Trump's frustration with Zelenskyy boils over

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What a week it has been. It's pretty much in this new Trump era. We have a blizzard of information news, commentary, reflections. It's hard to keep up with, but it's fun. Teresa Payton is going to be with us today, former White House Information Officer, for 06-08.

We want to talk about what's happening now with cybersecurity as well as what's happening with TikTok and everything else. We'll talk to her. And Benedikt Franck is the vice chair and CEO of the Munich Security Conference, where everybody just was. He's going to give us an aftermath on that.

So let's keep in mind, too, that we're going to speak to within this show, the President of the United States, about everything, especially what's going on with Ukraine. Had a chance to do the whole interview. We're editing it right now, not taking anything out, but just putting it into sections within the show.

So a lot going on today, in particular. We're talking about 47 first 30 days. We're talking about what's happening in Ukraine and Zelensky, I think, foolishly flying off the handle, saying Trump is a victim of misinformation and not taking the minimal deal. And we're talking about Hamas handing over four caskets, one of which was filled with somebody that is not Israeli, and two children, one nine months old, one four-year-old. With us right now is Benedik Franck, Vice Chair and CEO of the Munich Security Conference.

Benedik, welcome. Thanks so much, Brian. Great to be here. What was accomplished in your conference? I think we've accomplished a couple of things.

We've certainly seen quite a conversation starter from the Vice President, who used our stage to make a couple of points on free speech. But offstage, we've also seen a pretty constructive and very constructive US delegation interested in tackling and solving some of the biggest challenges that we're currently facing.

So you had a lot of people talking to each other about everything. Do you think the whole message is to the EU and to NATO, you're going to have to defend yourselves? It's time to stop ignoring your defense industry?

So, you know, I've just edited a a book on speeches given on our stage over the last 60 years. And to be fair, Americans have said virtually the same thing on our stage for the last 60 years. Dear Europeans, we love you dearly, but please get your act together. Learn how to defend yourself. Learn how to stand in your own two feet.

And I'm pretty sure that at some point the Trump administration has. Said, let's not try the same wake-up call approach again. Let's use something that we call pressure point diplomacy. Let's exert maximum pressure on the Europeans. to get their shit together.

And I think that is what JD has done.

So do you think they got the message or is the money just not there? No, you see, this is a really complicated question, Brian, because I think they got the message, but some of the other Trump administration policies on tariffs and others may actually make it even harder for Europeans to find the money. There is money in the system, and we certainly need to do and can do much more. But a more positive narrative on trade with our biggest trading partner, the United States, would help us to find even more money to the right things. Um Some are doing the right things.

Poland's doing the right thing. Sweden, Finland are doing the right thing. They are spending. They understand the urgency in the Baltics. It seems like France, England, Spain, they don't seem to be getting the message.

And I know the UK is looking at a contraction of their economy and they know how to fight. They just don't necessarily have the investment in there. What could the U.S. do to help them, besides diminishing tariffs, a friend and family's discount for some of the weaponry that we have? I You know, that may actually be a pretty disruptive and creative idea.

And I'm pretty sure that we'll all gladly take the discount. But isn't the point that Americans believe that Europe is already getting too much of a discount on freedom and defense and that we need to actually pay more? You see, I think it's slightly unfair to compare Germany with Poland and the Baltics. We're talking about. Much lower sums for them.

For Poland to go to 5% of GDP is a hell of a lot easier than for Germany with a massively bigger Okay. Having said this, there are a lot of things that we can do, and I think where the US can do even more to get us to do the right thing.

So, what is Germany capable of doing? What's the sentiment in Germany for defense spending? Immediately after the invasion in Ukraine, there was a sense we're going to start spending more, and that just kind of waned, it seems. You see, we call it Feitenbender, that sort of this turn of an area. You have seen massive additional investment of $100 billion over the last two and a half years in German defense.

We've bought the F thirty-five, we've bought Chinook helicopters, we have done a lot. But at some point, it's not no longer about equipment. We need to get troop levels back up. We're currently at around one hundred seventy five K, which is nothing, in order to fulfill our NATO defense plan commitments, which need to go upwards of two hundred fifty, even three hundred thousand.

So getting people is is where we need to invest currently.

So we probably need a pay raise uh throughout the forces. We need to increase the benefit systems. It's those things which are less sexy, I understand, but almost as important as as buying the right number of tanks and buying the the right American planes.

So what about the constitutionally? How is Germany limited to growth in terms of military?

So I guess we have something called the debt break, Schuldenbremse, another great German word, which means we can't make more than three percent deficit per year.

So one Possible way to get around that is to exclude defense spending from the debt break rules, both on the national level, so that is the German level, but also across the European Union. That would help. Tremendously. We would then also need to find new rules on investment guarantees so that our defense industry can ramp up and have some kind of investment security. If that comes out of things that are in addition to the standard budget, I think we've come a long way.

And also, the Russians have paid a terrible price. I mean, if they knew they would pay this type of price, I doubt if they would have won in the way they won in.

So, where are we at right now? We're in a really bad place, Bryce. The Ukrainians aren't winning. The Russians keep going. The Europeans haven't done enough.

to get Ukraine where it should be. And I share the worries of many of my European friends and family that we've now reached a really difficult point with pressure from the United States, for good reason, growing for a negotiated settlement, but us Europeans not having done enough to get the Ukrainians in the best possible negotiation spot. Right.

So what more are the Europeans capable of doing? And do you think that's the m what do you think the message that Macron and Starmer are going to bring to Trump next week?

Okay.

So first of all, I think it's it's great that They are going to go to Ukraine and then to see the President. But you know, I would have wished for a much stronger, unified European signal? Why is it individual prime ministers? Why is it not all of us? This is one of the biggest problems we currently have.

And I very much hope that the US administration sees the value in a strong and unified Europe, able to pick up the pieces, able to actually play its part, because this fragmentation that we're currently seeing with French and British leaders doing stuff on their own rather than in a European coordinated fashion is something that the US really sees and wants to see. If you help us become more unified. If you help us to find money in our budgets, in our budgets, not in your budgets, in our budgets, to invest in defense, it will pay handsomely for you down the road. I hear you. Benedict Franck, before I let you go, and you're Vice Chair and CEO of the Munich Security Conference, When you when you look at the the talks going on in Saudi Arabia, do you look at that as a positive thing or a negative thing?

Do you ever see a time when Vladimir Putin would be accepted into the European community? From what you know of him? I think talking with each other is always better than talking about each other. I'm grateful. To those that keep trying.

I obviously wish that whatever is discussed is not done over the heads of the Ukrainians. I hope that at some point the Europeans will earn their place at the table. But in the meantime, I think it's perfectly okay to start talking about talking about talking somewhere, even if it's Saudi Arabia. All right, do you see a time when Vladimir Putin could ever change his ways and be part of the European community? I think, you know, we've sort of forgotten that the only person responsible for this war and the only person who could end this war in a heartbeat is Vladimir Putin.

But if he He agrees to bring this war to an end. If he agrees to make up for the enormous damages that his decision has caused, I can well imagine that European countries will start talking with Russians again. We Europeans have no interest in a weak Russia. We have no interest in a tumbling Russia. We want a strong and constructive and rich Russia that buys our goods and that helps us solve global challenges.

So there is no ad infinitum Veto on talking to Putin. Have we made progress in getting you guys natural gas and got the terminals in place to actually be the supplier for Europe?

So I guess, yes, you have. The German government, which is criticized for many things, has changed its dependency uh on ration, you know, fossil fuels. from 100% to 0% in a year and a bit. And obviously US resources are part of the match. Thanks so much.

I hope to be there next year, Benedict Frank. You were kind enough to invite me. I unfortunately could not do it, but I'd love to be there because so much is going on. You put together a heck of a conference. You really made a lot of news.

Thanks so much. We'd love to have you next year as only. Absolutely. Great. When we come back, thank you, Benedict, calling us from Germany.

Good job. 1866-408-7669. Teresa Payton at the bottom of the hour. A little bit later on in this Friday edition, an interview exclusive with President Trump. Learning something new every day on The Brian Kilmead Show.

The Menendez Brothers, an exclusive new interview. Eric and Lyle, first of all, welcome to our podcast. Hi, Harvey. Hey, Harvey, as well. Two Angry Men on all podcast platforms.

A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. We went with our seventh string quarterback and we lost by a point and a half and we actually picked up a congressional seat.

So if you're asking me, did I think that she was going to win and she didn't win? Yes, all the polling showed it even. It turned out to be a point and a half race. And you lost seats. But if you have, man, I'm telling the Democrats, just sit there, play possum, let them go, let them go, let them go.

Poll numbers are declining. The collapse is already underway. Let's see when it put the Medicaid budget, when it put the tax, the $4.5 billion, trillion dollars of tax cuts to wealthy people. Just let the ball come to you. We don't need to be aggressive now.

James Carville says just relax, play possum. Good luck with that. Right now, you have really no choice. It's not as if they said we can dig in. We watched they don't like some nominees.

They don't like Cash Patel. They protest outside. They didn't want Christine, not Christine No. They didn't want Tulsi Gabbard. They protested.

They didn't vote. But the bottom line is, everyone got through. And if they just did a Votarama on a budget bill in the Senate, fifty one, forty eight. They only lost one. That was Rand Paul.

So that got through too. In the House, things are holding steady.

So Some resolutions are passed. Go ahead. I just don't know if James Carville understands. There was no choice, really. Unless you're going to start initiated, they're fighting everything.

They're fighting all the Doge cuts. They're they're fighting all I mean, they're not voting for any Outside Fetterman, they're really not voting for any nominee.

So I don't know if you could take his advice or you could not take advice, but he is so overrated. I mean, this guy guaranteed that Kamala Harris would win. He talked about how great she was and how she was coming into her own, and never really criticized Joe Biden until the last year, but not along the way.

So I think that he is like Charles Barkley. He's like John McEnroe. What he is, is a big name, always gives blunt assessments, but I think he's highly overrated as an analyst. Keep in mind, he won one of the elections for Bill Clinton. The re-election was a walk in the park against Bob Dole.

Here is The first 30 days, a different take from Stephen Miller. Here's what he says he has characterized the first 30 days. He did this yesterday, cut three. President Trump. Is doing exactly what he promised, and he's doing what Americans have begged and pleaded for for generations, but no one has done.

He's not just talking about cutting waste out of government. He's laying off unproductive federal workers who are taking your tax dollars away from you. He is cutting out government programs that don't work or that worse, abuse and hurt the American people. He's stopping federal censorship. He's stopping weaponized government.

He's stopping the use of our intelligence services and our law enforcement services to hurt Americans. And instead, he's using those powers to protect Americans and American lives. President Trump is actually following through on every single thing he campaigned on in record time. Right.

And there are the executive orders which show they have a duration when you leave. And then Elon Musk said, an interesting thing, he goes, just because you signed him, Mr. President, doesn't mean people are doing it. Yesterday, there was a. Um There was Black History Month, and the President of the United States did not pass up on that opportunity.

