Great to see you, Brian.

Glad to be here. Charlie Gasparino was all for Scott Bessett. What did you know about him before? And what do you think about it now? I mean, George Soros, he was one of his chief investment officers and left that organization, did his own thing.

I feel like there was a downside to absolutely everybody who was in the running. Scott's very knowledgeable about the markets, how they work. You know, he is a free market guy, so he's not going to be down with some of the trade policies. I think that Trump has been. saying he wants to do But I think at the end of the day, he's probably a solid choice.

It's funny, I think. You know, Trump picks people sometimes because they look the role. This guy looks like the role. He's got the little glasses, the hair's combed back, he's of a certain age. Like Mnuchin.

Exactly right.

Well, Mnuchin had a huge impact on the first administration. He was very important and really transformed what was going on there. Will Scott be the same way? We're yet to see. You know, it's interesting because he did work for Al Gore and helped raise money for Al Gore in 2000.

And I remember Nancy Pelosi praising Mnuchin. I thought to myself, why? What did he just give away? But, you know, maybe Bessie could do the same thing. He's been in here a number of times, and I thought it was very impressive.

Low-key, like, really smart guy. Reminded me of a typical finance guy, not a salesman, more like Trump is. But the one thing they're talking about is what Elon Musk and Ramaswamy are doing. It looks like they're staffing up a legal specialist, top tech leaders. Most people are working for free.

They are happy that Russ Vogt became the OMB director. Again, they want to work with him to cut things, and he's obviously in control of the budget. They're going to use some other people from Silicon Valley, this guy of the boring company, Steve Davis. I guess they're building underground tunnels because Elon Musk doesn't want to be in traffic. Involvement planning, and they're also going to use Bill Ackman, some other people I don't know, but they're also going to use Joe Lonsdale, who funds a libertarian-leaning nonprofit.

So they're going to go in there, and the people that they say who are contractors that deal with the government are uniquely qualified to cut costs. cut fat. What do you think? I think anybody looking at the reality of the federal government in detail would say, let me identify five things right now. A lot of the kinds of things we've been seeing floated right now are typical that we've reported on this network over and over again.

The shrimp on the treadmill, all of the nonsense in terms of research that the federal government spends for. But there's much, much more. It goes far deeper. One of the items I heard talked about this past week was the amount of federal office space, and I think I've reported this myself, the amount of federal office space that's actually empty most of the time because nobody's there.

So why, why, why are we paying for it? I think there's a lot of fat to be cut, but you can't go far without getting to entitlement spending. And the question, of course, is how do you do that?

So the question is, if you don't cut. Entitlement spending for people. But if you could make their offices more efficient, it saves money.

So if Social Security has a lot of redundancy or no show jobs or they're watching people and micromanaging and it's going, well, you know, I don't see any way it's like if it looks like If it looks like um Will we see when we go to get our driver's licenses? If we go in there and we see a lot of people unmotivated, we question what they're doing. We see what different ways that they could use the digital technology to move them forward, and maybe you can cut people. I'm not for firing people. I know there are unions, but if there's no need for your job, we all know that that's the downsizing that takes place every day.

And what you cover every day.

Well, and I also think people should show up to work. I know the unions are having a hissy fit over this, but I think that the standard should be moved for how many days you need to be in the office. I mean, generally speaking, I just don't understand why for the vast majority of federal workers in particular, they shouldn't be reporting the job.

Now, some people, it doesn't work, right? I mean, you're working in a forest forest, you don't go into an office, right? But I think that should be rethought because I don't think it's efficient.

Well, that's one way to gut it, isn't it? If you don't come back to work, you're gone. You got two weeks to come back. If you don't, that's it. Or what they say is we're Moving We're going to move this division to Kansas.

Well, we're going to move it to California. If you can't move, I'm sorry, we're going to move on without. That's what businesses do all the time. But look, here's my thing about cutting federal spending, because unless you get to the entitlements, There's no way to cut a lot out.

However, entitlements, particularly Medicare and Medicaid, have a lot of waste in them. And the waste is because of people stealing money, outright stealing money from the federal government. We got to shut that down. That's not something we want to see happen. This isn't benefiting anybody, right?

This is lifting money out of your wallet and giving it to criminals.

