Newsom eyes 2028, breaks with party on transgender athletes

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Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kilmey Show. Thanks for being with us all week long. I know you have. We've been in D.C. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

We're back in action now in New York where there's a lot going on. This Mayo race is going to have national attention because Governor Cuomo's back in it and back in trying to get back into politics. You would think he'd be done, finished, through, but he's not. Today is going to be kind of exciting because you have the President of the United States is going to be delivering remarks at the White House Digital Asset Summit in the state dining room. Also, the Fed Chairman Sharon Powell will deliver a keynote remark.

What's a big deal about that? The substance of it. People would be looking for that. And today is the day, the official redesignation ceremony of Fort Liberty to Fort Bragg.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. Would you do something like that? Would you say no men in female sports?

Well, I think it's an issue of fairness. I completely agree with you on that. Wow.

So that's easy to call out the unfairness of that. Yes, Governor Newsom tries to join America's mainstream on preventing trans women in women's sports, and the blowback has been nothing short of hysterical on the left, telling you everything that's wrong with the left. Number two. We are now in discussions to uh Coordinate a meeting with the Ukrainians in Riyadh, or even potentially Jeddah.

So the city is moving around a little bit, but it will be Saudi Arabia. It looks like Jeddah now, Russia-Ukraine. We're about to find out how serious Europe is in defending and supporting Ukraine and what Russia is willing to do for real peace. We will tell you about the rapidly changing path to a ceasefire. Number What I want is, I want the numbers, but I also want to keep the good people.

We want to get rid of the people that aren't working, that aren't showing up. And have a lot of problems. And I think we're doing a really great job. Yup, there we go. The President of the United States, Doge, steps back as we've been calling for with cabinet secretaries in place.

Trump tells Doge personal decisions will now be handled by his confirmed cabinet. This combination, he believes, will help him balance the budget by next year. Charlie Hurt joins us. Charlie, first time I can say officially, I think Fox and Friends Weekend co-host on radio. I congratulate you on TV, but not until you do radio does it make it official.

Yeah, well, and of course, since it's radio, nobody got to see it. Like, you know, Brian gave me the Heisman. I was in the middle of a really great story, and then your radio show started, and then you put the Heisman up, like, stop talking. Right. Is this like what you this is just kind of is it?

Do you walk around the house when somebody else talks to you? You just put your hand up and say, stop talking. Allison, I thought you told me he understood the business. This is this. I thought you told me that you briefed him on live television and live radio.

It's like, I could be polite, or I could be, or I could be acknowledging of our huge numbers. National audience. When Brian puts his hand up, it means talk to the hand, stop talking. Please. Stop talking to the press.

So a couple of things.

So, today, first off, let's talk about the new arrangement with Doge. This is an acknowledgement. I think of what happened two days ago, where Republicans are thrilled to have Doge, but in some ways, now that they're in charge, like secretaries are in charge. Like, gosh, you fired some of the wrong guys. You know, we need some of them around.

Have you thought about it? I love that they're bringing that systems and modern and AI and everything to these departments. But I think the president hears the secretary saying, I need some control. Yeah, so you set the tone with the chainsaw, you set the tone with the hatchet. But at some point, when you've got your secretaries in place and they're looking around and they're like, wait, hold on a second, you just fired the three guys that were actually helping me here.

That's when you need to get a scalpel. And I think that this is natural and it's good. Yeah, I think it's very good. But let's not forget, I don't think any of the agency heads, I don't think any of the secretaries of these departments would be as motivated as they are if we hadn't been through the past several months where it was very clear: no, no, no, no, we're doing chainsaw stuff here.

So, this is a quote. Just so people want to don't look at the headline and think Doge is falling as being pushed back. They're not. I think it's an organization thing. He said cabinet officials will meet with Doge every two weeks until the administration has wrapped up its efforts to revamp the federal workforce.

He announced this while lauding the special government employee. His name is Elon Musk. Here's cut one. If you think Doge and Elon Musk have been moving too quickly, no, no, I think they've done an amazing job. They've done an amazing job.

And look at what they found. I read it the other night in the speech. I mean, they found these things where billions of dollars has been poured down the drain to things. That's not about people, that's about contracts where. Billions and billions of dollars was just thrown out the window.

It probably got kickbacks. I'm sure there were tremendous kickbacks for the people that authorized those contracts. Right. And that's the thing. Where's the money?

I want to find out where the money is and how it's being spent. And who wouldn't want that? Everyone out there listening to us, even if you bought, if you went grocery shopping, you pay tax. You're paying taxes, and money goes into an abyss. And all you hear about is, we need more money.

I need to charge you to drive through the middle of a city now. $9. Really? Does it have anything to do with the $600 billion you spent on illegal immigrants? And by the way, it's been cut off since.

You said you're not allowed to do that. But so one of the arguments that you hear from Democrats is, oh, that's a drop in the bucket.

Well, it was $6 million spent on some weird thing in some weird place that nobody's ever heard of. $6 million is more than the entire tax bill many people pay in an entire lifetime. And so you're basically saying to taxpayers, oh, everything you have paid in your taxes, in federal taxes in your life, we're going to hand over to transgender mice in some country you've never heard of.

So it's so difficult. deeply insulting. And here's the other thing. Every successful company Successful families. Everybody is always looking towards how do I cut my budget?

How do I cut spending? And the idea that you have these federal agencies and the federal government never has to sit down and say, how am I going to squeeze 10% out of my budget? It's insane. And they should squeeze way more than that. But at the very least, it's a good, healthy thing to squeeze 10%, 15%, 20%, 25% just on an annual basis out of what you're spending in the government.

So there's two things that you always think of with Democrats. They always want to talk about DEI and they always want to talk about how diverse everything is. For example, Joe Manchin said to me, I went up to Joe Biden, he said, I said, Joe, what have you done? You have all these left-wingers on your cabinet. And he said, they're the most diverse cabinet in history.

And Manchin's comment was, so? And for Trump, he does have a diverse cabinet, but he doesn't care. It just so happens that one's a woman, one's a man, one's from Pakistan. It doesn't matter. And that's what I love.

The other thing is green energy. The Democrats are all about green energy. And guess who's in charge of the EPA, Lee Zeldon? We saw him at the White House on Wednesday, and he was almost breathless in what he found with how much money is laying around, it's been jammed into a system. Here's Lee Zeldon about the green slush fund.

Cut for it's a green slush fund: $20 billion parked at an outside bank towards the end of the Biden administration, given to just eight NGOs. You just named a bunch of them. These NGOs were created. For the first time, many of them just to get this money and their pass-throughs.

So the EPA entered into this account control agreement with these entities. Treasury enters into a financial agent agreement with the bank, and they design it. To tie the EPA's hands behind their back, to tie the federal government's hands behind its back.

So when the money goes through the NGOs to subgrantees, many of them also pass throughs. We don't know where it's going. We don't have the proper amount of oversight. Still blew you away. I mean, you see it, and you see Stacey Abrams formed one, and she's got billions of dollars in it.

But where that money is, I don't know. But he says it's parked right now. Yeah, so obviously, the administration is already running into some roadblocks put up by judges, and they're talking about important issues like whether the Congress has the authority to do spending or whether the president, the executive branch, has the authority to rescind spending. And these are all important issues. But when you get into issues like this, where there's clearly wrongdoing that went on, clearly money was misspent.

Money was given to friends in green energy, shady green energy operations that are clearly not the intent of Congress. You get into some really interesting areas where you can pull the money back. Maybe you don't, you know, it's sort of a gray area between like usurping Congress's authority to spend. They did something wrong here. And I think it's very important to go through, use your Justice Department to go after these people.

Yes, you have to go to the ends of the earth and to prove that this money is, it's not just that it's not a question of whether the executive branch has the authority to usurp spending power. It has to do with the executive branch definitely has the authority, has the responsibility. Responsibility to make sure that that money is spent lawfully and legally and appropriately. And that's where I think they win in the courts, and that's where they win in this fight about rescission spending. Versus Congress.

I mean, what we're going to see, too, for example, the CHIPS Act. It's a good idea on theory, right?

Okay. You want to bring CHIPS back on shore. You want to give people incentive to come back and, okay, cut red tape and all these things. But what they put to it is all these DEI requirements. It's got to be a certain amount of minorities, got a certain amount of women.

There's got to be daycare in order to hire people. What are you talking about? Like, all that stuff has got to go. But that was in those CHIPS Act legislation and political correctness. And you go back, the wreckage of previous programs.

You know, remember the Solyndra thing with Obama. You're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars who going to political friends, political allies. And, you know, is it explicitly illegal? I don't know, but this stuff doesn't get investigated. And if you have a Department of Justice, you can investigate this stuff.

So here's the: I don't want to re-litigate the Biden years because it's so aggravating. But he passes the $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act, right? Right? $740 billion. And then he kids, it's never about inflation.

Right. Kids about it. Almost as if I got it through and I lied. And it exploded inflation. And it exploded, but he also doesn't know how to implement anything.

His infrastructure, the Inflation Reduction Act, which is a new Green Deal. That's what it is.

Well, whatever they could pass.

So that comes in to address the climate crisis.

So there are a bunch of programs that I don't personally don't support, that maybe you don't support, but they didn't even put them into play. You want to make your people an incentive to get an electric car, but you got to build an infrastructure.

So that's what this money's for: infrastructure.

Okay. They're going to build terminals. What is it, eight to 12 terminals in a country this size?

So you have to be as president. You have to have someone who actually puts into practice what got passed. He had no interest in following through on the stuff that he passed. Because they were just firehosing money. And that's how Stacey Abrams winds up with $2 billion because they're just fire hosing money.

And you know what organization does. Doesn't have these problems is an organization that calls every single one of his department heads into the office every year and says, find me 10%, find me 20% savings this year. And that's the sort of mindset where you don't get this kind of absurd, disgusting waste, fraud, and abuse.

So, what I would just love to see Is The Musk people, not only looking at personnel recommendations, got it. But I want to see them working on systems because they've filled up, they've had formed so many elite corporations that have been successful. And that's his strength. And what about tech? And in terms of bringing the best tech support from Silicon Valley and AI to make everybody better, and wouldn't it be great with government workers, maybe I'm dreaming, to get some type of incentive within that to say, Hey, listen, man, you're a star.

It's like with teachers, you know, how do you do that? How do you reward really great teachers? And how do you get rid of really crappy teachers? And that's the that's the you know, I want to reward good teachers more. You know, we come back more with Charlie Hurt and stuff at the weekend.

Do you have any idea to promo for your weekend? Anyone? No, you don't.

Okay, you can call on the break. And then we have Mayor Randy Brown coming in. Not only is he a former mayor in New Jersey, we're going to have a lot of senior special teams coach. Don't move. Breaking news.

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So, like, you right now should come out and be like, you know what? The young man who's about to win the state championship in the long jump in female sports, that shouldn't happen. You, as the governor, should step out and say no. No, and I appreciate it. But, like, would you do something like that?

Would you say no, men, in female sports?

Well, I think it's an issue of fairness. I completely agree with you on that. So that's easy to call out, the unfairness of that. There's also a humility and a grace. You know, that these poor people are more likely to commit suicide, have anxiety and depression.

