Biden family legacy is tarnished, defenders humiliated

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Thanks, thanks so much for being here, everybody. Brian Kilmee Chow, coming your way.

So much going on.

So glad you're here for it. I know in NATO there's a big summit, which matters. I know Lincoln's there, but they want to know who's next. And I think that by Jake Sullivan and Mike Waltz telling us that the communication between the two. Administration's in and out is going strong.

So that's one of the positives. We really don't have a president. I mean, President Biden is doing nothing. He has done nothing for months. He hasn't talked to the press.

He doesn't make decisions. Just trying to nail President Trump in on different things, which is not unusual for one administration to try to hold on to the other one's agenda. by just trying to spend a lot of money, throw a lot of money into Ukraine's throw a lot of money from the Inflation Reduction Act, which is really the new Green Deal.

So he's trying to put all that out there. But for the most part, he's not even leading the country. And Trump is. And I give him credit. And there's very little pushback.

I'm watching the other channels too. Very little pushback of saying only one president at a time because we have none right now. Brett Baer is coming out at the bottom of the arrow. That'll be great.

So let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. I don't know the particulars of how he was able to stay here, but I know he was here illegally. Mr. Wen is a Chinese national.

Given that he was illegally in this country, He was not permitted to possess either firearms or ammunition. That is Martin Estrada. I'm talking about this Chinese national here illegally. Underline it again: the need for massive illegal immigrant crackdowns are now something different. We think about the border for that.

How about illegal alien Chinese citizens in California overstaying their visas by 10 years, selling our secrets to North Korea, and selling our ammo to North Korea through Los Angeles while based in Ontario, California?

Meanwhile, New York Mayor Adams, to his credit, says, Hey, I'm a Democrat, but I want to meet with Tom Holman. I want to work with this administration. Number two.

Now we everyone looks Stupid. Everyone looks like they're full of and Republicans are going to use you. And I think that's the piece of this I am most frustrated with, which is Joe Biden looking like a typical lying politician. Yeah, well, I feel like a fool. You know, that's what makes me mad about it.

Unimaginable and perhaps unanticipated anger from Hunter Biden's pardon mounts for the Biden administration's family's legacy and is humiliating his defenders for years as it becomes clearer by the day how dysfunctional, purely political, corrupt, and cutthroat the Bidens as a family are. Number And let me just say the individuals that are being critical of Pete personally, they have been 100% silent when it comes to this current president's son, Hunter Biden, who is addicted to cocaine and prostitutes and who exploited his father's name to the tune of millions of dollars. Trump transition, moving warp speed as nominees like Bessette, Hegset, Bondi, Vivek, and Musk make their case and meld minds on the Trump agenda. We have the mover, shakers, and the shaky nominees. I just saw Wall Street Journal report this morning that says that President Trump is considering replacing nominee Hegseth.

I think that's far from done. And he met face to face with Ron DeSantis. And that could be a bunch of things. Ron DeSantis has in his hands the Rubio seat. I think he's got four years left.

And yeah, I think so. Four years left.

So that's a big seat. And I think Larry Trump is the logical next one.

So I think that. That plays a role. And Governor DeSantis, in my view, is one of the most competent executives in the country, maybe that I've seen. If you just look at the way he handles his hurricanes, his state's economics, the politics, the definitive, the clearness of thought. I've seen him in action.

But Pete Hakeseth is not done yet. I think he's got a lot of fight left in him. He made some progress yesterday. And let's look. He's not going to get any Democratic support.

Don't know why, but he's not expected. No Joe Manchin out there. But for Republicans, the ones he's got to worry about is. Mitch McConnell. Joni Ernst Senator Collins and Senator McKowski.

Now the one he's got to repress, the big one today is Senator Wicker. Why? Senator Wicker has done a total restructuring of armed services and talked about a reform of the Pentagon. He's going to talk directly and coherently about what he thinks needs to be done. And Pete has his own views.

But Roger Wicker has great experience, but if they're able to engage at a high level, I imagine Roger Wicker could use some of his influence to say, listen, Pete's a guy, don't worry about what happened with his ex-wife. Don't worry about accusations from something that happened in 2001 because they're accusations. And I can go find somebody else on the other side. But If you're somebody, if you're living a life of consequence, you're going to be in the middle of battle. There's some people out in the battlefield that are not going to like the way you lead.

And if you come back and you lead an organization, a big one, like Wounded Warriors or others, there's going to like other people are not going to like the way you lead. He led two eight veterans groups.

Some people loved him, some people didn't. And then when you have a marriage that goes awry, tell me the divorce that went well. I can count on one hand how many people said, Yeah, I divorced my wife, I divorced my husband. It went pretty smooth. Never.

So, if a divorce is going to disqualify you for high positions in life, many people are doomed.

So we'll talk about where that goes from here, but they did have meetings yesterday at Mar-a-Lago. I just wanted to share that with you as Bill Melusian comes out. I also want to talk about the fallout with Hunter Biden because it is enormous. And the big pushback is coming from interesting places. You know, if James Comer is a great guest, he did more investigating on the Hunter Biden unsavory activities in the Biden family than anybody else.

But when you have President Biden say, I made this maneuver, I decided over the weekend, and I believe in the justice system, but politics entered into it. And if I wasn't president, he wouldn't have been. brought. Uh he wouldn't have been brought up on charges and convicted.

Well, when U. S. District Judge Mark Scarcy heard that, he said President Biden's statement announcing a full and unconditional pardon of his son is, quote, intention with the case record. It was nothing but a press release, he said. He said the President's own Attorney General and Department of Justice personnel oversaw the investigation leading to the charges.

In the President's estimation, this legion of Federal civil servants, the undersigned included, are unreasonable people. In short, a press release is not a pardon. That's what the President did. He didn't go through the normal processes. The Constitution provides the President with broad authority to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the U.S.

But nowhere does the Constitution give the President the authority to rewrite history. Remember what David Weiss said about the gun charge? About the investigation, the referral that got him looking into tax evasion because your crackhead son didn't pay taxes for years. And you're not talking about $100,000, you're talking about millions. He goes, There's never been any evidence.

of vindictive or selective prosecution in this case. The government does not challenge that the defendant has been the recipient of an act of mercy like a pardon. That does not mean the grand jury's decision to charge him based on the findings of probable cause should be wiped out as if not occurred. This idiot, Hunter Biden, wrote the whole incident with the gun in his book. While getting his bow Bow's widow, addicted to crack.

While leaving his wife, In order to do it. Among the people upset is these people that defended Joe Biden's integrity and contrasted it with what they thought was a lack of integrity for Donald Trump.

So Tommy Vitor, a big guy with Obama, they call him one of the Obama bros, Jon Favreau, a writer for Obama. They have Pod Save America. And here's what they said yesterday: cut nine.

Now we everyone looks Stupid. Everyone looks like they're full of, and Republicans are going to use you. And I think that's the piece of this I am most frustrated with: which is Joe Biden. Looking like a typical lying politician, and I think that leads to a cynical feeling that all politicians are bad and they're all the same and that this is just par for the course. Like this is something that is coming.

I don't know. I yeah, well, I'm I feel like a f fool, you know? That's what makes me mad about it. Be honest. I don't know.

Actually, as soon as Joe Biden said, I will now pardon my son, of course I thought he was going to pardon his son. But when he kept saying it over and over again, no, you would think about no, change your mind, no. I'm surprised these guys who are street smart and know Joe Biden would ever go to bat for him, but evidently, on a podcast that's popular that I don't listen to. They said it over and over again.

So So how about fallout? This fallout. Look at this. I don't think it sounds, but I I wrote it down. Gavin Newsom.

With everything the President and his family have been through, I completely understand the instinct to protect Hunter, but I took the President at his word.

So by definition, I am disappointed and can't support the decision. It's a shame the President put his family and personal life above the country, a former Biden aide told the New York Post, adding, They were not surprised after he lost the election, but it will be a stain on his legacy.

Meanwhile, do you want to know what a horrible person this kid is? Kid, young man. The Daily Mail is porting to you exclusively, no pushback at all, that he is possi he has been stiffing a LA landlord out of over three hundred thousand dollars in rent. The Daily Mail revealing this, that he owed Sweet Green CEO co founder Jonathan Neman eighty thousand in back rent, leaving the Venice Beach rental apartment trashed. This is according to source briefed on the dispute.

And now Sean McGuire, a partner of the San Francisco investment giant Sequoia, has come forward claiming Hunter owes him as little as three hundred thousand dollars after failing to pay rent for over a year in twenty nineteen. In 2020. Here's the thing that was posted on X. What happens to the $300,000 in back pay rent that Hunter owes my family from 2019 to 2020? The California venture investor who's livid spoke out hours after Biden got pardoned by his dad and tax felony convictions, as well as any other uncharged crimes committed in ten years.

Hunter was our tenant in Venice. He didn't pay rent for over a year. He tried to pay with a book of art. Made from his own Hm. Not gonna say it.

He changed the locks and used Secret Service to enforce. We have no access to the property. McGuire's house in Venice is a four bedroom, three thousand foot square apartment. which he bought in twenty seventeen for two point five million dollars. And it's now worth 4.2.

So when you do this stuff, you know this, you're listening to me right now. If you have $4 million, $2 million to invest, you get it as a mortgage unless you have acquired wealth. And you'd say to yourself, if I get rented this much, I can afford it. But you never think in a million years that someone who's paying $80,000 or this much a month will just not pay, especially with the last name of the vice president and future president of the United States. That's what happened.

The little guy gets screwed. I also know this story. It was until they were giving a speech, and one of the people that I met on the street just said, You know, everybody knows Bidens, and nobody likes him. And I said, Really? He goes, I'll give you an example.

Okay.

Now I can't verify this, but I'll tell you the story, but it fits the bill. He said, a friend of mine did work, extensive audio work for their house. They wanted Wi Fi put in, they wanted T V's moved, and he did it. And they never paid. And he showed up.

Four straight days to get paid. Finally, the Secret Service met him before walking up the door again and said, Consider it your donation to America. They're not paying you.

Now as I see this I think it's 100% true. And then, when I saw this sound bite, and I know what you're going to say when I play it, way too late. And he should have put these pieces together, and he could have, and he probably did. But Chuck Todd used to host Meet the Press. Talking to Chris Kaliza.

Siliza, I guess Silizza, yeah.

Sort of putting two and two together, seeing about the hearing about the pardon. And he had a little bit of a rant, cut eight. You read the Halley Biden transcript, and that's both widow. Yes. And and essentially he turned her into a crack addict.

And this was all happening in 2017, 2018. And Joe and Joe Biden. were so concerned about their family that they decided to run for president. I just so when you talk about the word selfish. I it's almost like the word doesn't I mean I Their decision to run for president put the entire Democratic Party and the United States of America.

