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Hi, everyone.

So glad you're here. It's an abbreviated week because we have Thanksgiving straight ahead, but the news is not slowed down. That's why I think it's important you're here. We know, too, the Secretary of State for now, Anthony Blinken, participating in the G7 Foreign Ministers Summit. They're talking to Ukraine, who is going to be there.

They're part of a family picture. There's a lot of tension up there, obviously, as we wait for the transition with both administrations. Vice President Harris decided to come back from vacation. She is now back in Washington, D.C., trying to drum up some money because she is about $20 million in debt after spending a billion dollars in 107 days. What an embarrassment that is.

So before we get to. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West at the bottom of the hour, and Senator Mark Wayne Mullen shortly. Let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. There are still state threats out of New York. We also have the Georgia case, which is floundering but still alive. But in this case, Smith was like a captain who would soon be without a ship or crew, and he had to dismiss this case.

It wasn't by choice. There you go. Jonathan Turley. Jack Smith's plan to destroy Trump is officially over, and dare I say, boomeranged, as the special prosecutor ends his case, while his pursuit might just have delivered the White House to Trump. We'll explain.

Number two. What the president is doing is saying, think I'm joking? Think I'm bluffing? Take a look. What is the leverage that he has immediately?

Forgetting Congress, we can work with Congress on something else. He wants something immediately on day one. That's what the voters said that they wanted as well. The great Dana Perino talking about tariffs. The economy and Wall Street's love Trump's Treasury pick.

Look at what's happened to the market since Scott Besson has been named. And as the Wall Street Journal fears, Trump's plan will fuel, not tame, inflation. We'll hear their point of view. We're going to look at all the angles and Doge, the big let's cut down government mission to gut our spending is well underway. Number one.

I'm thankful that we finally have a president and president of Trump. Who's going to enforce the laws of the United States of America? I'm thankful that we have Tom Holman as the incoming border czar, who's going to help execute those laws and enforce those laws and make sure that we get back to restoring order. That is Governor Greg Abbott, Trump's mission to restore order at the border on full display as we see the latest on the wall, tariff threats to our irresponsible neighbors, and Homan giving thanks to our border guards this Thanksgiving in Texas by serving them breakfast along with the governor. We look at the dire situation.

And by the way, if you ever want the podcast, BrianKilmecho dot com, wherever you get the podcast, or give you the Fox News app. This way, if you ever miss the show live, you'll have the chance to you'll have the chance to listen to when you want.

So we ready for the center? Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma Armed Services Committee and confidant to President Trump, especially during the transition. Welcome, Senator. Hey, Brian, how you doing? I'm doing great.

So your thoughts leading up to Thanksgiving, all the just about every major position has been named already. When do you think if you go back to work January third, when do you think confirmation hearings will start?

Well, we'll start the hearings right off the bat. Senator Thune, or Leader Thune, and the rest of the leadership team in the Senate has already said that we're going to tee it all up. The question is: Can we do them in bundles?

So, some of these non-controversial positions, and I really think there's not really that many controversial positions left since Matt Gates is gone. But some of the non-controversial cases, we can go ahead and start in the committee hearings, get them out, get them pushed through.

So, when President Trump is sworn on on January 20th, we might be able to do two or three together and then may have to have separate hearings on maybe if Peter and Tulsi and Bobby can't go through committee without any problems. And so, I feel like we can have a lot of these done. I would say by the I mean, I'm being optimistic here, but I think we can have a lot of these done by the end by the middle of February. Do you fear, do you worry, uh, what's going on in the Middle East and what's going on in Ukraine, that people are going to take advantage of the transition period? You got fifty five days till you're in there.

No, I think they're worried about what's going to happen with the transition team. You've got to remember, Brian, immediately after President Trump won the election November 5th, you had Putin come out on November 6th and November 7th and say that he was open for negotiations to end the war. You saw Cutter on the 7th of November come out and say that Hamas is no longer welcome in Qatar. And then they said that, and then Hamas came out and said they're ready to negotiate.

Now, President Xi, you know, he gave out a list of seven demands to Biden during the G20 summit, but that's beside the point. The fact is the adversaries around the world know there's a new A sheriff, as to say, commander-in-chief, going in the White House, and they understand that the appeasement foreign policy that the Biden administration has used is now moving back to peace through strength, which Trump used in his first term in office. And so I'm not too concerned about it. They're actually looking for a way out at this point, and I think they're wise to do that. Do you believe that all these nominees should have FBI background checks?

You know, it doesn't make any difference to me. This is a question that's brought up a lot. I don't remember this question being brought up by CNN, MSNBC, or any of the liberal news outlets during the Biden administration. I think that everybody should know who the individuals are. If an FBI background check is required to go to work there, then yeah, they probably should go ahead and go through the same clearances as everybody else.

I have no issues with that whatsoever. I'm not concerned about any of these people passing a background check. Most of them have had clearances already in the past, anyways. But that's not a stop-red issue for me. Senator Markway Mullen, our guests, if you're watching, we see on Skype if you have the Fox News app.

Senator. We see the new borders are meeting with the governor of Texas today, and they're going to serve the Border Patrol and the Texas authorities too, some Thanksgiving lunch and dinner, talk to him about what needs to be done. But already the President's saying Mexico 25% tariff, Canada 25% tariff, China 10% tariff, because you're bringing fentanyl through our border, Mexico and Canada, you have not sealed your border. What about the message using the economy 55 days out to send a message to our neighbors? Are you for this?

Absolutely. This doesn't have to take place. The president's not saying, I'm going to do this regardless. He's saying, if you don't control your border, I'm going to do this on day one. They have 55 days to get their border in check.

They've known this has been a problem for quite some time. A lot of people wasn't realizing that Canada was having the same issue, not on the greatest scale as Mexico, but a lot of people have switched to Canada size. And Canada has a lot larger border and a more mass, and they found it easier to come across without getting intercepted with some of the more I would say Dangerous. Criminals that are coming across our northern border instead of our southern border. And President Trump has just now made awareness of that.

Unfortunately, we haven't had a good partner in Canada lately. Canada is our friends, don't get me wrong. We get along with the people, but the administration in Canada has not been helpful at all. President Trump is extremely smart right now by saying 55 days out, you have 55 days to fix this. If you don't have this fixed on January 20th, On the twenty first, your businesses are going to be hit.

Your economy is going to be hit with a twenty five percent tariff. And I think you're going to see some scuffling going on on our northern and southern border, and you're going to see a lot of this stuff come to an end.

So Senator, there's so many different facets. There's building the wall, which they just bought private land, and they're going to build it in Texas on their own with their own money. I think the Democrats are going to be less I guess they have less of a proclivity to stop you from building the wall, since everyone agrees it plays an important role. But when I saw that two-year-old. On camera with a note in her hand saying, you know, doesn't speak English.

The, you know, I gotta get to my parents, essentially, says a two-year-old at the border. We're seeing this every day. Must have walked about for 18 straight days. What do we do with the children? Everyone's got a big heart for the children.

You know how quickly optics can go bad. It looks, it's good to crack down on Venezuelan gangs, but two-year-old Ecuadorian children. What do we do with them?

Well, uh first of all, I I don't mean to be cold-hearted here, but they should never be coming all the way across Mexico to get to the border to begin with. The Mexican authorities should have had this issue already taken care of.

So, we will take care of the problem if we have to, but if we can seal our border from the criminal activities, we can focus then on more of the humanitarian stuff, like the small children. But when you get overran on each sector, because this is what's happening on our southern border, each sector has an eight-hour shift, and within the first hour, most of our border patrol officers are out of commission because they'll flood that sector with adults, with a lot of times criminals. And our border patrol agents have to take control of them first. Once they take control of them, they got to process them. That means that sector is wide open for drug activity and other trafficking that's going to come across that sector now because it's essentially unwatched.

The cartels know this.

So, when we shut down the border and say you can no longer cross in these places, you're not going to be able to claim asylum in illegal crossings. If you want to claim asylum, you're not going to claim asylum. Asylum from a legal port of entry.

Now we can shut them down and not have to take care of them, but push them back across the border and say, This is the problem. This isn't ours. You're not allowed to come across this way. We can focus now on the criminal activities, and then we do have a two-year-old or a four-year-old.

Some reports are saying she's four years old. We really don't know. When a small child like that does happen, which by the way, once we end the human trafficking side of it, this is going to happen a lot less. But then we can focus more on that child because I think all of our hearts break. I'm a crowd parent of six kids.

Three of my kids came natural, and three I say we chose, which means I have three adopted and three biological kids. I promise you, every adult that has children has a heart for that. Brian, so do you. But we have to focus on our big issues, and our big issues is the trafficking that's coming across Mexico to begin with. As I said, that young girl should have never made it all the way to our border.

That should have taken been taken care of on her track all the way through Mexico. Senator, I want to go to Armed Services. I was talking to going back and forth with Senator Wicker, and we know that there's a plan in place to, even though we're in a situation where we got a huge deficit, this is a dangerous world, and we've letten a lot of our Defense Department hollow out. How do we expand our industrial base to get the weapons to our allies to defend themselves? A lot of them have money to write checks.

We have trouble replenishing what we're giving to Ukraine, let alone give it to people like Taiwan who are willing to pay for it. Is there a plan in place to expand this industrial base?

Well, this is why we need a really strong Defense Secretary.

Someone will go in there and mix things up because what's happened is the DOD has become a huge bureaucracy and they've consolidated everything. The reason why they consolidated is really because Congress has put all these mundane reporting on top of them.

So, what's easier for them to do, and rather than having small industrial partners, what they do is they consolidate with large companies and make the small ones consolidate with them because their accounting process is better, because they're publicly traded companies. What we have to do is we've got to diversify. We've got to push down and quit allowing our defense base to consolidate in such a manner. Anytime we ask for a new weapon to be delivered, it's three to five years minimum. Guess what?

In today's technology, three to five years, by the time you get it delivered, if you even get delivered in time, which we don't have one single project, not a single project right now inside the defense industry that is on time and on schedule. Uh which also means on budget. Because it's the only place in the world, Brian, that you can actually bid a job. And you can bring it in past time and get paid extra for it. Anywhere in the private sector, if you bid a job, you get penalized if you don't bring it on time, and you also don't get extra money on top of it.

In fact, you'll be incentivized in the private sector to bring it in on time, and you might get a bonus. It is the most ridiculous way you see it.

So, the defense industry has to be reworked, and we got to break up these large companies and quit allowing them to be consolidated and buy up all the small companies because we are so far behind in our technology development, and it takes years, years to even get a project started. The thing that happened in Ukraine, which I hate the war in Ukraine, don't get me wrong on this one, but the best thing that happened with Ukraine is it exposed the drastic problem we have in our defense industry. And if you talk to any general or you talk to any current general, retired general, or anybody that's worked inside the purchasing for DOD, they will tell you that the best thing that took place is it exposed our problems. We're slowly working at it, but not near fast enough. The Biden administration did not put a heavy emphasis on it.

