The Trish Regan Show - BREAKING: Appeals Court to Slam Gavel on Letitia James - Disbarment Expected, Jail Time Possible?!
Aired: 2024-12-16
Duration: 01:09:00


=== Reality Check for Letitia James (05:36) ===

[00:00:04]  Welcome back to the Big Show.
[00:00:04]  I'm Trish Regan live on the Trish Regan Show, everyone.
[00:00:07]  We got to get into Letitia James, a growing number of people now calling for either disbarment or worse.
[00:00:14]  Letitia James, who wants to penalize the president-elect with some nearly half-billion-dollar fine.
[00:00:21]  We're going to get into that.
[00:00:22]  Plus, what's going on with these drones, for goodness sakes?
[00:00:25]  Are there any legitimate national security concerns here?
[00:00:28]  For example, have you seen any evidence at all, especially in these recent sightings in the Northeast, of any kind of foreign involvement?
[00:00:37]  We have not seen any foreign, we know of no foreign involvement with respect to the sightings in the Northeast.
[00:00:46]  Well, it doesn't make everybody feel all that comfortable now, does it?
[00:00:49]  We will talk about Majorcas' comments, additional drone sightings, et cetera, and CNN getting caught in a situation where perhaps they were duped over in Syria.
[00:01:02]  We're going to look at the tape that Clarissa Ward, one of their reporters, is touting.
[00:01:07]  Plus, plus, plus, the man you just saw, George Stephanopoulos, he's getting hit with a fine.
[00:01:11]  His network paying $15 million to settle charges of libel from President Trump.
[00:01:17]  We have a packed show.
[00:01:18]  Plus, we got Steve Moore in the house.
[00:01:20]  He's an economic advisor to Donald Trump.
[00:01:23]  He's got a lot of really good ideas, as does the president elect, for how we fix this economic mess from inflation to low growth.
[00:01:30]  And listen, guys, there's stuff to celebrate, including the $100 billion that the SoftBank CEO is putting forward at this moment in time.
[00:01:38]  But first, we begin with some of the news here.
[00:01:42]  On Letitia James.
[00:01:43]  Letitia James, who says she's not backing down no matter what.
[00:01:47]  Letitia James, who says the numbers don't lie.
[00:01:50]  She has a case against the former president and president elect.
[00:01:53]  At the end of the day, the documentary evidence demonstrated that, in fact, he falsely inflated his assets to basically enrich himself and his family.
[00:02:04]  He continued to persistently engage in fraud.
[00:02:07]  The numbers don't lie.
[00:02:09]  I will not fear Donald Trump.
[00:02:12]  I have steel in my backbone.
[00:02:14]  And the reality is.
[00:02:15]  I will not allow this person, Donald Trump, who unfortunately is a broken man, to get in the way of progress and to separate us.
[00:02:25]  Well, reality may get in the way for Letitia James.
[00:02:25]  Yeah.
[00:02:27]  You see, the Court of Appeals is at any moment now about to reject or throw out this case.
[00:02:37]  Donald Trump had appealed the case.
[00:02:38]  He recently went to her just a few days ago and said, hey, here's an opportunity to do the right thing for the country.
[00:02:45]  In the name of unison, in the spirit of unison, why don't you drop these charges?
[00:02:49]  To which she said, Nope, nope, no way, right?
[00:02:51]  Because she's got steel in her backbones and she does not fear Donald Trump.
[00:02:55]  Of course, it might be a problem given that the Supreme Court has already kind of come out and said, Look, you can't go after a sitting president.
[00:03:02]  So he is to be inaugurated on January 20th.
[00:03:05]  She then wants to continue moving forward for nearly a half a billion dollars.
[00:03:10]  I don't think it plays.
[00:03:11]  You've heard me say this before.
[00:03:13]  This is not a case.
[00:03:14]  You know why it's not a case?
[00:03:15]  Because this is a private matter between a bank, in this case, Deutsche Bank, and an individual, their client.
[00:03:22]  One Donald Trump.
[00:03:23]  Everybody made money.
[00:03:24]  You don't have a victim in this case, which is why the court kept saying over and over again, well, we're a little confused just exactly where, where is your victim?
[00:03:34]  In other words, who's hurt?
[00:03:35]  No one was hurt in this.
[00:03:37]  In fact, everybody made money and they came out and said they would do it again.
[00:03:41]  I mean, look, they had no use from her from the get go.
[00:03:44]  The moment Judith Vail stood up in front of the judges to argue this case on behalf of one Leticia James, they were ready to shoot her down.
[00:03:53]  May it please the court, Judith Vail for the New York Attorney General's Office.
[00:03:56]  All of the defendants repeatedly violated.
[00:03:58]  Ms. Vail, can you identify any previous case in which the Attorney General sued under Executive Law 6312 to upset a private business transaction that was between equally sophisticated partners where the supposed victim had the ability and legal obligation to discover?
[00:04:17]  The allegedly misrepresented matters by conducting its own due diligence, where the supposed wrongdoer advised the supposed victim through written disclaimers to conduct its own due diligence and to draw its own conclusions, where the alleged misrepresentation almost entirely concerned inherently subjective valuations of properties and businesses, and where the victim never complained about any fraud in the transactional losses from it.
[00:04:46]  Because I've gone through the cases which you've cited.
[00:04:49]  And all of them always involved the consumer protection aspect.
[00:04:52]  It involved protection of the market.
[00:04:56]  Well, several responses.
[00:04:57]  And I want to add to his question and little to no impact on the public marketplace.
[00:05:02]  Yeah.
[00:05:03]  So that's kind of, you know, doomsday from day one.
[00:05:06]  That was her first moment in front of the court.
[00:05:09]  So again, we're waiting on news that they are going to toss this thing.
[00:05:12]  So then the next question becomes what happens to Letitia and should she be prosecuted for having gone after him in such a rabid way to begin with?
[00:05:20]  Because let's face it, This became about so much more than whether or not there was any wrongdoing there.
[00:05:26]  This was all about getting Trump.
[00:05:28]  This is what she was building her political career off of.
[00:05:33]  So, you know, a lot of people were doing that, shall we say.
[00:05:35]  That was, you know, I don't know what they're going to do if they don't have Donald Trump.
[00:05:39]  They don't have a political career.

=== The Trump Economic Miracle (15:08) ===

[00:05:40]  They can't fundraise.
[00:05:41]  They can't send out all those emails and make all that money.
[00:05:44]  Anyway, it's good to put them out of business because good things are happening.
[00:05:48]  I'm looking at the market today and we've got a market that's moving higher.
[00:05:51]  We've got a lot of positive momentum here.
[00:05:54]  I'm thrilled to bring on the program right now.
[00:05:56]  As we look at all this good news coming in, SoftBank, for example, announcing they're going to be putting $100 billion into AI manufacturing here in the United States.
[00:06:05]  I have my very dear friend, the host of the More Money Program on ABC Radio, WABC.
[00:06:12]  My dear friend, Steve Moore, also an advisor, an economic advisor to the present elect.
[00:06:19]  And he worked, of course, in the previous administration.
[00:06:21]  It is very good to see you, my friend.
[00:06:23]  Hi, Trish.
[00:06:24]  It's so great to see you.
[00:06:25]  By the way, I was thinking and I was so.
[00:06:27]  Just so eager to talk to you.
[00:06:30]  And I was thinking, you know, I'm hearing an echo, by the way.
[00:06:33]  I don't know why.
[00:06:36]  Oh, dear.
[00:06:37]  Let's see if we can fix that here.
[00:06:38]  Is that any better?
[00:06:41]  Oh, yeah.
[00:06:42]  Now that's good because I was hearing myself back in my.
[00:06:45]  So remember, you and I worked together when you were at CNBC, and then you made the move over to Bloomberg and used to come on your show there and then on Fox News.
[00:06:57]  And so it's great to be on your Trish Regan show.
[00:07:00]  We've probably known each other for 30 years or something.
[00:07:02]  Oh, my gosh.
[00:07:03]  I know.
[00:07:03]  It's amazing.
[00:07:04]  I mean, we've known each other for so long.
[00:07:07]  And I had the pleasure of going on your show over the weekend.
[00:07:10]  I've got a funny story I want to tell the viewers about.
[00:07:12]  With that.
[00:07:13]  But yeah, we've known each other for a long time.
[00:07:15]  And I think we both are pretty simpatico in our views on the economy and what makes things work.
[00:07:21]  And I was so thrilled to see that you, oops, we might have lost, there we go.
[00:07:26]  You may have muted yourself.
[00:07:28]  Let's make sure that we still have you with us right now.
[00:07:30]  But one of the things that I love about Steve, he's so consistent and so, see, you know, this is the beauty of, Sorry about that.
[00:07:42]  Of live.
[00:07:43]  I got you now.
[00:07:44]  I got you now.
[00:07:47]  It's perfect.
[00:07:48]  But you're so consistent in terms of your views on the policy that works.
[00:07:52]  And you were there part of the administration before.
[00:07:54]  And I was just looking at the numbers.
[00:07:55]  I mean, really phenomenal, phenomenal.
[00:07:57]  6.6 million jobs added before, of course, that fateful day in March 2020, 500,000 of which were manufacturing.
