Briefing with The Chief

Suspected MS-13 Gang Member Kilmar Abrego Garcia has dominated the news cycle for nearly six weeks. Garica was deported on March 15, 2025 to his Country of El Salvador. His family and their attorneys have denied his gang membership and allege Garcia was deported in error. Most Americans do not know or understand the threat of the Transnational Criminal Organization we know as MS-13 or Mara Salvatr...

After Trump was elected in, 2016, we saw what appeared to be organic protests against his administration. These protests picked up steam during his Presidency and the veneer of these protest being grassroots began to peel away. Many of these anti Trump protests also embrace an anti-police narrative. Violence at these protests escalated and police, the most visible presence of the Executive Branch...

In March 2025 the Harris County Texas Sheriff’s Department experienced four current and former staff members commit suicide. In 2022 the United States experienced 184 police suicides in 2022. The US has seen a dramatic increase in police suicides since 2016 when 152 Officers took their lives. This coincided with the anti-police narrative from the political left, decreasing staffing for police, low...

The Death of DEI? Recently our elite Universities have begun to dismantle Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs in response to an Executive Order signed by President Trump. Universities risked a loss of Federal funds and worse, investigations by the Federal Government for discrimination resulting from DEI Programs. DEI programs are the latest iteration of Affirmative Action which had recently b...

Since Trump’s victory in the 2024 Presidential election, Elon Musk who contributed to Trump’s victory, has had a prominent role in the Administration. Musk has led the Department of Government Efficiency. Musk’s assistance of Trump during the campaign and in his Administration has led to unprecedented attacks on Musk and his business interests. Some of these incidents are legitimate forms of prote...

On Briefing with the Chief and other  KGRAdb.com  Law Enforcement themed show, we have discussed how the "War on Cops" and "Reimagining Criminal Justice" have actually hurt the very communities suffering under the myth of "racist policing". The missteps by Progressive policymakers have backfired, causing death and destruction in their wake. Criminal Justice reforms have led to increased violent cr...

A recent effort in the Illinois State Legislature essentially called for decriminalizing assaults on Police Officers by mentally ill assailants. However, if those very same assailants assaulted Fire Fighters or other Healthcare workers, they could be criminally charged! We will be joined by Florian Sohnke of the Chicago Contrarian to explore this and other social ills in Chicago and the State of I...

The left has been aggressively targeting Conservatives (MAGA) over the last 10 years with little or no consequences. Domestic terrorism, as defined by the federal government, involves ideologically driven crimes committed within the United States, intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or influence government policy. The latest efforts by unknown leftists, is to swat Conservative p...

On Common Decency – Homelessness Roman Gaskey returns to Briefing with the Chief to discuss his Sub Stack article On Common Decency. We will discuss the intractable issue of Homelessness in the largest cities of the United States. Addiction drugs, alcohol, a mental health crisis and bad public policies have contributed to the explosion in homelessness. We will explore these issue and discuss possi...

Muzzled Truth, authored by Ronald F. Owen Jr, is one man’s attempt to speak the truth regarding the dangers of the Covid vaccines during the height of Covid. Ronald Owen, now retired, was a Senior Public Information Officer at the California Department of Public Health as the vaccines for Covid were rolled out in California. His book Muzzled Truth details his efforts to speak the truth regarding v...

Islamic Radicalization with Dr. John Sullivan Dr. John Sullivan, is a Senior Fellow of Urban Warfare Institute, a Research Fellow at the Future Security Initiative and much more. We will discuss radicalism as is it relates to the current threats to the US by discussing the deadly Easter Sunday Attack in Sri Lanka in 2019. Give the conflicts in the Middle East, the Fall of Syria Government forces t...

With President Trump’s win and swearing in as the 47th President of the United States, January 6th has come under new scrutiny. President Trump has pardon or commuted all J6ers. This has opened the floodgates and access to the stories of all J6ers, leading to questions of Federal overreach involving J6 defendants and outright abuse of their Constitutional Rights by the FBI and the US Department of...

As President Trump took office, he unleased Billionaire Elon Musk and his Wiz Kids on the US Government to weed out waste in the blotted Federal Bureaucracy. Typically, Democratic political leaders are wringing their hands, predicting disaster and filing lawsuits. But as the legitimate auditing process, led by Elon Musk plays out, it is the mainstream media that has sunk to a new low. Musk’s team...

