The Trish Regan Show - BREAKING: ABC READY to FIRE WHOOPI from ‘The View’ After Stephen Colbert Ousted at CBS
Aired: 2025-07-22
Duration: 59:16


=== Live From Ireland (06:58) ===

[00:00:01]  And we're live.
[00:00:02]  I'm still in Ireland.
[00:00:03]  No, I have not seen Rosie O'Donnell yet, but I'll be very, very honest.
[00:00:06]  I'm not looking.
[00:00:07]  Welcome to the Trish Regan Show, everyone.
[00:00:08]  I am Trish Regan.
[00:00:09]  Good to have you here.
[00:00:10]  We are seeing, well, some rumors once again start to surface, and they may be more than rumors at this point in time, judging by the way the business is going right now at Disney and at ABC.
[00:00:24]  You see, Colbert may have provided an entry point, Paramount, CBS getting rid of one Colbert.
[00:00:30]  And now all of a sudden, a few others.
[00:00:33]  Might be up for grabs, including the ladies at the View, including one Whoopi Goldberg.
[00:00:41]  I know you guys are like, wait a second.
[00:00:43]  We've been hearing this for a while.
[00:00:44]  We've been hearing it for a while.
[00:00:45]  Well, finally, you see, Disney has its entry point.
[00:00:48]  We're going to get into all of that.
[00:00:50]  And it would make sense.
[00:00:51]  It would make sense for Disney right now, given how expensive that show is to run.
[00:00:56]  For goodness sakes, I mean, Colbert had the same situation going on, did he not?
[00:01:00]  That was an expensive show to run.
[00:01:02]  By some estimates, possibly.
[00:01:04]  Losing as much as $100 million a year.
[00:01:06]  I saw 30, I saw 40 million.
[00:01:08]  And for some reason, some people in the industry actually think that this thing should stay in business still.
[00:01:12]  Are you kidding me?
[00:01:13]  No, no, because you see, we're not communists.
[00:01:17]  You don't have a show that loses tens of millions of dollars a year on the air to continue losing tens of millions of dollars a year.
[00:01:25]  I mean, if there's anything that the streaming industry should have taught you, it's that.
[00:01:29]  So, Stephen Colbert and his firing has now opened the way for some additional firings.
[00:01:34]  We're going to talk about what that means specifically vis a vis the ABC.
[00:01:39]  Landscape as well as MSNBC.
[00:01:41]  Don't forget Jen Psaki over there.
[00:01:43]  She's really tanking.
[00:01:44]  I mean, the ratings are down some 44% from where Rachel Maddow and Alex, whatever her name was.
[00:01:50]  I mean, this is not good news for MSNBC, especially as they get ready to roll out the Comcast cable offering, Versant, or whatever fancy little name they've got for themselves to be traded separately.
[00:02:03]  Because for goodness sakes, Comcast wants to get as far away from their cable entities as they possibly can.
[00:02:11]  It's what you would call a dead business.
[00:02:12]  Anyway, we've got Hunter Biden who's suddenly opening up on podcasts, and wow, can we send him back to like grammar school to learn how to speak or something?
[00:02:23]  I mean, the F bombs kept coming and coming and coming and coming.
[00:02:27]  Poor Sal, one of the guys on our team, my gosh, he had to spend like forever editing these sound bites just so I could play them for you.
[00:02:32]  Anyway, we're going to take a look at Hunter Biden and what he has to say.
[00:02:36]  And there are still questions about Ellen DeGeneres.
[00:02:39]  She's come out with another big stint in the media saying, I'm never coming back to the US.
[00:02:44]  Portia and I are in the UK for good.
[00:02:46]  And a lot of people think, There may be a reason for that.
[00:02:49]  And they think that Kash Patel might know the reason for that.
[00:02:52]  We're going to get into all of it.
[00:02:53]  Welcome again to the program.
[00:02:55]  Make sure you subscribe, share, like.
[00:02:56]  We are coming up on 1 million.
[00:02:58]  Isn't that amazing?
[00:03:00]  1 million subs.
[00:03:02]  I can't wait.
[00:03:02]  It's a glorious thing, a glorious thing.
[00:03:05]  Anyway, we begin today on The View.
[00:03:08]  The View may actually finally be seeing its final days, and Whoopi Goldberg may be shown the exit door.
[00:03:15]  And why?
[00:03:16]  You see, Stephen Colbert has just given ABC.
[00:03:20]  And Disney and Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney, reason to do something.
[00:03:27]  In other words, there's a little cover here because, you know, once you get rid of one, all of a sudden everybody else can look around and say, yeah, it doesn't really make sense to have a business that's losing money on our hands.
[00:03:38]  Now, in defense of the view, much like Colbert, they have okay enough ratings.
[00:03:44]  So if the ratings are okay enough, is that enough to keep something solvent?
[00:03:47]  Nope, I don't think so.
[00:03:48]  In the case of Colbert, they were losing something like, oh, 30, 40 million dollars a year, some estimates as high as 100 million dollars.
[00:03:56]  That's pretty embarrassing, don't you think?
[00:03:58]  I mean, how can you have the highest ratings and be losing that much money?
[00:04:01]  It tells me you don't know how to run a business at all.
[00:04:05]  Is that Colbert's fault?
[00:04:07]  Is it Paramount's fault?
[00:04:09]  I don't know, but I think that the new and improved Colbert, should he come out and decide to do something very, very different, is not going to have so many people on the staff.
[00:04:19]  And well, you know, he won't have deep pockets paying him some 25, 15 million.
[00:04:24]  We don't know quite what he was making, but clearly, It was too much.
[00:04:28]  Anyway, Donald Trump mentioning that he's really thrilled that this whole thing happened.
[00:04:33]  He's really, really thrilled that Colbert got fired.
[00:04:38]  And now he's thinking that Jimmy Kimmel might be next.
[00:04:42]  Jimmy Kimmel might be next.
[00:04:43]  He's the late guy at ABC, could quite possibly be next.
[00:04:48]  But, you know, as he said, he has even less talent than Colbert.
[00:04:52]  He does like the guy over on Fox as opposed to the moron on NBC, his word.
[00:04:58]  The more I can't even tell you what the guy's name is on NBC.
[00:05:01]  We were having this problem yesterday.
[00:05:02]  I think I came up with the late, late show guy.
[00:05:04]  I don't know.
[00:05:05]  But the point is, none of these guys are relevant anymore.
[00:05:07]  And part of it is because of what we're doing over here.
[00:05:09]  And you see, they don't actually want their stuff going viral.
[00:05:12]  No, no, no.
[00:05:12]  They hoard it, they hold on to it.
[00:05:14]  It's their intellectual property.
[00:05:15]  So, on the one hand, if you wanted to take a clip of the Trish Regan show, I'd say, sure, go for it.
[00:05:21]  You know what?
[00:05:21]  Go for it.
[00:05:22]  Use it.
[00:05:22]  Have fun, right?
[00:05:24]  Most people online streamers would do exactly that.
[00:05:28]  But then you have the holdouts like Stephen Colbert and like the guy over the Tonight Show and then the one at Jimmy Kimmel, all of them.
[00:05:37]  They're all the same.
[00:05:38]  They hold on to that content and they won't let you touch it.
[00:05:41]  So I can't actually even run anything for you, which I know you're really sad about, right?
[00:05:47]  I can't even run those clips for you here because he'd hit me with what they call a copyright strike.
[00:05:54]  Well, this is part of how he has just managed to put himself into nothingness.
[00:05:59]  Into oblivion.
[00:06:00]  So nobody actually talks about these shows because nobody sees the clips online, and they're still living in a world where actually people tune into live television.
[00:06:07]  Let me tell you, that doesn't happen anymore.
[00:06:09]  Maybe you're tuning in live, watching me right now, streaming live.
[00:06:14]  And yeah, you know what?
[00:06:14]  Careful, I can see all the comments, every single one of them, and I do watch them.
[00:06:18]  And by the way, sometimes even though you think that I don't see them, I do.
[00:06:21]  So it is very good to see all of you.
[00:06:26]  Lots of familiar faces, as always.
[00:06:27]  We've got Mike Costa in the house, and David Lango, and Peace in My Mind, of course.
[00:06:31]  Good to see all of you guys.
