Trish Regan reports on MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell's departure after 17 years, contrasting her alleged sleepiness with President Trump's habits. She alleges a "hostile takeover" of the U.S. government via USAID funding, citing $8.2 million to Politico and tens of millions to The New York Times in 2024. Regan labels these outlets "state media on steroids," noting Pam Bondi's legal actions against Letitia James and Elon Musk's team exposing USAID employees. Ultimately, the segment argues that legacy media relies entirely on federal subsidies to function as propaganda networks. [Automatically generated summary]
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Andrea Mitchell Out00:05:31
Another one bites his ass.
We got another MSNBC anchor saying bye-bye.
I'm noticing a pattern.
Are you?
We're going to talk about Andrea Mitchell out after 17 years at MSNBC.
Meanwhile, holy moly, what is going on over at USAID and New York Times and political?
For goodness sakes, we're talking about state media on steroids.
That's what I would call the state.
Media on steroids.
I mean, how is it, ladies and gentlemen, that Politico got $8 million, interestingly enough, all in, what, 2024, right ahead of the election?
That's a little suspicious, don't you think?
I mean, at least NPR has the common decency to tell us they're a propaganda network.
Not so much over at Politico and the New York Times.
So all of this information just coming out.
Turns out BBC got $5 million.
We're going to get into all of it.
Meanwhile, Pam Bondi's not messing around.
Okay, I'm going to say that again.
Pam's not messing around.
She's coming for you, Leticia.
She has no use for you anyway.
And right now, you're standing in the way of everything the administration is trying to do.
And guess what?
This is one where federal powers definitely trump, no pun intended, those of Leticia James or any other attorney general that wants to stand in the way by being a sanctuary city.
So things are about to get very interesting.
On top of that, they're also standing in the way when it comes to women's sports.
Donald Trump signing in a big order today.
Watch what I do, then I'm going to give you some pens, okay?
You ready?
What a nice picture this is, huh, Governor?
You ready?
We'll do a good job.
Wait, let me press that.
I want to make this a really good signature.
Because this is, you know, this is a big one, right?
Oh, I think we have a 10.
We have a 10.
I see some very happy little girls.
We'll talk all about that.
But welcome to the program, everyone.
I am Trish Regan.
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Thank you for sticking around.
We got some breaking news also coming into us on those transcripts from CBS.
Remember that interview that Kamala did for 60 minutes that they kind of sliced and diced and made her seem a whole lot smarter than she really is?
Well, we got the real transcripts.
So we wanted to go through that.
And I wanted to be able to bring you some parts of that.
So we're going to get to that as well.
You can tell he's back in office now, can't you?
We're talking about news, baby.
News.
Lots of it.
Okay, beginning off with Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC anchor is out.
This is the second major NBC personality to go bye-bye just in the last few days, right?
First you had Chuck Dodd, and now you got Andrea Mitchell.
Andrea Mitchell leaving the anchor chair after 17 years there at MSNBC.
So apparently she's going to stay on in some kind of gig as the foreign affairs correspondent and chief Washington correspondent.
Andrea Mitchell, if you don't know, has been there forever.
And I'll actually say on a personal note, when I worked at NBC a lot of years ago, you're going back to 2019 when I was an intern at NBC Nightly News, at one point I got assigned to her team.
And so I was doing all this research for her.
She's something.
She didn't used to read it all.
That was something that was tough on me.
I remember that.
And I always say to my producers, you're free to get after me.
If I don't read your research, I know how you feel.
So feel free to speak up.
Anyway, Andrea Mitchell, out after 17 years in the anchor chair, this is who she is.
Remember, she kept going on and on about, you know, they're picking on Kamala just because she's a woman.
Oh, and there's that economic plan that she doesn't have, but it's mainly because she's a woman, right?
Got to double down on doing more interviews and serious interviews because what I'm hearing from Democratic and Republican business people and a lot of men, and she's got such a big problem with men.
I think there's an undercount of the Trump vote.
I think there is misogynation in in all of this, black and white men, big problem, but also the business world, they don't think she is serious.
They don't think she's a heavyweight.
And a lot of this is gender, but she's got to be more specific about her economic plans.
