Trump takes America back with 200 Executive Actions - What are they?

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Problems of pain. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moment to the Brian Kill Meet Show.

We come to you from Washington, D.C., the day after one of the greatest days, one of the most, I would say this: even if you did not vote for Donald Trump, it is one of those days that will forever stand out because we've never seen anyone like him. I personally have never witnessed an indoor inauguration, number one. Number two, I've never witnessed security like that. Number two. And number three, I've never met somebody that let everything that hit the ground running to the point where if Orange Theory had treadmills and they told you to put it on as high as it can, it still wouldn't be fast enough to keep up with the pace that Donald Trump put out yesterday.

This hour we're going to be joined by Jonathan Turley. He went to college to learn about the law, and he wants to share with us some of the lawsuits that are coming Donald Trump's direction, some of the pardons that came through too. Charlie Hurd is standing by. Before we get to Charlie, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian. Big three. Number three. Essentially, with TikTok, I have the right to either sell it. We'll close it.

And we may have to get an approval from China too. I'm not sure. But I'm sure they'll approve it. And if they don't approve it, it would be somewhat of a hostile act, I think. They should sell it.

The Congress passed a law, Mr. President. I know you like TikTok, but it's a spying device. China. TikTok alive for now, but hopefully not for long.

The latest move that puts the China app on death watch, but still with a pulse. Number two. You know, but the point I want to make today is to make clear my farewell address. as we all do have more to we have a lot more to do. We heard the inaugural address tenant today.

We got a lot more to do. Yeah, no kidding. Joe Biden slurring his way out. Joe goes out low, pardoning his family, criminals, the J6 committee, a bunch of henchmen, while getting blitzed in person by the new president during his inaugural address. Number And will to the best of my ability.

and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend. Preserve, protect, and defend. The Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the United States. So help me, God.

So help me, God.

Congratulations, Mr. Carter. All right. And congratulations, America. He is back.

Donald Trump takes America back. The speech, the balls, the executive orders, and the massive pardons. Charlie Hurt, congratulations on being the latest host to fill in for Will Kay now on Fox and Friends weekend. Columnist for the Washington Times. Have you resigned from the Washington Times?

Yeah.

So it's done. Yeah.

I'll still write a column for them every now and then.

Well, congratulations. Thank you so much. Do you feel good about it? Oh, yeah. No, I'm really disappointed, Brian.

I don't know. I didn't expect you to explain all this right here today. Four hours, yeah. Eight hours a weekend. That's more than people.

There goes during the weekend. There go my Friday nights and Saturday nights. It's okay. I mean, do I need nighttime is overrated. That's right here.

Although is dignity. Two weeks ago, I did a Zumba class on national television. You did not. I did do a Zuma class. That is awesome.

And because I'm not Brian Kilmean, I can't just say, you know, I'm not doing that. Right. I go. There's certain things I don't do. I can't dance.

Well, I can't dance either. Really? Yeah, have you ever seen me dance? Can you imagine me dancing? I'm going to go watch it now.

No, please don't.

So, Charlie, first off, they think Senator Langford said it to me this morning. I think we're done with outdoor inaugurations. It just worked yesterday. It just looked better. I thought it was more controlled.

I loved it. Did you not like it? If you don't like it, no, I don't like it at all. No, it's terrible. No, you need to have tens of thousands of people on the mall.

That's the whole point. It's too cold. No, no, no. It's too cold. Didn't have it in the summer.

We're Americans. We specialize in the impossible. We also have healthy coats. We don't care about indoors. And this is the most important.

No, no, no, no, no. This is the most important. Plus, you have warmers. I've never seen a man decorated with more warmers. Pocket warmers.

You have them in your pants. You have them in your shoes. You have them in my pants. You have them in your shirt. But I do have a greener.

By the way, you got. We have an outdoor radio show in China. Whatever.

Okay, you're an American. You'll be okay. But you know the rule. Real reason that I don't like having them inside is because you have the 21-gun salute, you have these howitzer cannons that they line up on Capitol Hill here, and they fire them over the people, where all the people are gathered as you go out here. And the mall is a very special place.

You go down the mall, it's a monument to all of the wars that we've won and all of the men and women who have died fighting for these wars. And it's a moment for us to remind everybody: don't mess with us.

Well, in a way, but it's a way of yours. No, no, what is the cannon for? What is the cannon for? How about this? I mean, do we really need more shooting cannons in Washington, D.C.?

Yes, we do. All right, we have to start shooting at each other again. What's this, 1865 or 1861? All right, here we go. Donald Trump, here's what he says he wants to be his legacy cut to.

We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars. we never get into. My proudest legacy will be that of a Peacemaker and unifier. That's what I want to be: a peacemaker and a unifier. I'm pleased to say that as of yesterday, one day before I assumed office.

The hostages in the Middle East are coming back home to their families. And by the way, these are not pasties. You've got them plastered all over your head. I've never seen them before. You look ridiculous.

Just take a picture. If Allison would just take a picture, you'll see at home. I'll post this right away, and you'll see this is what they're supposed to do on my heart. I got a warm heart.

Now I do have a warm heart. That's where your heart is. That's what people say at Fox. People don't have warm hearts.

So we're trying to break that stereotype.

So, Charlie, the theme, this was two things. I like the fact that he says, I want to be a unifier, golden age, positive. But I thought it was definitely unique that he took massive shots at the previous regime with President Biden diagonally back before him and his defeated foe one seat over. And I'm thinking in their heads, they must be like, What kind of torture is this? I counted, I think that they found one thing that they could clap for during the entire address.

Pro-hostage, I guess. Yeah, and even like Martin Luther King, they're sitting on their hands. They're like, I can't, we can't stand for it. It's more like state of the union. Yeah, it really was.

But, you know, That speech was Delivered. Again, it was delivered for the thousands of people that would have been on the mall if it had been outside. It was delivered for people watching at home. It was for. Filled with Content, and it was another.

I thought it was less dark than what he got accused of with the first inaugural. But I think it's a very unifying address because it's yet again. He's saying, Look, we ran a campaign. I know a lot of politicians run campaigns, they don't mean anything they say, but I'm not kidding. He said that again.

I'm not kidding. I actually meant everything I said on the campaign trail. And I can't think of anything more unifying than that because the issues he ran on and won on are very unifying issues. Right, I mean, the numbers, I don't know if anyone saw it yesterday, but the theatrics behind it, he didn't just sit there, he does this thing for the first time. He would sign a bill, he did this first time, and he shows everyone his signature.

And now, this time he goes, Yeah, I'm gonna sign some of my bills, announce them, and sign them at the cap center. At you know, at the Capital One Center.

So he's signing in front of 20,000 people announcing his policy, saying, I'm doing exact, it's genius, by the way. We're never going to see anything like this. 42 executive orders, 115 personal actions, which, by the way, I didn't know anything about. We saw that. And then we saw more than 200 executive actions.

And then he does a 60-minute press conference while signing executive orders, at which time Peter Ducey says to him, Hey, hey, Mr. President, did you get a note? I don't know. Did you get a letter? Yeah, and then he left.

I don't know. I don't think so. It would have been months before we found that. Thanks, Peter. Yeah.

I mean, do we have that one? I'm not sure I pulled that. Pulls up in the drawer. It's there. But you know, so we're seeing some of this interaction, live slice of life.

I mean, what makes it so special? is that the previous resident of that house never talked to the press, never had an unscripted moment, was angry constantly, throw away lines, going to choppers or walking through doors he couldn't find. You know, and that at the end of the day will always be the greatest outrage of the Biden administration. We never knew who was in charge. We didn't know who was in charge.

We didn't know who was running the country, which defies the most basic the whole point of our country, the whole point of our government, the whole point of elections is that we get to choose who we pick, who's going to be in charge, and that we know who's in charge. And we never knew with Biden and with Trump, love him or hate him, and when he talks about himself sometimes in grand ways, you never don't know who's responsible. You never don't know who's in charge. But my favorite thing, after he was doing the signing those things, and again, this is the whole point of representative democracy. It's the way it's supposed to work.

After he finished signing all of his orders, he then stood up and took all the pens and started throwing them out into the audience. Script, because it's the people, yeah, instead of. Like, I'll go put this at my future museum.

So, Charlie heard our guests. We're talking about last night's series of executive actions. We also know at 4 o'clock, a major infrastructure speech.

So, I don't know what that was about. Caroline Levitt kind of told us that on Fox and Friends. We asked her for more information. She says, I can't get ahead of the president. But we know this: the infrastructure deal that we all paid for has not been implemented.

They have been unable to execute the money that they got through Congress. They got about eight. Republican senators to vote for it, you're talking about terminals for electric cars. You're talking about the CHIPS bill bringing companies back. You're also talking about getting internet to rural areas.

Nothing has been done at all in three and a half years since they signed it.

So maybe it's something to do with implementing it at a good price. I want you to hear.

So we're watching all the oligarchs, I mean the tech centers, the tech guys sitting there, the richest people in the world. They all got more swings. Did you notice that? How dare they? Uh I did not notice, but I know.

I'd like to be an oligarch.

Well, put it this way. I talked to one last night, Mark Zuckerberg, and he said, out of everything that happened, we were talking. And then, did you hear this, Allison?

So, as I'm talking to him, and I said, you know, I grew up a Democrat, my family is a Democrat, but I wasn't very political. People in Silicon Valley's parents were Democrats, people in the area are Democrats, but we don't really think about politics in many cases. He goes, For me, Biden ruined the Democratic Party for everybody, making us rethink. And I go, why? He goes, because he went in, blistered us, and made all types of demands through surrogates.

He goes, no, I was getting blasted, not through surrogates. I was getting blasted from the Justice Department, from his officials, his henchmen on a daily basis. And then he said his final nail in the coffin was being called an oligarch in that speech. And he said he used an expletive to describe it, and his face turned red. He said, I've never been so insulted.

But listen to some other people not happy with the new regime. It turns out that I'm on this place called MSNBC. Cut seven. Christy Noam, the nominee for Homeland Security, next to Apple CEO Tim Cook. How is this happening?

Only in America. How is this happening? Why are people with tons of money Up on the daisy. cabinet nominees, and family members. It is a message.

Hey there's a message. And I think it, and yeah, I think they are up there for the very reason that you probably think they're up there. Here. It is a pivot moment pivotal moment here. Charlie, you're what is so hard.

I just could you put your screw down down for a second to answer my question. What is so hard to understand, Charlie? Yeah, it's really funny. You know, they were, man, how quickly they changed their minds about these people. It's really funny.