In the position that it's in now. 'Kay. You watch President Trump five cases. It's two civil cases. The one in Georgia, the state case is still pending, but I think it's going to get tossed out.

And you're saying all these things, you got to take his wealth.

Some woman comes out of nowhere, which he's done multiple times and sues him civilly and says that it back in a day in a year, she doesn't remember that he attacked her and assaulted her. It's only eighty million dollars. And everyone talks about you got to believe in the justice system. The president says, not enough. This is being weaponized against me.

And everyone's like, look at Joe Biden, so classy. He's not being look, they're prosecuting his son. And he's not saying a word, he's not even going to pardon his son. And then, when all this stuff comes out, we were putting it together and talking about it. You've been calling about it, you've been writing me about it.

And when we put it together earlier, we're the bad guys. We're looking to take down a good man in his eighties. When we're judging him about the way he speaks and his inability to walk and talk or give interviews or communicate or make any sense and contradict his own State Department on big things like are we going to defend Taiwan. And are we going to demand for the ouster and overthrow of Vladimir Putin, big things? How dare you question his mind?

Donald Trump is crazy. You know, how dare you question? He's an experienced politician. He's a classy man. John Meacham, the esteemed historian, he's like FDR.

Now everyone knows that we were 100% right. And that Donald Trump Doesn't do everything wrong. And I listened to Jimmy Kimmel, and I read, I watched his monologue this morning, and the guy's dealing like it's 2016. We got the reality check. They should get it.

Some of these other channels have gotten it. Chuck Todd is actually speaking about it. But we got it. Bad guy, terrible family, horrible son. Back in a moment.

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The young man in this case was going within our system, throughout the revolving door of our system.

Now, we're on a subway where we're hearing someone talking about hurting people, killing people. You have someone on that subway who was responding. Doing what we should have done as a city in a state of having a better mental health facility. Those passengers were afraid. Right.

And that was the mayor of New York City, black man, Danny Penny, white. Race has nothing to do with this. And these idiots that show up and yell murderer and Jordan Ely's family, who acts like they're a They watched the assassination of Martin Luther King and look at that as injustice. I know you want to go to bat for your kid or your relative or your cousin, but your cousin was out of his mind, riddled with drugs, riddled with sickle cell anemia, threatening to kill people. Don't care if you want to go to jail.

What are you going to do?

Now, the jury's struggling with it, which is just absolutely insane to me.

So I had uh Jason Scarlatis, he's the Oregon. Uh elect congressman. And he was one of the b he's one of the people that was on a train in Europe, an American military veteran, and a terrorist got on with an AK forty seven and started shooting and stabbing people. And he tackled them along with his friends. And he's got a med he got a medal from France When you are your hero in New York City, you go on trial and have to fight for your freedom.

Nuts. Absolutely insane. The fact is, if he's exonerated, it should be really quick today. There should be no doubt about it. I've read on the subway.

Man, I wish if you have a son or a daughter or a mom and you're on the subway, I just got to ask you this question. For those people who think race is involved in this, do you want Danny Penny there if a madman gets on that subway? Do you want Danny Penny there or do you hope he doesn't? Do you hope there's no Danny Penny to go up there and take the would-be assailant, the attacker, scrolling, promising to kill you? Do you hope that no one steps up for you?

Here here's Alex Scarlattis with me, cut twenty eight. Obviously, it's going to scare a lot of people into inaction, and I don't think that that's just in this case, that's not just in subways, that's not just. In dealing with people that are out of control. I mean, this is going to have farther-reaching consequences. You know, there's good Samaritan laws that protect people.

And I think a lot of people are going to wonder if they're Local prosecutor, if they're in a deep blue state, is going to kind of. Throw that aside and prosting ETH them anyway for doing the right thing. I hear you. A lot of people are questioning right now if they would stand up and do it. You know, the idea was, oh, just so you know.

It's almo a lot of the stuff is on tape and then You do you p you pull up this act. You hold this guy down. You let him up when the cops come. And then the cop said, Can we take in and talk to you? He goes, Of course.

Not smart legally. You should probably never go with cops without a lawyer. But it tells them everything.

So it's all on tape. A lot of the stuff's on tape, and he got the eyewitnesses.

Some people say, well, I told him to let go.

Well, you tell him to let go. Does he have a knife? If you let go of that arm, does he gotta reach into his pocket, grab a knife, and start stabbing you? Red Bear's next. A lot more to discuss.

We haven't even discussed the transition turbo, the stuff that's going on with the transition team and all Donald Trump's agenda. He's got a 30-day agenda in there. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

So why are you getting on board to support this? Sure, well, look, that's the committee that Elon and Miveka are running. This is the caucus within Congress. Most caucuses in Congress are bipartisan, and most caucuses don't take caucus positions. They don't have official things to do.

But members gather and have conversations. And so, look, I think the time for staying in safe spaces is over. We should be able to go in spaces and have that conversation. I joined with a specific focus because I've been working on it for years trying to get FEMA out of the Department of Homeland Security. I think the Department of Homeland Security was a great idea.

I think it's still necessary. But I think over the last 20 years, it's become too big. And so I think FEMA needs to be a direct report to the White House like it was when it was originally created. I think there's evidence that Secret Service probably should come out of DHS and also be a direct report to the White House.

So that's where these conversations are going to have, and so I'm willing to go there and have it.

So that's good. He wants to cut too. He wants to look at restructuring. Why not? And Josh Jared Moskowitz wants to be governor.

I th yeah, he wants to be governor. No, I checked that. Maybe he does want to be governor, but I think it's Gotthammer that wants to be governor of New Jersey. But so, Jared Moskowitz weighing in. Yeah, I'm for Doge.

And plus, the people you're meeting with, Vivek Ramaswamy wasn't born a Republican. Elon Musk wasn't born a Republican. They know how to cut. Read their books. I'm sure this guy read his book.

What these guys do, and especially Elon Musk, is they go in and they lean out their organizations in order, whether it's leaning out a rocket or leaning out the spending or leaning out transportation and deciding where to build your own manufacturing to save money. They try to wean out their payroll. This is what they do.

So they were able to spot waste. And why wouldn't you? As a Democrat or Republican, say, yeah, come see me. Yeah, come see me. What what do you what do you have in mind?

Joni Earn said, I got great ideas for the Pentagon right away. Come see me right away. I want to help.

Now for example, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, they came out and did a list. I did a list of how much World War I cost, how much the Apollo program cost, how much World War II cost, and how much the Manhattan Project cost. And they said All that money. Billions of dollars. Do you know how much illegal immigration cost us in twenty twenty three?

$150 billion. More, if more, if not equal to, all those programs and all those wars.

So if you give me that, you grab a podium. I'm not seeing, I don't like Donald Trump. I wish Kamila Harris went. All I'm seeing is a rich guy. He goes, look.

Illegal immigration is breaking our backs.

So, Vivek yesterday writes, tweets out: NGOs should not receive government funding. It makes zero sense. We need to scrutinize U.S. government funding of non-government organizations. It's an oxymoron that represents a waste of taxpayer dollars.

But the real problem runs deeper. Americans deserve transparency on the opaque foreign aid and nonprofit groups abetting for our border crisis.

So, Catholic charities, they're running the most profitable. NGOs at the border. These kids come in unaccompanied miners. They take care of them with our taxpayer dollars. They transport them with our taxpayer dollars to other facilities around the country.

And Catholic charities making a ton of money with taxpayers.

Someone's got to do it. They figure it might as well be them. Kimball Musk agreed. He said he weighed in and he said Um He said those who suggested NGOs are mouthpieces for government governments that need to go.

So he agrees. The NGOs are the government's way of creating mouthpieces that promote their agenda and push for censorship without normal checks and balances. They have to go.

Now we also know that they don't let you in.

So you get as far as the vestibule and they'll tell you to turn you around. Why? You're a non-government organization. People are staying there on our dime. You're funded by our taxpayer dollars.

You shouldn't even exist.

So when he brings that up, Someone going to stand up and go, no, I am pro-NGO, and you're going to go fight it out. Let's hear the debate.

So, a lot of people are saying, well, they don't have their own budgets and they can't make their own rules.

So, how powerful are they going to be? You get the American people going. And we all know the deficit's a problem. When the number one expense before defense is paying our national debt, The interest? I think you got my attention, don't you?

Doesn't me.

So he's on board with that. And I am too. And I think they're already taking action. I like the fact that they're not doing as ceremonial for him. The other pushback is on Cash Patel, especially over the weekend.

People are upset about it. Trey Gowdy not on last night reiterating that this guy is the right choice, cuts four. This is an FBI that has found a home on the left. We wouldn't know half of what we know about Russia if it weren't for Cash Patel's work. And he is the most unfairly maligned staffer that I dealt with in my eight years there.

Now, Devin may have a different opinion, but I've never seen the media go after a staffer the way they did Cash Patel. But what I'll promise you, Sean, is Cash Patel will be a lot more fair to his opponents than they ever were to him. And Trey Gowdy was someone who called out Matt Gates. That's why I thought it was important to play that. Another person that loves him is Devin Nunez.

Work with him. He was a key aide to him during Unmasking the Russia hoax, cut five. Just the other night, I had a former FBI agent come up to me. This was before Cash sat to dinner with my family, before Cash had been appointed by the president. And he says, boy, I sure hope President Trump appoints that Cash Patel.

I think he's doing a heck of a job. I want him to be the next FBI director. The FBI director, the FBI needs to be cleaned up. I've had countless conversations like that over the last eight years from current and former FBI agents. You know how many times an FBI agent has come up to me and said the opposite that said, oh, McCabe and Comey and these guys were great and Cash Patel and Gowdy are wrong.

You know how many times? Zero times has that happened. And I bet I've had dozens and dozens and dozens across this country of FBI agents begging for this agency to get cleaned up. And I think that's what Cash Patel will do. Good.

That's what I want to hear. This is what this is about. I don't know if Cash got in his eighth grade spelling test. I don't really care what happened in 11th grade when They went back on Kavanaugh, then went to college and said, Why did you take bus trips to Fenway Park? Was there beer on board?

I always want to know how effective he was. The resume is much better than I thought it was. I didn't fully cognizant of that. He's got some powerful people, very well respected in this corner. Not only the former president and future president, but Devin Unes and Trey Gowdy.

Brett Baer, you know that. Very interesting times. Getting set to host special report coming up in about eight hours. Brett, welcome back. Hey, hey, Brian.

Hey, fun thing, I think Trey Gowdy Has a lot of credibility besides just Republicans. You know, you live in Washington. When he came out and said Matt Gates is the wrong choice, I said, okay, that's how he feels. I knew that already. When he won hard for Cash Patel and told me how well he worked with him, that caught me by surprise.

