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I'm one Brian Killmee here, coming your way 1-866-408-7669. Believe it or not, they say Christmas shipping. The warning goes out today. It's the first big deadline to send a package. You got 12 days till Christmas.

It'll arrive before Christmas.

So keep that in mind personally. And in terms of what's happening in the world, our Secretary of State for now, meeting with the Turkish Foreign Minister. Why do you care? It has a lot to do with Syria, and they're going after the Kurds who are our allies. We're there.

Got about 1,000 people there. And he's heading to Turkey today. And we'll see what happens. Starlink's got a rocket launch.

So we have a lot going on. We have Lieutenant General Walt Piet, who's going to be with us, 42 years in the U.S. Army, Chief Executive Officer right now, the Wounded Warrior Project.

Something to keep in mind as the holidays get closer. And we have a lot going on, 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 can't claim to know the motives of aliens, but just being an earthling. But of all the places to show up on Earth, they picked New Jersey? That's be odd for me to wonder what the aliens are looking for.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, droning on the mysterious mass sighting spread to Connecticut, while our concern grows and the White House plays it smug. Not okay with me. Number two. From what? I heard from the incoming head of ICE is that we have the same desire to go after those who are committing violent acts.

Repeated violent acts among innocent New Yorkers and among migrants and asylum seekers.

Well, that is not right. He's not the head of ICE. He is the border czar, and that is Tom Holman. After meeting with Mayor Adams, who you just heard from, Hope, New York City's mayor, gives Holman hope that a Blue City could do the right thing when it comes to illegals. We bring you the latest on the sanctuary crackdown: an infuriating secret mission by Joe Biden to sell our border wall before Trump takes the oval.

Number one. And this last election was where we really saw that the media have lost their power. They're not dead yet. A lot needs to be done to fully crush the propaganda press, but they are weakened, and people should take advantage of that now. Molly Hemingway, Time Man of the Year, Donald Trump, has gone mainstream.

Or should I say mainstream media has come to him from Bezos to Zuckerberg to world leaders to Sergey Brin of Google, the soon-to-be 47th president, is using his momentum and melting legal obstacles to get his nominees over the finish line. We have the latest on the man who will be and already kind of is president, along with the latest on his new team. First off, Time Man of the Year is no small thing. They actually gave tribute to him, and a lot of people are upset by it. I don't upset.

I mean, here's the criteria: if you want to be Time Man of the Year. For 97 years, the editors have been picking the person of the year, and this is the criteria: the individual who, for better or worse, did the most to shape the world and the headlines over the last 12 months. In many years, the choice is a difficult one. 2024, it was not. That according to time.

Of course, it was not. If they want to be relevant. He began running in 2015. He made the cover. Perhaps no single individual, they go on to say, has played a larger role in changing the course of politics in history than Trump.

He shocked many by winning the White House in 2016, then led the U.S. through a chaotic term. They included the first year of a pandemic as well as a period of nationwide protests. And that ended with his losing the election by 7 million votes. You could say by about 45,000 votes, but 7 million are popular, and provoking a violent attack on the U.S.

Capitol. That's also disputable, but that's what they wrote. The Smart Money wagered that we had witnessed the end of Trump. But that all changed when Trump, as he said, Tapped into Seventy-Two Days of Fury, he said, I tapped a nerve in this country, people were angry, I was angry. And that's what got us here.

And they'll be talking about this forever. Here's Trump yesterday: cut one. We're going to give tremendous incentive like no other country has. We're cutting your taxes. We're going to cut them very substantially.

We got them down to 21 percent from probably. 42 or 44 percent, depending on where you are. We got them down to twenty-one. Everyone said that was a miracle.

Now we're getting them down to fifteen percent, but only if you make your product here. Otherwise, you pay twenty-one, which is not bad. It's in the middle of the pack. But fifteen brings you down to among the lower. And he had a big, you know, he did a quick interview with Kramer on CNBC, but for the most part, he was upbeat Donald Trump.

He has the look that he had when. He owned the generals in the USFL. He had the look, even when he was an apprentice, I felt like he had a, he was still selling and kind of a personality. But the business person, Is really the person I see right now. The confidence, he feels he's got the respect.

It all came back to him with this win. And for Amazon, Jeff Bezos, who told the Washington Post. Don't endorse anybody. The Los Angeles Times says we're going to get a conservative columnist. We're not going to endorse anyone.

We're going to be wide open. Uh to both sides. I mean, that's pretty significant in the LA Times, in the Washington Post, if they could just be fair. I mean, their news reporters don't seem to be fair if you write the stories, but also it's what they don't write is also the story.

So in terms of the person he's replacing, I think that Joe Biden, he commuted over 1,200 people yesterday. It's kind of an old time record. I think 1,500, 39 pardons.

So he's setting all-time records. I think the other one was higher than that was Jimmy Carter when he pardoned people for going to Canada instead of going to the draft. A little bit different of a story. A lot of people are upset by it, including one of the people that are upset by his son being pardoned. And I'm sure his brother's going to get pardoned probably the Friday, next Friday, when everyone's kind of going on vacation.

But we'll see. Right now, one in three, get this, look at this poll that came out. It's not good for Joe Biden. One in three say that Joe Biden will be remembered as one of the country's worst presidents. In 2024, you've got 7% think he's one of the greatest.

One of the worst, 35%.

So we'll see where it goes.

Now, as of twenty twenty four, twenty two percent in twenty twenty, one of the greatest Donald Trump had twenty two percent.

Now in twenty twenty four, as he left office, Joe Biden leaves, I mean, it's less than zero. I mean Even his own party has turned on him. They're leaderless, and he doesn't want to be the leader, and they don't want him to be the leader.

So, meanwhile, how does Donald Trump do this? Use his momentum and his popularity, around 54 to 58 percent, to get his people into the positions he's nominating them for.

Well, with Pete Hagseth, the big story about how he told Pete last week, let's just double down, let's go for this. Anything else in your background? He said, No, so let's do it. FBI is looking into it now, more traditional of a background checks in go out and fight. And Pete is turning it all around by doing.

Just that. He is fighting to make sure that he gets through. And that's what Donald Trump said. If you want to fight Kavanaugh style, let's do it. Let's get you the nomination process.

Tulsi's got the same thing. RFK, same thing. Christine Noam. They all have situations where people could try to challenge them about their past or their experience. But for Trump, says, I want these guys in, and that's the way it's going to be.

If you want to know who's putting their money where their mouth is, Zuckerberg last week said, I'm going to give you a million dollars towards your inaugural. Amazon will give a million dollars to Trump's inaugural as well. Pretty significant. The headline of the Wall Street Journal: Jeff Bezos, Amazon planned to donate $1 million to Trump's inaugural. Yep, he says the founder of Amazon and other tech leaders are shoring up ties with the incoming administration.

Here's another thing: people say, well, you know, Elon Musk. Is going to just use his relationship with Trump and use Trump in order to further his businesses? Not really. They've got to get rid of subsidies for the electric car. How do you think he feels about that as the founder of?

Tesla. Jeff Bezos had dinner with him. Sergey Brin had dinner with him. If you are Elon Musk, these are your competitors. Yeah, they might be your friends, but they're your competitors.

Remember, Jeff Bezos trying to get into Blue Origins, trying to be as big as SpaceX. It's not close, but they're doing they're doing civilian travel.

So if he was only loyal to Elon Musk, you wouldn't have had those meetings.

So no one's buying and selling Trump is what I'm saying. And I think that's significant. Yesterday, I got to tell you, one of the stars of Congress for me is Senator Fetterman. I find him interesting, very much very similar to the way I found. Uh Joe Manchin, interesting.

Because he would just do what he thought was the right thing. For Fetterman, he said, I see how popular Trump is. Why would I go against everything he did? He's getting blowback for meeting, not endorsing, meeting Pete Hagseth. He writes this.

Didn't uh he put this out. He said, um Trump carried Pennsylvania, and he's going to be the next president. That's why I've decided to engage with the people who are going to be incredibly important parts of the new administration. It was a wonderful meeting he said, Hag said he had. He's independent-minded.

Defense, as I've said, is not political. National security is important. That's the way it used to be, guys. This should not be controversial. And I just got to give Fetterman some credit.

Yesterday, I told you in New York he endorsed Elise Stefanik. I thought that was pretty cool. Here's Pete yesterday walking the halls. And by the way, I think he's really on a roll, cut nine. We're meeting with the Republicans and in this case Democrats because there's nothing political about national security.

So we are working office by office throughout this process, advise and consent with senators and we look forward to meeting with Senator Fetterman right now. Yeah.

So anybody have to see in the hall and they kind of uh nodded to each other.

So they got a they have an uphill battle, but for for Pete Susan Collins, Senator McCowski looks like she's going to be tough sledding. Joni Ernst looks like she's going to be in board just if everything goes smoothly in the nomination process when they're actually in the hearings answering questions and has to submit things. And The FBI check, background check goes good, and I'm sure it will be. Then I think that those are the two. I think Mitch McConnell, if he sees the writing on the wall, I don't really think he has a problem with Pete.

I mean, you've seen enough of them on the weekends and throughout the week here. What is your problem?

Now for Democrats, and I'll take a break after this and take your calls. For Democrats, what is their strategy going forward? Over the last two days, I've had two Democratic strategists in to find out what they're disappointed in and what their strategy is going to be. But in terms of right now, fighting against Trump, I heard Governor Whitmer yesterday came out and said. President Trump loves Michigan.

And if he's doing things for Michigan, I'll work with him. But for people that just want to stand in his way? Aaron Perini, a Republican strategist, used to be a Trumper in the administration, sometimes critic, said this about what seems to be the Democratic strategy because yesterday there was a report, and it's true, they had something like 26 Democratic governors meeting to try to come up with a strategy against Trump. I'm not sure what the Democrats' strategy is going to be, but it's been clear so far. It's been to beat everybody down and push them out of the Democratic Party.

That has been a losing strategy for them. They beat men down every time. They said, if you believe in the greatness of this nation, if you believe in America, you're the problem here. And if you don't support whatever woke ideology we have, you're racist, irredeemable, un-American. It's no wonder that they've completely blown up what was the core of the Democratic Party and pushed them.

them away because if you keep telling people they're bad and that you don't want them in their party, eventually they're going to walk away and they did. Yeah, keep in mind, they used to be the word party of the working class. You've heard that. And certainly the party of union, Joe Biden famously, I walked the picket line. He didn't really walk.

He shuffled for about five feet, but showed up at the picket line. Which is crazy because as a President you should be mediating Strikes, not getting in the middle of inciding on a strike, in my view.

So Joe Biden won the union vote by 16 points against Trump. Kamala Harris won it by nine. And that told Republicans: sooner or later, Trump's got to be gone. In four years, he's going to be gone. Republicans got to pick your spots.

You don't want to sell out to big labor? But you also don't want to lose The working class vote, and maybe people just thought I'll never get a union vote, so I'll ignore it. Maybe you should start, don't just go kill teachers' unions, but make sure to disseminate how much you respect teachers, because I do. Absolutely. We come back.

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Subscribe and listen now at FoxnewsPodcasts.com or wherever you get your podcasts. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Killmead. From what. I heard from uh the Incoming head of ICE is that we have the same desire to go after those who are committing violent acts.