Well, you know, you see workers' comp abuse all the time. In fact, I was talking to a lawyer today on Saturday and I said, What are you doing now? He goes, Well, I work for the county, and there's such abuse with workers' comp. They have me tracking people down to see that they're doing other jobs, saying that they're physically unable to do the one they're hired for.

So, unfortunately, you got to do that, you got to publicize that and scare people and to stop the abuse. I think the problem with the way our government works is that every administration comes in and they have a new idea for building a new bureaucracy. The example, the biggest example I can think of is Obamacare, right? Obama came in and said, You know, healthcare is not working. We've got to create an entire new bureaucracy and a new program and hire a gabillion people and spend a lot of money.

No, reform Medicare and Medicaid. Make all those existing federal programs for healthcare work. Don't spend a ton more, spend less. Jerry Willis is with us now.

So, Jerry, this is what I'm seeing: coordination. For example, the OMB director working with Vivek Ramaswamy, Elon Musk's group, he calls it the Doge group. Then we're hearing other things, for example. We heard Tom Holman come out and say, I'm going to work with Doge to get money that we don't have in order to start shipping these people out and rounding them up. Where's the money going to come from?

Well, also, if different states are not cooperating, they're going to deny federal funds to those states and cities until they get cooperation from the sanctuary city status that they're currently continuing to covet, like in Boston, like in Chicago, and like in New York. But how are they going to get that?

Well, the officer, the Doge office, is going to be identifying the money flowing, and they're going to work with the OMB in order to do that. You mentioned Medicare, Medicaid. That's Dr. Oz. Dr.

Oz, they think the synergy is going to exist with these people that are friends of like mind, even if they have different ideologies, to get coordination between all organizations. I got to tell you, this is going to be a real test because it's going to be, I mean, you are pushing against a mountain here. And believe me, I am on the side of pushing against the mountain. But it's a very high hurdle what they've set themselves up to do. Because they said they want to save $2 trillion.

Now they're talking about $500 billion. Right. So you can see that the goalpost is moving. But it's the right impulse, right? It's the right thing to do.

We have to right size our government for how much we're willing to spend. Look, the country is overspending like a drunken pirate. And our number one expenditure is the interest. Yes.

On the debt. And you can't continue. It threatens the dollar. It threatens, you know. Look, we live in a country that is unbelievably both a safe haven for investors.

The treasury is sacrosanct. People all around the globe buy it. And also the one place where you can invest in the best technologies in the world. And by that, of course, I mean the stock market. Those things exist in the same country.

It's amazing. This is something we must protect. Marjorie Taylor Greene is going to be running those from the House perspective. I guess it's called some type of subcommittee. Here's what she said is going to be the approach to Maria yesterday, Cut 30.

I want to talk to the people at the Pentagon and ask them why they can't find billions of dollars every single year and why they fail their audit. But not just that, Maria. I'd like to talk to the governors of sanctuary states and the mayors of sanctuary cities and have them come before our committee and explain why they deserve federal dollars if they're going to harbor illegal criminal aliens in their states and their cities. We're going to look in every single aspect and we don't care about people's feelings. We're going to be searching for the facts and we're going to be verifying if this is worth spending the American hard-earned American people's hard-earned tax dollars on.

And a lot of it's going to be, Jerry, and I imagine Fox business will be all over this. If I see Vivek and Elon in front of a building that's empty and they have a press conference, they won't let me close this. They won't let me close this building. They said the unions said that this is office is going to be for X, Y, and Z, and it's 25 years, it hasn't been maintenance, it's been empty. And by putting the spotlight on all these things, I don't think Democrats are going to go.

I'm for waste. This might be something that both sides can get. But consider, Brian. What happened in the last election? Right, we showed the border, we showed what was going on at the border every day.

People from Republicans from Congress and the Senate went down to the border, they pointed at it, they said, This is the problem, it's right here, and then we would show illegals crossing the border. And you see the left still saying, That's not right, we shouldn't be bringing these people together. And did you see what we saw today? What's that? Video of a two-year-old with the face blurred out saying that I'm here to meet my mom and dad through interpreters.

And an 11-year-old, I came by myself. We weren't getting these stories before the election, but this is what Tom Holman's got to do. There's the tough guy. And then you need the empathetic one. They go, I care about these kids.

