Brendan Carr and Bob Iger anchor a report where the FCC challenges ABC News over a $16 million defamation settlement, alleging George Stephanopoulos knowingly made false claims about Donald Trump. The host dismisses Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualification efforts as baseless, citing Jack Smith's investigation, while criticizing Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow for conspiracy theories. Beyond media attacks, the episode links liberalism to unhappiness, critiques Beyoncé's "Texas Hold 'Em" for prioritizing DEI over country storytelling, and celebrates reaching 500,000 subscribers, ultimately framing these events as evidence of a degraded information environment driven by algorithmic platforms like X. [Automatically generated summary]
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Public Trust Erosion00:14:59
Merry Christmas.
I hope you had a terrific holiday.
We get some big news to celebrate here on the channel.
Upwards of 500,000 subs.
How do you like that?
You guys, amazing, amazing.
We did it.
Now we get a new goal, right?
A million.
In the meantime, a few things have been going on.
Let me just say, life is getting kind of uncomfortable over there at Disney and ABC News because the new head of the FCC, one Brendan Carr, working for Donald Trump, is already getting started.
The inauguration hasn't even happened yet, and yet Brendan Carr is firing off letters to the CEO of Disney, Bob Iger, saying that, you know, this isn't cool, that ABC has basically had this erosion in public trust.
In other words, the news network is a problem.
Take a look at this, you guys.
Okay, so just a couple of days ago, just before the holiday and about 10 days after, they settled that $16 million.
Suit there.
Well, it was actually a multi billion dollar suit, but they settled for 16 million, 15 million to the Trump Library, and another million bucks going to the lawyers for Donald Trump.
Well, Brendan Carr says, you know what, there's this erosion in public trust, hey ABC, and I'm kind of concerned about it, especially when it comes to licensing all your little networks all over the country.
They have an affiliate system you see there at ABC News.
And so he wrote that, quote, ABC's own conduct has certainly contributed to this erosion in public trust.
For instance, ABC.
News recently agreed to pay $15 million to President Trump's future presidential foundation and museum and an additional $1 million in attorney's fees to settle a defamation case.
In other words, he's able to use that, you see, against Iger and against ABC.
So it's not like they're retreating as a result of that $16 million that they're getting.
No, in fact, this actually gives them more ammunition.
In other words, the public is so sick of you guys.
You do such stupid stuff.
You admitted that you do stupid stuff.
You admitted it.
You got the stupid guy on air that keeps making allegations of stuff that didn't happen, that's not true, that the judge never said Donald Trump was guilty of.
And so George Stephanopoulos, he knew it, by the way, he knew it.
His producers told him, don't say it.
He said it anyway.
Why would he do that?
Other than to perhaps influence the outcome of an election.
So now ABC News has to give an apology, has to give all this money, and now Brendan Carr is saying, okay, well, that's proof.
That's proof you guys are no good.
And so he's gonna be kind of heavy handed.
You know, typically you get an FCC chair, and I bet you couldn't even name him, right?
I happen to know him because a lot of these people I've interviewed many times and I know personally.
But I would say that the FCC is not the most.
Glamorous of jobs.
And I think suddenly that's about to change.
Sorry, Bob.
Sorry, Bob.
You know, Elon doesn't like you either.
So you're kind of in a tricky scenario here.
DeSantis doesn't like you very much either.
I mean, I think there's a whole bunch of Republicans that are really not very big fans of one Bob Iger.
Maybe he'll actually finally, finally retire over all this.
There's a good piece in the New York Post that, well, it's everywhere being reported that basically what this is going to come down to are those affiliate.
Licenses.
So apparently, somehow CNN gets their hands on this letter, which they haven't actually shared, but they've shared excerpts from the letter, including quotes like, You know, you've already basically shown your own conduct has certainly contributed to this erosion in public trust.
That was one of the little tidbits.
But they've also pointed out that ABC, because it has to negotiate all these affiliate deals, is actually in a very vulnerable spot.
You see, local TV stations.
They're licensed by the FCC.
They get their license.
They're actually much more trusted than the national networks, but the national networks are the ones that provide them the programming in between their local stuff.
So you get it, right?
You know, you're watching your local news in the morning, and then all of a sudden, Good Morning America comes on.
Or you're watching some other local program, and then The View comes on.
And after a while, you're probably like, why do I have this national network news programming?
I mean, I like my local station, but what do I have to deal with these wackadoos over at the network like this one?
All of you.
He's not going to be, he's not going to.
You know, say, Oh, you're with a white guy, I'm gonna keep you from being deported.
No, he's gonna deport you and put the white guy with someone else.
The man is out there.
He's also kind of that was Whoopi Goldberg suggesting that Donald Trump was gonna break up marriages.
I mean, it's just really, really like interracial marriages somehow.
That was where she was going with that.
I mean, she's she's crazy, right?
I mean, she's spitting whenever she says Donald Trump's name literally, spitting.
She spit on set when referring.
To a former president of the United States who was then the Republican nominee, just one, to become president again.
Listen, take him seriously and take him literally.
I don't think that we have to, I think it would be remiss of us to not say, Joe Biden knows how to do this.
Yes, he knows how to do this.
He's quite good at this.
And, you know, you can't refute anything with him because he just, when I say him, I mean.
He rambles.
Trump.
He tends to just.
But can I mention one thing?
And then the audience gets the clap sign.
So you see, all these local channels all have ABC News affiliates.
They get their license from the FCC.
But that means the FCC has a little sway, a little control.
Perhaps, should they try to use it?
Now, again, I'm a big believer in the First Amendment.
Don't get me wrong.
I mean, I guess it's her business that she wants to spit.
But when they continue to promote so many lies or so many hateful things, like, for example, the time that O'Whoopie said somehow when the now president-elect was nearly assassinated, came within millimeters of dying, somehow it was his fault.
Do you not think that that's going a little bit too far, maybe just a little bit too irresponsible?
JD, clearly you've not been to one of your boss's rallies because you believe this insanity.
I mean, he has been inciting violence.
Since 2016, telling them to beat up Ecklers, threaten to shoot looters and migrants.
They have, I don't remember Bill Clinton about what was going on in his White House when it was sprayed by 29 shots.
I don't remember Obama blaming opponents when his White House was shot up in 2011.
You have to really take a look in a mirror.
To see the reflection.
One of the reasons that everybody has survived is because the Secret Service has been doing their job.
Let's start with that.
That's, you know.
So quit blaming folks until you decide to take a look at what's coming out of your mouth.
You didn't want to tell people that it was a lie that you've been talking about when you're sending people to go.
Against folks in the community.
In Ohio.
You know it's a lie.
But you talk about, well, Joy, you're going to bring it up.
Because you know what he did, what happened.
Well, JD Vance.
Yes.
So, just to be clear, that was Whoopi Goldberg, who is very incoherent most of the time, trying to somehow suggest that he brought this on himself.
He deserved to get shot.
Is this like the United Healthcare thing?
You deserve it because you work for a health insurance company.
You deserve it, Donald Trump, because we don't agree with you.
And because of some of the things that we don't like that you said, even though we take them out of context nonstop, because we don't like those things, somehow it's okay.
Listen, I'll tell you, the media, the media's got to watch it here.
Like, there should be some self policing.
Like, you should have some restraint, some control.
You should take on some level of responsibility.
And so now Brendan Carr is coming along and saying, okay, you know, you guys don't want to take it on.