He put statues on the National Garden of American Heroes: Harry Tubman, Rosa Parks, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Coretta Scott King, Frederick Douglass, Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali, Kobe Bryant. Tiger Woods was actually there with the president for a different reason. He was there, I believe, for the Liv-PGA merger talks. He says they've hit an impasse. Liv plays it as golf courses.

The PGA used to play it as golf courses, but they thought it was politically incorrect for him to do it, and they kind of pulled out. He obviously does not hold it against them. But because he brought them back together, here's what he said yesterday from the White House about Black History Month. Thirty eight As you know, the Americans are going to be celebrating something very important coming up, our 250th anniversary, our nation's founding. And when we do, we're going to look forward to honoring the contributions of countless black Americans who fought to win and protect and expand American freedom from the very, very beginning.

My good friends are here today, and I appreciate you being. I'm not going to call out your names because Tiger will get very bored. He'll say, this is a little boring. It is a little boring if we do that, but I want to thank you all for being here. You are our friends, and we appreciate this.

And I'd love to see a plan, too, to continue to shore up African American support.

So get this. Trump's best showing For the GOP, remember, uh Mitt Romney. John McCain. George W. Bush.

This is the best. Republicans have done in 20 years. Eighteen to twenty-nine, they did the best ever. Black voters overall the best in forty-eight years. Hispanics the best in fifty-two years.

Among black voters in 2020, he got 13 black male voters. He got 13 percent of the vote. In twenty twenty four, it doubled almost doubled twenty-five percent. Overall, in 2020, he got 8% of the black vote in 2020. In 2024, he got 15% of the black vote.

That has got to hair and scare the heck out of Democrats because they've been maximizing the African-American community and really riding the cities to success and getting mayor jobs and in getting maybe some of these states to flip. Because New York State is only controlled by Democrats because in New York City, same thing with Chicago, Illinois, same thing with Pennsylvania. Philadelphia is the only thing that puts it in play.

Now, if you start making gains there, and the question is: what does the black community want? Same thing as all American communities want. Just a good opportunity, a great opportunity. And if they're prejudicial, Roadbox look for this administration to knock it down. but just to level the playing field.

What do you think? 1-866-408-7669. The cyber challenges out there, streamlining operations. That's what Doge is trying to do. Teresa Payton on that next.

And also the role of Silicon Valley in this administration.

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I'm not gonna waste a penny. I have a zero tolerance. And Congress should want me to ensure that there's accountability and oversight. The way the agreements were written. When the money goes through the eight primary recipients, eight primary recipients receiving $20 billion as a pass-through, when it goes to the sub-grantees, The EPA isn't even a party to those account control agreements.

So that is some of the outrageous things EPA director Lise Eldon has found. He found twenty billion out of pass through when it goes to sub agrees sub agreements, guarantees. The EPA is finding a whole bunch of money, some of which get this, is going to Stacey Abrams It's there's two things that happen. It's DEI and it's green technology. All these green projects are the two motivating factors of the entire in all the Biden years.

Joining us now is Teresa Payton, who used to do this cybersecurity when she worked for George W. Bush. Teresa, your take on the role of these investigations into where this money's going? This is long overdue. I mean, we know as a nation that we're broke, so it's really important to follow the money.

And our taxpayer dollars need to be spent on things like infrastructure. Cybersecurity, modernization, innovation. And when you see it being spent on things that don't align with those strategic goals of the United States and its citizens, you have to wonder and ask yourself why.

So it's great that we now have this transparency so we can do something about it. Here's more from Lise Elden and what he found in CUT20.

So, this is $2 billion of that $20 billion that was parked at this bank outside of government towards the end of the Biden administration. Power Forward Communities, which Stacey Abrams is part of, only received $100 in 2023. They then got $2 billion in this grant in 2024.

Now, I was just reading over the grant agreement, Laura. It gives the organization, this nonprofit, 21 days to distribute $2 billion. But this is the crazy part. And it's giving the entity 90 days to complete a training called how to develop a budget. If an organization needs to take a training on how to develop a budget, one, they should be taking the training before they're spending a dollar, but they definitely shouldn't be getting two billion.

What are your thoughts about the way government works? By the way, Lee describes it. He seems outraged by it. Are you surprised by it? I am surprised.

I mean, we do know that we've had over the years where budget dollars get earmarked for pet projects at different states and things like that. I mean, that's been happening for a very long time. But to hear something like that is really disappointing. I mean, I've got kids, you've got kids. I mean, we teach them at home how to do a budget and how to spend within their means and to achieve their goals.

We do it as a family. You do it as a family, Brian. And so to hear that is really dismaying. And when I see numbers trending in the wrong direction, so I see technology innovation in this country trending in the wrong direction. I see us, you know, right now, I think it's a very long race, but we're behind China in our AI and quantum computing.

I look at the numbers from OMB on cyber incidents. In fiscal year 2022, OMB reported over 30,000 cyber incidents happen at federal departments and agencies. In fiscal year 2023, Brian, OMB reported over 32,000. The numbers are going in the wrong direction. We need to find out where this money is going and redirect it to the right priorities.

We would certainly help.

So we are getting the money, we are getting the savings. How do you feel about it? I want to pare down the debt, and then President Trump is considering getting a certain percentage and giving it to the American people, giving them $5,000 each. Your thoughts? Yeah.

Hey, look, anytime hardworking taxpayers can get their money back, I think is a great day. I don't pretend to understand whether or not that's going to have a significant impact on inflation. But the one thing I do know is America's broke. We've got a debt and a deficit that need attention.

So, whether it goes directly into our pockets, helping hardworking people every day who deserve to have As much of their money as possible that they earned, or if it goes to pay down the debt or the deficit, I'm going to leave it to kind of the big thinkers and policy people to make that decision. But I think it's a step in the right direction. And what I love about this is, regardless of what that final decision is about giving the money back to the people, which I think is a great idea, what I love about this is we now have the transparency, we have to remove the complexity. Of the budget and have transparency.

So, on the going forward, less of our money is required from us, and Americans can keep more money in their pockets every day to raise their families and to achieve the American dream. Yeah, I think so. But some people aren't impressed, like that Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, Cut 19.

Now President Trump says he likes the idea of giving some of the savings from Doge back to Americans as kind of a dividend. Would you support that? No, we are not in the business of giving out money. And honestly, I don't know what $5,000 will do for you if you are unable to find a job because I am telling people we are headed towards a recession. I don't see you're not an economist, but that's an interesting take.

Heading towards a recession, $5,000 doesn't mean much. That's someone who's pretty much out of touch. I mean, I'd gladly take her 5,000 if she doesn't want it, Brian. I again, I think, you know. There's different ways for the cost savings to be distributed.

At the end of the day, who did the cost savings belong to? It belongs to the American people. It was taken out of their pockets to fund budgets that they did not have. They thought they were voting for people that were voting on budgets, but they didn't have transparency into all of this. And so it would send a strong message to all elected officials who have responsibility for our nation's budget.

We now have transparency. We see you. We've been heard. And we don't agree with how you've been spending our money. And they can vote differently.

And giving five thousand back, whether it goes towards the debt, the deficit or back in Americans' pockets, is never a bad idea. I where would she prefer the money to go? Great point.

So you don't have a problem with these twenty-somethings going through education, the Treasury, the Pentagon, looking at budgets and trying to find structural problems. What skill set do they bring to government? You've been on the inside, now you're on the outside. Yeah, so there's a couple of things. First, what I want people to hear is from having had a seat on the inside, I'm going to assume that White House Counsel has done their job, made sure people are in the right positions as contractors, consultants, special employees, whatever it is, and that everybody's been read into what their access and responsibilities are and that that's all been set up properly.

There's plenty of federal mandates, the Privacy Act of 1974, which predates iPhones, which came out in 2007. But there's plenty of mandates that are in place that have strict safeguards for PII. The other thing I would say is like if Musk and these twenty-somethings had unfettered access, Everyone's Roomba would be driving a Tesla by now.

So we need to stop with the histrionics. We've not seen any proof that people are looking at individual records. And Doge has actually confirmed they're looking at aggregate data, not personal details. Here's what these young people bring. First of all, they are unfettered by all the things that you can't do, that won't happen, that won't be successful.

They've got optimism, they've got cutting-edge skills, they're innovative, they're creative, and really emotionally detached from these systems.

So they are going in and doing what I like to refer to as data classification, data mapping. They're basically saying, what does this system hold in it? And then how do I data map it? How do I data classify it? And then how do I produce reports from it so I can get to transparency?

That's really what they're doing. They're like tabulating results, almost like geniuses creating these statistical models and being able to create traceability through these very complex systems. And Brian, if we want our systems to be safe, we have to know what we need to retire. We have to understand the complexity because the enemy, our nation states, and cyber criminal syndicates hide in the complexity. We have to remove it.

Teresa Payton with us. Point out some of these people on the Musk team. One of the kids won a $250,000 dollar prize for an AI to reveal hidden contents of an ancient Roman document. Another was given $100,000 in seed money by OpenAI to found his own startup.

So these guys women have already separated themselves and impressed one of the smartest men in the world, Elon Musk. They're not just pulled off the street. Yeah, you're right about that. And they would have gone through some type of a background check, again, given the rules of the road. And there is somebody at each department and agency who is there, who is working with them.

And so there is oversight. People I I think people misunderstand when you see a team moving at sort of just the speed of kind of the The processing speed that they're moving at, they assume it's because they're not being careful about privacy and security. You shouldn't assume that. You should assume they're coming in unencumbered by, well, everything has to be done this way because it's been done this way since the Privacy Act of 1974.

So, don't assume they're breaking all the rules and regulations just because they're moving at a speed and a pace that you haven't seen before. The bureaucracy is out of their way, and they're taking this opportunity to use modern technology and innovative creative thinking and design to get to the answers they're seeking. And they're really doing an investigation. That's the other thing I want people to understand: in the early days of an investigation, my team and I, we will have early findings, and we always tell people these are not the final findings. And a lot of times, what you find in the early days actually gets worse the further along your investigation gets.

So the numbers are going to change. The things that we're learning today are going to change over time because these investigations are ongoing. All right, lastly, I want you to hear what Elon Musk said about one of his approaches. He's a rich guy. He's basically donating his time.

Cut to. The fundamental goal of our immigration policy, of our border policy, of Doge saving taxpayer money, the fundamental goal is we want your children and grandchildren to be able to raise a family in security and comfort in the country that we all love. That is the whole goal of President Trump's agenda. Yeah, so that's his whole goal. Here's what Elon Musk said.

On this other sheet that I had for my interview with President Trump coming up last hour, this is what he said. Yeah, in a moment. He basically, Elon Musk came out and he expressed an urgency that we don't have the luxury anymore of just going on with a big deficit, that the deficit is taking so much money. uh so much money away that we can it's uh it's actually uh outstrapped Yeah, outstrapped the uh uh the defense spending. Here's what he said about rich people.

There's a lot of rich people out there. They should be caring more about the country. Because the reason you should be caring more about the country is if America falls, what do you think is going to happen to your business? The ship of America must be strong. The ship of America cannot sink.

If it sinks, we all sink with it. Do you think so? Do you agree? Yes, we need everybody to care about America. And certainly people who are well off, we do need everybody to contribute here.

