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Episode 4540: The Funeral For Bernie Kerik
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Steve Bannon
Sam.
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David Zier
Outside St Patrick's Cathedral. David Zir is there. We're just going to, we're going to continue to cover this. There's not live stream inside. Bernie. The remains of Bernie Kerrick about to arrive. The family, many of the war room participants. You've got Eric Prince, Boris Epstein, Mo Bannon and many, many others. Rudy Giuliani, Dr. Ryan, all there. We're going to continue coverage of the funeral of our dear friend and colleague Bernie Kerrick. This is Fifth Avenue. Here comes an additional honor guard down right now. Here we go. We're gonna cut back. Let's get the ambient. No.
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Dave Brat
Significant.
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Steve Bannon
It's, it's, it's.
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David Zier
This cathedral in midtown Manhattan. The remains of Bernie Kirk, our dear friend, have arrived with the honor guard.
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Steve Bannon
It's, it's, it's, it's the family getting.
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David Zier
Ready to go in with Bernie Kerik. It's very symbolic because Bernie Kerik, as commissioner, police commissioner of New York City during 9 11, I don't know, must have done hundreds and hundreds of these funerals for New York's bravest. He and Mayor Giuliani. Mayor Giuliani will give the eulogy today. We've been told by St Patrick's I don't know if the family's request or at St Patrick's but we will not be able to live stream which we anticipated, the actual requiem mass today. But we will be here for both the, both the outside ceremony, the guard of honor by the NYPD and other first responders and city officials. And we'll be here when the, for the ceremony in movement, when it, when Bernie is taken out of St. Patrick's and heads, I think an hour, hour and a half out of town where he will his final resting place. The family has requested that no media be at the actual burial itself. Bernie Kerrick, police commissioner chosen by Rudy Giuliani. Before 9 11, he had been the head of corrections and a man that was famous for cleaning up Rikers island and then was Rudy's right hand man. We call him America's cop. During 9 11. See the family right there getting everything ready inside of St. Patrick's this is called a commissioner's funeral. This is one of the most official. Commissioner's funeral, the mayor's funeral. These are what would be equivalent to state events in New York City. And of course, Bernie Kerrick, probably with maybe Commissioner Kelly and a couple of others, two or three, one of the most renowned police commissioners in the history of our most important city. Like I said, Mayor Giuliani will give one of the eulogies today given that Mayor Giuliani and Bernie were the team that really got the the country through the 911 attacks by radical Islamists in lower Manhattan at the World Financial World Trade center. You're outside of St. Patrick's Cathedral. The reason this is very ironic is that Bernie as you remember the time those of you old enough remember days and day, weeks and weeks every day that Bernie and Mayor Giuliani would officiate at funerals for the fire firemen and police officers and other first responders killed in that. That obviously horrible tragedy.
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Steve Bannon
It's, it's Sam, it's.
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David Zier
Bernie Carrick's been received right there you see the flag draped coffin. Bernie was in the, was in the army military police.
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Dave Brat
And.
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David Zier
You see the priest who officiate will meet, meet the body, meet the remains and then go into St Patrick and the family and obviously many of our colleagues. Rudy Giuliana, Boris Epstein is there. Eric Prince is there. Captain Maureen Bannon is there. Dr. Maria Ryan is there. Many, many others of the war room contributors. Our own David Zier is on the riser right across the street. We had intended to do the entire morning with with the funeral and be able to live stream inside of St Patrick's Cathedral in midtown Manhattan. But a decision was made and this, these things happen where it was decided that we're not going to be able to live stream. So David's there is going to stay. There is be a another ceremony with the solemnity of this where the. You saw the honor guard of the New York Police Department and of course the traditional bagpipes. You see the. The church also inside was already fairly crowded with participants that got in there early. Can we go to and let's keep the shot. Can we go to David Zir is David David Zier. David's ear is on the riser across the street with our continual coverage of of this. There's some of the officials the mayor I believe is going to be there. Is David Zier there? Okay, as soon as we get David's here up we'll get a report from David's here. And as he did he is he.