Maybe I'll take it on for you, which is now why.
Now we know.
I mean, George Stephanopoulos, I understand, is out a fair bit of change because they're making him contribute to this deal, too.
The $15 million that Donald Trump is going to be getting for the library and the million dollars for the legal fees.
George Stephanopoulos, having insisted on saying that the president was guilty of a pretty Damn, heinous crime when the judge had never concluded that.
And he said it over and over and over again, despite everybody telling him not to.
Now we know why he said this.
I'm going to play you this clip.
This happened two days before the election, you guys.
Two days.
And he's like pleading with America.
This is the most consequential, most.
No, it's not consequential to anybody other than you, buddy, and your bottom line.
Good morning and welcome to This Week.
It is almost over.
What comes next is anyone's guess.
What we do know is this.
No election since the Civil War has posed such a test of our constitutional system.
Whether to accept election results and the peaceful transfer of power has never been on the ballot like this.
The stakes in this election are as high as it gets.
The differences between the candidates are as stark as it gets.
And as we emerge from the final weekend, the polls suggest that this election is as close as it gets.
Yeah, and guess what?
It wasn't really that close.
Donald Trump, roundster.
Okay, Georgie Pye, so just to be clear.
Yeah, obviously, it was an important election, important for so many reasons on so many different levels.
And I just have to say, thank goodness, thank God, right?
We're not dealing with another four years of that.
I don't know as I could have handled it.
I mean, I can handle anything.
I'm here for you guys, no matter what.
But, like, that would have been pretty darn awful for our economy, for our border, for our culture, et cetera.
So it was important for that reason.
But Georgie's going on about how important it is important because it was important for him and it was important for his livelihood and his company.
And now he has to pay all this money and his company has.
To pay all this money.
And if you look at Variety, for example, I had said the same exact thing.
There's actually fear about his future.
Apparently, he's re signed a deal according to the LA Times.
But that doesn't really mean much.
I would not be surprised if they were able to negotiate one, a much lower fee for Little George, literally Little George.
And I would not be surprised if they were able to get an out in there somehow.
I'm not sure how much longer he stays on the air.
Honestly, like he should just do the GMA thing, do the entertainment thing, stay out of politics, get off of that this week show.
That may happen.
It may happen because I'm not so sure that Bob Iger can handle the pressure now of having the FCC on his tail like this.
And now all the affiliates across the country, they're going to take issue with Iger.
So Brandon Carr, again, you see him if you're watching the show live.
Terrific.
I'm going to go to some of your comments at the end because, yes, we're over 500,000 subs now.
Amazing.
Thank you, guys.
We have to talk about that.
The journey and what's next to come.
Anyway, Carr had expressed concern over how ABC strikes its affiliation agreements with local stations that carry the ABC shows.
And he's positioning himself really as a friend to these local news networks because he said, and I quote in this letter that we got courtesy of CNN, I guess we know where Iger's friends are.
Quote, my understanding is that ABC is attempting to extract owners' financial and operational concessions from local broadcast TV stations under the threat of terminating long-held affiliations, which could result in blackouts and other harms to local consumers of broadcast news and content.
Huh.
So what exactly is ABC trying to do?
Trying to give a really bad deal to all those little affiliates around the country?
Ooh, you want to carry Whoopi?
You got to pay us big time for her.
I don't think anyone wants to pay for her.
Or Georgie Pie.
So he also flagged how Disney is, quote, prioritizing its global streaming services at the expense of local and freely accessible stations.
A strategy employed by most major media companies that are trying to compete with streaming giant Netflix.
This is per the New York Post.
So, yes, got it.
Like, streaming is everything, right?
Like, if you're not streaming, you're really nowhere.
So The View is nowhere.
ABC News is nowhere.
But the streaming platform is actually valuable.
And as much as Disney has stumbled with its streaming platforms, it's hanging on to that.
He did go out and say he wants to get rid of ABC News.
He wants to get rid of all his cable networks.
This is one, Bob Iger.
He said this at Sun Valley, I think the summer before last.
It's taken him a while.
Apparently nobody wants to buy him.
He wants to get rid of all of these legacy media properties and keep the streaming operations because that is the future.
But he might have to do that a whole lot sooner, a whole lot sooner.
I mean, I think the FCC is now coming for Iger and coming for ABC.
I mean, there's some history there.
I mean, in addition to whoopee spitting every time she says the guy's name, in addition to Georgie having to cough up with his network 16 million bucks, there's also just that little debate they had.
Do you remember that debate that was so unbelievable?
It was like three against one, Kamala versus Trump.
Kamala plus David Muir and Lindsey Davis, two anchors from ABC News, against Trump.
That's actually what went down, and Trump was pretty upset about it and told Fox News just the day after the debate.
Here they are listing all the things that ABC News anchors said that was totally false.
Either Kamala said these things or ABC said some of these things totally false, and nobody corrected them on it.
Check it out.
Trump Debate Corrections00:04:02
Yeah, Mr. President, we kind of expected it because when you look at Media Research Center, they said 100% of the stories covered on ABC about Kamala 100% of the time was positive.
93% of the time when they covered you, it was negative.
So it was infuriating to watch them fact check you and not her when she brought up IVF, when she brought up Project 2025 several times, and when she brought up Charlottesville.
Here are some of the lies that she said about you.
Listen.
And dangerous plan called Project 2025 that the former president intends on implementing.
Couples who pray and dream of having a family are being denied IVF treatments.
If Donald Trump were to be reelected, he will sign a national abortion ban.
And what did the president then at the time say?
There were fine people on each side.
On that day, 140 law enforcement officers were injured and some died.
Donald Trump, the candidate, Has said in this election there will be a bloodbath if this and the outcome of this election is not to his liking.
And the bloodbath, you were talking about the economy.
It's a term that's used a lot when people are talking about a bad economy.
What's your reaction to why didn't the moderators correct her?
Because they're dishonest and because I think ABC took a big hit last night.
I mean, to be honest, they're a news organization.
They have to be licensed to do it.
They ought to take away their license for the way they did that.
Boom.
Did you hear that?
Let's play that again.
I hope you guys heard that.
He said they have to be licensed.
They ought to take away their license for that.
Fast forward to what we just saw this week with Brendan.
I mean, to be honest, they're a news organization.
They have to be licensed to do it.
They ought to take away their license for the way they did that.
Bloodbath was referring to the economy.
Everybody loved the term because as soon as they heard the word, it's sort of a vicious word.
But referring to the economy, they have created an economy.
Bloodbath was the word that I used.
And it was fine in that context.
And they were trying to make it sound like there was.
A riot or something, and it was a bloodbath.
IVF, I was a leader on IVF, the IVF, which is fertilization.
I was a total leader on that.
When I first heard about it, like right from the beginning, I was one of the leaders on it, and the Republican Party has been a leader on it.
She tried to say it was just the opposite.
The whole thing with abortion, what he said, I mean, it was incredible.
I think he corrected me six times, and each time I was right.
I believe each time I was right, didn't correct her.
At all, and she was saying these things.
She was using like Charlottesville, she was using Charlottesville, and everybody you take a look at Laura Ingram, she did it incredibly.
She had it totally debunked.
She said that, in fact, it makes it angry.
She makes she gets angry.
So, I think I mean, you get the idea, right?
Like, they said a bunch of things that weren't true, and Donald Trump then was trying to correct them after the fact.
