FBI now says New Orleans terrorist acted alone; Still no link to Vegas Cybertruck bombing

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. All right, everyone, welcome to the latest minutes of the Brian Kill Me Show and the first minutes live in 2025. Hope you enjoyed the specials as well as the great fill-in guest hosts that we've had. But we're ready to go.

2025, we came in with a bang, sadly, in every shape and sense of the word. We had explosions in Las Vegas, explosions in, well, could have been a lot worse. Explosions over in New Orleans. Investigations continuing. 4 o'clock Eastern time.

Today we're going to watch the Sugar Bowl. That's our Eastern time. It was supposed to be on Sunday. It was supposed to be yesterday on January 1st. A lot going on.

This hour is, I'm going to be brief in my first block because I want to get to Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise, who's second in leadership once the votes take place tomorrow. Michael Watley, also RNC chair, will be with us shortly too. It's going to be a big hour, consequential, so much 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 think a lot of it is really just common sense. That's why you're seeing so many people from a variety of different political perspectives uniting here, is they got kind of sick of how so much of what was being foisted upon the country just lacked any sense at all.

Michael Molly Hemingway talking about on primetime last night, talking about the surge in Republicanism and Republican voters, the highest since 1928 in our country. Optimism, despite the attacks, Americans feel good about the Trump team starting to lead the nation in 18 days.

Well, Joe Biden says, through surrogates, I could have won, I never should have dropped out. Really? Number two. Removing Mike Johnson would equally be as stupid. The fact is that these folks are playing with fire, and if they think they're somehow going to get a more conservative speaker, they're kidding themselves.

Right, Mike Lawler, who might be running for governor in New York. Yes, speaker vote, twenty four hours away. And despite Trump's endorsement of Johnson, his reelection is still not a certainty, and Dems will not bail him out. We look at the stakes and the votes. Number one.

The FBI continues to investigate this morning after raiding the suspect's home in Houston last night. Louisiana Senator John Kennedy promising to get the American people the truth. Yup, New York evil. That's what it is. New Year's Evil, I should say.

15 dead in New Orleans as American-born ISIS-worshiping Army vet uses a pickup truck to plow through Bourbon Street before opening fire on cops.

Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, perhaps unrelated, perhaps not. A cyber truck blows up right in front of Trump Tower. Let me see. Who makes that? Oh, Elon Musk.

Who's tight with Trump? Elon Musk. Who owns Trump Tower? Let me see. I believe Trump.

So I think that that obviously is a message being sent. What do we know about the second guy in Las Vegas?

Well, everyone's focusing on New Orleans, and I'm going to get to that. The guy in Las Vegas I find quite interesting because he's someone who used the same site to rent his car that I never heard of, Turbo, that you could go to somebody, for example, if you sign up for Turbo.

Someone comes into town, they don't want to go to Hertz, don't want to go to Avis, don't want to go to Budget. They go to you. You have your car out there, they use your car. Both these guys use that turbo service. All right, coincidence.

It might be. Uh they both serve in the Army. Coincidence, might be. They both serve in the same unit.

Now at the same time, claim Coincidence, might be in Las Vegas. Seven minor injuries. The driver is dead. His name is believed to have been thirty-seven-year-old Matthew Leibelsburge. He was in the car when it exploded.

Matter of minutes after pulling in front, you could see the video clear. Elon Musk again, right in the eye of the storm. When he found out it was a cyber truck, I'm sure part of it was: do they blow up on their own? Of course not. He was able to help because of license plate recognition and finding out where the driver who drove from Colorado.

Well, Isaac left from Colorado. Where he filled up, where he re-I guess, what do you call it? I guess fueled up or he. Actually, I don't know what you call it. When you have an electric car and you recharge the battery, so every time you pulled into a recharge station, You're able to track it.

It's good and bad. It's all most good year, but it's not great to know you're being tracked and you're being, you probably could figure that out.

So he was able to find out who it is, where they're from. And the fact is, it could have been a lot worse. And why do we know that? He said this thing is basically bulletproof. You've seen it demonstrated.

If you watch the Joe Rogan show, and you have a video component to the podcast, you see him just open up fire on it. And he says this knucklehead essentially did not know, did not know the cyber truck's capabilities, and therefore he did not know that it was able to contain the explosion in a way that put it much less devastating. There were bombs, there was fireworks, there was gasoline in the back, but it blew straight up instead of out, only killing the driver.

So this happens on January 1st. Bourbon Street on January 1st. We watched this Army vet who evidently converted, according to his brother, from Christianity, born in Texas, signed up in the military. He spent 10 years. 10 days in Egypt, came back a Muslim.

And basically, if you look at the flag in the back of his car, if you listen to his postings, he was on Facebook. Basically, saying he wants to kill his family. He said he killed Americans, and he did it in a place he knew would be crowded, and that's Bourbon Street. In my view, the police force is a mess. Probably knew if there was a famous place with security might be lax, it's not going to be New York City with all the challenges that New York has.

It's going to be a place like New Orleans.

Now, look, I know big cities aren't the only target. I remember Waukesha in Wisconsin, an innocuous, charming, Christmas Parade Some idiot decides to turn the corner and kill as many people as possible.

So it can happen anywhere. But this Shem Sud Din Jabbar pledged allegiance to ISIS. His brother says that he's changed. He was living, they actually seem to be raiding his house over in Houston. They have shut off the whole block there.

They could see pictures online of the IEDs that he reportedly put together, or they believe he did. Not only were they going to explode, but there were nails everywhere. It would have been absolutely much more devastating. Perhaps they're looking into this. The Airbnb, he may or may not have rented, exploded.

They might have a connection to the Bourbon Street attack. First responders were called to St. Roach area of the city starting yesterday due to reports of a fire breaking out. And they say it might be related to maybe an IED exploding there after he opened up attack. Not only did he run over people in the most horrific way possible, we're still getting all the names.

Of the 15 or 16 that lost their lives. We hope it ends there. But when he got out, he got out shooting, and then to the immense bravery of the New Orleans cops, they come out shooting back. Both two cops got injured. This guy is now dead.

Sugar Bowl today, so they're not going to stop. The Super Bowl will be there. First week in February, it's not going to stop. But they've got to get the feds in there and the FBI is going to take over. They do look like the Keystone cops in New Orleans.

I'm not saying there aren't many brave people or underpaid and underappreciated, but for the most part, they're known to be understaffed and a force that's underpaid. And I just don't know how you could come up with. A plan and I'll let you hear it. And that plan is basically so faulty Uh, they are able to take a pickup truck and drive up the sidewalk. Nobody thought of that.

Here's Ann Kirkpatrick, superintendent of New Orleans Police Department. Cut to this particular terrorist. drove around onto the sidewalk. And got around the hard target, where we did have a car there, we had barriers there, we had officers there, and they still got around.

Now The wedges that you see out there as well, we knew that that had malfunction problems. And I want you to understand, let's say we put the wedge up. And it got stuck. There is no Way that ambulance could get in or out, people couldn't get in and out.

So we knew that these were malfunctioned.

So we did indeed have a plan, but the terrorists defeated it. I appreciate the honesty, but it's scary stupid. Number one, how could you devise a plan that still allows a terrorist to drive on the sidewalk? If you're in New York City, if you watch what happened in Germany, you see that that is one of the goals. It's one of the low things, this low terroristic threat, low, I guess you could say, You know, low intelligence, you don't really need much training, you just need an objective and a horrific one at that, and a suicidal gene in your body that you want to execute.

But if you see what happened in the same thing happened in Germany a couple of weeks ago, if you see what happened in New York City, if you walk down New York City around Times Square, as you get closer and closer to these iconic neighborhoods, you see these steel poles that could be unscrewed that just stand in the road, and you got a choice. I mean, you really can get maybe a motorcycle through there, but you can't get any car through there.

So they have a plan where you You block off the rope, but you can't block off the sidewalk. And they said, Well, the good news is we had a choice. We put these stanchions up, these bars up. And we would have stopped the terror attack, we wouldn't have been able to get the ambulances in. I mean, do I have to tell you how stupid that sounds?

So now they've got to come in. They said they're going to have him fixed by the Super Bowl. Too bad you didn't have him fixed by New Year's. Eve. All right, this is the Brian Killmee Chow.

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There are things that I've been told that I think are true that I'm not sharing with you today because it could interfere with your investigation. But after we get to the bottom of this, they need to tell the American people the truth. And the people of New Orleans are truth. and the people of of America the truth. when it is appropriate and this investigation is complete.

You will find out. What happened and who was responsible. Or I will raise fresh hell. Because, and the reason why Senator John Kennedy is saying like that, the way he's saying it, not only because it's personal for him, wouldn't anybody, as much as anybody, because it's. He said it from Louisiana.

But he also knows the FBI has not been transparent, not transparent on who they're investigating, what their objective is, and what they actually have done. And they don't even give up documents when they're requested. Hopefully, all that comes to an end. And now we looked at another explosion, another attack, a horrific one in Bourbon Street that happened on New Year's Eve. Joining us now is Majority Leader about to get that job again, everybody assumes, is Republican Congressman from Louisiana, Steve Scalise.

Congressman, welcome back. Horrific circumstances. But what could you tell us about the investigation, something that will not jeopardize, obviously, the outcome? But are you still into the belief it's more than one person involved? Check it out.

Well, Brian, thanks for having me. And you know, we still don't know exactly how. How many other people Are being looked into. I mean, there's a widespread investigation in multiple states. We know that, and there's now an investigation to determine if the attack.

at Trump Tower or T the Trump Hotel in Vegas was connected. to the one in New Orleans. But at the end of the day, it was Surely disturbing when the initial reports from the FBI said it was not a terrorist attack when all indications pointed to the it being exactly that. You know, as you've got the the driver had an ISIS flag hanging from his truck, but why they why they initially said definitively it wasn't a terrorist attack when it turned out to be one. Um, but you know, there's a lot of questions that we're going to have, we just need to get this investigation.

uh thoroughly complete is and transparent in terms of uh letting the public know what is going on. Sugar Bowl is going to be played today. The Attorney General doesn't seem to think it's a good idea. Do you?

Well, the governor, Jeff Landry's made it clear that it should be played. They're going to have heightened security, I know that. A lot of federal agencies and state and local agencies are going to be involved in the security. at the Superdome.