[00:06:32]  I'm on a little bit earlier today.
[00:06:34]  I am again broadcasting live from Ireland here, doing a little bit of reporting, and we'll talk about that later in the week.
[00:06:40]  But I can tell you that perhaps as a result of that, I've had all day to work on this show, and it means I'm here live at 12 30 Eastern Time back on the East Coast of New York.
[00:06:52]  The view, as I said, its time has come, and we can get into the financial reasons in just a second.

=== Federal Power Limits (03:39) ===

[00:06:59]  But I think that the other reasons are kind of obvious, and you're going to feel the same kind of emotional.
[00:07:05]  Reaction, I think that I do, of disdain, of disgust, when you see these hosts and what they're trying to do on the air on a regular basis every single day.
[00:07:15]  Watch.
[00:07:17]  Troops is a dangerous escalation.
[00:07:19]  It's not about public safety.
[00:07:21]  There's clearly no plan and there is clearly no policy.
[00:07:26]  Yeah, the Defense Department has the U.S. Marines on high alert right now.
[00:07:32]  Now, you know, is it warranted or does this sort of escalate the situation?
[00:07:36]  I mean, whatever happened to states' rights, I thought that was what you do because you tell the state, this is what we're thinking of doing.
[00:07:44]  You know, you don't just send people in, you don't just send troops in.
[00:07:47]  But what do I know?
[00:07:48]  I've never run a state.
[00:07:50]  But I don't really, you know, when you come in and everyone is, when you go into the Donut shop to look for people, and you're dressed in tactical gear, you're creating an issue.
[00:08:02]  You're creating a problem.
[00:08:04]  You want people to come, you've scared them.
[00:08:06]  Even when people are supposed to be there, when they come to talk to the judge, you're arresting them right after.
[00:08:14]  What is going on here?
[00:08:16]  I think what really matters from sort of a long view here is the fact that he is militarizing and deploying the guard for the purpose of policing Americans.
[00:08:29]  Protest activity, right?
[00:08:30]  Our freedom of speech, our freedom of assembly.
[00:08:33]  And there's a very big, stark demarcation between military troops and law enforcement, public law enforcement, civilian law enforcement.
[00:08:44]  And you are an army turned inside to police its citizens can cause chaos and fascism.
[00:08:51]  And so I think that's the way.
[00:08:54]  And civil war.
[00:08:54]  And civil war.
[00:08:54]  I think that's the way we need to look at it because deploying the National Guard is supposed to be.
[00:09:00]  A last resort.
[00:09:01]  But what this president is doing is that he is saying he's going to deploy them anywhere in this country where there is protests.
[00:09:10]  So that is certainly not a last resort use of military troops.
[00:09:13]  So they said that a couple of weeks ago, and they were effectively, in my estimation, trying to goad us into some kind of civil war type of scenario.
[00:09:23]  I've been pretty clear on this, and I'm going to continue to be super duper clear on this.
[00:09:27]  You know, when it comes to the Constitution, you get the migration clause, you get the supremacy clause.
[00:09:32]  Clause, you get the Commerce Clause, you get the Foreign Affairs and National Sovereignty Clause, you get a whole lot of clauses in there that make sure that the one thing the federal government can do is control who is in this country.
[00:09:41]  So there's a lot of power that the federal government doesn't have and I don't believe should have.
[00:09:46]  I'm a very much big, big states' rights, you know, live free or die, small, small government kind of gal.
[00:09:51]  But when it comes to who's actually in the country, that is entirely controllable by the federal government.
[00:09:56]  And so they're way out over their skis trying to suggest otherwise.
[00:10:00]  I mean, that one that you just heard from, Sonny something, I mean, she's supposed to be a lawyer.
[00:10:04]  What kind of law school did she go to?
[00:10:06]  What kind of scholar is she?
[00:10:08]  It's just amazing to me.
[00:10:09]  But, you know, this is who they are.
[00:10:11]  So they either want to send us straight into some kind of civil war.
[00:10:14]  You know, you get the likes of Brandon Johnson out there in Chicago.
[00:10:16]  I played his sound yesterday.
[00:10:17]  He said he doesn't care about the Constitution.
[00:10:19]  He's not going to cooperate with ICE, period.
[00:10:21]  Nope, DHS, forget it.
[00:10:22]  You want to arrest people that are criminals that are in the city of Chicago?
[00:10:26]  He's not going to allow it?
[00:10:27]  Come on.
[00:10:29]  Well, on top of that, they're always the victim, right?
[00:10:31]  So, you know, on the one hand, they hate the federal government only because it's Donald Trump.
[00:10:36]  I mean, if this were Biden doing something, it would be entirely different.

=== States Rights Debate (15:38) ===

[00:10:38]  Don't forget it was Democrats.
[00:10:39]  For years and years and years, that told us we couldn't be the welfare state for Mexico.
[00:10:42]  Direct quote, by the way, from Dianne Feinstein, the late Dianne Feinstein, Senator out of California.
[00:10:48]  This was their mantra.
[00:10:50]  They hated illegal immigration.
[00:10:52]  And for some reason, they suddenly, I don't know, decided it clicked.
[00:10:56]  They could have 20 some odd million people come in here because why not?
[00:11:00]  Gerrymander everything.
[00:11:01]  Suddenly you're going to have more people in one district.
[00:11:03]  And what does that mean?
[00:11:04]  Oh, we get more congressional seats.
[00:11:07]  I mean, it's sick.
[00:11:08]  It's twisted, but there was a method to the madness.
[00:11:11]  At least, you know, I kept saying, like, what is this about?
[00:11:14]  What is this about?
[00:11:15]  And you're not supposed to say what it's really about, but let's not kid each other.
[00:11:20]  I mean, they wanted 800,000 non citizens to vote in the state of New York, and it was not until the court, the appellate court, the second court of appeals actually said, No way, this is not happening.
[00:11:31]  You're not going to have 800,000 non citizens voting in the state of New York, that they stopped that one.
[00:11:35]  But don't think that they have fully stopped.
[00:11:38]  They still want this.
[00:11:39]  Don't kid yourself.
[00:11:40]  Meanwhile, the view oh, ever the victim, ever the victim, right?
[00:11:44]  Here.
[00:11:45]  He will be present.
[00:11:46]  So you agree with.
[00:11:47]  The Crockett thing.
[00:11:48]  He's black.
[00:11:49]  You can't have a woman.
[00:11:50]  You can't have a woman.
[00:11:51]  Oh, no.
[00:11:52]  But the thing is that I don't look at people first by he's the woman, a black man, a gay person, or this.
[00:11:58]  I look at the best candidate, and then they happen to have all these other things they bring up.
[00:12:02]  You may be a little different from most of the country.
[00:12:05]  I don't know.
[00:12:06]  I would say that we've got to stop telling the American public what they're ready for.
[00:12:10]  We've only got a black woman before.
[00:12:12]  We lost twice when women ran.
[00:12:14]  But is there no distinguishing factors to each woman and why they might have lost?
[00:12:19]  Is there no nuance around that?
[00:12:20]  Hillary Clinton was one of the most qualified candidates in presidential.
[00:12:25]  She carried a lot of Clinton baggage.
[00:12:29]  She was bullied.
[00:12:29]  Yeah, but you know what?
[00:12:30]  I'm sorry.
[00:12:30]  She was a failed game show host.
[00:12:31]  Yes.
[00:12:32]  I loved her.
[00:12:33]  I voted for her.
[00:12:34]  But the number one thing I heard from people that didn't like her was there was this mystery around the Clinton baggage they took.
[00:12:40]  I just don't trust her.
[00:12:41]  I wasn't.
[00:12:42]  They weaponized her husband against Hillary Clinton.
[00:12:44]  They did all those things.
[00:12:45]  This country is a misogynistic country, and this country is a country.
[00:12:49]  That out of all of the first world countries hasn't been able to elect a female president.
[00:12:53]  That's just factual.
[00:12:54]  Okay.
[00:12:56]  Misogyny, racism.
[00:12:56]  These are the themes that they are promoting on a daily basis.
[00:13:02]  This is not going to continue.
[00:13:04]  Again, when we get to the financials, you'll understand why.
[00:13:07]  Who the heck wants to advertise on this show?
[00:13:09]  You're right next to all of that?