And I'm just so grateful. We are so fortunate that we have people like Elon Musk. You also have Bill Ackman. You have so many people who have come to the table and said, I want to be a part of making sure that America is great, continues to be great, and is always great in the future.

So you have a lot of people coming to the table who are saying, I want to contribute and I want to participate in this. And it's amazing to me that, I mean, I've heard that Elon is sleeping on the floor, he's working around the clock, he's also got businesses that he runs. And I think it's incredible. You may not agree with everything that's coming out of this. And I do know people are getting laid off.

And my thoughts and prayers are with everybody who's going through layoffs. I've gone through it in corporate America. I've had to lay people off in the past in corporate America.

Okay.

There's a real human impact to this, but we have to make these tough decisions now. It's only going to get worse. The longer we wait, the more people will be impacted. And so, this is a tough time for those people who are losing their jobs. But at the end of the day, new doors will open for them, and the economy will be better.

It's just a tough time. There is a human element to this, but I'm just so glad, and his statement is exactly right. Everybody in America, rich, poor. Everybody needs to focus on what needs to be done next. Gotcha.

Theresa Baden, thanks so much. Thanks for having me, Brian. Take care. Be safe out there. I will.

I'm going to try. We come back. I'll be able to open up the phones, 1866-408-7669.

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So, you're going to hear the whole thing.

Next hour, right here on the Brian Kilmead radio show. But I did ask him what he did yesterday, and that was try to get the Live and PGA together on some type of merger. And here's how it sounded. Yesterday, you called the USA hockey team. They lost in overtime to Canada, but the way they stood up in Canada really stood out and upset the team.

They lose in overtime yesterday. What did you say to the USA hockey team? Because they were all motivated afterwards, very patriotic people. And what do you say to Justin Trudeau, who's kind of taunting you afterwards, saying Canada will always be for Canadians and will always, to paraphrase, will always own hockey.

Well, we won the first game. The second game was a great game. It could have gone either way. Justin's a loser, always has been. And, you know, he's just a guy that really doesn't.

I think he's done. A very bad job for Canada. He's taking it radical left, and he's going to lose the election. It looks like pretty big. If he even runs, I don't know.

He's not running. He's not going to run. Looks like he's not going to run. That's a smart move because he wouldn't have a chance of winning.

So, you know, Justin's sort of a nice guy, but he's a loser. And the game was a fantastic game. I watched the end of it. I was making a speech to the governors of our country, so I couldn't watch most of it. But I got back.

I watched the end. It was a great game. I mean, both teams played really well. I thought it was a terrific thing. And I congratulate the Canadian team because the American team is fantastic.

But they each won one game. But here's the thing, Mr. President: they booed our national anthem, and in Boston, we did not boo theirs. You proud of the people that attended? Yeah, I think it's great that they did.

I think it's great that they did. And we have a good relationship with Canada. Not with Justin, because Justin's too far radical left. He's so radical left. He's killing Canada.

Canada is doing terribly right now. And he's. His policies, his radical left, you know, Marxist policies have absolutely destroyed Canada. Canada is in bad shape.

So, Mr. President, a couple of things. You're trying to get Liv and the PGA together. What kind of progress did you make? And could your next project be college sports between the NIL and everything else?

Their money's pouring in, but certain colleges are getting locked out. Are you concerned about the direction of college sports? And is that something you want to get involved in?

Well, that's the decision in colleges that should have been appealed. I mean, I couldn't believe how easily they seem to have given up on that. And and I don't like what's happening in college sports. I don't like that decision that was made. College sports was so great for so many years and they go in and they win one case.

I don't know that that case was appealed. You know, I won a lot of cases as you know better than anybody on appeal.

So I don't know what's uh what's going on with that. That's ter I I think it was a terrible Decision and very bad for college sports. Absolutely. All right. Do you see yourself playing a role in that?

Of maybe bringing sides together to try to get... They're still fighting it, but are they fighting it? They didn't fight the decision. Why didn't somebody go in and appeal the decision?

Now, maybe they did, but it doesn't seem to me that they did, but maybe they did. But you know, you got to fight these cases right until the end. You got to take them up to the Supreme Court. You have judges, you have radicalized judges, but you know, you have to take these cases up to the Supreme Court sometimes. It just seems to me that they didn't use the the power of of the appellate courts.

So that's a little of the interview with President Trump. We had a wide swath, handled Ukraine, talked about the budget, talked about the economy. We also talked about Hamas, what's going to be next with Israel, and all bets are off. Crispin, you're in Arizona. Hey, Crispin.

Hey, it's nice to talk to you. What's on your mind? Yeah, what's on my mind is uh say if you just take a hundred thousand people, and I know 65,000 voluntarily withdraw from their jobs. If you take 100,000 people at 50,000, that's about $5 billion, a drop in the bucket. The last tax break that That Trump gave was $1.9 trillion and 65% went to people making over $130,000 a year.

That amount is like $1.2 to $1.3 trillion. You've got to get after the excess spending. You have to go after a military waste and the rich, make the rich pay. Instead, he's trying to offer a $5,000 job. But I would say that the top 10% pay 70% of all taxes.

You just want to pay him more. That would be almost 60% of their income. I want them putting that money back into the economy. I think efficiency, and with the Pentagon, you're 100% right, Christian. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division.

It's Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, welcome back, Brian Kill Meet Show. It's my privilege to bring in the 45th and the 47th President of the United States, the first time interviewing you in your second term. Mr. President, how does the first 30 days feel?

Well, I have the best poll numbers I've ever had, so that feels good. It's always nice. We won. all seven swing states in addition and we got the popular vote by millions of votes. But now I have uh much higher poll numbers than even the elections, so I've never I've never had such wonderful numbers.

People have always said, Well, I don't know. Is he doing good or don't we know or whatever? I guess people did feel we did a great job in term one and that's how we won, but I right now just got I just got 'em The best fall numbers I've ever had, beating everybody.

So that's nice. That's always nice, Brian. I know. You always like to keep score. Mr.

President, the one thing that you inherited, and that is Hamas, since October 7th, they've been at war, and the IDF has been at war with Hamas. Yesterday, we got four hostages back in caskets, two of which were children, nine months and four years old. And the mom that they gave back was not even the right body. As we wait for six more hostages to be returned on Saturday, what do you think should happen with Benjamin Netanyahu, the IDF, and Hamas?

Well, I speak to him and he's certainly he's actually not torn. I mean, you know where he stands and he would like to go in. He just is so angry and he should be. Um if he's not angry, then there'd be something wrong with him, frankly. He is very angry, he's a very angry man at what happened, especially what happened yesterday with these.

kids. These were They were they were babies and It's rough stuff. It's rough stuff. And it looked like they were celebrating as they were bringing the bodies back. And it's the seed is not even believable, Brian.

When you see what's happening, it's it's sort of not even believable. I it would It's so barbaric. You wouldn't think that could happen in a modern age, but it happened. You dropped off 2,000-pound bombs to them that they had ordered a while ago. You said basically you're not going to tell them not to go into any province.

What Joe Biden was saying, don't go into Rafa. You better stop. Humanitarian aid here, threatening with sanctions. You have a different approach. It's Prime Minister, do what you have to do.

So he's got the decision to make. Do I worry about the 30-plus hostages that may still be alive? Or do I finish off a terror organization that's trying to destroy you? Are you okay either way? I am.

I really am. when you see what's happening here, it's a hard thing to say. You just wonder the condition of the hostages that they have. One group came in so bad looked like it was concentration camp in Germany. This was a terrible, terrible thing when I looked.

And then Uh the other day a group came in which was not as bad. actually not really close closely as bad. But I think really a lot of the people they have are in such bad shape. They're so violent and vicious. I I think a lot of people, uh if you if you look, I think they're in really bad shape.

I really do. I I think they're trying. Trying to give the best ones first. And if the best ones are the ones I'm seeing, they're in really bad shape. And sometimes you have to make a decision.

You know, it's a decision that has to be made. It's a rough decision. The scene yesterday was really terrible because you are talking about babies. But Mr. President, there is no scenario where there is two states.

This is really a low-level. There's no scenario where there's a two-state solution anymore. I know Mike Wiltz, your national security advisor, says there's no way Hamas is in charge there. Yeah. It seems like we're at the ultimate impasse.

Your idea of taking over Gaza, making it more international, wasn't necessarily well received by Jordan or Egypt.

So what's next?

Well, we pay Jordan and Egypt billions of dollars a year, and I was a little surprised they'd say that, but They did. And I'll tell you, the way to do it is my plan. I think that's the plan that really works, but I'm not forcing it. I'm just going to say. sit back and recommend it.

And then the US would own the site. It'd be na own Noha Mas. and they'd be developed, and then you start all over again with a clean plate. Another way of doing it, but I don't think it would work, would be to do it with people there. But I just don't see that working.

I mean, it's been It's been so many years, so many decades of Of killing on that site. That is one dangerous place. And Hamas would be there, I guess, depending on what happens over the next little while. The question is, can you wipe them all out? You know, they're so interspersed among people.

And it's certainly not an easy thing to do. But I liked my plan. I thought my plan was good. You get them out, you move them, you build a beautiful community. and a permanent community.

You then take the site, the Gaza Strip, you take Gaza. And you, it's it's really essentially leveled now. You don't have too much to do other than you know, remove. It's really that that that place is not livable. And if you gave the people a choice between that and living in a nice community, I think I know where they'd go.

Uh we'll we'll see what happens. I thought it was I thought it was great 'cause The location is, you know, it's a great location. I I don't know why Israel ever gave that up. Why did they give it up? I guess they look at us and say, Why did you give up the Panama Canal, Brad?

Right.

And it's all connected. Ariel Shiron decided. If you look down on a map, they have the whole ocean. And somebody from Israel, I guess you know, I can tell you who, but who's well known, but He decided to give it up. Yeah.

It's one of the bad real estate deals. I see a lot of bad real estate deals. That's one of them right there.

So, I'm going to have more about Ukraine. We have so much more to talk about about the economy. We'll have that straight ahead. President saying, whatever BB wants, he should go do. He's got the 2,000-pound bombs, and you have the horrible situation with the slow let-go of all the hostages.

You'll listen to the Brian Kill Me Show, my interview with President Trump, exclusive to us for this hour. Don't move. The Commander-in-Chief has his back. Hey, Brian. Yes.

I have no loyalty to your radio show. I only have loyalty to you.

So if you're doing radio, that's good. If you're doing television, that's good too. And if you're writing something, that'll be fine too. It's Brian Kilmead. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it.

You're with Brian Kilmead. Welcome back, everyone. My chance to sit down and talk to President Trump calling us from the White House.

So, we spoke about an hour ago. We're breaking it up, letting you hear the whole thing for the first time.

Now, we talked to you about Hamas and the whole horrific situation with. With the hostages and what he would do, and essentially BB's got a green light now. I talk about the number one story in the world, and that's Ukraine, the president's view. And you'll be interested to hear what he really thinks happened to start this war. Watch.

