Liberation day is here, will Brian's President Trump-Jerry Maguire analogy come true?

From Hyatt. Top Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, so glad you're there.

I'm here. We're having a great, impactful week. It's gonna be a big day today. Special election yesterday, a lot to go over. We even had the first lady out and about this week, so that doesn't happen all the time.

She's been quite busy, so we'll see where this goes. This hour, I'm gonna be joined by Brett Baer, the guy never stops, and Rich Lowry at the bottom of the hour from National Review. And keep in mind, too, if you ever want to get the show as a podcast, you can go to anywhere you get podcasts. Also, just go to the Fox News app and you can get it from there.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. President Trump is using tariffs to one, raise revenues, two, to recalibrate and make more reciprocal our trade imbalance with other countries. And also, President Trump is trying to protect American sovereignty, American security, American manufacturing, American jobs, America herself. And that's the goal: impasse.

And you can put. And plus you can blame Putin. The Russian leader had an honest broker.

Well, this is not the right one.

So um we'll explain that with This one's supposed to be about Russia.

Next, let's just go to Elon Musk. Number two. It is remarkable that there is so much violence. People have burnt cars, they've fired bullets into dealerships, they've scratched swastikas into Teslas of the innocent people that have, they're just going about their lives, they've done nothing wrong. It's unbelievable.

Doge Musk and its effect on the special election as Tesla vehicles continue to be targeted 44 in March alone by enemies of Trump and Elon, and it's got to stop. It's even happening in Rome, all through Europe. This is the people behind it are soon to be unmasked. We'll talk about it. Number one.

April 2nd, 2025 will go down as one of the most important days in modern American history. Our country has been one of the most open economies in the world, and we have the consumer base hands down. Liberation Day. Trump faces off with friends and foes to rebalance American trade around the world all at once. What deals will be made before the tariffs kick in, and who will bring their production to America and avoid all the penalties?

How the market's going to react too is going to be fascinating.

So far, it's down 272 points. Brett Baer, I will always say this: there's so much unprecedented happens. This is one of those days. We've never seen a big day like this that the president wants to see happen, that the market doesn't want to see happen. Yes, you're right.

Good morning. I think there's a lot of questions. There are a lot of uncertainties yet to play out. But the President is resolute. We don't know exactly what this looks like, the blueprint, but we do know that That there will be some surprises here.

There will be some countries who escape tariffs because of their trade surplus or the US trade surplus with them. We also know that there are some countries that are actively changing their policies. Israel wiped out all tariffs on U.S. products. To be able to meet the deadline, and it's being reported that India is considering dropping tariffs and taxes on $23 billion of U.S.

goods. If that happens, that's a big mover before this announcement at 4 p.m. My sense is, too. Oh, I know this, too. Vietnam has cut import levies on products like liquefied natural gas and automobiles.

I think that this would be an opportunity for the U.K., who desperately wants a free trade deal now that it's separated from the EU, to say, hey, him and Starmer and Trump get along. This might be one way to do it. And maybe just equal things like Israel did.

So I imagine my view, Brett, is remember when Tom Cruise and Jerry Maguire got fired and he got to work the phones in order to get as many clients as possible? My sense is Howard Luttnick is sitting next to Trump, sitting next to Besant, the Treasury Secretary, and the phone calls are coming in. And they're cutting deal after deal. And I think a lot of that could be announced at 4 o'clock today. How right do you think I am?

I think you're right. I don't know about the exact Jerry McGuire analogy, but I think that you're right. I I think that they're they're act Incoming and making some calls, outgoing. I think that there are some like Canada and the EU that probably are not and and they're not going to get the call.

So there will be you know positives and negatives. To all of the investment that has already come in, it's hundreds of billions of dollars. into the US.

Now, the question is on some products Consumers are going to feel something. And how that, you know, the Fed deals with that. Do interest rates come down? Does the market slow a little bit? Uh it's a real question.

The biggest thing though, Brian, is the growth part of the suggestion. Which is the tax cuts and the big budget resolution. And that's why you're seeing this concern about all these seats, Elise DeFonic being pulled as the UN ambassador, because they're worried about this slim majority and they just can't control the House.

So, a guy that you know well, Wilbur Ross, he is the former Commerce Secretary. He was asked yesterday on Fox Business about what this means, what today means, cut three.

So, I don't think the gloom and doom is going to be fully justified in any event. But I think, as I say, the real key is what is the path to getting a reduction. Because the president has two the stink and in some ways contradictory objectives. One objective is to improve the trade balance. The second is to uh raise money.

replace tax.

Well, what's interesting is the more successful he is, On the trade side, the less successful he'll be in getting more tax money. from overseas. What he will get is tax money from the new manufacturing in the US and the workers in that manufacturing.

So um Obviously He's talking about the money they want to raise from the tariffs that they estimated the administration does $600 billion. Do you want to expand on that?

Well, I think it could More than that, depending on what the tariffs look like. But the ultimate goal is, to Wilbur's point, the Secretary's point, is to Yet Manufacturing back to the US. There are no tariffs on anything created inside the US. And that takes time. You know, that could take a couple years.

That's what the car industry is looking at. And I I think that there is this vision about but how it affects the short term and more importantly, the growth aspect. Remember, the tax cuts in the first Trump administration happened first. There were several tariffs But it was almost simultaneous as they got the legislation.

Now you're putting in the back end. It's a little cart before the horse. and whether the markets and the American public feels that before the growth part is the question.

So, your series Thursday, Friday, I watched it back and I just took notes on it because almost every statement they made about what was going on at Treasury, Social Security, was going to the Small Business Association. All the Doge guys, seven guys came out plus Elon Musk, to explain what they're doing behind the scenes. And I was heartened by how much could be fixed by just systems. When you talked about the computer system being 50 years old, computers not being able to talk to anyone, being able to gut fraud through modernization. First off, before I play what Elon Musk said yesterday on the five about the transparency of Doge, your takeaway when you were done, not only with the one-on-one with Elon, but with the others.

Yes. It took me a long time. I had a request in for Elon for a long time, and I we were talking and said maybe we should have other Doge guys since there's this mystified sense that it's a 19-year-old in a hoodie tinkering with your social security data. And they started putting that together and kind of got guys that signed on to be public. And suddenly, you looked at that room, and of the seven other guys, there's three billionaires besides Elon and CEOs who are volunteering time to dig into these different agencies to find ways, fraud, and abuse.

And I just think that the image and what they were saying was very powerful. uh the specifics I think they Doge needs to come continue to do that. And we've offered to have a Doge download every week on Special Report. But I think they're going to start streaming their internal meetings where they lay out specifically what they're finding week to week. And I thought the most striking thing was Elon saying that within the one hundred thirty days, They truly believe they're going to get to the $1 trillion figure.

Right. And then you had why? And that's why they figured that there's a lot of digitizing that they could do. If you get computers talking to each other, I love the example when he said, for example, if a nine month old is applying for a small business hold because someone stole their that person's ID, you might write that check. But if you're the small business association, but if they're hooked to social security, you'll see the age of that person.

Computers talking to each other, it would be red-flagged, and fraud would be found. The money wouldn't be distributed, let alone charges be filed. Stuff like that. Think about the fact that the Treasury Department operates out of one bank account that just flows money, $800 billion in there a couple of weeks ago. And basically, all these agencies independently say, we have this bill, it must be paid.

And Treasury says, okay, we're going to pay it. But there's no like cross-checking. What is this bill? What is it for? No tab that says this is being paid for this, which is why they said they could never, the US government could never pass an audit.

So they're changing that. That goes beyond a legislative fix. That is a long-term fix in how the government operates. If the computers talk to each other, they can cross-check. And then you add AI in there, and it speeds it up exponentially.

So he talked about the NGOs being the biggest boondoggle. He expanded on that last night, CUD29. Everything that Doge does is an open book.

So we're, I think, the most transparent action, the most transparent organization in government ever. Every single Doge action is listed on the With respect to the non-governmental organizations, these sort of fake NGOs, I think there needs to be a number of arrests in that regard as well, because these are fake charities, mostly Democrats. And listen, well, and I want to be clear, there's sometimes a little bit of Republican in there because they sometimes throw the Republicans a bone to say, hey, be quiet about this. That's where you start getting the uniparty thing going on. But it is overwhelmingly to Democrats.

And they give these billions of dollars to NGOs run by Democrats that then go through a whole network of additional NGOs. It's a giant money laundering scheme. Really, at this point, I think the word NGO and money laundering are almost synonymous. And he's been saying this, and I'm wondering where they go from here with these accusations. And the poster child for this is Stacey Abrams, where she comes with an organization who has no expertise at.

One year they get $100, the next year they get billions. And now she says, well, I really had nothing to do with that. I know. It's amazing. And I think this is going to lead to prosecutions.

I really do believe that because they're going to have the receipts. Elon said the other day that there was a A massive effort to delete a lot of things, like a terabyte of data, before Doge got in these systems. And he said, but they don't know technology and we recovered it all. I think they're going to come to with receipts and then it's going to lead to Pan Bondi moving forward. If there are, in fact, these kickback schemes of NGOs that don't exist and it goes back to lawmakers, it goes back to administrators, I think there's a huge story yet to happen, let alone what they're finding on the waste fraud and abuse.

Just how extensive this thing was. That's why he says he wants to find the generals behind the blowing up of these Teslas, 44 separate incidents in America alone, the dealerships, the power stations, the individual cars. He says, I want to find the generals behind it. And they might be the same people that are worried about him finding out things about. What Doja's doing.

And this could be a full circle situation because I've never, including Trump, seen someone vilified so quickly as what they're trying to do to Elon Musk. Yeah, I agree with you. I agree with you.

Now On the flip side is when he plugged into the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, I think there was a pushback on the ground about the effort to do the million-dollar winners and the effort to put tons and tons of money to influence that race. I think that at least we're hearing anecdotally that that fired up, especially some Democrats more than they would have been. And the vilification of Elon Musk led to, when he plugged into that race, a negativity, I think. on the race that may have hurt in that particular race.