Of repeated violent acts among innocent New Yorkers and among migrants and asylum seekers. That's what I heard from him, and I was pleased to hear that because we share the same desire. That was Mayor Adams yesterday talking after meeting with Tom Holman.

Now, a lot of people who know him say, Brian, he doesn't follow through, don't get all excited.

Well, Tom Holman's excited, and he knows he's coming in anyway.

So it's not a theory. Choman's coming in to get the illegals, he's going to go into the prison to get the illegals. Are you going to stop him from getting the illegals out of your prison, from going into certain areas of New York where the Venezuelan gangs are actually fighting U.S. gangs, as well as the same thing in Chicago? I know the mayor is hopeless in Chicago.

Hopeless. That's a different strategy. But in New York, this is why I feel differently because Mayor Adams is going to. have to make a decision. Are you going to look to get rid of the Sanctuary City status?

It's going to be headlines if they stop it. If an executive order goes down and they try to stop the executive order, that's going to be the battle that Tom's like, look, I'll back you up. Just fight. Fight for the illegals. Fight for the people that are paying the taxes.

Fight to get rid of the 67,000 that are here who are taking up your whole budget. forcing taxes to go up and services to go down.

So That's why I'm a little bit more hopeful. And also, he's looking at an indictment. And if he gets indicted and can't run, he's going to want a pardon, number one. Number two, if he gets indicted and wants to fight it, it would help to have somebody at the White House go to Batfield and Truth Social and say Mayor Adams is being unfairly prosecuted, just like I was in New York and M, meaning President Trump, when he takes over.

So even for self-preservation purposes, that's why I'm optimistic that Adams is for real. Tom Holman with us today and yesterday cut 16. It went great. Look, I sat down with the mayor for well over an hour. He gets it.

And today he proved that, as the mayor in New York City, he's more concerned with public safety than politics. I wish the mayor of Chicago and San Diego City Council and Governor Pritzker, I wish they'd all take a page out of Mayor Eric Adams' playbook because he, you know, the ex-cop came out of him today. He really cares about public safety and he's putting politics aside. He wants to help ICE take criminal threats off the street. He wants to help ICE look for national security threats.

He wants to help ICE find over 340,000 missing children, which many of them are going to be in the city.

So a great meeting. And hats off to the mayor for coming to the table and working with us. Yeah, so he's he's optimistic. And that that Tom Holman was pretty upbeat today, even in the green room. Was upbeat about the meeting that he had.

Guys who was captain.

Now, he also knows Mayor Adams's reputation when he was captain, not doing much and being an activist for what he thought was inequities in the department and maybe some racial bias that was there. But he then became a conservative, Brooklyn Borough president, not a conservative, but a Republican. Then, when he decided to run for mayor, anybody was better than de Blasio. He had enough, he had enough credit and enough name recognition to win. And you want to be, you know, you want to be the guy to come in after de Blasio because he's absolutely awful and he is lazy.

So The other thing that just kills me, I mean, I can't tell you, I don't know why it bothers me so much. But we had our taxpayer dollars, and the President put up 450 miles of new wall.

Some of it replaced bad wall, and some of it was just brand new, but we had paid for another 200 miles of it, minimum. And now when President Trump lost, and when he was finally out of office January 20th in 2020, Twenty. They said, um, okay. We are not going to build you a wall. What makes it worse?

Is they're selling it from pennies on the dollar.

So the money that we paid for the wall came out of our money, came out of our budget. Joe Biden's personally selling it off so we, the American people, can't have a barrier to help our Border Patrol. And control what's happening on our border. And it's not just a wall, there's cameras there, there's sophisticated sensors and equipment. It's all done.

The company's picked, the material's made. It's a welded wall, and they're literally selling it to get rid of it. There's video of it on flatbed trucks where people are bidding on it on some government website. I'm asking everybody: do not buy it. Whoever you are, do not buy that wall.

We gotta go do it again. We gotta go pay for it again because Joe Biden doesn't like Donald Trump. No other reason. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead.

We're very focused on Syria, very focused on. The opportunity uh that now is before us. and before the Syrian people. to move from out from under. the shackles of Bashar al-Assad.

to a different and better future for the Syrian people, one that the Syrian people decide are for themselves. And that is Anthony Blinken, the historic movement. He's heading to Turkey right now, because the collapse of the Assad government ten days, two weeks ago, that should have been predicted. It doesn't seem like we did predict it because the Russians are distracted in Ukraine for an invasion. You have Hezbollah destroyed, decapitated.

Hamas also. Iran had their missile defense system destroyed, their air defense wiped out. The radar was allowing them to track weapons, excuse me, missiles coming in was wiped out in Iraq thanks to the Israelis, and it left Assad totally vulnerable. He made a last-ditch effort to get Russian help. But after visiting, he came back and then he was ousted.

Now he lives in Moscow, and now you have the Syrian rebels who have taken over. Who are they? Lieutenant General Walt Piatt joins us now. Pyatt, right? Yes.

Pyatt, there you go. 42 years served in the U.S. Army. He's now got a really important job, too. Chief Executive Officer of the Wounded Warrior Project.

General Linington usually comes in every year, but you've taken over. And I want to talk about that first of how you're adjusting. Do you like it? I love it. It feels like I've come home to family.

It's a wonderful organization. And Mike was a great, you know, he transitioned me really well. He's a great guy and a good friend. Right. And he's still in the area?

He's still in the area. He's still in the area, still helping out. But just what you just heard in the Secretary of State flying over to Turkey, Turkey playing a major role there. But everybody is, it seems. Everyone's got a stake.

Got the Kurds in the area, got Sunni rebels in the area, you have Syrians who might be apolitical, people wondering what's next. But I will say this, General. Uh I talked to Trey Yingst. He says, I can walk around Damascus. There's not a lot of danger.

He says he's never been in Damascus before. You've been stationed in Syria. What's at stake here?

Well The world's a dangerous place. And because of American military, we were able to stabilize a lot of places.

So it's been a while since I've been in that region, but it's. It's dangerous. And I think what it means is our men and women are going to continue to be deployed, and we need an organization like this to help them after they see. 'Cause when you go to war, war is the worst of humanity. You see terrible things and it it's hard for them to adjust.

So that's where I'm focused now, is like help everyone come home from seeing things like this. But our forces were just added to the area. We have nine hundred there. Uh we had our our The general at central command. He just was over there.

I think it was. Eric Crilla. Carrilla, and he says, they need more troops. What would our guys be doing there? And you were there, right?

Yeah, probably eight teams last time I was there, 2018, so it's been a while. I've known General Carilla for a very long time. I don't think there's a better soldier our army's ever produced.

So if he's asking for it, he obviously knows what he wants. I don't know what they would do. But you know, where American military goes, you know, we do stabilize things where there's chaos. There's a prison there, isn't it? And that prison's got to stay closed.

And I know wars, you know, wars just don't end in peace. I mean, that's the thing. The struggle after conflict is much worse, and often the innocent suffer. And so whatever their plan is, I don't know what that is. But I do know that good people shouldn't suffer because they've been ruled by very bad people.

That's kind of what we've seen in my whole career. And you want to help. You bring stability and security in the American military. We go where we're told. And often wherever we go, we do good things.

I remember, General. General Rodierno was asked by Obama you have time to pull out. Pull out of Iraq. Obama ran on that's being a bad war, and the Afghanistan war being a good war, remember that. And everything was quiet.

And we pulled out, we left a lot behind purposely. And then we got ISIS. Did you predict that when you were pulling out when we were pulling out? Did you say, uh-oh, I'm not sure this is a good move? I wasn't there when we pulled out.

I was probably the last time I was there in ten. But I remember I'd served, God rest his soul, General Odierno. You know, he really knew the area well. He was deployed there a long time. Spent many years over there.

Great sacrifice of him personally doing it. We were seeing the the Iraqis really you know, taking charge of their country. You know, we could see the army starting to really take ownership and becoming professional because they serve side by side by the best best military in the world, the United States. They learned a lot. And a lot of us multiple deployments there.

We had friends, you know, we deployed with that were Iraqi soldiers.

So we s were signs of positivity. I I left in probably two thousand nine. And I felt good. I felt good about what we were doing after, you know, since 2003. I felt like this country had a chance.

That's what I remember. And Iran started getting their influence in after ISIS rose up. They were kind of fighting with you guys, not you, but with the Americans to I to rid the area of ISIS, who's Sunni. And it was sad to see it went came down some of the places we were in, you know, to crit Saladin province. You know, ISIS came through there, and they came close to taking the capital.

And then it really was the Iraqi army that finally stood the ground and then, with the help of the American military, you know, fought them all the way back to Mosul, yes, and the courage. I mean, the Iraqi forces really stood up. They took our support, but they did the brunt of the fighting. And it was brutal fighting to take back Mosul, but they did it. They did it themselves.

And then we were there to help rebuild after that disaster. But many of my friends, their homes, everything were destroyed. People I knew in Iraq that were there. And they came back. You know, they're trying to rebuild their lives after the brutal attack from ISIS.

They were a brutal, brutal adversary. Last question about policy. General Keene told me today on and off camera. Four-star general, that this is the weakest the Iranis have been in 44 years. This is a historic opportunity.

To tell them the irritating nuclear program, they have never had a good infantry, they have a terrible air force. Days back to when we gave them airplanes when the Shah was in power, and he said they are totally blind, they're totally vulnerable, they know it. We got to go in there and tell them to get rid of the nuclear program with inspectors. Do you see it as an historic opportunity? I I'm not informed to make a Comment on it.

I do. I mean, I'd listen, you know, Jaqueen. I don't know if there's any better. You know, he's great. He is an amazing leader.

He's amazing in uniform. He's amazing out of uniform. Not an area of my expertise. I served in Iraq and Afghanistan. You know, not A policy question I don't think I could do, but I know the area you know Iran's the menace in the area.

Yeah, and the area is destabilized, and you know, to get that stabilized, I think many people, many good people in that region in the Middle East, they deserve a chance at a better life. And you know, I was always hopeful when I was deployed, but just simple things. If everybody, if everybody could eat, you know, nobody would fight. I mean, just simple things that people need. They just are denied by these governments.

And you realize how good you have it in America when you see places that I've been deployed to and how they treat their people and don't care about their people. And people say a lot of bad things about America, but I'll tell you, there's no greater country. Right. I mean, I always tell people, travel. And if you find a place, better, stay.

But they'll always come back. They will always come back.

So tell me about Wounded Warriors, where we're at right now. How many people are you serving? How many veterans are you working with?

Well, we're over, it's getting close to about 300,000 of warriors have signed up, but many of them have been through our programs, and all our programs are free because of Great America. Is a country that cares about their warriors and cares about their veterans and they want to help.

So, all our programs are free for warriors.

So, some warriors don't need a whole lot. They just want help with their veterans' benefits. But then, we have a wide range of programs that go for brain health, mental health, PTSD, traumatic brain injury. These have been the signature injuries of this war since 2001. And we have ways now to really treat it in a positive way.

Both active duty military and veterans who are no longer in uniform, we serve them all. If you served after 9-11, we're going to help you, well, I always say, help you rebuild your life that's been impacted by war and military service and get you on a path of hope and renewed purpose in life. General Pyatt's with us right now is the CEO of the Wounded Warrior Project.

