Elon Musk: Trump is making democrats even more "irrational"

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kelmead. All right, get ready, everyone. We got a big show coming your way, and we'll be taking your calls: 1-866-408-7669. Colonel Allen West will come to us from Texas shortly.

Next week, we're going to be in Dallas.

So it'll be great to talk to him. We also are going to be covering a lot of events happening today. I mean, right now, believe it or not, you would think that. Elon Musk will be having his hands full with Doge, but he's also putting a SpaceX Falcon Rocket 9 launch into the air with Starlink V2 mini satellites. He's responsible for them too.

Eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster will land in the SpaceX drone chip. It's incredible that they do all this stuff. They're making this type of progress while he's using some of his best men and women. To start building up. Doge and get the efficiency back into government if it was ever there to begin with.

So, before we get to that, let's get to the big three. Number three. How should democratic politicians respond to this? What I think they should do is what we call in rural America, play possum. Just let it go, don't get in the way of it.

Really? That's an interesting strategy. Play possum, do nothing. It's the Seinfeld strategy, Dem's battle plan. Play possum?

That's one idea. The other is to fight everything. How about this? Pick your spots and move to the middle. We take a look at the minority party.

Number two. This needs to be a permanent end to the war and not a temporary end as we've seen in the past. The practical reality is that there is going to be some discussion of territory and there's going to be discussion of security guarantees. And NATO and things to that nature. Mike Waltz meeting in Saudi Arabia with Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff.

Russia wants a thaw with the West and we want an end to the fighting in Ukraine and security guarantees for the Ukrainians. The subplot, NATO battling to get back into the fold and into the talks. And Ukraine should know they are next and they're not dealt out. Number one. I mean, I used to be adored by the left, you know.

I mean, this whole sort of like Trump derangement syndrome, you don't realize how real this is until like it's you can't reason with people. It's like they become completely irrational. That is Elon Musk talking about life being tight with Donald Trump. Doge, finding massive waste and dodging political bullets. While people don't realize it's not a preference to cut the budget, it's not Elon Musk's idea or a Republican axiom.

We have to do it. There's abuse and there's waste, and it's necessary we cut it. We are almost $2 trillion over budget. That cannot exist because to keep our money flowing, we have to take out loans. And now we have interest rates at 5%.

Do you understand where this is heading? Already, our number one expenditure is interest on the debt. Second is defense. Yet people protest. That he's out there cutting the budget.

What did he do? Education. Found a lot in education. Where else did he go? We know that he found Social Security, found a ton there.

On Social Security, Medicare. And Medicaid, he believes the cost is $2.9 trillion, 43% of all the spending. Defense Veterans Affairs add up to $1.15 trillion. trillion. The net interest on all our debt, $950 billion.

These categories make up roughly three quarters of the budget, which is $6.75 trillion. We bring in $4.5 trillion.

So when Musk goes in there to cut the budget, it's not to make bigger rockets. It's not to make Tesla nicer. It is to help out because he's a master at efficiency. But yet, listen to what was happening yesterday on President's Day, and they say 50 states. I mean, these aren't the biggest protests, but I just want to point it out: cut one.

It's embarrassing, right? Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, one place, Tampa, Florida, the next. Florida, President Trump dominates, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Republicans are going to get more and more powerful there.

So what are they protesting? Let's take a look. Elon Musk says millions in Social Security database are listed as being between the ages of 100 and 159. 20 million listed with ages 100 or higher, including more than 3.9 million, 130. and hired.

Does that bother you, that payments are going out to people like this? The acting head of Social Security quit after a clash with Elon Musk because he didn't want to give him access. She didn't want to give him access to Social Security. Why? Why don't we find out how much fake money's going out there?

It's not to cut the average person's payout. It's to make sure the money you put in is going to people and back to you in some cases.

So I mean there's so much. on Social Security that's really alarming for me. And that is the number of people in our country. is three hundred and I have it right down here. The number of people in our country With Social Security.

Is like 320 million. Do you know we're mailing out 340 million in checks?

So it's here we go. Ilon Musk and Doge have discovered that there are 394 million Social Security recipients.

Okay. The country has three hundred and thirty four million people. About sixty million are eligible for Social Security.

Now, the money that you put in, you worried about getting it out. How much more worried would you be if you knew that it was going overseas, maybe to people that don't qualify, hackers that managed to siphon it out, or people just in other countries who are fraudsters? There are only 65 million people old enough to receive social security payments, and we're mailing out 300 million checks. Uh that bothers me. Other things they're doing in education.

They cut over $600 million in divisive teacher training grants. Doge puts DEI in the chopping block. We know that. They have announced the cancellation of various streams of funding to DEI education, including $9.7 million for UC Berkeley to develop a Get This, a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise drive-driven skills. Is that where you want your money going?

Latest spending sweep comes just after Doge announced the termination of another eighty nine DOE contracts for a total of $881 million.

So. They also gave up $100 million in DIE contracts.

So they set up a website so you could track this. And so far, clear and away, they found $55 billion and put it back in the system. I think that's pretty effective, but people are just going crazy. Mike Davis is Article 3 project founder and president, and he was on Laura Ingram's show last night, Cut Five. That's a very good question because President Trump campaigned on the fact that he's going to hire Elon Musk and set up Doge to go into the federal government and cut waste, fraud, and abuse.

And you have these activist judges now telling the president that his Treasury Secretary, for example, cannot look at Treasury payments because apparently these activist judges also don't want the Trump administration to find waste, fraud, and abuse. I guess the question we should have is, why do they fear that there's going to be accountability? Isn't Sunlight the best disinfectant? I thought so, too.

So now they want to go into the IRS. And of course, I could bother you and burden you down with all the lawsuits. Just know about 15 attorneys. generals in the blue states are pushing back against the president. Doge team going in and looking to the IRS, to education, to Social Security, to the Treasury.

They say, well, you'll have access to everybody's personal information.

Well, so does the Treasury Secretary. Doge is an agency within the government. Did you complain when Barack Obama hired all those czars, like 35 czars, they had access to? Are you complaining that Tom Holman has access to personal security and information? Of course he does.

He's a border czar.

So, what is the problem? If you could find more money in the IRS, if you could find inefficiencies in the way they work, that makes everybody better. I don't even understand what Democrats are going for here. I personally don't.

So, knowing with Democrats in particular, they're out of power. They have a slim majority of a slim majority in the House. They've given up a slim majority a little bit bigger in the Senate. They lost the White House. They can't believe it to a guy they tried to arrest in jail.

He ends up winning handily. He can't even contest the election.

So, what are you going to do?

Well, don't worry. You have Kamala Harris in the wings. Listen to her at a Broadway play, Louis Armstrong play, which, by the way, I want to see. Kamala Harris is there.

So she was asked. She was asked, what should we do now? Pamela? CUD 28. But also let's see it as a motion, you know, nature pours a vacuum.

So where some where there's a vacancy, then let's fill it. Right? And let's know that the The reality is that the progress of our nation has always been about the expansion of rights, not the restriction of rights. We're seeing a U-turn right now. For those rights to be maintained, which means we have to be vigilant.

And it's just the nature of it. And it doesn't mean we don't see the beauty in everything. Right? These things all coexist. But I believe we fight for something, not against something.

Okay, that was the most vacuous statement she might have ever made. Eric, what did you just point out to me about that dialogue? I love all those people in the background. Hmm, hmm, yes, yes. That's a great point.

So they're just like, wow, she's making a lot of sense. How could she not have won? Look at, I mean, the verbatim makes you laugh out loud. And then when you actually hear it, it's crazy. I mean, I cannot accuse someone of being drunk or drinking, but it would almost be a relief if I'm a Kamala Harris fan because you would say, well, she makes a lot of sense when she's not drinking.

But if she was sober, Well, and a lot of a lot of people are making um uh alluding to the fact that she sounds drunk. Maybe that is. If she's getting drunk going into a play, you got a problem. You know, going out and having a few drinks with the ladies or the guys with couples. But when you're going to a play or a game and you get that drunk, when you're drunk, that's an issue.

I'm not saying she is. But it would almost be an ample excuse who would explain it away.

So what do you do if you're a Democrat? He made it's obvious you pick your spots. You know, you pick, you know, okay, I don't agree. Those go to go to town. I don't agree with the way he's approaching Ukraine.

All right, fine. I don't like the tax reform being renewed. Go ahead, go fight. James Carville had an interesting Approach his strategy, kind of interesting. I think.

James Carville gets a lot of attention because he's The Charles Barkley, the John McEnroe of commentary, the Stephen A. Smith. And it doesn't necessarily mean he's the best, but he makes the most noise and he looks the most comical. Cut twenty-four. This is happening all around the country.

So the question is, how should Democratic politicians respond to this? And what I think they should do is what we call in rural America play possum. Just let it go. Don't get in the way of it. Or as we like to say, don't just stand there, do nothing.

Let it let this germinate. But I need to get in front of it. This freight train is moving. Let's just get out of the way b and then we're gonna have time. I'm never well, I wouldn't fight everything, but Freight Train's got to get out of the way.

I mean, if you if he thinks that all his policies are bad, just let them fall on their own weight. I assume that's what he means. But what if his policies are not bad? What if they will not fall on his own weight? I mean, basically he shut down the border already.

He's arresting criminals in major cities. These mayors and sheriffs that are pushing back look like idiots. You're pro-criminal.

So, on foreign policy, he's making things happen. Just keep an eye on it. He's delivering weapons to the good guys, Israel. He's trying to get everybody into talk.

So, okay. Freight train, whatever you want, James Carville. I mean, he makes Senator Fetterman, look well dressed. I have no idea how he goes out of his way to look like he just woke up every day, but he does.

So Jensaki, who makes more sense every day as a Democrat, and Rahm Emmanuel, quick note on Jensaki, for me, she was clearly making policy with Joe Biden. Because she would make a lot of sense as press secretary. It made you think that policy was coming out of there until you heard KJP for two years talk in circles. Then I realized she had nothing to report, and she had to pretend like she did. Here's what Rahm Emmanuel, really bright guy, Jen Socky, had to say about what Democrats are doing.

And what they should be doing. Cut 26. Which drives me crazy is the way sometimes Democrats talk. It drives me insane. It's like we're in a PhD thesis on political academia, which is not how you win elections.

I mean, Democrats. We love people to know that we're smart. And that we got our PhD, and here we're ready to show you our thesis. And it comes across not only that it's a self-enclosed conversation, it is tremendously dismissive of them, the audience. We're actually talking to ourselves about how important, how smart we are.

rather than how to make sure that they understand Well, Ron Manuel talked about how Bill Clinton just had an instinct. One thing, I feel your pain. Remember, John Travolta played him in the movie? And that's just it. Bill Clinton liked people.

