Melania shares her perspective on Melania, the documentary calling it an authentic portrayal of her 20-day transition to First Lady, involving Secret Service coordination and $30M in foster care housing initiatives. She reflects on her Slovenian roots, global career, and reunifying six Ukrainian/Russian children with Putin’s help, while dismissing leftist criticism as expected. The episode pivots to immigration debates, exposing 85 Sharia courts in Britain and the Guthrie family’s fight for FBI aid amid jurisdictional suspicions, underscoring tensions between local law enforcement and federal oversight. Ultimately, it highlights systemic distrust in institutions and the evolving role of First Ladies amid political chaos. [Automatically generated summary]
Behind the Scenes of Inauguration Planning00:06:41
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If you want to join us, so I had a great time this weekend.
I didn't have a lot on the schedule, which for me is like very rare.
And Ainslie and I went to see the new movie, Melania.
It is now the best documentary release in like 20 years.
It's an incredible success after her number one best-selling book.
And it was a packed theater, and it was great to have a packed theater.
I always like to sit in the back row and I just like to take it all in.
And the reaction of people in the theater at different moments was fascinating to me.
When President Trump came on at different times and was being President Trump, people would laugh.
And when Joe Biden was shown, I mean, the level of people just mocking him was hilarious.
At the end of the movie, the entire theater clapped.
And it was so well done, but it showed grace.
It showed elegance.
I looked at the New York Post review.
It said Melania is a study in what Ernest Hemingway called Grace Under Pressure.
The amount of detail that goes into representing our country on the world stage.
And her level of detail is second to none.
Her taste, her class, her grace was on display the entire movie.
If you haven't seen the movie, I strongly urge you to go see it.
It's in movie theaters around the country.
Here's the trailer.
On January 30th.
Everyone wants to know.
So here it is.
20 days in her life.
I will move forward with purpose.
And of course, with time.
Witness history in the making.
I feel energized to serve the American people.
Here we go again.
Please do.
Maybe one of the funnier scenes in the movie is when President Trump is practicing for his inauguration speech.
Melania sat in on part of that session and gave him a couple of lines.
And when he actually gave that speech and used her two lines that she gave him, he turns and points to her, which I thought was very loving.
I've been around them together.
They are a very loving couple, funny in ways that I think most people don't know privately.
And it's been an honor to get to know her over these many years.
And it's an honor to have her back on the program.
Melania, welcome back.
Thank you.
Thank you for having me.
I really should say, Madam First Lady.
Let's get it right.
I mean, I should know better.
Okay.
It's okay.
Melania is okay.
Now, were you surprised that this was the biggest documentary that has been released in nearly two decades now?
We are having a great success, and I'm very proud to share these never-seen before moments of my life, including my family and business during 20 days leading up to the U.S. presidential inauguration.
And this is historic.
This story was never told before.
And I believe American people and people all around the world should witness this incredible work and the amount of planning and behind the scene work that is required to shift private life to become First Lady again.
It's not an easy task.
You know, I want you maybe to explain that in a little bit more detail.
And certainly you have this great eye for fashion, but you bring it to every aspect of what it means to be a first lady.
And you rightly point out it's the 20 days leading into the inauguration.
Correct.
And I provided the creative direction for all of the elements of the Silom, from the details that you see in the films also then for marketing campaign.
So, you know, it's a lot of work that goes behind the scene, but I had a great team around me.
And Brett Radner, he put together award-winning team and crew.
So the work that we did was really one of a kind that was never told.
And Brett's record speaks for itself.
He's a very talented director.
And I hope everybody will go to see it because it's a history.
We are all in together.
It really does bring you behind the scenes because the public does not know the amount of detail that goes into all of these events and the amount of planning and your attention to that detail.
Do you enjoy that aspect of the job?
It was, it is, and it was my life at that period of time.
And I'm a very detail-oriented person.
I'm very selective what I do.
I know what I like, what I don't like.
But camera was following me from morning till evening.
So everything what you see in the movie, it's real.
And it's always one take because behind I have a big production, a lot of people, so it's not able that we will say, let's turn around all of the cars and let's do it again.
