Flurry of Executive Action continues; Air traffic control under staffed in Potomac disaster?

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, so glad you're here. What a week we've had, right? We have that Trump time, you know, it's in the pace is setting its Unbelievable, I get that.

And then you have the situation with the horrific crash, so I understand that. And then you have other things that are just happening below the radar. By the way, Trump is getting a few wins. that not many people are seeing. And all I can tell you is he's going to have a heck of a library.

You know, he got millions from Disney. for suing George Stephanopoulos for calling him a rapist. And they got millions, they settled. Then he just got 25 million from Facebook for kicking him off in 2020. And now they're about to settle with CBS because they interviewed Kamala Harris and edited to make her look good.

They're suing them for $10 billion, and they're about to settle. He's saying, for most of the money, put it towards my library. At first, I didn't even think he was going to have one.

Now I think it's going to be the best ever. Let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Are you saying race or gender played a role in this tragedy? It may have. I don't know.

Incompetence might have played a role. We'll let you know that. But we want the most competent people. We don't care what race they are. And Donald Trump just tweeted out, put on Truth Social, I should say, that the chopper of the helicopter was way too high.

In the sky. The horrific crash over the Potomac underlines many problems in our skies and in the air traffic towers. But media uses their airtime to attack Trump. We stick to the facts. Number two.

Once again, Senator, Edward Snowden broke the law. He also released information that exposed the United States government illegal. Your legislation and your words are. Are still your beliefs? Yes or no, please?

I'm making myself very clear. Tulsi Gabbard and Senator Mark Warner. She had a lot of tough questions. She was up for the challenge, but people might not like her answers. Confirmation hearings full of fireworks for Tulsi, for cash, for RFK Jr.

Well, I think two of the three will pass, and my worries about the other. We bring you the highlights. And despite the urgency to get the Trump team in place, the Senate is taking the weekend off. Number one. Then they're throwing so much at us that we're fatigued.

The days of grieving of the Democratic Party are over. Frankly, my party's been just a little bit too passive and quiet in this regard. We missed some things about what the American people really cared about. You think? That is a down-to-earth open forum about what the Democrats need to regroup.

They lost the working class. They're losing the minorities. They're taking big chunks of Republicans out of the cities. And you got a 78-year-old president of the United States who you disdain and the president kind of thinks is cool.

Meanwhile, President Trump's first 100 days, I shouldn't even say 100 days, I should say 100 hours. He is rolling at a way I've not seen before. We'll talk about what's happening with the plane crash, the investigation, and the president's agenda. Today's going to be a focus and open forum on education. And I asked Takelly Ann Conway, who's going to be leading the school choice movement, and talk about what they can do to get CRT out of school 1619 project, a distant memory.

But you can't control the seed unions, and you have the education in America is decentralized, and perhaps that's a good thing. But what can you do while you push for these things if you're president, the president?

Well, you could get the Department of Interior to work on the tribes, and they're doing that. You could get the Defense Secretary of Defense to work on military families, and they're doing that. And then you could work on school choice in every single state and work with governors that are open to it. Like minorities, because it basically benefits more minorities than anybody else. You have school choice.

Let's say you're Arizona and your school gives every student $13,000. Give them the bond. and let them go to the local high school if it's good and if it's not you can go elsewhere. But give you choice, it makes everybody better. That's the whole fundamentals of capitalism, I thought.

So the President of the United States is going to be doing that today. We had him yesterday, Secretary, the Vice President yesterday, going talking about Doge, how they're beginning to cut expenses, looking at the federal workforce. You have Elon Musk sleeping in the Eisenhower building. That's how serious he's taking a job he's volunteering for. He's taking his head of human resources for Tesla and having them work at the federal workforce of $2.3 million.

So that's interesting. Education, I told you about that. Also, he's going ahead with tariffs. It looks like on Canada and Mexico. Although the Wall Street Journal has a story today that there's a push inside the Trump team to wait.

Let's get the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vote, in place. He's not there yet. Let's get Lutnick, Howard Luttnick, in place as Secretary of Commerce. He's not there yet. So what's the rush?

And they are allies, they're friends. What I love is he put on Truth Social, something I'm really concerned about, and so are a lot of economists. These BRICS countries really set up to counter America that has allies on there, ostensibly it's Brazil and India, they're looking to get off the dollar. And the idea that that's going to happen, that's really got that would send us into a depression.

So he says we will give 100% tariffs on everybody that decides to get off the dollar in that BRICS movement, which is an acronym for outlaw states with China and Russia leading the charge along with Iran.

So we'll talk about that.

So with Trump moving at this speed, the question is: where are Democrats? Who's the one they're leaning on? I'll tell you the one I like. I like listening to Fetterman. I like that he's reasonable when it comes to Israel, when it comes to illegal immigrant criminals.

It turns out he's for Israel and against the criminal. Who would have thought? For border security, who would think it? Not against cutting budgets and getting into line, worried about the debt. That to me, the Democratic Party, if I'm charting their course, I say be logical.

Be realistic. Don't get up in the morning and say, How do I fight Trump? Say, how do I do what I want? And then see what happens in the midterms, where history says that you'll make gains in the House and Senate. Although they feel like everything is different now.

So they had a forum, they're trying to pick their new head of the DNC. Here's a little of what they're concluding about what they have to do, Cut7. I have a show of hands. How many of you believe that racism and misogyny played a role in Vice President Harris's defeat?

Okay.

So that's good. You all pass.

So all the hands went up, right, Allison? I mean, basically, they believe that that's the reason that America doesn't like women. That America, which is made up mostly of women, I think they have more women than men in this country. That's the reason. Yeah, and because of, you know, and her race.

We're racists and but we don't like her. It was all the people on stage and a lot of people in the audience who were like jumping up and down. Yes, that's why she lost. Yeah, instead of one of the worst candidates ever, Stephen A. Smith put it perfectly.

I feel duped that I even voted for her, and she's awful. Did you see the story about the drama behind the scenes of Joe Rogan? How they could not pull the trigger on a Joe Rogan move. They kept moving the goalpost, and Rogan says. First, they said, come to us.

And he's like, I don't go to you. And he goes, well, maybe I'll go to a certain place. They go, why don't you meet us in Michigan? And then he goes, Why am I going to Michigan? Why don't you come to Texas?

He goes, all right, I'll go to Houston. But the day that they picked is the day that Trump was going on.

So he goes, I can't go back to Texas twice. Why not? You go back to Texas. You could have gone to Texas and then do an interview with the number one podcast. Completely.

But th didn't they also limit it to try to say she could only be there for an hour? Yeah, I mean that's a little it's a We should probably get him, Mike Allen. Mike Allen co-wrote this book, and this is one of the excerpts: the drama behind it. Here's the thing. I don't think those podcasts would have helped her.

Because it reveals your personality. I mean, Howard Stern tried everything to make Joe Biden look alive and human. Couldn't do it. And the same thing with Kamala Harris. The thing that they say about Bob Dole when he lost, he hopped on Letterman and he killed it.

The guy's funny, but he never showed that personality. Hillary Clinton has a terrible personality. You gotta get like JFK in this podcast era would probably get 80% of the popular vote. He just wows people. You know, you watch these tapes.

But the thing about Trump is he'll sit down with a 21-year-old, but he. Doesn't look down on him and it comes off. They go, wow, cool guy. Sit down with Andrew Schultz, kind of an edgy comic. Cool guy.

And then he sits down with Joe Rogan. It's like they have 80% of what they kind of agree with 75% of their lifestyle on and off. The public stage. Here's a little bit more from the Democrats as they try to make heads or tails about what they've been through and where they should go. You got Waltz.

The former governor of Washington, Insler, And Mark Kelly, Cuffor. Everybody's fatigued. Trust me, I get it. That was it was pure hell and the disappointment and the frustration and I'm you know soul-searching. Then they're throwing so much at us that we're fatigued.

The days of grieving of the Democratic Party are over. Frankly, my party's been just a little bit too passive and quiet in this regard. I'm sensing we've woken up in the last 24 hours. We missed some things about what the American people really cared about. Yeah, Mark Kelly, who has the resume to think that he would be able to straddle party lines, but he was not talking about the border until he was up for election.

He walked away from Joe Biden at the midterms because he knew Biden was remarkably unpopular. He didn't speak out and try to change things before it was too late. And he never stood up and told the American public Joe Biden can't function and I will never vote for him. But, you know, also you have Senator Jack Reed, who came out and said behind the scenes that if Joe Biden stayed in for me to back Joe Biden and not come out against him, he would have to take two neurological exams. And then he would have to do a public press conference for me to consider backing him again.

This is part of the conversation when Schumer came forward to tell Joe Biden, you can't win. Biden couldn't believe it. He's like, What are you talking about? He said, If I was to do a secret ballot among Democratic senators, you would get maybe five votes.

So you gel that. That party is a mess. And nobody thought that Kamal Harris behind the scenes would be a good candidate. All that joy stuff was a. Uh was a folly.

So I don't know where they go from here, but this weekend on One Nation, I'm going to ask Joe Manchin that. You know, I always like him. He's a guy I look to to sometimes go across party lines. And he says when it comes to immigration, I'd be in lockstep with the President of the United States.

So he might have a bulletproof vest and work it with ICE if he had to. You know, and not many people were more fiscally responsible or at least talked about it than Joe Manchin. And if you have Elon Musk sleeping in the Eisenhower building trying to find a way to get our expenses under control, I can't see him going against it. I don't see Fetterman going against it either. But you know who's getting the most publicity?

It's AOC. It's the left wing. They're still, they're the ones with the microphone. And people say how tough they are. Yeah, they're speaking to a very small part of the country.

Know this: Democrats and Republicans, the guy that's happiest when the squad is speaking. Is Donald Trump. Ben Dominic at the bottom of the hour. And I'll be taking your calls next if we can squeeze them in: 1-866-408-7669. We have so much more to talk about.

What we're finding out about aviation. This was a horrific incident, but it underlines everything that's been going wrong and making us live a risky life in the air for no reason. We'll discuss it when Brian Kilmee comes back on this show. That's me. Politics, current events, and news that affects you.

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We've got a problem. We have a problem here with people being able to practice medicine without government overreach, without families being able to be presented the proper risk analysis, risk reward of what's being presented to them because doctors are afraid to speak. This is changing. RFK, look, he said it himself today. He has the unique set of talents because of his career of litigating these regulatory agencies.

He is uniquely positioned to unravel the adulterating influences that we have been discussing. I've known him for a while. I work with his campaign. I just kept saying this mind, this man needs to be in Washington so we can restore the trust in the public health organizations, which have been deeply adulterated. Right, so that is Dr.

