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So glad you're here, everybody. Brian Kill Me Joe closing out a wild week. Thanks, everybody at KLIF, for helping me out in Dallas on Thursday. Great to see everyone in the studio. We're back in action back in New York today.

Cliff May is going to be with us at the bottom of the hour, founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He's got a warning about Vladimir Putin. As much as we want peace, we have to understand who we're dealing with. He'll talk about that. And Senator Cynthia Loomis is here in studio.

She's here to see me. No, it isn't. Not just me. But Senator Loomis is going to be in New York City for the Bitcoin Investors Week. Remember, this administration is embracing.

Cryptocurrency, and there's even a crypto czar.

So we'll talk about that as well as Doge. But first, let's get to the big three. Number three. We saw all this money going out to left-wing advocacy groups. Not only are we not sending money out to left-wing advocacy groups, we don't want to send money out to right-wing advocacy groups.

We don't need the money. True, Lee Zeldin over at the EPA Doge fighting the Dems and fighting the courts. Why some believe this shows they are winning? Number two. Congress has taken the first big step.

We passed that budget resolution last night. The Democrats and the media said it was impossible. We did it. And that is the first important step in delivering reconciliation. Talking money, tariffs, trade deals, and the House budget blueprint hits the Senate.

They got some problems with it, even though it's the same party. We look at the economy and how the markets are reacting to the president's promised policies. Number one. Mr. President, do you still think that Mr.

Zelensky is a dictator? Um. Did I say that? I can't believe I said that.

Next question. He actually put it on Truth Social. President Zelensky today, in about two hours, will be putting his signature on a mineral deal. Is Putin the next leader to visit the president? A breakneck pace to bring an end to the fighting in Ukraine, and even critics are having trouble taking shots at the Trump-led effort at this point.

We all should be in a wait-and-see attitude. Senator Cynthia Loomis joins us now from Wyoming. Senator, great to see you. Likewise, Brian. In Wyoming once at Yosemite, and I had a chance to see the Grand Tetons, as well as to go to Jackson Hole.

Very impressive. Yeah, Jackson Hole's very special. Right. That whole area is really special. First off, what do you expect today?

And what's significant about President Zelensky visiting today?

Well, President Trump is desperately trying to bring an end to the war. And he's doing something that his predecessors wouldn't do, which is talking to both sides. Uh nobody would talk to Putin. And of course, Trump's not afraid to talk to anybody and everybody and be very transparent about it. He's also one of the best negotiators around.

And so he's the right person to try and bring this war to an end and find ways to structure something that's more long-lasting.

So the whole thing about Vladimir Putin, we know they had a delegation yesterday in Turkey. And what emerged from this, according to General Jack Keene's sources, was that Putin said, We don't want a peacekeeping force in Ukraine of 30,000. That's what's been on the table. We don't want the U.S. to be investors in Ukraine.

We want their fighting force to go from a million to 85,000, and we're calling for immediate elections in Ukraine. Every one of those statements for me is out of bounds. What about for you?

Well, out of bounds for me as well.

So, President Trump has his hands full trying to figure out a way that we can Negotiate for strategic minerals. Rare earth minerals, and have a business presence and a peacekeeping presence to protect our investment in strategic minerals. And I suspect that Ukraine will have to give up some of the Russian speaking areas, be they Crimea, Donbass, or others, so that Everybody can walk away. Uh from this war, um, you know, wounded, but, um, Satisfied that there are months and hopefully years ahead of peace.

So I want you now, if you would refer to President Trump yesterday, talked about how he's putting tariffs on Mexico and Canada and China for their role in the fentanyl poisoning of Americans. Here's what he said: Cut 21. Less than 1% of all fentanyl that comes into the U.S. is apprehended at the Canadian border.

So why use fentanyl as a resource? The U.S. should be apprehending much more. They're only apprehending 1%. You're right about that.

It's a little more than that. But they should be apprehending much more because a lot comes through Canada. And as Mexico gets stronger in terms of the border, it goes up to Canada. And a lot of drugs are coming in through Canada. We can't have that.

Markets didn't like the tariff talk yesterday. They're bouncing back slightly today. You're on the banking committee. Your thoughts? I am comfortable with President Trump using tariff negotiations as a tool.

For getting more responses out of Mexico, out of China, and out of Canada. Previously, these conversations weren't even happening. And so the fact that President Trump has brought the specter of tariffs onto the table has brought the leaders to the table to discuss a more level playing field, tariff-wise, among these countries. And the fact that the underlying ingredients of fentanyl are coming from China. You know it, and they could stop it in a second.

In a second. And they are. allowing the underlying ingredients of fentanyl to leave China and go both to Mexico and Canada. What's interesting, too. Put pressure on the cartels.

Let them know they're a terror organization. They're the ones factoring it, making it and selling it and profiting from it. At the same time, you pressure China now, you got 25% tariffs. Let us know that we're going to rattle their cage every day until they rein it in. And then you crack down in the north, too.

So if that is your goal to stop it, this is the way to do it. You can't go halfway with these people. But the other thing I want to ask you is when it comes to the tariffs specifically, I think the UK looks like they might be exempt. And I think it's kind of interesting because Starmer and the President get along. And he's trying to say, I'm not the EU.

I left. That's what you wanted.

So what's ahead of a free trade deal? Help me out here to make Brexit work. I want to see that happen. And I believe President Trump will be open to that kind of a discussion. One of the interesting things, Brian, that we're seeing with this new White House is a willingness to really think outside the box in terms of bringing manufacturing back to America, bringing capital back to America, and doing it not just through tinkering with the tax code, but through tariffs, through special visas.

You know, they've talked about those golden visas. $5 million. Yeah. These are out-of-the-box ideas that I believe President Trump, working with his cabinet, is going to make a reality. And it's going to have a big impact on our gross domestic business.

And he says, you've got to prove to me you're going to open up a business. Don't just say you're going to open up a business.

So if you come here with your $5 million visa gold card and you get here, you get your green card as a trial basis, and I want you to open up a business, you have to hire a certain amount of people, you're going to be kicked out. Um there's There's some follow-through, I hope.

So, the budget. Have you had a chance to see what the House dropped off at the Senate this week? Here is Speaker Johnson, cut 25. Congress has taken the first big step. We passed that budget resolution last night.

The Democrats and the media said it was impossible. We did it. And that is the first important step in delivering reconciliation, which is how we're going to present the America First Agenda and check every box that President Trump, the campaign promises he made on the campaign trail, and that we did as well.

So I know it's a blueprint. But there's some things about on the Senate side, I know Thune is already saying I got problems with. I don't know how close you've looked at what the speaker dropped off. I too printed Prefer the Senate version because the House version does not make the 2017 tax cuts permanent. But you guys don't even have it in yours, right?

That's correct. But we are on a path. To make the 2017 tax cuts permanent.

So we were on a two-step path all along. The House was on a one-step path, and they have put together a proposal that thankfully passed. I mean, what we were concerned about in the Senate was: would they be able to get the votes to put something on the scoreboard? They did. And so.

that momentum. Got it. Breaking the log jam was hugely important.

Now the negotiations begin. And I think it's interesting, too, that they said there's going to be some cuts to Medicare. You guys didn't want to do that. They claim the cuts are going to be balanced off by getting rid of Fraud and abuse.

So that's somehow, you don't want to cut Medicare payments. President promised not to do that. But we know if you don't touch entitlements, you'll never balance this budget.

So hopefully that'll be with efficiency, AI, fraud and abuse, and giving health care to dead people or foreigners. You're here today for something that's cutting edge. I wish I knew more about cryptocurrency, Senator Loomis. You're going to be here at the Bitcoin Investors Conference. What do you think is going to happen?

What's your message? My message is that finally on the banking committee, we have a chairman in Senator Tim Scott who is willing to set up a regulatory framework for digital assets. The Biden administration sat on their hands and used the heavy hand of the SEC through enforcement actions to bring fines against these entities, whether they wanted to comply with regulations or not. And most of them did. They just didn't know what the pathway was to full compliance.

So, Tim Scott is authorizing our committee to create a regulatory framework for stable coins, for other cryptocurrencies, determining what is a security, what is a commodity, and then hopefully later we can get to something called a strategic Bitcoin reserve. I've asked David Sachs this, and he's the Bitcoin czar. What role does he have as opposed to your Senate chair? He is coordinating the White House's efforts with regard to digital assets. During the last administration, there were efforts everywhere to tamp down on crypto.

It was at the FDIC, it was at the Fed in their bank supervision, it was in the Office of Comptroller of the Currency, it was everywhere in government.

So, one of the things that David Sachs and the White House are trying to do is create a more level playing field all over the executive branch for digital assets and then work with us to try to get a regulatory framework in statute that the executive branch can go ahead and implement. And I'm telling you, the people now at the SEC, like Esther Peirce, are doing a great job to level the playing field at the SEC. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is getting ready to regulate Bitcoin, which is a commodity, so it falls under their jurisdiction. And then we'll be working with the Comptroller of the Currency and all of the other executive branch agencies that David Sachs is coordinating.

Now, do you believe this is going to be an additional stream of revenue, or is it bastardizing other revenue? Do you think this could be more of a profit engine for the country? Oh, absolutely. This industry has been courted elsewhere in the world with a certain regulatory framework where we didn't have one.

So a number of these exchanges for digital assets, custodians for digital assets, have gone to Europe because there is more certainty there. We want to recruit them back. And then for stablecoins, for example, the companies that are it's a little bit like a traveler's check. You know the old traveler's checks. If you have a stable coin, it's like a digital traveler's check.

So you can take it all over the world and make purchases. It facilitates those purchases. And those are 100% hard asset back, meaning they're backed by treasuries and agencies.

So if the U.S. treasuries are purchased by backers of stablecoins, it creates a whole new market. big market. Kevin O'Leary, and he said uh that's a misconception. Is it going to hurt the dollar as the world currency if people are going crypto?

And the answer is no. In fact, if you look at the capabilities of Bitcoin, if we have, for example, We have reserves in oil, in In cheese, believe it or not. We have a strategic cheese reserve in this country. We have a strategic oil reserve. We have 5% of the world's gold at Fort Knox.

So I'm proposing that we have 5% of the world's Bitcoin as well. And what it does is, Sit under the US dollar as the world reserve currency. It's there to make sure the dollar remains the world currency.

So it in no way undermines it. It strengthens U.S. dollars. And I know you got to run, but who approaches our Power when it comes to cryptocurrency. Is there another country out there that made gains while we tried to over-regulate and pick winners and losers?