And the way that people talk down to vulnerable communities is an issue that I have a hard time with as well.

So, both things I can hold in my hand. How can we address this issue with the kind of decency that I think? you know, it's inherent in you, but not always expressed.

So, what he's trying to say is trying to have both sides. Governor Gavin Newsom has gone out of his way for the trans community so men play in women's sports. Told Charlie Kirk in his first episode on his new. Podcast, which is perfect now that Los Angeles is burned to the ground and the fires are now out. You can probably sit back because you didn't do anything to begin with.

Charlie Hurd is here.

So, Charlie, people are going crazy. Gavin Newsome has changed his mind. He's such a fraud. He's not changed his mind. He's a con artist.

This is so amazing. And I enjoy the thing. I love watching Charlie Kirk do mental gymnastics with this guy and beat him up. And it's great and everything. But let's be clear: the danger here is this whole project by Gavin Newsom is a Gavin Newsom laundering scam.

He's trying to launder himself to air out all of the things he's been wrong about forever and the Democrats have been wrong about forever. And he's trying to find these little safe spaces where he can sort of change all of his positions so he can suddenly come out a moderate and run for the so 75% of the American people are not for trans men playing in women's sports. Yeah, but he has been for a while. President Trump brings it up again. He says, Do they understand this is the biggest losing issue ever?

Yes, Gavin Newsom does. But if Gavin Newsom didn't even come out clearly and say, I am not for this, like we just did. He doesn't have to come out clearly the first episode. That's going to be like the 10th or 12th episode. He's going to refine all this, and it's going to become the problem.

He's still governor. And for example, Cynthia Slavin, the mom of one of the girls who filed a lawsuit against this thing happening in Riverside, California, she says, I'm thankful he now sees it this way. What's truly unfair is that he has the power to do something about this issue, but doesn't. Talk is cheap, take action, do something, she says. And then Ro Kahana, a Democrat, that people go, well, now that's a reasonable guy.

He says, this is a moment for Democrats to stand for the dignity of the trans community, the immigrant community, and the most vulnerable. That is the mindset of the Democrats. I don't think that this helps Democrats at large. I think it's going to expose what a fraud, what disgusting people half of these people are. But that's not what Gavin Newsome cares about.

All he cares about is laundering himself so that he is in a position to run for president. And so here is Hakeem Jeffries when asked that question. This starts making big news, cut 20. I want to ask about uh California Governor Gavin Newsom's comments uh saying that Democrats were in the wrong for allowing transgender athletes to compete in female and girls sports. Um What is your response to that after Democrats had opposed the women and girls in sports?

I haven't Scene. His comments, what Democrats opposed. was unleashing Sexual predators on girls throughout the United States of America. What? He thinks that they have to do expose their genitals to find out what sex they are.

No, but that's not in the act. What is he even talking about? This is insane. Yeah, no, that's great. Mr.

Jeffries, please go with that. Please make that your argument. That's going to be a winner. That's like, I actually want a healthy Democrat Party because I really do want, because I don't trust in Republicans. And so I really want a healthy Democrat Party, to keep them honest.

But that's not it. But who's on your show this weekend? Oh, we got Megan. We're going to kick off the Faith in Friends concert series with Megan Woods. And you have Larry Trump.

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This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Mayor Johnson, is Denver a sanctuary city? Folks use that term differently. I can tell you what Denver does. We do that.

Okay, I take that as a yes. Is Chicago a sanctuary city? A 40-year policy. of being a welcoming city. Let's talk about Tom Homan.

Shame on him. Others may want to bring hell. We are here to bring peace to cities everywhere. In the city of Boston, how much did you spend? We don't ask about immigration status and delivering citizens.

You don't ask about how much money the city of Boston has spent on illegal immigration. Are you out of your budget? Do you manage your budget or not, Mayor Wu? Mayor Wu, do you manage your budget? Unbelievably aggravating to see these mayors who spend millions of dollars to prepare themselves for the cross examination on the Oversight Committee on Immigration that will took place this week.

You had the Mayor of New York, You had the mayor of Boston, the mayor of Chicago, and the mayor of Denver all have one thing in common. They're overrun by illegal immigrants, and they're all sanctuary cities. Joining me now in the studio, a guy with the most unique skill set, maybe in America, former mayor Randy Brown, former mayor of Evansom Township from 2007 to 2018, and Baltimore Ravens Senior Special Teams coach from 2008 to today, including a Super Bowl championship in 2013. Mr. Mayor, great to see you.

Hey, Brian, thanks for having me, man. This is great. I don't know if you were ever free, if you were free during that day to see any of this streaming was probably on C-SPAN. We dipped in out of it. But is there any excuse to be a Sanctuary City in your mind?

No, there isn't. You know, there's no excuse to be a Sanctuary City. And I saw some of the testimony. What are your thoughts on that? I saw some of the testimony.

And it was to see a mayor there. When you're a mayor, right? I was a mayor for 12 years of Marlton, New Jersey. And when you're a mayor, To me, the first and most important thing is how do you protect your residents? That's the oath that you take, right?

How do you protect your residents? And by bringing illegals in. And then, when they commit crimes, we don't contact ICE, you don't contact authorities. That's a problem.

So, when I saw them there saying they're spending hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars in order to protect and house and clothe, it's an embarrassment. It really is. But you heard Byron Donald saying, How much do you spend? And she I don't know. What do you mean, you know?

She knows. She said she didn't know. She's under oath. Yeah, she she said, I don't know. And you know what, truly, Brian?

There's a real good chance they don't know because there's no doubt they mix their housing budget. They have to be mixing their housing budget, uh, their food budget and all. There's no doubt they there's no doubt she doesn't know. I don't know if you saw the video, but when there was a in Denver, they had a uh a one of the jail uh when those uh Those gangs, those jail gangs from the TDA over in Venezuela. They said, let ICE in to take them out.

They said, no.

So, when they had to wait for this guy to be let out of prison and then chase, literally run him down. One of the ICE agents got assaulted by this guy, took 12 of them, think about all the other things they're not doing, and then they find it. Is that the intent of Sanctuary Cities? I think it is. I think, to me, Brian, when you saw that and the guy's running and he's got to get tased, when you could have had a real simple, easy handoff in the jail to ICE, but You know what, Brian?

being a Republican mayor in a blue state like I was in New Jersey, you fought against some of these state policies where you look at and you're like, this isn't what's best for the residents. It's not what's best for constituents. I was told by a very smart, smart politician when I was first sworn in, Constituent services. That's how you get re-elected. And more importantly, that's how you take care of the city.

Isn't that the only reason you do it? You don't do it for the money. No. You don't do it for the fame. Dude, I was making $300 a month for 50,000 people through the course of the day.

We have 100,000. I was taking home $300 a month. But it was a town I was born and raised in. I loved it. Right.

And how can we go ahead and build fields? Right. How can we have parades? How can we bring revenue in? You know, we took our town and we added $2 billion in what our tax assessments were.

So that's what it is. But. Brian, I think there's a deeper background to this, and it all has to do with finances, right? And these people who are in office now.

So many of them are how do I enrich myself? And they aren't coming out rich. How the heck are they doing that? I don't know how you can run for Congress. You become a Congressman, you make $175,000, and then within four years, you're worth $37 million.

So if that's the case, then I think I'm in the wrong profession. I think I'd just be a congressman, not NFL coach. And the NFL doesn't pay. Just go sit there and hire your family, go work for U.S. AID, and then you'll be set.

Right, so here we go. Here's Michelle Wu sparring with James Comer. Listen to this, Cut 33. This is a Boston. In a Boston suburb, an illegal alien raped and impregnated his 14-year-old daughter while living in a shelter for illegal aliens.

Would you turn this criminal over to ICE on a detainer? Whenever there is a criminal warrant, Boston police enforce that and hold people accountable. Will you turn that criminal over to ICE? We follow the laws and we make sure. Do you believe that ICE arresting a child rapist, quote, threatens everyone's safety?

No. You say ICE's efforts actually threaten the safety of everyone, end quote. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu. You're a hypocrite. That's Nancy Mace.

So she is going to be primaried. Bye. A Bobcraft Son. And Bob Kraft says, I'm running as a nonpartisan. I just want to get in there.

Well, I mean, you don't know the inside Boston politics, but number one, what are the chances of that? Of coming in, somebody just reasonable into these blue cities. I mean, you have a Chicago mayor with 6% approval rating. Left-wing policies. Eric Adams, barely in double digits approval.

Left-wing policies. I mean, do you think that this could be a first big move like Thunderclap? I would hope so, Brian. But the concern that you always have when you put your name on a ballot, okay, and I did it four times, one primary and three general elections. You put your name on a ballot, You have to trust that the votes that are being counted are the legal votes.

The votes that are being counted are the votes that are intended to be. Casted on both sides.

So the hardest thing is, as a politician, when you put your name on a ballot, is all the work and time you put in, right? All right. Are the legal Are the legal residents voting for you? All right, and voting, and/or for who your opponent is? And that's always my biggest concern, especially with these sanctuary cities right now.

It's, you know, who's voting? And there's, and it's in California and New York, it's almost illegal to even ask for an identification. Which is nuts. It's nuts.

So, if you, you know, and and politicians at times, you know, they get a bad rap. But if you're going to put your name on a ballot, my goodness, and you're going to take time away from your family and you're going to lose money. You really hope and pray that votes are being counted. correctly and they're being counted by the legal voters. You know New Jersey.

Yes. They got really clo Trump got really close in New Jersey. And people are saying that, that's the next state that could flip. What's the reality? Yeah, I think so.

All my years in Jersey politics.

So Jack Sitterelli lost by eighty thousand votes.

So let's put this in perspective, right? When I was There was about 1.5 million more Democrats than Republicans in New Jersey.

Now that number is all the way down to 850,000.

So here's the thing: independents have a huge say in New Jersey politics, which is why Chris Christie got elected. That's why Tom Kaine got elected. That's why Christie Cobb Whitman got elected.

So if you can convince. In my opinion. Independent voters in New Jersey. To go your way.

So it was an 80,000 spread, but you gotta keep an eye on Hudson and Bergen County. They're the two counties which are of concern because they drive a lot of votes out, and sometimes votes just show up. Is it the Jersey Giants and Jets in your mind? It's the New Jersey Giants and Jets. Yes.

Could we get more tax dollars from them? If I was governor, I'd be like, the Jersey Giants and Jets. Where where's that tax dollar? Do you remember when that was a swamp or no? That was one that was Sonny Werblin looked in New Jersey and said, we're going to move the Giants out of Yankee Stadium.

We'll bring the Jets there too eventually. I mean, how you looked at that area and thought perfect place for a stadium, because I still think it's terrible. I hate going there. It's terrible.

Well, you're a Giants fan, right? Yeah. You're a Giants fan. I've tried to convert you to a Ravens fan.

Well, put it this way: if I was forced to give up New York, that's where I would go because you got the classiest organization around. When did you realize how great an organization this was?

Well, it's so great to get to get in the NFL is like you hit the go, you know, you hit the lottery. Yeah. But then to get the type of organization that you have.

