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So glad you're here. A lot going on. Presence in Angola, so don't go to the White House and ask for a tour, expect to see him in the Oval Office. He arrived there. Problem is, he promised to help Africa and push China out, and he over-promised and under-delivered.

Shocker.

Meanwhile, the Biden administration. Was also getting ready to put up their lights. We have the Speaker of the House down in Capitol Hill. He and members of Congress will host the annual U.S. Capitol Christmas tree lighting.

I guess we're getting towards that on Rockefeller Plaza, too.

So before we get to Colonel West this hour and get to all the breaking news that's taking place today, as more and more court transition picks for the president of the United States make their way to Capitol Hill to tell senators why they should be confirmed, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three: The resistance is going to have trouble raising money. These fundraisers are burnt. The damage that this decade has done to the Democratic brand is almost unfathomable. Almost unfathomable.

Dems in transition. Brand is broken, and their mission to stop Trump has failed. We look at what the new left will look like. Perhaps, maybe. Number two.

I think we're going to see a lot of them leave the Department of Justice. You're going to see a lot of people leave the FBI, maybe even the Department of Defense, which is exactly what Donald Trump wants, because what he wants is chaos. Really? Still saying that, Michael Bennett? Transition tension from cash to RFK to Exet to Tulsi.

Dems have trouble dealing with the President-elect's picks to lead the reform agenda as Dems try to Trump proof their version of America. Number one. Obviously, Republicans are going to criticize, but Biden did make this line of attack particularly available, seeing as how he spent so long saying he wouldn't do it. The problem is the rest of the Democrats. Made Biden's pledge to not pardon Hunter the foundation of their defense of America, this grand experiment.

John Stewart. Big monologue, 20 minutes worth, just as upset as many other Democrats with Joe Biden. The fallout continues as cowardly pardon sets his son free and lets Dems and his surrogates as he jets off to Angola try to explain and defend it what it means in the big picture. And what it means in the big picture is that almost everything they're saying that Donald Trump, every time he brought up the weaponization of the Department of Justice, why he was being targeted, how it was unjust, and why he feels like he was being attacked and distracted. You might not think the President Trump was playing a perfect game.

In fact, he doesn't think he was. But the way the government was going after him, he said, is going to stop. I'm going to get back in there. You screwed up my first administration, two and a half years of Russia. You got rid of a lot of good people.

You put them in financial hell with legal costs. And you're not going to do it this time. In the meantime, Joe Biden. Catapulted into the White House by being back to normalcy. With the Department of Justice and the Presidency will be separate.

and the Department of Justice and the verdict on Hunter Biden, guilty or innocent, will stand, and I will not pardon my son. And then Democrats scrambled to defend the President and trumpet his sense of Fairness and ethics and pride and compassion. Remember. People like. I'm Dan Goldman.

One of President Trump's fiercest critics said this when the president declared I'm not pardoning Hunter. Cut four. Do you think a pardon for his son would be a mistake? Yes, and I don't think there's any chance that President Biden is going to do that, unlike his predecessor, who pardoned all of his friends and anyone who had any access to him. Which I think is hysterical, and I'll play a little bit later: is how Dan Coleman was confronted with his own comments.

Which is really not his fault. He took the President at his word. He won't pardon his son. Because in light of the fact that Donald Trump's been saying the weaponization of the government and everybody that supports Biden saying, of course, he's making that up, he breaks the law and doesn't want to get prosecuted. And then he goes ahead and pardons a son that has a gun charge, lied about it, crack addiction, wrote about it in his book.

I bought a gun, lied on my form. My girlfriend at the time, which was Bo's widow, left my wife for her. More on that later. Decided that I was a danger to myself.

So she threw the gun in the dumpster. Then the cops had to go get the gun out of the dumpster and someone stole it. And he writes about it in his book. And Joe Biden claims that, well, he's unjustly prosecuted for lying about a gun form. Really?

And then with tax, doesn't pay any taxes on the millions of dollars he made that he denied making when it was found out that he was not paying it. He had somebody mysteriously, a producer in Hollywood, come out and pay all his bills with interest. And they're still looking, and they're finding more millions. And then the pardon comes in. Other people.

who took him on his Word That he would not pardon Bahunter and look pretty stupid today. Let's look back and listen. Cut 19. One political party remains committed to the rule of law, and the other doesn't. It's that simple.

Hunter Biden's not above the law. No one is above the law. Democrats stand for the rule of law. We accept the outcome because that's how the rule of law works. Because the justice system that convicted his only surviving son.

is the same justice system he's vowed to protect. And if that doesn't tell you who Joe Biden is. I don't really know what does. Right. Jen Saki, we don't know who Joe Biden is.

And I think what he did with the pardon shows exactly who he is because we look at what he does. That's why if I'm a defender of his I just take him as words. I actually wouldn't have done this. As soon as Joe Biden said, I'm not partying my son, we all knew you're going to party your son. The crazy thing is, how can an experienced politician of over five decades?

Not understand that these words had come back to bite him, that his son was going to get convicted. Maybe th maybe that I'll correct myself. Maybe he was convinced the deal he caught with I don't even have Abby Lowell was one of the most expensive attorneys around. Who paid that bill? Oh, the producer out in Hollywood.

People should look into who's paying the producer to pay. For his bills. But Abby Lowell goes in there and they cut this deal with the judge, supposed to get him out of the gun charge. When the judge said, I've never seen a deal like this. This is farcical that you're actually exonerating from future crimes he hasn't even been indicted for or investigated for.

They go, I've never seen anything like that. And both sides go, Yeah, I've never seen anything like it either. He goes, We're ripping it up. Maybe he never anticipated that, but he said it after that, too. Then when he does it, I look like a total jerk on my other networks and my other columns.

When you write about Joe Biden, he has integrity and respect for the Justice Department, and Donald Trump doesn't. And then, it turns out, he Calls politics infusing in the Justice Department, but he still believes in the Department of Justice, just not when it affects his son. Only thing I can conclude. Here's Jon Stewart last night, cut 20. Obviously, Republicans are going to criticize, but Biden did make this line of attack particularly available, seeing as how he spent so long saying he wouldn't do it.

Because of how much he respects the system. But you know what, ladies and gentlemen? Hypocrisy isn't illegal. Nor is it particularly unusual in politics. It's not like he's ever going to run again, so why not take care of your kid?

Even if you said you weren't gonna. I respect it. I don't have a problem with it. The problem is the rest of the Democrats made Biden's pledge to not pardon Hunter the foundation of their defense of America, this grand experiment.

So Think about this. There's people out there who don't even think he voted for Kamo Harris. He does not speak to Nancy Pelosi. Word is when Donald Trump walked in the White House. to do his customary tour, ceremonial tour.

Joe Biden had the biggest smile on his face the whole time. And they talked substantively about Ukraine for about an hour and a half. And The takeaway from the Trump team was, this guy's pretty happy. And how else do you hurt your party? Even though he needs $300 million to build his library, I can't imagine it being around to see that done.

How else do you hurt your party? You throw out the integrity portion. That contrasted you evidently against a guy you called Hitler and a fascist. That's exactly what happened.

So Dan Goldman got confronted with this. And this guy, you know, he's a multi-millionaire, and that's fine, and he's a brutal partisan attorney, and that's okay. That's the role you want to play. But when you came out and talked about how much better. Biden is in Trump.

Because he stands for the rule of law. and separated the Department of Justice And then you get caught finding out later. That he pardoned his son. How stupid do you look when CNN calls and says, Can we talk to you again? And that should happen yesterday.

Cut five. What does that feel like, watching yourself back then reassuring people that Biden was not going to issue a pardon for his son? Yeah, and I think that if that plea agreement and that plea deal had gone through, there would be no pardon. Uh that was a satisfactory outcome. But it's Sorry?

Wh the w when you reacted, this was when the deal had fallen through. Just nailed her.

So, what he was saying is the deal, they were talking about the judge deal, and the judge says, You have a plea deal here that exonerates you from all crimes you've done and stuff that we don't even investigate you for. I've never seen anything like this. What do you mean we can't charge you or anything else? We don't even know what else is there. I can't sign off on this.

And David Weiss suddenly embarrassed as the uh Uh as the Attorney General of the State of Delaware, Republican, but left in charge, realized I got had. And he became the special counsel, did an investigation that unearthed his gun charge that got him convicted. Los Angeles gets looks into his taxes. It's indeed tax evasion. He owes millions of dollars, lied about it.

So he was going to be indicted and investigated and go on trial for that too. And he continues to lie. Do you really think that Joe Biden, over Thanksgiving, decided to exonerate his son? You think that, oh, yeah, you know what? I'm sorry.

Were you in legal trouble? You're my only son, sadly. He lost two kids tragically. Everyone's got tragedy in their lives. No one wishes it on anyone.

But he's got one son in tons of legal problems who represented the family in international business deals. He claimed to know nothing about. We later found out that was a lie. On the speakerphone, on present, golfing with his business partners. Having said all that, He decided over Thanksgiving to par to pardon him.

NBC reported that he already made the decision in June, and the minute he said I won't pardon my son after conviction, you knew he was pardoning his son. Charlemagne the god. Cut eight. I just want Democrats to stop acting like they are on this moral high ground politically when they have shown us they're not. Stop acting like y'all are the pure party and Republicans aren't.

It's true. He also was stunned when he said Biden smiling with Trump in the White House? I thought he was Hitler, who's going to end all elections, who's going to turn this into a dictatorship and is a fascist, and he can't let him move to the White House again and belongs in prison. What about all that? Right.

It's called politics. I don't believe a word I say and don't believe anything except for watching what I do. And that tells the story to somebody like Charlemagne, who I think should meet with Trump, just like Bezos and Zuckerberg and Musk, and all these people who are on the outside and were told other things about Trump and let make his own decision.

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From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Killmead. The Resistance is going to have trouble raising money. These fundraisers are burnt. They're really pissed now. The damage that the 2024 campaign Has done that the damage that this decade has done to the Democratic brand is almost unfathomable.

Almost unfathomable. And that, of course, is James Carville laying it on the line, but no one even holds him to it. People have gotten predictions wrong, especially with my sports background. People think they know it. And the games get played and people get surprised.

But he did guarantee that Kamal Harris would win. And he's angry. He was angry. He hates this woke stuff. You hate it too.

Uh he hates the DEI stuff. You hate it too. And we know why? Because fundamentally, it's anti-American. It's all built off the 1619 project.

If you want to unmoor America, tell us our history was terrible. Remember, we were built on the backs of slavery on stolen land. Remember that?