Um, Singapore? And the European Union, particularly Switzerland, they did a really good job. And so we've got some catching up to do. People are excited. I'm excited.

People are excited about its potential, and it seems to be a good investment. For the longest time, we looked at Sam Bankman Freed and said that's a warning sign, get out, it's not real. Did he really hurt the reputation of cryptocurrency?

Well, he did, but we need to look at this. You can commit fraud with yachts. You can commit fraud with collectibles. It's not the asset. That caused the fraud.

It was the person who caused the fraud. And so, We need to decouple the asset that was used to commit fraud from the person who committed fraud. Lastly, how does it feel to be in the majority? How does your job feel different? It's been transformative.

It's totally different. When the Democrats were in control, they used the executive branch, weaponizing it everywhere from justice to banking. Everywhere you looked, they were weaponizing the government against the Political conservatives. And now that's all changing very fast. And now we're legislating again.

Senator Cynthia Loomis, good luck today in your conference. Stay out of trouble in New York City. Thanks, Brian. All right. Back in a moment.

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I mean, we started the week with Macrone coming in talking about a peace initiative. In Ukraine, but it wasn't to condemn, and there's no tongue-in-cheek. And according to sources, French President Macron thinks the crude way in which President Trump. No, it's not this time. And then yesterday Stormer comes into the UK and these guys hit it off.

or they're brilliant actors. And Stormer's walking out with a free trade deal, I believe, because he's doing what Trump wanted all along, and that is, he believes the EU is an economic threat to us. And when the UK left with Brexit, he loved it.

So they did what you're supposed to do, but Obama said don't do it, remember? And they left. He goes, well, you go to the back of the line. You're not going to get a free trade deal. Trump did the USMCA first working on China, was going to get to the UK but lost reelection.

So now I think he could walk out with something. And now it's all the after today's signing, all the pressure is going to be on Russia. And if they prove to be hard ass on this, And I have demands that I went over briefly at the top of the hour, but I'm going to go over again with Cliff May. If they don't move, it's so obvious they're the problem. Trump is not going to cut a bad deal.

But Mr. Putin, you should realize this. Trump is on the line one to bat for you guys to bring you back in the game. This has been a disastrous incursion for you. You've been isolated, you lost 800,000 people.

If you would try to embarrass him, you've lost him. for the next three and three quarter years. Do you want to risk that? I'll talk to Kutmei about that in just a moment. Brian Kill Michelle.

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In the meantime, China, Iran, and North Korea will continue to arm him. Sanctions relief likely will take place. That'll give him the opportunity to recover his defense industrial base. President Zelensky knows this. The Trump team know this.

So, if you pause, they'll re-arm and re-up unless something changes about this deal as opposed to 2014 when they went in. And, well, in 2008, they began and took a piece of Georgia. 2014, they took a piece of Ukraine. No word yet. They wanted to take Kyiv this time and put their own stooge in place or just take it entirely.

What's going to stop them?

Well, Zelensky's men have fought like warriors. They have proven pound for pound to be one of the finest fighting forces in the world, and the Russians haven't been. But they're still on the offensive, even though they're only moving up incrementally. Cliff May is the founder and president of the Foundation for Defensive Democracies. It's got a great column out in the Washington Times that really ends a foreign policy podcast, but really puts in perspective what's at stake here and outlines Russia's attitude and aggression since Vladimir Putin took power.

Cliff, welcome back. Brian, always good to be with you.

So today at eleven o'clock, President Zelensky will sign a deal with minerals. It gives us a chance to see what they have, excavate what is not in Russian territory. They definitely need us. They definitely don't have the the tools or the money to strip mine themselves. Is this a good deal?

Well, we don't know the details of it, but yes, in general it is. If untapped natural resources in Ukraine can be used both to benefit the United States and to help the Ukraine rearm to develop the kind of deterrent capabilities it didn't have three years ago, so that it becomes what we call a porcupine, very hard for a predator to swallow, that would be a very, very good thing. Keep in mind that Obama and Biden both refused to give or sell lethal weapons to Ukraine. President Trump actually did.

So, yes, if they can use untapped resources and rearm so that they can keep Putin from swallowing them, that's a good thing. What did we learn about the Russian fighting forces? They were overrated, but they were overrated by our military, by their own military. It's happened they happened to be rather corrupt. They weren't very good.

They weren't very motivated either. They were being told, oh, you're going in to fight Nazis. They weren't. They got there. The Ukrainians say, why are you on our territory?

Why are you doing this to us? They treated the Ukrainians very badly. They have stolen more than 20,000 children, brought them to Russia. They are brainwashing them to be thought of as Russians rather than Ukrainians. There's been torture.

There's been rape. The Russians haven't been as good. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a cessation of hostilities, let's not call it peace. If Putin were to say to his generals, you did a very bad job, I want you to come up with a better plan. Maybe we don't implement it while Trump is present, but we want to in the future.

So we would stop that as our investment. What would stop that is 30,000 troops, European troops in Ukraine. How do you think the Russians would handle that?

Well, the Russians are saying you have no right to put for there's no right to put say British or French troops in Ukraine because they consider Ukraine Russian territory, but it's not. It has to be clear. Ukraine is a member of the UN. Ukraine is a sovereign, independent country. That's what this war is all about, whether Ukraine maintains its independence, its sovereignty, and its culture.

Putin wants to wipe all of that out. I think, and I hope that President Trump will say, look, you don't get to say what Ukraine does in order to reinforce itself. If we have a ceasefire, there may be peacekeepers. Those peacekeepers are not coming from America. But they may come from Britain.

The Prime Minister of Britain, Kier Starmer, has said, I think that's a good idea. Macron of France has said that may be a good idea. And they become a kind of tripwire. It makes it much harder for Putin to reinvade if you have such peacekeepers in Ukraine.

So back to very much, that could be, and I think should be part of the deal.

So there were negotiations in Turkey. Everyone's focused on what's happening in Washington with Starmer and Macron and Zelensky today. But there was a delegation negotiating in Turkey. And this is what General Keene says. His sources said the Russians are demanding.

Listen to this, CUD 15.

Well, I think it remains to be seen if Putin is really going to negotiate, and that means be willing to make some compromise. He's already come in with a hardline position at the negotiations that took place yesterday, where they said they want more territory than what they're occupying. He wants Ukraine to demilitarize. He wants them to have an election so he can undermine that election successfully, as he's done very much in the past, and hopefully get a stooge in there that he can influence and control. He wants Ukraine to go down to 85,000 troops only and only be able to fire a missile 40 kilometers, 25, 30 miles, in other words.

So those are very hardline positions. It remains to be seen how much progress we're going to make here. Look at the I mean, those demands. If we satisfy those demands, nobody in America would go with that. I can't see Trump acquiescing anywhere like that.

That's my hope, too. That look, these are maximalist demands. What else would you expect really from Putin? I would hope that Trump would say to him in private conversations, you're not getting all that. I've been good to you.

I've shown you a lot of respect. I haven't made you look like a loser. I've allowed you to say that to your generals and to others in the country, including the hardline nationalists. You see, Trump likes me and Trump is not going to send a lot of weapons in to try to defeat me. I'm going to get the best deal I can.

But no, those maximalist positions need to be pushed back on. I think, again, the best you can do, the best that Trump is likely to do, it's not everything I'd like to see, is a cessation of hostilities that gives Ukraine a chance to build its deterrent capabilities, maybe have peacekeepers as well, maybe a frozen conflict. I'm not saying that Russia gives up Crimea. I don't think it does, maybe keep some parts of the Donbass, but not the Yuri, not under law. It's just a frozen conflict for now.

Will Putin try to build back for his next attack? He may, but again, if Ukraine is doing the same, not demilitarized, but becoming a very strong army with some support from the Europeans and has money to buy the weapons it needs, mostly from the U.S., thanks to natural resources, I think the conflict stays frozen probably. for the for Putin's lifetime. He's about seventy-one years old now. Yeah, I wish that lifetime ends a lot quicker.

How much is this a Russian philosophy, and how much is this? Vladimir Putin? Because this was not the Russia under Yeltsin, and this is the next guy. Medvedev had a brief period in there.

So is this Vladimir Putin's image of what Russia is going to be like? Is do other people a lot of people share that? Yeah, yeah, let me let me tell you. I've been studying Putin for very carefully for a long time. I've been studying Russia for more than a half century.

Putin sees himself as the czar of Russia, and he believes his mission is to restore the Russian Empire. To restore the Russian Empire means you have control over what's called all the Russians. What are all the Russians? What is Russia proper? This is Belarus.

Which is essentially a vassal state next door. And most importantly, there's Ukraine. The Russians sort of see the Ukrainians as little Russians. They don't believe they have a separate culture. They think their language is.

Is sort of ungrammatical Russian. None of that, I would say, is true, but that's how they see it.

So that's what he wants to do. But there's more to it than that. There's an ideology, as you say. And the the most important proponent of that ideology is a guy by the name of Alexander Dugan. He's been called the brain or rasputin of Putin.

He believes that Russia is not European, it's a nation of what he calls Eurasia. And that he sees Eurasia as a civilization in mortal conflict with the West. He objects to Americans promoting their values as if they were international values or universal laws. Things like freedom, individual rights, tolerance, self-determination. He doesn't like any of that.

He's written the American Empire Should Be Destroyed.

So, this is the basis on which Putin has made common cause with Chinese communists, with Iranian jihadis, with the crazy dynastic dictator of North Korea. These guys have formed an axis. And they seek to conquer neighboring lands: South Korea, Taiwan, Ukraine. And they want to displace the U.S. as the most powerful country in the world as an international leader.

They want to establish a new and despotic international order with rules made by them and enforced by them. That's the ideology that underlies it. But they must look around and go, oops, we lost 800 to a million men, half of which are dead. We have a million people that just left rather than stay in Russia. It's a big brain drain.

We watch how they're isolated economically, the bare store shelves with the Westerns all really pulled out. They've found other customers for oil and gas, so now they're losing Europe as a client.

So they must look around and say, well, this plan is not working. Do you think they think that, Cliff May? That's a really great question. If Putin, Putin has been willing to lose. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers, of young people who are not trained, all that.

If he thinks that, then he will want a cessation of hostilities, then he will not stick to his maximalist demands. If he's a little crazy and thinks, I'll do whatever is necessary to conquer Ukraine, I don't care, then there'll be no way to make a deal with him. He'll just continue to go on. But it's not so easy. His economy is really faltering.