So that's That's something that you'll notice Surely for people that are going to the game to keep them safe. there, but you you still have an ongoing investigation. uh for the attack on Bourbon Street. You've almost had 9-11. Your whole career has been hanging over your head, too, as a congressman.

So that's terror attacks or a reality of your job. But when you see that video, And you see the car, the pickup truck, just drive around and go down the. Go down the sidewalk, and then this police commissioner or the superintendent comes out and says, Well, we never thought of that. They beat us. Is that acceptable?

No, it's not. And when you saw Canal Street was where there's a video of the driver. Coming down Canal Street and then Bourbon Street intersects, and he makes a sharp turn around the police car. because the bollards, those big metal posts that were supposed to be functioning didn't work. And clearly, there's questions about why that was the case.

But then he turned sharply and he just you could see him just speed up quickly. And his intention was to out as many people as possible. And he killed fifteen and injured a lot more.

So the the intent was clear, and you could see it in a in a video. There's one of the videos that I've seen that shows him from when he was on Canal Street to when he turned onto Bourbon.

So, I want to talk. I guess I have to tell you the big votes are tomorrow by noon, I guess. You're going to find out who the speaker is going to be, or you're not. Here's President Trump on who he wants the next speaker to be, Cut 16. I think they'll support Speaker Johnson.

I think we're gonna have a great time in Washington and I think we're gonna get great support. And he's the one that can win right now. People like him. Almost everybody likes him. Others are very good too, but they have 30 or 40 people that don't like him.

So that's pretty tough. If you can't catch Speaker Johnson today, you might you're not going to be able to I guess ratified the election results January 6th. It's going to put everything into slow motion. What do you think is going to happen, Steve?

Well Brian. I'm hopeful that when we reconvene on Friday, That Speaker Johnson is going to be reelected. And, you know, look, there are people that have expressed. their issues on how they want things carried out. But at the end of the day, there's There's one speaker, and we've got to get behind Mike Johnson, and we've got to move our agenda.

We've got a lot of work to do. President Trump gets sworn in on the 20th. There's a lot of things we want to have in place. When he gets worn in, we're going to be going to work. Day one.

to start moving the agenda to secure America's border. I mean, G West now more than ever if people don't recognize how important it is to get a secure border. To get our economy moving again. President Trump wants to work with Congress to get things done. We can't have a lot of internal fighting and special.

and days or weeks. On differences of opinion. We all have a very similar agenda, and it's President Trump's agenda to get this country back on track. Does Chip Roy and Tim Burchett and uh and those guys Andy Biggs understand that? Have you talked to them?

I haven't talked to each of them individually, but I have seen different statements that indicate they can get there. and they can uh they can get to a place where they can support Speaker Johnson. And he's having a lot of conversations one-on-one. with those members, you know, and talking through different issues. What we all want to get our country back on track.

you know, everybody can express their passions for how to get there. Uh but you know this is a narrow majority and We're going to have one team and one focus if we're going to be successful. And we're going to have to work with President Trump to get those things done. How are you feeling? I'm feeling good.

I mean, look, I'm excited about what's ahead for our country. We have big challenges, Brian, no doubt about it. But we have an agenda that's focused on solving those problems. And we have You know, look, 99% of our members Are ready to go to work on the exact same things. And I think the rest will get there.

Yeah, we'll see with a very small majority, and you look great. I know you've been through a lot. Majority leader, Steve Scalise and everyone, you do have a lot of support in Congress as well, obviously. One of the most popular guys in Washington. Congressman, thanks so much.

Best of luck to everybody going through a tough time in Louisiana. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. The fact is that Mike Johnson inherited a disaster when. Matt Gates and several of my colleagues teamed up with 208 Democrats to remove Kevin McCarthy, which will go down as the single stupidest thing I've ever seen in politics.

With that said, removing Mike Johnson would equally be as stupid. The fact is that these folks are playing with fire, and if they think they're somehow going to get a more conservative speaker, they're kidding themselves. And I agree, Mike Lawler, 100%. We heard a little bit of that in the opening of this hour. Mike Lawler speaking up, just saying, look, Mike Johnson's dealing with whatever he it doesn't matter if he's conservative.

It doesn't matter if he's moderate. He's got to deal with A two-seat advantage, maybe a one, until they get replacements for Mike Waltz, until they get replacement for Elise Stefanik, until they get replacement for Matt Gates.

So if you're going to get rid of them, you might go weeks without a speaker, which means you can't confirm the election, which means you're going to the inauguration. Why even do it? It's going to be all for show.

So, I just hope people like Chip Roy and others, I respect the fact that they stand for things. But you got to do what's possible, not what's ideological. That's what I think. Mike Watley joins us now, did a brilliant job helping deliver the Senate, deliver the White House and keep the House. Many people thought it would be impossible, and he's staying on.

Michael Watley, welcome back. I was just wondering your thoughts about what Mike Lawler says. Does that kind of echo how the President feels?

Well, the President's made it very clear right now that he wants Mike Johnson to be elected as the Speaker. He wants to have a united Republican caucus in the House and that it is time to focus on the America's agenda, that we have a common sense agenda that the President ran on, that Republicans in the House and the Senate, all those candidates ran on. We need to restore the southern border. We need to rebuild our economy and we need to keep our communities safe. And we have no bigger example of that than what just happened over the course of the last twenty four hours.

You know, down in New Orleans and in Las Vegas right now, where we don't have time. for us to sit around and have internicine fights. What we need to do is get the house organized so that they can on the sixth Certify the election and put Donald Trump in office, and the Senate can then turn around and start confirming. His nominees so that his administration can hit the ground running. This is a time to focus on keeping America safe.

Right. I want you to hear I agree with you, obviously, but Mike Johnson, it doesn't matter. You only have one or two votes.

So you have people that are moderate, very conservative. You have no Democrat will bail him out this time. Here's what Congressman Andy Bakes said, cut eighteen. I have not publicly or privately committed. I've had conversations with the Speaker this week, and we'll have more before we get to January 3rd, which just means we're in a compressed time frame.

But I President Trump has indicated that he supports him, but there are some issues that have to be worked out with the Speaker. And Tom Massey just said flat out, No, I'm not voting for him. Trump wanted like Paul Ryan. And how did that work out? and kind of took a shot at the future president and former president with those words.

And I guess you gotta watch to see how it plays out because Speaker Johnson's at Mar-a-Lago right now coming up with a legislative uh game plan as if he's gonna get the speakership. But do you think people fully understand that you can't confirm the President's win on january sixth if they can't get a speaker on january third?

Well, if people don't understand that yet, they certainly are going to before we get into these votes tomorrow. Did you play a role in that right? Do you think you're going to pick up the phone? If I am needed to pick up the phone, I will certainly be needed and respond and will make those calls. The key is right now.

that Donald Trump ran on a singular agenda, right? It was make America great again by securing our southern border, rebuilding our economy and keeping our communities safe. And so right now, the entire Republican universe agrees with that agenda, and we need to move forward with it. I hear you. The other thing that I find fascinating is what's happening, there's 18 days to go into the inauguration.

But in the meantime, you have all these differing views. With who are on the president's team, whether it's Elon Musk or Steve Bannon, who has been an early supporter of the president.

So they've been fighting out in public about this H1 visa program, which allows, let's say, our first-round draft picks, in theory, one of which, to stay in-country for a while. Hey, you're a top student engineer from Bangladesh. You went to Stanford. You want to stay. Let them stay.

Let them work in Tesla. Let them work at Meta. Let them work for Twitter, whatever. And you have Elon Musk saying this has got to happen. And Steve Bannon saying, absolutely not.

And then they're getting very personal. If you're President Trump, how do you view that? If you're Mike Watley running the RNC and they're all on the Trump side, how do you deal with it?

Well, the president has made it very clear that he is a proponent of legal immigration, and he wants to see the best and the brightest from around the world coming into the United States and adding value here. And he is absolutely dead set against illegal immigration and wants to do everything we can to stop that. Those are not mutually exclusive at all. And I think that as he puts his administration together with Tom Homan as our borders are, with Christy Noam as our Secretary for Homeland Security, you can bet that that team is going to be able to work through these nuances and be able to put together a program that is going to serve the rest of the country.

So here's what President Trump said.

Some people think that he was with Bannon and switched Cut 24. I didn't change my mind. I've always felt we have to have the most competent people in our country. We need competent people. We need smart people coming into our country.

And we need a lot of people coming in. We're going to have jobs like. we've never had before. And you know, people like Ayn Coulter and Steve Bannon, they don't feel that way. Is there a way to handle this going forward?

When you put together an RFK and an Elon Musk who felt more comfortable on the left until recently than on the right, Is there something to learn from this holiday fracas?

Well, look, I mean, the president made it very clear throughout the course of this election at numerous different events when he talked about supporting legal immigration and bringing in the best and the brightest in the world. But at the end of the day, the buck stops with the president, and he is going to be the one who is going to make these decisions. Everybody around him can make suggestions, they can make recommendations, and they can be persuasive, but it is up to him to make the call. And the fact that people have differing opinions is totally fine, right? We want a common sense agenda.

There's never been a coalition, a common sense coalition, like we have seen the president put together, where you have Elon Musk, you have RFK Jr., you have Tulsi Gabbard coming in from the Democratic side of the aisle, and you've got moderate Republicans, and you've got conservative Republicans. Everybody right now is unified in wanting America to succeed. and wanting to make sure that we're going to get this agenda done and then we're going to make America great again.

So Joe Biden was speaking through Sarrogate saying that he regrets bowing out of the race in July and says he knows he could have beat Trump. You had the polls. You knew what it was like before he was in, while he was in, and after. What do you think about what Joe Biden said about his chances and his decision?

Well, I think the Democrats were saddled with two very poor messengers, but more importantly, they were saddled with a bad message. That as long as they were going to be an open borders policy, as long as they were going to be for inflationary spending, as long as they were going to weaken America on the national stage, it didn't matter who you ran because Donald Trump made it very clear what he was doing, and the American people backed his agenda, and they absolutely rejected what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were putting on the table.

So I don't think that we would have had a different result with Joe Biden or Kamala Harris either way, because what they were pushing was an agenda that the American people rejected.

So you are you surprised that he's still saying things like that after that debate that he had? How is he has trouble getting through his speech? I mean, it's it's unbelievable. Does he do you think he really believes that? I really couldn't tell you.

They don't let me into that locker room, Brian. But what I will say is that if he's going to challenge President Trump to a round of golf and say that he has a six handicap, I'm not real surprised that he thinks he could have won this election.