President, cover of every newspaper just about is your stance in Ukraine. I was looking up, I almost found no indications that you said anything bad about Zelensky up until the last few days. And it seems as though when he didn't take the mineral deal and was critical of you for having a delegation talk in Saudi Arabia with Russia, that was a turning point for you, correct? I've been watching this man for years now. As his cities get demolished, as his people get killed, as his soldiers get decimated where You have old you have old men and young men.

You have men that are too old to fight, men that are too young to fight. I've been watching this for years. And it's a war that shouldn't have started, I know, because I was there and I had it. It didn't start. Would have never started if If I won the election, which I did, it's a war that never, ever would have stopped.

So I've been watching for years. And I've been watching Him negotiate with no cards, has no cards. And you get sick of it. You just get sick of it. And I've had it.

And he then made a deal with us for rare earth and things. And who knows what rare earth is worth, you know, but at least it's something and who knows what it's worth. Who knows if they even have it? But We made a deal with rare earth and Secretary of Treasury, a very good guy, actually went there. And They couldn't even come close to getting a deal done.

And frankly, I wish he didn't go there, waste all of his time like that. but they couldn't get close. They met Right. And then when he wanted to get it closed, uh He was unable to meet him again. But so it was just a wasted trip, a dangerous trip, too.

I didn't like it that he was doing it. Because he's a good man. I didn't want him to put himself under danger because I had a feeling something like that would happen. But look what you have. You have a man who's led a country that had the most beautiful cities that they demolished.

Had the most beautiful domes. Those domes are the most beautiful. But it's all Russia's. But that's Russia's fault, though, architecture. Russia did.

And everything's demolished. I mean, it's like a demolition site, though. It's sort of like Gaza. In fact, it's more demo. At least Gaza has a couple of buildings standing in it.

This place. you take a look at at the demolition of so many of those cities. And it it and all those those people are killed. Never to come back again. But, Mr.

President, that's Vladimir Putin's fault. I get tired of listening to it. I'll tell you what, I've seen it enough. And then he complains that he's not at a meeting that we're having with Saudi Arabia trying to intermediate a peace.

Well, he's been at meetings for three years with a very. With a president who didn't know what the hell he was doing. He's been in the meetings for three years and nothing got done.

So I don't think he's very important to be at meetings, to be honest with you. He's been there for three years. He makes it very hard to make deals. But look what's happened to his country, it's been demolished. But no, no, I hear you.

But Mr. President, but you know who's to blame for that. That's Vladimir Putin. But don't you think it's Vladimir Putin that did the invasion unwarranted to try to take back land they had no right to? And don't you think fundamentally that's that?

And if you could just get and now both sides want to talk, it seems, so we should just get to that point? They only want to talk because of me. If I wasn't involved, they wouldn't be talking to each other. And Russia would continue to go through Ukraine because they are going through Breya. They've taken a lot of land.

And Russia would continue the march through Ukraine. If it wasn't for me, they wouldn't be talking at all. I'm the only reason they're talking. No, I think that everybody agrees with that. We have Macron coming to see you for France and then Stormer for the UK this week to move forward.

But they didn't do anything either. The war is going on. No meetings with Russia, no nothing. You know, they haven't done anything. And I, if you know, Macron's a friend of mine, and I've met with the Prime Minister and you know, he's a very nice guy, but nobody's done anything.

And I've been watching this go on for years, and I'm doing it for one reason. I hate the killing. I hate to see those young people killed. They're not Americans, they're Russians and Ukrainians. I hate to see the killing.

So I just saw the Polish president just tweeted, and he essentially told Zelensky to go back and do a deal with you and try to get to peace. And he just put that out a short while ago.

So do you believe that the Russians want a deal? And even though they're the aggressors in this situation, they want a deal because they've had that 700,000 casualties. They're losing 46,000 a month, too.

So do you believe they were sincere in Saudi Arabia? Look, Russia, and who is the Polish are you talking about Judah? Yep. Was it Duda that put it out? Yes.

Because you have different leaders in Poland. It's very interesting. But no, look. Are you ready? Russia did not attack during my administration.

but I will say he hates Zelensky. He hates him with a tremendous passion. You're lucky you don't hate people, Brian. You don't hate anybody. You've never been there.

I'll give you the exact read. He said, I suggest that President Zelensky remain committed to the course of calm, constructive cooperation with Donald Trump. I trust that goodwill and honesty from a former foundation of the U.S. negotiation strategy. I have no doubt that President Trump is guided by a deep sense of responsibility for global stability and peace.

And he said he just spoke to Zelensky.

So are you expecting a call from him? Would you accept a call from Zelensky today? Yeah, of course. I'm not playing games. I don't accept or not accept calls.

Of course, I'll take a call from him. But he's been negotiating for three years. And just so you know, when you say Russia was the attacker, yes. Russia was attacked. Russia attacked.

but there was no reason for them to attack. You could have talked him out You there was no reason that he should have attacked. That whole thing was. Was going on for years. There was no reason he was going in.

It should have never happened. That war should have never happened. And I'm telling you, the way they talked, I said, you know, these guys are going to go into a war. This is a. Every time I say, oh, it's not Russia's fault, I always get slammed by the fake news.

But I'm telling you, Biden said the wrong things, Zelensky said the wrong things, they got attacked by somebody that's much bigger and much stronger. which is a bad thing to do. And you don't do that. But Russia could have been talked out of that so easily, that should never have been a war. And all those dead people shouldn't be dead, and all those cities shouldn't be demolished right now.

So when Zelensky said oh, he wasn't invited to a meeting. I mean, it he it wasn't a priority because he did such a bad job in negotiating so far. Number one, you shouldn't have had a war. And if you did, it should have been solved and settled immediately. It could have been.

Mr. President, I think you are 100% right. There are two things that Zelensky made two mistakes in three days. He criticized you, and then he criticized the meeting, and then he said, I'm walking away from the deal, which was, I think, 55 percent of their rare earth minerals. It would have allowed America to have a stake there, and nobody would attack Ukraine if America had business there.

Having said that, I think if both sides could do you think the Russians should be celebrating right now because they hear the rhetoric coming from the White House? No, because if I got out, they I think they really want to make a deal, I do. They they found it impossible to make a deal with Zelensky. As his buildings came down. You know, the buildings came down all over.

They were just raining, raining down. You got nothing. You know, Take a look at what he's going to let's assume I make a deal. I'm getting him back. Many demolished cities and the bodies of many dead people.

What kind of a deal is that? What kind of a situation is that? There was no reason for that. No, I hear that.

Now. Russia attacked. But they shouldn't have let them attack because they wouldn't have attacked. If you had people that knew what they were doing, Joe Biden is a very dumb man. You know that, and I know it.

Joe Biden is a very dumb man who was dumber than ever before, because things have happened to him. He had no idea what he was doing, and everything he said was wrong. And I said, you know what? I think this guy's going to. cause a f I I think he's gonna cause a war.

And that's what happened. And I will tell you Putin could have been talked out of that so easy, but they didn't know how to talk.

So Mr Putin could have been talked out of that war so easy. They didn't know how to talk. They said all the wrong things. And I'm I'm not Trying to make Putin like nicer or better. I'm just telling you the fact that war should have never happened.

Putin would have never gone in. And we'll see where we go from here. But, Mr. President, you have some sway with him. You definitely talk to him more than probably anybody else in the world outside.

But here's the thing: they have taken. He doesn't have to make a deal, because if he wanted, he'd get the whole country. But he's paying a huge price, as you pointed out a couple of weeks ago. They have taken about 20,000 Ukrainian kids and they basically kidnapped them, gave them new names, and put them into homes in Russia. Can you get Vladimir Putin to reverse that?

Could that be one of the precursors to show they sincerely want to negotiate? I believe I could, yes. I didn't know too much about it. I was hearing about it yesterday. It's pretty tough stuff.

Uh but I believe I could do that, yes.

So there you go. That's my interview with President Trump. The number one issue is Ukraine. He does admit flat out it was Russia that attacked. We know that.

I know he got a little ticked off, but he's very clear on where we go from here. And he would take a Zelensky call. Of course, as he said, he's not playing games. It's the same way. He's serious, but he's also willing to get to an end goal.

That's how I see it. Much more to come. My interview with President Trump continues. Brian Kilmington. Radio that makes you think.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Welcome back, everybody. President Trump gave us some quality time today. I appreciated that. And to relate to you, before his day got started, he started with us.

So you heard the first half hour. We got some more time. It was supposed to be 15 minutes. President was getting into it. In fact, we could have a little bit more time if I'd have to run back to T V.

And I missed the segment anyway. More on that later. But when we did talk, we did talk about the economy and did talk about what we have to do to get our economy going in the right direction. And when it becomes his economy, let's listen. Great.

I want to talk about something different. Right now, Kathy Hochle says, game on, you drew first blood as you got rid of. Have you got rid of congestion pricing in New York City? What's your response to her? In fact, here is what you said exactly.

Listen to this, Mr. President. Listen to this. Cut one. Manhattan and certain parts of New York.

Ultimately, when Manhattan goes, the whole state goes. Manhattan is not doing well to start off with. Uh and all you're doing with congestion pricing is saying don't go in. And it's like $15 a day. And if you're a shoe salesman or if you're a a waiter, Or if you're the owner of a restaurant, or the owner of just about any business It's a disaster.

It's been a disaster. Every place has been used. And it is, and you know, they call me for help, and yet nobody's treated me worse than they have in Manhattan. They have a rigged court system that no, but they treated me worse than anybody. There's never been treatment like I've been treated, and that's the way they treat people.

They go after people. And, you know, people think that, oh, I should come and help. I view it and I say, what a shame. But despite that, and despite the way I get treated, I do help. I help New York tremendously.

And everybody says I shouldn't even bother with New York the way they are. It's a it's a really vicious place. From a legal standpoint, from a weaponization, it's totally weaponized. The courts are weaponized. and they're horrible.

And I had the best cases, nobody could even believe every single one of the pundits, from McCarthy to Turley to Greg Jarrett to Dershowitz, said they had no case against me whatsoever. It shouldn't be brought. And you can't win in New York. You get these judges that you can't win. The whole thing is a rigged, horrible system, and it's crooked and corrupt.

And they put this congestion pricing on, and it would have destroyed the city even further. You would have had no business left in Manhattan. Numbers were way down. They need business. They need people to go in.

They basically, it's like putting up a wall. People weren't going to go in. Everybody was going to lose their jobs. Really, uh it's a very, a very sinister place. What's taken place in New York over the last Eight years or so.

It's a very, very sinister place. And Mayor Adams is finding that out right now. And they got to do something about the court system in New York. It is a rigged system. System.

It's a horrible system. I had three judges. They were totally dishonest judges. They were the most dishonest judges. Look, I've been around, I've been to many courts.

And I will tell you, these are the most dishonest. group of judges I've ever had. I've never seen anything like it. I think Mayor Adams would agree with you. It's a very corrupt place.

And now, on top of everything, what they want to do, and people are leaving. Businesses are leaving in record numbers, and people are leaving. And I'll tell you, Brian, it's really a shame to see such a great place go so bad. And now they put this horrible payment that you have to have. For the privilege of going to a place that's not doing very well.