They didn't correct themselves in real time, and he said something fascinating there, which is that it should be looked at whether or not they should have their license revoked.
So, now if Brendan Carr were to go in and revoke The licenses for all those affiliates, what happens then?
The way these local markets work, you have one ABC affiliate, you have one NBC affiliate, and there's certain monopoly rules, so you can't own the ABC affiliate and the NBC affiliate.
You have a CBS affiliate, you'll have a Fox affiliate, and those affiliations give you the programming that you have to take down or supposed to take down, or you're offered in some cases, it depends on how you strike the agreement of the mothership.
But when the mothership Is so insanely flawed and offering such a flawed product.
And then you have at the same time the administration saying, well, maybe we shouldn't allow you to have this affiliation.
Then you're going to have some problems.
Market Shifts Explained00:02:48
On top of it, right?
To Brandon's point, I mean, this is rather unbelievable.
They're kind of making all these preferences for their streaming network and they're not really putting the resources into the product they're supposed to be delivering the affiliates.
This business is changing.
Like, that's what we're witnessing, guys, in real time.
This is a massive shift and it is.
flipping these people out.
Oh my gosh, I have a bite.
I'm going to play for you a bite, a sound bite later in the program from, you know, that anchor that looks just like Rachel Maddow on MSNBC.
They can only get Rachel once a week.
So they get this guy on five days a week.
Anyway, he's losing it.
He's so upset.
This horrible streaming stuff and this social media.
And oh my goodness, what has happened to the world?
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Accountability for Leaders00:06:20
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Okay, you know what else is exciting stuff?
MSNBC prepping for a big old spinoff.
I'll tell you, this is what ABC is going to have to do.
So Bob Eiger's getting the note from Brendan Carr.
And he's probably looking at that and going, Well, I wanted to get rid of these networks anyway.
ABC News, ABC News, bye bye, bye bye.
I mean, it's going to be very, very, very tough, I think, for that network going forward, just like it's very, very tough for one.
NBC News, look at the pay cuts.
Joy Reid is looking at, you know, she's making $3 million, apparently, per reports, which is like $3 million too many.
So maybe she'll have to take a cut, just like Rachel Maddow went from, what, $30 million down to $25 million?
Oh, they got all kinds of change over there, I guess.
The question is, will Joy be able to capture some of it?
Joy, remember Joy, who was just so delighted that it was black people going after Donald Trump with all of those different cases?
I actually thought it kind of looked a little bit conspicuous.
Just saying, just saying.
Here's Joy Reid back in the day.
For me, there is something wonderfully poetic about the fact that despite the fact that even if convicted, he's not going to go to prison, the first person to actually criminally prosecute Donald Trump is a black Harvard grad.
The very kind of person that his former staff, the people who worked for him, Stephen Miller, et cetera, want to never be at Harvard Law School.
But he was.
And he came out and graduated.
He's prosecuting you, Donald.
And a black woman is doing that same exact thing in Georgia.
And a black woman forced you to pay a $175 million fine that's now also in question because the people who put it up, that might not be legit.
Donald Trump is being held to account.
By the very multicultural, multiracial democracy that he's trying to dismantle.
And for me, there's something poetic and actually wonderful about that.
It says something good about our country that we're still capable of having that happen.
Go DEI.
My DEIs.
Oh, I apologize for clipping off the end of that.
She said, Go DEI.
My DEIs.
I mean, there's something poetic.
You really want to be that divisive, huh?
You really want to just reduce everything to race.
Yes, the answer is yes.
That is all.
She wants to do.
So I think Joy is probably on thin ice.
They're saying, okay, you take this pay cut or you lose your show.
You'll lose your job.
Again, I go back to why was everybody so, so worried about Donald Trump?
It had nothing to do with him being Hitler and everything to do with their own selfish actions.
They were all very much aware that they would make less money when Donald Trump came in.
I mean, this woman is so crazy that she actually suggested in her little TikTok thing.
This is highly irresponsible, just like Whoopi saying, well, he deserved it because some of his rhetoric, you know, he brings this on himself.
Joy Behar suggested the assassination attempt might be fake, might have been staged.
I mean, this woman needs to be fired.
for the sake of humanity.
Thank you very much.
And yes, she'll get a pay cut, but I'm telling you, it should be a whole lot more.
Spinco.
When MSNBC has to stand on its own two feet and actually earn a dime because it doesn't have Comcast there to bail it out every other turn, that's going to be interesting to see.
Here, take a look.
We still don't know for sure whether Donald Trump was hit by a bullet, whether he was hit by glass fragments, whether he was hit by shrapnel.
We don't have those details.
We actually have no details from his physician, even though this man is still a Secret Service protected, you know, presidential candidate.
We knew almost nothing.
Why?
Why don't we know that much?
We know that three people were shot.
One person, unfortunately, was killed at the rally.
We don't know where they were sitting or standing relative to him.
We don't know why, for nine full seconds, Donald Trump was allowed to stand back up.
During an active shooting, an active shooter situation, even though they at that point had said the shooter was down, how would they have known if there were more shooters or not?
Nobody knew that there could have been five shooters for all they knew.
Yet they allowed him to stand up in the middle of that, you know, crisis and pose for a photo and fist pump the air so he could get the iconic photo.
And then they allowed him to stand up again outside of the SUV instead of just shoving him into the SUV.
That seems really unusual.
What is the actual injury to Donald Trump's ear that's under that bandage?
Shouldn't we know that by now?
It's weird.
And there doesn't seem to be a lot of so, I don't even know if I played that back at the time because I was so horrified by that.
And I wanted to be thoughtful about not encouraging any kind of insanity and crazy speech, et cetera.
But I definitely watched it and was pretty struck.
And I just thought it was important to show you now because she is so far out in crazy townland.
And her network is looking at well, what do we do?
Does she stay?
Does she go?
Who else stays and goes?
Because the whole lot of them were trying to outdo each other with their conspiracies.
And I will say this about Rachel Maddow.
There's no conspiracy that she hasn't met that she just doesn't love, and she goes down these crazy liberal rabbit holes, Russia, Russia, Russia, for example.
AOC Subway Comments00:15:10
But there's like actually some sophistication to it.
I mean, I kid you not.
Like, I'd watch, I was like, damn, she used to have a show on right after me.
And so I'd find myself, like, I'd go to the green room, and you know, maybe I'd be changing my clothes or something afterwards or taking off my makeup, some of it before I left the studio.
And I'd catch part of her show.
I'm on the competition monitors, and I'm like, damn.
Like, if I were to say those things.
Ever say those things?
I can't even imagine.
Like, that would be crazy, right?
But somehow, because she's on the left, she's on the other side, she gets to go with this really wackadoo scenario.
I will say, though, they were clever.
Like, I mean, they were crazy, but clever.
This one, on the other hand, she's getting no cleverness.
There's no sophistication.
There's no savoir faire.
There's no je ne sais quoi.
There's no, no, no, no, nothing other than a really bad looking haircut.
She needs to go, okay?
That is my opinion.
She is not doing journalists any kind of favor whatsoever.
But there's a lot of them.
There's a lot of them.
I mean, for goodness sakes, what's his name, that tried to tell us that it was the best Joe Biden he had ever seen?
You know who I'm talking about, one Joe Scarborough.
I mean, they just lie to us.
Or I'll never forget the day that that morning show started to go on about the economy and how it was all in people's heads.