So I was talking to somebody of the Trump team. And they said, don't be fooled that Greenland and Panama are just wild statements without a method behind the statement, that there is an approach, and there's a reason why Panama, the President said, I'm taking it back if you don't drop the fees and kick out China. And the reason why there is a reason why I'm going for Greenland. Do you should the American people know that the President's already staking his claim, he understands the danger in the Arctic and he also understands the dangers of China in our hemisphere? Yes, I think you put it absolutely correctly.

And the President in any of these discussions and negotiations is going to be focused on moving the players around the board to ensure that America is going to protect our interests. And that we are going to be treated fairly. And that's the biggest thing. When we talk about the discussions with Mexico and with Canada, when we talk about the discussions with Panama, America is going to be treated fairly under Donald Trump. And if not, then I think that these countries are going to understand that the President is very serious about using the very significant leverage that we have to make sure that he's going to fight every day for the American interest.

Michael Watley, our guest. Michael, do you know? I'm sure I don't have to tell you this. But for the first time since 1928, there are more Republicans in our country, more American citizens identify as Republican than Democrat. how do you make the most of that as we get set to get ready for the second Trump term?

I mean, your goal is to continue to grow it. You can't rest on your laurels and give reflective speeches in Harvard.

So how do you make the most of that?

Well, what we need to do is make sure that the Trump voters become Republican voters. And in order for that to happen, every Republican candidate needs to take the same approach that Donald Trump did, is pick an America first agenda, And then articulate it and go fight for it every single day. And make sure that you're listening to your voters and the concerns that they care about. And then put solutions on the table. It is a pretty simple formula, but it's very hard in the practicalities.

You know, Donald Trump nine years ago came down that escalator in New York and said, I'm going to make America great again by securing our southern border, rebuilding our economy, and keeping our communities safe. That's the simple agenda that he ran on in 2016. It's what he did when he was president in his first term. It's what he ran on here in 2024, and that's what he's going to do going forward. And any candidate that is going to be successful has to understand their electorate and talk to them about the issues that they care about.

Lastly, when are we going to find out who's going to fill in for Rubio and J.D. Vance in the Senate in Ohio and Florida, respectively?

Well, I mean, the vacancies will come into effect in the very short term. Obviously, we will have a vacancy in Ohio that's created on january twentieth, and that will be up to Governor DeWine. I know he's going through his process right now of evaluating a number of different candidates, and we'll see who he is going to appoint for it. And then in Florida, once Marco Rubio becomes confirmed, then that's going to trigger the process down in Florida. Do you think he might name himself in Florida?

I would be surprised if he did, but we'll wait and see. He has got a group that he has put together that is going through and evaluating a number of different candidates and is going to make recommendations. And I have no doubt that he's going to take that extremely seriously as a process. All right. Michael Watley, thanks so much.

Also, the President's going to have a rally the day before the inauguration on the 19th. What's behind that? What could you tell us?

Well, we're very excited. I think that really, truly, the rallies were a very significant part of his campaigns. And the fact that he is not going to be on the campaign trail as a candidate again, I think it's very appropriate for him to have kind of one last candidate or one last rally, excuse me, before he gets sworn in as the president. The people that I've talked to all across the country that are coming in for the inaugural are very, very excited about getting to see him in that. And I think for us here in Washington, D.C., to be able to get that rally, which obviously didn't happen during the campaign season, will be a lot of fun.

All right, Michael Wiley, thanks so much. Talk to you soon. Yes, sir. Take care, Brian. You got it, 1866-408-7669.

Brian Kilmeat Show, coming to you on Thursday. We're not forgetting about the two terror attacks: one in Las Vegas, a huge one in New Orleans, and what other dangers could be around the bend. As it looks like ISIS-inspired attacks, at the very least, in New Orleans, is certainly capturing everybody's attention. Globally, there was an attack in New Zealand. Globally, there was an attack in Germany a couple of weeks ago.

Are they related? We'll talk about it in the Brian Kilmeat Show. Coming to you on a need-to-know basis, because man, do you need to know? It's Brian Kilmead. A radio show like no other.

It's Brian Kilmead. The FBI, for a very long time, has been trying to play catch-up given the open board of policies. Ray has appeared many times before Congress. He has sounded the alarm. He has told us it is not if, it's just a matter of when.

I think the FBI may have lost track. Of certain individuals or cells, and this may be, unfortunately, one of them. Right. And I don't know if it's a sale or not, but they say it could be two or three other people. Originally, there were reports.

There were reports that the terror attack on New Orleans. First, it wasn't a terror attack, which is a ridiculous statement to make. The guy got out of his car, started shooting. He had a. ISIS flag on his pickup truck.

He went out of his way to not have something that's traceable, but he went with turbo. And then, of course, they quickly found out who it was after they killed him. They found out he converted a couple of years ago, went to Egypt for 10 days, probably found some like-minded terrorists there. Not everybody in Egypt's a terrorist, but there's certainly a big faction. What we have to do is tell the government about it.

They're constantly vigilant on it.

So he comes back. He wants to kill his family. He was born a Christian in Beaumont, Texas. He served in the Army for over 10 years. He was allowed to leave honorably at the end.

He signed up for the reserves afterwards. Unable to get his career together, he thought, I have a great idea. Let's become a jihadist.

So then we find out he made this conversion, and then we find out that there are other people they believe that were planning IEDs around the area, and they did show about nine in what seemed to be a cooler, and these are IEDs with nails coming out of them. Think about how worse this can be. I'll factor in too that an Airbnb was on fire. They said it's not just a random fire. It might have been the Airbnb.

He stayed out. I also get the sense he had to be in the area because he had to figure out how he was going to perpetrate this terrorist attack. You can't just wing it, I don't think. He got to get online, pick the right time, the most crowded, the best event, iconic celebration, iconic city. He was able to pull it off the exploding.

a cyber truck in front of Trump Tower, thanks to Elon Musk helping out, finding out who this guy was by how he recharged his vehicle. The Tesla powering station is able to do that. We're able to find out what's going on there, and then we'll see if it ends there. There was also a huge cachet of homemade explosives found in Roanoke, Virginia. And somebody was concerned about it, brought a video camera in to photograph what their friend was up to.

And we have great affiliates over in Virginia. It's got to be concerning.

Now, is it related or it's just anti-Americanism finding a way to do the maximum amount of damage? The driver is the only one who died. The driver was the only one who died over in Las Vegas. In New Orleans, 15 at least have lost their lives, and two cops were shot. They're supposed to be okay.

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So glad you're here. Wish we had better news to report, although there's still a lot of excitement out there. This hour is going to be important. We've got two great guests lined up, Mark Deason standing by, and Commissioner Ray Kelly, maybe America's finest commissioner. Certainly in terms of terror and preparing to stop it and getting ahead of it, I don't know anybody that's better.

New York is fantastic because of the systems that he set up. No question about it. And he's going to be joining us shortly. As soon as I text him, he said, absolutely, just let me know what time.

So he's going to be there. We'll have both of them. We'll take your calls too.

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 think a lot of it is really just common sense. That's why you're seeing so many people from a variety of different political perspectives uniting here is they got kind of sick of how so much of what was being foisted upon the country just lacked any sense at all. And that is true, Molly Hemingway.

Optimism. Despite attacks, Americans feeling good about the Trump team coming in, starting to lead our nation in the right direction. 18 days from inauguration, while Joe Biden actually says he wish he did not drop out and would have beaten Trump. Number two. Removing Mike Johnson would equally be as stupid.

The fact is that these folks are playing with fire. And if they think they're somehow going to get a more conservative speaker, they're kidding themselves. Right, Mike Lawler. Speaker, 20 speaker vote, 24 hours away. And despite Trump's endorsement of Johnson, his re-election is still not a certainty.

And Dems will not bail him out. This time we look at the stakes. Number The FBI continues to investigate this morning after raiding the suspect's home in Houston last night. Louisiana Senator John Kennedy promising to get the American people the truth. That would be nice, wouldn't it, Sandra Smith?

New Year's Evil. 15 dead in New Orleans as American-born ISIS worshiping Army vet uses a pickup truck that he got from Turbo to plow through Bourbon Street before opening fire on cops, and he eventually would lose his life, not before wounding both.

Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, perhaps unrelated, perhaps not, a cybertruck blows up from Trump Tower, right in front of Trump Tower in Las Vegas. Obviously, the symbolism of Musk and Trump. The question is, we know that's linked. But do we know if both attacks are linked? Same day.

Both veterans of the army, both Both served in the same unit. We don't know if they knew each other. Samshud Din Jabbar is this guy's name. And we know that he converted to Islam. And became radicalized according to his brother when he visited Egypt.

Have we heard this song before?

Now, maybe we did not get a heads up. Maybe we did from the Egyptian government, who we are very tight with and we give a lot of money to in order to stay ahead of things. Maybe we've taken our eye off the ball entirely when it comes to Islamic terror because we're out of Afghanistan and we have a smaller presence in Syria and a small presence in Iraq. We've kind of given up on that business and kept our fingers crossed and just hope for the best. I also don't think that's a very good strategy, do you?

So these are things we're going to find out shortly. And the one thing I appreciate about Senator Cassidy, he knows there's a trust issue. He knows that in the past we have not heard everything, even when we've subpoenaed the records to find out things. We also found out. Later through other sources, and by that time, the people that were hiding this information are no longer serving.

Here's Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana yesterday, last night, cut through. People say, oh my gosh, the Super Bowl is going to be in New Orleans. I tell them, it doesn't matter what city the Super Bowl is in. You got a lot of soft targets, and it's going to be relatively easy for someone who's motivated and creative to hit those. New York, of course, after 9-11, they're so aware of it.

But other cities, perhaps not so much. And so you just assume you block the street and people won't drive on the sidewalk. Turns out wrong assumption. That's what the guy did. That's how the guy killed 15 people.

But you nailed it. It's every city that has that should have that concern now. Right. I mean, you have Waukesha a couple of years ago during a Christmas parade. You got big cities like New York.

There always seemed to be a territorium. You then you have legendary cities, maybe the old one of the oldest ones in the country, St. Augustine, New Orleans. Date backs prior to our union, date back to the French, goes back to the British. Everybody's been part of New Orleans history.