I think it matters. Matters a lot. He wants to be, I think, the Sherpa for Cash Patel up on the Hill. And, you know, when I had him on my show, I just flat out asked him, you know, you were so adamant against Matt Gates as AG. How do you feel about Cash Patel?

And then he went off. For a long time, as I guess he did on your show as well, about why he thinks. Cash will be good for the agency in cleaning up the place, to your point just moments ago. I think. As hard as it is to believe, Cash Patel is starting to, it seems by the numbers.

Uh Have a kind of a clear path when you talk, you know, just preliminary headcount up there. Others, not so much. I mean, I think Keat has an uphill battle as you look at the numbers up on Capitol Hill. Pete Hakeseth? Yeah.

So what what number who's going to give him a problem? Right now, do you who's the one you should be working on the hardest?

Well, he's meeting with Joni Earns today. I think she's one of the six or seven GOP knows or noncommittals. Um I don't think you're going to get the Murkowski's and the Collins. Mitch McConnell, I don't know. you know you've got um A couple others who have expressed concerns.

And then you have diehards like Lindsey Graham saying this is going to be a bumpy road and Senator Loomis saying I have real concerns about these stories. He obviously has a chance to talk to all of them and talk about it, these allegations. But more importantly, in Trump world, I think more and more, there's more and more sense, according to People very close to the President that he is talking about other people and has talked about Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, has talked to the governor about the possibility directly. And so the Wall Street Journal original reporting is accurate. I'll tell you what, Brett, it's a little personal.

You know him well, I know him well. But I cannot believe the attack on somebody's personal life, including publishing an email from his mother. I mean, we've seen a lot of stuff over the years. You up close more than anybody. But my goodness, I've never seen such an attack like this.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean the A. I guess Hey, hey. I agree that the mom email, especially, It definitely caught people by surprise. I think. he disclosed to the President elect and to the team about the twenty seventeen incident and allegation, but I don't think that they had a full sense of What was coming, you know, story was.

And I'm not sure that it's done. And whether it's fair or not, I think that it just becomes a problem on numbers. And he'll have a chance to talk to all these senators. But whether the President elect allows that to continue is really the question. Mm.

When you saw the withdrawal on the FDA Commissioner and Matt Gates, who do you think that came from? Them? or Trump. Trump, you mean the DEA? DEA, sorry.

I think So Uh I think the DEA uh guy, the sheriff, They found out about all this stuff that happened during COVID, where he's taking a minister out in handcuffs or something. Or stories about that, even evangelicals had a problem with that that were disclosed after the nomination. And I think he had. an active role in and having problems with that and led to him stepping down. Uh You know The question is about the vetting process and why some of this stuff isn't caught ahead of time.

For example, in the DEA Aspect. I think gates. people knew what the issues were. Um I think they again didn't fully comprehend the pushback and the level of it. Yeah, we'll see where it goes.

Have you had a chance to speak to the President since he won? Yeah, I've talked to him a couple of times. Um And Yo, he's in he's got a million things going on. Um, uh, just off the record conversations, most of it's about golf, but um Um He seems so upbeat. I mean, I've been I I've communicated with him It just seems so upbeat listening, and he's not talking to us.

I mean, we normally would have had 10 interviews on our channel by now. I agree. And you know, there's something about that that's interesting. It's smart. It's new.

I think he's going to start doing interviews pretty soon, maybe with other networks. And hopefully he'll come to ours soon. But he's been working behind the scenes. Trying to get this all set up. I really do believe, Brian, that on day one there will be a lot of activity.

Not only through the administration and executive orders, but with Congress. And I think it's going to move fast in that first week. And one thing they have Susie Wiles has confirmed. That they are going to use FBI background checks. I mean, there was a little worry about that, that they were going to start leaking bad things about people ahead of time.

There's a lack of trust between both sides, perhaps. But now they're going to start using FBI background checks. I don't know what I expect you to say about this, Brett, but this just crossed a short time ago. The United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot. Right here, two blocks from us on 6th Avenue, New York City, at 7 a.m.

He was slated to speak. Evidently, the guy's been waiting outside the would-be assassin for a couple hours. As before he got there, he was. Shot and killed. It's amazing.

I mean, this is two, you know where we are. Two blocks. Yeah.

That's amazing. I mean, we got to figure out the who that was and what the specifics are, but God, in the morning on the way to wherever he was going, that's quite something. That's where Al Smith Dinner is. Pretty interesting. That's where this so if people want to get a sense of it.

And my last thing with you is I want you to hear Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, talk about what he plans on doing with Trump, CUD twenty one. Those who are here committing crimes, robberies, shooting at police officers, raping innocent people have been a harm to our country, I want to sit down and hear the plan on how we're going to address them. Those are the people I am talking about. And I would love to hit sit down with the Bordeazar and hear his thoughts on how we're going to address those who are harming our citizens. City plans on working with you when I'd say we plan on working with the Trump administration when I can.

Your thoughts about that. I mean, that's not what the mayor of Chicago is saying. That's not what the governor of California is saying. Yeah.

I think it's significant. I think it's significant. And I think Tom Holman will, you know, he will take him up on that. I think you've seen Eric Adams Talk about those problems, talk about the fact that it can't be a sanctuary city anymore, you know, in opposition to Kathy Hochul, the governor. And I think you're going to see more and more of this.

less and less of the Denver mayor, you know, and and the pushback and holding the line. I think you're going to see more and more uh lawmakers and and uh leaders Start to work with the administration on the issues of getting illegal immigrants out. And you know, there's a buzz about next week already. You know why, right? One.

Oh, that hurts. I'm joining your panel December 11th. Oh, of course. It's on my calendar with a giant sharp. I guess not.

How dare you? Why are promos not running? I don't get it, bro. You got to make your own decisions. I want to get your ratings, but I can't if you don't tell the people.

That's true. We'll tell them. Brett Baer, thanks so much. We'll see you tonight at six. Back in a moment.

Newsmakers and newsbreakers. Hear it first on the Brian Kill Meat Show. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmeade. Today I rise with a full heart and overwhelming sense of gratitude.

It's been the honor of my life to represent my great state of West Virginia in this great country of ours.

Now, as my time here comes to an end, I want you to know that my belief in the potential of this institution. and each and every one of you. That represents it remains as strong as ever. And I've said this: I believe in you. probably more than you believe in yourself at times.

So Senator Joe Manchin, I always liked him. You know I've always liked him. People got disappointed when he ended up signing off on the deficit reduction plan, which is net we know is a new Green Deal. But do you know that because of Joe Manchin, Joe meant there is no filibuster destruction, which I know would make Donald Trump happy now? and every Democrat's rejoicing, but they were furious at him.

You had to see the other channels beating him up. Do you know that we would have a Supreme Court that would probably have additional justices? Do you know that we would have just randomly made a massive effort, probably been successful, of adding two more states? Bold of which Democratic states.

So it add four more senators to the mix? Joe Manchin constantly was pushing back on the keep norms together. And he knows because he's from a right-wing state that got redder every single week. And I mean it lit almost every week. Jim Justice enormously possibly knew we couldn't beat him.

He's 77 years old. And he tried to get Joe he tried single-handedly to get Joe Biden to start acting like a moderate. They thought he was. And I thought that was a great exchange. He said, he went up to Joe and he said, Joe, you have all these left-wingers around you.

You're getting bad advice. He goes, but they're the most diverse group around, diverse cabinet ever. He said, so what? It's what they believe. It's not the color of their skin.

He had to go tell him that. Would have been much better off. You have a Democrat, you would have been much better off with a Joe Manchin. He will be missed. I wish more lawmakers, Republicans, too.

took issues like he took them. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian. In Kill Mead.

So glad you're here. We're at 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. And you know what? Just a few blocks away, and this is a scary situation, too. Uh there was a shooting.

The CEO of of um Let me just look it up exactly. Here we go. United Healthcare was just basically, for lack of a better word, assassinated. And uh here's the report. He was at the Hilton Hotel and 6th Avenue.

It's where they have the Al Smith dinner. It is probably 51st or 52nd, I think. Multiple sources confirm. That the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed just outside the Hilton at around seven o'clock. You know how crowded it is at seven o'clock on a Wednesday?

So, this is a huge story just blocks from here, so it becomes a national story. This hour, we're going to be joined by Eli Lay, columnist for the Free Press, contributor at Commentary, and host of the Re-Education Podcast. A really strong guy with great international knowledge, as well as this great story he wrote on the real Hunter Biden scandal. It is so much more than a guy who got crack who bought a gun. Tulsi Gabbard, he also talks about that, how they're going after her.

And meanwhile, they're about serialized. And she's going to be so ready for this testimony. We'll find out. Let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. I don't know the particulars of how he was able to stay here, but I know he was here illegally. mister Wen is a Chinese national. Given that he was illegally in this country, He was not permitted to possess either firearms or ammunition.

This is unbelievable. Martin Estrada, he's talking about this Chinese national here illegally, overstate a visa from 2012, who happened to be working for North Korea, giving them our secrets, giving them our ammo, and exporting it right out in California. He's from living in Ontario, shipping it out through Los Angeles. Is that unbelievable? We'll discuss that, as well as it seems like Chicago citizens standing up along with a New York City mayor and saying, I want to stop sanctuary cities, and I want to work with Trump.

Number two.

Stupid. Everyone looks like they're full of, and Republicans are going to use it. And I think that's the piece of this I am most frustrated with: which is Joe Biden. Looking like a typical lying politician. Yeah, well, I feel like a fool.

You know, that's what makes me mad about it. What makes you mad, Obama boys? Don't you know who Joe Biden is? Unimaginable and perhaps unanticipated anger from Hunter Biden's pardon. It is mounting for the Biden family and his legacy and his humiliated defenders on the left as it becomes clearer by the day how dysfunctional, purely political, corrupt, and cutthroat that family in its entirety actually is.

Number one. And let me just say the individuals that are being critical of Pete personally, they have been 100% silent when it comes to this current president's son, Hunter Biden, who is addicted to cocaine and prostitutes and who exploited his father's name to the tune of millions of dollars. That's Mary Vote weighing in. The Trump transition moving at warp speed as nominees like Scott Bessett, Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Musk make their case on Capitol Hill to try to meld minds with the senators on the right. We got the movers, the shakers, and the shaky nominees.

And that's where I'll begin.

So we know this. There's been so many attacks on Pete Hagseth, it's been incredible. Personal.

So, I wanted people, I thought for sure they'd be taking apart his book and saying, I can't believe he's basically a culture warrior, and maybe saying that. I wish he had more CO experience.

Okay, fair. Get ready for those answers. Understood, come up and name your team around you that has additional organizational experience and make people feel better about it. But with 20 years in the military, a degree from Princeton, a degree from Harvard. Pretty impressive.