Drew? on with Greg last night and talking about RFK. And one thing that Tommy Tuberville said that really struck me and as I watched everything back yesterday because so much of the coverage was unjustifiably the plane crash. Tommy Tupperville says, I've been here for four years. I have never had a hearing room like this.

And I was at the last HHS secretary nomination. There were four people here. He never even showed up. He spent most of his time in Los Angeles. I'm talking about Xavier.

Bashira Who was absolutely awful, especially during a pandemic? The guy was just non-performative, just didn't do anything.

So he said, There's a movement behind you. We got to get this movement forward. You got the Maha movement, and you have the moms who came together behind RFK. And I watched one of those town halls yesterday with the Food Babe, who's going to be on with me this weekend, and with Callie Means, who's wrote the best-selling book with his sister. And.

And we're seeing the whole movement behind it, and they were behind RFK. And Donald Trump realized that, thought the message was great for parents and kids, because there are kids that are obese, seventy percent, what it used to be, three percent. There are kids with chronic diseases, with asthma, and peanut allergies, and depression. Uh and obesity. And how do you handle that?

Are people okay with that? No, not Republican or Democrats. They're not.

So he saw that RFK had that. He brought it in and he said, when you get in, I'm going to let you go run HHS.

So you picked the job, and he picked that. And we knew it's going to be hard. He doesn't know a ton about Medicare or Medicaid. He knows what it doesn't do. He doesn't know a tough about Obamacare, but he knows it's not effective and the premiums are way too high and the deductibles are way too high.

Not a good combination. And people aren't getting healthier. They're getting sicker.

So he wants to stay on top of that. And I thought RFK was pretty effective in explaining about this.

Now the person he's got to win over is Senator Cassidy. And right now, he does not have he has not won over Senator Cassidy. Cynthia is in Florida. Hey, Cynthia. Good morning.

I'd rather be known as the conservative Democrat, the condemned party, condemning liberals wherever I can find them, and boy do I have fun doing it.

Well, I call to say everybody in America, pay attention to what is going on. We're supposed to have a government of, by, and for the people. What we have is a government of the people, by the lawyers, Or the lawyers. I'm sick of it. The 13th Amendment of our Constitution was never repealed.

It was never amended, but it was well hidden by guess who? Probably lawyers. It prohibits anybody who has an oath to the British Accredited Registry, the Bar Association, from having an oath. Elected position in our government.

So, are you talking about Trump's team getting passed? I mean, I have Cash Patel. I think he's going to get through on the FBI, and I think RFK gets through too. I actually think Susan Collins might vote for him. Everyone just assumes Murkowski and Collins will vote for him.

I think he will. The one, Kenner Cassidy, I also think, in my view, Uh Lawrence and I both watched the same closing statements for Cassidy. Who chairs who chairs the committee? And I said, this is positive. He says, I'm trying, I'm going to call you over the weekend.

I'm trying to vote for you. I am worried about your view on vaccines. But Trump wants them. The movement is real. The audience clapping, I think, definitely must resonate.

Democrats realize how popular RFK is and his message. Thanks so much for the call.

So Corey Booker was extremely aggressive. I don't know where that came from. The guy that actually seemed open to RFK Jr. is Governor, now Senator Hickenlooper of Colorado. Bernie Sanders I thought was quite reasonable.

when he came out and was saying some things were on the same page as we're sicker than ever, we're on the same page where costs are too high, on the same page when it comes to transparency. He is all for the nutritional aspect of what he's pitching. But he is not for, he thinks he doesn't have well-hatched out understanding of Medicare and Medicaid. And he went back at Bernie Sanders and says the pharmaceutical companies has contributed to all you guys, including you, Bernie, gave you millions. And Bernie went crazy, but he did.

So while I was running for president, I was taking in donations. Doesn't mean I guaranteed to do anything.

Well, that's true. And in a way, if you're a house member and you have a Pfizer walk up to you and say, I like what you're doing, here's two hundred thousand dollars, that might keep you in office. That means you'll be open to what they're saying, but it doesn't mean you're bought and sold. But that's a little about the system. Ben Domich is next.

He actually lives right by where the crash took place in Washington, D.C. He said if he was looking out his window at the right time, he would have seen it. His take on what's going on there. Don't move. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it.

You're with Brian Kilmead. Are you saying race or gender played a role in this tragedy? It may have. I don't know. Incompetence might have played a role.

We'll let you know that. But we want the most competent people. We don't care what race they are. We want the most competent people, especially in those positions. And, you know, you're talking about extremely complex things.

And if they don't have a great brain, a great power of the brain, they're not going to be very good at what they do and bad things will happen. That is the President of the United States getting blowback for his statement that DEI plays a role in our aviation security, and it may or may not have played a role in this crash in particular. But stop looking for air traffic controllers and pilots that are diverse instead of the best. Ben Dominich joins us now, Fox News contributor, editor at large for the Spectator World, host of his own podcast. And Ben, you live right near where this crash took place.

What is everyone saying in and around Washington? This really hits home. It's not just a national story, it's a local story for you. You know, it's very local. And Brian, in fact, yesterday I had the opportunity to stop by my local, my bar that I go to regularly.

And it turns out one of the regulars there unfortunately lost his wife and daughter in the crash, which is just, you know, that's a guy who I see probably once a week. Say hi to, and you know, have known for a couple of years. And it's just, it's incredibly, it's for this area, everybody knows somebody who's being touched by it. You know, you're only one or two degrees of separation from it. And so, look, this is the kind of thing that is also, you know, just for me, I'm talking to you from my office at home, and I see the planes that go by on that route throughout the day.

And it was extremely eerie yesterday to have the morning and have just not see any traffic in the sky, not hear any planes going by. And I think that as we get through this, you know, obviously there's going to be a morning period, but we do deserve answers about what happened. And. Look, I think the President is just trying to say we need to have the highest quality people in these critical positions. And Excuse me.

Yeah, we want to be able to have opportunities for people Who are disabled to work within government, if you're in a wheelchair, if you have certain limitations, et cetera. But there are also certain things that you need to be able to do in order to fulfill a job of being an air traffic controller. And there are certain disabilities that I think would prevent people from being able to do that. That's just practical. And so, looking into this, I don't think that this is going to end up being something where there was a direct reason, but it has been an issue ever since the COVID pandemic that we have not been able to really restore the level of hiring that we needed for air traffic control.

for pilots, for so many other aspects of the airline industry, and that's something that's going to have to change. I mean, it should be number one priority. Knowing Sean Duffy, he gets it as Secretary of Transportation. We should have a massive push. for air traffic controllers because it takes a long time to train.

And it's got to be and it you burn out quick. I get it. The job's hard. I understand it. But but job's hard.

But we we cut them back during the pandemic, and then we asked them back, and many of them said no. Many, many of them chose to retire. They chose to retire, and we gave them, you know, much of the airline industry didn't believe that Americans were ever going to want to travel to such a degree again, and they made the wrong bet. And so ultimately, we ended up in a situation where a lot of people left. And filling in those roles quickly with people who are qualified and have the sufficient training is very difficult.

Now, in this case, it does seem like we've seen the reports, the early reports, that the air traffic control was understaffed, that there was one person who was doing a job that two people normally do. But also, we know that the previous day, there was a go-around that had to happen because of a plane and a helicopter, a similar incident where obviously there was nothing like the tragedy that we saw happen. And so, this is not a problem that is just isolated. I think it's a problem that we've narrowly dodged repeatedly of all of these incidents over the past couple of years where we've seen these near-run things, and it was just a matter of time until it happened. Sadly, it happened in a situation that resulted in such a significant loss of life.

But the one thing that I think is an advantage in terms of where it happened is that politicians care about that airport. It's where they fly out and fly in all the time. Jim Justice, the senator from West Virginia, he actually flies back and forth every day from his home in West Virginia. He's got his own bike to he's got his own plane. He does it, pays for it himself.

But he flies in and he flies out. And that's the kind of situation where, look, we cannot function in a situation where we have senators' lives at risk, the lives of these key political figures at risk if they're flying in and out of that airport.

So this needs to be resolved and it needs to be resolved as quickly as possible and as transparently as possible. No doubt about it. I just want you to hear this former pilot joined, I think, Laura last night and said this about the situation in CUP 33. The antiquated equipment that's being used, the staffing levels that have already been highlighted, training. We've got a lot of inexperienced pilots out there right now that are coming along and getting trained and getting up to speed.

But the breaking point is approaching. And last night it was absolutely tragic. And from an aviation professional, our hearts. Our prayers and condolences and thoughts are with the victims, the souls lost, and the first responders and the controllers in the tower. It's just absolutely tragic, and I'm afraid until the system gets fixed, it's going to continue.

What I would hope is to see this administration execute like they do the executive orders. And it's not hard. I mean, what we've got to do is figure out the criteria to hire a good air traffic controller, find out where the candidates are. I would do an evaluation within 30 days from all major airports to tell us the state of their air traffic control roster, how big it is and how big it needs to be, and then their personal sense of. The stress level.

and what they need. And we immediately got to take action. We can't avoid it. Like Pete Butterjudge avoided it for four years. Yeah, and this is the other thing that I think people need to understand.

And this is why it's so critical and important that we have people. And, you know, I've known Sean Duffy for 10 years before he was even at Fox. And I have enormous confidence in him. He, you know, gets dismissed by the media for being someone who's a TV host or the like, when in reality, he's someone who served in so many different roles in Wisconsin over the years. And obviously, in the Congress, he's a very smart guy.

And I think he's serious. And unlike Pete, he. He is not going to dodge the responsibility here. I think he's going to do, as you said, the things that need to be done in order to pursue this, to get answers, and also to change the system in ways that is going to benefit the American people and make sure that they have confidence in it going forward. Restoring confidence in so many different aspects of government right now is so key after the last four years of incompetence.

All right.

So let's talk about the confirmations that took place yesterday. And let's begin with RFK. I thought that he showed up with a lot of support in the audience. He has a lot of areas in which he excels, and some in which he doesn't really know a lot about Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, knows fundamentally they're not functioning too costly, and we've been, and America's sicker than ever before. Cassidy is the one guy he's got to win over.

Here he is openly speculating on whether he'll vote for him or not. That is Senator Cassidy of Louisiana, cut 16.

So let me ask once more. If the data is brought to you, And these studies that have been out there for quite some time, and they've been peer-reviewed. And it shows that these two vaccines are not associated with autism. Will you ask, no, I need even more? Or will you say, no, just I see this, it stood the test of time, and I unequivocally and without Qualification, say that this does not cause autism.