As you say, his military. huge casualties to gain inches of land inside Ukraine on along that eastern border with Russia. There a question I can't quite answer is how realistic he is about the situation and what he sees as his least bad option at this point. Here is General Keene on if they do walk away from the table, what could happen? Cut 18.

Right. What else could we do then? to strengthen Ukraine to deter Putin. We can help him build an F-16 Air Force, give him long-range missiles, air defense systems, artillery weapons, all the things that we've done that have helped to make a difference, just not in time to be decisive by the Biden administration. More tanks and armored vehicles.

The Trump team can come up with their own list with Zelensky.

So, I mean, just say, listen, it's not going to be the same fighting force. They're going to be bolstered if you walk away from this. 100%. I'm absolutely with General Keene, as I usually am on this. And by the way, the whole idea of the rare earths and other minerals means we're not giving this away.

It's not coming out of our defense budget. They are buying this. That said, I also want to make this point. People say, oh, we spent so much money on Ukraine. Actually, we've spent less than 3% of our defense budget over this period on Ukraine.

Talk about the return on investments. By sending the weapons we have. to Zelensky, to Ukraine, we have diminished our number two adversary in the world hugely in a way we couldn't have done otherwise, and we've done it without a boot on the ground, without the loss of an American life. Tell me a better return on defense dollars spent than that. I hear you.

I hope the President hears you because we all want this to end, nobody more than the Ukrainians. But how it ends, we'll decide if it ends there or if it gets worse with the next incursion. 100%. Let me just say this: if Putin should take Ukraine, you have a fighting force there. Putin will soon have bayonets at their back.

And I say he will push them towards NATO members. And that will be a real problem because then are we going to fight for Lithuania? Because we have a treaty commitment to do so. Yes, and Estonia and all those others. And Estonia and Latvia, absolutely.

I know you think this through, Cliff, and I know people listen to you at the White House.

So hopefully we get Putin to the table and he actually realizes this is over. And let's just hope. Cliff May, thank you very much. Thanks, Brian. Pleasure.

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It's Brian Killmead. Cover up. To me. He is a little Hard, a little harsh. Every politician, everybody, every human being tries to cover up age.

We were always from day one. Cognizant that age was an issue. Would you say it was solved? There are some things that are true. I mean, like the gaslighting, there was a lot of denial of the polling.

Mike LaRosa, who used to be a press secretary for Joe Biden, he's been on our channel a lot, but he's basically acknowledging that Joe Biden shouldn't have run for re-election. We don't really know the story behind the story, but we know that Jake Tapper is putting his name on Alex Thompson's book, which is I think he's from Axios, who are going to talk about the extensive. Machinations that the Biden administration did to hide Joe Biden. and is obviously cognitive failure. And then, in my view, the press complicity in doing so and attacking people that bring up the fact that this guy can't possibly be really running the country.

Here's more cut 33 And I will I will use the term gaslight because that's what they were doing. The campaign, former colleagues. The message to everybody was to make sure that you tell people, it's too early, it's too early. These polls don't mean anything.

Well, it became too early, and these polls don't mean anything for about a year and a half. But it was the data denial that really bothered me because we loved polling when we were running, because we were always ahead.

So uh and they just We have a situation now where Joe Biden we're reportedly loving the fact that his party's in disarray and that Kamala Harris lost because it makes him look good, when the real story is he wasn't doing the job and can't do the job. Never talk to the press. Dawn, you're in Texas. Hey, Dawn. Good morning.

Thank you for taking my call. No problem. I just kind of wanted to make something clear. My husband is a we uh federal worker. He works for the Air Force.

He's been a civilian worker for 20 years. And all these Doge emails that have come out, the media is Is saying, well, we don't understand why these federal workers are not responding. And do they think they're better than everybody else that they shouldn't have to respond? But the problem is They are receiving an email from Higher up, not from the OPM, that says do not respond until further notice. What division is he?

I'm sorry, what division is he? of the federal workforce. He's in the Air Force. I mean, I mean, he's not Air he works for the Air Force. And so they're telling them not to respond until they for further notice.

And so he's caught in a rock and a hard place because in the email, it states you must send a copy to your manager, well, that's the general.

So do you disobey an order from your higher ups and higher up I mean, the top of the Air Force that's not even over this area? Or do you comply with what Interesting. Dawn, number one, I love the first-person account. That's invaluable for me and for our audience. But I did hear, I know the FBI and the DNI said, don't worry, we'll handle this.

But since that time I think the second email said we need you to comply.

So I'm not sure where the Pentagon stood in this. Allison, do you know? where the Pentagon stood on this? Were they part of the e mail that went out that said, give me the five things you're doing? Because we knew a few Cash Patel and Tulsi Gabber came out and said and the CIA said, don't answer this.

Because you're in confidential situation and I just got here. And I'll make the decision. But I believe the second email you should answer. But can you if your husband reached out to his supervisor, the supervisor doesn't know? I really don't know.

They just had sent out an email that said, do not respond till further notice. And so far, they have not even received a second.

So keep that email, obviously. Look at the time stamp on it clearly. There's definitely miscommunication with the 2.7 million there. But I would say this: Does your husband resent? uh put putting down five things he did the week before.

No, he doesn't, and that's what I want the public to know. Good, good. I mean, thank you so much for that, Dawn. That was great.

So, I do hope the communication gets better. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. From 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. Brian Kill Me Joe coming your direction.

Within an hour, we're going to see President Zelensky and President Trump again today. They've had an interesting relationship dating back to the whole impeachment inquiry with Rudy Giuliani going through Ukraine and then being that they say was election interference or not. Nancy Pelosi says, of course it is. An impeachment happens. Zelensky was in the middle of it.

And next thing you know, he's the victim of an invasion in 2022. President Trump becomes president again. They had a conflict last week. They seem to have worked it out. Trump gets over things quick.

Zelensky gets over things quick. They're back here to sign a minerals deal. I'll bring you the latest on that.

So much at stake. And then we're going to talk to Jeremiah Castile and Caleb Castile. They are team chaplain, the dad in the University of Alabama football. He's a former All-American undercoach Bear Bryant. And his son, Caleb, is together, he is a former University of Alabama football player, too, under Nick Sabin.

And together, they did this great series on Fox Nation, looking at the first year. Without Nick Saban as head coach, we'll do a simultaneous we'll do a simulcast with Stuart Varney to this hour. And Shannon Bream is standing by in ten minutes.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. We saw all this money going out to left-wing advocacy groups. Not only are we not sending money out to left-wing advocacy groups, we don't want to send money out to right-wing advocacy groups. We don't need the money.

Doge fighting the Dems and fighting the courts, why some believe this shows they are winning. Number two. Congress has taken the first big step. We passed that budget resolution last night. The Democrats and the media said it was impossible.

We did it. And that is the first important step in delivering reconciliation. Yes, it is. First step, but still a lot in the Senate don't agree with what was handed to them from the House. We're talking money, talking tariffs, trade deals, and blueprints.

We're going to look at the economy and how the markets are reacting to the President's promised policies. Number one. Did I say that? I can't believe I said that.

Next question. Yup, that is President Trump talking about his relationship with Mr. Zelensky. Today at Zelensky is Putin next. We'll discuss what's happening with the fighting in Ukraine, which is still raging at this hour, and we'll discuss all those things.

I mean, first off, We're seeing now video we're seeing We know that this is really from the Treasury. The Treasury helped crasp Uh helped. craft this minerals deal. And there's a lot of raw material, a lot of rare earth in Ukraine, but obviously they've been focused on this war, been unable to get to it. They need our equipment, they need our ingenuity.

They got the labor, so we're going to go a deal with them. We're going to have a presence there. Great. It's going to be finalized after initial friction. I understand.

But the question is when it comes to Ukraine What do we get? What do we get out of it? Russia going to be next. How do you feel about President Zelensky coming to town? That could indeed happen if He shows some give.

I mean, what I hear came out of the. I know everyone's focused on what's happening in America with the Prime Minister of the UK and Macron of France coming here, but there's negotiations. In Turkey, with our delegation and the Russian delegation, I know it upsets some people, Ukraine's not there, but I'm not upset by it. Eventually, they're going to get together. It's just not ready yet.

So General Keene says this is what the Russians are demanding, cut 18. What else could we do then? The strength in Ukraine to deter Putin. We can help him build an F-16 Air Force, give him long-range missiles, air defense systems, artillery weapons, all the things that we've done that have helped to make a difference, just not in time to be decisive by the Biden administration. More tanks and armored vehicles.

The Trump team can come up with their own list with Zelensky.

And here's what Russia is saying, Cut seventeen. If we get a deal and there is ceasefire and some kind of an agreement, Putin will look at that as a temporary pause. In the meantime, China, Iran, and North Korea will continue to arm him. Sanctions relief likely will take place. That'll give him the opportunity to recover his defense industrial base.

President Zelensky knows this. The Trump team knows this.

So that's why they want a peacekeeping force of 30,000 in Ukraine. That's why they want American industry in Ukraine. You're going to invade a country when we're so economically tied to them? It's easy to hit Ukraine, you think. By the way, you thought so.

It's not true. But can you imagine if we're there and thirty thousand NATO troops are there, like UK and France, whether it's official mission or not, which is why, evidently, Russia is digging in and they got there what I think are ridiculous demands. Listen to this, cut 15.

Well, I think it remains to be seen if Putin is really going to negotiate, and that means be willing to make some compromise. He's already come in with a hardline position at the negotiations that took place yesterday, where they said they want more territory than what they're occupying. He wants Ukraine to demilitarize. He wants them to have an election so he can undermine that election successfully, as he's done very much in the past, and hopefully get a stooge in there that he can influence and control. He wants Ukraine to go down to 85,000 troops only and only be able to fire a missile 40 kilometers, 25, 30 miles, in other words.

So those are very hardline positions. It remains to be seen how much progress we're going to make here. Those are ridiculous conditions. If President Trump gives in on that just to get a peace deal, no one's going to sign off on it. I don't even think Mike Waltz and Secretary of State Rubio could sell us on that.

They can't. And anything like that. You want peacekeeping troops? You better put them in there. You're your own country.

You don't tell me when to run elections. By the way, Zelensky wins again. He's got 56% approval rating. Parliament just voted to give him the presidency until the war is over.