When you see that he's an officer, when you see he's in the infantry, when you see that he's been in broadcasting for 20 years, that's going to be fine.

Well, the the types of attacks on him are just off the charts. Listen listen to this craziness on CNN. I know you didn't watch, no one is, but on the panel, this woman, Lee McGowan, a social media host, Call one. Trump's talking about things like using the military on American citizens to make blue states behave and to round up immigrants and to police his enemies. And it sounds like Pete would be totally down for that.

That's not how the military is supposed to be used. I don't want to be bringing back waterboarding. I don't want to be a country that tortures people, especially for the kind of country that's going to be using the military against our own citizens. This kind of thing concerns me. What do you mean use against our own citizens?

I'm talking about sending you a bunch of people. You said blue states behave. What do you mean? What are you talking about? I'm talking about sending the military into blue states to make them behave.

Getting Gavin Newsome under control, getting J.P. Prischker under control. Are you talking about making sure that they're not going to be able to do that? To commandeer the state government? I mean, I hope not, but he's definitely talked about that.

I mean, Eric's laughing. I was alone. It was 3:30. It was 3.05 in the morning, and I jot down that it was actually 3.03. I just jotted that number.

I go, I'm listening to this crazy panel on CNN. We were in tape programming, a show I already saw on Fox. And I'm driving to work, and I'm listening, and I said, This is the craziest thing I've heard. She actually believes, and maybe some of you know people out there who think that, that Donald Trump campaigned on sending the military into blue states and going after people like Pritzker and Newsom. Are you crazy?

They said, Well, he talked about doing the military in 2020. Yes, you know what he talked about? He talked about the cities out of control, governor of Minnesota. the governors of New York and the mayors of New York refusing to bring the protesters under control who thought r looting and destroying was okay. A frustrated president said, I will send to the National Guard.

Remember the Seattle and Portland? You remember that right? That's what he was talking about. We will not allow that unrest to continue. You can protest, but you can't destroy a city.

People really think that? Does people really think like that?

So going to bat for Pete, I just told you his credentials. He's got big meetings today with Joni Ernst and Roger Wick. Roger Wicker. Here's Mary vote. Mary is.

One of the big people at the Heritage Foundation, Conservative Think Tank, cut two. What we're going to see with all of the nominations is it doesn't have to do anything with them and their personal past. It has everything to do with the policy. And as Tricia said, Pete Heckseth is a decorated military veteran and he loves this country. And everyone in DC knows that on day one of being confirmed, he would end the woke agenda and the DEI that we're seeing infiltrate our military.

And so that is the issue at hand. And let me just say, the individuals that are being critical of Pete personally have been 100% silent when it comes to this current president's son, Hunter Biden, who is addicted to cocaine and prostitutes and who exploited his father's name to the tune of millions of dollars.

So we're going to need to wait and see. Pete is a fighter, he's a patriot, and he loves this country. All right, so let's take a look.

So Pete's got to fight it out. It's going to be hard. But he's not done. There is a report in the Wall Street Journal that Bill Melusian just confirmed that yesterday, President Trump. Met with Governor Ron DeSantis and that DeSantis being considered Secretary of Defense.

Now, they could be meeting on anything. Number one, I think they should talk. Their two guys competed. President Trump gets as personal as anyone. Get over it.

And that's my advice to Nikki Haley, who's not asking for it. Ronda Sanders, to his credit, goes, you know, I don't have what it takes to get through New Hampshire, and certainly not Super Tuesday in South Carolina. I'm out. I endorse Trump. And it got personal.

You know, they went back and forth. They said he's too old. He can't win. He's not the same guy. All right.

And when it turns out, he was not too old. He was the same guy, and he won by more. But Ron just stands no bitterness. Came back with his great cat to handle two more hurricanes in 10 days, and Florida is doing great. But he's got another big decision.

Who's going to fill that empty seat in Florida when Marco Rubio becomes Secretary of State with four years left? I think it should be Larry Trump. I don't know of anybody. I would say Byron Donalds if they could afford to lose his seat in Florida for a while, but they can't.

So, I think it's got to be somebody on the outside or the Senate side, and no Senate side. What am I saying?

So, I think that Larry Trump would make sense. They could have been talking about that.

So the Wall Street Journal has this story. Bill Melushian confirmed it and then said that they found out that they did have a meeting last week.

So the big thing for Pete is going to be his meeting with Joni Ernst, who's also rumored to be one of the finalists to be Secretary of Defense, another person with military experience, a lot of it.

So according to Michael Schnell, He's a reporter on the hell, and he's He's one of the she's Joni Ernst is one of the people that is upset with some of Pete's policies, but reasonably, because he does not believe in many respects that women should be in combat roles. But he'll do what Trump wants. Cut seven. She is so well respected on this issue of sexual assault in the military. She's made it one of her core issues, if not her core issue, during her time up on Capitol Hill.

She's also a veteran herself.

So, a lot of folks have been watching to see how she will react. She's on this short list that's being reported of potential replacements.

So, I think a lot of folks are going to see how Joni Earns reacts, how she handles this. It's important to note: it's not just the allegations about sexual assault against Pete Hag Seth or the drinking, whatnot. He has also said that women shouldn't serve in combat roles, and that's also something that Joni Ernst has pushed back on. She said herself that she needs to explain this.

So, there's a lot at play here, and it's all going to come to a head when they finally meet. By the way, if anybody thinks that sexual assault is an issue, if you just read the police report. And I did. There was no sexual assault that took place. That's why the cops didn't press.

And one of the things, if you do want to know, they wanted the cops said, okay, when she finally came in five days later, they said, all right, you know, I don't really have any proof of what you're saying, but why don't you do this? I'll sit here, and You call 'em. You bring up everything he said. We want to hear his reaction. We'll record the whole phone call.

I'm just being giving you the the speed reader course. And she said no. Why is that?

So there's text messages and everything.

So If Joni Ernst doesn't think he's right, I hope she just doesn't fall prey to what the New York Times says.

So the other big story is Cash Patel. He's got a lot of support right now. Among them is Devin Nunes. Remember when Devin Nunes came up with that memo to show there's a concerted effort to show make the president seem like he's a Russian stooge? And we also found out Carter Page was spied on, and then we found out about Papadopoulos and the whole scam and Hillary Clinton paying for the dossier.

The person who was there first was Cash Patel. And he gave it to Evan Nunez, cut five. Just the other night, I had a former FBI agent come up to me. This was before Cash sat to dinner with my family, before Cash had been appointed by the president. And he says, Boy, I sure hope President Trump appoints that Cash Patel.

I think he's doing a heck of a job. I want him to be the next FBI director. The FBI director or the FBI needs to be cleaned up. I've had countless conversations like that over the last eight years from current and former FBI agents. You know how many times an FBI agent has come up to me and said the opposite, that said, oh, McCabe and Comey and these guys were great and Cash Patel and Gowdy are wrong.

You know how many times? Zero times has that happened. And I bet I've had dozens and dozens and dozens across this country of FBI agents begging for this agency to get cleaned up. And I think that's what Cash Patel will do. So interesting.

So we'll talk about that. The other big story is: I don't think Joe Biden could have possibly understood how much damage he did to himself, his party, and most people on the left just fought out confusion. Anger by pardoning Hunter Biden.

Now that's the action. That'll be tough because he told a different story for two, two, three years. The other part is the letter he wrote along with it, number one, to say that he made up his mind over the weekend, it was made up a long time ago. We all knew it. Number two, he said, I'm for the Justice Department, but they only went after my son because he's my son and I'm president.

Number three. This was uh none of these charges would have been prosecuted if he wasn't my son. It upset people who actually do this for a living in the Justice Department. They took it personal, and why wouldn't they? Because David Weiss The judge that kicked out the dumb plea agreement that was going to exonerate him from any other charges that could come down the pike.

You had this U.S. District Judge Mike Scarcy yesterday responding to Biden and his pardon, saying, The President's own Attorney General and Department of Justice oversaw the investigation leading to the charges. In the President's estimation, these legion of Federal servants, the undersigned included, are unreasonable people and short a press release, that is what the President gave is not a pardon. The Constitution provides the President with authority to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the U.S., but nowhere. Does the Constitution give the President the authority to Write history.

So they're saying, you might pardon him. Don't mess with me in the process I went through. In prosecuting him. Steve in Pensacola Beach. Hey, Steve.

Brian, we spoke about this before and I appreciate the time. Quinn Hillier wrote a great piece in the Washington Examiner yesterday about this pardon and mentioned my case that we talked about. Twenty-seven years I served my country and community. I was hit with 922 G3 just like Hunter Biden. I went to federal prison for 18 months.

And I never had a speeding ticket in my life. Nor I take full responsibility. I went to federal prison for testing positive for marijuana. Not smoking, not possessing not anything. I had legal permitted firearms.

At my home. The cured And I went to federal prison, first time offender, 18 months in federal prison that I served with Conrad Black. And Boojoo Bontan, the radio singer, by the way. Uh, how did it affect you?

Well, again, you know, the only recourse I have is a pardon. Biden adopting me or of course, raising fifty thousand dollars to seek a part. Once you have that felony on your record, it doesn't matter what happens. You're a felon for life. And you can't run for office again.

I was in political office and I want to serve again. And I want my comeback just like everybody else. It just seems that Hunter Biden is getting his a lot quicker than I'm getting mine. I'll tell you, Steve. Hearing your story.

And knowing who's president? I think you got a fresh start. I think you embrace You embrace this story, you compare it to Hunter and you compare it to Trump. And you say, I'm getting a fresh start on a conviction that never should have taken place or would have taken place today.

So I I think you could use that as a jumping off point. Appreciate your story, real life story, Steve, over in Pensacola Beach. When we come back, I'll take your calls. Bottom of the hour, Eli Lake, we'll expand more on this. You're listening to the Brian Killmeat Show: a busy day.

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The young man in this case was going within our system, throughout the revolving door of our system.

Now, we're on a subway where we're hearing someone talking about hurting people. Killing people, you have someone on that subway who was responding. Doing what we should have done as a city and a state of having a better mental health facility. Those passengers were afraid. Yeah, that is absolutely true.

That is. That is the mayor of New York City, a Democrat. He's Alvin Bragg, the DA who brought this case against Danny Penny. He's the hero from the subway who's been asked to fight for his freedom now and 20 years in prison. Every day he walks into the courtroom.

These idiots, I'm sure, paid protesters, squirrely murderer, Jordan Newly's family goes out there and says there has to be justice for Jordan, that twisted individual, riddled with disease and drugs, who threatened to kill someone or himself and wanted to go back to jail. Had everyone terrified And that's why the college student, former Marine, took his AirPods out. and rustled him to the floor. And he, because the guy was so furiously trying to get free, he held him until the cops came and the doors open. And that's what he has to prove to everyone that he did not exceed.