Well, I've, number one, I've been so fortunate that I work with one of my best friends in life and John Harbaugh. And the guy is aces. Everything about what John tells you is going to happen happens, right? And then to work for Steve Bashati and Ozzie Newsom and Eric DaCosta and Sashi Brown.

Okay. So the consistency that you have over there. I worked for the Eagles in 2004, 2005, and that's a great organization with Mr. Lori and Howie Roseman and that crew. And my son coaches for the Eagles now, Tyler, who won the Super Bowl.

So to be fortunate enough to be in that organization, when did I find out? Literally day one, when you go there. And you see how they treat their. All the other employees, right? What's the food like?

What's the travel like? It was it's always first class. And I've been there 18 years, and you know, if they asked me to sign an 18-year contract today, I'd sign 18 more years. 18 years. I've been there 18 seasons.

John and I came together in 2008.

So you knew Art Mardell? I did not. No. I was with the Eagles in 2004, 2005 seasons when we lost the Super Bowl to the Patriots. Right.

But no. Because Baltimore's got such a fascinating story in that they move the Colts in the middle of the night, show up and they move out and they become the Ravens. Yeah. Yeah. It's a great history, and I don't know how many teams are kind of named after him.

After a literary hero and Edgar Allan Poe. Right. So you have, that's what it was from. Yes. Okay.

So you have a situation where in the middle of the night, people don't know it, but the video exists. Bob Ursay moves his team to Indianapolis.

So Baltimore, this great sports city, has no team. Then, Cleveland Art Model says, I need a new stadium. They're not doing it. He's wrestling with this horrible stadium.

So he decides he's moving to Baltimore. And they have to play that the rest of the season. Bill Belichick is the coach in front of the most hostile, loyal fans ever who are about to lose their team. Do people ever tell you about what that was like? You know, they don't.

We don't normally go backwards. Everything's forward-looking. They don't, but you know, you've heard some stories. And I think the one thing about Art Model that not a lot of people have spoken about, that was the first ever Monday night football game. All right, it was Cleveland and the Jets, and he decided to host Monday night football.

So the start of Monday night football was an offshoot of Art Model and what he thought what you know, his thoughts back then. And now now, you know, what what now it's Monday night football? Sunday night football. Thursday night football. And then when college is done, we're playing Saturdays.

Listen, the NFL is the best league, it's best sports league in the world. It's a $20-plus billion-dollar industry, and it's great TV, it's great people. And I'm just so blessed that my son and I get a chance to coach in the National Football League, and it's an honor and it's a privilege. Right. So, more with the mayor and Mayor Randy Brown, former mayor of New Jersey, Baltimore Ravens special teams coach, and a good friend.

And when he comes back, his connection to the Trump campaign, you're not going to believe it. You'll listen to the Brian Kilmeat Show. Newsmakers and newsbreakers. Here at first on the Brian Kilmeat Show. A radio show like no other.

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So like you right now should come out and be like, you know what? The young man who's about to win the state championship in the long jump in female sports, that shouldn't happen. You as the governor should step out and say no. No, and I appreciate it. But like, would you do something like that?

Would you say no men in female sports?

Well, I think it's an issue of fairness. I completely agree with you on that. So that was Gavin Newsom. It shows Ripple throughout the country. And on the left, Rogana, can't believe it.

Hakeem Jeffries, it's predatory.

So with us right now, still is Mayor Randy Brown. He's also a Baltimore Ravens special teams coach, former mayor of New Jersey. Your thoughts? You coach forever, and you coach your daughters. What would you do if a trans player showed up on the other team?

I was fortunate enough to coach both my daughters, Ryan and McKenzie, in soccer and softball and travel and all that stuff. And, you know, it is fairness. I mean, it's really what it comes down to. And there should not be boys and girls' sports. Would you let your team play?

I wouldn't. No, I would not allow. If that happened, and by the way, it has to not happen, especially in soccer and even basketball and volleyball. You see the sports of where they could dominate. And, you know, it's just such a physical difference between them that they couldn't.

And so, no, when I was coaching travel, if that was the case, I would not allow my team to play. What was it like for you on a different level, coaching, but not coaching? You were in the stands. And your son wins the Super Bowl. A lot of similarities between you and the Super Bowl.

Yeah, you know, it was pretty cool, Brian. 12 years ago with the Ravens, we won the Super Bowl in New Orleans, and my mom was there with us to watch that. And here we were just a month ago. My son Tyler, who spent probably 70, 80 games with us at the Ravens on a field as the ballboy, you know, just finished his fourth year in Philadelphia. And I was able to sit with my mom, who's 83, and watch your grandson win a Super Bowl.

And you got to figure, Brian, there's 59 Super Bowls. There's only been about 5,000 people who've ever won as a coach or player. 5,000. That's pretty cool. You know, 8 billion people in the world.

And my son and I won our Super Bowls on the same exact field, 12 years apart. Only without the power outage. Yes. They would get the lights on the second half of this game. But the way the Eagles were playing, it was almost the opposite.

So, your daughter, extremely talented, she was able to sing before how many Trump rallies?

So, thanks to. You, all right, and the listeners. And Brian Kilmead is honestly one of the nicest guys in media. And, you know, and what you did and reached out to the Trump campaign. And my daughter, Ryan, has sung in front of over a million people already.

She's done NBA, MLB, she's done Ravens, Eagles. But thanks to you, she ended up doing five Trump rallies. And then on Saturday before the final four-day Trump rallies on that Monday, they called her and said, Ryan, where do you want to sing? And they gave her four locations, and we chose Reading. And she sung on that Monday right before the election.

So tell me what it's like on the inside with the Trump team and with these crowds as they mass. The spirit in the audience and the behind the scenes.

Well, Brian, it was energy. It was electric. It was like a sporting event. It really was. And I had two great people that work with us and Alex Meyer and Justin Corbett.

And these guys were, they're young, they're aggressive, and everything was on point, on point. But it was electric. You could feel it. And the energy, and everybody was so nice to each other. Other.

It didn't matter where you came from. It didn't matter what you believed in. You were all one at that point. And that was you were all there for America first. That's what we did.

But when you see that audience, and you're never going to see another presidential candidate, and for Democrats listening right now, this is just a fact. Didn't it remind you of like when you go to see a band or when you go to like or a rally for a team? Because it's almost you're not looking to be impressed. It's like you're looking to support your God. Brian, I coach in front of 75,000 people a week during the NFL season, and it felt like an NFL game.

I mean, sometimes when he was introduced, he'd come out. The sound was deafening. After my daughter sang the anthem, Brian. All five times. U.

S. A. USA, the chant, the chant. To the point I just got chills just saying it because I lived it for five times, and my daughter's standing there singing. And for three of the rallies, they sang with her the whole time.

Johnstown, Reading. It was tremendous. And it was as close as I've seen our country in my 57 years. Was this prior to the assassination attempt?

Some of them were, and then four of them were after. What were your thoughts about that, knowing that? There was someone there with a gun. There might have been others. I think when you go to look at this and you look at the security.

You wonder how many other events where something terrible could have happened. Brian, my daughter asked me that. My daughter Ryan, who's 19. And after the Butler shooting, and knowing she was going to sing in an open crowd, and you know, I assured her, I said, We are not going to run from terror. That's not what we do.

You know, and it's hard to be a leader, Brian. If leadership was easy, everybody would do it. It's hard. And so, my daughter stood up there, and I'm be honest, the first rally after the shooting that she did, and she was very nervous. But guess what?

She did it because she believes in the United States of America. First time around, that was great. First time it was very polarizing to support Trump, not support Trump. Patriots, especially. Brady liked Trump.

Belichick liked Trump.

Some of the players didn't. How does the locker room handle politics? They don't. We don't use politics. There's very little conversation ever in our buildings, in our locker room about politics.

But, you know, our country is free for a reason. You like who you like, and you believe who you believe, and you support who you support. Is it safe to say if you win the Super Bowl this year, you will go to the White House? Oh, we're going to. I'm going to hopefully the White House in a week.

Alex Meyer, make sure you invite me. Absolutely. Mayor Randy Brown, thanks so much, and best of luck this season. Thanks for having me, Brian. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division.

It's Brian Kilmey. Hi one, Brian Kilmey here from 48th and 6 in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. This hour is going to be busy. Daniel Turner, founder of Energy Advocacy Group, Power of the Future. We watched yesterday as the Secretary of the Interior and Energy talked about opening up brand new natural gas sites, do some fracking.

There is going to be some massive, massive exporting of energy to our allies that was just being ignored under the auspices of. keeping the earth alive. We know how I feel about that. John Stostel is standing by, one of America's finest reporters, been in New York covering all important issues, deep thinker for the last 50 years, from ABC to here at Fox. He's got a great column, OUD for outstanding columnists, talking about everything else going on with our enemies and the dumb things socialists promise.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. Would you do something like that? Would you say no men and female sports?

Well, I think it's an issue of fairness. I completely agree with you on that. So that's easy to call out the unfairness of that. Really, Gavin Newsom tries to join America's mainstream in preventing trans women in women's sports, and the blowback has been nothing short of hysterical on the left. Number two.

We are now in discussions to uh Coordinate a meeting with the Ukrainians in Riyadh, or even potentially Jeddah.

So the city is moving around a little bit, but it will be Saudi Arabia. It will be, and that's Steve Witkoff, Russia, Ukraine. We're about to find out how serious Europe is in defending and supporting Ukraine and what Russia is willing to do for real peace as the Ukrainians will send a delegation to Saudi Arabia. Number one. What I want is, I want the numbers, but I also want to keep the good people.

We want to get rid of the people that aren't working, that aren't showing up. and have a lot of problems. And I think we're doing a really great job. That is President Trump talking about Doge. Doge steps back as we're going for and have been talking about on this show with the cabinet secretaries in place.

Trump tells Doge personal decisions will now be handled by those secretaries, his confirmed cabinet. Then he believes that combination will help balance the budget. John Stossel joins us now. John, welcome back. Hi.

Good to talk to you, Brian.

So first off, John. Your thoughts today about what is going on in these college campuses up in Columbia. Just the Barnard, and we see these three of the last four days takeover of buildings, finds out the nine that were arrested weren't even students from there, all have one thing in common: anti-Israel, anti-Semitic. Did you ever think we'd see stuff like this? No, not this bad.

And they're just stupid. And yep, these are the. The kids who go to the schools that all the kids want to get into and compete to get into, I don't know what happens to their brains. One of the uh kids that was uh that was uh arrested The family started the Hampton Jitney, where all the elites go, right? You know, everyone from Lauren Bacall started back, I guess, in the 50s or the 40s.

And she says she's not a student there. But she also wants to bring down America at the same time. Where I mean, where does that come?

Someone of privilege with that little opin with that terrible opinion of the country that sadly it's almost uh made up of all nine Warren students that were arrested. They may be guilty about their wealth and they've never Worked hard or seen people working hard to understand that capitalism really works and. It's scary that they have these stupid ideas. Yeah. Save Palestine for climate justice.

And then if If they protested climate in Palestine, they'd be killed. What about homosexuals? How are they looked at? I mean, you see gays for Palestinians. You realize they just pick a building to throw you off of.

