Will Cain Country - Will Cain's FULL Interview with President Donald Trump from Iowa

Episode Date: January 28, 2026

Two-a-Dayz Dan and Tinfoil Pat take over for Will as he remains trapped in the U.S. air transit system due to winter storm delays, presenting his full interview with President Donald Trump. Will and the POTUS discuss the growing trend of protestors interfering with law enforcement, what happens if he loses a congressional majority after midterms, how he plans to hold states accountable for allowing billions of dollars in fraud to occur, and much more. After a late arrival, Will weighs in on his interview with the President, sharing some juicy behind the scenes stories and reacting to questions, comments, and criticism from you, The Willitia. Plus, Will and The Crew discuss former Patriots' Head Coach Bill Belichick’s Pro Football Hall of Fame snub.   Subscribe to ‘Will Cain Country’ on YouTube here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Watch Will Cain Country!⁠⁠ Follow ‘Will Cain Country’ on X (⁠⁠@willcainshow⁠⁠), Instagram (⁠⁠@willcainshow⁠⁠), TikTok (⁠⁠@willcainshow⁠⁠), and Facebook (⁠⁠@willcainnews⁠⁠) Follow Will on X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@WillCain  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

To Will Kane country, this is not a test. This is not a drill. This is Two a Days Dan and Tinfoil Pat on the mic to start the show for you because our wonderful host, Will, is still in transit coming back from Iowa. Tinfoil Pat, I don't know if we've got permission to do this, but we are hosting the show here. And how do you feel about it? You're right. We do not have permission.

to do this. This is completely spontaneous. Unsupervised. Yes. And so, you know, we want you guys to get crazy in the comment section, but we do have a treat for you. We got a very special interview that will, this is the reason why Will's not even here right now. He got stuck. It's really cold out there, sweep in the country, and he got stuck in the Midwest somewhere. We don't even know where he is right now. I feel bad for him. He's stuck somewhere in the country. His flights were delayed, delayed, delayed. I feel really bad. The guy has to try. travel the guy does a lot so you know well last night he said around 8 o'clock he's like I think I'll be home tonight I'm very very confident I'll be home tonight I'll be able to do both shows

and then I got a text this morning well throughout the night throughout the evening he's like flight got pushed back and then this morning I wake up 445 he's like I don't even I don't need if I'll make it to for the TV show so it's brutal I don't I don't know if our boss is know this is happening. So we could get shut down. Maybe the show gets shut off. We'll see. We'll do our best to fill in for Will here. But we do have the interview. Before we get to the interview,

do you think Will makes it back in time for the end of this interview when we play it to be here for the audience to talk after the interview? He was 100% confident last night after everything that's transpired, I give it 20%. We have a little flight tracker on the screen. If you could see, if you're watching on YouTube or on Facebook or Fox News.com,

Will Kane coming into Dallas. So hopefully he'll get here in time. But I think without some further ado, we should just play. Yesterday, Will spoke with President Donald Trump in Iowa, live on the Will Kane show. And we're going to play that for you here. You get in those comments section? Yep, get in the comment section.

Welcome back to the Will Cain Show live from Iowa, and now we're here. We're here with President Donald J. Trump. Mr. President, great to see you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you for doing this. Well, you know, you do have great ratings. Well, thank you. We checked the ratings, but even if you had lousy ratings, I would do your show.

You are terrific. Thank you. You've been a terrific guy. I anticipate they should do very well today with this type of guest today here on the Will Cain Show. Welcome back to the campaign trail. Welcome back to Iowa. How does it feel? Well, I love Iowa.

Well, we've won it three times conclusively. There wasn't like any late night voting or anything. We just won it right at the beginning. The door is closed, and they said Trump won. And I love the people, you know. I just get along with the people. I was watching the other room. You look back in your element.

You're back with the people. What do you like better? Do you like this standing on the stage at a rally? Or do you like making a deal? Maybe for Greenland. I think I like maybe the rallies better. Deals are fun. But we're making a lot of good deals.

We've made record-setting deals. We have $18 trillion dollars coming into that. country. That's why they're building auto plants, AI. They're building everything with thousands of businesses are being built all over the country. And you're going to have a beautiful, very positive explosion sometime during the year when these things start opening up. But there's never been any country has, no country has done what we've done. That explosion, that anticipated economic explosion, that's going to be important because you also need to do something that someone has done very rarely. You acknowledged this a couple of days ago with Maria Bartramo. And that is for the

president in power to win the midterms. I think it's been only twice since 1938, that the sitting president, the president in power, has won the midterms. Are you concerned? Well, nobody can explain why. We've had an amazing year. There's been a record-setting year in every way, and nobody can explain. Even presidents, whether it's Republican or Democrat, when they win, it doesn't make any difference. They seem to lose the mid-term. So that's the only thing I worry about. I said, why. There's some psychological factor out there. What do you think that is? But I think it's like two and more than 50 years.

Well, I don't know. Maybe they want to put up a guard fence. Maybe you just don't know. It doesn't make sense. Even if a president did well, they seem to lose the midterms. But hopefully we're going to change that around. We're doing great. We have the best polling numbers we've ever had. We have the best numbers in the country. Lowest crime numbers in the history of our country. You know, Minnesota's in the news a lot.

But what they don't say is that Minnesota has low numbers because of the fact that we took thousands of hardened criminals out of Minnesota. So they had good crime numbers, believe it or not. And that's all working out. You know, we have Tom Homan there now. We put him in there. He's great. And they met with the governor, the mayor, everybody else. And we're going to de-escalate a little bit.

But I will tell you, you look at the numbers. They're doing better than they've done in many years because we took thousands of criminals out of Minnesota. You look at Washington, D.C. It was a very dangerous place a year and a half ago. Now it's as safe as you can get. You can walk your family down the middle of the street. Nothing's going to happen. You know, we got rid of over 2,000 hardened criminals.