What he had to do. And he did the right thing. And I think the ultimate question to you is this, for those people who think, well, I wasn't there. Ask yourself. If uh your mom, your daughter, Somebody couldn't help himself, your eleven-year-old son.

Is sitting on that subway, doors closed, no cops around, and a guy gets up looking like he was possessed, screaming aggressively, claiming someone will die, saying he wanted to go back to prison, daring people to get up and challenge him. Do you want Danny Penny to take his AirPods out and then take this guy down? Or do you want everyone to ignore? Ignore what could happen to your loved one. I want Danny Penny there every time, and I want him the next time too.

And I know him have to struggle for his freedom afterwards. He goes to the Brian Kill Me Show. Eli Lake is next. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead.

You read the Halley Biden transcript. And that's both widow. Yes. And and essentially he turned her into a crap addict. And this was all happening in 2017, 2018.

And Joe and Joe Biden. were so concerned about their family that they decided to run for president. Yep. I just so when you talk about the word selfish. I I it's almost like the word doesn't I mean I Their decision to run for president put the entire Democratic Party and the United States of America.

In the position that it's in now. Well, you mean the position it's in with a guy that you weren't going to vote for? I mean, Juk Todd just basically saying the journalist, we're in the position we're in right now. You could say the position we're in right now, blowing Ukraine, blowing up the Middle East, allowing China to go nuts in the region, continuing to harass Taiwan, an economy riddled with debt, Uh a border wide open. That's not what he's talking about.

He thinks Donald Trump is the problem, but... He's right about all those other things. He's just crazy to say that we just came upon this now. All those things that were wrong with the Bidens were happening before the election.

Now they're just coming forward and enhanced by the pardon given to Hunter. Eli Lake wrote about that in a column in the free press. Joins us now. Eli, welcome back. Thanks so much for having me, Brian.

It's great to be here.

So do you think on some level the even the Bidens are surprised by the level of blowback they've gotten from this pardon?

Well, they shouldn't be surprised. And uh I mean first of all L given let's just set aside the lying and the hypocrisy of it. There's another element here, which is that Biden is a loser. And Biden's decision to run for president in 2020. and present himself as the return to normal and the only one who could win, And then the disastrous decision from the Democrats' perspective after.

the twenty twenty two midterms, which You know, did see the House go to the Republicans, but the GOP didn't do as well as everybody thought they would. Kind of led Biden and his top people to think that, okay, the old man can pull it out into his late 80s. Um which was a which was a deranged and delusional idea. Um, you know, they have only themselves to blame, and I think it's it's natural that the Democratic Party. would begin to just sort of denounce this guy because he has Biden is responsible for bringing ruin to the party at this point.

Yeah, but let's look at what he's getting away with when. With Hunter Biden. I mean, basically, the things that were on his laptop, how he was protected by the FBI, how the most of the media looked the other way, and this guy is going to get away with up until as late as 2016 acting like a foreign agent without registering while getting millions of dollars from foreign leaders and foreign billionaires. you're right, and I think it's even worse than that. It's worse than that because The Democrats decided to begin a strict enforcement of the foreign agents law in twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, with the Mueller probe into RussiaGate, which was a meritless investigation that was basically hyped by junk junk opposition research paid for by the Democrats themselves, And that was itself a very significant norm violation because until then, The Justice Department would basically, if you violated the foreign agents law, you would use a paperwork violation.

Maybe you'd be fined. And here was Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissman, who were threatening lots of people who probably had legitimate advice from their lawyers at the time. Saying, you know, because of this paperwork violation, we're going to try to prosecute you and put you in jail for 20 years. And that then Is so that's bad enough, right, to just invent a new enforcement standard. Normally, the Justice Department goes through a whole process where they inform the lawyers in this field, they go through an advanced notice, and there's all kinds of things they do.

They didn't do it this time. They just decided to use that tool as a way to try to get people to flip and cooperate in their investigation into something that didn't end up happening, by the way, which was the phony conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign in twenty sixteen. What's worse though is that under their nose in the same time period, Yeah. Hunter Biden, who was a major unregistered foreign agent. and was openly selling access to his father when he was the vice president.

On issues that were really relevant to his father's portfolio, such as Ukraine policy.

So, right then and there, that's the two-tier justice system, that's the double standard. And if you want to know why Donald Trump is nominating wrecking balls to go into the Justice Department and the FBI and to clean house and to really. try to press reform, well this is it. This is why you got what you got.

So, in that respect, it's just so much more. They're not absorbing this lesson. The fact that you had those IRS whistleblowers who were. Straight arrows. They were not Democrats or Republicans.

They were civil servants who finally had to testify, and they were slimed after they did it. Publicly, where they said, listen, this investigation was slow walk. We weren't able to pursue certain investigative techniques and certain kinds of leads. And it's really reminiscent of what I think was an underreported story, which was finally John Dorham's report came out in 2023. He showed a similar pattern when it came to looking at.

potential foreign influence into Hillary Clinton's campaign. The FBI and Andrew McCabe did everything they could to slow it down and shut it down for the election. And when it came to Trump, they decided to go launch a full investigation on zero, the thinnest of possible pretext, which was like a rumor of a rumor that was overheard at a bar. And the and the Democrats, and sadly, many of my colleagues in the press. pretended for years that this was somehow The bravery of these institutions standing up for the rule of law was the opposite.

So for me, the pardon is like the cherry on top of the Sunday. But the Sunday of corruption, sorry for the bad analogy, but the Sunday is the whole story of how Hunter was treated. And this is what they get. I mean, you know, if they're shocked, they shouldn't be. The pardon is the least of it, in my opinion.

It is. And they got away with not paying a lot of taxes. And then you add this other story. This guy in 2020, you had this landlord just come out yesterday and tell the Daily Mail that Hunter Biden hasn't paid rent. He owes him $300,000 in rent.

He's hanging out in Venice Beach. And when asked, when forced to get rent, they said, You got to get out. He changed the locks and had the Secret Service make sure that the landlord couldn't get in. That's how despicable. Yeah, that's how despicable this guy is.

So he's got a loved child 50 miles away, never goes to visit, had to be sued to pay. He got a father who's the president of the United States, doesn't even look for her. And then you have this guy. And then in the president's letter, I think he caused so much trouble for himself. He didn't go through the right pardon process.

And what he does, he's in this letter, it says, I believe in the Justice Department, but in this case, it is politicized and never would have been brought if my son wasn't the son of a president. And that insulted the judge, that insulted the prosecutor, that insulted the process, and that gave everybody that said that Joe Biden understands no one's above the law a lot to go with next time they try to criticize Trump. It's also the opposite of what was true. He would have had a sweetheart deal if it wasn't for an eagle-eyed judge in Delaware in 2023 looking at that plea agreement and saying, I've never seen anything like this. You are giving him immunity for crimes that you haven't even charged him yet.

That's not how this thing works with these plea agreements. And so everything was stacked that he was getting special treatment, more lenient treatment from the Justice Department. And for the for the President to turn around and say, no, no, no, no, he was being singled out because he's my son, Is absurd, and everybody knows it's absurd. And it's this, if this isn't like the first lie from these people, it's like I'm sick of it.

So, yeah, that's why. The president won the that's why Trump won the election. That's why the Democrats lost. And hopefully, they'll use this moment as a reckoning instead of acting as if they're so shocked that gambling's in the casino. They've known they everybody knew this.

All these stories were out there. I was writing about this. You were doing shows about this, Brian. I mean, everybody knew about the whistleblowers in the IRS. Everybody knew about.

uh the judge in Delaware blowing up that plea agreement.

So, for him to get away with it and to think that he was still going to have a kind of lap dog press, just lap it up. Is it was a miscalculation on his part, I suppose. If he's even thinking strategically at this point. But this is a kind of story that just emphasizes all of the problems with, I think, the Biden administration, the double standards and the hypocrisy of it. Yeah, and by the way, Gavin Newsom writes: The President's family, I know they've been through a lot, completely understand the instincts to protect Biden, to protect Hunter, but I took the President at his word.

So, by definition, I'm disappointed and cannot support this decision. Anonymous other former Biden aides feel the same way. Obviously, you've got the governor of Colorado, countless other people who look have egg on their face because, for some reason, they believed the President when he said he wasn't going to pardon his son. And, of course, the letters that he put in afterwards. And you see other people coming down.

They're taking a harder look at who Hunter Biden is. And I I think they're They're understanding it.

So, I want to, as we look at President Biden, just destroy any chance of raising enough money for our library no one will go to, let's talk about your other policy. Tulsi Gabbard has a lot of people. Uh don't are not convinced that she's going to be a great dep uh of D and I. And they're pointing out: well, she went to Syria, met with Assad, has certain views on Trump earlier. What's your thought about her?

My thought is I think it's totally legitimate and proper to criticize her on the substance of her views as she has expressed them in the last seven or eight years. I very much disagree with it, and I don't like the fact that it Director of National Intelligence would be someone who has expressed such credulity when it comes to. Dirtbag tyrants like Bashar al-Assad or for that matter, Vladimir Putin. What I Cannot abide, and I don't think anyone should abide, is to this mode of discourse. Yes.

McCarthyite smear. technique that we're seeing from Democrats. that say because she has a p views that I don't agree with their views that I mean, I agree, like, I criticize them as well. That she must be arriving at them for some corrupt reasons, that she must be disloyal to her country. This is a woman who is.

Served honorably in the military, and through that process, would have gotten. top secret clearances because she worked with Special Operations Forces. She could not have gotten those clearances if there was a good reason in that process for people to suspect. that she was in some ways a Russian asset, as has been Alleged and innuendoed by many in the media and many of her critics in the Democratic Party. Listen to this, Eli, before I get your view.

Tammy Duckworth is doing just that, Democratic senator.

Well I think she's compromised. I think by going to Syria and basically backing Bas you know a dict brutal dictator there I mean Russian controlled media caught her a Russian asset.

So I do think that we have a real deep concern whether or not she's a compromise person. And frankly, the U.S. Intelligence Committee, I'm sorry, the U.S. intelligence community has identified her as having troubling relationships with America's foes. And so my worry is that she couldn't pass a background check.

So Total uh total folly. I mean, it's just outrageous. The thing is, is that This used to be the kind of smear tactics that was associated with the right. This was what people would do in the John Burch Society. This is what Senator McCarthy was known for.

We should also say Bobby Kennedy, who worked on his staff, but leaving that aside. There there was a time when the left Would valorize the victims of McCarthyism, the people who are on these like lists, the black lists. And they made movies about them, and they were these hero dissidents in the 1950s and so forth.