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Cardinal Dolan
Ask the Lord for mercy. Amen. The grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. And with your spirit. The waters of the sacrament. The baptism Hermit died with Christ and rose with him to do life. May he now share with him everlasting. I have no audio.
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Caroline Wren
On page 430.
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Cardinal Dolan
Amazing grace.
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David Zier
Yeah, he can't hear in the IFB.
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Cardinal Dolan
Can you hold this? Why don't I have audio?
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David Zier
Just heard the prayers of Cardinal Dolan as the bodies received at St Patrick's Cathedral. @ the entrance traditional Catholic service prayers are said over the remains surrounded by family and other close friends and colleagues. Of course, Bernie Kerik had a had a tremendous list of friends. Last night they had a Christian wake at St. John's Basilica in Patterson, New Jersey. Amazing Graces, the hymn they're playing to receive the body. Let's listen.
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Cardinal Dolan
The number three.
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Steve Bannon
And Grace will lead me all 10,000 years bright. Joining us the son Jesus.
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David Zier
We're going to keep the shot. Let's bring in David Zier who is our on the scene reporter. David, obviously you know so much about this time in 9 11, all the funerals, all of it as we see some of the police officers, New York's finest now filing the St. Patrick's will be an overflow capacity. You've got Cardinal Dolan received the body. Let's go ahead and hear a couple more choruses of Amazing Grace. Then we'll go to David Zier.
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Steve Bannon
I was lost was now found Was blind but now I see Twas grace that was my heart to fear and grace my peace release Promised good to me life and your we save thus far and grace will lead me home.
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David Zier
David Zier, can you put in perspective what we've, what we've seen this morning? The funeral of Bernie Kerik is New York's finest. Continue to file in. It'll be an overflow capacity crowd at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Looks like Cardinal Dolan's going to officiate. Rudy Giuliani, America's a mayor will speak. David's here. You've been out there from this morning. Of course, David. You've gone through many of these evolutions with New York's finest in the fire department around 9 11. Sir.
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Cardinal Dolan
Yes, Steve. A very moving scene here as there's a remembrance of 30 years of Bernie Courrick's service to the police department, Department of Corrections and serving as the 40th police commissioner here. The police lined the street this morning. Crowds have gathered up and down 5th Avenue outside the historic and awe inspiring St. Patrick's Cathedral here. They filed inside after Bernie's casket was removed from the hearse and brought inside. Big procession probably about a quarter mile long with the vehicles and attendees notables gathered outside here. Mayor Giuliani, Andrew, Mayor Adams, Kash Patel were all gathering in front of the cathedral before the procession pulled up here. But I found something really amazing. There's not a lot of media here, and I bet you there's more media down at the P. Diddy trial right now than there are up here. And New Yorkers are missing Bernie Kerik, Steve, whether they know it or not. And the amount of lives he saved, lowering violent felonies over 50% between Bill Bratton and Howard Safer and him as third in line as a police commissioner under Rudy Giuliani, they really cleaned up the streets. They need them again here as rapes are at 28% up this year. Felony assaults 20 are highs again. So they brag about the murder rates going down and everything, but, you know, we need somebody as tough as nails like Bernie. And I spoke to a guy named Kevin M. Who didn't want to be named with his last name. Served with Bernie under Bernie at the Department of Corrections in 1995. When he showed up, everyone thought it was Jean Claude Van Damme because he was tough as nails. But he cleaned up Rikers Island, Steve and even 60 Minutes acknowledged that getting dangerous weapons away from inmates. And he had respect and they loved his management style. Kevin M. Told me, and I have family who worked under him and expressed the same. So he was likable, he was caring, and he deeply cared about the people of New York and how many lives did he save here? And his leadership being on site after 9, 11 in the first 20 minutes, side by side with Rudy Giuliana, something that Rudy never forgot. So a very, very deep, moving procession and events today here in midtown Manhattan.