Not only will I do that, but I will apologize for any statements that misled people otherwise. He I mean, that's what you got to say. He wants to look at every study and analyze everything and try to figure out what's behind it, mostly in food. Your thoughts about how he came across? Look, I think RFK is in a more difficult position than perhaps people understand, in part because of the fact that Cassidy is the chairman, obviously, of the health committee.

And this is one that one situation where if you are going through these nominations and you have the emphatic support of someone, we saw Roger Wicker do this with Pete Hegstaff. We saw yesterday Tom Cotton just really giving his all in terms of supporting Tulsi Gabbard. When you have the chairman have questions about you, And really be wavering about his support for you that sends a message to the rest of the conference. And it's also something that I think that RFK, as much as he's an excellent communicator and I think a very bright, brilliant man, he is also someone who does not have a background in a lot of these areas when it comes to the kind of health reforms that many of these senators care about and put first in terms of their capacity of analyzing this person in this job. The corrective, though, that I would say in response is: look at the situation under Joe Biden.

Joe Biden named a political hack, Javier Becerra, who only got approved by a single vote in the Senate because everyone knew he had no background whatsoever in health policy. He was just supposed to go in there and essentially conduct lawsuits against people over pandemic issues and over religious freedom issues and the like. He was just a hack trial lawyer that they were putting in that job, and he did a terrible job. And so I look at RFK and I say, look, you can only go up from here. And I think that he's going to be someone who's a solid communicator.

He's got a whole movement behind him, one that I think is very real and very supportive. And I think that in this instance, hopefully for him, that's enough to put him over the top, along with the backing, obviously, of the White House. And people, I think, are being quite loud in their support for him when it comes to calling senators and the like. Cash Patel, fiery. Here is his confrontation with Senator Adam Schiff, who I know he has almost no respect for.

Cut 24. And here you did no diligence. To find out whether people you were associating with now, the President of the United States in song. were convicted of attacking police officers. Is that who we want running the FBI?

I want you to turn around. There are Capitol police officers behind you, they're guarding us. Take a look at them right now. Turn around. I'm looking at you.

You're talking to me. No, no, look at them. I want you to look at them if you can, if you have the courage to look them in the eye, Mr. Patel, and tell them you're proud of what you did. Tell them you're proud that you raised money off of people that assaulted their colleagues, that pepper sprayed them, that beat them with poles.

Tell them you're proud of what you did, Mr. Patel. They're right there. They're guarding you today. Tell them how proud you are.

That's an abject lie. Do you know it? I proud. I never. Never.

Ever accepted violence against law enforcement. Right. And he actually stepped away from the president on that. Would you do you agree with the pardon of people who committed violence on that day? And he said no.

Yeah. Look, I think that the truth is Cash Protel's hearing was always going to be one that we saw descend into something like this, in part because of Adam Schiff's presence. I mean, I'm sure you've probably seen it by now, Brian, but the image of Cash Protel holding a watermelon with a picture of Adam Schiff on it, about to load it into a trebuchet at like some event that he was at. You know, they've made their animosity towards each other very clear. But a big reason for that, of course, is that Cash Protel made him look terrible because he wrote the Devin Junes memo that exposed so much that Adam Schiff was lying about to the American people, along with his fellow Democrats, claiming that they had definitive proof that Donald Trump was compromised by Russia.

Look, this was inevitably going to be a clash, but I think that Patel did, you know, held his own. And honestly, there were fewer fireworks. Than I think most of us expected. And so that, I think, is enough to carry him across.

So here's a little of Tulsi with Senator Mark Warner, cut 13. Once again, Senator Edward Snowden broke the law. We also released and found that exposed the United States government. Your legislation and your words are still your beliefs. Yes or no, please.

I'm making myself very clear. Edward Snowden broke the law. He released information about the United States government's illegal activities. If I may just finish my thoughts, Senator. In this role that I've been nominated for, confirmed as Director of National Intelligence, I will be responsible for protecting our nation's secrets.

And I have four immediate steps that I would take to prevent another Snowden-like leak.

So that's when people said that they were a little upset, and Republicans got some conservatives upset by that. Yes. I mean, I'm not surprised, though. I mean, I think that's pretty consistent with what she said for the last several years about her perspective on this. Look, the Snowden fight That dates back, of course, to 2013 when he was originally arrested is one that I think a lot of people like Rand Paul and Thomas Massey have a different opinion along the lines of what Tulsi thinks about him, which is that yes, it's criminal, but he also exposed some things that were criminal activities on the part of the government or certainly violations of the Fourth Amendment rights.

Look, I think that Tulsi was herself yesterday and was in command of the nature of the job. The most important thing to come out of that hearing yesterday was the positive vibes that she got from Susan Collins, that she said to our own Chad Pergram about feeling that she had answered her questions in a way that she benefited from because Collins was really the person I think at issue here. As for the rest, you know, look, some of these people who took issue with her comments on Snowden, including people like James Langford, had already come out and endorsed her.

So I don't think that they're going to necessarily back off of her. Certainly, though, she's another candidate for somebody who's probably going to end up with a one-vote margin on the floor, assuming that she does get there. But I think the fact that Collins moved in her direction was the most significant thing to come out of yesterday. All right.

And also, just a quick note, it's like Doug Collins got to wait till next week. It looks like the same thing with the Attorney General, Pam Bondi. We also got Doug Bergam last night, so he's in place. Howard Lutnick should have no problem. Just put the Vote on the floor, my goodness.

What is the issue? And then Rust vote, they're just holding up. Come on, this is amazing. The vote in particular, it's just spice. Look, you're not going to get somebody else in that job from Donald Trump.

He is going to stand by Russ Vote. He wants him in that job for a reason. And again, this is just spiteful activity. It's interesting because the Democratic Party, when you actually look at them and when you look at key Democrats like John Fetterman, other Democrats like John Osoff, who, by the way, didn't even show up to Tulsi's hearing, which was a surprise, they have backed away because they understand the risks. Gary Peters announcing he wasn't going to even run again for Michigan.

They understand that they're at risk headed into the midterms of really experiencing some negative things if they don't work with this president. And yet the people on some of these senators are acting as if it's the same thing again from 2017 and they're just expected to resist. It's not. Right. It's going to be interesting because we're going to look at that too this weekend on One Nation.

What do Democrats go from? You'll have Joe Manchin on. Ben, thanks so much. Yeah. Ben Dominique's podcast.

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But anyway, I just wanted to say The story of how RFK got to where he is, because he was the number one environmental attorney in the country. He's an expert on toxicity. He sued Monsanto, cleaned up the Hudson. He was the darling of the left, but now he's evil, I guess. But it was all because of some moms that kept cornering him when he was doing his presentations and talking to them about their kids.

Who were fine one day, and the next day they can't walk or talk, and they're banging their head against the wall. Yeah, now it's the Maha movement, and he represents them, and he's such a smart guy, he's digested it.

Now, for his family to come out against him, like Caroline Kennedy, and bring up things that happened in college when some guy admitted I had an addiction and I beat it, I thought it was unacceptable. Uh From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Killmead. All right, from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. This is the Brian Kilmey Show pumped up for One Nation.

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Just barely lost this time in Michigan. And one of the greatest military minds in the country, great historian, General H.R. McMaster, three-star general, will be with us at the bottom of the hour. We did hear a report this morning that we stopped aid to Ukraine. As you know, I feel.

Disaster that I found out from the highest reaches of government. That is not true. Hopefully, it's a miscommunication because the source that told me that is also very prolific.

So, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Are you saying race or gender played a role in this tragedy? It may have. I don't know.

Incompetence might have played a role. We'll let you know that. But we want the most competent people. We don't care what race they are. And the president just put a truth social that the helicopter, the chopper, was way too high.

We'll talk about the horrific crash that cost the lives of 67, many of which are still in the Potomac River. We got to get to the bottom of this quick. It's up to transportation to fix it. We need, regardless of what the investigation shows, we need more air traffic controllers. Number two.

Once again, Senator, Edward Snowden broke the law. He also released information that exposed the United States government. Your legislation and your words are still your beliefs. Yes or no, please. I'm making myself very clear.

Senator Warner, who just went along and led the whole Russia hoax, is upset about the intelligence, the intelligence background of Tulsi Gabbard. Her vote, when it comes to flat-out votes, I think she's got a real challenge. Cash, RFK Jr., two of the three I think are set to get through. And I think Tulsi's got issues. If it was my vote, she gets through.

We'll talk about it. Number one. And they're throwing so much at us that we're fatigued. The days of grieving of the Democratic Party are over. Frankly, my party has been just a little bit too passive and quiet in this regard.

We missed some things about what the American people really cared about. Yeah, there we go. Dems are exhausted.

Okay, I feel so terrible for him. The pace is only going to quicken. Trump is on Trump time. He's rolling from the plane crash to education reform. He plans to change the nation's education system in real time.

He's going to break it down. And it doesn't just say this is what I want. You've got to see what he's actually doing, and he's not stopping there. Revamping the Pentagon is part of this. Cracking down on the illegal aliens is happening right now in every major city in the country.

And the shutdown of the border is down to a trickle. And that's without finishing off the wall. Mike Rogers joins us now. He's former Michigan congressman and former candidate for Senate, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee in the past, FBI guy, military background. Mike, welcome back.

Hey, Brian, it's good to be back. Good to hear your voice.

So, okay, so Gary Peters says this is it for me. I'm not running for reelection. You got so close. How much did you lose by? It was about eighteen thousand votes, which is so the exact number, it was forty eight point six percent for my opponent and forty eight point three percent for me.

That's how close it was. How did you handle that?

Well, listen, you know, you you You've got to you get knocked down, you got to you know knock the dust off your boots and you know get back up on the horse. there was a whole a series of factors. They outspent us five to one. Look at that. And we came within three-tenths of one percent of winning that race.

And so that tells me our messaging was right if we had a little more time on the ground, which we started a little late in the cycle last time.

So that's one of the reasons we're seriously considering this. Knowing that it's an open seat, knowing how well we did with the resources that we had. Tells me this could be a very different race and a very good race for Republicans in 26. If Mike Rogers is the U.S. Senate candidate.

So you're thinking about doing it. Gary Peters says, I'm not coming back. And obviously, you even had the governor say Donald Trump does very well, is very popular in the state of Michigan. I'm going to find ways to cooperate. I can't believe Whitmer said that, but she did.

So your thoughts now. I think it's more Trump territory than ever. It is listening, and again, I grew up and worked in a car factory in Michigan. I know these people. He's the first one that really talked to them.

They felt like he was talking to them. And that's why they're very supportive of Donald Trump and should be. And he said he's going to get after the largesse of government. Guess what? He's doing it.

