Warp speed: Trump agenda moving fast on economy, deportation raids

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Thanks for being here, everybody. It's the Brian Kilmey Show back in New York after three great four great days in Washington, D.C. The historic inauguration, which is already changing the face of America.

And notice, I know it might not make Republicans happy, I'm not talking about changing Republican or conservative face. I'm just talking about doing common sense things in America, and it's going to benefit the Republican Party because the Democrats acquiesced that title. Bottom of the hour, what is happiness? Arthur Brooks, a stalwart conservative in his own right, has become a professor, I think, at Harvard. He actually teaches a course on happiness, wrote a book with Oprah on Happiness.

And we said, anytime you're in the studio, do me us a favor and stop by. And he does, and we're always thrilled.

So, Senator James Lankford standing by. As we know today, the President of the United States is going to be busy. Going to be interesting to see him Zoom at 11 o'clock. He's going to address the World Economic Forum in Davos. He is the main topic at Davos, mainly because.

Some of the tech superstars went to his inauguration instead of going, and they all want to try to trump-proof or work with. Donald Trump and America, and how everything's changing. And I could go over why I think it's changing for the better. But first, let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. We're concentrating on the worst first. And just yesterday in the last 24 hours, ISA arrested over 308, 308 serious criminals.

Some of them were murderers, some of them were rapists.

So ISA is doing their job and they're prioritizing just as the president said they would. Yeah, they are doing the worst first. Instead, Tom talked about what he's going to do. For the first time in four years, he gets to do it. Homan and Rubio, securing us at home and changing direction abroad.

We go over the massive moves to rid our nation of illegal criminals and the America First Gender implemented globally. We'll talk about it. Number two. Democrats have already begun stalling President Trump's nominees. The Senator from Connecticut is holding up a vote on John Radcliffe.

The Intelligence Committee favorably reported mister Radcliffe's nomination on a bipartisan vote. That is John Thune. He doesn't get angry often. That's angry. Get it done.

As I feared, nomination is being held up for pure political reasons, and it's hurting our country. Even mild-mannered Thune blew his top. We will talk about the hearings, the committee confirmation, and the infuriating delays. Number one. It's turning out to be bigger.

And I think one thing is happening is People are learning that they can't govern and that their policies are terrible. That is true. President Trump, faster and faster than warp speed. Trump transforming the country, inserting his agenda of common sense, faster and more organized than any administration in history. Senator James Langford is curbside for all of it, in the middle of it, making it happen.

Senator Lankford, welcome back. What have these two days been like? It has been exactly what we hoped it would be. It's been a flurry of activity. We're removing nominations on the floor dealing with national security.

We passed the Lake and Riley Act through the Senate. We'll be on the House's desk and on the President's desk by the end of the week. Lots of activity dealing with ICE, dealing with border security, dealing with energy futures, dealing with getting rid of DEI. This was the speed that we thought it would be. And I told my team in November: get ready, brace yourself, let's get geared up because we're going to move fast.

So it was 263 to 156. It passed the House vote because it had to go back. 46 Democrats joining all Republicans. The bill passed the Senate by a vote of 6435, 12 Democratic votes. What essentially does the Lake and Riley Act do?

So the Lick and Riley Act says if a person who's not legal in the country is in the country and they commit a crime like shoplifting or theft or something else like that, they have to be detained. They can no longer roam the streets. We thought this was the least controversial possible bill to say why you would want someone who illegally came in the country and then started committing crimes to be released. But this is what the Biden administration did, and it's named after Lake and Riley, obviously, because the murderer of Lake and Riley in Georgia came illegally in the country 2022, committed two different crimes, was released both times, was not detained, and then he murdered Lake and Riley. We want to make sure that never happens again.

You've got a criminal alien that has shown they're a criminal alien. Let's detain them. Let's do all their processing there and let's move them out. What about wrongly accused? Do you worry about that, that somebody will get just pointed out and that they didn't do anything wrong, really?

I don't, actually. It becomes an argument about law enforcement. Is law enforcement going to try to just grab people off the street and be able to run them in? If they're not legal in the country and they've been picked up for a crime, then they need to actually face the consequences of being in detention at that point. They can make their case while they're in detention, but they're not wandering around.

So that's the key thing at this point. They're not automatically deported as soon as they're picked up and accused. But if they're accused, they can't just keep wandering around the country. A couple of things. When it comes to immigration, which you know as well as anybody, the hurdles that need to be scaled, there's already been 460 arrests of illegal immigrants by ICE.

The cover of the New York Post says the ICE Man Cometh. They're coming big time. And they're saying if law enforcement gets in the way in the sanctuary cities, they'll be arrested.

So they feel they have the constitution. On their side. There also is a situation where they're sending thousands of military men and women to the border. 1,500 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. There's going to be 2,500 in all.

Do you know if they're going to be allowed to do anything except for ferry people, funnel people the right direction, or can they grab them? Yeah, they can actually grab them and hold them, but someone else has to be able to do the arrest.

So let me take a couple of those things. Tom Holman used the term worst first. They're going after murders and rapists. They're going after people with criminal convictions, people that are on the Interpol international list, people that have criminal records overseas, even that we know of, going after those folks to be able to remove it. This is President Trump's promise of we're going to bring crime down in America.

And the way we're going to start that is with people who are already illegal in the country that are committing crimes, getting them out.

So that's a significant way to be able to do that, to reduce international gang violence, drug trafficking, all of those things to be able to move those folks out.

So keep going, Tom Holman. Keep going, ICE. We want our streets safe. We want less drugs and crime on our streets. But people forget on the other side of this.

2,500 troops are already at the border that the Biden administration had sent down. And Democrats are freaking out over we're using troops for this. I laugh and go, the Biden administration used troops for this. They're used for logistics. What Trump is doing is he's accelerating that and saying if we're going to fly people out, if we're going to bust people, if we're going to use tents and logistics and try to be able to help put up Concertina wire, the United States military, whether it be active duty reserves or the Guard, have lots of assets to be able to help with that.

and they can help actually secure that border. But the law enforcement portion of that, that's still going to be federal law enfor uh, law enforcement, which we've got to keep those two separate.

So the one thing I don't uh what they're doing now is saying anyone who comes to the border, uh just saying don't give them court dates, don't let them in. There's only two people that can green light them, and it's going to be hard for them to cover uh thousands of miles.

So, can you do that? Can you just tell people in the board, sorry, you can't let you in, that's not going to be good enough? I mean, do you know how this is going to be implemented? Yeah, there's a couple of ways. One, they're detaining people.

They're not just doing catch and release. They're going to actually set up locations where if you come across the border, you're going to be held there. Your quick hearing and screening will be there, and then you'll be turned around when you don't qualify. Also doing remain in Mexico, that for folks that want to request asylum, they've got to be able to stay in Mexico and then they'll set them up with a court date to be able to come across the border, have their hearing there, and then when they don't qualify, be deported as well. Interestingly enough, Brian, most folks that cross the border now are not asking for asylum anymore.

They know the game's up. And so they're not asking for asylum.

So we can turn those around very, very fast. And say, hey, you're not legal in the country. You didn't come through the appropriate way. You're out. And so right now it's a matter of speed to turn people around.

And that sends a message to the whole world. The border's not open anymore. That's the big thing that everybody's got to know in the whole world, the rules just changed.

So let's talk about more legislation. What about this Born Alive, the Pushing for the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act? Tell me what this is about. Yeah, this is a bill that actually I brought to the floor with Jim Banks from Indiana yesterday and to have a procedural vote on it. We lost that procedural vote.

We didn't get the 60. We did get a majority. We got 52 votes on it, but we didn't get the 60 needed to start debating it. This should be easy common ground issues for us. I know there's a lot of differences of opinion about abortion in America.

I get that. But this is not about abortion anymore. This is about if an abortion was botched, instead of the child being destroyed in the womb, the child is actually delivered. These are late-term abortions. With a viable child.

Now the child is literally on the table crying in front of you. What do you do?

Well, current medical practice, everybody just kind of backs away and lets the child die on the table. I think that's abhorrent. If you've got a fully delivered child on the table, rules just change dramatically in America. We need to actually give medical care to that child rather than just let them die of exposure there on the table.

Now, it's a rare thing, but we thought this is the easiest common ground thing. And I've actually had a friend of mine, Melissa Odin, she's one of those abortion survivors. That she was literally medical waste that was set aside after an abortion procedure, and a nurse happened to notice that the medical waste. Was breathing and crying. And so the nurse scooped her up and actually took her to get emergency care.

She survived. She's a great adult at this point now that has survived it. But this is not something that's impossible. This is something that happens. And I just make the statement: at least we should agree that when a child is fully delivered, they should not be killed.

All right. Best of luck with that. I hope Democrats will get on board because any clear-thinking person would.

So I want to talk about the confirmation hearings just as I feared, I worried about for the country. I don't like when Republicans do it. I don't think you guys did it with Joe Biden. If there was someone that passed the committee, you put them to a vote and pass them through. If there's someone controversial, I understand it takes more time.

But Jon Thune sees a delay in politics when he knows when he sees it. Cut 16. Democrats have already begun stalling President Trump's nominees. And it doesn't seem to matter who it is. Right now, The Senator from Connecticut is holding up a vote on John Radcliffe, who was nominated for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The Intelligence Committee Favorably reported Mr. Radcliffe's nomination on a bipartisan vote. He should be through. They were supposed to have a vote. Why did they why didn't they have a vote yesterday?

Because they got held up. Everything in the Senate moves either by schedule and it has a very rigid schedule or by what they call unanimous consent, that everyone has to nod their head on it. And Chris Murphy stepped up and said, No, I'm I'm not going to allow this to move forward. We thought we were going to move John Ratcliffe on Monday. That's a typical thing for first day out of the box to make sure the President has the Secretary of State, has the intelligence leadership and has the Department of Defense leadership to make sure that the President has his national security team in the very first day, if not first day, first week.

Well, they have been blocking John Radcliffe, who will win a vote overwhelmingly in slowing him down.

So we don't have a director of the CIA right now. They've been fighting Pete Hexteth. That's infamous. Everybody knows that. But he passed committee.

What are you fighting about? He's passed committee. He's going to pass on the floor. Same thing with Christy Noam.

So our target was first week. We're going to get director of CIA, State Department, DOD, and we're going to get DHS. We're going to get Homeland Security.

So that's our core national security team. We're going to do that. We're going to keep working through the weekend. They can slow us, but they can't stop us. And we're just going to tell Democrats, as Jon Thune has said, we can do this the easy way or the hard way.

But Trump is going to get his national security team. He's going to get them in the first week. When like are you guys going to have to work this weekend? Or can anything get done Thursday, Friday? Sure.

Sure. Yeah. We expect we're going to get Ratcliffe done today because all the clock has run out on that.

So we're going to move Ratcliffe today.

So the director of the CIA will be in place by this afternoon. We have filed all the paperwork and all the clock is running on the Senate time to be able to get Pete Hexett done tomorrow. It'll be tomorrow evening before that is done. And then we'll start work immediately on Christy Noam. Clock will run on that one.

We'll just work through the weekend. If they don't consent on it, we'll just keep going and keep the debate going until we actually get her done. And then we've got lots more folks. We've got Lee Zeldon. We've got lots of other people that are queued up for next week and other positions.

But we're going to not stop. But did they does did Murphy go rogue? I mean, you d you know, Democrats. I mean, why did he do that? Are they determined to work this weekend?