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David Zier
Now we're going to. David Zier is going to stay stick and we're going to cover. We were going to live stream the entire event. As we said, they've made a decision, families, not to live stream the funeral itself. The. The requiem mass inside of St. Patrick's right now we will be here for the. For when the remains of Bernie Kerik come out with the honor guard. And then he will head to his final resting place, which I think is in New Jersey, about hour and a half outside the city. David Zier. The reason this is so symbolic is that Bernie Kerik as police commissioner and Mayor Rudy Giuliani at the time presided, presided over so many funerals of. Of the fire department and the police department that took place in St. Patrick's Cathedral. Take me back to that time. The raw nature of this city, really in agony. The country, too. But I mean, New York City, it ripped to the heart of it and particularly day after day after day. I remember there was a very famous photo from the New York Times that had it like an overhead crane shot. And it was a. It was a mother and a couple of small, I think her daughter. And these children couldn't have been three, four years old, very properly dressed for their funeral, going in back of the flag, draped casket of the children's father and her husband. Take us back to that time because Bernie Kerik's laid to rest in really a commissioner's ceremony which is quite, you know, it's like a high requiem mass as far as the civil part of this, the turnout of the. The. We'll show it to you later. But the guard of honor of the motorcycles and like David Zier said, almost a quarter of a mile in length. But take us back to that time when Bernie and Rudy were presiding every day, it seemed like, for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks over the honored dead of NYPD in the fire department.
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Cardinal Dolan
Yes. And you have to remember also all of the police who died in the line of duty dorm, Giuliani's administration and under Kerik's tenure, as well as police commissioner. But 9, 11, we have 7,000 dead so far, including the first responders who came through the pile. 70,000 are sick with mesothelioma and COPD showing up 25 years later. More to come. It was an endless stream. I'm from Long island, just outside the city. We lost about 475 people. 343 firefighters lost their jobs. I believe about 40 Port Authority, and then on top of that, the police officers who died here. It was an endless stream. And I had family members, you know, buried, and processions in New York City under Rudy Giuliani and Bernie Kerik. It was an incredible time. And it was leadership that maybe people around the rest of the country didn't really get. But everybody lost somebody here in New York, whether you were there or whether you heard about it or you lost a family member or you lost a best friend. You know, it was more than 6 degrees or was less than 6 degrees of separation for New Yorkers on that time. And I couldn't think of anybody better than to have Bernie Carrick at the helm with Rudy during 9 11. You know, imagine it was someone else, you know, who wasn't as effective as those two in power here. And the crime rate here in New York City. Property crimes tumbled 65% in the 90s in New York felonies. Violent crime tumbled 56% in the 90s. And they deeply cared about the funerals, you know, as opposed to, say, not to get too political, but De Blasio, who was late to everything. He was late to funerals. You know, other mayors didn't go to police funerals. And Rudy Giuliani and Bernie Kerik are historic figures for all of New Yorkers. And when I saw the procession coming up Fifth Avenue today, it reminded me again of that time here when there was pride in New York. There was pride in the NYPD. Bernie Kerik overseeing 40, 41,000 officers. Now you're under 30,000 guys leaving the force before they're even vested. It's a different scenario. They're trying hard here, but it's not good enough. And Bernie also cared about the mentally ill, and he cared about the homeless, and he also cared about, you know, getting when prisoners left the jail to get them assimilated back into their private lives in the community. So this is a memorable event. I wish there was more media here here, but, you know, a lot of people are walking to Starbucks and don't really know what's going on also in Manhattan, so it's a little bit of a shame.
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Dave Brat
Hey, David, Dave Bratt here with you. Good to hear your voice and thanks for the coverage here. Hey, Dave and I. Hey, great to see you. Hey, I just had a question. When you, you know, the demise of Christianity is being spread, but when you see the looks on the face of these police coming in and that congregation worshiping, you know, New Yorkers are perceived as tough and whatever, don't like wearing faith on the sleeve, maybe, but what's your sense when the faithful get together in that church? Do you see hope and promise? And you see that faith still burrowed deep in the American spirit?