Of course, they loved Zuckerberg. They loved these people when they were doing everything they could, when they were corrupting, you know, working at the behest of our intelligence agencies or the Democratic, the DNC, to carry water for them, and then like that. But, you know, The the real thing I think that um The real Damage that Joe Biden has done to The Democrat brand. is That Brian's doing some construction. in the uh studio.

The real damage that's been done is that for the party that claims to be about you know, they want to be about everything and do everything, and a cou they want to be a big government that solves every single problem, They do a really bad job about it. Absolutely. They destroy things. And they don't let people who do want to do work get work done. They are a group of very powerful people who have no history of being conservative, have no history of being in the Republican Party.

I hope they're doing this for patriotic reasons. Already, Elon Musk has said. If Elon Musk had a lot of poll, there would be a different Treasury Secretary right now, and there wouldn't be the elimination of the electric car supplement that everyone was forced to buy.

So right away, President Trump says, I'm pulling that. If Musk was pulling the strings, he wouldn't have led with that executive order. Back in a moment. It's Brian Killmade. Hey, maybe you started your business because it was your passion, but fell into HR as your business got going.

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Special Forces into Mexico to take them out? Could happen. Stranger things have happened.

So they declare these cartels foreign terrorist organizations, FTOs, and with that you're allowed to get into their banking, get into their communications, and kill them, like Al-Qaeda and ISIS. Charlie Hurd is here. Fox and Friends weakens his new home, but right now he's with us over in Washington, D.C.

So the FTO is serious stuff, right, Charlie? Yeah, it really is. And I think that in any sort of normal situation, you would. What else are they? Of course they're foreign terrorist organizations.

When you consider the damage that they're doing to our people, when you look at the way they conspire at the border to invade the border, not just with their drugs, but with the human smuggling. And of course, they use the two in concert with each other in order to, you know, sometimes they will use their children as decoys in one place so that they can get their more valuable to them, shipments across the border in another place, and then they control entire swaths of the border. I mean, what the hell? Else, are they? I think it's a fantastic thing, and it's a reminder that this is one of those common sense things that.

that goes way beyond like party lines. you know, i in a normal world, You would never have a politician who's against this. This would be like, oh, yeah, you have these people coming across our border with fentanyl and human smuggling and. Child human smuggling of children? Are you kidding me?

It would be a no-brainer. But this is how twisted politics in this town have gotten so that somehow this is like a controversial. But I think we're more ready for it. In 2018, everyone's like, are you crazy? We can't worry about Mexico.

Mexico is Mexico. But now I think we're ready for it in this town and in this country of stopping it at its root. And number two, I think Rubio gets it as well as anybody. I think he's going to put pressure on South and Central American countries to do what El Salvador did. I don't know how much sway you have in Mexico, except for trade, but to get those 20,000 Marines on the southern Mexican border, that's what we need to happen again.

The pressure on those countries, the pulling of aid, is underappreciated in the crackdown at our border under the last Trump term.

Well, two things. One is, I think another reason that we're more ready today than we were eight years ago is because Trump knows Washington better. Yeah.

But the second thing is that of course we should have Complete sway in Mexico. That's the whole point of everything we do. We have enormous sway over countries all around the world. The idea that we don't have total sway over our most direct enemy, neighbor rather, who should not be our enemy, but our ally in everything that we do, is kind of mind-boggling. Right.

We have Christy Dome, who looks like she passed through committee. Pete Hagseth passed through committee. They're all going to make. Marco Rubio has gotten us through at a perfect score, 99-0. Every Democrat obviously voted for him, just one no-show.

Ashley Moody is the new senator from Florida. I saw her last night. She is more than happy. She thought she was probably going to run for governor.

So this is a switch that she'll embrace. In two years, she'll have to run for election. And soon we're going to get John Radcliffe through at CIA. Charlie, best of luck this weekend. Congratulations.

Thank you so much. America, send Brian some more hand warmers. 1866-408-7669. Call. A radio show like no other.

It's Brian Killmead. Please raise your right hand if you'd have to me. I, Marco Rubio, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.

So help you God. Congratulations, Mr. Secretary. And with that, the President of the United States now has a Secretary of State, 99-0. It was quick.

John Ratcliffe took a step closer to being confirmed to lead the CIA. That happened yesterday. He got out of committee. The panel advanced his nomination 14-3. Thursday is the soonest vote that would occur for the full Senate for the 100 members.

So we might have to wait for two more days. Rudd's vote, he's got an 8-7 out of committee with the OMB.

So a lot of people are upset by him, but he's conservative and he's part of the Heritage Foundation. They think he was part of Project 2025. No, he was a conservative that when Trump went out of office, he needed a job.

So he went to a conservative think tank. To me, that was pretty obvious. Christy Noam's nomination was greenlit by the Senate committee. But this was impressive, 13-2. A lot of people are saying, what's her qualifications?

Isn't she so partisan?

Well, you saw, I don't know if you saw any of her soundbites or you had to see her testify. But she was very impressive, and she won over Democrats clearly. I think she'll be great. She's got to be hands-on, unlike Mayorkis, who, by the way, is responsible, in my view. Homeland Security is supposed to have a cyber Division.

They do. Why is the cyber division let the Chinese embed in our infrastructure as well as the Treasury Secretary's email? Are you kidding me? If not, you should have been, if people were enlisting, you should have had a fire alarm fire and allured the American public. We're all doomed if she cannot straighten out that behemoth of an organization.

Pete Hagseth got through committee. He could be looking at a floor vote this week. I think we need a Secretary of Defense, don't you think? Also, Vivek Ramaswamy will not serve on Trump's Doge Commission. He looks like he's going to run for governor, but the other word is he's not really getting along with Elon Musk, and he tends to have opinions.

And a lot of times, when you're with billionaires, they don't want to hear your opinion, and it might be vice versa.

So we'll have to see.

So it looks like Doge is going to be run by Elon Musk. And if you read about Musk, he not only is smart, inventive, and got great drive, he's also very budget conscious for a guy that's extremely rich.

So we'll see how that goes. The executive orders Trump rolled out yesterday were many. One of which was at the border, I expected that. Cartels, we went over that. But I tell you, in terms of the impact, you saw people in tears, and we're going to get ready for this.

Tom Holman, Was trying to get everybody ready for this. There's going to be situations where families are going to get turned down and they're going to cry and they're going to feel bad.

Well, who wouldn't feel bad if you were stuck in Mexico and couldn't get into America? But the bottom line is, I tell you, this is an active street behind us right by the Capitol. Bottom line is, there's a way to come into our country. That's not the way. Trump yesterday killed the app where you can register, get an appointment, come to the border, show them the confirmation, and get in.

So now that is dead as of yesterday. Sergio Demiquez is a Cuban migrant. in Mexico and said this, cut thirteen. Uh It was a very hard announcement because it means that our hopes to be able to achieve our dreams right now are over. In other words, with this closure, it was the only way we had a way to legally reach the United States, and now the sacrifice we made to leave our countries has been completely in vain.

We had to go through many countries to get there. This has been a very, very, very hard blow.

Well, that's just it. You can't come. That's not the way you come. Make your application, you wait in line. Should we actually visit once the border is controlled and immigration is not out of control?

Should we visit ways to get people into our country? Yes. Do we need illegal immigrants of all education levels? Absolutely. Should we make it easier for people who have the qualifications, who pass the background checks to get in?

I think so. Whether it's Canada, whether it's Norway, whether it's Ghana, there should be easier ways to get in, especially to keep our first-round draft picks. Let's talk about that.

Next, coming up, Jonathan Churley, I'm going to break down some of the President's executive orders and what Joe Biden did on the way out. But I do want to touch on TikTok before we do. President Trump said this about Congress passing the ban on TikTok. Sell or you're banned. The President extended this for, I think, three months.

It shouldn't have done it. Cut 14. What did your take-hop order do, Mr. President? Just gave me the right to sell it or close it.

Essentially with TikTok I have the right to either sell it Or close it. And we'll make that determination. And we may have to get an approval from China too. I'm not sure. But I'm sure they'll approve it.

And if they don't approve it, it would be somewhat of a hostile act, I think. But it's good for China if it gets approved. What people are brought up, and what he goes brings up, and I'll bring this, I'll play it for Jonathan Turley, is: we're not upset that our Apple phones are made in China, that so much of our equipment is made in China. Why are we just making the rules with TikTok?

Well, number one, TikTok's an extremely powerful influence on 170 million Americans that is run by the Chinese government. They say ByteDance has, as its editor-in-chief, a member of the Chinese Communist Party government. Editor-in-Chief, do you want them deciding what our next generation of Americans gets in their news feed? That's what he's doing, let alone the personal information that is coming to them about America's mindset of the next generation. All right, so we'll talk about that with Jonathan Turley next.

Also, I don't know if you saw, but Joe Biden. President Biden basically pardoned his entire family preemptively, along with members of Congress preemptively. Although he also did a lot of criminals who had no redeeming qualities except for they were convicted in extreme corrupt cases. Makes people wonder: did someone pay Joe Biden off, or does he even know what he did? Jonathan Turley next.

Brian Kilmead coming to you from Washington, D.C., where we have inaugurated and anointed a brand new President of the United States. Back in a moment. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Killmead.

What do you say to Americans who believe you and other top Democrats misled them?

Well, Joe Biden was the incumbent president at the time. He was the candidate at the time. And I supported him at the time and that was the right thing to do. Based on the incumbent president making the decision that he was going to run. Obviously, things changed in late June and early July.

That was Keem Jeffries getting confronted on the Sunday show, just about, you know. Joe Biden's cognitive problems that he had. Was he even making these decisions? The stories in the Wall Street Journal, the stories that have come out in these magazines. And you see how he shuffles along.

You see the blank look in his face. You saw the collapse at the debate. You saw the fact that he's still oblivious to the point that he thinks he could have beat Donald Trump, and so could the vice president, Kamala Harris, even though she lost to Donald Trump and not one poll had him beating Donald Trump and he froze badly because he thinks he had a cold. The story that's going to be written about Joe Biden and what he didn't know and what he didn't do while taking credit for it and responsibility for it as president of the United States is one that has just begun to be told. But everybody, the press especially, these politicians succinctly and directly are responsible for covering up this because it's not, they're more worried about their party and their power instead of the country.

And it's just awful. If people didn't like Trump, they said it, including from his own party.

Well, I don't like. The way he's acting. I think he's irrational. That's fine. You said it, you put your name on it.