The Secret Service was involved, all of the planning behind the scene, the advanced team was involved.
So it's a big production.
Well, let's talk a little bit.
I mean, it was very evident in the film that you have a deep abiding love for your family and your mom who had passed away not that long ago.
And your father was a big part of the movie.
But, you know, when you grew up in Slovenia, did you ever imagine you would be the first lady of the United States, not once, but twice?
I never thought about that.
I start, I was born in Slovenia.
First Lady's Focus: Reuniting Families00:07:44
I had a beautiful childhood.
My mother and father provide incredible stuff for me and my sister.
And then I moved to Milan and Paris.
And in 1996, I arrived to New York.
I established my life in New York City and then met my husband, became also a U.S. citizen, and then established my business in the United States.
And later in 2017, we arrived to the White House.
Incredible journey, incredible life story.
And I'm very proud of my story.
What is different this time around?
It is very different because we have much more support and there is no knows when you would like to achieve something.
I had incredible first year in my office in the East Wing in First Lady office.
I championed for Take It Down Act and it was signed into a new law that enhanced federal online protections for children from online disk fakes.
I led an executive order on Fostering the Future, which unites federal resources with innovative public and private sector partnerships to provide more pathways to success for young people.
who have experienced foster care.
Also, I launched Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge and we had 20,000 students and educators involved and signed in.
Very proud of that.
Also, I secured 30 million for housing to support foster children.
As well, today, incredible news.
Today marks the third reunification since I have been working strategically with both nations, with Russia and Ukraine to unify the children.
So today we had another six children reunified with their families and guardians.
So it's a lot of work that we are doing and fantastic work and we're having a great success.
The amazing part of that story to me is that you initiated a direct conversation with Vladimir Putin to make that happen, the reunification of Ukrainian and Russian children and families.
You made that happen directly.
I did.
I did.
My husband gave my letter to President Putin.
I heard from him back right away and we start to communicate and we have success and I have no doubt that more progress will come and we are working on it to reunify more children in the near future.
One of the tougher scenes to watch for me during the movie, and you know I've been friends with your husband for a long time, obviously the assassination attempt in Butler and then another would-be assassin at Trump International.
And you've got to think of his security, Baron's security.
And by the way, Baron is such a great kid.
I've had many conversations with your son.
He's brilliant, absolutely beyond impressive.
And I know I give you most of the credit, not the president.
But in all seriousness, I could just tell that this had a very deep impact on you as a wife and as a mother.
Yes, it did have.
And the summer was not the same.
The life was never the same.
You always think about security of your family.
That's why I brought it up at the meeting.
Everything could be seen in the film.
And we're living in the dangerous times.
So for me, the security of my family, it's very important.
And, you know, what happened last year, a family went through a lot, but we are strong and we love our country.
So here we are back and serving.
And that what is important to us.
Well, it's another amazing thing, too.
And I guess Trump derangement syndrome is a real thing because people that go to see the movie, you had a 99% approval rating, 99%.
That's almost unheard of in the movie business.
But the critics that lean left, they were telling people they didn't like it.
But everybody at the theater, it's very rare that I've been to a movie where people clap at the end of the movie.
So I thought that was very impressive.
And I wanted to pass that on to you.
The audience loves it.
We have a score A and 99% of people loving it.
So that all what it matters, that people speaks and the opposition will always be negative.
They are dividing and it's sad to see that.
But the number speaks for itself.
You have that grace and that confidence and that comes across.
It's very cool because I don't think anybody could really identify with or relate to, okay, in 20 days, I'm going to be the first lady of our country again.
In 20 days, your husband is going to be the president of the United States, the most important country on the face of this earth.
And it really did a great job capturing the behind the scenes and brought us into that world and what that would be like.
And I was just fascinated by all of it.
What do you have planned for the future?
Now you're a number one New York Times best-selling author, number one documentarian.
You're rescuing children and these reunifications are happening.
You had the Take It Down Act, Fostering the Future Act, and your husband is probably driving you crazy building that one big, beautiful ballroom.
Well, all of the, you know, the ballroom and all of the stuff in the White House, the changes that are made, that is my husband's vision.