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Cardinal Dolan
In a way, it's a celebration of the brotherhood of being in the NYPD and all the emergency operations people in New York City, the counterterrorism units here, a 30, 40 year history of terror in New York. The crime rates of the past going down from 3,000 murders to 2,000 murders a year to under 300 under Giuliani. You know, these guys want to know that the people and the administration here in New York City and the New York City Council have their backs. So getting together for something like this is probably a reminder. Hopefully, you know, it reinforces their commitment to the job. And, you know, there's not much of that going on in New York City these days. So in a way, it's a good thing.
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David Zier
Yeah, well, you know, also, David, I mean, right now, what's happened at the Columbia University and down at NYU and Washington Square park, we have these radical jihadists on this Palestine situation. And you have these cultured, these leftist Marxist, neo Marxist professors and students coming together. You know the threat. We just had an issue out in Colorado. You've got had an issue down here in assassination down here in Washington D.C. radical Islam is with us. And of course Bernie and Bernie Kerik and Rudy Giuliani ran the department and ran their division and particularly the counterintelligence part of the NYPD. There was not after 911 there for years. There was not enough. They thwarted every, every radical Islamic attack in New York City, which people should know. I think there were 14 tried to take place in the next couple of years. And that's what brought that, that team of Bernie Kerik and Mayor Giuliani and then Mayor Bloomberg afterwards. And of course Mayor Bloomberg brought in his own. I think Ray Kelly replaced Bernie as police commissioner eventually. That team of officials really kept New York safe, much safer than it feels like today. I mean if you had that team now, you wouldn't have this crap that's going on up at Columbia and down at NYU in Washington Square Park. You would never have that happen, sir.
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Cardinal Dolan
Yes. A lot of these students don't know the 40 year radical Islamic history in New York. From outside El Said Nasser murdering Mayor Kahanna in the Marriott east side Hotel to the Al Farouk Mosque in Brooklyn, the Al Sahadi spice market recruiting the Mujahideen to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. And then you had the Empire State shooter and you have plans to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge, the Midtown Tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, the St. Regis Hotel, FBI headquarters, the GW Bridge, caught mixing the explosives even after the first World Trade center attack. And thank God, God for the leadership of Bernie Carrick and Rudy Giuliani and the counterterrorism professionals in New York City. And then you had mounted policemen, Wayne Ratigan in Times Square who when the lone wolf, so called lone wolf from isis put the fuse in the propane tank in the back of his Pathfinder, thank God he put the fuse in backwards but. And it didn't go off. But Wayne Radican broke that up and you could have had hundreds dead in the middle of Times Square. And after 911 you had the Chelsea pressure cooker bomber attacks. You had the guy trying to light himself up on the subway. You had a $23 million laundering ring in Jersey City of Al Qaeda type operatives. And it didn't end with you know, Mahmoud Abu Halimah and Mohammed Salameh and the Blind Sheikh, you know, going to prison. This continued, it's still alive and well today. And if these Colombians students had a heart and the NYU students, where their parents are paying $100,000 a year, a lot of them going for free on visas, you know, if they had a heart and soul, they would care about the New Yorkers and they wouldn't be spewing the garbage that they are. And it's, it's, it's a very sad statement on where we're at, but also mine.
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David Zier
David Zier, we're gonna, we're gonna bounce back to our coverage in the studio. We're gonna come back to you. In fact, if we can get a clip of the, of the, of the honor guard coming up, we'll play that in a little while. David we'll come back to you momentarily at the end of the Requiem Mass, when the remains of the honored Bernie Kerik, the former police commissioner of New York and a, I might say a foundational member of the MAGA movement, been with President Trump and supported President Trump for many, many years, just in New York City, but also as a active candidate. Bernie was with us with Mayor Giuliani very early on. David Ziera, thank you. We'll come back to St. Patrick's in a, in a few moments. Dave Brett, these, these events, and that's why you've got to cover them and you got to do it in, in the right way. That the, the funeral of Bernie Kerik is so important for Bernie Kerik, but it's also about the aspirations of, like you said, remembrance, the Christian faith, Catholicism. What ties us together as Christians, what ties us together in the Judeo Christian West. In that kind of fabric you see in a busy Manhattan that day, you probably got 2,000 people in that church. The entire city in midtown Manhattan stops. And like you said, that could be this is one of the things that helps tie the community together and passes on those traditions and customs.