I know the Trump administration will. I know President Trump and I have actually spoken about this before. He shakes his head and he says this would never work in the private sector. We need the defense industry to actually work like a private sector because it's supposed to be a private sector. Remember, these defense industries are not part of DOD.

They contract with DOD.

So basically, they should be working like a private sector company. Yeah, if my information is correct, it's happened during the Clinton years. They thought it would be more efficient if they consolidated the major companies. Maybe their objective was pure, but the result has been terrible. Do you think Pete Hagseth sees it like you see it and understands how to make it happen?

Yeah, I do. I had a great conversation with Pete just the other day, and we talked a little bit about his ideas and his direction. What he understands is the frustration, and he understands the private sector versus the DOD. Mind you, he was in, a lot of people forget the guy. I mean, I don't know how you forget, but the guy served 20 years in the military, retired as a major, highly decorated combat veteran.

He's been there and saw the backside of it, meaning he's been downrange waiting on weapons to get to him, and it's the most frustrating thing in the world to take place. You take a guy like that that's been there, done that, he's going to have a lot more motivation to get the warfighter the tools they need to win the fight when he's head of DOD as the Secretary of Defense. I think Pete is going to be perfect for that position. Yeah, I do too. I think he really understands it.

I understand, too, anecdotally, that people are deciding to stay on and sign up. Because they know there's going to be a new direction of the Pentagon. I know we don't have stats on that, but are you hearing the same thing I'm hearing? You know, for about six months leading up to the election, I met with a tremendous amount of guys because I've been blessed to have. Connections through our alphabet agencies, not just the CIA and FBI, but we have a lot of different alphabet agencies out there inside of DOD.

And every one of these individuals we were talking to saying was saying, You're gonna have a mass exiting if Kamlo were to win. And I would tell them over and over again: just hold tight, hold tight. I believe Trump is gonna win this thing. I believe Trump is gonna win this thing. Not only are you gonna guys, you're gonna see people re-up.

But you're actually going to see our military filling back up, too. You're going to see men and women that wasn't wanting to serve.

Now they're going to be willing to go serve. And those conversations are even happening in my own family, too. I have a son right now that goes to Oklahoma State. He's part of the ROTC program there. But he was questioning, he said, Dad, I don't know if I actually want to sign a contract because after your sophomore year, you've got to sign a contract.

He said, I don't know if I want to sign a contract if I'm going to go in underneath Kamala. And he's pushing full throttle now.

So this is happening in other people's families, including mine. Senator, you've been playing such a valuable role. I know the President-elect really values your opinion, and we really appreciate you being on our show. Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, thanks so much. Ryan, thanks for having me on.

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Terms apply. Abortion you listen the more you'll Hello, it's Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back. I went a little long with Senator Mark Wayne Baum, but what an impactful guy. If you talk about a Trump whisperer who doesn't really whisper, it is him.

And he's the one who let the president know, President-elect know, that Nick Gates isn't getting through, doesn't have the votes. And he's going to let everybody know, too, about the tougher ones with Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. And then Marco Rubio is going to sail through with like 100 senators going to vote for him. No one will not. And then we'll see where the Rubio voice mixes with the Waltz voice, misses with the Tulsi voice.

And with the president's vision of where we should go, especially when it comes to Ukraine, especially when it comes to Israel, Iran, and more. He was in the Brian Kill Me show.

So glad you're here. If you're interested in it. Right. talking about it. You're with Brian?

This is very frustrating when we have a Country and a president and an administration that are fighting back against the law, inviting all this illegal immigration into our country, bringing those people in who are committing those rapes, those murders, and crushing families across the entire country.

So I'm thankful that we finally have a president and president of Trump. Who's going to enforce the laws of the United States of America? I'm thankful that we have Tom Homan as the incoming border czar who's going to help. Execute those laws and enforce those laws and make sure that we get back to restoring order. And at 1 o'clock Eastern Time today, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who you were just listening to, is meeting with Tom Holman.

We'll meet and greet and serve meals to the Texas National Guard and Texas DPS troopers stationed at the border on the state tax. I mean, they're really being paid for by Texas to supplement and work maybe ahead of the Border Patrol who have been pulled back. And this administration has been fighting Texas every step of the way, whether it's buoys in the Rio Grande or building their own wall or putting people on the border or kicking people out before they got in. With me right now is Lieutenant Colonel Alan West from the Dallas County Republican Party Chair, the American Constitutional Rights Union Executive Director. Colonel, welcome back.

Your thoughts about Holman going down today, meeting with Abbott 55 days before Trump takes over.

Well, I think that's what should be done. And it's good to be with you, Brian, and happy Thanksgiving to you and the listening audience. And that you don't wait until the day that President Trump is inaugurated to go in and start making your plan. You plan now so that on the day of his inauguration, you're ready to execute. That's just good, basic military tactics one hundred one.

And as a matter of fact, we're going to be honored to have Tom Holman come and speak with us here at the Dallas County GOP next week, Thursday, here in Dallas, Texas, to share even more insights because it has severely affected us here in Dallas, which is one of the top cities for human and sex trafficking.

So it is great to finally see that we're going to have an administration and people that are going to support the rule of law, the Constitution, and eradicate and eliminate the scourge of illegal immigration, the drug trafficking, and also the terrorist trafficking and the criminal trafficking that we see adversely affecting our communities.

So we understand the Texas Land Commissioner, Dawn Buckingham, has found a way. They bought 1,400 acres of property that they purchased a month ago, and now they're going to start building a wall in Texas using Texas dollars. She announced that yesterday. You know this area. Will it is that a heavy trafficked area?

Yeah, well, this area that you see, everyone is focusing on, you know, down there, Eagle Pass, up to Del Rio. I mean, that's where you have a lot of the traffic. But when you go out west to the Big Bend Mountains, Alpine area, Brewster County, which is the largest landmass county here in the state of Texas, that's where you really have a lot of the bad actors. And so yesterday, when you saw the videotape of all the little children that were brought across the border, of course, that's going to draw in a lot of resources. But the question you have to ask is: what's going on out there that we don't have reports on?

What's going on out there where people are putting carpeting on the bottom of their shoes to come through the mountain passes and that very rough terrain? Because those are the ones evading being caught and brought in. And let's not forget, we saw the trial of Lake and Riley. We know that Mr. Bar was found guilty on all counts, criminal, illegal immigrant from Venezuela, Trinidaragua member.

He came through El Paso, Texas. Texas.

So we have big issues out here we got to resolve. And again, it's great that we'll have an administration that wants to be a partner. You know, it does not surprise me when Democrats go against Republicans. I get that. But when it comes to criminals and illegal aliens, I thought they'd get on the same page.

We got a guy like Gritchie Torres, a state lawmaker who's probably going to run for governor, Democrat. He said that we got to crack down. You have people like Robert Holden, a local New York Assemblyman who says we have to crack down illegals. We've got to stop the sanctuary cities. But then you've got people like Mayor Johnston of Denver per capita.

They have more illegal immigrants, and they ruined Denver. More illegal immigrants in Denver than any other city in the country. Listen to this guy on the stance that he's going to take against Trump and Holman, CUD 7. Would you be willing to participate in those as the mayor of Denver? Would you be willing to go out and protest these things?

I would. If I believe that our residents are having their rights violated, if I think things are happening that are illegal or immoral or un-American in our city, I would certainly protest it. And I would expect other residents to do the same. Trump's New Borders are Tom Homan has said that he is willing to arrest leaders like yourself for standing in the way of these policies that they want to enact. Would you be willing to go to jail for these things?

Yeah, I'm not afraid of that. And I'm also not seeking that. I think the goal is we want to be able to negotiate with reasonable people how to solve hard problems. You think he's being reasonable? No, he's being stuck on stupid.

And first and foremost, these aren't his residents, just the same as Governor Pritzker talked about my people. These are folks here that are illegal immigrants. They have violated our law by coming here first and foremost illegally. And many of them have criminal records. Remember, it was back in October when ICE released a Friday report saying there are 425 criminal, illegal immigrants in this country, to include 30,000 of them being rapists and murderers.

Now, this idiot mayor is basically saying to his law-abiding legal citizens, residents there and never, that he does not care about their safety and security. He's happy to go out there and protect individuals that would like to, you know, rape, murder, kill, assault them. I don't understand that. I don't understand how the left did not get the memo that the American people do not want their country violated and invaded by people that are here illegally, and they don't want to pay for it either.

So, if the Democrats continue to hold This position, they're going to continue to lose elections. See, it's so is, you know, if you want to be pro-immigrant, just be anti-criminal. I mean, it's very easy. Guys, we got to get the Venezuelan gangs out of my city. But, you know, the landscaper that's been here 16 years with three kids, I'm looking to protect them.

And then I can see Democrats going, look, I get it. Plus, we're not touching them for years. It's first criminals out first.

So instead, they just continue to say it's going to be like Tiananmen Square, this mayor said, and was going to send his cops out to meet the federal National Guard. He tried to walk that back. Listen, cut eight. Are you open to sending Denver police officers to the county line to stop federal forces or National Guardsmen from other states from coming into Denver? We have no plan to do that.

And we really hope that we don't ever have to do that. No plan. What are you open to? What we're going to do right now is, you know, it's hard to keep an eye on what the future president actually plans to do and what the proposal actually is. It sounds to me like you're walking back the comments from a couple days ago saying that you would be willing to send Denver police officers.

Do you regret making those comments and now getting questions like this? Would I have taken it back if I could? Yes. I probably wouldn't have used that image because that's an image I hope we can avoid. What I was trying to say is this is an outcome I hope we can avoid in this country.

I think none of us want that.

Something.

So he's walking it back.

Well, yes, he is, because the problem is local law enforcement wants to be on the side of law enforcement. This is a headache for them. When you have gangs like Trinidad, when you have the terrorist trafficking, when you have the drug trafficking and all these things, they have to contend with that. They have to deal with that.

So, why would they not want to partner with the federal government agencies that are going to come in there and remove and eradicate those national security, domestic security threats out of their communities? And so, again, this is a really bad hill that the left has chosen to die on. Recent reports, we've got three different instances of child rape by, again, criminal illegal immigrants in Boston. You know what's going on there in New York City. Look at what has happened in Chicago.

And so, once again, I don't understand why the left feels that this is a good avenue of approach and that this is going to give them some type of high ground. We're talking about threats to our security. We're not talking about grandma, grandpa, like you said, the landscaper that's been here 16 years. Mm-hmm. Right.

So I understand too. That if they plan on doing this and harboring criminals and not letting ICE get to them. There's going to be another move that the federal government has. You can't harbor a criminal. You can't harbor a gangster.

And so Holman's going to go after the local officials if they block him.