So that was the whole thing, take down the statues, this this person had slaves, this person had a segregated army, take him down, and it spread all the way through Europe. And those days are over, thankfully. I think things are really turning better. And if we go back to the Democratic Party of Bill Clinton with all his sexual problems and his bad personal behavior, he was a moderate who wanted to get things done and would work with Republicans.

Sometimes he had no choice, but he'd rather get something done than just not do it. And that's what James Carville ran his campaign when he was part of the administration. That's the mindset the Democrats have just left. A lot of it, in my view, and I don't want to go through it again, is because Republicans overplayed their hand with the impeachment, created great bitterness. The 2001 election, people thought that Al Gore was the rightful winner because he got the popular vote.

But on the recount, total recount of Florida, he did lose Florida. On the recount that was done in the region that was named, George Bush won, but people were bitter about that. Even protest in 2004 when he beat John Kerry. They said Ohio was in dispute. We know about 2008, no doubt about it.

It was all Obama. And then in 2012, they said Mitt Romney was going to win. He didn't. And Barack Obama did a lot of division, did very little uniting. Great speechmaker.

Not a great speech writer. Not a lot of substance, but he had a lot of poise, credibility. Looked great on the stump. Didn't help his party. But he could when then Joe Biden then, of course, Donald Trump shocks the world.

No one believes it. No one understands it. Very few Democrats accept it. It all just builds the bitterness and polarization. Both parties guilty.

I think Democrats much more guilty because they decided they were against the country.

So more in the reaction. Democratic reaction and how they rebuild. I mean, they are reeling big time. Obama got scolded yesterday, scolded a heckler yesterday because he welcomed in, he welcomed in Angela Merkel. They were talking about her new book, and a heckler was there scolding him.

And then he scolded the heckler right back because the heckler was saying about George Clooney and you ruined the party and you got Donald Trump elected. I'm telling you, the brand of Oprah and Obama and George Clooney, you can keep it. I mean, they are radioactive now, and it's hurt their respective careers. Look, Barack Obama, you would never know it by how angry his wife is, but made hundreds of millions of dollars in various parts of his career, can make one speech more than most of us make in a lifetime with the payment he gets, the way he's treated around the world. But there's no way that he translates to election wins.

And that's clear. And he's embittered the whole Biden section of the party. Akama Harris, he tried to drag her across the finish line, but she's got no future. This week, Harris's campaign is still asking for donations week after the massive loss. I mean, you're asking for donations.

Think about that. You're asking for donations after you gave her over a billion dollars. And by the way, she was bragging about how much. Tim Ryan let his party have it. A so-called moderate from Ohio did quite well against J.D.

Vance. Cut 28. Democrats have. Have tried to say that Trump is the liar. And in many instances, he is the gold medalist of liars, in my own opinion, and I think many others.

But when you say Trump's anti-democratic, But yet you shut down the primary, no debates. You say that the border's fine, it's secure. We're not for open borders, but yet people are pouring in over the border. When you say that you had a cold and that was the reason for the debate. All of these things, the economy's going well.

People know that that wasn't shooting straight with them. That's as close as Democrats get to admitting. I had a cold. No, you had a terrible debate. You didn't have their bad answer.

You looked old and you looked failing. That's what Tim Ryan still hesitant on saying. But every single point, he's right on every single point. Why he dressed like he was in his junior year of college on the set with a roundneck sweatshirt is a little bit beyond me. But you know, who knows?

He's probably going to run for the seat that J.D. Vance vacated in four years after they get the appointment. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Why are you firing Chris Ray?

Trump appointed him. He has three years on his term. What's the reason for that? The second dynamic to watch is Cash Patel is on the record for the retribution agenda that Donald Trump ran on. He's talked about using government power against Trump's perceived enemies inside and outside of government.

There was real tension between Trump and Republicans during the 2024 campaign when Trump ran on this and Republicans were like, no, he doesn't really believe it. Don't take him too literally. He just wants to lower the price of eggs.

Now they get to cast their votes accordingly.

So these are some of the things that are going on with you. Nominate Cash Patel. People don't really know about him. They just know he's a big Trump supporter. But they sh look at his background.

I mean, his resume looks really good. And he is a Trump supporter. And I did not know he supplied the memo that Devinunes brought forward that temporarily got him suspended for his position on the Oversight Committee, even though he's in the majority. And he came back and he did a lot of the original investigating that blew up the Russian investigation.

So he's been in Trump's good graces since 2018. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West joins us now, Dallas County Republican Party Chair, American Constitutional Rights Union Executive Director. Colonel, welcome back. It's always a pleasure to be with you, and I hope you had a great Thanksgiving, Brian. Back at you for you and your family.

Back on Cash Patel.

So he gets nominated and that NBC reporter is saying this is what's going to happen. They're going to first thing they're going to say is, what's wrong with Christopher Wray's job? that he's doing. And that's up to Trump to f to tell everybody, right?

Well, yeah. And I think that it is up to Trump to go in and decide who he wants to have on his team. And if you look at Christopher Ray, I think that this is someone that has not been very effective in standing up for the rule of law and protecting American citizens. I mean, how many times do we have to hear about the FBI classifying parents that want to see their kids get a good education as domestic terrorists? or some of the raids that have been conducted to include that on a, what, a grandmother?

I think she's in her 70s that was just standing outside a pro-life center, and now she has been jailed. I mean, we don't need this type of action going on through the Department of Justice, now through the Federal Bureau of Investigations. They have had a lot of problems, a lot of scandals, and things of this nature.

So Donald Trump wants to wipe the slate clean, and he has every right to do so. You know, no one questioned Bill Clinton. No one questioned Barack Obama when they went in and they cleaned house. As a matter of fact, Barack Obama, in his first five or six years, there as president, he cashiered some 197 generals. uh there was not a peek from the left.

So I find it utter hypocrisy and their delusion and probably their fear that uh they will be held accountable for some of the uh unlawful things that they have done.

So, uh are you for Cash Patel from what you know? Do you know him? No, I have never met him, but I like you said, I'm not looking at the left and their rhetorical concerns. I'm looking at his background, and I think that he could be very successful in that position and he could do even better, I think, than a Comey or even a Mueller. I want you to hear what Governor DeSantis said yesterday, CUC 24.

Cash Patel is the wrecking ball that's going to shake the FBI foundation and is going to realign and reinstitute the integrity and the level of trustworthiness that has been eroded in the last four years.

Well, I mean, we didn't get Ron DeSantis came out and he said, he understands the problems of the FBI. And he's a reformer. He will not be captured by the bureaucrats. Trey Gowdy went on to say that he was the one who started outlining the Pfizer abuse and identify. Uh identify some of the the wiretapping that that took place.

That he was working side by side in the Oversight Committee.

So he'll go in there and they'll definitely shake things up, which will be a relief to the lot of the agents in the field who have been embarrassed by the political leadership they've had to endure. No, you're absolutely right. And when you think about the fact that someone like Andrew McCabe immediately rushed on TV to denigrate and disparage Caspatel's nomination, I think you're on the right track when you consider the things that Andrew McCabe did, going back to what you just talked about, the unlawful Pfizer use against President Trump.

Well, President elect Trump back in 2016 and how that continued on.

So there are a lot of things that I think need to happen in Washington, D.C. And this whole structure that we see up there needs to be challenged. And this whole thing about the deep state, it's a bureaucratic administrative state where people believe that you can't touch us. We will continue to do whatever we want to do, and we will outlast any elected official that comes along.

So I want to talk about Ukraine. We're going to rush in a few, maybe $100 million or $200 million in there, get them as much equipment. We basically only delivered a third of what Congress allowed.

So this is, it's a lot to do. Maybe it's not intentional. Maybe we just don't have the base, which is scary that we haven't adjusted that, haven't heard a plan or a clamor for a plan. But Ukraine's going to get their weapons. The Russians, major league distracted, now in Syria, they've been forced to put assets into Syria to try to save Assad.

Now, why do you care about Assad? Oh, I don't care about Assad, but I don't like the rebels. Rebels are Salafist Sunni. Those are the foundation of Al-Qaeda and ISIS. But I would love the Russians kicked out of that.

Of that warm water port that allows them to send supplies into the Houthis, Hezbollah, receive drones from Iran. As well as give Assad money.

So they have a shot, and they're back in the Middle East.

So they're really spread out. Yeah, they are. And in the military terms, we call that your lines of communication. When your lines of communication are that extended, like we saw with Hitler extending his lines of communications into Greece, North Africa, you know, deep into Soviet Union, Russia, and all of that, eventually you cannot sustain it. And I think right now, the most important thing that we can do with this incoming Trump administration is the economic leverage that we can put on, and especially the energy leverage that we can put on that can constrain Russia and can constrain Iran.

I think right now Iran is very nervous about, you know, once again, going back to being virtually bankrupt, which is what they were under the Trump administration. Therefore, they cannot endeavor and they cannot go out and support these terrorist sponsor groups and also a client state like Syria.

So I think that from the economic and energy standpoint, we have a great opportunity to isolate some of these countries and get Russia and Iran out of there in Syria. But we also need to be very careful and safeguard to make sure. That Syria doesn't become another terror sanctuary. Trevor Burrus: So let me ask you: I was talking to some of the Trump officials this morning, and they say, you know, Trump's not necessarily listening to the right wing of his who says Ukraine's evil and Putin's been wronged, which I think is really out to lunch. But he wants to end the killing.

But do you know the problem is? Putin's going to be if Putin gets land, he's going to be rewarded. He never gave back the land he took in 2008 from Georgia, and now he's infiltrating their election, putting his own stooges in there, much to the chagrin of the entire Georgia population. In Moldova, they got these Sovietites in there trying to infiltrate into their elections. He's not going to stop.

And it's not going to be Poland, it's going to be the Baltics. And then it's going to be in Africa.

So, what do you do? while still maintaining uh a position of strength against Putin.

Well, again, I think it comes back to the economic aspect first, and then also when we get back to exporting our liquefied natural gas, and we can get many of those European nations coming to us for the LNG and not having to trust and depend upon that Nord Stream pipeline that Russia has, that hurts him economically. He cannot conduct these exploits, as you see. And I think this is another diplomatically, this is where we can look at how we can leverage NATO in a very smart way. And we can also have these military cooperations with like the Baltic state, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, which is what we're already doing.

Some people say, well, you're enticing Vladimir Putin. I disagree with that premise. Vladimir Putin is a dictator and he is a maniacal person. And that's what got us in trouble in World War II when we kept talking about how can we appease Adolf Hitler instead of standing strong against Adolf Hitler.