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Dave Brat
Yeah, I think it's a beautiful day. And, you know, we talked yesterday about the truth, the beautiful, the good. That's the foundation of the Catholic Church going way back in history a couple thousand years. And so we need to bring that forward for the kids, for the next generation, for all of us. These events where the community gets together to honor people. This is iconic, right? Bernie Giuliani, New York City. It is the iconic American city, and it's got all that ethnic background. The archbishop of New York, Dolan is a major figure on the world historic scene, probably with the Vatican as well. Tucker interviewed him last week. Tucker's Protestant and he's very Civilized. Nice interview. Going deep in the content. And the problem in our culture right now, it's minus a culture, right? This is the culture. When you look at that shot of St. Patrick's that's high culture. And you see that Irish Highlands pipe and drum band come in, I mean, if that doesn't send chills up your spine, you don't know music yet. And then you throw in the beautiful voice and the choirs and the organs in the mystery of it all. It's just a beautiful thing to see. And you know, the major thing I want to emphasize to everybody is we need this in our public schools, right? Everybody needs to work to get this culture back in the schools for 13 years from kindergarten all the way through to high school and then in the universities, it's sadly missing. It's an abomination that we don't focus on the truth, the beautiful and the good. That's by design. 9.
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Unknown
It's Friday the 6th of June in.
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David Zier
The year of our Lord 2025. We had had scheduled today an entire wall to wall coverage of the. Of the funeral of Bernie Kerik. Given that he was a colleague and a friend, but also a major part of the Maga movement and a major part of the history of just not New York City, but the entire country. Given the 911 attack. A decision was made, you know, sometime that the actual live streaming from St. Patrick's would not happen. So we're covering it. If we get the footage of the honor guard coming in down fifth Avenue was a quarter of a mile long with the motorcycle police and then the honor guard itself with all the flags and all that. So as soon as we get that.
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Dave Brat
Beautiful.
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David Zier
As soon as we get that.
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Dave Brat
There they are.
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David Zier
Let's go ahead and see. Can we replay? Yeah, here we go. Right here. You'll see the. Do we have amp. Do we have the noise? We're also to going. Put the. The actual noise. What happened? Here we go. No, no, no, this is much later. Let's go ahead and recut that. Yeah, let's. I want to get the. Let's go ahead and take that down and we'll. We'll recut it. Thank you very much. I'm going to direct today too. Besides produce. We would there. Let's take our time again. There was very movie moving a quarter of a mile guard of honor for Bernie Kerik today. The. The motorcycle police come out and. And then of course the Hearst with a honor guard around it. The flags in front of. Very, very moving. And this is what's called a commissioner's funeral. So it's very, very special.
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Dave Brat
Also, who do we owe thanks to for arranging this huge event?
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David Zier
It's Mayor Adams office. But it is, as Maria Ryan was the one with Rudy that actually made sure. Sure that the family knew that, hey. That as a police commissioner, this is called a commissioner's funeral. If you're a commissioner of the police department in New York, you rate this level, it's. It would be like a state funeral.
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Dave Brat
Yeah.
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David Zier
On the, at the federal level. Yeah. Where someone's body gets laid to rest and. Or gets laid up at the Capitol. So you can go by and, and, and see it. And then it has all the special customs and traditions associated with it. So Bernie's getting the full honor of the New York Police Department. He's also a veteran of many years and just a great guy. People knew Bernie on the show for many, many years. Then he got a contributorship over at Newsmax, spent time at Newsmax. I think Newsmax also picking up some of the coverage today. And look, the reality of the media business today, you know what it is, they're going to be down at the PDD trial and not covering this. And also, you know, Bernie was such a major part of the MAGA movement with Rudy Giuliani. And Bernie was there the entire time for particularly on the Steel, Bernie Kerik in that month. People should know from the day that the steal happened in November, every day, Bernie Kerik was a major player with Rudy Giuliani trying to get to the bottom. I mean, and Bernie was one of the organizers of actually trying to get to the bottom of the steal. So behind the scenes, his work. I'd known Bernie for a long time, but every day, as the people that watched the show at that time understood, we were probably the leading platform and getting to the bottom of the steel. And I was spending, you know, hours and hours between the show with Bernie Kerik actually in this city in Washington, D.C. they had. We had a. We had a war room at the time set up in. At the Willard Hotel. They had another one at the Mandarin Oriental. And in fact, it's where all those guys got. Got Covid.