So that's going to be an issue for Republicans in Wisconsin. But with the two wins in Florida, for the short term, they're going to have the numbers in the House to be able to to pass, they think, the budget resolution. Yes, they got two wins in Florida. They lost bigger than thought was going to happen over in Wisconsin.

So the opportunity to gerrymander and get more Democratic districts of Wisconsin and not have a voter ID. Is real, and that'll probably be the case in that battleground state, which Trump won two of three times. Right? Yeah, two or three times.

Well, listen, they passed voter ID. They actually had a line item, and that passed. Yet, the Democratic Supreme Court. Supreme Court. candidate one.

So we'll see how that plays out. I think Wisconsin is still eternally purple. I remember covering the recall of Scott Walker. I mean, it's always like that back and forth. I think there was a backlash on Elon Musk this time.

So, Brad, I remember when. The governor of Pennsylvania became the first Homeland Security Secretary. I think it was a temporary position. Tom Ridge. Tom Ridge.

And I went over there and they were just putting this thing together. They were putting all these industries together, all these all these bureaus together, and they were trying to make ends of it from Secret Service on down. When you went over with Christine Home, did it seem more settled? Does it seem like a Homeland Security that was understood fully what it was W with with with the task at hand? Yeah, definitely.

Okay, first of all, the The facility is very impressive. They've added three new buildings, cybersecurity building. Um the National Operations Center is About it seems seven floor down, seven floors down. I mean, you got to take four elevators. It's almost like the get smart.

You remember that show where he walks through seven doors? And I do think that it's a sprawling campus that they fully realize their charge is to protect the homeland.

So After talking to Secretary Noam, there are a lot of folks that are doing a lot of things. Immigration, I think, is their focus. Don't forget, special report tonight at 6. Brett, thanks so much. Great job.

You bet. 1-866-408-7669. Your calls next. Bottom of the hour, Rich Lowry.

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Statistics tell the grim story of the October 7th, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. 1,200 civilians and soldiers slaughtered that day. 251 taken hostage, men, women, and children. Since then, an estimated 50,000 Gazans have been killed. Twelve days ago, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu resumed the bombing of Gaza, breaking a fragile ceasefire that was exceedingly popular with Israelis.

So that is uh Uh obviously 60 minutes from Sunday, and they go on to say: I mean, obviously, this is an interview with hostage families that is extremely important. What they went through is nothing short of. Hallacious. And there was a real sympathetic ear towards the Palestinian situation. Not that I should have really been that surprised.

But yeah, there's been 50,000 that was called the Hamas Message Bureau. But the only people that are responsible for the death of anyone in Gaza is Hamas. They started it. They continue to say that their ultimate goal is to rid Israel, Israelis, out of Israel.

So you have no choice for your Israel to finish them off. And now they're in the process of doing that while still trying to get the hostages out. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. And he said that the president right now is with the trade and tariff team.

They are very confident that this is all going to work. But what if they're wrong? They're not going to be wrong. It is going to work. And the President has a brilliant team of advisers who have been studying these issues for decades.

And we are focused on restoring the golden age of America and making America a manufacturing superpower. Yep, that was Carolyn Levitt yesterday talking about what's happening today, and it is Liberation Day where reciprocal tariffs are going on. Whatever you're charging us with tariffs, in other words, A price that you pay if I'm about to get Coca-Cola. Or how about lumber? If I'm about to get lumber from Canada, you charge us 25% if I give lumber to you.

Now we're going to charge you a fee of 25% when we buy lumber from you.

So when you buy from us, it's going to be the same thing. India, when it comes to cars, are you going to put a tariff on your items?

Well, we're going to put a 40% tariff on our cars.

So this is going to go back and forth. And we're going to see if people are going to blink or just go roll up their sleeves and do deals with us and level the playing field. Rich Lowry is editor of National Review. Rich, this is a big day. Very unprecedented in many respects, don't you think?

Yeah, I will probably have the Highest tariffs on average since sometime in the 19th century. I think this is a big risk. I think it's a good thing to end the uncertainty and just settle on a policy, assuming we're going to settle here for a while because the uncertainty hasn't been great. But I'm just not a big fan of tariffs. I think they are tax increases.

I think the political problem is that even if you get manufacturing returning here to home over time, that is going to take time. You don't build a million square foot auto plant in a year. It's a big decade-long decision and process.

So the downside and higher prices will be felt immediately, and the upside won't be so immediate.

So that's the risk, I think.

Well, too, manufacturing comes back, or the other thing they do: okay, I'm going to bring Hyundai. I'm going to bring everything here. Got it. Understood. Zero tax.

Got it. Now, if you just want to take a balanced approach when it comes to tariffs on liquor, on foodstuffs, whatever, that would immediately balance things out. We're not asking you to bring manufacturing. Here, we're asking you to charge equal on the products that we're exchanging back and forth.

So, we're in a World War II level with many of these countries.

So, we could have dozens and dozens of deals theoretically. We've already got one with Vietnam and Israel, and they say India is about to be announced.

So how do you feel about that theory? Yeah, that'd be great. I mean, that is a a win-win. If they reduce tariffs on our goods and we're not increasing tariffs on their goods because they're reducing them on ours, then you end up with lower tariffs, which I think is, in my view, is the better policy. Obviously, President Trump and a lot of people around him just disagree with that.

But I think that that'd be great. If there's a lot of deal making, I'm all for it. All right, so it's happening at 4 o'clock today after the markets close. They're going to come out with details on some of the taxes. 25% on imports, on everything.

On aluminum, 25% on autos is about to be collected. They are panicking in the auto business because so many of their parts, even if they make them here, they come from elsewhere. And we just don't make them here. And it was explaining to me, one of the manufacturers said, for example, leather seats. They don't make leather seats in a mass way in America.

So they have to go outside America, they cut big deals, to another country to make the leather seats, to get the leather seats cut.

So now they're going to be 25% more to get the leather seats.

So they got to, the margins are small on the average car sold.

So they're going to have to change the price of the car and it's going to go up. Because even if you pledge to get a leather manufacturer here, like you said, it won't be quick. Yeah, so this is the tension in the policy.

So, like steel tariffs, if you're a steel maker in the U.S., you love them, right? They're fantastic. But if you're someone who uses steel to build stuff, you're not so happy.

So, making the inputs more expensive can hurt manufacturing at the margins. And what sort of tell on the auto tariffs, again, you think you're an U.S. auto manufacturer, you should love tariffs, right? But they're all like, no, don't do this for the very reason you pointed out.

So, it's I think there's some potential big downsides to this, but it's certainly, as you say, it's historic. This is, we don't know what else is going to happen in the next four years, but this is top five things that Donald Trump is going to be remembered for this day. Uh true.

So let's talk about the special election last night. The two Florida races, handily for the Republican, despite a lot of money. And to me, it makes total sense. People say, well, the Democrats got closer.

Well, I always consider Florida battleground state number one. Number two, nobody knows these guys. Matt Gates, whatever you think of him, popular in his district. Mike Waltz, extremely popular. That's why they won by 30 points.

So these guys won by double digits. I don't think it was a big thing.

Now, when it comes to the special election in Wisconsin, Judge Susan Crawford won. Here's what she said: cut 18. Just moments ago, I received a phone call from Judge Brad Schimmel conceding the race. And I want to thank him. He was very gracious, and I wish him and his family well.

And to the people of Wisconsin, thank you. Thank you for trusting me to serve you on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. I never could have imagined. That I'd be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.

I've spent my whole career fighting for Wisconsin as a prosecutor, a lawyer, a judge. And now a soon-to-be justice on the Wisconsin.

So there you go.

So Elon Musk put a lot of money, time, and effort into it. It didn't work. It was an easy win for Susan Crawford. Why? Uh I think this is more of a natural kind of backlash phenomenon.

The other side always gets more energy in its step in these special elections when they're out of power.

So I think that's probably the biggest factor here. And with regard to the press saying they overcame Elon Musk's Musk's millions or beat this billionaire, but one reason Musk came into the race is because Schimmel is getting massively outspent by the Democratic campaign funded by their billionaires, Soros and Prisker and all the rest of them.

So I think it was great that Elon Musk made such a big effort. Maybe I wouldn't have gone there, you know, and kind of let them personalize it and give them the big image of me and the chief head had. But I think it was great what he tried to do. It's just this one seems to me like a classic off-year election kind of phenomenon. I have seen it so many times, Brian, so view.

You know, Democrats president, Republicans win unexpected special elections or win them by bigger margins than you thought, and the opposite happens. When a Republican is president.

So it wouldn't matter. You know, Nikki Haley could be president. I think this would, a result probably would have been the same.

So, Rich Lowry, this is, again, unprecedented. We never had a. We never had a day like this. Liberation Day. But the other thing is, we never had an Elon Musk like this.

You know, Trump is unique in his own way. I have never seen such backlash against any individual who didn't run for office. And they're beating up on his companies. They're going after him personally from Nazi on down. He really feels like his life is being threatened.

He's not backing up. That's not the way his makeup is.

So is Elon Musk, if you are in the White House and you just want to win, you love Elon, let's say they all have great feelings about him and they know about his potential and his IQ, what do you say to him today that you learn from this? I'd be a little less out there. And I don't think you need to be out there campaigning, but I think, you know, I'd be sort of shocked, Brian, in the back of his head. Trump doesn't know Elon's going to burn out. He's going to become too radioactive or just get tired and want to do something else.

And he's talked to, you know, his appointment ends in what, May, the term of the special government employee status. And I think he said with Brett the other day, he expects to have it all done by then, which just goes to his energy and how fast he wants to do stuff. But I would just get the most out of him in terms of rationalizing government and coming up with stuff that discovering the stuff that doesn't make sense and doing it better, knowing he's not going to be there all four years, right? There's a short fuse to this. Do you think that he's absorbing a lot of the negativity that Trump would normally get, or is he creating it on his own?