And now you have that historic city being targeted. I actually don't think it's a big stretch to think that somebody would look to plow you over because we know cars are a very raw way to commit terror and hurt a lot of people quickly. You don't need a lot of training for it. And it's hard for me to believe that they did not plan that maybe somebody would drive on the sidewalk. If you walk down 7th Avenue, which I do on a daily basis in New York City, now if you get anywhere near Times Square, you have these huge poles sitting there.

I imagine it could potentially screw out just like they can in front of the White House. They don't often, or some come out of the ground. But you could take them out if you had to. But for the most part, you're totally protected against a vehicle slamming into you on the sidewalk if you just stand behind them. Maybe a motorcycle could get through.

You've got to be a pretty good driver to do it. But for the most part, you're protected. I just don't believe I can't believe in New Orleans you could actually do that. I mean, there's so many people. It's amazing they even allow cars to drive down there on New Year's Eve, Mardi Gras.

Super Bowl. For the most part, my memory is that you can't even watch. I've been probably covered around four Super Bowls there. My memory is that you can't do it. But if you see the video, you see this guy drive right past the cop car, make a rapid right, a sharp right, and just start killing people.

And you see the video out there, it's as bad as you can imagine.

So, let me fast-forward and talk a little bit about what happened in Las Vegas. It looks like a cyber truck pulled in, and with a matter of minutes of pulling in, first it went through, it turned down the valet parking, and then it pulled out again. Then it went back in, and without a minute, it exploded. They said firecrackers, fireworks, yeah, but there were actually gas bombs in the back, and that allowed this thing to ignite. But the thing that's good news is the cyber truck is such a super protective vehicle, it did a limited amount of damage in only killing the driver and wounded three, and not none of them seriously.

Got to give credit to Elon Musk again. When there's a problem, this guy is either trying to come up with something cutting-edge. And when it comes to a cyber truck, he doesn't dock, he doesn't send his communication people out. He called the cops, said, How could I help? They said, We need to find out where this truck came from.

He goes, Find. I'll just check in with all my charging stations. And he did. And then he found out this was from Turbo, which means you can exchange somebody's car and instead of going to Hertz or Avis or Budget or whatever renter car you use, Enterprise, you actually go out. And you borrow somebody else's car.

It's almost like Airbnb.

So he used Turbo and did it. They were able to figure out it was done in Colorado, where he recharged and where he came through. And the guy's name is Liver Spurge, Matthew Liversburg, 37 years old. The car exploded outside the Trump Hotel in Vegas. Fox confirms the authorities are investigating as a potential act of terror.

To me, how could it not be? I mean, my goodness, look at the symbolism there. Mark Thiessen joins us now. He knows as much about terror as anyone in this country, wrote a book about it, and a key speechwriter during the George W. Bush days when terror was the dominant theme in our country, and perhaps we've dropped our guard.

Mark, what a horrific series of events. Yeah, no, it's absolutely horrible. And, you know, we don't know. There's so much we don't know still. I remember the early days after 9-11 when Americans were looking around.

I was in the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and everyone was asking who did this to us? How many more attacks were being planned? Like, we were worried that there were other plotters out there. If they had done this in New York and in Washington and tried to do it, and thank goodness for those people over in the skies over Pennsylvania, who brought down the other plane that was headed probably for our capital. We were immediately worried about what the next wave of attacks was going to be.

And there were another wave of attacks planned, just not they were they hadn't been deployed yet. But so this is this is you know, this is PTSD for a lot of us who went through the experience in 9/11.

So you have this guy, both of whom serve in the army. One guy seemed to have converted over in Egypt. And if you just look at some of these numbers, so you have the people that are here. Radicalized by people on the outside, you would think, even though this guy was born in Beaumont, Texas, and has had a stint in Afghanistan, the one I'm talking about in New Orleans. Terror watch list: there were 79 who came through our border already from October till 2025, first week, first couple of days.

In 2024, 516, in 2023, 736, in 2022, 478, and when Biden first takes office, 173. These are all potential time bombs. A thousand percent. And also, the other thing that was uncovered was in that catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, they didn't properly vet the people coming in from Afghanistan. They found dozens of people who they weren't put through the DOD database of where they had the biometrics on them.

And they, after the fact, discovered that I think it was at least 50 people had had fingerprints on IEDs. Their fingerprints were found on IEDs and they had been led into the country, and we couldn't find a lot of them. I mean, this administration's, you know, having their control of our borders, their vetting process for people coming into this country has been an absolute disaster. And it was only a matter of time before something happened, and still could be only a matter of time before something worse happens. I mean, there were times if you found out that somebody in our military was thrown over to Egypt for 10 days, if there were people in his family that were concerned, there'd be pathways for them to alert people, keep you.

Eye on this guy. Evidently, his brother says he was born a Christian. He converted. And one of the things that he wrote about is, I want to kill my whole family. He puts that on Facebook the day before he goes to New Orleans.

So you knew he just can't teach responsibility. But if that's my family member, I'm calling everybody I know. Yeah, you know, in all of these cases, in hindsight, there's always signs. There's always somebody who knew or somebody who was worried and who didn't say anything. And it's unfortunately, these things always emerge after the fact, which is why we need to everybody needs to be on the alert.

If you see a family member or somebody or a friend or someone, your work associate behaving erratically or doing this kind of stuff or getting involved in these radical ideologies, you got to say something. Kevin McCray. I was afraid to because of wokeness, but you got to say something. Kevin McMill, the Las Vegas sheriff, asked about the connection between is there something with New Orleans and Las Vegas? I mean, we've got the symbolism: Tesla's cyber truck blowing up in front of Trump Tower.

I get it. These guys both served in the same unit, and they're both military guys, and it both happens on a symbolic day, and the symbolism is pretty clear. Cut 12. Do I think it's a coincidence? I don't know, but what I can tell you is we're absolutely investigating any connectivity to what happened in New Orleans, as well as other attacks that have been occurring around the world.

We're not ruling anything out yet. We don't have any indication of that here in Las Vegas, no overt ISIS flag as was seen in New Orleans. But again, we are investigating every aspect of this. And they both use turbo to rent the truck, and the explosions happen on the same day.

So let's let these guys put it together. Right. Yeah. Besides that, I don't really see any couple. But I got to give Musk credit.

He right away got directly in touch with the authorities and helped them track down. And the Cybertruck is so well fortified. Only the only person who died was the driver.

Now the question is, was that driver, did he not know it was in the back? You know, did did he really want to kill himself that way in front of the Trump Tower?

So we got to find out more about that. But I do want to talk about something a little bit less important, and that is a Friday speaker vote. Obviously, the only thing you can do if you are the most conservative and the most moderate Republican Is vote for Speaker Johnson. Nobody else has got close to the amount of votes. You're not going to be able to confirm the election on january sixth.

The votes tomorrow by noon. But what do you think will happen, Mark? I think Johnson has to be has to be s elected or we're going down the last speaker fight was twenty two days. We don't have twenty two days for this nonsense. And Tom Massey says one of his charges against Johnson is that he reached across the aisle and worked with Democrats to pass spending bills.

What is he doing? He's collaborating with Hakeem Jeffries to stop Johnson from being elected. It's going to be him and Democrats. voting against it.

So if you're if your complaint is that that Johnson was working with Democrats, then why are you working with Democrats to stop him to stop Donald Trump's choice for Speaker? And look, Trump has a very, very right now, Trump has momentum. His popularity is the highest it's been in seven years. He's got a majority of people who support his transition. He's going into the inauguration day with a head of steam behind him.

He's got to have the best 100 days of any president in modern history. He's got to pass eliminating taxes on tips and on overtime, which he promised, which brought millions of people into the Republican Party. He's got to secure the border. He's got to hire border agents. He's got to carry out a mass deportation.

He's got to make people's lives better in the first hundred days. We don't have time for a circular firing squad. And if the Republican Party can't get it to act together and elect a speaker to pass Donald Trump's agenda, then they're going to lose the House in four years' time and hobble the Trump presidency, in two years' time, rather.

So we got to get this. We don't have time for Circular firing squads. I'm sorry. And I just think that if you're Chip Roy, I respect you, but you got to get into leadership and you got to understand what it's like in negotiations. And Speaker Johnson, just say, hey, do me a favor, Tom Massey, just come sit with me.

Sit with me.

Well, listen to this. Do you understand that I'm not calling all the cards? I could only lose two votes. Do you know that what it's what is actually possible as opposed to what's I my the ideal situation I want to be in as opposed to the one I'm actually in? I mean, you can't you you bring in Massey, you lose twenty five people.

You know, you do what Chip Roy wants, you don't get any deal at all.

So I I just think that they did learn something that Susan Wiles is trying to rein in the ver the very strong personalities, the Musks, the Viveks, the Bannons, telling people, I don't want you tweeting out. Remember who's president. This is an important time. them to feel their way through. I think they blew up that deal because they didn't communicate.

Yeah. And also, Brian, I mean, one of Massey's complaints is that he passed Ukraine aid. Donald Trump supported the Ukraine aid. Bill. If we hadn't passed that, do you remember what a disaster he would have been inheriting in Ukraine right now?

And Trump just said the other day that he's going to continue giving aid to Ukraine because he needs to, because that's the only way he can negotiate and have leverage with Putin.

So your complaint against Johnson is that he did what Trump wanted him to do. Johnson went before that vote, Johnson went to Mar-a-Lago and met with Trump. And Trump said, go for it.

So, your complaint isn't with Speaker Johnson. Your complaint is with Donald Trump, if that's the reason why you're voting against him. All right, Mark. Thanks so much. We can go in another hour and still not cover everything, but there's a lot going on.

It's going to be an exciting time, and I hope to see you in Washington in a couple of weeks. I'm looking forward to it. All right, go get him, Mark Keese. And we come back to your calls. Bottom of the hour, Ray Kelly.

You want to get to the bottom of the terrorist attack? That's the commissioner to talk to. Both sides, all opinions, it's Brian Killmead. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmead.

So, welcome back, everyone. Went a little long with Mark. We had trouble tracking him down, but then we got him on. There's so much to talk about.

So, I apologize for the short segment. We come back, though, Ray Kelly inside these terror attacks. But overall, I've never in my life Ever seen, including George Bush's second victory over John Kerry, which was pretty substantial and definitive. I never remember a time where more people are excited about someone becoming president than Donald Trump. And I think part of the reason that people are excited is because all the DEI, America sucks attitude, the Obama brought the apology tour, the politically correctness, the cancel culture, along with Trump coming in, all that goes out.