And so is Donald Trump like people. I'm not too sure Barack Obama liked people. He was kind of like a celebrity, Barack O'Malley, who's so very well protected. We come back but talented. I think that his presidency is not going to hold up long term.

Bill Clinton's will, his personal behavior has gotten worse the more you looked at it and see what he did after and the Jeffrey Epstein things. But looking back at his presidency, even since we got such a terrible start, he started making deals. help the country, and we got the budget down to zero. The deficit was zero. Back in a moment, I'll take some of your calls.

Lieutenant Colonel Alan West to the bottom of the hour. I want to expand more on what's going on at the border. You're listening to the Brian Killmee Show.

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We know just the practical reality is that there is going to be some discussion of territory and there's going to be discussion of security guarantees. Those are just Fundamental basics that will undergird and underlie any type of discussion.

So Mike Walsh, we have our A team there. I don't know much about Steve Witkoff, but Mark Arubi or Mike Waltz have the best foreign policy in the country. If either one of them were president, I'd feel great.

So they're meeting with Lavrov and his assistants over in Saudi Arabia, who are not just there as arbiters, they're going to play a role. And what's the focus? The end of the Ukraine war. But if you ask Russia what they care about, they said they want to reinvigorate. Uh relations with the United States.

I've never I haven't heard that before.

Now look, I don't trust them. Lavrov is uh duplicitous to be kind. And Vladimir Putin, obviously, nobody else is more Machiavellian and more zero-sum-oriented than them. And they're playing Trump already. They're even using his phrases.

But Trump is so much smarter than you think he is when it comes to this stuff. People say, well, he likes flattery, but he understands. That he's being flattered because they think it's a strategy against him, if you could follow that.

So, a couple of things that they are demanding. They say. Uh that they're not giving up any territory that they've taken. Number one. Number two is they want.

Zelensky to guarantee elections, which is comical because they have ridiculous elections where if you try to run against him and you're a legitimate candidate, you're either killed or put in jail. Naval Nee, latest example.

So I can't understand that one at all.

So, they also want an agreement that you'll never be in NATO, and I think EU too, or something to that nature. But this is just the very beginning to test their sincerity. And then they hit him with a there was a huge drone attack in Ukraine already today, and evidently they're welling up troops in Belarus. They could start another invasion from that angle, which, by the way, didn't go well the first time. They'll get blown away again.

So, I'm very curious to see what's going to happen, what's going to emerge. We might even hear something within this hour about both sides. And what they're looking to accomplish.

So, Ukraine's getting worried. And already, the President's strategy of getting NATO to understand that we're not going to continue to absorb their lack of focus on their defense and saying, you guys have to defend yourself. You guys have to put troops in between Ukraine and Russia. Because we cannot sit there and supply all your defense while you put no money into it. You don't think we would like to put $950 billion back into our economy, into infrastructure, but we can't because we're defending you.

And I think they got that message. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead. Last count, we got almost six hundred thousand. Illegal aliens in the United States with a criminal conviction.

So I won't be happy until we eradicate every one of those. And as far as TDA, we got a few more hundred of TDA to look for, and we're looking for them now. They're our priority. You know, I looked at the numbers today, Bill, 229 total encounters on the southwest border. 229 compared to that 11,000 a day under Biden.

I started on board towards 1984. I've never seen the numbers this high. 229 total encounters in a 24-hour period. That is a record.

So that's why there's less total arrests because the border is more secure than it ever has been.

Well, yeah, Tom Holman is extremely happy at the border. He wanted to arrest more criminals, but each one takes a case to go find them, especially if they're in a blue city. You've got to put investigators before you even get that raid together. The USIS arrested under the Trump administration from January 20th to February 8th 11,791. I'm happy with that, but evidently Trump wants a higher number.

The same period of time last year, 4,969.

So it's more than double. Actually, they did the math for me, 137% increase.

So, the other thing to keep in mind, too, because the southern border is so crack, so locked down, the northern border is picking up. They say illegal smuggling to coyotes now advertising on TikTok. We can get you across the northern border, the northern border, no problem. And for the most part, they do. They tape it, they screen it, they put a screenshot on there.

And most of it is Indians, not American Indians, like from India. Lieutenant Colonel Allen West joins us now, Dallas County Republican Party Chair, American Constitutional Rights Union Executive Director, former Congressman from Florida. Colonel, welcome back. Your thoughts about the numbers.

Well, it's incredible. It's great to be with you, Brian. And 137% increase, all because you have an administration that is telling ICE to go out there and do their job. And when you hear that number from Tom Holman, that we're down to 229 a day as opposed to 11,000 to 12,000 a day, that's just in one month. And that is an incredible achievement.

But here's the thing we need to understand. When we talk about these criminal illegal immigrants, and he says 600,000, that's a monumental number that we have to start whittling away at. But on top of that, we still have those 1.5 to 2 million that are the gotaways that we're not able to know and track as well as these other 600,000.

So we've got a huge monumental task. And the last thing that we need are governors and mayors and police chiefs and sheriffs that are going to aid and abet or be obstacles in us achieving this goal. Which the American people want. Right. And so far in Boston, they say the police chief yesterday was quoted as saying, I am not allowed to cooperate with ICE, and the mayor is doubling, tripling down.

We don't enforce detainers, the commissioner said. That's not permitted. How much longer until the people of Boston demand the change?

Well, it's not so much the people of Boston. They are breaking the federal law. They are harboring criminal, illegal immigrants. And when you think about it, coming across the board into this country illegally is a crime.

So you're talking about people that have committed crimes and coming to the country illegally, and they're committing crimes on top of that. And so why would a law enforcement officer, and understand this, if you're a law enforcement officer, aren't you supposed to be enforcing the law? And so for these people to say I'm not allowed to do my job, I'm not allowed to enforce the law, then why are you a law enforcement officer? And for an elected official to say that I'm such an ideological, I don't know, concrete person that I'm going to support open borders, I'm going to put the lives of my constituency's constituents at risk, that's a person that should not be in that position. But I think that Tom Holmes is going to end up bringing charges against them.

I hope so, because something's got to break. I know he's getting a little bit frustrated, and I know Trump wants those numbers higher, but I think it's almost like a detective's got to cut got to go find all these people individually. They're not hanging out in just one gangster hotel anymore.

Well, no. And furthermore, you have people that are tipping off these Trendaragua members. You know, when I was in Iraq and Afghanistan, we knew that we had spotters outside of our Ford operating bases.

Now you have people that are being spotters in these communities, in these neighborhoods that are tipping people off.

So those are the people that have to also be arrested. And I'm sure that they're going to find out this leak that led to the Trendaragua raid out in Colorado being a bust.

So I want to fast forward to the Russian talks right now in Saudi Arabia. Do you think it's a good move to start that conversation? Yes, you have to start that conversation. And I think that President Trump is the leader of the free world and he has the high ground. He should go direct to Russia and start to Lay out the terms of an agreement and a deal, as he will call it.

And I think it's important that Vladimir Putin knows that. You know, there are consequences to the actions that he has taken. He cannot just get 100% everything that he has wanted. And just the same as Vladimir Zelensky needs to know that the spigot is going to be turned off. There has to be something that the American people can see is beneficial to them if we're going to go in and do as the Clinton administration, I believe, treaty said: that after Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons, we will provide a security blanket for them.

But did we know? No, we didn't. Of course not.

So that's just it. That's the problem.

So you can't trust Vladimir Putin and you can't trust the West. Because you know what? Russia and us were supposed to make sure that when they gave up the nuclear weapons, their borders would be, would still have the integrity it has, and they haven't. They gave up Crimea, some of the Donbass region. Then they get invaded anyway.

So now we have a negotiating team, I think, is great, of Rubio, Marco Rubio. It looks like Radcliffe is there too, Michael Waltz and Steve Witkoff. I don't know why they have Kellogg not there because he's supposed to be the emissary, but he's in Ukraine right now.

So they're going to start negotiations. Evidently, the Russian outlook is this. They said the media wants to focus, the Russians want to focus on restoring full Russian and American relations. That according to the State Department spokesperson we know very well, Tammy Bruce. And they brought out the fact that they want American oil companies back.

They said when America pulled out three years ago, they lost three hundred billion dollars. Not the Russians, but we could have made that money.

So you know what Vladimir Putin brings to the table: zero integrity.

So what do we do with this?

Well, I think one of the things you have to understand, and my concern, is that we don't go down the same path as what we saw back in the late to early 1930s, 1940s, when Adolf Hitler said, you know, I just want to protect ethnic Germans in the Sudetenland and in Czechoslovakia, and we did not check him, and the next thing you know, we saw what happened.

So Vladimir Putin has said that, you know, he wants to protect ethnic Russians.

Well, we need to make sure that there's some type of measure in place that does not allow him to continue on with any kind of incursions because, as you said, he cannot be trusted. But then on the other side, we need to be able to let Vladimir Zelensky know that if the American people are going to step forward and do as we said, what are the benefits to the American people? What type of relationships we can have with trade, with the raw materials that you have, us sending you liquefied natural gas, these type of things.

So I think that General Kellogg is there in Ukraine to talk on the ground from a military perspective. And I think that you have the Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, the CIA Director there to talk from a diplomatic perspective in Saudi Arabia.

So the Europeans are real worried. They had an emergency meeting yesterday, and then. President Macron of France had a 30-minute conversation with President Trump. He said they had a good understanding. They want to play a role again.

But NATO, Secretary General Mark Rood, is all for Trump. He says, I like Trump's approach. He's demanding that other European partners spend more on their defense. Cut 18. The talks have to start.

I have great trust in the American team conducting those talks. Ukraine will be part of those talks, no doubt. Europe wants to have a place at the table.

Well, I told them, fight yourself away to the table by coming up with concrete proposals. That is not happening. But to your point, President Putin has to realize that at this moment, NATO is able to defend itself. If he would try to capture one square mile of Estonia or Poland or whatever territory in NATO, the reaction will be devastating.

So how do you feel about that? He says they call him a Trump whisperer. He really seems to like Trump, or he understands that Trump is calling the shots. How do you feel about that? What Well, I I think that's re being a realist.

I mean, NATO is, you know, truthfully the United States of America. It goes back to when I was stationed overseas and in Germany, I mean, in Italy, I'm sorry, and I was part of an allied airborne element. We had each country provided an airborne battalion, and other countries provided a battalion, and we did missions throughout the NATO countries. And what we have seen is that European countries have not stepped up to that plate, and they need to do so. They cannot continue to just rely on the United States of America.