I mean, uh it hurts the country. It it ruins their schedule. I'm sure they have weekend plans. Oh, yeah. Everybody does.

Everybody's either got family plans or work plans, whatever it may be to be able to do in between. But again, this is the first priority for us.

So if Democrats want to have more discipline over there, they can talk to their members about it. But right now, it's going to hold everyone up. And in the meantime, we're going to say, hey, you're not going to win. We're not going to just not do these nominations. We're going to stay and be able to get them done.

So, with Pete, these other allegations that came out, has that gummed up any of the works? It has not. Everybody sees it for what it is. We recognize that this is the total Kavanaugh playbook, and everybody sees it for exactly that. We've got a sister-in-law making an accusation, and the actual ex-wife coming in and saying, no one speaks for me.

There was no domestic violence in our marriage. And the actual person that would be at the center of this is saying, that's not true. And so a sister-in-law with a different political perspective, she's jumping out and attacking Pete and getting her moment of fame. But it's going to continue to be able to move through the process. Is it true that you believe Collins, Murkowski, and McConnell are out and that J.D.

Vance has to come in to get Pete Seth in? I actually don't know. We don't have a public whoop count on that. And I've not talked to any of the three of them on that, but I do know J.D. Vance will be ready to be able to go on that.

As you know, the Senate, if we get to a 50-50 tie, the vice president steps in and breaks the tie on it. Are you on the fence on RFK because of your more conservative values as opposed to his career? You know what? I'm going to actually spend some more time with him. We spent about 30 minutes in my office together just talking through some basic questions.

I've got more in the hearing. I just want to be able to learn more about him. He's got some views that I go, yeah, that is definitely. Definitely shaking it up and addressing some things at FDA and other areas. And other areas, I think, I don't align with that.

I mean, he's a lifelong Democrat and someone that I jokingly say to some of my friends at home: if Biden would have nominated RFK for HHS, would you have been as strong to support him? And most folks at Oklahoma laugh and go, no, I probably wouldn't have, but they also trust Trump and his leadership. And RFK has been very clear. Trump's the president. He's the one that's going to make the calls.

I'm going to implement his policies. And so we're going to walk through the hearing and get a chance to be able to hear where he's coming from. And I serve on that committee, so I'll get a chance to spend more time with him than most Americans will. And I'm looking forward to that conversation. Great.

Yeah. You got Dr. Oz there, and you have Dr. McCarry, too. Senator Lankford, always great to talk to you.

Man, we covered a lot of ground.

Well, let's just keep going. You said we got Arthur Brooks coming up, and then everybody gets happy. Absolutely. I'm going to find out the key to happiness sooner or later. Senator, thanks so much.

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Did you doubt you would be back here?

So it's a great question. It's something I don't think about. I never really. Thought about it. I don't think about, gee, will I be back?

I just do it. I get it done. I get things done. I'm good at getting things done. And I set my mind to it.

That is 100%. That is the first interview, and Sean Hennedy got it understandably in the Oval Office. And that's good. You never really see the President talk like that. He said, I'm good at getting things done.

No kidding. Marty, you're in Orlando. What's on your mind, Marty? Hey, Senator Lankford was talking about the born-again, a born-alive law. And I'm wondering how come that's not a constitutional issue as well as a moral issue.

We're told when it comes to illegal immigrants giving birth here, that child is a U.S. citizen automatically once they're born and afforded all the rights and privileges of any other U.S. citizen. Yet a child who survives an abortion is afforded, they're a U.S. citizen too, yet they're afforded no constitutional rights.

We have a constitution that says you cannot be deprived, it's a due process right. You cannot be deprived of life or property without the due process of law. Where's the due process for these children that are born via an abortion? And now, hey, are you a lawyer? No.

Oh, you sound like it. Marty, yeah, that's a good point. And I wish Langford was listening, but he's going to bat for it today. How are you possibly going to go against this, right? How could you possibly say, oh, yeah, we got to be able to, I need the right to kill the baby who won full term?

Marty, thank you. WDBO is where Marty was listening. When we come back, Arthur Brooks has the key to happiness, teaches a course on it, best-selling books on it, a classic conservative. Arthur Brooks in studio next. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Killmead.

Hey, we are back. We love it when Arthur Brooks comes to New York City because he always promises to stop by, and he did it again. He's a professor at the Parker Dilbert Montgomery. Parga Gilbert, Montgomery Professor, and author of Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier, and teaches a course over at Harvard. And everybody signs up for it.

Why wouldn't they? Arthur, welcome back. Hey, man, good to see you. I love seeing you.

Well, thanks. And congratulations, your daughter's going to go in the Marines next. My daughter is a Marine. She's waiting to take her commission in May after her bachelor's degree. She'll graduate May 18th, and later that day, she'll take her commission as a Butter Bar, second lieutenant.

And she's second Marine in your family. Second Marine. My first Marine, my first Marine, he got out a year ago. He's still in the reserves. He's a sergeant scout sniper from the 3.5 out of Camp Pendleton.

So, were you in the military? No, no, no. We have a military family. Absolutely. We fly the Marine flag because two of our kids.

became marines. May they made us into a military family. It's a beautiful thing. Where'd that come from? It came also my middle son, Carlos, he was looking for what was gonna make him the man that he wanted to be.

And he felt that the U.S. Marine Corps was his ticket to doing that, and it absolutely was the case. Gave him a sense of meaning and purpose in his life. Got out at age 23, married. Nine months after getting married at his first child, and by your fruits you shall know them.

And today, I mean, getting married young and having kids and starting a family shows strength of character and purpose, and that's what he did. He got that from the U.S. Marine Corps. Wow. And so and now he's out, but he's in reserves.

He's in the reserves.

Now he's a a supervisor at Clark Construction, which is the best construction company in America.

So the one thing I hear that's great about since Pete got nominated He's known as like the war. He's one of the guys. And they say recruiting is picking up with him at the top and with this new, let's keep the woke part of the military out of it. He's got to go in there and actually implement it. You saw yesterday the Black Lives Matter, the gay flag, Pride flag off on all embassies, came down.

No more cultural financing of transitional trans parades through El Salvador or whatever they were financing. You think that's a good thing?

Well, I think it's a good thing for any company, organization, government, agency, all of us, to pay attention to what your real job is and do it as well as you possibly can. When you have a secondary and a tertiary kind of mission and you're focusing on that, you're not going to do your job well. That's the bottom line. That's the biggest problem. The U.S.

military should be about defending our nation, projecting our values, helping the rest of the world understand that the United States is here to do business, don't mess with us. And furthermore, if you actually have our values, we have your back. And that means we've got to be tough, we've got to be strong. Strong, we have to have war fighters, and we have to be well-funded. That's what we do.

All the other stuff is secondary at most and probably should be ignored. I've talked to so many people after Afghanistan that served in the military and said, I want my kids going in. If this is going to be the attitude, if I'm going to serve, if you're going to fight a war for 20 years and leave that way and not apologize for it and say it was a big success, I saw more people go, that's it. As you know, the military families usually go down the line. 1% of the country defends all of it.

So I sense that there's a bit of a pivot going on. They have a reason to join because someone, when Pete gets in, is going to have their back. I hope that's the case. I certainly hope that's the case because the United States cannot be a great nation without a great military. We must have a great military.

We have to have a dangerous military, a lethal military full of people that are actually willing to use force. By the way, who also love our country and love the world are motivated by a sense of global brotherhood. But I'm telling you, it's a dangerous world out there and we have to be willing to actually use our lethal force. And you have to have people motivated to do so.

So you notice Trump changed his rhetoric a little.

So he had a job. He said it's going to be a golden age. And then he got this question from Sean Hannity, and I thought it was an interesting pivot, cut one. With time, effort, money, unfortunately. But they're all solvable problems.

We can get our country back. But if we didn't win this race, I really believe our country would have been lost forever. And the question then was: We have a lot of problems. He goes, Yeah, but they're all solvable.

So that means he knows that's his responsibility. Can you explain that in terms of his leadership? I think the big difference now, he's got so many people doing the job. He doesn't feel like he has to do everything. You only got one cabinet member in place, and already Rubio is going to Panama.

He did the flag thing we were talking about and the culture thing with the State Department. He's got other people talking about what they're doing at the border. How do you feel about how he's approaching this compared to the other? I like it so far, and I think it's important that he actually will pivot. Why?

Because when you don't have the job, you make the case for why you should have the job. Once you've got the job, stop campaigning. Start doing the job. And that is, in point of fact, we do have a lot of problems. And in point of fact, if you look at history, look, you're a historian.

The United States doesn't have problems that we can't solve. Absolutely not. And you need great leadership and vigorous activity, total enthusiasm and energy. And that's how the way this thing is started. The one thing that I would love to do, and I'm not saying it's just to one size, is just get out of intramural play.

This is just so many times you see real things going on right now. Do you have an opinion on the border? Let's hear it. Do you have an opinion on immigration? I want to understand it.

You want to know how to get inflation down? Let's do it. You don't have to be in a college. But you have an opinion on it. But then, when you have so many legitimate issues and this historic reemergence of this figure that was supposed to be in jail and now he's president of the United States, a lot to talk about.

But instead, Elon Musk. One of the most impactful people of his generation. He's really the greatest entrepreneur of our lifetimes. He is the Henry Ford of our lifetime. Benjamin Franklin.

Yeah, it's just incredible. The guy is completely amazing. And by the way, I guarantee you, if Benjamin Franklin came back to life, he'd be controversial. He was controversial in his time. He was.

He was controversial in his time. But he was just somebody who said, I love heat inside. I'm going to get a wood-burning stove. I think we have to find a way to put out fires quickly. I think we have to start a fire department in every town.

These streets in Philadelphia, they're so dark. We need street lamps. Yeah. It's just unbelievable how somebody looks at a problem and solves it, and I'm not one of them. And Elon Musk sees a problem, and whether somebody's trapped in a cave or where there's a problem with fires, he brings out his Starlink and makes it happen, helping in North Carolina, too.

So he, one thing about him, In front of crowds, he's like a kid. They were chanting his name at the Capitol One Center, and he came out and he touched his heart and put his hand straight out. Right. And they're saying that he was saluting Hitler. That's comically stupid.

Yes. But it didn't stop Senator Chris Murphy. Listen to this.

Okay, we I thought we had it.

So Senator Chris Murphy brought up that he was saluting Hitler. I'll ask Elise Stefanik how she responds to that. I mean, it's nonsense because it's nonsense. Look, we know when we're being gaslit. And what's going on is we're kind of willing participants in the gaslighting process that our national media and our politicians are feeding us all the time.

If somebody says something outrageous and ridiculous, as long as it's about somebody that you disagree with or that you hate, then you're willing to go along with it. That's a kind of a confirmation bias that we're willingly putting up with. And the good news is that a lot of people are kind of done with that. A lot of people want to get on with making the country a whole lot better. And so, what I really hope is that the Republicans don't do that.

What I really hope is that the Republican administration with the Republican House or Republican Senate can use the moment to stop gaslighting people, not being lying, not ginning up controversy about the other side. Just stick to your knitting, man. Absolutely. Just get it done. Get it done.

Success leaves clues. Let's listen. I think anti-Semitism work is best when we Call out what's happening on both sides of the aisle. What do you think of Elon Musk, perhaps the President's most visible advisor, doing two Heil Hitler salutes? Last night at the President's televised rally?