So, even his opponents say we are not contenders because constitutionally. He's not allowed to have an election. And it's not just rhetoric. And the reason why he's attacking the church in Ukraine is not because he's anti-religious. It's a Russian Orthodox church that was spying for the Russians.

I don't care if you're wearing robes or not. That's not going to be okay during a war.

So I'll switch. Let's talk about Doge. And let's talk about some of the cuts. We know a judge reinstated a bunch of probationary fires that the Office of Personal Management fired. They said this California judge appointed by Bill Clinton can't do that.

You can only fire people in your own office, not every office, even though that's the human resources for the federal government.

So now each division is going to put on their probationary fires. Why are they firing them? Because we have to trim down the workforce. Also, they're trying to find out who's out there and who's scamming the system, who won't come back to work. That's happening along the way.

So judges are pushing back big time. And that's what's really hindering this process. But overall, There's a sense that we're actually getting places because as we get down to cutting the bureaucracy, there's been a backlash. And normally you think to yourself, backlash, that's bad. But for Speaker Johnson, He believes that's good.

because he thinks it shows it's cutting to the bone and that they're on the on the mission right now with Doge to cut to the bureaucracy where they've never been able to do before. And here's what he said, cut twenty eight. I met with Elon late last night talking about the latest savings that he's finding, uncovering incredible amounts of fraud, waste, and abuse across the federal government, doing the job that Congress has been unable to do for decades because the bureaucrats were hiding the data. He's cracked the code, Sean. He's on the inside of the belly of the beast of the bureaucracy now with the algorithms crawling through the data.

And as we talked about last night, he said, you know what? The data doesn't lie. And this is a very exciting time. The second meeting was with the President and the Vice President and Leader Thune of the Senate in the White House. And we had a great discussion about the strategy and the steps ahead.

There is no daylight between those three entities, the White House, the Senate, and the House. That's a great thing for the American people. And we are very excited to deliver on the agenda. And by the way, if you're curious about things, you just don't wait for the next column or my next show to find out what Doge is doing. Go to Doge.gov.

As they are doing it, certain people have access to load onto the website what exactly they're finding. And in real time, in what divisions that they're cutting. and where the money is going. Ultimately, they want to figure it into the budget process. And when the CBO examines what tax reform in the new budget's going to look like, they will take this into account.

But right now, the CBO is not doing that. Let's go to Butch in Dallas. Hey, Butch. Hey. Hey, Brain, long time caller, first time listener, how you doing today?

I saw you Wednesday down in Dallas, and I asked you a question I think a lot of Americans want to know on Doge. Yeah, he's finding all these millions of dollars. But whose names are on these bills that was put in there many years ago? It doesn't matter if it's Republican or Democrat. We know we're saving money, but we want to see names, just like the Epstein files.

We don't want to see flight logs. We want to see names. Have a good one, buddy. Yeah, and when he's referring to the fact, Butch, is they keep misspelling my name in the prompter. And they put brain on Fox and Friends and it drives me crazy.

And I say it, but because I can't go I I can't my my blood pressure goes up ten beats a minute. I'm getting flashbacks to my youth, but it's B-R-I-A-N. Why is that so hard? Butch, something that, Allison, you notice this. We were in Dallas.

Everybody wants accountability. They don't want to just say, where did the money go? Where was it intended to go? They want to know whose idea it was.

So some of it Was well intended, but not well executed. And I would be curious to see if the money ends up in Adam Schiff's pocket or ends up in or ends up as some. uh you know some uh savings account for the politicians or states That's a huge problem. But other times it's just wasted on vanity projects or people using their influence for being there for 25 years to get their congressional district.

well off, and I think this happens in New York a lot.

So when we come back, we're going to talk to Shannon Bream, then I'll open up the phones again. You'll listen to the Brian Kilmean Show. We're also monitoring what's happening outside the White House, where President Zelensky and President Trump are meeting, and eventually we'll meet the press. Increasing your intelligence quotient. What the hell did you just say?

It's Brian Kilmead. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmead. There were tens of billions of dollars spent. In 2025, we want that number reduced by tens of billions of dollars.

I don't want Congress to be giving us the tens of billions of extra dollars. We saw all this money going out to left-wing advocacy groups. Not only are we not sending money out to left-wing advocacy groups, we don't want to send money out to right-wing advocacy groups. We don't need the money. And that is the whole thing with the EPA.

It is really the breadbasket of the green movement and of the whole Paris Climate Accord. All those people that were raised by Senator and Secretary of State John Kerry and Al Gore. And that's what's stopping the EPA. And I really think the American people have broken the fever. Of Greta Thornberg and all those crazy green advocates.

Doesn't mean you forget about renewable energy, but you get a hold of yourself. The earth is not about to end tomorrow. And Lee Zeldin's right at the zenith of it, but it's all about saving and cutting. I've never seen anything quite like it, but Shannon Breem is in Washington where everyone is losing their minds. Shannon, welcome.

I haven't lost mine, Brian. I saved just a little bit for this show. And for your Sunday show. Yeah, I mean, you know, but it regenerates. It regenerates.

That's a good thing about the norons. But Shannon, I mean, right now in Washington, people are going crazy about Doge, correct? I've never seen so many veins popping out of people's necks like Democrats talking about it. Right, but as you know and you cover, there's really not a lot for them to do other than court battles, very important. They're scoring some wins there.

They're getting some losses. And these rallies, I mean, the one that was last week was like five senators in front of the FBI. I mean, that doesn't inspire a lot of excitement in your party when five people show up for your rally, but they're doing what they can, but I think there's a ton of frustration here. The Democrats, they don't control House or Senate. They certainly don't control the White House.

And so they're going to the judicial branch to try to get some help.

So, yeah, I mean, it's hard for them to keep up in particular. But yesterday's court case out in California, a Bill Clinton appointed judge said the Office of Personal Management has no right to let go probationary workers from other divisions. But I always thought that was almost the human resources of the federal workers. Human resources has the right to handle all divisions. What am I missing?

Yeah, I mean, he's saying that it's got to be agency-specific, which is easy for the Trump administration to solve if that's the ruling.

Okay, you know, only EPA administrators can fire EPA people. Only Transportation Secretary Duffy can fire people. You know, if the court is giving them that as an out, then all they need to do is repurpose and say, okay, that's what we're going to do. And it sounds like some of that's already trickling into. You remember the email last week, the five things you did, and now we're getting reporting that this week that email is likely to go out again over the weekend, but it's going to come from the agency heads instead of that OPM or Office of Personnel Management.

So if the technicality is it's got to come from the agency, then the Trump administration is just going to say, great, you guys and your agencies fire the people that we told were fired through OPM. And now I think by March 13th, they told all the divisions to come back with cuts to Doge. Right. And almost every committee now from education committee to every secretary has a Doge person two with them. Right.

And they're going to have to report. report their own cuts so Doge doesn't have to do all the work. Right. And so it'll be more specialized because if some of these legal challenges are going to be it's just too broad a brush, you can't just lay off thousands of people. But the Trump administration says, okay, this is being done with actual internal consideration.

At each agency, we're looking at which jobs are essential, which people are performing well, and we're making cuts based on our budget. They're going to have a much easier time fighting in court if that's the way they handle it. And it sounds like that's what they're going to do.

So this week it comes out, there's a book coming out by an actress reporter and Jake Tapper on the media cover or the cover-up of this administration on Joe Biden's cognitive decline. That is head-snappingly ridiculous. When you think about how everybody covered up for him, now people want to make money off a book that unveiled that Joe Biden wasn't making any decisions. Here's Michael LaRosa. With Tara Palmieri of the administration, and of course, Michael Rosie used to be the press secretary for Joe Biden, talking about Joe Biden, the president, CUD 34.

President Skin was scared to the death of Uh impromptu, unscripted, unrehearsed, unpracticed, unchored, anything. They couldn't compete for the detention economy. They just couldn't do it. They didn't have any idea. And they didn't have the vessel.

Either in Baden, by the way, who would have done anything? He loves. He keep on doing stuff. It was the orbit that did not trust their own candidate. And what they did to suppress him, so he was all into it, but he was being held back.

By the way, what kind of leader are you? Do you think if they told Donald Trump to stay off television, that would work? No, I think they would he would look at them and say, you're fired. I mean, you know, you're the commander-in-chief. You're the president.

It took a network of people to keep this thing going under the Biden administration. And I do think there are a lot of people out there who are kind of picking their jaws up off the ground saying, wait a minute, you guys who are all talking about this stuff now knew and actively chose not to say anything, not to press for questions. It wasn't until that June debate when it was all exposed and everybody's like, ooh, we can't fake it anymore because obviously the whole world just saw that. That's when people started talking. And that's years after they probably could have started talking.

Shannon Woods, who's on your show Sunday? I wish I could tell you, but we're waiting in the White House, so we're down to two people with the White House, so it will be a White House guest leading us off. Hopefully, we can announce that in the next hour or so. I'm actually headed over to the White House. Can I make a picture panel?

Oh yeah, we got the panel.

Okay, good. That's it. We've got the panel. Sadly, you told us no yet again, so we don't have you. We've got Richard Fowler, Doug High, Hans Nichols, and Susan Page.

And we've got a legal panel.

So we've got Tom Dupree and Ilya Shapiro, because we've got a few legal things to talk about. Including the fact that we are waiting right now on the Supreme Court to make a couple of decisions that relate to some of these Trump executive orders.

So we've got a lot to break down. But, Shannon, you are the best guest when it comes to legal decisions. Why are you pretending that you need a guest? You are the best. We're demanding the questions in advance, which makes it tricky.

All right, good. Shannon Breen, we're going to watch on Sunday, and you're going to watch Sunday night at 10. Sunday night, I'll see you there. We do that because we're friends. And I'll be in Washington next week.

Hopefully, we can hang out and play pickleball or paddleball or something. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. It was out of Zachariah 4.6. This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel.

Not by might. No about power. but by my spirit. says the Lord of hosts. You think about today and the tasks that you have, all of the things that can come against you that will be the challenges, the trials, the tests.

It's not in your own power. But he says by my spirit. And that is a little of the brand new series on Fox Nation called The Tides. Get it? Alabama Roll Tide.

The Tides That Bind inside Alabama football. First year without Nick Sabin. Wouldn't it be nice to go inside the locker room, get the story after the game? That's exactly what we have today with Jeremiah Castile and Caleb Castile, both in studio, father and son. And Caleb and Jeremiah, both of you, welcome.

Now to radio, we're streaming on Fox Nation, now your favorite app. That's right.