So, right now, you see a Europe that is not at the table, and they need to fight to get at the table. That means to invest in their defense and invest in their security, and not just sit back and say, Matt, the United States of America is going to do it, and we're going to waste our money on all of these other social welfare programs. That gravy train has ended. You know, what's interesting is if I'm a leader of one of those countries, I'm probably frustrated to a degree that I don't have the money for defense, and there's no sentiment to. Do it.

And why would you? But all of a sudden, America turns around and gives me something to run on. Hey, guys, America's cutting us off. America's saying, You guys started to take up your own defense. We have no choice.

I have to build up defense. It's got to be within any strategy that I write.

So, if I really have an inclination and I'm worried about my own defense with Russia on the march and China and Iran and who knows what North Korea is doing, and America pulling back, I have to put in more.

So, everyone wins in that case. And hopefully, they'll get off their socialist ways and start putting market sensitivities and market incentives into this and start getting people. I would get that entrepreneurial spirit back in Europe again.

Well, it's that entrepreneurial spirit is less focused on the climate change and more focused on energy independence and energy dominance. And we can help with that by exporting our liquefied natural gas, which cuts off Vladimir Putin, which undermines his ability to go and pay for these military ventures. But it's also about them protecting their borders and their sovereignty because one of the enemies that you did not mention was Islamic jihadism and terrorism that has been able to creep into Europe because why? They opened up their borders and they allowed these elements to come in.

So there's safety and security has to now become a preeminent issue for any leader in Europe. And I think that that's going to be a very big plank going forward in their upcoming elections. Yeah, go make me take a self-defense course because my older brother's not going to take care of me anymore. You got it. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, thanks so much.

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I didn't kill that, huh? I mean, less so I really didn't. I mean, there's this whole sort of like, you know, They call it like Trump duration syndrome. And I don't, you know, you don't realize how real this is until it's. You can't reason with people.

So like I was at a friend's birthday party in LA, just a birthday dinner. And it was like a nice, quiet dinner, and everyone was behaving normally. And then I happened to mention, this is before the election, like a month or two before, I happened to mention the president's name. And it was like they got shot with a dart in the in the jugula that contained like methamphetamine and rabies, okay? And they're like, And I'm like, what is wrong?

Guys, like you just can't have like a normal conversation. And it's like it's it's it's like they they become completely irrational. I cannot wait for this interview. I mean, I've been wanting to get to hear these two side by side, building on each other say. The other thing is, just a note.

I've never seen Trump laugh so much. Just flat out just laugh. I mean, he's just listening to Musk talk about And you know, in a way that I only hear Eric and Don talk about. Usually, you know, when you're with Trump, you have to do this, and you see the targeting that takes place. And they're actually all over Elon Musk in a way.

Eric Adams got hit with the same thing here in New York.

So he had no choice. Uh, there seems to be some type of deal cut, although they deny it, where he says, Look. I'll call off the prosecution. If you just start enforcing the law when it comes to illegal immigrants, and don't stand in our way every time we want to crack down on something, he said, you know, I wasn't standing in your way anyway, but sure. And now all of a sudden, there's an emergency meeting in Manhattan today with the governor and higher ups, including Al Sharpton, who will decide if Eric Adams is going to be fired and removed From his job.

Now, he wasn't removed when he's under indictment. I'm going to let things play out. And then, when Trump stepped in and said, we're going to let the election play out, now they might have to get rid of him. I think it's all because he's associated with Donald Trump personally.

So That's what Elon Musk. They actually have protesters against Musk. He also has never been cheered by 70,000 people before, like he was in Pennsylvania. He also doesn't walk around and get this type of respect because of the money he put up, but more importantly, the things he was able to do. He likes stepping into the breach, whether it's a North Carolina flood, whether it's Ukraine with his Starlink.

And when I'm talking about those floods, they needed some communication. He put a satellite right over them.

So now the only thing they do with Musk is they're trying to sue his they sue him to stop. And that's what they're doing. That's their action. which is pretty pathetic. Hugh Senator Amy Klobucher yesterday cut nine.

This is just another day in the Trump administration. Costs are up. Chaos is up and yes, corruption is up. They have literally taken the mayor of New York City who was facing and is facing serious charges of bribery, which were going to be expanded, and they have turned him into their own political pawn. And they have done this by trying to force career prosecutors in the Justice Department to drop the charges against him.

That is assumed. That's not proof. That's quid pro quo, and that would be illegal.

So you can't even prove that. That's Amy Klobucher, who has done a lot of the work to get, I don't know, the inaugural done from the Democratic perspective and done some other things, but they are flat out out of power and they do not know where to go from here. And Elon Musk is their target right now, but you're not going to be able to. What he's doing right now is something you should be able to back, but you don't seem to be able to. Here's Congressman Tim Burchett.

Who has been very aggressive of late, Cut Seven? Elon Musk owned PayPal, and they've never cracked into that system. And the IRS is a porous sieve, ma'am. And the IRS is angry. The reason they're angry is they're going to have to start showing up for work.

You know, I'm a United States congressman, and it can take me up to six months to get a dadgum response from them. That is not acceptable. The average citizen could go years without that. And then when we find out the IRS employees are getting audited themselves and they've delayed their audits, there's a lot going on there. These alphabet agencies are getting ready to see a reckoning, and I'm glad that Donald J.

Trump is doing it. All he's doing is keeping his word. That's what's so unusual about this president. You look at any of the presidents in the recent history, they never keep their word. They say all that stuff to get elected, and yet they don't do it.

So, Doge said they've already saved $55 billion.

So, since when are you protective of the IRS? Whoa, they can see all our credit ratings. They can get our personal information. Yes, the richest, most successful man in the world definitely needs your credit rating. He definitely needs your visa.

He definitely wants to get something on you so you'll vote for what? Donald Trump again? Oops, I don't think he can vote for Donald Trump.

So, the agencies that they want top agencies with Doge cuts, USAID, we know about that. Department of Education, the contracts have already been canceled. Office of Personal Management, come to work or be fired. And a lot of them are going to get fired or you could quit. Department of Agriculture, I have not seen what he's done there.

Commerce, EPA, we've already seen that. HUD, there's a huge excess there. They were able to find a great deal of money. What it's also costing, it's also causing a lot of managers to look inward at their divisions and say, you know, Doge is coming for us. We could wait for them to come and say, look at all the money wasted, or where the money is, where is the money?

Or we could start cleaning it up ourselves. They say the real Trevor Trove, according to the Doge people, Elon Musk, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, it costs over $2.9 trillion. That's 43% of all the spending. He believes there's massive fraud there. He says he's 100% certain that the magnitude of the fraud in the entitlements that I just mentioned exceeds the combined sum of every private scam you've ever seen by far.

He's right all the other ways. Why wouldn't he be right with that now? We gotta cut the budget guys And it's just too bad you can't get some people on the left to agree to the premise. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian.

In Kill Mead. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Me Show.

So glad you're here. We come to you from 48th and 6th in midtown Manhattan, where somewhere in Manhattan, there are meetings right now. Governor Hochl is deciding the fate of Mayor Adams. Can you believe this? A governor, Democrat, would fire a Democratic mayor, Eric Adams, mainly because, not because he was indicted.

but because I believe it's because he cut a deal with President Trump. Or his pro the the indictments. We're not going to be prosecuted from President Trump's Justice Department. And that's all Governor Hochul had to do. But there is some.

Leverage out there, and we'll discuss that. This hour, we're going to be joined by Victoria Coates. At the bottom of the hour, we're going to talk about what's going on with Gaza, what's going on right now. They killed a Hamas leader in Lebanon? How did that happen?

Found him in Lebanon. Also, we're going to be talking about the talks in Ukraine that have just culminated, and our A team is now talking.

So, let's get to, and before we get to Molly Hemingway, who's in the studio, let's get to the big three. Number three. How should Democratic politicians respond to this? What I think they should do is what we call in rural America play possum. Just let it go.

Don't get in the way of it. You mean like a Seinfeld approach to politics? Don't do anything? That's one idea. The other thing is to fight everything, which many are doing.

I have a better idea. Pick your spots, move to the middle. Let's take a look. Number two. This needs to be a permanent end to the war and not a temporary end as we've seen in the past.

The practical reality is that there is going to be some discussion of territory and there's going to be discussion of security guarantees. Ukraine talks underway in Saudi Arabia and the headline is: Russia wants a thaw with the West and we want an end to the fighting and security guarantees. The subplot, NATO battling to get back into the fold, and I think in the end, they're going to be forced to spend money on their defense, and everyone benefits from that. Number one. I mean I used to be adored by the left, you know.

Not anymore. I mean this whole sort of like Trump derangement syndrome. You don't realize how real this is until like it's you can't reason with people. It's like they become completely irrational. That is Elon Musk sitting down with Sean Hannity and President Trump.

Kind of a weird way to introduce that. Talking about their relationship, finding massive waste. That's what Doge is doing, and dodging political bullets. That's what they have to do. What people don't realize is it's not a preference to cut the budget and to find waste and abuse.

It's a necessity with the interest rates, with $840 billion over budget already this year. We have no choice. And Molly Hemingway knows that. Molly, people think, well, wouldn't it be nice if the budget was under control and the deficit was down? We're at the breaking point now as a country.

There are so many problems. The idea that you wouldn't want to fix whatever you could at every agency. I mean, there's so much to be done that hasn't been done over decades. And it's not a one-person problem. It's Congress completely.

Losing its authority on how the government is funded. And then it's also about this permanent DC bureaucracy that is very powerful and is completely unaccountable.

So I just find it fascinating with people who are running, Wizzy running eight companies. Elon Musk, who knows countless companies had in the past, and all the training that he's had, and he happens to be a genius, much like us. We're at a different level, the three of us, Elon Musk, Molly, and Brian. But so he's looking at how this is running and he can't believe it. And his guys and his women come in there and they can't believe it.

So they said the Treasury has a task system. It's an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item. The federal government, the task field, was optional, but For $4.7 trillion in payments and was often left blank.

So money goes out. We don't know who it's going to, and that's okay. And the only thing that a lot of agencies really care about is spending every dollar that's been appropriated to them. Because if they don't do that, they lose funding for the next year. And so money going out is no trouble.

Accounting for the money or actually achieving results with the money is s A much lower consensus. If in the perfect world, if I'm Chuck Schumer, I'm outraged. What am I doing? What are you doing here? I'm actually kind of surprised that Democrats aren't picking some battles where they could say, No, this is bad.