But your column is interesting in many ways, but you just talk about the things that socialists promise and work their way back. And people that like to vilify capitalism haven't really studied the other forms of government. Absolutely. Absolutely. pretty much of anything.

And everywhere socialism has tried. It's failed. And that's why you invited me on, 'cause I did a video on that. And We showed these idiot TikTok stars with millions of followers saying things like, socialism was working better than capitalism 93% of the time. And she gets this from a 1986 study by Marxist professors, and a lot of them are.

Just compared.

So-called capitalist countries to countries like Uganda and Rwanda, some of which were at war at the time. You do that too, and you go and give different examples. For example, in Cuba, how great their health care is. They told us that for the longest time. My mentor, Rosie O'Dono, I listened to everything she said.

She was saying that for the longest time. But you point out that TikTok is pushing this forward, the Cuban healthcare system, how great it is. But in reality, if you talk to a Cuban doctor, they have a different opinion. And I have a different opinion when you say TikTok is pushing it forward. A lot of people on the right have been saying that, but I think TikTok just gives you what you watch.

And if you're angry about socialism, you get some videos about that. My TikTok gives me soccer and military reunions and kittens. I I don't think we can say they're pushing stuff. But I would say this. Maybe they are.

Have you seen a lot of pro-Taiwan stories on TikTok? Ah. No, but I don't see pro-Germany stories or Yeah. felt a you know Not the kind of thing that I would watch, so they don't send it to me. Right.

I also think it's interesting that when we get into a trade war with China, which you could say we're in right now, I am sure you're not going to see many pro-Trump stories pop up on the TikTok news feed.

Some occasionally pop up on my news feed. It's just an algorithm. It studies. oh, this person spent a fraction of a second more on this. And they give you more of that.

I don't think we've proved it's a Chinese conspiracy. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see how much pro-Israel. I think they did a study and they said that maybe 15% of the stories about Israel are positive as composed to the rest of the Middle East, to the best of the Palestinians. But going at your column in particular with the socialism and China and other things, what did you want to get across?

That these young people are influential, and this is one reason that. third of Americans think socialism is a good thing. I just wanted to show people how stupid they are. And I think our video does that. I love the young women with green hair because they really get your attention.

Right. Uh they get the most followers.

So, do you notice in Europe, for example, there's a sense that we have a quiet socialism in Europe, and there's there seems to be somewhat of a caste system there, especially. Compared to here, the mobility doesn't seem to exist today. And we're seeing the inertia and the lack of progress and innovation coming out of there. You think it's related? Yes, and that's what my video from this week is about.

That if you look at the list of the top 20 Five companies around the world. It's all America. And Louis Vuitton, so when you rip off curses, is one of the few European companies on the list. They've stopped growing. They used to, the European Union has 100 million more people than the United States does.

And they used to their economy used to be the size of ours. But about fifteen years ago, it just stopped growing. And that's because of this socialism light, the big welfare state that discourages people from working or starting a business. Do you think we could do a better job in schools to understand, not sell, but to explain what goes on? For example, it sounds great, everyone's going to own a house, everyone's going to have collective ownership of everything, but the example as you give, you'll end up basically without personal incentives.

Incentives, you have The results are always inadequate. Always. Every attempt at collective ownership has failed. And Americans have tried. Lots of communes where our many share and live together and love.

They all fail. You bring up this great line. You say no one washes a rental car. People care about what they own. Yeah, so they want to get more stuff.

While they do that, while they get more stuff, they hire more people, create more opportunity. Whether it's, I want to get a bigger house.

Okay, wow, that's selfish, really? Is it selfish to hire a contractor? Is it selfish to pay a real estate agent to find you that bigger house? Is it selfish to hire a landscaping company to keep that house upkeep and, of course, maintenance it along the way?

So, what happens along that tornado that follows you as you move up the ladder in theory or try to do it? That helps fuel the economy. Why don't we make an effective case for this? We just assume that people get it.

Well, you're using the word selfish. And people don't like that. And it is selfish. But that selfishness or just self-interest. Creates wealth.

It makes everybody try a little harder to make something cheaper or better, and that makes us all better off. But people don't like it. I'll give you an example. Today I was interviewing that uh Google's being Being sued by the Department of Justice for being a monopoly and not allowing other people to exist in the search space. And on the surface, I'm thinking to myself, they're just the best.

It's not their fault. But if you look at this case, they basically locked up the space and made it unavailable and they have Chrome. But if you put that back into the commonplace, I was talking to two lawyers today, the two tech guys say, they say we'll get into the search space, but no one's going to go touch it because Google runs it. But if you level it out, if you open up the game, people will fill that gap. And then just play it out.

They're going to hire people. They're going to want tech people. They might even recruit some people from Google. And then all of a sudden, there's competition. Google's better.

Other people have places to work. And then in the competition, you get innovation. I mean, that's what people always point to, what we got from the space program. And if there really is a monopoly, it's true. That prevents the free market from working.

But I was told that General Motors was a monopoly, A and P, Microsoft, Yeah. After all the lawyers made money, they got their clocks cleaned by unexpected competitors. Right. What do you think of the what you've seen so far with the administration? Oh, I love it.

I love some of this exposure of the Squandering of money and the throwing of the gold bars, your money into off the Titanic. On the other hand, Trump is a horrible man and all he cares about is himself and I hate His wine. You hate his line of what? I'm the best. The tariffs are going to be so great, and we're losing when we have a trade deficit.

It's just ignorant. of so much. Right. Do you think it's better than Biden? Get us.

Right. Do you think he's selling a lot of those times?

Sorry, say again. Do you feel like he's selling a lot of the times? Yeah, or just a rantings of a narcissist. Right, so I guess you didn't vote for him?

Well Right. Who do you think was the best president of your lifetime, John Stossel? Reagan. Did you think so at the time? No.

Right. Um, do you see what about Mayor of New York City? Does it astound you that Governor Cuomo really has another life now leading in preliminary polls to be the next mayor? Yeah, I think he's likely to be the next mayor, but he's a selfish opportunist too. Yeah.

Maybe not. I don't worship politicians, and it's dangerous to fall in love with a politician. I heard Marco Rubio speak at an event once. Oh, this is a guy who really gets it. And then he went off the rails in anti-free market ways.

Most of them America is run not by politicians, it's run by you and me, free people pursuing our own interests. We have a limited government, and thankfully, the President is just He doesn't run the country. He runs. one branch of Three branches of government, and they have limited powers, and that's what made America great. Right.

John Stossel, thanks so much. Where do we get your columns? They're in many or posts sometimes, or things are on this thing called the internet these days. At John Stein. You got it.

And you put about the videos too. John, thanks so much. Great to hear from you. You too, Brian. You got it.

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You saw Bergham and the energy secretary out with a big announcement. A lot of people think energy is not the sexiest thing to talk about, not the most interesting thing to talk about. You just care about gas prices. I feel differently, and we'll explain why at the bottom of the hour. You'll listen to the Brian Killmeat Show.

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The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmead. This to me was one of the more shocking figures that I saw. Made me go, wait a minute, hold on one second. Whoa.

Americans on Trump and Joe's efforts. Musk and Doge should influence government spending and operations. Look at this. 54%. The majority say that he and they should.

How about approval of Trump trying to cut staff at government agencies? Again, you get a majority here. 51%.

So yeah, Elon Musk might not be that popular, but these cuts and the idea of spending cuts, at least within the federal government, and cutting at government agencies, that actually has majority support. I was truly surprised by this, Kate, but the numbers are the numbers. And it just, and I give this guy this, Howard Enton. I never met him before. I give him credit.

He comes out and says with the stats read. For example, sometimes when you get these pundits on, excuse me, these. Uh pollsters on. They'll pull back certain polls that don't that the producer doesn't want to hear or it goes against what they perceive the audience wants to hear. He does not do that, which gives him credibility.

He wants to say something negative about Trump. He went on to say this. Cut salmon. Democrats want to argue that the type of spending that Musk is cutting is mainly necessary programs, but that comes in at just 36%. The wasteful spending actually wins the plurality here at 42%, according to a recent Washington Post Ipsos Paul.

And I think that is the reason why you see that when it comes to Dusk and Moj, Musk and Doge, you see in fact the majority believe he should have some influence because they believe the plurality believe that he is cutting wasteful spending, not necessary programs that Democrats are arguing.

So that's just it. What is the perception outside? Washington, outside New York, outside Los Angeles, and especially Washington. Because if you look at Washington, you see the body language on those in the audience, you would think the President's got really going to get 40% approval on his speech. But when you bring that question to the country, it's up in the 70s.

When you came to the audience, when you go to Washington, people all dislike Trump. January, you know, what happened on January 6th, you hear it over and over again. Outside, people don't really care. And if you don't, inside, you think, well, I'm watching CNN, MSNBC all day, 85% of the news is negative.

Well Outside Washington and those main hubs of Los Angeles and New York. Where most of the country lives, they have a different opinion and they're not even watching those channels. And Howard Enton should not be surprised that he gets that sense. When people go in and cut government, yeah, nobody wants to see anyone lose their job. I mean that.

Even Trump, who made his name on The Apprentice saying you're fired, he doesn't like that stuff. And I think that's part of the reason why Doge is taking a step back. And they say they have to check in with your Doge people every two weeks, every division, every cabinet member. Because they want to get more efficient. The average person does not think the government runs efficiently.

And if you go in there with cutting-edge business people from some of the best companies in the world that happen to be under the auspices of Elon Musk, and then remember, he also asked for volunteers to help, and now they turned into paid positions, so he screens them and he puts them into play. And when you do that, give people the sense of at least my dollars where they go out. They might go to the right place, and I especially can't wait for them to jump into the Pentagon. Because we're going to blow up a lot of programs, no pun intended. But I think at the same time, Get more money in there.

Get more efficient, get more lean, because China just added 7.2% to their defense spending. Still behind us, dollar for dollar, but they can do things a lot quicker. They don't have this thing called Congress. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead.

The ship behind us arrived this morning from Germany. In less than 24 hours, it'll be loaded and sailing back to Germany. 100,000 homes in Europe. Can be heated and supplied with gas for a full year just in that one tanker behind us. This is unleashing American energy to the benefit of Americans and to the benefit of our friends and allies abroad.

This is the way to peace. And by the way, that was Chris Wright. He was in Louisiana yesterday. He's the energy secretary. Standing right by him is Doug Bergham.

And Doug Bergham is the Interior Secretary, will also have a role with Energy. He's got so many areas of expertise. He's also a tech guy, knows about crypto and AI. With me in studio, Daniel Turner, founder of an energy advocacy group, Power of the Future. Daniel, great to see you.

Yeah, thanks for having me on board. I mean, this is probably the most intriguing thing about and the most hopeful thing. Donald Trump has to immediately jolt the economy. Oh, absolutely. Energy.

What has been happening and what is happening? What Chris Wright was explaining? Was that just underlying something that takes place regularly, or is that something new? This is something that was taking place regularly, but remember the Biden administration paused LNG exports, and they never really explained why. They said they were going to study it, which is always the excuse to, I don't have the guts to actually cancel it, so I'm just going to make up a reason.