So this has not been ratcheted up to that level, but that's how I think determined this administration is going to be and how fed up America is. No, you're absolutely right, and it's a felony offense. I mean, you are harboring criminal, illegal immigrants. You're aiding and abetting human and sex trafficking, aiding, abetting terrorism. Remember the two Jordanian individuals here illegally who attempted to breach the security gates there at Marine Corps Base Quantico?

Well, just a couple of weeks ago, guess what? The Department of Justice dropped all charges against them, and they were released. They were told to, you know, hey, just show back up for your illegal hearing.

Well, those days are done, and anyone that stands in the way of protecting the sovereignty of the United States of America will have to pay consequences for it. And to include losing funding from the federal government. I don't want my taxpayer dollars going to quote-unquote sanctuary states or sanctuary cities. Colonel Lasley, what do you do in Ukraine right now? We have them now regetting Yemeni or slash Houthi rebels to fight with North Koreans and what's left of Russian forces against Ukrainians.

Where where what should our policy be?

Well, without a doubt, you know, you've got to first put the economic pressure on these countries. And I think that when you finally get in there and you put the sanctions back on Iran, they're not going to be able to support Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah. You've got to put the Keystone XL pipeline back out there. You've got to, once again, export your liquefied natural gas to undermine Russia's ability to pump natural gas. And I think that that's first and foremost.

But also, you need to make sure that you send the message that, you know, we don't want to see the beginning of World War III. We don't want to see this axis of evil come about. And we will have a credible military deterrent, but we would like to see this resolved diplomatically and economically first and foremost. And that's why I think the hint about Rick Grinnell being placed in there as a negotiator, that's a very, very good move. Because first and foremost, we've got to bring people to the table and prevent this from escalating.

I think it's very spiteful. I think it's very vindictive what the Biden-Harris administration is doing. Right now in Ukraine, and I don't even know if they're the ones thinking. What do you mean by spiteful? What do you mean?

What do you mean? I think that you're trying to put the incoming Trump administration in an untenable position coming in. Right now, Donald Trump does have a national security advisor. That position does not have to be confirmed by the Senate, and they should be working with Mike Waltz to talk about a good transition, especially with all these hotspots that the Biden Harris administration has created. Right.

I just think, do you think ATAC'ems, do you like the idea of releasing the restrictions on attack'ems? No, I don't. I don't think that we should be saying let's fire U.S.-made weapon systems into Russia. Let's do everything we possibly can to prevent Russia from being able to do cross-border attacks into Ukraine. Let's prevent them from having logistical lines of supply.

And let's isolate the forces that they have there in Ukraine. Let's help them with that. Let's continue to have the missile defense shield in Poland. But for us to say, yep, we're going to release, this is a major policy decision that should not be done with an administration that's a lame dunk right now. They gave it to him like eight months ago and told him you can't use him.

So which is nuts. You can use them in a short distance. Why have a long-range missile in a short distance? Yeah, you could just use the regular multiple-launch rocket system, which goes out to about 30 to 35 kilometers itself. You don't need to A-TAC them if you're talking about short range.

That has a minimum range of about 165 kilometers. Colonel, what does it tell you that the Russians are losing 1,000 troops a day and they don't care? What does that tell you?

Well, I mean, that's go back and look at that movie, Enemy at the Gates. I mean, that's always been their their perspective. They just continue to throw human wave after human wave. But eventually the Russian people are going to say enough of this because they're losing their sons for what reason? No apparent reason whatsoever, other than the hubris of one dictator, and that's Vladimir Putin.

I just can't believe it's like World War I. It's not even like World War III. This is World War I type tactics. Colonel, thanks so much. Interesting times, but I guess if we can get to 55 days from now, I think things are really going to change positively.

Thanks so much, Colonel. Have a great Thanksgiving. God bless. Happy Thanksgiving. Take care, Brian.

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So, listen, when we get back, I'll have a chance to get your calls. Whether you're talking about what's happening in Ukraine, whether you're talking about what's happening, should there be a ceasefire in Lebanon, what's going on right now at the border? Tom Holman taking action, the president basically threatening tariffs. We have another president right now who isn't even doing the job. The president elect is essentially running the country for Mara Lago, and you would think there'd be some objection, but there isn't because this guy is out of it.

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Where is a gap, if you will, in... Um uh information for Americans. Americans are very uninformed about reality I love Hollywood. I really do. I love living here and I love show business.

And don't take it. I don't like the taxes. Don't take it the wrong way. But the people here, they're loaded with talent. They're not loaded with smartest person in the room.

I'm not saying they're complete idiots.

Some. And there are some very smart people in the business, some brilliant people. But mostly what they got was talent.

So they're talking about the election. Of course, they all want to talk to me because they're like, oh, that kid actually knows. Yes, you do. You do, Bill. You know, okay.

You do.

So they're like, you know, of course, they're all upset about Trump as if their life is going to change. Like, you know, let me tell you, for the last year, people have been coming up to me at the nicest restaurants in Hollywood because that's the only place I go because I'm a baller. You know, this evening.

Okay.

So it's like, oh, Bill, what are we going to do if Trump wins? I'm like, you know what, you're going to do? Go back and finish your $900 dinner for four people. That's what you're going to do. Yes.

And your taxes are probably going to go down like they did the first time. And everything else, you couldn't give a shit about. And that is Bill Mart, being totally honest. And Val Baldwin's initial comments were totally unrelated, but he got a lifetime achievement world in Turin, Italy. I mean, think about the life that he's had.

Unbelievably talented, but he's angry, he's volatile, he's basically unemployable, and then he has this rush shooting where we know about the tragedy. I don't want to go through it, but there's no way he meant it. But this woman's dead was his friend, goes through the whole trial, gets exonerated, gets a lifetime achievement award. You'd think he'd get a little bit of humility. Instead, he goes to Italy and tells him how uninformed Americans are.

And how we don't want to read and how news is is for profit, so therefore we're just a big business and we have not interested in telling the truth, only our point of view. No, in our show, I'm giving you my point of view. I'm listening, getting reporting, I'm listening to you. I'm listening to great people like Colonel Allen West and Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. I'm not telling you what to think.

I'm telling you what I think afterwards, but I'm not telling you you're wrong if you disagree with me. But this is different than what Brett Baer show will do or what. What would Jackie Heinrich do from Washington? But Alec Bolden needs to go to Italy. Go deal with the international press.

And talk about how dumb New Yorker, excuse me, Americans, not even New Yorkers where he lives, Americans are because we don't want to read. My goodness. Who the hell are you talking to? What do you read? I mean, I'm sorry, we didn't.

I don't know what college he went to. I don't even think he went to college.

So maybe he should go get an education. How do you know what all of America reads?

Some of the smartest people I know are nine to fiveers. They have great instincts and they read on the weekends. They read on the way home after working nine to five. You know, I'm sorry they don't reach the threshold of your IQ, and you feel as a nation. They were not up to par for you.

You want to help? Can help maybe read to us. Maybe we could have Alec Boldhun reads to us tonight. You know, they tried to give Alec Baldwin a a radio show, it failed. Uh they tried to give him a A talk show, a radio talk show, that failed.

They tried to give him a TV show on MSNBC. That lasted two weeks.

Alright. He'd go on SNL and forget to zip up his pants. I really don't know if that has anything to do with how much America reads, but I do remember to zip up my pants. I know that. Maybe I do more than Malik Brolden, or at least that.

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Thanks so much for being here, everybody. It's the Brian Killmeat Show. We are getting closer and closer to Thanksgiving.

We appreciate you being here, but nothing slowed down in the news world, which is great for us. We're gonna do a simulcast with Stuart Varney. We'll do Alexei Lawless, Fox Sports Soccer Analyst. You know, the captain of the U.S. national team scored a goal, Christian Pulisic, and he did the Trump dance.

And now, all of a sudden, people at U.S.

soccer say that's really offensive to people. Even though he won the popular vote, he's president of the United States. It's offensive to people. It was great. Megan Rupino was taking a knee during the national anthem.

That's okay. But if somebody does the Trump dance for the President of the United States, that's offensive. Alexey Lawless, Fox Sports, will be joining us too. And H.R. McMaster, one of the military historians, Hoover Institute, three-star general, joined us in a matter of moments.

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. There are still state threats out of New York. We also have the Georgia case, which is floundering but still alive. But in this case, Smith was like a captain who would soon be without a ship or crew, and he had to dismiss this case.

It wasn't by choice. That, of course, is Jonathan Hurley. Talking about Jack Smith, the quest to jail Trump is over. They'll probably reproduce one final report, but what a completed comeback for the President of the United States. What's left?

The civil trial. Number two. What the president is doing is saying, think I'm joking? Think I'm bluffing? Take a look.

What is the leverage that he has immediately? Forgetting Congress, we can work with Congress on something else. He wants something immediately on day one. That's what the voters said that they wanted as well. Well, that is Dana Prino.

The economy and Wall Street love Trump's treasury pick as you just look at the market. And the Wall Street Journal fears that Trump's plan might just fuel inflation. We're going to take a look at the different angles and Doge's mission to gut our spending. Number one. who's going to enforce the laws of the United States of America.

I'm thankful that we have Tom Homan as the incoming Border Czar who's going to help execute those laws and enforce those laws and make sure that we get back to restoring order. And that's what we're doing right now. We have Tom Holman and the governor, Greg Abbott, who you just heard from. At one o'clock, they're going to be serving the Texas TPS, who are working the border. Trump's mission to restore order at the border has them going after Canada, Mexico, and China.

We'll discuss that.

Meanwhile, I thought that Thomas Friedman's column in the Wall Street Journal, excuse me, in the New York Times today really was telling. And I think he's been very fair to the President after being very critical to the President for most of his, of most of the President's four years in office and afterwards. But he said this. I hope that President Trump realizes the world is dramatically different from the world he left. He said, sometimes, as they say, you go decades without the world changing, and sometimes the world changed for decades in a matter of weeks.

In a matter of weeks, it's changing. And he went into detail in the Middle East and what has changed. A person that does not need that definition or Thomas Friedman's column joins us right now, General H.R. McMaster. General, welcome back.

Oh, he's not there yet. All right. We're going to hook him up in just a second.

So when we're talking about now Let's leave Ukraine on the side for a second. In the Middle East. Uh in the Middle East. You have a situation where you Where Israel was attacked October 7th. Since that time, they've pushed back against world opinion and they've done everything they can possibly to destroy.

Uh Hamas. And then Hezbollah, who thought October 8th would be a great time to start shelling Israel. Got theirs. They've wiped out almost all their leadership, thousands of those terrorist fighters, and they're very close to eradicating Hezbollah or putting them into the minority in Lebanon and giving Lebanon back to the Lebanese. And then you have Israel, who thanks to a bombing mission in retaliation for a bombing attack on them, had partial of their nuclear program taken out and most of their air defense destroyed.