It would also give them more credibility if they want to fight something to not be opposed to all of what Doge is doing in terms of. You know what's crazy? Did you see a 60 Minutes feature? Did you see that on USAID? It's amazing.

But I live in DC, so I'm my neighbors, these are all my neighbors. Scott Pelly? Consultants and people who work in the government. And they don't you know, when I watch that Sixty Minutes thing and you have these people saying, we lost our jobs.

Well, losing jobs is something that happens to normal people all the time. And sometimes it's through no fault of your own, sometimes it is. But you realize this federal workforce has been insulated from any accountability. They have these sinecures that last their whole lifetime. They have a benefits package that would make you blush and no checks on whether they're, you know, no one gets fired from the federal government.

Do you really realize in that? piece. Literacy, teaching for in Zambia. They never taught the LGBTQ grants over to Kazakhstan, where they're also fighting, getting $4.7 million to fight disinformation in the media.

So at least say, this is what this, the old 60 Minutes, would say, this is what the other side is saying. What do you say to these programs? And maybe your answer is: well, that's just a small portion of what we do. Here's the kid that I saved from po. But there was no pushback at all.

It was like they're cutting this program. They don't like poor people. Straight regime propaganda. But I think one of the things we saw with that USAID funding is that's pretty much how the entire Democrat Party is able to operate through these NGOs, which finance amazing salaries for people, a permanent work situation for left-wing graduates of universities. I think we all knew that there was a problem with the federal government and that type of inefficiency.

But seeing how NGOs also play a big role here, I think that was eye-opening for everybody. Yeah, I did you am I wrong? Did I am I just looking at 60 minutes different? Or did they go out of their way to give some of the other side? Every single I mean, 60 Minutes in general has been a problem.

On Sunday's show, every segment was a problem. There was no balance to anything, whether it was the Germans who are censoring everybody. There were no tough questions of any of those people. Or the USAID contractors, where it was just I mean, it's not even Give any balance at all to the argument that these people shouldn't continue to be employed. It's just not the 60-minute change.

Here's a little of that feature. How do you view this moment in history? Too pessimistic, but it does appear we may be headed towards some sort of a constitutional crisis. I hope that doesn't happen. I pray it doesn't happen, but it's certainly concerning to me what's going on in the city right now.

Is the constitutional order breaking down? We'll see if they refuse to enforce a court order by the Supreme Court. If it gets to the Supreme Court, And the Supreme Court rules against the administration on something, and they refuse to enforce it, then we will have a constitutional crisis. What happens then? I don't know.

No one knows. No one knows. Okay, so we have a Constitution that has three branches of government. The first is Congress, the second is the executive branch of the President, and the third is the Judiciary. The constitutional crisis is that over the last 100 years, we have built up a fourth branch of government that's not in the Constitution, that has no accountability, no oversight, no ability to fire or terminate or do anything for poor performance.

And that is the bureaucracy, the administrative state.

So it's true that this has caused something of a constitutional problem. And now, as the bureaucracy is rebelling against any oversight, they're bringing all of these lawsuits. They're trying to get the courts to step in. I don't think the court will say that you can be independent of the people. We are a government by and for and of the people.

And having a completely independent branch that has no accountability with those people is just not constitutional.

So that person was right, but not in the way that he intended to show that this bureaucracy has put us on the brink of a constitutional crisis. But Trump finally is doing something about it. We might get some order here. And the other thing that he's doing is there's no sign of a constitutional crisis. Number one, with student loans.

Do you remember the student loans? The Supreme Court says you cannot forgive student loans. And he said, I'm going to work around it. It. And he's just doing it.

The wall was already earmarked. Money was spent to build the wall. He just didn't do it. He was selling off the wall. I'm talking about President Biden.

And what was he doing as he left? Just writing checks out to people. Trevor Burrus, Jr.: And President Biden was even bragging about how he was not following Supreme Court rulings on the student loan situation that he'd built up. But it's also just not true that there's a constitutional crisis when you have lawsuits working their way through the courts. I do hope that the left.

Respects the authority of the Supreme Court if it rules in a way that is different than what the left would like. They have done a lot. In the last couple of years to try to delegitimize the Supreme Court.

So I hope this person stays true to his word too, that they will respect that authority. Yeah.

So when we look at the whole Doge thing, so I don't know if they could do a better job maybe just putting it into exactly what they're doing, exactly what they're cutting, exactly what they're finding. Although if you look at Elon Musk's exit count, he's publishing it. And if you look at the Facebook page they now have, it's up fifty five billion dollars saved. But what's confusing me is it seems like they're saving much more than that. I mean, if you look at the education programs that they're cutting, you look at the workforce that is being told you have six months' severance pay if you just promise to leave.

And if you see what he's already found, I think it actually would actually be higher than that. When it's all said and done, he thinks he can get $1 to $2 trillion. I mean, that would be impressive if you could. I think some of this is being held up by the courts, by working their way through the courts. And of course, most of the spending always comes through entitlement spending, which they're not even touching.

But they are looking at, I think he's going to say, he said, Elon Musk said, at this point, I'm 100% certain that the magnitude of the fraud in the federal entitlements, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, disability exceeds the combined sum of every private scam you'll ever heard of by far. Oh, I mean. Wouldn't this be amazing if they actually get a look in at social security funds, where they're going, and what type of scams are involved? I mean, there's so many problems associated with that, even with people who are working in social who are paying into social security but are illegal. employees and where that money is going.

I mean, it's just it's an interesting But he's already looking at Social Security, so I don't know what they're going to do.

So the President's also in the process of trying to bring peace over in Saudi Arabia with Russia.

So Russia, for the first time that I can remember, and I think it shows how desperate they are, but the first time I can remember, That they actually say that they want relations with the West. For the longest time, we heard about we wanted to reset relations with the misspell button. We're the ones who wanted to understand it was George Bush's fault Barack Obama pulled the missile defense right out of Russia. But now we understand that Lavrov said that his main focus His main focus will be resetting relationships with the United States.

Well, rule number one when dealing with Russia is to not really trust anything they say about what they're going for. Having said that, this whole Russia-Ukraine war has driven Russia deep into the arms of China, communist China, which is not in our interest to have them so closely allied. Going back to Kissinger, you always wanted to kind of keep those two entities separate, play them against each other.

So, if there were room to work with Russia as we take on the actual major opponent, which is communist China, that's not necessarily a bad idea for us. Right. We'll see where this goes.

So, Marco Rubio, John Radcliffe, Michael Waltz, Steve Woodcoff are over there. The first round has us. Culminated. And I just got word from one of the people participating in there. He goes, when the fighting stops, you will see them stop chirping.

Hmm. That's a little bit of a Confucius-like statement.

So we'll see what what's going on over there. You just can't try. I mean, Lavrov, especially. I mean, this guy is not. Yeah, but they you know, but they are also working in their interest.

Now, it would be wonderful if Europe would start t caring much more about their defense. They have for 80 years been deferring to the United States to handle all of to handle the bulk of their defense. They have been crying very loud about Russia, but they haven't been behaving as if they're worried about Russia through the allocation of their defense spending.

So they just had that European leaders meeting in Paris.

Well, good for them. And if they want to finally start paying more for their defense, I think that would the United States would be very happy.

Well, the emergency meeting took place yesterday, and then the phone call from Macron to President Trump took place yesterday and went for a half hour.

Now, Macron's in a tough spot. He lost his whole government, basically. UK is still trying to find its feet. And then you have Germany. They can't also pick a leader.

I think that's what all the freak out was about Vance's speech, is that they know he's right, that they have these movements within their country that they have been able to keep down through censorship or other means, and they might look at the United States and feel encouraged to get rid of Macron or other globalist leaders in favor of people who serve their nation's interests better. And I think it is terrifying some of the current European leaders. One person who's not upset by it is the NATO Secretary General, Mark Route. Here's what he said to Martha yesterday: cut 20. It is my absolute understanding that Ukraine will be an integral part of those talks, which is only logical, because this is about Ukraine.

Then there was the question of hey, where are the Europeans? And what I said to the Europeans in Munich at this famous security conference the last couple of days was stop complaining, start acting, get your act together. And start spending. Yeah, and the reason why the talks are between Russia and the U.S. is because it's basically been a proxy war between Russia and the U.S.

Ukraine. Will be well served by these talks, I'm sure. But Europe definitely needs to act up, particularly if they want to complain about this. Yeah, and lastly, did you know Stoltenberg came to the inaugural? And you see, Rute, they call him the Trump whisperer.

Now, maybe it's for practical purposes, but everyone who wants to say that the NATO general secretary is going to find Trump such a threat, they like it because they've been trying to get these guys to spend forever. And it's not just Trump. I mean, you go back to Obama's defense secretary begging all the Europeans to spend more to fight Russia.

So it's not even that different what Trump is saying, except for the teeth. And I think that's also why Russia is paying attention, because they know that Trump's not going to tolerate. Filling this for us. Molly, are you going to be on out number today? Absolutely.

All right, so you're going to, we'll see you at noon. Molly Hemingway, thanks so much. Fox and contributor, editor-in-chief of the Federalists. Back in a moment. Giving you everything you need to know.

You're with Brian Kilmead. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. Well, let me just talk about the mood Allie in the room for that speech. It was one of absolute shock.

Absolute shock among our European allies, among basically everyone in the audience. I think many of us Americans just felt totally embarrassed as VP Vance delivered really not a speech, but a condescending lecture about the fundamental tenets of democracy to our European allies. But the problem is a lot of it really applies. I mean, to the, especially when it comes to Germany, it enlightened me to a great degree, and it took guts to say it. But that's who Vice President Vance is.

That's what he ran on. That's what he was like when he was running for Senate. Seth Moulton said a little bit more. He's the Democrat from Massachusetts, a Marine vet, Cut 31. And what's most dangerous about this is what one Republican advisor told me after the speech was that, you know, a lot of us were talking about how it was embarrassing, how it was out of touch, how it was selling out the Ukrainians.

But he said to me, Seth, if you listen carefully, it's actually much deeper and darker. He was talking about the enemy within. This is some of the same language that Hitler used. Used to justify the Holocaust. Just after the speech, Vice President Vance.

Went to the old Nazi Party headquarters in Munich to meet with the leader of the modern-day neo-Nazi Party in Germany.

So what was bad at Munich Could actually get worse.

So, you really believe that it was Nazi-like speech? Talking about free speech was Nazi-like. Seth Moulton, anytime you have hope for him, because he was able to say, I don't believe remember when he came out and talked about I don't really think that transgender men should be playing in women's sports and he got so much blowback, do you know he caved on that?