[00:08:05]  You had wages going up, up, and away, adjusted for inflation.
[00:08:10]  And that's, I mean, it was like Goldilocks, perfection.
[00:08:13]  We had.
[00:08:14]  Yes.
[00:08:15]  Growth.
[00:08:16]  We had low inflation.
[00:08:17]  We were adding jobs.
[00:08:18]  And so everybody's like, okay, I want to get back to that.
[00:08:20]  So the exciting thing for me is guys, we got the guy who's going to help us get back to that.
[00:08:24]  We got the president.
[00:08:25]  We got Steve Moore helping to advise him.
[00:08:28]  What is it that he's going to do?
[00:08:30]  Do you think, sir, first order of business on the economy to really start to unleash, so to speak, those animal spirits that make this country and this economy work, Steve?
[00:08:40]  Well, Trish, I don't know if you happen to see any of, I know you were preparing for your show, but Trump just did a press conference a few minutes ago.
[00:08:47]  Over at Mar a Lago.
[00:08:48]  And he talked for a good half hour about the economy, and it was a virtuoso performance.
[00:08:54]  He sounded like you and my buddy Larry Kudlow.
[00:08:56]  He talked about lower tax rates and he talked about deregulating the economy.
[00:09:02]  He was going to use American energy, oil, gas.
[00:09:05]  He mentioned coal, clean coal.
[00:09:07]  And he also said he's so ready to deregulate.
[00:09:10]  He's going to have a stack, an inch thick, Trish, of executive orders.
[00:09:18]  And in his not first day, first hour in office, he's going to start signing these to get some of the regulations off the back of our businesses.
[00:09:27]  And so I'm very bullish.
[00:09:29]  I really am.
[00:09:29]  And I think most Americans are.
[00:09:31]  You know, the most astonishing thing, because I've been around Trump now for eight or nine years.
[00:09:36]  And first of all, we're seeing the really good Trump now.
[00:09:39]  I've always said there's a good Trump and a bad Trump.
[00:09:41]  And we're really seeing the good.
[00:09:43]  I love his demeanor.
[00:09:45]  He's becoming more modest.
[00:09:47]  He's not, you know, doing the name calling.
[00:09:49]  He's just talking about making the country great.
[00:09:51]  And that's what Americans want.
[00:09:52]  But also the policies, you know, he's been in the White House before.
[00:09:56]  So it's going to be like secretary.
[00:09:59]  Out of the gate here when he comes.
[00:10:01]  And one other quick thing I just find remarkable, Trish.
[00:10:05]  It seems like he already is president, doesn't it?
[00:10:07]  You know, I don't know where Joe Biden is.
[00:10:10]  Well, he's got another month.
[00:10:12]  Again, Steve referencing it there, he just gave a press conference at Mar a Lago.
[00:10:17]  Let's take a quick look at one of the big moments he just had coming in.
[00:10:22]  That SoftBank Dell is a big one.
[00:10:24]  So he's out there making deals before he even actually comes in.
[00:10:28]  This historic investment is a monumental demonstration of confidence in America's future.
[00:10:32]  It will help ensure that artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and other industries of tomorrow are built, created, and grown right here in the USA.
[00:10:42]  One of the beautiful things about MASA is he's very much involved with emerging technology, probably knows it maybe better than almost anybody.
[00:10:51]  So it's a great honor.
[00:10:52]  And some of you remember after the 2016 election, also SoftBank committed to invest $50 billion in our country, and they did.
[00:11:02]  And a very place to say that they kept that promise in every way, shape, and form.
[00:11:07]  They're looking to do 100, and I've looked at their books.
[00:11:11]  They do have the possibility of doing more.
[00:11:14]  I'm going to ask them to do a little bit more.
[00:11:16]  Hey, because, you know, who needs to leave anything on the table, right, Steve?
[00:11:22]  So that was, again, the president elect out there doing deals already.
[00:11:26]  To your point, it's kind of amazing that this is like, you know, I mean, who the heck knows where Biden is, right?
[00:11:32]  Or maybe Kamala is still in Hawaii on vacation nursing her wounds.
[00:11:37]  You get Donald Trump running things from Florida.
[00:11:41]  Yeah.
[00:11:42]  No, it really is an astonishing thing.
[00:11:43]  I've been in Washington for 40 years.
[00:11:46]  I've never seen a position like this.
[00:11:48]  And one of the things Trump said today was look, there are going to be more deals like this.
[00:11:52]  There's going to be a lot more money coming into the United States being invested.
[00:11:57]  And it's because we're lowering tax rates.
[00:11:59]  We're making this a more pro business environment where people want to invest and start businesses.
[00:12:05]  And he mentioned also, Trish, I don't know.
[00:12:08]  Know if you heard him talk about this, but he was saying, you know, the small business competence index is at an all time high right now.
[00:12:14]  It's not just big businesses, you know, mom and pop stores and shops feel really good about the future.
[00:12:21]  Yeah, I think there's a lot of reasons for that, but I mean, it was just so bad.
[00:12:27]  Like, it's been so bad.
[00:12:29]  I used to say, like, you know, maybe Biden should just pull a Costanza, right?
[00:12:32]  Like the Seinfeld episode and just do the opposite of whatever he thinks might be right.
[00:12:36]  I mean, I couldn't believe it, Steve.
[00:12:39]  I mean, you couldn't make this stuff up.
[00:12:42]  How bad every decision seemed to be.
[00:12:45]  And I think that the country just feels a sense of relief.
[00:12:48]  And I don't know about you, but like I'm talking to people even on the other side of the aisle, and they're optimistic now.
[00:12:53]  I mean, I've never felt or seen this kind of optimism.
[00:12:57]  We were talking, we've known each other some 30 years, right?
[00:12:59]  Like I don't feel like I've ever quite seen anything like this.
[00:13:03]  How about you?
[00:13:05]  Well put.
[00:13:06]  I mean, the only time I can really think where I felt this optimistic was back in 1980 when Ronald Reagan was first elected.
[00:13:13]  And he turned the economy around in 18 months.
[00:13:17]  By the way, it took him 18 months.
[00:13:18]  I don't think it's going to take Trump 18 months to do it.
[00:13:19]  I think we're going to see, well, we're already seeing the effects of this incoming Trump presidency with a booming stock market, small business confidence.
[00:13:29]  Look at the consumer spending that's happened in the Christmas season.
[00:13:33]  People are feeling good about what's happening in their wallet.
[00:13:36]  I wrote a book with you and Mike Arthur Laffer that just came out a month or so ago.
[00:13:42]  It's a good stocking stuffer, by the way.
[00:13:44]  It's called The Trump Economic Miracle.
[00:13:45]  And we talk in that book.
[00:13:47]  At length, about how far superior the economy was when Trump was president in his first four years versus the four years of Joe Biden.
[00:13:56]  And so, what I'm saying is, I think really good things are to come.
[00:14:00]  I'm not going to say this is going to be, there will be peaks and valleys.
[00:14:03]  You know, I'm looking at the, I'm a little worried about inflation right now.
[00:14:07]  I think the Fed, I'm not a big fan of more Fed rate cuts because I think we're pumping a lot of money into the economy.
[00:14:13]  And I think it's, the last thing Trump needs is more inflation because that's, One of the major reasons that Biden lost the election because people saw a decline in their purchasing power.
[00:14:23]  So there are going to be real challenges.
[00:14:25]  I'm not going to say it's just, you know, be, you know, just an upward road the whole time.
[00:14:31]  But you put together that whole program.
[00:14:34]  By the way, one of the things Trump talked about today, this was right out of the Larry Kudlow Arthur Laffer playbook.
[00:14:40]  He said, you know, we're going to cut taxes and that's going to cause businesses to grow and that's going to raise revenue.
[00:14:46]  And that's the Laffer curve.
[00:14:47]  Listen, I mean, and it worked before.
[00:14:51]  And yes, Art, legendary for the napkin incident with Ronald Reagan.
[00:14:56]  And you guys are just a tremendous group, Art, Steve, Larry.
[00:15:03]  And you've all come out of that sort of laugher school, if you would, where we need that growth.
[00:15:10]  We need that growth.
[00:15:11]  And we just haven't had any.
[00:15:13]  And you can't get that growth from the government.
[00:15:14]  That's just not where it happens.
[00:15:16]  You need that growth from the individuals, from the people themselves.
[00:15:20]  Real growth.
[00:15:21]  That's what we need.
[00:15:22]  That's right.
[00:15:23]  So, I want to mention a couple of cool things I think are going on.
[00:15:26]  One is, you know, my buddy Art Laffer was, you know, where he was last week?
[00:15:30]  He was in Argentina meeting with Javier Malay, who's also a superstar, and preaching the Laffer curve there.
[00:15:38]  And I would say right now, the two most popular politicians in the world are probably Donald Trump.
[00:15:43]  And for those who aren't following this, Javier Malay is doing amazing things in Argentina, making Argentina get great again.
[00:15:49]  They have the best, by the way, did you know Argentina over the last year has had the best stock market?
[00:15:54]  Even better than ours.
[00:15:55]  So these ideas really work.