So, General. Have you been able to can you effectively explain to people that don't serve why so many entertain and sadly go ahead and execute suicide? Like how do you go from having a clear mission, knowing exactly what you do, highly trained, And then you have opportunities. to for education. And coming back and getting that feeling like I have nothing to live for.

Yeah.

It's one of the saddest things. It's that part when you take a young American man or woman that signs up for service, you come from a country of great values. And you get the best of humanity, and they see the worst of humanity, it sticks to you. And we have to help them come that come home because when they come back from war, they don't come home. They're not here.

They're back and they're probably isolating in a basement on a couch, playing video games, maybe self-medicating with substance. Because they've seen so much. Because they've seen so much and it hurts them. But there is a path. It doesn't have to end that way.

We have to reach out. We can't let our veterans be isolated. They need our help. We need our help from this grateful nation, which does help them. And that compassion shows them the light home.

It's not the welcome home parade. All that's greatly appreciated from a grateful nation. It's the commitment that we're not going to walk away. We started 21 years ago with just backpacks in the hospital, but we made a promise. We made a promise that we would never forget and we would never walk away no matter what.

And so I would say we need to keep the promise and bring every veteran home on that last mission, that transition. It shouldn't be harder to come home from war than it is to go to war, but it is. Those who've been to war and have seen war, you come home, but you're not really there. You're mentally somewhere else, or you've just been affected because you've either died. Done horrible things, seen horrible things, or worse, you probably couldn't prevent something horrible from happening.

And that guilt. What I would say from warriors that I've talked to, many of them. The hardest part of surviving some of the worst combat actions they've ever had, the hardest part of surviving. is simply living. And think about that.

And that's just really. I don't know what you mean by that. What do you mean by that?

Well, because the hardest part, they survived great conflict, but the hardest part of surviving that conflict is now living after that because they feel so guilty. That their friends in that incident where they were blown up or they lost a limb. Their friends didn't make it home. One of our warriors, he lost his lieutenant the same day he lost his leg. And he actually wrote a song about it.

He talks about it: you know, the heroes, I'm not a hero. He said, the heroes are the ones that didn't make it home. I constantly remind him, you are a hero. You know, you served your country, you were brave, you were a Marine in Iraq. But that's how you feel.

And for many, it took a while. He told me, Wounded Warrior Project saved his life. He said, My wife has a husband now, my kids have a father now that they may not have had. Because he thought about it. You know what I always thought, too?

It's on a lesser note, it's professional athletes. You know, they have this single mission of practicing four times a day. They don't really have to go to school if you get to the highest level, right?

So you get out, and all of a sudden, there's no practice, there's no coach, there's no grade. A lot of times, money is an issue because all of a sudden it stops on a dime, and there's really no vocate, there's no transition effort at all. They just figure these guys can figure it out. Do you think the military could do better in helping people transition into different occupations? Hey, this is your skill set.

These are some of the things how you can apply it. This is why I maybe recommend you go back to school. Do you feel as though those consultants should be there for these guys and these women?

Well, it's one of the things we do. I've talked to some leaders in military and Army and Navy said, you know, we can help with that. That's what we do. And we're free. We're not going to charge warriors money.

We can help them transition. Having been in the military, I know how hard it is to focus on a transition when you got missions every day. There's so many demands placed on. Our military, that there are things that I mean, the same people we're fighting over and over again. Right.

Most people you deal with multiple deployments. Multiple deployments. I've got many. And so they're tied.

So we want to help. I want to help active duty help them transition because if we help a warrior transition while they're still in, It's going to save our country a lot of money. It's going to bring a warrior that all they had, they've got that light inside of them, that spark that made them to go serve the military is still there. We just get to introduce that, then they're not going to come out and be a burden to society. They're going to come out and be integrated in society, be a leader in society.

But most of them they'll have to accept like an athlete. You're forced to face the the end of the life you thought you were going to have.

Something happens to you. You get wounded in combat, you get ill, injured, whatever happened, and you got to and that for a young man that wanted to be an NFL football player who's in the Army, and then that you wake up and you got to make a decision to take off your leg or not. That's not where a 22-year-old male wanted to be, but that's the reality of many of these warriors faced. And so every hope, every dream they feel was crushed. And but what we want to do is help them find that new path in life that they didn't think was going to be possible, but that's what we do.

We help rebuild that life that's been impacted by war. And also, with the Wounded Warriors, you get a network, correct?

So guys go into the private sector, they start their own company, and then maybe they're going to look to the Wounded Warriors: God, I need an executive, I need a salesperson, right? Absolutely. We just met with some last night here in New York City. And by the way, this is one city that has never forgotten. I mean, you come here, they really appreciate our veterans, they appreciate service.

You know, a lot of people, I'm not sure, they realize this is what a great, friendly city this is, and we love it. And everybody wants to help. I get calls all the time. Like, how can I help? It's what I tell the Warriors: you know, look around.

This is what a grateful nation looks like. America is not only just a wonderful place to live, it's people who understand the price of that freedom is on the backs of our warriors and veterans. And they want to help them come back home, find their road home, and get back into society, the very society they helped to protect. Charity Navigator, people want to make sure their money is going to the right place. Because there's so many, and I've talked to high-ranking officers, and they say to me, There's too many.

There's too many organizations. It gets so diffuse, and people wonder if that thing we get in the mail is the money going to the right place. How do you go? What could you tell our listeners about where that money is going? Yeah, our money.

Well, Charity Navigator, they're really good. And when you rate them in Better Business Spear, when they rate charities and they give them a four-star rating, you can count on it. That's what we have. You got a four-star rating. Yeah, so we have, so we are able to also invest our money.

So when people donate money to us, we can make that money go a lot further because we know our warriors, it's not going to be done next month or next year. It's going to be 30 years. We have a generation of warriors that are going to be living with the injuries that they occurred while defending this country.

So we've got to make sure we're there for them to keep that promise. There is a lot in the veteran support organization space, and I call it the environment of care.

So we're doing a very good work of networking within that.

So there are some that they're very small, but they provide a unique service to a veteran.

So we don't duplicate that. We push that veteran. If they need that, we push them to the right organization.

So we don't compete against what. One another, so I'd also tell the donor. Because if we do, only one person loses. That's the veteran that needs our care.

So we've got to make sure this network works together to help our veterans because they deserve it.

So, and if people listening right now think they have somebody in their family that could use some help, how do they get in touch with you? Just contact us, woundedwarriorproject.org. Talk to us. We'll get you on the line right away. We have a lot of people.

A lot of them just need that social networking and they don't know what they need. But once they find out and they start talking to people that sound a lot like them and feel like them and remind them of themselves, then they get it. And then we do a little bit of triage and see what they need. Mostly it's with their VA benefit claim because they haven't done it and they just let it sit idle and they didn't do it. We help them with that.

We do it all for free. And warriors don't need all our programs, but some of them most likely need more than one. All right. He is General Wald Pyatt, now retired CEO of the Wounded Warrior Project. And especially on this holiday season, go to woundedwarriorproject.org and help out.

Your money will not be wasted. It'll be used. Thanks, General. Thank you, and we'll keep the promise. Absolutely.

Back in a moment. Yeah.

It's Brian Killmead. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. We should be doing some very urgent intelligence analysis and take them out of the skies, especially if they're flying over airports. Or military bases, you should be.

Shot down if necessary because they're flying over sensitive areas, whether it's planes. that maybe jeopardize your s security at military bases. You know, it's amazing. You're on the intelligence committee, Senator Blumenthal, and you're saying, Why don't we shoot them down? I don't know.

You're in Connecticut, by the way. They're being spotted in Connecticut now. I did this segment. I think it's probably going to be online shortly. I'll definitely put it on my social media with these drone experts.

One drone expert, by the way, 80% of all the drones made in China. Scary. Even the American ones use Chinese parts. It's crazy. I mean, and of course, they're slow-walking a lot of the material that we use for our military hardware.

So he's saying, shoot it down. Totally irresponsible statement. Because if you have somebody who's got a gun permit and looks up in the sky, it feels as though they're being infiltrated. You got a senator who said, Yeah, I'd shoot it down. I mean And then what happened to all the shrapnel coming out of the sky?

Now in Oklahoma, I understand it. It's a lot of open spaces. And maybe you look up and you see there's nothing around, but if you're in New York and in New Jersey and Connecticut, I mean, that could be scary.

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It's the Brian Kill Meet Show. We have a big hour coming your way from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan. Just a side note: I've never remembered New York this crowded. I mean, since the pandemic, you'd come back, come back, come back. I got it.

Then there was nobody on the streets, then there were a lot of illegal immigrants. I see families. It's a good sign. I think people are upbeat. I went outside on Fox and Friends today.

I never remember a crowd that big, that early. And by the way, it's about 23 degrees.

So you really want to you really want to come out uh to see it. Ian Pryor is going to be with us too. He's going to be talking about the assassination a few blocks from here of the CEO on the film Luigi Mangioni, who some people think is a hero. We'll talk about that and so much more before we get to Mark Dublit, CEO of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. I can't claim to know the motives of aliens, but just being an Earthling. But of all the places to show up on Earth, they picked New Jersey. That's be odd for me to wonder what the aliens are looking for.

Droning on the mysterious mass sighting spread to Connecticut while our concern grows, and the White House plays it smug. That's not okay. Number two. From what I heard from the Incoming head of ICE is that we have the same desire to go after those who are committing violent acts. Repeated violent acts among innocent New Yorkers and among migrants and asylum seekers.

That is Mayor Adams. I'm hopeful, hopeful, yes. Mayor Adams of New York gives Tom Holman hope that a Blue City could do the right thing when it comes to illegals. We'll bring you the latest from this sanctuary crackdown that's infuriating. That's infuriating.

Also, Joe Biden selling off our border wall that we paid for because he doesn't want Donald Trump to put it up. He's going to buy his other one with our money. Why are you doing this for pennies on the dollar? Number one. And this last election was where we really saw that the media have lost their power.

They're not dead yet. A lot needs to be done to fully crush the propaganda press, but they are weakened, and people should take advantage of that now. And that is Molly Hemingway, time man of the year. Donald Trump has gone mainstream, or should I say, mainstream has come to him. From Bezos to Zuckerberg to Sergey Brin of Google to world leaders.

It's soon going to be, the soon-to-be 47th president is using his momentum and melting legal obstacles to get his nominees over the finish line. We have the latest on the man who will be and already kind of is president along with the formation of his new team. Mark Dubowitz joins us now. Mark, welcome back. Thanks so much, Brian, for having me.

And we have Mark on Skype. Mark, first off, For the president's 47th president. It's been pretty remarkable how different he's being received now than he was in 2016, don't you think?

Well, Brian's remarkable. I think Finding the World, as you say, has come to him and has realized that the world needs President Trump right now. I mean, we've got hot wars in the Middle East, right? Hot wars. in Ukraine and Russia.

The Chinese looking to take over Taiwan. They got hostages, including American hostages in Gaza. The world, I think, needs President Trump. And I think also President Biden is sort of not there, right? He's he's gone absent without uh without cause.

And I think the world needs a strong leader. Yes, I think they're getting it. First off, on Pete Hakeseth, man, his fortunes have turned around. And he's working at the Blue Collaway, meeting one on one with senators all the way through. And then you have even meeting with Senator Fetterman yesterday and hopefully other Democrats that might be want to learn a little bit more about him.

They're going to have an FBI background check. But do you think he's on track? Ryan, he is on track. And I mean, I've known Pete for 20 years. I think Pete will be a fantastic Secretary of Defense.