I care about that kid. I'm not saying kids aren't important just because they're not Americans. It's not right that people think that this is their shot at glory and freedom, and it's okay to send with strangers. Coyotes or whatever you want to call them, cartel members, to the border because you think it's their shot at freedom that maybe the people who are.

So you're saying that this program needs to be instituted with empathy. Absolutely. Empathy for people who can't defend themselves, for children in particular, who often. But you never see the kids. We never in fact, you know, Rodriguez and Ted Cruz had to go into the children's area, which looks like a big shed and with nothing but kids in their silver blankets with a camera at their hip because they were told no one tape anything.

What they did is they we blurred out the faces and we said, are you okay with two thousand kids sitting here? Know what they said? We're going to empty them out quicker.

So they're just handing it over to people with no verification of IDs.

So that's even more criminal. This whole policy from the Biden administration has been morally bankrupt. Do you know what I mean? They're saying they're being empathetic and they are not. They're being just the opposite.

You brought up that the Wall Street Journal, you said, has a tradition. And you wanted to tell us about this. Yeah, I wanted to tell you about this. The Wall Street Journal has a tradition at Thanksgiving where they run two editorials. One is an account from the Plymouth colony after crossing the ocean and coming to this country.

Pilgrim's Thanksgiving, the first Thanksgiving, the year 1620. The Wall Street People run their own journal people run their own editorial alongside this. They've been doing this for a number of years. This editorial, 50 years old. And there's something in it for us today.

Here's what they say every year. And oh, by the way, the left tries to get them to stop running this, but I think it's wonderful. And I'm quoting, we can remind ourselves that for all our social discord, we yet remain the longest enduring society of free men governing themselves without benefit of kings or dictators. Being so, we are the marvel and the mystery of the world, for that enduring liberty is no less a blessing than the abundance of the earth. And that was written?

This is written by the journal, and they've run it every year for 50 years. And then they also run this letter from the Plymouth colony. It's worth reading. Get yourself a copy. It just really speaks to what the holiday is for.

If you know people who are saying, I'm not celebrating Thanksgiving, that's stupid. This will explain why it's stupid. Right. And, you know, the whole thing about some people saying I'm not invited for Thanksgiving or I'm not inviting X, Y, and Z for Thanksgiving because of who they voted for, which is crazy. We got to talk to each other.

We absolutely have to talk to each other. Do you remember people caring this much about politics in the past? No. I mean, do you remember when Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford were fighting it out in a raid through thin election? I remember everyone talking about Watergate, but they got over it.

You know, I'm like, but, you know, but, you know, they looked at Nixon as a problem, Gerald Ford, illegitimate president. But we talk about it, but I still don't know where everyone stood. I remember growing up, my dad voted for Kennedy, but kind of like Nixon. And I don't know, you know. But I never thought Democrat were a Democrat or Republican family.

But we have other things to do. You have your job to do, you got your family, you have your life, you have your own bills. I can't believe how consumed people are with who the president is. I think it's I think it's a habit, but I also think that it for some folks these kinds of concerns and worries, particularly the environment, have replaced religion. People, this is the new religion.

for a lot of Americans. This this belief that the left can do no wrong. And I think it's it breaks my heart. Right. This economy right now It depends on who you talk to, where it's going.

I'm very curious to see what you think it's going to be doing, and when do you think we'll see the impact of Trump policies? Because we know what he wants to do. We know he wants to flood the zone immediately with energy, and he wants to crack down on immigration.

So I think that's good news for an economy that could be running out of gas right now. Even the messaging on energy does something, right? It all helps because, you know, every day of the week, executives in their offices are making decisions about what they're going to spend and where. And when you get the point of view that, oh, regulations are going to fall, my tax rate is going to fall.

Well, okay, in 2025, I'm going to do something different. I'm going to spend a little money. I'm going to expand. I hope that's the way this works out because I think what's baked into this economy right now is a consumer that is tired and slowing down. I know you hear a lot about consumers spending more for the holidays up 8%, but I think this is because they know there's a lot of inflation.

Right, we'll see. Jerry Willis, thanks so much for coming in. See you all over the channel. All right, and have a great Thanksgiving. You as well.

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