So Every time you think this guy's got some courage and maybe a future, he says idiotic things like that. Because Vance went to the old Nazi power, the Nazi headquarters. It is a conservative group in Germany. And they are not Nazis. They are right, more right than you, but they're not Nazis.

So now you think that he is speaking for the Nazis, like a Nazi, and then you want to visit Nazis? I mean, that's a guy. uh who was elected in Ohio. That's a guy that beat Tim Ryan in Ohio. and then ran for vice president as a conservative.

And now he's out unbelievable. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. In order for a conflict to end, everyone involved in that conflict. has to be okay with it, it has to be acceptable to them.

But we have to understand that it's been three and a half years since there's been any sort of regularized contact between the United States and Russia. and in some cases between any of the participants in this con conflict and Russia.

So the goal of today's meeting was to follow up on the phone call the President had a week ago and begin to establish those lines of communication. The work remains. Today is the first step of a long and difficult journey, but an important one.

So that was Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Mike Waltz was there as well. I think John Radcliffe was there, according to reports in Steve Witkoff. They were meeting with MBS, the referee, and then they had Lavrov and his counterparts, and not his counterpart, and his colleagues over with Russia. And their goal, reportedly, was to reestablish relationship with the U.S.

But what our goal was is to bring an end to the fighting in a respectable way that all sides can tolerate.

Now, for those people with Ukrainian concern about Ukraine, this is just step one. I don't think it's feasible or plausible to get everybody in right away after three straight years of war that hasn't stopped. Also, you got troops welling up in Belarus. Could be an invasion there. And last night there was a huge drone attack in Russia.

So the fighting hasn't stopped. But maybe this is the first step to doing that. Victoria Coach joins us now, former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump, Vice President of the Catherine Shelby Cullum Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation, author of The Battle for the Jewish State: How Israel and America Can Win.

So, Victoria, I want to talk about Gaza and the Hamas leader that was just killed in Lebanon, go figure. Your thoughts about Day one from what we know of the meeting, which I think is now over. Yes. Brian, good to be with you. The meetings have wrapped up in Riyadh.

I think Lavrov was having a bilateral with the Crown Prince last I saw.

So I think we've had a successful, as you said, step one. This is just literally baby steps towards Creating some communication between the Russian and American delegations, an opportunity for Secretary Rubio to meet his counterpart. Sergey Lavrov, who's been foreign minister of Russia for over 20 years now.

So that is an important relationship to establish. And this is something President Trump and President Putin agreed to during President Trump's first term. And so their directive then was for the two National Security Council. Staffs to talk to each other.

So we met with then National Security Advisor Patrashev in Geneva and Moscow and Jerusalem to try to figure out what their red lines were, what their priorities were. It was helpful. It wasn't terribly productive, but it was an important. line of communication. And I think that's what President Trump is trying to establish again.

Do you believe this is the first time I've ever heard Russia say they really want relations with us over the last maybe 15 years? We've always been the problem for them, right? And we've always been the one with saying, Hey guys, why don't you come on back? Hey, we'll take our missile defense out of Europe. Hey, here, hit that reset button.

Joe Biden says, hey, let's meet one-on-one. This is the first time I remember them saying that's their goal, to reestablish relations with us.

Well, it's That's that's definitely not a bad sign. I think there was going back to the George W. Bush administration, particularly after nine eleven, a hope that Russia could be brought into the fold. I mean, think about it, Brian. There was even talk about Russia joining NATO.

Back in the day, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War, you know, I think there was a. understandable inclination to hope that Russia had fundamentally changed. unfortunately under Putin it really it really hasn't. But but that had been the hope. And there was a lot of kind of chasing of Russia to try to get Russia to behave in a normal fashion.

And what these last three years of war have told us is they are not there. And their partners of choice now are China and Iran and North Korea, not the West. They are not interested in integration into Europe. Uh so so yeah, I think it's better to have them Coming to Us rather than us chasing after them. It gives President Trump much more leverage.

So I have no problem with opening up, talking to Russia. And I think the people are overreacting, saying we've left Ukraine out. The ones that feel left out is NATO, should they feel that way?

Well, I had admit I'm not hugely sympathetic to the apparently hordes of European diplomats who have their feelings hurt by not being at the negotiating table. The fact of the matter is they've had three years to try to negotiate some kind of resolution to this horrible war. They have taken absolutely zero productive steps towards that. But European diplomats don't like being left out of negotiations, so they're expressing their displeasure and convening their own emergency summit so that they have somewhere to go. I just, I mean, that's just not helpful.

I think this is a very important step for the big states to take, to talk to each other. There don't need to be 15 parties, including the EU, as well as individual European nations, which is what they want around the table. This can be a much more direct conversation. And then of course, as President Trump said, Ukraine will be integrally involved in any discussions about Ukraine's future. But I think this was more about the U.

S. Russia relationship. I I guess so. We'll see where it goes from here. And they said the earliest they could see a ceasefire is the fall.

But we'll I g I don't know what's going to be left on both sides in the fall. The Ukrainian President Zelensky said yesterday to the Associated Press That he is not going to give up his rare earth, all of his rare earth to us. He rejects Trump's demand to give it all up because some of it, by the way, is in the Russians are holding it in that area. I have no problem with that. I mean, we asked for a lot, and you'll see what we can get.

We're negotiating with them as well. What would a good deal with Ukraine look like?

Well, I think this could be a good deal for both sides. You know, this is something the United States could do productively, I would say on a global scale. where we become the partner of choice for the production of natural resources that we need. We've got a ton of this stuff here in the United States, and I think the Secretary of State, or Secretary of Energy rather, and Secretary of Interior both working very hard on how we might develop our own resources. But then there are some things abroad we need.

And if we become the purchaser of choice, and in this case it would be in exchange for military support. from the United States. That gives us a good partner that we're making more secure, but then we are also getting something. It's not just disinterested charity from the US taxpayers.

So I think that could be a very good model for other similar arrangements. And good also for Ukraine. We're supposed to get some as we switch over to Gaza, which your book's about, and Israel. It looks like Israel has the IDF beginning to mobilize a bit. And now they got the 2,000-pound pound bombs caught on camera on purpose, arriving in Israel.

They were held back by Joe Biden. We see that the Israelis are not leaving Lebanon at the end of this phase. They said there's too much of a Hezbollah presence there. And then yesterday they took out a Hamas commander in Lebanon.

So we get another some hostages out. We're still missing about 70. Your reaction to where this is going? Yes, this is kind of a tough day. Yesterday marked five hundred days for the hostages in captivity in Gaza.

And after I'm done talking to you, we're actually hosting an event with a former hostage and some family members here at Heritage. to learn about their experience and learn about their loved ones. That it's pretty tough what's happened and the condition of the hostages that have come out.

So there is an acute sense of urgency to get as many out as possible. But at the same time, President Trump has been very clear that a decision to resume the war is an internal Israeli security decision, and he will support Prime Minister Netanyahu in that decision. And the arrival of those 2,000 pound bombs is a physical manifestation of that commitment.

So, really important. And then, just lastly, the elimination of Mohammed Shaheen, the Hamas commander in Lebanon. That's no accident that he's up in Lebanon colluding with Hezbollah. We have to remember that they will partner together when they can to attack Israel.

So, good thing that he has been eliminated, but a reminder of the dangers that Israel still faces on several fronts. How is Hamas getting resupplied? From where?

Well, I mean, the Iranians have all sorts of ways of resupplying Hamas, and they still do have a bigger network of tunnels. And that is the reality that I think necessitates ongoing Israeli action. And bear in mind that it's not just tunnels in Gaza. There are tunnels under the Lebanon border as well that Hezlah has been using to move arms into Israel and down to Gaza. And it can happen by sea as well.

So it's a network that Israel's been trying to choke off. It's why it's so important that President Trump reimposed the maximum pressure campaign on Iran, which is ultimately the banker of all of these activities to starve them of resources. That can't happen soon enough. That is ultimately what will slow this down and hopefully destroy those supply chains for Hamas. Will there be a Phase II, or you think this is going to be it?

That depends on Hamas, and they have not been a good faith negotiating partner by any stretch of the imagination.

So I'm pretty skeptical. I think we'll try to get as many hostages out as we can. But after that, I suspect Israel's going to feel they have to take some more military action. Pick up Victoria Coates' book, The Battle for the Jewish State: How Israel and America Can Win. Thanks, Victoria.

Now, the Brian Kilmead Show joins Fox Business's Varney and Company with Stuart Varney, live on your radio and on Fox Business. Here's Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back. I'll be able to talk to Stuart Varney Shirley. And then afterwards, I'll be able to squeeze in some calls at 1-866-408-7669.

So line up now. They usually take me close to the end, leave me some room to breathe. A couple of things that are happening in New York City, which is a national story. You could have a Democratic governor removing a Democratic mayor. There's an emergency meeting happening right now in Manhattan where she's talking to other leaders that include Al Sharpton about the chances that Eric Adams should be moved out for the betterment of the city, which is ironic because when he was indicted, she's like, no, I'm going to let this thing play out.

But when he starts talking to Trump and starts going to the inaugural and talking to Tom Holman, it's a different story.

So let's listen in together. All right, it is 10:51. That means it's Kill Mead time. Brian, New York Governor Hochul, holding a special meeting about Mayor Eric Adams' future in New York City. Adams says he's not stepping down.

Watch this. I am going nowhere. I have a mission to finish. The mission that God put me on many years ago, the most sanctified among us. A calling.

For me to step down. I'm not going to step down, I'm going to step up. Brian, big picture for a moment. I say the city's government is on the verge of collapse. What say you?

Well, yeah, I mean, number one, if people are in the city living paycheck to paycheck, all of a sudden you're at a deficit because this great governor thought green energy is the future. Let's really penalize fossil fuel companies. And in turn, they turn around and put it right back to the customer so everyone's paying more. She's way over budget on everything, decided to cut money from autistic kids. But now I have to get rid of the mayor.

Why? Because he was indicted months ago. Why the urgency now? Let me think. Was it because he now has a burgeoning relationship with the President of the United States?

He went to his inaugural. They've had conversations with Tom Holman, a cooperation to get illegal immigrants, criminals, out of this city. That is the breaking point that has an emergency meeting in Manhattan that includes Al Sharpton.

So, what kind of advice are you going to get there? I'm not sure. But a Democratic governor getting rid of a Democratic mayor in New York City. First time in 235 years, we have to do this. It's all about the Trump relationship, Stewart.

Yes, it is. You're quite right. But look, if Governor Hochul does remove Eric Adams from the mayor's office, if he removes him, Then he's going to be replaced by Germany Williams. Who is an activist and a self-described democratic socialist? What's with that?