So there was like 30 years, 40 years that Democrats. You know, would love to sort of trot this out and tar the right, and in some cases with some justification, for engaging in this kind of. Really ugly tactic. This is now the province of the Democratic Party, and it's not even the progressive side of the Democratic Party, it's the centrist establishment liberals. And I'm just sort of shocked and appalled.

It started with Russia Gate and Trump, which was out of control and really bad for the country. And I thought. By the way, people want awards for that, Eli. This must burn you as a great journalist. People want awards for unwrapping, I mean for unwinding the fact that Donald Trump is a Russian asset himself who became president only because Vladimir Putin wanted him to.

It's outrageous. I think it is a real stain on my profession that those pe those Pulitzer prizes have not been revoked. And that the newspapers have not given them back because that story was bunk. And it's to me that is a huge problem. And there has to be some kind of accounting for it.

I mean, listen, I don't need to win awards and get into journalism for that. Talking about the honor so much, I'm just saying that. There's something wrong with the profession if the people who are getting the highest honors are being honored for a story that was cooked up. That wasn't true. And so that to me is a huge issue.

This is like the ripple effect of it. I mean, in the end, and lastly, this is going to bother you the most. Here's Nikki Haley. This is not a place for a Russian-Iranian Syrian-Chinese sympathizer. DNI has to analyze real threats.

Are we comfortable with someone like that? At the top of our national intelligence agencies? Yeah.

I would point out that sympath saying she's a sympathizer I wouldn't I think that, that is a little bit on the innuendo scale. But it's not the same thing as what Tammy Duckworth said, which is that she's compromised. You can arrive at sympathy for Vladimir Putin, and there's certainly you could argue that some of the things. That Tulsi Gabbard has said, such as what her message of aloha right after. Putin invaded in a war of conquest against Ukraine was in some ways sympathetic.

to Vladimir Putin. What I like to point out, however, is that We've tried Kulsey Gabbard's approach because that's what Joe Biden was basically doing right before Putin invaded. He failed to deter Putin because he was lifting sanctions and inviting him to summits. He showed weakness as president. That was the Tulsi Gabbard approach.

So again, if I was a senator, I would use the nomination process to ask her very hard questions. And if she didn't persuasively tell me that her views have evolved, Then I would not vote to confirm her. That is all well and good in the rough and tumble of American politics. What is not well and good is to question her loyalties and to use that as a way to almost sort of shut off any kind of discussion of this matter.

So that's where I differ from a lot of the critics of Tulsi Gabbard. It's a little bit of a nuanced position, I suppose. Yeah, I'm all for it. I think she'll adapt. I think she'll be great.

Thanks so much, Eli Lake. Appreciate it. Always doing great work. I see your calls up there back in a moment. Both sides, all opinions.

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Hey, we are back. Donna, you've been patient at Virginia Beach. Hey, Donna. Hey, Brian, thank you for taking my call. I was thinking about when you were talking about Daniel Penny and this other Jordan Perry situation, that it with this administration, it's no surprise that Jordan um Neely's family would take advantage of what happened similar to what to George Floyd.

You know, George Floyd got a statue. He got all kinds of recognition, all kinds of money. Why wouldn't they try for the same thing? Yeah, I hear you. Thanks so much, Donnie.

And if he is not worthy of a horrible way he died. but the way he lived is not worthy of a statue, as some of the women he tied up and tortured. Yet, people seem to forget that. Thanks so much for listening. Keep it here.

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So glad you're here. Rich Lowry, right here, waiting, standing by. Kennedy's host of Kennedy Saves the World podcast, taking the world by storm. She's going to be with us shortly. We're following the Supreme Court case about whether you should be able to give puberty blockers to kids before they're 18.

To me, it's obvious you should not. You have people testifying saying who are adults who switched genders, it saved my life. You have other people saying it ruined my life because no one stepped up and gave me consultation. To me, it is very much like liquor and alcohol and gambling. There's certain things you just can't do.

Uh and until you get a certain age. And that's just it. Everybody has different stresses in their lives, different things they go through. Doesn't mean you have to change these people's lives at 16. Would you do it at 16?

Do you want to cut whatever you believe at 16, do you really believe the same thing at 50, 60, 70 years old? I don't know anybody that could say yes to that. Let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. I don't know the particulars of how he was able to stay here, but I know he was here illegally. mister Wen is a Chinese national. Given that he was illegally in this country, He was not permitted to possess either firearms or ammunition.

Yeah, that helps to find out that somebody here who overstayed their visa by about 10 years was actually working for North Korea. Isn't that kind of bad? Martin Estrata talked about that, underlined it, the need for a massive illegal immigrant crackdown, not just at the border, not just with gangsters. Tom Holman gets an ally from the mayor of New York City and many of the people of Chicago. Number two.

Now everyone looks stupid. Everyone looks like they're full of and Republicans are going to use it. And I think that's the piece of this I am most frustrated with, which is Joe Biden looking like a typical lying politician. Yeah, I feel like a fool. You know, that's what makes me mad about it.

On Pod Save America, the Obama boys, they were duped into thinking that Joe Biden would never, ever. Pardon his son, but the unimaginable, perhaps unanticipated, anger and backlash from Hunter's pardon to the Biden family is mounting. And Biden family legacy, if there had one, he's humiliated his defenders and supporters, has become clearer by the day. This family is dysfunctional, purely political, corrupt, cutthroat, and you know what? A lot is being exposed.

Number one. And let me just say the individuals that are being critical of Pete personally, they have been 100% silent when it comes to this current president's son, Hunter Biden, who is addicted to cocaine and prostitutes and who exploited his father's name to the tune of millions of dollars. All right, Trump transition moving at warp speed as nominees like Bessett, Hakeseth, Bondi, Ramaswamy, Musk make their case and meld minds on the Trump agenda. We have the movers, shakers, and the shaky nominees. Rich Lowry joins me now.

Hey, Rich, first off, welcome back. I know you're on a breakneck pace here, editor of NASA Review. Things are happening fast and furious. First off, on this report about in the Wall Street Journal now that they're saying that Ron DeSantis was at Mar-a-Lago talking to Trump yesterday about possibly coming Secretary of Defense. What do you guys know about that?

I don't know anything that I haven't read or seen, same things you have seen. He seems as though he's interested in it. I think it'd be. I think he'd be a great outside of Pete, who have high regard for, DeSantis would be just great in any cabinet role. I mean, he just checks all the boxes.

This is someone who has experience at the State level in Washington. This is someone who's intellectually serious. He reads all the policy papers and the research and really knows what he's about. He's ideologically committed and he's had success running agencies.

So he could be an AG, he could be a Defense Secretary, he could be Secretary of State, he could be FBI Director, he could be almost anything, I think, and be a real disruptor who you'd almost be guaranteed success.

So I don't know whether Pete will go down. I don't know whether DeSantis will get offered. I don't know whether DeSantis will take it. But I do think he'd be a very good defense secretary if that's something he's interested in and that's the way the ball bounces. Look, I think Pete would do a great job.

At first, I was surprised. I didn't think he couldn't do it. I know he was being considered. But when you look at the 20 years in the military, when you look at the books that he wrote, his track record, what he's done after, you look at his understanding of the Pentagon and what the president wants, I thought he'd be perfect. Also, I understand recruiting anecdotally is picking up just because Pete rumored to go in.

Families are once again recommending their kids go just in the few weeks since Pete's been out there. Yeah.

And he has your back and understands you again, all that. Yeah, and I'm biased. I know it. I'm biased. But I've never seen such people pouring through the background of any one individual.

No one's pouring through his book. His book could create havoc for. His nomination. I think it would be great. He'll defend it.

It'll be a great conversation, a great exchange. But instead, they're just going through personal stuff. And people that have gone through divorce, whoever have an email exchange with their mom, they regret.

Now, all of a sudden, this is exposed. Can you explain this?

Well, the thing is Pete did he did drink too much and he had some embarrassing personal stuff. He was Tom Captain around, right? I don't think that should be d disqualifying, and I don't think it means the most lurid charges against him are true, but as a practical political matter, you have senators looking at it, it's like, ah, you know, there's a lot of static here, and it's a bit of a leap in the dark, you know, whether he can do the job there or how well he'll succeed.

Now, I think a huge problem with the Pentagon is sheer inertia. And he provided a jolt of energy and would be a breath of fresh air. But if you're a senator, it's like, ah, you know, it's not like Ike, we learned Ike drank too much when he was age 35, right? It wouldn't matter because he's Ike, you know, he's already done it. Pete's, as I say, a little bit of a leap in the dark.

And I think, you know, it's looking tougher now. And if he got to a confirmation hearing, I think he'd have a lot of Ollie North in him, like a really effective televised advocate for himself. But the problem is there might be six to eight senators say, you know, we don't want to deal with it. And then Margalavo is like, oh, you know, political capital, and you know, he may not make it.

So then you just tap him on the shoulder and say, sorry, we're going in another direction. And I hate to say it, and I've known him a long time, not as well as you, but I think the odds are likelier than not that that's the scenario that's going to happen now. Yeah, uh here's his m his mom came on with us today. Uh here's what she said, cut 35. I want to say something about the media.

And part of today is to discredit the media and how they operate. When they contact you, I let a few phone calls go, but then they call you and say they threaten you. That's the first thing they do. They say, unless you make a statement, we will publish it as is. And I think that's a despicable way to treat anyone.

Threats are dangerous and they're hard on families.

So she went on for about 10 minutes today.

So your thoughts about that? Yeah, I mean, just imagine the heartbreak she's experiencing with this. She wrote that email, and she did write it at a place of deep love and disappointment for her son in that moment, and now it's being used, this private communication, meant privately, meant with the best of intentions, although the very harsh things she says in there, harsh wording. We've all had a conversation with our mom like that at some point, you know, whatever it was, and it's being used to try to prevent her son from having this career-defining position where it could make a huge difference for the country. It's just it has to be awful.

I feel for her. I feel for Pete. And then the NBC story about smelling of alcohol on the set with anonymous sources, did they reach out to you for that? Did they reach out to Will? Did they reach out to anyone else?

Yeah, let me check my voice book. Give me a second. No, no, nothing. Nothing there.

So, if you're going to do the anonymous sources, do people who go on the record saying it's not true. And they didn't do that. All right, so I want to talk about a few other things that are taking place today. I know Scott Bessett is probably going to sail through. Marco Rubio is going to sail through.

Cash Patel, when it first came out, I go, here we go again. But when you look at his resume and see what he's done, and you see Trey Gowdy out there going to bat for him, Devin Nunez explaining his role in unwinding and unmasking the Russia investigation. You see that the guy wrote a book and does podcasts and says, look at my background. I think that he gets stronger every day. I want you to hear Trey Gowdy cut four.