Many of them led in through the open border policy of Sleepy Joe Biden. It was not a good policy, Will. I want to come back to Minnesota in just one moment, but let's go to those guardrails. I'd imagine you do not feel like you need guardrails in this moment. You talk about the investment. No, I don't need guardrails. I don't want guardrails. Guardrails would hurt us because, you know, we're free enterprise people in this room, the people of Iowa free enterprise. That's why we want it so big three

times in a row. I would have to imagine that guardrails would be an understatement what would happen should you lose the House or the Senate. There's been talk of impeachment. You've been through this before. You've been through it multiple times? I'm a professional. What will happen? What will happen if Democrats take the House of the Senate? Oh, they'll probably try and impeach me. They'll say he went to Iowa and he spoke unfairly to people and he's not supposed to do that.

that let's impeach him, okay? And the people and I were say, how did he get impeached? He just did an interview with Will, who has very good ratings, okay? But they just did an interview with Will. Now, they'll find something. There'll be something I made the wrong turn at an exit and let's impeach him. Now, they did that before. They impeached me at a perfect phone call, turned out.

They impeached me twice. And by the way, I won the impeachments very easily and quickly. But they impeached. They're very nasty people. You know, they have bad policy, really bad, but they do two things. They stick together. Not stupid, some are, because that's true with everything, right? But they stick together, but they have really bad policy.

Men and women's sports, transgender for everybody. So many things are so bad. They're horrible to the farmers. And by the way, I just gave the farmers $12 billion because they were treated unfairly. We were taken in a fortune with tariffs. And I wrote them a little check about two. weeks ago for 12 billion. Anybody in this room get any of it yet? Yes, yeah. A lot of people. It's a lot of money. And you know what? You deserved it. But we're taking in so much money

from the tariffs that we can do that. I want to talk about the point of view from some of these farmers, some of these people in this room a little bit later. But now I want to take you up on your invitation to talk about Minnesota. Listen, the entire country is talking about what happened this past weekend in Minnesota. You've already spoken about it. Everyone watching has seen the video. Everyone has an opinion. I'm curious what you thought when you first saw that video. Well, I think the whole thing is terrible. I don't like the fact that he was carrying a gun that was fully loaded,

and he had two magazines with him, and it's pretty unusual. But nobody knows when they saw the gun, how they saw the gun, everything else. Bottom line, it was terrible. Both of them were terrible. The other was terrible, too. And I'm not sure about his parents, but I know her parents were big Trump fans. Makes me feel bad anyway. But, I mean, I guess you could say even worse, they were.

tremendous Trump people, Trump fans, and you know, the daughter was, she was, I don't know if you could say radicalized, maybe radicalized, maybe not. I don't know, but I hate to see it. I hate to see that. You bring up the term radicalized. What do you think is happening? You see these people in these videos, they feel very emboldened to step in and interfere with law enforcement. I'm not talking about protest holding signs. I'm talking about people physically interfering with immigration enforcement. Why? Why do they feel so? You have to go throughout the whole country. You know, we have done so much work throughout the whole country.

We don't have any problem. The only one we have is Minnesota. We're in a lot of different places, New Orleans, where the governor of Louisiana called they have a big problem in New Orleans. And we went there. We've cut the crime by 67% in four weeks. It'll be down to practically nothing soon. Washington, D.C.

We don't have problems. Like, you know, we've cut it down from a lot. It was very bad. It was terrible. People go to Washington to look at the last. Lincoln Monument and they end up getting whacked or whatever killed in some cases. Numerous killings, that's a safe, that's a beautiful safe place now. Memphis, Tennessee, one of the worst in the whole country, and now it's got very little crime.

But it's gone very differently in Minneapolis. Well, it has. It's the only place. And now the message is out that Tom Homan is in. Commander Bovino is supposedly leaving Minneapolis along with some CBP agency. Is this a pullback? I don't think it's a pullback. It's a little bit of. change. Everybody in this room that has a business, you know, you make little changes. You know, Bovino's very good, but he's a pretty out there kind of a guy. And in some cases,

that's good. Maybe it wasn't good here. But you have to understand, when I watch some of the people that I've been watching over the last few weeks, these are paid insurrectionists. These are paid agitators. These people aren't normal, like, oh, gee, that, you know, they're incensed about anything. How do you get incensed when you go into a state and you're taking criminals out? You're taking monsters out, murderers. You know, we had 11,888 murderers led into our country by other countries, by Biden with his open border stupid policy. It's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. You talk about bad policy. Open borders where people were coming. So the whole world, the Congo, Venezuela, all over the world, they're letting people in from their prisons and they're feeding them into

the United States. And they're murderers and their drug dealers and everything else you can think of. every bad name you can think of, and they let them in by the millions. We close the border. You know, we have nobody coming into our country anymore. It just shows how hard it is to clean up even after you close it. It shows the price that we paid under Joe Biden. It's the hardest thing when you think of it. You know, inflation we've solved.

It's done. We have it good. Where prices are coming way down. They were just saying in Iowa, the fuel is $1.95. Did you hear that? Somebody said $185. But it was $3.50, $4.50 just a year ago, a year and a half ago. go. You look at eggs, you look at groceries. It's all down. Everything's come down. Do you notice

they don't mention affordability anymore? That's like an old-fashioned word. They brought up affordability, but they were the ones that cost it. I didn't cause it. I came in. Prices were way too high. We had the highest inflation in the history of our country, 48 years they say, I say the history. But we had the highest, let's say in 48 years, the highest inflation. Prices were way high. Now I've got the prices down, and they're going down still further. But think of it. We brought fuel from $4, $3.75, down to $1.99, $1.8. I was just told in Iowa, $1.85. Let's take quick break. But continue listening to my conversation with President Donald Trump from Iowa on Wilkane Country. This is Ainsley Earhart. Thank you for joining me for the 52 episode

podcast series, The Life of Jesus. A listening experience that will provide hope, comfort, and understanding of the greatest story ever told. Listen and follow now at Fox News Podcasts. or wherever you listen to podcasts. No doubt. But that leaves that problem, like you said, the hardest one to solve. People say they want our immigration laws. The hardest one to solve is. You know, I remember a conversation that you and I had a year and a half ago with your

Secretary of War, our friend Rachel Campos Duffy, and you said to me, you looked at me and said, it's going to be difficult when the New York Times runs a picture of a little kid being taken away from their mother. It's going to be difficult. And by the way, that basically happened to you a week ago. It was propaganda and it was false about a five-year-old. By the way, it was a totally false story about the five-year-old. But you're now dealing with the difficulty of the propaganda in the face of enforcing illegal immigration.