So, both of your links, first off, your personal links to Alabama football. Caleb? I'm a 1979 freshman. I signed in 1979 to play at the University of Alabama under coach Paul Bear Bryant. Yeah.

And then I went in 2010. Uh from 2010 to 2014. And also, both of my older brothers played there as well. Wow.

So it's in your blood. It's in your family. And you're also the team chaplain. Yes, sir. Right.

So that plays.

So. What made you first off? Who had the idea? Oh, for the documentary for the series to chronicle this first year. Yeah, so it was an idea that actually came from a feature-length doc that we were producing about just the history of Alabama football as a whole.

And I figured, you know. No one's ever been allowed in the kitchen, per se, right? Nobody knows how the sauce is being made, especially when Coach Sabin was there.

So after I left being a walk-on, and all these years later, I decided, man, let's really go for it. Let's give the people an inside look. And so, um, Yeah, I was just fortunate through, you know. my dad's years there, um, that, you know, The leadership there allowed me to come in and do it.

So, yeah, this was a little bit of my brain child. Wow, great.

So, Jeremiah, do you think that Nick Saber would ever let that happen? Would he have allowed this? He would have?

Well, I think he had agreed to it with Caleb. Yeah, so he was going to be Nick Saban. It was. It was. Yeah.

I mean, could you have imagined it, Brian, if he had let me do it that year? If it had worked out, really, what happened was just by the time he agreed to it, we couldn't get the deal in place. You know how it is. In time for the season. Yeah, in time for the season.

But if we had the first episode, I mean, the first season of this show would have been Coach Sabin's last year of football.

So. This is a year in which you start off with the high point of the season. Tell us about it. Yeah, so we start off in episode one. We immerse you right into the locker room.

Like you said, bringing us into this segment, right? An inside look, and you see Coach DeBoer literally moments before they ran out of the tunnel onto the field to defeat Georgia. Yeah. And so we drop you right in at that high moment. And, you know, the first episode is called Faith.

You see them this high moment, right? They had the faith to win. They win this game. And then, you know, of course, we all know what happened in their season, man. They face the adversity of some tough wins.

And I think that's a lesson of life, right? Like when you, you know, having faith is such a battle. Right. You know, and so seeing these young men stick to their faith and overcome those obstacles throughout the season of the show is pretty special.

So, Jeremiah, did they pick the right coach? to replace Nick Saban. Yeah. I believe they picked the right coach. I think Greg Burns, the AD there, I like to tell people, Brian, I would want my sons to play for Kalyn DeBoer.

Right, here is Kalen DeBoer on building trust with this team. Here's a cut from the series that tides the pine, cut 41. What you're hoping as a coach is just, you know, can we get off on the right foot? Because every moment you're really still trying to build confidence within this group because there are so many things that are new and that has to be something that the players trust. And they build that trust through what they see on the practice field, what they feel in the meeting room, how you come back post-game in the locker room.

It's something that they build trust in, in everything you do, not just the three and a half hours that are happening on the field on game day.

Now, that music isn't behind him when he's talking to you. You put that in later, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can't get a violinist to go there. But.

replacing a legend is always tough. You want to come in with a guy who's been terrible, but they're replacing maybe the greatest college football coach ever.

So he stepped in there. What changed about his systems and approach? Oh, I think, you know, for I would say definitely not an easy transition for Coach DeBoer, but I think that. His ability to find a way to win is, you know, and that's something he says all the time. You'll, you'll hear him say it in the show.

He says it before that Georgia game, right? Um, Having that mindset is what simplified his process. And I believe that his ability to Um Uh resonate I believe that resonates with those young guys in a way where he's able to relate to them. He relates to them so much. Right.

You know. Yeah, he's a little bit younger.

So Jeremiah, I this is how I remember Al football. The Giants finally started winning. They forget, they bring in George Young and they owe 500. They make the playoffs. You know who brought him there?

Ray Perkins. Yes. And all of a sudden, Bear Bryant retires and he taps Ray Perkins and. The Giants coach, who many people think is the top of football, decides to leave New York City and go back to Alabama. Can you explain the attraction years later?

Well, it's the power of uh What the University of Alabama football program is and has become over the decades. You have to go back over really over the last one hundred years. Alabama football was winning championships in the nineteen twenties.

So there is a tradition there. There is a way of life. There's a really, it's a way of life, and it's different. from any other place. that I have ever been.

And so that's what Ray Perkins was tied to. it was where he came from, what uh values All of the success as a As a coach with the Giants. Ray Perkins remembered where all of those things were instilled. And he went back there, but it's hard following Bear Bryant, right? I mean, it's.

Well, you say, see, I can't say that. I have to say Coach Bryant. Oh, okay. I never met him. You played for him.

We're in the process of writing a book right now. And the guy that's helping me, the ghostwriter, he says in there, I said, you got to take out. It's me saying Bear Bryant said, no, no, no, no, no. Is Coach Bryant.

So for me, as a former player, it's weird when I hear people say Bear Bryant. Do we see the new makeup of college football in your series where the players really have a lot more power? You know, so you could be third string just because you have a scholarship, you could lose that scholarship in years past.

Now players are saying, hey, yeah, I got the scholarship. you know, you don't hear anyone here being academically ineligible anymore. And if you're not playing me, coach, I'm going somewhere else. I got going into the portal. Have you did you is that a theme of this?

And it isn't that the theme of every major college sport now?

Well, it's not. I would say yes and no. I think that two things can be true. I think that that's not the theme of our show, but you do see guys exercise that right and ability to do that. But, you know, my dad was making this point yesterday as we were talking.

One of the things that Coach DeBoer does a lot, does very well, Brian, is he. He has allowed his team and these guys to be the leaders of the team. For okay, hey, you okay, we're we're paying you this money and we're putting this responsibility on you. You know, of course, I am, you know, I'm the top dog here, but he allows he has allowed those guys to take ownership of the team, and they've done a great job. I think that's what's changing from when I was there versus now.

That was Coach Saban's team. You know what I mean? You're gonna, you're gonna do what Coach Saban says, you know, and now, you know, the difference is Coach. Kojabor is allowing these guys to take ownership. And I think that's beautiful.

That goes into what we were talking about before we jumped on, right? It's these guys that's allowing them to develop as young men. You know, the series is now out. Every Wednesday, you get a new episode. There's how many episodes?

Six. There's six episodes. Here's more from the coach motivating his team: Cut 42. Be who we are. Be who we are.

When we're at our best... We're aggressive. We're fundamental. We're disciplined. We're tough as hell!

Everything you put into it. Is right out in front of you. Let's go get this thing. Hey, play pissed off all game long. Four quarters together.

Everyone, let's do this thing, all right? Find a way to win. Find a way.

So, Jeremiah, did you want to do the prayer before or after that speech as the team chaplain?

Well, we will have already done our chaplain before that speech. It plays a big role, though. You like to instill that in the kids and the players? We see that so often, especially in college.

Well, my own personal story is tied to what we do today. From Coach Bryant to Coach Sabin, now to Coach DeBoer, they're men that understand you. Brian, you don't win, and you're not successful at the high level without them. All right. Pick up this series: The Tides That Bind on Fox Nation.

Thanks, guys.

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And Stuart Varney's got the number one show, him and Larry Kudlow. And we're also looking at a couple of issues. In a matter of moments, we expect President of Ukraine to ride up on the White House, at which time, I'm not sure if Milani is there or not, but if she's there, they'll greet the First Lady of Ukraine. Brian Kilmead joining us. There he is.

He says now. Brian Kilmead. Brian, Jewish students say they feel unsafe. Pro-Hamas protesters gathering at college. campuses.

Watch this. Student protesters tend to invite within our lifetime or wool to campus and those people I've been assaulted by them before. They've punched my friend Johnny in the face. Those people are genuinely dangerous and they were invited to campus today to come participate in the protests. We're talking Barnard College here in New York City, but these schools, they're not doing anything about this.

I think that's just not good enough. What say you? Of course, and what they also have is the masks covering their faces.

So these spineless cowards are so proud of being anti-Semitic, they cover their faces with surgical masks. The governor was told, put the no mask ban in place. The mayor said to do it. The governor hasn't backed it. Richie Torres, the Bronx congressman, said that's why I'm running, essentially, that's why I'm running for governor.

She shows no guts.

So at Barnard College, they're storming the classrooms, assaulted one of their security officials, took over a class. They're negotiating with these student terrorists in order to get them out. You know what they're demanding? The students that stormed into an Israeli class, an academic class, and were suspended, they want them back in class. Are you kidding me?

That type of behavior should be rewarded and this type of intimidation. Should be rewarded, forget it. How about Kathy Hochl yesterday? She had an event, and because she was showing up there, anti-Semitic protesters beat her to it. And instead of confronting them, using her security to open up the walkway, she decides not to have the event.

Coward. You're letting these thugs intimidate you when, in part, you don't represent the majority of this country. Who are the professors that are teaching these people? And I'd like to see their student IDs. Are they really students upset about a suspension?

Or are they activists out there for the Palestinian Hamas cause? Brian, I've got to run this. The Barnard president responded saying, quote, massed protesters attempted to undermine Barnard's core values of respect, inclusion, and academic excellence. Let us be clear, their disregard for the safety of our community remains completely unacceptable.

Okay, but you didn't arrest these protesters. No arrests were made. They just. Got away with it. Where's the mayor?

Where's the police chief? Where's the governor? Yeah, where's the authority here to get rid of anti-Semitism? Here's another one for you. Donald Trump, President Trump, has answered more than a thousand questions in the first months of his second term.

More than Biden watch this. President Trump, can you get a peace deal done in Ukraine? How confident are you, sir? Yeah, well. Are there areas specifically of Ukraine that you're talking about in giving back specifically Crimea?

We'll be talking about that. We're going to see if we can get it back or get a lot of it back. Mr President, did our Prime Minister persuade you not to put tariffs on the UK? Yeah. He was working hard, I'll tell you that.

Brian, my point is that Trump's always on T V answering questions, always in the news cycle. It seems like it's the Trump show. What say you? Yeah, I mean, just before I came on the air, I just saw an executive order came on the air with you, Stuart, that he has now made English the official language of the country. Oh, and in ten minutes, he's going to greet the President of Ukraine.

And then he's going to have his third joint press conference of the week. To me, you're not just showing respect to the other leaders, you're showing into the press. But you're really showing respect to the American people. I gotta tell you what I'm doing. He's not giving speeches, he's showing you real-time interaction with lawmaking, leaders, cabinet secretaries, press.