Because, you know, wages are up.
Okay, you idiots, real wages aren't up.
Real wages, called adjusted for inflation, because inflation is through the roof, are way down.
And that's why people feel this pain.
Don't try and sit there and tell us to think otherwise.
They wanted us to think the economy was great because then maybe the economy could be great.
It's actually a whole sort of economic school of thought that when you have positive.
Energy out there, it tends to influence how people feel, and then you get more positive energy.
But you weren't getting any positive energy from the likes of Kamala or Biden for that matter.
No way, no how.
Like it was just, I mean, you just looked at Biden and thought, I don't know if he's going to make it.
And then you looked at Kamala and you said, She's definitely not going to make it.
And there's not a lot upstairs either.
And she can't even have a conversation on the economy for that matter.
But this is great because MSNBC is now like maybe trying to bring in new faces and new people.
So they brought on this woman who's a columnist at the Financial Times in London, Julian Tett.
And Jillian, she's got her finger on the pulse of the business community.
Anyone who covers business gets it, right?
Like you understand when markets go up or markets go down.
It's pretty simple.
You understand the opportunity or lack thereof.
And so they bring her on to Morning Joe, and this is hysterical.
Like they're like setting her up.
Oh, you know, the global business community, what do they really think?
Because they can't be that happy, right?
With all this uncertainty.
And watch the answer she gives.
What is your sense of what not just American CEOs, but the world is bracing for, is prepared for, is expecting from a second?
Interesting choice of word, bracing for.
Term.
Well, here is what we do know.
We do know that Donald Trump's election has unleashed astonishing animal spirits.
And by animal spirits, I'm referring to the economist John Maynard Keynes, who was from King's College, Cambridge, who argued that when people start to feel wildly optimistic and confident, That basically causes them to spend more, invest more, hire more, and you get this self fulfilling cycle of growth.
And right now, everyone can sense that there's an extraordinary explosion of animal spirits in America in relation to the economy, and particularly relative to all the other major trading partners like Europe or Asia right now.
So the CEOs are acting like rational business people saying, We want to be part of that.
We want to be part of this growth story.
Do you hear the hmmm coming out of the peanut gallery?
I think one Mika Brzezinski over on the side there.
And look at the expression on these.
Faces, right?
Willie's like, Oh my god, I can't believe she just said that.
The CEOs are acting like rational people, they're actually excited about Donald Trump.
So you feel the tenor of the room just change.
Willie kind of sits up, looks sideways, you get a hmm coming from Mika, and all of a sudden, Jillian starts to try to try to sort of massage her message a little bit because she sees that this is falling on deaf ears.
Watch the rest, however, that's what because, of course, you got to have a however when everybody's going, Hmm, do you know what we don't know?
Is what on earth is going to unfold in January because the reality is that what Trump has actually said about the economy is very contradictory.
And the question right now is how is anyone going to actually resolve those contradictions?
I actually think she was just trying to cover herself because she could read the room and everybody around her actually flipped out.
He actually hasn't been that contradictory.
He's actually been very consistent, like from 30 years ago, consistent.
He was going on Oprah back when Oprah liked him, he was going on Larry King back when CNN liked him.
And saying the same thing he's saying now, which is that we can't keep having every other country eat our lunch.
We need to look at things like tariffs.
We need to be more intelligent with our financial planning and our tax structure, et cetera, et cetera.
And he's right.
So MSNBC going into Spinco, ABC, mark my words, is going to look very, very different, very different by this time next year.
I tend to be right on these things, you know, for better or for worse.
I just call it like I see it, really and truly.
I'm just calling it like I see it.
And Bob Iger is not a dumb man.
He may be liberal, but he's not entirely dumb.
And his responsibility is to maximize shareholder value.
And you're not maximizing shareholder value with Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, and the other one, Georgie, Georgie Pants, right?
That is not good for shareholders.
Granted, it's a very small part of the business, but do you need the headache?
I mean, they're already figuring out.
They got rid of that lesbian witch series, right?
The coven of lesbian witches, the Star Wars spinoff that was costing them $29 million an episode.
They finally figured out that wasn't such a good allocation of capital because nobody wanted to see it.
Yeah, you know what?
You guys actually have to create things that people want to see.
And on the news side, that people trust.
And no one trusts you.
No one.
At all.
You know what?
I'll tell you this.
No one trusts the governor of New York or AOC at all right now.
I think actually the mayor has a leg to stand on because he was one of the first to come out and say, We're getting rid of the $350 certificate, that little credit card that you would get as an illegal migrant for your food.
We're getting rid of that.
He wants to get rid of the hotel stays.
He's all over that because it turns out, interestingly enough, the hotel that New York taxpayers are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to every single year is actually owned.
By the Pakistan government.
So go figure.
New York taxpayers are paying the Pakistan government to house millions of illegal migrants.
Or I guess at least tens of thousands, one could say, over the course of any given year.
I think you get to stay there like three months.
Sweet deal, right?
Well, New Yorkers have had it.
You just look at what's going on in the subway.
I mean, there was this horrible story.
Absolutely unbelievable.
I mean, I don't think I've ever seen anything so.
Horrific.
I don't want to get into the details, but you know what I'm talking about if you're listening.
I encourage you to watch the show because you'll see the headline there about the Guatemalan migrant on the subway who is alleged to have burnt a woman to her death.
So there's that.
There's another story that was in the news about a stabbing on the subway.
And there is another news item about another woman who was gravely injured on the subway.
And this is just all like within the last week.
But what do you think is going to happen?
I mean, poor Daniel Penny, poor Daniel Penny.
Was completely tarred and feathered for trying to do the right thing and protect people on the subway.
Because guess what?
Nobody's protected them.
They've invited all the migrants in.
Hey, come one, come all.
We'll give you free food, free housing, free this, free that, all at the taxpayers' expense.
And somehow nobody thought about increasing the police presence.
Well, you can.
Everybody who can is retiring from the police force right about now.
So lawmakers are coming under fire, including one.
AOC.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
This Nick Satter, who has a Twitter account, just decided to confront her about it.
It didn't go so well.
It didn't go so well.
I was worried that poor Nick was going to get thrown down the stairs by the handler of AOC.
AOC, take a look at this.
So, Casio Cortez, you're.
Yeah, so your district is really suffering under the pressure of the border crisis.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Why are.
I'm sorry, don't touch me.
Your district is very much suffering through the border crisis.
Why will you not.
No, no, you're out of my way.
Dude, fucking get your hands off of me.
What?
You're going to fall down the stairs, man.
Relax, stop playing me.
Stop touching me.
Are you talking to the Biden administration about fixing the border?
Get off of me.
What is wrong with you?
You touched me on the stairs.
I did not touch you.
I have an old video.
Wow.
So there seemed to be some back and forth about who was touching who.
And she's accusing him of touching her because I guess that'll play in Peoria a little bit better than my guy was trying to push him away.
Anyway, these questions are real questions and AOC is going to have to answer them.
I mean, whether she talks to Nick or whether she talks to one of her friends at ABC News or MSNBC.
But you know what?
I don't think she's going to have as many friends in the future in those places because the executives don't want to deal with the headache and the fallout from all of it.
So then there is one, Kathy Hulchel, who's so proud that she can go take a subway now.
She did this days before Christmas and actually she released this video like within hours of this horrific attack, which didn't really sit so well.
I mean, I think you could nickname her Tone Deaf Kathy.