And I knew that will. I mean, I said it. It's always tough. Are you still committed? We take out 25 murderers. We take out drug dealers. We take out a whole group of people by the thousands. And if we get one person a little bit wrong, headlines, but they don't talk about all the tremendous. You know, the reason that we have Minnesota crime down. I talk about that because it's only down for one reason. We took out so many criminals. But other states are way down. So the report came out, though, think of it.

In the history of this country, we have the lowest number of murders. We have the lowest crime, the best crime numbers. That's despite the fact that millions, I say 25 million people, millions of people were let in through the border by Biden. And many of those people were not people you want to have in the country. So what's going to change? You put in Tom Homan. Have you spoken today to Tom Homan?

Well, yeah, I have. Tom is fantastic. Tom is a tough guy, but I've watched over the years, and he's gotten along with governors, and he gets along with mayors. Some people don't. Some people just want to do their job and leave me alone. And that's sort of okay, too. That's generally been okay. Most of them are happy. Memphis, Tennessee, very tough, very straightforward. We're taking the criminal out. We're getting them out, either putting them in jail, because some are so bad that you don't want to send them to another, to where they came from, because you're afraid they're going to come back. They're murderers. So some are very down. and straight and others. Tom, I've noticed, as tough as he is, he gets along very good with governors and mayors. Now, I spoke to the mayor and to the governor yesterday, and they want to see it cleared up.

I'm so fascinated by your conversation with Governor Tim Walts. This man has suggested that this is a modern-day Gettysburg. He has likened his situation to Anne Frank in the Holocaust. He has said that ICE is your Gestapo army. And then you guys speak on the phone. I'm fascinated by that conversation. It couldn't have been a nicer conversation.

And in fact, I said to my people, I said, it's hard to believe that's the same guy I watch on television, or I watch in the debate not doing so well, because we had a very reasonable conversation, very good conversation. If you believe in the conversation, he'd like to get this thing over with. But think of it, in the whole country, we've done this so much, we have the crime down to a level that nobody ever, you know, I campaigned a little bit on crime, a lot on the border.

The problem is I gave you the best border in the history of our country. Nobody wants to talk about it anymore. You know, I did it a long time ago. I was able to do it. Within three months of taking office, I had that border locked and closed. And, you know, nobody even tries to come up anymore. It's easy now. Nobody even tries to come up before they were coming up by the millions.

But nobody wants to talk about that. They only want to talk about whatever the last thing is. But we're taking out thousands and thousands of criminals. And the worst thing that Biden did this country, because, again, inflation, I can solve. All this stuff. The hardest thing to solve is when you have people brought into the country and you have to take those people, we have a very unfriendly court system, frankly, especially at the lower levels.

Take those people and you have to say, I'm sorry, but you're going out. And in many cases, they're murderers. And, you know, they shoot you. They kill you. You've seen that where they kill you. You're after a murderer. Sir, you're going to have to come with me and they end up shooting you. It's a very tough job that they have.

I know you addressed this this morning. You talked about the incredible success, and it is an incredible success. at the southern border, but you were asked, with the shift in Minneapolis and Tom Homan going to Minnesota, do you still have confidence in DHS Secretary Christine Nome? You brought up the success at the border. I do. Look, she was there with the border.

Who closed up the border? She did with Tom Homan, with the whole group. I mean, they closed up the border. The border is a tremendous success, one of the most secure borders in the entire world. We were a laughing stock one and a half years ago for the whole world. The whole world laughed at us.

I had friends that said, is that real? You know, they'd look at a picture. You've been down to the border. They'd look at a picture of the border with hundreds of thousands of people pouring in like it was water. And they said, is that really taking it? They can't believe it. They think it's one of these crazy movies that they make. The border was horrible.

It was horrible. You know, I did the border twice. First time I won 2016, I won on the border. But that border was nothing. And I fixed it immediately. It was great. We had great years. And we had a great economy.

We had the best economy in history. in 2016, my first term, and we rebuilt the military, and we get the largest regulation cuts, we had the best job number. We had a great first term. This term seems to be blowing it away. I mean, the only thing we have is a Minnesota situation, and that is, I believe, easily resolved. Okay. You're about to take the stage here in Iowa. I imagine you're going to talk about the economy. I'm curious what your plan is if the Supreme Court rules negatively on your tariffs. You talk about the tariffs. We'll have to find another way. Look. Is there a plan? Yeah, the tariffs have been indispensable towards success.

We've taken it $600 billion in tariffs. I gave the farmers $12 billion last week. I took them out of tariff money. It's kept the unfair competition out of our country. Now, they can build their auto plant here, but they can't build a plant in some place with labor costs for a penny and then sell it into this country and then charge people a lot of money for a car. So the only way they can do that, they have to build a plant in some place with labor costs for a penny,

So the big auto companies from Germany, from Mexico, from Canada. Mexico and Canada are literally their plants are closing down. They're moving into this country. So we have more activity than we've ever had. We have thousands of businesses all over the country being built. We have hundreds of big major factors between AI autos and many other things being built. We've never had a thing like this. And you use them as a tool for world peace. For world peace, yeah. We have to use it for world peace. But what happens if the Supreme Court strikes down the tariffs? We will find some other way of doing a similar thing. But it'll be more inconvenient.