And I'm saying this from a perspective bias. I think he's done unbelievable things for the country already. Yeah, I think he's a bit of a heat shield. And it's amazing to think that someone could take more heat than Donald Trump, you know, and distract attention from Donald Trump is amazing, but he's managed to do it.

So I think he's a better bit of a heat shield. And I kind of, my guess is, Trump kind of appreciates that as well.

So a couple of things. He talked about the NGOs being a boondoggle. He talked about getting computers to work with each other. He talked about to talk to each other, to modernize the systems immediately, to To document all everyone's social security. Right now, it's written in physical papers, in folders in a mine in Pennsylvania.

But he also talked about the bombing and the attacks on Tesla drivers, showrooms, and charging stations. And he says that they're not looking for, they're going to arrest the people that they catch, but there's a bigger story here: Cut 23. I think what we actually have to get to are the people who are organizing and paying for these attacks and protests. That's who we really need to go after. Because the people who are actually throwing the Molotov cocktails, they are the foot soldiers.

But we need to go after the generals. And we're going to do so. The president has made it very clear that we're going to go after those that are paying and organizing these violent attacks. And Attorney General Bondi has said the same thing. I believe that that is exactly what will happen.

We're coming for them. Do you know who those generals are? We do. These are serious crimes. uh uh where the organizers and pushers of Mass violence.

I will go to prison for a very long time.

So I think they're pursuing that the way he pursues everything. You know these aren't just people with tempers. It's the same attitude with the global climate change. It's the same anti-Trump thing that we've seen before. It's the same Antifa mindset.

It they're they all seem to have that same crazy look in their eye. Mm-hmm. Totally.

So, I hope there's some mass arrests. I hope we get people financing this because these guys are getting paid to do this. Yeah, so I think there are two things. One, any act of violence that needs to be prosecuted to the fullest. It is a form of domestic terrorism.

You know, it's not hijacking a plane and running into a building, but it's an act of violence in furtherance of a political aim. And that's just textbook. Terrorism and that we kind of accepted this or in the mainstream as sort of a joke, what's happening in Tesla is horrible. It's just absolutely disgraceful. This is not how politics should be done in our country.

Now, on the other hand, if you're you're lawfully and peacefully protesting, That's fine. You know, I might not like it. I might think it's stupid and you're wrong, but that's okay. It's just violence is obviously the red line. And they do it every time.

You know, it's Black Lives Matter, Antifa, all the rest of it. At the very least, they consider property, damage to property somehow acceptable, but it oftentimes involves injuring people as well. We've just been lucky so far that people shooting up dealerships or throwing Molotov cocktails, someone hasn't really been hurt yet.

So the Houthi rebels, you're writing about the withdrawal Trump wants to open up Wants to open up the waterways in and around Yemen, and he's had it with the shutdown. It's costing us a lot of money, and the fact that they're shooting on our SIPs 70-plus times that we've got to knock these rockets out of these drones out of the skies with our rockets, he is fed up. I did not know this, but we've hit the Houthis for 14 straight days. General McKenzie, now retired. They brought him on over the weekend on the Sunday shows to beat up on Pete Hagseth and Michael Waltz for their signal chat.

But look at the way he took this conversation. I think the larger story here is actually that we have finally begun to strike the Houthis hard. There's an old Neil Young song, I'll lift the line from it, should have been done long ago.

Well, now we're beginning to do it, and we're beginning to strike effectively at a pace, a scope, and a tempo that frankly eluded the last administration. I loved it. He wouldn't get into the intramural stuff, but this is what he wants to do because we're using intelligence to take out their people, not hit launchers. Yeah, this is hugely important. And it's usually the general there used kind words eluded the prior administration.

No, just wouldn't do it, refused to do it. And there's no American president in the past, you know, whether it was Thomas Jefferson or John Adams, James Madison, who would have been totally in favor of slamming the Hooties and opening it up. You know, you wrote a book about the Barbary Pirates, right? That was what, in part, it was all about. We need free and unmolested ability to ship our stuff around the globe.

And it's a very American response that we've seen from Trump. And you're right, people kind of forgot about this because all the focus was on the initial strike because of the signal chat, but it's an ongoing operation where we just need to stop this. I know. We got to stand up and go right back to Iran. And the word is that Israel's not going to wait too much longer to take out their nuclear weapons.

And this is going to be something that's got to be addressed. Thanks so much. Appreciate it, Rich. And I know you wrote about it in the National Review. Appreciate it.

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So The other big story that I can't get enough of, because I think we're starting to solve the problem, is anti-Semitism and the unrest and the left-leaning, ungrateful, anti-American protests that have been taking place in our college campuses. And when they started rising up again a few weeks ago and taking over Barnard College, which is related to Columbia, this president, for the first time, because it's the first time he's been challenged, stepped up and started tossing these guys out. And we're seeing mass self-deportations, mass deportations, 300 plus, a trial with Mahmoud Khalil. And at the same time, think to yourself, how this all started. This started because over a thousand innocent Israelis were massacred in this A brutal surprise attack on the Gaza border of Israel.

So the hostages, over two hundred taken. It's suspected that about twenty eight still are alive, many still unaccounted for.

So Leslie Stahl talked to some of the hostages that got out. And talked about their captivity. I want you to hear a little bit more from Sunday 60 Minutes. They were beating me and starving me. Do you think they starved you or they just didn't have food?

No, I think they starved me and they they would often eat. in front of me and not offer me food. That follow up question, what do you Allison, what do you think about that? I mean, is your draw not on the floor? Like, were they really just starving you?

Or were like we kept food from them and they were starving too. Poor terrorists. And you know what? I'm so glad you pointed it out because There was so much wrong with that 60 minutes. Not just the Israeli thing, but also the Los Angeles fire thing.

They actually, they don't even talk about the recalls on the mayor, her being in Ghana, that only like four houses have begun to be rebuilt, that so few of the properties have been scraped, all the red tape that exists, the governor doing a podcast. Instead, they just talked about how people are trying to rebuild, and the subtitle, the subplot was.

So many electric cars in this left wing area, they're like IEDs. They can't move them. They're too dangerous for the fire department because all the dangerous rare earth that's contaminated and potentially explosive. But on that, absolutely. The torture that they went through and the unwillingness Leslie Stahl was to listen to the stories instead of saying, Well, look, they've had it much worse.

I know his answer, at least, is like, No, they had food. They were eating right in front of me and were doing that to torture me. Right. And then he went on to say, Beyond, you don't even want to hear the torture. It's just, it's unbelievable.

But Israel has to finish him off. There's just no question. Brian, kill me, Joe.

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But we just have this great mayoral candidate who decided the best way for him to win is to say, let's get rid of the police and start a. Uh and start a neighborhood watch essentially for Manhattan. Yeah, it's another version of Defund the Police. Good luck with that. Julian Epstein at the bottom of the hour talking about the Democratic Party, where they go from here, what they learn from themselves in their special election.

Andrew McCarthy standing by. You'll be a chance to see him on Zoom.

So if you're listening to the show, you might want to click on watch on the Fox News Radio app. And then you could see us and see how good Andy looks in the morning or the mid-morning. Let's get to the big three. Number three. He is frustrated with leaders on both sides of this war.

He wants this war to end. There are men that are dying on both sides, and it's been going on for far too long. That was Carol Ann Levitt. Yesterday at a big press conference, I was on, at the time, I was on the couch, unoutnumbered, impasse, and you could blame Vladimir Putin. The Russian leader had an on was a has not been an honest broker to bring a ceasefire in Ukraine.

And he seems intent on making Trump's effort look fruitless and make him look bad, and Trump will make him pay the price, I predict. Number two. There is so much violence. People have burned cars, they've fired bullets into dealerships, they've scratched swastikas into Teslas of the innocent people that have, they're just going about their lives, they've done nothing wrong. Yep, Elon Musk, Doge Musk and its effect on the special election as Tesla vehicles continue to be targeted by enemies of Trump and Elon.

And it's got to stop.

Soon to be unmasked, the mastermind financing these attacks. Number one. President Trump is using tariffs to, one, raise revenues, two, to recalibrate and make more reciprocal our trade imbalance with other countries. And also, President Trump is trying to protect American sovereignty, American security, American manufacturing, American jobs, America herself. Another dramatic day in the Trump term, too, Liberation Day.

Trump faces off with friends and foes to rebalance American trade around the world all at once. What deals can be made before the tariffs kick in and what are these tariffs specifically? We'll find out at 4 p.m. Eastern Time. Let's bring in Andy McCarthy.

I'll sit down so the camera can get a better shot. Andy, welcome back. Brian, great to be with you. All right.

So first off, this just crossed, and I'll read it together. It looks like the a judge has dismissed Eric Adams' corruption case with prejudice, ensuring it can't be revived. It looks like District Judge Dale Ho on Wednesday dismissed the case, meaning that the case has no future. The Trump Justice Department has moved to dismiss it without prejudice. Quote: In light of the DOJ's rationales, dismissing the case without prejudice would create the unavoidable perception that the mayor's freedom depends on his ability to carry out the immigration enforcement priorities of the administration and that he might be beholden to the demands of the federal government than to the wishes of his own constituents.

So it looks like Mayor Eric Adams is going to be okay. I guess legally. What is your take?

Well, this is pretty much what we figured, Brian, would happen. Remember, Judge Ho appointed Paul Clement. uh who is a very fine lawyer and uh Supreme Court Advocate. Was, I think, the solicitor general in the Bush 43 administration for a time. He appointed him as a sort of advisor on this case.

And what Clement Advised him was that a court has no power to direct the Justice Department to prosecute somebody.

So as a practical matter, you have to let them dismiss the case. But what the court doesn't have to do is allow them to keep open the possibility that they could bring the case in the future as leverage over Adams to do, you know, basically their bidding rather than what he may independently think his constituents want.

So what the judge said is you can dismiss the case, but you're not going to be able to hold it over his head.

So it's the legal term is it's dismissed with prejudice, but that's what that means.