Tone deaf Kathy, because this horrible thing happens and she's out there tweeting about how she's made the subway safer.
Are you kidding me?
She gets on the subway.
She's got like an army of security around her.
It's a whole different ballgame.
I'm on the subway train heading out to Clean Center.
I have a lot of, not quite last minute, but I have holiday shopping to do.
I've got an adorable two year old granddaughter.
So it's a lot more fun to shop.
I can take the subway wherever we need to go.
And I want all New Yorkers to feel safe, which is why we've added.
So many more National Guard, about 250 more people that'll make sure that your ride is the same as it can be.
Think about that.
You need the National Guard.
Where's your police force?
Kathy, I think you need to hire a few more.
I think you need to figure that out.
Or maybe actually don't bring so many illegals into your state.
Maybe you'd have a better scenario.
I mean, she can't answer any of the real questions.
She doesn't understand the statistics.
She doesn't understand what the real world is.
She doesn't understand how fearful people are right now of being in New York City.
A lot of things with statistics, and I see the percentage that crime is down 42% since 2021.
But if you look back to pre pandemic, and I know you like to say that overall crime is down 12% since the pandemic, but murders are up 200%, felony assault is up 55%, and burglary is up 140%.
40%.
So, are you saying that this is progress?
Are you talking about statewide, city, or subway?
Oh, no, crime in the transit system.
I'm sorry, Governor.
Yes, crime in the subway system.
Okay.
You want to answer that?
Can you take that one for me?
I don't know the answer to that.
Because you see, the real numbers are quite bad.
You can cherry pick all you want and say, well, compared to this year or whatever.
But here's the deal crime is up, and everybody knows it now.
Everybody.
So, I'm going to tell you this, Kathy, you probably want to look at a resignation.
Being submitted at some point sooner, you're just going to get slaughtered in the next election.
Same with AOC.
Resign, go home, do whatever you need to do, go become a lobbyist, AOC.
That'll work for you.
Tom Homan, by the way, who is the new Borders R, and he is a crackerjack, total awesome, like tough guy, right?
Like he is smart.
He is not going to put up with anybody's BS.
I know that about him.
But don't take my word.
Listen to him.
I want to show you a clip from just the other day where he was saying, Wait a second.
We need to spend this money.
Oh, it's going to cost $88 billion.
We don't have $88 billion.
Well, guess what?
We spent $151 billion last year on migrants, which adjusted for inflation is roughly half what we spent on an entire world war.
Yeah, I think it's World War I cost somewhere in that vicinity.
We're spending all this money, housing, clothing, feeding, trying to integrate, whatever.
And he's like, no, no, no, no.
We just need to freaking secure the border.
This is actually an issue for national security.
Thank you very much.
Take a peek.
Congress needs to fund this deportation operation.
It's going to be expensive.
And everybody's focused on how expensive it's going to be.
They need to understand.
Yeah, it's going to be expensive in the beginning, but in the long run, it's going to save billions of dollars of taxpayers' money.
We are talking about the biggest national security vulnerability this country has $86 billion.
is a start.
We need at least that to do this operation.
Yeah.
It's going to be expensive.
But what's the alternative?
We're just going to keep letting people pour in.
You're going to sacrifice lives as a result of that because you're going to have so much more crime.
We have the drugs.
Everything that goes with that.
I'm sorry.
Everything that goes with that.
You need to know who's here.
You need to actually have a process.
You need to streamline it.
And you need to be bringing the people who want to work, not the people who are looking around saying, okay, where can I get a free hotel room?
Where can I get the $350 a week for my food?
Because I need my ethnically sensitive.
Food.
No, you don't need anything.
You shouldn't need anything.
You should come here because you want to work and you want a better future.
And you ought to have some path to that.
It shouldn't be on the backs of American taxpayers that are struggling enough as it is.
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Here's Tom again.
American citizens is almost a daily occurrence now, you know, because historic number of criminal aliens walking the streets because this administration's policy in sanctuary jurisdictions and lacks immigration enforcement.
ICE has their hands tied.
Secretary Mariorcas has given them priorities that they can't even go arrest an illegal alien anymore unless he's convicted.
Convicted of a serious crime, then maybe they can arrest them.
So, this is on this administration.
As far as Governor Hoko, shame on her.
She supports sanctuary status in that state.
She welcomed thousands of illegal aliens to her state.
She sent them to Buffalo and Syracuse.
Murders occurred by illegal aliens in Buffalo and Syracuse.
She has a green light law.
ICE and CBP can't even work with local law enforcement.
Local law enforcement can't even share DMV data with these people.
So, Governor Hoko, shame on you.
There's nothing you can say that's going to make this right in New York.
All right.
You didn't get a chance to see Secretary Mayorkas in his exit interview on CBS.
Absolutely nothing.
Governor Hochul, shame on you.
Governor Hochul, resign, leave, let someone come in that actually cares and prioritizes this.
Or get out of the way so Tom can do his job.
Because New Yorkers don't deserve that.
They deserve to be safe.
Every American deserves to be safe.
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Breaking story to bring you right now.
This is absolutely wild.
The Democrats are making some kind of crazy last ditch effort to try and take Donald Trump out.
It is going to fail spectacularly.
I can tell you that right from the beginning, but at least understand how crazy they are.
That's why we're covering it.
This is the new article, Making the Rounds.
It's featured first and most predominantly in The Hill.
Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office.
But lawmakers must act now.
They are calling on lawmakers, these guys, Evan and David, opinion writers, their contributors over at The Hill.
They want this to happen ASAP because they do not want Donald Trump coming in as president.
I mean, my gosh, they need to go hang out with the folks over at ABC and NBC, right?
MSNBC.
They said, and I quote here the Constitution provides that an oath breaking insurrectionist is ineligible to be president.
This is the plain wording of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
Quote, no person shall hold any office, civil or military, under the United States or under any state who, having previously taken a note to support the Constitution of the U.S., shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
This disability can be removed by a two thirds vote in each House.
Well, one, you're not going to get the vote.
And two, he was not in insurrection.
Didn't we just go through all this?
Didn't Jack Smith just pack up his bags and leave?
I mean, didn't Fanny, big Fanny down there in Georgia, just actually get her entire team disqualified along with herself because of, well, some indiscretions along the way?
I'm not sure why they're trying to go back to this.
I feel like we're relitigating everything that we've already litigated.
And yet, this is written by some law folks.
They were both clerks, I guess, on the Supreme Court.
No, maybe just clerks at a state level.
But anyway, these two particular people, one went to Columbia, I think one went to Duke, whatever.
You know, the Ivies aren't what they used to be.
I say that as a Columbia grad, by the way.
They're trying to somehow say that you need to go back to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
It's just that, you know, they really don't have a leg to stand on.
I'm not entirely sure why they're going down this process again.
So they're going back to J6, J6, J6, which is.
Can I say this?
Frankly, a hotly contested story.
Because the version of the story that America got to see over and over again in a loop was all shot by one documentary filmmaker named Alexander Pelosi, who was the daughter of the Speaker of the House at the time.
Think of that.
I mean, right?
And then they played it on CNN as an exclusive after they bought it, I guess, from HBO because she was shooting for HBO.
So she probably made money on the whole thing, too.
And they brought in, uh uh, what do you know?
Some Disney ABC producers, the guy who used to produce Good Morning America, produced the trial.
So he went through the footage to cherry pick the best moments.