It won't be as easy. I was just speaking to some of the diners here today. David Olman, he's lived in Iowa for a long time. He's in agricultural. He does express concern about the tariffs and the effect it's had on farmers in Iowa. Well, it's going to be very just, don't forget, they just kicked in. And we've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars. And we've kept a lot of people out that want to come in and rip off our...

For years, it was the reverse. China, which are just tariffs, other countries which are just tariffs. I've totally reversed. Japan gave us $550 billion. South Korea is supposed to give us $350 billion. But what happens is they're coming in, they're building plants, they don't have to pay tariffs. If they don't do that, so what's happening is we're getting a tremendous amount of business coming to this country, and they're coming in faster.

sharp. I think the farmers are going to be the biggest beneficiary because when you used to have people coming in and dumping their crops into the United States and you guys were hurt, they're not allowed to do that because we're tariffing those crops. Just a couple more questions. I think the farmers in a way, and it's going to take a little while to kick in, and the farmer stuck with me the first time, and I was right with China, when China did a little bit of a number, we gave you 28 billion then because it was a help because they were taken advantage of for years. We gave them Now we gave them 12, sort of a minimal payment, $12 billion for the farmers. Nobody else would be able to do that.

Nobody else would even think of doing that. But the tariffs are going to be phenomenal for the farmers, but they just kicked in. I just see some nods here as you're talking. A lot of nodding. A couple of more questions. A couple of quick more questions, Mr. President. One serious one. This whole Minnesota thing, it started because of a focus on fraud.

It started because of illegal immigration. welfare fraud. The question is, will there be accountability? In Minnesota and beyond, other states, California. Minnesota is one state, if you look at California. So in Minnesota, they think it's $19 billion. If they think it's $19 billion, triple it or quadruple it. And if we catch a lot of this fraud, and I felt it for a long time, but now we know what's happening. And the answer is, yeah, there will be accountability. It's one of the little problems. You know, I happen to think, and I've said it from the beginning, that a lot of what's going on with respect to Minneapolis, you know, with what's happening with all the hoopla, is so people don't talk about the fraud. You think it's a distraction?

I've said it from day one. It's a distraction because what you don't see is that we have hundreds of accountants from Todd and from all of the different people. We have hundreds of accountants going over everything that's happening. And we're finding fraud on top of fraud, on top of fraud. And I think that they don't want that to happen. You're talking about $19 billion. Probably that's a minimal number. Now, you take that and you go to California.

You think California is better? I would say California is worse. It's totally out of control. They don't know what they're doing out there. The governor is, I actually thought he was a pretty nice guy, but he has no clue what he's doing. Look at a railroad. He builds a railroad.

It's like 20 times more expensive than it was supposed to be. And what they did to get down the cost, they made it shorter. So it doesn't go to San Francisco. You saw what he said, right? He's claiming victory in Minnesota, by the way. He has posted that you have retreated in Minnesota, Governor Gavin Newsom, and he is encouraging people to keep the pressure up. See, I haven't heard that at all because it's just the opposite.

I was called by the governor yesterday. I was called by the mayor yesterday. How do we do something? Please, how do we do something? I think it's bad for them. I don't think it's bad for us. I think it's bad for them. Yeah, you'll have to see what Governor Newsom posted.

But it's not a question of retreat. We want safe cities, whether it's, if we, you know, we took a lot of the bad, the crime out of there. We want safe cities and states. We want a safe country. And again, we just got a report done by Democrats that the country is the safest ever recorded right now. Right. Along with a secure border. I'm just looking around, you know, who's here today.

There's a lot of people, but one guy who is not here is your Secretary of State, and I'm afraid he made a very big mistake. He gave an interview where he said that one of his tricks with you is on Air Force One. Marco Rubio goes into a room and covers himself up with blankets so that you won't see him sleeping, that you'll think it's a staffer. And so I think there's only one of two ways you go with this. You give him yet another job. Or you pull the blankets back. That's what he wants.

Let me tell you, he's doing a fantastic job. He's a tough cookie. I can tell you that. He's a tough cookie. He's going to go down as the best secretary. of state we've ever had. You see what we're doing. Just today we solved a tremendous problem in conjunction with Syria, saved many lives. I mean, we're saving a lot of lives all over the world. Ended eight wars. I'm very proud of that because it's not tough for me. We're trying

to end one more, by the way, Russia, Ukraine, and I think we're going to get that done too. But we ended eight wars and saved tens of millions of lives, and I'm happy about that. You should be proud. Thank you. I know you're a big sports fan, so we'll end here. We now have the Super Bowl set, New England Patriots, C, Seattle Seahawks. Now usually when someone ask you these questions, you answer with which of these two teams have a greater affiliation in fandom of President Donald Trump. That's true. In those cases... So I'm curious. Have you already done the analysis?

Well, I tell what, Bob Kraft is a front of mine. And I've watched that team, you know, you've got to hand it to him. He had the great team and now he's got the great team again. They made a fantastic draft pick. The quarterback is great. But it's going to be a very, I think it's going to be a tremendous game. I hope it's going to be a tremendous game. Mr. President, I know you've got to take the stage. I really appreciate all the time you've given us and joining us live.

We called a lot of audibles right here at the last moment. We really appreciate you joining us. Well, you've done a tremendous job, and you've really been very fair to me. I don't even say nice. I just want to be fair, and you've been fair, and you've also been nice. And so it was an honor to do it. When I heard it was you, I said, let's do it. My goal is to tell the truth, Mr. President.

Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you, Will. Very much. Thank you. Thank you to the President of the United States. Thank you. A lot of folks here are very pleased with the President of the United States,

as you can hear right there. Let's take a quick break, but we'll be right back on Will Cain Country. Adobe Acrobat Studio, your new foundation. Use PDF spaces to generate a presentation. Grab your docks, your permits, your moves, AI levels of your pitch, gets it in a groove. Choose a template with your timeless cool. Come on now, let's flex those two. Drive design, deliver, make it sing.