He's doing it.
And I'm focused on fostering the future together that I established during the United Nations General Assembly.
It's a global coalition of first spouses and of nations to help children to grow, to learn, and to thrive through the safe and innovative use of advanced technology.
So I will have in the spring the summit here in the White House with other spouses from all around the world.
And I'm working on that.
I'm working on many other projects.
We are having a beautiful dinner plan for United Kingdom is coming here.
His Majesty, and a lot of behind-the-scene work that I need to do.
So I have many other ideas, and I hope one day they will come to life as well.
But for now, our hands are full.
It was a fascinating documentary.
I loved every minute of it.
White House Summit Prep00:06:54
Getting to know you and your family has been an honor in my life.
I'm sorry about all that your family has to take on sometimes.
It's difficult to watch.
It's painful.
But you all do it with such grace and dignity.
And I hope everybody takes time, goes to a theater near you.
It's called Melania, the documentary, the top-grossing documentary in the last two decades.
We really appreciate you taking time, Madam First Lady, to be with us today.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You too.
Thank you very much.
Okay, 800-941 Sean is a number if you want to be a part of the program.
Linda, when I talk to the President and First Lady, which occasionally I do, together, I am so hard on the president.
It's actually hilarious.
And I've known her a long time.
You know, English is her sixth language.
Is it six or six?
I think it's a sixth language.
She speaks more than one language.
It's more than I can say for most of the people that are out there bashing her on a regular basis.
I mean, they have to catch up to try to swing at her.
Yeah, me estudio español en escuela tresanos, mi habla baquist porquito español.
Poquito.
Poquito.
Porquito.
You were absent the day they taught Poquito.
Get it.
All right.
Are you done?
Never done.
I could go for hours.
I learned, I learned more Spanish the years that I worked in restaurants and guys that spoke Spanish that were in the restaurants.
It's the best way to learn.
Yeah, but the problem is, is like if you study a language in school, I don't care if it's Spanish or French, I don't care what it is.
You study a language in school, you, you know, for example, Esta Susana encasa, Esta Susana with Omigo, you know, whatever it is.
I can't even, you just, it's one way of speaking.
Then you talk to somebody that actually speaks the native language, and it's like, it's, no, no, you can't understand.
Listen, English is an incredibly hard language.
What language it is?
Mandarin is incredibly hard.
Russian is incredibly hard.
I have no interest.
I want everyone to speak English this way.
It makes it easy for me.
English is definitely the universal language, but Spanish is definitely becoming a close second.
No, I know.
I mean, I'm actually grateful that I can speak a little Spanish.
I am.
Because I think I have no interest in learning French.
I could care less about the French.
Why would you?
I know.
I don't know.
I didn't love Paris.
No one loves Paris because Paris is dead.
It's been taken over by radical Islamists.
Well, Great Britain, London's not much better.
100%, but that's the Pakistani grooming gangs, which they actually have a rape inquiry going on right now.
They're a real one.
Yeah, the member of parliament, Rupert Lowe, has been doing it for two weeks, and they were supposed to allow him to have full transparency.
But of course, Parliament decided to not do that.
And he's doing it behind the streets.
Some people think that you're being like, you know, harsh in your commentary.
Here's the problem: you're not wrong.
No.
They have had, they have had unvetted immigration without assimilation.
And, you know, if somebody wants to come to America, I'm all for it.
I don't care where you come from.
I don't care where.
We want a background check, a health check, and you can't be a financial burden on the American people.
Do it legally.
Welcome to America.
Welcome to our family.
I have no problem.
And it should be the same in Europe.
Europe has just let this get so wildly out of control.
I never thought that Great Britain would have and allow people to move to their country, immigrate to their country, and not want to assimilate to their value system.
And that's why, hence, we now have 85 Sharia courts in Great Britain.
You're getting me worked up.
It's your fault.
Wait, speaking of idiots, didn't you want to play a certain cut about a certain idiot?
Oh, Mr. Fang Fang?
Yeah.
Oh, you want me to play this?
I take requests.
Wonderful.
This is what he said.