So now I guess he could go run for office and say, I'm not under that cloud if he wants to run re-election. He's getting pounded now. But for him, some of the this frustration because they felt as though they didn't charge him like they wanted to charge him. More charges were coming down the pike. If that is true, it doesn't matter, right?

Well, I think that This has like what we would what we would regard as double jeopardy effect. In the sense that everything that's already in the indictment, the government couldn't bring those charges.

Now, I don't think the Trump Justice Department actually has any intention. of prosecuting Adams. But I suppose in theory They could bring charges that had never been brought before, which the U.S. attorney who Quit over this case, apparently was poised to do, but the Justice Department prevented her. From doing that.

But it's just an academic discussion because they don't want to charge Adams at this point. All right, and finally, who killed Kennedy? I'm only kidding. I mean, it's just amazing what's going on, the amount of things that are happening. I'm seeing all those things.

So, yesterday, that's so 1963, Brian. Yes. And also Tuesday.

So there you go.

All right.

So, yeah, so we'll see about that.

So, let's talk about what's happening. There's a lot of frustration. In the Trump camp or amongst Republicans in the House and Senate, and they want to do something about the judge shopping and the district courts are stopping Trump's agenda. I want you to hear what Brandon Gill said he's doing yesterday, and he is a congressman from Texas, cut nine. I've been on the forefront of saying that Congress needs to be reining in activist judges.

I filed impeachment articles a couple weeks ago against liberal activist Judge Boesberg, who demanded that President Trump turn a plane full of Trende Aragua terrorists around midair and deposit them back into the United States. That's an egregious usurpation of the President's plenary Article II authority under the Constitution to act as Commander-in-Chief. It's something that I'll continue pushing for, but we've got a variety of remedies that we're pursuing right now in the judiciary.

So the impeachment thing is not going to fly, but what can they actually do?

Well, first of all, I think it'd be nice if they We're comprehensively honest in explaining what's going on here. Yes, Judge Bosberg ordered these planes to turn around, and it's dubious to me whether he had the authority to do that. But the factual context here is that the Trump administration took 261 people who had a right, they now admit, had a right to file habeas corpus petitions to challenge what the administration was doing to them. And rather than give them their judicial rights, put them on a plane and sent them to a third country's notorious prison that's been condemned by our own. State Department.

So there's a factual context here, which it would be nice if these guys were at least. Expansively honest about. I agree that you have to do something about. Judges who are issuing nationwide injunctions instead of just like ordering the parties that are in front of them. in the litigation to do things, but And I do think that the Trump administration in a number of contexts has run into willful progressive.

uh judges who are trying to supplant The president's Views on, say, foreign policy with the judge's views, and I think that's entirely wrong. On the other hand, The administration is trying to undermine the due process rights that a lot of these aliens have. And look, I'm more Attila the Hun than I think the administration is on terrorists and. uh people who shouldn't be in the country i've been making this argument for Over 20 years. But when people have due process rights, you have to go through the regular court system.

And when judges react. In a negative way. Because the administration is Denying people their due process rights, that's not being an activist judge, that's being a judge. Unless, of course, it feels like politics. You don't like Trump.

I'm going to stop this. I'm going to do an injunction. I'm going to evaluate this. And you got to say, when you look at the numbers on injunctions, it's not even close in terms of injunctions in the history of the country since the 1960s. Trump's got 17 already since March 27th.

And then he had 64 last time. Before Trump became president, one time, there were 129 in American history.

So people look at that and say, of course, these are a bunch of judges and Democrats shopping for the right judge in the right district to get somebody to stop Trump. Yeah, that that's true. But there's two sides of the story. I'm not saying that part of it isn't true. But what I am saying is that, for example, they took three of these lawful aliens, these illegal aliens who are living in the United States and haven't been charged with a crime.

They could have given them a summons and told them to come to court. Instead, they grabbed them and whisked them out of the jurisdiction because the forum shopping in that instance was being done by the administration, not the defense lawyers. The administration wanted them out of New York and Adam, Massachusetts, so that it could litigate in Texas or Louisiana, where it thought. things would go better for them so everybody Gets involved in this forum shopping stuff. It's not a a one-way street.

And the fact that there are willful progressive judges, and let's remember, there's about 700 Um Lower court judges, district court judges in the United States, but Obama and Biden were president for 12 of the last 16 years. They've appointed about two-thirds of the judges on the district courts in the United States. And I do agree that, contrary to when I was a young Lawyer, where judges seem to have where it was thought that the most important thing for a judge was to get it right. I think a lot of these progressive ideologues today are like auditioning for higher court jobs when the next Democratic administration comes in. I think that's a big cultural problem in the law, and we have to do something about nationwide injunctions.

But there's a lot going on here. Andy, a couple of things. When those 260 went on those planes to El Salvador three weeks ago, two weeks ago, whatever.

So when they go over there and the judge says, turn it around, I don't think so. You know, they might be bad guys, but I don't really know who they are.

So I want you to turn the plane around. I mean, these guys weren't living in a suburban neighborhood. They were in ice facilities detained. I mean, murderers, gangsters. Uh thugs, correct?

Yeah, why do they get their day in court? Whoa, whoa, Broy. I prosecuted terrorists. Who were mostly aliens who had killed people. Right.

But I didn't get to say to the agents. Put them on a plane and get them the hell out of here. I had to tell them, bring them to court. because they have due process rights. That's not that's like a thing in this country.

But let me ask you, why do they have due process rights? They're not citizens. They stuck into our country, committed a crime. Why do I have to I have to wait six years for them to get their day in court?

So you tell me then, if an illegal alien commits a crime on the street in front of a police officer, do you think we can just put that guy on a plane and fly him out of here? Yes. You too. Yeah. I think you what should happen.

I'm asking you what the law requires.

Well, let me ask that. I mean, if you have 261 people, and let's say you look at their background, ICE, a local cop picks them up, ICE detains them. They look at their background. We've got to keep you in a secure facility. We're holding on to them.

So rather than put them through the process, get them a lawyer like the Rachel Morin killer or the Lake and Riley killer. We would never be able to get all these guys. We had 8 million people sneak in, 2 million people gotaways. How many are criminals? I'm not sure.

They already basically violate our laws by getting in here. But let's say some of these people are good people and they just hate their country. That's still violation of our laws. I'm not talking about giving them to El Salvador prison, but these guys have committed crimes, been picked up by cops. We put them through the process.

ICE goes, yeah, they're terrible. I don't know if we have the facilities and time and we could possibly have the judges to be able to litigate these guys. Are they going to go lawyer up? Brian, this is why I said that Biden should have been impeached over the border security collapse, because this is a profound problem for the country. The Trump Justice Department.

Now concedes that these people have a right to file habeas corpus petitions. I'm not making this up because I'm not sure. I mean, habeas corpus is to find how. If you are illegally detained, or you claim that you're illegally detained, you are entitled to notice. And an opportunity to be heard in opposition to the government's, in this instance, designation of you as an alien enemy, which is what Trump relied on with respect to about two-thirds of those aliens.

That doesn't mean, I want to be clear on this, the government should win these cases. But they're attacking. But how could we possibly do this if we got thousands of criminals here? I mean, we have other American criminals that need their day in court. We don't have enough lawyers and judges to handle all this.

Yeah, but Brian, the problem with that is Congress, you have probably 20 million. Illegal aliens in the United States, which is horrific. That's terrible. They have approved. The government now says it's maxed out at 47,600 detention spaces.

For illegal immigration. And Trump's problem, and I sympathize with this because it's a huge problem. He wants to get people who shouldn't be in this country out of the country. But Congress hasn't provided for that. I got to talk to you offline on this because I need education on it.

I'm not saying I'm a legal expert. I never thought I was and never aspired to be. But I will say this: how about this? You get a criminal, the ICE looks at him, the local police look at him. This guy's bad.

You see the tattoos on his neck. Fly back to their country and let them try him. You guys need background? I'm here for you. You got my email address.

You're going back to your country. And you committed a crime, guys, put them in chains. You want to let them out, Venezuela, you let them out. Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, but they're gone. Because we're not going to put them through our system.

They already breached us once. How do you feel about that? Brian, I wrote a column probably two weeks ago for National Review, which basically said something very similar to what you just said, but. The point was, hey, Congress, how about helping President Trump here? Why do you have him out on a hook on the Alien Enemies Act, which probably doesn't apply to the situation when Congress today Could write a law along the lines of what you're saying.

And in the meantime, if we need more detention space in order to hold people to make that work. They could also provide for that, but they won't do it.

Well, the one thing is they shut down the border so we have less criminals in a way in which I didn't think was possible. I can't wait to talk more about this because we do have to talk about that Atlantic Arctic with his kilmer, Orbrego Garcia, and he was sent back. He's a gangster, but he was sent back to Where he learned to be a gangster, which makes it dangerous. It's so crazy. Thanks so much, Andy.

I'll talk to you again soon. Thanks, Brian. And you look very good on Zoom. I'm very, very impressed. Back in a moment.

You're with Brian Kilmead. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Killmead. April 2nd, 2025 will go down as one of the most important days in modern American history. Our country has been one of the most open economies in the world, and we have the consumer base hands down, the best consumer base.

But too many foreign countries have their markets closed to our exports. And that's why I led to Liberation Day, and that's Carol Ann Levitt. I mean, I've never. Kaylee McEnany, too, and Dana Prino is fantastic. But Dana, when she took over for Bush.

When she took over Tony Snow, 'Cause he was ill. And she took over full time and then he ended up going to CNN, I think, for a brief time, and then sadly wasn't able to overcome his illness. She was really talking about the war all the time, and she was great, but it was really the war and the economy was doing good. Literally, Caroline Levitt Carried six subjects in forty minutes with substance. And we all know, I mean it's impossible to know all these things inside and out.

But we all know you get a question, you don't know what's coming, and she's able to talk with substance At twenty seven years old about these issues. And With certainty? And I think with swagger. while not saying look at me. I think she's one of the finest.

I mean, at 27. I know she was doing an interview the other day, and she said to. President Trump, he's like, Am I a little young to do this? And he said, Hey, at 21 years old, I was building skyscrapers. You could do this.