They don't think she's serious because she wasn't.
Okay, let's be very, very clear.
She had no economic plan.
So men didn't think much of her, maybe because she didn't have an economic plan.
That wasn't misogyny, Andrea Mitchell.
That was just plain old common sense.
In other words, Voters are demanding of something, and maybe the women weren't actually telling you what they thought.
Because let's take a look at that landslide that was he got the electoral college and he got the popular vote.
So, this was a mandate from the American people, they were sick of all the nonsense you all kept stuffing down our throat.
Well, then you know, there's this, and we're going to get to that nonsense because it turns out it was bought and paid for by the Biden administration, courtesy of the slush fund of the CIA that would be USAID.
We'll talk about it, but Andrew Mitchell.
Again, stepping down from that anchor chair, one would think it's about time.
I mean, poor Mitch McConnell, we saw him today falling.
Well, Andrea, poor Andrea was falling asleep on the air not too long ago.
I think she was falling asleep.
Bought And Paid For Media00:02:54
What do you think?
She was kind of sleepy.
I'm sorry, Andrea, only Biden is allowed to do that.
Okay?
You can't fall asleep on air.
You got to stay awake.
It's the president that does that.
Listen, these people right now, we have just learned a lot, right?
They're flipping out because.
USAID is being exposed by Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
Elon got this team of whip smart young people.
Boston University, by the way, someone on their staff actually exposed these kids, doxed them.
And I'm like, wow, they're superstars.
But you know what?
It's a dangerous thing being doxed by a Boston University employee right now because everybody wants to come for these kids.
But anyway, they're out there.
They're going through all this information bit by bit by bit.
And they're finding out all kinds of things.
And we're going to get to it because political, ladies and gentlemen, you like my scribbling?
All over this thing.
They were making a fortune, $8.2 million just happening in the last year, 2024.
But think about how angry they were.
I mean, what have we heard in terms of the hysteria?
Oh my gosh, it's the hostile takeover of the government, says Jens Hackie.
Well, good.
We wanted that.
This is exactly what was supposed to happen.
For goodness sakes, you guys have had a gravy train for way too long, and it turns out it was permeating all the way down to the media.
Of course.
Because what's happening right now.
Is a hostile takeover of the U.S. government.
There's no other way to describe it.
It's happening clearly across our justice system.
Where just a few hours ago, a deadline passed for FBI employees to fill out a questionnaire.
Okay, blah, blah, blah.
We got a hostile takeover.
Well, gosh darn it, about time.
You know, I've been saying to people, I had a lot of high hopes for Donald Trump coming in.
I really did.
And I had an expectation that this would not be the same administration because you know what?
He wasn't going to be on defense.
He's like, been there, done that.
I see what they do to you, too.
I got to come in and actually.
actually invoke some real change.
This is what the people want.
This is what I promised and this is what I'm going to do.
And think of how refreshing this is.
I got a message last night from a very dear friend who said to me, especially after he made some of the comments on, you know, putting up condos effectively in Gaza, he said, Trish, if he can get what he wants done, I mean, from a budget standpoint, from a cleaning out of bureaucracy standpoint, from a refining of the, you know, getting rid of all this big, big, big, big government and refine it down to something small.
If he can settle things on the international front as he so wants to do, he will go down in history as one of the greatest leaders ever.
Where The Money Came From00:06:08
Think about that.
So think about how much they want to fight this.
I mean, they were fighting it all they could, were they not?
Apparently in the media.
So take a look at this.
This just revealed.
This is by the Doge team.
All those young whippersnap kids that are working for Elon going through.
Can you imagine going through all this information at USAID?
They started off here and we see, mm hmm.
Take a look at that, you guys $8.2 million going to Politico.
And I want you to see this.
Do you see how I'm moving on this graphic?
I want you to see where and when the money came.
Look at that.
So we have in 2024, just an enormous amount of money.
If you look at that graphic, an enormous amount of money going to Politico.
But did Politico ever tell you that they were getting funded by the U.S. government and U.S. aid?
No.
I never knew that, nor did I know that the New York Times was getting funded by Biden's administration.
And yet here we go.