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Dave Brat
Right.
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David Zier
Actually, I caught Covid, too, during that time. It was. But it was 24 7, Bernie. And then in the interim, when President Trump went to Mar? A Lago, Bernie Kerik was instrumental in Georgia, instrumental in Arizona, instrumental in that big fight we had in 2021 to actually prove that President Trump had actually won the election and Biden was an illegitimate regime. Things that should be under investigation today I'm hearing different aspects of that. But Bernie Kerik, not just at 9 11, but here in the MAGA movement, was an absolute stalwart. And Bernie's the guy that you could call not just for security and not just understanding situations. Remember he had gone to Iraq. He knew so much about Afghanistan, knew so much about radical jihad and just police work. People should know. It hasn't been publicly said, but I can say it now. We were trying to, Jared and Peter Navarre and myself and others kind of working on this committee to make sure there's prison reform and Bureau of Prisons. Bernie's someone we wanted for a very high level position at the Bureau of Prisons. But he was pretty upfront about his health and didn't think, you know, he would be an advisor, a consultant, but didn't think that he had the really the. Wasn't feeling good. Right. Obviously later that came into really a collapse which I think shocked his friends, my included. And Erik Prince and other people knew him very well. How quickly this situation occurred where he kind of deteriorated over four or five weeks leading to his death. But Bernie was in the hunt to actually be at one of the senior levels of bureau of prison. And the reason it made sense, Bernie made his bones as the head of corrections for New York City when Rikers Islands and the New York City jails were out of control. The murders, the deaths, the drug dealing and Bernie Kerik, like David Zier said on somebody interviewed today, guy over the corrections, Bernie Kerik came in and they thought it was Jean Claude Van Damme. I mean this guy's a guy that looks like he could take on anybody. And he went over in a very tough situation and said, hey, we're going to clean this place up. And he cleaned it up. And that's why he would have been perfect for the type of reforms President Trump is the greatest. Prison reform with the first step back. And you know, Jared's very involved, Peter's very involved, I'm very involved. And we wanted Bernie very involved too. But as God, you know, in, in God's time, it wasn't the time for Bernie Kerrick. I think that he's only 69 years old. And for those who knew Bernie, he was a barrel chested, I mean this was a man's man. This guy is a warrior, right? He's the kind of guy that you walked in the, he walked into and he had a presence, just a commanding physical presence that you would know that, that, that the good guys had arrived. And yes, he escorted Rudy and all the different fiascos of the in Bernie, Rudy said the other day when, when Rudy was booked and everything like that, it was all, you know, it. Bernie Kerrick did it, Bernie Kerik and Erik Prince, and Eric's up there today as we anchor the coverage here. Those are the two guys I had that press conference. I remember that press avail before going into Danbury. And those two guys are right with me. And we got into the SUV and we went to the prison and I and I checked in the prison. I walk in with Bernie Kerrick and Eric Princeton, the world's top mercenary, and Bernie Kerrick, the world's biggest hammer. And, you know, the prison officials were not thrilled. I got a little stink eye on that one. And Bernie Kerrick was a but in prepping me to go to prison, he, because he had gone to prison also, he walked me through all the details, exactly how you got to structure your day. Everything he told me, were things I could apply as soon as I went in there. He says, here's what you got to do also, but the presence you have to have and how you have to you know, these are dangerous places and there's a lot of, a lot of dangerous people there. So he was a, he was a real mentor. He's a mentor to so many of us and a wingman to Rudy Giuliani. Okay, we're gonna take a short commercial break. It's also June 6th, so people know every June 6th we do have Patrick K. O' Donnell here. We talk about D Day. Obviously, there's a couple of three things in the news also that we're going to get to a big firestorm, some false reporting, I think overnight from Politico said President Trump was going to take some phone call from Elon Musk. I think President Trump talking to Jonathan Karl at ABC News and then Dana Bash at cnn. I think he said, look, these people are trying to get me to talk. I don't feel like talking right now. I'm not sure there's anything to talk about. We're gonna, we're to going going to discuss a lot of that. Caroline Wren, we're going to get her. Jack Vasovic overnight, as we warned everybody, the Russians hit back in Kiev with a massive bombardment. It's been talked about being the the biggest bombardment they've had in a while. Short commercial break we're going to be back in the war. Dave Bratz riding shotgun with me today. See it in a moment.