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He got to the truth. As the viewers can see on Will Kane Country, we are back in the studios in New York, Jacksonville, and we can have a live look in on the studio in Dallas, which, as you can see right now, there is no Will Kane just yet. We have word that he might be back. Oh!

who is this? Who is this? What is this? Wow. Look at this. This has to have been riveting. Wow. What were you boys talking about?

Who was leading the discussion? They were about to take us off air, buddy. I can't believe. Did you run any of that by bosses? No. At all? We just did it. We just did it.

If Will's not. there. You didn't. I know you didn't because they would have said no for sure. They would have said no. There is no way. They'd be like, yeah, you guys should host it. Yeah, just do it.

That'll be fun. I said, nothing could go wrong. I said, we're playing in the interview. And they said, okay, that's fine. They didn't know that somebody had to intro it. Nothing could go wrong, I swear. We held down the fort for you. Welcome back.

Patrick is going to host this. First of all, you got. Dan, Quasi Lib, and Patrick, totally irresponsible conspiratorial theorists. It's the nightmare for Fox. It's like getting Tarlov and a long-fired employee and giving them the microphone. I almost brought the Brooklyn brunch crew on his guests, but, you know, they couldn't make it. I bet you did. I bet they had some things to say, too, about my interview with President Trump.

I saw, I saw. Here, let me guess. Let me guess what they said. Brooklyn brunch crew said that well here's the the negative feedback that I saw okay one of them I can't repeat on air because it had to do with a sexual act huh and suggested that I was there to please President Trump wow and they were going to say I got that one from the brunch crew was it about the knee pads like something about yeah energy dream in that vein yeah I mean yeah I mean it uh

A kneepad in that vein. Thank you. Thank you, Ed. It's time for an energy drink. A little black rifle coffee. There you go. Oh, you weren't here yesterday. We're a Celsius show now. World Wing.

Just Fla. Yeah. Celsius sponsorship. It's like liquid meth, I heard. Do we have a sponsorship? No, we're trying to. So what was the other thing you heard about the Trump interview? That he said that the people involved in Minnesota were paid out.

agitators and that I didn't challenge him on that. Well, it's true that I did not challenge him on that statement because I agree. I think that this is one of those things. First of all, President Trump does this thing. He says something and everybody freaks out. And you know what they seem to forget in the entire calculation? That he is president of the United States. And that he has access to information like, say, the FBI or foreign intelligence. on any host of issues. You know, your random CNN commentator seems to think he has access to the same amount of information as the President of the United States. So he says something.

They're like, oh, my God, that's insane. How could he say that? And then a little time passes, and you realize, oh, he actually knew what he was talking about. He wasn't just spitballing. He wasn't just being hyperbolic. And the facts end up backing him up because he has said something that he learns much earlier than the rest of the public. The FBI is currently investigating many of the groups involved in the protests in Minneapolis. There are now images coming out of signs, pre-printed signs, being unloaded from a U-Haul truck,

you know, honoring Alex Preti. Where are those coming from? Who's paying for those signs? Who's organizing the signal chat groups? Who's organizing the Ice Watch that tells everyone where to go? Is it a totally community-driven, organic, passionate protest? Or is there something more behind this that we've seen in almost every other left-wing protest slash riot? And that almost always goes back at some level to funding from George Soros.

Almost always. Not exclusively, maybe not even in every occasion primarily, but always present. And so when the president says they're paid agitators and you scream, where's the evidence, I give you A, history, and B, the acknowledgement that he's, there's, no, B, that there's a current investigation ongoing, and C, that he's president of the United States and might have some information that you don't have. So those are the two things that I got. I was left out of those chats, by the way. I got other nice stuff, though, Dan, too. I don't, I don't get that signal chat.

And how do you know about him? What? Hmm. You know, I don't on the New York City Ice Watch? No, no, definitely not. Signal chat? No, no, no. I'm really relieved to hear that.

I also got really nice feedback. And not just, I got feedback that people thought I was fair and direct. I don't know that anybody said I was super tough, but that I gave him direct questions that he needed to answer and that they were fair questions. Such as, is this a pullback in Minneapolis? I mean, I think that is the question. That is the question. And if it is a pullback, he described it as a de-escalation, the removal of Greg Bovino, and several CBP officers. And I think we're going to be reporting on that today on the Will Kane show.

Like, is it truly a pullback? Is it truly a de-escalation? Or are they doing the same thing while doing a PR move that they're pulling back? I don't know. We're going to be reporting on that throughout the day. Is that if it is a de-escalation, I think that this is going to be seen as a great amount of vindication for the people who, in my mind, have behaved in not just some condemnable but illegal ways. I don't know when we got here. I don't know if it's a generational thing.

I don't know it's an acceptance of the rhetoric of left-wing politicians. But the idea that you can interfere with law enforcement, with your car, with your body, is an insane rubicon to cross. And yet we're here. We're here. But anyway. There was one thing we saw the comment about this interview that you did with Trump. That was just, you know, blown out of the... What was it?

so many of them coming in. Why were you guys standing so far apart? Oh, I asked the same question right before the show. Okay. Do you want some behind the scenes? Yeah. This is good. These guys, Ed and Scott King, they can all appreciate this.

In fact, one of the guys told me this is called the Vietnam moment. Intrigued? Okay. So in the middle of this interview, or right before this interview, we had a Vietnam moment. Okay? Here's what happened. So, this. This was originally scheduled to be a pre-taped interview.

But accommodating the president's schedule, that was scheduled to take place at 2.30 central time, 3.30 Eastern time. That meant, and we had about 20 minutes allotted with the president. And that meant we had 10 minutes to turn in TV. You know, it's called turn. So they ingest it, they feed it back onto live TV. To turn that before my show started at 3 Central, 4 Eastern. Okay. Well, I knew immediately.

I knew because I've been on this. This is not my first rodeo. I'm like, there is no way that this goes off at 2.30. There's no way. Central time. And so we start putting plans in place. And those plans have to have multiple options, depending on what time the president shows up. And I'm telling you, these plans were being put into place in five-minute increments until the show started. For me, live in Iowa.