[00:15:57]  And I'm going to make a prediction to you on the Trish Regan Show.
[00:15:59]  I believe you're going to see Trumpism go global.
[00:16:03]  I think you're going to see these regimes around the world.
[00:16:07]  I think Great Britain's a mess.
[00:16:08]  I think they're going to get rid of them.
[00:16:09]  They're going to put a Trump person in.
[00:16:11]  I think you're going to see it in Germany.
[00:16:12]  I think you're going to see it in France and most of Europe.
[00:16:15]  I think you're going to see, look what's happening in Korea right now.
[00:16:18]  What's happening is everyone around the world is seeing what's happening in the United States.
[00:16:23]  I'm talking about citizens, not politicians.
[00:16:25]  And they're saying, why can't we have that in our country?
[00:16:28]  And so I really believe you're going to see a revolution.
[00:16:31]  And it's a people first revolution, a populist movement to get rid of arrogant, out of touch politicians.
[00:16:37]  And boy, would that be an exciting thing.
[00:16:40]  Boy, would it be exciting.
[00:16:41]  The Argentina example is terrific.
[00:16:43]  Javier is fascinating.
[00:16:46]  And I have a very dear friend who's actually in Argentina right now.
[00:16:49]  And she was kind of, you know, she was not so sure about him, you know, this crazy guy who was an actor, this, that, and the other.
[00:16:55]  And the minute he was elected, boy, was she happy.
[00:16:58]  And she said, You wouldn't believe, like, you just wouldn't believe the changes.
[00:17:02]  I mean, in the old days, the unions would say, Well, no, no, we're doing this.
[00:17:06]  And he's like, Well, too bad.
[00:17:08]  And he's come in and he's just completely revamped it.
[00:17:12]  And she's like, It's exciting for the people of Argentina.
[00:17:17]  She's excited.
[00:17:17]  And she's actually, as I said, down there right now, enjoying the fruits of all this.
[00:17:21]  So that's good.
[00:17:22]  I should point out, by the way, Steve Moore, we're talking to Steve Moore, who is an economic advisor to the president elect.
[00:17:29]  He also was an advisor during the last administration.
[00:17:32]  And it's exciting, all the good things that are coming.
[00:17:35]  I really have never felt this kind of optimism in my professional career.
[00:17:40]  I was young enough when Reagan was coming in that I wasn't following it as closely.
[00:17:44]  But you know what?
[00:17:45]  Like this is very different than anything else I've ever seen.
[00:17:49]  And it's different than 16.
[00:17:50]  And we can talk about that.
[00:17:53]  But I do want to just mention that Steve has a wonderful show on the weekend.
[00:17:56]  I was just on it this past weekend.
[00:17:58]  It was very funny because my husband, who Steve's known for many years, he.
[00:18:04]  He called me after.
[00:18:05]  He's like, wow, that was a good job.
[00:18:07]  I just heard you on the radio.
[00:18:09]  And I thought that was kind of funny.
[00:18:10]  He was driving one of the kids and they happened to be listening.
[00:18:14]  I didn't even know he was listening.
[00:18:16]  I didn't even tell him, but he listens to your show every weekend.
[00:18:19]  He loves it, absolutely loves it.
[00:18:21]  So it was just funny that he happened to catch me.
[00:18:25]  But Steve and I have known each other a long time.
[00:18:28]  Walk me through the differences because when I look back on 16, there was a lot that the president didn't know and a lot that his team didn't know.
[00:18:36]  And now he's coming in, and I think he's got a whole different sort of approach.
[00:18:41]  Your thoughts.
[00:18:42]  Yeah, I think, well, it's a great point.
[00:18:44]  And by the way, I want to just touch on something that you just mentioned about Malay, about how people have come around to him.
[00:18:50]  I mean, I really did believe that if Trump was going to be reelected, and I thought he would win, I thought there would be violence in the streets.
[00:18:58]  Remember the violence we had in Trump's first term, terrible acts of violence, but it hasn't happened.
[00:19:05]  And I can't tell you how many of my Democratic friends who eight years ago just hated Trump, hated Trump, you know, and now they're like much more open minded to him and they're feeling.
[00:19:16]  I shouldn't use love because I don't want to say they love him, but I think they're really open minded and they think, hey, I don't like some of his antics, but I think he's going to be good for the economy.
[00:19:26]  And I think that's an amazing, amazing thing.
[00:19:28]  He is more popular today, Trish, than he's ever been, ever.
[00:19:33]  It's incredible.
[00:19:34]  But people, they've been to the other side, right?
[00:19:37]  They saw that.
[00:19:39]  Exactly.
[00:19:39]  I kind of think in some ways that gives him more power, it gives him more opportunity.
[00:19:46]  Because they remember the good old days.
[00:19:48]  They remember when gas prices weren't going up every single week and egg prices hadn't soared 60% and K through 9 or K through 12 food, right?
[00:19:58]  Your kids' school wasn't up 70% or car insurance up 57%.
[00:20:02]  And so I think the big thing for him, and he said this over and over again, he wants to get in there and reduce inflation.
[00:20:10]  And as we were saying, you know, he was just there at Mar a Lago.
[00:20:13]  We're getting some more sound that's coming into us right now.
[00:20:15]  He's got a lot of ideas for how to do that.
[00:20:17]  But in some ways, I mean, dare I say, it's harder than it seems, of course, because you need everybody on board.
[00:20:24]  I think everybody's on board for the most part.
[00:20:27]  Can we extend those tax cuts?
[00:20:29]  Can we lower taxes for corporations and small businesses?
[00:20:33]  What is it that you're sort of helping him to prioritize in this moment in time, Steve?
[00:20:38]  That's a great question.
[00:20:39]  And the most important thing to me, well, what's the old saying?
[00:20:42]  If you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
[00:20:44]  Well, I'm a tax cutter, so everything I want the tax cuts to be.

=== Technological Ways to Improve Jobs (09:37) ===

[00:20:48]  Done first, and there was a little bit of an argument by the way.
[00:20:50]  You've probably been following this about you know what should they do first?
[00:20:53]  Should they do the energy policy, the border policy, the regulation policy, the tax policy?
[00:20:58]  I'm like, I here, you know, I have been in politics a long time.
[00:21:01]  Trump has so much political capital right now, and he's got to just burst out and do it all.
[00:21:06]  You know, let's have a first hundred day agenda of the tax cuts, securing the border, deregulating the economy, building the pipelines, all these things.
[00:21:15]  I mean, and I dare anybody to try to stop him, right?
[00:21:19]  Because he's got the American people behind him.
[00:21:21]  And by the way, even with Ronald Reagan, who was a popular president, you know, that window closes, you know, so you got to get it done when the moment is right, and the moment is right now.
[00:21:31]  And I want to make another point, again, playing off something you just said.
[00:21:35]  You know, Laffer is, you know, Used to tell Ronald Reagan, you know, you were blessed by the incompetence of your predecessor.
[00:21:42]  And there's true, you know, and so is Trump.
[00:21:44]  Trump is blessed by the incompetence of his predecessors.
[00:21:47]  And people do, they're going to see what was it like under Biden when liberalslash progressives were in charge and what was it like under Trump.
[00:21:57]  And they see the difference.
[00:21:58]  And so I think you're right.
[00:22:00]  That's one of the reasons so many Democrats who voted for Biden are now saying that didn't, that really didn't work out so well.
[00:22:07]  So if he can be on his best behavior, I think you're going to see.
[00:22:12]  Okay, okay.
[00:22:12]  I could ask you about that.
[00:22:14]  So, what do you mean?
[00:22:15]  You said that earlier.
[00:22:16]  You touched on this.
[00:22:17]  You know, there's like the good Trump, and then there's, you know, look, I think he has every reason to feel uber confident right now.
[00:22:24]  Nothing, nothing is in his way.
[00:22:26]  For goodness sakes, she had what, $1.4 billion and blew it, remaking sets for call me daddy, call her daddy.
[00:22:35]  I don't even know what it's called.
[00:22:36]  But even the host of that podcast was like, I don't get it.
[00:22:39]  Like, my set didn't cost 100 grand.
[00:22:41]  Paying Rev Sharpton's organization.
[00:22:44]  Some $500,000 just days before she does an interview with him.
[00:22:49]  Whoa.
[00:22:49]  Oprah Winfrey, according to the New York Times, getting over $2 million.
[00:22:53]  I mean, whoa.
[00:22:54]  What was his one big gravy chain?
[00:22:56]  You see, that's exactly what people want to avoid, Steve.
[00:22:59]  That's what they want to get rid of.
[00:23:03]  And look, Trump is one of the reasons I was originally attracted to Trump, as so many millions and millions were, is he's not a politician.
[00:23:03]  Yeah.
[00:23:09]  He's a businessman.
[00:23:10]  And, you know, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been business, you know, politicians their whole life.
[00:23:16]  And I think that's one of the reasons people had confidence that Trump could rebuild the economy because he creates, he creates, uh, builds great companies.
[00:23:23]  He makes, makes a payroll.
[00:23:25]  He knows how to, how to employ people.
[00:23:27]  And so it's going to be, it's going to be really exciting.
[00:23:30]  I mean, it's going to be a great Christmas season.
