- 7 weeks ago
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00All right. I'm Brian Kilmeade in for Laura Ingraham. This is a special edition of their
00:06Ingraham angle. We're glad you're there. Thank you for watching. Here we go. Since the news
00:11broke about the indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's late night show, the left has been
00:16apoplectic. We don't have to speculate about what comes next. The suppression of Democratic
00:21Party speech is coming next. This is a very dangerous and scary moment for America. This
00:26should send a chill or a shiver of every American spine. This is a red line that has been crossed
00:33for our industry, for the First Amendment, for the right of people to speak. There was nothing
00:39hateful about what was said. Is there any historical comparison in American history? You'd have to go
00:45back to the great and much admired and respected John Adams with the Alien and Sedition Acts.
00:51That's a long time. They're blaming Trump, screaming free speech is under attack.
00:56And even wearing Kimmel hats and support.
01:00I was a guest on the Jimmy Kimmel show. He every night has a right to come into any house that wants
01:07to watch and entertain Americans. It should shake every American that the president of the United
01:12States is out there firing comedians who make fun of him. That is not who we are. And every American
01:20should care and stand up to this. And the biggest news, Eric Swalwell got booked on a late night show.
01:24That is breaking news. And meanwhile, some Democrats are so worked up, they're cooking up symbolic
01:29legislation in support. Trump is making it 100 percent clear that he is going to ramp up his efforts
01:35to use the power of the federal government to harass and punish his critics. This is a standard
01:40format for every budding despot. No political enemies act creates a specific defense for those that
01:48are being targeted. It gives an ability to recover attorney's fees when someone is the subject of government
01:54harassment. Yes. Let's help a man who makes 17 million dollars a year pay his legal fees. Please,
02:00everyone, if you even have a dollar, he needs your help. What these Democrats should be doing is
02:05looking at how Kimmel's own actions got him into, I guess, the problems he's having right now.
02:11We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize
02:16this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can
02:21to score political points from it. So Kimmel later went on to say that Trump was grieving over Kirk's
02:27death like a four-year-old mourns over a goldfish. More on that later. The point is that Kimmel's
02:32comments went way too far for some television executives, not for me, not for you, but for them.
02:36And they turned up the heat on Kimmel, the host, to calm down the rhetoric. FCC chair Brendan Carr
02:42explained it well this afternoon when he was on with Will Cain.
02:45These were local TV stations licensed by the FCC that have a public interest obligation to serve
02:52their local community. They pushed back on Disney and said, we don't think that this type of
02:56programming is responsive to the needs of our viewers in Utah, in Pennsylvania. And that's
03:02exactly the way the system is supposed to work from the get-go. Nextar, which owns over 200 stations,
03:08including 32 ABC affiliates, called Jimmy Kimmel's comments offensive and insensitive. That wasn't
03:13Donald Trump. It was them. Sinclair Broadcast Group is also fuming at Jimmy Kimmel. They want him to
03:19apologize to Kirk's family and said this, quote, make a meaningful personal donation to the Kirk
03:24family and to Turning Point USA. Perhaps Kimmel should take his own advice. We say a lot of things
03:30on this show. We don't make up lies. In fact, we have a team of people who work very hard to sift through
03:36facts and reputable sources before I make a joke. And that's an important distinction, a joke about
03:41someone, even when that someone is Donald Trump. And we give it to him because the truth still
03:49matters. And when I do get something wrong, which happens on rare occasions, you know what I do?
03:54I apologize. Well, you hope he follows through on that because obviously the premise of the joke
03:58was wrong. Instead, there are reports from the Daily Mail that Jimmy Kimmel is absolutely
04:03effing livid and is considering going on lame duck late night show, Stephen Colbert's show,
04:08for a guest slot so they can collectively perhaps whine about the situations they find themselves
04:13in. Now, Bloomberg is just reporting now that Disney executives are discussing the future of
04:18the show with Kimmel himself. So all this might even work out. The president, by the way, was asked
04:24overseas. He had nothing to do with this, but he was asked about it. And he thought he had a thing or
04:30two to say about Kimmel and his future.
04:32Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else. And he said a horrible
04:37thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk. And Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person.
04:43He had very bad ratings and they should have fired him a long time ago. So, you know, you can call
04:48that free speech or not. He was fired for lack of talent.