So let me see. They don't have Hamas as a bodyguard. They don't have Hezbollah as a bodyguard. And now they don't have an air defense. This is a dramatically different world for the President Trump's inheriting, and no one has to tell that to General H.R.

McMaster. General, welcome back. Hey, Brian, it's great to be with you. Happy Thanksgiving. Same to you.

Your thoughts about Thomas Friedman just wrote in a column today you might have read that he just said, I hope President Trump realizes how different the world is now than he left through none of his doing. And first and foremost, the Middle East. Iran, right now, do you see this as an opportunity to Talk with them. or finish off that government. Hey, I think it's the latter, man.

I mean, I think it's time to put the maximum pressure back on Iran that President Trump had on Iran until the Biden administration reversed his policy. I mean, they were cash starved, They cut in half their stipends to the terrorist organizations in the region. They were passing the hack, Brian, to try to raise money to maintain their proxy armies and their terrorist organizations. and they were feeling the pressure. You saw the demonstrations that occurred.

The people the people chanting. They were chanting in the streets of Tehran. The problem is not the United States. The problem is right here. And they were chanting against this Theocratic dictator, Ayatollah Homine, the supreme leader, the so-called supreme leader.

And I'll tell you, people are sick of it in Iran. And I think now is the time to dry up the resources. Because, as you mentioned, Brian, I mean, Israel has devastated Hezbollah. devastated Hamas. devastated the proxy army that they were forming in Syria.

We've been taking a strong toll on the Houthi rebels, you know, in who are interrupting international shipping in a critical waterway of the Bob El Mendeb. And so now it's time to make sure they don't have the cash. To be able to reconstitute these forces. But the world has changed this way, A General, because now I fear the Russians, I know they don't have a lot in their warehouse, but I fear the Russians are going to expedite their missile defense in there and start solidifying their alliance with Iran if we wait too long. Yes.

Well, I'll tell you in terms of military operation, that might be the case. But I'll tell you that Israel, what they've done with the initial reprisal attacks after the massive assault against Israel from Iranian territory in April, They took out some of their most sophisticated air defense systems. They did that again in the subsequent strike.

So I think that Iran is very vulnerable to Iran's counter strike capabilities and ability to take out their their suppression of air defense. But you know, I'll tell you, a lot of these These Russian systems, Brian, they don't work very well. I mean, Israel's been able to have their way also in Syria, where Russia has deployed.

Some of their supposedly most sophisticated systems. But you're right. I mean, the timing should not allow Iran to build up their conventional capabilities. And what they're doing now, Brian, is racing to develop a nuclear weapon. No doubt about it, because we get we've heard that for fifteen, twenty years.

But now that they've had their weapon system, their nuclear program degraded.

So I'm wondering if that puts that. on the back burner for a while. No? Yep, I tell you, they they keep the announcing that they're enriching more uranium and denying the IAEA, the ins the International Atomic Energy Authority to be able to look at these sites. But I think what you're you're right.

I mean, I you know, we were talking about we were talking about this before it became news, Brian, that I was certain at the time that Israel had struck nuclear-related facilities because So many of them are secret, right? Or at least the Iranians think they're secret. And when Israel struck those military sites, I think they had a they had a significant effect. But I think what's required if you're going to really set them back would be a kind of sustained campaign at the various nodes in not only the nuclear program, but also the missile program. And while they're at it, how about the factories that are that are developing and producing these Shahed drones that Russia's using?

continue their onslaught against the Ukrainian people and Ukrainian infrastructure.

So the Russians, the different world that Trump, that you and Trump dealt with in 2017.

Now we have a situation where the Russians are supplying Hezbollah with weapons. They were found in those tunnels, relatively new, like recent deliveries. We don't know, but I'm sure it's working to. We understand that some Afghanistan, some of our Afghanistan equipment was found with Hamas, which is unbelievable to me and just grating, must be to you, because you fought there. And then we find out that they're supplying the Houthi rebels, too.

So the Russians are playing an insidious role in the Middle East. That wasn't really happening when you guys were last there in the White House.

Now what you've seen is this coalescing of this axis of aggressors. And you know what's emboldening them? What's emboldening them is the perception of weakness, Brian.

So what they were looking at, they looked at the deadly and disastrous disastrous I don't know what else to call it, but a surrender or self-defeat and withdrawal from Afghanistan in August of twenty twenty one. You can draw a direct line between that and the massive reinvasion of Ukraine in February of twenty twenty two. The Biden administration, what did they try to do? They tried to allay Putin's security concerns President Biden went to meet with him in Geneva, remember, and he's laid out all of his red lines, which for Putin means: hey, I've got a green light for everything else. We suspended lethal assistance to Ukraine.

We pulled our ships out of the Black Sea. We listed everything we wouldn't do to support the Ukrainians. And then, of course, what do you get? You get the massive reinvasion, the first major land war in Europe since World War II. And now, Brian, North Koreans.

are fighting in Europe. on the side of of the of the Russians. The Iranians are providing the Shahed drones, as I mentioned. North Korea is also providing 8 million rounds or so of artillery. And you have the Chinese.

Keeping Iran afloat. I mean, hey, China buys 97% of Iran's oil. And they're also feeding Putin's ATM with their energy purchases. And we're learning more and more about how Chinese equipment, Chinese electronics and other hardware are essential to Russia's continued onslaught against China. And we warned them not to do that.

And we warned them not to do that. And they were not buying Iranian oil when you were there and when Trump left.

So what do we do now? When the Chinese go to pick up their Iranian oil, what do we do? Do we do third-party sanctions on China? But there's a whole ghost fleet out there which can be interdicted. And then also you can do secondary sanctions on Chinese banks, Brian.

I'm telling you, the Chinese economy is in a very difficult position. I'm a washed up general man. I'm not like an economist, but I know that the Chinese are deathly afraid of that because of the interruption of trade and payments that could really further affect their economy when they're not meeting the growth targets. They've got massive youth unemployment. In China, and really, you know, the frailties in their economy, the frailties that were built in because of their race to surpass us, right, with all this.

Subsidized spending and the crash in the real estate sector and so forth. I mean, they're in a really difficult position. And I think that it's time to use. That financial and economic power to let the Chinese know. We're just not going to ask you to stop supporting Russia's onslaught against Ukraine.

We're not just going to ask you to stop laying claim to the South China Sea, the ocean, part of the ocean through which one-third of the world's surface trade flows. We're not going to ask you to stop intimidating Taiwan or violating Japanese airspace or conducting massive cyber attacks against the United States and placing at risk. All of our telecommunications capabilities, and certainly all the privacy of anybody who uses their phones.

So, I think it's time for action rather than words. And this is what I used to tell world leaders about President Trump: we say: hey, look at President Trump's background. He's a business guy, he's a real estate guy. He's going to judge you based on what you do and on results. Not on what you say.

And I think That's really, I think, going to be an important element for the President's National Security Advisor, Secretary of State, to communicate to these world leaders, say that, hey, the gig is up. It's time for you to match what your words with your deeds. Generally, we're talking to H.R. McMaster. General, a ceasefire is on the table right now, and Israel is voting on it in Lebanon.

From what Hezbollah with Hezbollah, they get their people, 60,000 people, back in their homes in northern Israel, and to create one of those lines to back them up to the point where people can feel secure, and that could get rocketed tomorrow. Would you stop fighting now for a ceasefire, or do you see a historic opportunity to completely destroy Hezbollah if that's possible?

Well, you mentioned it at the beginning. What's important is to weaken Hezbollah to the point where the Lebanese can take their country back. And one of the things to remember is the Cedar revolution that occurred after Hezbollah, but really the Syrians as well murdered the Prime Minister of Lebanon, Hariri. And there were massive demonstrations in the streets. They demanded that the occupying Syrian forces pull out.

Hezbollah was in a very weak position. But do you know who got Hezbollah up off the mat? The Obama administration, because that's when they were starting to supplicate to the Iranians and and alleviated sanctions and allowed the cash flow back into Iran. That then where does that flow? It flows right into the terrorist organizations that Iran is supporting.

So I think we are trying to get back to that period of time of the Shida revolution. Work with the Lebanese who will marginalize Hezbollah, and you're right. You know, there's a danger in this ceasefire. If it's the same old, weak Ceasefire, they had under the UN resolution that formed the UNIFIL, which is the United Nations. Assistance and observation mission in Lebanon.

That's a toothless organization. And so it's I think with the Israelis. What they're asking for, and it's part of the negotiation, is the right for preemptive strikes when they see Hezbollah coming back in south of the Latani River. And then also what they're asking for is a real kind of peace enforcement force that has the authorities to go after these Hezbollah cells if they begin to put that infrastructure back into place. What worries you most about Ukraine?

And what would do you think, Joe Biden, did the right thing, releasing restrictions on the attackums? Yes, I think he absolutely did the right thing. And but of course, Brian, this is part of this halting. Should we give them tanks? Should we give them fighter aircraft?

Should we give them munitions? How much should we give them? Should we give them the authorities to use them? Hell yes. I mean, they're defending themselves against an onslaught.

It's important to remember, Brian, this country was invaded without any pretense. Putin said he was saving Russia from Ukrainian Nazis. Hey, you know, news flash here. Zelensky is a Russian-speaking Jew, you know? I mean, it's crazy.

And then, really, what Putin wants to do is reestablish the Russian Empire. And he's doing it by inflicting horrible suffering on the Ukrainian people. But also, Brian, I think what's super important to remember. Is that this axis of aggressors Is they're all in on Ukraine. You know, there are a lot of people who say, oh, you know, Ukraine's not as important as the Indo-Pacific.

Brent, I think you can argue, okay, China is fighting a proxy war against us. using the Russians and the North Koreans. Because what they want to do is show us as weak, unable to support Ukraine. That's the first step in breaking apart NATO. And it's a big piece in what they really want to do overall which is to say, hey, we're in charge.

Brian, I wish all Americans would read the joint statement that Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping issued during the Beijing Olympics right before the massive invasion of Ukraine. You know what the subtext of that statement was? It's like, hey, We're in charge now. Get used to it. You're all has-bens there, United States and the West.

And so it's that confidence That comes from their perception of weakness that we have to address. And if Ukraine falls, Brian, who the hell in Asia? Is going to think we've got their back, or anybody has their back. You know what they'll do? They'll start bandwagoning with the Chinese.

They will. General, I think you got to get that point out. Keep writing and keep talking about it because not enough people understand that the Russians started this and they were asking us to go to a peace deal with it. It makes no sense. HR, I guess we're up against a break, but thanks so much for joining us today.

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And plus, around that area, you can still go, especially in Georgia. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, we are back, everybody. And the one thing that's happened since the election.

Donald Trump went from being protested by the women's groups. In front of Trump Tower by the mayor here in New York in 2017. You might not remember, we lived it, we couldn't believe it. The Russians did it. He didn't really win, or he didn't get the majority of the vote.