And then they played that in a loop in primetime.
And they chose primetime deliberately because they wanted everybody to see it.
And guess what?
None of it mattered because America still voted for Donald Trump.
And yet, these crazy people are still willing to go and try this one again.
It will go nowhere.
But it speaks volumes, volumes about how crazy and how much venom there really is there.
I mean, Donald Trump won the whole kit and caboodle.
I mean, he took all the battleground states.
They weren't battleground, they were there for Trump.
All right, so this is just, anyway, it's making the rounds on Twitter too.
This opinion piece, they want to use Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to deal with this insurrection thing.
And look, I'm just going to say this because, again, I've got pretty good instincts on this stuff.
It's not going to get to first base.
It's not going to get to first base, but consider everything that's happened.
I mean, they hid from us the fact that Joe Biden was a mess.
They couldn't bother to primary him.
They couldn't bother.
They didn't want to offend Joe Biden.
They couldn't actually unseat him.
And so then they did it after the fact when they finally realized that he was so incapacitated and suffering from mental health challenges and likely dementia that they had to take him out.
In the meantime, they went on to mainstream media and gave us a whole song and dance.
You know the drill.
And the mainstream media.
Boy, did they dance like this guy.
I think he's better than he's ever been intellectually, analytically, because he's been around for 50 years.
And, you know, I don't know if people know this or not.
Biden used to be a hothead.
Sometimes that Irishman would get in front of the reasoning, sometimes he would say things he didn't want to say.
This is, and I don't really, you know what, I don't really care.
Start your tape right now because I'm about to tell you the truth.
And F you if you can't handle the truth.
This version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.
Not a close second.
Wow.
All right.
If that's the best Biden, I'd be really curious to see the worst Biden.
I mean, that was just a blatant lie.
All right.
So somebody told him to go and do that.
He's out there at the 11th hour trying, trying, trying, just like Georgie Boy was saying, oh my gosh, this is like the biggest.
Election since the Civil War.
I mean, I'd say it was pretty important.
Obviously, I'm coming at it from a different perspective, but come on, Georgia, you just knew it was going to cost you a ton of money.
Good morning and welcome to this week.
It is almost over.
What comes next is anyone's guess.
What we do know is this no election since the Civil War has posed such a test of our constitutional system.
Whether to accept election results and the peaceful transfer of power has never been on the ballot like this.
The stakes in this election are as high as it gets.
The differences between the candidates are as stark as it gets.
So think about this.
He's like, oh, you know, basically, we hate Trump, we hate Trump.
But think about how they're saying, well, you know, he's not going to accept the results of the election.
I'm just going to look at this and say, well, who's not accepting the results of the election?
It would seem to me that the liberals are the ones that still don't want to accept the results of the election.
Now, why might that be?
Well, because it has a financial impact on them, because it's going to change media forever, because, gosh darn it, Elon Musk went and.
He bought Twitter and turned it into X.
And they don't like that.
They don't like the streaming stuff.
They don't like the podcast stuff.
They don't like that we actually can speak freely over here and have an exchange of dialogue.
They want it all controlled by themselves and they want to keep that little perch.
So there's the guy that's on MSNBC that looks, gosh darn it, just like Rachel Maddow.
You know who I'm talking about.
Chris Hayes.
Let me see if I can find the sound bite for you because this is actually pretty funny to see.
Chris Hayes is really quite worked up that all of a sudden media is changing and he actually thinks that somehow this is connected to Trump.
In other words, if the media hadn't been changing as much as it was, if people hadn't had all that access to information like they've had, God forbid they have access to information.
Gosh, now they can read.
What are you going to do?
My gosh, I mean, think of how disgusting that is, really and truly.
Well, this guy, Chris Hayes, is so worried about everyday people actually being able to consume their news sources in different ways.
He keeps going back to this that basically people that don't watch him are the stupid people.
So if you don't watch Chris Hayes, you're somehow stupid.
And that stupidity means that you're going to vote for someone like Trump.
You know, when they talk about low information voters, this is what they're going back to.
It's kind of a longer ish clip, but I want you to hear it because we should talk about this.
This is really about Chris Hayes being threatened that his show is irrelevant.
We don't even know who he is.
We think he's Rachel Maddow.
Whatever.
He's threatened because his show is irrelevant and increasingly now so.
So listen to how he goes on.
As we inch closer to a new year and a new administration, there's still lots of questions about how the election turned out the way it did.
And everyone's got their pet reasons.
It was inflation, sure.
It was Joe Biden's age, also.
It was the Democrats doing too much of this or too little of that.
But for me, the one piece of data that haunts me is this.
Just before the election, the think tank Data for Progress surveyed a month's worth of poll respondents.
That's more than 13,000 voters to see how closely they paid attention to political news.
Now, this sample group of voters basically matched the overall results of the election favoring Donald Trump over Kamala Harris by about 1%, which is how it turned out.
But Data for Progress also singled out respondents who said they consume a great deal of political news.
That group of voters broke for Kamala Harris by a sixth.
In other words.
He's like, the voters who watch me, they broke for Kamala.
The ones that are watching all the news, of course, because all the news is for Kamala.
Point margin.
And among voters who said they consume zero political news, none at all, Donald Trump took a 19-point advantage.
Conclusion you can draw from that data is that the less attention Americans paid to the news, the likelier they were to be big Trump supporters.
And we just entered a new environment in which the news as a distinct entity is kind of crumbling.
It's being replaced by the endless scroll of content, the ambient information environment that people breathe into their lungs, the way you breathe in both air and pollution at the same time.
So now you have people who don't pay attention to the failing news media, as it's called by its critics, but are still getting some clues and information from algorithm-driven social networks about what's happening in our democracy, what the government is doing, what the status quo is, what people are proposing to do about it.
And this has produced a situation which the basic way that people relate to their own self-governance. and the information they get about it is about as bad and degraded as I personally have ever seen it.
There are a lot of reasons for that.
We'll be exploring those reasons throughout this special show tonight.
One place where this bleak information environment is the most obvious is what used to be called Twitter, now X, the social media site that got bought by far-right billionaire Elon Musk, who very clearly intentionally manipulated the platform to become a de facto pro-Trump right-wing propaganda outlet, and he succeeded.
Studies by the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and academic organizations have found that the site forced political content on users.
That content was almost invariably pro Trump, pro Republican, and pro Musk.
Musk has also shared or amplified far right and racist conspiracy theories on the site.
All while accounts for mainstream news outlets and liberal politicians get less engagement and more abuse.
So he's worried because you see people are getting a lot of views from X.
But X is the one place where you could actually, I'll say this in present tense, you can actually talk about stuff.
And there was a time, don't forget, when you couldn't even talk about the fact that the virus had been created in a lab in China known as Wuhan, and that that was the place that was the location of the first three people who were hospitalized with coronavirus.
That wasn't allowed.
Like all the platforms had censored that.
I mean, for goodness sakes, Facebook took Donald Trump off of the platform.
Twitter did the same exact thing.
I mean, the Ayatollah could stay, but not Donald Trump.
Come on.
You can't tell me you believe in freedom of speech and then say, we're going to just outlaw everything.
You can't say this.
You can't think that.
You can't say this because we have to be this, that, and the other.
No, that was micromanagement controlled from the likes of the Biden administration.
Those days have ended, and that is terrifying for the mainstream media because it means they have ended.
They've really ended.