They wrote a book about it, many books about it. And guess what? The American people weren't buying these back. Do you think anybody would ever put Joe Biden back in office in four years? Zero.

And as he leaves office, I think his approval is at 36%. Fox had him at 40%. Everybody else has him in the 30s. The reason why he will not bounce back like W did and like Truman did. And others is because His policies were terrible.

They were not popular. The only way he thought they were popular was because they kept polls from him. The things that did pass that potentially could be great or could have had impact were not implemented correctly. They weren't enforced. They weren't hounded into creation.

Instead, they just put it out there. They passed it. And there was almost seemingly no follow-up. His Secretary of State was weak. His National Security Advisor was overrated.

And he might be smart, but Jake Sullivan was not effective. And then, when you just see what happened around the world, that's the story. And Joe Biden was bitter as he left. I mean, when he was left, he was just not cognizant of the fact how unpopular he was. And the fact is, there is no mandate to keep him in power, and there was no sense of momentum about what he accomplished when he was leaving office.

And that was pretty clear. Here's also among the people upset with his pardons of his family was Senator Amy Klobucher, upset at President Trump for parting the January 6ers, and I'll talk about that, but also upset at Biden at what he did, Cut 26. I actually have been critical of some of the pardons that President Biden gave out.

Now, I would like to see so much reform where we had a commission I've been advocating for this way back for years, like some of the governors have, where they make recommendations, regardless of the party of the president, because this truly undermines these pardons, some of the bad. Biden pardons and the ones that we saw in a big way today, you couldn't have a more undermining of our justice system. Right. And they don't like the January 6th pardons. I mean, I don't think they.

I'm trying to get to the background of it, but the ones that were violent evidently didn't have their sentence pardoned. But keep in mind, if they even did have violence against law enforcement, it's always unacceptable, not characteristic of anyone who supports Republicans or supports Trump. But they would spend four years or three and a half years in prison. That is paying a penalty. And if you are that upset about this on January 6th, just to tell you how discordant and disproportionate it was, think about the 4,000-plus police officers that were assaulted in New York City alone, many of which were injured, had to go to the hospital.

And where was the outrage there in New York City? Where is it in your city? Where is it in big and small towns, the disrespect to police officers? January 6th may be bad, but it wasn't isolated. In fact, you should have that much attention elsewhere.

If you were outraged in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, the lack of respect police officers are experiencing, and sometimes how they're battered and bruised on just interactions with the public, then unless you're upset with that, you have no right to be upset here. Jonathan Cholley is going to be with us shortly. He'll break that down, but he's just on television right now.

So, in terms of Joe Biden, Speaker Johnson, who I saw last night, I also had a chance to talk to Mark Zuckerberg last night. And just on a side note, I thoroughly believe he is sincerely ticked off. Yes. Does it work for Meta for him to be in good with the current administration? Yes.

To not have bitterness for the Zuckerbergs who were pumped in in 2020? Absolutely. But if you just don't think that people can actually change, that's on you. I don't believe that. I believe people constantly are evolving.

You're probably evolving.

So, why couldn't Zuckerberg, and speaking to him last night, I can make my own opinion. And I think absolutely. He went into a. A brief description. He's like, when I grew up, Every my parents were Democrats, people around me were Democrats, people around in my college, I'm not sure if it was Harvard or Yale, they were Democrats.

You know, they just tend to be liberal. But I wasn't politically involved. Until I got to Facebook and I saw how politics became a major role, and I saw how it transformed. I was a Democrat. But they have, Joe Biden and his policies have beat me and many others out of the party.

And he went on to say: the oligarch comment was the nail in the coffin. When you just said a bunch of oligarchs are running this country and we're a danger to the nation and not patriotic, that's when he lost me forever. And the word he used was blank you. And believe me. I'm telling you.

I'm not saying that he's a Republican, but I'm telling you, if you have pro business attitudes, even if social media even if social media or Facebook diminishes to a degree or the tariffs hurt his business, I think that he's he's done. He's going to be pro-business and not Republican or Democrat. But if you ask me, I think he's going to be an ally to Trump. With us right now is Jonathan Turley. Jonathan, welcome back.

I guess we need your legal expertise. First off, I just played Amy Klobucher, the center, saying that she, as a Democrat, disappointed. In Joe Biden's. Disappointed in Joe Biden's. I apologize about the drilling in the background.

I don't know why that's necessary to do right now. But why Joe Biden's pardon's hurt the party? Your thoughts?

Well, it it it didn't just hurt the party, it hurt the country. I mean, these There's a reason why the president waited. Until he was literally walking out the door to grant these pardons. And the reason is that they're raw. And they're wrong.

And they really sort of are a capstone to one of the greatest corruption scandals in the history of this country.

So he, the thing that gets me is the preemptive pardon. Jonathan, what does that do to the pardon system? What does that do to our legal system?

Well, the great irony, of course, is that when President Trump was thought to be considering a preemptive pardon, The Democrats were all aflame and said, That's awful. You can't do that. And Biden really laid this great foundation for it. The fact is you can give a preemptive pardon. The pardon power is effectively unlimited.

And most of us have just discouraged it uh because it It really can cause really considerable sort of dysfunction in our legal system. Take a look at what he did with Hunter. He gave him a. a pardon for any crimes committed over a ten year period. Hunter Biden could have committed murder during that period.

It would not matter. And that's the type of sweeping pardon grant. That I think most reasonable people have opposed. But to do it for your own family in a scandal where you yourself. have been implicated is particularly wrong.

Absolutely. But by the way, has it ever been done before? Not no. I mean, we can't prove we've had President Grant, of course, family pardon. That was what Clinton did.

But as usual, it's not that the Bidens invented corruption. They just made it a heck of a lot more impressive. I mean, the Bidens the thing about the Bidens in all of these scandals is the sense of impunity. They shatter any limits. Jonathan, real quick on the President, current President's pardon of the J-6s, your thoughts.

Well, you know, I wrote about these cases in my book, The Indispensable Right, and I really did criticize how these cases were handled as the President has referenced. And I think a lot of people responded to the promise to for a pardon. They want to bring closure. But it's really the Department of Justice that made the case for these pardons. Department of Justice announced that they did this campaign.

They called what their lead attorney called it the shock and awe campaign. And they were very excessive, and they lost the support of many citizens.

Now, at least MSNBC and CNN has something to talk about. Thanks so much. I appreciate it, Jonathan. And it was great to see you in person, all the great work you're doing. Thank you goodbye.

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Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moment to the Brian Kilmie Show. I usually come to you from 48th and 6 in Midtown Manhattan, but right now we're overlooking the Capitol Building, which was supposed to be the outdoor portion of the inaugural yesterday, but they went indoors, as everybody knows. It went out flawlessly. And I think that's interesting.

Britt Yume is going to be with us in a matter of moments as we put the Historic Day in perspective in Donald Trump fashion. We've never seen anything quite like it. Everything, including the security, you really could not move in this city. And it was a time it was about nine degrees yesterday, and they got all these historic balls and events that people traveled thousands of miles to see. And first off, they don't get a chance to see the big event.

And second off, then they have a chance to try to go to these events and they can't get cars anywhere. No one was complaining, though, that I saw. People just everyone had a great attitude. They were just so happy with the outcome of the election. Bruce Blakeman is going to be joining us, Nassau County Executive, confidant of the President of the United States.

And Neil Chatterjee is going to be with us, too. As you heard the President yesterday, he's talking a lot about energy, talking about drilling.

Well, he's the former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and he'll talk about how lifting red tape could be the difference. And we'll talk about that. But let's bring in Britt Yume, Fox News' senior political analyst. Hey, Britt, how do you do it? How is the the festivities over the last two days different from what you're used to seeing?

Well it was different. Yeah.

It was different because of the nature, the very nature of this president in this presidency and because of the extraordinary nature of his comeback. And most of all, I would say, of all the things that were different, nothing can top. That scene in the Oval office last night, where he was signing executive orders, the press pool was there. He sat there and took their questions, whatever they were. Uh for what, the better more than an hour And he seemed different to me in this sense.

Uh he was very calm. Very comfortable. Very comfortable talking to the press. They used to be, he almost had a belligerent tone at times in dealing with the news media, which was. Certainly belligerent toward him during his earlier term in office.

Last night it was different. He was different. First of all, his command of the material. Seemed much more complete than it was when he first started. Of course, how could he have been?

He was a complete newcomer to Washington and to some extent to politics. Last night, this was a man who had had a level of vindication that few humans ever experienced, and I think it showed. it was quite extraordinary.

Now I've never seen a President do that before. I certainly never seen a President do that before, while in the midst of a ceremony in which he was signing documents, it was quite remarkable. It was. It was so interesting to see that because I think he fully understands that the press is his mouthpiece to the people, and he wants to stay in communication with the people. I'll never forget when he told his press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, I don't like the way my press secretaries are being treated, so I'll do them for now on.

And he would just walk outside before he went on the chopper and just point to people and tell them, you know, here's the answer to your question. But what he did in terms of volume is pretty impressive: 42 executive orders, 115 personal actions, more than 200 executive actions, and then did that 60-minute press conference. And then he had three historic speeches and a lot of conversations. How would you characterize his State of the Union, excuse me, his inauguration address? Here's a little of the tone that he tried to set: cut one.

Our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud. prosperous and free. America will soon be greater. Stronger. And far more exceptional than ever.

Before I return to the Presidency confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success. A tide of change is sweeping the country, sunlight is pouring over the entire world, and America has the chance to seize this opportunity like never before. Optimistic tone, no more American carnage, no more we're a declining nation.

So he did that, but he also had no problem attacking Joe Biden as if he wasn't diagonally behind him, along with his vice president who he just defeated. What was that? How were you viewing that?

Well, I think So He could have avoided that if he wanted to, but I don't think he felt like he needed to. He didn't, except for most of the speech, he didn't reach for rhetorical heights. It was kind of, as I said yesterday, kind of a down to business speech with a lot of specifics about what he wanted to do, things we'd heard before, but he made clear that he was going to pursue these things. There was going to be no trimming of the sales To accommodate the Washington that had once been so inhospitable to him. It's a different atmosphere now.

And, you know, it's striking, Brian. I remember this from years ago. I was on the west front of the Capitol for the first Clinton inauguration, and you know, the report. Republicans had lost the White House and And you know, it was a big Democratic triumph. And there was a Republican congressman from California named Jerry Lewis.