So It's not a matter of give me some time so President Trump can get some FaceTime. He's saying, I'm showing you what you hired me to do and what I'm doing and why I'm doing it.

So he essentially said, You don't need the press or an editorial to describe what's happening. You don't need an insider source to say, according to some, this is what Donald Trump means. No, we watched him today nine times. And I think it's ultimately respect for the office. He says, you elected me for a reason.

I'm going to be active. I'm not really going to take much time off. I'm probably not going to sleep much. And man, I'm going to see if I can bring peace to the Middle East and to Eastern Europe in real time. And you could watch me do it and make your own judgments.

And he's entertaining, too. Brian Kilmead, good stuff. You have a great weekend. YouTube. See you again real soon.

Stay within yourself. And we'll take some calls now, too. Hey, let's talk a little bit about Israel with Danny. Hey, Danny. Hi, Brent, how are you doing?

Good. You're calling me from Israel. Yes, of course. What about this anti-Semitism on campus? Does that resonate in Jerusalem?

Right, right. Yeah, Brian, that's what I want to talk about today.

So I have two comments. First comment is for terminology, okay? You're calling them pro Palestinians. They are not pro Palestinians. They are harming the Palestinians.

They are against the Palestinians. They are pro Hamas. They are pro terror. They are not pro Palestinians. So tha that's a small comment, but I think it's important.

Second comment is to the point. I don't think that now they are producing this chaos in campuses because of the two fellows the the expulsion and blah, blah, blah. What they are doing now, Brian, actually, they are testing the MAGA administration, okay? They are they are looking and they want to know how the MAGA will react. And I think that up until today, Uh the reaction was not you know, proper.

With those guys, you have to talk in their language. You have to speak in their language. Their language is Arabic, not English and not Yiddish. Arabic, which means force and enforcement. And I think that if we don't take those steps, we are going to fail.

That's what coming, Brian. Thank you. Yeah, I w I hope Trump gets involved in this. He speaks up about congestion pricing, bike lanes. I hope he comments after Zelensky leaves.

That's got to be the focus. And just say and you'll put it you'll see on Truth Social that he'll say something to the effect of my prediction. If you don't crack down on those campus protests, I will. And that, by the way, Mayor Adams. Uh yo, yo Trump a favor, why don't you crack down and do the right thing?

Hey, go to BrianKillMe.com to find out how to get tickets to March 22nd History Liberty Laps on Fox Nation and in June in Dayton, Ohio. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. So glad you're here, Brian Kill Meet Show, coming your way. What a week, right?

Back from Dallas. Thanks to everyone at KLIF for being so hospitable and so nice. I had a chance to talk to so many of our listeners and viewers, so it was really great. This hour, we're going to be joined by Tommy Larin, the outstanding commentator host of her Outkick Show, and Daniel Bilak. And Daniel is the member of the Tradestrial Defense Forces of Ukraine.

He's calling us from Kyiv. And we all know all eyes on the White House. President Zelensky's coming to town, and soon this war, I hope, will be over and he'll be wearing a suit. But until then, it bothers some people, it doesn't bother me. He's going to dress like he's at war because his country's at war.

And he's going to talk about a big deal. But there's also some talks going on with Russia.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. We saw all this money going out to left-wing advocacy groups. Not only are we not sending money out to left-wing advocacy groups, we don't want to send money out to right-wing advocacy groups. We don't need the money.

Doge, fighting the Dems and fighting the courts. Lee Zeldin, a big help at the EPA. Number two. Congress has taken the first big step. We passed that budget resolution last night.

The Democrats and the media said it was impossible. We did it. And that is the first important step in delivering reconciliation. And we'll talk about that shortly. Speaker Johnson gave a blueprint to the Senate, who passed one of two bills earlier.

Will they be able to sign off on the House bill? Word is not so fast. Number one. Um Did I say that? I can't believe I said that.

Next question. So funny. President Trump talking about Zelensky, but he was doing it in front of Stormer of the UK. And he did at one point, got very angry last week and told Zelensky was a dictator, have elections. A moderate, funnily comedian.

But now it turns out they said they can't have elections. We sold you this. Because of their constitution, it's martial law. And then he got parliament who told Zelensky: you got our vote. Until after the war.

So that put that to bed.

Now, there was a meeting yesterday. In Turkey, with Russian and American officials, At which time, according to Jack Keene, The Russians are not ready to sign off on almost anything that the West has signed off on. And it's noteworthy because Russia is going to have a say in this. We assume that he's going to listen to Donald Trump and negotiate, but in good faith, I'm not too sure. That's happening.

Here's what Jack Keane said. that the Russians want Cut fourteen.

Well, I think it's overwhelmingly positive. And why is it so positive?

Well, look at it. It ties the United States to Ukraine for a generation in terms of exploration and mining for these rare minerals. It ties us economically, politically, and obviously with an unbelievable interest in the future security of Ukraine. Why? Because if war continues, there's no exploration, there's no construction going on, there's no mining going on during a conflict.

That's for sure. And Putin, you know full well. does not like this deal.

So this deal is in the United States and Ukraine's interest, and that's what makes it a good deal.

So what does Putin want? CUD fifteen.

Well, I think it remains to be seen if Putin is really going to negotiate, and that means be willing to make some compromise. He's already come in with a hardline position at the negotiations that took place yesterday, where they said they want more territory than what they're occupying. He wants Ukraine to demilitarize. He wants them to have an election so he can undermine that election successfully, as he's done very much in the past, and hopefully get a stooge in there that he can influence and control. He wants Ukraine to go down to 85,000 troops only and only be able to fire a missile 40 kilometers, 25, 30 miles, in other words.

So those are very hardline positions. It remains to be seen how much progress we're going to make here. So you got an idea. If Zelensk I I have a prediction, if Vladimir Putin doesn't budge, I mean he wants a million man force in Ukraine to go down to 85,000, wants them to have election? Who the hell are you?

That's not your country. Number two, you don't want 30,000 troops in there.

Well, in 2014, they didn't have any troops in there, and you invaded in 2022. Do you want more territory? Really? There's another option. You tell Putin.

That if you're not happy now and you think it's going to be in your best interest to keep fighting, just know that we're arming up Ukraine. You walk away from this table, and those are your last, that's your last. Offer. Trump is going to feel like you embarrassed them? And Ukraine, who are better fighters than you, pound for pound, are going to have real armaments and a real air force.

We'll talk about that and we'll keep you up to date on what's happening. The other thing is, so we have Speaker Johnson, didn't get a lot of publicity, did the impossible so far, even though it's not done yet. He got his. Caucus, all except Tom Massey, to agree on a blueprint on tax reform, funding the defense, increasing defense spending, and the border, and some other things. And he handed it over to the Senate.

Cut 25. Congress has taken the first big step. We passed that budget resolution last night. The Democrats and the media said it was impossible. We did it.

And that is the first important step in delivering reconciliation, which is how we're going to present the America First Agenda and check every box that President Trump, the campaign promises he made on the campaign trail, and that we did as well.

So the problem is with the budget, Senate Republicans are seeking major it's not a problem, it's part of the process. Senate Republicans are staring down a major fight, they say, in overhauling the House bill. They say Republicans advanced the measure. They said that they would not make the tax cuts permanent. The Senate said in a separate bill, they were going to make the tax cuts permanent.

And they said that it has deep cuts to Medicaid. They would be required to finance it.

Well, they believe the deep cuts to Medicaid will be answered by deep cuts to the Medicaid system and other cuts elsewhere, not affecting the payouts. Get fraud and abuse out of it. But instead of that being a catchphrase that no one believes, we got Doge on every In every cabinet secretary's team. working to streamline and advance And gut a lot of these programs gut the fat out of these programs.

So there's going to be a battle. And notice, I'm not even talking about Democrats. They're not even playing in this. They want nothing to do with this. And I think that's a huge mistake.

They have no idea what's happening on foreign policy. They suddenly are fighting against Fraud and abuse. I guess they're for it. And now, when the Senate passes a bill and the House passes a bill, they're wrestling with each other. They're not even trying to play a role.

And to me, if Manchin was in there, he'd be trying to play a role. And if Fetterman was in there, he'd be trying to play a role. But they're not interested in that. I just don't know. All they're doing is complaining about the nominees, like saying the Secretary of Education shouldn't be nominated and confirmed.

They're going to be nominated and confirmed. Sandra, you're New Jersey. Hey, Sandra. Hi, Brian. Hold on.

I just want to get this. Hi, Brian. I love your show. I'm enjoying it every single day. Oh, you're very welcome.

I just wanted to say on a positive note, I respect Ron DeSantis very, very much. To me, he's a model governor. And when he came out the other day saying, He loves what Elon Musk and Donald Trump are doing with DOSH and cutting down on all these excess spending. He wants to do more of the same.

So to me, it's like a domino effect. He says that other governors will copy. And to me, it's a very good thing. I do too. I I think it's going to be interesting, Sandra, to see Ron DeSantis push his wife forward while President Trump pushes Byron Donalds forward to be his successor.

Right. And then, of course, Hochl is a very, very big disappointment. She's a complete opposite of Ron DeSantis. And it's like night and day, and I like day. Can you imagine if Governor DeSantis is Press conference that was blocked by anti-Semitic protesters.

Do you think that he would ever cancel it? He would get the sheriff, he'd get his service, and they would cut a hole in that protest. They'd sit there and they'd haul each one of them in jail if they didn't step aside and walk outside. Instead, Governor Hoku cancels because she's weak and she's unable to do that job. Sandra, thanks for your support.

I appreciate it. We're going to come back in just a moment. I'm going to go out to Kyiv. Where Daniel Bilak is there. He's with the head of Ukraine Invest and a former chief investment advisor to the Prime Minister.

While the Prime Minister, the President, is here in the US. A lot going on. I want you to stay with us Brian Kilmead Show. In-depth analysis, insightful commentary, probing questions. What's a furry again?

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This is the Brian Kill Me Show. All right, in a matter of moments, we're going to see President Zelensky, we think, if everything goes on time, walking out and going into the White House. He'll be greeted by President Trump, and if Milani is in town, the First Lady of the United States. And we'll get a formal signing of a rare earth minerals deal, which will put the U.S. in business with Ukraine to do something Ukraine's not able to do for themselves right now.