I mean, I think Pete understands the threats to the United States. He understands that our veterans have gotten a rough ride. He understands what wokeism has done to our military. And I think Pete will be out there. And when Pete walks into the offices of our allies, I think they'll feel reassured that Pete Hexf is the Secretary of Defense.

And when our enemies see Pete Hexf, I think they will be uh they'll understand that there's a new Secretary of Defense in town. You know, I don't think we've ever had a Secretary of Defense that understands the warfighter better. You know, when you become a general, I'm not to put generals down. A lot of times you might lose touch with what it's like on a daily basis, be in your 30s and 40s and have kids and living on base and not be able to get daycare, not feeling like the rules of engagement are accurate for the theater that they're in. He's got a real, he's always had a sense of that.

And now having done it with these hot wars in the same region that are going to demand our attention, that's going to be very interesting pairing with the CEO of a major defense contractor as Deputy Secretary of Defense, don't you think? Yeah, I think that's exactly right. I mean, look, the DepSec, the Deputy Secretary of Defense kind of runs the building, runs the bureaucracy. And I think there'll be obviously a very competent deputy secretary. But I think Pete is there, as you say, as a warfighter.

I mean, I've spent a lot of time with our warfighters in the United States. I've been spending quite a bit of time in Israel with the warfighters there. And it's exactly right. It's that young generation of thirty-year-olds and forty-year-olds have been on the front lines. Who understands what it means to actually defend their countries and defend the United States and Israel and Western civilization?

They also understand the costs of bad decisions being made at headquarters. And I think Pete brings that perspective that'll be so critical.

So I want you to.

So the big story right now is what's happening in Syria. Again, it seems to have caught everybody by surprise. Iran seems to be the biggest loser. Russia potentially the second biggest loser. The winner is Israel and us.

And as General Keene told me two hours ago, This is the weakest Iran has been in 44 years. We have a historic opportunity. How do you see it? Yeah, General Keene's exactly right. I mean, you know, actually thanks to Israeli military power over recent months, right, the Israelis have done a formidable job.

I mean, they've eviscerated Hamas. They severely degraded Hezbollah. Hezbollah and Iran then couldn't help Assad, so now Assad has fallen and the Iranians have lost Damascus and lost Syria in general. And the Israelis eviscerated Iranian air defenses in October.

So the Ayatollah is naked, if you excuse the image, Brian, for your listeners. But this is the opportunity to finally, in twenty twenty five, give the Israelis everything they need. to destroy Iran's galloping nuclear weapons program, which would be a severe threat. The United States. We don't have much time because they know this is that that's their last move.

They don't have a lot of moves. It's to weaponize immediately become a nuclear nation. Michael Weiss on NBC, editor of The Insider, said this about what's happening right now in Syria, CUP 27. We're two weeks out from this stunning capture of Aleppo that nobody saw coming. This was all about normalization, right?

Go back a month. Bashr al-Assad is welcomed in from the cold from all the GCC, Gulf Arab nations. U.S. government policy outwardly against lifting sanctions, but inwardly, according to sources in Congress, let's lower the temperature, water down Caesar sanctions, try to kill the anti-normalization bill. Essentially, the entire international community was accepting of the fact that this guy is here to stay.

He won the war, game over. What happened? Turkey and Syria were involved in these intense negotiations to essentially eliminate the presence of the Kurdistan Workers' Party on the southern border of Turkey or the northern border of Syria. This is the overriding preternatural national security threat. To Ankara.

It has been for 40 years, right? Erdogan has been very clear he wants the Kurds gone from this area. Assad is treating Turkey like a peer, when, in fact, he has essentially mortgaged his country to Russia and Iran. Erdogan got tired and basically said, you know what? I'm going to let the rebels I've been protecting for eight years in Idlib, led by HTS, a former al-Qaeda franchise, I'm going to let them off the leash and go on this offensive.

Nobody, not Turkey, not HTS, and certainly not Assad, thought that they would blitz right into Aleppo. almost without a shot being fired because the Syrian Arab army just evaporated into the air. And from there, basically this thunder run into Damascus in the space of, what, eight or nine days. And now he's lost his regime. And even Iran and and Russia are engaged in negotiations with HTS for normalization.

So, but we've got to prevent that. We do not want Iran and Russia to still have access to that country. Do we have a move? Yes, we have a move, Brian. But I also want to make sure that I've been in this town for too many years and I've seen too many people look through the Middle East through rose colored glasses, right?

I look through with a cynics lens and that we've got to understand there's two problems we have. First of all, great opportunity. Iran expelled. Russia severely weakened. But now you've got this HTS group.

which is former al-Qaeda. Led by this guy, Jolani, who claims to be now a reformed, moderate jihadist, but he's a jihadist nonetheless. And then you've got Erdogana Turkey, who is an Islamist. you know, this is Turkey Muslim Brotherhood.

So we got to be very, very careful about well, how things are shaping out. And I think the Israelis again, you know, the Israelis live in the Mideast, not the Midwest.

So they are responding to this by using military force to destroy Syria's military capabilities and chemical weapons capabilities. There's a story today in the by Joby Wark in the Washington Post about Syria's chemical weapons capabilities, Brian, and it's really frightening. right, if these chemical weapons, sarin gas and and and other uh chemical uh Chemical weapons get into the hands of jihadists.

So the Israelis are not sort of sitting there on the sidelines just kind of waiting for everybody to respond to see if this guy is a pragmatist. They're going in there with military power. They've also taken the Syrian heights and they've moved into the demilitarized zone that separates Syria and Israel.

So again, they're responding with military force and they're preparing to defend their borders. I think the United States needs to give Israel all the backing it needs to ensure that. The jihadists don't take over. I want you to hear from that jihadist. He gave an interview, I think, to some public television over there.

This is Abu Muhammad Al-Jalani. Cut thirty-three. You've gone through quite the transformation. Once An al-Qaeda leader, and now you are projecting this image of a moderate leader and a moderate group. I believe that everyone in life goes through phases and experiences, and these experiences naturally increase a person's awareness.

A person in their twenties will have a different personality than someone in their thirties or forties.

So Your thought. He's dressing the part. He says, all sex can coexist. We're not looking, you know, there's no lynchings in the middle of times, in the middle of Damascus Square. Your thoughts, I understand.

I'm not looking at rose-covered glasses, but I'm just saying your thoughts about those words. Yeah, brother, good words. I mean, but I've been hearing words from, you know, reformed Islamists and reformed Islamic Republic of Iran foreign ministers for many years. I mean, I think at the end of the day, this is a guy who is a hardcore al-Qaeda jihadist. He fought with Zarqawi in Iraq.

He's responsible for killing Americans. And yeah, I mean, if he's had a come to Muhammad moment and he's decided that he's now going to be a reformed pragmatist and that now he needs to rule Syria. Fine, let's see if there's an opportunity there to work with him. But I prefer the approach of the Israelis, which is again at the end of the day, destroy this guy's military capabilities, make sure there are no chemical weapons, right? Take the borders, put troops in there, and then wait and see.

And if he decides to become a pragmatist and a moderate, great. Then we have an opportunity for a new Syria, undermine Iranian and Russian influence. Undermine Erdogan's influence, by the way, again, an Islamist. Who is who has sort of neo-Ottoman aspirations to take over the Middle East?

So we don't want to replace the Shiite extremists. That's how you view Erdogan? That's I view it on, yes. He's dangerous because he's got the second largest military in NATO, so. Right.

The lastly, we just have to protect the Kurds, too. We have to have some integrity. Kurds have been loyal to us. They're so responsible for wiping out ISIS with us. And can we please show some loyalty here?

I hope President Trump realizes that. Yeah, Brian, we I mean repeatedly we've thrown the Kurds under the bus As you say, they fought bravely with us. They were the tip of the spear against ISIS. And then repeatedly we've abandoned them. And Erdogan has said he sights on the Kurds.

He wants to destroy the Kurds. I think if we can carve out a part of Syria for the Kurds and actually create. an autonomous region for them where they can be safe. They're an incredible ally, pro-American, pro-Israel, pro-Western. Pragmatic and a great ally like Israel in the heart of a very dangerous region.

It's almost like Turkey's making us make a choice. You got to protect the Kurds because we're going to wipe out the Kurds unless you do anything, unless we tell them you can't do that. My hope is that Trump understands what they did. It hasn't been too long ago when the Kurds stood tall with us. Here's what General Keene says he expects from the Trump team, Cup 32.

The Trump team coming in here, I'm confident they're going to put together options on how to deal with Iran. I'm confident also that they'll recognize how vulnerable they are. We have an opportunity to neutralize this country once and for all. Yep. And your advice to any Trump people listening right now?

Okay, I just got back from Israel. I mean, the Israelis are serious. There's no way they're letting Iran develop nuclear weapons. They destroyed Syria's nuclear weapons program. We got to remember that.

If they hadn't, Iraq you would have had Assad, right? They took out Iraq's nuclear weapons program. They will not let their enemies develop nuclear weapons. I think my advice to the Trump team, sit down with your Israeli counterparts. You know, give the Israelis everything they need: strategic bombers, massive ordnance penetrators, all the support they need in order to destroy Iran's nuclear program.

And I think President Trump actually, as the United States of America, what an opportunity for a joint strike opportunity with our Israeli friends, but the United States of America also leads the way, sends a message to the Chinese, the North Koreans, and the Russians. that there's a new sheriff in town, and we're serious. about stopping this access of aggressors. It's going to have a very interesting time. I don't know if the world's going to change even before January 20th.

I don't know if the current president is capable of making a big decision. Or stopping Israel from making their big decision. Mark Dubowitz, CEO of Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Thanks so much, Mark. Have a great weekend.

Thanks, Brian. You too. You got it. We come back. Your calls one eight six six four oh eight seven six six nine.

Bottom of the hour, Ian Pryor will start unwinding this Luigi Mangioni conspiracy.

Now they're people are taking the side of the murderer. What is going on here? Don't move. You're with Brian Kilmeade. Breaking news, unique opinions.

Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. I can't claim to know the motives of aliens. but it just being an earthling. But of all the places to show up on Earth, they picked New Jersey? That's be odd for me to wonder what the aliens are looking for.

No offense to New Jersey. I'm just saying this is the whole earth they could have visited. Uh that is Uh Uh this drone story, I find it um I I find it interesting, but I find it unbelievably frustrating because you never get any answers. Just more speculation. This morning I got up and on my on my text messages was video of a drone two towns away from me on Long Island.

So and that was Uh that was uh A very interesting guy who probably has a few opinions. about this. Uh who's that, that scientist? Neil deGrasse Tyson. Yeah, Neil deGrasse Tyson, who thinks it's funny.

So they it's brought up to me. I did this drone segment. They said if they didn't want to be discovered, if this was top secret, it would be black and there'd be no lights.

So that's one of the things that have people semi-relaxed about what could actually happen. Let's go over to Bruce in York, Pennsylvania. Hey, Bruce. Thank you very much for taking my call.

So, a couple of things about this drone story. Number one, airports have protected areas. They need to know all the aircraft within a 10 to 15 mile radius so that planes don't hit one another. They have tracking devices. They can see everything.

Otherwise, planes will be hitting each other and they have to say, avoid this plane or turn right, turn left. They should have this all on radar from all those airports. That's number one. It's amazing that it hasn't been brought up. Number two, look on drones.