[00:23:33]  Um, I'm going to be working, you know, like you, I'll probably be working throughout the whole time.
[00:23:36]  I think I am.
[00:23:38]  I'm just getting ready for this revolution.
[00:23:40]  You know what?
[00:23:40]  I don't even want to take a day off right now, Steve.
[00:23:43]  I, I just want to be here and enjoy the, the good stuff that's coming.
[00:23:48]  I mean, I, I encourage people.
[00:23:50]  To be involved and to probably, I'm not your stock advisor per se, a little bit with 76 Research.
[00:23:57]  We do give people some ideas, but I just think you want to be in it.
[00:24:01]  You want to be in this right now because the train is leaving the station.
[00:24:04]  The one other thing I would add to this, and it's sort of a blessing for Donald Trump, is that we're on the cusp of sort of this massive technological change.
[00:24:11]  You look at MSTR, Michael Saylor's company, being added to the NASDAQ, for example, today, and the advances that are happening by way of crypto, Bitcoin.
[00:24:22]  AI, right?
[00:24:23]  That's what the SoftBank investment is about.
[00:24:27]  AI, I even see it like in my own life, right?
[00:24:29]  All the massive changes that are coming about in terms of what we're doing here streaming.
[00:24:36]  It's incredible.
[00:24:37]  So I think, and this is just my hunch, like we're on the verge of this massive technological shift that's going to come with all kinds of productivity gains.
[00:24:48]  The trick is going to be making sure that everybody still has a place in this new economy.
[00:24:52]  And that's going to be something that you're going to have to think about and he's going to have to think about.
[00:24:56]  But I do think that there's a lot of wind in the sails, so to speak, for the markets and for the economy in general.
[00:25:03]  Your thoughts.
[00:25:05]  You're right.
[00:25:06]  I mean, we are, you know, just like 100 years ago, we had the agriculture revolution where we had 30 Americans for every 100 that were growing food to put, you know, so we could feed ourselves.
[00:25:17]  Now it's three out of 100 do it.
[00:25:19]  And we're going to see the same kind of robotics.
[00:25:21]  It's going to change everything.
[00:25:22]  I have a friend who's just started a business where they can, they have robots who can build homes.
[00:25:28]  And so that'll reduce the, you know, cost of new home construction by half.
[00:25:33]  But, you know, what about the construction workers?
[00:25:35]  They're not going to have the jobs that they had before.
[00:25:38]  Now, we've always adapted and we've always created new jobs for the economy.
[00:25:42]  But yes, I mean, another one is automated cars are here.
[00:25:46]  They're already in California.
[00:25:47]  And within 10 years, virtually everyone will have an automated car.
[00:25:54]  Most of those trucks will be automated.
[00:25:56]  So the economy is changing in an incredibly rapid way, but it is going to be wealth enhancing.
[00:26:03]  And you put it very well.
[00:26:04]  I'm going to use that line.
[00:26:06]  We have to make sure that every American, Has to have a place in that economy.
[00:26:13]  We don't want to leave anybody behind.
[00:26:15]  Yeah, you know, and I also wonder if we've always been sort of okay, this idea that you bring a lot of people across the border and then you therefore have more workers.
[00:26:24]  I'm wondering if there may not be as much demand, as much need.
[00:26:29]  I mean, you think about the Optimist robot.
[00:26:31]  I'm like, great, they can make my bed and cook my dinner and, you know, take the dog for a walk.
[00:26:36]  You think about an Optimist robot even in kitchens and restaurants across the country.
[00:26:42]  You just wonder how much the technology is going to replace.
[00:26:45]  Some of these jobs that, you know, look, we are relying perhaps too heavily on a lot of people coming in for.
[00:26:53]  And maybe, I'm thinking out loud and I want to be careful how I say this because we do need more people.
[00:27:00]  We need a bigger population.
[00:27:01]  But I just wonder the skill set, how that's going to change in time.
[00:27:06]  I've always been a proponent of like not everybody has to have a PhD.
[00:27:09]  But if you're bringing so many people in across the country and there are technological ways to make sure that you improve upon the jobs that they're doing, I just wonder if it's going to be as relevant.
[00:27:20]  And maybe that will help cushion the blow if you don't have as many coming in.
[00:27:26]  Look, illegally, it's going to reduce the population.
[00:27:29]  There are people that are worried about what that means for the economy.
[00:27:32]  New York City restaurants, what are they going to do?
[00:27:34]  Well, maybe in 10, 15, 20 years time, it won't be as relevant.
[00:27:37]  Throw that out there just to think about.
[00:27:40]  Well, I think you make a lot of good points.
[00:27:43]  Look, I think in the intermediate time, we do need immigrants.
[00:27:47]  I mean, we're the one country, I think one of the biggest issues around the globe that nobody's paying attention to is in some countries, catastrophically low birth rates.
[00:27:58]  And so, a lot of these countries in Europe are going to see population declines, and that's not good for the economy.
[00:28:06]  I've always said that immigration is one of America's great comparative advantages.
[00:28:11]  We get Hard working people, we by the way, they have to come in legally.
[00:28:15]  Let's be very clear about that, yeah.
[00:28:16]  And that's even controversial, yeah.
[00:28:18]  And we can find a way, especially given the technological advances we have.
[00:28:23]  I would think we ought to be able to find a way to do this and make it quick and painless and efficient.
[00:28:31]  That's right.
[00:28:32]  And you know, by the way, you go to Silicon Valley.
[00:28:35]  I just, I've you know, visited Microsoft, I've been to Google, I've been to Apple.
[00:28:41]  I mean, you.
[00:28:42]  A lot of the greatest minds in the country come here.
[00:28:45]  And that's why we are so blowing away, by the way, Trish, the rest of the world in technology.
[00:28:51]  I mean, it's unbelievable.
[00:28:53]  Seven of the eight biggest technology companies are in the USA.
[00:28:57]  We are now 60% of the stock market.
[00:28:59]  Did you know that?
[00:28:59]  Oh my gosh, you literally stole my line.
[00:29:01]  I was just going to mention that.
[00:29:03]  I say that all the time.
[00:29:04]  You look at Mag7, we dominate global markets.
[00:29:07]  I know.
[00:29:09]  Yeah, it's a beautiful thing.
[00:29:11]  God bless America, USA, USA.
[00:29:13]  And it's because we have, you know, Homegrown talent, and we bring in some of the best minds of the world, and no were started by immigrants.
[00:29:23]  So, I want to keep the gates open, but I also want to secure the border because you can't have terrorists and you can't have criminals coming into the country.
[00:29:31]  It has to be an orderly thing, and that's one of the things that makes America great.
[00:29:35]  And look, everybody's on board with that right now.
[00:29:38]  I mean, from Eric Adams to even Governor Holchel, who's coming out saying, Yes, you know, she's not going to stand for the criminals in New York City.
[00:29:44]  They get 60,000, nearly 60,000, according to the New York.
[00:29:47]  Post out of 700,000 people there illegally.
[00:29:50]  Like, let's find a way to actually know who's in the system, who's coming in.
[00:29:54]  I mean, that's so it'll be a priority for him.
[00:29:57]  The economy, obviously, inflation is a priority for him.
[00:30:00]  Hopefully, the drones.
[00:30:01]  That's one of the stories we're going to be doing a little bit later on.
[00:30:05]  Hopefully, the drones are, you know, national security.
[00:30:07]  I think that's what people are concerned about and making sure that we're not sort of involved in things globally that maybe are sucking the energy and money out of us that may not always be.
[00:30:21]  in our interests.
[00:30:22]  So, I think a lot of changes are coming.

=== Finding a Way to Know Who's In (14:59) ===

[00:30:25]  Well, me too.
[00:30:25]  And I always love doing your show.
[00:30:27]  Will you come on my radio show again?
[00:30:30]  Yeah, anytime.
[00:30:31]  Hey, it made my husband's day.
[00:30:33]  It made my day that he heard it.
[00:30:35]  It's so funny.
[00:30:35]  You and David were fantastic.
[00:30:38]  My wife always says, you know, I have a face made for radio.
[00:30:41]  But I love doing your show.
[00:30:43]  Not true.
[00:30:43]  Not true.
[00:30:43]  We love seeing you.
[00:30:45]  Thank you.
[00:30:46]  Well, have a Merry, Merry Christmas, my friend.
[00:30:48]  Yes, Merry Christmas to you as well.
[00:30:50]  Steve Moore, everyone, top economic advisor to the president elect.
[00:30:55]  Host of More Money, WABC Radio, and a very, very dear friend of mine for many years.
[00:31:01]  We appreciate him doing this show.
[00:31:02]  It's really good to talk to him.
[00:31:04]  So, we got a lot more to get into today as we look at just all the developments that are coming out sort of on the Letitia James front.
[00:31:11]  I want to bring you some news stories that are coming forward, and I should get rid of Steve.
[00:31:16]  Do I look like Steve?
[00:31:17]  I don't think I look very much like Steve.
[00:31:19]  There we go.
[00:31:20]  We've got more coming to you on the Letitia James front.
[00:31:24]  But before I do that, have you been following the news from ABC?
[00:31:29]  That's kind of important to know about right about now.