Don't worry about your age. I think that's so underreported. He was so positive with Governor Huckabee, too. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead.

Hey, we are back. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Julian Epstein joins us now. He served as Chief Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee and Staff Director at the House Oversight Committee. And I want to get his perspective on the special elections yesterday and some of the challenges on these college campuses.

Now we understand that Princeton is having their money withheld. That joins in the fact that Harvard is having their money withheld. And we know what's happening at Columbia. There was a huge blowback there today.

So let's bring in Julian. Julian, thanks so much for joining us. Brian, thanks for having me again. All right, so let's talk about. I did not know that Princeton was much of a problem, but they're doing an investigation on all these 22-plus schools that had those riots a year ago with the anti-Semitism that's raging on campus.

And I would like to think the same thing would be if it was anti-Muslim. on campus. The lack of tolerance on campus has got to stop. And the fact that the faculty is not upset about it and the President is upset about it, it's Trump that's got to come down on it. How do you feel as a Jewish American?

Well, thanks for raising this issue, Brian, so consistently. What Trump is doing with the universities with respect to the campus protests is long overdue. It's something that Biden refused to do. Because he was too scared of offending the protest left class. And you know, for Democrats, this is sort of situational civil rights.

We enforce civil rights when it may help us during an election. We ignore it when we think it might hurt us in the election. What's going on on the campuses today is just outrageous. You have groups like Columbia University Apartheid Divest CAUD, which openly advocates for the eradication of the left, celebrated the October 7th terrorist attack against innocent Israelis as a moral and political victory. This is an attack, as you remember, Brian, where babies were put into ovens and women were dismembered before they were murdered.

This is a group that has issued death wishes against Jews. It's a group whose propaganda includes imagery of paragliders. And Hamas fighters breaching the fences to attack Israelis. Under the immigration laws, Title VIII, Section 1182, if you espouse or endorse a terrorist group, you can be excluded. And that's what the case about Mohamed Khalil is about.

And I think it's a case that they will easily win. But I wrote in the Sunday New York Post that it's much more than just about deporting non-citizens who have engaged in sort of endorsing terrorist groups the way CUAD has. What we've seen on the campuses at Columbia at Yale and elsewhere. Are hate crimes. Jews have been attacked.

They have been forbidden from going into certain areas. Of the campus, these so-called Zionist no-go zones. They have had to leave their dorms. They were beaten with flagpoles on Yale University. These are what's called hate crimes.

Under Section 24, Title 18, 241 through 249, if you attempt to injure, intimidate, or harass someone because of their ethnic background, this is considered a hate crime.

Now, when I was chief counsel of the judiciary, when we would see minority groups being attacked in this kind of way, Democrats would be out in front saying that the federal law enforcement ought to prosecute under the criminal laws. But again, under Biden, they were completely silent on this because it wasn't politically convenient. And these are, in my mind, clear violations of criminal law that ought to be prosecuted. And we've got hundreds of examples. ADL has documented over 10,000 cases of anti-Semitic.

So a couple of things, though. Let's take a look at this root.

So if you are Marco Rubio, Mahmoud Khalil, according to the lawyer that I had on on Sunday, and he represents seven hostage families, he says that Khalil and all these groups are direct links to Hamas. Do you, as Secretary of State Rubio, have to go to New Jersey now where this court is, where Khalil is going to get his hearing and show the linkage? Or do we have to show that he's got a green card? These are not the organizations he said that he was involved with when we let him in here years ago. He's not a graduate student.

He graduated. Or do you have to say, oh, take this like a trial and say the exact links to the palace, to the Hamas movement? What do you have to do? It's not, it's a very, very minimal review. And the administration basically has plenary power to determine whether someone ought to be excluded.

And I think in the case of CUAD, which is Khalil's organization, they have clearly espoused and endorsed terrorist groups, some of the most vicious, sadistic, sociopathic terrorist groups on the planet. And so the administration has really plenary power in making these determinations. You don't even necessarily have to go before a judge. And Julian, what's the reasoning? Besides, he's in New York and Columbia, and he was taken to Louisiana, and they wanted to have his hearing in Louisiana, but they said, no, no, he belongs in New Jersey.

And people get concerned because it's, you know, New Jersey, a Blue State. They wonder if they're just going to do something that Chuck Schumer would like to see done and that kid go back to Columbia. Look, the courts are veering on being really politically activist here. And I think many of the sort of left-wing, the liberal, Just judges. May rule the day because many of these questions are going to come up on appeal to the circuit and eventually the Supreme Court.

And I think Trump's sort of unitary executive view of the world, which is that the president is the person in whom the article. Uh Article II powers are vested to make these decisions. I think that's ultimately going to be what the Supreme Court decides.

So I think at the end of the day, all of this legal wrangling will strengthen the president's hand. But the immigration law is very clear about excludability for endorsing terrorists, which these groups have clearly done. Again, the most sadistic, vile terrorists on the face of the earth. But more importantly, I think the Justice Department, I really hope Trump takes this seriously and Pam Bondi takes this seriously. These student protesters, in my mind, have clearly violated the hate crime laws, the criminal hate crime laws, and they ought to be prosecuted for it.

If these were blacks, Brian, that were prevented from going to classes or that were prevented from going to certain areas on the campus grounds or that had their necklaces torn off or forced to leave their dorms, there wouldn't be a hesitation for a minute in bringing criminal prosecutions. But again, when it comes to Jews, there's a double standard. And this is what Trump has to end. And it's a big part of the reason. A lot of it, they're already taking action.

For example, in Cornell University. This student, Mahmoud Tao, he was going to sue Trump because he anticipated with all the disruption, his anti-Israeli antics up at Cornell, another Ivy League institution, they assumed the Trump people were going to try to throw him out.

So he did a preemptive suit and then got panicky and left the country. And he said, Long live the student in Fetata. And that's his last statement as he self-deported. Another female self-deported out of Columbia went up to Canada. I don't care how they get out, but the word's got to get out, Julian, that this is not okay.

And that's the long-term effects. When you take these illegal alien criminals who came into our country and you send them back on these military planes, that's a message to the next group. Do you want that to be your fate? And my hope is also these students applying to come here and create havoc, they've got to get a message for the next four years at least, not going to fly. Don't you think that's going to ripple down?

I hope it does. I mean, you know, to your point about the attorney you had on the other night. Um According to their lawsuit, the student groups at Columbia effectively served as the Ambassadors. They had advance notice of the October 7th attack, and they effectively served as the PR ambassadors for Hamas the day after the attack.

So, you know, this is outrageous that we would allow our system and our freedom of speech to be abused in such a perverted way. We're being played as fools by terrorists and their sort of colleagues, their surrogates. We're being played by fools. Trump is taking this seriously. He's taking a principled position.

Biden did not. Shame on Biden for having not done this. It's part of the reason that I think Jews are going to leave the Democratic Party. But again, I think it's not just deportation. I think, particularly for citizens who participated in these actions, you cannot forcibly take over buildings.

You cannot forcibly spit on people because of their ethnicity. You cannot forcibly attack them. You cannot forcibly prevent them from going to dorms and classes and areas of the college campus. All of these are violations of federal criminal law. I think the Justice Department would be well advised to bring some prosecutions and send a loud message.

It's fine for people to have free speech to say they don't like this policy or that policy. This is way, way past cross-course. Plus, I mean, if I'm in another country and I'm not, if I'm in Norway and I'm studying and I'm not happy with their government policy, I keep my mouth shut. I'm there to study. You're not there to be an activist and cause all hell break loose.

So I want to bring it to Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, one man, one man, four names, a U.S. citizen in Maryland from El Salvador. And he was charged with being a member of MS-13. And when they're rounding up people, he was one of the people they round up. And now you have a lot of people standing up for him saying he never should have left.

They brought him to El Salvador where he's from. And now they say they might have flown him out by mistake, even though he is a gang member. And the Atlantic makes him seem like father of the year, according to Caroline Levitt. Your thoughts about how they're handling this and what is the best way to handle this?

Well, there's, you know, there was a debate there about whether he deserved a hearing and whether they were defying a court order. I mean, look, if you look at the immigration laws, there is very, very little due process for criminal illegal aliens. And by the way, it's not just people that. Commit violent acts, although they should be clearly at the top of the list. But if you enter the country illegally, you could be deported.

And if you don't believe me, just ask a president named Barack Obama, who deported like 3 million.

So the judicial review and the due process, while there is some, it's very, very minimal. I mean, in most cases, a actual employee of the Department of Homeland Security is empowered to make the determination. You don't even need an immigration judge.

So I think there's a lot of wrangling about this stuff. I think, as a legal matter, Brian, when these things, when these cases go up on appeal, and particularly if they get to the Supremes, you're going to find that the president really has mostly unchecked authority when it comes to making these determinations about securing our borders, keeping the government. Let me get to this again.

So if you have a guy that is playing a role in MS-13 or TDA. What does it take to ship him out? They got to go to court, go through the system. I was just talking to Andy McCarthy about it, but it's so weird. Democrats are making these like a charity case.

Jon Favreau, former speechwriter for Obama, tweets out: Any comment, Marco Rubio, J.D. Vance, you just admitted accidentally sending an innocent father from Maryland to a torture dungeon in El Salvador, and you refuse to do anything about it. J.D. Vance to Jon Favreau. My comment is that, according to the court document, you apparently didn't read he was a convicted MS-13 gang member with no legal rights to be here.

My further comment is that it is gross to get fired up about gang members getting deported while ignoring citizens they victimize. That they were going to bat. Jamie Raskin going to bat for an MS-13 guy.

Now, you might say he shouldn't have been shipped out, but you can't say he's an innocent father in Maryland. Yeah. As a political matter, this is again sort of the Democrats and the left being on the wrong side of wrong side of public opinion, because the public clearly wants much, much stronger action. As a legal issue, You know, this may be the one case in which. The administration tripped once you had a judicial once you had the case in the courts, you sort of have to follow the judicial proceedings there.