No, Elon Musk did not do those salutes. I was not at the rally, but I can tell you I have been at many rallies with Elon Musk, who loves to cheer when President Trump says we need to send our U.S. space program to Mars. Elon Musk is a visionary. I'm looking forward to his work in Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, and look forward to looking at how we can be more efficient and effective.

But that is simply not the case. And to say so is the American people are smart. They see through it. They support Elon Musk. We are proud to be the country of such successful entrepreneurs.

That is one of our greatest strengths as Americans. It just uh Chris Murphy is not a knucklehead. He's, you know, he's not some guy that just all you have to do is put the sound up. Are we ever going to get past this? I mean, it must be frustrating to a guy who prides himself on high-level intellectual conversations with the most interesting people in the world.

And then you see a senator trying to find out if the next UN ambassador is worthy, and that's a question. Yeah, no, I mean, this is just what we call in psychology motivated reasoning. And motivated reasoning means that you see what you want to see because of your pre-existing beliefs. This happens all the time. We're all exposed to this.

We do this a lot. It's a very normal thing to do.

So there's somebody you don't like, and you're looking for a way that they're dissing you in some way. They're insulting you in some way. They're slighting you in some way. Whereas somebody that you really like, they can say something to you that would really sound like an insult. You're like, yeah, I didn't mean it.

That's how humans are wired. That's how confirmation bias works. But if you're in the public eye, if you're a leader, you have a responsibility to resist that. It's a very important thing to do. Why?

Because, look, here's what I really hope we can do going forward, whether you're a Democrat or Republican, and Brian, you got both listening to you right now, which is great. I do. We we need leaders. Primarily interested in bringing the country together because we cannot afford a four-year alternating ping-pong match about public policy and world affairs. It's dangerous when the United States changes course on health care, changes course on foreign policy, changes care on diplomacy, changes course on defense.

Every four years, we're weaker than we should be. We're spending more money than we should be. Poor people are being left out to dry. And the way that we do that is having leaders on both sides saying, I want to bring the country together. And to do that, I've got to stop gaslighting people and falling prey to this confirmation bias and ginning up these fake controversies that shouldn't exist in the first place.

So I wonder you hear this moment because this goes into your happiness theme and why people change and how some of them find contentment. Here's Donald Trump talking about a seminal moment. Those who wish to stop our cause have tried to take my freedom. And indeed to take my life. Just a few months ago in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin's bullet ripped through my ear.

But I felt then and believe even more so now that my life was saved. For a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again.

So it was an applause line, but it was a true line. Yeah, it's. I hope he lives up to that. Giving glory to God, giving thanks to God, bringing people more with. If he's a Christian with the cross and gospel of Jesus Christ, I hope he lives up to that.

And by the way, What did Jesus say that truly changed the world? He said, You have heard that you should love your friends and hate your enemies, but today I give you a new teaching. Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. Matthew 5:44. If he believes the things that he's saying right now, I would love to see.

Donald Trump and the people in his administration start to love their enemies in a very meaningful way.

Well, I'll tell you one thing. Normally, Elon Musk went and blew up his whole big mega deal that he did to build that new energy center. Elon Musk said, These guys don't have $500 billion. Check their balance sheets. The old Trump would have said, Well, Elon doesn't know everything.

These guys do, or something, or we would have taken it on. But he kind of laid out on that. What about the bishop yesterday? Yeah. They'd call it the Episcopal Bishop at the National Cathedral speaking in front of Trump, actually preaching in front of Trump and J.D.

Vance. Your thoughts. You know, it's I think that we live in a country, and I'm truly grateful to live in a country where a member of the clergy can stand up in front of the United States and say things that he finds obnoxious, and she will have no knock in the night. She will have no jack-booted thug.

So my first line is: look, I disagree with a lot of what she said. I'm a conservative, and I disagree with what she said politically. I am so grateful to live in the greatest country in the history of planet Earth where she can do that without fear. God bless America. That's all I can say.

Right. She doesn't have any fear, but was it appropriate? Yeah, I mean, I don't think so. Even if she was liberal and is a liberal president and a conservative preacher. I think it was ill-advised.

I think it was an ill-advised because I think it was her moment to actually talk about what clergy are supposed to do, which is to bring people closer to God. And I think that was a moment. I think it was a lost moment. I think I regret it because I think it was a lost opportunity, and I would kind of encourage people to join me in that regret, notwithstanding their politics. But do you want people to go to church?

Yeah, I mean, I want I mean, I'm a Christian, and so you know, I live a public faith, meaning that, you know, I like you, I'm a Catholic and I want to go to Mass, and I think it's the most beautiful thing. It's the most important thing in my life, and I want to share that with everybody I can.

So, a lot of people say that's why I don't go. I don't need that. I mean, I don't need politics. I don't need politics. I don't need to find out how inadequate I am from somebody that maybe you're not looking up to to begin with.

So, I thought that was now all of a sudden. We're talking about her. And I'm asking you, you don't know her, but is that what they wanted? She's on CNN, she's on this, she gets to talk about it.

So, did she accomplish her goal? It's hard to say because I can't look into her heart. You know, the problem is that you don't know the motivations of other people. I think she was probably pretty poorly advised because she had an opportunity to build a bridge to the President of the United States using language that was not pugilistic, that was not controversialist and all to talk about the love of our Heavenly Father and to talk about how he could be a representative of God's love and his work and to say, please be merciful to everyone without actually bringing something that was overtly controversial and political into it. Right, and in front of his whole family too.

Yeah, I mean, and it's funny because, you know, that was provocative because he does not have a long tradition of reacting very well to that. And so the result is it's just kinda it kinda it's like what what does she think is going to happen? And she knows she'll be lauded as a hero among, you know, people on the on the hard political left and then people get a big k kick out of what President Trump is writing on True Social and then the whole merry-go-round goes round again. It's just not helpful. He does not have a long history of reacting well to that.

That was the most political thing you've ever said, politically correct thing. Back in the moment with Arthur Brooks. Educating, entertaining, enlightening. You're with Brian Kilmead. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it.

You're with Brian Kilmead. And thinking about that, and Donald Trump saying things that this country would be a meritocracy, you're talking about a man who. didn't become the President of the United States because of merit. He was given everything that he has. He is a legacy hire.

He is, if anything, a DEI hire, a didn't earn it higher. And so You know, that that's Those were s just some of the things that I was thinking about.

So that is the view where I always go to learn things. To me, it's like a university.

So whatever they say, I think the exact opposite, and I know I'm okay. Should I waste your time and ask you to analyze that statement? It's, you know, the whole idea that, look, she's right. Here's why. None of us earned anything.

We didn't earn our lives. We didn't, you know, I didn't earn being born in the United States of America and speaking English and having great parents. I didn't earn that stuff. All that really matters is that you use what you've got to the best of your ability and in service of, you know, glorifying God and serving other people. As far as I'm concerned, that's what matters.

Reach your potential. Totally. I mean, do it, man. Like, we are entrepreneurs in the business of our lives. We're the startup founders of the enterprise of your Brian Kilmead, Inc.

And look at you. I mean, you're like I was telling you in the break, you're a machine. You're doing this. You're doing that. You're everyplace.

And you're all in all the time because you're the Elon Musk of your life, and that's what we need to be. Everyone is. Everyone is great. Thank you for that. Arthur, do you have a newsletter?

You have a bunch of projects coming out, but do you have a newsletter we can get right now? Because we can't go to Harvard. We can't pass the admissions and we certainly can't get into your class. It's always sold out. What do we do?

It's 9 a.m. Monday morning. You can get to your inbox, 500 words about how science can make you happier if you understand and can change your habits. Go to arthurbrooks.com, just like it sounds like. How science can make you happy?

Absolutely. I mean, the science of happiness is about neuroscience and behavioral science, so it's made digestible and understandable to everybody. But most importantly, it's got the habits that come out of it. And you go to the website, you sign up, it's completely free. It'll be delivered to you every Monday morning.

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So who teaches you? Or are you just picking up different things? You go back in time? You go back to great thinkers? I do.

I read biography. I'm constantly studying ancient philosophy. And part of the reason is because I wasn't trained in philosophy. I'm always staying up to date in my own field of behavioral science, and I'm always learning as much as I can about neuroscience in the public interest to bring it to everybody I can. And that's why your other projects coming out are building on all that.

Exactly right. New podcast coming out. On a television series, but the newsletter is the new thing this week. All right, and where do we go? Arthorrooks.com, everybody.

All right, there you go. Arthur, always great to see you. Thank you very much. And you made me happy by appearing. You always make me happy.

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From 48th and 6th in midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world, Brian Kilmey Joe continues back in New York. Where I know I should be used to this by now. I grew up in New York. I've only lived outside New York for four years for a long period of time. But the winter is it's 11 degrees.

I don't think you ever, and people might be laughing listening to me upstate New York or Iowa or Minnesota or some of the colder climates and say, or Oklahoma, and say, Ryan, what's the big deal? I don't know. Do you ever get used to 11 degrees? I mean, it was one of those things where you feel like when you're indoors, you still feel outdoors. Whether it's a studio, I'm just amazed.

I just say to myself, thank goodness I'm not homeless. I wouldn't be able to take it. This hour, we got Trace Gallagher at the bottom of the hour. Trace, LA Bureau, hosted Fox News at night. But also, did you hear the winds are kicking up again?

Fires are starting again in Los Angeles. And we know tomorrow President Trump will be there to meet with Gavin Newsom.

So we have a lot to discuss.

Meanwhile, the President, in about an hour, is going to zoom in or Skype in to. To Davos. You know, where all the rich people go to talk to each other about why they're so rich and successful.

Well, Trump is the theme. All the big CEOs, tech giants, were at his inauguration.

So he's going to zoom in there and he's going to talk to the so-called globalists and other European leaders who have to now get into action and realize they got to bolster their own defense spending because it's not guaranteed America's got their back. It is, but what he's trying to do is get them to take responsibility or at least pay the American people back for spending so much to guard them.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. We're concentrating on the worst first. And just yesterday, in the last 24 hours, ISA arrested over 308, 308 serious criminals.

Some of them were murderers, some of them were rapists.

So ISA is doing their job and they're prioritizing just as the president said they would. So there you go. Tom Holman in full stride. Him and Rubio securing us at home, challenging our direction abroad. We go over the massive moves to rid our nation of illegal criminals, and the America First Agenda takes root overseas.

Rubio's first stop is Panama to talk about that canal. Number two. Democrats have already begun stalling President Trump's nominees. The Senator from Connecticut is holding up a vote on John Radcliffe. The Intelligence Committee favorably reported Mr.

Radcliffe's nomination on a bipartisan vote. So let him go, please. Get it done. As I feared, nomination is being held up for pure political reasons and it's hurting our nation. Even Mild Matter Thune blew his top.

We will talk about the hearing, the committee confirmations, and the infuriating delays. Number one. It's turning out to be bigger. And I think one thing is happening is People are learning that they can't govern and that their policies are terrible. Uh that is true.

The comeback. Is it the biggest ever? Perhaps. Faster than warp speed. That's what Trump 2 is like.

Donald Trump transforming the country, inserting his agenda of common sense, faster and more organized than any administration in history. Think about this. The top EU diplomat now calls for a defense spending boost. That's exactly what Trump wanted. That's what almost every president has said.