04:51No, he's a talented guy, even if that was not a good joke. And maybe he's very anti-Trump.
04:56Meanwhile, Trump is probably onto something. Since 2015, when it comes to ratings,
05:00which is the year that Donald Trump stepped into the political arena, Jimmy Kimmel has just cut
05:05his audience in half. And it's far worse. He lost 70 percent of the coveted key demo, young people,
05:1025 to 54. So when you're on thin ice with your boss and not performing well, it's probably not a
05:16good idea to tick them off and spout garbage about a political assassination. It's not fascism.
05:22It's not the Gestapo taking out a late night host for what he said. It's old fashioned accountability.
05:28Joining us now to talk about it. Who's point of view? Texas Congressman Brandon Gill.
05:32Congressman, your Democratic colleagues are making Jimmy Kimmel out to be a modern.
05:37Should they be?
05:39Thanks for having me on. Listen, I don't want to hear about cancel culture or hear any whining from
05:44the left. The same political movement that spent years and years and years trying to silence,
05:50censor and deplatform conservatives for simply saying that men can't get pregnant.
05:55What's happening here is a recognition, I think, from many people in our country that in order to
06:00have free and open debate, we have to agree on certain basic presuppositions. And one of those
06:06is that political violence is wrong. It's evil. It's important. And it cannot be tolerated in any
06:12way. And that includes by running cover for the person who murdered a major political figure and
06:18trying to say that it was the right that did it. That is a disgusting lie. It's not funny. And it has
06:23no place in our public discourse. I saw today Jerry Moran, Republican. He said, quote,
06:27I'd be very cautious conservatives about free speech. You know, obviously, if a Democrat gets
06:32in, are they going to go after you guys? Brett Gunther, another Republican, he chairman says we
06:38have to be extremely careful about this. He's of Kentucky. Do you have any reservations and worry
06:43about should somebody else get in power, they'll turn around and knock off your favorite show or
06:48your favorite network? Listen, we've already dealt with that. We saw what the Biden administration
06:54was doing, sending emails to social media companies telling them to censor specific
06:58Americans for protected First Amendment speech. But incitements to violence are not protected speech.
07:05I think it's important. Remember, these are private companies who have decided that they don't want
07:11that to be the face of their outlets. They don't think that it makes sense for them to have a comedian
07:16on the air who is making light of a political assassination. I think that's something that
07:21most Americans should be able to agree with. Right. Meanwhile, it was a couple of years ago
07:26when people were asking Jimmy Kimmel about his ratings and the fact that everything's anti-Trump
07:30and no Republicans watch. Listen to what he said. So you don't mind if Republicans turn off your show?
07:36I don't say I don't mind. I mean, I love for everyone. I want everyone with a television to watch the show.
07:41But if they're so turned off by my opinion on health care and gun violence, then
07:48I don't know. I probably won't want to have a conversation with them anyway.
07:55Good riddance. Well, not good riddance, but riddance.
07:59So he thought it was funny. I mean, to me, that would be a disaster if I thought I was to try
08:04intentionally turning off and telling 50 percent of the country to go jump in a lake.
08:08Well, you know, they did turn off his show. They stopped listening to him. That's why ratings were
08:13down. And eventually, I think broadcasters realized nobody wants to hear hateful insight
08:19and somebody who is hatefully running cover for somebody who is assassinating a political figure.
08:25That's why people aren't watching shows like this. And that's why he was taken off the air.
08:29This is not a violation of free speech. President Trump did not force ABC or Disney
08:36to fire Jimmy Kimmel. Neither did the FCC. That was their decision. And it was the right
08:41decision. Nobody is watching these shows because they're bad. They're not funny anymore.
08:46Nobody enjoys watching them because they are so political and so partisan. And whenever you turn
08:51on late night TV, you want to be able to relax, to hear a joke, to be able to unwind a little bit,
08:57not to hear Democrat talking points.
08:59Yeah. I mean, for the longest time, I watched David Letterman in college. I actually didn't know
09:03until he came out against John McCain what party he was even pulling for. He was just
09:08being funny. Now, obviously, he's way to the left and he's very upset tonight. But I want
09:13to hear you, Senator Padilla. He weighed in yesterday. Democrats made this their number
09:17one issue. Watch.