He said he's going to make sure that the tax cuts help for a better economy. He's doing it. Education reform. All of the things. that he said he was doing.

That's why they like him. Uh he says it, he does it. And let's move out. And that's, you know, that's a real appeal because they know at the end of the day, you know, we're going to have some bumps in the road here in the beginning, but their paychecks are going to be better, their job prospects are going to be better, their kids are going to get a better education when it's all said and done. All of those are great things, which is one of the reasons I want to go back and help get those things done.

All right.

So you are going to run. I don't know yet. I mean, I there's so tumblers have to kind of fall in the hole to open the safe, and we've got a few tumblers that aren't haven't fallen yet. And when they do, we'll make that announcement. I mean, we're very seriously considering it.

We did a social post yesterday that said, hey, we're considering this I mean, we've never had that kind of social interaction. My my guy told me like 200,000 in an hour saying, hey, you got to run.

So that's pretty good. Nobody got more Republican votes in the state of Michigan that ran for a statewide race in Michigan in our history. And so now we just got to close that, you know, the Trump gap there. And I think we can win.

So, but there's a couple of things we've got to do. Still on the phone, still talking to a lot of people. I think this is a really important opportunity, but we've got to get going early. You've got to avoid a primary. And we've got to rally the troops across Michigan for the next year, because the Democrats will come.

You know, they poured money from out of state into the race. I mean, tens of millions of dollars. And so we've got to be ready for all of that. And we're just trying to figure out: can we be ready and is this the right time? Yeah, and if Trump does better, the better he does, the better it is for Republicans to buck tradition and not have lose seats in either chamber.

So I want to talk about another area of your expertise, and that is intelligence. Tulsi Gabbard's up for this spot. Here's what she was focused on yesterday on Capitol Hill and what her goals are: Cut 11. Under Biden, the FBI have used its power for political reasons to try to surveil Catholics who attend traditional Latin Mass, labeling them as quote unquote radical traditionalist Catholics. Personally, just 24 hours after I criticized Kamala Harris and her nomination, I was placed on a secret domestic terror watch list called Quiet Skies.

Sadly, there are more examples. The bottom line is this: this must end. President Trump's reelection is a clear mandate from the American people to break this cycle of failure, end the weaponization and politicization of the intelligence community, and begin to restore trust in those who've been charged with the critical task of securing our nation. What they don't like is the fact that she met with Assad. They keep bringing it up, and they don't like the fact that she said Russia's point of view, NATO got too big too quick.

And she also in the past did not condemn Edward Snowden.

So your thoughts about her resume going in and her testimony going out.

So I mean, she's had five FBI background checks. She's a lieutenant colonel currently in the United States military, in the reserve. I mean, that's a pretty impressive resume. And so you know, if you're questioning her loyalty, I think that's wrong. I mean, clearly you c you people can have a difference of opinion uh with her.

I I think her statement is exactly right. The FBI and l and not by the way, not only did they uh s you know, d decide that Catholics were somehow you know the enemy of the state, The director, Ray, came back and said, no, no, that was only an isolated incident. Then come to find out it wasn't an isolated incident. There was. It happened several times across several different offices in the FBI.

That's where they lost faith. The fact that they put an American citizen on some list, I forget what she called it, I'm not aware of that. That is fundamental. We should all be terrified if that, in fact, happened because of her political views. And I'm telling you, you cannot let the FBI believe that that's okay.

And it really, really needs to be, that whole mess needs to be cleaned up. When I was an FBI agent, we did important work. We went after drug kingpins and child pornographers, and we went after human traffickers and organized crime. And by the way, terrorists and spies, the real work of the FBI, putting people on a list for their political beliefs. Is dangerous and it does need to end.

So, I listen, I'm kind of like where you are. I think the president has the right to pick his cabinet. Her five background FBI checks is enough for me. Her service in the military, she's served overseas in combat zones. I just don't understand.

Again, it's okay if you have some areas of disagreement. That's okay. Doesn't mean it disqualifies her.

Well, the other thing she brought up, she goes, Yeah, I was in Lebanon meeting with Lebanese leaders with Dennis Kucinich, and then we got word that Assad wanted to see us if we want to go. And I said, Kucinich was going, so I went with him. He said, What she also thinks is underappreciated is that not one person when she returned in the intelligence community anywhere asked to meet with her after to find out what her assessment was of Assad, who was killing tens of thousands of his people, some using this poisonous gas.

So that does show somewhat of a breakdown, don't you think? Oh, absolutely. And listen, again, I think it's going to be healthy to have some serious skepticism about the intelligence services' activities and how they come to the conclusions that they do that these kinds of things are okay.

So I think this is probably going to be a good wake-up call for them. They get very insular in those communities, including the FBI, and you need to rattle that cage when they get this far gone, when they're actually doing these dossiers that we find out later are based on false information and they knew it. When they go back to the FISA court with false information and they knew it, those are the kinds of things that we should be appalled at. Not the fact that you had a member of Congress who went to meet with somebody a decade ago because they were invited. Listen, I'm not as excited about it.

It's not like she came back and said, I'm for Assad. She didn't do that. She came back and said, you know, the guy's got problems. Problems.

Well, yep, thanks. We appreciate it. I don't, you know, we'll see. Cash Patel, I think, is going to get through. I want you to hear this exchange.

He wants to be the FBI director. He does not have the law enforcement background. He's got the legal background, defender, and a prosecutor, an investigator. Cut 23. You've made a lot of people mad, haven't you, mister?

Mr. Patel seems so, Senator. Think maybe you've made the right people mad? As my FBI agents, the BRIC agents told me. when I was running cases with them across this country and around the world.

If you're not ticking off some people, you're not doing your job right. And he did get thousands of FBI agents, law enforcement writing in support of hiring him. He got a lot of pushback. Did you see any of the fireworks? I I didn't have a chance to see it, but listen, he he's the right guy at the right time.

He he exactly knows what the President wants done. It needs to happen. I can't tell you how many brick agents I hear from as a former brick agent myself Who understand how the leadership in Washington at the FBI had gotten so far afoot from their mission and this holier-than-thou notion that they're the only ones that understand how to protect Americans in the Constitution, which is simply wrong. Obviously, we watch that. And the politicization.

of that organization. And so I think he's the right guy to go in. The president has faith in him. That's important to go in and clean the place up. It absolutely has to happen.

And reorient it. Remember, they have important missions. Cyber is getting worse. We have espionage cases for the Chinese just going off the chart. That is where our focus needs to be.

And I think if he can clean up all this notion that we have to have political correctness enforced through the FBI, you get rid of that. You're going to have a fine organization who's going to keep America safe. And again, I think the president has the right to have the kind of people he wants in there to do the kind of things that he said on the campaign trail. And I think Cash Patel is that guy. Mike, are you surprised that he said you wouldn't be the right guy for this spot?

Because I thought you would be. Nothing against Cash Patel. Were you surprised? No, no. No.

Yes and no. I mean, they have a long relationship. I mean, I have a relationship with President Trump, but it's not a long relationship with President Trump. And I think that, you know, if you think about what the FBI did. Uh to Donald Trump.

And other political figures over the years of the Biden administration. And by the way, it also happened a little bit in the Obama administration. You understand why he wants somebody in there that's going to go grab people by the lapels and talk about them. He doesn't know him. Yeah, you know him.

He knows him, and he has faith and confidence in him.

So that part didn't surprise me. I mean, honestly, I think it was I understand the pick, and I think that he deserves to have Cash Patel as his FBI director to kind of give that confidence back. You want confidence back in the FBI. And I think the only way to do that is to have Cash Catel go in, clean the place out, and get that thing functioning in a way that it used to do. And it's supposed to be six years.

So it'll supposed to straddle the next administration. That's the goal. We'll see. If he does a good job, the next president would want him to stay. And that'll be a good indication.

I hope he gets it. Mike Rodgers, I hope you run. You're a huge asset to the country. I think the people of Michigan won't get it wrong this time. They'll get it right.

Thank you, Mike. Hey, thanks, Brian. Appreciate it. Back in a moment. We will accept nothing less than full victory.

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Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. Welcome back, everybody. We have H.R. McMaster, General H.R. McMaster, one of the finest military minds in the country, joining us in 10 minutes.

And at which time I'm going to bring him to the story, North Korea has been pulled off the front lines they hear in Ukraine. They're terrible, but why would you pull them off? That's interesting. And Russia's headquarters in Kursk, inside Russia, has been blown apart by the Ukrainians.

So there is some positive news for the country that was invaded. Butch, listening on K-L-I-F in Dallas. Hey, Butch. Hey, Brian. How's it going?

Great, which are you mine? Hey, listen, I'm first-time caller, long time. Listen, Gabbard Patel, there's something they know that these Democrats are mad about. That's why they want to string this out. I don't understand what's going on.

She's a lieutenant colonel, for God's sakes. They think that she's going to turn. What is their problem? I don't understand it. And the thing of it is, they've been there for so long, they've seen things that the Democrats know they've seen, and they're going to turn the page on them.

And that's why they're doing what they're doing. This is nuts. This is nuts. It's got to stop. Listen, I hope they both get through.

I don't care if it's 51.50 or 60. You know, it looks like Doug Collins is going to get right through. You know, we saw Christy Noam impressed everyone. She got through pretty easily. Doug Bergham floated through.

Rubio floated through. These three are going to be tough. Cash Patel, I think, is a layup. I don't know any Republican against him because of what he did early to unmask the whole Russia hoax. But Tulsi Gabbard, the problem with Tulsi is that she doesn't have a reservoir of Democratic support because she left the party.

And a lot of Republicans don't really know her because she was never in the party. The people that know her are us because she's been out front and center, been talking on a regular basis, had a book come out for a while, has been a really strong personality and advocate for the military.

So I just hope that Republicans say, let's give him a shot. Because underneath is Radcliffe, and then you have Cash Patel underneath the Director of National Intelligence. And as long as she promises to relay the intelligence to Trump, it doesn't matter if her views are a little counterintuitive to the traditional conservative, certainly the liberal Democrat. It's going to be fun. We come back, General H.R.

McMaster, and then after that, we'll let you know why Donald Trump's library is getting nicer and nicer. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. Both sides are having significant losses in personnel and equipment. Russia overwhelmingly has considerably more, their thirty thousand a month.

on average in 100 to 150 tanks and armored vehicles and they can only replace about 25 of those a month. Quite quite staggering. General Jack Keene was on with me this morning talking about the Russia-Ukraine situation, when talks will begin. It looks like Ukraine's willing to do it. Russia didn't slam the door.