Guys, you're not only NATO members spending 2%, but you want us to protect Europe. You're putting nothing. You have socialist principles. There's no capitalism left there. Even Germany is beginning to collapse because of bad decisions on these woke green agenda.

And now you don't put any money to defense because you got us. Really? Not anymore. Trump is restoring Hamas's ally Cuba to state sponsorship of terror. Absolutely.

He's also doing the same with the Houthi rebels. He put them back on the terror list. Joe Biden foolishly took them off and he called Saudi Arabia the pariah nation. He also reverses Biden's EV moves. No more EV mandates.

That's going to affect everybody in the automobile business. He also orders crackdown on the pro-terrorist college students. Wouldn't that be great? Yesterday at Columbia University, you had two guys storm into a class teaching Israeli history and start speaking anti-Israeli jargon, anti-Semitic crap, and he was allowed to finish. You arrest that guy from now on.

By the way, if my kid got into a Navy League school and I'm paying $77,000 a year for him to go, and I find out some guy pretending to be Yasser Arafat comes in with a mask, with a towel over his mouth, and starts speaking anti-Semitic phrases, I'd be outraged. My kid wouldn't be going to Columbia flat out.

Meanwhile He sent a veiled warning to Mexican drug cartels. He's declared them a terrorist organization, which means we can strike them out of country.

So, if we know they're in Mexico and we know they continue to harass, terrorize, and farm fentanyl through our country, why can't we hit them? The answer is: we can. It will definitely poison Mexican relationships, perhaps, but perhaps they're more powerful than the Mexican government, and maybe they're actually for it. Trump also tells embassies and outposts that fly the stars and stripes only: take down the BLM flags, take down the pride flags. This is about the United States of America.

This is all, you're talking about 100 days, you're talking about 100 hours.

So, he's also suspended all foreign assistance programs for 90 days. He's going to review all of them. Totally, he also wants $7 billion back from the Taliban for all the stuff that we left behind or the previous regime left behind, because they. They had something to do, and that was pull out of Afghanistan to pretend it was success.

Meanwhile, Trump. Trump's ICE teams are racking up hundreds of arrests, 460 in all. I love the cover of the New York Post. It says, The ICE Man cometh. He's raiding sanctuary cities, deporting illegal migrants, while saying, if you get in his way, sanctuary cities, you are subject to arrest.

How real is that? It is very real.

So he sat down yesterday and talked to Sean Hannity. First interview since becoming president in the Oval Office, which many people thought he would never see again, which seemed very unlikely a year ago today.

Well, it happened. Cut for. It's turning out to be bigger. And I think one thing is happening is People are learning that they can't govern and that their policies are terrible. I mean, They don't want to see a woman get Pummeled by a man in a boxing ring.

No. They don't want to see men in women's sports and otherwise. They don't want to see them, and they don't want to have transgender for everyone. They don't want a child leave home as a boy and come back two days later as. A girl.

A parent doesn't want to see that. And there are states where that can happen. They don't want to see Taxes go through the roof. Like, this is the only group of people they want to raise your taxes. They say we want to raise your taxes.

You know, if they don't work with us on the Trump tax cuts extending, That would mean we go back to the taxes, we got the largest tax cut in history. That would mean the taxes would go up more than any tax hike in the history of our country. And normally you'd say that's got to be the easiest negotiation in history because if they did that, how could they ever win an election? And what he was stumbling into is what he's got to start selling now, and that is to renew the Trump tax cuts and make them better. He wants to restore, to a degree, the state and local tax deduction.

Well, we have taxes at 13% in New York City now, higher in California. People in South Carolina and Ohio and Florida and Texas say, I don't want to give them a deduction. Plus, it will blow a hole in the revenue portion of his tax reform.

So, we've got to figure out something there. There's a lot of negotiations to go, but some of the stuff he said in the top half is just common sense. It's not conservative, it's common sense. Can you believe in an inaugural address when they look back 100 years? They're going to say, the President of the United States actually had to say there are only two genders.

He had to say it, and there won't be any men in women's sports. He actually said it. I think they're going to be in class and say, I've just read Washington's inaugural. I read JFK's inaugural address. What was Trump talking about?

Well, what he was, it was more of a campaign speech and how he won.

So, that's interesting to see him so reflective yesterday, but also so certain in the direction he wants to take the country.

So he also we're talking about the pardons. You have a situation where he just took 1,500 people that have arrested for what happened on January 6th, and he pardoned all of them. And he just said look, said Some of them just were walking through. They got caught up in it. They had to take a plea.

They don't have a lot of money to pay on attorneys, and that's what they did. Others with pickaxes, were breaking windows. Others were tackling cops. I have no patience for that. No Republican conservative.

I know most Americans wouldn't tolerate it. But Trump has a reality check. You don't care about it when it was Portland. You don't care about it when it was Seattle. You don't care about it when it was New York City.

You don't care that they forced him into the basement of the White House because they were going to jump over the White House fence and they couldn't guarantee his security. You're okay with the pardon that Joe Biden did of somebody who murdered an eight-year-old girl and his mom. He brought them out of prison.

So, if you're upset about the pardons of some of those people on January 6th and you think four years wasn't enough, okay. But if you think that you can just do that like CNN and MSNBC is, you're insane. Get a hold of it. Here's Mark Wayne Mullen, yesterday, cut 11. President Biden changed all this.

Remember the 37 murderers that he commuted their sentences? Remember two of them, one that he pardoned, one that he pardoned, killed two FBI agents, another one literally beat an officer to death with a hammer, and another one literally tied up a woman who had accused him of rape, tied her up in duct tape, put a center block around her, and threw her over a bridge live. And so you remember that the violence that he pardoned, and I'm just saying you got to compare both of them, Aaron. If you're going to cover the story, cover both stories. I guess that was Aaron Burnett.

Thank you. Mark Wayne Mullen is just awesome. People in Oklahoma are lucky to have him, works hard every day and also makes a lot of sense.

So Jim Acosta, why he still has a job is beyond me. He embarrassed himself in the network for four years covering Trump the first time, was rude and dismissive. And then he decides to get Tim Burchett on and pretend that the January 6th story was the only story. Listen to this exchange, Cut Twelve. What happened to back the blue?

What happened to backing police officers? Your party has said time and again: we back the blue. It sounds like you let down the blue. You're betraying the blue. Jim, why don't you just give an editorial and not let me come on?

Look, what happened to the last four years with police? What happened with all the riots that took place all across the country? Police officers were murdered. Courthouses were burned. Over 22 police cars were burned.

Yet no one went to jail for that. Where's your crocodile? You're engaged for that. You're engaging in a game of whataboutism. People were doing every day.

Every daddy arguing about what we're doing at CNN. We didn't store the capital. These people did.

So, and then this is he's just clueless. He's not listening to what he said. He's understanding the inconsistency in his argument. Cut 13. As we saw during the Black Lives Matter marches, we saw on the riots all across the country, those people walked.

Nobody went to jail for that. Millions upon millions of dollars of property was damaged. You all didn't raise a finger, didn't say one word about it. Congressman. You showed it and said, oh, it's all in order.

You showed right, we had riots where things, towns were burning down, and they were allowed to do it. They were allowed to do it. And you all did not. Oh, you come here, Jim. Come on, Jim.

This is not Fox, Congressman. You can't just spin a tail and pull the wool over people's eyes. This is CNN. This is the news. We are asking you to come on and tell the truth.

And that's why more people are watching the Cartoon Network SpongeBob reruns right now, Jim. And that's it. And it was 100%. The CNN should not be telling anybody how to do the news. Those days are done.

Right, uh, and it's not a matter of putting on people that get your ratings, it's a matter of being somewhat balanced in how you report. Be bound tell both pardon stories. Why have him on? And why pretend that January 6th, let me just look up right now. What are they talking about?

Uh Okay. Right now, they're not talking about January sixth. For the first time, I looked up and I could what's the MSNBC and CNN, they're talking about Trump's challenge to birthright citizenship. That's a legitimate argument. It's a great scholarly argument about what was meant by the Fourteenth Amendment.

But the President's done with that. Why? Do you think when they wrote the 14th Amendment They said to themselves, We want to be able to let people sneak in here illegally, have kids, and let those kids become citizens, it's a total abuse of the 14th Amendment.

So here is a And there's a lot of debate, but I think there's both sides of this debate. It's fascinating. But what it is, is show you have a president that is not going halfway. We want to get control of the people coming in. He's open to the H1 visas about getting people in, wants to make the show there's no abuse of that.

But it's not anti-immigration, it's just doing it the right way and looking at things on the books like the lottery. And chain migration and saying whose idea was this? It's terrible. Joanne in Kingston, New York. Hey, Joanne.

Hi, Brian. How are you? Great. What's in your mind? Hi, uh first of all, I'm in a sanctuary city i know i'm in a sanctuary county i should say and the people here are so hateful most of them don't even know that i'm conservative and i'm like helping people and stuff And they're talking about how bad Trump is, how horrible this presidency's gonna be, how that he doesn't care about anybody.

And I can't even say anything to rebut anything that they say because they are so angry. And they despise the whole election, they say it's not right, it's just everything. I don't know what to do. No, no, Joanne, just do it. You don't have to talk politics.

You play it as smart. But what you could do is you question people. You say, Yeah, you know, I don't love that we have criminals here and they're being protected by the Sanctuary City status. You know, I I want police to be able to make arrests. I want if the ICE is coming to our town, don't you think that we should be able to allow our police to work with them to find out who the criminals are?

I mean, that's how you do it through questioning. You don't say, I love Trump. And then when Trump starts producing some results and you say, well, you know, wait a second. I notice what's going on over in Russia. They seem to be talking now.

I know in Israel, they finally fully backed. You know, I see at home, we finally have put meritocracy back and stopped with the DEI. And little by little, I think people will be one over that are somewhat coachable and understanding. They have to know the last four years, socially and economically, were really unnecessarily challenging because people were more in love with their agenda than they were what was good for us, in my view. When we come back, I'll be able to squeeze in some more calls.

And then we got Trace Gallagher coming in, I think in studio, right, Allison? Yeah, he'll be in studio. And then 1-866-408-7669. Don't move. Politics, current events, and news that affects you.

Brian's got a lot more to say. Stay with Brian Kilmead. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. I mean you gotta look at Elon.

I mean SpaceX, I mean Tesla, you know, Neuralink. I just I mean the guy is our Einstein, and so I I'd like to be helpful to him and his company as much as we can. I think it is completely rational for someone to look at our government and say it's been ineffective. We deserve good government. And I don't think anyone thinks sending another trillion dollars to Washington DC will lend to good government.

So government needs to be more accountable. It needs to be more efficient. It should be outcomes based. I mean, I'd say department by department.

So I wish them the best. It's going to be complicated. The federal government's complicated. You've read about all the people in it. And so if we could be helpful to them, and I'd love to be helpful to them.

So, Jamie Diamond of J.P. Morgan Chase and Davos talking about. Will you guys calm down about Trump and tariffs? Will you guys calm down about Elon Musk and some of the more. controversial statements he's made and things that he's posted.

Think about what he brings. And he says, I'd like to be helpful. He's saying his bank would like to be helpful. Think about this. The guy comes up with a tunnel system outside Las Vegas to alleviate traffic, which is not just a tunnel.