I was chatting with him out there that day, and he was in a really great mood. He was, you know, just cheerful. and excited and so on and I I asked him, you know, what are you so happy about? And he said, Oh, this is this is this is great. This is America.

This is a this this is a peaceful transfer of power. You know, not every nation does this. This is a wonderful day. And I thought at the time, you know, he's right. This is going to happen.

And the winners and the losers are going to gather together on the steps of the Capitol, and power will be transferred without a shot being fired. And those who are happy about it will be there to witness, and those who are not will be there too. And they'll take it because that's how we do it. And I thought of Alexander Hamilton's famous saying, I think it goes to 1788. He says, Here, sir, the people govern.

Yes, they do in this country ultimately, and the politicians accept it. And yesterday was a symbol of that. And it's very much worth celebrating.

So, in the back, it was pretty extraordinary to see the most powerful business people in the world, really, and certainly Americans behind him, as well as foreign dignitaries like the President of Argentina and Prime Minister of Italy. But I just thought, too, with Bezos and Zuckerberg and Sinjay Pinchar, and the head of whoever, however, you pronounce the head of TikTok, and they were all sitting there with Elon Musk, and some people are upset by this. I want you to hear what's going on on another channel, Cut7. Christy No, I'm the nominee for Homeland Security next to Apple CEO Tim Cook. How is this happening?

Only in America. How is this happening? Why are people with tons of money Up on the dais. cabinet nominees and family members. Gate is a message.

It is a message. And I think they are up there for the very reason that you probably think they're up there. It is a pivotal moment here. Did you have trouble with those optics? They seem to.

Well, no, not at all. I mean, it was a sign of the acquiescence of these people, indeed, the recognition that things have changed and that and that the the uh force that brought um Donald Trump to the White House in the first place in twenty sixteen, which you could have thought of as kind of a one-off, you know, kind of a fluke, and Hillary Clinton was a weak candidate and all the rest of it. That that force is real and enduring And it survived a level of opposition and challenge uh and and misfortune that very few political politicians or political movements could survive. I mean, um the MAGA movement is here to stay f and the Republican Party has been changed, the Democratic Party has been defeated by it. And here we are, and these tech moguls with an eye on relations with the government are now paying their obeisance to Donald Trump.

They are the new captains of industry and he's the new leader of America. Britt, I think on some level, I might be wrong. You would love to have covered a president like this. I don't care if you agree with everything or anything. But just the fact that you could be in the be in the game every day with substantive issues to discuss, debate and report on.

Am I right?

Well, it certainly stands in very stark contrast to the Biden administration, which was, you know, through most of it, a cover-up of a man ill-equipped to be president by virtue of his age and senility. And, you know, how think of being in that White House briefing room and having Karine Jean-Pierre come out and tell you that night is day day in and day out, and having a president out of sight for much of the time, and when he was in sight, was unable to articulate what he was trying to trying to do or say. And now comes this guy sitting there for an hour taking any and all questions. Um Yeah, better to cover. And I thought Peter Doocy had the had the good sense to ask him.

uh if there had been a letter from the previous president. And we saw you know live audio On television, the President carrying out this act, which is normally done completely privately in the Oval Office, of opening the drawer of the Resolute Desk and producing the letter, which he had not thought to do before that moment. I mean that That that's something D d would I like to have been in that room doing that? Back in the day I sure would have. Yeah, listen to this.

Here's how it went down. President Biden gives you a letter. He may have Right. Don't they leave it in a dish? I don't know.

Oh, what's in there? Thank you, Peter. It could have been years before we found this. Wow. Thank you.

What are you retired on the outside? Maybe we should all read it together.

Well, maybe I'll read it first and then make that determination.

So that was the interactive moment.

Now, I remember that Joe Biden did say, despite all the controversy with how Jo Donald Trump left the house, he left a nice letter. And he said that Obama left a nice letter to him. But we never get the text of that letter, but that moment's pretty cool. It I don't know. I was sitting here watching it uh on just on T V in my living room.

And I you know, I couldn't take my eyes off that scene. Yeah, you know. I you know College football championship game. Uh uh gonna be on. I I didn't have that on, I didn't have that channel on.

I had the news on because Well, we're seeing something that you don't get to see, and we did. Yeah, we did. Britt, you are our guest. Britton, the last few minutes that we have remaining. You have a lot of scenes yesterday.

You had Barack Obama, you had George Bush, and you saw the interaction at the Jimmy Carter funeral. What I'm hearing a lot are commentators like Charlemagne the God, who does a major, very successful podcast and morning show. I'm seeing uh uh comedians and other people say, wait a second, Uh Bill Moore on down. Maybe this guy is not Hitler. You know, maybe we were not getting the correct reports.

We saw Joe Rogan have that revelation too, saying I don't want to interview him because I don't want to help him. And he said when he started looking at and making his own decisions about that moment in Charlottesville and what he actually said in these different situations rather than w how it was reported on other channels, they're giving him a fresh start. Have you noticed that, that people are giving President Trump a fresh look? Or is it just acquiescence that he won again? I use both.

people are giving him a fresh look. I don't see anybody who followed his political career through his presidency and beyond. And saw that scene in the Oval Office last night, could not have thought, wait a minute, this is something different here. Not only that, you can't. Simply, you can't get around the fact that what this man did and what he overcame.

to become president again was historic. Extraordinary, remarkable, and and and and and certainly worthy of giving a person a second look. Yeah, Britt, thanks so much.

So it's going to be exciting. I know the President's got a pressure today at 4. We also know that Marco Rubio got through. We see that Elise Stefanik is testifying today. I just think it's better for the country when we get the cabinet secretaries in place early.

There's too much going on right now. Pete Hakeseth has gotten through committee. He should have a general vote as early as Thursday. And that was a hurdle not many people thought for a while that he was going to get through, but clearly he's on target. And it looks as though that he's already affecting recruiting.

So that's a real good thing. Britt, thanks so much. It's going to be an exciting time. I look forward to talking to you early and often. Thanks, Brad.

God bless you, buddy. All right, back at you at 1866-408-7669. The President of the United States is going to be having an oppressor today. He's meeting right now with leadership in the Oval Office. He's with that speaker, the Speaker and Senator John Thuno I spoke to yesterday.

And then he's going to speak with other ranking members like Steve Scalise and Tom Barroso. That's later on this afternoon. He's not wasting a minute. Either are we. You listen to Brian Kilme show in Washington, D.C., don't move.

You're with Brian Kilmead. If you're interested in it, Brian's Talking About It. You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, we are back. We got a few minutes, and then at the bottom of the hour, we have two more guests.

One's going to be Bruce Blake, a Nassau County executive, just talking with Donald Trump this week, and Neil Chatterley. President of the United States is doing major moves through executive orders on oil and gas. And And he knows what it's like. He knows what the regulations are like. He was chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Great guest we've always had in the studio. And we'll see what's going to happen because the President went to town yesterday. You saw a lot of what he did famously in front of 20,000 people, something that is normally paperwork. He actually made it fun. He actually talked about it, had somebody announce what exactly the executive order he was going to be signing was.

He would show it to everybody. He would sign and then show it again. Kind of cool. They did a survey. Vox News poll.

They want to know what Trump's priorities should be.

So here's what Democrats say. Resign and quit, 17%. Just want them to resign. 0% Republicans, 17% Democrats. The economy and jobs, 12% of Democrats say that should be number one.

14% of Republicans.

So that looks like something they both agree on. To unite the country, 11% of Democrats said, yeah, I'd like them to unite the country. Only 4% of Republicans. They just want to get stuff done. Inflation, 8% of Democrats wanted to control inflation.

11% of Republicans. Immigration deportation. Look at this difference disparity. Immigration deportation. 4% of the Democrats want that handled immediately.

24% of Republicans, which is the highest number by far. And overall, making America great again, getting rid of DEI, getting rid of men in women's sports, make America great. 3% of Democrats. 14% of Republicans.

But either way, the President did speak more optimistically yesterday, talking about a new golden age for America. But he took some actions: 42 executive orders, 115 personal actions, 200 executive actions, and then he did three historic speeches, which were making impact.

Now, Trump pulled the security clearance also yesterday of the 51 national security officials who said that Hunter Biden's laptop had all the classic earmarks, I'm doing the quote now, all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation. Yes, 51 total.

So 50 had their credentials pulled. They no longer have top security clearance, which makes a difference because when you book somebody as a speaker or as a consultant to a major company, you want to know if they have their security clearance, and that is part of the reason you booked them. But now Leon Panetta and company and a former CIA director like John Brennan have it pulled. I love it. Because we know that six months after Joe Biden was elected, They did upon further review.

The laptop is real. And now everyone admits it's real, from the New York Times to the Washington Post. Why do those 51 intel agents push everyone back and say, no, this can't be real? When Logic and the director of national intelligence, John Radcliffe at the time, said it was authentic. Instead, social media combined with the incoming Democratic administration to say the pictures, the business dealings, Tony Bobolinsky specifically, all not telling the truth should be dismissed.

And if you retweeted it, you got your. Uh you got your sight frozen. And that was the current press secretary, Kayleigh McE. Think about this. She had COVID.

She retweets this story in the New York Post, and they take out her account. You listen to the Brian Kilmeat Show. Remember, I want to see you February 15th at the Florida Theater in Jacksonville, BrianKilmead.com, live on stage. VIP opportunities remain history, liberty, and laughs. It's in conjunction with Fox Nation.

Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. But I'm immediately withdrawing from the unfair, one-sided Paris Climate Accord rip-off. The United States Will not sabotage your own industries while China pollutes. With impunity.

You know, China. They use a lot of dirty energy. but they produce a lot of energy.

So they all say, we have to fight for cleaner air, but the other dirty airs drop it all over us. What the hell are they talking about?

So that's why he dropped out of the Paris Accord. The least surprising thing that Donald Trump will do is drop out of the Paris Climate Accord and whatever followed up after that, because they're so afraid of China and Russia not participating. They give them these big swaths of time to say, you have this amount of time to clean up your act.

Meanwhile, they're putting out all types of electric cars and trying to dominate the market. Neil Tatterchie joins us now, former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission under President Trump, former senior advisor to Mitch McConnell. Neil, welcome back. What do you think about what President Trump did for energy yesterday? I mean, it's incredible.

I mean, he promised, you know, kind of a shock and awe approach to energy, to energy dominance. This is really something that he campaigned on and clearly is now, you know, promises made, promises delivered. Everything from pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord, which I will note he did back in 2017, and carbon emissions year over year declined during his first term, and I expect. They will continue to do so because market forces will drive these kinds of things, not international treaties. But beyond that, he issued executive orders on opening up land for.