[00:31:31]  ABC News having to pay some $16 million.
[00:31:34]  That would be $15 million just from ABC itself, along with another million bucks that's going to get paid from Georgie Pie, George Stephanopoulos, because of some of the things he said that were rather libelous.
[00:31:47]  Here we go.
[00:31:47]  This is a story coming to us from all over the media.
[00:31:51]  The headline out of Fox News is George Stephanopoulos and the ABC apologize to Trump.
[00:31:56]  They're forced to pay $15 million to settle the defamation lawsuit.
[00:32:01]  Part of the agreement, Stephanopoulos and the network issued statements of regret for comments that prompted the lawsuit.
[00:32:08]  And then the other important component or part of this is that George is going to have to pay $1 million out of his own pocket to settle the fees of the attorneys.
[00:32:18]  Now, why did this all come about to begin with?
[00:32:21]  You might be wondering.
[00:32:23]  Well, it all has to do with something that George Stephanopoulos said that was not only inaccurate, but highly, highly, well, what you would call In danger of being liable.
[00:32:33]  In fact, the judge found that it was, well, not a judge in this case.
[00:32:36]  I think that ABC News made a decision to actually settle this because they figured they would get hit with libel and that would be a really unpleasant situation.
[00:32:46]  So here is the particular quote that started it all.
[00:32:50]  George Stephanopoulos actually talking with Nancy Mace on his Sunday program.
[00:32:55]  Still getting judged for it today.
[00:32:56]  I'm asking you a very simple question.
[00:32:58]  And I answered it.
[00:32:58]  Explain yourself.
[00:32:59]  You're shaming me for my political choices.
[00:33:00]  I'm asking you a question about why you endorse someone who's been found liable for rape.
[00:33:05]  It was not a criminal court.
[00:33:07]  This was a civil court.
[00:33:08]  It was a civil court.
[00:33:09]  And by the way, she joked about the judgment and what she was going to do with all that money.
[00:33:13]  And I find that offensive.
[00:33:15]  I'm asking you a very simple question.
[00:33:17]  But as a rape victim, Who's been shamed for years now because of her rape?
[00:33:20]  You're trying to shame me again by asking me to support her.
[00:33:22]  You've repeated that again.
[00:33:23]  I think it's offensive.
[00:33:25]  As a woman, I find it offensive.
[00:33:27]  I'm asking.
[00:33:28]  My political choices.
[00:33:29]  I've endorsed the man that I believe is best for our country.
[00:33:32]  It's not Joe Biden.
[00:33:33]  And you looked at the dueling rallies yesterday in Georgia.
[00:33:36]  Lake and Riley's family was with Donald Trump.
[00:33:39]  They weren't with Joe Biden.
[00:33:39]  The same guy yesterday that apologized for calling her killer an illegal, who wasn't illegal.
[00:33:45]  And here you are trying to shame a rape victim.
[00:33:47]  I find it disgusting.
[00:33:48]  I mean, you keep saying I'm shaming you.
[00:33:50]  You are.
[00:33:50]  The question, it is.
[00:33:51]  It is.
[00:33:52]  How is the question asking you about a presidential candidate who's been raped?
[00:33:55]  You're asking a rape victim.
[00:33:56]  And there's no question about that.
[00:33:59]  And you've courageously talked about it.
[00:34:01]  I'm not questioning your choices because I've been raped.
[00:34:04]  I think that's disgusting.
[00:34:07]  No, I'm questioning your political choices because you're supporting someone who's been found liable for rape.
[00:34:08]  Actually, I'm not trying to.
[00:34:09]  You are.
[00:34:09]  That's exactly right.
[00:34:10]  You're not answering the question.
[00:34:11]  I think it's disgusting.
[00:34:13]  Well, you're welcome to say that, but you also have to answer the question.
[00:34:16]  Why are you supporting someone who's been found liable for rape?
[00:34:18]  I just answered your question.
[00:34:20]  What is the answer?
[00:34:20]  He was not found guilty in a criminal court of law.
[00:34:25]  It was a civil, it was sexual abuse.
[00:34:27]  It wasn't actually rape, by the way.
[00:34:29]  And E. Jean Carroll joked about all the money she's going to get and made a mockery out of this case.
[00:34:35]  And I think that's offensive.
[00:34:36]  There's a reason why women don't come forward.
[00:34:39]  And when you have someone who says that they're raped and they make a mockery out of this civil court judgment, it's offensive to other women.
[00:34:45]  It makes it harder for other women to come forward when another woman has made a mockery.
[00:34:50]  You said women don't come forward because they are afraid.
[00:34:52]  They are afraid that they are defamed by those who commit the rape.
[00:34:56]  That's what Donald Trump has been found guilty of doing.
[00:34:59]  He defended himself over that and denies that it ever happened, but he was not found guilty in a criminal court of law.
[00:35:11]  Hmm.
[00:35:13]  So because George said those things and kept insisting that he was found guilty of rape, when in fact, He wasn't.
[00:35:21]  Remember, she's making that point that the criminal court never found him guilty of that.
[00:35:26]  Well, Donald Trump decided he was going to sue because, you know, here, I'm just going to say, I'm going to take it a step further.
[00:35:34]  Not only was it libel, but it actually was, again, another form of election interference.
[00:35:40]  I mean, ABC News has a pretty big platform with that weekend show that they do.
[00:35:46]  And here's the guy who's head of it all, right?
[00:35:48]  The main anchor coming out and saying that he was found guilty of rape when he wasn't.
[00:35:53]  That seems to me to be pretty egregious.
[00:35:57]  And how is it fair, right?
[00:35:59]  Oh, you say, oh, just because he's a public person, we can say these things about him?
[00:36:02]  I mean, they said all kinds of things about him.
[00:36:05]  I think if he actually really wanted to start suing, he could sue a few more people along away because of this.
[00:36:10]  you Of course, it's Trump is a Nazi time again.
[00:36:15]  Let's deal with Hitler, okay?
[00:36:17]  I don't think it's hyperbolic to say that.
[00:36:19]  I mean, that is Mussolini Hitler like language.
[00:36:21]  Trump's affinity for Hitler was always covered under an umbrella of his stupidity.
[00:36:26]  Echoing Hitler's words.
[00:36:28]  Listen to this.
[00:36:29]  Well, Hitler was duly elected, echoing the hateful rhetoric of Adolf Hitler.
[00:36:35]  It echoes Hitler.
[00:36:36]  That's the kind of language Hitler used in Mein Kampf.
[00:36:40]  Got vermin and Hitler and Mussolini.
[00:36:43]  That's a horrifying clip.
[00:36:44]  That's a fascist clip.
[00:36:45]  Clear.
[00:36:46]  So I'm just saying, I think ABC got off a little bit easy.
[00:36:51]  Just a little bit easy, only having to pay $15 million.
[00:36:55]  You know, this could have gone forward and turned into something much more.
[00:36:59]  I think they were nervous about that, right?
[00:37:01]  Because then there would have been a discovery process and some emails would have come out and maybe they would have looked even worse.
[00:37:06]  So they're putting the money towards the Trump library.
[00:37:09]  That's going to be a heck of a library.
[00:37:10]  If he were to go out there and actually go after everyone, everybody's like, oh, he can't do that.
[00:37:14]  He can't do that.
[00:37:15]  That's threatening to the media.
[00:37:16]  So again, What happens?
[00:37:18]  You become a public person and suddenly you are devoid of any need for any responsibility from a journalist organization?
[00:37:26]  That's unbelievable to me.
[00:37:28]  You can just go and say anything about anyone because they're a public person?
[00:37:32]  I don't think so.
[00:37:33]  That's not how I run my show.
[00:37:35]  Absolutely not.
[00:37:36]  Simone Sanders obviously runs her program a little bit differently.
[00:37:40]  Now, I didn't even know who she was.
[00:37:42]  She's some other woman they have there with a very liberal bent on MSNBC, but she came out and she repeated the same allegations.
[00:37:50]  And I'm just saying, I'm thinking he gets another 15 million bucks from the Suffering Network.
[00:37:55]  If they've got it, they're at MSNBC.
[00:37:56]  Maybe this will be the final nail in their coffin, and Elon really can come to the rescue.
[00:38:00]  Here's Simona.
[00:38:02]  The press is in a difficult position.
[00:38:04]  Everyone understands that.
[00:38:05]  That doesn't change the obligation to be straightforward and objective when it comes to Donald Trump.
[00:38:11]  I would just say, I mean, this feels like it has a real chilling effect.
[00:38:14]  Like, I mean, shout out to the Standards Department.
[00:38:16]  Okay, standards is always making sure that we are keeping the bar high and substantive and accurate.
[00:38:21]  But what George Stephanopoulos said.
[00:38:24]  In that interview, I mean, it seems to hold up with what the judge said after the fact.
[00:38:29]  And now he's a news organization and himself.
[00:38:32]  George Stephanopoulos himself is paying a million dollars of his own money to the lawyers and ABC at $15 million.
[00:38:39]  It's insane.
[00:38:40]  Yeah.
[00:38:41]  Well, it's not that insane because you just can't actually print lies or spout lies.
[00:38:49]  But they're all flipping out.