And America just doesn't like women. That's why Hillary Clinton lost. There was not one day of peace. They got tried to arrest his brother-in-law. They tried to arrest his son.

Nonstop investigation cost Michael Flynn his career. And it is so much different now in 2024.

Now you have a situation where. Uh President Trump has won to stay uh Pervasively. He's won every battleground state. And the other thing he's done, which I think is noteworthy, is. He is Also won the popular vote, but he also increased In forty nine of fifty states he increased.

His popularity.

So One thing that happened is There is these NFL players, black, white, in between, are celebrating them. And they do the Trump dance, which is incredibly awkward. It's kind of funny. He just moves his upper hand up and down, up and down.

So after a few celebrations in the NFL and elsewhere, I haven't really seen in the NBA yet. You see uh Christian Policek. And Pulisic is the superstar, plays over in Italy, but he's a captain of the national team for a few years now, and he does the dance. And now U. S.

soccer is beside themselves saying there are people that are insulted by that. He's going to live to regret that. Why would he do that? And you know why he did it? He did it because it was fun.

He was playing for the U.S. national team. And I don't know who he voted for, but my sense is he doesn't hate Trump. Like a lot of athletes, name like Tiger Woods comes to mind. And because of that, he's getting blowback because of the Trump dance.

I'm not kidding. And one of the U.S.

soccerers on him. And now the groups that did not have a problem with Megan Rapino taking a knee for the women as they won a national, as they won the World Cup. and sometimes fell short. They got a huge problem with Pol Polisic. And I have a huge problem with that.

And with us right now is the premier voice in U.S.

soccer, Fox Sports personality, outstanding player in his day and national team, is Alexei Lois. Alexi, welcome back. Hey, Brian, how are you, my friend?

Well, a lot has changed, right? You have a new coach now with the U.S. national team. The team has won a couple of games since he's been back. And after Christian Pulislik scores a goal, he decides to do this crazy thing that, like, these NFL players are doing, these college football players are doing, and he did the Trump dance.

What's been the blowback from that, Alexi?

Well, I mean, as you know and we know that, you know, with that, there is baggage right now, evidently. I looked at it as a fun and funny thing that now has become ubiquitous. It has certainly transcended the politics, but you can attach as much or as little politics as you want to the quote-unquote Trump dance out there. And Christian Pulissic did it. I loved it.

I love that it was a celebration. I think he's old enough now. We kind of look at him sometimes as this teenager that burst on the scene, but the reality is he is a man. And that's why I think he owns it and recognizes that some people are going to look at it in a different way. But I mean, we're seeing athletes and actors and celebrities and social media.

Like I said, it's become ubiquitous out there. And he's going to take some guff from some people out there. But this is part of being a leader. And he's playing arguably his best soccer of his. His career, which bodes well for the future for him individually.

He plays in Italy for AC Milan. He's their best player right now, one of the best players right now in Italy, and certainly from a U.S. men's national team with a year and a half until the World Cup arrives. That is a good thing going forward, whether you like the dance or not. This is a world-class player and well on his way to becoming, I think, the best male American soccer player in history.

But why does U.S.

soccer upset about it? I mean, think about it. It's not just so, you know, you're not saluting some fringe character, you're saluting a president of the United States that just won the majority of the vote, ran away with the Electoral College, and has kind of a funny dance. After he got shot, it became people started doing it. And he was quoted as saying, he told reporters he thought it was funny.

He said the dance moves were not political in nature. Anonymous USF soccer officials expressed dismay to the athletic on Tuesday. Quote, the athletic to Jeff Reuter says he also wanted the soccer star to consider the impact of the dance move and why he may come to regret it. Alexey, will he come to reg come to regret it? Are you kidding?

I don't think he gives. No, I don't think he gives a crap. And he shouldn't give a crap. And you know, and I know that if he had danced to a you know, a Harris dance wave. Or Obama jig, whatever it was.

Nobody would have cared. Nobody would have cared at all. And again, it's not dismissing the fact that there is baggage that comes with it. But it's a recognition of this country has moved forward, and yes, there are people that are not happy about the election results. But in this moment, this type of celebration, it's fun.

And it's and it's funny. And if you don't like Christian Ballistic now because of that, that's fine. That is certainly your prerogative going forward from a U. S.

soccer perspective that is spent now many, many years, we know. Um Not uh not just uh not just condoning, but championing Plenty of movements and of actions and of words that certainly people. can disagree with, I just think it's it's kind of rich. This will this will go away going forward. And ultimately, yes, the goals that he scores and yes, the games that he wins will become more important.

But this is part of who Christian Polistic is. And I like the fact that this is Almost uh The best version of Christian Pulissic, because he's been very shy over the years, kind of an introvert. And so maybe we are seeing the best version. And with that, you know, people are going to have knives out and people are going to agree and disagree. But that's kind of what.

Becoming a man is, and that's kind of what maturing and evolving is: is at a certain point recognize you know you can't please everybody all the time, right? And what if he likes Trump? I mean, can you imagine? You know, what if, you know, what if, like, can you imagine that? Remember Bill Clinton with the 96, 99 women's U.S.

soccer team with Mia Ham, that whole Julie Fatty era, you were playing at the same time? He'd be in the locker room. I mean, listen, we should hope. We should hope that Donald Trump is there to present Christian Kalisic as the captain of the U.S. men's national team with a feat of greatness come the summer of 2026.

We know he's going to be around. We know we actually had a lot to do with bringing the World Cup here in 2026.

So I think it's fitting that he is going to be the president when the U.S. men's national team wins a World Cup. You heard it right here. I know. That would be great.

The other thing is, I think you should, I want to build on what you just said about him getting the World Cup. But Andrew Carlton, do you know him? Yeah, yeah, the player. Yeah, he put on X. Megan Rapino shouts and screams about every radical liberal idea, and the soccer media collapse like seals.

And Christian Pulisik does the Trump dance.

Now the soccer media says he should worry about what message it sends. I mean, that's pretty much what you're saying. Hey, listen, I have lived and worked in this soccer community for a long time. And yes, it skews heavily to the left. But what I've also found over the years, especially talking about my conservative, talking about being a proud Republican, talking about voting for Trump, it's amazing to me the amount of people that have come out.

And talk to me. And you know, it's kind of like this fight club type of thing where we meet each other on the street and there's kind of a a sign and an acknowledgment. And now, as you know, and we're seeing this amazing thing play out, where it's no longer niche, it's no longer underground, it's no longer hidden away. We you know, we no longer We no longer are kind of shamed or ashamed about it. And it's very much above ground.

And it is very cathartic in a certain way. And I think that that exists in all walks of life. And certainly when it comes to the soccer world, while yes, it's still certainly at the higher echelons leans in particular to the left. I also think that there's a lot of people coming out and saying, you know what, this is how I've felt all along. I was just too worried and too scared, let's be honest, to say it, but I'm comfortable saying it right now.

And when Christian Pulisik does one of these things, whether he attaches the meaning or not to it, people will attach the meaning and kind of look at it and say, you know what, this is good. This is good for him. This is good for the country. And this is okay. Maybe you don't like it, but it's still okay.

And we're going to be fine.

So I'll give you an example. I don't know if I told you this already, but I coached Neelis, Sean Nealis. I coached him since he was about nine. And he is now captain of the Red Bulls team. And his brother, who would take to tournaments, he's a year younger.

He plays left back. The Red Bulls are in the semifinals now, right? A year ago. They were starting in the back four this weekend. They started with the wind over NYCFC.

They started both of them, right? Yeah. And I was reading the scouting report on him. They said, you know, you got to find a way to beat these guys and how dangerous Dylan Nealis is.

So I pitched it to my general news, my producers here, and they said, Brian, you should go out and do a feature with them. It doesn't matter if they're the best players. The fact that they're playing pro and you coach them. The Red Bulls said, I don't really know if we want to be on Fox.

So, a national network that just beat, we beat ESPN, we beat the Cartoon Network team, whatever it is, has been number one for the longest time. I mean, we do hard news, do opinion, do everything. I don't know if we want to do that. Can you believe that? I mean, if you want to know why Red Bull Arena is half full, even though you got a great team, I mean, that's the mindset.

I don't know how you live in that world. I, you know, look, it's, you know, cutting off the nose to spite your face and doing all those things. But it is understandable. And while things are starting to change, they're not going to change drastically. And there's still going to be people that look at whether it's you and your association with Fox News or Fox News in general or me in an association with Fox.

And, you know, listen, we have to be honest with ourselves. There is baggage that comes with that. But I think we're working through some of that. And again, if you were to interview a couple of soccer players, just because you interview them and just because you want to highlight them, doesn't even mean necessarily that they share your political course. And they say, hey, I voted for Harris and I'm a staunch Democrat and I lean left and all that kind of stuff.

It doesn't mean you can't have a conversation about soccer and about life and about their upbringing and about the things that they love and about what they love about being an American and find some common ground. He is Alexi Lawless, always has opinions, always delivers. Alexi, have a great Thanksgiving. You're the best. Happy Thanksgiving to you and everybody listening.

Go get them. Back in a moment. Learning something new every day on the Brian Kilmeat Show. Hey, welcome back, everyone. We're about to do a simulcast with Stuart Barney.

Special thanks to Alexi Lawis for joining us. And we're going to be talking about what's happened with Alec Baldwin overseas, believe it or not.

So it's going to be great. Always love talking to Stuart Barney. And of course, at the end of this, I'll be able to squeeze in some calls. Let's listen in together. Malik Baldwin claims Americans are the ones who are uninformed about reality.

Brian, watch this. There's a hole, there's a vacuum. There is a gap, if you will, in Um uh information for Americans. Americans are very uninformed about reality, what's really going on. with climate change, Ukraine is You name it, all the biggest topics in the world.

Americans have an appetite for a little bit of information. That vacuum is filled by the film industry. What? Would you listen to that, Ryan? Go on.

The gap is going to be filled by Hollywood. Are you kidding me? Yes, a Marvel movie helps fill in the gaps in my knowledge. Or is it Gladiator 2? I forgot.

It's amazing. He's over in Italy getting a Lifetime Achievement Award. By all accounts, it must be fun. He's got all these kids. They're probably having a great time in Italy.

It's the Torino Film Festival, at which time he's supposed to talk about his lifetime of achievement. Let's look. He's had as brutal three years as anybody in the film industry. From the he's the executive producer, as well as the guy holding the gun that killed his friend. And then he has to go through the trial and he beats it and he gets out.

And you would think he'd be a little bit happy while being unemployable. Instead, he has to rip America in Italy because we elected Donald Trump. I'm talking about 75 million people. I have news for you. A lot of people are reading a lot more than you.

A lot have a higher education than you. You're a very good actor in your day. But if you wouldn't mind not putting down the American people's reading comprehension or ability to read and understand books, Because we don't agree with you. He's talking about the permafrost in the Arctic. Believe me, you could focus on that.