Do you think you'd have to do the same thing at the end of this term?

Well, I guess now I have precedent to do it. I don't... I wouldn't want to do that. No, I think it makes you look very guilty. I think it makes Biden look very bad, very weak, and very guilty.

You know, I didn't know that he... gave a pardon to his family. 'Cause he did it during my speech. He didn't tell you to end all the time. No, he didn't tell me.

No, no. He did it. They released it during my speech. I mean, during my speech.

So all I could do was say, excuse me, I'd like to come back and speak some more.

So no, we were surprised by that. It's bad precedent, obviously. I actually have been critical of some of the pardons that President Biden gave out.

Now, I would like to see so much reform where we had a commission I've been advocating for this way back for years, like some of the governors have, where they make recommendations, regardless of the party of the President, because this truly undermines these pardons, some of the Biden pardons and the ones that we saw in a big way today. You couldn't have a more undermining of our justice system. Expanding your knowledge base, it's the Brian Kill Meat Show. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show.

So, sorry about that. We're in a location in Washington, D.C., and the power was just caught. We got it back in the building, not sure what happened, but Neil Chatterjee joins us now, rejoins us, former chairman of FERC. And see former senior advisor to Mitch Muccano.

So, Neil, we were just talking about the need. For power. We just lost power. But you were talking about we have to get out of climate change. No surprise about the Paris climate change.

But it's the drilling in Alaska and other places that we got to start doing. It's all of it. I mean, if you look at the Executive orders and what we just saw. Look, it's kind of ironic. My primary responsibility when I was chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission was to make sure that the power stays on.

What we're seeing now is because of political decisions over the past number of years, you are seeing more instances of the power going out in different regions of the country. And that's why the president not only issued this series of executive orders to really kind of fuel American energy dominance, he also declared a national energy emergency. He issued executive orders to focus on reliability, to make sure every state in the country had a sufficient supply of electricity to keep the power on. He also proposed things on critical minerals and bringing the critical mineral supply chain home here to the U.S. and away from the Chinese Communist Party so we could develop the component parts for things like storage and solar here at home.

There was really a lot to love across the energy sector in the president's actions yesterday.

So the electric car mandate is now gone. How do you feel about that? Look, I mean, He made the point that if consumers want electric vehicles, they ought to have that choice. It should not be mandated upon them. I don't think the government should be picking and choosing winners and losers amongst vehicles.

And he also, I thought, made a very compelling case that he was doing this for American workers, for the American automotive workers that were being hurt by this forced transition to EVs. Look, I think it'll go back. I think when the Biden administration reflects on their mistakes, politicizing electric vehicles was one of the huge mistakes. You and I have talked about this before. I think an F-150 Lightning would be a really cool car to drive.

I want to buy one because I want one. I don't want to buy one because the U.S. government put me in a position where I had no choice other than to buy an electric vehicle. I thought it was the right thing to do. It must be Easy Musk must not have loved that either because he's the number maker of the number one electric car.

Well, I actually think he probably stands to benefit quite a bit because he's got a market advantage. Tesla's the lead. Leader in the field, some of these incentives, some of these mandates, they'd have helped his competition. I actually think this works out pretty well for Musk. Oh, really?

I did not realize that. The Chinese are running out an electric car that's affordable, it's slave labor rates, perhaps, and they're now flooding the European market with it. We're saying no, 100% tariffs are not going to allow it in there. What's your take on this? I don't want a Chinese electric vehicle.

We're sitting here talking about what to do with TikTok. Can you imagine a Chinese electric vehicle tracking everywhere you drive, everywhere you go, how fast you go, the conversations you're potentially having with people in the car, what you're listening to on the radio? I hope you're listening to Fox News Radio on The Kill Meet Show. But, you know, I don't want the Chinese Communist Party getting all of that data on me. And that's precisely what would happen if we allowed their cars to enter this market.

But, bus, I mean, when you have uneven labor laws producing a product that is produced in America that might be better quality, but people say, well, I'm going to buy the cheaper car, it doesn't help the American economy. That's right. And I think that we're Seeing that across the board. I think that's, you know, Republicans and Democrats here in Washington the day after inauguration can't even agree that today is Tuesday. But what they can agree on is we've got to be tough on China, not just for economic purposes, but for national security purposes.

That's an area where there's broad agreement. And I think you're going to see constructive policies move forward, both from the executive branch and from Congress in this area. Neil, we saw President Biden before he left ban drilling in basically the eastern west coast through an executive order. But it's been explained to me that it's not a matter of just undoing the executive order. Do you, and you're not a lawyer, but you understand the energy and some of the parameters.

Your thoughts about why it would be so hard?

So again, it's an executive order put into action. Executive orders can be undone. One of the challenges here is specific language in the OCS Act of 1953 or something like that. I am a lawyer, but I just play one on TV. There would be some legal obstacles to it.

To be honest, I think the administration will be able to overcome those legal obstacles in a time period that will probably make it work. This was a largely symbolic move by the Biden administration to try and kind of wave a flag to their base that, hey, look, we're taking every last possible step we can to protect the climate. The reality is, the areas that they banned, you know, industry wasn't really targeting those areas for development anyway, currently. And so by the time the new administration figures out how to overcome the legal obstacles, it's not going to hurt American energy production. It was a symbolic gesture on the way out the door by Joe Biden.

Joe Biden. Neil, thanks so much. Great to see you. Thanks for putting up with a brief power outage, but we're back in action. I'm looking forward to talking to you again.

Thanks for having me. All right, you got it. Let's go to Nassau County executive over a New York, Bruce Blakeman, who's been quite tight with the President almost from the day he declared he was running. And of course, President Trump is a big fan of Nassau County and Long Island, and he grew up in Queens. Bruce, welcome back.

How would you characterize the inauguration from what you've seen, from what you viewed from the city that you were just in and just leaving?

Well, I've never seen anything like it before, Brian. I got to tell you that. I've been to five other inaugurations and they were all very majestic, a lot of pageantry, but I've never seen the emotional investment. from the general population that President Trump has been able to garner. I mean, people were waiting online for hours and hours.

in the really cold and snowy weather. to see President Trump. There's a commitment to President Trump that I think is unique.

So far, and how would you see this president? You've talked to him a lot offline. You conversed with him. One thing you mentioned that I noticed that, man, the guy doesn't sleep, he needs some rest. He seemed to have plenty of energy, more energy at the end of the day than he even had in the beginning yesterday.

Think about this: three major speeches. Then you have at the balls. Then he had the inaugural address, which is always historic, regardless of what you think of it. And then you have all the pageantry around it: the breakfast, the lunch, the honors. But he was still going strong at 78 years old.

What's your take? The guy's a phenomenon. I mean, I've never seen anything like it in my life. Um he texts me sometimes at two o'clock in the morning. And I don't get them.

I'm sleeping. I wake up and I see the President Trump. texted me at 2 a.m.

So he's always working. He's got a tremendous amount of energy. But he has a passion. He has an enthusiasm. He really, really loves this country.

And by the way, Brett, I thought his inaugural speech was spot on. I think he said things that needed to be said. And he needed to tell people how he sees the future of America, which is very bright under his leadership.

So I thought his speech was terrific. The other thing that happened, I know you know politics as a Republican in Nassau County, which is always purple, always a hard. It's never easy for either party to win. You've got to earn it every time. One thing that's pretty noticeable, that the Republicans are getting working class, but they're making huge inroads with Hispanics and even the African American community.

President Trump was so smart, in my humble opinion, to say this, cut five. To the black and Hispanic communities, I want to thank you for the tremendous outpouring of love and trust that you have shown me with your vote. We set records. And I will not forget it. I've heard your voices in the campaign, and I look forward to working with you.

In the years to come. Today is Martin Luther King Day and his honor This will be a great honor, but in his honor we will strive. together to make his dream a reality. We will make his dream come true. That doesn't happen in a lot of Republican inaugural addresses or a lot of Republican speeches, and it should, but he puts it in, he made the effort.

Well, it was not only good politically and brilliant, It was heartfelt. I mean, he really feels that way. I went with him to the South Bronx. And we were driving down the streets of the South Bronx in his motorcade. And people were coming out of stores.

It wasn't it wasn't scripted. It wasn't uh something that uh that was uh planned it was spontaneous You had African American people and Hispanic American people coming out of the stores and giving the thumbs up. and yelling Trump, Trump, Trump. And that's in the South Bronx, which is an area that is all minority. And I just think that even minority voters now realize that the Democratic Party Is full of it.

They don't care about the common everyday workers. Uh they care about making political statements like Opening up our borders. Putting millions of migrants in minority communities. Overflowing their hospitals, overflowing their schools, living on their streets in homeless camps. uh taking up Hotel rooms.

Giving them money for phones and transportation and food and lodging when that money could go to American citizens, whether they be black, white, Hispanic. Or otherwise. They're fed up. And Donald Trump showed them the path, he showed them the way, and he won't forget them. He will.

definitely try to improve the lives of them and all Americans. Mayor Adams comes into town. You had dinner with him in Hassett, Long Island, and the Democrat also spent some time with Tom Holman. And then he goes to the inaugural. He was in the overflow area, but still was a tough seat to get.

And he got invited in the morning from the Trump team, and he showed up. And then he met with President Trump and Mar-a-Lago. What's going on here?

Well, I think that President Trump. has demonstrated that he's willing to work with people on both sides of the aisle. And I think Eric Adams has realized that going along with the program of the Democratic Party, they led him down a primrose path We put tens of thousands of people in New York City that New York City had to pay for. There was no federal money for it. When he criticized President Biden for the migrant program and the lack of funding for cities that were sanctuary cities, You saw what happened to him.

He had the Justice Department turn on him. And I think that basically they are a kindred spirit to some extent because that's exactly what happened to President Trump, that they used Lawfare, they used the Justice Department. as a as a tool To shape the politics of America, which is something that is antithetical to our values. The Justice Department should be politically blind, they should be colorblind, they should be religion blind, they should be just. An organization that is there to do justice, and I think that.

under President Trump's leadership, they will return to that with Cash Patel and Pam Bondi. I think they will write the ship over at the Justice Department and the FBI. Do you think that he's getting a raw deal? I mean, you have enough on your plate. You don't have to worry about New York City's mayor's legal problems.

But from what you see, is he being targeted?