[00:38:51]  They're all flipping out.
[00:38:51]  Let me go over to CNN for a moment.
[00:38:53]  They get a guy there that they're interviewing.
[00:38:56]  That used to be on the network but was fired from the network clearly has his own biases.
[00:39:02]  Actually, both of these guys, if you look at them, one is Acosta and he was always getting into it, right, in those press conferences with Donald Trump.
[00:39:09]  And then the other is either, what does Anthony call him?
[00:39:14]  Like Potato Head, Mr. Potato Head, either that or Humpty Dumpty, I can't remember.
[00:39:19]  But take a peek at this reaction.
[00:39:21]  Well, and there's a lot of different ways to talk about this, Brian.
[00:39:25]  I mean, Donald Trump has said a lot of things about people.
[00:39:30]  Places, you name it, that have been false and so on.
[00:39:34]  And it just strikes me as a bit rich that he's going to be the recipient or his presidential foundation is going to be the recipient of this kind of large settlement.
[00:39:45]  And I have to ask you whether or not you think there's just going to be a chilling effect on the news industry just as he is coming into office because of this.
[00:39:52]  I mean, I suppose it's almost a rhetorical question because the answer is yes.
[00:39:58]  Chilling effect.
[00:39:59]  Did you hear the Hitler soundbite I just played for you?
[00:40:02]  Like maybe it would be a little bit good if there would be some responsibility among these members of the media.
[00:40:08]  I think the whole world would welcome that right about now.
[00:40:13]  The answer is yes.
[00:40:14]  Media lawyers are worried about this.
[00:40:16]  They're preparing for it.
[00:40:17]  They are preparing their newsrooms for it with the expectation of more lawsuits, more leak investigations, more subpoenas.
[00:40:23]  In the months and years to come, there's a great AP story about this this morning saying there's a balancing act right now for the press between being fearful and just being prepared, doing our jobs, but being aware of the climate.
[00:40:34]  And maybe that's partly what ABC was doing here.
[00:40:37]  ABC, as a source there, said to me, we needed this problem to go away.
[00:40:41]  They were trying to explain the payment that way.
[00:40:44]  But now, as you said, $15 million for Trump's future museum.
[00:40:47]  I imagine there will be an ABC News hall of fake news.
[00:40:50]  There will be some attempt to troll as a result of this.
[00:40:53]  And more seriously, we are in a climate where.
[00:40:57]  More of this kind of litigation is expected.
[00:40:59]  And of course, it's not just Trump suing news outlets.
[00:41:02]  Trump himself is facing multiple defamation lawsuits.
[00:41:07]  So, you know, this turns in multiple directions, right?
[00:41:10]  And what some see as accountability for mistakes on live television, others see as a currying favor, a settlement.
[00:41:18]  See, I don't think it was a mistake.
[00:41:20]  He repeated it several times.
[00:41:21]  And this is despite the fact that Nancy Mace was like, no, no, no, he was never actually found guilty.
[00:41:28]  Of rape by the criminal court, and yet George Stephanopoulos kept going back to it and back to it and back to it.
[00:41:35]  So, yeah, there should be some accountability.
[00:41:38]  Meanwhile, Donald Trump, he's just kind of over it with these dumb, dumb reporters that ask dumb, stupid questions.
[00:41:45]  I don't know what the point of this one was.
[00:41:47]  Take a look.
[00:41:49]  So, this happened moments ago in Mar a Lago, and Donald Trump was asked by somebody about Iran, and it wasn't the brightest of all questions.
[00:41:58]  Take a listen.
[00:41:58]  Well, he called it out for what it was.
[00:42:00]  Are you entertaining the idea of preemptive strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities?
[00:42:05]  Against Iran's nuclear facilities?
[00:42:10]  I can't tell you that.
[00:42:10]  I mean, it's a wonderful question, but how can I, am I going to do preemptive strikes?
[00:42:14]  Why would I say that?
[00:42:15]  Can you imagine if I said yes or no, you'd say, that was strange that he answered that way.
[00:42:22]  Am I going to do preemptive strikes on Iran?
[00:42:25]  Is that a serious question?
[00:42:27]  How could I answer a question like that?
[00:42:29]  Yeah, well, he had a good attitude about it.
[00:42:34]  He didn't get too angry.
[00:42:35]  He's just like, this is sort of nuts.
[00:42:36]  How can I answer a question like this?
[00:42:38]  And then recently he also said to the NBC reporter when they sat down, Look, you know what?
[00:42:44]  You're talking about J6.
[00:42:46]  Well, listen, there are things that they hid on J6.
[00:42:48]  And if you would do your job and be a little bit less biased, you might actually be halfway decent.
[00:42:54]  This is great.
[00:42:55]  This is great.
[00:42:56]  Let me ask you this about January 6th.
[00:43:00]  I wish you could be a, if you, you know, You have such potential.
[00:43:04]  If you could be just non biased, you hurt yourself so badly.
[00:43:11]  I'm telling you, they deleted and destroyed all the evidence.
[00:43:15]  Everyone knows it.
[00:43:16]  And you slough it off like it doesn't mean anything.
[00:43:18]  No, I'm saying they deny it.
[00:43:20]  That's all I'm saying.
[00:43:21]  Kristen, if I did it, you would be standing up in that chair shouting at me.
[00:43:25]  And you know what I'd do?
[00:43:27]  I'd say, You got me.
[00:43:29]  They have done something so illegal.
[00:43:33]  They have a committee sworn to.
[00:43:36]  And because it was so bad, the only reason they did it is because the testimony turned out to be in favor of me.
[00:43:43]  Yeah.
[00:43:44]  Well, he's going to change it all, right?
[00:43:47]  Because he is going to pardon all of those J6 people who were put in jail.
[00:43:55]  So there's a lot coming.
[00:43:57]  But, you know, his point is being, you guys are so freaking biased that, you know, no one can see the forest or the trees.
[00:44:02]  You want to talk about bias.
[00:44:04]  We showed you this report the other day over on CNN, Clarissa Ward.
[00:44:08]  Saying she'd never seen anything quite like this.
[00:44:11]  I mean, this was just so amazing.
[00:44:13]  It was such an extraordinary moment, CNN wrote.
[00:44:16]  As Clarissa Ward and her team witnessed a Syrian prisoner freed from a secret prison in Damascus.
[00:44:23]  Left alone for days without food, water, or light, the man was unaware that Bashar al Assad's regime had fallen.
[00:44:31]  Well, community notes, leave it to community notes.
[00:44:34]  Over on X, they kind of had a little problem with this.
[00:44:37]  They said it really didn't add up.
[00:44:39]  There were a ton of inconsistencies.
[00:44:41]  You know, for starters, if somebody Had been without water for five days, as what was being alleged, then they certainly wouldn't be as spiffy as this guy.
[00:44:51]  Here, take a look at the report.
[00:44:52]  After three months in a windowless cell, you can finally see the sky.
[00:44:58]  Oh God, there is life.
[00:45:03]  Oh God, there is life.

=== Narrative Suits the Desired Outcome (03:59) ===

[00:45:25]  Stay with me.
[00:45:25]  St. St. This is what you call.
[00:45:25]  You know what?
[00:45:25]  They know the answer.
[00:45:25]  They know what they want to do.
[00:45:25]  And so they go in there and they find a narrative that suits whatever it is, the outcome that they're trying to portray.
[00:45:25]  And then they find themselves victim to fake news.
[00:45:25]  So it has now come out.
[00:45:25]  Stay with me, stay with me, he repeats again and again.
[00:45:35]  For three months, I didn't know anything about my family, I didn't hear anything about my children.
[00:45:48]  Okay, well, turns out it wasn't quite what she thought.
[00:45:52]  Seems that CNN got a bit duped.
[00:45:54]  Clarissa Ward got a little bit duped.
[00:45:56]  This is what you call, you know what, they know the answer.
[00:45:58]  They know what they want to do and so they go in there and they find a narrative that suits whatever it is, the outcome that they're trying to portray.
[00:46:06]  And then they find themselves victim to fake news.
[00:46:11]  So it has now come out and by the way.
[00:46:13]  way, we have to be careful because CNN hasn't actually said it's fake news yet.
[00:46:17]  But they are, quote, investigating it.
[00:46:20]  CNN has announced that they are investigating this Clarissa Ward report because, you know, Things aren't really adding up.
[00:46:28]  It was interesting.
[00:46:28]  I was looking at what you guys were all saying in some of the comments when we first aired this story, and you had lots of good points.
[00:46:35]  I mean, it just didn't seem like somebody who had just gotten out of prison.
[00:46:42]  And this particular individual that first called attention to it, he's making the point, as you can see here, that this was most likely staged, he writes, most likely staged because it just didn't make any sense.
[00:46:58]  This is his account.
[00:47:00]  This is somebody named.
[00:47:01]  Hassan Akkad, who had actually been imprisoned as well, there.
[00:47:05]  And he's making the point the individuals are never locked in communal cells.
[00:47:08]  That never happens in detention centers.
[00:47:10]  None of the clips surfaced of people being released show a single person in a communal cell.
[00:47:14]  I watched every clip.