And I'm working with the president's team who was very accommodating fluid, right? but the president came into the restaurant. He went into a separate part of the restaurant where there was a ton of tables. I knew he was going to love it. And he did. And he stayed longer than he's scheduled. He's talking to people. He's hanging out.

And so now the plan is, okay, we will pre-tape half and we'll start the show live with him. So we'll start our conversation at 250. And then the first half will be live. And then we'll run the second half pre-taped, which is a little awkward because I'm actually the first part of my conversation, the audience is seeing second. Right. Right. That's a little awkward.

Well, and then I asked the president's team, if he comes in here five minutes before my show, will he wait the five minutes for us to just do this entire thing live? And they said, yeah. Yeah, he will. Huh. Thank you. Okay. So the camera dudes all showed up early that morning. And they've got four cameras.

There's cables going everywhere. Two seats. Oh, no. We all know where the president is going to stand. We know he has his favorite side. So, by the way, I like the same side as him. That's the side of the couch that I sat on on Fox and Friends. But that's the president's side.

Okay, so I'm going to send the other side. And so it's all stuff. And you guys have been to one of these productions before. I mean, there's lights. And I love the camera guys. I do. I love them. They're all perfectionists.

Okay. They're like, is he got the halo light and the black light? And it's just so much going on. Okay. And I'm like, I don't care. You know, and then the makeup. But I do want to look good. And that's that they always can come back to me with.

You want to look good, right? Yeah, I want to look good. Okay. So they put all this work in, right? Lights, chairs, mics, IFB for me. That's this thing I can hear the boys out of right here. Oh, dude, I'm talking about eight hours, six hours. Okay, Ed's saying six hours of work, right?

All right. Well, the one, there's two contingencies that happen now. And one of them is the Vietnam moment. The president didn't show up five minutes before my show. He showed up 15 minutes into my show. Like, I don't, that's the one thing we didn't plan for, like that he was going to be late. It was a matter of how early he would be to the show. So now we're like, okay, well, it's going to be live.

The interview's live, and he's good with that, and we're good with that. But now I'm like, what do I do to the top of the show? And luckily, in television, you plan contingencies and Guy Benson's with me and David Marcus is with me. And I don't know. The president could walk in at any minute. That's the plan. He could walk in the room at any minute. And I'm like, I love it. I love it. I want that raw. I want that stuff. I just want him to walk in, right? And there's a crowd of people in there, so it'll be cool. And at some point, I guess, and I see I'm sitting there. And by the way, I got to see the team. There's a team that's traveling with him on Air Force One. And that was really cool. I got to meet Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who I had never met. And we talked for a little bit, and it was awesome, awesome guy.

I really love to have you on the show. He said, I would love to do the show. I'm saying, great, thank you. Kelly Loughler was there, and I know Kelly, Small Business Administration, and then Stephen Miller was there. And, you know, I'm friendly with Stephen. We text.

We've been on TV together a lot, but I'd never met Stephen in person. And so I walk up, and I'm like, I don't think we've ever met in person. How tall is he? Let me tell you something. Yeah, how tall is he? Not that tall.

Not that tall? All right. Not that tall. He's way different in person. And I don't know how to describe that. Like, he's just so severe on TV. Everybody knows that. That's a good word for him, right?

Severe. Yes. He's severe on TV. Stern, sharp, cutting, don't want to debate him. He's a super nice guy in person, like, almost bashful, you know? And right now, the world is calling Stephen like Heinrich Himmler. Like, I've seen some of these people saying that he should... Is this an elected official who said this?

Or is it... Who is it? Oh, it's Rick Wilson of the Lincoln Project said he needs to be the first one at the Nuremberg trials. The Nuremberg trials of immigration enforcement. Let's take a quick break. But continue breaking down our conversation with President Donald Trump with info, Pat. Two days, Dan, and me on Will Kane Country. At MedCan, we know that life's greatest moments are built on a foundation.

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Welcome back to Will Kane Country where we're telling the story of getting to and getting home from and interviewing President Donald Trump. But anyway, I love talking to Stephen and I said, hey man, I actually would love a 45 minute sit down with you because you have become the villain of the world. And I'm just sitting there talking to him and he's such a, he's a human being and he's a different human being than he comes across on TV. I just think he'd be a fascinating interview. Fascinating. If he would be that guy, he might turn it back on the minute there's a camera. I don't know. But I texted with him, Stephen, we want you.

45 minutes, the real Stephen Miller. So anyway, president is gone in the middle of the snowstorm. So the room starts filling up. Yeah. Doing all this in the middle of a snowstorm is like taking everything, all this logistics, and just adding 10 degrees of difficulty on top of all of this. Did you sleep? I mean, you think it's more than 10?

Well, I hope the audience is falling along. I'm going to tell you about the Vietnam moment and answer Dan's major question. Why are we standing so far apart? My flight to Iowa was its own rodeo. Delay, delay, delay, switch, all these different things. I landed in Omaha, Audible, not Des Moines, fly into Omaha. I landed in Omaha at 3 a.m. got a hotel, got into bed at 4 a.m., woke up the next morning at about 8, I think it was,

and hit the road to Des Moines, which is about 2-hour drive. So then, last night, was supposed to fly back from Des Moines to Dallas. No, cancel, cancel, delay, delay, cancel. Got a 5-8, got a hotel in Des Moines, had a 5 a.m. flight today to be back here in time. woke up at three because you got to get the airport, four, all that stuff, and Ellie has a text,

flight cancel. I'm like, oh my gosh. I got an Ellie story for you, too. She's still there? And so, she's somewhere around here. I'm sure sitting in the lap of luxury. I'll tell you about that.

So, by the way, halfway into this, I remember I have like the highest status you can get on American, which I never really use. apparently I can call this number, and they'll put me on any flight, whatever's next. Wow. And I didn't know that all this time.