Trump gave his strongest comments to date last week, put it up socially. And then there was a report midnight last night. Weapons stopped going to Ukraine. Uh and We've heard about that, and I went to the ultimate source and said it's not true. In fact, they might even increase.

I hope there's not any undermining of Trump behind the scenes. That's what I hope. General Jack Keene said that it was good news if they don't stop. And it's very important for him to have the strongest hand possible when they do sit down to talk. And I believe General Kellogg will lead the way.

General H.R. McMaster joins us now. His book, At War with Ourselves, My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House, is excellent and really, really helping me disseminate what went wrong the first time and how they could fix it this time. General, welcome back. Hey, Brian, great to be with you.

All right, first, the story at hand. Did you hear the same thing about weapons being stopped? Yeah, I did. I heard the same thing, and thanks to you and a few others, you know, that was corrected. And, you know, great to hear Jack Keene.

I mean, I mean, I respect that guy so much. He's so dead on on these issues, you know. And I saw his recent proposal, you know, to ensure, you know, as consistent long-term support of weapons to Ukraine, not by giving them weapons, you know, but by allowing them a loan where they can buy U.S. weapons, you know, creating U.S. jobs, expanding our defense industrial base and defending themselves, you know, from this brutal Russian onslaught.

So I think, you know, when you listen to Jack Keene, good things happen.

So I was glad to hear him on. Yeah, he was teaming with Mark Teeson. They wrote a column in the Washington Post, and they talked about how they have so much in natural resources they could pledge to pay. And then you have low-interest loans that could be given.

So therefore, we replenish and modernize our weapon stock. We hopefully get the message to expand it, our military industrial base. And at the same time, they're able to fight. And the one thing about the Ukrainians, haven't they showed you, General, that They are willing to fight and fight with a style in which the Russians don't seem to be able to adjust to. Absolutely, Brian.

And I think whenever you hear people say are they worth or is this worth it to support the Ukrainians, I think you should consider two things. As you're mentioning, Ukrainian valor, but how about Russian atrocities, you know, and the atrocities they're committing every day, you know, against against the Ukrainian people. The kidnapping of children, the murder of civilians You know, the torture and murder of prisoners. You know, so hey, I think that the onslaught against civilians with these long-range missiles and against their energy infrastructure in the dead of winter.

So, you know, I hope I think that's what we should pay attention to, you know. And then, hey, you know, Brian, there's an example of this. You know, we let a loan to Finland after the Bolshevik Revolution, you know, when they had a hostile Soviet Union on their border. And small Finland used that loan to defend themselves. And guess what?

Hey, they paid that back in full.

So, I think that's a good example. The post-World War I loan to Finland is a good example of what we could do with Ukraine. Absolutely. And you wrote about that in your column, too. You're a historian as well as a warfighter.

So, I mentioned. Today, on the show, in your book, that you're a three-star general, right? Yes. And the four-star generals really had trouble taking your advice behind the scenes. It almost reminds me of an NFL player.

You have a coach that never made it to the NFL, and he tries to coach these players. They go, Well, you never made it to the league. For some reason, they had a problem with your three stars and that you were wearing a uniform. How do they feel about a Secretary of Defense that was a major? And coming off Fox.

And will he have a hard time getting their attention at the Pentagon? What do you think? No, I don't think so, Brian. And here's why. You know, we have a professional military ethic.

And this goes back to our Constitution, Brian. Like our founders, hey, they didn't want the military to have a role in politics because they remembered the English Civil War and Oliver Cromwell.

So it has been, you know, it has been integral to our profession. And it's broken down in the past, right? You know, we had a lot of officers become traitors during the Civil War, you could say, right? But our ethic has always been: hey, keep the military out of politics and listen to your civilian leadership, who has the mandate of the people under the Constitution. Nobody elects generals to make policy.

So the chain of command, Brian, it goes from the President to the Secretary of Defense to the combatant commanders. We're talking about Ukraine. I think you'll probably I mean, the most talented, capable general officer I have ever met in my life is the European Command Commander, the Supreme Alley Command Europe, Chris Cavoli. And my only advice would be, hey, listen to Chris Cavoli's advice because that guy is fantastic. But I don't think there's going to be any problem, Brian.

I mean, officers understand their role under the Constitution, and I think I know that they will give the Secretary of Defense their full support. H.R. McMaster, I guess.

So, General, real quick before I move past Ukraine, it looks like they pulled the North Koreans off the front line. And according to the New York Times today, 12 hours ago, they've been just getting massacred. Zelensky made a statement: we think we're going to kill every one of them. They must not know how to fight at all. Number two is Kursk, the Russian headquarters in Kursk has been blown up.

So, what do your sources tell you happening in the war?

Okay, so this is really important, Brian. Every army, every unit, every soldier has a breaking point. The Russians are at the breaking point. When you think about why are they going forward in these continued attacks and taking the casualties that Jack Ean was talking about, hey, they've got a gun at their head. I mean, these aren't soldiers who are motivated to defend their country like the Ukrainians.

And so already, I think they are at the point potentially of a psychological breakdown. And you see this with the Koreans, but that Kursk salient, that's the attack that the Ukrainians conducted into some Russian territory. It was brilliant what they did, Brian. They got outside of their electromagnetic warfare, their defense umbrella, and then they established a strong defense there. And the Russians can't generate the manpower to take that territory back.

So you know what they did? They just tossed the Koreans in there. And they're getting massacred. And you're seeing the competence of the Ukrainian defense there, as well as in the East as well, where they're inflicting these unsustainable casualties.

So, you know, war and battle, Brian, is aimed at the disintegration of human groups. And I think that whenever you think it's bad, and it's tough with Ukrainians, right? They've got their own manpower issues and they've had a tough time generating offensive capability. But when I look at the balance here, I don't think the Russians can do it. Then you add in, Brian, the economy.

And this is where President Trump, I think, made a really important statement. He's like, hey, Vladimir, this is bad for you. This is something you need to get out of. Your economy's in bad shape. And if he drives the price of oil down, like he's talking about, in partnership with the Saudis and others, Russia's in a world of hurt.

They're sitting on piles of cash they can't convert. They're spending 47% of their gross domestic product equivalent on defense. That's unsustainable. They've got a big labor shortage. And as I mentioned, they can't generate the manpower.

So I think You know, just when you think things are bad in battle, a lot of times it's because you're like in the rear area, looking at it from the rear. But when you ride to the front and you look across at the enemy, you realize, man, your enemy's in a really bad situation. I hope so because they're the good guys. People should understand at home. It's not a debate.

One invaded another. We've got to pull for Ukraine. I'm not saying they're the perfect democracy, but they're getting there. They're on the right track. And to me, this is a very easy issue.

All of Europe is pulling for Ukraine. And now I think that we have a plan in place, General, to get our European partners natural gas so they don't have to go elsewhere like to the Russians through a third party to get the natural gas. And we could be their permanent supplier. Absolutely. And this is connected to Ukraine's decision to stop allowing natural gas to transit across their country.

We can fill that gap. I mean, what the Biden administration did made no sense, Brian. They canceled the Canadian pipeline, greenlighted the Russian Nord Stream Q pipeline. They restricted U.S. liquefied natural gas exports by putting a moratorium on permitting for export facilities.

That was crazy.

So I think there's a lot of potential for President Trump right now. I mean, this axis of aggressors we're facing, Brian, from Iran to China to Russia and North Korea, they are profoundly weak. And President Trump has an extraordinary opportunity to come in from a position of strength, reject the policies of the Biden administration, this halting support of weapons.

Well, you can't have tanks.

Okay, you can have a few tanks. You can have some of these missiles, but you don't have permission to use these missiles and so forth. There's a tremendous opportunity for him to lift those restrictions, as I mentioned, with a Alone, provide assurance for long-term access to weapons and munitions. That would bolster the Ukrainians psychologically at this time, Brian, when the Russians are in a real position of weakness. And we're talking to General H.R.

McMaster. General, the Middle East, we have a situation where a hostage exchange, you get four back, you have to give up about 80 to 100 Palestinian Hamas prisoners. Here's what General Keene said about Phase II. We hope to get four hostages, four Israelis back, I think, tomorrow. But listen to what he said about what's next: Cut 40.

Phase two is really challenging, so people understand that means Israel has to withdraw permanently from Gaza. The Hamas in theory is supposed to disarm and eventually a new governance takes over. There's no pathway, I think, ahead for that to be accomplished. And I think this meeting that's coming up with Netanyahu and the President is really important. That's going to be on the table.

So, this is. What do you think about this? I know he's coming this meeting. You know, I'll tell you, I agree with General Keene, too, on this. Ryan, to get to a sustainable outcome in Gaza that's good for Israel's security and good for the Palestinian people in Gaza, you've got to destroy Hamas.

There's no alternative. Hamas is. an organization that is committed To destroying Israel and killing all the Jews. As long as they have the guns, hey, Brian, who's going to be mayor of Gaza? As soon as they put their hand up, they're going to get a bullet in the head.

So you've got to destroy Hamas. And then what really is necessary, and this is where I think President Trump could maybe get something going, is you need a multinational force of some kind to give space. for the creation of a Palestinian political entity that is not committed to the destruction of Israel, that tend to get towards some kind of an agreement, and also can make sure that any aid that goes into Gaza that is aimed at rebuilding the buildings, the homes there, doesn't get diverted back into a terrorist infrastructure, which is what, of course, Hamas did.

So I think there has to be progress on those fronts. This idea that the ceasefire can lead to anything that's good for Israel from a security perspective or for Gaza, I just don't think it's infeasible because of Hamas, because of the nature of Hamas. and the fact that they still have the guns in Gaza.

So, General, I'm not sure you're going to agree with this, but General Milley had his security clearance taken away. They're doing an investigator. They took his portrait down in the Pentagon, and they're investigating on whether he, I guess, should be demoted in retirement. Listen to new Secretary of Defense Pete Hagseth. Accountability is back, Will.

It's the understanding that if you actively undermined the chain of command, as General Milley did under the previous Trump administration, we are going to review those actions administratively inside the Defense Department. Mark Milley got a pardon. That's something President Biden was in his purview to do. Just like in our purview at the Defense Department, we have the opportunity to review things he may have done inside the chain of command while President Trump was president that undermined those authorities.

So security clearance in the interim is revoked. There will be a review of his the rank he will retain upon retirement, and he'll have that process. Your thoughts? My thoughts are, hey, you know what's really dangerous, Brian, is dragging the military into partisan politics. Didn't really make mistakes.