We have this other thing we got to get going, plus a lot of world issues we got to handle, and we got a checkbook we got to balance. And I think we read books too as a people.

So if anyone in Italy is watching us right now, can we be the counter-narrative? We do read a lot and understand a lot more than Alec Baldwin thinks. Yeah, we're not stupid. Brian, listen to the views. Whoopi Goldberg shot down Anna Navarro after she tried to fearmonger about Trump.

You've got to watch this. We're going to wait and see because we can't do anything else except. I'm not going to wait and see. I mean, this guy is a retribution. What are you going to do?

What are you doing? There's nothing to be done until you know what you're fighting. It's pissing in the wind doesn't help. You just get away from it. But I mean, what I'm saying is, I have no false expectations that at 78, he's going to all of a sudden turn God into another human.

And I spent weeks telling people that he was apocalyptic. I'm not going to change now. Ha ha ha. You know, we better get used to this because after the inauguration, it only gets worse, doesn't it? It does.

And I watched the whole clip to get ready for your segment. I would never normally watch the show, don't worry, audience. But I would just Whoopi Goldberg made a statement. She says, I'm tired of being angry all the time, making opinions about what and project what he's going to do. I'm going to react to what he does.

Okay, you got 55 days to see who he nominates, and then you got to see him make a whole bunch of impactful decisions. I think that's a reasonable thing to do. And Ada Navarro, who's supposed to be a Republican in real life, just yells at him that you can't possibly understand how bad this guy is. And then Joy Behart jumps in. I mean, to me, Whoopi Goldberg said to herself, She made a statement about two months ago, I'd quit if I could afford to.

And maybe she just said, If I'm going to go through four more years, I can't really do it at 10 plus. I need to understand what happened that day and react to that day. That is a total reasonable thing to do. And just when she tries to make sense as the key moderator, she gets. Yelled at by three people who normally agree with her.

So she must have gone to the makeup today and said, How do I win here? You know, why do I even try? You know, Brian, you're having far too much fun in the Trump era. Just a big sweaty. I can tell.

That even started. Already. It's good stuff. Hey, Brian, you're all right. I hope you have a great Thanksgiving.

I hope you have a better one. All right, go get him, Stuart. I'll try. I'll try. I'll try.

Thanks. All right, still ahead. Guys, spend this morning working up to the end. And, of course, we're going to be here tomorrow, too. 1-866-408-7669.

George, you're over. Uh in Ohio. Hey, George. Hey, Brian, thanks for taking my call. I appreciate what you do.

You're a true patriot. Thank you. Appreciate it. What's on your mind?

Well, hey, I just wanted to say, I wanted to tell you what I did, how I celebrated after Trump won, after he got the necessary electoral college votes. I yelled at the top of my lungs over and over and over. Red wall, red wave. Trump is back to save the day. I woke my kids up.

And my wife, who was half asleep in the recliner while I was watching the Fox News all night, and my kids got up and they were like, Dad, what's going on? What's going on? I said Trump just won. We are saved once again. We are back.

The country is back. And so then what I did The next morning, I called off of work because I was so tired from watching all the election results, and then, of course, I wanted to see you. Our Fox and Friends in the morning. And listen to your radio show, so I didn't get much sleep all day. But I went down to a local t-shirt shop.

And I just decided I'm going to make up some T shirts with what I yelled out. Red wall, red wave, Trump is back to save the day.

So I made one hundred T shirts with Trump's face on it, with that slogan, and I just Used Facebook and other social media platforms to get the word out that, hey, if you come to this address, and what is your address? What is your address, George? How do we get it? Can I send an email, Brian? My address is in Wadsworth, Ohio.

No, no, I mean, how do people get your shirt? Oh, how did they get them? I put my address out there, and they showed up over a three-day period, and I gave away 100 shirts. Oh, you gave them away? I thought you wanted to sell them.

No, no, no, I gave them away.

Okay.

That's how happy I am about what happened. I know, and I thought you wanted a website. I didn't want your home address. I promise, George, I appreciate it. I know people are that happy, but look.

I think Trump should go solidify his games, go to Chicago, go to New York, go to Boston, and go meet the people that put him over the top. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, welcome to the latest moments of the show.

So glad you're here. Getting ready for Thanksgiving. People traveling all around, weather's been terrible. Hope you're able to check out the show. We've got some great specials coming your way too on Thanksgiving and the day after.

Kennedy is going to be here at the bottom of the hour to entertain and inform. Julian Epstein, standing by, served as chief counsel for the House Judiciary Committee. She has some thoughts about where the Democratic Party goes from here. 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. There are still state threats out of New York. We also have the Georgia case, which is floundering but still alive. But in this case, Smith was like a captain who would soon be without a ship or crew, and he had to dismiss this case.

It wasn't by choice. Jack Smith's plan to destroy Donald Trump is officially over. And dare I say, boomeranged, as the special prosecutor ends his case with this pursuit, might just have delivered the pursuit, might have just delivered the White House to Trump, Will explained. Number two. What the President is doing is saying, think I'm joking?

Think I'm bluffing? Take a look. What is the leverage that he has immediately? Forgetting Congress, we can work with Congress on something else. He wants something immediately on day one.

That's what the voters said that they wanted as well. Yup, that is Dana Prino. The economy and Wall Street love Trump's Treasury pick. And the Wall Street Journal fears, though, in today's editorial, that Trump's plan could fuel inflation. We'll get their point of view.

Number one. I'm thankful that we finally have a president and president Trump. Who's going to enforce the laws of the United States of America? I'm thankful that we have Tom Homan as the incoming border czar who's going to help execute those laws and enforce those laws and make sure that we get back to restoring order. That is the Governor of Texas.

Trump's mission to restore order at the border on full display as we see the latest on the wall. Tariff threats in our irresponsible neighbors, Mexico and Canada will pay the price. Holman giving thanks to our border guards today in about two hours, going to be serving them breakfast, I think, excuse me, serving them lunch.

So there's a lot going on, obviously, and including the Wall Street Journal today looks at the Trump plan and he says a plan of using tariffs. And he says, my fear is that if Trump goes after the Fed chair and maybe fires him or tries to fire him, if he randomly puts on tariffs and if he kicks out the whole illegal illegal immigrant labor force, it could bring tariffs to play. But then they do admit that they thought the 2017 tax reform would also bring a hike in inflation, and it didn't. Julian Epstein joins us now, long time Democrat, was very frustrated by his party leading up to this election. Julian, in reflection, do you think your party got the message from the last election?

And what do you think it is? No, I don't think the party.

Well, first of all, thanks for having me again, Brian, and happy Thanksgiving to you and your listeners. No, I don't think the party got the message. And I think the elites are sort of squabbling with one another right now, a lot of finger pointing. Biden should have gotten out earlier. We should have gone to the political center.

We needed a better candidate.

Sort of the tactical discussion. And, you know, my point, the point that I wrote about in the New York Post on Sunday is there's a deeper problem that's going on within the Democrats. It's a cultural problem, and it is a culture of contempt and virtue signaling.

So you didn't hear Democrats talk about much what they wanted to build or what they wanted to do if they were re-elected in this last election cycle. You heard them talking about Trump is a fascist, democracy is going to die, sort of all of these ad hominem attacks. And this is what has become the Democratic Party. It is not a party about building or constructing. It is a party about expressing contempt and moral condescension.

Yeah. This is really a form of self-dealing because what it does is it enables the elites within the party to adopt what I would call, and what others have called, luxury beliefs.

So you take immigration, for example. Immigration is very good for the elites. It helps provide a servant class that can bring them postmates and that can clean their houses and that can be their nannies.

So it enriches them financially, but it has a terribly destructive effect on the working class in terms of loss of jobs and downward pressure on wages. And what the left does, rather than acknowledging problems like this, that this is a real transfer of wealth, effectively, is what immigration is from the working class to the elites. What the Democrats do is they say, if you disagree with me, you're a bad person. You're a racist or you're a bigot.

So rather than dealing with the issue, they express moral contempt. And what moral contempt does, for them. is it Allows them to shut down the conversation. I have more moral authority than you do because I'm calling you a racist, therefore there's no debate, therefore we don't really have to confront the merits of your attack on the open borders of the last four years. But the second thing it does, Brian, on the left, the louder you shout and the more moral contempt you express for the other side, the more social status you get.

So it's a way of chasing social status on the left.

So if I can express my moral contempt, my disdain, my moral superiority, In academia and in the political class, you get more status on the left.

So it's really a very self-serving form of closing your ears, shutting down the conversation. I mean, let's look what they're talking about now. The president says he's 55 days to take in office. And he said, look, if I'm in office and we still get the steady stream of 20,000, by the way, I did not know this from our northern border between October 2023 and today, and then you got the hundreds of thousands and millions that have come through over the last four years. If that's still happening, 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, 10% on China because you're bringing fentanyl in, and we're going to shut the border and then we're going to negotiate a remain in Mexico.

Nothing I just said affects Democrats negatively. All it is is pro-America. A lot of the stuff that Trump does is common sense for the country. It's not really, it shouldn't be counterintuitive to Democrats. Do you agree?

I do agree. And I think it is music to the ears of most voters that we have a president now, whether you voted for him or whether you didn't vote for him, that is going to take this issue seriously. And so I think the American people, by huge numbers, 70, 80%, want to close the borders. And there's a lot of pearl clutching in the papers today about Trump's threat on tariffs. as retaliation for open borders and fentanyl trafficking.

And what I think a lot of people don't understand about what it seems to me the President is doing is he's a negotiator. And he starts off everything with a strong hand. And whether he follows through on the tariffs or not really depends on what Canada and Mexico does in response. But I think he's sending a message to Canada and Mexico that he means business. And if they want to come to the day table and deal with the open borders and the fentanyl flows, then I think he's willing to negotiate and sort of.

I hope be reasonable. But It doesn't necessarily mean that we're going to have 25% tariffs and we're going to have a revisiting of inflation. It means that he's starting off with a strong hand and he's sending a message that he means business. This is very different from what Biden and Harris did, which is they basically let out a welcome mat and said, you don't even need to ring the front door bill. Just come on, come on, come all.

And we had 10 million. or so come in. And again, as I say, this is a huge Wealth transfer from working-class Americans to the elites so that they can have all of these wonderful, effectively servants taking care of their daily needs and daily chores. They can explicitly do it. But they could do it legally, Julian.

I know a lot of people that get O-pairs legally, they do it through systems. They're going to come over here in a work situation, they just have to do it the right way. And they do have to do it the right way. But what immigration is doing, Brian, with 10 million flooding the borders, is it is driving down the prices and the costs of all of these services, your postmates, your nanny services, your cleaning of your house. It's driving down the costs and it's transferring money away from working class Americans.

By the way, I think what I haven't heard Trump talk about. On immigration, and which I hope he does talk about, and I hope the Republicans talk about, is e-verify. You should not be able to employ someone in this country unless they're there legally. And that's an easy thing that you can do. And Democrats used to be for it.