It's a loser, and I give my secretary a great, literally great applause for what he did. All right, Ted, that was Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.

So, Mr. President, right now, the market dropped a little because Kmart is not for Kmart or Walmart. is now forecasting growth in revenues, and they look at inflation. Inflation is stubborn. You inherited it.

When does it become your economy? When is it a Trump economy where we get to see if your plans are working?

Well, it takes a period of six months to a year. Biden really screwed up our country. He really screwed it up badly. If you look at the deficits we have with other countries that should have been taken care of, Brian, we have a deficit with China of over a trillion dollars, a trillion. And it so it takes a period of time.

We're going to have a very strong country. It's going to take a little while to get it back. Just like inflation, I gave him almost no inflation, one point two percent, which is perfect. And It went up to 9.9%. Went to, I think, the worst inflation in the history of our country.

But I gave him. No inflation. a powerful, great economy. And he screwed it up with two ways. He spent too much And Mitch McConnell shouldn't have approved all that stuff.

Mitch McConnell did a very poor job, very, very poor job. He shouldn't have approved a lot of the stuff. He approved it. It was like I said, what does he have on Mitch McConnell? It's just so sad to see that.

But I gave him, and what they've done to this. What they've done to this uh The country is just incredible. Between the open borders and prisoners pouring in, and mental patients, and everything else. Pouring in, and it's not easy to get them. You know, they're looking all over the place, they have searches all over the place, but you know, these are professionals that escaping.

And uh Tom Holman's doing an unbelievable job and Christie Christine Noam, unbelievable job. But they really made a mess of things in foreign policy and in local policy. They have made a mess of this country. But it'll be straightened out. I would say in 12 months we're going to have a total different country.

All right. So yesterday it just happened actually. They voted through the night that a voter Rama and the GOP, the Republican-led Senate, just passed one of two bills.

So this was adopted. It's 5248. And they're going to get financing for defense and financing for the border. But they didn't re-up on your tax reform. You said this is what Senator Thune told me yesterday about what he's trying to do, because now you want one bill and he's giving you two.

Cut four. What would that one bill consist of? And what would the second bill consist of, and why not just do one? Yeah. Well, I think we're I'm game, and if the House can execute on getting one done, more power to them.

I think at the moment, what we're trying to do is preserve optionality for the President. The President has campaigned on and said his number one priority is securing the border. And this bill that we're doing today is heavily focused on giving the President the resources he needs to secure the border.

So your thought about the one bill that passed. Yeah, look, the Republicans mean very well. Everybody, but I think Rand Paul voted against it. Is that right? Did I hear that?

Oh boy, it never ends with these guys. They have to They have to go in grandstand. But I was very honored by the bill that he did. I think John Toot is doing a fantastic job. But it does it gives you optionality, Brian.

We want one big, beautiful bill, as I say. And that would include many other things than what we were approved yesterday. But to have what we approved yesterday is nice. And we'll see now how the House is going to do. The House is going with the one bill concept, the Senate the two.

And the Senate will come along and do if they see good progress with the House, they'd rather have Everything included also. But we're going to see what they we're going to see what the House comes up with. They're working very hard. They think they're going to get there on one bill, and then the Senate would be able to vote on the one big, beautiful bill. That would include taxes.

tax cuts. And really the biggest It'll be the biggest tax cuts in American history. And I I would think it's very hard for even Democrats to vote against that.

So it sounds like you're almost open to two. You're still feeling like, let me see what happens, right? As long as we get to the same point, you know, two bills.

So now, what they approved yesterday is one part of it, and then they approve another part of it. And, you know, you could I guess you could s make the case you could do three, you could do f ten. As long as we get along, you know, as long as we get them all add it up and and it's the same thing. I think we're in very good shape. I think that's a good signal that I think it's a very good signal that we got the one bill.

Passed because there's great unity. We have great unity in the party. The House is great, and the Senate is great. We have fantastic unity. And uh I think it's going to go good.

If this didn't get approved, The Democrats essentially would have Approved the largest tax increase in the history of our country. And I don't think that works very well for them politically. Right.

And they keep saying your tax reform was for the rich. It is not. It was for the middle class. And everyone benefited across the line. That's one thing I don't think you guys do a good job pushing back on.

In fact, a lot of people who were wealthy got hit on your tax reform bill.

So that is one of the final segments. No, that is the final segment. We have some clips that we'll play a little bit later of the 40 minutes we had with President Trump. Griff Jenkins is here. Griff will have a full segment next, maybe take some calls in.

But Trump came back and said, I know, Russia invaded, but it would never have happened under him, as he said. And he's a little ticked at Zelensky. He's ticked about the deal, walking away from the mineral deal, and he's a little ticked about the rebuke. That he said to Trump that sometimes he gets a victim of disinformation. He did, and we'll see how that Plays out, but as the reporter that I am, my genes, my DNA is telling me to run outside, get on the air with a Fox News Alert, because you just made news at the end of that clip with Trump saying that he's okay with one bill or even 10 bills.

That's news. You made news right there because, again, we've heard so much about one big, beautiful bill and this standoff. And you had the House and the Senate a little bit at loggerheads there when they were doing it. The Thune said, No, we're going for it. We're going to do this.

It's not going to have the tax cuts. We're going to get it passed. And Trump's like, this is great. Yeah, I think they He kind of blew up Senator Thune in the middle of voting on Wednesday while they were voting, but I have to get set for the Voterama. He said, I want one bill.

Because Speaker Johnson says, I can't do two bills. Yeah, I'll get the one, but I can't get the second because there's some things that are so unpopular with certain sections of his caucus that I'd have to turn around.

So, if you don't want enough spending cuts, Griff Jenkins doesn't want more spending cuts. That's fine, but I got you the border and I got you this. I'll vote on it. But if I give you a bill and there's nothing in it that you want, you're not voting for it, he's got a two-vote margin until Stephonic Gates and Waltz get their seats filled. Look, if you had any doubt that this is the most transactional results-oriented human being on the planet, I've got news for you.

You just found out. And it's not just, it's such a stark contrast from even his own first term because he wants results. The border, less than 30 days, it's completely under control, slower than it's ever been that I've ever seen in my lifetime. And I've covered the border for more than a decade. On Doge, we've been talking about conservative, you know, fiscal responsibility since the days of Reagan in the 80s, and nothing has happened in that time that's significant.

In 30 days, $55 billion, Doge, Elon Musk has turned loose.

Now you're getting to the actual legislation, the sausage-making on Capitol Hill. And the White House always plays a role because it is that incumbent's agenda. He is getting fast results. And what you're seeing with the House in the Senate, with the narrowest of majorities in modern times, he's actually getting results. No one thought that.

That was possible when we came into this Congress. All right, so Griff Jenkins, more with him in a moment. Griff, you have a special coming up, too, right? Showdown at the Panama Canal. Yeah, find out more about that.

The president did make that out. He said, worst deal ever. That's the worst deal. He's obsessed with that. I know.

But we need it back. Back in a moment. It's Brian Killmead. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show.

He built the Panama Canal, by the way. He built the Panama Canal, which we have to take back because the Panama Canal is being run by China. It was one of the dumbest deals ever made in the history of our country. We lost 38,000 people. It was the most expensive development ever built.

At that time, but if you bring it up to this day, to this day, it was the most expensive development ever built, over a trillion dollars. And think of this, Brian. The pattern market out, we lost 38,000 people. And they to they gave it away for one dollar. For no reason.

They gave it away for one dollar to Panama. You know, they wanted to be politically correct. And we're going to take it back, because China has taken over the Panama Cadillac and that wasn't the deal. They were charging our ships more than they were charging regular ships.

So President Trump talking about the Panama Canal today really bothers him. Also, it just works to our advantage to get those prices down. And I did look back at footage back that time, and it's so weird to see the Uh national news on film. But they did say there were nonstop protests because the people of Panama wanted to own the canal. And we would even have the military there to secure it or work out a deal to sell it.

And as usual, Jimmy Carter just gave it away. And then It has not been maintained. China comes in and says, We'll maintain it. And then Trump says, You ought to be kidding me. Why would you bring China into our hemisphere?

That is exactly what Griff Jenkins is talking about with the special on Fox Nation, right? Oh my gosh, it's showdown at the Panama Canal, Brian. It is a must-watch, particularly for the history. You talked about the footage. We lay out the entire history, and President Trump is right about the construction of it that we gave away, but he left out there's a second set of locks that are more modern that were completed in 2016 to fill bigger ships, the biggest cargo ships go through those set of locks.

Panama built those and control them. But the history, Teddy Roosevelt spent years doing it, and literally he wasn't in office when it finally got done. They took like thousands of miles of a cable to let Woodrow Wilson hit the detonation for the last explosive.

Now, did they actually do it or was it a photo op? I don't know, but we got the historic footage. Then years later, you've got FDR game changer after Pearl Harbor. Attack because we now can move warships through that channel. And Trump's concern is that while China doesn't actually control the Panama Canal, Panama does, on either side of it, on the Pacific side and Atlantic side, there are ports that are leased and controlled by China.

But the Panamanians say: if Trump has a problem, please come down and sit down with us because we would like him to focus on the international shipping dominance that China has. Because if President Trump, they say, is worried about China. China controlling the Panama Canal. They also should be worried about the Suez Canal, the Singapore Straits, the English Channel, because China has taken control of ports in 54 places across more than 20 countries. And that is where the U.S.

has been asleep for decades. And so it's not just about the Panama Canal. And if you go to Fox Nation right now, download Showdown and Panama Canal, you can learn all of this stuff and hear from Panamanians.

Well, by the way, why did Jimmy Carter sell it? Because ultimately, I think there was the pressure that Trump was talking about the Panamanians want to control, but it was a foresight that the Carter administration thought, well, we don't really need it. We've already become this geopolitical dominant country. And so, you know, we're still going to be the biggest customer, but we need to focus our ideas elsewhere and let Panama take control. And here's a treaty that says if there's ever a problem, we can just come in and defend it.

Problem is, it's not that clear. Yeah, how about this? The other beat you have is you're going to be on outnumber two, but the other beat you have is illegal immigration. In 2024, there were 2,872 crossings in February on average. In February 2025, it's down to 359.

How do you explain this type of decrease? It is remarkable for the guy that spent years covering the border, particularly at the height where I was standing in Eagle Pass, Texas, and you've got 4,000 coming across on my drone camera all day long from multiple countries. If I took you there today, we would have trouble finding a single migrant crossing. And it's just the crackdown, the executive order, ice in the interior. It's all a message going south saying you can't come now.

This administration ain't going to let you in. Griffel, check out your special on Fox Nation. We will watch you on Outnumbered and perhaps see you on Fox and Friends soon.

Sounds good. All right, Griff Jacobs, thanks so much. And don't forget, I want to see you History of Liberty and Lefts March 22nd, KTFK, all your listeners in St. Louis at the factory. BrianKilme.com.

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Brian Kilmey Chow.

So glad you're here. One of America's finest comedians, John Crisp, works clean, by the way, which helps Eric a lot. You don't have to bleep anything. His dad was a pastor, but he is one of the hottest comedians in the country. He's got a national tour about to kick off.