I think everybody can make their own judgment on that. But by initiating these kinds of actions, Is the cure that you're proposing for what you think is the illness, this is from Secretary Hex's position, is the cure worse than the disease, you know? And so I think it's time to just stop, right? And there's been this narrative, Brian, that the military is woke or the military's extremist. I think what people have to realize, hey, generals don't make policy.

And what happened is those who are concerned about this kind of radical DEI agenda and pursuing equality of outcome instead of equality of opportunity and pushing these valorization of victimhood and these various post-modernist BS theories. on the military, hey, that's legitimate concerns. But I don't know any uniformed officer that was buying into that nonsense. I really don't. And so now those people are gone, the political appointees who are pushing it.

But What I'm hoping is that there's not like a reaction to it that keeps them you know drags the military into into politics You know, I I think any we need the best young men and women to serve in our in our military, Brian. And you know, I don't think we should give a damn like what political party they lean toward. Do they have the toughness, the courage, the sense of honor, the commitment to their nation and their fellow soldiers? And if the answers to that are yes, we want you in the military. Right.

General McMaster, always great to see you, and hopefully we'll have some Ukrainians on our show next week on Fox and Friends, who are warfighters coming here to tell their story. All right.

Hey, thanks, Brian. Great to be with you. Thank you. Back in a moment. Learning something new every day on the Brian Killmeat Show.

The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. So think about this. Donald Trump sues George Stephanopoulos for calling him a rapist and wins. They settled it.

They didn't want to fight Trump, who's never been more popular.

So they get millions of dollars. I think $50 million. And he said, put it towards my library.

So okay. Yesterday or two days ago, he settled the meta suit with Facebook for banning him in 2020 and doing some other things. They said, we're tired of going to court. Zuckerberg's trying to make amends with Trump. Writes a $25 million check.

He said, I'm paying my legal fees for $3 million. The rest go to my library.

Now, CBS, the parent company of Paramount, has entered discussions with Trump to settle his $10 billion lawsuit brought by the president in a legal maneuver that many legal experts have ridiculed as merit list because he sued them for editing. Kamala Harris's interview to make her look cogent and interesting and making her look better, which is, by the way, Unacceptable. They could they pride themselves of this Mike Wallace, Morley Sefer, bastion of news and integrity. And then we watched this happen. You edited her to make her look normal.

And she was just at a rambling answer, they made her look quick.

So he sued her because it has everything to do with election tampering, in his view. If she does good in sixty minutes in front of, I don't know, what do they get? 15 million people.

So they're going to settle. And if it's Trump, He doesn't really need the money, so he's putting it towards his library. A lot of times, like you, no one's going to give Joe Biden money for his library. He's probably going to have to go get it from the Chinese and see if Hunter can go get it for him and then deny he got it. But now, this library is going to be amazing.

Do you believe this? There was a time, Allison, where he wasn't winning any cases. And now he's winning like every case. The next one they're going to fold.

Now he's got this prestigious law firm to represent him here in New York. Remember they do for the longest time, established law firms were not allowed to take them, it would hurt them, so they weren't allowed.

Now he's got one of the best law firms in the country taking on Letitia James. I know, and I think that was when they announced that what I forget the name of the law firm, but the fact that they're now willing to they were probably fighting over now, saying I'm representing President Trump. Whereas eight years ago, you're right, they were running for the Hills. No lawyer would want to represent them. It's going to kill their career.

They're not going to get paid.

Well, completely. Number one, he never talked about a library before. I think it's so cool that he thought, I got to salt this away, because that means you could start building it right away.

So now you got $75 million. Even if you, I don't know what that's like. Imagine the interest on $75 million if you just leave it for 18 months.

So he could start breaking ground. I imagine Florida. And that'll be by far the most visited. Do you think they'll be able to? Because they'll have like an apprentice exhibit.

There'll be concerts. Do you think they'll make Mar-a-Lago like the. I don't think he wants to because it's a private club. It's very either. I think he'll try to find a city that'll make you go there, that means something.

I'm going to think about it. Maybe Queens. That's where he was born. I think it's going to be in West Palm. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division.

It's Brian Killmead. Welcome to one of the final hours of the week here on the Brian Killmeat Show, and what a week it's been. Horrific crash, of course, stands out. And you have the president's 300-plus executive orders and actions that stands out. One that didn't really go too well, wasn't communicated effectively.

But I have news for you, Democrats. He's coming back again. And I'm talking about freezing all programs except for people receiving direct aid, like Medicare, Social Security, Meals on Wheels. I guess you would say head start program because that's an immediate benefit. But besides that, he's freezing all programs because we're trying to get a hold of the spending.

He's also saying 2.5 million federal workers, you can leave if you want. Here's your buyout. All of them got emailed, and all of them are considering action, and many of them will still get six months' severance, which is a lot to not do anything. Many aren't going to come back to work anyway. We're following that story.

Also, We're looking into the investigation on the collision because it's going to yield some major results quickly. One of which I think everyone agrees on: there's got to be a massive influx of experienced air traffic controllers. The training has got to start now. The burnout rate is too great. The numbers are too low.

Many, I understand, took buyouts during the pandemic because nobody was flying. They wanted to save money.

Now look at us, all more in danger. Shannon Bream was right in the middle of it all in Washington, D.C., getting set to host Fox News Sunday. And then next week, she'll be at the Super Bowl. Shannon, welcome back. Great to be with you, Brian.

Well, on Fox News Sunday Eve is One Nation. And we have Joe Manchin, we have Governor DeSantis, we have Boomer Saison, and the food babe. As well as Jorge Jorge Masfidel, the UFC fighter, who's one of the first in for Trump. Do you have the same exact lineup? I don't.

Have, by contrast, Senator John Fetterman, Democrat who's driving his party a little bit crazy here in D.C. And we've got Senator Lindsey Graham, who, by the way, also sometimes drives his own party crazy. But they both are key votes on these, you know, Patel, Kennedy, and Gabbard hearings this week. And I'll try to pin them down, see where they're going to vote. By now, what is your sense between cash, Tulsi?

And RFK Jr. Who should be worried the most according to your sources and what you've seen?

Well, it feels like Gabbard. When you have Republican senators come out of that and say, I actually have more concerns and worries about her now that I've questioned her. That doesn't bode well because Republicans have to stand together. You know, she can lose three votes and then you got to call in the vice president, but I am not sure that she doesn't lose more than that. I don't know.

There are whispers in Washington about what comes next if she doesn't even make it out of committee. Because you can get her to the floor, but you would have to report her as not favorably reported out of committee. The new Senate Majority Leader John Thune seemed to be pouring some cold water on that idea.

So we have Cash Patel. I think that he, I have not seen anyone think he's going to get through, not think he's going to get through.

However, I don't think he won anybody over. There's a lot of people dug in. Here's Senator Kennedy on the reasons why. Listen to this with Cash, Cut 23. You've made a lot of people mad, haven't you, mister?

Mr. Patel. Seems so, Senator. Think maybe you've made the right people mad? As my FBI agents, the BRIC agents told me.

when I was running cases with them across this country and around the world. If you're not ticking off some people, you're not doing your job right. Well, he's doing his job right, or leading to this job anyway. I mean, the anger from Adam Schiff, the anger from Senator Bennett and others was pretty substantial. Yeah.

Listen, I think there were a lot of people trying to get viral moments to look like they're landing a punch on the nominee. But I'm not sure that they were, just like I felt with RFK Jr., I'm not sure they were trying to get to the substance of where he actually is on issues that would be under his purview if he were confirmed. Listen, I know it's about getting those moments, but these are big substantive jobs. And I think that not only Americans need answers, but these senators who are going to vote on them might want to actually hear their answers. And I felt like there was so much combative back and forth with some of these hearings that we didn't actually get the substantive answers from these people about where they are and really important things.

Well, that whole Maha movement is amazing. They packed the place. I saw Senator Tupperville said in all his years they are four plus. He says, I've never seen this place packed. Xavier Besheira had two people there.

He never showed up. And he said, we've got to respect that movement. Callie Means is behind it, one of the first people to work with RFK. He wrote the book, Good Energy, and is all about getting our food right and what he thinks is a corrupt pharmaceutical system, Cut 21. There's a.

Real fork in the road for American health right now, and that road goes through Senator Cassidy. He's going to be a crucial vote here. And I know Senator Cassidy, he wants the best for American patients. He's a doctor, and he cares about trust in public health institutions. And Will, I want to just speak directly to him.

I've been with Bobby Kennedy close by his side. Bobby Kennedy is not coming into HHS to assert his opinion into the science. That's what's gotten us to the lack of trust in science. He is hell-bent on getting trust back into scientific authorities right now. And, you know, Senator Cassidy said, I'll be calling you over the weekend to Bobby Kennedy.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. And I think that they have to have an important conversation. You know, there are several doctors over there on the Senate side, and Bill Cassidy is one of the most vocal. And because he is in the middle of this questioning with the man who would lead HHS, what he has to say and what he has, you know, what he does has great sway, I think, within the caucus.

And so, you know, it seemed like he was trying to get Kennedy to come With him on these conversations they were having about vaccines, but certainly did not seem at least publicly satisfied with the answers he was getting. In fact, he seemed frustrated.

So I'll be very interested to see if we get any more details on that weekend conversation. Because we needed. And when do you think we're going to get a vote?

Now, it looks like Doug Collins next week. It looks like Pam Bondi next week. We got Doug Bergam in across the finish line last night. I think it's terrible they're taking the weekend off. And now we got Russ vote is just waiting for a vote.

Pun intended.

So when do you think we're going to get a vote on RFK? And what goes into that day to vote? Is it because sometimes do they delay it to get support?

Well, I don't know if you remember towards the end of that hearing, the chairman said, listen, you got written questions, you got follow-up questions, we need to have been in by five o'clock today.

So they're going to say, listen, the paperwork is done, everything is done, your questions have been answered. They don't have a date certain yet, I don't think, for Kennedy. They're going to say those things that, listen, you've got hundreds, if not thousands, of pages from these people. Democrats have said we're going to run out the clock as much as we can on all of them, basically.

So I think it may take a little bit longer for some, but there are real concerns that I'm hearing within the GOP caucus about whether Gabra can get across that finish line.

So maybe, like you said, you delay it if you think that she can go around and continue to build up votes. Because like I said, there are those who felt better about her after speaking privately with her and less so after her public hearing. Can you go and undo some of that? Yeah, I guess we're going to have to see. What about the speed, Shannon, in which President Trump is doing this stuff?

Today, it's going to be about education. He's going to have an open forum on that. He wants to end indoctrination. He talks about a three-point plan to do it. And he's upset by the numbers.

40% of fourth graders performed proficiently in English. And 28% of eighth graders performed proficiently. Are you kidding me? Reading 40% of fourth graders are at the basic level, 33% in our country.