I mean, they've ended so much that now they're going to lose like the only source of income that they even had the income that comes from the big pharma companies.
So RFK is really making their life difficult.
Did you see this one?
New York Times running this headline RFK wants to ban drug ads on TV.
It wouldn't be easy.
I think it actually would be.
I mean, are they saying it's a freedom of speech thing?
Because, yeah, I'm not so sure.
I mean, I think that there's a lot that could be said that is actually very endangering for people to, you know what?
You go do, you can get the information elsewhere.
Go get it on Twitter, okay?
X. Here we go.
You go research it yourself.
You don't have to be force fed this stuff.
I love it.
Like, you're watching the evening news and, like, right in the middle of the evening news, and, you know, it's the kind of thing you used to be able to watch as a family.
You can't anymore because there's some erectile dysfunction ad coming on right in the middle of the show, right?
And you're like, how do I explain that one?
Okay.
This is a guy named Patrick Bet David.
He's got a big streaming operation.
He's writing RFK.
No wonder they don't want these guys, right?
RFK and Trump could completely decimate the mainstream media, not just through FCC stipulations, but this right here getting rid of big pharma ads.
Because in 2023, big pharma spent around nearly $16 billion in advertising.
So, what would happen to CNN and MSNBC if they don't have all that money coming in from the big pharma?
80% of their talent would be fired.
I actually think it's going to happen anyway.
I think we're in the middle of this huge transition, right?
And you don't need a network anymore.
The network's actually kind of irrelevant.
YouTube, Facebook, X, Rumble, these are sort of our networks now.
And you tune in, hopefully, because you want to see me and you want to see what I have to say and you want to see what I'm following.
And it's a more direct relationship as opposed to this top down structure.
Oh, kind of reminds me of some economics.
Capitalism versus socialism, streaming versus networks, okay?
Or actually, I should say networks, streaming, yeah, no, versus networks.
That's exactly the right order.
Capitalism is to socialism as streamers.
Are two networks.
This is where it's at.
The handwriting's on the wall.
ABC News needs to be sold.
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Get a private equity company to bleed it for the last bit of profitability they can.
They'll have to fire Joy, they'll have to fire Whoopi, they'll have to fire David, and a whole lot more people.
But you could squeeze out a little bit of profitability there in the final days.
Spinco, forget about it.
Again, none of this stuff matters anymore.
MSNBC doesn't matter anymore.
CNBC, I'm sorry, I used to work there, but guess what?
On a terminal, what you actually need is analysis, which is exactly what we give you at 76 Research 76research.com, the financial company that I created with my friend Rob.
You need to know what stocks do I buy.
CNBC is not telling you that, they're just giving you the hits, runs, and errors in the day of programming.
And frankly, you don't even want the hits, runs, and errors because then you often kind of make mistakes, right?
You get too caught up in the psychology of things, and everybody's selling, so you figure you should sell.
I'm like, no, no, no, no, that's when you need to buy, all right?
But everyone sells, you buy.
And vice versa.
Although I never really sell.
I don't, we don't sell a lot.
A lot of our holdings, I should point that out.
We might diversify at 76 Research.
So, for example, if the stock has gone up so much, we might say, okay, now it's such a big portion of the portfolio that we need to rejigger, reallocate.
And so, this is the other name that we're looking at right now.
But our names are good names.
Like, we want to own them for a long time.
So, it's not like in, out, in, out, in, out.
Anyway, anyway, I digress.
The point being that, look, This streaming stuff is real.
This is where content is coming from.
And we don't have to worry about big pharma.
And we don't have to worry about micromanagement and networks saying you can only say this, that, or the other.
It's a whole new day, which is great.
And you know what?
I think it's going to be overall a plus for the country.
Liberalism is bad for your health.
I mean, we knew that, right?
I knew that.
We've talked about it.
You knew that.
But apparently, a new study I think this is a Harvard guy who went on to Genius Life to talk about it.
A new study actually shows that it's definitely bad for your health.
Well, it may be a chicken or an egg thing that you could debate, but I look at it and say there's some kind of correlation here going on that is fascinating because liberals are just miserable people.
And, like, I'm not just saying that.
They really are.
They're like miserable people.
Look.
10 years ago, you wrote, conservative women are particularly, seem to be particularly blissful.
About 40% say they're very happy.
That makes them slightly happier than conservative men and significantly happier than liberal women.
Yeah.
The unhappiest of all are liberal men.
Only about a fifth consider themselves very happy.
That was true 10 years ago.
Liberal women have overtaken liberal men as the unhappiest group.
You find that particularly young women, very interesting new data show that white liberal women under 30 have almost a six in 10 chance of having been diagnosed with a mental illness.
In America today, it's a really big problem.
And there's lots of speculation on what that has to do with politics, what it has to do with race, what it has to do with age, et cetera, et cetera.
But what you find is that this is a group that's really, really struggling.
And it's a pity because it's not good for them.
It's not good for society.
And that's what we see.
So I don't think that being a political conservative is a panacea for being a happy person.
But we see disproportionately these happiness and unhappiness effects in different parts of the population for sure.
Why do you guys think that is?
I have a few different views on that.
I mean, one, I think.
Conservatives often have religion in their life and I think religion is a big part of being a happy person, because a lot of stuff happens and you can't explain it, but you got to keep moving forward right, is a glass half full or half empty?
It's always half full.
When you talk to a conservative and you know what you, you know when the things don't go well you, you kind of you deal with it and you confront it, you lick your wounds for a little bit and then you back up, you back on the horse and you're moving forward because you know what.
It's partly what God's mandate is for us, right that to keep Pushing forward and moving forward and striving to make yourself happier, and recognizing and being grateful, big part of religion too, for all that we do have.
I mean, you're thankful, you say your prayers to God and you thank God for all that is going right.
And so you're reminded of what's going right.
And that's sort of a self fulfilling prophecy.
You think about what's going well in your life.
Okay, maybe there's some other things you need to work on, whatever, or maybe things aren't perfect over here, but this is good.
And because this is good, I feel good.
And so I do suspect that just a basic little thing like religion tends to help people more than the liberals ever knew.
Maybe they just like being unhappy.
I don't know.
You look at their social media stuff, everybody's really unhappy looking.
And they wallow in that.
And it's just, oh, victim mentality constant.
I'm the poor, poor victim, and it's never going to change because the man is always going to be.
I mean, think about what he just said about liberal women having this deficit for happiness.
I think those are connected.
So one's religion, but two is politics.
Two is the political aspect of this, that you're the victim and nothing can ever change.
I mean, unless you vote for Kamala and she gives you some little handout along the way.
Oh, oops, that was going to black men, right?
The forgivable loan of 50K for every black man.
You can't make it up.
Unbelievably stupid ideas from a stupid woman with stupid policy, people all around her.
So they're unhappy.
To which I would say, you know what?
You're in charge of your own destiny.
That's what we also believe as conservatives, that you have some say in things.
You're not helpless.
You're not a victim.
You can figure it out.
And yeah, God plays a role in that.
I mean, here we are at Christmas.
I hope you had a good Christmas.
I definitely did.
On Christmas Eve, we went and did some caroling at church.
I'll tell you, like, that's one place to get religion pretty fast.
You know what?
A candlelit service on Christmas Eve, when you're reading about the nativity scenes, I mean, it's just, it's like overpowering.
It's just, everybody sang Silent Night.
We lit our candles.