But it's unclear to me why this even made it into the courts. If they got the wrong guy, there's a potential habeas issue, although that's limited. And we, of course, want to prevent, we want to make sure we're not getting the wrong guys. But in most cases, if even if you don't have evidence of violent criminal activity, Brian, the Trump administration still has more than enough legal authority to exclude aliens who came into the country illegally.

So, again, I think this is a fight. That you're seeing hiccups right now with respect to the case in Maryland, but ultimately the administration is going to prevail in terms of their authority to make these deportations. And I just think these people going a bat and making believe that these guys are sympathetic characters with neck tattoos. I don't know. And I know the feeling, well, everyone deserves a day in court.

Not really. I mean, we can't do that. We already have our court system backed up to the hilt. They already violated our sovereignty breaking in here. They've been accused and picked up by cops and ICE for doing things egregious.

They've figured out they've done back. I don't want to see this guy lawyered up in front of me, wasting another two weeks. Yeah, but people that came into the country illegally do not have the right to a day in court. There's minimal due process. And again, as I say, these things can be handled through an administrative process, even before you get to an administrative law judge in the immigration system.

These cases can be decided by DHS, Department of Homeland Security employees.

So you want to make sure you're not getting the wrong guys. I get that point. I agree with that. But at the same time, the due process here for people that entered the country illegally is pretty minimal. Thanks, Julian.

Julian Epstein, thanks so much. Read his columns in the New York Post. Thanks, Julian. Thanks for having me. You got it.

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Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Help me understand this idea of the resistance lab and what you're talking about in practical terms at these events. Yeah, I mean, what we decided is that we really need to help Americans understand what happens when democracies fall, when dictators take over. We've developed a curriculum where we help people understand how do you go after the pillars of support, not necessarily the person at the top, but the pillars of support, also preparing them for the moments that will come of coordinated resistance, whether it's distributed action or mass action, that people need to be ready for.

And that is the brilliance of Congresswoman Jayapal talking about the Democrats have an idea. Let's resist. Let Chuck Schumer threaten his job if he doesn't resist everything. Have Senator Corey Booker talk for 25 straight hours, not to filibuster any legislation, just to talk about how bad Trump is. Listen to some of this drivel.

Cut seven. Lift every voice and sing. Lift every voice and sang till earth and heaven rang. You think we got civil rights because one day Strom Thurman, after filibustering for 24 hours, you think we got civil rights because he came to the floor one day and said, I've seen the light. Let those Negro people have the right to vote.

When is it going to be enough? My voice is inadequate. My efforts today are inadequate to stop what they're trying to do. But we, the people, are powerful. We are strong.

We have changed history. If you love your neighbor, if you love this country, show your love. By doing what? Watching you sweat to death and not go to the bathroom for 25 hours? I don't know what she's talking about.

The election happened. You lost. You're not even a popular senator with your own party. You don't do anything. You don't take the lead on anything.

I don't see you in war zones. I don't see you at the economic council meetings. I don't see you with cutting-edge ideas. All I see is that you play defense all the time and you think because you can speak well, you're going to do what Barack Obama did and become president. You ran for president.

Nobody wanted to hear from you. Then I didn't hear from you at all. And then yesterday, I'm going to fight to say what? About what? What is your idea?

Talk about sig the signal app? You know, you don't like tariffs, you do like tariffs, what are you talking about? I mean, there's a book out there now that they talk about new ideas that Democrats have to kind of reverse some of the downtrodden cities that they're in control of and some of the horrible policies that they have. I mean, look up that book. Don't just speak for 25 hours.

You make no sense. Corey Booker. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone.

Welcome to the latest moments of Brian Killmead Chair. I come to you from Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. We talk Yankees at the bottom of the hour. Why? The torpedo bats.

How were they engineered, pioneered? Does it have anything to do with the incredible power the Yankees are showing? Not with Aaron Judge, who doesn't use it, but with some others. Everybody's talking about it.

So, Zach Firo, who's the analytics manager, the analytics manager with the New York Yankees, whose idea it was to bring these bats forward, commission the whole making of the bats. He's going to be joining us at the bottom of the hour. Carl Rove is standing by to bring us the latest on his take on the special election.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. He is frustrated with leaders on both sides of this war. He wants this war to end. There are men that are dying on both sides, and it's been going on for far too long.

And there you go. That is Caroline Levitt. Impassing, you can blame Vladimir Putin. The Russian leader has had an honest broker to bring a ceasefire in Ukraine in Donald Trump, but he seems intent on embarrassing Trump by continuing the attacks by ignoring some of the confidence-building measures that Ukrainians were asked to agree to. I think Trump will make him pay for this.

Number two. That there is so much violence. People have burned cars, they've fired bullets into dealerships, they've scratched swastikas into Teslas of the innocent people that have, they're just going about their lives, they've done nothing wrong. Doge Musk and its effect on the special election as Tesla vehicles continue to be targeted by enemies of Trump and Elon, and it's got to stop.

Soon to be unmasked, the mastermind financing these attacks. Number one. President Trump is using tariffs to, one, raise revenues, two, to recalibrate and make more reciprocal our trade imbalance with other countries. And also, President Trump is trying to protect American sovereignty, American security, American manufacturing, American jobs, America herself. Kellyanne Conway weighing in on Liberation Day, 4 o'clock Eastern Time.

Trump faces off with friends and foes to rebalance American trade around the world all at once. What deals can be made prior to 4 o'clock? We'll talk about it. Carl Rove, former Deputy Chief of Staff, Senior Advisor to President Bush. He was just at Tulane University doing a big debate with David Axelrod.

Carl Rove, welcome back. Thanks for having me. And do you want my opinion on the bats as well? What do you think? You think the Yankees are cheating and that's another rea just to beat the Rangers?

Maybe, yes. Everything for the Rangers. Right. So, Carl, what's your take on the special election yesterday? You got two easy wins for Florida Republicans.

You know, I don't, you know, double-digit victories, they were outspent. But in Wisconsin, you have the Democrat win handily, too, despite all the money put in by Elon Musk and George Torres for the left. Your thoughts?

Well, look, I was delighted we took both seats. There was a concern about the sixth district in particular. But we should recognize that there's flashing yellow lights. We won the first district. Which is the far western end of the panhandle by 15 points.

That's down 22 points. From what President Trump got in the district last November and 20 points down from what Matt Gates won reelection by. In the sixth district, the Republican victory was 14 points. That is 16 points below what Trump got and 18 points below what Michael Walsh got.

So if this were to continue, that is to say, if Republican House members in 2020 uh six are running, you know, ten or fifteen points behind what they did in 2024, we're in deep trouble.

Now, plenty of time, special elections tend to be places where the party with the more enthusiastic base tends to overperform. But we shouldn't kid ourselves, though, that we were great to win, but they were well below what Republicans have been winning them by before. And then we got Wisconsin, where, you know, despite the fact the Republicans outspent the Democrats, $53.4 million to $45.2 million. The Democrat-endorsed candidate won 55-45, and that's running seven points ahead of where Kamala Harris is. Numbers were last fall.

So, and basically, where two years ago, the Democrats elected another liberal to the Supreme Court in Wisconsin by a similar 55-45 margin.

So, Jaheir's Judge Susan Crawford, who's the Democrat who won, will most likely gerrymander and try to bracket out three seats for Democrats, cut 18. Just moments ago, I received a phone call from Judge Brad Schimmel conceding the race. And I want to thank him. He was very gracious, and I wish him and his family well. And to the people of Wisconsin, thank you.

Thank you for trusting me to serve you on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. I never could have imagined. That I'd be taking on the richest man in the world.

So that's what it is. Elon Musk went down there. He went there personally. He spent a lot of money to combat George Soros and beyond. What do you think the role of Elon Musk in this was?

Well, he was a hate figure. I mean, you know, the Democrats had two people who are unpopular among Democrats: Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Elon Musk was willing to come out there and make himself visible. Look, I admire him throwing himself into this race, but sometimes. A polarizing figure like that who's got two day jobs.

Remember, this guy's running one of the biggest set of companies, successful companies in the world, and the head of Doge. And he's trying to be involved in this race in Wisconsin.

Sometimes it would have been better, I think it would have been better for him and better for the Republicans had his support been there but been less visible. That is to say, give his money to groups that acted on his behalf rather than create groups that were his. and then go out and show up. You know, he felt he and the people around him made a judgment that he felt that his personal presence in the state would galvanize people. Doesn't look like it did, but um.

You know, he's got, he gave himself an additional responsibility at a time when his plate is probably full. True.

So we've got to see because tactically, they ran against Musk. They didn't run against abortion or women's rights. And that was a late pivot. And I'm just wondering: if you were in the communications department and you sat down with Musk and you see all the good things he's doing at Doge, but maybe not communicated effectively, what would you do right now? What would you relay?

What would be your method going forward with Elon, such a high-profile figure? And with the president, a very high profile president. Yeah. First of all, explain a lot. And don't overstate things.

For example, They have talked about all of the fraud in Social Security.

Well, yes, there are probably people getting checks who shouldn't get checks, but they said 500 million. Or it should be $500 billion of fraud.

So, what's going to happen is next year, if you use that word fraud, as opposed to waste or abuse. But if you say fraud, they're going to want people indicted. And so, if they don't show up, if they've got one guy that they're talking about who's getting an illegal check, well, fine. But one person doesn't steal hundreds of millions of dollars or let alone billions upon billions of dollars.

So, be careful about what you're claiming and be more precise in explaining what you're doing. Because what's happening is. They're moving so fast, which is one thing if you're running a company. I'm running I I bought X and I've got to turn it around overnight and we're gonna break some eggs and go. That's different than I'm touching Social Security and raising the risk that people are not going to be able to pick up the phone and talk to somebody about their Social Security check.

So In a way, it's weird. I'd spend more time explaining what I'm doing. I do I thought it was terrific that he brought forward that group of people who appeared with Brett Baer. I thought that was a terrific set of interviews. But it also cautioned him to be careful about their language.