But they paused it in January of 2024, and that was it. To save the world, to save the climate, or to study whether or not we were saving the world. And meanwhile, Europe is continuing to use natural gas. They're buying it from the Russians. We saw that statistic that the EU has given more money to Russia for fossil fuel purchases than they've given to Ukraine for military defense purposes.

So, again, where's the lies? They do it through third parties, so they could plausibly say, I am holding to the sanctions.

So you give it to India, India gets it at a discount rate, and then they sell it to Europe. Exactly. Or Turkey. And where's the win? Where's the environmental win?

Where's the military win? Where's the whole thing is just a bunch of lies. But the LNG stuff is so frustrating because that directly impacts American jobs. And you wonder why Pennsylvania was. Was lost.

I mean, Joe Biden was from Pennsylvania, talks about Pennsylvania all the time, campaigned heavily in the state. Remember, even his larger addresses, he would go back to Philly to talk to the American people. Pennsylvania, he thought, was his, but the LNG pause affected Probably close to half a million people. And they say, why is the president doing this to us? Why are our enemies allowed to sell natural gas?

But we can't hear in Pennsylvania, and he lost the state. They lost the Senate race with Bob Casey, who sat silent for 18 years.

So kind of a useless senator anyway. He was. And by the way, Japan needs our natural gas.

South Korea needs our natural gas in all of Europe. We would be a reliable customer. Do you sense that there'll be a customer? With this new administration, Do you think that we've already capitalized and let them know we'll be your supplier? Absolutely.

But I think there have to be some conditions that have the industry nervous. And talking to industry leaders, talking to governors, I know this is a concern. For example, let's go back to Keystone. When Biden canceled Keystone, yes, it was detrimental to the economy. It fired 14,000 folks.

Many of them have been on your network and your TV shows telling their story. But what it did in the larger picture is it sent the signal to industry: hey, if you have a long-term project that's going to last a presidential cycle, we may use it for political purposes and shut it down.

So if you want to build a natural gas pipeline, and you know it's going to be a five or 10-year project, but in the back of your mind, you can already hear Gavin Newsom running for president in 2028 saying, and if you elect me, I will shut down that pipeline.

Well, who's going to invest $10 billion to build a pipeline that will not be finished before a presidential cycle?

So there's nerves. Do you think. That the green fever will bur will burst soon? Don't you feel as though there's, remember the Paris climate change, it was sacred saying to now people breathe, the Paris Climate Summit, and now people, no one talks about it. No.

And no one's living up to it. And we don't even hear about it. You know, we're done with Greta Thornburg. Do you think it broke or no? I do for a couple of reasons.

One, we know a lot of their money came from USAID, right? I still question whether or not any of this was real. The green groups were receiving billions of dollars. The journalists who were covering the green groups, we had 6,400 journalists on the payroll at USAID. USAID was having climate conferences that they would pay for.

They would send groups that they're paying for to go to the conferences. They would send the journalists to cover the groups to cover the conference. The whole thing was just a gigantic lie.

So now that that money has dried up, yeah, I think a little bit of the climate stuff has gone. But also, there are sexier issues for the crazy left to be caught up in. They love BLM, they love to go after Doge.

So climate is not the cool issue right now. Which makes me think that hopefully maybe the next Democrat won't run on no more fossil fuels. Yeah. Where Joe Biden famously walked over to that girl, I promise you that we're going to be done with oil and gas. I mean, crazy stuff he was saying.

Must have drove you nuts. No, he's not. That we couldn't even make jeans without oil. And just knowing what was going to happen to the economy, knowing that it was going to raise prices, which it did, know it was going to make our enemies a lot richer, which it did. You know, Iran and Russia got a lot of money from bad energy policies.

And even if that wasn't Joe Biden's intent, that was the consequence. And your intentions, I'm not a Kantian, right? Your intentions only matter so much in your ethics. The direct result of bad energy prices were Iran got really rich and Russia got really rich. And both of those countries, when they get rich, they go to war, right?

Iran doesn't build schools for girls when they have surplus cash. They invade Israel. Right. And so that's what we did with bad energy policy, driving up these prices. It's reversible, but it's going to take a couple of years.

It made the wrong people rich, Russia and Iran. Chris Wright went on to say this in the same interview, Cut 37. What's next? More exports for our allies, also more pipelines. We've got New England residents, millions of New England residents paying exceedingly high.

Electricity and heating prices. Why? Just because the pipelines to bring the gas from Pennsylvania a short distance into those communities can lower their heating costs, lower their electricity costs, get more businesses and job opportunities booming in New England.

So President Trump is dedicated to growing energy access to all Americans, to better lives here and lower costs, but also to our friends and allies abroad. And we have the energy, we have the resources. We just need the permission to get going. And with this president, it's unleash America. How much of federal permission and how much of state permission?

For example, New York doesn't even want a pipeline going through New York. Yeah. So if Trump would put it through New York, but I guess states have a say. They do, and that's going to be a huge battle because at what point then does it become even an electoral issue? If you're a resident here of New York and my entire family lives still in New York City, I'm the only one who's gone.

They have the mayoral election, they have the gubernatorial next year. How is that not an issue when you see how expensive utility prices are, gas prices? Your great colleague, David Asmond, I love going on the program with him, has said numerous times that the gas in his building is still shut off. He can't get it in his stove because of Kathy Hochl's policies. I mean, we have gas hookups, but you're not letting us have access to the gas.

Meanwhile, Pennsylvania, which is not that far, has centuries of natural gas reserves. We have natural gas in New York, don't we? Yeah. New York State. And tons of it.

And if, and if you know what? And that's a great, great point. Kamala Harris flip-flopped on natural gas and fracking. Why won't Kathy Hochul? Does she really want to win re-election?

Not that I'm giving her campaign advice, but if she wants to guarantee her re-election, today she will announce: I'm going to reverse Cuomo's ban on fracking. I'm going to reverse his ban on natural gas exploration. I'm going to reopen Indian Point nuclear. I'm going to reopen the five coal plants.

Well, I heard Indian Point, we found out, is reversed forever. It got to the point where it's being broken up, so it's done. And there was no reason to shut it down, by the way. No. And that's the pernicious thing about the environmental left and the eco-left, which makes me impossible to dislike these people enough politically, the evil that they do.

Do you remember back in 2012, Joe Biden was speaking outside of Boston? It was hot. He purposely wore a powder blue shirt, so he looked all sweaty. And he was standing in an empty lot and he was saying, We dismantled the coal plant that was here because climate change, blah, blah, blah. And we're going to build a wind farm.

And right here, Here is where the wind electricity is going to come on shore. Hundreds of people lost their job. They dismantled the plant. The wind farm didn't get built in his administration, and now with Trump, it's definitely not going to get built.

So, who benefited? He got a photo op to say, climate change, Boston. Boston residents have a less reliable grid, more expensive utilities, and no one will go back to that day in 2012 and say, What the hell is wrong with you people? You dismantled a perfectly good energy plant. All of us are paying more?

So let's talk about Oil, I hear that as happy as the oil industry is that Trump is in charge, they do not want to drill more. that gas is at uh oil is at $70. And they don't want it. Less or more? Your thoughts?

I think this is an industry that prefers to work on volume and not on price point. It is more profitable.

So, what I said, you don't think is true? No, but not in the long term. No. I think right now they're trying to recuperate. You know, they're happy with oil at $70.

Who wouldn't be happy at $70 a barrel? But wouldn't you be happier with more wells at a lower price point that is actually sustainable? And proof of that is what we saw in 2017 when Trump first came into office. You have to look at things like rig count numbers in the Permian, in Eagle Ford, and all these different formations. When those numbers get back to the Trump levels of 2017 is when prices are going to start coming down.

And they would much rather have a more reliable supply at a lower price point than a higher price point and a less reliable supply. Here's what Doug Bergham said about the Trump goal: Cut 38. President Trump's plan, of course, for U.S. energy dominance includes us selling clean U.S. energy to our allies so they don't have to.

buy it from our adversaries. But part of the reason why Europe was buying from Russia was because President Biden and his administration put a ban on export facilities like we're here today. This is the most technologically advanced facility in the world. It's the largest construction project going on in North America. $18 billion of additional work that's going into this.

So things are moving. Things are. Yeah. But there's, you know, we could have been moving a long time ago. I remember they wanted to build a natural gas pipeline from Pennsylvania to the port of Baltimore to build an LNG export facility.

And it was then Republican Governor Larry Hogan who shut it down. Why? Climate change. Can't have this pipeline worried about climate change. Because Baltimore didn't need a couple hundred reliable jobs, right?

I mean, Baltimore is just doing great.

So Republicans are just as guilty as this. And this is where the climate. He's barely a Republican, as you know, in Maryland. You know that. Yeah.

And but the climate movement is the slippery slope to becoming a leftist. It is very easy to push off weak Republicans on the climate thing. And that's why the climate agitators are constantly agitating why they're going to the hill, why they're waving signs. If you are weak as an elected official, and sadly, a lot of them are weak, climate is the first place you're going to slip. And once they get you on climate, they'll get you on everything else.

Absolutely. So. When it comes to overall energy, where does nuclear fit in your arsenal? Love nuclear, support it. I focus more on fossil fuel workers, so I don't get involved in the nuclear space a lot.

To build a nuclear plant, you need an awful lot of fossil fuels, so that's good. There's no reason to be afraid of nuclear. I tell folks all the time for two reasons. 70, 80% of electricity in France is generated from nuclear. They sell a surplus to their neighboring countries.

And easy joke, sorry, guys. But if the French aren't afraid of nuclear, why should the Americans be? And secondly, most of our Navy is nuclear.

So we have no problem putting an 18-year-old on an aircraft carrier or a submarine in nuclear, and no one's worried about his safety. We shouldn't be afraid of nuclear.

So the head of Ontario, who says that he, Doug Ford, say he's going to cut off electricity to three states. But in reality, he's not really in control of our electricity, is he? No, he's not. But that comes out of the tariff issue. And the good thing about the tariff conversation, regardless of how you feel about tariffs economically, a good thing that is coming out of these arguments is that it is exposing some problems that we have.

And it is a problem that these three states, I believe it was Michigan, Wisconsin, and New York. Those states are buying a huge percentage of their electricity from Canada. Why? No offense to Canada. I have no beef with the Canadians, but why are we buying anything from Canada when we have the ability to make it here in America?

And so I think that raises questions, especially knowing how many natural resources we have. There's no reason to buy electricity from Canada.

So, Daniel Turner, thanks so much for coming in. Energy is going to be fueling this economic recovery. 100%. And if price is going to get down quickly, this would be it. Yes.

And are you optimistic we have the plan? Absolutely. It's going to take a little time. We need a little bit of patience. You're not going to turn around this aircraft a year.

A year. I think can I come back a year from today and let's see how we're doing. Probably before that. We'll go to the big announcement. Daniel Turner, thanks so much.

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Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. The Trump administration's hard line on Kiev, including the suspension of US military aid, has been greeted with glee in the Kremlin, with Russian officials now berating Europe while flip-flopping on Washington's historical role. Colonization, wars, the Crimean War, Napoleon, World War One, Hitler. If we look at history in retrospect, he says, Americans played no instigating or even inflammatory role.