Like the mid-town tunnel, is a tunnel system where your car goes down essentially on an elevator and moves what looks like a treadmill. Faster than 100 miles, 200 miles an hour. You don't do anything, and then you pop up on the other side. How much would that help in Los Angeles and New York? He's doing in Las Vegas while putting also chips and brains and rockets in the sky.

It's crazy. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. The thing that really, I think. Was spotlighting Snoop is because of the things that Snoop Dogg said 10 days before the inaugural in 2017.

And so, look, If if you opposed and stood up against Trump, In twenty seventeen, But you were there now. If you spoke up against Trump, january seventh of january twenty twenty one But you were there now applauding him like a trained seal? Donald Trump has not changed. You've changed. Really?

Okay, so Donald Trump Anna Navarro, who pretends to be a Republican, I don't remember the last time she said anything conservative, is on the view, and we taped it. Trace Gallagher insisted on it. He does Fox News at night. He's going to be coming from New York now. He's going to stay up later than usual.

It's 11 o'clock Eastern Time. We can't wait for that show. You're going to be outnumbered. You'll be the man in the middle.

So, your thoughts about Anna Navarro and Snoop Dogg and Nelly Got Blowback 2. I mean, what's the deal? Carrie Underwood. You talk about the whole, the entire show of The View is just amazing. It's amazing to me that it's still going forward with this format.

I mean, you would think that the people on top, when you talk about MSNBC and CNN, they're still the resistance. And you think, why are the bosses not saying, have we looked at the numbers? Have we not seen that America, even those who are against Trump, are at least willing to say, okay, let's see what's happening here. Let's see what he does. Let's see where this thing goes.

I mean, even the liberals that I talk to, who are really left, have said, listen, we at least need to be open-minded about this because it's doing us no good by putting up a firewall. But Trace, would you also say the last four years have not been heartening? I mean, you could pretend. I mean, it has not been good not to have a president that's functioning. Right.

It has not been good with the cancel culture. It has not been good with the condemnation and the social media pressure that Mark Zuckerberg has exposed. All this stuff is, it's not so much, well, you got to give Trump another chance, and then you got to say to yourself, What was I told about Trump and what it was actually he like and what was he doing? But they're still doing it. I mean, you have yesterday where they're talking about Elon Musk with the whole Nazi salute.

They're on the same bandwagon.

So they're not saying, okay, let's take a step back. Let's look at things rationally and reasonably and not, you know, not Alarmist coverage, like they continue to do. I think what they need to do is to say, listen, everybody, like Mark Zuckerberg, everybody needs to say that this is the way it's going to be for the next four years. It didn't work for the last four, so for the next four, maybe we should be on board, at least have one foot on board to see where this ship is going. And the one thing I did, I had a chance to talk to Mark Zuckerberg two days ago, and he said, I was really called, I was told by this president, past president, that I kill people.

I was told that I was killing people. He goes, What do you think that's like? And his face was getting red talking to me, right? He doesn't drink. And then a little bit later, he said, would put the nail in the coffin was the oligarch's comment.

I'm an oligarch now? Yep. He goes, really? What am I an oligarch? And then I said, what was it like when your guys would come to you after getting screamed at because you were saying things about ivermectin?

And he said, and he goes, Brian.

Well, guys, I was getting screamed at by the FBI, by high-level or sometimes low-ranking people in the Biden administration.

So, you wonder why people are taking a fresh look at Trump, and maybe some of the complaints he had weren't crazy? Yeah. And you talked to a guy like Matt Taibbi, who has written so much about the Twitter files, and he's now saying, listen, the whole Facebook files would be worse than the Twitter files. The Twitter files were absolutely astounding at how much censorship the government imposed upon these companies. But he said, if you look at the Facebook files and you talk to Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg is going to tell you horror stories about how this government came in and censored them.

They shut down dissent just like they do in a communist country because there was no such thing during COVID as dissent.

So I just wanted to, because you brought up the Elon Musk thing before we move on. When you tell me there's a commentator on MSNBC who says it was Heil Hitler's salute, I'd say, how low are they going in order to get ratings or CNN? But when I heard Senator Chris Murphy, this is Senator Chris Murphy to Elise Stefanik, the UN ambassador, who he feels he's got to tell her about this. Listen to this.

I think anti-Semitism work is best when we Call out what's happening on both sides of the aisle. What do you think of Elon Musk, perhaps the President's most visible advisor, doing two Heil Hitler salutes? Last night at the President's televised rally? No, Elon Musk did not do those salutes. I was not at the rally, but I can tell you I have been at many rallies with Elon Musk, who loves to cheer when President Trump says we need to send our U.S.

space program to Mars. Elon Musk is a visionary. I'm looking forward to his work in Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, and look forward to looking at how we can be more efficient and effective. But that is simply not the case. And to say so is the American people are smart.

They see through it. They support Elon Musk. We are proud to be the country of such successful entrepreneurs. That is one of our greatest strengths as Americans. Come on, are you kidding me?

A sitting senator who thinks he's doing that when you put the audio up, he says, puts his hand on his heart and says, I love you, and puts his hand straight out. Part of the problem was they didn't put the audio up. Part of the problem was that when you see this played again, they didn't put the audio. The I love you. Didn't put that up there.

Chris Murphy is the definition of irrational, reasonable. He's not those things. And the worst part about this is that they're going back to the same well. They're going back and they're saying, you know what? Maybe it didn't work seven, eight years ago.

We're going to try this whole thing. They miss calling Trump Hitler so much that they're willing to get any narrative that kind of leads them in that direction. Elon Musk has been a huge supporter in this whole post-October 7th thing of the Jewish community. And for them to say that, it is absolutely ridiculous. You put on that small bulletproof vest and went to Israel to see exactly what happened.

How many people listening right now were able to do that? Not many or would have done. On it, not many.

So, speaking of Murphy, I'm not sure if he went rogue or not, but it drives me crazy for both parties when they hold up cabinet nominations because we are, it's like leaving your office vacant with so many real challenges out there. Today, we hope that John Radcliffe gets through, but the reason why he didn't get through yesterday is Chris Murphy, who said that, no, I'm going to debate this more. He already got through committee overwhelmingly. John Thune hit the roof, and now he's going to keep them here this weekend, Cut 16. Democrats have already begun stalling President Trump's nominees.

And it doesn't seem to matter who it is. Right now The Senator from Connecticut is holding up a vote on John Radcliffe, who was nominated for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Intelligence Committee Favorably reported Mr. Radcliffe's nomination on a bipartisan vote. Yeah.

And he said, that's it. You guys want to bring some cots? You're going to stay here this weekend? Because you got Radcliffe, Christy Noam, Pete Hegseth, all out of committee. Right.

Pam Bondi, you know who's going to get a committee. Why are we waiting until next week? Are you kidding? And Pete Hegseth, they said going in was really the beach they were going to die on. And so now you have now everybody kind of falls in the mix, right?

It's not just Hegseth, and it's not just Cash Patel. It's not. It's not a vote they don't like now. Who? OMB.

Oh, yeah, yeah, right. And you think, you know, now it's everybody.

So now they're thinking, we're just going to slow the whole thing down. Let's play the resistance again, slow the whole thing down. But the American people voted. When the Democrats are crying and whining about, oh, Trump, what is he doing? He's deporting all these people.

He's taking all these criminals out of the country. You lost the election. People voted for that. You look at the CNN poll. You look at the MSNB, I mean the ABC poll, CBS, and the New York Times.

Every one of those polls shows that the majority of Americans favor Trump's. Policies of deportation, and now that he's doing it, people are whining, which is why, okay, they're playing the resistance on every other front. What do you think Pete gets through, right? I think so. I think everybody.

I think everybody is eventually going to get through. I think everybody that he put forth is eventually going to get through.

So, I mean, this other letter comes out of nowhere. This former brother's ex-wife comes out and says X, Y, and Z happened during the marriage. And then his ex-wife, Pete's ex-wife, goes, No, it wasn't. Right. No, I'm my own spokesperson.

But they said, Well, we have to look at this. Listen to the person who actually was involved in this. Why are you listening to, I mean, in a courtroom, it wouldn't be allowed. If you had the actual person go in court and say this did not happen, you can't use this other friggin testimony. It's not the way the law is, but it's the way politics works.

Right, so Trace, on Saturday night, I talked to Senator Roger Wicker, who I think you should have on because he wants to revamp, even before Pete was nominated, he wants to revamp the whole Pentagon. He wants to get that audit through and reorient a lot. A lot of things.

So here's what he said about Pete. Cut 19. I'd say by the first week, Pete Hexeth will be in place at the Pentagon, and we need somebody right away at the Pentagon. This is the most dangerous situation the United States has faced since World War II. We're facing not only Russia and China, but North Korea and the Ayatollahs and Iran.

And they're all in it together like they never have been before.

So we need leadership, we need a change, and we need somebody in charge. And I'm really looking forward to working with Pete Hexeth and also the team that he's putting in place. I mean, the team is pretty good. The Undersecretary, Eldridge Ugg, Colby, number one, number two, the guy from Serebus who's ran huge organizations, and already recruiting is coming up. It's going to be for the warfighter.

Exactly right. And I think his team is going to be great. But you hear the first part of that soundbite where he's like, I think by the first week, we're four days into the first week. And the Pete Hexeth nomination, he's trying to find some wiggle room to get seen. I mean, that's the whole problem here: oh, we've got this delay and we've got this, and we've got to do this, and we can't.

So that's the whole thing. You talk to Chad Pergram, and he's like, oh, it's delay. And, you know, it's push, push, push. And that's the problem: if they can push this thing off long enough, they can create a little bit of, you know, a little bit of tension with the Trump administration. And I think that's the goal.

So we know this. We have some nominate. We got some dates.

Now we're going to have a date for RFK Jr. It's going to be next week, early next week. We also, when Radcliffe is supposed to get through today, we know that the energy secretary is supposed to get through today.

So today is Doug Collins now, Lee Zeldon shortly after. Doug Bergham and Chris Wright committee, they'll go in front of. And vote on the nominations of Bergham for Secretary of Interior and Chris Wright for Secretary of Energy.

So they'll get out of committee. They're queued up for next week. But for example, I would like Doug Bergham to be with President Trump when he's in Los Angeles on tomorrow. He should be. Right?

Shouldn't he be able to see this? Plus, Bergham knows this. He should be. Yeah. He knows this stuff, and he should be right alongside of him because that's the whole thing.

It needs to be a united front when they go into California because it is going to be very illuminating for California authorities when Trump and his team show up tomorrow in California. Right. And ask him, hey, you know the $50 million you're using to Trump-proof the state? I think you should put that towards. Wildfires.

How about that? Fireproofing the state. Trace, I don't think you're going to be able to come because you have other commitments and a family to raise. And also, you're very athletic. You're always doing sports.

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So, Trace Gallagher's here. Normally comes out of our LA Bureau. Our 11 o'clock show is his 7 o'clock show. He follows Greg Gutfeld and doing a fantastic job, Fox News at Night.

So, Trace, you left a war zone. You left a war zone in Los Angeles. And we find out these wins, we're watching the reports together are kicking up again. What's the mood on the ground? What's Trump going to see when he goes on the ground on Friday?

Well, he's going to see one fire burning, which is this New Hughes fire, which is up in up in northern Los Angeles County, up by, if you know the area, it's up by Valencia, Magic Mountain area of Los Angeles.