You know, it's one thing to say we're wasting money because everybody knows that's happening. It's another thing to say fraud and abuse, where people are going to expect the the the Joe to to show up and have people indicted. And you've got to be very careful about making partners of the cabinet secretaries rather than rivals and protagonists. Ultimately, the people who are going to have to live with whatever Doge does in an agency are the cabinet secretaries, and they ought to be part and parcel of the decision making. I thought it was a very important conversation that took place in that Cabinet meeting.

Between Marco Rubio and Elon Musk.

Now, Elon got a backup because he.

Sort of tried to make fun of Rubio by saying you're good on television, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio had a good point, which is: tell me what the target is, and I'll get it done. But let me make the decisions because I've got to live with the consequences of this. And we're seeing this in USAID. For years, conservatives and non-conservatives have argued that USAID ought to be folded into the State Department and made part. Part and parcel of our foreign policy rather than being an independent actor.

So there's been a consensus, even brought outside of conservative. Circles, the USAID needed reform. But if you go in there and break it all up and you take life-saving programs that are highly effective and have been great for America's reputation and allies around the world, like PEPFAR, and malaria, then suddenly you're going to create problems if those programs get stuck in a ditch and people begin to die.

So here's Musk to talk about Social Security, Cut twenty eight. We've encountered, there's really so much for it. It's deciding what should be prosecuted first because it's such a long list. You have to actually prioritize the list. We convey the list to the Department of Justice.

The DOJ has a process that they go through to review and think about it. The wheels of justice turn slowly. In fact, obviously, I'm a maniacal sense of urgency.

So to me, when I see that terrible fraud has happened, I'm like, why haven't we arrested someone already? But as the saying goes, the wheels of justice turned slowly but surely. And I think probably the person that stole 400,000 Social Security numbers, at least, maybe more, will be arrested hopefully this week. And, you know, they pointed out the immigration issue. He pointed out over in Wisconsin during the week.

And he also talks about the fraudulent, the way the computers don't talk to each other. The system's got to be modernized. If we can get these computers talking to each other, there'll be a way to counteract the fraud that's taking place. I'm really intrigued by some of what these professionals can do to fix a lot of these things. I thought one of the most compelling moments was where they were talking about how these systems inside the critical departments don't talk to each other and thereby impede their ability to perform their mission.

And that kind of stuff will win points for all of this. And but and look. If they were precise, I mean, notice there was only one specific. Specific instance that they talked about, that must talk about, which was the guy who stole social security numbers. But if they had said, look, we have found, you know, three thousand four hundred and fifty instances where we're confident that these people are not real.

And we've recom and we and we have sent this information to the Department of Justice for potential prosecution. That'd be one thing. But to go out there and say There are, you know, which they did, that there are so many, you know, millions of people whose birthdays who are on the Social Security roster whose birthdays show that they're 150 years or older.

Well, look, this has been a scandal known for years. Those people are not getting checks. It's just that the computer system is so old that when somebody dies, the COBOL language has to pick a date, and that date is like in 1874, 1875. But those people, none of those people, I suspect, and if they are getting Social Security checks, if they are, it's a handful of people. It's not millions of people.

And they did themselves, in my opinion, no good by raising the expectation that there are millions of people getting Social Security checks illegally when it is probably going to be a reasonably small handful by the time we get to the bottom of it. And the problems of Social Security are going to be more that the system is vulnerable, so that that bad actor who got 400,000 of our Social Security numbers and started selling them. On the black market, that's the bigger problem than people who are getting checks. Because I got to tell you, the Social Security Agency administration keeps the best list of dead people in America. Law enforcement agencies, states rely upon that registry in order to track down people who have died, who are continuing to receive benefits from states as well.

Real quick, tariff 4 o'clock today. I think that the president has a chance to make this dramatic and to come out with a list of countries that have new deals on tariffs that are going to balance out trade. That's my hunch of what's going to happen. What do you think is going to happen at 4 o'clock today, Court?

Well, I hope you're right. We've got three options here. Revenue. We had Peter Navarro on Sunday saying it's going to generate $600 billion a year. Remember, who's paying that $600 billion a year?

Americans. And that's going to be the biggest tax increase in the history of America if they slap $600 billion worth of tariffs because the tariffs are mostly. Paid by the people who buy those goods. We'll be buying a heck of a lot fewer goods, so there's no way they're going to get $600 billion. The second one is reshoring.

We're doing this in order to bring jobs back. I'm dubious about this. Look at the steel tariffs that were put in place and aluminum tariffs that were put in place when President Trump was in his first term and capped by Joe Biden. You go back, and there's been no explosion of jobs being created in America in those two industries in the last eight years. And it's supposedly this is going to be the answer.

Then reciprocity. I think you're right. If we said to countries, w you i if you don't lower your barriers, your tariffs to the levels that we put on your goods, like the Europeans' tax American ag goods at 22 or 25 percent. If you don't lower those, we're going to slap the same tariffs on you. I'm not certain which one of these three goals, reshoring, reciprocity, or revenue, they're aiming at.

And remember, the higher the tariff for reshoring, the less revenue you get. It's the lapper curve. At some point, people say, well, you know what? I'm not going to pay 20% more for fill-in-the-blank, clothing from Vietnam or wine from France. I'm going to find a substitute.

So there's a tension here, and we really are hours away from the announcement of a major program and don't have a sense of which one is going to be the primary one. Barrow said revenue. The president's people said reciprocity. The president himself said reshoring. There's a tension in all and trying to achieve all three goals.

I tell you, it's a very good movie. Too bad we're living it. It's based on a true story. The market's up 117 points.

So we'll see if they feel better about it tomorrow because we'll wait for the markets to close before we make any announcements. Carl, it's an exciting time. And gold is up too, which is the counter signal. True.

Carl Rove, thank you. You bet. Exciting time. Back in a moment. Politics, current events, and news that affects you.

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And he also didn't want Kamala Harris to be the replacement for Biden. He didn't think that she was the best choice for Democrats. And he worked really behind the scenes for a long time to try to have a mini primary or an open convention or mini primary leading to an open convention. Did not have faith in her ability to win the election.

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We all knew it, but no one ever said it. And then to think that Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama are trying to get an open jungle primary where anyone can just go compete for it. And Joe Biden, who feels as though he was stabbed in the back by his two friends, he gets stabbed in the back by his two friends, but instead says, I'm nominating her. My. The fastest three hours in radio.

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So, the Yankees' power has really captured the attention of everybody in sports, especially baseball. Obviously, Yankees always get attention, but they got off to a rocking start, hitting the ball along. And a lot of people are crediting the torpedo bat.

So, what is the truth behind it? Aaron Judger got off to a great start, by the way, not using the bat.

So, Zach Fierro joins us now. He's a quantitative analyst for the New York Yankees. He's basically the analytics guy, he heads it up. And he was the one who pioneered this with a bat maker in order to see if we could change where the meat of the bat is in layman's terms. Zach, welcome to the Brian Killmeat Show.

Yeah, thanks a lot for having me. Happy to talk about this with you guys. Yep, before the game starts, before you guys get started, Zach, so you're with the New York Yankees. Can you tell us where the torpedo bat is and where the idea came from? Yeah, it's been something we've been kind of toying with for the last several years.

You know, if you look at a traditional baseball bat, it's thickest and widest at the end of the bat, the tip of the bat. Um if you ask most baseball players, they're not trying to actually hit the ball there. Um they're trying to hit the ball closer to the middle.

So The idea kind of came to be that we wanted to put more bat, more barrel where players are actually trying to hit the ball. And it kind of took on a life of its own from there.

So when did this first become something you guys were batting around? I talked about you cheering. The last two years, three years, and as the story has kind of taken on a life of its own, you'll see people have been actually talking about this for a long time, maybe even hundreds of years. Um But with all the data that we're able to collect now, we're able to quantify much more. And so it's kind of come to a head here.

We're able to really quantify exactly what these vets should look like for each guy. When did they get to market and who did you call to make sure you could pioneer this and make it legal? Yeah, I want to say that definitely 24. There may have been a few guys in 23 big leagues and minor leagues. And definitely in constant communication with the league office to make sure we know the rules inside and out to make sure these are 100% legal.

And then from there, it's working with bat manufacturers to really understand their practice and their trade. Understanding how we can work with them to get these bats to be exactly the way we want them to be. How'd you sell them to the players? How'd you sell the idea to the players? Yeah, um a lot of what I described earlier, like You know, hey, show me on this bat where you're trying to hit the ball.

And they're not going to point to the tip, they're going to point to somewhere closer to the middle of the bat. It could be that. It could be showing them, hey, well, this is where you're actually hitting the ball, you know, showing them a distribution of their batted balls. Closer to this area of the bat.

So, hey, why don't we put more of the bat there?

So you can make more contact, you can hit the ball harder, you can be a more productive hitter. See, this has showed me I'm a layman and more of a soccer player, Zach.

So I just think, you know, you have a piece of wood, you're cutting it to the bat, and unless you're going to cheat and put cork in it, like they, you know, Albert Bell famously did in the 80s. I always thought you don't touch with that with what you got from the tree. Am I, what am I, what am I missing? Do you put filler? Does a bat filled with filler?

No, it's just a piece of wood. You know, and wood is an organic material, so there are lots of different differences. But these VAT manufacturers that we work with, they are experts. They know exactly what they're doing. There's several different ones that have been around for a long time.

And they're the experts in that world.

So we're just kind of telling them, hey, these are the designs, these are the shapes, these are the weights, all that that we're going for.

So we've learned a lot working with them about their crafts. About all the different types of woods and all the different properties of each wood, and kind of honed in on what we think is going to be best for each player because it is different guy to guy.

So here's what Aaron Boone said, Cut forty two. I say to you guys all the time, we're trying to win on the margins and trying to get and that shows up in so many different ways, whether you see bat models, you know, We saw the momentum steals that Volpe does. You see shifts. Like when I say those kind of things, like we have a big organization that are invested in a lot of different things where we're trying to be better in every possible way.