So I think now is a great time for us to say, okay, you want to play this game about land, then we're going to bring these countries under NATO protection to make sure that there are no further encouragements.

So you're be for that. You heard the deal that Zelensky put out there. He said, if you guys, we'll stop the fighting. We'll leave the lines. I want you to recognize all of Ukraine without the invasion.

But if we go into NATO and you provide, maybe we could stop this thing. I have no idea if Russia would do that.

Well, but but see, the thing is that this is about putting Vladimir Putin in an untenable position. If he says he wants the land, you just can't say, okay, you can have the land. There has to be some type of ramification of consequence that he knows there will be no further extensions, there'll be no further incursions. And I think that's what has to be done, is that we will provide security cooperation, by the way, through NATO to make sure that you're stopped. Uh because if you don't, then just like we saw with Hitler, okay, I want the Sudetenland.

I want this, I want that. And the next thing you know, we're on the brink of World War II. All right. Thanks so much. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, appreciate it.

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But at every turn, Democrats keep getting caught creating a purity test for a system that they can't seem to pass themselves. When you saw the photograph of the top secret documents laid out on the floor at Mar-a-Lago, What did you think to yourself? how that could possibly happened. how one anyone could be that irresponsible. Irresponsible.

The careful stewardship of our nation's most classified documents is foundational to the institutions. It's why we are. What's that? Oh really? In his fing garage.

Next to his car. Parse away. By the way, my Corvette's in a lock garage.

Okay, so it's not like you're sitting out in the street. Totally damn- Different. That is uh Jon Stewart pointing out something. That we pointed out with, what was it, probably in 2022?

Well, we said, wait a second.

So then they put Robert Hur on an investigation we never heard anything about.

Now they put Jack Smith on an investigation that we heard everything about. Because it never stopped. It can never stop leaking. They flipped his attorney. They made him become Turn of State's evidence.

They took Mark Meadows. They took the phone of sitting congressman. They flipped Mark Meadows and started putting all the pressure on him to tell the truth about various things, about documents. And Will Nauda is still dealing with a lawsuit on the documents case. They just dropped the one on the president.

Now, on the other hand, Jon Stewart's just pointing out that. He had classified documents all over his house, especially in his garage in random boxes. Where the investigators, I read this story. I read the whole Robert Hurr report, by the way. The investigators got so overwhelmed, they just basically said, a lot of classified documents dating back.

To when Tito had Yugoslavia together, that's how long this guy's been in office in the 70s. Tito was once in charge of a crazy Yugoslavia that was one of the few countries to resist the iron grip of the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact. That's how Dave Furrer went by. After a while, they just threw up their hands and said, lot of documents here. You need a private investigator.

So that's what we've been pointing out that they're just pointing out now. The pardons? Yeah. And they pointed out they popped up Papadopoulos. They put up, um.

Carter page They put up various people in the Trump orbit uh uh they um See ya Steve Bannon. And one other, Paul Manaford, and they popped him up and they said, well, look at all these criminals that Donald Trump. Exonerate a pardon. They're criminals. They were caught up in a fake Russia investigation, you idiots.

And the investigation, you guys won awards for covering a story that was totally bogus, that you don't feel compelled to give it back. I feel like we're in a time warp, that people are coming back and just discovering things that we've been going over. But Jon Stewart couldn't cover it, and I just find it fascinating. He's not opening up block talking about how vile Donald Trump is. He's talking about how ridiculous Joe Biden is, how the guy always continues to lie.

And I thought that was key. The other thing I thought of, too, is: as we look at the Democrats, where they go from here, it's not unusual for a party that doesn't do well in an election that loses all three branches of government when they had all three. Why would they do that and lose ground in all 49 of 50 states?

Well, what happened?

Well, I think for the longest time they said Republicans are going to have a huge problem. Donald Trump is such a dominant presence, has so many people that he put in power, so many people loyal to him. When Donald Trump is removed from the scene now after his term limit, they're going to have a huge void. And Democrats will feast. Why has it turned out that it's just the opposite?

And I figured it out this morning. Because Democrats have feasted off Donald Trump more than Republicans. Republicans have been won over by a lot of his issues. Will never be the same personalities. Will never be tweeting out every thought like he was doing, putting things on Truth Social will never be as provocative, use tariffs and leverage whenever he can.

They won't be like that. That's his style. But the whole idea of free trade. The whole idea of bringing manufacturing back, the whole idea of making America strong, of making our allies pay for their fair share of the defense spending, and all these things.

Now you have Tom Cotton who's like that, Marco Rubio has been like that, Ted Cruz has always been more like that than ever before. I can name 10 people that could run for president. Nikki Haley, even though she's had friction with President-elect. They're all there. They're all there.

You have 10, 15 legitimate Governor Doug Bergam is the latest. He's going to be a legitimate contender if he does as well as I know he will do over the next four years. But the people that lived off Donald Trump was actually the Democrats. They lived off hating him. They lived off marginalizing him.

They lived off making a cartoon out of his comments, of making him worse than Hitler. Really, no joke.

So what happens when America says, yeah, I heard you, but I'm not listening, I'm voting him back in office despite J6 and despite all the indictments and despite the conviction. They're the ones who looked around and said, um. My identity is Kinda being anti-Trump. Yeah, me too. Yeah, me too.

Now what? You could divorce yourself from the country. And leave like Ellen DeGeneres. And I think, I hope, Robert De Niro, maybe Bruce Springsteen. Do an international concert tour that never comes back.

That'll be interesting. Never liked him. Never a fan. Think he's arrogant. Uh always thought so.

So Now the Democrats have decided who they are. And you know what I hope? I hope it's the Joe Manchin model. I hope it's more Fetterman without the hoodie. I hope it's center left.

Yeah, I don't agree with Trump here, but I agree with him here. I'm pro-Israel. There's one good guy in this region. The rest have to wrestle with their own nations, their own extremists within their borders. Uh there's really there really needs to be NATO pulling their fair share, but our allies need to be defended.

China is the main problem. Russia is a a huge aggressive power. Todd, you're over in Michigan. Hey, Todd. Hey Todd, what do we do about Ukraine?

Well, without using U.S. troops on the ground, why can't all these European countries, NATO countries, band together and drive Russia out of Ukraine? We'll supply them with everything, Brian. We'll give them everything. And I mean, back in 2022, Zelensky rejected a peace.

Or Boris Johnson and Biden. No, say that again. Just be clear. What are you saying? Johnson and Biden rejected a peace agreement?

Well, they told Zelensky not to take the peace agreement back in twenty twenty two. That Zelensky and his government agreed to in twenty twenty two. I find that hard to believe because I think he would have been tossed out of office because the people of Ukraine want no part of Russia and they didn't want to give up an inch. In fact, if he goes to the table to talk with Trump and Putin, And they, you know, or now Kellogg will probably be leading. He's putting his team together now.

There's going to be a huge backlash within Ukraine saying, we don't want to talk, we want to win. Even though they're paying a huge price. I think they got to drop the draft age to 18. I did not know it was at 25.

So we'll see. I mean, I'm not for them fighting longer than they want to, but I believe they want to continue. And they are pound for pound doing phenomenally well. This is the brain kill me chill. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division.

It's Brian Killmead. All right, everybody from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, where we got a lot of Venezuelan gangsters, if you need any for your city. I know we don't need them here, we got them from Colorado. We have a lot to discuss today. If you're looking for the president of the United States, go to Angola.

I don't know what we're going to do without him at the helm. Hope we're going to be okay. I get the sense he's never been at the helm, and that story is going to come out soon. We'll also have a Christmas tree lighting in Washington, D.C. We'll have one at 30 Rock.

And as soon as it's official, we're going to have a sprint to Christmas. They say it's a shorter distance to the 25th, but I always thought from December 1st to December 25th was the same amount of time.

Someone's got to explain that to me. Before we get to Congressman James Comer, do a simulcast with Varney and Company. Let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. The resistance is going to have trouble raising money. These fundraisers are burnt. The damage that this decade has done to the Democratic brand is almost unfathomable.

Almost unfathomable. James Carbill, obviously, Dem's in transition. Brand is broken. Their mission to stop Trump failed. But look at what the new left could look like.

Number two. I think we're going to see a lot of them leave the Department of Justice. You're going to see a lot of people leave the FBI, maybe even the Department of Defense, which is exactly what Donald Trump wants because what he wants is chaos. Really? Okay, you know everything, Senator Michael Bennett of Colorado.

You would think you got your hands full in your state. Transition tension from cash to RFK to HegSet to Tulsi. Dems are having trouble dealing with the president-elects picks to lead his reform agenda as Dems try to Trump-proof their version of America. Number one. Obviously, Republicans are going to criticize, but Biden did make this line of attack particularly available, seeing as how he spent so long saying he wouldn't do it.

The problem is the rest of the Democrats. Made Biden's pledge to not pardon Hunter the foundation of their defense of America, this grand experiment. You think pardon fall out of pardon fallout continues as Biden cowardly sets his son free and lets Dems and his surrogates try to explain and defend it while he's in Africa, what it means for the big picture. James Comer, you knew every time. That President Biden said, I'm not going to pardon my son.

You knew he was going to pardon his son. Right, he had to pardon his son. I mean, December 12th, I believe, is the sentencing date. They're going to sentence him to prison. And and really what he's been charged for, Ryan, is just the tip of the iceberg of the financial crimes they've committed, not to mention other the salacious stuff on the laptop.

Just the financial crimes alone, I would estimate he was charged for about ten percent. But that 10% Any other American whose last name's not Biden would have been carted off to prison on that day, and that's why I knew Joe Biden would pardon his son. He said he kept his word, but he watched why his son was still being selectively and unfairly prosecuted without aggravating factors when it comes to the gun crime, like using a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser. People were almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form. He talked about the tearing apart of a perfectly good plea deal.

Your thoughts about the reasoning he put out for making the pardon he did.

Well, look, if it were just about the the gun crime. and the ten percent of the tax evasion that he was actually charged with, then the pardon would have said just that. But the pardon was a blanket pardon from twenty fourteen to December the first. And the reason he started at December 14th is because that's when the House Oversight Committee started subpoenaing bank records from 2014 on. And the financial crimes, if you just look at what the six banks said.

In the suspicious activity reports, or what are known as SARS that they sent to Treasury, they said money laundering, bribery. Extortion. And the list goes on and on and on about the most serious financial crimes that I've ever seen. And I've been in banking a long time. And they knew Joe Biden and his legal team knew.