No thing over 400 feet. That's the law. You have to ask special permission. You have to be registered. All this, they should not be having high-flying drones over 400 feet.

Look it up, it's right there on the internet, and three. Um please. The fact is, is If I was a government. I would like I would think that they would love this because Why not have people talk about drones rather than, oh, January 6th and a pipe bomb that mysteriously disappeared, and all these other problems that we're having?

So let's focus on the shiny object over here called these drones. Maybe, Bruce, but the thing is, people are looking up. That's all. I mean, that's what started this. I actually think that they don't even want to do a press conference.

I don't think they even want to address the press, even though we got all this turmoil in the Middle East, so many legitimate issues to look at.

So I think this is a burden to them. Because they spend the whole time denying everything.

So I don't think they're trying to keep us distracted with this. People are looking up and noticing, and New Jersey in particular.

Some people think it's funny. I think it's getting to be really bothering me. And it also makes us should feel very vulnerable about what people can and can't do in terms of our defense with drones, especially with their engineering and pioneering over in Ukraine. Ian Pryor's next, and we'll finish up this hour with your calls. Brian Kilmicher.

The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, we are back Ian Pryor with us in studio. Is he the author of Parents? Of the World Unite, Senior Advisor at American First Legal and Executive Director of Fight for Schools.

So obviously, education matters to you, Ian, but I also got to tap into your. legal background about what's going on this Luigi Mangione here in New York City. I mean, all of a sudden, a murderer has got sympathy from like AOC and some people who think he's a a good looking guy.

Well, I mean, this is what you see from the left, right? When there's political violence and they can blame it on someone else, oh, it's terrible. But when it comes from their side, oh, it's justified. Violence is never the answer, but according to Elizabeth Warren, right, they always look to the motivation to make their determination on whether this is something that's horrible or something that they're given a wink-wink. You know, behind the back to, yeah, we kind of like this.

I mean, some of the rhetoric coming out from the left on this, whether it's key leaders in Congress to just your, you know, your average Psycho leftist on X or Blue Sky or whatever. I mean, it just shows the hypocrisy and dangerous levels of hypocrisy where they are justifying killing a father. because he's a healthcare executive. And they may not justify it in exactly those words, but you read between the lines, and that's exactly what they're doing.

So, you know, Elizabeth Warren got two days ago said, Well, you know, people get angry. It's violent to return somebody down when they need reimbursement or not cover somebody. That's violent. What are you talking about? Number one, problem is the facts of this case.

Number one, he's what well means healthcare companies aren't alienating him. I read today his grandmother left him $30 million. He grants his family $30 million. He's not going to get it because one of the stipulations was you can't be a felon. Number two is he didn't even have this health care company.

He didn't have the health care company. And then, you know, apparently he had some back issue that he had served.

Okay, well, look at him. He seems that he's been able to jump and around with him. He jumps to me, and he seems to have been able to get past that, like most people are able to do. You know, this is just radicalized leftists that are taking the law into their own hands, and they're seeing themselves celebrated. And you see what's happening down in Florida where you have another woman coming forward or being now arrested for threatening Blue Cross executives.

This needs to be stopped in its tracks so it doesn't spread like a virus. And we start seeing waves of this across the country. If you look at the fact now that these healthcare companies are taking their executives off their website.

So you can't have senior vice president, executive vice president, or biographies. They were all taking them down and scrubbing them. I understand why. What I think we need is a pushback. It's not your thing, but I live to see hear from Brian Thompson's kids.

Two teenagers now that without a dad, the wife, excuse me, before you just say that my husband deserved to die on the streets of New York City, maybe you should understand who he is and what he left behind. Here's AOC, Cut 36. This is not to comment, and this is not to say that an act of violence is justified, but I think for anyone who is confused. or shocked or appalled, they need to understand that people interpret and feel and experience denied claims as an act of violence against them. If you are using violence.

To make a political point, you are the villain in this story. That simple. How about this? He makes his own gun on a 3D printer. This whole advent of ghost guns, in the beginning when I first heard it, I mean, I'm not a gun guy.

I'm not anti-gun, but I just didn't grow up in that culture. I thought, ghost guns, where does that come from? But now, those days of looking at serial numbers and finding out where a gun was and the genesis of it, now people are making it on 3D printers. They don't exist. They create them out of thin air.

Well, and you have somebody that probably, I don't know if he was on anyone's radar, but the way that he executed this individual, I mean, it was clearly planned. Sure, it didn't look like a professionally done thing, but he certainly planned it out more than the average. Killer on the street, which is scary. Where did he learn this? Where did he learn his tactics?

How did he learn how to produce this gun? I mean, he has obviously been online looking to do this and has been researching this for quite some time. It's very scary to see that somebody could be so radicalized and then have immediate access to the information in which he could. Execute this individual.

So let's talk about DEI if we can. American v. Legal. This is one of the president's priorities to rid our country of DEI. And I'm heartened by the fact that the University of Michigan has decided that the DEI program that they put hundreds of millions of dollars in has further divided the campus.

Who would have thought?

Well, you know, it's interesting when you think about DEI and how it came about and really when it went into overdrive. I mean, we've always had this political correctness movement, you know, really going back to the 90s. And it was always there and it was subdued, and people kind of tolerated it. But then after post-George Floyd, They just, you know, they put steroids into it, right? And it became DEI.

They put it in a gain of function lab, political correctness, and it came out DEI. And you had the Biden administration doing it, corporate America doing it, Hollywood doing it. And then you had the media, the mainstream media, running cover along with big tech. There's a couple of things that I think really happened during that time. One, you had organizations like America First Legal and others starting to push back.

You had independent journalists starting to push back. And then two things that I think really changed the game was Elon Musk buying Twitter and turning it into X. Because now you had a public forum where people could push back and they could boycott products and show that these companies were going to pay a price. And then the second thing, of course, is the Harvard case at the Supreme Court, which put that into law. And then now you have these companies saying, you know what?

We're going to lose money for this. Let's stop doing it.

So I see this story in the New York Post today. The Biden administration put $1 billion into it. The Department of Education shelled out at least $1 billion in very Various DEI initiatives since twenty twenty one. The researchers unearthed some $490 million on DEI hiring efforts, $343 million on DEI programming, and $170 million on DEI-related mental health. Do you believe it?

I mean, this money is, I can't get my head around any of these.

So there's good news and bad news with that, right? The bad news is that federal taxpayer money has been going to these programs. The good news is when you look across the country, whether it's higher ed, whether it's public education, K-12, all these superintendents, they love their money. They love their budgets.

So there's one easy way to get this stuff out. You're going to do this. You're losing their money. You'll see that stuff gone so quickly. Losing the money.

Yeah.

If they lose that money, it's going to be gone. You can talk all you want about what's right and wrong. These people don't care. They care about their bottom line budget and what they can do with their piggy bank, you know, who they can hire and all these different fun things that they can do. You take that away, it's going to go away.

So the other thing is, even, for example, the Chips Act, everyone's, ah, the Chips Act. Let's bring chip manufacturing here. Do you see some of the things you have to do for a company to be eligible to get a grant to make chips in this country? What your workplace has to be like? What your hiring practices have to be like?

The environmental impact, all this stuff. It makes people go. Most of the companies have turned around and said, You can keep your Chips Act.

Well, and that's into everything they do. That's one of the reasons why Doge is so important. And I think it's actually getting bipartisan support because of one, the wasteful spending that we see, the over-regulation of everything in America. I mean, for the past 70 years, there's been regulation on top of regulation on top of regulation, such that when you pass legislation with tax cuts or different things, it's great, but it doesn't matter if these regulations make it more cost-prohibitive to go about doing business. You know, we're talking with Ian Pryor here.

Ian, you did so much work in primary education, pushing back, but how. Would diminishing the impact of the Department of Education. Help. Uh Begin to streamline this process and get some of that out of schools because if in this case, Trump's mission is best done if he could do it from Washington, right? Department of Education, here's your mission, here's your mandate.

This is what Betsy DeVos and now Linda McMahon will oversee. But instead, there's a push on the right to say we're going to dismantle the Department of Education.

Well, how you can control it? Yeah, I think one of the things that there are certain functions of the Department of Education that just aren't going to go away. For example, civil rights, Title IX enforcement, right? That's not going to go away. That's written in the law.

But it can be handled through the Department of Justice. Student loans can be handled through the Treasury Department.

So there's ways to take all of these things that the Department of Education traditionally does and put them really with their proper department. What the real issue here is when you create a Department of Education, you're creating a power center. And when you have a power center, you're going to attract all those special interests to one place, and they're going to capture that power center.

So if you disperse the power center, it's going to be a lot harder for Randy Weingarten and others to go. Go in there and really capture whoever the head of education is and their minions and really get their initiatives passed or through the process. What have you noticed since you started getting active with other parents and getting involved in Virginia? What has changed? I think a lot has changed.

I mean, certainly there's an election. Yeah, the election really has created a confidence level and a relief level that finally people are getting air support, right? I mean, a lot of the problems are state level, but there's only so many things that states can do, especially in a place like Virginia, where you have a Republican governor, a Democrat legislature. But a lot of these problems emanate from the federal government, and these schools want to do these things because, oh, you know, well, Title IX says a boy can use a girls' room, and if we don't follow that, we lose federal funding.

Well, if you switch that around, and schools are now risking federal funding for having boys and girls' locker rooms, boys and girls' sports, we're finally going to see the changes that we've been fighting for for the past four years under this administration.

So it's amazing when it comes to this whole transgender playing with women. When I ask a Democrat, do you know what their answer is, the most politically correct answer? It rarely happens. They won't just come out and admit that that does what we see with Seth Moulton did. I don't want my daughters playing against guys.

I'm a Democrat, a transgender male. I don't think it's fair. Where's this issue heading?

Well, I think it's heading in the right direction. I mean, look, Trump campaigned on it. That ad was, I think, the biggest ad. It wasn't sports related, but it was the biggest ad in his campaign. I think we're going to see, hopefully, whether it's the Supreme Court, their decision in the Schermetti case, which I assume comes out in June, but certainly through Title IX and the injunctions on more than half of the states on Biden's Title IX rule, I think you're going to see that rule scrapped.

I think you're going to see a new rule or a guidance saying, look, sex means biological sex. The Supreme Court said that in 1970 or 1971, that sex means biological sex. Therefore, if you're not going to be able to do If you are putting a boy in girls' sports or a boy in a girls' locker room or bathroom, that is sex discrimination under Title IX. That is sex discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause. You are going to get investigated either by the Civil Rights Department, the Department of Education, or the Department of Justice, and you are either going to face a civil lawsuit or you're going to lose your federal funding.

What about the transfer of people who want to? Uh transition If you're under 18, the Supreme Court's looking at this now. How do you characterize the arguments?

Well, that's a really, there's so many things in that.

So, number one, the first argument from the United States, from the Biden administration, was, well, this is sex discrimination because if you give a girl estrogen or a girl testosterone, but you won't give a girl testosterone, but you will give a boy testosterone for a different thing.

Well, that's discrimination on the basis of sex.

Now, I think Tennessee had a great argument to that, which is that's nonsensical. If you're giving a boy testosterone, it's for a medically necessary issue, not for a girl. That is purely cosmetic. The second argument is probably the most consequential, which is the government is saying that transgender status is a quasi-suspect class under the Equal Protection Clause.