Well, you know, look, I'm not one who believes in coincidences. He was on his way down to have a meeting with President Biden about the migrants, And on the way down to the White House. He gets the call that the FBI has uh basically rated uh his uh political operations.

So Uh I don't know. Do you think it was a coincidence? I I I tend to believe it's not. And then you just wonder, you know, where does this come from? A Democratic Justice Department going after a Democratic mayor because he brought up that illegal immigration is overwhelming his city.

I mean, what kind of I mean, if a Republican governor thought a Donald Trump policy was hurting him, I don't expect Trump to ask Pam Bondi to go find out go find some dirt on this guy, do you? I mean, that's just not the way he rolls or the way I thought anybody rolled. President Trump is a man of honor. He's a man of integrity. Joe Biden ran Delaware like a crime family.

He's run the White House like a crime family. It's really disgusting. And I'll tell you what, the people who are most happy that President Trump is in office Are the federal agents, are the federal agencies, the law enforcement agency, the FBI, the CIA, the DEA? ATF, ICE. Customs and Border Patrol, because now they can do their job without political influence.

And that's all they want to do. They swore an oath to uphold the law, and that's all that our federal agents want to do.

So now they can get back to the business of making sure that we have a safer and more secure America. How big is Nassau County compared to the rest? Isn't it the fifteenth biggest state in terms of population if it was put into a state? Uh We're probably bigger than ten states in population, but here's a here's a really interesting fact, Brian. our GDP, our gross domestic product, is larger Than 146 nations in the United Nations, the U.S.

News and World Report. He said, we're the safest county in America. We're on the border of New York City. And we're the safest county America because we got a great police department and because we make a commitment to our police officers. Gotcha.

Bruce, thanks so much. Bruce Blakeman, Nassau County, heading back from the inaugural to New York. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead.

Hey. Welcome, everyone, to Washington, D.C. We're packing up, getting ready to go because the inauguration is done and it's time to get to work if you're the president of the United States because you're no longer president-elect, no longer. I mean, we see the screwing in the background.

Sorry about that. They think it's a good time to take everything apart. It's only radio. 1-866-408-7669. But it's fun to get back to work already.

We got some good news for the Trump team. Scott Besant, the Treasury Secretary nominee, has sailed through committee. He's going to have a general vote. Pete Hake said through committee. Rajon Radcliffe sailed through committee.

We already have Marco Rubio through. I say we because the country, the country needs a team in place. There's no time forever. for any vacuum. Emily Dominich will be with us at the bottom of the hour, and then Kimberly Brown, daughter of activist actor Jim Brown, who's also working with the Trump team.

Let's bring in Douglas Murray, National Review Institute fellow, author of The War uh the war on the West. In fact, before we do that, why don't we get to the big three?

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Essentially, with TikTok, I have the right to either sell it. Or close it. And we may have to get an approval from China too, I'm not sure.

But I'm sure they'll approve it. And if they don't approve it, there would be somewhat of a hostile act, I think. But China doesn't want to sell it because the whole reason is not to be a successful company, to use it as a spy device, a way to surveil American culture and understand it, and also dominate our news. TikTok alive for now, hopefully not for long. The latest move that puts the Chinese app on death watch, but still with a pulse.

Number two. No, but the point I want to make today is and make clear my farewell address. as we all do have more to we have more to do. If you heard the inaugural address tenant today, we've got a lot more to do. That is a president just mumbling his way to the exit, and he has not only let down his country, he has let down his party with his pardons, his behavior, his pouting, his delusional acts, and being cognitively impaired that his family would not step in.

And that's basically the only thing, our only hope. Joe goes out, low, pardoning his family, pardoning criminals, the J6 committee henchmen, while getting blitzed in person by the new president during his inaugural address. Number And will to the best of my ability. And will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend. Preserve, protect, and defend.

The Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the United States. So help me, God.

So help me, God.

Congratulations, Mr. Coffee. And there you go. John Roberts, the Chief Justice, swears in the new president, and he is back. And he's so pleased to be back in the Oval Office, so calm, cool, and collected, and signing his myriad of executive orders, executive actions, and personal actions.

And, you know, and they have everything in place. If you see the shot, you see all the personal items behind him. I guess everything is planned out. They had five hours to get the Bidens out. Couldn't happen quick enough.

And I don't say that as a partisan. I say that because he can't do the job. He was not able to do the job for years, and we're going to find out that he did almost nothing. Listen to him at Joint Base Andrews saying that after the speech that he heard, we have more to do. Really?

What could you possibly be doing? Cut 22. Every day. I'm deeply moved by awe. we all have did for this country.

I really mean it. History's gonna mark down just what you did. You know, but the point I want to make today is and make clear my farewell address, as we all do have more to do, we have a lot more to do. If you heard the inaugural address tenant today, there we got a lot more to do. Yeah, like pardoning Anthony Fauci preemptively, he says.

Pardoning his son back to 2014, he says, his brother, and all their spouses, James Biden in particular. Remember, there was a $400,000 check written at Joe Biden for no reason. They asked him about it. He said, well, I gave my older brother a loan. Really?

Older Brother Alone does this huge book deal and million-dollar speeches. That's interesting. What could that possibly be about? And then he did the same thing with a bunch of guys accused of corruption in jail and commuted their sentences. We don't know why, if there was some payoff regarding that.

So here's Trump when he found out about the pardons, including pardons of Jamie Raskin, of Liz Cheney, of anyone involved with the January 6th Committee, Cut 23. I was surprised. That President Biden. Would Going pardon his whole family because that makes him look very guilty. You know, I could have pardoned my family.

I could have pardoned myself, my family. I said, if I do that, it's going to make me look very guilty. I don't think I'd be sitting here, frankly. If I did that, I don't think I'd be sitting here right now. Because I would have And would have shown that you're guilty.

You know, it could. By the way, you gonna tell me that wouldn't have been controversial? You barred yourself. I said outside of the state cases, I guess it would have held up and there would have been no Jack Smith. The president didn't feel like he did anything.

And he's right.

So, right now, the President of the United States is going to be attending a national prayer reference, of course, with a vice president again. No hat for Melania Trump. And then you see the Vances there, too. I guess they have a babysitter. The kids are fantastic.

They put on a show themselves.

So, what President Trump did yesterday, which caused some controversy, is pardon the J Sixers, almost all of them, I understand. Many of which did get in brawls. We saw the video with the cops.

Now, I know January 6th has been overstated. I know the whole thing that Donald Trump wanted to happen is overstated. We know all that. January 6th is a terrible day. I wouldn't have made the speech.

I'm not going over it again. Democrats want to live off it, and they did for at least one more day. And they'll do it all week because they have nothing else to talk about. The American people got past it. They never did.

So, when asked about pardoning the January 6ers, here's what Donald Trump said yesterday, CUT 19. Should there be punishment for the people who assaulted law enforcement officers that day?

Well, I will say this. They've been in jail for a long time already. I see murderers in this country get two years, one year, and maybe no time.

So they've already been in jail for a long time. These people have been destroyed. What they've done to these people is outrageous.

So a lot of them, I mean grandmothers, people that have been overcharged. And as I was told today on the set and by Jonathan Turley on this show, is that They were looking at some of the people and how they were charged and how they were pursued and all the assets put to this. This operation, all hands on deck, to take down everybody involved with January 6th is going through all these tapes and all these angles. Yeah, were cops assaulted? Absolutely.

Well, did you see people with a pickaxe going through the windows? Yeah.

Was that ever acceptable in our nation's capital? It should be sacred. No, but they overplayed it. They overcharged it.

So Jay Johnson saw this happening and said that, and by the way, I think he's a great guy. Don't agree with him on everything, but he's got experience through two administrations, and he was Homeland Security Secretary under Barack Obama. Cut 21. For each one of those. 1600 cases.

There's a federal prosecutor assigned. dedicated to the case. Who's feeling pretty disenchanted this morning? I would not be surprised if we saw. a mass resignation from the Department of Justice as a result of this.

And so, if they were going to leave on this note, the time they put in, I think about all the other criminals who were able to get away with it, all the terror opportunities, the terrorists that were not scooped up, while you focus on that one bad day in American history that will always be chronicled, but always on the Democratic side be overplayed and overstated. And that is why people on that committee got their pardons ahead of time. If that committee was on the up and up and didn't look past some material, if that committee did not coerce any Witnesses Then there wouldn't be any need to do well, you do what Adam Kinziger said. I don't want a pardon. I didn't do anything wrong.

Jamie Raskin accepted it big time.

So we'll see where this stands. And that's it. Out of the day, out of the day, and everything that took place, people the dev this is what MSNBC and CNN focused on. That's their prerogative. That's why they have so few viewers.

So much else to report on. Yeah, should you mention it? Absolutely. Should you dwell on it, lead with it? In my view, that's not what I would do as an editor on any of these channels, and certainly not on this show.

But I'm not going to ignore it. This is the Brian Kilme show in Washington, D.C., where it's nine degrees, but I couldn't be happier to be outdoors as long as they're not working the drill. Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Killmead. The fastest three hours in radio.

You're with Brian Kilmead. So today I will vote yes on Senator Rubio. While I certainly do not agree with many of Senator Rubio's positions, in this instance, it is important for the new administration to have a Senate confirmed Secretary of State as soon as possible.

So I'll vote yes. Republicans did the same with Secretary Clinton during the first Obama administration. It was appropriate then, it is appropriate now. I will vote yes. I was kind of happy about that.

Just to hear Chuck Schumer go out of the way, instead of just saying 99-0 and letting the facts tell the story, went out and emphasized it. Scott Besson is, as I mentioned, just got out of committee. We know Radcliffe is at a committee. We know Hegseth is at a committee. We know that Christy Noam, with bipartisan support, is major bipartisan support.

She only lost two votes, I think, 13-2. She is at a committee.

So we're going to get some massive votes and get some real secretaries in there ready to do their job. My sense is: if you're at a committee, go to the office. I don't know if legally you're allowed, but you've got to start setting it up. You've got to get ready to go. Plus, you've got to find out what executive orders are now on your desk to implement.

There are so many coming out. Trump has got a major announcement today at 4 o'clock.

So he's going to. He is going to be talking about infrastructure. That could be the border. It could be the wall. I mean, I think the American people, and I think Trump's smart to know this, want to see that wall going up every day.

I would, you know, the little box that promotes what show is coming up? I want to see the wall coming up every day in a small corner of the Fox screen. And I don't think Democrats, I don't think Democrats are going to be upset by doing it. I don't know if you saw the congressman from New York who came on our show last week, Tom Swazi, went out of his way to say, I've known Donald Trump since I was a county executive on Long Island from a purple district that was won by Trump. And therefore, if I could work with him, I have to.