09:19Now, what happened to Jimmy Kimmel last night and Stephen Colbert, for that matter, isn't
09:25just about one comedian or one television personality or any one network. It's about whether we as
09:34Americans still have the freedom to laugh at those in power.
09:41I'm not sure if he was going to cry or not. That's his delivery. But did you hear about this on the
09:46Capitol Hill today? Because is this the number one issue in America?
09:51You know, this is something that Republicans are talking about. And, you know, the problem is,
09:56is that he wasn't making jokes to laugh at President Trump. He was making jokes to laugh
10:00at somebody who was assassinated. And that's his core problem. You know, we hear a lot of calls for
10:05unity right now, that we should all come together and condemn political violence. And we certainly
10:09should. And we should be able to. But this is a problem on the political left. Polling shows over and
10:16over again, that more people on the political left believe that political violence can be justified
10:22at some times. That about 25% of people, in fact, who are identified as very liberal, believe that
10:30political violence can sometimes be justified. That number is 3% for very conservatives. 3% is too
10:35many. But 25% represents a systemic problem on the left that they need to be dealing with. And they're
10:42not dealing with it by laughing at Charlie Kirk's assassination. This is something they need to be
10:47taking a lot more seriously. And it's something that Kimmel's talked about. He had a great time
10:51when it came out that Donald Trump was being kicked off every social media platform, including Twitter.
10:56The year was 2021. Watch.
10:59It's been unusually quiet over the past few days, because Trump has been banned from Twitter
11:03permanently. Trump has been suspended from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and even Snapchat. But
11:09don't worry, Mr. President, there are still plenty of apps you do have access to. You still have
11:14Spotify to drown out the sound of millions of people cheering as you leave.
11:19Congressman Gail, your final thought? I mean, this is a guy that had no problem
11:22when Trump was having problems for four years when he was out of office.
11:28You know, leftist, deplatformed conservatives at the direction of the federal government for not
11:33believing in COVID vaccine, what they believe to be COVID vaccine science. Democrats went after
11:39Republicans, tried to get them fired from their jobs for saying that men can't become women. So I
11:44don't want to hear any of this about cancel culture from the left.
11:48Congressman Gail, thanks so much. Appreciate it.
11:51Thanks for having me.
11:52Personally, I hope they work things out. He comes back.
11:55Democrats appear to have learned nothing from the consequences of their vitriolic rhetoric.
11:59In her new book, Why Fascists Fear Teachers, a book you probably have already,
12:04Teachers Union President Randy Weingarten smears conservatives, calls them, drumroll please,
12:10fascists, compares them to Nazis. In excerpts published in the Rolling Stones, she writes this,
12:16fascists want one leader or a small group of elites to have all the power. And that's what's
12:20happening in the United States. Right now, with billionaire Donald Trump, by the way,
12:24actually, billionaire has nothing to do with it. Having enabled his shadow governing partner,
12:29Elon Musk, I don't know if you heard, but tell your publisher they broke up. The wealthiest person
12:34in the world to act as his co-president? Don't think so. She went even further, writing,
12:39what do fascists do when they're worried about that the students might learn about the truth
12:43on their own? They banned books. Nazis ransacked the Institute for Sexual Science,
12:49a pioneering medical center that studied gender and sexuality. The Institute advocated for queer
12:55rights. Nazis removed all the books from the Institute. So much for toning down the rhetoric.
13:01I can't wait to buy the book. The timing couldn't be better. And yes, I'm being sarcastic. By the way,
13:06Hillary Clinton tweeted out. She loves the book, loves Randy. Can't wait not to read it. Ahead on this
13:14shit. Remember when they told you that Antifa, that horrible group, was really just an idea?
13:20We look at Antifa as more of an ideology or a movement than an organization.
13:27Really? I didn't make that didn't make me feel better. Now, the violent left wing thugs who burnt
13:32down police precincts, destroyed businesses and communities from Portland to Washington, D.C.,
13:37might finally be held accountable. Did you hear about this? The president announced he will
13:41officially designate Antifa as a major terrorist organization, calling it a six dangerous radical
13:46left disaster. With respect to Antifa, it's a sick group. I mean, very, very sick group. They love
13:52burning the American flag. I think it's terrible that they burn the American flag. We're going in
13:56and we're saying it incites riots. And therefore, you go to jail for one year if you burn the American
14:01flag. That's different than Antifa, but Antifa burns a lot of American flags. It's a terrorist
14:06organization, in my opinion. And we're going to find out all those questions are going to be answered.