That a new Trump administration, if they wanted. To take the work that the House Oversight Committee has done with 100% obstruction from the government, all our information came from the private sector, from private banks, from depositions from people like Tony Bobelinski and Devin Archer. They could have taken that. And actually, gotten the information from the FBI and the IRS and the Department of Justice that Joe Biden blocked from us. And they could have sent Hunter Biden and his entire family to prison, and I would argue Joe Biden for a long time, if they really wanted to.

If Bondi wanted to do that, she could do that. Right. So right now, why do you think the president's got multiple reasons to do it? They want to portray it as a father just protecting his son from years of addiction. It's so much different than that.

Because usually, when people do crack or do horrible things, sex addiction, whatever he's claiming he has, they're not doing multi-billion dollar, deal multi-million dollar deals in China, Russia, Romania, Ukraine, and Mexico. They're not doing it. And to think the president, uh, the president, the soon-to-be former president, didn't know about it is ever you proved that he knew about it. Speakerphone, attendance, part of it, uh, part of it all. Yeah, why why do if there was nothing The foul about Joe Biden talking and meeting with all these people that were wiring Hunter Biden money.

Why did he lie to the American people about it? Why didn't he say, Yeah, I had a three hour dinner? with the Russian oligarch. Uh a day before she wired three and a half million dollars into A shell company for my son. Why did he lie about having dinner with her?

Why did he lie about meeting? with all of these people. because he knew i it is illegal To shake foreign nationals down, especially when you're the sitting vice president of the United States, which is what was happening. That gets lost in translation, Brian. Most of the money.

that that Hunter Biden took in. Happened while Joe Biden was vice president of the United States. And then the China money happened less than 90 days. After he left the presidency. And that's when Hunter sent the tech, the What's App message.

He said, My father's sitting beside me, you better fulfill the commitments. And the commitments were made while Joe Biden was vice president.

So, what did Joe Biden do? that would make China send his son five million dollars From a Chinese shell company to a Biden shell company. What did Joe Biden do? For the commitment. That's the question that a real Department of Justice could ask.

Joe Biden, I think it's the biggest political public corruption scandal in our lifetime. And Joe Biden pardoned Hunter Biden to save himself.

So do you think you're going to investigate it even if it doesn't result in a criminal charge?

Well, it's going to depend on the Department of Justice. I will be happy to move forward with this investigation, but we have been blocked from so much. Information and evidence, you know, the National Archives never has turned over the pseudonym emails. The pseudonym emails will show that Joe Biden was communicating secretly with those shady. Can you explain what pseudonym emails are?

A pseudonym email is email and a fake name. And Joe Biden had five fake names. in emails that he was he was being copied on and he was communicating with with these shady characters like like Devin Archer and people like that that were involved in these schemes.

So, you know, if there was nothing wrong, why is the White House blocking National Archives from turning over the information? There's information that the Irish whistleblower said that the Department of Justice and the IRS have. But they won't turn it over.

So, the only way that I'm going to get that information, whether I'm in the midst of whether, you know, whether Jim Jordan and I are in the majority or in the minority, the only way is if. the administration turns it over. We're going to have a new administration. And if Bondi, I want to meet with her, and I know Jim Jordan wants to meet with her. If she wants to pursue this, we'll help.

We'll do anything that she wants. But we are at an impasse until the administration turns it over. We can't. win in Washington, D.C. Circuit Court.

It's going to have to be it's going to have to be from the Department of Justice. And I think the Department of Justice can take what we found and we found it, Brian, I can't emphasize this enough, through the private sector. When we subpoenaed the private sector banks, they turned over everything. They turned over all the Biden bank records. They turned over all the Treasury suspicious activity reports.

When we subpoenaed people like Devin Archer and Tony Bobolinski and Jim Biden and Hunter Biden, to come in for depositions, they came. But when it got to the government. The deep state blocked us at every turn. The deep state sitting on a lot of information if it's not being shredded yet. And the only way to get it.

Is through the Attorney General. And if Bondi wants to do it, I think she could go down in history because this is a clear. Public. corruption case of a sitting president of the United States. The other big story is Uh who paid his taxes?

And with interest. And who paid that producer just says, I like that Hunter Biden, so I'm going to pay millions of dollars of his fines and overdue taxes. That was Kevin Morris, a Hollywood lawyer and Democrat donor. Kevin Morris met Hunter Biden. through Joe Biden at a Biden fundraiser in California.

Less than one month after Kevin Morris met Hunter Biden through Joe Biden. He started paying Hunter Biden's delinquent IRS tax bills and his legal bills. To the tune of at least eight million dollars. Eight million dollars. In addition to the twenty seven million dollars, That Biden took in from our adversaries around the world.

I mean, you're talking about real money here. Hunter Biden never had a job. The entire Biden presidency. But he lived in a $40,000 a month condo in California. This was all being paid for by Kevin Morris.

Which You know, has to be a conflict of interest by the President of the United States that his son. who he obviously thinks a lot of. Was was living the The most luxurious life ever. off of a a Democrat donor. Right.

And you wonder, was that donor getting money to prop up Uh Hunter Biden. He represented some clients. I'm not going to get into that. That's something I'll be happy to talk to Bondi about. He represented clients.

That uh stood a lot. from some presidential decisions. that were being made, that are being made as we speak. And I think that, that's something that certainly the Department of Justice should and and definitely could look at. Who else in the Biden family should be looking for a pardon?

Would you think he's going to pardon? Yeah. Oh, he's going to pardon Jim Biden because we brought Jim Biden in for a transcribed interview. We did a deposition with Hunter Biden. We did a transcribed interview with Jim Biden.

Jim Biden lied, lying to Congress as a felony. He clearly lied. There's no doubt. We published a report showing that he lied. And as a result of his perjury, we referred.

him to the Department of Justice.

So Just like the January 6th committee referred people to Merritt Garland, that they ended up going to prison and things like that, the same thing with Jim Biden.

So there's no doubt in my mind. On the way out the door, he's going to pardon Jim Biden. The reason he pardoned Hunter Biden so early. Is again for what I said at the beginning of this interview. Hunter Biden was about to be carted off to prison.

In in about a week and a half.

So he intervened on that. Jim Biden, you know, he's nothing's going to happen to Jim Biden until a Trump administration starts.

So he's going to pardon Jim Biden on the way out. Has he been charged with anything? Yeah, we gave him criminal referrals to the Department of Justice for lying to Congress.

So, yes, he was charged by the House Oversight Committee for lying to Congress, which is a felony. Devin Archer. That's the tip of the iceberg on Jim Biden. Do you think all these guys are going to get pardons? Like, for example, Devin Archer evidently did something different to get himself in trouble.

He's looking at jail, but he was an early business partner. Of Hunter Biden. Do you think that they're going to get these? I think Devin Archer has always Hope that he would get a pardon. You know, I think Devin Archer was, I think he always had more information.

He could have. Provided to the Oversight Committee. Um We'll see if you get the pardon or not. That'll tell a lot. But my prediction is Devin Archer will not get a pardon.

But we'll see. I know Archer thinks he's going to get a pardon. Congressman, what's your reaction when you heard? When you heard that this pardon was coming the way it came, My my phone started started uh going crazy with texts, you know. I mean, I predicted I've done a bunch of interviews and I said he's going to pardon Hunter and Jim Biden on the way out the door.

I mean, there there's no the the only reason he didn't do it together, again, is because Hunter Biden was six to be sentenced. And remember, he would not have been sentenced. Were it not for our investigation? Because they were going to give him that sweetheart plea deal, which was essentially what this pardon was. Waiving any Current or future crimes that were discovered.

That was what the blanket Sweetheart plea deal was going to be. It's the same thing. The reason the judge kicked it out is because of information that we obtained. and sent to the judge that Congress sent to the judge From the Irish whistleblowers, Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler.

So, um, Yeah, there was never any question. This thing's been set up. The deep statement agencies. You know, that's a great question. I think he he um Went through a lot of it.

I mean, if you look at the lifestyle he's led, again. Brad, I don't care who you are. If you don't have any income coming in. And you stay in a forty thousand dollar a month house and you drink the finest wine and the most expensive eat at the most expensive restaurants, drive the most expensive sports cars and have to purchase a different woman or two every night, Along with the drug habit, you can run through a lot of money really quick. But the question: do they have an offshore account?

I don't know. We could only find. Our subpoenas were only good on the shore of the United States. You know, any f anything's in the Grand Caymans or anywhere like that. or Switzerland or anywhere like that, we we did not have the authority to pursue that, but the Department of Justice does.

So, Congressman, do you think that he has paid he's going to go ahead? Didn't the grandchildren have money in their names? They obviously had nothing to do with this. There were ten Bidens, including Joe. Joe, Hunter and Jim were the overwhelming majority of the money.

But seven other Bidens at some point received incremental payments from the influence peddling schemes.

So but I think from a criminal standpoint, Certainly, Jim Biden, Hunter Biden, and Joe Biden. Those are the three. People of interest. And they're getting away with it. Congressman James Comer, I thought you did a fantastic job, and hopefully, we continue to hear more.

Thanks so much for joining us. Thank you, Brian. You got it. Back in a moment. It's Brian Killmeid.

The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Kilmead. To be honest, the only reason why they went after Hunter the way they did, and I've talked to many federal prosecutors about this, is because he's the president's son. People have to remember, the president has lost two children already, and he does not need to lose another one to more political witch hunts. The, you know, crowing from Republicans, but we're talking about, you know, Donald Trump is a convicted felon who literally pardoned his daughter's father-in-law and just made him ambassador to France.

So for anyone that wants to clutch their pearls now because he decided that he was going to pardon his son, I would say take a look in the mirror. I find that fascinating, just to let you hear Democrats scramble just instinctively. Look, they want to protect their own, but they should be duped like everybody else. I mean, I have a list here of people, Democrats, who came out and just condemned Joe Biden, saying this was wrong. And not only that, they're not admitting it, but it was wrong to lead them down the path that they thought they could defend Biden and sing his praises for promising not.

To pardon Hunter. Senator Michael Bennett, Biden's decisi uh decision put personal interest ahead of duty. Senator Gary Peters, Biden's decision to pardon his son was wrong. Senator Peter Walsh, President Biden's pardon of his son, a hunter, is an action of a father, but as the action of our nation's chief of executive, it is unwise. Congressman Landsman, as a father, I get it, but as someone who wants people to believe in public service again, it is a setback.

Uh Congressman Stanton? Just as upset. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. I think we're going to see a lot of them leave the Department of Justice.