And I'm going to work with him on the border. Fetterman's going to work with him on the border. Fetterman's going to work with him on Israel. Swazi's going to work with him on Israel. There's going to be a lot of blending.

It's going to be hard to keep up. And look, the Lake and Riley Act, for those criminals, excuse me, those illegals that commit a crime, they're going to And before they even get into the prison system, they could be thrown out. The Lake and Riley Act passed with bipartisan support.

So there you go. There's a sign that people are going to work together. And I saw this story in the Washington Post today, and it's really true. Resistance is done. Acquiescence is not in.

But what they're trying to do is come up with a strategy. And for the most part, Democrats are beaten down. Just take a look at Joe Biden. When Donald Trump was making his remarks about the ineptness, when Donald Trump was making his remarks about the ineptness of the previous administration, how they're going to change everything, and what he's going to do, making everyone know, yeah, I could talk rhetorically about the country and I will, but mostly I'm going to reaffirm to the whole world while millions are watching what exactly I'm going to do. Listen to this, cut six.

We're thinking in terms of 25% on Mexico and Canada because they're allowing uh vast numbers of people. Canada's Yeah, very bad abuser also. Vast numbers of people to come in and fentanyl to come in. When do you think you would enact the 1st. Maybe finding a leaving notice of that.

Twenty-five percent on both, sir. Sir. On each.

So, what Joe Biden said to Donald Trump when they met.

Well, it's easy on the tariffs. They're not going to work and they're going to be a tax. I think you're going to find that these tariffs that you're talking about are not going to work unless you're just saying it. He goes, No, I'm going to do it. And here's what Trump was just saying, letting everybody know.

The last four years have been a mess, cut forward. As we gather today, our government confronts a crisis of trust. For many years a radical and corrupt establishment. Has extracted power and wealth from our citizens while the pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly incomplete disrepair. We now have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home.

While at the same time stumbling into a continuing catalogue of catastrophic events abroad. It fails to protect our magnificent, law-abiding American citizens. But provide sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals, many from prisons and mental institutions. that have illegally entered our country from all over the world.

So he's referring to what exactly is happening in New York City. I'll tell you that. You have a situation where the Where the city is tacked to the hilt, where you have a homeless situation out of control, but a priority over the homeless is actually given to illegal immigrants in these luxury hotels. Even though the numbers are going down, and those Randalls Island centers they put up, Randall's Island, if you don't know, around New York, is this huge network of fields that were taken up by illegal immigrants in white tents, luxury tents, where they fed them three times a day. People aren't happy with the food, and there were all fights and crime breaking out.

So they stripped them down, but they're still taking over hotels. How do you explain that? How do you explain that we're all watching illegal immigrants beat up cops and they get to come out and give us the finger leaving the police station? And you think that, well, let's talk about January 6th. We have one guy who talks about crime, law and order, one guy who decides that when you start tearing down the city for whatever George Floyd reason you come up with, that's not going to be acceptable.

And you say, well, he wants to crack down like a fascist. All that stuff just died on the vine. It wasn't a Effective, it wasn't good. And I thought it was interesting. Charlemagne the God came out and said, as you know, he's a major urban, he's a podcast, very successful, and he's got the number one urban radio show in the morning.

Listen to what he said. About all this when it comes to crime, and when it comes to Republicans and these performers that decide, like Snoop Dogg, I'm going to go and I'm going to perform, like Nellie, I'm going to go and I'm going to perform. The hypocrisy that people display in regards to who they like and don't like is mind-blowing to me. Like, there is no way you are more mad at rappers for performing at these inauguration events than you are at the elected officials who told us Trump was a fascist, a threat to democracy, a danger to our country and the Constitution. They likened him to Hitler, but then folks like Biden just welcomed him back in the White House.

Obama was sharing a good laugh with him at the funeral of President Carter. We know why the rappers, you know, did what they did. We know why they're doing it. They got paid. What's the politicians' excuse for normalizing Trump?

Right. And what Charlemagne's going to realize is the same thing Joe Rogan realized. Trump's not playing the perfect game, but he is not a racist, not a sexist, not a fascist, not a Nazi. It's not that they decided not to be tough to his face. They don't believe what they were saying.

And the incidents that he chronicles that are jammed down his throat are not actually what happened because he was listening to almost every other news source from the New York Times to the Washington Post to MSNBC and PBS and NPR. And he says, well, this is what's going on. You know, Christine Amnapur, perfect example. Donald Trump has taken over the buzzword at Davos. It's the only thing people cared about at Davos.

People stayed away from Davos. They showed up as inaugural. It's all about Donald Trump. And what the internationalists like Christmas. Christine Omnipour, who's got skills and got great courage, but just seems to be always telling an anti-American story and a pro-Iranian narrative and an anti-Israeli rhetoric.

And when it comes to Donald Trump, she can't even say the name. That to me makes her an ineffective reporter and an unreliable news source over the next few years. What I hope, and I'm going to ask him, Charlemagne, you got to just start looking and listening to what he says, not what other people tell you he means. You listen to Brian Kill Me Chow. I'll be back with all your calls and more.

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The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. Christy Noam, the nominee for Homeland Security, next to Apple CEO Tim Cook. How is this happening? Only in America.

How is this happening? Why are people with tons of money? Up on the dais, touch at width. cabinet nominees and family members. It is a message.

It is a message. And I think it, and yeah, I think they are up there for the very reason that you probably think they're up there. There. It is a pivotal moment here. Hmm.

I think we are quite extravagant promises in the sense, you know, the golden age of America, as you said, is just about to begin. And he said the greatest four years in American history are about to begin. Um One certainly hopes that turns out to be true. Um but it's quite a big promise and I think the uh speech was full of quite big promises. Um I think he ha think he ha he feels he has a tailwind because of the decisive nature of the election, narrow though the margin ended up being, and uh because he you know, he has Congress under uh Republican control, albeit narrowly there as well, I think he has high hopes that he can bring a lot of this to bear.

So, Britt Hume, coming back and giving some reasonable responses after Rachel Maddow. postulated that how corrupt it is that These business titans should be invited to the inaugural and have a prominent space right near the president and his family. They don't like it. Suddenly, they're oligarchs. As I mentioned, I had a chance to talk to Mark Zuckerberg last night for about 20 minutes.

He said that oligarch comments that question my patriotism was the most insulting, blacking thing that's ever been said about me. And he took it really personal, obviously, with me right now to talk about this and so much more, we think. And we were just discussing in the break. She is with the senior vice president of Boundary Stone Partners, former senior advisor to Speaker Kevin McCarthy, as well as Speaker Johnson. Emily Dominic is here.

Emily, your thoughts about some being outraged about the optics of Bezos and Company having that prominent seat. You know, I find it so funny that Democrats are offended about this when we've seen parade after parade of celebrities and the wealthy and the most privileged at every single DNC event we've ever seen. You know, Oprah, Beyoncé, everybody. They don't have any problem bringing out the wealthy to be. Be a part of their events.

Actually, it worked against them in the election. Exactly. I actually think it's an argument to be made that, like, look, business is business, right? And these big CEOs, they want to do business in America. That's a good thing.

I think it's good to see them be there and be nonpartisan when we all know they voted for Democrats. See, at one point, they say Donald Trump is a headstrong guy making his own decisions on whim. And the other time they say he's being run. I'm afraid he's going to be run by the oligarchs. You can't have it both ways.

Also, I don't think anyone's telling Donald Trump what to do. I just, you know, if we've learned anything, if we've learned anything from our past experience with the president, that that is not the way he operates or the way that he thinks, he has lots of advisors, but at the end of the day, it's his decision, his words. If you watch the other channels, they're focused on the January 6th and the pardons that came down. And he did about 1,500. And your thought about the scope of it and the reaction.

I think it's not surprising. This is something that President Trump said on the campaign trail he wanted to do. His speech immediately after being sworn in, he addressed January 6th in some capacity. And I think it's political. The right decision to do it right away and move on so that you can get down to the business of governing, which, frankly, they issued a lot of executive orders in that space that are much far more interesting to folks on the ground.

Don't you believe the Biden family, the Biden supporters, have not a word to say about this after the preempt for pardons they did, at the family pardons they put out, the ones that Trump didn't do when he left? Right. It amazed me to see the coverage of the swearing-in. You know, 15 minutes before the president is sworn in, we hear about pardons for the Biden family.

So I just don't think Democrats have a leg to stand on when they're criticizing any of these actions because, frankly, they were far worse and far more personal in terms of how they approached the pardoning process. I mean, I got to bring you to what Joe Biden was saying on the exit yesterday. I was pretty astounded how tone-deaf he remains. And I think the stories are going to be written about him, how little he did in his own administration. And I think the further we get away from his presidency, the worse he will look.

And right now he's at about 36% of. Appropriating, but after witnessing, he says, after witnessing the speech at the inaugural address, he came up with this at Joint Base Andrews before he flew out somewhere. Cut 22. Every day. I'm deeply moved by all we all did for this country.

I really mean it. History's gonna mark down just what you did. You know, but the point I want to make today is and made clear my favorite address. as we all do have more to we have a lot more to do. We heard the inaugural address tenant today.

We've got a lot more to do.

So I'm not sure what he was What he wanted to say, but essentially, the inaugural address is looking on and do everything he did, and they think that he thinks Donald Trump's a danger to America. Yeah, I don't, I have no idea what Joe Biden is talking about, which is not really a change from how he's sounded for the last two years at least. But I think Democrats haven't really reconciled with the fact that this election, while it was very much about President Trump, was about ideas and principles and policies. And the American people resoundingly rejected the Democratic Party and Joe Biden's agenda from top to bottom. And I think we'll see that carry on, and Republicans have a lot of responsibility to actually go and deliver on what they promised in the election.

So a couple of things happened, too. We know about the pardons were not popular with the Democratic Party. They say that Joe Biden has gotten, people are angrier on the Democratic side of Joe Biden than any Trump supporter. Do you sense the Democrats not only are leaderless, but are angry at how we acted after losing the election, after losing the nomination? You know, one of the things I hear a lot from Democrat staffers here in D.C.

is that they felt the Biden administration really botched the implementation of all of the things that they cared about. They botched the implementation of the IRA. They didn't do the guidance right, so it was hard to qualify for tax credits, things like that.