I'm sitting here struggling what flashed in. They're like, you don't need to do this. Like, we will put you on the next flight going out. And I'm like, really? Didn't work. This morning I got a Southwest flight to St. Louis. Then got on a flight in St. Louis to Dallas. And literally landed you saw me walk in.

Oh, she heard her name called like Tinkerbell. Somebody's running ring something and she appears. Fetal juice. So today, I have no status on Southwest. How about this? Okay, the flight from St. Louis to Southwest is booked full, right? Southwest to Dallas. St. Louis to Dallas.

And they get on the thing, and then like, if you're boarding group five, you need to check your bag. And I turned to Ellie. I'm like, what group are? We looked at our phones. And she's group five, and I'm group four. Wow. I'm like, ooh. I go, why don't you go pay?

Because you know in Southwest you can pay to. board first, whatever they call it. And I go, why don't you go pay? Make sure we board right away so that when we get to Dallas and try to make the show, our bags are here. We're ready to go. She goes, yeah, good idea. She goes, okay? And she goes to Southwest, and she

comes back. I'm like, what boarding group are we? And she's like, I'm a priority. Me too. And she's like, no, I didn't do you. I'm like, you bought yourself priority? And you left me boarding group four? Way to go, Ellie. And I'm banging out this monologue on my phone that I want to do today on the show. I mean, I tell the staff, Ellie's doing the monologue today at 3 Central because I'll be fishing my bag out of baggage claim at Love Field.

But she, meanwhile, boards the plane first. She boarded the plane first. You know how Southwest is. They board 50 people in wheelchairs and pre-boarding. She's before all that. It's like that key and peel skit. You remember the Key and Peel skit, guys, boarding group one? And he's literally the last guy that boards the plane.

That's how it feels on Southwest. You're boarding group one. But that didn't mean anything. That means you're the 75th person to board the plane. But Ellie was right up there, buddy. I mean, okay. So back to this, before I got distracted by the travel thing. All right.

So I stayed the room starting to fill up with the Stephen Miller's and the Scott Bessons and the handlers. And I'm like, ooh, it's getting close. The president's coming in. And they're like, take a break. The president's coming in. I'm like, okay, okay. I'm going to take a quick break. We'll be right back with the president of the United States.

Commercial break. Five minutes, right? They run in all the cameramen and everybody. And they go, he wants to stand. Like, what? He doesn't want to sit for the interview. He wants to stand. Oh, no.

And this is the Vietnam moment. I learned later, it's not the first time that it's happened. Apparently he did it in Vietnam with Sean Hannity. They set up a whole set. They had it beautifully lit. They had the camera set up, the chairs. And he comes in, he goes, let's stand. And they're all like, yeah, yeah, let's stand.

You hear a collective grown from the camera. And so that's what happened. So we were blocked and lit for a sit-down interview. And then we decide to stand. So they come in, they just raise everything. They raise the cameras. They raise the lights. You know, and he waltzed in like, we good?

And these guys are like, yeah, yeah, we're good. They're just shoving stuff up. I think it's all good. It looks better further apart on chairs, you mean? I think so. I think so. Yeah. Yeah.

He and I joked about it while we're so far apart. He's like, what is this? COVID again? That, I know. That video that I think Ellie probably took it and posted on Instagram, it was a behind the scenes of YouTube. And you can see the X is marked on the floor. And it just looks even further away when you get the cameras further away from you. It looks like you're 15 feet apart from each other.

It works. I will tell you that. Honestly, I think about that stuff because in an interview, you want to connect, right? And my goal in an interview, even if I'm challenging somebody, is to actually get to the real person, get past the talking point, get back, get to the real person. And a lot of that is really nonverbal. And that makes, you know, remote interviews very, very difficult. But, like, nonverbal communication is 80% of what we do. Eye contact, you know, body language, even proximity how you're talking to it.

It all reads. We're all reading it constantly. That's why I need to look people in the eye, Patrick. And, you know, I worried about that. Like, how is it going to feel this far apart? And the truth is, I feel like the president was so relaxed and comfortable in that conversation. I mean, I'm not trying to pat myself in my back. I've never seen him smile so much.

I've never, this is my third time to interview him. And this is the most laughing. and smiling he's he's ever done we have great ratings and uh you're a really nice guy you're really nice to him he amended that not nice you're really nice to me not nice you just you know you're good you know i i i could tell i'll just say this one thing when the show started yesterday the tv show i could tell there's a look on your face because i look at your face a lot

for editing for this show i could tell there's a look of unsure on your face when the show started. So now I know it is. Just me, like just a little nuanced. Oh, the show, not the interview. No, no, no, when the show started, the live show without Trump there yet. And you all, your plan wasn't going according to plan. I could tell that you were a little like,

what do we do? What are we going to do? In your eyes. Oh, no, that's not good. No, no. But were my eyes, with the blacks of my eyes real small and the rest of it real big. It was just because we know you. And I was giving you the thousand yard stare and I wasn't fully present. When somebody's super nervous and you feel like they're looking right through you.

You don't know what's going on. Because I can tell you. What's I doing that? Yeah. You're kind of like trying to see if Trump was there yet or something. Probably now knowing the story. I feel like that was it. But it was great.

As I got more comfortable, I try to just own it, Dan. Like I tried just like tell the audience, here's what's going on. This is on the fly television. I don't know how it's going. Speaking of audience, people thought Rand Paul was behind you. Did you see that? The guy behind the president? He looked just like Rand Paul.

I thought it was. Hold on. That was a hell of a surprise. Mr. President, joining us here today is Thomas Massey. He's sitting in one of the booths. How do you feel about the congressman? The guy right. Where is Rand Paul? Right there.

Right there to the... See, right in the middle. Next to the guy with the red on. Oh, that is the former governor of Iowa, Tom Brandstead's son. Oh, he looks like. a little trivia for you. Yeah. Yeah.