[00:13:10]  I don't think so.
[00:13:11]  By the way, that is not a very American message, shall we say, because America is about one thing and one thing only, and that is a meritocracy.
[00:13:18]  We are a capitalist meritocracy.
[00:13:21]  So, if they had had the right candidate, they might have had a shot.
[00:13:26]  I mean, but I'm sorry when you just go with Bill Clinton's wife and you say she's the most qualified we got.
[00:13:31]  I'm sorry, I don't buy it.
[00:13:33]  When you go with Kamala Harris, who was handpicked by Obama because she checked a bunch of boxes and you realize that the other guy is too damn old to run and can barely stream a sentence together, I'm sorry, you're not picking the best women.
[00:13:50]  And then you want to sit there and say, oh, it's because America.
[00:13:54]  Is sexist, America is racist.
[00:13:57]  Come on, we're over it.
[00:13:58]  By the way, we did elect Barack Obama twice, okay?
[00:14:01]  Not once, twice.
[00:14:03]  I'm not buying that argument from any of them anymore.
[00:14:06]  But this is what they're spouting every single day to the point where Whoopi Goldberg, who is on her last legs, believe me, they don't want to pay her salary, especially when she is saying misinformed CRAP like this.
[00:14:24]  Somehow she thinks.
[00:14:27]  In all seriousness, ladies and gentlemen, that you're better off living in Iran as a woman than being a black woman in the United States of America.
[00:14:38]  Kid you not.
[00:14:40]  This is shameful.
[00:14:41]  Yeah.
[00:14:42]  Yeah.
[00:14:42]  I think it's very different to live in the United States in 2025 than it is to live in Iran.
[00:14:45]  Not if you're black.
[00:14:46]  Not for everybody.
[00:14:47]  Not if you're black.
[00:14:48]  Guys, don't worry.
[00:14:49]  Let me tell you about being in this country.
[00:14:51]  This is the greatest country in the world.
[00:14:53]  But every day, we are worried.
[00:14:56]  Nobody wants to diminish the very real problems we have in this country.
[00:14:59]  Country.
[00:15:00]  That's no one's intent.
[00:15:01]  But I think it's important we remember there are places much darker than this country and people who deserve right to be seen.
[00:15:07]  Not everybody feels that way.
[00:15:08]  You know what?
[00:15:11]  I had to actually clean that one up because she was so, so gross in her commentary.
[00:15:22]  Like, I know.
[00:15:23]  And like, one of the things that I've actually said to my team members is the algorithm knows, like, they hear it when you say words that you really shouldn't say, right?
[00:15:30]  And they're like, oh, you know, Whoopi says this all the time.
[00:15:32]  Time and she says this, that, and the other.
[00:15:34]  And how does she get away with it?
[00:15:35]  Why is there some kind of double standard?
[00:15:36]  I'm like, it's not really.
[00:15:38]  I'm sure somebody said something because if you're an advertiser, do you think you want to be on the commercial break coming out of what she just said?
[00:15:44]  And believe me, I didn't even play the worst of it.
[00:15:46]  The difference is over here, right?
[00:15:48]  The algorithm hears it, and a commercial might not actually run that would have otherwise run.
[00:15:53]  But the commercials that run on that show, those advertisers are increasingly skittish to the point where you had Bob Iger sit them all down and say, hey, can we start doing a little entertainment news?
[00:16:04]  Can we do some other things?
[00:16:05]  Do we have to keep doing politics all the time?
[00:16:07]  Because you guys, you guys are just turning into who knows what.
[00:16:11]  Did you see this cat fight?
[00:16:13]  I mean, you can't even understand these people.
[00:16:15]  You got to go to the table because nobody can figure out what's being said here right now.
[00:16:21]  Yeah, nobody can figure out what's being said here right now.
[00:16:25]  Yeah, nobody can figure out what's being said here.
[00:16:26]  And you're just yelling about nonsense and nothing.
[00:16:28]  And this is not very representative, frankly, of America or American women.
[00:16:33]  And at the same time, Boy, are they bitter.
[00:16:35]  They don't understand why it is that everything over on YouTube is suddenly successful or Spotify or Apple Podcasts or any of this.
[00:16:42]  They're like, Who is this guy?
[00:16:43]  Joe Rogan.
[00:16:44]  Who is he?
[00:16:45]  What is he?
[00:16:46]  Like, why would anybody believe him over us?
[00:16:50]  Because, you know, we're ABC News.
[00:16:52]  We're the bomb, right?
[00:16:53]  We've got Sonny What's Her Face, who's got the legal notes she has to read all the time.
[00:16:56]  And believe me, she has to read a lot of them because she's wrong all the time on the air.
[00:17:00]  Well, Joy Behar can't understand what or who Joe Rogan is.
[00:17:06]  Is this was great.
[00:17:08]  This moment in television that you can't forget, and Joe had a great comeback.
[00:17:13]  And he also thinks that dragons, like I guess like dinosaur type of animals, roamed the earth when people did.
[00:17:20]  So, this is the type of really, really bad information that's going out there.
[00:17:24]  Well, in defense, there are.
[00:17:26]  She's like, in defense.
[00:17:29]  Well, he was at the time trying to actually talk about why it is that throughout history we've seen artistic representations of things like dragons.
[00:17:37]  Like, why is America's, or not just America's, the entire world's imagination, Been captured by this.
[00:17:44]  It was a discussion he was having, which Joy turned into, oh, he believes in dragons.
[00:17:49]  So the next thing you know, yeah, he came out with t shirts.
[00:17:51]  He believes in dragons.
[00:17:52]  Listen to his response.
[00:17:54]  It was pretty good.
[00:17:55]  Here's Joe Rogan talking about Joy Behar and The View.
[00:17:58]  And he says it.
[00:18:00]  He says exactly what I'm saying.
[00:18:01]  She's worried about losing her job because she's going to lose it very soon.
[00:18:06]  Watch.
[00:18:07]  Worried about losing your job and you're worried about podcasts taking over and who's the source of news.
[00:18:13]  We said Donald Trump was Hitler, but half the country disagreed with us and he won.
[00:18:17]  And this is, and Joe Rogan believes in dragons.
[00:18:21]  Yeah.
[00:18:21]  So while Donald Trump thinks that Jimmy Kimmel might be next, I have some good news for him and for you.
[00:18:31]  I actually think it might be the view.
[00:18:36]  Think about how much this costs to produce.
[00:18:38]  I mean, Stephen Colbert is a great example.
[00:18:42]  The show tapes in the afternoon.
[00:18:44]  They have a huge staff, like a huge, huge staff with lots and lots of camera people, lots of union people, lots of producers, lots of handlers, lots of people just to manage the live studio audience and tell them when to clap and when to laugh and all that good stuff, right?
[00:19:00]  And to book them because you got to book the audience on top of it all.
[00:19:04]  Security, et cetera.
[00:19:06]  This is a big operation.
[00:19:07]  It's a big show.
[00:19:08]  It's so big that somehow, even though they had the best ratings, they couldn't manage to survive.
[00:19:12]  Apparently, they were still losing tens of millions of dollars a year.
[00:19:15]  Well, if they were losing tens of millions of dollars a year, how much money do you think The View is losing?
[00:19:21]  Again, similar operation.
[00:19:23]  Now they don't have one big star.
[00:19:26]  In this case, they've got what, five or six on any given day because they change them out now and then, and maybe some are making more than others.
[00:19:34]  My hunch would be that Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar are eating up the bulk of the salaries.
[00:19:40]  Maybe Sonny's making a little bit less, Anna Navarro's making a little bit less.
[00:19:44]  You got the woman that was some kind of GOP person.
[00:19:47]  Probably making a little less, and then the blonde that came from ABC also making a little bit less.
[00:19:52]  So, if that helps you, right, because you're diversifying the salary base, etc.
[00:19:57]  But if you're paying a lot to the likes of Joy and Whoopi, then you start getting into territory that you were probably in with somebody like Stephen Colbert.
[00:20:08]  So, your salary costs are very high.
[00:20:11]  On top of that, your production costs are really, really high, and you get the live studio audience that you get to tell the laugh all the time.
[00:20:17]  You get to book the live studio audience.
[00:20:19]  You get where I'm going.
[00:20:21]  So, is it worth it?