So he wants school choice. He wants CRT out of schools. He wants to combat anti-Semitism on campuses. He's going to get the Secretary of Interior involved for tribes, Secretary of Defense involved for military families. And he's going to try the best he can to get school choice in different states.

I'm impressed with this move, but you know it all. It's still going to be a state move, and it's still going to be the unions. And they're never going to go along with school choice. Yeah, and listen, I think we all agree that should not be a partisan issue. We should not want our kids to be performing this badly and leaving them at great disadvantage as they move on in their lives, whether it's here domestically or competing on the world stage.

We should want our kids to be able to read and do math and do basic things that will give them tools and opportunity. And I just don't think that should be partisan. But you outline a lot of things there that are potential barriers that stand in the way. I think the Trump administration's thought is if we can redirect and limit the federal funding that flows, that states are going to have to figure this out in different ways. And so a lot of these executive orders aimed at CRT or at recognition of only two genders or any number of these things.

Many of them are already in court. The Trump team knows that as they flood the zone here, a lot of these things are going to end up in court. But they're willing to take on those battles and get the clock ticking so that they can get some decisions on the merits. But yeah, today is all about school choice. And I think very much what you'll hear from the White House on down is: if you care about kids, why wouldn't you want them to have some choices?

It's going to be big. Remember, believe it or not, it was just this week when we opened up with China having an AI product that crashed our market, and we ended up having a crash into the Potomac. Your thoughts about the fallout there? It's amazing.

Some networks tried to focus on why Trump was bringing up DEI. Others want to get to the bottom of what happened. Your thoughts? Yeah, I mean, it's just heartbreaking here because it's just literally so close to home for all of us who live and work here and have taken that runway, you know, hundreds of times probably in our lifetime. Because our military folks are training around here all the time, all along the Potomac.

We see the low flying flights all the time. And we just have always assumed it's so carefully choreographed that everyone's going to be okay.

So when something this tragic happens, People demand and they need answers. And I think, listen, the federal government is right to cast a wide net. Let's look at every possible answer that we can get because we owe that to these sixty seven families, loved ones, these groups of these people we've lost. And the early reporting is not good about staffing issues, not necessarily about the quality of who was in the tower, but the amount of people who were there and what happened with that helicopter and why it was at that altitude.

So there are a lot of questions that need to be answered. We owe that to these families. And hopefully, it's not going to take, as President Trump said, we don't want a three-year investigation in which no one's held accountable. All right.

Thanks so much. Anne and Breem are going to watch you on Fox News Sunday. But first, you're going to be watching Saturday Night. I feel bad because you never go out. You always just watch my show.

I'm home taking notes from your show and then going to bed. All right.

At a yellow pad, or do you do it right into your iPad? I am longhand. I write it out and I like it that way. All right.

Thanks so much. My show's 9 o'clock and yours isn't. Yours is in the morning. Shannon Bream, thank you. Bye.

All right, 1866-408-7669. Be back with your calls in just a moment. Bottom of the hour, we go inside the aftermath of those devastating wildfires out in Los Angeles. Jake Steinfeld, one of the many people, former mayor of Pacific Palisades, one of the many people who lost everything. Last night there was a huge Pacific Palisades concert.

Billy Crystal hosted it. A lot of famous bands showed up for it. Where are we at now with the rebuild? Could this type of performance, and I mean terrible, with the mayor and governor, push that left-wing, left coast? Right.

Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmead. Racism has not gone away since 20 people of African descent came upon these shores at Jamestown, Virginia. In 1619, and it's going to require us to think and behave in a new way.

It is systemic. It is structural. When it comes to addressing diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and belonging, that is for all people of the United States, that must come across the voting line as well. This is everyone's America. Our story has a new form of glory that must come to our shores as well.

Well, Dr. Quintessa Hathaway has a new view of the elimination of DEI. You know, we're not back in the 1960s during segregation. We're not back in, you know, 1870 with the 1865 assassination of Lincoln and the horrible regime of Johnson. We are at a situation, or LBJ, we're at the point in 2024 where DEI has a negative connotation.

We're back to a merit-based society. And the Democratic Party doesn't realize that they lost this argument: that if you are being discriminated against, there's laws on the books to make sure the way you've been discriminated against is there's going to be legal action. But you don't have to legislate to make sure any race, any gender, any sexual proclivity is better than the next. That's what President Trump wants, an even playing field for the country. And so does the country want that.

But not everybody, as the Democrats get together. to find out how they're supposed to push back against Trump. Here's a little from the forum. About how they were having this give and take. And now, keep in mind, they want to emerge from this with the new head of the DNC.

They got about five candidates. Listen. Cut seven. I have a show of hands. How many of you believe that racism and misogyny played a role in Vice President Harris's defeat?

Okay.

So that's good. You all pass.

So they raised their hands, they all passed, and they laughed. That's the best news for Trump yet. Because the American people, do you know that Trump gained in every single state, in every single city? In states and cities he didn't win, but he's gaining. Do you know he got 47 percent of the Hispanic vote?

It was up from 39 percent last time he ran in twenty twenty and significantly up in twenty sixteen from what Mitt Romney left off at? Do you realize that he's improving everywhere? And you continue to say we're a racist, sexist society built on slaves, off the back of slaves, and built on stolen land? America doesn't want to hear that. We're coming up on 250th birthday, and that's what this said.

In seven battleground states, Trump won them all. He even they said men and women, men vote for Trump, women are voting for the women. No, he even improved with women. And Kamala Harris was a terrible candidate. Simple as that.

Hillary Clinton was lazy. She did nothing to win Michigan. I don't need to go over 2016 again. She is not a likable person. A woman will be President.

Peggy Noonan said, no doubt about it, when we'll be president, most likely she's going to be conservative, like a Margaret Thatcher. The American people will elect women to do and men to do anything. We're over it. Yeah, there's certain people dug in on certain things, but that's not the majority. And if you're going to run on that, you're going to lose.

So, what are the Democrats going to do? Joe Manchin says you ought to pick your spots to go along with the president. When it comes to cracking down on the border, support the president. When it comes to getting illegals out of this country, when it comes to criminals, support the president. When it comes to people that came over here and keep blowing off their desk appearances, support the president.

If you don't want to go into farms and get out people that have been here for 20 years, that's maybe where Democrats could say. Established people should have a pathway. If I go along with you here and if I okay the dreamers, will you give me a pathway to citizenship for people that are playing the perfect game for 20 years? This is how you work. But if you're going to fight them on, I listened to Senator Osoff of Georgia come out and said: attention to immigrants, we love you.

Yes, you come here legally, you're right. But the point is not immigrants, it's illegal immigrants and you're addressing the criminals because that's who's being dragged out. Here's cut here's more from the Democrats cut for it. Everybody's fatigued. Trust me, I get it.

That was it was pure hell and the disappointment and the frustration and I'm you know soul-searching. Then they're throwing so much at us that we're fatigued. The days of grieving of the Democratic Party are over. Frankly, my party's been just a little bit too passive and quiet in this regard. I'm sensing we've woken up in the last 24 hours.

We missed some things about what the American people really cared about. Yeah. Finally, that's more Kelly in the end. I always thought when Mark Kelly became a candidate, he was going to win in Arizona. Because he's got this military astronaut background with a wife that was shot in the head, who was belo really liked before she was uh shot.

Uh she wasn't any partisan. Actor Uh And I just thought, man, this guy's going to do it. But I feel like he is not taking a stand pro-military. He's not taking a stand pro-intelligence. He's not taking a stand against this party when it came to the border until now he realizes, I got to be honest, the border is an absolute mess.

Illegal immigration is a problem.

So he's beginning to wake up. I sense Governor Shapiro the same way. Those guys get it. Senator Fetterman gets it. Senator Manchin gets it.

Now out of it. But the best thing to happen to Republicans is keep giving publicity to the squad. Because as long as they represent the left of the party and Rachel Maddow. The more you're going to be marginalized and the less support you're going to get because you don't have working class. And now you're losing the grip on minorities because you have another party that says, come one, come all.

We think you can compete. without anyone pandering to you or giving you a head start. You think I'm right? I'm going to talk about what's happening in California because a lot of people think, including Jillian Michaels, that because of the performance of these wildfires, it could go red. Information you want, truth you demand.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. These were the clothes I wore when I fled my house with my wife Janice, like so many of us did. on January 7th. It was all I had, wore it for a week plus an N95 mask. I look like an evacuary or someone who just robbed a 7-Eleven.

But everybody's been so Support of this young girl, who must have been 20, came up to me and said she understood my pain because she had lost TikTok for a day.

So he's having a good time. But they were in Pacific Palisades. It was a major fundraiser for the LA Wildfires victims and to get awareness. But most of all, Pacific Palisades, on average, the median income house is $4.5 million. But many of them had no insurance.

A lot of times, all your investments, your remortgas, things for a business opportunity or to pay for school, that house burns down. You make the payments, you have no house. They take away your insurance. Where do you go?

So just because somebody is famous, it doesn't mean their world is not rocked, let alone the people who are paycheck to paycheck, more in Altadena area.

So then you look for leadership. You look for business people, absolutely. You got to go work it yourself. You got to pick up your phone. You got to work your insurance company.

You got to work your contacts. You got to get construction in there. You got to figure what you need to rebuild. Doesn't make sense. Family members got to go back to school, back to work simultaneously.

And then you look for leadership as mayors and governors and attorney generals. I think from my perspective, I've never seen two bigger epic failures. Than the mayor of Los Angeles and the governor. One takes no ownership as if they just came from if they're actually governor of Utah. The other one has no idea how to run things, looks totally overwhelmed, and no interest in looking in charge.

Jake Steinfeld is one of the many people who went out to California with absolutely nothing, bodybuilder, decided not to use performance enhancing drugs, became a natural bodybuilder, then a personal trainer, the first one ever. His clients were extremely famous. He ends up becoming extremely successful, launching a series of businesses, one more successful than the next. And then when Body by Jake found out on January 6th that he had to evacuate his house and his whole neighborhood would be burned to the ground, he was hoping for some leadership. And sadly, it has not come across.

But he's a man of action, and he joins us again. Jake, it's been a couple of weeks since you joined us. Thanks so much for being on. How are things going for you and your family? Listen, first of all, Brian, as always, the way you report, the way you speak is straight.

And to the point, And everybody who listens understands. wouldn't that be a very interesting way to get information? not just during good sunny times, but especially when there's something as dramatic and catastrophic. as these wildfires.