Anyway, we're back. I think all the America's problems when it comes to air travel are originating right here in Dallas. I think that's the issue. It didn't matter if we went to Chicago, Omaha, Des Moines, St. Louis. It was getting into Dallas. So we apologize to the rest of the nation here on behalf of Dallas. Did you guys, hey, Wilicia, how did the guys do without me? Seriously, I've never been more fascinated.

by an episode of Will Kane Country. Never. I want to know what they talked about. I want to know who led the discussion. Did Patrick talk, Dan? Or did you have to do all the talking? I started off talking. We didn't get into any topics I wanted to.

Patrick said no. I wanted to talk about, you know, liberal thing. No, I'm kidding. But we stayed on topic. I wanted to talk about, you know, Chris Murphy and James Talaico and all these guys. But he wouldn't love me. Oh, your boy, James. That's a big guy.

new thing. No, I'm kidding. Dan's boy, James Tolariko. He is a, you know he's a massive fan, Patrick. No, I'm a Will Cain fan. Et two Brute. No, no. I think we stayed on topic.

We did pretty well. We didn't go too long. I think we, I think people said we were all right. Bosses, I don't know. All right, good. I'm proud of you. I can fire it up, though, Will. Maybe you can just do this when I'm out.

Yeah. Hell yeah. Do you hear about Bill Belichick? I'm very angry. Not getting into the Hall of Fame? Yeah. Are you? Deflake it?

Yes. Terrible. You know, I mean, it's so absurd, Patrick, that I'm willing to consider that the explanations could be real. I saw Mike Sando, who used to write for ESPN now with the athletic. I saw him try to explain it, not excuse it, explain it. Like he said it's absurd, but he tried to explain it. And he said there's a couple of things that could have happened here. You got to get 40 out of 50.

voters to vote you into the Hall of Fame. So Bill Belichick's not going to be a Hall of Famer as a first ballot Hall of Famer. And the explanations are there are potentially some voters who are holding SpyGate against him. That's obviously potentially true, right? The other is that a lot of voters just presumed everyone else would be voting for Belichick. They just presumed. And so they had their pet candidates, which is often some of the older guys that they're trying to get into the Hall of Fame. And so they're like, well, everybody else is going to vote for Belichick, so I'm going to use my vote, because you only get, I think is it five votes or three to five votes each voter gets. You get three.

Okay, you get three. Yeah. So they used their votes on guys that they were trying to get over the finish line, assuming it was obvious that Belichick would get over the finish line. And I think there could be something to that because it's just so absurd that Belichick would not be a first ballot hall of famer. They said there's also some guys that might not. They also said there's some guys that might not like the new rule. There's a new rule that coaches don't have to wait. Players have to wait.

Is it three years? Five years to get into the Hall of Fame after retirement? It's five years. And coaches don't have to. Rivers almost hit five years. And then he came back. So now it's like he's going to get reset. So is that reset for Rivers?

Does he get to count the first couple of years of retirement? Oh, no. Oh, no. So if the league really is butt hurt about getting their ass kicked by Belichick for all those years and they deprived the Hall of Fame, then eternal shame on everyone that participates in the NFL. But I do think that those explanations that I gave you seem somewhat rational, like, meaning I could see logistically how that might have happened. That last one is the best one I've heard. Yeah. The rules?

The rules thing? No, no, no. The one about, you know, people voting in pet, their pet projects instead of him thinking that he's going to get in anyway. That's the best one I've heard. Right. I think all the other arguments like the deflategate thing or spy gate, you know, just him cheating and or Brady leading or Brady leading being the one carrying him, I think just fall on deaf ears essentially. Like, he won six Super Bowls as a head coach. Two, as a defensive coordinator.

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I want to do the whole shebang. I flew in for this. We're going to make the show the way we always do. Yeah. Boom. Put them up in studio. That looks really great. That doesn't look the way I wanted to.

Yeah, just relax, Dan. Relax. I'm going to get this. There we go. Bud Morgan, best show ever. Today's show, Bud? Yeah. Oh, because I was.

wasn't here? Army mom. Boys did great. And Suzanne Nico, you all did great. There you go, fellas. What are you doing, Ed? Why are you creeping all around my desk? He's giving you a charger. It's a new charger. I got the old charger.

Yeah, he's giving me something to charge my phone, but it's the wrong one. I got an old iPhone. Wait, wait, what? Sarah Jordan. Go ahead. Tinfoil. Enjoy your moment. What What's the word? What generation of iPhone do you have? Like, if you have a lightning charger, like, do you have an old-ass iPhone like I do? I don't know. You want?

Well, I have an XR. I never know how to do that. Ridiculously old. Everybody always asks me that. They say my phone is old, and I'm like, my phone is fine. I'm not a tech guy. I don't care about things like this at all. I do not have to have the newest phone. Do you go to general? Where do you go to find that out? About? I think so. Yeah. About. I have iPhone 14. That's what I have. Oh, wow. What are we on? That's not old.

I think we're on 17. That's not old? No, I got it two years ago. Yeah. It was new. I got an iPhone 14, which is the old charger still. I just got an email from the bosses, so they pulled me into a meeting after the show, so we'll see. I hope not.

I hope you don't get in trouble. Hey, Wilicia, like Sarah Jordan. this has been my favorite Will Kane country episode. Pat and Dan carried the beginning. Clapping emoji, muscle emoji. So you guys got to be there for the boys. I'm telling you.

There is a chance. There is a chance they will be in trouble. I'm telling you. It is a chance. It was good working with you guys. So you got to rally for them. I will rally for them. So if you're listening,

and I know you are, you'll only use your name, I won't use your name. But if you're listening on the 15th floor, This is what I wanted. It's in the tax exchanges. Everybody's going to be super safe. Everybody's good.

Don't get mad at the boys. Rally, Wollisha, for Pat and Dan. That's going to do it for us today. Make sure you follow us on the Spotify app, but we'll see you again next time. Listen to ad-free with a Fox News podcast plus subscription on Apple Podcast, and Amazon Prime members. You can listen to this show, ad-free on the Amazon Music app.