[00:20:22]  Even if the ratings are decent, a lot of advertisers still don't want to be involved because, look, I mean, you look at Stephen Colbert and how political he had gotten.
[00:20:33]  And a lot of advertisers were pulling away from that.
[00:20:36]  They just didn't want to be associated with it.
[00:20:38]  This was his nonstop delivery, constant criticism of the political atmosphere, specifically vis a vis Donald Trump.
[00:20:49]  But, you know, he got what was coming to him, right?
[00:20:52]  Donald Trump has been sworn in as president of the United States.
[00:20:56]  I know.
[00:21:00]  Listen, listen, we're just as confused as you are.
[00:21:03]  Joe Biden did it.
[00:21:05]  I sat down and just started crying with relief.
[00:21:09]  And Evie said, You never have to talk about him again.
[00:21:13]  And then I cried with joy.
[00:21:17]  After a bizarre and vicious campaign fueled by a desperate need not to go to jail, Donald Trump has won the 2024 election.
[00:21:24]  Next year will be our last season.
[00:21:27]  The network will be ending The Late Show in May.
[00:21:32]  So, like I said, you know, they're all rallying to the side.
[00:21:36]  Jimmy Kimmel's coming out and blasting him the Atlantic.
[00:21:38]  Coming out and blasting.
[00:21:39]  He had a whole bunch of comedians there on his show with him last night.
[00:21:42]  I was disappointed to see Adam Sandler, another live for your die New Hampshire guy there.
[00:21:46]  But, you know, these comedians, these liberal comedians, they stick together.
[00:21:50]  One of the things he did say, and I'll put this up this is the AP write through, AP writing a nice little story on him.
[00:21:57]  They said, you know what?
[00:21:58]  Here's the thing.
[00:22:00]  They talked about his sharp comic takedowns of the president.
[00:22:03]  I don't know if they were that sharp, frankly.
[00:22:05]  They were, frankly, kind of just mundane and boring and typical.
[00:22:09]  Typical because it's all you ever hear.
[00:22:10]  I mean, I can turn into MSNBC to hear what I'm going to hear on Colbert.
[00:22:13]  He said, over the weekend, it sunk in that they killed off our show, but they made one mistake.
[00:22:20]  They left me alive.
[00:22:22]  Now he said, I can say what I really think about Donald Trump starting right now.
[00:22:25]  And he had the audience cheering him on.
[00:22:27]  And he said, I don't care for him.
[00:22:29]  Doesn't seem like he has the skill set to be the president.
[00:22:33]  And then, you know, because he just can't help himself, he then had what he called a personal message to Donald Trump.
[00:22:42]  Which was basically a giant F U. Like I said, he's not that clever.
[00:22:48]  He's not that good.
[00:22:50]  And we could go listen to that on MSNBC any night of the week, could we not?
[00:22:56]  I mean, Joy Reid found out the hard way just exactly where that was getting her.
[00:23:02]  And I suspect that you're going to see now the ladies at The View find out the hard way exactly what it's going to mean for them.
[00:23:14]  You know, they're in a tough situation, right?
[00:23:17]  They're in a medium that's dying.
[00:23:20]  They don't like it, they don't understand it.
[00:23:22]  You've got a network that's in trouble.
[00:23:25]  Don't forget, they just had to fire that guy who decided to have a late night Twitter rant on X, all about how much he hated the president's top advisor, Stephen Miller.
[00:23:36]  Well, he went bye bye.
[00:23:38]  But for some reason, the ladies on the viewer afforded a little more latitude, just a little though, because that's wearing out.
[00:23:44]  And it's wearing out in part one, because of the economics of the show, and two, because of guess what?
[00:23:50]  The FCC and Donald Trump's Brandon Carr, who's coming in for the kill.
[00:23:55]  I mean, he's made it very clear to Bob Iger he's not going to put up with any of this anymore.
[00:24:00]  He sent a letter before Donald Trump even became president.
[00:24:05]  And then in March, he opened up an investigation into.
[00:24:09]  ABC's DEI practices.
[00:24:11]  Right around the same time, they laid off a couple of hundred people at ABC and at Disney.
[00:24:17]  So they've been going through rounds of layoffs and rounds of layoffs.
[00:24:20]  And so, at what point does the company say, you know what, we don't need this headache anymore?
[00:24:25]  If you want to believe it's a political headache, it's a political headache, but it's also an economic headache, right?
[00:24:30]  In the case of Colbert, clearly an economic headache because they're losing tens of millions of dollars, even though they don't want to admit that.
[00:24:36]  They don't want to think that.
[00:24:37]  And what do you know?
[00:24:38]  They're trying to get Letitia James involved.
[00:24:40]  In all seriousness, guys, Leticia James involved in suing Paramount CBS for unfair firing.
[00:24:46]  That's the Writers Guild.
[00:24:47]  We'll get to it in a second.
[00:24:48]  But first, keep in mind what's going on with Brandon.
[00:24:51]  So, Brandon's like, okay, I'm opening an investigation into DEI at the company because it seems that you were engaging in this.
[00:25:00]  And I'm not just going to have you change it now.
[00:25:04]  I'm actually going to go back in time because constitutionally you couldn't have and shouldn't have been doing this.
[00:25:09]  And yet they did it anyway.
[00:25:11]  And we kind of know they did.
[00:25:12]  We know that from, well, The woman who, what was her name?
[00:25:16]  She was the fighter, Gina Carano.
[00:25:20]  We know that through her lawsuit.
[00:25:22]  And then, well, we know it from Bob Iger himself, because wait till you see the sound, I'm going to play you.
[00:25:27]  He was literally caught on tape talking about this.
[00:25:29]  But this was the letter that was sent at the end of March.
[00:25:32]  And he said, Look, you know, this was a great American iconic company, and somehow you ruined it because for the last, you know, several years you've been obsessed with this DEI stuff, which, you know, technically is against the law because it's a form of discrimination.
[00:25:46]  It was a three page letter.
[00:25:48]  And he's like, buddy boy, you know what?
[00:25:49]  I'm going back in time and I'm going to look at this because you're depriving Americans of their rights to free and equal treatment under the law.
[00:25:56]  And obviously, at the FCC, we cannot stand for that.
[00:25:59]  So, Bob Iger, Disney, they got a problem on their hands, kind of similar in different ways to what CBS was looking at, right?
[00:26:06]  CBS was looking at a situation with 60 Minutes because they edited Kamala Harris's interview to actually make her sound coherent, which is a very tricky thing to do.
[00:26:16]  And I credit that editor.

=== Editing Kamala Harris (14:05) ===

[00:26:17]  My gosh, he deserves it.
[00:26:18]  His own little Emmy Award just for being able to edit that thing.
[00:26:21]  But it wasn't the right thing to do because it was misrepresenting Kamala Harris to the American people.
[00:26:27]  But somehow they thought that was all fine.
[00:26:29]  They didn't want to apologize.
[00:26:30]  They didn't want to do anything.
[00:26:33]  You had the next thing you know, the president of the news division resigning.
[00:26:36]  You get the executive producer of 60 Minutes resigning.
[00:26:39]  And now Colbert's out of a gig.
[00:26:43]  So Bob Iger's increasingly finding himself in a similar situation.
[00:26:47]  He had to pay $16 million to Donald Trump and his attorneys.
[00:26:53]  He had to fire that guy who really let loose on Twitter late, late at night.
[00:26:59]  And, well, this little piece of video just surfaced of him back in 2021 talking about how fantastic DEI is and how he's not doing enough.
[00:27:10]  Watch.
[00:27:11]  You know, I'm very proud of a lot of the work we've done in terms of diversity and inclusion on screen.
[00:27:16]  When we did Coco, for instance, at Pixar.
[00:27:21]  a great example of that, or Tiana, or of course Black Panther is one of the great examples of that.
[00:27:27]  I allowed those things to make me feel a bit complacent in a sense.
[00:27:33]  It's not that I wanted to be that way, but I thought, wow, we did Black Panther, how great are we?
[00:27:39]  And it caused me to not focus as much as I should have on the culture of the company and the environment and in the voices that were telling those stories as opposed to just how they were being portrayed on the screen.
[00:27:54]  Ah, so he's not doing enough because he just puts some diverse actors on the screen.