So he's going to see a lot of smoke. He's going to see a lot of ash. He's going to see some flames. And then he's going to see the wreckage of the past two fires that were so devastating, which is the Eaton fire out in Altadena near Pasadena, of course, the Rose Bowl area, and then in Pacific Palisades. He's going to see what looks like airplanes came in for days and days and days and carpet bombed the whole thing.

And that's what he's going to see. And then he's going to hear these tales of, oh, it was just the wind. There's nothing we could have done. There's a lot they could have done. In fact, I was just talking to Brian about the fact that Rick Caruso's name recognition is now rising in Los Angeles because he was the one that lost the mayoral race, the Los Angeles mayoral race, to Karen Bass.

And he lost because, you know, he just was a Republican who decided to run as an independent or a moderate Democrat. And California won't elect anybody who's associated with the Republican Party because it's 71%. When I was out there, there was Republican Governor Wilson. That's right. That's exactly right.

So Pete Wilson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, you take those two out of the mix, and you've got to go back to Reagan before you start seeing some Republican chops in the lead roles there. But you're going to see Trump go in there, and he's going to be critical, rightly so, because the response to the Palisades fire, the response to the Eaton fire were horrendous, horrendous. And Donald Trump wants to know why there's not more water coming from Northern California.

Southern California. It's a valid question. We voted billions of dollars we are paying for reservoirs to be built in California, and they cannot be built because the environmental lobby is so powerful that they don't mess with them.

So all this money is going in there, and there's no reservoirs. And the key reservoir that could have saved some more homes, put some more water on homes, was empty when the Palisades fire started. Right. And then they said that they ran out of power, no backup generator to be able to go back into that reservoir.

So is it okay during wildfire season to have a reservoir that's out of commission? I don't know the details. Never. But to me, I would never think that would be okay. Number two, you are the fire.

This is interesting. You are the fire commissioner taking on the mayor. The mayor saying everyone should just come down. The governor saying, not my fault. I'm going to look into this as if he's not in the same state, which is the absence of leadership by definition.

That's right. And then they were fighting. He was fighting with the president.

Now he's not president-elect. He's actually president. To come down and see this. At which time, you know, Trump, do you predict when they're shoulder to shoulder these nets? I told this guy to start pulling water out of the north, and Gavin Newsom saying, Mr.

The President misunderstands what's going on? How do you see this happen? I see exactly like that. I mean, you're going to see Gavin Newsom talk about climate change. Oh, climate change causes.

Climate change didn't put all that fuel in all those forests, right? Didn't not thin the forests. Climate change didn't not clear the brush. Climate change didn't not have water in the reservoir. Climate change didn't do any of this stuff.

This is California governance. This is leadership in California that did all of this stuff that left them without enough water, that left the fire hydrants not working, that left the pressure too low, that left the forest timber too high and the brush around those Palisades homes also too high because they can't clear it, because they can't get clearance from the environmentalists to go in there and do their jobs. This is all about leadership in California, and there is now a huge deficit. Of leadership in California, and I think the president realizes you have under a minute left, but the Huntington Beach mayor came out and said, I don't want to be a sanctuary city. Right.

We will cooperate with ICE. Explain. Huntington Beach is different than Los Angeles. Huntington Beach is in Orange County, which Orange County was always red, red, red. It's not as red anymore.

But Huntington Beach is clearly one of those areas that says, hey, we are not doing this because it doesn't make sense. We have to get rid of the bad people. We can't just let people break the law and then spend billions of dollars protecting them. We have to get rid of the bad people so we're not on board with the California sanctuary status because it's not helping our people. Anyone on tonight?

Did you know of yet? Or is it too early to book? We're booking like crazy right now, Brian. But thank you for asking. It's going to be amazing.

Watch it 11. Watch it 11. All right, Trace, thanks so much. Always great. We'll watch you outnumbered in one hour.

All right. Back. From high atop. Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division.

It's Brian Kilmead. Thanks so much for being here, everybody. It's the Brian Kilmichelle back from DC. Finally, thawed out what a special time it was and what a special 48 hours it's been. We right now have President Trump addressing Davos, Switzerland, you know, where all the who's who of the world, literally who's who of the world, get together and they talk about where the world should be heading.

That's where everyone feels the globalist mentalities come from. But the word is it's all about Trump and all the Titans, the tech Titans, were at the inauguration.

So Trump is here addressing Davo Switzerland right now. It's an important conference. A lot of them had a negative view of him, wondering about him on the outside. They know exactly what he's like. They know where America has been.

Joe Biden, much more typical of an American leader, although everyone knows he was mentally diminished.

Now you have Trump talking about: listen, you guys start to start putting money into your own defense. You got to start. We stop. Pretending that you're developing nations and start having more fair trade. And I'm sure that's going to be the mission and the message today.

If you think he's going to be intimidated by these other global leaders, forget it. In fact, this hour, I'm going to be joined by Joe Lonsdale. He's a co-founder of Palantir. He, along with Peter Thiel and others, founder and general partner of the firm 8 VC. Joe is going to play a role with Doge, I am certain, and he's an advisor to the President.

Informal, I'm sure. There's a mutual respect there. Let's bring in Mark Thiessen. Mark, former speechwriter, columnist for The Washington Post, a fellow at AEI as well as a Fox News contributor. Mark, what would you put in a message to Davos today?

Well, first of all, I won't take issue with your statement that all the powerful people are there in Davos because you and I are not there. We're here. Good point. I would say you're not here. It's not everyone.

Right. That's true. That is true. I should consider myself one of the most powerful people in the world, but I'd rather other people say it. There you go.

Well, I just did it.

So, Mark, what would you put in this? Knowing Trump, knowing Trump, knowing his audience, knowing he wants to set a tone, what would you put in there? Or do you expect to be in there? Yeah, I would lay out the agenda that he has laid out, which is that America is not going to get pushed around anymore, that we're not going to be taken advantage of, and that he wants to lay out his plan for rebuilding the American economy and getting us moving again. I think he should definitely tell them that: look, all of this focus that you have had on climate and energy and transitioning us away from fossil fuels, we're going the opposite way, baby.

We're going to drill, baby, drill. We're going to lower oil energy prices for Americans, and by doing so, we're going to do it for the whole world. And you guys need to drill as well and fuel an American renaissance and a global renaissance.

So, what Trump is talking about now is inflation is double when it was left. He talked about the debt and how much we're paying 230 percent on the debt and our deficit.

So, he's being honest and candid. And he says, I've instructed everybody to look at their divisions that I have put them in and find a way to cut regulation. In terms of everyone going off on Trump, on tariffs, there was Jamie Dimon who was on CNBC yesterday. And he talked about tariffs. And he talked about how everyone's just got to relax when it comes to tariffs.

Do we do we have that soundbite, Eric? I mean, you got to look at Elon. I mean, SpaceX. I mean, Tesla, you know, Neuralink. I just, I mean, the guy is our Einstein.

And so I'd like to be helpful to him and his company as much as we can. I think it is completely rational for someone to look at our government and say it's been ineffective. We deserve good government. And I don't think anyone thinks sending another trillion dollars to Washington, D.C. will lend to good government.

So government needs to be more accountable. It needs to be more efficient. It should be outcomes-based. I mean, I say department by department.

So I wish them the best. It's going to be complicated. You know, the federal government's complicated. You've read about all the people in it. And so if we could be helpful to them, and I'd love to be helpful to them.

And that means J.P. Morgan, the bank, as well as Insight. He also went on to say about tariffs. Guys, relax. It's negotiating.

And if we have to pay a little bit more for additional security, let's do it. That attitude just wasn't there in 2017. Yeah, no, I think I think the whole look, there's the difference between now and 2017 is that everyone thought in 2017 that Donald Trump was a fluke. They didn't take him seriously. They didn't consider him a legitimately elected president.

Either he was a fluke or he was a product of collusion with Russia, right? And now he has a decisive popular vote victory, a swing state sweep, and he's got unified control of government and his opposition. Have threw everything they had at him and failed. And he's still standing. It's like a Marvel movie when, like, you know, you see they fire every weapon possible at the guy, and then like the smoke clears, and he's just standing there.

That's Donald Trump. And so you have to, they're not going to be, they can't go back into the reflexive resistance anymore. They have to take him seriously and they have to work with him. And on tariffs, I think Jamie Dimon is 100% right. It's a tool, right?

So, you know, Trump, one of the things that people, that makes Trump so effective in his both diplomatically when it comes to military force, but also economic force, is that he's, you know, he people, he's willing to, you know, fire the weapon. You know, this is the guy who killed Costum Soleimani. This is the guy who imposed tariffs, you know, to use tariffs as a tool to get the Mexicans to enforce their own southern border. And so he goes out and talks about how he loves tariffs, and he's happy either way.

So either you put on the tariffs and great, and we'll make a lot of money off of them, or you give us what we want and we won't impose the tariffs. And it's really, you know, they believe he wants the tariffs and he likes the tariffs. They're more likely to think that he'll actually pull the trigger and they're more likely to concede. Mark, you have such a passion for foreign policy. Let's talk about Marco Rubio.

He's the only cabinet member in place. And man, does he sound like Trump? He says his priorities on the mission has got to be clear. Curb mass migration, secure our borders, reward performance and merit. Return to the basics of diplomacy by eliminating our focus on political and cultural causes.

That means no Black Lives Matter flag, no. There's no pride flags, stop censorship and suppression of information, and do away with climate policies that weaken America. And guess where he's going this week? His first trip to Panama. I mean, if you think that Rubio is going to be freelancing or he doesn't believe, they said, I saw a headline a couple of days ago: why Rubio won't last long.

Have you met him? They get it. They've healed their ways. They're on the same page. He knows who he works for.

Oh, 100%. And he's going to be a very effective Secretary of State. And it's great that he's going to Panama because the Panamanians need to understand that Trump is serious. He wants the canal back. And if they're either, they're going to have to bend over backwards to try to push the Chinese out if they want to keep it.

Again, this is, again, Trump. One of the things that I loved about the inaugural address, he said, Manifest Destiny is back. One of his foreign policy goals is territorial expansion of the United States. It's just so great. I love it.

Well, yeah. I mean, and by the way, Denmark used an expletive to say for those people for Donald Trump who wants Greenland back, blank you, you could fill in the blank.

So he's already got Denmark's attention. Yep. Not the Prime Minister. Oh. Good luck with that.

Yep. So let's talk about Ukraine before we talk about the border.

So Trump is threatening Russia with tariffs to end the Ukraine war. This is the toughest and most honest statement on Russia to date. We must never forget that Russia helped us, he put on Truth Social, win World War II, losing 60 million lives. All that being said, I'm going to do Russia, whose economy is failing, and President Putin a very big favor. Settle now.

Stop this ridiculous war. It's only going to get worse. If we don't make a deal, I have no choice but to put high levels of taxes, tariffs, and sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the U.S. and various other participating countries. Let's get this war.

Which never would have started on your banana set. It's time to make a deal. No more lives should be lost. Key imports from Russia include. Inorganic chemicals, precious metals, machinery, as well as lime and other fertilizers.

What do you say to that? For those people who think that he's just going to throw Zelensky under the bus, what do you say to that? Yeah, he's not. And look, he said the other day that Zelensky wants a deal. I don't know if Putin wants a deal.

I don't think he does right now. And we're going to have to convince him. He understands who the aggressor is and who the victim is. He understands who the intransigent party is, which is Putin, who's going to be strongarm. Zelensky wants peace.