[00:47:15]  Cell looks too clean, he writes.
[00:47:18]  Way too clean.
[00:47:19]  No discarded clothes, bags of bread, bottles of water, other blankets, nothing.
[00:47:25]  The first thing he said is, I want to drink water, which means he had had no water for the last five days because, again, I don't see any bottles in the cell.
[00:47:31]  He has too much energy, he says, for somebody who doesn't.
[00:47:35]  Or he didn't have access to water.
[00:47:37]  And look, he said, I'm happy to be proven wrong, but the latest upshot of this is that the individual does not seem to be who he purported to be to CNN or Clarissa Ward.
[00:47:50]  Instead, he's somebody else entirely, somebody who has been identified as someone named Adele Gherbal.
[00:47:57]  And he allegedly, forgive me, he initially identified as Adele Gherbal and claimed he had been imprisoned for three months without knowing the Assad regime had.
[00:48:09]  Fallen.
[00:48:10]  However, we now have a Syrian fact checking organization, I guess, which got tipped off there from X, that has come forward and they're saying that it's an organization called Verify Psi and it's revealed that the true identity of the guy is Salama Mohammed Salama, known as Abu Hazmu, and he was the first lieutenant in the Syrian Air Force intelligence with a history reportedly of torture and extortion.
[00:48:39]  So, in other words, He's one of the bad guys, but CNN gets all wrapped up in the story that they're trying to present and finds themselves doing this tough piece on somebody who was a bad guy, presenting himself as a good guy.
[00:48:57]  Now, that's again allegedly according to this Syrian fact-tracking organization.
[00:49:02]  So now CNN is doing an investigation.
[00:49:05]  And I guess, if nothing else, it certainly speaks to the difficulty in terms of trying to get to the truth and why, you know, this rush to.
[00:49:12]  Feed a narrative is so wrong over and over again.
[00:49:15]  And this is something that, if indeed it's proven that this was all just fake reporting, Clarissa Ward and CNN should be ashamed.

=== CNN Gets Wrapped Up in Story (10:16) ===

[00:49:24]  They were so desperate to prove their point that they didn't bother really and truly looking into all the facts.
[00:49:31]  We have much, much more to get to.
[00:49:33]  I want to get back to Letitia James, ladies and gentlemen.
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[00:51:00]  So, again, back to Letitia here because our friend Letitia James just seems to be all out.
[00:51:08]  You know, she wants to go get Trump.
[00:51:10]  She wants to go get Trump.
[00:51:11]  Even though Trump's been elected president, somehow Letitia sees herself still in this game.
[00:51:14]  Take a look.
[00:51:17]  And lastly, I congratulate the President elect Donald Trump.
[00:51:24]  And if possible, we will work with his administration.
[00:51:30]  But we will not compromise our values or our integrity or our principles.
[00:51:38]  We did not expect this result, but we are prepared to respond to this result.
[00:51:45]  And my office has been preparing for several months.
[00:51:49]  Because we've been here before.
[00:51:52]  We faced this challenge before.
[00:51:55]  And we use the rule of law to fight back.
[00:52:01]  And we are prepared to fight back once again.
[00:52:06]  Because, as the Attorney General of this great state, it is my job to protect and defend the rights of New Yorkers and the rule of law.
[00:52:17]  And I will not shrink from that responsibility.
[00:52:24]  Oh, she gets applause.
[00:52:27]  She gets an applause for that one, guys.
[00:52:29]  Look, she's refusing to drop charges.
[00:52:32]  Letitia James announcing just within the last couple of days that she's not going to abandon this case, despite the fact that she has no case.
[00:52:44]  Despite the fact that the Court of Appeals is about to toss the entire thing.
[00:52:48]  She doesn't want to do the bigger thing here and actually do the right thing.
[00:52:53]  So it leaves me asking.
[00:52:56]  I mean, I get it.
[00:52:57]  This is her only reason for being, right?
[00:52:59]  This is what she campaigned on.
[00:53:00]  This is what she exists on.
[00:53:03]  But it does leave me asking as she tries to approach this conspiratorial like tenor in her speech, it leaves me asking why do we have people like this?
[00:53:19]  Why are we enabling these rabid politicians to do things that, frankly, are really very, very dangerous?
[00:53:29]  For the country.
[00:53:30]  I mean, Maxine Waters will tell you all day, it's just great that we have the Fannies and the Alvin Braggs and the Letitia Jameses of the world.
[00:53:41]  It's so important for us to fight for education because when we do that, we can aspire to careers that will help change what goes on in this country and have a real democracy.
[00:53:54]  I want to give you an example of it.
[00:53:57]  Right now, as Trump, is on trial.
[00:54:01]  You have Leticia James in New York.
[00:54:03]  You have Fannie Willis in Georgia.
[00:54:07]  And you have Tanya Chunkin, who is a judge, who all have a role to play now, prosecutors and judges.
[00:54:15]  And if we're ever to change the criminal justice system and get some justice, we've got to be in there.
[00:54:26]  I mean, accept that you actually have to have cases.
[00:54:31]  Think of everything that they have thrown at him.
[00:54:34]  Specifically, this case in particular gets me annoyed.
[00:54:39]  Given my history as a business reporter, as someone who's covered markets and the economy for so long, what's so annoying is that there is no victim here.
[00:54:51]  That this was a private transaction between a bank and an individual in which everybody made money.
[00:54:57]  So I don't know how you get from that to all of a sudden being in the courtroom with Letitia James and a nearly $500 million fine.
[00:55:05]  That's kind of scary.
[00:55:08]  I mean, it's scary to think about having a business in New York because is your business just there at the pleasure of Letitia James?
[00:55:16]  Does she have the right to go in and just strip anyone of their opportunities?
[00:55:20]  That's what this looks like.
[00:55:21]  And this is one of the things that the court wants to guard against.
[00:55:25]  If you listen to some of the hearings in the courtroom, they specifically said, we've got to watch for this.
[00:55:32]  We've got to make sure that we are not in a situation where we have these very, very sort of overzealous prosecutors out there in left field trying to make these kinds of attacks.
[00:55:45]  Because what kind of precedent does it set?
[00:55:49]  I mean, certainly not a good one.
[00:55:51]  Let's see if I can bring you one of the more recent articles that just came out, in which here we go.
[00:55:57]  They're asking, you know, Letitia James, is this really something that he should be moving forward on and prosecuting?
[00:56:06]  Now, Donald Trump has said he doesn't want to.
[00:56:09]  He wants to focus most, of course, on making the country successful.
[00:56:13]  You heard this just the other day.
[00:56:16]  To do that, are you going to go after Joe Biden?
[00:56:19]  I'm really looking to make our country successful.
[00:56:22]  I'm not looking to go back into the past.
[00:56:23]  I'm looking to make our country successful.
[00:56:28]  Retribution will be through success.
[00:56:30]  If we can make our success, this country successful, that would be my greatest, that would be such a great achievement.
[00:56:36]  Bring it back.
[00:56:38]  Yeah, well, here's the thing.
[00:56:41]  In order to bring it back, you do need to make sure that you have a fair system.
[00:56:46]  So I want to point this out to you.
[00:56:48]  Again, this is coming to us from the Newsmax op ed that was just written.
[00:56:52]  Again, I can show you.
[00:56:53]  Here's the title Should Trump Forgive or Prosecute Letitia James?
[00:56:58]  This was written by Reverend Jim Harden and again appearing on the Newsmax site.
[00:57:03]  But what he's saying is that James's lawfare tactics extend beyond Trump, targeting ideologically opposed groups like Christian.
[00:57:11]  Pro life organizations.
[00:57:14]  So that's important.
[00:57:15]  In other words, Donald Trump wasn't the only victim, according to this reverend who made this op ed piece.
[00:57:22]  And I suspect there's probably plenty out there that don't ideologically agree with her, and she's willing to go after them.
[00:57:29]  And that, in and of itself, is a huge problem.
[00:57:32]  So while I get it, he wants to move on to the economy and he wants to move on to the border and he wants to make sure that internationally we're on stable footing and he needs to do all those things, you still need.
[00:57:42]  Shall we say the Pambondis of the world, maybe Stephen Miller can help out a little bit too, doing the due diligence to make sure that this kind of stuff doesn't happen to other people in the future.
[00:57:54]  And Letitia James, if she's not willing to recognize where she went wrong here, then we have some problems.
[00:58:00]  She should be disbarred.
[00:58:02]  Elise Stefanik, the congresswoman from New York, calling for her disbarment.
[00:58:07]  She should be, you know, at the very least, I realize, you know, some people want to see her behind bars.
[00:58:15]  They want to see her thrown in jail for this activity.
[00:58:18]  And I think that you've got to do the proper due diligence to figure out just exactly what went down.
[00:58:23]  Fannie Willis down in Georgia refusing to testify.
[00:58:26]  She's definitely going to jail because, you know, if you're called in to testify and you absolutely refuse to do so, then you are in violation of the law.
[00:58:34]  And you can just ask Peter Navarro or Steve Bannon about that.
[00:58:37]  They both went and did their jail time.
[00:58:39]  So Letitia James is proud of how difficult she's made things for the Trump administration in the past.