[00:28:01]  And what you really need to do is make sure you had diversity behind the screen in order to actually really have diversity.
[00:28:07]  Look, I'm not against diversity.
[00:28:09]  Heck, you know, you want real diversity, diversity of opinion.
[00:28:14]  And diversity of opinion is actually a really important thing because it helps you come to a better conclusion, it helps you tell a better story.
[00:28:21]  Part of the problem at Disney is they have no diversity of anything.
[00:28:24]  They all are just woke minded thinkers that think alike and then they.
[00:28:28]  Completely lack creativity.
[00:28:30]  And because they lack creativity, they can't even come up with a decent storyline.
[00:28:33]  Heck, they just keep doing sequel after sequel after sequel after sequel.
[00:28:35]  And you look at the stock price and it's paid the price.
[00:28:38]  I mean, down significantly from where it was five years ago.
[00:28:42]  That's dead money.
[00:28:43]  I mean, you consider where inflation is.
[00:28:45]  And the stock price isn't even keeping pace with inflation.
[00:28:47]  I think it's around 121 right now.
[00:28:49]  But this is a company that, granted, is legendary, is massive.
[00:28:53]  And you know what?
[00:28:54]  YouTube is dwarfing them.
[00:28:55]  YouTube's content is so much bigger and better.
[00:28:58]  Than anything Disney can imagine right now.
[00:29:01]  And Disney is increasingly finding itself up a creek without a paddle.
[00:29:05]  And if you ask me, at some point, push comes to shove and they're going to say, okay, we got to make more cuts.
[00:29:11]  And who the heck needs the view?
[00:29:15]  Okay, not additive to the conversation at all.
[00:29:19]  Just like Colbert was not additive in any way, shape, or form to the conversation while simultaneously losing a whole lot of money.
[00:29:29]  I don't have the specifics on the numbers for the view, but knowing what I know about television, knowing how many people actually work on that show, and friends of mine have been hosts on that show, so I know a little bit about behind the scenes.
[00:29:43]  I know what it takes to put on a television show, network style.
[00:29:47]  I've worked at enough of them, okay?
[00:29:49]  It's a lot of money.
[00:29:50]  Plus, you get all those salaries.
[00:29:52]  At least for Colbert, you only had his.
[00:29:55]  But the crazy thing is, the crazy thing, you guys, is that a lot of these people on the left think these shows should stay in business anyway, even if they're losing tons of money.
[00:30:06]  Oh, because it's the brand.
[00:30:08]  It's the brand.
[00:30:09]  We need Whoopi.
[00:30:10]  We need The View.
[00:30:10]  That's the brand of ABC.
[00:30:12]  I'm sorry, if that's your brand, I don't even know what to tell you.
[00:30:15]  CBS, you're better off not having Stephen Colbert as your brand.
[00:30:20]  But the Writers Guild, boy, are they mad.
[00:30:23]  Stephen Colbert himself is mad.
[00:30:25]  He's saying, well, this doesn't make any sense.
[00:30:27]  I mean, we had the best ratings, so why would we be out of the lineup?
[00:30:33]  Here's his quote How can it purely be a financial decision if the show is number one in the ratings?
[00:30:40]  It's confusing.
[00:30:42]  No, it's not confusing, you moron.
[00:30:45]  You spent more money than you made.
[00:30:46]  It's not that hard.
[00:30:47]  Typical Dem, right?
[00:30:49]  Anyway, watch this insane clip of the Writers Guild lawyer.
[00:30:52]  This guy's representing the writers on the Colbert show, and they all want their jobs to stay, and they don't care how much money that show loses.
[00:31:00]  Take a peek on CNN, of course.
[00:31:03]  Work is saying this was financial.
[00:31:05]  This was financial.
[00:31:06]  CBS has a hell of a lot of problems.
[00:31:08]  Okay, we know that.
[00:31:09]  Most media has a hell of a lot of problems.
[00:31:11]  They're saying they didn't say this, but reportedly the show lost up to $40 million last year.
[00:31:16]  Okay, so that's a lot of money.
[00:31:17]  But as I said, it is the top rated show.
[00:31:20]  I mean, when you hear this is financial, this is financial, there's nothing else to see here.
[00:31:24]  Do you think that's right?
[00:31:26]  No, I don't.
[00:31:27]  And I don't for a couple of reasons.
[00:31:28]  I mean, first, this show has not taken any of the steps that other late night shows have taken to cut costs to stay on the air.
[00:31:35]  And also, you know, profit and loss reports don't account for a lot of ways in which a show like The Late Show with Stephen Colbert brings value to CBS and to Paramount.
[00:31:47]  The Late Show is referenced in almost every.
[00:31:49]  Quarterly Paramount investor call that we could find.
[00:31:52]  And I think that the right, and that's because of the tremendous brand value that this has for the company.
[00:31:57]  When you think about CBS, one of the first people you think about is Stephen Colbert.
[00:32:00]  And so I think that the wrong question is, was there financial problems?
[00:32:05]  I think the question is, why was this canceled?
[00:32:08]  Was it because of a.
[00:32:09]  Well, and as you point out, if you have the top rated show, something that is part of pop culture and ubiquitous in American culture, then would you try to do everything you could to keep it?
[00:32:21]  As opposed to jettisoning it so quickly.
[00:32:24]  Now, this brings.
[00:32:25]  Is she speaking for herself there?
[00:32:28]  CNN, please keep us all.
[00:32:32]  She's actually really smart.
[00:32:33]  I actually like Erin, and I worked with her at CNBC.
[00:32:35]  She's one of the better ones, but I'm just laughing about it because it's like, please keep us, keep us, keep us, keep us.
[00:32:42]  Even though our ratings are terrible, even though we're losing so much money, we still want to stay in business because somehow we are the face of the network.
[00:32:48]  Let me tell you, they can get a new face of the network.
[00:32:51]  That's called building a brand.
[00:32:53]  And you can build a brand that hopefully won't cost you as much money.
[00:32:58]  And then you got a show that actually might be a success that isn't as costly.
[00:33:02]  And I'm going to tell you something they're going to have to learn this the hard way over at MSNBC.
[00:33:07]  But before that happens, you get these writers actually looking to Letitia James.
[00:33:13]  I mean, it's like six degrees of separation, guys.
[00:33:15]  It all kind of comes back, meshes together in some weird way.
[00:33:20]  The fact that Letitia is now involved, I'm like, are you kidding me?
[00:33:23]  Letitia James.
[00:33:24]  They're actually turning to Letitia in hopes that Letitia James might actually be able to investigate and figure out whether there was any kind of bribe between CBS and Donald Trump that actually wound up.
[00:33:40]  Getting rid of one Stephen Colbert.
[00:33:41]  Now, I find that a little bit hard to believe, just a little, because if I'm Trump, Stephen Colbert's not my first pick.
[00:33:51]  That's like the last.
[00:33:55]  I'm going for 60.
[00:33:57]  Okay?
[00:33:57]  Like, I'm going for the news division.
[00:33:59]  Like, who cares about Stephen Colbert, for goodness sakes?
[00:34:02]  Nobody's even up to watch the show anymore.
[00:34:04]  And because he doesn't allow anybody to use his clips, he hasn't been able to permeate the online world.
[00:34:10]  Therefore, He lacks significance.
[00:34:12]  He's irrelevant.
[00:34:13]  Who the heck cares about Stephen Colbert?
[00:34:16]  It's a financial decision, plus maybe a little bit political.
[00:34:20]  I mean, do you really want this guy sticking it to the president nonstop?
[00:34:23]  I think they came to that decision a little bit with one Joy Reid over on MSNBC.
[00:34:28]  I mean, she was a nightmare.
[00:34:30]  She was blatantly irresponsible, much like, dare I say, Whoopi Goldberg, Sonny Houston, Ana Navarro, and Joy Behar.
[00:34:39]  You see, you don't need it.
[00:34:42]  The bosses don't need it.
[00:34:45]  The advertisers don't need it.
[00:34:48]  And unless you're raking in the big bucks for your network, I don't think the network needs it.
[00:34:55]  Understood?
[00:34:56]  So, Letitia, you can go digging.
[00:34:58]  I don't think you're going to find much.
[00:35:00]  But that's never stopped you before.