14:11There's a lot of questions, too, about some of the phrases on those casings of the would-be
14:14assassin of Charlie Kirk. And Trump was right, too. Remember in Portland when they attacked
14:19new journalist Andy Ngo? Or a few years later when they set fire to a courthouse in the same city?
14:24And who could forget the chaos they caused in Minneapolis in 2020? The governor certainly
14:29couldn't. And I know the governor's wife liked the smell of a burning city. Here with us is Jonathan
14:34Fahey to examine this former federal prosecutor, along with Jason Rantz in Seattle. And Jason's been
14:40one of the leading voices, saying that Antifa is a huge problem for America, not just Seattle.
14:45Jonathan, let's begin with you. Antifa's a broad group. How are we going to track all these people
14:50down? They usually wear ski masks, dress in black, and they're out as soon as they get in, it seems.
14:55How do you find them?
14:58Well, I think, one, you have to, you know, start arresting people in the act when they're doing
15:02stuff, when they're rioting, when they're burning things. And I think what makes this really interesting,
15:06what President Trump is doing, if they declare them a terrorist organization, you can go after
15:11the people that are funding them and providing them material support, which gives them a 20-year
15:16maximum sentence. But the first thing is, arrest the people on the ground, get them to cooperate.
15:21And once you have federal charges, you know, anyone that's done a federal prosecution knows
15:26you have two types of federal defendants, ones that cooperate and ones that wish they did. So these
15:31defendants are going to cooperate. They're going to talk about their leadership,
15:34and they're going to talk about their funding, and that's how we'll go after them.
15:38See, what I understand before I get to Jason, Jonathan, when the head of the FBI says it's
15:44an idea, that's like Hell's Angels saying their idea is to be a biker gang, as if they don't exist.
15:49But if you want to stop them, you know where to find the Hell's Angels. What's different about
15:53Antifa that makes people say it's an idea or an amorphous organization?
15:58Yeah, that's very interesting, because they've been around a long time, I think since like the
16:051930s. And it's interesting how the left sort of approaches this. They're going to be mad that
16:10Donald Trump is doing this, but at the same time, they're going to say this organization doesn't
16:15exist at all. So then begs the question, why do they care at all? But we know they existed because
16:20of Portland, because of Minneapolis. And, you know, we saw them day after day in 2020
16:26rioting, burning things. And with, you know, frankly, with a lot of support from Democratic
16:32politicians, at least tacit support. And it really needs to end. And I think Charlie Kirk's death
16:38woke a lot of people up that political violence needs to end and needs to be clamped down on.
16:44Yeah, they're so-called anti-fascist organization. But Jason, who are these people? When you take their
16:48masks off and some have flipped out of the organization to become informants, who are
16:52these people for the most part? I mean, they're generally younger. They're generally seen as
16:57social outcasts. These are folks who are probably somewhere between 18 and 30 years old. There's
17:03a usual number of non-binary and transgender members as well, at least in the Pacific Northwest.
17:10And these are folks who are a mixture of anarchists and socialists, and they don't know quite what they
17:15are, but they just know they're anti-capitalist, anti-police, anti-rule of law. Some of them just
17:21want to create total chaos because their intent is to tear down our societal institutions. And they
17:27say this going into all of their direct actions. And part of the reason why it's a little bit
17:33confusing, I think, for some is that it is also an ideology, right? Someone can declare themselves
17:40anti-fascist, right? Because they claim that they're going after fascism by standing up to Donald
17:45Trump and Republicans. They view all Republicans as fascists. But there is the militant arm that
17:51actually do organize. It's not easy to go after them because they're decentralized. There's not
17:56one national organization with the leader. These are organizers who are at the local level,
18:03who communicate with one another on social media, on Signal and all these different apps that make it
18:08a lot more difficult nowadays to track. But it's not like they get together at a conference
18:14every single year and declare what it is they're going to try to destroy. These are just like-minded
18:19radicals who are violent.
18:22Yeah, guys, thanks so much. Appreciate it. President's on the move. When he comes back,
18:25he's going to make this his big focus. Meanwhile, for years, D.C. has let crime run wild. And this
18:31culture of crime trickling down to teens is now everywhere. When there's no consequences for actions,
18:36there's no incentive to, I guess, follow the law. Well, that's now coming to an end.