You're going to see a lot of people leave the FBI, maybe even the Department of Defense, which is exactly what Donald Trump wants, because what he wants is chaos. And what he wants is to destroy these agencies, which we can think of as the federal government, but we can also think of them as our exercise in self-government. I mean, these people ever get tired of this? Don't even talk in extremes. What he's witnessed is four or five indictments that were unnecessary and unprecedented.

And I'm not going to go through the individual cases now because the Justice Department is weaponized against him. He saw the FBI weaponized against him with Andy McCabe and Peter Strzok and Lisa Page and all the other antics, and James Comey weaponized against him. He saw all this happen. He saw his people taken down, his family harassed. And he said, wait a second.

This is a Trump problem, but it's also a institutional problem. And if you elect me again, I'm going to change all that.

So Senator Michael Bennett, who fancies himself a moderate, but I don't know anything he ever voted with a Republican for, came out and tried to scare people again. We're not going to do it. No one's scared. We're going to watch these nominees earn their way through. Pete Hegseth had a, if you want to know what Pete thinks, he just wrote a book six months ago.

I think maybe it was a bestseller for multiple weeks. Before that, he wrote a book on education, number one bestseller for number one for about a month and then top 10 for forever.

So he wrote it. I mean, that's exactly what he thinks. Then he wrote three, I think, but the last one was about the Pentagon, about what has to change amongst the officers and the approach and what happened to Mark Milley and all these DEI crazy people that are trying to destroy our military because many people thought it was too air quotes right-wing. That's what you should be focused on. And he's going to go in there and he's going to have a fresh set of eyes.

He's going to get people that can understand the best they can the unwieldy shape of the Pentagon, what it takes to shape our Defense Department in the image of the President wants to, and they're not going to push back. If you read General McMaster's book, he was National Security Advisor after Michael Flynn lost his job. And he said that Mattis, Kelly, and Tillerin, and Tillerson were all against Trump.

So this is when you talk about Hag Seth. You should be talking about what he stands for. You read his book, you go, I don't think he should be running for Secretary of Defense. Fair enough. If Susan Collins feels that way, fair enough.

Let's let's talk about it. Let's he get the hearing. But if you look at all this personal stuff and talk about what they said and what they didn't say, and of course all these other networks have something to go on because he's from Fox and has a book out. Good luck with that. But it's really going to come down to Who's best to serve?

In the president's cabinet. And just do the same thing it did with Bush, the same thing it did with Obama, the same thing it did with Biden. And understand, a lot of people with great credentials don't end up being great at their job. A lot of people with bad credentials didn't get the scrutiny and got a pass. And now, all of a sudden, you have the zone full with Tulsa you don't like, you don't like RFK, you don't like Pete Hagseth, you don't like Cash Patel.

Tough. They're gonna go and sell and they're they're gonna tell their story and you're gonna hear their beliefs. And then you're going to overrealize. That they're competent, they're ready to go. They might not be your choice.

But they're his choice. And in Pete's case, Pete's a great choice, and you'll see it. Uh Stuart Kaplan. Talked about Cash Patel. And he's talked about the approach he's going to have.

Now, Stuart Capill is interesting because he worked in the FBI for years. And he knows that Cash Patelli. You can't say he's not competent. You can't say he doesn't have the resume. He's not Matt Gates.

This is a real resume with real experience, cut 24. Cash Patel is the wrecking ball that's going to shake the FBI foundation, and he's going to realign and reinstitute the integrity and the level of trustworthiness that has been eroded in the last four years. He is a great choice for the American people, and I applaud the President.

Okay. A lot of people feel that way. Ron DeSantis, too, talked about that he understands what it takes. And obviously, you're going to push back. But the thing is about Cash Patel, like RFK, I believe like RFK.

I'm not positive. But I think so, anyway. But when he talks about making America healthy again and they start drilling down on it, if he has a few doctors and experts, he's got to be ready to go deep on it. He's got to show we can run a big bureaucracy and then gut it and make it better. The other thing is, I'm rereading and finishing Walter Isaacson's book on Elon Musk.

So as I'm reading this. You know, in the beginning, I said, you know, billionaires, they have their path, they get through it, and they do these fantastic things, and inventors, and they have success. But it doesn't necessarily mean they're great at everything. It doesn't mean they're great at management, people skills. It doesn't mean they're great at organizing, saving.

It doesn't mean they're cost cost conscious. Doesn't mean they're great for it means that they make a huge difference. And a lot of times there's carnage in their wake. Walter Isaacson, ironically, writes a biography on Elon Musk, I think the biography before, the two before, was on Steve Jobs. and very similar.

El Moss has got this image. He understands everything, but most of all, he keeps pushing, pushing, pushing. He keeps leaning out, saving costs, trying to keep make these rockets lighter, make the Tesla sleeker, make Starlink more effective, put more help NASA become more cost efficient, dealing with the government every step of the way and governments every step of the way, dealing with financing every step of the way. The same time, building buildings to make warehouses, to formulate designs on a car that doesn't exist. On a rocket that's a private rocket system and company.

That never happened successfully before, and you just see them make things happen at the same time, walk through an assembly line and stare. and think to himself, What motion can I save? What weight can I afford to lose? What could I pull out? What medals can I change?

And I'm saying to myself, if I'm gonna hire anybody. To go through the government. I did not realize. How perfect Elon Musk is, what he did at At Twitter. He went in and said, You guys are too laid back.

There's no urgency. There's no purity. There's too everyone everyone has a delay of game to every request I make. There's some reluctance and resistance to my presence.

So you're out. You done. Do servers need to be adjusted? I'm taking the servers. You know, we need a new server, we're going to get a new one today.

That's the attitude. That I think is going to be phenomenal for the government. And I think the thing that's going to be different about this Trump term than the first. It's not going to be all about Trump. What's Trump doing today?

It's going to be what's going on at HHS. What's going on at the CIA? What's going on with the FBI? What's going on? Uh at the FDA.

You know, what's going on with Marco Rubio in foreign affairs? And the president's got a bunch of people who are loyal to him, but they're not sycophants and they're not yes men and women. What's going on with the Department of Justice? What's going on with this investigation? What's going on in the House with Jim Jordan?

What's going on in the Senate with Jon Thune? You're going to have a Donald Trump is going to be the conductor, but he's going to let other people take the lead in their specialties. Tony listening on WABC. Hey, Tony. Brian, I just am totally in sync with you today.

First of all, I just want to thank you for your positivity through these crazy times. But when I heard James Comer this morning, Congressman Comer, I thought, boy, is Brian spied on. I called the pardon. The Biden influenced peddling pardon. It was all about that.

And all about the new people coming in that are going to clean up the deep state. I love what you said. I think it's all about the investigation. I think it's not about Hunter Biden. And anyone who thinks it's just about him really doesn't know what America is all about.

So, Tony, I have a question for you. Thanks for your comments, but I have a question for you. At what point? The Democrats pretend as if they don't understand that we understand. That it's not about Hunter Biden.

At what point do they say, I'm not going down. going down with the eighty two year old ship. Who dropped an atomic bomb on us, political bomb on us, and then one day Angola. At what point are they going to say, if it wasn't for these business dealings, you wouldn't have this huge distraction. We wouldn't want to have these court cases.

You even have your documents in your garage. We might have been able to get Trump. What and even though they shouldn't have. But when are they going to start just saying what we all know they know? When do you think that will happen?

I want to tell you something, Brian. It'll never happen because, really, for four years, The thing that kept this country running was the rudder Donald Trump being behind the scenes working toward getting control of the country back. They will never have it. I don't know what will happen to that party. I think they need a major realignment, but who cares?

They're just really just kaput right now. They are blown away. And I don't know how long it's going to take for them to come back because they have really put a blot on America and the world is going to see it and history will see it. I hope so. I do hope so.

I think we're it's not going to matter soon. And I think that Democrats who don't listen to James Carville to a degree, Tim Ryan, even though I know he's a partisan to John Fetterman, are just going to be left behind. Because you need someone that Joe Manchin, a lot of people, a lot of Republicans feel bad about Joe Manchin. I think he did a great job. I think.

In many ways, Center Cinema did a fantastic job that Tester pretended to do, and all these so-called moderates never stood up. Those two stood up, kept the filibuster, stopped up in two states. And I think that that's going to be the future. Hey, I'm going to work with Trump on this. I can't buy, I can buy in on cracking down on the border, I can buy in on cracking down on criminals.

I just don't like the mass deportation.

Okay, fine. Two or three.

So there's going to be a lot of things that I think that Democrats who want a future will work with Trump on. The other ones that just dig in with the anti-Trump rhetoric, not great.

Now, the Brian Kilmead Show joins Fox Business's Varney and Company with Stuart Varney live on your radio and on Fox Business. Here's Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back, everybody. I'll be able to take your calls on the back end. They also pulled aside some emails.

You're writing me at BrianKilmead.com. Quick note to WOKV listeners, especially at the Florida Theater, February 15th, History of Liberty, and Laughs. Tickets are going quick. And of course, Giving Tuesday. Find a place like Tundle to Towers, Folds of Honor, and use this time to give some money.

Even $10, $20, $100, whatever you can afford, it's a perfect time on Giving Tuesday.

So let's listen in. Here is Stuart Varney. He's back. A few moments ago. What a stock, what a company.

10:51 Eastern Time. That means it's time for Brian Kilmead. Hey, Brian, CNN's legal analyst says President Biden's pardon of Hunter will tarnish his legacy. Listen. But what I think is not disputable is that this is a historic act of political nepotism.

This is the granting of a pardon by the president to his son. Joe Biden even says, if you really parse his statement, he acknowledges that a substantial part of this is because Hunter Biden is his son. This pardon will tarnish Joe Biden's legacy. I mean, Joe Biden, let's be clear here, he lied to us for a long time. Hey, Brian, seems to me with this pardon, Biden is losing the media.

He is, no question. Number one, those people, those lawmakers, and maybe some legal experts that heard Joe Biden for two and a half years say. Donald Trump doesn't care about the rule of law. Donald Trump's going to destroy the country. I care about the Department of Justice.

The Department of Justice is totally separate from the White House. I trust in our Justice Department system. I will not pardon Hunter Biden. And I could give you 20 minutes of different lawmakers and experts saluting Joe Biden for saying, I will not pardon my own son because I respect the Department of Justice. And now he's going to pardon his own Department of his son because of the Department of Justice, who let politics get involved with him.

But I just talked to James Comer on the show at the top of the hour, and it reminded me, and I'm kind of mad at myself. It reminded me that this is not about Hunter Biden. It goes back to 2014 because Hunter Biden on crack with hookers and our laptop. Yeah, that's his problem. But the issue that matters is Joe Biden's link to all of it, how his family benefited from all of it, what he knew about all of it.