He doesn't want Ukrainians dying. He wants to end this war. He wants to end this aggression. Look, the Ukrainians have been, with our help, enormously successful in defending their country. Russia now has, I think, 18% of the country.

They had about 10% of it from their 2014 invasion.

So they've gained about 10% of Ukraine, 8% of Ukraine at the cost of 800,000 casualties and the loss of two-thirds of their military. They're not strong. They're weak. Two-thirds of their navy is at the bottom of the Black Sea and the rest has been withdrawn because the Ukrainians very smartly using sea drones. The Ukrainians don't even have a navy and they destroyed two-thirds of the Russian Black Sea fleet.

The Moskva is sitting on the bottom of the Black Sea right now.

So, you know, Trump understands this. He wants peace. And Jack Keene and I have a big essay in the Washington Post today laying out a plan to arm the Ukrainians without U.S. taxes. And the way you do it is you do it with frozen, you use the frozen Russian assets that are $300 billion sitting in US and European banks, and you do it with loans.

And ironically, we can do this. and make money. Because right now, up until now, we've been spending taxpayer dollars. There's 300,000 i if we use the Russian assets, all that money comes into our defense industrial base. Instead of taxpayer dollars building up our defense industrial base and creating jobs, Putin's paying for it.

And we will make interest off the loans.

So we can continue to arm Ukraine, and we have to do it whether there's peace or not. Because if Putin doesn't want to come to the table, Trump has said he's going to arm Ukraine even more. And if they do negotiate peace, Ukraine's going to need weapons to deter Russia from starting the war again once Trump leaves.

So we I think we need to we got a we've got a way to do this that will stop the burden on the American people.

So I want you to hear what Trump said yesterday about weapons in Ukraine, the last one. Are you going to keep sending weapons to Ukraine or are you going to send uh turn off the tap soon?

Well, we'll look into that. We're talking to Zelensky. We're going to be talking with President Putin very soon. And we'll see w how it all happens. We're gonna look at it very s one thing I do feel, the European Union should be paying a lot more than they're paying because under Biden, I mean, we're in there for two hundred billion dollars more.

Now it affects them more than it affects us.

So here's what Zelensky said about Europe. And we need to make sure no European country is depend on a single energy supply, especially not Russia. Right now, Things are on our side. President Trump is going to export more energy. But Europe needs to step up and do more long term work to secure real energy independence.

You can't keep buying gas from Moscow while also expecting security guarantees, help and back up from the Americans. That's just wrong. Man, does he sound does he smart. That's exactly what we've been saying, and that's exactly what Trump said first term. Yeah.

100%. Zelensky's going to make Ukraine gray again. And look, Trump, here's what people don't understand: Trump loves Zelensky. They're friends. Zelensky backed him up in the first impeachment.

And Trump said that it's because of Zelensky that the first impeachment died.

So Zelensky had his back. I think Trump's going to have Zelensky's back in these negotiations. Right. And the thing is that you know, is that if they stop fighting and the Russians will rearm and invade again, there's got to be some type of trigger there, tripwire put up. And I don't know if it's UN troops.

I don't know what it is. The tripwire to let them know you go with your kinkaroo. Let them do the peacekeeping. And also, by the way, we need to have a security guarantee because we spend $183 billion of our treasure to keep this country free and independent. They've got $26 trillion in natural resources that we should have a preferential access to because we save them.

And so the only way you can develop that and get the money back through co-development of those natural resources is that there's lasting peace because nobody's going to mine and drill for rare. Earth and uranium and titanium and all these other things if their missiles fly in.

So we need peace that's going to last in order for the American people to get paid back for everything we spent defending Ukraine. Mark, thanks so much. I'm going to talk to General Keene tomorrow on television about that. And hopefully, people pay attention. They're tired of the Ukraine war, but pay attention.

This matters. It really matters over the next four years. You don't stop them here. It's going to be a hellacious time in Europe and elsewhere. Thanks so much, Mark.

I appreciate it. 1-866-408-7669. We're going to come back and take your calls. I see up there from Pittsburgh to Hartford to Tulsa. We'll get to them.

And then we'll talk to Joe Lonsdale, one of the titans of industry that is trying to help America go forward. Don't move. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmade.

As you know, we had a great election in 2016. I had a much better election in 2020. And if I didn't have that election, I wouldn't have run. If I thought that I didn't get the number of votes, and it was reported that I got almost 75 million votes, and that was their numbers. That wasn't the numbers, that was their numbers, that was more than anybody has gotten in history, any sitting president had ever gotten.

And you lost? Had I got gotten like Fifty million or forty million or sixty million, I would never have run. But that was like a poll.

So, the President of the United States talking to Sean Hannity yesterday and said, If I got 50 million votes, I wouldn't have run again. But I got more votes than anyone else. He's 100% right. The problem is, Biden got over 80 million. Whether you think he got it or not, those are the tallies.

But the Trump's tally was unbelievable. It was unbelievably high.

So, he was queued up in a normal election to win reelection. Without the pandemic, it would have been a walk. Biden wouldn't have even been the nominee. I don't know what would have happened, but he would have been done by now. I'm glad he's here now.

Whatever happened, happened. But I did not know he had a threshold. That he said I got to, that made me think I should run again, which is fine. Mark in Hartford, Connecticut. Hey, Mark.

Hey, Brian. In a minute, I can never paint the full picture of Chris Murphy, but I'm a boomer, about to turn 65, and I've been. suffering in Connecticut. I'm unaffiliated because look how weak our Connecticut GOP is that they can't beat this guy. Election after election he gets in, but Let me tell you what a shill he is.

This is the same guy. Do you remember when they tried to go after Trump? For flailing his arms. And try to tie it into him making.

Well, Chris Murphy jumped on that way back then, only to find out. too many other images that he commonly did this. You know, just it was his mannerisms. And, Mark, what you're the audience should know, you're talking about Elon Musk put his hand straight out after putting his hand in his heart. And Chris Murphy's question, Elise Stefanik, in her hearing for UN Ambassador, said, How do you feel about him saying hi Hitler?

Shouldn't we condemn it? Go ahead. Yeah. So But I also want to tell you, like, it's impossible. Chris Murphy, what he does for every election, he takes a walk across the state.

He never goes in. He's walking along sidewalks, but you cannot, as a constituent, Good luck trying to find him. I've got over 20 calls and emails into his office over the years. Two statements I'm looking for. In 2023, this is unbelievable, Brian.

On a Friday, he holds a gun forum gun control symposium in West Hartford, Connecticut. The keynote speaker, is Joe Biden. That was on a Friday. That Monday is when Hunter got charged. I've been trying since June of 2023 to get an official statement from Chris Murphy.

Of course, I never got one. Yeah, Mr. Gun, Mr. Gun Guy, Mr. Gunband, and this guy's lying on a form to go get a gun, and then his ex-girlfriend throws in a dumpster.

That's nice. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmeade. You can say that about everything made in China. Look, we have our telephones made in China for the most part.

We have so many things made in China.

So why don't they mention that, you know? I mean the interesting thing with TikTok though is you're dealing with a lot of young people, so they love it. Is it that important for China to be spy to be spying on young people, on young kids watching crazy videos on things? I don't want China spying on anybody. No, no, but but but they make you have telephones and they make you computers and they make a lot of other things.

Isn't that a bigger threat? No, it's not. And the president's way off on this. And I hope he doesn't believe it. I hope he's just hedging it.

There's a law that came out. You got to go abide by it. The first thing the president does can't just ignore a law, and TikTok is a spying device. Yes, they fill you out an algorithm. Yes, it's a good product.

But they have 170 million subscribing to it. They also have a newsfeed. At that news feed, you just know there's not going to be anything pro-Israel, nothing pro-Taiwan. And when it becomes to clashing with America, nothing pro-America. And certainly no pro-Ukraine.

Joe Lonsdale knows all that, co-founder of Palantir, along with Peter Thiel and others, and founder of a general partner of the firm 8BC. Joe, welcome back. Hey, Brian, good to be on. It was great to meet you in person at the Army-Navy game. Yeah, that was fun.

Yeah, that was uh I mean, it was a lot of important people there at a very special game. President of the United States is addressing global business leaders in Davos right now. Important stuff going on. But I just can't tell you how much I disagree with them when it comes to TikTok. Do you feel the same way?

I do, and it's hard because there's about three hundred executive orders I'm celebrating right now. I was up late again reading these last night and then woke up and broke a record in the gym because I'm so energized by it. It was such an amazing week. But you're right. On the TikTok side, listen, I really don't know where he's coming from here.

Maybe he likes the fact that they were supporting him and he was popular on the platform. But giving China the ability to decide what trends in the U.S., I mean, this is way too much power for your adversary. There's reasons why we don't let our adversaries control our top media. It's pretty standard here. We have a law against it.

So he only has 75 days, he said, that he's going to do the right thing. I think I'm willing to give him that 75 days, as the country is, because there were 90 days built into the law anyway. But I really hope they end up doing the right thing and not letting China control it. Do we have people that would buy it? Oh, of course.

There's all sorts of people who would buy it. The thing is, China's not going to sell it, right? This is not like a normal private company. This is something that's controlled by this golden share of Xi Jinping, right? They have these structures where effectively the Chinese Communist Party has floors and buildings in these companies where there's a whole bunch of party people deciding what to do with the algorithm.

They decide what trends, what doesn't trend, and they don't want to give up that control. It's a really powerful weapon they have in the United States. And I think maybe some people around Trump are a little bit naive around how the CTP does this. Yeah, it's crazy. I know.

There's so much to celebrate. Just on the last thing on this, when he comes out and says, well, we let them build our iPhones, Apple has a huge manufacturing base there. What do you say to that? You know, I think he's right that there are other issues that are also security issues. I mean, you definitely could plant things inside of hardware to monitor.

I mean, not only did they build the iPhones, we found that we put back doors for our own intelligence community into our telecommunication systems for our phones. And we've now found that China had hacked into those and was listening to all of our conversations.

So he's right that they're spying on us in a lot of ways. We should be careful about. I think that where he's missing this is that giving them control over media to reach out and influence what 100 million people think really directly and how they think about markets or politicians or other things. That's the power we shouldn't be giving them. All right, so let's talk about what was announced the other day with Stargate.

It's going to be a huge power center for the next generation of AI inventions. Your thoughts about Elon Musk taking on, saying these guys don't have the money. They say they don't have the $500 billion. I think Elon and others are We're attacking Sam Waltman for funding things on the left and being clearly on the left and against Trump over the last years. And so I think he has a point there, and he and Sam are obviously clashing.

So, listen, I respect where Elon's coming from. As Elon admitted, Microsoft obviously does have a lot of money. Matsuyoshi-san may not have hundreds of billions, but he does have tens of billions. It's a good thing for the U.S. that Trump's getting everyone to circle around him and invest more in infrastructure.

AI is going to usually raise productivity in our society. It's going to be the key solution to give us growth. We actually need, you know, to get past these problems we have right now with entitlements and debt.

So building the infrastructure for it is awesome.

So you love it. I mean, you love the idea.

So, for people that aren't as tapped in as you in terms of the next generation of tech titans and how to stay above China, you think this is a major step forward? It's absolutely critical. You need all the power in this country for everything we're going to do. Listen, cheaper power is better. It's one of the most correlated things with the quality of living of the middle class and the working class is the expense of power.