I'm not going to give a penny to more public executions.
These guys don't want to be accountable, and so I'm not going to fund it.
Otherwise, it just means another dead nurse named Predty and a mom named Good.
What about Congressman Tomorrow's bill about not funding Border Patrol and ICE?
We're funding all other pieces of people.
I'm fine with that.
It's ICE and Border Patrol who are doing the public executions and the bodies are piling up and people have said enough.
We were told most violent people are going to be gone.
Instead, people are running through the factories and fields where they work.
We're seeing a six-year-old battling stage four cancer deported.
That's not what they're going to sign up for.
What they signed up for is the 70% of people that are known terrorists, murderers, rapists, child molesters, cartel members, gang members, and everything that we tell you about.
But this guy, I think there's something really off with him.
Well, let's just for some fun.
On govtrack.us, for those of you who don't know, that's where you get to see what all your legislators are doing or not doing.
And in Swalwell's case, between September 19th of 25 till February 9th, he has missed 102 of 139 roll call votes, 73% of the votes he should be passing for his constituent.
So it seems that he's not accountable either.
Okay.
Well, then he's probably the perfect contender to replace Gavin because what is Gavin Newsom doing?
He's a world traveler.
He's a full-time Trump stalker.
He's a full-time tweety bird.
He's a full-time author now on top of it.
I mean, this guy does nothing for the state of California.
People can't even, you know, a year plus later, you can't even get a building permit for crying out loud.
I don't know.
It's bizarre.
And podcaster on top of that.
So when does he ever know if we call him a podcaster?
Well, somebody sent me this today, and I need to get it checked out, actually.
You know, I think it was Sensei that sent it to me.
Was it Sensei?
I don't remember who.
But, you know, it had to do with Gavin Newsom and all of his failures.
His failures are just spectacular.
And there's like no end to, you know, everything that he's done to mess up his country.
It's unbelievable.
His state, rather.
It's just, it's, it's, you, you can't mess it up this bad, but he messed it up that bad.
You know, number one, in terms of state income tax, number one, sales tax, number one, gas tax, you know, number one, corporate tax, number one in homelessness, number one in quality, number one in terms of worst quality of life.
And the list goes on and on and on.
So these are bad guys, man.
A lot of hair, Joe, no substance.
Yeah, a lot of hair, Joe.
He doesn't like me anymore.
Oh, my God.
He never liked you.
Local Law Enforcement Struggles00:06:15
Please, he was using you because he loved to be on stage.
Well, he used me.
I wonder if I should share that last text he sent me.
I don't know.
Wait for him.
Wait for him to poke you because he will.
And then you can release it and show everybody what a nice guy he is.
Oh, yeah.
That rope back.
That's not very nice.
I'll let people's imaginations run wild.
Gary, Iowa on the Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
Hello, Sean.
Good afternoon.
What's going on?
I wanted to give some credit to President Donald Trump for offering all the tools at the disposal of the Guthrie family to be used.
And I was wondering, along with that, have they considered or have you heard of any information regarding the use of satellite technology and imaging?
You know, some of the simple things that we take for granted is like global.net.
You can zoom down on your home and, you know, check out whatever.
You know, the average person can do that with your phone.
So it makes me wonder.
I think they're using everything at their disposal.
That's what I think.
I think they're using everything that they can put their hands on.
I don't think any stone is unturned here.
And I think all the resources.
Now, in the beginning, I can tell you as a fact that it was, they didn't love that the FBI was getting involved.
And that really kind of pisses me off because they should have welcomed them with open arms because as good as local law enforcement is, and I am the biggest champion of law enforcement that I know of on radio or TV.
I mean, I love law enforcement.
I'm grateful to them.
They're keeping us safe.
They're keeping us secure.
They, you know, they put their lives on the line for us.
They've done an incredible job.
I think I'm the only one that has scrolled all the great things they've been able to accomplish and all the great things that they've been able to do.
And it just gets frustrating to me that they never get credit for it.
But local law enforcement put up barriers that made it hard for the FBI to get in and get involved because they had, you know, it was their jurisdiction.