People are fed up with it. And there's so many people who are blurring the lines from Tulsi Gabbard to RFK Jr. to Elon Musk to David Sachs, who's head of AI and cryptocurrency. Normal people from Bill Gates coming down to Jeff Bezos, they don't necessarily have to be allies, but the fact that they're not enemies, the fact that they're not waiting Trump out or supporting people that want to impeach him. Is giving people a sense of optimism for the country that, hey, we're going to get behind some of this stuff.

He's not really proposing. Radical thinks.

So maybe we can support it. We come back. I'm going to talk about the terrorists. What went wrong? What we can change.

And should they play the Sugar Bowl today? Brian Kilmicho, first one of 2025. Glad you're here. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead.

Do I think it's a coincidence? I don't know, but what I can tell you is we're absolutely investigating any connectivity to what happened in New Orleans, as well as other attacks that have been occurring around the world. We're not ruling anything out yet. We don't have any indication of that here in Las Vegas. No overt ISIS flag as was seen in...

In New Orleans, but again, we are investigating every aspect of this. Says the sheriff over in Las Vegas after the explosion of the cybertruck in front of the Trump Tower. And they're saying, is this related at all to the explosion to the. Pickup truck driver that decided to drive up the sidewalk and kill as many people as possible until he was ultimately gunned down by two courageous cops in New Orleans, not before killing at least fifteen. A guy that studies this had more success than just about anyone maybe in the country joins us now, two-time New York Police Commissioner, Ray Kelly.

Commissioner, I thought about you right away when I saw these two terror attacks. These are one of the things that you worried about on a regular basis when you were running New York, right? Absolutely. We have to worry about this all the time. They're at war with us all the time, whether we know it or not.

They want to attack us, they want to kill us, they want to kill infidels.

So they never went away, you know, in uh in his term uh President Trump. did an excellent job of really reducing ISIS in a in a very significant way, certainly as far as the territory that they had. But they were still very much around as an idea, as a concept, and they are to this day. You spoke this individual yesterday with an ISIS flag at his in his car. We need more in investigation, of course, but it looks to me that that was a message from him anyway, that ISIS is still alive and doing what they've always done.

His name is Shamsud Din Jabbar. He's the one who did the New Orleans pickup truck, former U.S. Army vet, rammed his truck into the crowd. No record. He had small theft in 2002.

He is online now, marketing himself as a real estate agent. The FBI is carrying out searches right now in his Houston apartment. There was a perhaps related explosion at the Airbnb that many people think he was renting. He had IEDs in the car, at least nine. They think other people were involved.

I know they can't tell us everything, Commissioner, but from when you see the Las Vegas addresses and when you see the sheriff speak and you see the superintendent speak in New Orleans. Do you get the sense that they know where they're going with this? Or do you get the sense that you looked at two people that are confused about what's next? Oh yeah. I think they know their their approach, their their uh attack.

We always want things solved in twenty minutes. It takes time. You've got to get investigators on the ground. You've got to look at intelligence that they have already. This individual may very well have been in their file someplace.

So that's going to going to take time. But uh yeah, I I mean I I I think the fact that he's dead and he's going to leave a trail will a lead us to some people if in fact he had help.

Now, many of these people are just lone wolves. They do it on their own. Could he have been a lone wolf? Sure. It's interesting that he was living in a trailer park with uh a lot of uh migrants apparently from the the Middle East, there's a mosque, there's uh supuck away.

So, you know, ISIS is very good at inspiring people, of getting them to do things that perhaps they didn't want to do initially, but they've been convinced to do it. It's for the good of good of Islam. And we see that out of consistent bas we used to be able to get into those chat rooms and and and see what's being discussed. Uh what's happened in in the recent past is that a lot of these chat rooms are one on one. In other words, the one person talking to one person.

So it's difficult to uh to to penetrate them. But uh you know, the federal government is doing this this sort of work, and YPD is doing this sort of work, and the the fight is going to continue for For a long time, unfortunately. Commissioner Kelly, I want you to hear Anne Kirkpatrick, superintendent of New Orleans Police Department. Listen to what she says at the end of the statement, cut two. This particular terrorist.

drove around onto the sidewalk. And got around the hard target, where we did have a car there, we had barriers there, we had officers there, and they still got around.

Now The wedges? That you see out there as well. We knew that that had malfunction problems. And I want you to understand: let's say we put the wedge up. And it got stuck.

There is no Way that ambulance could get in or out, people couldn't get in and out.

So we knew that these were malfunction.

So we did indeed have a plan, but the terrorist defeated it.

So the wedges are supposed to block the vehicles. They couldn't get them to go up and down.

So they left them down. And they went around and went at the sidewalk. Have you seen the video? If you haven't, fine. But what do you think about her explanation?

Well you know, hindsight is twenty twenty. They saw it as a traffic. Issue as opposed to a security issue, you know, Brian, you're here in New York. These are the huge trucks that that are used to block off the street entirely. from building line to building line, sanitation for fitness.

We learned the hard way here in nine in nine eleven. And Other cities have to learn their lessons as well. Or take a look at New York. Almost 3,000 people were killed there. Uh you you gotta look at some of the the lessons learned in other places.

It's un unfortunate, but uh That that should not have been the case. It should not have been an open space. Sidewalk where obviously you can drive a a car down, and that's exactly what he did. Commissioner, I appreciate her honesty, but I was flabbergasted. They defeated it, obviously.

But they didn't defeat it with some intricate You know, intricate plan that we could never think of. Never thought that a truck would drive down a sidewalk. We know it just happened in Germany.

Something similar happened in New Zealand. I mean, we see this sadly, we see this a lot. And you know what you guys did in New York City? You put up, I don't know what you want to call them, these poles that I guess could screw out. But in Times Square, you can't drive a truck through these if you wanted to.

So you're protected on the sidewalk. Right. Exactly. And these are the fact that things that in twenty twenty five and beyond, we have to do. If they cannot Think that somehow terrorism is not a constant problem.

It is a constant balance. for alarm force but they have to think like that. This twenty four seven Uh is good. And uh you know, this is this is a very unfortunate uh lesson that learned by uh you know, by the City calls it in New Orleans.

So, Commissioner, tell me if I'm dreaming or if this is just cause too cost prohibitive. But if you could get a team together like you guys, with all the experience, whether it's in the major cities like Chicago, New York, they usually have people that have their terrorists, not like New York, but you can go in there and look around some of these major iconic thoroughfares and provide a template for things that must be done. I know that they could hit small towns, but for the most part, it's the bigger cities that have symbolic value. And some of them don't have the knowledge. Why we wait why are we waiting for fifty states to have the knowledge that New York has?

And maybe some Washington has? Can you put together a task force to travel around and provide And have some teeth to it and provide some demands and possibly some financing to beef up the security on these cities. All it takes is the money. And that's the biggest challenge of all. You know, Brian, a lot of these police departments are short of police officers.

There's no question about it. After the George Floyd death, Tops left in great numbers and it continues to lead. And I suspect. And that's part of the problem in New Orleans. We simply don't have enough cops.

Obviously, you know that the the Sugar Bowl was going to be later that evening.

So are they are they preserving cops for that? Were they not working on the midnight tour and working on the game event? We don't know that, but there is a real issue across the country. with the hemorrhaging of police officers from the department. And you know, it's it's a real cost to municipalities training the police officers, costed a lot of money and then, you know, five years, ten years down the road, they they walk out and they take all that expertise with them.

it's it's an ongoing issue and I hope the next administration the company can take take a look at this and see what they can do to help it.

So you tell me if I'm wrong here, if I'm violating the Constitution, but in a time in which there were two terrorist attacks in 24 hours, we in New York City allowed anti-Israeli protesters in downtown New York to be chanting and calling for an infitada revolution, anti-Israeli protest, calling for the European Bitches to leave this country. And I'm thinking to myself. I know how I feel. I couldn't be why is there a reason for you guys in New York to break that up? Yeah, and it makes our country so great and so different than.

other places in in the world. Uh yes it's it just It's very annoying. It drives you crazy. It's uh But is something that is that Really? Thank you for breaking up a little, Commissioner.

Just do you want to just say that one more time? Can't do anything about these like you know, this hateful rhetoric. And of course if it leads to action or writing, then we should take that. We've all seen the pictures where people are going up into cops face screaming at them. Thanks.

And we see it, and we're seeing it at a crazy level right now. I could not believe this stat in New York City. About how many cops have been injured by violent suspects. In 2024, four thousand six hundred. In twenty twenty three, four thousand seventy seven.

In twenty twenty two, three thousand four hundred and ninety.

So cops are going on the street, they're putting themselves on the line, they're getting so little respect, they're actually fighting for their lives. That's insanity. Yeah, I think the commissioner dropped out.

So, listen to this. In 2020, I did not even know. Do you even know anybody in your life that took a swing in a cop? I mean, maybe you might have somebody who had so drunk and doesn't even remember doing it. Nobody I know.

But now you have. I get this. New York Police Department suffered 4,600 injuries at the hands of violent suspects in 2024, the most since 2016. The figure is thirteen percent higher than the previous year. And it's almost double what it was in twenty twenty.

So people when the cop says stop they attack Because a lot of them get out. They're not looking at mandatory time. They know they're going to get out again, especially these illegal immigrants.

So I would think that task force going around to some major cities with giving them some fundamental things that they have to do to protect us against some common terrorist methods and attacks could happen. I'd love to see it. All right, listen to Brian Kill Me Chill. I'm going to come back, and I promise, open up the phones 1866-408-7669. Don't move.

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On other note, too, I think that Donald Trump is going to have this huge event on the nineteenth. And security wise, they are having a nightmare. It's going to be at an arena in Washington, DC, on the nineteenth. The twentieth is inauguration. It's going to be a big crowd.

So they want to really take over Washington. But the fear is they're worried about Security. This guy, they tried to kill him twice, and everybody's on the same page and seeing the problems we had in the past.

So we're going to see where this goes. And I look forward to maybe having we're going to be live on the 18th with One Nation, which you're going to see live on Saturday night's going to be a brand new show for One Nation.

So we're going to be there for that. I also quick couple of things. Liz Cheney, this is such an in-your-face to President Trump and so unnecessary. If I would be Liz Cheney, I would ignore this. Joe Biden has announced that Liz Cheney received the Pres the Presidential Citizens Medal.