It's called Jokes for Humans tour.

So that works out great for us. Alexi Lollis, he's Fox Sports' premier analyst. He starts his 30th season with the Major League Soccer. I was there for the first. I did a car I did Metro stores.

I think year three And they became the Red Bulls. And I was there for the launch of the MLS, and then they said, We're not ready. And they came back the next year and started. That was right after the 94 World Cup. They would actually start in 96.

Shannon Bream remembers when Major League Soccer launched. She talks about it all the time. In fact, I keep telling her, enough about soccer. Can't we talk about the news? And she joins us now.

I'm easily distracted, Brian, by the sports talk. That's something you've never said in your life, Michael. Listen, I live with a sports fanatic, as you know.

So we watch everything from soccer to football to hockey to cornhole championships. You know, there's not any sport that we're not watching in our house.

So get this. Today, the Yankees have announced. They will now allow facial hair on their players for the first time ever. George Steinbrenner is probably rolling over multiple times in his grave. I know.

How do you feel about that? How does your husband feel about that? Listen, during hunting season, we have a deal where he grows his facial hair for like six to eight weeks, and I don't fuss about it, and he doesn't keep it past the boundary. In 30 years of marriage, we've come to this. I think that the Yankees are like the handsomest team out there because I think their dudes look clean cut and sharp and you know, good.

But some people are big fans of the facial hair. I just thought, you know, they had their own look. I I did not even know that that was an issue. None of the players really complained.

Sometimes when Oscar Gamble in the seventies or eighties, whose guy used to have really wide hair, people used to complain about it. But you can wear a mustache. But now you can you can do whatever you want.

So I think it's a bad sign. I feel like the crazy kids now are very into the 1970s, like creepy mustaches. And I'm like. I know you guys are sort of trying to be retro hipster, but it's not hot. Yeah, I don't know.

Not that anybody cares about my advice about what's hot or not on dudes. No, I think people do. I mean, I remember when Chris Rollis had the job, he used to put out a what's hot list. Yeah, yeah. Who were you?

It used to be about clothes, but now it's about facial hair.

So I wish the President of the United States talked to us for 40 minutes before. Yes, I heard.

Okay.

Sounds like you're a little angry. No, no, no. I was saying I thought you got a lot of good stuff. It was a very good conversation. Yeah.

I mean, I just would be great if he would just agree to FaceTime. I mean, we won't do it. Mean you're on the phone anyway. I know. Just put the faith.

Let me see. Let me see what you got going on. Right.

So. I mean, we'll we'll unroll some do we have even a list of those clips or just? Oh, yeah, how about this?

So I asked him this about, I thought for the longest time, well, while the Senate was passing one bill, two bills, and the first of two bills. He came out and said, I want one bill. And then I asked him about it, here's what he said. We get to the same point. You know, two bills.

Now what they approved yesterday is one part of it, and then they approve another part of it. And you could I guess you could make the case you could do three. You could do for ten. As long as we get along as long as we get them all add it up and and it's the same thing. I think we're in very good shape.

I think that's a good signal that I think it's a very good signal that we got the one bill. uh passed because there's great unity. We have great unity in the party. So Your thoughts about that? Unless Senator Thune must be saying to himself, what?

So you're okay with this? He said, I'll just kind of, and I played the cut from Senator Thune with us yesterday about, you know, I have to build it. And then after the Votarama, they passed it.

Now, what exactly did they pass?

Well, they did pass this comprehensive budget resolution that has funding for things like the border and all of these priorities that President Trump wants. But what they're trying to do in the House is loop in some additional things like those 2017 tax cuts and extending them for some period of time. You've heard some senators say that they won't vote for anything that doesn't include them permanently. But the House is trying to put all of that in one package because a lot of members there think they have their best leverage to do it.

Now, there are some who openly worry, okay, we passed something that's got basic funding, the border, that kind of stuff right now. But if we don't get the tax cuts into this, we won't have any leverage to get them across the finish line in a standalone bill later.

So I think President Trump has all these priorities. He wants those tax cuts. He wants the border money and all the funding for the government. And the House is saying, we give you the better chance at getting all of that. But I think he wants to get all those things done It would happen quicker in the House if they put it in one measure.

So, if he wants speed and he wants his whole list done, I think he's hoping that the House is where that gets done. Yeah, so those are big things. I think something big is going to happen over the weekend. I mean, you return when it comes to Hamas, you return four hostages in caskets, one of which is not even the right person, and two of which are a four-year-old and a nine-month-old. I asked President Trump flat out, I said, What is that?

He goes, He could do whatever he wants. Remember, President Biden, get made in there. How dare you put it in there? Don't go to Rafael weapons and all kinds of things. Yeah, and this president, whatever he wants to do.

He just said that.

So I get the sense that Netanyahu is looking at Hamas reconfigure. Reassemble, and I get the sense that's just not okay with him. Yeah. The fact that it's such an offensive thing that they would turn over this random body of another dead woman that's not the mother of these children, I think it is so offensive to the Israeli people. And they do see it as a violation of the agreement.

And you know that they've still got to flesh out and negotiate the second phase and the third phase. And so if they take this as a provocation from Hamas, and who knows what's responsible for the explosions yesterday in Israel as well, it sounds like there are people who would be happy with this exploding again into something much broader and much wider. And you've got to think about who benefits and who doesn't from that. But you're right. This administration has said clearly, and you've heard the president multiple times use the word all hell breaking loose, hell will break loose.

And they've said, listen, whatever they decide to do there in Israel, we back them. There was reporting in the Washington Post last week that that includes potentially an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.

So there's a lot that could happen. Right.

Alright, so who do you have on this week?

So we've got on Congressman Jim Jordan and from the other side of the aisle, Congressman Jim Himes. We should lock in our White House guest pretty shortly. And we're going to talk about all these battles, both foreign policy and domestic, all the Doge cuts and all the legal battles, because there are a few of those going on. As we stand by and I'm waiting to hear from the Supreme Court on the first Trump case that's actually going to reach, that has reached GOTUS from this term. Wow.

Thanks so much, Shannon Bream. We will watch. And I'm on Sunday too now, 10 o'clock. I'm going to do Sunday night. I see you trying to crowd in on my territory.

How dare you? Good enough for us to share. Yeah, absolutely.

So by the way, I have Kid Rock on. Do you? I don't know if I'm going to kill him. You know, once he's locked in for you, then I can't steal him, but I might text him after this. Charlie Kirk, you have a cell number?

Damn. Uh Charlie Kirk and Tom Cotton. Chris de Stefano. Who would be a good panelist for you? He would not take it serious.

That would be your problem, but he'd be very entertaining. Kind of leaven it up, lighten it up a little bit. All right, so Shannon, I'm-When's your dance break? Is that early show, mid show, late show? I mean, it's every break.

I mean, I really am only comfortable when I'm dancing.

Okay, well, then I'm going to definitely watch like I always do just on Sunday. Go get him, Shannon Bream. Goodbye. All right, 1-8-6-6-408-7669. Alexey Laos is coming up next.

Then John Christ will bring you through. We're also looking at a number of stories, including Donald Trump's going to speak at CPAC tomorrow. We know that for sure. We also know that a lot of tension in the Ukraine-Russia situation. Russia's cheering.

But Zelensky right now, I got a got a message from the Polish leader, listen to Trump. I think he ticked off Trump on two separate occasions. But Trump's not looking to abandon him yet. And just know, the guy has no grudges. Just ask Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State.

Just ask Ron DeSantis. They golfed together two weeks ago. Don't move. Mm-hmm. Taking America back.

Canada's been very abusive of the United States for many years. One ally at a time. It is an act of economic warfare. The trade imbalance and our trade deficit has gone up 200 plus percent. With Brian Kilmead.

The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back, everybody. There's a lot going on today. People are focused on spring training.

I got at the end of football. I understand it. The UFL starting. We know that. Fox owns a great portion of that.

ASPN owns a portion, too. And John Christ is coming up in about 15 minutes. But right now, it's the 30th season, beginning of Major League Soccer. If you talk about sponsors, you talk about menom, you talk about crowds. There's no league that's hotter right now.

And by the way, it launched with great fanfare, went on hold for a year because they weren't ready, came back the following year, and then after three or four years, they were struggling to stay above water.

Some football guy saved them named Robert Kraft. Phil Landschutz over in Los Angeles, and then and then Ah the Another group that owns the Kansas City Chiefs. Came by. And helped save the day. Alexey Lawis was a player in the beginning, went over to Italy for a brief period of time, was a star, and captained the U.S.

national team. Right after the 94 World Cup, this was make it or break it time. And here we are 30 years later, and they have definitely established themselves in the soccer, in the sports landscape. Alexi Lawis, welcome back to the Brian Kilmeat Show. Hey, my friend, I think it was Lamar Hunt, the hunts over there that you were looking for when it comes to Major League Soccer.

Yes, it's been a long and winding road, as the saying goes. You've come a long way, baby, and certainly MLS has on and off the field. I think back to 1996. When we started this, and if you had told me that going into 2025, you'd be going into your 30th year. Adding your 30th team down there in San Diego as an expansion team, all of the soccer-specific stadiums, all the things I've talked to you over the years about.

Happened on and off the field. It warms the cockles of my red-headed American soccer heart to see how far we have come on and off the field as a soccer-playing nation and how far this particular league, Major League Soccer, has come. Ultimately, this is the most successful professional soccer league in North American history. And it's not without some ups and downs along the way, but we're real excited about the 30th season and obviously what's coming in 2026 with the men's World Cup returning to the U.S., which, by the way, you can see on Fox.

So in 94, how valuable was the World Cup for laying the foundation for you guys in the MLS? It was huge. Initially, it was going to be scheduled to happen, like you said, immediately following the 94 World Cup. And what they did was say, listen, if we're going to do it, let's do it right. Let's wait a couple years.

So in 1996, it actually kicked off. And there were some lean times. I mean, there were some times, like you mentioned, where there was a potential of it following the course of a lot of soccer leagues and teams out there and folding and going away because our past is littered with that. And even in the early aughts, It almost went away if not for the belief and I guess the vision of a lot of the people that we mentioned in some very, very deep pockets, and now they find themselves with assets that have appreciated in terms of the value, but also the credibility and the interest of the sport. Is at an all-time high.

So the landscape back in 1994 that was used as the platform for the 1996 launch of MLS. That doesn't exist anymore. It is a very, very different soccer landscape in 2025 and certainly in 2026 when the world comes back for the men's World Cup.

So, what about your decision? Right after the 94 World Cup, you wanted the stars to emerge, and you went over to Italy for a year. Were you a part of the first team? Uh It's yeah, I mean so One of the most the proudest moments of my life from a professional. professional perspective.

It was getting on the plane and coming back. To the United States to start this league. And it is the proverbial league of our own. This is something that we had talked about in the back of buses and hotels. And it was kind of this, you know, this beautiful.

dream and vision. And then it came to fruition. Needed everybody on and off the field to help. And so I looked at it as. I mean, not to get too in deep with it, but it was a kind of a responsibility, but one that I honored and one that I loved.

taking to come back. And I was playing over in Italy, had a wonderful time over there. But this one's Like I said, this was this was awesome. Our league. I wanted to be a part from the start.