[00:35:02]  I'll tell you, we need to do a little more digging on you, honey bunny, because you seem to have done some funny things.
[00:35:08]  Calling your dad your husband back in 1989 in order to get a mortgage.
[00:35:14]  Or, um, In 2023, trying to say that somehow the house in Virginia that you were getting for your niece was actually your permanent residence.
[00:35:27]  Oh, and that was just a mistake, just a clerical mistake.
[00:35:29]  You know, power of attorney, someone screwed up.
[00:35:31]  I mean, you are an attorney.
[00:35:33]  We should hold you to a higher standard.
[00:35:35]  You're a bad attorney, you're a malicious attorney, and you're a political animal.
[00:35:41]  So, sure, take this case, see where that gets you.
[00:35:44]  Good luck.
[00:35:45]  You know, Jen Psaki, I got to tell you also, you know, MSNBC and Rachel Maddow, they're going to suffer a similar kind of fate as long as we're on this media thing right now.
[00:35:55]  Remember to subscribe, share, like, by the way.
[00:35:57]  It's really important right now.
[00:35:58]  It helps, helps, helps.
[00:36:00]  Every bit helps.
[00:36:01]  And I'm getting closer and closer to a million.
[00:36:03]  And the closer we get to a million here on the channel, the harder it gets for some reason.
[00:36:06]  You know, they're really holding out the darn gold plaque.
[00:36:10]  They're going to make it tough.
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[00:36:14]  Comment, like, share, all that good stuff.
[00:36:17]  Jen Saki is, do you know her?
[00:36:19]  Probably you don't.
[00:36:20]  Well, maybe you know her.
[00:36:21]  You know, Peppermint Patty, she's the one that used to be the press person before KJP.
[00:36:24]  She wasn't a bad press person.
[00:36:26]  Actually, I thought she was better than KJP.
[00:36:28]  KJP didn't quite have all the wires connecting upstairs.
[00:36:32]  Jen Saki, on the other hand, was pretty darn good.
[00:36:34]  I mean, you got to be a hell of a liar, right?
[00:36:36]  In order to do that gig and do it well, especially if you're working for Biden and she knew how to lie right through her teeth.
[00:36:41]  And so, Jen, Somehow had bigger aspirations.
[00:36:46]  This cracks me up.
[00:36:46]  Why?
[00:36:47]  Why do these people that are in politics all want to be on TV?
[00:36:52]  I mean, they all want to be us, right?
[00:36:56]  I'm always, you know, I've never understood this, frankly, really and truly never understood this.
[00:37:03]  I mean, you stay in your lane, I'll stay in mine.
[00:37:05]  The performers are the performers and the, you know, political lackeys and, you know, people that want to carry somebody's water, that's what they are.
[00:37:12]  And that's all they should do because they're never going to be fully truthful.
[00:37:15]  They're always trying to sell and spin.
[00:37:17]  That's what they do.
[00:37:18]  That's what their job is.
[00:37:19]  That's what she's talented at doing.
[00:37:20]  And people see through her in two seconds.
[00:37:22]  That's why her show is totally bombing, not to mention she can't hold a show.
[00:37:26]  And when I say hold, I mean you got to have presence, you got to have style.
[00:37:29]  You want to say what you want about Rachel Maddow.
[00:37:31]  I know she's nothing to look at.
[00:37:33]  I know she's conspiratorial.
[00:37:36]  I know we don't like her, but I'm going to tell you this.
[00:37:42]  On air presence to on air presence, she's got it going on.
[00:37:46]  I mean, I don't like what she has to say, but she's actually decent at her job and she leads you down a very, very long, narrow rabbit hole half the time, but she keeps you interested.
[00:37:57]  This one, I'm not surprised.
[00:37:59]  She's flopping big time in MSNBC primetime.
[00:38:03]  Gosh, it probably sounded so good.
[00:38:04]  I'm going to take over for Rachel Maddow.
[00:38:06]  Let me see how I can do.
[00:38:08]  And then she goes like a rock straight to the bottom.
[00:38:12]  Granted, she doesn't exactly have the wind at her back because, well, I think everybody in the Democrat Party is pretty frustrated.
[00:38:20]  You look at the polling numbers, what are they down to 28% approval?
[00:38:23]  This is unbelievable.
[00:38:24]  Donald Trump keeps on climbing no matter what they throw at him.
[00:38:28]  He keeps on climbing.
[00:38:29]  And then you look at what's going on there with the Democrats, and they're a total disaster.
[00:38:33]  Here, CNN will tell you it's their own poll.
[00:38:35]  There's this new CNN polling out today that says quite a bit.
[00:38:39]  Just 28% of Americans view the Democratic Party favorably.
[00:38:43]  And the context of that is that is the lowest mark for Democrats in the history of CNN's polling going back to 1992.
[00:38:52]  And for Democrats, they have a lot more work to do to win back favorability within their ranks, within the party, than Republicans do.
[00:39:02]  Yeah, you think?
[00:39:03]  So, in other words, Trump is soaring.
[00:39:05]  Trump's doing great.
[00:39:06]  The Democrats are tanking.
[00:39:08]  And so it's a tough time.
[00:39:09]  I get it.
[00:39:10]  You know, if you're Jen Psaki, you got no personality.
[00:39:13]  Nobody trusts you to begin with because you sat and lied through your teeth about Biden the entire time.
[00:39:18]  And now you're taking over for the big leagues, Rachel Maddow, who only wants to work once a week and somehow has worked out a deal where she's allegedly getting 25 mil just to work once a week.
[00:39:30]  Good work if you can get it, right?
[00:39:32]  So Jen is plunging.
[00:39:34]  Free Beacon just had a story on this.
[00:39:36]  Her ratings are down something like 44%.
[00:39:38]  Take a look at this.
[00:39:39]  Wow, she's lost 44% of that audience.
[00:39:42]  They used to tune in for Rachel Maddow, and they've all gone bye bye.
[00:39:47]  Her show is called The Briefing.
[00:39:48]  Well, the show name enough is just enough to, you know, that'll make you pretty tired and eyes glaze over.
[00:39:53]  It sounds like it might as well be NPR.
[00:39:55]  The Briefing averaged 1.1 million total viewers from its May 6th debut through July 3rd, down 44% from the 1.8 million that Maddow and actually the temporary host, Alex Wagner, managed to pull in during the 9 p.m. slot.
[00:40:10]  Wow.
[00:40:11]  Okay, you compare and contrast with Hannity, which is on at 9 p.m., they're getting 2.9 million.
[00:40:16]  I mean, she doesn't even have a fighting chance.

=== The Briefing Ratings (03:06) ===

[00:40:22]  I could have told you that.
[00:40:23]  MSNBC.
[00:40:24]  I mean, it's like, how do these people pick talent?
[00:40:26]  I don't know.
[00:40:27]  Anyway, she's a former press secretary, as you know.
[00:40:30]  That lackluster performance, Free Beacon writes, has added to MSNBC's financial woes, as the network already faced plummeting ratings and viewership for months amid mounting scrutiny over its left wing reporting bias.
[00:40:44]  MSNBC's parent company, Comcast, announced in November that it was cutting ties with the failing network.
[00:40:49]  It wants nothing to do with anything.
[00:40:52]  Anything over at MSNBC.
[00:40:53]  Now, Saki, for her part, has faced some backlash, they said, over her role in covering up former President Biden's mental decline while she served as White House press secretary from January 21 until May of 22, until she could get that prime TV gig.
[00:41:09]  That's all she ever wanted to do is be on TV.
[00:41:11]  Gosh, lady, you should have started as a reporter.
[00:41:13]  Maybe you'd actually have some ethnic.
[00:41:15]  Oh, maybe not.
[00:41:16]  You know, ethics are a rare thing in this reporting industry.
[00:41:20]  Here's Jen Saki proving that, trying to say, don't you dare say it was some kind of cover up.
[00:41:25]  That might actually Suggests that it was like Watergate level stuff.
[00:41:29]  You better believe it was Watergate level stuff.
[00:41:31]  Even Jake Tapper, and he's not exactly any kind of person with any kind of moral high ground.
[00:41:38]  Even he admits it was Watergate level stuff.
[00:41:41]  Here's Jen.
[00:41:42]  I left in May of 2022, just for the facts here.