And that lawyer from that other network should be also mad that Joe Biden said, I knew nothing about my son's overseas business dealings. He was at meetings. He golfed with his business partners. And he never acknowledged it until he saw the pictures and got and we chronicled the meeting. And then we find out on a speakerphone calls into a meeting in Ukraine.

He was all over this as a sitting vice president. That's the bigger story. Expect Jim Biden to get his pardon, everyone around him to get their pardon, because with the pardon comes the silence. And that's the bigger story. Not my crackhead son deserves a break now that he's clean.

Biden's pardon actually caps a long list of, I'm going to call them false statements from the administration. Watch this. United States ended. 20 years of war in Afghanistan. The extraordinary success of this mission.

Operational and tactical success. I would not say that is anything but a success. Months of high inflation that most economists believe will be transitory. Increases in prices are likely to have only transitory effects. Putin's price hike is hitting America hard.

They are cheap fakes video. They are done in bad faith. He's moving forward with his campaign, as his campaign has been very, very clear about.

Well, is there a If you wrap this all up, Brian, I think that Biden is having a sad end to a failed Presidency. That may seem a little strong, but what say you? I'm going to give you the subset of that. Number one, I'd like to pay for the rights of that montage. Because it makes my radio show better.

So we'll talk about that in the break. But number two is: we said this at the time, you especially with inflation transitory. You said, I don't see it. And it wasn't. Afghanistan, we know was an epic fail.

We saw everybody tell us, Admiral Kirby, no, it wasn't. Look at how many people we got out of there. What about the people he left behind? Excuse me, I can't hear you. What about the people you left behind?

I don't know. We moved on from Afghanistan. Then the civilians had to go in, and the retired guys had to cash in their 401ks to get our allies out. Remember that. And then all the things that you said, we named it at the time.

Nobody else was doing that.

Now, other networks are beginning to reflect back and saying there's a bit of inconsistencies here. I say to them, where have you been? They're beginning to treat Donald Trump at this moment fairly, like a future president and a former president, looking at his people, you know, way too into their personal eyes. I get it. But we're not going to forget how unfair how they just looked the other way at Joe Biden.

Also, he's also not healthy. When are they going to admit he's never been healthy? When are we going to read the book about how out of it he was and who was actually running this country for four years? Got a heartbreak coming up, Brian. You know how that is.

We're out of time. But thanks for being with us this morning. Jerry Baker. A lot to go over, you know, a lot to discuss there. That was good, Montasha.

I mean, that was good to go back and how many times we just weren't told the truth. And Jensaki, especially. She knows he Afghanistan was an epic fail. She's there I have that sound bite we played it earlier of her saying what a great person Joe Biden is. That's who he is, someone who stands up for the rule of law even over his own family.

How bad does she feel right now?

Now, some of the emails that have come through over there, various things we talked about over the last two days, this one. From Eric Brown. He says, Brian, don't forget the 10% went to the big guy. And that was enough of a motivation for Joe to allow his son to stay with these unscrupulous companies and be involved in these overseas deals because it put money in Joe's pocket as well. I agree with you.

And It might not be exactly in Joe's pocket, but what happens is it goes to other family members like grandchildren. And the way, and James Comer deserves credit for this. He did not go. To the government records, he went to the bank records and the bank and went to and asked those banks, subpoena those banks to give him information about where that money went. How about this?

We were talking about the death of DEI, and one of its birthplaces is the University of Michigan, who wanted to do, wanted to talk about equity on the campus. It's been an epic fail. It's further divided the campus, and they are getting rid of it after spending over $200 million. They also talk about the horrible behavior of the University of Michigan football team. They say this: those football players are compensated by the NIL.

I don't know if you missed it, but after they upset. After they upset Ohio State. One of the players, followed by the rest of the team, put their flag into Ohio State's field. The team came out, ripped it out. They ripped it back.

It ends up being a brawl, replicated on four of their games. They said those football players are compensated by the NIL. They should pay the $100,000 fine. Good thought. You know, we just don't know how much they're being paid because there are no room for the NIL.

We're good point. And now we get to start the end of uh the football playoffs. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian. In Kill Mead.

Hi, everyone. So glad you're here. Brian Kill Me Show coming your way. Heather McDonald will be with us. She's the Thomas W.

Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Talk about what's happening, New York Times best-selling author. We'll talk about what's happening in New York City in particular, because it's the worst. 58,000 illegals are here right now.

Now they're closing shelters, which is good news, but we still have 58,000 illegal. And guess what? We got that Venezuelan gang here. And now we've just begun to arrest him in New York City. It's got to be because of the election.

And how many more elections do Democrats want to lose? How much closer do they want Republicans to come? At the governor's races, at the congressional races, because the Republicans are closing in. And by the way, the Democrats are losing more and more because they don't go to the letter of the law. Standing by is Julian Epstein.

We're going to talk about where the Democrats go from here, their stand, get his stand on Hunter Biden's pardon with his legal background. But let's get to the big three first.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. The resistance is going to have trouble raising money. These fundraisers are burnt. The damage that this decade has done to the Democratic brand is almost unfathomable.

Almost unfathomable. That is a good point. That is brought up by James Carvell. Dem's in transition. Brand is broken, and the mission to stop Trump has failed.

We look at what the new look might look like. Number two. I think we're going to see a lot of them leave the Department of Justice. You're going to see a lot of people leave the FBI, maybe even the Department of Defense, which is exactly what Donald Trump wants, because what he wants is chaos. Michael Bennett playing the old tunes from Colorado, the senator.

Transition tension from cash to RFK to Hag Seth to Tulsi. Dems have trouble understanding the president-elect wants to have a reform agenda, and these are the people he's picking. They're trying to Trump-proof his version of America. Number one. Obviously, Republicans are going to criticize, but Biden did make this line of attack particularly available, seeing as how he spent so long saying he wouldn't do it.

The problem is the rest of the Democrats. Made Biden's pledge to not pardon Hunter the foundation of their defense of America, this grand experiment. Oops, Jon Stewart's hard to be funny when everything left is falling apart. Pardon, fallout continues as Biden cowardly sets his son free and lets Dems and his surrogates try to explain it while he goes to Angola, what it means in the big picture. And I'll pose that right away to Julian Epstein.

By the way, just quick note: if you can't watch the show live, and that's fine, you go to BrianKilmeadShow.com, wherever you get, or you have the Fox News app. You always can click on listen with the headsets. You can click on watch. It's a little arrow. The other thing is, you can get the podcast wherever you get podcasts.

But Julian Epstein, welcome back. Brian, thanks for having me.

So when I talk about fallout from this pardon, would you say the same thing? Would you say there's significant Democratic fallout from this pardon? Oh, this is, I mean, how much time do we have? This is a bad. Decision that's going to hurt Democrats for a long time.

First of all, it's a bad brand and it's a tough sell. The Biden administration is viewed by the American people as having been a failed administration. The one issue they had, and that's true on foreign affairs and domestic affairs, economy, culture, on down the line. The one issue they had was the rule of law and defense of democracy. And that is now sort of exposed as a fraud.

So the Democrats look crass, they look craven, insincere. The second issue there is that, you know, obviously. The President misled the public. He repeatedly told the public during the campaign season that he would not pardon his son the moment the campaign is up. Goes back on his word.

It's sort of. A lot of people think the self-proclaimed honor of the Bidens, we always put country first, is sort of, you know, looks a little farcical now. The third reason is the weaponization of the justice system, Brian. The left and the Biden administration did everything they could to put their political opponent in prison. And even in cases like the New York case, which we've talked about, which they, you know, which they Biden himself.

Encouraged in April of 23 when he expressed frustration, they leaked to the New York Times that the state and federal prosecutors were not more aggressive in trying to put Trump in jail. And now, when it comes to their own, they have this get out of jail card free for a son that was engaged at least in 2014-15 in what looks like some pretty serious tax evasion.

So, you know, you can keep going down the list on this thing: the virtue signaling of the left, the virtue signaling that we are the party that's going to defend democracy, we are the party that's going to defend the rule of law, all that moral superiority. Again, all of that sort of starts to look like a fraud. There's a self-dealing aspect to this. When the president Issues a pardon for Hunter that goes back to 2014.

Well, that is when Hunter is initiating a pay-to-play scheme with Ukraine and Romania. In China and elsewhere. See, it's interesting you said that, Jillian, because a lot of Democrats wouldn't even go there. When Republicans bring that up, they go, come on, you guys, you haven't proved anything, pay to play. You know, they so you have no problem finding out what you have, you still have questions about what he was up to.

In Ukraine, in China, in Romania, with the Moscow Mayor, right?

Well, we don't know. We don't know. A lot of questions are unanswered, but we do know that the President said that he never met with any of Hunter's business partners, but we now know that he did. And we now know that he was sort of in certain ways facilitating that influence peddling effort that was going on with foreign countries and foreign oligarchs. And we don't have the answers to that.

But what the pardon does is it makes it very difficult for the Justice Department. or for or for anyone really to initiate any serious inquiry into that. And again, that there's a self-dealing aspect to this because that involved the President himself in terms of meetings at Cafe Milano and elsewhere.

So you have that the self-dealing aspect of this. You have sort of the You know, we've talked about the mainstream media and the chattering class on the left. You know, there are riffs out there of every talking head on the left talking about how honorable it was that Biden would not pardon his son. And, you know, you could play a clip that could go on for two hours about all of all of the talking heads from the liberal networks. You know, where are they now?

It's strange they're strangely silent now.

So I think it also speaks to the hypocrisy and the moralizing and the sort of the The phony moral superiority of the chattering class on the left. There's one other issue that's just now. On the Daily Show of all places last night, they put Trump aside for a second and they took Biden to task. Cut 21. Be honest, the only reason why they went after Hunter the way they did, and I've talked to many federal prosecutors about this, is because he's the president's son.

People have to remember: the president has lost two children already, and he does not need to lose another one to more political witch hunts. The, you know, crowing from Republicans, but we're talking about, you know, Donald Trump is a convicted felon who literally pardoned his daughter's father-in-law and just made him ambassador to France.

So, for anyone that wants to clutch their pearls now because he decided that he was going to pardon his son, I would say take a look in the mirror. Yeah, and the problem was even Jon Stewart couldn't take that serious, cut twenty-two. Yes, yes, yes, to everything that you guys were saying. If you hadn't made Hunter Biden not receiving a pardon, the Mason-Dixon line of morality. Between Democrats and Republicans, there's a big gap between the law is the only thing that separates us from the animals, and the monkey threw at me first.