[00:58:46]  She wants to continue on.
[00:58:49]  Making things difficult, but she seems to forget that you know what, there's a federal law in place, there's a constitution in place, and she actually would be in violation if she's to continue going after the president.
[00:59:11]  You see, between 2019 and 2021, the Office of the Attorney General took nearly 100 legal actions against the previous Trump administration, including when he attempted to cap the state and local tax, and when he sought to eliminate funds and grants for law enforcement officers here in the state of New York.

=== Something Strange Is Going On (09:18) ===

[00:59:41]  We fought to preserve DACA and protect the Affordable Care Act.
[00:59:47]  We fought to prevent a question about citizenship from being on the census because we were concerned about the impact of funding, the lack of funding to the state of New York and how it would affect these programs.
[01:00:02]  We beat the Muslim ban.
[01:00:05]  We stopped the dismantling of the United States Postal Service.
[01:00:10]  We challenged anti LGBTQ efforts.
[01:00:12]  We safeguarded key environmental policies and we protected access to reproductive care.
[01:00:19]  And we protected the right to organize.
[01:00:22]  We worked around the clock to defend these basic rights with our Democratic colleagues across this nation.
[01:00:30]  Let me just say this to Big Tish James, the New York Attorney General.
[01:00:35]  I dare you, I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump in his second term.
[01:00:42]  Because listen here, sweetheart, we're not messing around this time, and we will put your fat ass in prison for conspiracy.
[01:00:49]  Against rights.
[01:00:51]  I promise you that.
[01:00:51]  You know, I just had to put that again, okay?
[01:00:53]  I just had that.
[01:00:54]  It's Bennie Johnson with Mike Davis, one of the attorneys on the Trump team.
[01:00:58]  Look, she needs to understand that there is now a president in charge, and there's a team around him that's really not going to put up with the same kind of shenanigans that people put up with before.
[01:01:08]  As I was just saying earlier with Steve Moore, this is a different ballgame.
[01:01:12]  He's come back for round two, and he's not going to deal with the insanity.
[01:01:17]  No one should have to deal with the insanity that he was dealing with last time around.
[01:01:22]  So that's That's the good news.
[01:01:24]  That is indeed the good news.
[01:01:26]  I want to get to these drones because Donald Trump just made some comments on the drones, and I think that's important to hear what he had to say about this.
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[01:02:13]  Okay, so there have been all these sightings in New Jersey, in Connecticut, in Maryland, of drones in the sky, and nobody really knows what they are.
[01:02:28]  So just moments ago, Donald Trump came forward and gave us perhaps the most clarity we've seen thus far.
[01:02:34]  He said, look, the government knows exactly what they are.
[01:02:36]  I just don't know why they're not telling anybody.
[01:02:38]  We can expand on that, but first, hear the president, soon to be president, in Mar-a-Lago speaking on the drones.
[01:02:47]  Thank you.
[01:02:48]  Good to see you.
[01:02:51]  Good to see you.
[01:02:52]  Can you comment on the drones that are flying around New Jersey ports?
[01:02:55]  It seems like the American people have a big discourse.
[01:02:59]  The government knows what is happening.
[01:03:02]  Look, our military knows where they took off from.
[01:03:07]  If it's a garage, they can go right into that garage.
[01:03:09]  They know where it came from and where it went.
[01:03:13]  And for some reason, they don't want to comment.
[01:03:16]  And I think they'd be better off saying what it is.
[01:03:18]  Our military knows, and our president knows.
[01:03:22]  And for some reason, they want to keep people in suspense.
[01:03:25]  I can't imagine it's the enemy because if it was the enemy, they'd blast it out.
[01:03:29]  Even if they were late, they'd blast it.
[01:03:30]  Something strange is going on.
[01:03:33]  For some reason, they don't want to tell the people, and they should because the people are really.
[01:03:38]  I mean, they happen to be over Bedminster.
[01:03:40]  We should.
[01:03:41]  They're very close to Bedminster.
[01:03:45]  I think maybe I won't spend the weekend in Bedminster.
[01:03:48]  I've decided to cancel my trip.
[01:03:50]  Have you received an intelligence briefing on the drones?
[01:03:52]  I don't want to comment on that.
[01:03:54]  Have you been down here right now?
[01:03:56]  Do you have any reason to think they're a threat?
[01:03:58]  Interesting, right?
[01:03:59]  Interesting, interesting.
[01:04:01]  He's right.
[01:04:02]  They're over Bedminster.
[01:04:03]  So that's one of the sightings I can just show you here.
[01:04:07]  This is from local authorities there in Monmouth County.
[01:04:10]  Residents have reported 63 sightings in this recent time period.
[01:04:15]  And this is sort of the heat map of where they are.
[01:04:17]  Here's another map I should show you here.
[01:04:21]  You can see all of these sightings there over New Jersey.
[01:04:25]  See the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster.
[01:04:29]  That is one of the sites that you just heard the president reference.
[01:04:34]  He's joking about how maybe he's going to cancel his trip, doesn't want to spend the weekend there.
[01:04:38]  But you see, the problem with not coming forward with information, of course, is that it leaves people in this information hole.
[01:04:46]  And then they start to get worried and they start to get nervous.
[01:04:49]  And I mean, him even saying that he's not going to go there this weekend, people are like, what the heck is going on?
[01:04:53]  What I think is going on is that somehow these are activities.
[01:04:58]  I'm just going to give you my two cents of it, and it's not that exciting.
[01:05:01]  It's just, it's us, right?
[01:05:02]  So we're doing something, and we know we're doing it, and we don't, for whatever reason, want to be sharing that information.
[01:05:10]  And that creates this information vacuum, which is really never a good thing to have, especially kind of at a time like this.
[01:05:18]  I think he's not that worried about it.
[01:05:19]  I think he thinks it's unnecessary to keep the public in the dark that way.
[01:05:24]  He wouldn't actually say whether or not he had been briefed on it.
[01:05:28]  You heard.
[01:05:29]  Him say that he declined.
[01:05:31]  He declined to answer that.
[01:05:32]  But here's the Homeland Security Chief Mayorkas on ABC News over the weekend being asked point blank about the drones.
[01:05:40]  Are there any legitimate national security concerns here?
[01:05:43]  For example, have you seen any evidence at all, especially in these recent sightings in the Northeast, of any kind of foreign involvement?
[01:05:52]  We have not seen any foreign, and we know of no foreign involvement with respect to the sightings in the Northeast.
[01:06:02]  So, no foreign involvement, no foreign involvement, and they can't say anything more, other than, you know, they're not worried about this being Iran, et cetera.
[01:06:13]  He did also elaborate by saying, He didn't have the authorization to be able to shoot these things down.
[01:06:20]  Well, you know, I think if it were, to Trump's point earlier, if it actually were a situation where it was an enemy threat, they probably would have the authorization.
[01:06:31]  So they're coming up with a whole bunch of different ways to get around this.
[01:06:37]  But there's one thing in particular that maybe should give everyone just a little bit of pause.
[01:06:42]  And I don't know if there's anything to this.
[01:06:45]  But this is alarming in that there's a CEO of a drone manufacturing company, and I throw this out there because Joe Rogan was actually a little alarmed when he heard this one too.
[01:06:57]  I think it's a very long clip, so we won't listen to all of it.
[01:07:01]  But what he's saying is that they could be looking for, quote, a missing nuclear warhead.
[01:07:09]  So if this is our team looking for our own missing nuclear warhead, I guess that's better than, you know, our team looking for somebody else's nuclear warhead.
[01:07:18]  Again, they've said that this is not.
[01:07:20]  An enemy force, so that's worth keeping in mind.
[01:07:23]  Let me just see if I can pop this one in for you.
[01:07:25]  Just give it a minute.
[01:07:26]  But there's this company that manufactures drones, and the guy went on to TikTok and he painted kind of an elaborate conspiracy theory that maybe somehow they're looking for a missing nuclear warhead.
[01:07:39]  It seems that the system does not want to allow us to be able to give this to you at this moment in time.
[01:07:46]  But as we continue waiting for that sound to come in, I want to jump back over to just.
[01:07:51]  Everything that's happening right now in terms of this enthusiasm that's surrounding Donald Trump, the market upside that you're seeing, and how it is that he was really able to pull this one off.
[01:08:03]  There's someone by the name of, I think you know him, Van Jones, who appears frequently on CNN.
[01:08:08]  He went to a podcast over the weekend and they were asking him, you know, why is it that you think that Donald Trump was really able to pull this off?
[01:08:17]  And ultimately, he said it comes down to the fact that he was able to secure this cultural movement, which I think is really true.
[01:08:25]  But it wasn't just Trump.
[01:08:28]  If you think about it, you had to have a whole bunch of things in play, which is this wokeism from the left, which was taking off in a really effectively negative way for the rest of the population, as well as a few other things that were problematic.
[01:08:42]  And I think all of these things contributed, frankly, to a scenario in which Donald Trump only was going to succeed.
[01:08:51]  He was going to be the victor in that environment.
[01:08:54]  Let's play you this.
[01:08:55]  This is Van Jones speaking about.
[01:08:56]  How the hell did Donald Trump?
[01:08:59]  figure out.