[00:41:46]  And I have seen Biden once since then when I took my daughter to the holiday party this last December after he had lost.
[00:41:53]  And so I hadn't seen him in person during that period of time.
[00:41:58]  I never saw.
[00:41:59]  That person, not a single time.
[00:42:01]  And I was in the Oval Office every day that was on that debate stage.
[00:42:06]  I'm not a doctor.
[00:42:07]  Aging happens quite quickly.
[00:42:09]  Were things that people saw during that period of time that were similar to that or would have been in a category of that?
[00:42:14]  I don't know, possibly, right?
[00:42:16]  And all these books are going to tell us.
[00:42:17]  Do you think that they were actively covering it up?
[00:42:20]  Were they sort of in denial or was that just a bad debate?
[00:42:23]  Like, what is your read on that?
[00:42:25]  Well, this is what I mean about cover up is a very loaded term, I think.
[00:42:29]  Well, it means you knew that it was really bad and you're pretending otherwise versus you're deluding yourself.
[00:42:33]  Which I think is what people do a lot.
[00:42:35]  Well, I understand, but I still think it's like cover up is often like a crime, right?
[00:42:40]  We're talking, people use that term.
[00:42:41]  They say it's worse than the crime.
[00:42:42]  People use that term as they relate to Watergate or the covering up of not sharing public information about a war.
[00:42:49]  Yeah, and I'm not accusing anybody of a crime.
[00:42:51]  I understand, but other people have used that term, and I think it's a bit of a dangerous term.
[00:42:56]  Tachi, woohoo, right?
[00:42:59]  Peppermint Patty didn't like that line of questioning.
[00:43:01]  She was going to shut that one down pretty fast, but let's face it, there's a reason people don't tune into her.
[00:43:06]  It's very funny.
[00:43:07]  I think it was People Magazine or Us Weekly, one of those, that quoted Rachel Maddow talking about how she was turning over the reins to one Jen Saki.
[00:43:15]  And Rachel had a very underhanded way of complimenting Jen, which wasn't really a compliment.
[00:43:20]  She said something to the effect of, and I don't have the exact quote in front of me.
[00:43:24]  But she said, Oh, Jen Saki will just kill it in this job.
[00:43:26]  She's going to be so great.
[00:43:27]  I can tell you why she's going to be so great.

=== Rachel's Underhanded Compliment (09:21) ===

[00:43:28]  Because, you know, she's right inside the beltway and she's like friends with all these people and she's going to get them all on the show.
[00:43:33]  Whereas me, I'm way over there, you know, doing my own thing.
[00:43:37]  And I kind of just, you know, I have a good relationship with my team, but I'm not out sort of whining and dining.
[00:43:42]  And again, these are my words, not hers exactly, but this is the gist of it.
[00:43:45]  I'm not whining and dining all these, you know, go getters in Washington, D.C. Therefore, I'm not as plugged into that little click.
[00:43:54]  And Jen is, so that'll be great.
[00:43:55]  And I'm like, wow.
[00:43:56]  Whoa, credit Rachel.
[00:43:58]  I got to get, you know, credit where credit's due.
[00:44:00]  That was like, ow.
[00:44:02]  That was like a knife right in the back of one Jen Psaki.
[00:44:04]  Her point was Jen Psaki is part of the establishment.
[00:44:09]  And when you say that, when you're part of the establishment, guess what?
[00:44:12]  Nobody wants to watch you.
[00:44:13]  Nobody wants to see you because they know that you're just part of the lying machine that's going to lie to them some more.
[00:44:18]  And that is in part, ladies and gentlemen, why her ratings are down 44% from where they were during Rachel Maddow's days.
[00:44:27]  So she never stood a shot.
[00:44:28]  And now the question becomes, you know, If Jen Psaki can't hack it, then do they bring Rachel back?
[00:44:37]  Here you are, you're Comcast.
[00:44:39]  You're spinning this thing off.
[00:44:40]  Good tax advantage to do that.
[00:44:42]  You're going to spin it off.
[00:44:43]  If you're a new shareholder and you're buying into this, it's all the cable entities.
[00:44:46]  First of all, why would you buy it?
[00:44:48]  I mean, seriously, why would you buy it?
[00:44:50]  Because it's cable and cable's dead and over.
[00:44:53]  And unless you really come up with some clever way to reinvent it, I don't think you get a lot going on there.
[00:44:57]  So, just as an investor, I would not be that interested.
[00:45:00]  This is not a growth stock, okay?
[00:45:03]  This is not Nvidia that we're talking about.
[00:45:05]  This is going to be the dregs of what Comcast has that it no longer wants, that they are going to spin off into a company called Versant, trying to make it sound kind of spiffy, kind of French.
[00:45:16]  And if you're an investor in that, I'd say, hey, Rachel, you better hightail it back.
[00:45:22]  You're taking over for Jen.
[00:45:24]  You want that 25 mil?
[00:45:25]  Guess what?
[00:45:25]  You're going to have to work for it five nights a week.
[00:45:27]  I expect to see you.
[00:45:28]  And you got to stop dissing the bosses.
[00:45:31]  I mean, for goodness sakes.
[00:45:33]  They fired everybody, including a bunch of members of her team.
[00:45:36]  She didn't really complain about her team getting fired, but she complained about everybody else, suggested it was racism of all things.
[00:45:42]  I mean, talking about biting the hand that feeds you, right?
[00:45:46]  I wouldn't allow this.
[00:45:48]  Here, remember?
[00:45:50]  An even bigger programming change is at 7 p.m., 7 p.m. Eastern, where Joy Reed's show, The Readout, ended tonight.
[00:45:59]  And Joy is not taking a different job in the network.
[00:46:03]  She is leaving the network altogether.
[00:46:04]  And that is very, very, very hard to take.
[00:46:08]  No, sir.
[00:46:08]  I am 51 years old.
[00:46:10]  I have been gainfully employed since I was 12.
[00:46:15]  And I have had so many different kinds of jobs, you wouldn't believe me if I told you.
[00:46:18]  But in all of the jobs I have had, in all of the years I have been alive, there is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and more respect than Joy Reid.
[00:46:29]  I love everything about her.
[00:46:32]  I have learned so much from her.
[00:46:33]  I have so much more to learn from her.
[00:46:35]  I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC.
[00:46:38]  And personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door.
[00:46:42]  It is not my call, and I understand that.
[00:46:46]  But that's what I think.
[00:46:47]  I will tell you, it is also.
[00:46:49]  Unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two, count them two, non white hosts in primetime, both of our non white hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katy Fang on the weekend.
[00:47:04]  And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them.
[00:47:07]  That feels indefensible, and I do not defend it.
[00:47:14]  Of course, they were replaced by a very diverse group of people, but whatever.
[00:47:19]  Don't let that ruin a good story, right?
[00:47:22]  It's wild.
[00:47:23]  So I think she's actually at risk herself.
[00:47:26]  Well, one of two things they either bring her back and they say, bye bye, Jen Saki, or Jen, you can become like a contributor, which is really all she should be, right?
[00:47:35]  She gets this in the beltway kind of knowledge.
[00:47:37]  Let her come on and be a contributor.
[00:47:39]  Do not let a woman host a show, for goodness sakes.
[00:47:41]  I need some possess.
[00:47:42]  I need some personality.
[00:47:43]  At least Rachel's got that going for her.
[00:47:46]  I know you guys don't like her, but you know what?
[00:47:47]  Again, credit where credit's due.
[00:47:49]  So you bring Rachel back and you say, okay, you're going to earn that 25 mil.
[00:47:54]  Or you say, Rachel, if you don't want to do this, we don't want you.
[00:47:59]  Okay, you're gone.
[00:48:00]  Go do your little podcast.
[00:48:02]  I'm sure you'll be successful at it in your own way, shape, or form and leave us alone because we're not going to pay you 25 mil.
[00:48:09]  And so I think there's going to be renewed financial pressure and renewed scrutiny.
[00:48:14]  On this company, as there should be, as it goes off and spins off and becomes public.
[00:48:19]  As for the morning show, you know what?
[00:48:21]  Those people are survivors.
[00:48:22]  They're real survivors.
[00:48:23]  They just keep coming back and coming back.
[00:48:24]  I don't think they believe anything.
[00:48:26]  I mean, they really don't.