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David Zier
Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. Okay, I want to thank real nervous voice, of course, Robin Parker, Sig and, and Harry and David's here, everybody. We'll go back to our coverage. As soon as the requiem mass is over, we'll return to St. Patrick's Cathedral for the the exit ceremony in commemoration of Bernie Kerik. And then we've been informed that there's not going to be we're going to try to have cameras at the actual burial itself. It's going to be a private burial just with family, which is great. Bernie is very close to his family. Had a huge family. We had, they had a Christian wake last night at St. John's Basilica in Patterson, New Jersey. Want to thank our sponsors, Birch Gold. I think now more than ever things are going to get a little choppy, right? Not just politically, but a little choppy on the, the, on the, on the side. President Trump, Trump and XI dialed down the rhetoric and agreed to a new round of trade talks right there as a lead story in the Financial Times of London. A lot going on, Massive bombing overnight in Kiev. Jack Posoba could join Dave Brat, not myself, at the top of the hour to go through that. As Dave Brat was telling me during the break, he's, you know, he's always on top of information flowing, he says, hey, the capital in Kyiv is on fire right now. I think five dead at least. They're saying five dead, probably many more. But a ballistic missile attack, a missile attack, a cruise missile attack and a drone attack simultaneously. And I think that's just part of the punch back that Putin's talking about. So as President Trump tries to tone it down, it's increasing. Birchgold.com make sure you understand about the importance of the dollar as a prime reserve currency in your life, your financial life. We've done done a series now over four years, all available to you for free. Birchgold.com Bannon you get it all for free at the end of the dollar empire. Make sure you get it and start to understand why gold has been a hedge against times of financial turbulence. Now, Birch Gold has all types of different methodologies. They got IRAs, they got all types of ways to tax defer your transfer from your IRA or 401k into gold. That's all the details of Philip Patrick and team can give you. And these guys are the experts, really proud of being, of being associated with them. Also, home title locked, a $1 million triple lock protection. What is it, 247 coverage. If something happens, day or night, you get alerted immediately on that contract called a title. That's the only piece of paper that says you actually own your home. So you want to make sure you protect it. If all else fails, a $1 million restoration project that they put the million dollars for to make sure that you get your title back unencumbered. So make sure you check it out today. We're going to go to Caroline Rennes. I can get some ideas.
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Dave Brat
Yeah, I just wanted to close out after we're leaving that beautiful ceremony at St. Patrick's you know, not everyone is the giant epic figure in history, right? Not everyone's the big barrel chested Bernie Kerrick. Not everyone's Steve Bannon. I'm certainly not. But what we can do to express our agency are the little things to get started. It's almost like spiritual exercises. Right. We mentioned, you know, the news is all over P. Diddy. Train in your family. Don't command them, but you know, show the virtue of not clicking on that junk. Right. Click onto good stuff on your investment funds call. There's plenty of Christian investment vehicles out there. Get out of the junk, get out of China. Get out of people who are harmonized. Use your agency just on the small steps. You know, take, take a visit to the cathedral or your church on a Sunday Morning for an hour. Just get back into some of these disciplines that will build up this country in the right way. If we all start doing that stuff again, we will restore America to its, to its greatness.