Why? Because She sacrificed everything and tried to get somebody she vehemently disagrees with elected, and it failed horribly. Danny, you're in Pearl River. Danny, you're on the BrainKill Me Show. Hey, Danny.

All right. Uh, Bob, you're on the Brian Killmeat show. I don't know if we're having problems with the phones, but I guess we are. Uh we'll see.

Okay. There was this moment on CNN's show where these two hosts get drunk all night. Annie Cohen, and And Anderson Cooper. I always thought you couldn't even have a sip of liquor on television. CNN.

uh the news that few are watching But people usually don't point it out on their channel. Here's this comedian on as a guest Making things really awkward. Let's listen. Going around the country because you see that Americans really are more reasonable than they would be portrayed. Absolutely.

They're pretty great. And I'm playing bigger and bigger venues now. I thought being a mom would mean that less people would want to come see me. I'm now playing, you know, like 3,000 seat theaters, which is about the viewership of CNN these days. Not this show, though.

All eyes are on this show. Wow, you're also. You know, Andy and I, Andy and I had a tour. We did like the 2024 election, fried our brains. The Democrats couldn't hold a primary because they were too busy holding a body upright.

Are we still rolling in my office? Go for it. It was amazing that the pro-choice party didn't give their voters one when it came to the presidential candidate. Kamal was forced on us so hard you'd think she was tatted by Pfizer or Moderna, whichever one's. Oh, God.

Andy just gave me a very scary look. That is Whitney Cummings that everybody heard of except me that had the courage without an audience just to go after CNN. By the way, I think it's funny. If you're CNN, you got to be able to laugh at yourself because I don't know who else is watching or everyone's laughing at home anyway. Whitney Cummings just had to pause.

Evidently, Anderson Cooper was giving her, just shooting her darts while she was talking. Andy Cohen didn't know what to say, but they were probably so drunk anyway. They also had a pretty good line where there's this black guy that's hosting the show over the weekend, and they asked him to do a shot. He says, Well, the last black guy who I do a shot on New Year's Eve got fired, so I'm not going to do it. And of course, he's referring to Don Lemon.

who seems to just blow himself up every day, an expletive fueled rant, I'm not sure if he was sober or not, against Donald Trump over the weekend and MAGA supporters, which make up about fifty six percent of the country. I'm not sure if that's the way to get you get a job. The last guy that tried to give him a job, Elon Musk, he tried to blow up to his face rather than say thank you.

So that's a little crazy. I think that for the Chris Cuomo's credit Seems to have learned that people that like Donald Trump. Are actually good good Americans, even if you disagree with them.

Some people aren't getting that. And I think they're going to have trouble for the next four years because it's going to be really hard to vote against Trump because you're going to go against the country. All right. Thanks so much for listening to Brian Kill Me Chill. Keep it here.

More to come. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian. In Kill Mead. Thanks so much for being here, everybody.

It's the Brian Kill Me Joe. Excited to be starting off in 2025. There's a lot of things going on, as you know. But then there were two terrorist attacks on New Year's Eve that are marring a lot in our country. There's also the gunning down in Queens, New York.

A bunch of people showed up, just started shooting people over at a club in Queens. People go, I don't think it's terror-related, no one got killed. I'm wanting to see where that one goes because he said the same thing about what's happening in Las Vegas. We've got Speaker Johnson is going to be with us in a matter of moments.

So, before we get to Speaker Johnson, let's outline the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. I think a lot of it is really just common sense. That's why you're seeing so many people from a variety of different political perspectives uniting here is they got kind of sick of how so much of what was being foisted upon the country just lacked any sense at all. That is Molly Hemingway.

Optimism. Despite attacks, Americans feel optimistic the Trump team can start leading the nation in the right direction as we now are just 18 days from inauguration. Joe Biden came out and said something interesting. He regrets dropping out and would have beaten Trump, really. Number two.

Removing Mike Johnson would equally be as stupid. The fact is that these folks are playing with fire, and if they think they're somehow going to get a more conservative speaker, uh they're kidding themselves. That is Mike Lawler going to bat for Speaker Johnson. The vote twenty four hours away. And despite Donald Trump's endorsement, Johnson's reelection is not a certainty.

We'll find out from the Speaker himself how he feels because the Dems say they will not step in. Number one. The FBI continues to investigate this morning after raiding the suspect's home in Houston last night. Louisiana Senator Don Kennedy promising to get the American people the truth. Yes, that would be nice, wouldn't it?

New Year's Evil, 15 dead in New Orleans as American-born ISIS worshiping Army vet uses a pickup truck to plow through Bourbon Street before opening fire on cops.

Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, perhaps unrelated, perhaps not. A cyber truck blows up in front of Trump Tower. Joining us now is Speaker Mike Johnson. Mr. Speaker, I know you have a big day.

Mar-a-Lago visits, then back for a big vote tomorrow. But I know Louisiana is first and foremost on your mind. This just crossed. The FBI now believes that this truck driver, this terrorist, acted alone. Should we go with that?

Hey, Brian, great to hear your voice, and that's a great question. We are a little shell-shocked in Louisiana. Our folks have been rattled. We're a very resilient people. We deal with natural disasters all the time, but this is not one that's very familiar.

You know, the French Quarter down there is the place where it's a pedestrian center of activity. There are lots of people on the streets all the time, and we have festivals continually and big events. We've got the Sugar Bowl tonight and the Super Bowl in February. We have to secure it. And there are more questions right now than answers, and we're pressing the federal officials to give us those answers.

We just had a classified briefing just moments ago before I joined you. There's not a even at the classified level, there's not much more than is being reported publicly. But they do believe, they say now, that the latest information in Intel is that this horrific actor acted alone. That is comforting, but we've got to get down to the bottom. Bottom of this.

Because this is what we heard yesterday: cut one from an FBI special agent. We do not believe that Jabbar was solely responsible. We are aggressively running down every lead, including those of his known associates. That's why we need the public's help. I can't have it both ways.

I can't want them to tell me what they're up to, at the same time be upset when they're wrong.

So I know that. But it is wondering what led them to b think that initially and what changed, because he had nine IEDs with him with nails in them, right? Right, right. And that was your gut reaction when you hear that is that this couldn't have been a unilateral act, right? But what we're learning, what we think as of this moment, is that this guy was radicalized with ISIS.

He had pledged fidelity to them and taken all these oaths basically to commit acts of terrorism, jihad, whatever, and that he was well trained. We're getting some specific information about that.

So I guess it is conceivable that he might have planned all this himself and done it that way. But look, there's a lot of questions. I would just say this. The authorities need to get to the bottom of what happened in New Orleans and Las Vegas, for that matter. And they need to work quickly and they need to be transparent.

So, Brian, we give a little grace if they're wrong in some initial assessment. But we've got to restore the public's confidence and a sense of safety and security, and we're pressing them to do that. I understand that. A couple of things, both in the military. It looks like the 37-year-old who died was active military.

That, according to Fox, just crossed. And then we find out he served in the same unit, maybe not at the same time, as this former, this Army veteran who left the service honorably, but reportedly unable to get his life on track. Too bad divorces, goes to Egypt, seems to have gotten radicalized, according to his brother, and has come back. And do you believe there's anything to lead you to believe that these are related activities? They both happened on New Year's Eve.

They both use turbo as a form of renting a car. They both use explosives. They had IEDs in their car. They both, as I mentioned, served in the military. When they were behind closed doors, did they lead you to believe they think?

The current assessment the nonclassified answer is the current assessment is that they don't they don't see any affiliation between the two right now.

Now that said, your gut, my gut, it tells us that gosh, there are a lot of similarities here, right? Maybe it's a coincidence. Maybe it's a total coincidence, but who knows? I'm not even certain. We're not even certain about the the the report that they served in the same military unit.

So again, just more questions than answers right now. But we're, what, thirty hours or so, thirty-six hours or so out from the first event in New Orleans.

So it does take some time to put all these pieces together, but we need to do it quickly for the obvious reasons.

So here's President Trump. Last night or the night before on whether you should be Speaker again, Cut 16. I think they'll support Speaker Jones. I think we're going to have a great time in Washington, and I think we're going to get great support. He's the one that can win right now.

People like him. Almost everybody likes him. Others are very good too, but they have 30 or 40 people that don't like him.

So that's pretty tough. So you got the President's support in writing. You put it out there in public and social media. He says it with loud background music. Will it deliver the speakership to you?

Yeah, look, I think so. I'll say a couple of things. Look, I'm very I'm humbled and honored to have President Trump's full support. I always have. I was at Mir-a-Lago with him last night, he and I and Vice President-elect J.D.

Vance, and we were talking about the aggressive agenda. We have got to deliver on the America First agenda for the people right out of the box, and we don't have time for drama and palace intrigue and nonsense here. And so we got a lot of important business ahead of us. I think the reason that I'll get this locked up tomorrow is that I'm a proven fighter. I'm a true MAGA conservative.

I'm a lifelong movement conservative. I mean, I'm in my early fifties, and I've been doing this half my life. Everybody knows that. But you also have to, in this moment, with razor-thin margins and what will likely be the smallest majority in the history of the United States Congress for a part of the next year. You also have to have somebody who's all those things, but can also work with every single member of our very diverse House GOP.

I mean, we've got to get all of President Trump's priorities over the line, and that is a very nuanced thing to do.

So I come at it with a fighter's heart and with the ability to work with all my colleagues. I think we're going to get this done tomorrow, and we have to, because we've got to move on with the Congress and get going.

So the Saurian Punchbowl today, Chip Roy has to speak to you first. He says that you had failed to deliver on several key issues for him, tight spending restrictions, holding firm in the SAFE Act, and stricter boarding restrictions. I mean, on the SAFE Act, you need the Senate, so I don't know what he's talking about. But you like Chip Roy, so he's convicted. But your thoughts about trying to win him over, you can't lose two, right?

Yes, no, right. I mean, Chip and I are good friends. We have the same philosophy. He's grumbling about the fact that we didn't get every one of our preferences in this Congress that just wound up. But as you know, Brian, there's a very Simple answer and reason for that is because we only controlled one-half of one-third of the federal government.

Remember, we had liberal progressive Democrats in charge of the White House and the Senate.

So, by very definition, one chamber is not going to get everything we want. And the thing here in this legislative body, the greatest one in the world, right, we never compromise core principles. But we have to sometimes compromise our personal preferences and legislation. No one here can get everything they want. And that's just reality.