It's extraordinary revisionism in extraordinary times. Yeah, so now we wanted to point that out because Sergei Lavrov is the foreign minister, been there forever, doesn't necessarily bond with Putin, but he's got a powerful position there.

Now all of a sudden, America walks on water because Donald Trump is trying to be an even broker or berated. You saw what happened last Friday in that meltdown in the Oval Office.

Now, you know I'm for Ukraine, but if this gets Russia to the table and it helps get a deal, I'm fine with that. But you have to understand Immediately on a dime, they have totally changed their coverage of America in Russia. Cut 15. Kremlin channels struggling to make sense of Washington's seismic shift. Trump speaks about peace and those around him talk about Ukraine's success, says this reporter on state television.

But it looks like he's giving Russia all the cards to achieve success on the battlefield, he adds. It's all propaganda. They're not reporting the news. If they do report the news, they'll be arrested. You know, that it's an unpopular war, that they're so down on recruits, they gotta whip them out of Yemen, and they gotta go convince them out of North Korea, who are basically cannon fodder, how they've lost hundreds of thousands of casualties, two hundred thousand are dead.

lost eighty four thousand in two months? Here's more, cut sixteen. In exchange, all Putin has done is offer potentially lucrative business deals. Trump's kryptonite, according to one Russian commentator. Trump is like Superman, and our President Putin has found his weakness, he tells State T V.

As soon as Trump hears the words rare earth metals, he's ready to accept any terms, he adds.

So, I might, Mike Waltz is going to be on this weekend. I might ask him: is that his kryptonite? Rare earth? Because what you're referring to is Eric knows this, Eric's obsessed with this stuff, and in a good way, Eric. But uh Putin the day after the meltdown in the in the Oval Office.

was on television saying that our author Trump, a deal. We got rare earth, many of which they stole from Ukraine, and that will be his kryptonite.

So Let's go to 13 now. This is Dmitria Koslanov. He's. He is, um Just so I guess he didn't call himself a state propagandist. You can't call yourself a state propagandist.

State okay, here's state media. Eric thinks it's propaganda. I don't want to lead the witness. You make the call at home. It's a sign of the types that even the Kremlin's old propagandists are rapidly changing their tune.

Dmitry Kisilov is the state mouthpiece who once boasted how Russia could reduce America to nuclear ash.

Now he's talking about a great troika, the US, Russia, and China forming the new structure of the world. Man, isn't it amazing? Look, if it gets them to the table, they understand that we're going to have international forces there to make sure they hold to the deal. If it gets to a ceasefire, I'm fine with it. Just so you know.

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian In Kill Mead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Me Show.

So glad you're here. 1866-408-7669. This hour. We're going to be joined by Jake Blumenkrantz. He is a New York State rep who is calling on major changes in New York State.

And we also have a situation in New York where we've got a very I guess it's a national story. I mean, Governor Cuomo, leaving in disgrace, all of a sudden goes, you know, I have an idea. Why don't I be mayor? What about those double-digit of accusers I have and the fact that I send thousands to their death at nursing homes? Hope it doesn't come up.

And he's now leading in the poll.

So we'll talk about that. Brian Brenberg is here, co-host of the Big Money Show on the Fox Business Network. Brian, great to see you. Hey, thanks for having me. Fast-moving situation we have now.

First off, how do you feel about we added with the economy 151,000 jobs? Little bit below what we thought? Is that a big well? It was below the expectation, but actually, I thought it was going to be a worse jobs report because of the layoffs in DC. And it depended on how many of those would get caught in the survey period.

But I could see a scenario where this jobs report would have been much lower because of that.

So 151 was actually a surprise to the upside for me. And the crazy thing is, and we haven't seen this in. I don't know, maybe four years, the federal government jobs. Went down by 10,000 in this report.

So you had a 151 number, which is not bad, with no support from government jobs. All the previous reports we've seen, like government jobs have been first, second, or third in terms of job creation every month. This month they were a negative, and we still ended up with 151.

So, kind of, for me, kind of an upside surprise.

So interesting. I never thought how many of those jobs have federal jobs. I always saw it with the breakout for the summer jobs. I saw that breakout, but I never thought to myself, well, how many are federal jobs? Because if you do, if you're a government and you want that numbers to look good, you expand the federal workforce, right?

Yes. I mean, every economic statistic we've seen over the past four years, particularly, has been chock full of government. And so it's actually crazy for an economist who follows the data to finally see a jobs number with no federal government. I mean, in the last two years of the Biden administration, There were a million jobs that were part of those jobs report, a million federal jobs.

So, every so all 24 months, you had a million federal jobs spread out between those reports. That was a huge boost to those numbers every single month. Same thing with GDP and with all the government spending.

So, we're in this era now, and this is what Scott Besson, Treasury Secretary, have been talking about. We're in this era where that's going to unwind. You're not going to see that in all of these health care. It's healthier for the country, isn't it? Totally healthier.

Now, here's the thing: in the short term, in all these data reports, You know, taking out all the government spending and all the government jobs is probably going to nick them in the short term, right?

So you got to expect the data to look a little worse. And that's been the point he's been making. When you deleverage government, when you get rid of government, there's going to be a short-term effect. But the long-term effect is you set up an economy that's got way more juice because it's more driven by the private sector.

So most of the people that you know, Brian, are in the private sector, right?

So they have a company, big or small. They're in charge of the systems at work. They try to get the best tech equipment, the best human resources, the best workflow from management on down. That's what Doge brings. Not just cutting jobs, but don't they want to bring workflow to it and a lot of their expertise to examine these divisions?

You want to do your work as effectively as you can with as few resources as possible. Every private sector company in the world has to do that. And the reason they have to do that, by the way, isn't just because they're enlightened. It's because if they don't, the guy next to them who does the same thing, and if they do that, they'll win. And you'll lose if you're bloated and out of shape and wasting.

So, yes, Doge is trying to do this, but they're doing it in an environment that has no competitive threat, right? The federal government sits there and they have a monopoly in every single thing that they do.

So, Doge is coming in and saying, we've got to go in, we've got to look deeply into every piece of this, and we've got to make a determination. Could we do it with fewer resources, better processes? And if the answer is yes, do it because it's taxpayer money. I thought it was very significant for President Trump to come out yesterday and say, Now that my cabinet secretaries are in place, I'm going to have Doge back off.

So, the personnel decisions will be decided by the cabinet secretaries. But every two weeks minimum, you have to check in with Doge on what you're doing and make it more of a collaboration. That probably has a lot to do with what the lawmakers heard from Elon the day before and what the president's been hearing anecdotally, also from his cabinet secretaries are his friends. They literally are his friends.

So, I want you to hear what Trump said. With this new this new arrangement. They want to make it like Musk has been rebuked. I don't see it that way. Cut three.

We're cutting it down. We have to for the sake of our country. You can't have that kind of fat, it's bloat. Like nobody's ever seen before, where you need 20,000 and they have 120,000 people, and you just don't need that many. And it happens with companies and it happens with governments, I guess.

You could go to a lot of governments, you'd see the same thing. But we're trying to get it down. We want to be able next year we could balance the budget. We I think there's a good chance we could balance the budget next year. We have a lot of good things happening.

Is that too optimistic for Brian Greenberg? On the balance of budget piece, I always believe it when I see it, guy.

Okay. I mean, they're going on the right path, but we got $2 trillion budget deficits. That's a lot of money to take out. But can I just say this on the Elon kind of stepping back? Look, if you're critiquing that, you make it clear you know nothing about organizational management because obviously what you want to do in this situation is as cabinet secretaries take their position, they're going to have the best knowledge and the best authority to make moves within their executive department.

And you want them to take the lead. Sure, you want to have a source of accountability. That's Musk. But it makes it exactly what you want to see a mature, thoughtful organization do, push the responsibility down to the cabinet secretaries, who, by the way, have all invited Elon Musk in to help with this, right? It's not like they're antagonistic to it.

They want that help.

So this makes total sense to me. And I'm glad to see them doing it so quickly, actually. Right. What I think is also interesting is what's happened at the VA. Doug Collins, the secretary, says I'm cutting 85,000 jobs.

I don't know what he saw. He's a military guy with a business background, former congressman. But what he saw there, I mean, I worry about a lot of veterans work for the VA, so I don't want to see them twisting. But I haven't seen much pushback on that yet. Have you?

I haven't seen a lot of pushback on it. I mean, I don't exactly know what positions he's talking about there. But look, you have to understand, when you have a bloated organization with too many people, actually, you degrade the service. You have way too many people involved in way too many decisions, which means things move more slowly. They get more complicated.

So actually, if you care about how veterans are cared for in that system, you don't want 85,000 extra people. You want the best people and as few people as possible to make the right decisions on the right timeframe so you can care for the people who are in your service. I mean, that's ultimately what this is about. I love that he's cutting out fat. It's not just getting the budget down.

It's making the organization run better. Right. Here's Lee Zeldin who walks in. I thought he was going to be run for governor. Maybe he still could, but I doubt it.

He sees so much money in energy that was going to agree. Projects cut for it's a green slush fund. $20 billion parked in an outside bank towards the end of the Biden administration, given to just eight NGOs. You just named a bunch of them. These NGOs were created.

For the first time, many of them just to get this money. And they're pass-throughs.

So the EPA entered into this account control agreement with these entities. Treasury enters into a financial agent agreement with the bank, and they design it. To tie the EPA's hands behind their back, to tie the federal government's hands behind its back.

So when the money goes through the NGOs to subgrantees, many of them also pass throughs. We don't know where it's going. We don't have the proper amount of of oversight. You almost seen a forensic accountant. I would have a team of forensic accountants to go track this money down.

That is so gross. Like these arrangements that are set up to basically lock a department into having to spend money. I mean, I.

So, it's like if I said, if I'm the EPA guy under Biden, Brian, go form an NGO.

Okay, why? Just trust me, just form it. Make it green as good with make, whatever you call it. And then I give you billions of dollars, and you have no experience. You don't even know what your objective is.

That's what he's saying is happening. Exactly. It's a field of dreams kind of approach. If you build it, we'll give you money. Like, you just make the thing, you just create the entity, and we're going to send money to it.

And like, are you, what are you achieving there? Are you making any energy progress? No, I mean, you're getting money to people who you like, who are you tied to, but that's not why these organizations exist. Elon Musk said. What we're trying to do with all these things ultimately is do zero-based budgeting.

So you get back to the point. What does that mean? It means every dollar you spend, you can justify. It's not we spent X last year, let's add 3% or 4% and do it again. It's every year, start from the beginning.

What are we spending on this? What are we spending money on this year and why? And if we can't answer that, or if the answer is because a friend set up an entity that we're going to send money to, then you don't do it.

So I've heard the stories, for example, the Navy has a certain budget. And if they haven't hit that number yet, they want to get the same amount next year.

So if they come in and go, yeah, you gave me 800 million. I only spent 600 million.

So they'll go out and just dump gas in the middle of the ocean, or dump oil in the middle of the ocean.

So they'll go fill it up again.