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David Zier
Amen. Great. We have Caroline Wren who's with us. She's been waiting. Caroline Wren. We've had an ongoing dispute, dispute between Elon Musk and the President. We've been a strong advocate here that it's time now to review his security clearance and many other things because he went over the line. But this speaks to bigger issues about the Bologarchs versus the MAGA base. Your thoughts, ma' am?
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Caroline Wren
Well, I'm just so pleased to see that I've been saying this for many years, that Trump is just the least pay to play president of all time. And this movement was fueled by grassroots don't in the MAGA base. It was never fueled by billionaires. And so it's great that all these tech bros, you know, came out of nowhere deciding to donate millions to Trump's inauguration. But Trump didn't care. He doesn't answer to the tech oligarchs. He answers to we the people. I mean, look at Elon Musk. He gave $288 million to Trump hoping to get his EV tax credits, his H1B foreign workers, and his preferred NASA nominee. Trump didn't give, didn't cave an inch on it. And these tech bros that spent the last eight years trashing Trump, crawling to him after he won in November, donating billions to the inauguration. I mean, look, he really has not caved in for anything. Look at Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook. Yeah, they got front seats at the inauguration, but they really haven't gotten much more. I mean, they pushed for the H1B visas and got shut down. They pushed for their own antitrust nominees at the FTC and doj. They all got shut down. They pushed, you know, to end these lawsuits. They have monopoly lawsuits at the DOJ with both Apple and with Meta. Those are going forward. I love her, but Mary Madison gave $100 million only to see Trump tell Netanyahu to go pound sand. That is because President Trump, his decisions are not made by the donor class. They are made by the base and where he believes that he should lead this country to. And so I'm really proud, actually of President Trump, how he stood so firm and tall while Elon just looks like, frankly, a child in this.
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David Zier
Yeah, I want to go to this also this NASA thing, you know, Mark Caputo and if Grace, you can get that out There Mark Caputo's got a great story over Axios about the NASA guy being removed. And there's all this thing about, oh well, he was so great and was going to get us to the moon and stop trying to get into the moon. Look, there's a lot of great people out there. But Sergio Gore, I think is identified as the guy that President Trump requested this because this guy got in before the vetting. As you remember, Caroline, it was a little bit chaotic in Mar a Lago there for a while. They didn't really have Sergio and other people there to vet the people. This guy's donations all the way up until after Trump won were all to the most left wing Democrats you could get. I mean, years of it. He's a left wing Democrat, right? And people that argued, oh, he should be there. Well, hey, look, there's a lot of good people, a lot of quality people. President Trump's going to find one. But he said, look, I'm not going to be rewarding people that have been giving money to the very people that have been trying to put me in prison. The very people have been shutting down maga. And I think I've got a list of what these donations are. I'll make sure I get it to Grace. But I think Sergio comes out looking great. Sergio actually did the research. The President requested it because he felt, Caroline, that some of these people early on, before we had more formalized systems in place that slipped in there. And as he said, and he told Elon, I'm just not going to tolerate people that are these left wing Democrats that had a, oh, an epiphany, you know, after Trump won and stroke some sort of check for the inauguration. And they think that Trump's going to answer them. President Trump is not. He is the least responsive to donors in history. People have asked for his, you know, support of certain, like military operations in Persia for the nuclear issue. He's not going to do that. They've asked for all types of benefits. Elon got turned down for the EV, as we turn him down in 17. That was kind of my, my duty back then on all the mandates and tax breaks and tax credits he wanted. Then that's when we first started getting into it. I said, look, you just got to get more money from your venture capitalist. Your returns are going to be lower and you're going to own less of the company. But some guy, some guy or gal making $32,000 a year is not going to underwrite something. You're going to make billions off of and they don't have any participation in it. We're going to get into it. We're also going to go to Jack. Bob is going to join us as the third World War heats up all.
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Unknown
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David Zier
I love this guy.
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