So some people adapt to that reality better than others. But look, we have unified government going forward. Chip and I have had long conversations, even over the last couple of days about this. We will have Republican control of the White House, the Senate, and the House. And we are going to take full advantage of that, run the agenda.

The American people gave President Trump 77 million votes. They gave the House Republicans almost 75 million. That's a record for us. We have a mandate to get this done. And the only way to do it is if we all stay unified.

The media, of course, is trying to divide us and distract us, but we can't take the bait. We've got to stick together. And I think at the end of the day, everybody will. Have you talked to Andy Biggs? He says he wants to speak to you first.

Tim Burchett says he wants to speak to you first. Victoria Sports said that. Where are you at with them? Yeah, each of those those are all good friends. They're all coming in today.

We're going to talk about how our reality changes dramatically with the new paradigm of unified government. It's an important point. Sixty percent of the House Republicans who will serve in this new Congress have never served in unified government, meaning have never been involved when we had the White House, the Senate and the House. And so it's a totally different environment on Capitol Hill when you're Team is actually in charge, and you are in a lawmaking exercise every day instead of just messaging bills and that kind of thing.

So, acclimating everybody to that, showing them how the processes are different and will change is going to be critical going forward. And look, all those are good friends. They have great points. I agree with them.

So, those conversations are being had today. They're all coming in for a visit, and we'll get this thing locked up. Uh that's interesting.

So when you you have this one battle, beware the Senate side, if you become Speaker again tomorrow at noon, right? Right, right. Okay, if you become Speaker at noon, the Senate wants to do these two bills separately. You want to put them together on immigration and tax reform. Where do you stand on that?

Jason Smith wants them to do them together too, right? Yeah, look, there are good arguments on both sides. We're going to formulate that final decision here in the coming days. I will say this, like on the campaign trail over the last year, Brian, I traveled all around the country. I mean, nonstop.

Almost every day we were not in session. I was on the road campaigning to make sure we kept this House majority. At the end of the day, I raised over $330 million for House Republicans and their races, and did over 350 campaign events in forty states, log enough miles to circle the globe five and a half times.

So I was out there listening to the people and they want all these changes. We're going to use the budget reconciliation process, which allows us to avoid the sixty vote threshold in the Senate. We're not going to get Democrats to help us on these big agenda changes, so we have to do it on our own and use the budget reconciliation process to do that.

So the debate that you're referring to is whether we do it in two pieces or one large bill. And we're going to finalize that on the campaign trail. I talked about I used a football metaphor, which you and I like a lot. Look, we have a well-designed playbook.

Now we must decide in the next few days the sequencing of those plays and how we call them. And President Trump obviously is intimately involved in that. In that metaphor, he's the head coach. I'm just the quarterback.

So I have no intention of calling audibles. I want to do it in alignment with our head coach, and we're deciding all that in the coming days, and we're excited about it. But your vote is together, right? Look, there's merits to both sides. There really are.

I mean, I'm not trying to play politics here. I'm saying that, you know, I don't want to get too deep in the weeds on the radio show to show all of our cards, but there's risks that are involved. What you have to look at on this is probabilities of passage. We cannot fail in our mission. I mean, one of the things we have to make sure we do is the tax piece, right?

Because if we don't, the tax cuts from the Trump era, the first administration, expire at the end of this year. We will see the largest tax increase in U.S. history upon individuals and small businesses and corporate America. We can't do that.

So we have no margin for failure. And what we have to do is evaluate what is the best prospect of us checking all these boxes, fulfilling all these campaign promises, and delivering for the people. And that's the sort of the machinations and the decision-making that's going into that matrix. All right. So enjoy your meeting with the future president, and good luck in your vote tomorrow.

Speaker Michael Johnson, best of luck. Great talk, keeping brother. Thank you very much. And you would have my vote, but I don't vote. 1866-408-7669.

I hope for the good of the country he gets it because we don't need three weeks without a speaker. Don't move. Newsmakers and newsbreakers. Hear it first on the Brian Kill Meat Show. The fastest three hours in radio.

You're with Brian Kilmead. You're so f ⁇ ing stupid and you deserve it. And you fing deserve it because you're so dumb. Yes, I am gloating over your stupidity. You're you have been co-opted.

Because you're in a Cult. And you don't even realize it 'cause you have stupid MAGA brain. And you don't get it. How stupid and dumb are you? How drunk are you?

That is Don Lemon talking about the battle between. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and Steve Bannon on this and Coulter and H1N1. I have no H1B1 visas, which allow our first-round draft picks who are exceedingly well, let's say, are engineers, or they feel a need in our country to leave us and let us remain the best and most innovative country in the world. We want to find a way to keep them here. And if you go over some of the leading companies in our country on the stock market that Donald Trump has used himself, that Tesla uses on a regular basis, and X and Meta and all these PayPal.

This'll let the more you can let in that are screened properly. And you do this responsibly, we need to do this. And that's what Don Lemon was going off, talking about MAGA brains preventing this. No, it's called a lively debate, and there's no canceled culture to follow. What I do think is they have to understand, you have your opinion, let it come out, and culture, whatever.

But if you work for President Trump, And you're Mike Waltz, and he's never going to do that. But if you're Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, and if you want to get on the same page with Trump. Understand that you go ahead and let your opinion known, but when he makes a decision you do it. You don't try to undermine it. You don't try to leak it to the press that you're against it.

You don't try to say that you're giving up your agenda because of that.

So I just think that that's important to understand. The other thing that I think is important to understand is that Joe Biden actually thinks he should be president another four years. And I thought this CBS commentator over the weekend, I guess her last name is Crawford, she came out, Jan Crawford, and said what we all know. And almost admitted it. Listen to this: cut twenty-eight.

Undercovered, underreported. That would be, to me, Joe Biden's obvious cognitive decline that became undeniable in the televised debate. At the presidential debate with Douglas. Unquestioned. And it's starting to emerge now that his advisors kind of managed his limitations, which has been reported in the Wall Street Journal, for four years, and yet he insisted that he could still run for president.

We should have much more forcefully questioned whether he was fit for office for another four years, which could have led to a primary. for the Democrats. It could have changed the the scope of the entire election. Still, incredibly, we read in the Washington Post that his advisors are saying that he regrets that he dropped out of the race. You know, that he thinks he could have beaten Trump.

And I think that is either delusional or they're gaslighting. Yeah, I think they're gaslighting us. I think he thinks that because no one ever told him the truth. I think he thinks that because, as Nancy Pelosi said to him, you're losing in all the polls you're going to lose. You need to drop out, not in the polls I'm seeing.

He goes, Show him, put on your pollster. Let me talk to him. And now we find out that he said, you know, he's 82 years old. He actually thinks he's fine and should be president.

Meanwhile, since he lost... He's done nothing. He went from the beach to Camp David. One ridiculous series of remarks that were non-beneficial. Before we come back, more on the security situation.

Lieutenant Colonel, you've got to hear from Chuck DeVore. He's also going to touch on China a little bit. You listen to the Brian Kilmey Show.

So glad you're here. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmeid. The fire initially they covered it with the tarp to try to get it to go out. Once the fire went out through the suppression efforts of the fire department, you'll see some of the evidence in the back of the vehicle.

So those are gasoline canisters, they are camp fuel canisters, and large firework mortars.

So that is the sheriff talking about what he found in Las Vegas when the Cybertruck exploded right in front of the Trump Tower. We know this guy seems to be active military, special forces, who felt as though that would be an important thing for him to do. Same unit reportedly as the New Orleans attacker who converted to Islam after spending 10 days in Egypt, according to his brother. And we know too now that Fox is believing that his Airbnb that went on fire intentionally, neighbors said it was absolutely him. They said they watch him all the time.

They watch who's in the Airbnb all the time. They're concerned about their own security. And they said that was him.

Next thing you know, his place exploded. Was it a timed detonated device? We'll have to see. But we know this.

Now FBI is telling us we think the New Orleans attacker acted alone. We got to get some answers when it comes to the Cybertruck, which tracks back to Colorado. And they both use Turbo, which is one of these some that started in, I think, two thousand nine. Where I didn't know anything about it. If instead of going to the major rental car companies, you can go to somebody and use their car, their way to make money almost in the gig economy.

Uh they both used it. Is there a link? They're looking into it. Lieutenant Colonel Chuck DeVoor joins us now, retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, twenty-four-year Intel Officer, Chief National the Chief National Initiatives Officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and a former California State Assemblyman. Colonel, first off, as an Army guy, this has got to really disturb you.

Well, the Army is a very large organization. And of course, when you have all the years of combat that we've experienced in this war on terror, you have a lot of people out there with PTSD, oftentimes untreated. It's been only recently that it's been taken seriously.

So it's hard to tell, although I think recent developments with the special operator in Vegas Uh supposedly his spouse had some anti-Trump And so perhaps you are seeing a different rationale. Although certainly, Brian, it's a massive leap going from someone who's on the left and displeased with Trump to committing an act of performative terrorism that ends up being a suicide mission.

So I want you to hear the I want to see if you agree with this philosophy. This is Kyle Schindler, and they are for the Center for Security Policy. They think there's a problem in the big picture, cutting on. Unfortunately, the reality is that beginning with the Obama administration and moving to what they call countering violent extremism and away from traditional counterterrorism methods, we have inculcated federal law enforcement with education that tells them to focus on the mentally ill, people who are deep in chat rooms, instead of looking at terror networks, terror sponsors, looking at training and indoctrination networks. These are things we used to understand after 9-11.

We looked at how terrorists moved money. We looked at how they moved men abroad to train them in places like Yemen or Afghanistan. Are we still doing that? Or are we focused solely on this idea of extremists? of minimizing terrorism is something that's just done by a crazy person who spends too much time on his computer.

And I think we're we're paying the cost for that. Do you believe we moved away from the Islamic extremist be for to be politically correct, like he was saying?

Well, yes, I've known Kyle for many years. I think his analysis is correct. It's also important to understand that the FBI and other federal assets aren't that big, and they're not supposed to be that big. For example, the FBI has barely over ten thousand special agents. That's less than one-third of the sworn officers in the New York Police Department.

And so with such limited assets, we really have to focus on where the big threats have been. And I think that under both President Obama and under President Biden, you've seen this focus on white supremacy and white extremism. Which I think is predicated on a false notion. You saw that, Brian, just after the January 6th riot. where there was this false report that military veterans were overrepresented among those people who were arrested.