Now, if that holds, which I do not believe it will, that gives all these schools the excuse essentially to say, well, then we can't discriminate against them, and they should be able to play in sports, and they should be able to go in bathrooms and locker rooms. If that goes away, then there's no more justification. And that means allowing a boy, whether they claim to be a girl or not, into a girls' room would be discrimination against individuals, girls, on the basis of sex, and they would be the ones protected by the Equal Protection Clause, not the other individuals. And lastly, and this might not be your expertise, but in terms of immigration, I was talking to Tom Holme and he said, if these sanctuary cities continue to fight and push back and don't give us access to prisons and things like that, we're going to go by and we'll say you're harboring a criminal. We're going to use your legal action to go after sitting mayors, big sheriffs.

what do you think how does this play out? What's practical and what are empty threats?

Well, I think criminal law is a deterrent. And I think earl in the first Trump administration and at the Department of Justice, I saw this a lot. A lot of what was happening was We're going to take away your funding. We're going to take away your grants for law enforcement if you don't enforce that. And that only works so much.

But you actually start saying, look, we are going to prosecute you, Mayor X or Governor Y, then you're going to start seeing some action. Are they really going to go up against one? Prosecution and two, against their own citizens that want to feel safe, just to prove a political point, they're going to lose that battle and they're going to make their state or their city less safe. 'Cause you know, twenty seventeen President Trump says we're getting rid of sanctuary cities and they've sued back and and they seem to have won. To be able to keep their sanctuary city status and the president went focused elsewhere.

But do you think the public perception has changed since that could allow the president to get momentum in that direction? Absolutely. I mean, it was a you think you think back to 2015, 2016, if you're deporting everybody. That was a big issue and said, no, we can't do that. We can't do that.

This time around, most of the country says, yes, we have to do that. The entire public perception has shifted, especially with what we've seen from the Biden administration. I mean, this has been the most liberal administration in the history of this country, certainly when it comes to letting people in through the border that are threats to this country, wherever they come from. Yeah, exactly. And I think Americans are waking up and seeing we are less safe because of this.

When you've got Trenda Aragua all over the place committing crimes and establishing footholds for criminal enterprises, look, they're going to say, governor, You should be prosecuted if you're allowing this to happen.

So I think they're going to have much greater success, and a lot of times that translates into court success. Exactly. Do you see yourself joining the Trump administration anyway? Oh, you know, I don't know. I'm pretty happy where I am.

I mean, America First Legal, it's going to be interesting going forward. I mean, there's, you know, for the past four years, three years, we've been fighting against an administration that has a lot of success. Yeah.

All right, we'll see. Ian Pryor, thanks so much. Pick up his book, Parents of the World Unite. Don't move. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead.

The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. Guys, everyone's talking about this. Today, Time magazine named Donald Trump their 2024 person of the year. Trump is the first man in history to be Times Person of the Year and McDonald's Employee of the Month.

History, history is me. That's hysterical. There's nothing wrong with that. Are you right? I mean, like, positive, funny.

Because he did work there. And by the way, you know, in retrospect, they could not handle the McDonalds thing. They tried to marginalize that then, made sure that tried to make it like a joke, but it was so positive. He actually jumped behind the counter, was actually loved baking the fries, talking to people out the window. They loved to try to marginalize, but it ended up being unbelievably effective.

And now, next thing you know, the garbage truck thing, that was another brilliant move. I mean, you don't normally there'd be a focus group. Should we try this? But instead, on instinct, he said, Yeah, let me do, let's get a garbage truck. They show up.

He's wearing the reflect. And because it's also genuine, right? He genuinely loves McDonald's, right? When you did the celebrity stroll with him, he's talking with the garbage men that are randomly driving in New York. Like, it's who he is now.

And also, the women in the cosmetic counter. Yeah, that is also who he is, personally. But the other thing that The other thing he does is so interesting is that on instinct he's doing sales. I remember when I walked in the tower when he was doing The Apprentice, the first thing he said is. Um he'd meet he'd meet you downstairs and he'd go over to the counter.

And he'd give me he had those lines in Macy's. Of his ties. And he said, let me pick out some ties for you. But guess what was also happening? The camera was rolling.

So the camera says, yeah, he gave me some time. Mike, I don't know if I can set this, so it's all sales. And guess what's on every other minute? On the channel, on the radio station. Trump sneakers, Trump watches, Trump everything.

They're rare, they're the best. Milania had Christmas ornaments. Absolutely. So, and it sales, it doesn't come off of, you know, you want a good watch, I could make that happen for you, and you could smell like Trump, too. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show.

Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moments of the show.

So glad you're here. Today, what's going to be happening is Justin Trudeau is going to go over to Turkey trying to make heads or tails over what's going on in Syria. It would be great if we were ahead of one of these things before these Titanic changes took place over in Syria. Father of the Hour, Betsy DeVos is going to be here, former Secretary of Education, talking about winding down that organization when under Linda McMahon. And also, DEI has fallen apart.

You're not going to believe this. I think it's something like $200 million was spent over, excuse me, $1 billion was spent by this administration for DEI causes in education on all levels. It is nuts. Julia Bandera is not nuts, Fox News anchor and author of Fiona's Fantastical Fort. Julie, welcome.

I love you, but that intro said you're the most approachable. What did it say? Yeah, approachable. Why do you find that you? I find you incredibly intimidating.

Yeah.

But you still approach me. I do approach. And when's the last time you were intimidated by anything? No, I was really kidding. He is so approachable.

He's like the sweetest, warmest. He's going to have a very word to put in a like a tease. Like he's so approachable. He's not very smart. He's not that good looking, but at least he's approachable.

Right. Could they have put that in? Good looking, not that smart. I prefer not that smart, but good looking. Not that hot, but really nice.

Right. Let me see. We could do that. Maybe we could rewrite this a little bit. It is weird to have that as one of my assets.

I like that you're approachable. That's nice. For directions? Yeah, it is. Right.

Sorry, I'm lost. I feel like I could approach you.

So what's going on with you? Oh, you know, nothing much. I'm doing outnumbered today.

So, and I just wrapped on that non-foxing PCS program that I just finished. And now I'm going to go do outnumbers. Do you speak Spanish? I do, believe it or not. I mean, it's a struggle.

I'm doing a lot of. Tutoring to perfect my Spanish. It's not perfect. We know Rachel's doing it. Yeah.

Brand new networking. She does it Monday through Wednesdays. That's right. She does it Monday through Wednesdays. I do it Thursdays and Fridays.

It airs on Fox de Portes, on Fox Nation, and on Norticias.

Now, what do you say? They set it up. I'm just going to go on your word on this. You like Jesse Waters' show? Is it true?

Uh is that how you view it? I don't know the format. Uh I never thought of it that way. I mean, I suppose there is some opinion in there. I don't really throw out as much opinion probably as others, but I mean, no, we have a lot of guest interviews and there is some bit of opinion in it, but I mean, it's really just a news program and we talk about everything in the world.

So it's very much like a Fox News channel, but in Spanish.

So um one of the things I'm going to be talking about this weekend on One Nation is just by the way the perception of Trump is so dramatically different. It almost is like the Trump Prior to the apprentice. Where people used to look at him for business advice on every business channel, had a understate a bit uh about him, and then you watch him get so famous with Apprentice having this huge story. And then since twenty fifteen, here he is yesterday getting the man of the year from Time magazine. Cut one.

We're going to give tremendous incentive like no other country has. We're cutting your taxes. We're going to cut them very substantially. We got them down to twenty-one percent from probably 42 or 44 percent, depending on where you are. We got him down to 21.

Everyone said that was a miracle.

Now we're getting them down to 15, but only if you make your product here. Otherwise, you pay 21, which is not bad. It's in the middle of the pack. But 15 brings you down to among the lower.

So he's on the New York Stock Exchange, a pop-up Time magazine, Man of the Year. Everyone knew he was going to get it. I don't know how they could not give it to him. But have you noticed a tone change? I definitely have.

I think, you know, as much as Democrats love to hate him, I think. Subtly, deep down inside, they're relieved. I mean, honestly, the last four years were such a disaster for our economy, for illegal immigration, for a number of things. And just the way that the world is viewed, we're a laughingstock. I mean, look at what's happened in Russia and Ukraine.

I guarantee you that that would have ended differently, what's going on in Israel. I think countries know that he means business. And I think that the United States is now going to be viewed a little more seriously on a foreign front. And I think that they are relieved because, look, the bottom line is this. People care about what's in their wallets, and they're going to look at Donald Trump.

They're going to see his background in finance and in real estate and in business and know that he's going to look out for the better of the American people. He wants to better our economy. And I think that's why people are up on him. And we'll go to the LA Times. The new owner says, listen, we've got to get a conservative columnist in there on a daily basis.

And he told everyone not to endorse. And he's starting to push a more balanced view. We know Jeff Bezos, too, don't endorse. And he went and met with him, said some nice things last week about how he's. He seems more, he's optimistic about Trump.

He seems more calm. He seems more confident. And then here's what he said yesterday: if he's going to favor Elon Musk. Cut three. Jeff Bezos called me.

We're having dinner. As you know, Mark Zuckerberg came in. We had a really nice dinner. He asked to have dinner. I had dinner with him.

I'm having dinner with everybody. People like me now. You know, it's something going on. I said, Would you have come to dinner with me if I lost? I think the answer is no.

You know, I said nicely, kiddingly, of course, because I don't want to sound foolish, but I say jokingly. Would you have been here at dinner? If I lost and the answer was uh probably not. Look, I'm getting called by everybody. It's very interesting.

It's different than the first Okay, I don't think he would have gotten called during his entire first administration. Didn't. I mean, it's not only that he wasn't called when he was running and he wasn't called while he, after he won the election, he wasn't called while he was in office. All those people were talking badly about him and putting him down and insulting him, including all the media. And now, all of a sudden, people are calling him because they actually respect him now, because they now know what four years of hell looks like.

And they're looking forward to this. The fact that George Soros wants to sit down with Donald Trump, it's like hell has freedom. No, no, no, not George Soros. Oh, who was it? It was Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos.

Oh, Jeff Bezos. Yes, Jeff Bezos. I'm sorry, Jeff Bezos and Zuckerberg. The fact that they want to sit down with Donald Trump says a lot. I think that they have a newfound respect for him.

And it's a respect that should have been there from the very beginning. You should respect your president. But nobody respected him for some reason the first four years.

So now that they've gone through the Biden administration, I think they have a whole new look at life. Here's what I like.

So Elon Musk, people say, well, he's self-serving and he's here because he wants SpaceX, get contracts, and he wants. Tesla to get subsidies. Number one, subsidies going away on electric cars.

So that's not true. Number two is Jeff Bezos got Blue Origin. That is a competitor of Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Now it's below, but it's not that far below.

So he's got these huge. He is playing to it. Hey, Elon, I need your help here. I need you to volunteer. I want you to straighten this out.

Jeff Bezos, we need this. I mean, does anybody want to talk about efficiency and development and innovation? Is there anyone better than Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk? Yeah.

My hope is. Julie, is that they're doing it for the right reasons. They're so rich. How could they possibly be doing it for self serving reasons? If they go into this and say, this country's giving me so much and I want to help out the government, great.