So being really aggressive on that is good no matter what, anyway. And then when it comes to AI, you need the chips companies, you need the data centers, and all this infrastructure is going to let us build things. Productivity is just going to take off the next decade right now. I'm very bullish on the economy as long as we don't over-regulate this area, as long as we allow innovation to win.

So, Joe, who's out there? Do you think David Sachs is the right guy in order to understand that the dangers of AI, but also there's some for people, if we get out too far in front of it and don't know what we're doing, we could get ourselves in trouble if people just want to maximize profit and act irresponsibly, that could be a problem. Is David Sachs the right one to promote growth but responsibility? David's one of the brightest guys from the tech world, right? He was the COO of PayPal back when Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and others were building that.

He started Yammer, a billion dollar company.

So he runs one of the top funds. And so David's someone a lot of us really, really respect. I think with his all in podcast, he kind of influenced a ton of people to understand and support Trump. In terms of the risks, I don't think regulation is what's going to actually save us from the risk. It's actually kind of naive to people, oh, we're just going to have some bureaucrat who's paid $120,000 a year who's going to completely change the future of the world.

So regulators are not the answer. What the answer is, is first of all applying this to make sure it's helping everyone and it has growth and we're not stopping that. And David's really good at that. And then as this goes along, if there is a threat, that's something all of us are going to have to figure out. We're going to figure out what laws to pass to go against it.

But the idea of the left of putting in all these activists, all these people we call D-cells, safetyists, Those people aren't going to save us from it. Those people are just going to harass businesses. And I think David understands that, and hopefully, he'll make sure that we're allowed to use this for productivity wh while watching it carefully. How bad has it been? How the thumb on the or the foot on the neck of people like yourself who want to innovate in this area from Gensler and Company?

Yeah, you know, so far we haven't had the AI regulators, which is good. But we have had exactly people like Gensler, the people at the SEC, people at the FTC stopping deals. I mean, I just just you see people like myself, you know, there's things we're building in lots of areas.

So one thing that's really regulated in this country is there's all this stuff we're doing to cure diseases and obviously we're using AI to create these things right now. And you create a new company that is growing fast and a big company wants to buy it and scale it out to save a lot of lives. Like you figure out how to, for example, detect cancer with AI and other technologies better. And what happens is the FTC and Lena Khan just blocked the acquisition that was going to spend billions of dollars scaling this out. We know from what it's doing, it would have detected these things and be saving thousands of lives per month.

But because of her crazy theories that the courts don't even agree with, that we're we're interfering with these transactions. And so it has been a really big problem. All right, I guess we'll see where it goes. And about the the crypto side of things, do you believe that when it comes to the cryptocurrency, do you are you concerned at all about how fast it's growing? Do you feel like David can do both these things, so be a czar of both?

You know, crypto, the number one use case we've seen that's really important in the world is it allows freedom for transactions and money in authoritarian countries around the world, and it brings them into our economic system. It brings people in, and it lets people save outside of our kind of current fiat system. And listen, I'm kind of a radically pro-freedom sort of guy. I'm not sure governments should be trusted with money. The reason we gave governments the ability to do that is obviously it's very useful to have that kind of private credit and debt if you need to for military purposes.

So I understand why we have that. But in terms of everything else, it's really great to take as much power as we can away from government and decentralize it. I think David is on that side. And I think overall, crypto is a very good thing.

Now that said, I don't necessarily love some of these meme coin things going on that I think are kind of cheesy. But overall, I think it's a great thing, and he gets that. I guess so. And the fact is, do you really feel as though does that contrast the previous administration? Oh, 100%.

The previous administration was I mean, it was just disgusting. Like the guys were in the SEC, they'd meet with Sam Bankman Freed because he'd made all these donations to the left and they'd plan how to help him. And then they would just crack down everybody else who they saw as being more on the liberty side, which was against what they stood for. They would crack down illegally. They wouldn't say what the rules were.

They would just arbitrarily go after you if you were building.

So people like Brian Armstrong at Coinbase, not only could he never get a meeting, even though he was the top guy in the space, but they would just randomly have enforcement actions against him, and they wouldn't tell him what he needed to do. They wanted to make it so they could arbitrarily harass him if they wanted to, which is totally inappropriate.

So the other thing That I find is an interesting debate is the H-1B visa. Where does Joe Lonsdale stand on that? You know, this is a really interesting thing that's kind of split MAGA. You have some people on the tech MAGA who want to bring in all sorts of talent, and that's their focus. And you have people who I think are actually a really important core part of what MAGA really is, which is the populist side of people who feel like they've been discriminated against, they've been left behind, they've been had lots of unfair things happen to them.

And I think, especially because of the discrimination, Brian, against white males in the corporate America, you got these people who feel like they've really been treated unfairly and they're pissed. And what I come down on this is those people were treated unfairly and they're right to be angry. White America, white Americans who are not. Or even just anyone born in America, males in America of all backgrounds or black or anything else, or Asian or anything else, who aren't doing as well. And they do feel like they've been ignored.

And so there are a bunch of H-1B visa shops. that are Indian companies that are bringing in huge numbers of people. For lower wages, and we shouldn't allow that. At the same time, when we build companies that are like Elon Musk companies, we do want to be able to have the very, very top people come here. Elon Musk only came here because of H-1B.

I think we can all agree, thank goodness, Elon Musk is here. And it's not always easy to know who's going to be the Elon Musk. And so, do we want some Some of the best and brightest coming in, 100%. Do we want to stop the abuse that we see with H-1B? 100%.

So, you know, this is one of those things where there's really good points on both sides. We don't want to break tech in America and break our lead against the rest of the world. Ronald Reagan was right to bring the best people here, but 100% we need to get our immigration under control and we need to focus first on the people who were born in America. Right. And then we're going to be able to do some legitimate reform and find out, you know, would maybe expand the work visa program.

But, Joe, 100%, there's some great compromises to be made. Yeah, we got Bannon threatening Elon Musk and back and forth. I don't think it's helpful. It's almost juvenile. No, it's not.

But yeah, and so is Trump open to it. Trump's like, hey, I use him in my clubs, the H-1B visa. He gets it. Tee gets it. I mean, listen, there's certain things that we couldn't get done.

And by the way, every time you bring people here who work really hard, that creates more jobs. And so 100% in general, I am obviously on the side of having talent here, but I want to say I think there's a populist MAGA thing. They're 100% right. We've been invaded by immigrants. We've brought in lots of cheap labor that are not integrating into our culture.

There's all sorts of problems that immigration needs to be cut and reformed.

So, lastly, on defense. Do you feel as though you can play a role, or are you going to play a role in integrating The tech community with the Pentagon and moving us forward. Can you tell our audience what you plan on doing?

Well, 100%. And this is something that a bunch of us have started working on about eight or nine years ago as we realized, unfortunately, a lot of our biggest defense primes have fallen way behind. They became these sclerotic, bureaucratic entities that we call it innovation theater. They're very good at pretending they're innovating, but they hadn't been working with any of our best and brightest in the innovation world for the last twenty years, and it's a disaster. And so we've been building and creating a bunch of these things, bringing in, it's now become patriotic.

The tech world didn't do any defense at all. Google was totally out of it. And now it's become patriotic, and we're pushing hard. And the people going in to run the Defense Department, a bunch of them are from our world. My friends like Emil, who built Uber and other companies, is in there as the undersecretary.

Pete Hegstas 100% gets it. He's talking about bringing in innovation. The key thing is, let's have competitions. Let's have the best ideas win. It's not about who you know, what paperwork you're good at doing.

Let's bring things out to the field. Let's compete them. And as it turns out, as we've started to see, there's a lot of new innovations, ten times better, just totally outperforming from the tech world. Let's reform procurement and let it come in. And we're working hard to make it.

And it's not about helping ourselves, helping our friends. It's about helping America by letting the best ideas win and making sure that competition is what defines it. I have a lot of interaction with you guys out in the West Coast, 3,000 miles away. And just, we just, I'm in news, and you're at the cutting edge of the leading think tanks in the world. But I had a chance to speak to David Sachs, get an idea what you're doing, you, and now had a chance to talk to Mark Zuckerberg.

And I couldn't believe the fundamental level of anger he feels toward the administration when they said Facebook is killing people. And then they said he's a mal he's an oligarch. He said, I grew up a Democrat. My family were Democrats. He goes, Do you know how insulting that is?

How personal that is? Do you really think I how does it feel like to be told I'm killing people by putting things up about the vaccine that might be negative or a therapeutic that might be beneficial that some people don't believe that is? Your thoughts about how personal it was. Yeah, I mean, listen, the level of arrogance from the Biden administration in trying to decide to sit that even if something's true, you can't say it because it might hurt people, and they get to decide that we can't say that, and they get to criticize us because we came from the middle class but worked really hard our whole lives. I'm still working 80, 90 hour weeks, man, building things in this country.

And the fact they call you an oligarch, which is, by the way, implies that you got some rights from a king, right? That's total bullshit. It's jealousy, it's negativity, it's like personal attacks that they've been getting away with. And you know what? The chickens are coming home to roost, man, because now we're going to take charge.

We're going to clean out this mess. We're going to fight for freedom and confidence and fix it. And it's a really good feeling to be able to push back against that nonsense. And I just feel like everybody's in the same direction. It's less about Trump and Republicans and more about a bunch of patriotic people that want to make the country better and make some fundamental, logical, common sense changes.

We're going to bring back confidence. We're going to bring back merit. And you're right. President Trump said it's about common sense. I'm feeling really optimistic about our country.

Go get him, Joe. Joe Lunsdale, thanks so much. Thanks, Brian. Back in a moment. It's Brian Killmeade.

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Let's go, birds. Right. The only problem is, and I appreciate the mayor of Philadelphia being in the Eagles camp. And it's not a surprise. What did catch me by surprise is she misspelled Eagles.

What did she say? E-G-L-E-S, or did she leave out the A Eggles? E, L, G, F, E, E. E-L? It's pathetic, but it's let me ask you: do you think that would does she really think Eagles was spelt like that?

I mean it sounds like she does. There are so many things wrong with that. If she was like a true Philadelphian, how do you ever get that wrong? Because that's just like it's not. There's not a there's some I I guess there are there any nicknames that are hard to spell?

Commanders. But it's their cheer. It's what they scream all the time in the most obnoxious way possible. How do you get it wrong? Right.

It's why almost nobody outside Philadelphia wants them to get to the Super Bowl in New Orleans. 100%. Right. 100%. So that is the mayor doing something really dumb.

So, hopefully, something smart, and I usually spell right. I'm going to be in two events coming up in February. It's my chance to meet you guys in person. I'll be at the Florida Theater in Jacksonville on the 15th and be really returned to Sanity tour, the history, Liberty, and laughs. We have a good time.

It's all conversational. I go through our points in history, which makes this thing patriotic through the books you were kind enough to buy. And then we talk about even my two sports books, that's the inspiration part. And then we talk about what's happening in the news from the war on history to the comeback that's still hard to explain with Donald Trump in office. And it's a chance also, if you can get the VIP, if that works for your budget, before the show, before we start our skip.

And bring things to life. And you're also going to be in St. Louis on March 22nd.

So those tickets are going fast. And the VIP link is now on your website, BrianKillmee.com. That's right, yeah.

So March 22nd at the factory. Yes. Just outside St. Louis. It'll be great.

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