So that really is your attitude, right? Because everybody's so close and you have 162 games. You're looking for any advantage. Yeah, that's I mean, that is the essence of my department in quantitative analysis and performance science. We've got a lot of really smart people, and our job is to find what that next thing is going to be and help our players and coaches be the best they can possibly be on the field and ultimately help the team win.

Our competitions also trying to do this at the exact same time.

So it's a fast race. We're trying to always stay one step ahead and innovate as much as we can. And that takes buying from the players, from the coaches, from the front office, from ownership kind of top down, which we've we've kind of struck with this with this bad idea at this particular time.

So so, Zach, when d who was the first player to use it? How many people used it last year, and how many using it this year? I'm not actually sure who first was using it because in 23, it sounds like there may have been some guys in the major leagues and minor leagues. I know within the Yankees, there's been a couple of guys come out and say that they've already used it last year, which was John Carlos Stanton, Jose Trevino. I know they're out there saying they've used it.

This year, we've got five guys on our team so far that it's pretty publicly available who those guys are. And I think you highlighted some of the highlights at the top of the show. And then around the league, I want to say there's another 10 or 15 guys who have already kind of expressed interest or already been using it. I would expect that number to go up here in the next coming weeks and months.

So other teams are using it, right? Yeah, that's right. All right.

So, I mean, what do you think? I could look at the stats, but when you talk to the players and you look at the numbers, what effect is it having? Yeah, it's hard to say. It's definitely more about the batter than it is about the bat. For sure.

And we've got a lot of really good hitters, we think. You know, they're constantly working on things. You know, the whole offseason, we're working on different adjustments with guys.

So it's hard to say when we have an explosion like we did this weekend of. I would say most of that is just we have good hitters who are doing really good things and working on a lot of really good things. I think the bat's helped. It's hard to say how much they helped. I think we need more time to fully understand and quantify the differences they're having.

Uh judge not using it, right? That's right.

Okay, interesting. Here's what Jeff Passan said on ESPN Cup 43. It's not just the Yankees using the torpedo bats. Ryan Jeffers with the Twins used a torpedo bat. Junior Camanero with the Tampa Bay Rays used a torpedo bat.

Francisco Lindor with the New York Mets used what looks like a torpedo bat. This is going to be all over Major League Baseball over the next couple of months, and there are already orders being placed for this bat.

So this is: do you have more players on the team asking for it? Yeah, I I think there will be a lot more interest moving forward for sure.

So here's what Stephen A. Smith weighed in, come 44. It ain't illegal. Everybody else free to do it. Exactly.

What we complain about the Yankees doing it for? I mean, damn it, even the pitcher Cortez that got the home run smacked on him, all right, four to five homers gave it up, which is why God's using this. He didn't complain about it. Look, if it's illegal, that's a different matter. If it's legal and everyone's free to do it, then it ain't a controversy.

Period. But you have to, it's interesting. I think baseball would love something like this. It keeps them in the headlines. You play tonight at 7 o'clock against Arizona at home.

You play again on Thursday at 7 o'clock against Arizona at home.

So far, when you guys go to meet, do you like what you're seeing from this team coming out of spring training? Or do you like where you guys are because you have had so many injuries? Yeah. Uh we we do like where we at. Um You know, we did a lot of work this offseason, brought in a lot of new faces that we're really, really excited about.

And they've already, you know, paid dividends. Definitely had some injuries there early, but we'll be getting guys back and we feel really good about the start we're off to here. And, Zach, just a question to you: who was in the circle that came up with the idea a couple of years ago? Yeah, I think it's pretty widely out there that Aaron Leanhart, who worked in our group for several years. Had a lot to do with this, but now we've got a lot exactly now with the Marlins.

We've got a lot of folks in performance science and quantitative analysis here with the Yankees that have kind of taken that original idea and built on it. And, you know, here at the Yankees, we're trying to be the best at it that we can possibly be to, you know, help our players each night. Does it feel kind of cool because you guys are note-like you have a job that puts you in the background? Is it kind of cool to see something capture the headlines that you're a part of? Yeah, it is cool, but it very quickly became something else that everybody else can do.

So we're right back at it, trying to figure out what that next thing is and always stay ahead as much as we can. Lastly, so we know where Anthony Bolby is having a lot of success.

So we know where he mostly hits the ball. You guys are looking at that. And then we watch where Stan hits the ball, and you watch where Chisholm hits the ball. Do you move? The thickness of the bat with the players tendencies.

Yeah, the way it works is: we'll take the bats from those who are interested. It's completely optional, it's not forced upon anyone, but if they are interested, You know, we'll look at the bat they currently have, and then we'll study that bat. We'll study that player's kinematics, you know, the way they swing, how fast they swing, where they swing, that sort of thing. And then we're tailoring the bat to this specific hitter, and there's a lot that goes into it. If you've ever played golf or tennis, it's very similar to getting clubs fitted for you, golf clubs, based on.

how you swing and how fast you swing and where, you know, your barrel or your club club accuracy and uh designing clubs that are going to help you hit the ball best.

So it's it's very similar to that. It's extremely tailored to each guy. And we're still learning. There's probably some more to it here that we'll figure out in the future. All right.

Zach Farow, thanks so much. He's a quantitative analyst with the New York Yankees who are having a lot of success. Off to a fast start. Lost 7-5 last night, but they went long. Zach, thank you.

Great insight. Appreciate it.

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So that is Oliver Stone, who did the JFK movie that confused everyone for generations, created a character that didn't exist, and went ahead and dramatized the JFK assassination, which ripped all trust out of any type of investigation. And we know. We know too That there was a hearing yesterday because more JFK files were released. But in those files, we got nothing substantially new. I understand it.

But we had Congresswoman Luna come out and say, That NBC has a tape. That no one else has seen, that she's demanding the release of, that's supposed to. Unmuddy the waters? They show Lee Harvey Oswald near the car? Not near the book depository?

That would certainly be interesting, wouldn't you think, if it's proven to be correct? And how different it was when Raldo Rivera was able to get a hold of the Zapruda film and bring that front and center. People want to know about that. I don't understand why we can't learn about this. I mean, you're talking about I mean, 50, 60 years ago, and we still can't learn about it.

I mean, what is so bad that we still can't get to the bottom of this? I just don't know. But we just know that everyone's been implicated. Then I'm watching some of the testimony yesterday, and they just said by the exit wound, there's no way that there wasn't somebody on the ground behind the grassy knoll.

So that's a little of the give and take yesterday. I don't know. Do we have any more sound from it? Yeah, let's listen. This is Yeah, here's more from Oliver Stone.

No, if we start at 35, just JFK overall and the whole topic are. Oh, yeah, here is Jefferson Morley, an independent journalist and author who's been studying this his entire career, cut 35. People will say, oh, well, there's nothing new here. No, there's something new here. The New York Times, the Washington Post have never reported that one of the top that three top CIA officials lied to the JFK investigators.

You believe Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shots who killed President Kennedy? Is that correct, sir? No, I don't believe that President Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy. I don't think the evidence supports that. Right.

Uh All right.

Well, you know, I I the way we're doing this, I'm not really sure they're going to get to the bottom of this, but here's more from Jefferson Morley. The evidence doesn't support that. You know, you need to pay attention to the testimony of the Dallas doctors and the people who attended JFK's autopsy. You have dozens of people who said that they saw a blowout wound in the back of Kennedy's head. Caused by a gunshot from the front.

So that shot could not have been fired by Lee Harvey Oswald.

So, no, I don't believe Oswald was responsible for Kennedy's death. The evidence doesn't support that claim. Yeah, so Christian Morthy, Crockett, everybody who just said, I'm going to use this time to talk about the signal chat instead of JFK.

So instead of just saying, let's just, you know, drop the gloves, let's just figure this out and try to use our time to get to the bottom of it to see if we should reopen this investigation and what's been revealed.

So listen to what Democrats chose to do during this time. CUP 37. Just last month, President Trump bizarrely ordered DOD to purge its website of all references to black history, black veterans, and even the reference to Jackie Robinson's own military service. Unfortunately, the rollout of documents we've seen so far has been sloppy and rushed. Trump's actions have jeopardized the safety and security of hundreds of formal congressional and federal employees.

We should be having a hearing on the fact that the unqualified Secretary of Defense and other senior Trump officials were carelessly discussing classified military plans over an unsuccessful.

So it was a total distraction. We're going to use this time to read things and make Democrats happy, maybe raise some money with Congresswoman Crockett and company doing that. It's just bizarre. And then they're asking Oliver Stone and others questions about something that has nothing to do with the JFK assassination, an author. Really?

I mean, that is just nuts. Why do people waste so much of our time?

Okay, I'm going to go to some of your emails now. John writes and says, hey, making sure taxes don't ruin domestic profits, bouncing tariffs is. A smart move, but the administration needs to address one of the key reasons companies moved production offshore to begin with.

Some production was moved to other countries to reduce U.S. corporate income tax liability. These companies need more sort of assurance than moving production back to the U.S.

Well, not backfire. Of course, he's going to drop it even more. He wants to propose with the tax reform that's going to be done hopefully in the spring, if you bring your business home, the corporate tax rate drops to 15 percent. Of course, that would be something to address. Um Some people here who fan of Carl Rove always enjoy hearing him.

I appreciate that. Blue chips.

So I use blue chips to talk about NIL in this current state of college sports. I used it on the Sunday show on One Nation. And Ann writes to me and says, Many thanks for showing that clip. We can barely stand to watch any sports on television knowing that the athletes are no longer amateurs, get so tired of hearing how odds for betting are changing during games and matches. Even tennis is doing this now.

It's absurd. It is totally true. Look, I used to do sports every single day. I got hired as the sports guy here 20 plus years ago. But now I'm watching these professionals talk about odds and winning and taking games with point spreads.

It's crazy. And I watch these games on TV. I'm glad players are being compensated, but it is so out of control now. Players are leaving in the middle of a season for another school while competing in the NCAA tournament. It's nuts.

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