And by the way, wants to defund the police.

So, you could not get anyone more left-wing, more tone-deaf for America is right now. You know, they got somebody more to the left in Chicago, he's got 18% approval rating, Brandon Johnson. And then, here in New York City, you have someone with not the highest approval rating, it's in scandal because his whole party has turned on him. But, guess what, Governor Hochul? You get rid of Mayor Adams, you have your nemesis, someone who gave you the break of a lifetime, but then really turned on you, and you turned on him.

That is Governor Cuomo, who wants to be Mayor Cuomo, who's got about 15-point lead on just about everyone, including the current mayor.

So, she moves him, she moves Eric Adams out. Jermani Williams will get trounced by Mayor Cuomo if he becomes, if he runs, he'll win.

So, there's little good options for her. She could try something new. Try to do a good job. For the people of New York, don't be an ideologue. Notice, you only won by four points against Lee Zeldin last time.

Now you have a congressman from New York who's going to give you a really hard time. And Mike Lawler, who's going to be running on the right. I mean, she's going to feel pressure from all sides. But the one thing that has to change, you can't get along with President Trump and be mayor of New York. I think that's the message.

But here's the move. Trump has leverage. He could go to Kathy Hochle, hey, you like your bike lanes? You like your congestion pricing? I think we're going to start taking that away.

I'm going to make your life miserable. I'm putting in my Justice Department officials, and we're going to see what you can get done without me.

Now they've been amicable so far, but at least Stephonix's seat is going to stay open, they say, until September. How long do you think Trump's going to take that? And how unfair is that to other New Yorkers? Short, just thirty, forty seconds here. What do you think of the chances that within my lifetime There will be a New York state government run by Republicans.

I think there's an excellent chance because Trump's starting to make some inroads in New York and all the boroughs.

Now he's got to move into Manhattan. And I'll tell you, I walk around New York City, I'm seeing these Red Hats everywhere. I would see one every millennial, every Haley's comment.

Now I'm seeing them every block. And that's the inroad you need in New York City in order to win the state because the state belongs to Republicans. Upstate New York does anyway. What has New York City got to lose, for heaven's sake? Brian Kilmead, good stuff.

Thanks, Brian. Go get him, Stuart. Got a few minutes on the other end. Let's go to Bill on Long Island. Hey, Bill.

Say to say David, you just I was just saying the same thing that you said, is that why is she in a big rush to to get rid of Adams, but yet she's not in a big rush to f f to fill our congressional seat up north? A hundred percent. And by the way, if you're up north, if you're the governor of the whole state, why is it okay not to give that region of upstate New York representation in the U. S. government?

Why? Because Hakeem Jeffries told you it would be a good move. It's a bad move. Can people actually do this job not for their party, but for the people? Is that possible?

Yeah, Brian, it's really sad that that they work for the party and not for the people. Absolutely. Go get him, Bill. Thanks. Go to Mark in Missouri.

Hey, Mark. I am flabbergasted with the Democrats going to the giving up on Russia, Russia, Russia and going to Nazi, Nazi, Nazi. What part of history do they not know? They could even watch their own PBS special on the rise of the Nazis and how they first started taking over the court system in Nazi Germany. Uh I am old enough that I am the son of A World War II veteran.

and the nephew of two, one D-Day, one the liberation of Dachau. The I guess they think that we're all stupid out there. I don't know. Well, put it this way: J.D. Vance gives a speech about freedom, and then you got Margaret Brennan on CBS.

And then you have Seth Moulton from Massachusetts say that it's like we're declaring we're siding with the Nazis.

So it's crazy. As soon as you start saying Hitler and Nazis, you've shut me out of rational conversation. Nothing equates to that horrible monster. You listen to the Brian Killme show. Don't forget, March 22nd, I'll be in St.

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Having a great week, hope you had a fantastic weekend. This hour, going to be joined by Josh Kraschauer, bringing us inside Washington. The House is off, the Senate is not. Neither is President Trump, who's in Mar-a-Lago now, but his team has just concluded round one of negotiations with Russia on some level, a reintroduction, after really not talking to Lavrov for three years. And for Trump's team, Rubio is a senator.

And then Mike Waltz was a congressman. I imagine they had some interaction, but there's been nothing. As far as the Trump team, they haven't really talked to Vladimir Putin in this kind of conversations, but they met face to face in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia's prestige is really growing. I mean, think about this.

Not only are they hosting, like Qatar hosts They just say, okay, guys, you got to talk, keep talking to each other. I think MBS is going to play a bigger role than that. They see themselves as a bigger player because they want to get to some type of peace in Gaza and some type of deal with both superpowers. The good ones, the good leaders, play us off each other. And that's what I think this guy's going to do.

Although he should realize if he's going to sign a mutual defense pact with the U.S., it can't be equal. Ben Dominic joins us now, Foster's contributor, editor-at-large for The Spectator World. Hey, Ben, welcome back. Hey, good to be with you as always, Brian. And I mean, it's interesting to see how rapidly that they are moving in this area.

This is a situation where obviously the Biden administration really was always, it seemed like, moving in slow motion, whether it came to what the what kind of support that they would get give to Ukraine, the types of approaches that they would have when it came to dealing with The challenges of a negotiation with Russia, et cetera, they really just seemed like they were not taking it all that seriously in terms of trying to get to the negotiation table. And now we see a negotiation table happening within a month of Donald Trump taking over and with this new team, which, as you said, is going to be one that is already starting, having been clued into a lot of the different discussions, conversations that were happening before because just by virtue of the fact that they were in the Senate and in the House when those things were going on. Right. So we'll see what happens with Lavrov, between Waltz and Rubio. And I think John Radcliffe might be there too.

And Witkoff is there, special envoy. We'll see what happens with that and what comes out of it. But I think it's just the first round of negotiation. I was interested in this statement: that Vladimir Putin said the meeting would focus on restoring full Russian-American relations. I never remember them caring about Russian-American relations.

All I thought heard about was all his speeches about how we took advantage of them and the West is going to pay the price. Yeah, I mean, it's a big change in tone. I mean, we'll see what happens in terms of the actual. outcome of that. But look, I I think that this is consistent with the fact that This administration is coming in with so much more of the wind at their back that there are responses to that around the globe.

And that includes the Vice President's comments at Munich. That includes the change in relationship as it relates to Ukraine and Russia. It includes, I think, the response from Middle Eastern nations to what we've been putting on the table as it regards the future of Israel and Gaza. And I think that that's all of a piece with this idea that when Donald Trump comes into office the second time around, He comes with the experience of having had the previous four-year term. He comes with also a different team, one that is, I think, much better situated to hit the ground running to advance the kind of agenda that he wants as opposed to perhaps scattering and going in different directions based on the chaotic nature of twenty seventeen.

I want you to hear what Marco Rubio said as the reason for the meeting to begin with, Cut 12. We've agreed on four principles that I think are important. The first is that we are going to work, we're going to appoint our teams respectively that have worked very quickly to reestablish the functionality of our respective missions in Washington and in Moscow. For us to be able to continue to move down this road, we need to have diplomatic facilities that are operating and functioning normally. The second point is that we're going to appoint a high-level team from our end to help negotiate and work through the end of the conflict in Ukraine in a way that's enduring and acceptable to all the parties engaged.

The third point is to begin to work at a high level as well to begin to discuss and think about and examine both the geopolitical and economic cooperation that could result from an end to the conflict in Ukraine. Right, and just how it ends will be the key. And what are you looking for, Ben? What would you like what would a good deal look like for Ben Dominich?

Well, I think we have to be realistic. And I think that Pete Hegseth has been realistic when he's talked about this. And I share his view that we are not probably going to get back to What is the ideal really? I mean, the ideal, of course, is to go back to the point before 2014 when Russia wasn't mucking around with any of this. But that's not something that I think realistically is in the cards.

And so, what do you see instead? I think that what has to be considered in this moment is that the positioning of Russia as it relates to Ukraine. After whatever deal comes, needs to be such that they are not simply taking a break from warring on Ukraine. That it is not just a retrenchment opportunity, essentially. You have to push them back further, I think.

You have to get as much possible of the territory back that they have taken, realistically, and that you also have to put them in a position where their use of force in the area is limited to such a degree that they do not have the ability to amass massive military force on the borders of Ukraine in a way that could be the preface to another future war or conflict two, three years down the road, which is something that I think is very much on the mind of the President. The President, you know, I was in the Oval Office when he was saying to reporters the whole point here is to end war and to make sure that there is not an invitation to war again in the future. And that's something that I think is fundamental to this. And look, I understand that there's a whole history here that we can recite and go over the mistakes that were made on the part of the Biden administration, the mistakes that were made in terms of not giving Ukraine support earlier on that would have made them a harder target for the Russians to go after. But I think all we can do at this point is say this is the reality of what we're facing, and this war needs to end so that the killing can actually stop and Ukraine can start to rebuild, which is going to be something that is not just the work of years, but it's going to be the work of decades.

Last night they took out a leading Hamas defense minister, whatever they call him, in the terror world, in Lebanon. And now we're waiting for some more hostage exchanges again. I know the president's running out of patience. And last week we saw on video 2,000-pound bombs being delivered into Israel, which were going to be lethal to blow up some of those tunnels. in Gaza, but President Biden didn't want to hear it.

Having said that, knowing that President Trump really has his back, Where do you think this is going? I think that Netanyahu obviously is in a position now where he feels like he has the support to do what he will and whatever he thinks is necessary in order to advance this thing. But I think he has a window year of time to do that. But I think that there's a lot of patience that is running out. And you hear that expressed, of course, by the President.

And look, around the world, I think that the feeling of those communities that have been touched by this That have an interest in seeing these hostages come back home, all the effort that's been put into in terms of the lobbying and the activism and everything else that you've seen, they want to see a quick response and they don't want to hang around for a long time.

So there is a window here of pressure that I think should be brought. But look, you mentioned those bombs. We would obviously prefer to not have to resolve this through further violence and loss of life. But if that's the necessary push that needs to happen in order to get the release of these hostages, then I think that Netanyahu will do it, and I think that the president will have his back.

So real quick, when we hear about government waste, it's almost a theory. Oh, we got to get rid of waste. We've got to lean it out. But now you have a guy in Elon Musk who's actually doing that, at least locating it. He says we have $55 billion in counting.

This after a judge is saved, after a judge appears inclined to side with Doge on mass firings and access to data.

So he needs to get inside the IRS. Why not? Inside education. Why not? And also inside the Pentagon with Pete Hakeseth Patrick Lee begging him, get in there and help me out here.