And when that whistle blew, the first game in 1996. Again, we didn't know where it was going, but there was a sense of Pride and responsibility. for all of the players that came back. and then certainly all of the players. They'd have come since then.

You know, many that weren't even born back then. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. the ways that didn't exist back in the uh in the day.

in the 1900s when I was Lexi Lilas, our guest.

So, Lexi, I was at the very first game, San Jose Earthquakes, when Alda scored. I might have been at the end of the game or in overtime to give him a 1-0 win. The field was way too narrow. It should have been played by like 12 and unders. Nice little stadium.

But he scored at the end, and I was at the final in the pouring rain in New England as Bruce Arena's team won the championship for the first time that D.C. United won the first ever championship and then watched it grow since then. There was one soccer-specific stadium first. It was Columbus. How many are there now?

Every one of them?

Well, look, I mean, yeah, we're getting to a point where almost every single team has. One and then, certainly, teams that play at big stadiums, you know, for example, Atlanta. plays in the in the big football stadium. But they get really big numbers. But it fundamentally changed the business.

When these teams started building their own place, because you can have the greatest product in the world, but the box does matter. And sometimes playing in big stadiums, even with a good crowd like 20,000. It it's cat. And it just doesn't Show your product in the best possible way. And from a pure business perspective, perspective, obviously the revenue that comes in when you make these things.

More importantly, You know, these are these are meeting places. These are cathedrals, if you will, and they're specific to.

Soccer, and so they're made for the soccer fan, they're made for the soccer experience, and they're made for the soccer players, and they have made all the difference. from a business perspective and I think also perspective of what the sport is and where it's going.

So you say that they say five clubs are now a billion-dollar valuation. If I wanted to buy a team or get into the league, is it going to cost me what, $30 million? More than that? No, no, no. What he's 30 million.

Are you crazy? You can't even get like a you can't even get. The lock. room for 30 million dollars. Yeah, right now, I mean, you're talking of the half.

billion dollars. Just for the expansion fee. But then you also have to build a stadium. You also have to have facilities. You have to pay everybody.

So you're definitely into the billions of dollars when it comes to what's going on. The one thing that I regret. is that in 1996 when I came back. You know, I had some leverage back then. In.

I should have put what we call now a Beckham clause. And for people that remember, David Beckham came to Major League.

soccer and the clause Yeah. By his people, and it was one of the smartest things ever was the ability to buy an expansion. Team at a fixed rate. I wish I had had that. It would have made me very, very.

very wealthy Uh but I didn't uh Yeah. There are people that Even back in the early aughts, you could have gotten an MLS team for the $10 to $15 million rate. And now like I said, just to the expansion rights you have to pay you know close to Half a billion dollars. All right, so here we go. This is going to be the first game it kicks off Saturday, LAFC against Minnesota.

That game will be on Fox, right? Yep, yep. every week. Obviously Apple has a partnership with With MLS are really interesting, and you know, we'll see. they're seeing around the corner when it comes to streaming and what's going on there.

From a Fox Linear perspective. Yes. bar you can watch in at home It's there. LAFC champions a couple of years ago, a really, really good team. you know in Minnesota getting out of the There comes Here to Los Angeles.

Live, give themselves a sudden and who knows, maybe even a win against LAFC. But we'll be doing it year after year after year. at San Diego, a new team coming in, lots of new signings and a lot of news. Of real positivity heading forward on and off the field for what MLS is going into its 30th season. Messi still sells out wherever he goes.

You know it, man. You know it. I mean, it's amazing. The other day he was up in Kansas City playing. A cup game, and he scored just an incredible goal.

By the way, it was three degrees. He was freezing his you-know-what off. but nothing stops. That guy, when it comes to getting on the soccer field and doing magical things. And so, hopefully, he'll continue to do it from an MLS perspective.

And then the possibility from defense his World Cup. In his new neighborhood, his new backyard in the summer of 2026 with Argentina. Oh, look. Hi, Lexi. Alexi Lawis, America's premier color commentator, was once one of our premier players and still has game.

Alexi Lawis, thanks so much. We'll check you out Saturday, LAFC against Minnesota on Fox. Go get him, Lexi. Yep. Thanks, Mike.

Mia Trump on Kill Me. You know it. You love it, baby. Same day. The talk show that's getting you talking.

You're with Brian. Kill mead. We're all divided, but we gotta stay united, okay? This era of Christianity, we gotta stay united because when we get up to heaven, I feel like they're not gonna like us, you know? People in heaven are not gonna like people from 2024, you know?

They're gonna be like, We give up our firstborn child for the faith. We're like, We give up chocolate on Wednesdays, you know. They're like, How did you become a Christian? Like a missionary came to my village in the 1500s. What about you?

I was watching the Super Bowl and I saw He Gets Us commercial. John Christ using religion to his own advantage. That's the intro line. I'll take it. No, keep going.

Keep going. Yeah, because you almost interrupted your plug. He's got a brand new tour. He has named it Jokes for the Human Tour, which encompasses all of us. And where are you going to be next?

What's in next stuff? Oh, I don't want to brag up top here, but I'm sold out in Branson, Missouri. Branson, Missouri. That's Middle America. That's the people that listen to us right now.

Do we got a show over there? Do we have thought you knew them all? We're in St. Louis, yeah. We're no, I know that, but but Branson's not near St.

Louis, is it? No, I don't think so. Yeah, I think we should. A man of the people, Brian Killmead. That's 13 hours apart.

Branson to St. Louis? Oh, yeah. It's 13. I don't see it.

I don't know, actually. We're not doing good at geography. Not yet.

So, John. Last time I talked to you, the summer was coming up. You go, I'm taking a month off, right? Yeah. How did that go?

Great. And did you write the whole time? Oh, you know what? The only time I'm stressed is when I come up here. Why?

Everybody in Branson, everybody in Middle America, the listening is doing great. It's stressful here in the city because nobody's happy. The mayor's under indictment. The governor's going to get rid of the mayor. Go walk around, especially with how cold it is.

Nobody's happy. Right.

That's true. But it is February. And we shouldn't. If anybody should understand the weather, it is New Yorkers. They should know.

I do check myself once in a while. This is winter, four seasons. You have to deal with that. Yeah, my agent or my publicist's like, When do you want to go up and see Brian in New York City? I go, February.

Fantastic. Golden Brochures. Yeah, so he's there in February. She said she wanted to go see the the Statue of Liberty. I go, No.

We're not doing that. Not today, because you got to take a boat to it. No, we're not doing that. It's outside. Yeah.

No, yeah, we've I've already been. Yeah. Right.

Who's she? That's my girlfriend. She's off camera. Right.

But based on, you know, she's not allowed to be on screen yet. But, you know, she can be off-camera. Off-camera girl. She has not signed a release. Everybody listening to this is like, there's definitely no woman over there.

When is uh yeah, when when can she sign? When can she uh when can she be on air? Yeah. Well, I'll I'm her publicist actually, so you have to talk to me about having her as a guest. I'm talking to you now.

What's going on? But you know, I also think it's it's interesting that she thinks you're she thinks you're funny, right? My girlfriend thinks I'm funny. I mean, can you imagine dating somebody that doesn't think you're funny when you'd be tough?

Well, keep in mind, we are dating.

So I'm assuming every guy. Everybody's an audition. Every guy that's been married for 10 years, he's like, no, she doesn't think I'm funny. I'm sure. Right.

Yeah. I mean, once the stories run out. Yeah, then they any woman married for 10 years go, I already heard this story. The husband goes, Can I tell a joke? Oh, here we go with this again.

Right.

So true. Here we go with this. But John, you're under pressure to come up with new material. A lot of pressure.

So this is a per you're the perfect boyfriend. I am. Oh, yeah, because it's always fresh. Right.

Everything's fresh. You know what? Hey, stick I tell her that. The perfect boyfriend. Right.

Let's go. But unlike, see, when you do a special, you got to get rid of all that material. Got to be all. Yeah. I just, one came out on Monday, so that's all gone.

But Oh, you had a special on Monday.

Okay.

Yeah. It is. I mean, where is this in the press? That's why I came here. Here we go.

Not just yet. Branson, Missouri, you're on the 7th. That's in two weeks, right? And then on the 8th in Kansas City.

So you're going to travel right after the show? Yeah, we're going right after the next time. At the Midland Theater. Yep. And then you're going to be at the factory in St.

Louis. I cannot believe this on the 9th. You know who's coming up on the 22nd there? You. Yes.

Really? Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's a nice theater, too. Yeah.

Beautiful theater. But it's big. Yeah, it's big. I don't know if it's. I don't think Brian, the factory is.

Really, my speed. I'm going to have a hard time filling that up. You have to wait 20 minutes to fill that up, right? Yes. I think that one we added a second show, I believe.

Did you really? I believe that. That is taunting. No, no. That should not be allowed.

It's right by the top golf there. Yeah, the factory beautiful. Yeah, probably not in March, though, but it's nice. What do you think? How do you handle the election?

Now that it's finally over, we know who the president is. There's no controversy. How does that factor into your well? I said in the neighborhood. I go, this is the first time this has ever ever been said.

I miss the election days. Because the neighborhood, at least, you know, with the signs, that was the best. Because you knew? Yeah, you're holding the signs up. Like, I would tell my, my, like, we came home for Christmas.

Right.

And my parents, we have there's 16 people in the family, so we have to stay at neighbors' houses. And I came, we stayed at my neighbor's house, and I came back and I go, Mom. Uh, you know, in their backyard they have a a Cats for Joe Biden sign. And my mom goes, Never again. We're never staying there again.

Can I ask something? I mean, do they have hotels? I mean, why would you stay with a team? It's Lilburg, Georgia. There's no hotels out there.

Now I'm being roasted. Is that true? Yeah, there's no, I mean, the closest hotel is like 20 minutes away.

So when I played soccer, we never stayed in hotels. It would make the families of the teams we're playing house us. And the opponent. Think about how the opponent is. Yeah, the opponent.

What year is this? 1800s? No, in the 1800s when they did travel soccer? Of course, the Cowboys. Once you know with the cattle, you got to go make a scrimmage later.

Wait, so you play against the team and then go home with the parents? Yeah. It was crazy. Think about that. We didn't know nothing about the parents.

Have you ever said this? No. This is the craziest thing. This is a stand-up bit. I did not know that.

Now I'm realizing. And I bet people listening who go, oh my gosh, we did that. Yeah. I mean, put it this way: I remember going to Virginia and going, sorry, we don't have the money. That was three states away.

Yeah. And we drive. I mean, basically, we'd have to rotate tires halfway. But you were somebody else's. Yeah, so you would go.

You would go and you'd say, okay, sometimes you get to go with your teammate. Other times you go by yourself and you just go with the Johnsons. And you didn't even know what could go wrong. And now, these days, no parents are like, who are the Johnsons? Who is his mother?

Who is his father? They need to meet. They need to have lunch together. They have to spend a year together. Yeah.