And it's an easy thing that he could do now. And I hope he does. Right. So I see there's some Democrats who make it a lot of sense. This guy, Richie Torres, who's liberal, he's a progressive, but when it comes to pro-Israel, He's there, he's pro-Israel.

When it comes to those outrageous pro-Hamas protests on the campuses, he's against it. When it comes to allowing these people that belong in an insane asylum out, one of which got free and killed three people in cold blood in the middle of the afternoon, stabbing them brutally yesterday in New York City. He says there's blood on the mayor and governor's hands for allowing this to happen. And he says, I might run for mayor or governor because we're going to end up losing this state to Donald Trump if we don't snap out of it. There is an opportunity now for reasonable.

Democrats, like Senator Fetterman, I think, and the recently retired Joe Manchin. Do you believe? Do you think and Robert Holden, who's a state representative here in New York, who is speaking out for getting illegal immigrant gangsters out of the country, where evidently the governor's got a problem with that, there's a lane for them, isn't there? There is a lane for them. There isn't within the elites of the party because the elites of the party have believe in left, increasingly hard-left orthodoxies, and they disdain anyone that dissents.

But the voters don't. And what we saw with almost every state and almost every city shifting towards Trump in the last election, most voters now realize that the progressive dystopia that you see in places like California and Oregon and so many other cities is a failure, is bankrupt.

So, when Rich Torres gets out and talks about how we need to defend Israel because they are the only democracy in the area that's fighting genocidal maniacs that don't want peace and that want basically global Sharia, when he gets out and talks about that, he's speaking to a huge swath of Democrats and moderates and Republicans who agree with that. And it's not just on Israel and it's not just on immigration that Rich Torres talks about. That Rich Torres makes the same points that I'm making about The intersectional left, the hard left that has taken over the policymaking of the Democratic Party, and that is very popular. We could have a conversation about crime. We could have a conversation about climate extremism.

We could have a conversation about critical race or critical gender. I mean, he's made the point on all of these issues that the party has succumbed to a hard ideological left that is out of step with the American people. And that's, you know, you and I have been talking about this for a long time, and I always felt Trump was going to win this election, and I thought Trump was going to win the election, both because The party has gone way too far left, and because people really resent, and I can't emphasize this point enough, they really resent the moral condescension.

So, when you disagree with them again on immigration, you're told you're a bad person. People can't stand that. It's obnoxious. And they hate that, and they're reacting against it.

So you talk about condensation.

So Alec Baldwin goes over to Italy to get a Lifetime Achievement Award, at which time he thought it would be a great idea, uh, opportunity to put down all of America. Listen. There is a gap, if you will, in um uh information for Americans. Americans are very uninformed about reality. And it gets worse.

Uninformed about reality, we won't read anything, and news networks are just there for profit, not to inform.

So, as a country of 330 million, 100 plus million, almost 200 million vote, we don't read anything and we're uninformed. Thanks. Yeah, that's what a lot of the elites on the left are saying. You know, never mind the fact that most of the legacy media is pretty distinctly partisan right now. But this is exactly what I'm talking about.

This is the moral condescension and the virtue signaling. You go abroad and you say American voters are stupid. They're not stupid. They understand what happened with the economy and inflation in the last four years. They understand what happened on immigration.

They understand what happened on electric vehicle mandates or basically moving our auto industry abroad and disemploying auto workers. They understand it across a lot of issues. And, you know, Folks like Alec Baldwin, you know, he may be a good actor. But You know, they, I think, are the ones that are deeply out of touch. They are deeply out of touch with the experience that everyday Americans have.

And, you know, if you talk to, what I tell people to do all the time is when you find. Folks that work with their hands, right? The men and women that build this country, the men that build the buildings, that build the infrastructure, that build the sewage, that put up the electoral systems. Stop and talk to them and listen to them. And it's amazing how much you will learn when you listen to the working Americans that build this country, how, in fact, well-informed they are, how in touch they are.

They're basically good, decent, hard-working people that you can learn a lot from if you just stop to take time to listen. And I just, I love it. Trump put together this very eclectic group. They said it's the most diverse cabinet that they've seen in a while. Michael Beschloss, a Trump hater history, and said the same thing.

It's, you know, from RFK to Tulsi to someone as traditionally conservative as Marco Rubio and Michael Waltz. They put together a very different group. And the Doge group, two very successful billionaires, Vivek and Elon Musk. Fareed Zakaria, who is also a Trump hater, but extremely smart with a very bright, very intelligent show. Globally plugged in.

He actually saw a positive in this. Listen to what he said Sunday on CNN, Cut 25. Of Donald Trump's recent announcements, the one that intrigues, even excites me the most is the establishment of Doge. the misnamed Department of Government Efficiency. Misnamed because it is really a non-governmental advisory body that will work with the White House, not any kind of department inside government.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will be in charge of Doge, are both brilliant, and the federal government has clearly become too expansive and its writ too cumbersome. There are over one hundred eighty thousand pages of federal regulations. Surely it's worth taking a close look at them and retiring many. I mean, isn't that the hope? With nothing political about cutting waste and having a game plan to do it, he recognized it.

Your final thought on this?

Well, you could add to them this list of the team of rivals, a pro-labor department of labor secretary. You could add a George Soros advisor. Look, the problem is, Thomas Sowell used to say this all the time, the great economist, the culture of the modern federal bureaucracy is to expand itself constantly, and it never has to ask the questions as to whether any of its policies fail. You could look at the welfare state. Has the welfare state really gotten rid of the major social problems it was designed to address?

No, they've gotten worse.

So the bureaucracy never has to answer for its failure. Its primary purpose is to build its growth outcome. Check out Julian Epstein's column of Democrats, even after Trump trouncing, the Democrats refused to learn lessons in the New York Post from Sunday. Julian Epstein, thanks so much. We'll be back in a moment with your calls and welcoming Kennedy, whether you want to or not.

Kennedy. Coming to you on a need-to-know basis, because Mandy, you need to know, it's Brian Kilmead. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. So, we have a what I'm going to talk about, Kennedy, shortly is the Wall Street Journal talks about how to be woke and how the president can do it from the federal government.

Chris Ruffo, who's leading the charge on DEI and getting it out of our schools, he visited in 2020 with the president. He's going over to Florida. He's in Florida. He was a big advisor on education to Governor DeSantis. And now, he's a friend of the show, too.

He'll be on. He's going to go over. And talk to Trump. And he's going to talk about how to do that. And basically, you got to deny.

All these colleges money if they have this DEI stuff down there. And I just know too, a college very familiar with They made everybody go to a Um a bias training. Where they just basically told all the white people how terrible they are. That has to be in our rearview mirror. We have to stop all that stuff.

The whole thing about America being implicitly prejudiced, built on stolen land, off the backs of slaves, the 1619 mantra, that has gotta go. And especially as we come up on birthday 250 for the country. If you listen to the Brian Killmeat show, when we come back, Kennedy joins us in studio. And we also talk about what the Wall Street Journal is saying. Is Trump gonna have inflation?

He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian, kill me. That's all insinuated, okay? It's this cutesy, hyperbolic nonsense coming out of the media and the Democrats who refuse to accept the fact that almost a majority or a majority of Americans have accepted Donald Trump and Trumpism. I think it's time to give this guy a month of peace.

And let hi the process play out. And that child's name is Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, and Donna Brazil weighing in, and Ryan's Priebus on ABC, just saying, Can you give him a second? But I guess when you're president-elect, you don't really get a second when you have all these nominations out. Reluctantly, Kennedy is here. You did not want to be here, is that correct?

Didn't want to be here, Brian. Right, you did. I was asleep. Right. Your chief of staff woke you?

Chief of staff woke me with an air horn. It's the only way to get me out of bed at this hour. Right. Crack of 11. A lot of people are just using their watch.

No, you're just using your watch. That's why I have a team. Right. Do you sometimes wake up thinking you're being subbed out? That's why I like the air horn because I feel like I'm back in the fight.

Right, back in the fight. Exactly right. Does someone have beds? I sleep in a New York Rangers uniform. Can I ask you something personal?

When you get out of bed, does someone go into bed? Because is it a rotation? Is that what you're doing? I know I don't like to get into my personal details, but obviously, yes. But it is a sub.

Yeah, I mean, a pyramid has to be held up by its foundation. Right. Oh, the cheerleader. Yeah, exactly right.

So, Kenny, what do you think about that? Does the president get a month apiece? No, no, um, he, as Bill Himmerl was pointing out this morning while you were on the radio, um. He he hasn't been seen really publicly in three weeks, which means that he's getting some phenomenal plastic surgery. And I'm very much looking forward to that.

Well, uh, I will or that or uh Susan Wilde said to him, Why don't you say low? We have nominated. That's the unsexy version and probably the more realistic one? You just wore the plastic surgery. Wouldn't that be amazing?

But according to Alec Bolton, you just make stuff up for ratings. You don't really know anything. Either do I. Because I'm an American. I mean, I'm sorry, Brian.

I thought this was a free speech zone. I thought that was the point. Right. So there's a story today how the president the Wall Street Journal actually had it. How the president can get rid of woke.

You think he can? I don't know. It's it's um I think people are pretty sick of it. I think there's already a a cultural drift away from it because there's not a lot of upside to it. It there's only division and um division is uh it's painful and dishonest.

And people I I think a big part of the election was And this is how what I would warn the President and people who are so excited about it. You have a lot of people who voted for Trump, but they're not necessarily Republicans. And I bet a lot of them don't consider themselves to be Republicans.

So much good can happen from this moment. And I want. The stewards in power to humbly move forward. Honoring people who are trusting them, maybe for a brief, brief period of time. It seems kind of weird.

55 days till President Trump takes over and his borders are meeting with the governor of Texas at the border while serving the Texas Border Patrol lunch for Thanksgiving. And it is interesting that he says, I'm going to put tariffs on Canada. Mm-hmm. Mexico and China because they're allowing their border to be a sieve and it's hurting our country. Actually, Canada is slowing down their immigration.

They've been really ago. Maybe we we can't afford this. And he is, um There's just a whole push In a little bit more of a sane direction in the Western world. How about this? If you want to get rid of woke, and you say that's what you want.

First off, It means believing America is riddled with inequities. We have to stop believing that America is riddled with inequities. Where not only its people, but the system itself is racist and in need of a systemic overhaul. Can you promise to get rid of that belief? No, and I actually think you have to have a good sense of history in order to move forward.

The problem is, the people who are in charge of that mentality don't want to move forward. The Jasmine Crocketts of the world, they actually want slavery and oppression of people they assume their ancestors were slave owners. But that doesn't do anything to make a better society either. It only, again, divides us further and it's an irrational solution. I think, you know, if you read.