My fear is They will use the lightning of regulations and the access they have to power. For to maximize influence. And if they do that, I'm going to be colored naive, I get it. Then heel's going to look terrible and big business is going to be walled off for the considerable future. I can understand why people would see Elon Musk as doing this for self-serving purposes because he wants to help his company and he doesn't want governmental regulation.

He just wants freedom, yeah. He wants to be able to run his businesses. And obviously, if he has his president, the president in his back pocket, but look, Elon Musk doesn't need to get rich. He already is rich. And look at the way that Elon Musk runs his business.

He did double his wealth. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So he's doing great.

So he's not trying to get rich here. And quite frankly, you need to look at how these people run their businesses. Because if that's how they run their businesses, I would love for somebody like that to have a hand in running our country. The way that he even stepped in and basically wiped out half the personnel on X, right? And tightened the budget, made people start coming to work.

You know, those are the values that our American working public need to follow. And that's how you boost your economy by shooting. Showing up to work and actually doing a good job and having morals and caring about it. Mark Zuckerberg is giving a million dollars toward the inauguration, and so is Jeff Bezos towards the inauguration. Costs money.

You got to have the balls, you got to have the parties, you've got to have a. You you I guess you gotta put the apparatus together. You gotta get the celebrities in. I think they're not gonna have as hard a time. Remember, I think Toby Keith was the biggest name, all these three doors down.

The rest said, No, we don't want any part of that. I think it's gonna change. I think how much credit do you think that Joe Biden deserves for Trump's popularity? Because of the way he governed and the political correctness in which he was not only Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, I mean, just look at Kamala Harris's Democratic National Convention and the way that they paid all these celebrities to come and speak. It was ridiculous.

Donald Trump didn't need celebrities at his convention. He had real people talk at his convention. That's what people want to hear. They want to hear real people. We can't relate to celebrities.

Hollywood should have nothing to do with it. Nobody cares about all of that. All they really care about, honestly, the blue-collar families, especially in this country, is about the bottom line. And they know that that's what they've got in Donald Trump. We only like Sylvester Dallone.

Correct? Yeah, I like Sylvester Stolton. There are some exceptions. I'll take him. Yeah, yeah, there are some others, but, you know, for the most part, Hollywood needs to shut up.

So. I love Fetterman. He's my MVP. I find him endlessly interesting. He has been incredibly interesting.

Like, surprising. No, but like, surprisingly good. I remember when he was running, we were all kind of like, who is this goof in sweatshirts and sweatshirts?

Well, and the fact is, he did have a stroke. Right. No, I know. He did. And then he had manic depression and he wouldn't get dressed.

I thought, what is going on here? But the thing is, he's come back and he just said, I love his pro-Israel stance. That's what won me over first. And they critically having the guts to criticize these idiotic students in Columbia and City College and NYU. Guess who didn't?

Chuck Schumer, a Jewish, the highest-ranking Jewish politician in American history. And he went invisible. Isn't that crazy? And not only that, and you represent New York, where there are so many Jews. I mean, honestly, like, it's crazy.

And that was another problem. It wasn't just Joe Biden, but it was Kamala Harris. They also sort of, you know, backed up all these protesters at all the colleges and this, you know, anti-Semitic rhetoric that was being protested at all the colleges and the pro-Palestinian mentality. Which clearly did not go over well. And a lot of people voted because of that.

I mean, the war in Israel and the way that this administration handled it, or didn't handle it, or almost like sometimes came down on Putin for being too tough, remember, on Gaza? That did not go over well on the American public.

So here is Senator Fetterman yesterday because he met with Pete Hegseth. He's getting blowback. Because he met with Pete. Right. Cut six.

I'm not really sure that like I said, there's not really any new thing. We we had a conversation. And that's part of the process. And that's the thing. I'm going to follow the process.

I'm going to listen to what my colleagues on the other side continue to say and how they evaluate. And that's not that's that's just part that's just part that's just part of the process. Are you considering voting for it? Yeah.

So it's just like it's a conversation. What's going on? Yeah.

And that's why, and Pete evidently is just doing fantastic one-on-one. Yeah.

So he's beginning to turn, and he's more than turned the tide.

So there's going to have a four-hour hearing and another four-hour hearing. There's going to be a committee vote, and then there's going to be an FBI check. But Pete is really turning things around. And then you got Tulsi, RFK, Christy Noam. There'll be hard questions.

If they have the answer, it's all they want. Get him in front of the panel. And they'll be able to answer the questions. I love that. Does anyone worry you?

Does anyone, if you're Trump, who should he be most worried about, Julie? CNN. No, no, I'm talking about what nominee. Oh, what nominee? Oh, God.

I don't know. Yeah, as far as all of his nominees, I mean, originally I would have said Pete Hegseth. But like you just said, I think that Pete Hegseth really has turned it around. I mean, I like the fact that he slapped down CNN and basically told him, I'm not talking to you. You know, I mean, look at the White House.

Look at how they treat our White House correspondents in the press briefing.

So I think Pete Hegseth was really the only one. I think his picks are great. Who do you think actually is going to be his toughest? to push through. Depending on the background, check on Tulsi Gabbard.

I think Tulsi will be great holding herself, but she's been very critical of Trump, but Trump doesn't bother by it. But he doesn't care, which I actually love that about him because a lot of people say that he'll only nominate someone who's in his back pocket.

Well, Tulsi Gabbard wasn't in his back pocket. He wasn't. Yeah, but I imagine she agrees now. And they're just going to look up stuff. The only thing I worry about is that.

And he's managed to forgive that. But she doesn't have the residue of Republican sports because she's been a Democrat.

Now she's got some anger on the Democratic side, so she can't expect any votes there. But I think that if she can sit there and defend herself and talk about what you were doing with Bashar Assad, you had an opportunity, you went. Talk about what you're feeling is Russia over Ukraine. Is that really how you feel? Have her expand on that.

But lastly, among the people that are upset that Donald Trump is man of the year, which, by the way, it's just impact. It doesn't mean good or bad. Cut ten. If they want to make someone person of the year, I don't know. They could have done it to.

With any person, people who they could have done to someone who actually stood for democracy, who stands for democracy in the country. Let me ask you, Time Magazine. What do you say the women who s I guess still read Time magazine? Do you have someone on the cover of your magazine who is an adjudicated Assaulter. You have someone who inspired an insurrection.

You have someone who, without a doubt, the evidence is there, tried to overturn. A free and fair election. You had someone who had multiple criminal count and end Found guilty on multiple criminal counts. And you name them person of the year?

Okay. Don Lemon needs to go away. I mean, honestly. He is really away. He really is away.

Like, I wish we could return him just like you could have used Klunker Carr. But unfortunately, you know, he'll find his way to the airwaves. But that's the same talking point that everybody's going to give. The bottom line is that we need a president that's going to turn this country around. And if that president is Donald Trump, then he should be the person of the year.

He should be the person of the century because this, our country is in the crapper. And so we need somebody to turn it around. And if he manages to do so, I believe that a lot of those people that are decrying that he shouldn't be person of the year will eat their words. Yeah, Don Lemon has nowhere to go. He even blew up his opportunity to make millions.

Oh, my God, with Elon Musk. What an idiot. Back in a moment. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin.

It's Brian Killmeade. Time also announced some additional categories. Athlete of the Year is Caitlin Clark. That's good. Icon of the year is Elton John.

And uh, awkward question of the year is your grandma asking, What is Haktua? And you go, yeah. All right, there you go. That was Jimmy Fallon last night, who's got a Christmas album out, which Julie Banderis likely will not download. I will not.

But I actually really like him. I think Jimmy Fallon. Out of all of them? I mean, I think he's very talented. I mean, he can do everything.

He's very talented. What about the stories about him drinking a lot?

Well, who doesn't? Me?

Okay. Well, I'm just saying, most of these late-night talk show hosts, I mean, I think they all like to party. They party with celebrities all the time. Doesn't make it right. What do you think they're doing?

Praying? It doesn't make it right.

Okay. But I'm just saying, I'm not surprised by it, is all I'm saying. Right. Everybody out there. You're not surprised by anything.

You're like street smart. I really am street smart. I'm very savvy. You've been through it all. Yeah, yeah, no, I really have been around the block.

But I just am not surprised when I hear somebody drinks a lot and they're part of Hollywood, of course, that's what they do. Why? Are they looking to escape? I think that's just because that's how they socialize, 'cause they're all socially awkward, so the only way for them to actually become social with one another is to be intoxicated. Um.

See, like I can sit here with you sober. Johnny Carson, which is weird. Which is weird.

Well, most women need to be drunk. Right. But Johnny Carson, there's a whole book. I mean, they used to drink a lot. Don't you feel like in the 70s and 80s, people would drink it a lot more back then.

Not only on television, they were drinking in their offices. Like the show Mad Men, I love it. They had a bar cart in every single office, and every single day ended with cocktails. Right. And you know who never left that era?

Geraldo. No! Oh, my God. I was literally just thinking of that because he had his bar in his office. And you're absolutely right.

You know what I'd be? And I'd be afraid. I'd be like, I'd be looking at the handbook. I'm trying to think, can I have a bar in my office?

Meanwhile, Geraldo had a full bar in his office. No. He didn't need the handbook. I had like a bottle of wine that somebody gifted me in my office. It sat there for like 10 years.

It's just collecting dust. I never opened it.

So I would feel weird drinking in my office, but. Unless you really wanted to escape. I actually did have a beer in my office once. Yeah.

Well, that's okay. Yeah, I went across the street to what's that place, the Mexican place? Oh, the Mexican place in Manhattan? Please help me. Chipotle.

Thank you. I never go to Chipotle. But anyway, yeah, in between shows several years ago, me and Kelly, the lighting guy, I'm going to throw him under the bus. We went over there, got some Chipotle and a couple of Coors lights. Did you come?

Corona lights. Corona lights took him back to my office and didn't have a bottle opener, so I tried to crack it on my desk and it broke the last dark. Yeah, so I didn't get to drink it. You're going to say this for outnumbered? You have outnumbered.

Yeah, no, I'm going to talk about this all throughout the hour of outnumbering.

So we'll coming up at noon. What's your lead story? Oh, I don't know. I haven't checked the rundown. You're going to have to stay tuned to find out.

I can't wait. That's a perfect tease. I thought so. Are there anybody else on except you? Yeah, there's this woman, Harris Faulkner.

Oh, I don't know if you've heard of her. She's on there. I have.

Okay. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. So, is there anything more important in our country that's not talked enough about than education? And one of the things that President Trump ran on is slowly dissolving the Department of Education.

I personally, instinctively, having never run the department, thought to myself: if you want a control over what we're taught in schools, pro-American philosophy, more outcome-oriented, whatever it is, why would you dissolve that department? And We'll see. Betsy DeVos was the first Secretary of Education all four years during Donald Trump's first reign. She joins us now. Ms.

Secretary, thanks so much for joining me. Thanks, Brian. Great to be with you.

So, first off, I see you're op-ed and I want to get to it. First off, on the theory, and again, you educate me, pun intended, on why it would work to Republicans' advantage to dissolve a department if they're unhappy with the way it's been running. Why not fix it?

Well, Brian, first of all, just look back on the history of the department. It was started in nineteen seventy nine as a payoff to the teacher unions by Jimmy Carter when he earned their endorsement in nineteen seventy six.