18:41The House has passed two bills aimed at cracking down on crime in Washington, D.C. to begin with.
18:46The first, introduced by Congressman Byron Donalds, would limit the city's ability to enact changes
18:51to criminal sentencing laws and lowers the age for youth offenders. So if you're a teenager,
18:57maybe you'll pay the price for your crime. The second bill lowers the age of juveniles
19:00to be tried as adults 14 years of age. Believe it or not, this is needed. But Democrats say
19:06crime bills don't work. Those aren't bills that are serious efforts to address public safety in
19:12the Washington, D.C. area. Okay. Does he ever have ideas or just dismisses all Republican ideas?
19:20Here to discuss this is Florida Congressman. He's running for governor in Florida, Byron Donalds.
19:24Congressman, why is it so important to end leniency when it comes to teens? What are you finding in your
19:29stats? Well, what we know is that it is actually teenage crime, youth crime in D.C. that's leading to
19:36these issues. The bill that I sponsored that we passed in the House would make juvenile sentencing
19:41available to people under the age of 18. In D.C., prior to my bill, it's under the age of 25.
19:49So what you have are you have people between the ages of 18 and 25. They're carjacking. They're
19:54carjacking, robbery, et cetera, assault. And they're getting these juvenile sentences. That is outside of
20:01the mainstream of what happens in every other jurisdiction in the United States. So all we did
20:05was make D.C. live the way the rest of the country lives. Very, very simple, common sense policy.
20:12Look, you don't want to give up on a 13-year-old that might decide to hang out with their own group
20:15or have terrible parents. But maybe there should be more rehab there or more therapy there than
20:20maybe a 28-year-old who's been arrested 14 times. But that can be addressed. But meantime,
20:25you've got to keep people safe in the streets. I was struck by these numbers in New York who were
20:29saying that a lot of crime numbers, if you are to believe them, are going down. But when it comes to
20:33youth, they are not. For example, through the five boroughs, there was 5,623 felony youth arrests in
20:40fiscal year 2025. That's up from 2,200 in 2018. So when they raised the age, the crime went up for the
20:49teens. So that should be enough. When you see stats, you've got to react. In sports, you do that all the
20:54time. What's so difficult when it comes to crime?
20:57But what's difficult is that the radical left does not care about law and order. They care about these
21:02crazy, soft-on-crime policies. They think it's compassionate, but it's not. What it does, it leaves
21:08people less safe. The real compassion is, yes, you hold people accountable and you're firm in that. And a funny
21:14thing happens. People respond to incentives. Happens everywhere else in life. Happens when it comes to
21:19criminal justice as well. But if you listen to the Democrats here on Capitol Hill and some of their
21:24activists, they would say to you that you're somehow undermining D.C. But what Donald Trump
21:30did, surging assets into the nation's Capitol, it has brought crime down significantly. We're
21:36responding in kind by changing the policies so that you have a safer Washington for everybody.
21:42I got to let everybody at home who works nine to five see what happened during the day. You had a
21:47huge class with Congresswoman Tlaib, who's usually so calm and very measured. I'm being sarcastic.
21:52Watch this. And I think it's really important. We need to stand up against this fascist takeover.
22:00That's not a bad word. It's a fact. Do I look like a member of the third Reich to you,
22:04Ms. Tlaib? Is that what I look like to you? You're the one taking your voting card. Is that what you
22:09think? Is that what you think? Is that what you think? I think it's radical and I think it's insane
22:14to say something like that for myself and all of my colleagues is way out of line.
22:18It's way out of line.
22:19Your thoughts?
22:24I thought she was insane, to be perfectly honest with you. And look, especially with what we know
22:29about this shooter that assassinated Charlie Kirk, the left has been using this vitriol against
22:35Republicans, against MAGA, because they have no policies that actually work. Their policies are
22:41quite stupid. They don't work. They don't hurt people. And because they don't have an argument,
22:45they resort to calling us fascists and all this other nonsense. And so I was sick of it. I had
22:51enough of it. A lot of my colleagues are sick of it. You disagree? Fine. Come up with a better
22:55policy. They cannot.
Recommended
29:18
|
Up next
19:59
1:24:02
46:31
19:50
Be the first to comment