This is an FBI that has found a home on the left. We wouldn't know half of what we know about Russia if it weren't for Cash Patel's work. And he is the most unfairly maligned staffer that I dealt with in my eight years there.

Now, Devin may have a different opinion, but I've never seen the media go after a staffer the way they did Cash Patel. But what I'll promise you, Sean, is Cash Patel will be a lot more fair to his opponents than they ever were to him. So, I mean, and I just think Trey's can be a strong advocate. Your thoughts about him getting through? Yeah, well, one thing that's so annoying about this, right, is he was right on a really big question, Russia Gate, when he was getting smeared over it.

And almost all of his critics now were wrong, right? And they've never apologized, they've never admitted. And they're the righteous ones. Criticizing him. I do think he'll get confirmed.

I just think being a loyalist to Trump and wanting to be a radical disruptor at one of these agencies, those are not disqualifying things in this environment. They're meritorious things. They're commendable for these nominees.

So, unless there's something we don't know about, I think he'll get confirmed fairly easily. But the hearing will be something to behold because Democrats will go after him hammer and tongue. But I think he gets confirmed. All right, a couple of things when it comes to immigration. I'm getting a little bit encouraged.

Eric Adams, I know he's in himself knee-deep in trouble, and it works on his behalf to go along with Trump. But to have a Democratic mayor in a sanctuary city express his frustration with the sanctuary city status and then come out and say this yesterday, Cut 21. Those who are here committing crimes, robberies, shooting at police officers, raping innocent people, have been a harm to our country. I want to sit down and hear the plan. On how we're going to address them.

Those are the people I am talking about. And I would love to sit down with the Border Czar and hear his thoughts on how we're going to address those who are harming our citizens. That doesn't sound like the mayor of Denver, does it? No, it doesn't. And of course, there's an ulterior motive there, right?

He might want to get a pardon, but it's also just a commonsensical view. You're a Democratic mayor in one of these cities that's complained about migrants being bussed to your city.

So why wouldn't you want them removed, right? They're people who don't belong here. And Holman and others have been totally frank about how they're going to go after the criminals first.

So you're going to get the federal government doing you a favor by removing people who don't belong there in the first place and are criminals. And you're going to say no? You're going to say, don't dare do it. Don't come over the county line, or it's going to be like Teneman Square. That's crazy.

So I think Eric Adams has been very ineffectual as a mayor, but he's been pretty good, at least in what he says on this issue. Yeah, he went after Danny. Penny too. We're still waiting on that verdict. We'll keep you updated.

This is another thing I'm encouraged about. The people of Chicago, African Americans, were all showing up, demanding they stop spending money on illegal immigrants and put it back into the people that pay the money and live there that are American citizens. With the mayor saying, I'm not going to cooperate with ICE. Listen to these Chicago residents, Cut 17.

So, Brandon. And all these Democratic mayors out here and governors, y'all talking about crashing out for these illegals, right? You all stood up there and said you will not allow Trump to come in here and get these illegals. Yeah, you can smile. We're in a billion dollar deficit.

And you spent. Half of our money, half of that, only legals. Trump. Tom Homan, make example at this Why do you hit it first? Please come here first because you know what?

We're gonna help you. We wanna for real. Ma'am, I would ask that you. Hold on a second. Stop her time.

Our mayor is embarrassing us, y'all, around the world. And you all took the power back from him to say the city of Chicago is out of the business of funding illegals. We are out of the business of prioritizing non-American citizens on top of the American citizens who go out in this cold weather every day to make money to pay their taxes.

So I I could play ten more. And it's like they took speech, they took the words from Donald Trump's teleprompter in Butler, Pennsylvania. Yeah, and and why why shouldn't they? I mean, w w w why why should African Americans be in favor of illegal immigrants, right? The the vast majority of Af African American families have been here for generations and generations.

May I dunno, maybe longer than your family's been here, Brian. At least longer than half of my my uh one side of my family's been here.

So so and these people are coming to their neighborhoods, they don't belong there, they're straining r resources and and they might be creating disorder.

So why would they react any differently than than anyone else? And this is one of the big lessons from the election. Democrats view everyone, uh every minority as a member of an oppressed group that that all have to agree on everything, because they're they're all oppressed and and they're victims. That's what they are fundamentally. But that's not the way it works.

There's a huge amount of diversity among Hispanics. You know, African Americans, some are liberal, some are conservative, some are in between. They're they're individuals and they're Americans.

So that's a fundamentally American voice you heard there reacting in a commonsensical way to a travesty.

So, I have an opinion. I want to see if you feel the same way. Don't feel pressure. I think the big difference between this term with Trump and the last one is going to be about Trump's team, not just him. I think his people are going to be making a lot of news.

And not bad news. It's not DWIs or anything like that. I think they're going to be making a lot of news between the money that they want to save to the restructuring of the Pentagon, to the restructuring of the FBI, to the aggressive nature on foreign policy with Marco Rubio in the lead. That's my thought. And he's going to be more like a conductor here.

How do you feel about that? I don't know. He's always at the center of the ring, and that's where he wants to be. And he's the president. No president ever fades to the background.

Well, I shouldn't say that. Joe Biden has, hasn't he? But Trump's not going to fade to the background. But I think what's a key thing that's different is, one, they have the experience of what happened first time around. And two, this is just much more of a clear playing field than there was.

There's a lot of green in front of them, to use the football term, because you don't have the violence in the streets and the unrest. You don't have the attempt like you did in 2016 to get electors to be faithless and not vote for him. And you don't have the Russiagate investigation. In fact, you have the investigations ending that were started for political reasons.

So I think all that and a real momentum, right? The polling is looking good, is looking stronger.

So I think he's in a much stronger position than he was in 1916. All right, Rich, exciting time. Rich Lowry, pick up the National Review, always get the latest. He was talking about the collapse of DEI, which we all love. And we're also talking about everybody that's got to get done and the fallout, everybody that's got to get confirmed, and the fallout from the pardon.

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So it's pretty. We'll have Kennedy come in in a few minutes. But we are watching the story of the CEO of United Healthcare who just got assassinated four blocks from here on 53rd Street and 6th Avenue with Hilton. Just know, if you watch the Al Smith Dinner, there's so many big events that happen there at 7 in the morning, thousands of people walking by. Evidently, this guy was waiting for hours.

Why they didn't think he was suspicious? Who knows? Usually, CEOs now have security.

Now you know why.

So we're finding out the latest on that. And we'll keep you updated on how that goes. We're also waiting on the result of a Danny Penny trial, not just in New York, but around the country. And he's the Marine that stood up for everybody that was about to be potentially assaulted by that lunatic Jordan Neely, now dead, when the Good Samaritan decided to protect the people he didn't know. We could have just went, he's going for an architecture degree.

Ten downtown. On AirPods. Just wanted to go in there, serve the Marines, start working on that career, make a career for himself, decides to be a hero, and this is what happened.

So I'll talk to Kennedy about that. We'll, of course, wait for any minute when we get a verdict. Sadly, I think the longer they wait in a verdict, the worse it looks. What do you think? Don't move.

The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, we're back. Kennedy is here. Her people booked it.

She's upset. She'd rather be anywhere else. All right. Well, you know, it's Wednesday, so let's get the show on the road. Just get it over.

It'll just fly by, I promise. This is like. The radio version of a colonoscopy, Brian. Without anesthesia, I haven't had one. They're not good, or are they good?

That depends who you ask. That's true. Or who's doing it? Good point. All right, so we have so much to discuss today.

First off, on immigration, just when you think to yourself, I got the border, should it be families that overstay their visas? Then you what about the Chinese guy that sh should have left in twenty twelve that decides to sell ammunition to North Korea from Ontario, California over the course of years? What a capitalist. Right. Would a capitalist from a communist.

Yeah.

So. How long, I mean, there are so many moving elements and so many possibilities to cure problems by having a comprehensive look at what's wrong with immigration. But I want you to hear Martin Estrada talk about this guy who was this year pulled over for speeding, and then he also had another transgression. At which time, don't they usually say, Sir, can I see your license? At which time you'd say, don't have one.

Yeah.

I had one in 2012, COT 13. I don't know the particulars of how he was able to stay here, but I know he was here illegally, so he shouldn't have been here. mister Wen is a Chinese national. He came to this country in 2012 on a student visa. He overstayed that visa.

and thus was illegally in this country. I note that because given that he was illegally in this country, He was not permitted to possess either firearms or ammunition.

So he held him for a short period of time, put him in a box, and sent him to North Korea. Yeah.

Wow. I mean, they all we already found out. Because it seems like it would be hard to find some sort of a.

Well, we'll put it this way. I normally don't worry that much about the stuffing in the bubble wrap, but if it's ammo, I think the story will be how you secure it, but it arrives in North Korea.

So you get it from the Chinese guy in. The Chinese guy in Ontario, but Kennedy. All these Chinese that are walking through our border, we never got an explanation. No curiosity from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. These middle-class guys with pocket protectors walking through our border, getting dropped off and made.

Shady Pritzker just wants to protect his people. Those are his people. Yeah, you don't come for my people.

So I think that's an important other element to it. Every Chinese person that comes here, they say, is a potential spy. Why do you say that? Because their family stays in China. They ask the country, they ask them to do certain things.

And if they don't, their family pays the price. But we're happy from the college perspective because the Chinese people pay full freight. Of course, we can't cross-check their grades. They come in, they take up a dorm room. For the most part, they don't shoot it up and they pay the entire tuition.

At some this is something another area in which a good uh homeland security s uh secretary would focus. I know, but I don't I don't like to just blanket say, Well, we can't have Chinese people because what if you have really brilliant PhD students who are going to help us cure cancer? I would we have to have a better vetting process. And it it's it's more complicated than you know, just keep the Chinese students out because. That can be a little racist, but definitely do a better job.

Figure out. Who is more likely to be a spy? And if they've overstayed their visa, kick them out.

So, do you interpret my explanation of internment camp? They were fun. Let's bring them back from like with the Japanese experience. I'm a little worried about that. Yeah, I was not English.

I'm a little worried about the internment camps. I mean, you said put them in a box and you got excited. Like, there was, I know it's radio, but there's a big smile on your face. True. I do think they got to be.

I don't know why we're populating our entire elite institutions with Chinese nationals. Yeah.

I think it should be Kennedy first. Right? I mean, it should be. College.

So we're you know, it's like It it it it is racist to say only Asian people are good at math. But it's not wrong.

Well, I think it's more of a cultural value. Math is not easy. My friend Nellie taught me this. She got her MBA. From MIT, which is very interesting because that's, you know, that's like a mechanical engineering, very science-based school.

She got her MBA from there. And one of my daughters, like, I really don't like math. And she said, Why? She said, Well, because it's so hard. And Nellie said, Math is hard for everyone.