I had no choice. Yeah, and the thing is, everybody looked bad because of that. And the question is: the president in his statement made things worse. He said, I decided over the weekend. We know he didn't decide over the weekend.

Number two, he said, I believe in the Justice Department, but the politics got involved, and my son was targeted because of me. We know this. He got special treatment. He got special treatment in order to get a sweetheart deal from the judge that the judge couldn't substantiate and both sides couldn't defend. And number two, when it came to the IRS investigation, he is still getting away without paying a lot of that money, Julian.

We still don't know where all this money came from and where it is now. That's true, and I'd like to comment on the the the punditry on the left who says, oh, you know, look at what Trump did with the father in law, and wasn't that terrible, so you know, don't bother us on the Hunter Biden. I mean, the illogic of these people that go on T V Day after day is just sort of extraordinary to me.

So, their argument is. Yes, if Trump does something, it's terrible, and we're going to campaign on it, and we're going to show our moral superiority on it. But if we do it, Don't question us about that because Trump did it. I mean, it is so, it lacks, it is completely an incoherent argument. And it just betrays the phoniness of the moral superiority of the left.

On these issues, and on the central issue, as Jon Stewart properly pointed out, of the democratic. You know, argument in the last election, which was we would uphold the rule of law. There's one other aspect I just want to comment on, which is. The Democrats have pontificated. For years now about making the rich pay their fair share of taxes.

It's going to be hard for the Democrats to make that argument now. When Trump seeks to extend the 2017 tax deal. Oh, yeah. When they argue, oh, the rich should be paying their fair share of taxes.

Well, the president's son made millions on a foreign influence peddling scheme, didn't pay his fair share of taxes. The statute of limitations expired on the big charges, and then he got a pardon on the remaining charges. How can they argue that? The Democrats similarly make. an argument, a a sort of morally superior argument on the issue of Um Uh background checks.

Well, here the president's son abused the background check for gun purchases.

So, how is it they're going to sort of make this we are in a morally superior position when Our leaders' families abuse tax laws, abuse the gun laws, and then get a get-out-of-jail-free card. I got, yeah, I got to get one more topic in before we go, and that's the Danny Pearl trial. We have closing arguments yesterday. Nobody was there, they didn't televise it. But word is both sides were strong.

Danny Pearl is the 25-year-old ex-Marine that saw things getting going crazy on a subway train with this lunatic, Jordan Neely, threatening to kill himself and kill people and go back to jail.

So he grabbed him, put him in a submission hold, and he ended up dying. He had sickle cell anemia. He had all these other issues. He had drugs in his system. And now Danny Neely is going to be looking at prison for 20 years if he's convicted.

They're chanting guilty. Sharpton's people have been out there protesting him. They want to make this race related. Julian, knowing the New York jury the way you do, what do you think is going to happen to Danny Penny today or tomorrow or Friday when they come up with a verdict? I don't think he'll be convicted.

I think that there is so much chaos on the New York subways. The people that should be on trial here are the New York City officials that have let chaos. Just rain in the streets of New York, and we've seen just huge. Crime spike since 2020. And, you know, you talk to people in New York and they'll tell you they're scared to death of going on subways.

They're scared to death of, you know, bodegas being held up in the middle of the day. I hope so. The crime just got out of control in the last three or four years because of progressive ideology on deprosecution and decarceration. And that's a big reason that you saw in New York a huge shift towards Trump, in some places as much as 15 points. in the last election.

The people that ought to be on trial here, I think, are the New York City officials that have completely failed the residents of New York when it comes to crime and punishment. If you put this Marine in jail, the first thing Trump should do when he gets in is pardon him. And Alvin Bragg should be fired by any clear-thinking governor. And I hope Richie Torres gets some momentum because it looks like this Democrat. A Democrat from Harlem wants to run for mayor or governor.

Thanks so much. I appreciate it. Julian Epstein, thanks so much for your time. Have a good day. Thanks so much, Brian.

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My preference would be an FBI background check. And I don't know that we won't have FBI background checks. I know that we have really good staffs and really good investigators. and they work closely with the FBI.

So I'm I'm not worried at all about uh about not having background checks done on on uh Not just these nominees, but any nominees by President. And this shows you why you need a new director. Senator Kennedy came out and said, you know, FBI checks.

Well, do it.

Okay, fine. BI checks.

Well The same FBI, Andy McCabe, Peter Strzok, and all those people that worked behind the scenes to, and remember James Comey came in and talked about how he basically wore a wire and had told Donald Trump, we got this dossier out there. I don't know if it's true or not. We'll do an investigation on your role with Russia and your team's role with Russia.

So that same FBI going to do background checks on my people. Yeah. Okay, I don't want to endow 35,000 people, but guess what? You're going to go deep on my people that I want out. You're going to go deep on Cash Patel, who wants to run the FBI differently than is being run right now, and the FBI is going to do that background check.

What about Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard? They don't really want Tulsi Gabbard to run the DNI.

So you're going to let that FBI be run the background check.

So not only you probably maybe find things that you like to dispute. But maybe you're gonna leak some stuff out that doesn't get tracked back to you. And it pops up in the New York Times and Washington Post and CNN and all these other ancillary sites.

So that's how bad it is. And that's why you need a new director. And after that, because FBI does some great things on a daily basis, after that, I understand it.

Now, look, a lot of things that have come out could have easily been retrieved and explained before the nomination was announced if he had a standard FBI check, and the FBI was like its old self. A lot of people don't trust in it. And the way they're going after Pete Hegstett's background, Tulsi Gabbard's background is despicable. Listen, she was a Democrat. She serves in the military, still active in the National Guard.

Go look at it. You know, you go out there, you want it you wanted to ask a question about Syria, go ahead. You want to find out about how she's different than Donald Trump and why she said such disparaging things about Trump, and now she ends up being a part of his team and a Republican? That's great. Stay out of the personal life.

Well yeah, it should play a role. But now what they're doing with Pete Hegseth, who is uh In many ways, he's perfect for the Trump brand to take over the Defense Department, who served in the military, does the hard part, still in the National Guard, can handle civil unrest as well as fighting in the deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan, who can write a book about the culture of the Pentagon, and then has to lead the Pentagon. You can always get people that really understand how to run the the one billion dollar organization you can that has uh consists of three million people, one million of which are in uniform.

Okay, there's plenty of people to help with that. But to sit there and go, okay, in his first marriage here, in his second marriage here, in this organization there, and here's what he said. Uh here.

Okay. I only care about How's he doing now? What's happening today? What has he done over the last 10 years in terms of where he stands? Go look at what he does on the weekends.

Pete Eggset, you'll see where he stands by, if you don't want to read his books. Go looks at some of his tapes over the eight hours, every week. Eight hours he's on the air every week, you know, commercials. But he's on with Fox Red's Minimum. You see him do the primetime shows.

He's still exactly where it stands. You know, on this network, you don't just read a teleprompter, you have plenty of room to put opinion in. You can see where you stand with a guest by the questions you ask and the follow-up questions you ask.

So that's where Pete stands. Go at him and say, you know, the other day you said this on Fox and Friends, and I was shocked to see where you stood at the Pentagon. I don't like where you believe in women in combat. Should they be there or not? Should the standards be higher or not?

And how do you explain the success of women in the IDF? What's the difference between that? These are great questions. But going out about past marriages, past, he said, she said, or he said, he said with organizations. That just shows you're afraid.

You're afraid of what he brings to the process. And go back in your resume. People in your resume, there are people that you work with that don't like you. Yeah, and they might say negative things about you. You want for a high-profile job?

Sure, the answer is yes, because nobody listening to me now is perfect. Don't try don't try that Kavanaugh stuff. It'd sick me. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Gilmead.

New York City, there's a target written pending criminal charges. The Democratic mayor in New York, Eric Adams, a former cop, is ready to work with you. I hope so, because I've just been notified he wants to sit down and meet with me. I'm willing to meet with him. I'm willing to meet with anybody to help make their community safer.

Let's work together and get this done. When's that meeting happen? I haven't responded yet, but I'll respond this week. That is Tom Holman, who's walking around not shy about letting everybody know what's going on, putting pressure on Democrats for not playing ball. And I love it.

It's such a different environment from 2016. Remember, sanctuary cities, you don't care about immigrants, they're minorities. In 2024, what is going on here? My schools are packed. My streets are overwhelmed.

Gangs are running rampant. Crime's not being prosecuted. Our cops are being beat up. Airports are being overwhelmed. Buses are dropping off people from the border into big cities.

Small towns like Springfield, Ohio are being overrun.

Now what's happened, American people have woken up. to the problem. Heather McDonald joins us now. She's one of the premier experts on law enforcement in America, Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, New York Times bestseller.

Heather, your reaction to something like Mayor Adams saying, I want to meet rather than I want to fight.

Well I hope he can get support from the police department and from every law enforcement agency in the city, Brian. There is nothing more perverse. than for a police chief or a sheriff to say, I'm not cooperating with ICE. on deporting criminals. It is the easy way, it is a very fast way to get criminals off your hands.

It's much easier to make an illegal immigration case. Than it is to prove that somebody's involved in a drug ring or a mass theft ring. And yet, we still see, as much as you're claiming that there's a tide that's turning, Brian, and I hope you're right, you still have the sheriff of Los Angeles County, the police chief of Los Angeles Police Department, saying, No way are we cooperating. You know, these are our illegals, and we're holding on to them. It would appear, Brian, that we don't have enough illegal aliens in this country.

We have to hold on to even the criminals. That is the view of the left wing that is trying to change the character of this country through unchecked mass illegal immigration from the third world.

So, you could tell me, you know these codes like the back of your hand, but Tom Holman talks about if you're harboring a criminal and won't cooperate, you could end up with charges on you if you're a public official. If you're a Venezuelan gang member and you won't give Tom Holman access to them, Homeland Security access to them. that you're harboring a criminal. Could there be legal action against people that want to play politics, criminals? It's worth a try.

You know, Trump tried in his First administration to hold back federal funding, criminal justice funding, from jurisdictions that were defying federal authority and saying we are going to hold on to our legal alien criminals with everything we've got. And amazingly, he only won in four of the uh appeals circuit appeals that that were brought by California and New York and New Jersey And then the administration turned over. Biden threw out all of Trump's efforts to to penalize sanctuary jurisdictions and the Supreme Court said, well, moot case, we don't want to decide this.