Before we. I heard that they're not doing kids, they're not doing sleepovers anymore. Yeah, I heard that too. Yeah, you heard that? Yeah, well, why would you?

You could get sued. Yeah, we shouldn't be doing that. Right.

Yeah. Can I go over to so-and-so's for a sleepover? Why are we out of beds? I mean, so this is John.

So I wanted to ask you: how do you feel about these prayer apps? 'Cause it it really caught me by surprise. The prayer apps. What's the matter? No.

Oh, yeah. I thought she was setting me up for this. Oh, no. No. You just pointed to Allison through the glass.

Yeah. Well, Mark Wahlberg. has one. Yeah. That that's the biggest one.

Hollow? I go The voice from Ted? We're praying to hit like. The guy from, are we sure? That's the guy.

He's like, guys, listen up. And Mark Wahlberg has done, you know, Entourage and all these movies. And he's like, guys. Prayer is the most important. I go, hold on, we missed the switch.

I know, absolutely. When did he? I think he's Catholic. You're going to be impressed with this. Saint Augustine.

Yeah. He was a crazy man. Had a revelation, had a great time. Yeah. Changed his ways.

Yeah. Why can't Wahlberg? He should be allowed to. We should be allowed to. Yeah, if they let us in.

They let you let him in. I was struck by the By the ad. You know, it's Mark Wahlberg saying something and then he's like Prayer app. I was like, wait, what? We need like a, you know, like NBA players have like the chart of like the power rankings.

We need to know. Who's religious? Because sometimes you switch in teams, and we didn't know.

So, a couple of things are going on. Number one, should you be charging for a prayer app? Right? I mean, this is. Oh, you've had to pay for it.

You do into it. I don't think it's free. Yeah. Well, you got to listen to the commercials. You have a charge.

I'm pretty sure. I've read the book. I'm pretty sure you can talk to them directly. You mean the Bible? Yeah.

I just got that. Here's John Chris talking about what you can and can't pray for. In heaven, there's no jobs, okay? And I think you just I think to break the ice, and this is just me, this is how my brain works. I think you would ask, How did you die?

Wouldn't that be the first question you would want to know from everybody? How'd you die? I was in a hot air balloon accident. What? That's a how did you die?

Oh, I was getting baptized. I got eaten by a crocodile. That's the wildest story I ever heard. You want to go up to him with something fun on your resume.

So that that's true. Yeah, you gotta oh well the joke the the end of that joke is you can't lie in heaven. I'm guessing there's no because there's no sin. And some people are like, I was a martyr for the faith. I was one of the legends.

And then some guy goes, I died of COVID. They're probably going to make fun of you. In heaven. Yeah, they're gonna be like they're gonna talk behind your back for sure. Right.

You know, because you gotta say, I'm guessing they say, What what was on your death certificate? How'd you die? And you want to go up there with something cool, right? At least. Wouldn't that be the first question you'd want to ask?

That is a great question. And it is something similar. Because there's no sadness up there, also, so you can talk about it in a fun way. And how do you know that? Yeah.

I don't know. It's in the book. By the way, you have a special coming up, February 18th. Yeah. Which is soon.

February eighteen is passed. True. Yeah. That's called emotional support.

So it happened. But it's still good to watch, right? Yeah. It's unbelievable. Yeah, it just came out.

It's on YouTube. The biggest platform, uh the biggest uh social media platform. And that that's what everybody can get in from.

So a couple of things. Does that mean you're you're a total entrepreneur? That means it's your channel, or did someone in YouTube hire you to do this special? It's uh well, I financed it. And then there was we had a couple of offers from a couple of different uh platforms that and but it's it's just with my crowd is so big, my following is so much over there, it's hard to compete with it.

Because you're going to sell it to some other platform and they're going to put it on theirs, but mine is bigger. Right.

So. Why would I go over there?

So you're totally on your own. You don't need anybody.

Well, I'm here. I need you, buddy. I thought this was a friendship idea. I didn't know I was being used. I wish I knew.

Here's John talking about 21st-century Christians getting to heaven. We're all divided, but we got to stay united, okay? This era of Christianity, we got to stay united because when we get up to heaven, I feel like they're not going to like us, you know? People in heaven are not gonna like people from 2024, you know? They're going to be like, we give up our firstborn child for the faith.

We're like, we give up chocolate on Wednesdays. You know, it's like. They're like, how did you become a Christian? Like, a missionary came to my village in the 1500s. What about you?

I was watching the Super Bowl, and I saw He Gets Us commercial. All right. That is awesome. Hey, we're going to take a time out to talk more with John Christ. And February 18th, go to YouTube.

This came out. This special came out on YouTube.

So go out and check it out. It's called Emotional Support Comedy Special. The good news is it's popular. The bad news is you've got to get rid of all that material. Got to get rid of all of it.

Yeah, but it's fresh. Coming in two weeks, it'll be fresh. Back in a moment. You're with Brian Kilmead. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin.

It's Brian Killmead. I guess things changed for me on Tuesday night. Tuesday night? What happened Tuesday night? I saw your act.

My act? What does that have to do with anything?

Well To be honest, it just didn't make it for me. It's just so much fluff. I can't believe it's the So what are you saying? You didn't like my act?

So that's it? I can't be with someone if I don't respect what they do. You're a cashier! Jerry, it just w it wouldn't have kind of humor. You can't go by the audience.

That night was late. They were terrible. I heard the material. I have other stuff. You should come see me on the weekend.

That is, I did not see that episode. That is so funny. That's perfect. Right? I mean, that's just it.

It's like, hey, you're a good-looking guy. I just don't think you're funny. Has that ever happened? That really has not happened to you. Yeah, all the time.

They go, I don't, like, well, I don't get it. Right.

What do you mean you don't get it? Like, people say, I'm sexy. Like, John, you're sexy. Yeah. But you're not funny.

A lot of times. That's what everybody says. The first thing they say. Very sexy. Right.

And then the second thing is, yeah. I didn't, they were mostly just say, I don't, I didn't get it. They go, yeah, I got on your social media. What is this? I go, it's a long story.

You know, what's so interesting is I know people that will watch Seinfeld. Do you think Seinfeld's funny? Yeah, I do.

So I watch people go, I don't get it. Yeah. They're like, they're smart people. Yeah. I'm like, what don't you get?

I'm like, it's a.

Well, comedy's very. You ever sent like a funny. We share stuff back and forth with each other. You ever shared something with somebody? They go, I didn't think it was funny.

We're not friends anymore. We're done. Right.

That's one of the worst things you could say to you. Yeah. I don't think this is funny. What? Do you know what happened today?

What? The Yankees came out and changed their facial hair rules. You now can have a beard, long hair with the Yankees. And they never, before, never? Never before.

Today, you're talking about 100 years when there were the Highlanders. No facial hair. They all had that mustache's headset. Yeah. It's like the military and the Yankees.

Do you think that's a bad sign for the country? I mean, but they're going to turn into the Red Sox. Right.

Yeah, that's not a huge variance. These are our leaders. Right.

If you go, what is America? You go, Baseball and the Yankees and the Statue of Liberty. And now these guys are going to look like chief men.

Now it's baseball and the Statue of Liberty. No Yankees in between. Here is the moment. This actually happened, right? This is the moment that George Steinbrenner.

Uh was asked by Lou Pinella. If he could grow a beard. And this is what Lou Pinella said, George Steinbrand has said to him. I didn't know Mr. Steinbrainer at all.

I'd just been traded there. And joking around, I said, Our Lord Jesus Christ had long hair, and things seemed to work out for him. And didn't say a word. He says, Come with me. And I walked across the street to the Port Laudelle swimming pool.

And he says, You can walk across that water. You can wear your hair any way you want. That's pretty funny, right? That's a great joke. Right.

But it's bad for America that this is not happening. I wonder why. Did they say? No. They just said beards now?

No, it's not like Aaron Judge. If Aaron Judge says, listen, I'm growing a beard, like, we're changing policies. Yeah, we're changing everything. Oh, we're changing everything immediately. Don't want to go to the Bronx anymore.

Move to Manhattan. Yeah, well, we gave you a billion dollars, so I'll tell you what, you can probably grow your facial area. Right.

And listen, we're on WABC, so I don't want to put anyone in New York. But Aaron Judge is perfect except for. The playoffs. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Now you're going to get some heat for that. Yeah. All the Trump stuff is fine. But you said Aaron Judge is not good in the playoffs. They probably can't walk the streets.

Well, they probably like if that's going to help him. Hit in the playoffs fine. Right.

I mean, I don't even know if he can grow facial hair. That guy's a monster. Have you ever seen them? Yeah. Six sex.

Gosh. I mean, for a baseball player. Playing baseball and just jacked. Right.

And fast. Yeah. And could play center field. They got it.

Well, there's no salary cap, right, in baseball.

So you can have everybody. Do you do the same thing? The luxury tax. Like, John, you can outspend your stipend. Yeah.

But at one point, the interest rates on the loans you're taking out to live this lifestyle of yours is going to come back to haunt you. Yeah. And then you get the Mets, and they spend all the money in the world, and they're still not good. I love that the Mets did this, and they go, listen, I know I'm going to be the richest guy in baseball, but don't worry about it. I will not spend a lot.

I will not blow the salary cap. I don't believe he goes, Yeah, I liked. Yeah. Yeah. I bought everybody.

I bought everybody. You bought Jeter? Yeah, he's back. Wow. I didn't think you could do that.

Yeah. Yeah, I'm doing it. Everybody wanted this Subway series. Did you guys outside New York do you think anybody wanted it? Yeah, yeah, uh, yeah.

So we like, yeah, yeah. We here's what people pay attention to New York for, because it it around the country, people watch New York for like the n the Knicks. Right.

Now everybody knows the Knicks. Right.

And Jalen Brunson. Right.

And, I don't know, the pickpocketers on Times Square. Exactly. Yeah, that's what they know about. Those were the good old days, pickpocketers.

Now it's assaults. Just general assaults. You know, inflation. I want everything. I want everything you wear.

I just don't want it in your pocket.

Well, I mean, I want everything. If the Yankees can grow beards, then Elsa on Times Square is going to take your wallet. Fantastic. And by the way, Elsa is big and strong enough, she will take even John Chris's wallet. I never even introduced you to the channel.

I got robbed by Elsa. Absolutely. Listen, John's got a special on YouTube, and he's going to be at the factory right before me. Yeah. So clean the place up to nothing.

We're pretty much touring together. Right.

Very similar. Yeah. And very similar material. That's the problem. You still have any of my jokes in your show?

I don't know. I gave you a bunch of people. No, no. Yeah, but you told me to do it with the city. Oh, yeah.

You wrote it for the city. You didn't write it to. I can't. Just carry this with me. He doesn't, really.

It doesn't travel well. You don't even remember what you give me? Furboy 18, check him out on YouTube and check out his tour. Where do we find you on your tour? At John Chris.

JohnChrisComedy.com. All right, and you sold out everywhere.

So this is a. You didn't even have to come in here. Yeah, I'm doing this for you. You do it for me. Yeah.

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