They make it seem like they're certain math people. No one's a math person. I think that's difficult for everyone. It takes these one again. What's your name again?

Nelly. I don't agree with Nelly. Really? Yeah.

I haven't met her, but already we're off on the wrong foot. I do. I remember trying a math thing going, is this happening? Yeah, because you have to work about 10 times harder at math than you do at English or history.

Some people waltz in, oh, that's two seconds. They don't even look at that, paying attention. And they're ACE tests. That's where we're a little different. That means they're not challenged enough.

Right. If you call us over the phones, 1-866-408-7669. If you're good at math. Tell me if it's comes natural. Call in right now.

All right, thanks for coming by. It wasn't too bad. This was really fun, Brian. No, you're not going anywhere. I got to talk about this.

So. Um This whole can we keep it immigration, or you feel like I'm a one-trick pony? Oh, no, let's do immigration, whatever you want. What did uh what did he uh uh what did Joe Biden say to Peter uh To Peter Doocy? You're a one horse pony?

Right? He goes, you're a one-horse pony. I would say, so I wanted to do about immigration, but I want to talk about it from the perspective of Sanctuary City. We say Mayor Adams comes out, and we were just talking about this earlier, and said, I support Danny Penny, and I'm going to meet with Tom Holman about getting these criminals out of our country. I thought that was a fascinating speech that Adams made.

And there were a lot of conservatives who were mad about that because they were like, why now? And it's like, well, at least he's kind of. Speaking logically, and he's figuring out what will make his city better. Right. Instead of this, I want to see the photo op.

I want to see shaking the hands. Don't just don't, I don't want to just disappear because Tom Holman said, Yeah, Tom Holman goes, Yeah, we talked. Yeah, coming. And I think they have a date, December 12th. But why would you want your city terrorized by transnational gangs that Kamala Harris was so good at prosecuting when she was California AG?

Why would you want them in your city wreaking havoc? I mean, every day there's a story about, you know, it's like a three-year-old girl in ICU because she was hit with a scooter by, you know, a Venezuelan. Teenage gang member.

So listen to this. This is a little of Chicago residents. You want to get rid of all the Chinese math PhDs. I'm I'm looking at the Venezuelan teenage boys. They are problem I mean, teenage boys are problematic in general.

We might have to have an internment camp for them. Right. And yes, I say that's the mother of teenage girls. Not all teens, just the boys. But the the Venezuelan gang boys They're an issue.

Oh, there's no question. You know what they're doing now? The gangsters going into the hotels, getting the teenagers and making them gangsters in America and having them do their crimes because we have this thing where we let juveniles out because if you don't have an extra. No, they'll figure out, you know, it's like water's going to roll downhill. They'll figure out any sort of weakness in the system where gravity, they will use gravity to make their jobs easier.

Here is Chicago residents slamming their mayor in front of their mayor, who is, by the way, a terrible mayor. Worse than Lori Lightfoot. Cut 18. Or Gordon. You're so strong about protecting those aliens, but you won't do nothing for the U.S.

citizens. Here you are with an undergritting popular tax hike trying to push the half-lots to house your present illegal immigrants. You told Trump you ain't gonna blink.

Well, we ain't neither. You wanna budge along. And what are you gonna run to when Trump pulls that Trump car down on you? I will make it my duty to try to get my gun to perform my Operation Greylord 2.0 in Chicago and lock all you crooked Democrats and judges up, and it's just like that. Yeah, it's right.

So, did he say his MAGA diploma? I think so. I think he did, yeah.

So, I think it's fantastic. If I just hope Wuz Trump was watching yesterday and this morning. And Goes to Chicago. and goes with Holman or whoever the HUD secretary ends up being. And goes down there and goes, Let's let's get this done.

Yeah, but I think Brandon Johnson's playbook, it It was like, you know, raw milk. It didn't have a long shelf life, that progressivism. And it is expired. Yeah, no one wants this anymore. They just assumed that they were going to lump.

All minority voters together, all minorities together. And that you would have people in underserved black communities go, Oh, yeah, we're all minorities. I'm I'm with him giving all of the sov social service money to Illegal immigrants. And they're like, No, we're actually identifying as Americans because we are from here and we work here and we pay taxes and we're trying to raise our kids. We're trying to have a better life and you are standing in the way.

Those are also the communities that Are that suffer the most when you make these dramatic cuts to police departments? And I'll bring you a new cup because we did outnumbered yesterday together. Yeah, we did. I think we shined. We really did.

I was surprised that they didn't pull us aside afterward and give us a plaque. I waited. Nothing. Like I was there for forty five minutes, just I thought someone's gonna show up. I wanted to like uh the studio's dark.

Yeah, they have these um these trailers that pull up and they open up like a band show. And they have stairs. And I was hoping nothing. That would have been nice. Yeah.

Kata Rutt Trust, 'cause you heard those sound bites before, but you didn't watch Fockin Friends, did you? No problem. I have. I have watched it.

Well, that's fine. Yeah.

It's been on every day. Yes. Oh, I watched it a few months ago. It was really fun. That's right.

It's a lot of you. Yeah.

Cata Trust is a Chicago resident. But we know here in Chicago that we elected President Trump, we want to see him get the job done of sending these illegals back home. And so our mayor probably won't be as open as Adam to meet with Holman, but the people here in Chicago certainly are willing to meet with him. And you know, I don't think that he really needs the mayor to get the job done. There are enough citizens here in the city of Chicago who are willing to stand in and assist Holman and his administration with getting these illegals out of Chicago.

Isn't that great?

Well, bypass the people that that somebody else elected. Very few people show up for these elections. That's their problem. But and there's no Republicans running. There was a guy that was more pro cop as a Democrat, I remember, and this guy ended up winning in the runoff.

So I I love it. That's why I would sit in there and ask keep talking, keep doing it. Have that press conference. Let show everyone what's going on. Show where you're going to be stopped.

Let me meet the lawyers that are going to take it to this mayor. And they're going to have no ground to stand on. And I think, Mayor Adams just bringing there your body language says you're either cold or bored. No, I'm enraptured. All right.

Back in a moment. You're with Brian Kilmead. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. The young man in this case was going within our system, throughout the revolving door of our system.

Now, we're on the subway. Where we're hearing someone talking about hurting people, killing people. you have someone on that subway who was responding. Doing what we should have done as a city and a state of having a better mental health facility. Those passengers were afraid.

So, Mayor Adams is saying what we've been saying for the past two years when this Danny Payne story emerged. This guy's a hero. Instead, Alvin Bragg brings charges. What I would have loved as the mayor to call out Alvin Bragg of all the crime running rampant from these Venezuelan gangs to the beat down our cops, you're going to go tell this Marine and decide to use city assets to try him? The answer is yes.

Kennedy here right now.

So today, I don't think it's good news instinctively that the jury needs even this much time to come back with a verdict. Are you worried? No, I think that there are I think they're dug in, and I think that's okay because that means that there is someone who absolutely will not convict him. And I think that's great. I just thought it would be zero not.

I did too. I really did, especially after the testimony of people who are on the train, and they're like, I've never been so scared in my life. I ride the train every day. You know, the mom talking about putting her stroller in between Jordan Neely and her son. And, you know, the testimony from the defense examiner who was like, this doesn't reach the criteria for a chokehold death.

They think it's race. This doesn't matter. Let me ask you this. And I want people to think about this. And think about this honestly.

And just. Imagine how Alvin Bragg is seeing this. If Danny Penny were a black Marine who served, you know, with honor and distinction, and if Jordan Neely were some. Bat poop crazy white guy. And the exact same thing happened.

If you were as mentally ill and as distraught and had been homeless and inaccessible. for social services Would Alvin Bragg have charged him? Can I answer? Yeah.

All right. Absolutely not. In fact, it would be a one-day story that we would have forgotten already, that you would have said, Brian, remember what happened on the train? I'd go, no, I don't. Because there have been so many stories since.

Yes. But it was Al Sharpton's group, then the group that jumped in the subway and stopped the subways from running. Dershowitz said this about why we're hearing about this, Cut 29. The villain of this case is Bragg, the district attorney. He never should have brought this case.

The judge should never have allowed it to get to the jury. There is so much reasonable doubt here. I was worried when the jury didn't come back after two hours of deliberation. I suspect there may be one or two people who have some doubts, but it would be shocking to me if there were a conviction in this case. And if there were a conviction, I think it would be reversed on appeal.

This is a case that never should have been brought. This is a case that would never have been brought had the alleged victim not been black. This is a case which was brought as the result of protests on the street, not a fair application of the law. It's hard to challenge anything he said, but he's a little worried like I am. Yeah, and it's also not an equal application of the law.

I just, you know, I think there's if they haven't come to a conclusion at this point, there's someone is dug in and I don't know. If if someone is like he's innocent. I want people like that on the train. I don't care. Declare a mistrial.

I'm not going anywhere. All right, I'll tell you, it could happen any moment, but the longer it waits, the other problems that we're seeing. A couple of other things I wanted to get to real quick, and that is. Um And that is the situation. with the trans trial that's happening right now, these transgender minors, the lawsuit put by multiple states to say that minors should have the ability to have trans surgery or hormone blockers before eighteen.

So, my feeling is, of course, not. I don't care if you could go sue me if I have a bar and the age is 21 and you're 18. Can't get in. Can't drive to a certain age in certain states. That's just the rules.

For them to sue Tennessee because they want to ban hormone blockers to the age of eighteen. I think to me this is easy. Of course you will. Part of the defence? Is 64 people who said that they were so glad that they were able to get hormone blockers young, it prevented from having suicide now that they're adults.

See, but that's also a manipulation of these cases. It's a very lazy manipulation where they go to parents and they say, Would you rather have a live son or a dead daughter? And of course, any parents like, Well, I don't want my child to harm themselves or kill themselves. That's. Absolutely horrible.

Yes, we'll do whatever it takes, but that's not the case. And the data doesn't bear that out. I mean, what the data shows is there are other underlying conditions that are plaguing kids, and those have to be treated. And then you get to gender dysphoria. But that's not where you start.

And, you know, I think these are really radical steps, especially when this can be. a very subjective moment in someone's life, meaning They may not feel the same way in 10 years. You think? But if you have surgery that alters your body, or you know, it's like we don't know the effects of hormones in the best case scenario. Do you believe we're talking about this so much?

No. If I put this up five years ago, 10 years, you'd go, Brian, where are you getting these stories? Yeah.

Now it's so you're making stuff up, Brian. But you know me too well. I would never do that. Kenny, what do you want to plug? I would like to plug, I'll be on the five tonight on the Fox News channel, 5 p.m.

Eastern, 2 in the West.

Okay, I'll be on next week. Are you going to be on next week? I will. All right. All the time?

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