You know, it's fascinating to try and understand some of the technology that they're using.
They're allowing us to know that much.
What is it that we don't know that the technology has advanced to is really intriguing?
Yeah.
Well, I mean, what we're learning and their ability to go back and retrieve this video the way they did is remarkable to me.
You know, reverse AI lighting is remarkable to me.
All of this, all of this stuff is pretty incredible.
Anyway, my friend, I appreciate you being with us.
So I saw this.
I don't know if it's all true, but it has a picture of Gavin, savior of the left, number one in homelessness, number one in poverty, number one in addiction, number one in gas prices, number one in income tax, number one in gas tax, number one in budget deficit, number one, retail theft, number one, citizen exodus, number one, COVID mandates, number one, COVID closures, number one, COVID business closures, number one in illegal immigration, number one in funding illegal immigration, number one in illiteracy, number one in wage stagnation,
number one in frivolous lawsuits, number one in worker restrictions, number one in anti-business regulations.
Oh, I mean, if that's all true, that's a pretty comprehensive list, wouldn't you say, Linda?
I did hear that U-Haul sent him some flowers, though, for all the extra business.
So one company does like him.
It's U-Haul.
Yeah.
I mean, if they can't get their trucks back to the state of California because nobody wants to return them.
Well, that's the problem.
I mean, if it costs you three grand to rent a U-Haul to move to Texas, you could probably get that same U-Haul if you're moving to California for like three or four hundred bucks.
We've already checked it out.
You're doing U-Haul a favor.
And if you negotiate, you could probably get the price down.
Back to our phones.
Terry in Louisiana.
Terry, how are you?
Hey, I'm great.
Thanks for taking my call.
Thank you.
I'm glad you called.
I love our couple in the White House.
They're the best.
Number two, my husband and I do donate to Tunnel to Towers every month.
Thank you.
What I'm asking about.
And you just kind of struck a nerve with me when you said that the family originally was not interested in welcoming the FBI.
Not the family, local law enforcement.
Oh, okay.
Thanks for correcting me.
I do believe that this is an inside job with the possibility of outside help.
I do believe it's someone within that inner circle, but something that has also struck me a little strange.
And maybe it's just I'm a skeptic, but also I believe in putting things out there.
No one at any time since this has started has seen the son-in-law.
Until you Google him, do you even know what he looks like?
His picture is all over the internet.
You can find it in a million places.
And yes, you can Google him.
Right.
And that's what I mean.
Unless you go through the internet, do you ever see what this gentleman looks like?
I pray.
If he is a suspect, tell me if you agree with this.
If he is, maybe law enforcement, you know, if he, if he is, I would imagine that he probably had accomplices.
I'm guessing.
Just my thought.
Don't you think law enforcement would keep a lot of that close to the vest until they had enough evidence?
Absolutely.
But when you're asking for the public's help And no one sees this face unless they go onto the internet to see what he looks like.
A lot of people may, in fact, hope to God he's not involved in this, but who's to say if shows like yours, shows like others, if what he looks like wasn't included, someone wouldn't recognize it.
Fox And Front Theories00:01:32
That's all I'm saying.
I just try to be careful because you then are putting suspicion in people's minds and maybe they're innocent.
Like I saw, you know, John Benet Ramsey being interviewed on Fox and Front.
And they spend so much time, local law enforcement, looking at him.
And his advice is if you're ever missing a loved one, bring in the FBI immediately, whether they like it or not.
He said he didn't care that they were looking at him.
He said he'd do anything they wanted, but he wanted to find, you know, he wanted to find the person responsible for taking, you know, for killing his daughter.
Tough questions, though, Terry.
I understand.
We got to be careful.
I don't want to rush to judgment if I don't have facts.
I don't want to go with gut feeling or, you know, people's theories.
There's a lot of theories out there.
All right.
The fireworks on Capitol Hill today.
Ron John, Senator Josh Hawley against Keith Ellison.
Full, complete coverage of that.
We'll update you in the search for Nancy Gussri.
We have some new developments today that we'll share with you tonight.
We have Nancy Grace, Harvey Levin of TMZ, and much, much more.
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