And that's mine, strip mine, a lot of this rare earth because of the war they're in and the equipment that's needed. Let's go back with out to out to Ukraine, where Daniel Bilak is there, a member of the Territorial Defense Fund, former Chief Investment Advisor to Prime Minister of Ukraine. Daniel, welcome back. Your thoughts about what's going to be signed today. Thanks, Brian.

Look, I think this the deal is. It's good for America and good for Ukraine. I'm really glad. I mean, as you know, I was the investment advisor to former prime minister, and I would have dearly have loved to have seen something like this back then. I mean, this gets.

our relationship back onto a solid shared economic footing. It it now the US will have a direct economic interest in the stability and security of Ukraine going into the future. And frankly, we don't have the capacity to exploit these minerals.

Some estimates are 12 trillion of critical earth metals, minerals. And some of them are vital to U.S. economic and security interests, like titanium, lithium, graphite, uranium. And frankly, Russia and its ally China, they want these resources, Brian, to strangle America. And so far, we've defended about 80%.

Of where these things are. But, you know, we need, you know, this is great that this is going to be. Done together. But as you know, the big question mark is what's going to happen with security guarantees? Because You know, exploiting these things, they're all underground, right?

I mean, exploiting, except for you know, titanium and uranium we've been mining. But you know, if we don't get security guarantees, how are you going to be able to get the shovels in? How do you feel about 30,000 international forces? How do you feel about 30,000 international forces there?

Well I think that's a good question. Uh We'll take whatever. But frankly, unless there's some way, as Prime Minister Sarmer of the UK said yesterday, unless there's some way they're backstopped by the US, it's going to be difficult. Look, you know, these security guarantees aren't just important, in my view, for Ukraine. They're important for President Trump to secure his legacy.

Putin fears him. And you know it yourself, Brian, you've said this before, you can't trust Putin's word on anything. He's violated every treaty and peace agreement he's ever signed. He needs to see that American power is standing behind any settlement. And you know the importance of President Trump's peace through strength.

Is that if he is able to deliver a lasting and sustainable just peace? he becomes a truly historical figure. If he doesn't, and Putin smells weakness, because you know what he's like, he'll just double down on the atrocities and the war. He'll come back. And then President Trump's peace becomes just a pause with us in pieces, if you like.

God forbid that this becomes President Trump's Afghanistan. I don't want to see his legacy destroyed. I don't want to see his legacy destroyed. But you know, he cannot be perceived as weak by Putin. If there aren't any security guarantees, behind any peace agreement or the minerals or what have you.

I think that Putin is going to read the message and China and North Korea and Iran saying that the US isn't really serious.

So I want you to hear what he said yesterday when asked if he's going to back up the UK, cut six. If British troops are in Ukraine keeping the peace and get attacked by Russia, will you come to their aid? If the British people are in Ukraine and they get attacked... If British soldiers get Ukraine. You know, I've always found about the British, they don't need much help.

They can take care of themselves very well. You know what? No, it sounds like it's evasive, but it's not evasive. You know, the British have been incredible soldiers, incredible military. And they can take care of themselves.

But if they need help, I'll always be with the British, okay? I'll always be with them. But they don't need help. You look at their career. You have done very well over the years, haven't you?

We have. I'm very proud of our country.

So your thoughts there.

Well Marky. You know, yeah, the British are a great fighting force, et cetera, but it's a question of what Putin is going to see. Look, had Obama stood up to Putin over Crimea in 2014, we never would have had this war, right? We never would have had 12,300 civilians killed, the atrocities, torture chambers, rape and slaughter of women, children, and men, butcher Irpin, Mariupol, 20,000 children kidnapped from their homes in Ukraine to be sent for adoption. I mean, Putin does not take the West seriously.

And, you know, President Trump, he fears President Trump. And I think that this. This is we're not asking for American boots on the ground, but if America gives some sort of a backstop guarantee to the British, to the French, to whoever assembles a a force that that'll come in and police this this uh uh Disagreement and a peace agreement, then that does send a signal. And look, We've had, you know yourself, we talked about this, Protestant evangelicals have been tortured and kidnapped in the occupied territories and POWs executed. This guy doesn't care about what's on a piece of paper.

He understands only one thing, and that's force. Right. All right, so what is the state of the game in Ukraine right now? Where are the fighting forces? What's the attitude of the country?

Well look. Right, you know, where it comes to get go, we were very much preferring the hopeful uncertainty of a Trump administration as opposed to the basically the certain death by a thousand cuts from the Biden administration. I mean, we had realized that this incremental drip feed that we were getting was going to end up with us dying. Just it's going to take longer.

So there's a lot of hope that as mercurial and unorthodox as President Trump is in his negotiating style, it's a bit of a roller coaster for us. But you know, I look at results, right? You know, you can't take them literally. You've got to take them seriously. And I think that that's where people are.

We're tired. We want peace. you know we're we're the ones doing the fighting and the dying right But but look, Brian, we we probably align better with American values than any other country in Europe. You know, we're lovers of freedom. We have the technology and the ingenuity we can share with America.

I was at a tech conference last week in Kiev. was put out by Brave One, which is the government's accelerator. There were 2,000 people there, half of them from the United States. And there was 3,500 people that had registered. You know, we're a God-fearing country.

We're the vital belt of Europe. There's so much that Ukrainians and Americans share and that we can share together. And I think that, you know, if we can just stabilize this situation so that there is a permanency to this peace, it's in everybody's interest that Putin never be allowed to do this again. And that's what really President Trump needs to do. And if these talks fall apart, we have to be prepared.

And if these talks fall apart, we have to be prepared to bring in weaponry to arm you guys up like never before.

So that he's got to know he has to make a deal. Uh Dan, thanks so much. Stay safe. Dan Billak joining us from Ukraine. You got it, Dan.

Thanks so much. Tommy Lehron is going to be joining us shortly. We'll bring you the latest. President Zelensky has just pulled up and gone into the White House. Big shake from President Trump.

They're going to work up behind closed doors and do a joint press conference right after. Brian Kilmicho, so glad you're here. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. Cover up.

To me. He is a little Hard, a little harsh. Every politician, everybody, every human being tries to cover up age. We were always from day one. Cognizant that age was an issue.

Would you say it was solved? There are some things that are true. I mean, like the gaslighting, there was a lot of denial of the polling. So that is Michael Rosa, the press secretary for Joe Biden with Terrible Audio, talking to Tara Palmieri about the reality behind the scenes with Joe Biden.

Now, everyone seems to be saying what we all saw and talked about. The guy was not functioning as a person, let alone a president. Tommy Lahren does not need to be convinced of this. She's the same Tommy Lahren who hosts Outkick. Tommy Laren is Fearless, right?

You're the same person. That's me. And Foxy's contributors here all over the channel. In fact, you're going to outnumbered at the top of the hour. I am right after this.

Unless something goes terribly wrong. Right. Unless you keep me in here. Right. Which is okay.

That's all right. But it is against the law. Yes. For me to pretty much we know that. First off, your reaction to guys Mike Laurel's, I wouldn't put him in that camp because he's been on our channel.

Now, everyone's saying, yeah, there's a big story about to be written. Jake Tapperco wrote it. Alex Thompson of Axios, how the massive cover-up to keep Joe Biden's failings a secret. I imagine a flood of books are coming in the next six months to a year. And I imagine a lot of sit-down interviews are coming in the next six months to a year.

I think they had to let it die down a little bit. They had to see where the Democrat Party was going.

Now they're going to go full Joe Biden under the bus. Michael AROSA has been on my show many times. He's a friend of mine. And I've asked him very candidly, on and off camera, about what he saw. And he's pretty honest about it now.

Everybody knew it. This wasn't like, oh, you know, somebody saw something one time. This is like a well-known thing around the White House. And I mean, again, we were conspiracy theorists when we noticed it back in 2020, and it got progressively worse and undeniable. Listen to this: Cut 34.

The presidency was scared to death of Uh impromptu, unscripted, unrehearsed, unpracticed, unphoregraphed, anything. Baker cookie. For the attention economy. They just couldn't do it. They didn't have any idea.

And they didn't have the vessel either in Biden, by the way, who would have done anything. He was. He lost doing stuff. It was the orbit that did not trust their app candidate.

So No kidding, did one unscripted, uh, un uh unrehearsed Interactions that Joe Biden wanted it, they wouldn't let him. Number one, what kind of president are you? You can't even overcome your own staff. What if you told Trump that? What have you told Trump stop doing interviews?

How would that go, Tommy? Right. Well, and again, I think we saw Joe Biden say out loud and admit, Well, they don't want me to say that, or I'm going to get in trouble if I say that. And I always wondered, who is the who? Who are these people?

Is it Jill? Is it Nancy? Is it Schumer? Who is it that is going to get mad at you? Is it the interns that are coordinating you and flanking you when you walk?

And then you have to get the special shoes and then you do the little runs sometimes. I mean, again, this was all right in front of our eyes. I think you're going to see more tell-alls come out. People are going to get rich off of this.

So, but Jake Tapper should not be one of them. I mean, who is this guy? He didn't say anything of worth to out them until after that debate. If you had any courage, by the way, Democrats, too, after the midterms. If there was someone who stood up and said, listen, you guys did Democrats did great.

Joe, you got to step down for the good of the party. I always said, wow, that takes courage because it it looked like things are going to be very bad for Democrats. And because I think of abortion, because of Roe v. Wade being overturned, they only lost the House by a small margin.

So they said that is a pat on the back, Joe Biden run again. Yeah, I think they were also terrified of the backup plan, and we see why. I think they were terrified to have to put Kamala Harris in that position. And I think that's why they tried to cover for it as long as they did. If they had this rock star vice president, I think they would have pushed him out much quicker.

I don't think it was ever a matter of, oh, we can't get him to release the reins.

Well, you threw him under the bus pretty quick after the debate.

So it can be done. You did it quickly. You did it in a matter of a couple of weeks. You could have done it way long ago. They were terrified of having to run Kamala.

And if they had to run Kamala, they wanted to run her with such a short window that maybe, just maybe, they could shield her long enough to get her across the finish line. I believe that until the day I die. This was all just to get away from Kamala. I would love to know who was the one who pushed for that debate in June. Because if they waited for the normal time after he officially got the nomination, wait until July, right before the convention, it would have probably been too late to pull the plug, don't you think?

I think that The Democrat Party wanted it that early. I think that they wanted to. They wanted him to fall on his face. Yes. And I think that's why there was a lot of talk about it and it became kind of a funny thing about, oh, is Joe going to get his meds before the debate?