We got to find some money.

Now we find out the Treasury Access Symbol, TAS, is now mailing out checks regularly without any subject line. Just left blank, making it not traceable to find out who's getting this money and do they deserve it. That's going to change immediately, that's going to save money. Why was this happening in the past? And why would Democrats be upset with discovering it?

Also, on Social Security, 20 million people are listed, 100 and higher, getting checks. Including $3.9 million from $130 to $139 getting checks? I mean, this is insane. It's insane, Brian, but it's also a classic indictment of our bureaucratic class. That they let all these things go on because they knew that they could get away with it, or they were confident that they were going to be able to, that no one would ever come and ask them the questions that have been raised by Elon Musk and his team just in the early going here.

And I want to put in perspective what's really going on. You're going to hear all these people talking about constitutional crises and all these things that have been said in the media over the past couple of weeks. It's utterly irresponsible. Keep this in mind, Brian. We know from the GAO that more than $100 billion, $100 billion, probably is close to.

one hundred thirty five billion dollars went out fraudulently during the COVID period coming out of the Biden administration flowing through the unemployment insurance program, of which they estimate that they have recovered less than ten billion in terms of the fraud that went out. We are talking about massive amounts of money here, and yet the bureaucracy always acts as if, oh, well, that's just the price of doing business or something like that.

Well, it isn't, and it shouldn't be. And if we had a Congress that actually worked, they would have defunded these things long ago. But instead, because they're sclerotic and they bounce from one continuing resolution to another, they've let these things go on. Finally, you have someone like Musk come along, and yes, he's moving fast and breaking things. They're going to cut things that they have to put back.

They're going to make some mistakes. That's just the way things are going to work. But guess what? Rough cuts that have to be adjusted or refined as they go along are better than no cuts at all, which is what we've been living with for decades. It's unacceptable.

And Democrats, by the way, should be leading the charge for these kinds of efficiencies because they believe in government spending and bureaucracy.

So if you want to defend those things, they should be in favor of having them work, in favor of having them be something that meets the bottom line, and in favor of them serving the American people. But because They view it as some kind of religious affiliation where they have to worship at the church of more government spending, regardless of whether it's wasteful or not. They put themselves in the position of defending all of this waste, and I think Republicans are only going to benefit from it. All right, so I want you to hear what Democrats are going to do now. What's the plan?

Here's what James Carville recommended: Cut 24. This is happening all around the country.

So the question is: how should Democratic politicians respond to this? And what I think they should do is what we call in rural America play possum. Just let it go. Don't get in the way of it. Or as we like to say, don't just stand there, do nothing.

Let it let this germinate. We don't need to be, we don't need to get in front of it. This this freight train is moving. Let's just get out of the way b and then we're gonna have time. So Do nothing.

Do the Seinfeld thing. Nothing happens. I mean, what is he getting at? Do we give him airtime because he's just so blunt? James Carville is a very smart guy, but what I think he's actually saying here, and this is something that I think he's trying to send a message about, is don't go out there and make a hill to die on foreign aid and wasteful government spending.

That instead, you know, Democrats should just be quiet and let this play out and then criticize Republicans if things happen or when things happen, that they can then point to, oh, well, you shouldn't have cut this, that, or the other department. But that's the thing that I think he understands that people on Capitol Hill do not understand. Because Elizabeth Warren and Jasmine Crockett and all these other folks are screaming to high heaven about cuts that are happening to programs that are unpopular and that the American people wanted to be cut in the first place. And even though they can say, oh, it's only 1% of the spending or, oh, it's only going to save us this amount of money, guess what? Americans don't believe that money should be spent anyway.

They believe those tax dollars belong here. And as long as they are making that argument, They are going to be losing, and that's what Carville is trying to say in his blunt manner, as always. All right, we have this readout. Negotiations today concluded after four and a half hours between Russia and the United States. Very serious conversations on all the issues both sides wanted to raise.

Russia's been waging a full-scale war, as you know. A summit between Putin and Trump is unlikely to take place next week as intensive work is needed first. Also, I guess Zelensky had a trip to Saudi Arabia planned. He has called that off.

So he's kind of a, I guess he's a little bit ticked off. He shouldn't be. Trump called him right after he called Putin. And you got to talk to Russia first. It doesn't mean anything.

And then you talk to Ukraine. Look, I completely. This is the thing people need to understand. Russia is going to be the issue about ending this war.

Okay, so the conversation is with Russia. You come in with Ukraine and you keep them informed, you keep them in the loop, but the conversation is with Russia. And once Russia agrees to end it, that's the point where that summit will happen and where it will actually end. But it needs to get to that finish line. It needs to get inside the red zone before Donald Trump should sit down with Vladimir Putin.

And I think we're a long way from that. As fast as they're moving, I think this is going to take some time. But look, the idea that in some way that Ukraine is going to be left out of the proposition, they're not going to be left out. It's just that the conversation is with Russia because they could end the war tomorrow if they wanted to. They could.

They started it unnecessarily. I'm sure they wish they didn't. They have 700,000-plus casualties, and Ukraine's played a big price, but they didn't. They've decimated their power structure. They've decimated their authority around the world.

They've done, I mean, Vladimir Putin has done more damage to Russia with this war than I think anybody could have estimated at the beginning is reasonable. And he's shown Russia to be far weaker than it was thought of beforehand in so many different ways. There are going to be long-term ramifications from this that don't just happen to Ukraine. It's going to change a lot of things, I think, around the world. Check out his podcast, the Ben Dominic podcast.

Ben, thanks so much. Good to be with you as always. All right, back in a moment. We'll squeeze in some calls, and then we'll welcome in Josh Crash Hour. We have the latest news now that the talks have concluded after four and a half hours.

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I'm sorry, the governor of New York is a dope. Why she doesn't get that guy out of there, Pronto, I have no idea. She's leaving that guy who has the power to remove from all appearances is a major criminal. That is James Carville. I'm pretty sure I didn't have to tell you that, but that's what's happening right now.

Mayor Adams, Democrat, New York City, who was indicted and then had the Justice Department say, lift the indictment and say, We're not going to say that he's innocent or guilty. We're saying that this affects an election. We feel as though he was targeted.

So, Mayor Adams, Democrat, decides also, coincidentally, perhaps who knows, that he is also going to cooperate when he can with Tom Holman, especially letting ICE agents get into Rikers Island in order to pull out prisoners from another country that don't belong here anyway.

So, That's a side point, and I'm so tempted to get into it, but I don't. I want to stay on track. Governor Hochul is talking with different leaders in the city about right now in New York State in her office about moving Mayor Adams out, firing him essentially, telling him he's got to quit. That would bring in Jamani Williams, who's to the left of Black Lives Matter's activist. He essentially is that.

He'd be a terrible leader. He's a terrible activist, but he'll be leading us even more left. Is that what you need? As uh Governor Hokul continues to fail. The fastest three hours in radio.

You're with Brian Kilmead. What drives me crazy is the way sometimes Democrats talk. It drives me insane. It's like we're in a PhD thesis on political academia, which is not how you win elections. I mean, Democrats.

We love people to know that we're smart. And then we got our PhD, and here we're ready to show you our thesis. And it comes across not only that it's a self-enclosed conversation, it is tremendously dismissive of them. the audience. We're actually talking to ourselves about how important, how smart we are.

rather than how to make sure that they understand Raw manual. And Jensaki making some sense. Where Democrats are right now, and they are lost in the wilderness. But it's typical happens when you get blown out in an election, especially when you have a terrible candidate that continues to talk in circles, which means you have no heir apparent. Josh Krashauer joins us now, Fox News Radio political analyst, editor-in-chief of the Jewish Insider.

Josh is first off on the relatively breaking news. We know this: after four and a half hours in a bilateral negotiation and conversation with MBS as the arbiter, the observer, the host, the Russians and the U.S. agree on four principles to talk again, and the president wants to move quickly, leading to a secession of violence with Ukraine. But how it ends is the key. That that's right, and the devil's in the details and the fact that Ukrainian President Zelensky decided to cancel his trip to Saudi Arabia suggests that his read of the conversations are not particularly favorable to Ukraine, and certainly we've heard the European allies' reaction and them not being involved in the conversation.

Look, I mean, it's interesting that this conversation is hand, these negotiations are happening in Saudi Arabia, which has sort of taken a neutral stand throughout the whole conflict. And that's sort of where the Trump administration is moving towards.

Now, if Ukraine doesn't have to give up too many concessions and the war ends and we go back, you know, there's a little bit of territory conceded, but there's a secure border and the U.S. is going to back Ukraine against any future Russian incursions. Like, yeah, that's the makings of a decent deal. The worry in Ukraine and the worry among even a lot of Republican senators I've talked to is that the contours of the deal are a lot less favorable to Ukraine than anyone ever expected. Less favorable, you said.

Less favorable. Yeah, I hope so. But a lot of things change rapidly with the Trump administration. I'll take a look at this and then realize that certain things aren't happening and he could change quickly, I hope. Because I know how Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz feel before they got the job.

They know who the bad guys are, and they know the Russians can't be trusted, which doesn't mean you can't do a deal with them. But it means they can't be trusted because if they wait two years, they reload, they come back, they learn from it, and they take the rest, or the next leader that comes in after Trump, not nearly as strong. And who knows who's gonna succeed eventually? Vladimir Putin cannot wait for that day until we talk about the next leader of Russia.

Well we'll see what happens there. What what role do you think NATO's having here?

Well, you know, there's a concern among our NATO allies because there are a lot of parallels to Munich. And in the comments, a lot of the European allies that are NATO allies after the Munich conference that took place last week that I agree with a lot of what J.D. Vance had to say in his speech about some of the European countries have very, very non-free speech-aligned policies that's sort of shocking when you look at some of those countries' domestic policies. But the topics that usually are brought up in those security conferences are about world security and obviously the war in Ukraine. And not hearing that, not hearing the show of support publicly from the current administration did shock a lot of the NATO allies and worry them in the run-up to these conversations in Saudi Arabia.

So we'll see where we end up. But The word Munich has come up quite a bit among a lot of Republicans who who are very attuned to national security. And you don't want to appease a dictator. You don't want to appease someone who invaded Ukraine and could cause further conflict on the European continent if you give up too much to Putin and Russia. Yeah, I hope so.

And I hope the readout looks a little bit more favorable towards Ukraine. They've done nothing wrong except fight like warriors and prove to everybody they are resourceful as they start building their own weapons and start modernizing their own drones in real time, took a portion of Russian territory too, and are holding it for now. And the Russians are still getting their energy. I know their energy depot is blown up, so we'll see where that goes. We know, too.