I debunked that shortly after that, pointing out that it was mostly men that had been arrested. And it's mostly men who are veterans. And if you account for the number of people in the reserve, if you account for the number of people who are children and thus not eligible to join, the number of people who are arrested who had military background, who are veterans, was actually slightly less than the average population.

So, if you recall back in 2021, that the new Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, did a military-wide standout. Predicated on the false notion that somehow white supremacists were rife throughout the military. And so when you have those notions combined then with limited assets in the FBI. you end up with a mistargeting of Of priorities. And absolutely, I think they've been missing potential problems.

And you'd think a four-star general would push back on that. Instead, he went along with it and found nothing. Uh in the end.

Well, and it's worse than that because it causes a problem with morale, it causes a problem with recruitment and retention. Essentially, you're in these struggle sessions, often led by a civilian, and you're said, look to the right, look to the left. One of you is probably an extremist. Oh, that's nice. Mm-hmm.

That's why you joined? Exactly. Yeah, exactly.

Well, look, I mean, the the military is a very integrated operation. And the way it works is if you can't play well with others, you're probably going to be asked to leave. You certainly aren't going to get promoted. You know, and it's not perfect. It's a it's a part of government, obviously.

But it's in the military's best interest and everyone else's best interest. That you focus on your mission and that you obey and are loyal to the chain of command, regardless. of where that chain of command came from or what race or ethnicity they are. Just real quick, over the weekend, easy to get buried in the blizzard of news, was the speech, the State of the Union, China style, where he said that it's inevitable that we will reunite with Taiwan. But that's a country that still has also infiltrated our Treasury Department, hacked into just about everything possible from credit card companies on down, but possibly the most egregious hacks have come over the last six months.

What do we do about China? How should Trump attack this?

Well, it's a huge problem, and it's growing worse by the day. I mean, I was part of that Office of Personnel Management hack.

Some 10 years ago, and I think I got like lifetime personal information protection as the result. It's like, gee, thanks.

So from that hack they got my DNA, they got my fingerprints, they got the the special background investigations that I had for my top secret clearance, so they know everything about me. and millions of other people who had top secret clearances or just secret clearances. And so China has been enough, you know, just relentless. They've never given up. And Brian, what they're doing is they're building a massive database.

And they're looking for vulnerabilities. They're looking for people, for example, who might have a problem with pornography or might have a problem with their finances. Or might have other things that they can be blackmailed on so that they can seek leverage over them at some point in the future. That's what they're trying to do.

Now, the the other thing that's more scary is when they go kinetic.

So in other words, what are your patterns? How do you get to work each day? Where do you live? Could they send a drone, for example, to go and try to injure you or kill you at some point if you became too inconvenient for them? And of course, our trade seekers.

They're looking for, you know, for example, what might Trump do with tariffs? How might Trump. try to tackle this very uh lopsided agreement uh or or trade situation that we have with the People's Republic of China. Uh they have uh a beggar thy neighbor policy where they're not interested in free trade. What they want to do is dominate certain areas that they've deemed strategic.

and destroy their competition in the United States and any other country. that they see as standing in their way.

So this is all part of that integrated strategy that the People's Republic of China is pursuing.

So and also you you write about that China has engaged in the largest military build up since Germany in the thirties. And we should be aware of all this. I'm not sure that the ships are the number of ships they're building, the nuclear arsenal, they don't have regulations to worry about. Even though their economy is sucking wind, they're still managing to do this.

Well, right, because they have a central centrally command and controlled economy that is becoming even more centralized. under Xi Jinping, which is one of the reasons why it's having problems. That, of course, and the fruits, the rotten fruits of the one child policy that's caused their demographics to be very unbalanced. China is unfortunately becoming old before it became rich, which is what they were very concerned about. And so in the long term, I wouldn't be bullish on China at all.

But in the short term, I would be very concerned, Brian. Their shipbuilding capacity is something like 250 times that of the U.S. And, of course, we have our own problems. We have this massive federal debt. We have a big federal deficit.

We have a very narrowly divided House and Senate. And so, how is it that President Trump is going to be able to get Congress's attention to be able to trim spending where it needs to be trimmed, even within the Pentagon. And then focus Scarce resources on things like rebuilding our navy, rebuilding our maritime shipping capacity. You know, it's one thing to have an ability to fight, but if you can't ship Heavy materials and ammunition and other supplies. over the the vast reaches of the Pacific, then you can't fight at the other end of the Pacific.

And so we have to rebuild our maritime merchant marine. And that's going to take time. And you can't just do it from scratch. You have to have people who know how to do naval quality welding. You have to have manufacturers that can produce steel with the right alloys.

This is going to take a multi-year sustained effort on our part to be able to catch up and get back in the game. Right. And we'll see what happens. They're building up for a war when their people have needs and they've got a whole generation that doesn't want to work.

So let's see if they can solve that. Lieutenant Colonel Chuck DeVore, thanks so much. Thank you. All right, when we come back, I'll finish up with your calls. You could write me, Briankillmead.com.

Click on comments, and I'll be able to talk to them out loud. Back in a moment. Politics, current events, and news that affects you. Brian's got a lot more to say. Stay with Brian Kilmead.

He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmeade. I think there's gonna be a lot of changes. happening in America. And I'm really looking forward to All the changes with the new administration coming.

I'm looking for a healthy economy. Better jobs, you know, the house market. Hopefully, the interest rates can go down, the home prices possibly can go down so people can buy their dream homes. Hopefully, a swift end to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine and Syria.

Well, things are going to change with a new president, obviously, and a new administration. That is some of the optimism that people feel that weren't necessarily big Trump supporters. Everyone who supported Trump, I get it. Anyone who was there even after January 6th, I understand it. But it's the people that were on the fence or were against him that seemed to be open to him now after getting four years of Joe Biden.

And I think the subplot is: seeing a lot of the things that were said about Trump just weren't true, and they feel almost. Had or duped into believing some of the things that were happening about Trump being the Russians bought the election, the Ukraine deserved an impeachment. January 6th, as bad as it was, was not the worst day in American history. And then trying to put him in jail for the last two and a half years. People look at this.

New York case, I think, was the turning point. People go, That's just this is ridiculous. And then the civil suit, and the Georgia suit, and then thank goodness he won the election, or else right now he'd be in the middle of a Jack Smith trial on the documents and all these other things.

Meanwhile, the FBI has got some real problems, not the documents in a former president's. Mara Lago Estate.

So I think a lot of people saw that and thought to themselves. You know what? I'm going to give this guy a chance a chance. And then when they saw the terrible job that That I think Maybe you think, too, that Joe Biden is one of the worst presidents, if not the worst, of my lifetime, mainly because he can't do the job because he was so mentally compromised and they all lied about it. That's why I think he's worse than Jimmy Carter, because Jimmy Carter had a great intellect and had a vision.

He was overwhelmed by the moment, didn't have the leadership ability, and definitely didn't have the gravitas in Congress or Washington to work his way out of it.

So.

So that's different. Uh you disagree with Nixon, but you can't say he's dumb. You know, so I think that's that's the big difference with Biden. I think he lost his mind. And I think that that's part of the reason.

I think that's part of the reason why people looking around going, I can't believe I voted for this other guy. And then when you see all the celebrities stepped up and voted for the other people, and then he got more votes than ever before, those cool guys in class that told you they knew what was going on were proven wrong again. And I think people are open to it. I saw that Jim Gaffigan came out and said, you know, in 2020, I put out some big anti-Trump tweets. I regret doing that.

And remember, Joe Rogan said, I'm not going to have him on. I don't want to help him. They got a chance to meet him, met with Dana White. Dana talked to him and says he got him all wrong, and more people were just open to it. And to say, you know, we need something different.

A lot of things he was saying are not self-serving. He's the only president that in modern times to actually leave with less money than he had. I mean, Obama's became he wants to become the first billionaire ex-President. When Ronald Reagan left office, he did have money, was making tons of speeches. George W.

Bush, I think, lost some money in his trust, but did exceedingly well. Trump lost value.

So, if he wanted to become rich, he wouldn't have become president.

So, here you go. That's how I feel about it. In terms of people who still don't get it, I want you to hear this. This is a montage of a bunch of people you probably don't read and don't listen to, but they were trying to get their head around the fact that the Washington Post is losing some reporters, mainly because Jeff Bezos says don't endorse anyone and try to be a little bit more balanced. I haven't heard him say it, but that's reportedly rippling through the newsroom at the Washington Post.

So, here's Jennifer Rubin, Rick Wilson, ripping. The intellect. MAGA voters, CUP 31. All those MAGA readers out there, now you'll notice the contradiction in terms of MAGA readers would. Pick up the Washington Post and they would have more readers.

What is the logical fallacy here? Yes, reader. The guy with the GED and his fake Oakley sunglasses and his goatee and his pickup truck, you know, the universal Twitter bro. That guy's thinking to himself, oh, well, I could have been the senior software designer at Google if only it weren't for DEI or immigration.

So I mean the put-downs are unbelievable. I mean, just unbelievable. And did he or her just say pretend that MAGA voters can't read?

So seventy seven million people don't have the intellect to understand how smart you are? Because they don't choose to read your newspaper? Because some really rich guy decided that he thought the Washington Post was worth saving, even if he lost $400 million on it, and he has, and you're mad at that guy? Can you imagine being mad at your boss because they asked you to be more fair? I thought Cal Thomas, one of the smartest guys around on Fox News Sunday, just talked about.

one of the biggest cover-ups ever that Jennifer Rubin and Rick Wilson should have been talking about. that Joe Biden couldn't do the job in 2020. He shouldn't have had the job. He shouldn't have got the nomination. And he couldn't do the job.

Cut 29. They covered up for Biden's mental acuity decline. They covered up on the Hunter Biden laptop, Facebook and other social media, covered up on the New York Post story about the Hunter Biden laptop. The 51 intelligence agencies who, the Russia, Russia, Russia thing signed off saying it was true. The media followed all of this.

And I think it's a disgrace to the profession that I've been a part of for a half a century. And I wish we got some new blood in the media to actually practice journalism instead of practicing politics. And it doesn't mean you have to agree with everything Trump says. Just be fair to him. That's all he wants, is be fair.

You know, he pointed out today that crime was up. And everyone keeps saying crime's down. And then they looked at some stats and went to the numbers outside murders, and they see it's up. They did that on MSNBC and said, Trump's got a point. That's all.

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