Your books, you understand that we have some very painful chapters in our history, but that doesn't mean we have to be in a constant racial civil war for the rest of our lives and for all future generations. But already, I think President Trump is starting it. He names his cabinets almost done. You don't hear the first Hawaiian, the first woman, another woman. I mean, there's the first gay Treasury Secretary, which I feel bad.

I thought that Janet Yellen was Right. An L word. She must be angry. I think she's mad. Right.

Yeah. That she's. Is she? I d I Figured she was a big chapel roan.

Well, put it this way: it's going to be Scott's unless she's going to speak up and out herself. Which would be amazing because then she'd steal his thunder. But I'm saying we don't hear that. Just like that. But, like, as Scott Bessett, he's a Wall Streeter, self-made hedge fund guy who was with George Soros for a while, formed his own capital, his capital firm.

I didn't care that he was with George Soros. I actually think that might be a better forum. No, but I'm saying that. But a lot of people have an issue with that. But why are you starting with, like the old administration goes.

We finally have a nuclear Uh a nuclear Uh Is that is that you want to take that? It's my seamless order. It's my gluten-free bacon, egg, and cheese bagel. Do you need to take it? No?

Okay.

Wait, hang on a second. Keep talking, Brian.

Well, we finally have a guy with the go-ahead. Hello? Yeah. Oh, fantastic. I'll be down in a couple minutes.

Thanks so much. Right. Okay, I miss you. No, you've never met him. Not yet.

No. Right. I might miss him in two hours. Right. Yeah.

But let's see if you hit it off. That's right. But I was just saying he was handle of nuclear maintenance and he had a mustache and a dress and he was stealing luggage. Remember?

So, I mean, yeah. I mean, it's one of the best stories. It's so insane. Right. It's utterly, I mean, I think that that is one of the big things this election was about.

Can we get back to a meritocracy? Can we get back to people like, hey, I work really hard and I'm good at my job? That's my point. Oh, then we should hire you because you're the best candidate.

Now, do you think I booked you because you're Romanian? Probably, yes, because you know that if you didn't book me, I'd break your kneecaps and steal your horse. Absolutely. And with Nadia Kamenich.

So could you imagine we used to be anyway? You'd be surprised. Right. Hmm.

So So, but the thing is, I don't say Kennedy's coming in because I need a Romanian. And I think we're past that point. We just watch a cabinet being named, and no one's talking about woman, man. We look up and we say, There are women. There are there are black people but it's not the most important thing.

It no, and it shouldn't be. Like uh those immutable characteristics shouldn't be the the sole reason you are selected for anything. It should be because you are a badass and you're really good at your job and you are going to make this environment better. Right. Chris Ru I don't mean saying right like dismissive.

I mean right you're right. Chris Ruffo thinks he has an idea how to get rid of wokeness In schools, colleges, CUD27. President Trump has the opportunity to do what we've done in Florida on a national scale. And I'll give you two numbers to set the context. In 2019, in the first Trump administration, there was about $19 million of federal contracts with DEI language attached to them.

Last year, the Biden-Harris administration, that number was $1 billion. This is a multi-billion dollar industry. It has now thousands of federal employees practicing racism, demanding segregation, and Thinking that the United States is a fundamentally racist country, the President can put a stop to that on day one. He can abolish DEI and restore colorblind equality once and for all.

So that's a method. He's going to go visit with the president this week. Or, I guess it's a little later, he's visited already. But he says that he won in 2020, he's going to go back again. He goes, This is what he said.

I want to hear your ideas for colleges. I think it would be pretty cool. We have to do something to right the ship of colleges and universities because they are going. I was thinking about this the other day. Any time you have a rational and outspoken college professor, they are canceled.

And they are either fired or forced to resign by the sheer vitriol that's thrown at them on campus. By, you know, it's like bubble-dwelling idiot fellow professors or entitled brats who don't know how to think for themselves. I hear you. And they're shouted off campus.

So, what you're left with is the fart huffers and the annoying idiots who shell out $100,000 a year to go there.

So we also have a situat if you see the University of Austin special in 60 Minutes on Sunday. The game went a little late, so at 60 minutes really started at 7:50, I think. Yeah, but that was Joe Lonsdale started that. Yeah, Joe Lonsdale, he also with Mike Schellenberger, with Neil Ferguson, with Barry Weiss. Neil, I thought it was Niall.

Yeah, it looks like Niall, but I think it's Neil. Oh, okay. But he started all this. They got 100 people this year, and they got like they have people applying off the charts. It's free, but it's an elite education, and they don't have it, it's not Animal House.

And they're all enti they all have to tolerate each other and they exchange ideas and It was a very good feature to lead with on sixty minutes.

So I think people are there. And then we say we wake up to the fact that I was gonna uh wake you up, but you like to wake up with the air, Orn, and we didn't have your sub was not ready to go in.

So Walmart rolled back DEI policies is the latest firm to do so. It has like twenty seven bullet points that are now gone. By the way, Walmart is doing phenomenally well right now and really kicking Targets arse. Right. And this guy, Robbie Starbuck, he had to threaten him.

He says, Walmart's ending their woke policies. I can now exclusively tell you what's changing and how it happened. Last week, I told the executives at Walmart that I was doing a story on wokeness there. Instead, we had a productive conversation to find solutions. Below are the changes Walmart committed to make.

I have to give their executives major credit because they will send shockwaves throughout corporate America. This is the biggest. Win yet for our movement and wokeness in corporate America. Who's that? It's Salifu, my, uh my seamless driver.

He's calling back again? I mean, I'm only one woman, Brian. Right. I mean, do you have any staff at all that could be taking these calls? No, I really should have coordinated something because the timing was really iffy because I ordered it at 10:55.

I'm like, oh, it's a gluten-free bacon, egg, and cheese bagel. I won't be here. It wasn't cheese. Yeah. Do you want to go get it?

I'll be right there. Oh. Oh, yeah, he's not even talking to me at this point. I think we're having our first fight. Is that Swedish, Salifo?

I don't think so. I think it's probably Somali. It sounds like a verb. It does. It probably is.

Right. You know, it's they they have very versatile names. All right, so Kennedy is going to stick around for one more segment or go get her food. Or or both. I think I have time to to retrieve it and to come right back and finish the show bigly.

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Previgen is the most recommended memory support brand by pharmacists. The irony of Jack Smith is: I mean, he brought this case to try and make sure my father never got elected. And I actually think it was Jack Smith who might go down as one of the very reasons my father got elected, right? It's kind of a law of unintended consequences, but. I think the only thing I disagree with you on, this case is dead.

The case got dismissed. The case will not get revived. By the time my father's out of office, the statute of limitations will be long gone. You can't have double jeopardy. Laura, this case is dead.

It's not coming back. And that man on the screen right there will go down as a national embarrassment. He will go down as a figure who literally tried to subvert democracy, who tried to put a president in jail for no reason to benefit his political class. He's an embarrassment to the EPA. I'm obviously very happy yesterday, Kennedy, because the case, Jack Smith's case, are gone, but he's still going to issue a report talking about everything he had.

And of course, forcing the Trump people to have a counter narrative if they choose. But what role do you think these court cases playing in him getting the nomination in the presidency? I think Jack Smith was the jilted lover who got dumped first. They went all in and they just assumed that they had this coordinated effort and launched all of these cases within a pretty short amount of time. It was a very compressed timeframe, which is interesting, seeing as though the genesis of several of these is five to eight years old.

In the Stormy Daniels case, even a little bit longer. But overall, they knew they could get a guilty conviction and they thought that would be enough. What was the result, though? The result was people None of it mattered to voters who were in pain. None of it mattered.

I think it's the opposite. I think some of them got ticked off, especially when they saw the civil case and they saw the idiotic New York case and it made no sense to them. And then these primary, our primary, the Republican primary field couldn't get any publicity at all. All they would say is, Hey, Ron DeSantis, I know you're in Iowa, but what do you think about the president's case? Yeah, and they all had to come out and say he's being targeted.

This is unlawful. This is un-American. And, you know, and that was when. The Trump campaign really took off.

So, the Democrats today spent over a billion dollars in 103 days.

So, they have 20 million in debt, and they're meeting with donors. At which time, people have talked about how they spent like crazy men. I mean, now, and we don't even know the depths of their idiotic spending. We will. I mean, whatever they don't release, because legally they have to, there will be so many requests and so much investigation to really figure out how can someone spend that much money in such a short amount of time and still fall short.

That person, you know, I'm one of those people I agree. If you can't manage the financials of a campaign, if you don't have enough juice to get your friends to show up for free to volunteer to make sure you get out the vote. You shouldn't be president. If you're spending that kind of money that irresponsibly, what are you going to do with free money from the government?

So she says she's not out of the fight. She wants to go back. But I think she's eliminated. If I gave money and I'll give billions of dollars, they were still. What happens is people are explaining to me that you get commission off money, off the spots you buy.

Yes. So you're buying spots. You don't get money unless they err. Right. So, but you're buying spots in Florida and in Alabama.

I mean, what are you doing? You know, so here you are in the final days of the campaign. You're spending millions of dollars on ads in states you're not even going to win.

So there was no strategy.

So you're letting everybody just go crazy, jumping and paying the money for Oprah Seth. That's on her because she's the one who has all these consultants around her. She is the one who approves the people who approve these ad buys. And if she's not staying on top of it, she's not going to stay on top of the country. But, you know, they were, she was in Texas just a few days before the election.

It's like, lady, you got much bigger problems in Texas. She's helping the Senate candidate run against Ted Cruz. You're worried about a senator in Texas when you're trying to coincide. And that was the thing I was thinking about the other day, her internal polling, because I talked to Jessica Tarlov three days before the election. She was like, her internal polling is fantastic.

I'm actually really excited. She said that to you. Yeah. And I was like, and I was like, but Trump's internal polling is fantastic. Point where they almost took their foot off the gas a little bit.

They almost had a walk. Yes, they almost got a little too comfortable at the very end. And I thought they gave her some of the momentum. But, you know, I want to know who did her internal polling because they were so wrong. Right.

I don't know. All the polls just stopped. They go, Ty. Yeah, because I don't want to be wrong. Yeah, CBS, CNN, like, oh, no, it's a tie.

Right. Alec Baldwin came out and said America is just not that smart and uninformed. We don't read enough. Yeah. So do you want to help him?

Do you want to? I would like to help him back the U-Haul to the airport so he could load everything onto a plane. Go to a smarter country. Leave. Go to a smarter country.

Go to Italy. I'm sure they would absolutely love you. You got a Lifetime Achievement Award in Italy and have to put down America. Dumb, dumb. Most people left Italy to come to him.

He's a dumb Alec. Right. I got that. When can we see you again? Uh, Gutfell snipe.

Are you gonna be yourself? No, I'm playing Brian Killme. That's so wrong. Look at my mustache. Absolutely.

Who's hosting? I think Joe Mackey. Oh my goodness. He's very funny. In a way.

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