So you hear stuff like that about finding a way to spend the money. But if you change the whole concept of it, For example, if I'm running the Department of Transportation and I want money, fine. But I don't benefit if my department gets money. How do you incentivize people to be responsible to? You follow me?

I do. And actually, it's almost like ethics.

Well, how do you legislate ethics? I know. It's hard. You're right, because ultimately, the money is power.

So if you're in that. Space and you run one of these departments. I guess the compensation for you is power somehow. And the more money you get, the more power you have.

So, you can't legislate ethics, right? But you can hire for ethics.

So, what you've got to find are people who are not in this to create their own. Power fiefdom, right? You've got to find people who have enough detachment from the organization they're a part of that they say, if the thing shrinks. And the American people are served better, that's victory for me.

Somebody, you know, like Linda McMahon's job, President Trump said, is basically to shut down her department, right? Because she doesn't need to run a big department to justify her existence or make herself feel good. She's done things that have given her identity and meaning and purpose.

So she's coming here with a mission objective, not a life identity. You've got to find people like that, basically.

Well, Sean Duffy's another one. I mean, he's not doing this because he wants to be rich. He didn't grow up in Wisconsin saying, I just really want to be transportation secretary someday so I can have the power over our roads and bridges. No, he's doing it as an act of service. He knows who he is apart from this job, and he wants the best job done possible.

And it's not a money thing. It's not a power thing. It's a service to the American people thing.

So you hire for the right people. And that's why you want to get like careerists out of D.C. Because if that's your career, then losing money in your budget is. Like the most harrowing thing possible. If you're not a career person, it's not a big deal.

All right, Brian, who's on your show? Oh, well, so we've got Heather Zumaraga as our first-hour guest, and Kennedy is our second-hour guest. We don't do guests anymore, Brian. We just do conversations all hour about the issues. Because you're now a two-hour show.

We're a two-hour show. Yeah, so we've got, I mean, look at the news today. You've got jobs reports, you've got Doge, you've got Trump talking about sanctions with Russia. We've got so much money stuff to talk about. But in terms of tariffs, do you think it's a strategy to say tariffs are on, tariffs are off, tariffs are on, tariffs are off?

Because it doesn't seem like a strategy to me. It seems like confusion. What I would love the president to do is reciprocal tariffs make a lot of sense. Scott Besson's a big reciprocal tariffs guy. Tell people, this is what we're going to do.

This is when we're going to do it. Look at who you trade with. How do they tariff us? That's a good indication of what's going to happen to you. Plan for it.

To me, that's the way to do it. The on-again, off-again stuff is tough for small businesses because one day they wake up and say, we're going to be able to buy our stuff. And the next day they say, we can't. I don't know what to do. I was listening to a Canadian businessman, liquor store owner.

He said, well, we were told don't sell Russian vodka. We got rid of all the Russian vodka.

Now we're told don't sell American whiskey.

So we get rid of American whiskey. He's like, well, I bought it already. I don't know what I'm going to do with it. Pour it out. I mean, yeah, I know, but he's trying to make tariffs.

He kills these guys. He's trying to make it. He absolutely kills these guys. You can be tough on tariffs and also be very clear. And I think that's ultimately where they want to get with this stuff.

All right, Brian. Thanks so much. Awesome job. Appreciate it. You bet.

All right. When we come back, we open up the phone to the bottom of the hour. We talk about what's happening with Governor Kathy Hokul in a rivalry with Trump. Don't move. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead.

Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Joe. You spoke to the president of Mexico today. I want to talk about tariffs because even as you're seeing this optimism and excitement, there's some nervousness over your tariffs. Markets have been selling off.

People are not sure how to view it. Why did you roll back or put a pause into some of the tariffs until April 2nd? Because I wanted to help Mexico and Canada to a certain extent. We're a big, big country, and they do a lot of their business with us, whereas In our case, it's much less. significant.

We do very little with candidate by comparison. And uh I wanted to help the American car makers until April 2nd. April 2nd, it becomes all reciprocal. What they charge us, we charge them. It's a big deal, but what they charge us, we charge them.

But this is short term, and I felt that for the good of the American car makers and the MCA, you know, what the U.S. MCA. What it's Mexico, Canada. I thought it would be a fair thing to do, and so I gave them a little bit of a break for this short period of time. Yeah, but I thought it was a little did he mention that they would just crack down on the cartels?

They mentioned the slowdown on on any fentanyl coming across the border? We do have part two. Let's listen. But I asked you about this before, and I know you told me when I asked you, I said you did use Sem CA. You put this together.

And yet then you come back and you change it up with these tariffs. And you said to me at that time, I did it because I can. I put an amendment in there, and I said, in six years, I can change it. But I think CEOs want to see predictability. They say, look, I have to speak with shareholders.

I've got to make plans for CapEx spending. I can't if it's 20% one day and then it's off for a month and it's 25%.

So can you give us a sense of whether or not we are going to get clarity for the business community?

Well, I think so. But you know, the tariffs could go up as time goes by and they may go up. And I don't know if it's predictability. I think.

So that's not clarity. No, I think that they say that. You know, it sounds good to say. But for years uh The globalists, the big globalists, have been ripping off the United States. They've been taking money away from the United States.

And all we're doing is getting some of it back. And we're going to treat our country fairly. This country has been ripped off from Every nation in the world, every company outside in the world, we've been ripped off at levels never seen before. And all we're going to do is get it back. We're going to get a lot of it back.

We're not going to let people take advantage of us anymore.

So I don't understand.

So it's not predictable.

So that it seems like he's When it comes to tariffs, I don't understand what's going on. I really don't.

So the President should be take the win. With Mexico, it has cracked down. Look at the cartel members that we got back, that we've got out of Mexican prisons and now face American justice. Look at what's happening at our border, down 97%. And I imagine the gotaways have diminished.

And we're able to go over and look at what happened in the previous administration. You're talking about 8 million people, and you're talking about over 100 ISIS terrorists got into our country. Biden only went after eight.

So we're really getting a hold of it. I think the president could honestly say what I'm doing at the border has allowed me to keep the tariffs off Mexico. And I don't know, it looks as though they have a fentanyl czar in the north. You know, we had. Billy Baldwin's here yesterday did a documentary on fentanyl, and he says a lot pours through the northern border.

So But some people say only 1% of all the fentanyl comes through the northern border, but they seem to be cracking down. The other big announcement is there's going to be peace talks with Ukraine. And with our delegation, Michael Waltz, Marco Rubio, and Steve Witkoff. It's going to be taking place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It's going to be happening next week.

So we'll see that. And then we'll see the Russians. We also have a huge, I think this is really substantial. For those people who think that Donald Trump is not tough on Russia, I don't think you've taken a look at some of this. With the truth social that we put out, that's essentially Russia is pounding Ukraine, and maybe we're going to have to come back at them.

when we're going to have to come back and hit them with some sanctions to get them to cool off, to get them ready for peace talks. Russia also came out and says European troops in Ukraine are nonstarter. That's a problem for Trump. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead.

How are you gonna pull this off with the Trump administration in the White House? How would you pull that off for New York City? Donald Trump is from New York City. And he knows our problems here. He knows we need federal help.

I dealt with him as governor, remember?

So there was a lot of back and forth. He's another one from Queens. Yes, he is. Yes, he is. Three of us.

Queens Boys.

So I dealt with him as governor. He knows our situation, he knows the situation in New York City. It is his hometown. I think that he wants New York City to appreciate him. I think he thinks there's an opportunity for him to do good things in New York City.

So he really didn't say anything, but he hopes to work better with Trump than other blue city mayors if he is. But how the heck could he be running? He left. The governorship in disgrace. And now today, Mike Lawler made it clear him and other Republicans signed a letter saying we need to get to the bottom of the fact that he go with protocol in 2020 when he sent 15,000 nursing home patients back to the nursing home to die?

Or was he going against it? We still don't know the answer to that. And I think it would matter when you're trying to elect a mayor.

Well, Jake Plumenkranz knows all about this. He's a New York State representative who is actually suing Governor Hochul because of a sparring session she's having with Trump over congestion pricing. Welcome. Great to see you, Jake. Thank you so much for having me on today.

So first off, how do you feel about Trump Cuomo running again? You know what? We have to think back to when Cuomo created the green light laws in 2019. Essentially, created the sanctuary city policies we are dealing with today. This crisis came from those laws.

The fact that we have to go through this process, we're spending $8 billion this year housing migrants in luxury hotels, spending hundreds of dollars a day per migrant. Trump is shutting those hotels down, but we still need someone who understands where this crisis came from and understands who's going to have to answer for the fact that we have failed policies. Why don't we have fracking in New York? Why don't we have that's a great question?

Well, the CLCPA, a New York policy that's their New York Green New Deal, they want to limit the amount of energy we're creating, yet she wants to build factories in upstate New York that'll take as much energy as New York City does itself.

So it's talking out of both sides. Because we have the natural gas. We do. The pipeline's sitting right there. It could turn on tomorrow.

It could lower energy prices in New York, but we're constantly shutting New York for business.

So that's part of it. No cash bail is Cuomo, right? No cash bail, green light laws. You got to answer for the sins of the past if you're going to run today and deal with those issues.

So has he shown any indication that he's changed? I hope to see that he takes a more moderate stance in this race, and I hope to, and I look forward to hearing some of his policies as they roll out. You think Curtis Lewa has a chance? I think I'd love to see a field of new faces and opportunities here in New York. We need to see a Republican Party build back up.

Trump did really well in the last election. We're seeing movement in communities we haven't seen in 50, 60 years for the Republican Party. Where are the new elected officials who are here to rise up and say no? No means no to policies that continue to hurt us. I think Curtis, he's got so much experience.

I think he really gets it. I'd love to see him get another shot, get the nomination.

So, the other thing is, Mike Lawler signed a letter with other lawmakers to try to find out what Cuomo did with the nursing homes. Was he with protocol or against protocol? I think we saw a squashed investigation by his administration. We've seen a lot of talking and not a lot of action from the state government because they don't want to prosecute their own. We see that all the time.

Right. So we'll see what happens. Does it amaze you that someone who is forced from office because of multiple accusers of women is going to be running for another office, arguably as prestigious? I think you could look at Mayor Adams. What did he do that really said?

What was the straw that broke the camel's back? It was not all of his indictments. It was exactly what happened when he let ICE into Rikers. It's allowing them to. Go through the rule of law process that we have here in the United States of America that they refuse to do here in New York.

So it doesn't shock me at all in this state.

So President Trump made it clear he thinks congestion pricing is not good for this city, not good for the country. He got rid of it. Yeah. Hochul is leaving the toll booth on, like the camera's on.

So we're being charged going through Manhattan. This is where we're at in impasse. This is why I'm suing in federal court against Governor Hochul and the MTA, because we need to make sure we stand up for the message that Duffy and Trump, that President Trump and Secretary Duffy have sent, which is time to turn them off. You don't have federal approval.

Now you're violating federal law. And on the 21st, we are going to see some action or we're going to see a state in violation of the Constitution. Where is the court case at?

So we're going to be in the Southern District of New York, right around the corner from here. We're going to try and fight back against what they've created, which is a team of all-star litigants who fight in the Supreme Court against, you know, myself. I'm a Long Island kid who went up to Albany to ask questions and get answers. And we're doing just that. What is it like there in the minority against a supermajority?