And we all thought, you know, there are times when he has a glimmer of energy. The State of the Union was one of those glimmers. We thought, what are they going to put Joe on to get him through this? They put him on nothing. He rawdogged that debate.

And that to me was also purposeful.

Okay, raw dog that debate? Yes, I mean nothing. No coffee, nothing. Nope. And he said, Well, I had a cold.

But that's really what he was functioning as. But with, I think, the other story that needs to be told, and think about this: Bob Woodward wrote a book. They came out a year before or six months before. He was known as an investigative reporter.

Sometimes people wouldn't verify, couldn't verify some of the most explosive things he said. But here he is with the biggest story. How did he get elected? How is he running the country? Bob Woodward.

Who did not or decided not to tell the story? The number one story that was being he actually aided the cover-up by not telling the story. And it's also a hatred for Trump. Two things: they don't want to run Kamala. Uh-oh, if we have to run her, this could be even worse.

Maybe Joe can just hang on. And they hate Trump so much that they will cover for Joe Biden or anyone, even Kamala, if they're pushed to, rather than give President Trump an inch. Wow, that's so interesting because he did hate Trump. Remember, they talked for hours, and Trump thought he was going to do a good book on him. Instead, it was an explosive, horrible book, and he thought he could win him over.

That Donald Trump in 45 compared to the one you see now as 47 seems much more comfortable in the spot, wouldn't you say? Comfortable, and I think there's also a sense of, you know, not that he was ever lacking confidence, but a confidence of I don't have to run again.

So I'm going to do everything I can now, and I'm going to get it done as quickly as possible before the Republicans start getting worried about midterms. And we're going to make this happen fast because he realizes he's on the clock, so he's moving with incredible speed, but he also doesn't have to run again.

So this is really his golden era, too.

So what do you not like about the first month and a half? What is kind of bothering you about it? Sure. I've loved everything up until that pathetic display we saw yesterday with the influencers and the binders. I thought that was embarrassing.

And I think that every Republican needs to call that out. Every Republican in media, every Republican that considers himself to be an influencer. Whatever we saw yesterday with the binders, with the photo ops, holding them up like they were Lily Wonka golden tickets, that embarrassed me.

So the Jeff Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein thing. Yes. So with some when they walked out to feel like we got it. Yeah, it was just to me that was an embarrassing thing. First of all, there was nothing new.

So don't overpromise. If you're not going to deliver anything, people have been waiting for this for a long time. And then if you're going to under deliver, don't give it to social media influencers that are far-right social media influencers and have them standing there taking pictures with a binder, the contents of which is destruction of life, sex trafficking, pedophilia, holding it up to take a photo with it. That bothered me. And I think we need to be honest about it, especially in right-leaning media.

that that was a misstep. Please never do that again. What do you think that was behind that? You think that was communications division? Because I mean, I don't think Trump says give it to the influencers.

You never know, but. I don't know. I mean, they're obviously very Trump-friendly folks on social media that serve a purpose in getting the message out. And I understand this whole new era of everyone's the media now. Everyone on social media can have a platform.

I love that. I use it to my advantage. But there's a line. Don't cross the line, especially with something as sensitive as that. I thought that was a misunderstanding.

It's true because it's pedophilia and it's horrible stuff.

So they say Jeffrey Epstein's contact list includes Alec Baldwin, Mick Jagger, Mike Jackson, mother of RFK, Andrew Cuomo, Naomi Campbell, Senator Ted Kennedy. When Robert Kennedy popped up in this, he said, yeah, I got a ride to my, I have this foundation, the environmental foundation. He gave me a, let me borrow his plane to go somewhere. He goes, I'm fine if you research it. Just because you're in his contact list, Tommy, doesn't mean you necessarily did anything.

So I feel bad for somebody whose name's on the list who thought he was just a rich guy. Right. Well, and again, the same thing, obviously, um Heavily invested in social media, on Instagram, on all of the entertainment accounts. This morning I saw people e Trump on Epstein list. Again, they've recycled the story over and over again.

It's because you were on his plane or you knew him, does not mean you're implicated in anything, but they still got to run with that story. Even though there's no new news, it's clickbait. People see it though, and they don't dive in. And I think it's very strategic, the names that have been put out and the ones that have been focused on by the media.

So, Tommy, you're going to be on live for an hour, right? Yes. Um and there's going to be a bit different points where they're going to say, Tommy, what do you think? At one point, would you be able to say, as I was saying on Brian Kilmead's radio show?

Well, absolutely. Would you be able to ground us in that?

Well, the thing about it, Brian, is nobody in this building knows who you are. And you have such a small presence on the network that I will do, Tommy, will do you a favor and shine a little light on the Brian Kilmey. I think you're much more popular than me in the building. Tommy Laron, thanks so much. We'll watch you on outnumbered.

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Exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point. And guess what? One more exclamation. All right, Travis Kelsey says he's coming back to the Chiefs. He was terrible.

He didn't have a great season. He was terrible in the Super Bowl. He says I'm going to do it again. It's amazing the Chiefs don't have a say in that. He just says, I'm coming back because I don't know if it's going to be a cap hit, but maybe they want to go a different direction.

I mean, maybe Travis Kelsey is, I think, too in love with the limelight, personally. And I mean, I notice he's flying around on his day off. That's really hard to do at a high level because he's with the most famous woman in the world, and everybody's looking at all this other stuff he's doing. I am really surprised he comes back for another year. I was at the Super Bowl, and for some reason, I was watching him a lot because I could not believe the pressure the quarterback was under, Pat Mahomes, and he did nothing.

It's almost as if he was. It was like a pickup game he didn't want to be in.

So I'm really surprised he decided to do that. The other thing, Allison, before you would tell me about this southwest flight. Yeah, so these two college students were, you know, checking in for their flight and uh The Southwest employee said you guys are the only one on this 170-person plane.

So, do you want to hear a little bit of it? They still flew it with only two people on it? They did. Yellow cheer. We're at the Salt Lake City Airport and we're flying home for the weekend.

And that's Nan! says you have the whole thing to your guys'self. And I said jokingly, oh my gosh, because it's my bridal shower. But he was like being so serious. He's not kidding.

It holds 173 people. Two people are butt. Me and her. Do we know where they were going? Um, they were flying home from Salt Lake City.

I forget the end destination, but then being southwest, they always have a little bit of fun. Here are some of the plane announcements.

Alright, Savannah had not leaked. We have now just 10,000 feet. The beta in Italy, who is coming through to take your drink orders, quickly. Savannah and Natalie, please be mindful of the fight to serve you in the aisle. Savannah and Natalie, your safety will always be our number one priority, so don't hesitate to let us know if you have any other needs that we can take care of.

Southwest Airlines. I didn't think they would still fly, but I guess they did. They got to honor it. I mean, and the flight still needs to get where they're going because I'm sure the flights are going to be. Oh, they got to bring the other planes.

Those are transport flights. Yeah, they're moving the plane to a different location. And if you're lucky enough, then yeah, you get it to yourself. But I mean, are you just a little bit jealous that they paid the price of a Southwest ticket for basically a private jet? Right.

I mean, I just don't get the Southwest seating schemes. I just don't understand it at all. It blows me away.

Well, hopefully they didn't pay more to board first. Right. So, what about? I didn't even realize what Tommy was just telling me before. Those were influencers who got the Jeffrey Epstein binders.

Yeah. Because I was watching that and thinking to myself, I don't know who these people are. And they were laughing about it.

So that was bad optics. Do you agree with that? No, I do, and I think there could have been ways like, you know, Bondi could have looked at the documents prior to being like, we're going to release them, saying, Let me see them first to make sure it's something new, or maybe more will come out sooner. But I mean, the same thing happened with the drones over New Jersey, right? We're going to release all the information.

And then when they spoke about it, they gave us a little bit more information, but they never gave us all of the information.

So just on the contact list, it's like the who's who of the Kennedys: John Kerry, Dustin Hoffman, John Huntsman, Ivana Trump, Ivanka Trump, Mada Liz Hurley. But I'm sure a lot of them, this is his contact list.

So maybe Jeffrey Epsy knows how to call Ivanka Trump. Is that news?

So here's what Senator Marshall Blackburn said. Uh yesterday about this whole thing, Cup thirty seven. What we know is that there is a file the FBI has that is related to the trial. We know that there are IRS records and we know that there is video footage from the Palm Beach residents. And over the last couple of years, I've been stymied, as you know, by Christopher Wray and the FBI and they did not want to give this information forward.

I tried to subpoena it in a judiciary committee. I was the top Republican on the Human Rights Subcommittee. In that capacity, I worked on this issue for the past couple of years. And when I chose to bring forward my subpoena, all of a sudden, Chairman Durbin decided we were going to adjourn the committee, and we issued no subpoenas. And there has been that attempt to hide this.

So we'll see what goes on because right now you can't have any people more higher up in these agencies. Cash Patel is there. Pam Bondi is there.

So who's hiding something in the FBI from the director of the FBI? I'm not sure if, like, maybe they just need a little bit more time to dig down to the bottom of it. I mean, I just think it's the big story is you never get the big story from the FBI. Cut thirty nine is John Kiricow. He's the former CIA director.

Cut let's listen. I think the Easiest explanation is that so many FBI agents have been there for years, for decades. They think it's their organization, it's not Cache Patel's organization or even Pam Bondi's, and they're going to do as they please. Times have changed, and they have until 8 o'clock tomorrow morning to get with the program or walk out the door. I would start firing people.

You know, at the CIA, we always worked at the pleasure of the President. If the President didn't like the cut of your suit, you were shown the door. And there's something to that. I think that that's the way it should be. If you refuse to obey a direct lawful order, to turn documents over.

then you need to go, and somebody else should have that job who can do it.

So there's thousands of pages. But my thing is, it's not like this is national security. If we're trying to get to the bottom of the Russian hoax, we need to know. If we're trying to find out what Robert Hurr knew about Joe Biden mental state, we need to know. But Jeffrey Epstein is dead, and His girlfriend is in jail.

The victims are not suing that I even know of. We're just trying to find out what celebrities were a part of it that are now denying it. But people should be careful because AI is putting a lot of people out there saying that they were there, and there's a lot of crazy things. You could destroy someone because of that. I mean, Alan Dershowitz is on this again.

He sued, and I think he won that lawsuit about defamation from the one accuser, or that court case seemed to go away. But I think a lot of people also want to know is How did Epstein really die in jail. Right. It's quite suspicious. Right.

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