The U.S. government gave the New York Times tens of millions of dollars over the past five years, despite paying relatively little money to the New York Times in the years preceding 2021.
For instance, in August 2024, the U.S. government awarded $4.1 million to the New York Times.
This is bought and paid for media.
This is state media.
This is not okay.
I am blown away.
So during this whole thing, I'm like, why is the media so over their skis?
Like they're really going nuts.
Are they being paid on the side?
I mean, I know Sonny Houston was talking about how she went and did, I don't know, Susanna Navarro did some event at the Biden Library.
And I'm like, okay, they must have really paid up for that speech that you gave.
And is it expected like this quid pro quo on the side?
Now I'm looking at the New York Times.
It's got $4.1 million coming into it.
I mean, this is in just one, in August 2024.
The bulk of the funds, it says, came from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services at $20, nearly $27 million, followed by the National Science Foundation at $19.15 million.
Okay, now we know why we had to only talk about March 2020 in certain ways, shapes, and forms.
Now we know, okay?
Because this was what you call big, big business.
Disgusting.
Disgusting stuff.
So these guys are all basically out for hire.
And I'll tell you, the spigot just got turned off.
Here's Caroline Levitt today saying that much.
SAID has gotten a lot of attention the last couple of days with some of these bizarre things that we've been, taxpayers have been funding.
Now it looks like there are a couple media outlets that have been dragged into this conversation.
As far as USAID funding as well, does the President have any comment on that?
So, upon coming out here to the briefing room, I was made aware of the funding from USAID to media outlets, including Politico, who I know has a seat in this room.
And I can confirm that the more than $8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayer's dime will no longer be happening.
The Doge team is working on canceling those payments now.
Again, this is a whole of government effort to ensure that.
We are going line by line when it comes to the federal government's books.
And this president and his team are making decisions across the board on do these receipts serve the interests of the American people?
Is this a good use of the American taxpayers' money?
If it is not, that funding will no longer be sent abroad and American taxpayers will cease.
Okay.
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
And then it gets even bigger.
I mean, we're talking more and more and more.
I want to just give a shout out to Steve Frischman.
Thank you so much for your generosity.
And he writes, congrats to Pam Bondi being the AG.
She said she's going after Letitia.
Believe me, she is.
And I get proof of it coming up momentarily.
But wow, Politico.
Oh my gosh, they couldn't pay their bills.
They couldn't pay their employees.
What do you know?
This is like the first time ever in Politico's history they could not pay their employees.
So they sent out this email saying, Dear team, Goli and I want to address this morning's payroll issue directly.
Due to what we believe is a technical error, employees did not receive their paychecks as scheduled.
We understand the urgency of this matter and we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
Our team is working diligently to make sure our system vendors and the bank are working to identify the root cause.
The root cause.
I like that word, right?
That is woke speech.
And we'll implement a solution as quickly as possible.
We'll keep you updated, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
I wonder, ladies and gentlemen, could Politico be going out of business?
What are they going to do without their millions and millions of dollars from the federal government?
What is the New York Times going to do without its millions and millions of dollars from the federal government?
Heck, what the heck is the BBC going to do without the $5 million it got from USAID?
Elon Musk saying maybe we need to liberate Britain too.
These guys were on the payroll.
Okay.
So that is in part why you see the bias that you've seen.
And I say to myself, you know, political New York Times, you pretend like, you know, you're really, it's just your, I guess it's just your sort of liberal viewpoint.
You never told us you were getting paid for this.
You never told us that this was a bought and paid for entity.
Hidden Payrolls Exposed00:00:41
I mean, heck, at least we know that that's what goes on over at PBS and NPR.
I mean, it gets a little opaque because they're like 1% of our budget comes from federal taxpayer money.
Percent of our budget comes from other federal sources and then the rest, like 38 percent, comes from donors, all of whom are liberal, these liberal organizations.
But you know look, a lot of people say, not one dime, not one taxpayer dime ought to be going to NPR or PBS.
Little did you know it was going to Politico, the BBC and the NEW YORK Times.
Here's a congressman going nuts over.
NPR and PBS shouldn't be funding a propaganda machine, which is what NPR has evolved into.