It's an uphill battle. That's why I have to go to court. I introduced a bill saying we need a forensic audit of the MTA. We're spending billions of dollars a year. We spent $800 million just on consulting fees for a project that costs half that.

In construction. It's uh an abyss, a money pit that New York continues to pay into, and we don't get accountability. And if they're not going to give it to us, I'm going to get it in the courts.

Well, so that's going to be interesting because we're looking at an antiquated transportation system. Is there any sense that we're going to fix this? People are being pushed in front of subways. We're not seeing the safety measures we need in place. People are jumping the turnstiles.

Their answer: we need more money. You pay when you buy your coffee. You pay when you buy your house. These are line items to the MTA. We're paying and taxed.

All over the city, all over Long Island, all over the state, to make sure this system stays afloat. And they refuse to let us do a forensic audit and clean out and create efficiencies. Right. So, I mean, Al Smith used to write, who became famous and a governor and ran for president, used to sit there in the minority and just take notes and watch all this things take place to learn how to legislate. Tell me what it takes to legislate.

Yeah, I guess you read the Power Broker amazing book, and he did say you can change the world from Albany as long as you take none of the credit. And that's precisely what you can do in the minority. You can work together, you can work with your counterparts, but you've got to get stuff done. And sometimes the majority up there is not willing to answer questions, and that's the same issue we're having here.

So do you have to lawyer up personally in order to take on the city, or can you use state funds? No, I'm not using any state funds. I myself and my lawyer, Stefano Perez, who works with me, we're fighting back, not spending the millions of dollars that they'll probably spend on a case like this. Wow, so we'll see what happens. Do you think President Trump or the federal government knows that they have not shut off the cameras?

I want them to stand with us and stand against Governor Hochul and her egregious tax scheme. I hope that they will, and I hope that we'll fight to make sure we see their wishes. I don't think I have to tell you about the utility bills.

So the utility bills are rocketing up all because this huge green push and the taxing on. Oil and gas fossil fuel companies that they guess he wants to kick out.

So, because of that, they up the rates in which they up the prices of their oil and gas. And we're paying for it. We're paying for it. Not only that, we spent tens of billions of dollars creating connectivity to Canada. We were told there will never be an issue with Canada, we will never have a trade war with Canada, we'll never have issues that they'll shut this off.

Now they're sitting there saying, We're going to shut this off. Imagine the kind of brownouts we'll face in New York if Governor Hochl's policies of the past will come to fruition here in New York.

So, I want you to hear Fareed Zakaria said on Sunday. He's a Democrat, Orleans left anyway, about New York City. Listen, listen. To be fair, this is being fair. No, no, this is a huge Democratic Party problem.

If you look at Democratic cities, they are terribly run. They have incredibly high taxes. It is impossible to build.

So, the cost of housing. Let me finish. Let me finish. I'll give you a chance. The cost of housing is crazy in places like New York.

New York and Chicago. If you look at democratic states, you go look at New York versus Florida, okay, roughly the same population. The budget of New York State is twice that. Florida. What do they have?

Streets paved with gold? I live in New York. I pay the highest taxes in New York. You get nothing for it. And I think that is the image people have of the Democratic Party.

Lots of taxes, lots of regulation, but nothing gets done. Is that your image, Jake? I'll tell you, I bring this up all the time. Florida has more people than us now, and they spend half what we spend in our budget. We are spending so much money, throwing them into programs.

They don't even let us as the legislature get to see exactly where these dollars are going. State rep Jake Blumenkrantz is here. Jake, I want to bring you to something else, and that is the riots that are taking place in Columbia University at their other school. And they were seeing this for the last four days: anti-Semitic people covering their faces in masks because they won't pass a no-mask law in New York.

So they have their faces covered, and they're raiding schools and occupying buildings. It's a safety issue. I went to Columbia University after October 7th with the protesters, seeing what was happening on campus. I stood alone calling for Governor Hochul to send in the National Guard and take these people out if the schools wouldn't do it. We send them money as a state.

I demand it in this budget and I'll continue to demand. We're not going to send money to them if they're not going to make sure that our Jewish students are safe.

So Barnard School is, they say that with the nine that were arrested, about 100 took over the school. The nine that were arrested, none of them were students. Of course not. And they go into these judicial processes at the university and they get off scot-free. Enough is enough.

Let's send these kids back to where they came from. A lot of them aren't even from the campus, and the city's not doing enough about it. We hear lots of thoughts and prayers from the left here in New York City that they're going to do something, and they do exactly Zilch.

Well, the thing is, too, one of them family runs the Hampton Jitney.

So, in case you don't know, this is an elite luxury bus service that brings you from Manhattan, elite, to the Hamptons, probably from mansion to mansion, has been doing it since, what, the 1930s.

So, this is an entitled 20-year-old who wants to destroy the country and is pro-Palestine. Why don't they go there? Champagne socialists at a Best. That's what you see at a lot of these schools: kids that don't know what the river and the sea they're chanting is about, not knowing exactly what they're fighting for, just knowing they want to fight. All right, Jake, thanks so much.

Appreciate you joining us. Thank you, Fred. A lot going on, and I hope you win your lawsuit. The governor thinks if the New Yorkers want to be charged $9 to drive through the city. Oh, they said it's so popular.

So popular. It's so popular. I'm so tired of having so much money with me. Back in a moment. Increasing your intelligence quotients.

What the hell did you say? It's Brian Killmead.

The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. All right, we are back. Before I get to some fun stuff, I do want to go over what's going on right now. Donald Trump put out a pretty aggressive truth so show against You Think Ukraine?

I think you're wrong. He put this out: based on the fact that Russia is absolutely pounding Ukraine on the battlefield right now, I am strongly considering large-scale banking sanctions, sanctions, and tariffs on Russia until a ceasefire and final settlement agreement on peace is reached. To Russia and Ukraine, get to the table right now before it is too late. Thank you. And we know that he's sending a delegation to Saudi Arabia, Mike Wall, Steve Woitkoff, Marco Rubio, in order to talk to the Ukrainian side.

So, not Zelensky, but right below, Yormak, and some others right below.

So, that's good. And then I would meet with the Ukrainians. I actually don't know why they're meeting with the Ukrainians again. I would meet. Uh with Russia, well, we'll see.

So we'll see what the Ukrainians are willing to do, get their side, and then we can start doing some massive shuttle diplomacy. Maybe go right from there to Moscow. I don't know. But we'll see about that. But just to know, I want you to know a little bit about what Russia is playing in their country about the US.

Suddenly, we're not persona non grada. Suddenly, we're not the evil empire. You know how they think about us. We're the aggressors. We're causing havoc throughout the world.

They're best friend. Happens to be China and that great relationship.

So here is a little of Russia. Here's from their broadcast. This is Dmitry Kisilyov. He calls himself the lead propagandist. Normally, anti-Trump.

Cut 13. It's a sign of the types that even the Kremlin's old propagandists are rapidly changing their tune. Dmitry Kisilov is the state mouthpiece who once boasted how Russia could reduce America to nuclear ash.

Rasiya.

Now he's talking about a great troika, the US, Russia and China forming the new structure of the world. Wow, that's a bit of a change. Sergei Lavrov, we know the uh the cagey Russian Foreign Minister, cut fourteen. Trump administration's hard line on Kiev, including the suspension of US military aid, has been greeted with glee in the Kremlin. With Russian officials now berating Europe while flip-flopping on Washington's historical role.

All of the tragedies of the world originated in Europe, claims the Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov. Colonization, wars, the Crimean War, Napoleon, World War One, Hitler. If we look at history in retrospect, he says, Americans played no instigating or even inflammatory role. It's extraordinary revisionism in extraordinary times. Right.

And by the way, now I love the country again. I wasn't liking America.

Now that I hear Russia explain America, I'm really liking it. And lastly, they think they got the combination to beating Trump. Cut sixteen. In exchange, all Putin has done is offer potentially lucrative business deals. Trump's kryptonite, according to one Russian commentator.

Trump is like Superman, and our president Putin has found his weakness, he tells state TV. As soon as Trump hears the words rare earth metals, he's ready to accept any terms he asks. Exactly. Rare earth metals, and you could do anything you want.

So that's how Russia is playing Trump, but they're probably not going to like that truth social post.

So, Allison, tell me about this Jimmy Fallon soundbite you've been talking about. No, and he does a song well. He does it very well and just talked about what St. John's doing so well with basketball. First time in 30 years they won the Big East in regular season.

Yeah, so that was. And now they're going to go for the Big East Championship in the tournament. Exactly. So he sang about it. All right.

Rick Petino has come out of nowhere with $4 million in NIL money, has totally, totally revitalized that program. Let's listen. There once was a squad from Jamaica, Queens, that went by the name of New York's team. The garden it shook, and the fans they roared, let's go, St. John's Red Storm.

Soon they the The red storm comes to rock the rim and make a run. One day, when the winning is done, we'll cut the nets and go. Training threes right through the hoop Lay up pump. Fake Alley Up. The Johnnies march to victory, the champs of the big East.

Soon. The red storm comes to rock the rim and make a run. One day, when the winning is done, we'll cut the nets and go. DOOH! Da da da da da.

Da da da da. Back on top after 25 years, led by a coach. We all Revere a legendary man among his peers. His name is Rickbeteen.

Soon may the red storm come to rock the rim. and make a run. One day when the winning is done we'll Cut the nets and go. That was really good. And you're telling me the players were singing the background?

In the video, I mean, if they're really singing it or not, they're lip-syncing it, or maybe they are singing it. But right, wasn't it very well done? Oh my God, goodness, that was fantastic. And also, they're selling out the garden again. It just goes to show you that if you got good, it matters.

So, Rick Petino says, I go and I talk to people. He's trying to figure out this new NIL. He says, I'll go and talk to a bunch of people. I'll tell them about the team and then I leave. And then in come the salespeople and they lock them up.

So I think the front page of the New York Post today, the back page of the New York Post today, has, as a cover, I mean, it's the biggest story. It's like what inside the $4 million NIL investment in Rick Betino's magic that sparks St. John's revival. Right. And you have Rick Betino, who pretty much left Kentucky, Louisville, in disgrace after a recruiting issue, went overseas and coached in Greece, then came back and got a job in Iona, which is a small school, Division I school in New York.

Jeff Rulin was there for a while. Jim Balvana was there. That's where he really made his name before he went to NC State. And then he revitalized that program. I think he might have brought him to the tournament.

And then he goes and gets to St. John's job, which nobody could revitalize. Not Chris Mullen, no one. And he goes there, takes a few players from Iona, gets a few more, cuts off just about everybody that was there. And in two years, It's got him uh I think it's two.

Yeah, in two years has got him uh top ten in the country. Pretty amazing. It is the new era. You know, you don't build a program, you don't sit freshman, you get a guy, he better be ready to play. And if that guy doesn't play and he wants to play, he's going to pick up and he's going to go somewhere else.

The promise is to start him. Free agency in college sports. Oh, by the way, there's students too. Don't forget, watch One Nation Sunday. Sunday at 10 o'clock.

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