That the President of the United States is also focused on what's happening in Gaza, and he said he wants all those prisoners out, the POWs out, and it's not happening at a rapid pace. Do you still think that the Israelis will be happy with this dribs and drabs, or do you think something's going to change?

Well, you know, it's really interesting, Brian, because when Donald Trump President Trump said that he wants everyone out. That actually moved the needle back and put a little pressure on Hamas. And we went back to where the original contours of this first phase of the deal that was struck.

So we had three more hostages over the last weekend released. And it sounds like we're still on track to have the remainder of the hostages being released as part of the first phase. It's not all the hostages, just the ones that were agreed to in the first phase of the deal. But look, there's still a lot of unanswered questions. I think the most important, we've talked about this a lot, Brian, but how can you allow Hamas to stay in control of Gaza, a terrorist group that is obviously we Going back to the Biden administration, you can't be in charge.

This is not someone that you can do business with. But there's no, right now, there's still no viable path. Trump offered the idea to move the population to other Arab countries. That logistically is very challenging, and to put it mildly. And I think the best case scenario that could come of this is if other Arab countries, not just Egypt and Jordan, but Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, try to have some kind of stewardship of that territory, get some skin in the game, if you will, and find some middle ground.

So, you know, Trump moved the Overton window to one. There could be some rationale for other Arab countries to kind of. get more involved. But right now, we're not seeing a whole lot of progress. And I think the big question is like what happens after the first phase of the the deal takes place?

Will there be this Trump administration has said they want the second phase to go forward. But the problem is, once you continue the second and third phase, it pretty much allows Comosta to remain in charge of the Picasso.

So you did a study and you did write a story about how American Jews hold a negative view over the Democratic Party's handling of anti-Semitism, and some younger people are taking a new interest in Israel. Yeah, I mean, that that by the way, that was a a finding. We talk a lot about polls on on the show, Brian, when I'm on. And sometimes the groups that sponsor the polls don't want to highlight what's in the poll. And that was one of those findings that we thought was absolutely shocking, which is that most Jews have traditionally voted Democrat.

And in this poll, they actually found the Republican Party was doing a notably better job on anti-Semitism than the Democratic Party, which shows how far to the radical left a lot of the party has pandered to over the last four or five years. And it's shown, and some of it you do see this generational divide. Younger Americans are frankly more illiberal. They're much more critical of Israel, to put it mildly, than almost everyone else. And that's affecting sort of the Democratic Party's base and how they position themselves on these issues.

I think what's interesting is there was a good story in the Times over the weekend. John Osoff is in one of the most important Senate races in 2026 next year. He was backed by a lot of Jewish, he was the first Jewish senator in Georgia, backed by a lot of Jewish voters of all political stripes. And he has been abandoned by a lot of major Jewish figures in Georgia. And that constituency could make the difference in a very close reelection campaign.

For the Democrat. A lot of people, namely because he voted to withhold aid, military aid to Israel, Bernie Sanders backed legislation to do so, and it has not been a voice of comfort and not been an ally in many cases to the Jewish community, despite being the first Jewish senator in Georgia.

So the politics are very interesting. And if Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia, runs for the Senate, like that's the first example that the Jewish vote could make a big difference in electing a Republican instead of a Democrat for that point. And look at Schumer. He's been invisible, Josh. I mean, this guy should be a leading proponent of Israel.

Instead, he's been a leading critic or says nothing at the Columbia College campuses, NYU, and City College right here in New York. You write in this you note in this study that 96% of Jewish respondents between 18 and 29 say anti-Semitism is a serious problem. 59% of Gen Zers overall said the same.

Well, over half of younger Jews agree the slogan from river to the sea, Palestine will be free. Over half of younger Jews agree with that slogan. That's nuts. Yeah.

I mean, it th that is the stun. I mean, this is one of many studies that shows that the biggest disconnect right now in this country is younger Jews and versus younger non Jews people who are not connected to the Jewish community. I mean, there is a very You know, growing sense of anti-Semitism, but certainly anti-Israel activism among like under-25-year-olds, people on college campuses. And Jewish people who are in that in that same age group are pro-Israel, care deeply about their Judaism, and are shocked at what's going on around them, seeing open cases of anti-Semitism, vandalism, harassment, assault. And that's where I mean, like, yeah, I think anyone over the age of thirty kind of had never really experienced that.

Going to college, dealing with these issues in their daily lives. It's the youngest Americans that are, you know, the total, you know, on Israel, but it's not just Israel, by the way. It's like defending Mangioni, like defending terrorists, domestic terrorists in our country. There is like a radical left-wing ideology that's really percolating on campuses, and it's at odds with sort of the mainstream view of most other Americans. Josh, what's your view on this?

President Trump made inroads in Michigan because the Arab community actually thought they had an understanding with Trump, yet he never backed away from being pro-Israel. And you saw his track record after four years, the most pro-Israel president ever. And now he sits there and told Israel, here's your 2,000-pound bombs. Hey, Palestinians, if you guys want to move out, you should probably move out so we can rebuild the place and invite anybody else back. Do you think he's in danger of losing that support?

Well, it's a long way to. I mean, he's not going to be up for, you know, he's not going to be on a ballot again.

So look, I mean, I think if the election was held today, he probably wouldn't win Dearborn like he did in the November election. But look, I think certainly he has, you just look at those numbers, like the Jewish vote, even if it didn't over, if it didn't, it didn't move dramatically, but there is like a large Scale dissatisfaction among Jewish voters towards where the Democrats are. And then you have a lot of Arab American voters who voted for Jill Stein, who voted third party because their views on their views on Israel are not really in the mainstream.

So they don't really have a home in either party. Even the Democratic Party that tried to pander and tried to move to the left on that issue, they couldn't get too extreme. They couldn't get anti-Israel enough for some of these voters.

So I think it would be very much upper grabs. I think you might see a third party type, Jill Stein type, that competes for those votes in a few years. Because Senator Peters is out, right? He's retiring.

So that's going to open up Michigan again. Peters is out and it's Buttigedge could run for that Senate race. You have Mike Rogers, who ran a really strong campaign on the Senate side last time. He's also in that race and looking to run again.

So it's going to be Michigan politics are going to be really interesting. I mean, that's one issue. But Michigan very much is in play and it's been a Democratic state until recently.

So it's going to be a very, very volatile dynamic in Michigan politics. All right, Josh, it's going to be interesting. And lastly, what do you hear about the two heading into it? Two bills coming out of the House. The Senate's moving ahead with one bill.

Where's this heading? And do you think the House has just got too steep of a hill to climb for two? I have always been more of the one bill, or sorry, the two bill makes more political sense. Lindsay Graham has been more outspoken on that front. But look, there's been well-documented challenges that Mike Johnson's been having to deal with on a daily basis.

It's not because of Mike Johnson's leadership. I think he's done a really good job as Speaker dealing with a very narrowly divided Congress, narrowly divided House. It's just a challenge that if you lose two people on anything, you're not going to be able to get what you want. And I think it's easier to do it piecemeal and focus on the most popular things first to help get that. you know, the sugar on the I'm I'm on the on the legislation getting passed.

All right, Josh, great talking to you. Fascinating time. We have so much. There's like 25 different ways I can go with you. I appreciate your time.

Thanks, Brian. All right. Again, we're starting to get readouts now, more perspective on the U. S.-Russia Round One talks. We'll fill you in on some of that right now.

Also, behind closed doors, they're meeting about the fate of Mayor Adams. Tomorrow, we understand. They're going to debate the lifting of the indictment on on Mayor Adams, and they're going to debate the prosecution. We already have a prosecutor or four have left because the Department of Justice is not going to pursue Mayor Adams. It's a crazy time.

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I mean, that's what they were doing on President's Day. They wanted to have a demonstration in every state against Trump and Elon Musk. Really? That's what you've organized? It's crazy.

And by the way, how stupid do you look? Who's paying for that, too? Are you still wasting your money there? But don't worry, you have a leader. You have a leader going to bat for you and your future.

It's Kamala Harris. She's been going to Laker games where she was ignored, and she also found a way at that Louis Armstrong play in Broadway.

So here she is talking about where the party goes from here, where she goes from here, and her own circuitous. Uh indescribable way, cut twenty eight. But also let's see it as a m you know, nature pours a vacuum.

So where s some where there's a vacancy, then let's fill it. Right? And let's know that the The reality is that the progress of our nation has always been about the expansion of rights, not the restriction of rights. We're seeing a U-turn right now. For those rights to be maintained, which means we have to be vigilant, and it's just the nature of it.

And it doesn't mean we don't see the beauty in everything. Right? These things all coexist. But I believe we fight for something, not against something.

Right. I'm all we're all dumber having heard that. Do you believe that? And the echoing in the background that's so entertaining, yeah, as if she's saying something profound. Sadly, she might think she's saying something profound.

She might go, Hey, uh, honey, I really made a lot of sense there at that play and that um that extra extemporaneous dialogue, I diatribe I just put spit out there. But that that's their leader. Good luck with that. They're talking about they have the they have people going to bat for them in CNN and MSNBC, but they have no direction to go. Here's Kayla McGee White.

She's been a guest on our show. This is what she said last night about Kamala talking in circles, Cut 29. Congratulations to President J.D. Vance if this is who Democrats decide to run again in 2028. And you know, I think this is part of the reason why Trump's agenda is so popular, especially among my demographic Gen Z adults, because the opposition is so weak and it continues to provide us with absolutely nothing.

And you see even Trump's ability to tap into these cultural moments like going to the Daytona 500 or the Super Bowl, and it's reigniting the American spirit, especially among my generation, which grew up in institutions that relentlessly pressured them to hate America and to be ashamed of it. Right. So that's what they have to look forward to. And I just find it amazing. Also, Glenn Greenwald was in on Fox and Friends over the weekend.

And he's a liberal guy living in Brazil, but he's also a practical guy, concerned about freedom of speech. I don't agree with him and with Edward Snowden, but he came out and said, Edward Snowden and some other people that you might know, he came out over the weekend and he basically said, look, I'm sitting here in Fox. Because I see eye to eye less about Republican, more about freedom of speech and pro-America, staying within the boundaries of what our Constitution says and being open to different schools of thought rather than vilifying things. And he's not, he was anti-Trump. And he's really not anymore.

A lot of this stuff is people coalescing like Joe Rogan. I look at Glenn Grewold, I put him in the same subject line as that, Elon Musk. They're not going to be Republicans for long. As long as a candidate is doing things that are pro-American, they'll have a shot at winning them over. I mean, other people are just conservative, regardless.

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