I will be joined by Walter Curt, the Editor and Chief of the W.C. Dispatch. The W.C. Dispatch is an independent, conservative, Christian publication. We will discuss two of his articles. First, we will his article regarding Green Empathy, Human Apathy which addresses California policies that seem to protect the environment over the immediate quality of life needs and safety of the State’s resident...

I will be joined by Roman Gaskey, Editor and Chief of the Roman Recap on SubStack,  theromanrecap.substack.com . Roman is a Senior at the University of Michigan studying financial mathematics and data science. Roman used his superior knowledge to analyze the results of the recent Presidential Election. He focused specifically on the effect of the progressive Prosecutors movement, funded by George...

On today’s show I will interview Author Gill Sherry regarding her fictional novel regarding extortion and family disfunction. Gill was born in England but now lives in Scotland. Serious Foul Play is Gill’s first novel and a good read. The subjects in her book lend themselves to a discussion of real problems in society today, including the crime of Sextortion. I will share the typical Sextortion sc...

The fires were still burning and the blame game started regarding who is at fault for what is likely the most expensive fire in California, if not US history. Accusations started flying like embers in a wind driven fire, between President Elect Donald Trump and Governor Gavin Newson. Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Crowley threw LA City Mayor Karen Bass under the Fire Truck and the media slammed...

I will address the New Orleans attack. Specifically, I will call out the Biden Administrations’ failures. At the beginning of the Biden/Harris Administration, it became clear to me Biden’s priorities, regarding addressing terrorist threats to our homeland, were more about politics than true threats. The Biden Administration named White Supremacy as the Nation’s number one terrorist threat. The New...

Florian Sohnke will return to Briefing with the Chief to discuss Cook County’s new State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, the retreating Progressive Movement in Chicago, sky high property taxes in Chicago and the lack of faith in Chicago’s Schools. Judge O’Neill Burke was recently elected to replace progressive Prosecutor Kim Foxx. She represents a victory for public safety. The high crime visited...

Austin Police Officer Christopher Taylor was recently convicted of Deadly Conduct in the death of a knife welding mentally ill man, Mauris DeSilva in 2019. This case was brought by Soros funded Prosecutor Jose Garza of Travis County Tx. He was sentenced to two years in prison but was immediately released pending an appeal. Law Enforcement officials in Texas are outrage. I will review the case on B...

I will interview Political Analyst, T.V. and Radio Jake Novak regarding Antisemitism in America today and on college campuses in particular. We will discuss the antisemitism behind the selection of Tim Walz as Kamala Harris’ V.P. pick over the Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro who is Jewish. Additionally, I will ask his opinion of antisemitism on college campuses and of Agenda 47, Trump’s answ...

I will discuss the abuse of the No Fly List with my guest, podcaster, Terry Newsome. He found himself on the No Fly List after advocating for parents rights at his local school board. Congressman Matt Gaetz came to Terry’s aid. Its an important story because it shows Gaetz’ advocacy for citizens who suffered retaliation for their political beliefs. I will also review another lawsuit against Sean P...

The campaigning is over but corruption and problems abound in New York City and with the NYPD. I will catch up with John Macari and Eric Dym, two retired NYPD Lieutenants who are the hosts of the successful Podcast New York’s Finest Unfiltered on YouTube,  https://www.youtube.com/@TheFinestUnfiltered .I will also interview Tim Mueller, the former Sheriff of Linn County Oregon. While Sheriff he tol...

Over the past year, I have had numerous guests seeking public office on my show, Briefing with the Chief. Many of these candidates chose to run for office to push back against the leftist progressives who managed to win office with the support of Billionaires like George Soros. I will take a look at how our profiled candidates faired and comment on the immediate future given the results of the ele...

The recent indictment of Music Mogul Sean P. Diddy Combs, by the Department of Justice’s Southern District in New York, shocked Hollywood and the music industry. The sealed indictment seems to indicate a wide-ranging conspiracy by members of Combs’ numerous business enterprises, music industry executives and A-List celebrities. Since the indictment, numerous other potential victims have filed laws...