It was actually just amazing and the joy to the world.
And I was like, wow, I was just so overcome.
I always am.
And that's something that everybody should have a chance to experience.
You can't, though, if you're a liberal.
No, you're a liberal.
You can't do that.
We don't like church, right?
We want to just sit over here in the corner and be miserable all the time with our funny haircut.
Liberal women, I'm just going to tell you, you know what?
Get out there.
Maybe go to church, go for a run.
Start thinking about what you're grateful for every day.
Every single day, remind yourself there's got to be something that you're happy about.
And remind yourself of that.
And then, hey, you know what?
Maybe one day you'll become a conservative because we're really happy over here.
What can I say?
You know who's not so happy?
Here's a liberal woman who's clearly, she went out of her way, Beyonce, doing this whole Texas Carter thing for her Texas Carter album because she wants to somehow overtake country music because she got slided a few years ago.
I guess back in 2016, she was at the CMA Awards, Country Music Association.
She didn't like how she was treated.
And so this was all over the media.
She said, look, she created this album in part because she didn't like how she was treated at the CMA.
And she's like, no, no, no.
The black influence on country is actually really significant, and I want to show that.
So, this was part of what the NFL halftime football extravaganza from Beyonce, who had a cameo from her daughter, Blue Ivy.
I guess they're trying to work up the family thing, country and family, right?
because Jay-Z, the dad, is kind of dealing with some stuff as a result of Diddy, et cetera.
I won't get into the details, but you know what I'm talking about.
Honestly, this looked like one of Diddy's white parties.
I mean, everybody's dressed in white, head to toe in white, as she sang these country classics like Jolene.
Blackbird's not a country song.
That's actually a Beatles tune, beautiful song, and a few more, Texas Hold'em, et cetera.
So I'm looking at this.
I'm like, what is this really about?
I do not think the dancers were very diverse.
I think they were predominantly black, which is fine and great.
It was just weird to have all the white costumes and then not really see any diversity in the crowd, but everybody's like dressed in white.
And she's trying to make the point that she can conquer country music.
Now, the album was pretty good, right?
Like it won like 11 awards, et cetera.
And I think she had Post Malone on there and a few others.
Like, I mean, I'm not debating her skill.
She's an excellent singer.
She's I guess an okay dancer.
I don't like some of the things that she's done to country.
Like there's an introduction of certain lines and certain language that I don't feel really is representative of country music because one of the things I like about country is that it's wholesome and clean and you know what, I'm really happy to have my kids listen to it.
I started getting into country music.
My husband and I used to have a home up on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire early in our marriage.
And so we'd leave New York City like on Friday night, late at night, and we'd drive all the way six hours.
We didn't care.
We just wanted to be able to wake up in the morning.
By the lake and just appreciate being out of the city, right?
That was always my goal to be out of the city.
So we would get up into the mountains in New Hampshire, and this was back in the day, it's a lot of years ago, back in the day when you didn't have Apple Music and you couldn't listen to things on demand.
There was no Spotify, there was no Pandora.
If you didn't have your CDs with you, good luck.
So we'd turn on the radio, and I would hear country music all the time, and I'd get to know the stories.
Oh my gosh, like, I'd be like, Driving, I'm like, oh, I think I'm gonna cry.
Like, what a great story.
So, there's a wholesomeness and a storytelling to country music that, frankly, when I listen to some of Beyonce's stuff, I think she lacks.
Like, she doesn't get the nuance of the storytelling and the whole, you know, B I T C H, take this to the floor thing.
Like, I don't think that's really country, okay?
I don't.
And I think it was weird.
There was some kind of weird message going on there, you know, sort of echoing the Diddy party, whatever.
I don't know.
I'm curious actually to know what you guys think of it because I was not impressed from that perspective in that I got this feeling like it was DEI on steroids all over again.
I'm like, we've done that.
It's over.
Like, we're moving forward.
We don't care what color your skin is.
We don't need to highlight, like, country's country.
Anybody can sing country.
You don't need to make this about race.
Like, let's move forward, please.
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But yeah, Beyonce, like, I also, you know, having the daughter out there front and center, they're really pushing her along.
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I think a lot of people would say, you know what, we don't want to just, like, if she's talented, fine.
But if this is just about who your parents are, enough, enough, enough.
It may also have been tied to the accusations against Jay-Z, of course, which are pretty significant and pretty awful.
And look, you know, everybody's innocent until proven guilty, so he'll get his opportunity.
She's a very political person.
Do not forget, this is a woman who was out there campaigning for Kamala Harris.
That went well, huh?
I have a feeling she's a little bit unhappy, like the study we were just talking about, about liberal women being so unhappy because they're never just thinking about how they are blessed.
So then your performance becomes all about something else.
Instead of just being purely and simply about the music itself.
You know who's happy right now?
That would be one Trish Regan that's pretty darn happy right now.
You guys, I mean, wow.
Let me see if I can show you this.
I can't believe this.
The numbers, the numbers are incredible.
I went to bed.
Do I have this for you?
I actually took a screenshot.
Oh, I do.
Okay.
So I am really happy right now.
I went to bed on Christmas Eve.
And like we were getting really close to 500,000.
I'm like, it's not really going to come on Christmas, is it?
Like really?
Really on Christmas?
Like, I mean, incredible, right?
What a Christmas gift.
So I went to bed.
I was at 499,905 subs.
All right.
905 subs.
All right.
This is like 11 55 p.m. on Christmas Eve.
And guess what I woke up to?
500, 174.
And now we're even higher than that.
Before we went to air, we were somewhere around 502,000 and change.
I mean, this is incredible.
Wow.
What a Christmas gift.
You guys, thank you.
I mean, thank you because it really is thanks to all of you tuning in every single day.
I mean, people like Don, who's here, wow, he's recording it.
500K as of 517 East.
No, it's not.
It wasn't Don.
I did not.
Maybe your time, because you're in Europe.
I'm looking at one of the folks on the channel here who's writing in.
My time on the East Coast of the United States of America, I went to bed and we didn't yet have 500,000.
I was like, this is unbelievable.
This is going to happen on Christmas Day.
Imagine.
I mean, it probably happened overnight going into so, like, in the wee hours of the morning, but I was so.
So happy to see that.
Like, it's just, it means the world to me that I've been able to leave traditional media and be able to come over here and find this tremendous audience that we've built from the ground up, the old fashioned hard way, right?
You know, you're talking about sweat equity, doing this here with you every single day, and you guys passing on the word and telling everyone about the channel and about the show.
And it's thanks to that that we have caught on and we've turned into something quite real.
So, thank you for everything you do to make this show happen.
I'm really, really, really, really proud of it.
And thank you to my entire team, which is just a couple of people, but, you know, thank you to Sal and to David for all the hard work they put into this program as well, because it has been a force and just one that I'm excited to continue with you over into the new year.
I mean, there's a lot coming, right?
And there's a lot of change and there's a lot that can be really, really spectacular.
So thank you for everything you do.
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I'm just looking at some of the comments.
Okay, Robert, I'm going to work on the microphone audio.
Okay, we'll keep working on that.
For some reason, that really is a troublesome thing to fix.
I got to find a really good audio person.
Let me know if you have any ideas.
Flavius, good to see you as well.
And Jim, wonderful.
Oh, he's pointing out that they took Taylor Swift.
Somebody said to me earlier, boy, I never thought I'd be excited to see Taylor Swift.