So it has become an outpost essentially for the teacher unions and all of their allies to demand and influence and consolidate control in a federal agency that should not have existed. In fact, Carter's own health and education and welfare secretary spoke against it at the time.

So more than 40 years later, you have to look at what the mission was and whether they've been successful. It's been an abject failure, and it continues to drive a very left-leaning agenda all the way down to the most local level.

So the best thing to do is if Congress doesn't have the will to actually abolish it, you can accomplish much of the same thing, depowering it by block granting funds back to the state, by passing the Educational Choice for Children Act to create a federal tax. Credit so monies can follow children to the schools that their parents want. It will come alongside what states are doing and provide rocket fuel to education freedom school choice programs. And these two areas in particular would really depower what's going on there.

So here's what bothers me. For example, in Texas. Oh, a conservative state. You're going to love it. Not in Austin.

You're not going to love it. You're not going to love how they view American history in Austin, Texas. I'm not going to love how they view American history in Chicago, Illinois.

So that's what bothers me. And I want to give people some freedom, but the anti-Americanism, the lack of, you know, The lack of quality education in these areas makes me feel as though you might be. releasing some control where control would be beneficial.

Well, the problem with that though, Brian, if you create some kind of a national or federal curriculum is that it will continue to be subject to the whims of every administration to sort of whipsaw you back and forth, the best thing to do is give it to the states, the laboratories of democracy, and let states be transparent about what they're doing. The outcomes and the results in the states that are really intentional and robust about teaching kids about the founding of our nation and all the important issues they need to know to be contributing adult citizens, that's going to happen organically and it's happening now. Many of the states have made those requirements at the state level. And we're going to see those changes. And again, the more education freedom that we introduce, the more we give families control over where and how their kids are educated, the more the demand is going to be for those kinds of robust offerings and that kind of solid foundation.

So you wrote a column on FoxNews.com. It's called Five Ways That Donald Trump and McMahon, Trump and McMahon Can Make Education Great Again.

So you brought out some facts. 70% of fourth graders read at grade level. 70% of fourth graders cannot read at grade level. Yes. Cannot read at grade level.

Teachers are being assaulted. Biden has forced American taxpayers, the majority of whom never went to college to pay off billions in student loan forgiveness, which is tragic and unacceptable in my view. And female athletes have lost scholarships because of these trans men. Your thoughts about building on this?

Well, there are very straightforward ways that President Trump, he's talked about it in his campaign, and his designate Linda McMahon will have a great opportunity, first of all, to pass that Educational Choice for Children Act, the federal tax credit, to really give rocket fuel to school choice education freedom programs at the state level. An overwhelming number of K-12 parents, 75, 76% of them support some form of tax credit that will allow the money to follow a student to whatever education setting best meets that child's needs. And then, as I mentioned earlier, block granting all of the federal education funding to the states and to promote more local decision-making will, by definition, get rid of all of the DEI and CRT strings that the federal funding has attached. I'm sure you saw that this week it was acknowledged that over a billion dollars was spent through the Department of Education in grants. specifically requiring these programs at the state and local level.

So freeing up all of those funds for states to decide that, you're going to get much better decision making, much closer to the people. Then, importantly, restoring Title IX to protect women's sports. And due process protections. This Biden administration has taken has gone multiple steps further than the Obama administration ever did by trying to redefine what sex means and by really getting rid of major due process protections we put in place while we were there in the first term.

So that has to happen, and that can happen very quickly. They have a chance to really reclaim and save women's sports and protect women's rights. Yeah, the title nine, the controversy would be when they were starting the equal out men's and women's opportunities. That used to be the controversy. Those are the good old days.

I was talking to Betsy DeVos, former Secretary of Education.

So I'm wondering if it's possible. to somehow get the cost of college. Down where it is so astronomical now. You're talking about private universities costing $70,000, $80,000. And then what happens is, I want my kid to have the best opportunity, so I'll take out a student loan, then I'll take out a parent student loan.

And when they get out, you've got to immediately start paying it back, and the interest rates are way too high. Is there any way that you have of attacking this? Yes, absolutely. And this is such a key area. The whole area of federal student lending, which was put into an essentially a monopolistic approach in 2010, supposedly to pay for Obamacare, it has actually cost taxpayers billions and billions of dollars even before Biden tried to forgive the billions of dollars in student loans.

So the whole federal student lending system needs to be overhauled, reintroduced private lending options to the whole equation. And I really see this as a prime opportunity for Musk and Ramaswamy to tackle with the Doge project. The student loan portfolio has ballooned to nearly $2 trillion. But right now, because the federal government is the sole lender, there is no incentive for higher ed institutions to control their costs. They're going to get those student loan dollars no matter what.

They have no accountability in it. And that whole system and the whole portfolio really needs to be governed by professionals who know financial services and can ask and demand the tough things and accountability for taxpayers. But the system has to be opened up for private lending, and that will start to help control costs because they'll demand more.

So you know what's interesting is when I took out a my student loan was private. I remember it was Chemical Bank or Chase Bank, and Chemical Bank doesn't exist anymore. And I remember I had the loan book. You rip it out. But the interest rate was below prime.

Because I was a student. And they said, you know, people, the theory was like, you know, you got if you can take out money this low, you should do it. That was the theory.

Now, all of a sudden, the interest rates, it's above, and it's the government doing it.

So how does that work for anybody?

Well, the government is not well situated to be a lender. It is not well situated to provide financial services. And that is why the private sector and private options have to be reintroduced into that equation. And there has to be much more transparency around what goes on there and what higher ed institutions need to be compelled to be transparent in their costs. We know that they're continuing to just hike.

You know, tuitions and other fees and charges to students because there's no accountability there. They're going to get those student loan dollars, and they actually are a negative, you know, really a negative incentive overall to students who are taking, you know, who have to go this route in order to pursue their higher education. By the way, you can't. And, you know, we haven't even touched on the debacle that the Biden administration has made of the whole FAFSA simplification. They have totally messed up what is now over a three-year-old requirement of theirs to simplify the form to apply for student aid.

They've failed over a year in a row. And again, it just goes to show that this is not to be done by individuals who have no capabilities in this area. And it needs to be given to people who can do it well. And the crazy thing is, you know the math. What happens is if you increase Increase the aging, increase the Pell Grants, maybe increase the access to student loans.

They just up the tuition.

So so it's it's a it's a it's a endless chase. Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, another area that President Trump will have a great opportunity in is elevating alternatives beyond high school, alternatives to four-year institutions, apprenticeships, short-term certifications, career and technical education.

So many of those different options have such promising careers for students, and yet the focus continues to be on go to college, go to college, go to college. It's a fallacy for young people, and we need to start much earlier on letting them, young people know about what their various opportunities are and what the career possibilities are. And our leaders in elected office need to reflect the fact that every career and every job is important and matters. Yeah, that's true.

So, Betsy DeVos, you know Wenda McMahon, you work with her for four years. Do you think that she's up for this? Do you think the President is focused on this enough? Absolutely. I think the President's been very clear in his campaign, and I believe that he is very intentional about following through on the commitments he made to education freedom and school choice.

To really scaling back and depowering the Department of Education. And if he has his way, I'm sure he will influence to disband it and to wind it down. It should not exist. It is not doing the work on behalf of students. And all the things that are required under the law can be done elsewhere.

And he has every opportunity to do it. And I know Linda is very up to the task. All right, great. Betsy DeVos, thanks so much. Appreciate the column.

Go to foxnews.com and read it. Have a great weekend. Thanks so much, Brian. You as well. You got it.

Meanwhile, One Nation coming up on Saturday. Saturday at 9 o'clock Eastern Time. Amongst my guests will be Ben Shapiro. Amongst my guests will be Ruth Lewis Podcast, Senator Mark Wayne, Mullen, Adam Carolla, just to name a few. If you listen to the Brian Killmeat Show.

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I feel like I always have had a really good perspective on everything that's kind of happened in my life, whether that's been good, whether that's been bad. And then obviously coming to the WNBA, like I've said, I feel like I've earned every single thing that's happened to me over the course of my career. But also, I grew up a fan of this league from a very young age. Like, my favorite player was Maya Moore. Like, I know what this league was about.

And, like I said, like, it's only been around 25 plus years.

So, I know there's been so many amazing black women that have been in this league, and continuing to uplift them, I think, is very important. And that's something I'm very aware of. And, like I said, I try to just be real and authentic and share my truth. And I think that's very easy for me. I'm very comfortable in my own skin.

And that's kind of been how it is. Yes. But I guess the controversial part was she said she's gone up privileged because she was white. Yeah, and that's and that's where the That's where you kind of lose me. I saw Megan Kelly went a little severe with that, but.

I would say this. She has lifted up the entire league by her play. And for people who think it's because she's white, I think you're missing what sports is. If you look at what Michael Jordan did to basketball, what Magic Johnson did to basketball, that I believe, according to reports, they're black. NBA was struggling after drug abuse in the 80s and all these guys on Coke and all this stuff.

In comes Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. They lift the game up. And then it went astronomical with a guy named Michael Jordan. The player lifts the game. Pele lifted sports in the s soccer in the seventies.

According to many reports, he's black. It's what they did on the court, what Caitlin Collins, what Caitlin Clark did. Is play as good as anyone has ever played in college. And then defied so many experts like Gino Ariyama, and then went from really good to great. Right away, coming off our college season in the WNBA.

Despite headwinds, resentments, hard fouls, pressure, it didn't matter. I don't know where the colour comes into it. And I know Cheryl Swoops and others had big names. Rebecca Lobo was unable to shine there. They were players.

They were there, but they just weren't dynamic. They weren't great. They didn't have the charisma. Michael Jordan had the charisma. Clyde Drexel was great, but Jordan had the smile.

He had the whole thing, he had the presence. And that's what she has. She seems to have it. I mean, not that. You know, you look at her as a runway model, but she people relate to her, players black and white, relate to her.

I would not get caught up with the color of her skin, and if you're her. You know, I don't know what it's like to be her in all these lock rooms where two thirds of every lock room she goes into at a high level might be minority, might be black. I don't I don't know what that does to a person. But uh from the outside of perspective, somebody that studies sports, covered sports forever, I don't think it matters the color of your skin. I don't think it matters your ethnicity.

I think it matters who you are. Aaron Judge. I mean, baseball comes back on Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa, what they did on the court. Doug Fluty, a five foot eight quarterback. Magical in college, lifted college up.

You know, I don't think, you know, I just don't think that the color of the skin matters. I don't think, you know, she must get it constantly, so I don't know what it's like to be here. But it's pure performance that's earned it, in my view. Pure performance. In the beginning, I thought, wow, I hope she's going to be good at this level.

By the end of the year, she was one of the best players in the league. At 21 years old. That's what you need. For 25 years, the league's been losing money. It's been sustained by one.

One entity, the men's side. The NBA. The NBA is pouring money into the WNBA. Most of the owners are NBA owners, or else it wouldn't exist. Same thing with women's soccer.

Women's soccer not supported by the men, but it's not sub and this is what happens. They've folded four leagues. MLS does not support it's not strong as the NBA, but does not support the Women's League. They don't feel as though they should be subservient, whatever it is. There's no WMLS.

They want to do their own thing, and they struggled. If you want women's sports to be successful and equal to men, Women have to go. Women, go support women's sports and they'll be equal. And by the way, so will pay. I'm Brian Kilmey.

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