Now let me just say, you know, as we credit as we preface this, the first time I came on on the probably the ninth in the morning. We're not the first people. This is not a pity party for me. This is not we're not the first people to deal in a catastrophe. There's so many people today that are homeless who are homeless.

And to understand that, man, you know, you you kind of just Read the papers and listen to the news, and you hear people's stories, and then it's you. And we're still living in a hotel. Uh we're going to be moving uh uh to an apartment uh over the next week. But everything you're saying about leadership, everything you're saying about information, I mean, there's so much nothing going on, so much topic. talking and nobody knows what they're saying.

Seriously, Brian, I mean, when you listen in, and I'm going to tell the audience, I called you the other night. and I had you listen in a little bit on one of these town halls. And it is it is absolute where they're they're they're telling jokes. They're trying to make light of the situation. And nobody knows what to do.

There's a five or six hour line. Waiting to get into the neighborhood, trying to bring a conversation to your house, to your house, trying to get to my home. And thankfully, unless you know somebody, you can move around. People are waiting in lines for hours. You have to get an orange piece of paper or a blue piece of paper.

One day it's orange, the next day it's blue. That it's here's the deal. It's it's like anything else. It's messaging. Honest?

straight ahead message that this is what needs to be done. And I do remember, like I said, when I first came on on that faithful morning and said my house burned down and I'm wearing what I got, and that's it. I heard Billy's little rabbit do. I can't tell jokes yet. I think that's a good thing to do.

As you know, man, we will persevere. you know, and and I've said this a lot of times. Were you at the event? Jake, were you at the event? I was not at the event.

I don't obviously you know, I'm trying to to make moves So that people, myself included, can get up to their homes and take care of business. And literally, like I said to you, to look at the rubble. the psychological challenge. To everyone, men, women, and child, there's so many kids who are not in schools, right? By the way, that's been the reality for three weeks now.

So, four weeks.

So, what is happening? What are they telling you? You want to rebuild, you want to clean up, you want to get started. What are they telling you? They keep saying the same thing, and first you hear it's going to be a week, then it's two weeks, then listen, it's going to be a take a number, take a number.

Take a number. And are we at the deli? Or are we going to be able to have answers that we can bring people up? And scrape our own land because the psychological challenge of looking at rubble every day really wears on you. It really does, Brian.

And what you need to do, like I've always said, listen. Things happen, right? You can roll up in a ball. No, but I don't know. No, I get it, but Jake, let's talk about the action that's not happening.

This was happening a week ago when Donald Trump got elected. Four days later, he's in California. Listen to this with Mayor Bass. And if individuals want to clear out their property, they can. Everyone's standing in front of their house.

They want to go to work and they're not allowed to do it. And the most important people to be safe. They're safe. They're safe. You know what?

They're not safe. They're not safe now. They're going to be much safer. A week is actually a long time, the way I look at it. I watched.

Hundreds of people standing in front of their lots, and they're not allowed to go in. It's all burned, it's gone, it's done, nothing's going to happen to it, not going to burn anymore, there's nothing to burn, there's almost nothing to burn. And they want to go in. There the people are all over the place. They're standing and they say, Why aren't you going in?

We're trying to get a permit and the permit's going to take 'em. Everybody said eighteen months Jake, that's you. That what he's saying to Bass is what you say to me. She's one hundred percent right. 1000% right, a million percent right, and the same garbage comes out of her mouth.

of oh yeah, it's going to happen. And she does the stuttering, mumbling deal. And we're still waiting. I'm in a hotel. I'm trying to get up there.

I can get up to my house. But I can't bring, I have to bring people in my car. A contract, everyone is saying the contractors are afraid, builders are afraid, they don't want to mess around, they don't want to get their licenses taken away. No, my goodness. That's their livelihood.

There's no leadership, right? There's no and nothing's changed. Nothing as cheap. It's just a lot of talk. There's a lot of talk.

And this is where, and once again, I say this to you, man, and I know all of your listeners believe the same thing. This is not red. This is not blue. This is about the red, white, and blue. This is all of us together.

When there's catastrophe, everybody's not. But you need a business person. That guy, Rick Caruso, is a friend of yours. You know him. He got rejected by Los Angeles.

He gave it to a woman with no experience, never did anything in common. He would have done an incredible job. And he saved his own complex. He saved his own complex because he knows how to do it. And the bottom line is this: there's no leadership, and we need good, strong leadership of people.

Listen, people come to me every single day. Jake, what do we do? I'm in the same boat as you guys are, right? And we can just have hope, we can believe in ourselves and rally together. Right?

And that's what that's all we're doing right now. You try to get answers and we try to get I have my wife Tracy on the phone, speaks to a nice gal, and then can we speak to a supervisor? I'm sorry, I can't get to the supervisor. Unbelievable. Jake, Jake, and you have great insurance.

Are you getting dollar for dollar back? We have very great insurance. I'm saying so far, Brian. I'm going to keep you posted. I will tell you.

It is definitely even if you have great insurance, They don't just cut the check. I'm just going to leave it at that. I'm hoping it sounds like everything is great, but I will keep you abreast of all this because I want to give you a firsthand picture. Piece of business every step of the way of what we're going through as a family. And by the way, like I said, this is not about having dough or not having dough.

There's no home. Right, and you could get into an apartment, but that's not how you uh you want to live, and there's a lot of people that just can't afford it because they're gouging. Right, but the president says this, all right? He says, wait a second, people just want to go home. They're less safe.

Not in their homes. I mean, he's telling the truth. People are waiting around. No one is saying, well, we don't want to rebuild. We just want to push in and get off what's going to be.

So, Jake, I want you to here's another cut from Pacific Palisades as well as Jake Steinfeld's place. Here's Billy Crystal last night. I wanted to be here tonight because a little over 23 years ago, and just a month after 9-11. I was asked to welcome the audience at the concert for New York at Madison Square Garden. With With Ground Zero still smoldering.

I walked out to a grieving audience holding up signs with pictures of their loved ones on them, asking. Have you seen them? It was all I could do to get my first words out, and tonight, here I am. Talking to all of you in pain. But now I'm also One of the hurting thousands asking.

Have you seen my school? Have you seen my church? Have you seen my house? Have you seen my town? Have you seen the 29 people who lost their lives?

Have you seen them? You understand that thought. He's a friend of yours, right? Yeah. No, and he's the greatest.

He and by the way, I was the honorary mayor of the Palisades and and and and uh he came he came after me. We did a whole event together. He's he and his wife Janice are dynamite. They've been in the Palisades as long as we've been in the Palisades for over thirty years and lost everything. Lost everything, and it's good to have some humor.

You have to do that, you have to be positive. And you know, I was listening while I was waiting to come on the air, listening to what you had a commercial about when you're stressed out. You know, we talk about the president, a very stressful job. What do you, what should you do if you're stressed out? Moving your body is very important, right?

Exercise is very important. Move your body. You know, they're the most underutilized antidepressant. is exercise. If you're mad, sad, angry, or stressed.

Move your body. And that's what, you know, get back into a rhythm, get back into a routine. Especially, you know, everybody, most people who are listening to you, have an apartment, have a place that they call home, home base. I call it command central, right? When you don't have command central, I've never had that in my life, Brian.

I mean, it's we get we're getting used to it a little bit, but I can't lie to you. I will tell you this, that when we're out and about, my wife Tracy and I, I just want to go home. I just want to get myself.

So, Jake, one of the things you got to do, but if you're moving in the right direction, if you're starting to rebuild, you're looking over plans, you're getting checks in, you started getting a schedule, then things, then you get empowered. But when you have idiots in charge of you who just want to just have this job like the Queen of England instead of taking over a town in distress, and by the way, 9-11 was 9-11. Nothing will ever be like it. But if I look at pictures of California, it looks like that. It looks like a bomb went off.

It looks like you're looking at.

Somewhere in Afghanistan or somewhere where there's been a massive war. I mean, literally. And the thing is, this: the president said it beautifully. Let people get in. Tomorrow.

Let people let people. Get the dumpster in there, rebuild and work together and help each other out. I want you to hear what Jillian Michaels just said on Fox Business, a fellow Los Angeles resident. It's possible, but the Republicans have to be smart about who they put forward. Because this would be Gavin Newsom's, I believe, third recall.

And every candidate that they have put forward previously is simply too socially conservative. And the people of California just can't swallow it.

So Gavin Newsom has certainly screwed up enough. People are absolutely fed up. But the Republicans have to be strategic and moderate socially with their candidate of choice here.

So she's the question was, could they be open to a Republican after all this failure? And your thoughts? I think people yes, I think people are open to somebody who's who has leadership skills who who who has a business vacuum And who knows how to talk to people in a very straight and direct way, where people feel confident, comfortable, energized. and empowered. To take care of their own destiny and their own lives and know that they have the support.

of Of a state. And I mean, if you look at what's going on here, Brian, you started to talk about the fact that there was $550 million spent in property taxes alone last year in Pacific Palisades, 8,200 single-family homes, not counting condos or apartments, right? And by the way, not everybody has dough, as you did state in the beginning. But First of all, a dry reservoir. Power lines above the ground, not underground.

My question to you is. You know, like Billy said, where are the people? Where did the money go? Where did the dough go? And by the way, these are questions it's great to talk about now, but look what's happened.

Look, there's going to be another catastrophe. I don't know if it's going to be in the Palisades. Right now, there's nothing in the Palisades, but there's going to be something somewhere else in California, in Utah, New York, wherever, God forbid. It's about being prepared. But when these moments happen, leadership is so desperate.

People are desperate for hope. People are desperate for understanding. And when you're not being told what to do, everybody, look, I'm standing in the hotel. If you can visualize for a second, everyone is driving. Don't close your eyes because you're driving.

I'm staring literally into the palisades. Bri, I FaceTimed you so you know where I am. PCH It's literally in front of me. It's blocked. Yeah.

It's blocked. It's a month into this damn thing.

Well, Jake, I think you just told me, unfortunately, I'll get us a break now, but you told everybody, gave a personal view of what's happened with money, without money. You're all in the same boat. And I don't think that people should forget it. And you got to battle out of it. Unfortunately, you got to fight against your leadership to do it.

We had Rudy Giuliani, at least. And then New Jersey had Governor Christie. They were fighters. You don't have a fighter, and hopefully, maybe you can beat it. Those are the fellas.

I mean, like Chris, those guys, those guys know how to fight. But it's also the thing: this. It's about being positive, and I'll say it again, man. This is, and all of us need to understand. I know you do this now, and I bet I know the president believes the same thing.

It's not red or blue. It's a red, white, and blue. This is the greatest country on the planet. Let's not treat anywhere like we're living in a third world country. Jake Seinfeld, thanks so much.

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