So they're like inside their own party, they're arguing and saying, what's the path forward here? And how do we compete with this? when, you know, again, I think President Trump came out with a big, decisive list of here's what we're going to do. And that's what those executive orders really point to. And now Congress has a lot of work to do, but I think Republicans are far more united in what they believe in and what they want to move forward.

All right. So Hageem Jeffries is confronted with a lot of Democrats being confronted with Chuck Schumer was three weeks ago when they said, did you think the President Biden could have served another four years? And he said, well, it's hypothetical. What do you mean it's hypothetical? You were backing him up into that debate.

And if they expect us not to understand, then we find out. Behind the scenes, you had Chuck Schumer going to see him saying, You can't run, you're going to lose, you have to drop out. If I was to do a secret ballot of every Democratic senator on whether you should run, you're lucky to get five votes. Behind the scenes, Jack Reed says, I will not support him unless I see the results of two neurological exams in a live press conference. Really?

How long have we been saying this? Right. And they said, We're being ageists or anti-partisan. This is what we've gotten used to from MSNBC and others, where they just gaslight the American people on this stuff. And we watched our lawmakers do the same thing.

And that, I think, has created this element of distrust in the Democratic Party, particularly in their leaders, because the American people could watch Joe Biden on TV and see that what they were being told wasn't true. Kakeem Jeffers was asked that. And tell me if you think he's effective in saying, and tell me if you think he's effective in saying, I didn't know, Cut 28. What do you say to Americans who believe you and other top Democrats misled them?

Well, Joe Biden was the incumbent president at the time. The candidate at the time, and I supported him at the time, and that was the right thing to do. Based on the incumbent president making the decision that he was going to run. Obviously, things changed in late June and early July. So, obviously, that changed.

Evidently, behind the scenes, he was saying the same thing, but not as direct. Nancy Pelosi is taking all the blame for it. But we'll see what's going to happen. What about Bob Woodward's book? Bob Woodward does an insider account from both camps and doesn't nail the fact that the president's brain is not working.

Again, it feels like gaslighting. And this is why they have a trust problem and why they haven't been able to succeed in the election. And I think it's a real opportunity for Republicans to regain and control, like keep the trust of the American people by following through on what we say we're going to do. Yeah, the truth that you find about why Vivek Ramaswamy is not doing Doge anymore. I mean, he's running for governor in Ohio, right?

That's the party line. I think we're going to take it. No, I mean, I think it always made me laugh a little bit to think of a government efficiency office being run by two people.

So maybe it's better to just have one shot. Here's Tara Palmari saying that her reporting says it's a different story. Really started with the H-1B visa fight. I don't know if you remember this, but he was like comparing it to like saying that American culture favors Zach from Save by the Bell and the jock and charisma over Screech the nerd. And it's like, it turns out the guy that you want to work for, Donald Trump, is the jock who married the cheerleader model.

Like, just in Govalo, you're also not the world's richest man. You can't pick a fight with Trump's base right now. And since then, he'd been pretty quiet on Twitter. Not to mention the fact that he didn't donate to Trump's campaign the way that Elon Musk did. People were getting tired of him.

His personality can wear on someone. And so I was told that he had been iced out a while ago. And Doge, which, if it was really about efficiency, shouldn't have had two heads and not had it anyway. Stole your line. He did.

But I mean, it did make you wonder. I didn't even know they had a relationship, Vivek and Musk. And they've got to be really tight. If you look at Musk's career, he fights with everybody. He fights with all his founders, his creators, his brother, his cousins.

So it was never going to be easy to work with him. Yeah, and I think also it's, you know, these are, some of these folks are coming into government for the first time. And I do think there are going to be some tough adjustments for how hard it is to actually get things done. Yeah, absolutely. On the budget deal, right?

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think they certainly have influence, but there are limits to that. And especially with these tight majorities in Congress, you know, we saw President Trump come in and try to say, hey, we've got to fix the debt limit right now before I take office. They weren't able to do that because the margin is so small in the House, and you really can't afford to lose any votes. And you can't come in at the last minute and move things in that same way.

So I think there's going to be some adjustment to like, oh, governing's really hard. and governing in a tight majority is even harder. The other thing I think is wrong Is the reporting a couple of weeks ago from Maggie Haberman and others that Musk and Trump are fighting, and that's not true. Certainly doesn't look like it. It isn't.

And he's going to have an office. And when asked, he said, oh, he's going to have an office. He's going to have a staff of about 20 people. We're going to give him an office. It's not going to be in the West Wing.

But. Musk was there. He called Musk on the stage over the weekend. It's very easy to tell someone, hey, I'm president. I can't bring you on stage.

You don't go, where's Elon? And then you see how friendly he is with his son, who ran on stage right after his dad. There's a lot of kids' moments in this, did you see? Yeah, that's, I think, one of the fun things about, you know, we have our first millennial vice president being sworn in yesterday, and it's wonderful to see a young family with young kids that I think is very representative of the American people. And it's fun to get to relate to your lawmakers that way.

Right, it's interesting too because Trump's got the young, but they're the grandchildren. Yeah.

So, and you see them all lining up behind him. Big family. It's so interesting. The way he underplays it. That's a huge asset, but he doesn't want to talk about it.

He doesn't want to talk about how obviously his grandkids feel towards him. Instead of my grandfather's a businessman and a public figure, I never see him, it's just the opposite. And You have Joe Biden. Using the sympathy all the time of the tragedies that hit his life. He never doesn't bring it up.

Everybody's death is not as big as his death. Everyone's tragedy, he mentioned it the other day on the way out. He can't help himself. It's something he says every time. And I know so many Gold Star families and military families who cringe when he does it because it's always a little bit of a misrepresentation.

And I think Bo did not die at war. Absolutely. And I think it's a touchy subject. And you never want to say that grief is something that somebody can't talk about, but it does feel a little bit performative at a certain point.

So, as we see right now, just to give everyone the update, Scott Besant, the Treasury Secretary, has virtually no resistance. He's going to get in, and he's going to get to work right away. Number two, Rubio is through. That's done. Christy Noam sailed.

Two against her. That's pretty strong. Pete Hagseth, pure partisan alliance, gets on the one vote, 15-14, I think, or 13-12. What is it, 25? 25.

Okay, and then they're going to have a vote as early as Thursday on Pete Heth. Yeah.

As that happens, the fun is going to be with Tulsi Gabbard. And Tulsi Gabbard and RFK. Your thoughts, real quick? I think both of those are challenging nominations. It's all going to come down to their relationships with Republican senators and how they perform in that hearing.

Emily Dominic, thanks so much. Great to see you. Thanks for having me. All right. Back in a moment to wrap up the hour.

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Hey, welcome back. Finishing up this hour here in our stay in D.C. with Kimberly Brown, daughter of activist Jim Brown, good friend of mine for years, and a legend, the best athlete of the last century in Kimberly. You're an activist yourself. You spoke with Trump.

You're a big advocate of Trump. Describe to everyone this weekend and this sense and this atmosphere here in D.C. Oh my gosh, it was amazing. Actually phenomenal. Everybody loves Trump.

Everybody was wearing their MAGA hats. We were all supportive. I went to the Liberty Ball where I saw you last night. Yes, that was amazing. You were coming in.

I was going. Yes. You have much later hours. Yeah, then I saw you at the other ball. What was that, the start?

How dare you out me? As if I'm a big party. You outed yourself. I'm Mark Zuckerberg.

So, for African Americans to get on Trump's train this time, and it's not 50%, it's not like the Hispanics, but he's making inroads. How do you explain it?

Well, see, this is the thing, and I see like with the African American and the black community, they don't know what policies that Trump has put in place for him, right?

So, with the farm bill, for example, you know, black people talk about where's our reparations, where's our 40 acres and a mule, right? But actually, the U.S. Farm Bill gives us that. It gives us guaranteed land ownership loans and operation expenses. And then he also helped with farming in schools.

So, if we move the black community into agriculture, we can get what we want because the capital is there and we can put ourselves in a better position. But the president made real gains with black men, not with women. Not with women. Because I think that women are very, I think. Emotional.

Um, you know, men are more. What have you done for me? Yeah.

Yeah.

And, you know, and they saw what Kamala, like, what she represented, and they didn't want any parts of that.

So I think that's why they moved, you know, black men moved closer to Trump and he gained more votes than they did with black women. Wow, that's interesting.

So, what do you do? With the Trump team? I would love to hook up with the Trump team. My dream and my goal is to be a consultant like my dad for President Trump. And what would your dad tell you about him?

He told me he was a great man. He told me that he never felt more hospitable, how Donald Trump treated him. And then he quoted on CNN that he fell in love with President Trump. Wow. And that's different.

He says, I could not get a call back from Barack Obama. No. But Trump got right back to me and invited me in. Exactly. And you know, my dad has the AmeriCan program that deals with black and brown people.

So why wouldn't Obama call him? I don't know. And the AmeriCan program, how's it doing? I'm not sure. Right.

I'm not sure if that's the right thing. That's like Pete is running it. Yes. Okay, so that's interesting. But he went into the the areas where the bla and the black community needed the most.

Yes. And he helped the most. Yes. And you know, the older black people definitely know who what my dad stood for and who he was. The younger audience doesn't see that.

But yeah. Matt, you compare the 60s to now? Yeah, yeah, yeah, because you know, they call him Uncle Tom in a sellout. And it's like the black people that have been around for 50 years, 40 years, they know exactly who my dad is, and they know exactly who he represents and who he's going to stand up for. Nelly got some blowback for doing it, so did Snoop Dogg and the entertainment community with the black community.

What's your reaction? Black people are waking up, okay? The black people that are against Trump are the ones that are programmed. You look back at Jesus' time, when the Pharisees tricked the masses to choose Barabas over Jesus and to crucify Jesus. It's the same thing with Trump right now.

I have never brought up that analogy. Your knowledge of the Bible is bringing the show to another level. Yeah.

Right. So that's interesting. Tyson says he's always been my friend. Holyfield shows up at every single event. I get the sense that there could be a Titanic change, but I want Trump to pay attention now.

Don't just get the vote, see some action. And I think that if he. Vocalizes what he's put in place for black people, I think that they would be more receptive and open in hearing him, but he has not put everything forward. True, but he did mention yesterday in the inaugural, which is a great point, and I love that he brought it up. Kimberly Brown, always great to see you.

Thank you. And thanks for dressing up for the part. Look at you. The best-dressed woman in radio history. Yeah, we're filming, we're filming Daughters of Legends.

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