So right now the law is unsettled. But I think the idea of bringing a sheltering case is definitely worth a try. We'll see with our courts. whether we get justice and whether the American people Do get a say in who comes into their country. If immigration is decided by people who live outside the country, not by our lawmakers, we are no longer a country.

We are simply a chaotic aggregation of people with no law and order.

So I was watching an ABC story, and it's true. They say 40% of the workers in the fields are undocumented, illegal aliens. And they're working in the fields and they're hard working, and they got a couple of generations picking berries and doing things that they claim Americans would not do. And I don't know any Americans that love to pick berries, but there were no openings.

So maybe they're right. And they're upstanding farm owners. And I don't think we're getting to them for a long time. I want to get to the point where. a border czar person, a person from homeland shows up at a prison from ICE and says, you have a Venezuelan gang member there, I need them.

And they give us access to them. What is the mindset of people who won't give ICE access to their illegal alien criminals? Brian, it's unfathomable. It means that you are not on the side of law and order. Again, this is a no-brainer.

You've got limited jail space, you've got limited prison space. These are hardened criminals. They're part of criminal ga prison gangs. The federal government is saying we want to help you. We want to decrease your prison count so that you can run your jails and prisons more effectively, less overcrowding, and yet we have people within law enforcement that are saying don't you dare take this illegal criminal off our hand.

We want to keep him here so that we can release him back into the population when he gets out. That is a complete betrayal of the public trust that we've put in our law enforcement officials to keep us safe from crime. It's going to drive you crazy, but I'm going to play it anyway. The LA City Council, when Trump wins, has a special meeting and voted 9-1 to keep the Sanctuary City status. Listen.

If we know anything about the person who just won the election, we know that their bark is their bark, and their bark matches their bite. Given the re-election of Donald Trump and the consistent hate speech towards undocumented people and mixed-status families. I can't think of a more pressing issue. We have been a pro immigrant city for a number of years. We know that there is a target on our back from this President elect.

And what we are doing here is we are hardening Our defenses. We are codifying our good policies on protecting immigrants. This is unbelievable. How clueless they are. You know, we hear from the left all the time that illegal aliens don't commit crime at higher rates than Americans.

They're so law abiding. If the left believes that, they should say we're going to make a distinction between Law-abiding illegal aliens and criminal legal aliens. And you can take the the the latter category because it's so small. We're still going to be sanctuary, we're still going to say we love our illegals, we're going to keep them here, but get rid of the criminals. But they're basically saying when they're saying we're protecting illegal aliens, And what we're talking about is not allowing uh ice to know when a criminal that's just an illegal alien criminal who's just served his time is being released back into the community and you have sheriffs and you have you have police chiefs refusing to honor retainers that the people what they're basically saying is that is the illegal alien population that we have to protect.

And I would put into the nauseating category as well Illinois governor's Pritzker's claim that you come for my people, you come through me.

So he's claiming to be the governor of illegal alien criminals. That's a recipe for people to move out of Illinois if that's who Pritzker thinks he's going to be protecting. Here is Mayor Brandon Johnson, another moron. We're not going to cooperate. We're not going to ask our police force to serve as ICE agents.

Come on, yeah. We're not going to do that. We are working hard to restore confidence. with community and policing. Why would we put police officers in a position where the community can't trust them?

We're not cooperating with that madness. We're going to do everything in our power to protect people in this city. Everything.

So in other words, we will do whatever is necessary. Do you believe this? I guess you do believe it. Why do I keep saying that? You know, you know the police Has made an arrest of somebody.

They've had probable cause to arrest them for suspicion of. Yeah. Whether it's shop Yeah. assault, gun crime. That's who they've got in their hands, and they don't want to check for immigration status to say, you're out of here, fellow.

It is just Perverse. As I say, the only way you can understand this, Brian, because you have to believe that there is still some commitment to law and order on the part of these people, but it's part of something that is far deeper. It is part of what is called the great replacement theory, which is an instinct among our elites that this country is wrong as it is to That it is supposed to, it needs to change its demographics to atone for. Phantom original sins that are present in every single culture and every single civilization, that you cannot have too many illegal aliens. You've got to hold on to the criminals.

But, Heather, I do think we're talking to Heather McDonald, esteemed law enforcement expert. But, Heather, I do think we're making progress. I think we're really moving away from that 2020 or previous mindset, the DEI, that America's built on stolen land, on the backs of slavery, that whole 1619 project attitude. Listen to these numbers. There are 58,000 illegal immigrants in New York City who are convicted felons, close to 670,000 across the country.

Of the 759,000 here illegally, living in the Big Apple, 58,000 plus percent, 58,000 plus, that's 7.7 percent were either convicted of a crime or had criminal charges in their background.

So that's why I think Tom Holman and Mayor Adams are meeting. And if Mayor Adams meets, he just appointed a new police chief. Maybe they're going to play ball because you have a president. I'm just saying for pure political purposes, he's in trouble. And if you want to get the president's attention positively, the president-elect, you start cracking down on illegals.

That's a good argument. I hope that works. Self-interest should work. You know, it's in the self-interest of every mayor to keep crime down, and if you want to do that, you cooperate with ICE to get these criminals out. You've already broken the law.

And the idea that you should be shielded on that basis alone is absurd. But then you go on to commit other crimes, and yet we're supposed to believe that they have a right to be here. I hope you're right. Obviously, the American people rejected this. It's going to take a long, hard fight, Brian, because the elites remain committed to the left-wing ideology of hatred to what American Western civilization stands for.

But it's amazing the speed with which Trump is moving. We've already seen this happening in some of the red states beforehand with the attack on the anti-white hatred that is endemic in universities with their anti-white admissions preferences. And hiring practices.

So yes, it may be that there is a change coming. I'm a pessimist by nature, but you look around and you think, my God, maybe we've got this thing. Real quick, I got a minute left. Danny Penny's trial, what do you think this jury is going to do? I hope that they're going to do the right thing and say that we need to support male chivalry.

We need to support people who are willing to put their own lives on the line to protect their fellow citizens. Penny was a hero. Uh so it depends on whether they're Still vulnerable to the race narrative because, let's be honest, that's what this has been all about: a Marine, a white male Marine that's been portrayed as somehow part of the oppressive structure against blacks. That's completely wrong. We are ready to be a colorblind society.

We are not white supremacists. I hope that the jury does the right thing and saves this man from what will be one of the most horrific, unjust sentences in recent history. Heather, you're great. Thanks so much. Heather McDonald, it's going to be fascinating to see the crackdown on crime and illegals.

I appreciate it, Heather. Thanks, Brian. All right, so listen, I'm going to be on outnumber at the top of the hour. When we come back, it's more to know. It'll be great for a whole hour.

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So many people have aspirations to. do more. They don't get that opportunity.

So they live in this quiet frustration their whole life. Please give me the opportunity to even fail. Put me in coach one time. Let me run the race. If I'm last, at least I know I didn't have it.

But to never be able to try to do your best to like get a shot, in other words, to simplify it, and it's a very simple story about that people, even intellectuals, people that are perhaps in white-collar jobs, they can look at that and somehow glean something out of it. Also, the need of hope. Right, that is about Stallone talking to Sean Hannity, his new show on Fox Nation called Sean. It reminds me, I have another rocket story, but first I'd like to tell you: you need to know more. More.

Didn't know.

So here we go. The movie from 1976, Rocky, with two premieres in New York, starting with the world premiere for Rocky, which will take place at the Paramount Theater in New York City on Saturday, November 20th, 1976, by United Artists. Believe it or not, that was released nationwide in Canada on this very day, December 1st, 1976. That was actually two days ago, right? Oh, that was the Los Angeles premiere.

Now, today is when it was released nationwide. It had two separate premieres, individual premieres, and then it became nationwide today. Overseas, Rocky grossed $107 million worldwide, $225 million. It won the Oscar for Best Picture. The production budget was under a million.

Rocky's notable for its worldwide percentage of return, over 11,000%. It was the highest-grossing film released in 1976. Here's the thing: I don't care. How could he not have the rights to this movie? He's so frustrated today, he doesn't have the Rocky franchise, right?

He's suing these guys.

So he gave the rights up? Yeah, to make the movie. I guess that was part of the deal. I mean, that's like what a lot of artists or musicians go through. They want the rights to their song, but when they sign their initial record deal or when they're young and don't have as much background to them, they lose those rights.

My question to you is with Rocky. Did you see this in the theater or did you just see it when it came on TV? for the first time? Theater. Theater.

Yeah, and what I really remember is Rocky 3. That's when I was like, this is unbelievable. That's when it really took off to the next level. I mean, the original is always going to be. The original.

But what I remember as a kid, Rocky III, it was like it fit the era so perfectly. It was the 80s. It had the music, the Eye of the Tiger. It had club running. Mr.

T was a big star. Another real sports story we got to get to: it happened in Jacksonville. Houston Texans linebacker Aziz Ashir, suspended for three games after a brutal hit on Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence that left the Jacksonville Jags superstar with, or I was supposed to be superstar with a concussion and sparked a brawl on the field. They were throwing things at him as he left the field. He was sliding and his ear just took him out.

Even his fan, in his own, by the way, even his own teammates couldn't defend him. Jaguars tight end Evan Ingram shoved Azir after the play and the brawl between the two happened.

Next, Rob Manford claims. There's a buzz around golden at-bat rule among MLB owners. There's a variety of rule change ideas that are being talked about. One of them is there's a little buzz about it at the owners meeting, this idea of a golden at-bat. The basic concept is that a team could choose one at-bat in every game to use it as their best hitter, regardless of where they are in the lineup.

Manfred didn't elaborate on the rule, so if any New York Yankee had the bases loaded with two outs in the ninth, he could play the golden at-bat. They could bring Aaron Judge into the plate. This is a mistake. This is terrible. You know why?

It'll mess with all the averages, all the home run totals, all the RBIs. There are certain things that happen from 154 to 162. Have an extra playoff ladder. I can understand that. But this would be a mistake.

This shows desperation. I mean, every. Rule change is getting gimmickier and gimmicker. First, they started with it during COVID. They had the man on second base during extra innings, which is terrible.

They got rid of the, you have to throw four pitches for an intentional walk.

Now, in this, it's just getting now. Did you hear the other rule? They're talking about forcing pitchers to have to go six innings unless they throw 100 pitches or get hurt or give up four runs. Uh, that's pretty cool. Uh, that's you just hang out there and hurt, you're gonna get hurt.

It's Sometimes you feel something you overthrow. Uh That's crazy. I don't know. Does Robin Manfred like baseball? I don't think so.

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