[00:48:27]  On the one hand, you had Joe Scarborough equating Donald Trump with Hitler while telling us it was the best Biden ever.
[00:48:34]  Remember that one?
[00:48:35]  And then the next day after the election, he's like, oh my gosh, this was a landslide.
[00:48:39]  No, we haven't seen this thing since Reagan.
[00:48:41]  And they hightailed it down to Mar a Lago on a plane.
[00:48:43]  All I'm saying is, Joe and Mika are survivors.
[00:48:47]  They'll find a way to get through it some way, somehow.
[00:48:49]  Maybe they'll take a pay cut.
[00:48:51]  They'll probably have to take a pay cut, but they'll figure it out.
[00:48:55]  Rachel, it's going to be one or the other.
[00:48:58]  You either come back and you lead primetime and you earn that 25 mil, or you go.
[00:49:04]  And then they can just populate the network with a whole bunch of has-beens or nobodies like Peppermint Batty.
[00:49:10]  You can barely remember who she is, but she gets the job done and she reads the prompter, and the lights stay on.
[00:49:19]  That's what it's come down to.
[00:49:20]  Reminder if you guys haven't subscribed to 76 Research, it's my financial research company.
[00:49:25]  I started it because it was so important to me that you get honest, legit financial research that isn't tainted by anything that Wall Street wants you to believe because they get some DEI agenda or ESG agenda.
[00:49:37]  I just want you to make money, okay?
[00:49:38]  It's pretty darn simple.
[00:49:39]  So does my colleague and co founder, Rob Horton.
[00:49:42]  We put this together for you guys.
[00:49:44]  Use code word dollar.
[00:49:45]  We've got a market that has been on fire.
[00:49:48]  I mean, the stock market is just doing great.
[00:49:50]  Incredible, right?
[00:49:52]  I mean, you wouldn't know it necessarily if you were to talk to some of the people over on CNN.
[00:49:58]  It's amazing to me.
[00:49:59]  We were talking about the egg thing yesterday, right?
[00:50:01]  Remember the eggs and how one of their contributors just didn't understand how the price of eggs over the last year, she kept saying it was up 27%.
[00:50:09]  The anchor kept saying that too.
[00:50:11]  And the guy was like, it was Scott Jennings.
[00:50:13]  He's like, but wait a second.
[00:50:14]  In the last six months, it's plummeted, absolutely plummeted.
[00:50:18]  So why wouldn't you look at it for the last six months?
[00:50:20]  Why do you have to look at it for the whole year?
[00:50:21]  Well, we know why they have to look at it for the whole year.
[00:50:23]  Yeah, they're not that bright, but they're also.
[00:50:26]  Very politically biased.
[00:50:27]  Same sort of thing.
[00:50:29]  Kevin O'Leary is trying to tell them, hey, we got a great stock market, but you wouldn't know it at CNN.
[00:50:34]  Three years from now, I think Trump has eroded global trust in the American economy and American deal making.
[00:50:41]  You mean the all time high market ever in history?
[00:50:44]  It's high because they don't believe it.
[00:50:46]  The all time high?
[00:50:47]  They think Trump has got never been higher.
[00:50:49]  Never been worth more.
[00:50:50]  Never been more successful.
[00:50:52]  Never.
[00:50:52]  When the Olympics are eroded by trust.
[00:50:54]  All time high today at 4 30 in history.
[00:50:59]  Never worth more.
[00:51:00]  What are you talking about?
[00:51:00]  Well, look, let's see what happens on August 1st when he announces that he's going to be up to 50% in time.
[00:51:09]  It's like, look, you know what?
[00:51:10]  You can't argue with reality.
[00:51:12]  But some of these people, I get it.
[00:51:14]  They don't really understand markets.
[00:51:15]  They don't really understand the economy.
[00:51:17]  It's like the Colbert people that think they can keep the show on the air.
[00:51:20]  Just Because, oh, it's good for branding.
[00:51:23]  Yeah, that's their idea.
[00:51:24]  It's good for branding.
[00:51:26]  You know, egg prices, like I said, in the last six months, look at that plummet.
[00:51:30]  They've come way down.
[00:51:31]  That's wonderful, wonderful news, right?
[00:51:33]  Just don't tell CNN.
[00:51:35]  I do think the panic over this report today is unwarranted, but I do think data is worth watching every month.
[00:51:41]  But it's not panic.
[00:51:42]  But it seems like a lot of panic for no reason.
[00:51:44]  You're getting matched reports every month.
[00:51:45]  It's not panic when we were promised on August 15th of last year that the Price of eggs, that the price of bacon is down.
[00:51:53]  Actually, eggs year over year are, sorry, year over year are up 27%.
[00:51:58]  They're down.
[00:51:59]  I'm sorry.
[00:52:00]  If he took office, they're down.
[00:52:02]  But if he took office, they would go down.
[00:52:04]  Hold on.
[00:52:06]  Let's not fight about statistics here.
[00:52:09]  She's right here.
[00:52:10]  These people are not only stupid, but highly irresponsible.
[00:52:15]  Okay, so again, look at the chart, and they're down, I guess Scott was saying, some 67%.
[00:52:19]  There and tell me year over year they're up 27%.
[00:52:23]  You're going to hold him responsible for all the mess that Joe Biden created?
[00:52:26]  I'm sorry, that's not how it works, okay?
[00:52:29]  This is why we need more transparency in the media.
[00:52:31]  This is why these media entities are failing as badly as they are.
[00:52:36]  This is why MSNBC is nowhere.
[00:52:38]  This is why The View is about to be canceled.
[00:52:40]  This is why Stephen Colbert was canceled.
[00:52:43]  And he's not even, that's not even journalism.
[00:52:46]  But frankly, the guy's not even funny.
[00:52:49]  Not one bit funny.

=== Media Transparency Crisis (06:25) ===

[00:52:50]  And heck, he gets his scripts like written for him, his jokes written and everything.
[00:52:55]  But you know who kind of is striking me as a little bit funny?
[00:52:59]  Just because he's insane?
[00:53:00]  Did you guys see any of this Hunter Biden stuff?
[00:53:05]  I mean, he's clearly losing it.
[00:53:07]  Hunter Biden going on a few podcasts over the last 24 hours and he's kind of mad.
[00:53:11]  He's kind of mad at all his dad's handling.
[00:53:14]  I mean, I'd be mad too, right?
[00:53:15]  You know, they forced his dad out.
[00:53:17]  His dad clearly had an ego that wouldn't quit, which is why he was in there to begin with.
[00:53:22]  Also, the wife had an ego that wouldn't quit, which is why she kept her husband there going.
[00:53:27]  Anthony Burnell, the chief of staff, for one.
[00:53:30]  Jill, Dr. Jill Biden must have also had a heck of an ego because he realized he suddenly had the keys to the kingdom.
[00:53:36]  He's controlling access to one Joe Biden.
[00:53:41]  Anyway, Hunter Biden now, he's out doing an interview, and I want to show you this.
[00:53:45]  Guys, he's just, I mean, poor Sal.
[00:53:47]  Sal had to like just bleep, but you'll get the picture.
[00:53:52]  There's something going on.
[00:53:54]  Maybe some things that we shouldn't be talking about going on.
[00:53:58]  But anyway, here he is.
[00:54:00]  Opinions.
[00:54:00]  But him, him, him, and everybody around him.
[00:54:07]  Not to be nice.
[00:54:08]  Number one, I agree with Quentin Tarantino.
[00:54:11]  George Clooney is not a actor.
[00:54:13]  He is a.
[00:54:14]  I don't know what he is.
[00:54:16]  He's a brand.
[00:54:18]  And by the way, and God bless him, you know what?
[00:54:20]  He supposedly treats his friends really well.
[00:54:22]  You know what I mean?
[00:54:23]  Buys them things.
[00:54:23]  And he's got a really great place in Lake Como, and he's great friends with Barack Obama.
[00:54:28]  You.
[00:54:29]  What do you have to do with anything?
[00:54:30]  Why do I have to listen to you?
[00:54:32]  What right do you have to step on a man who's given 52 years of his life to the service of this country?
[00:54:38]  And decide that you, George Clooney, are going to take out basically a full page ad in the New York Times to me and James Carville, who hasn't run a race in 40 years, and David Axelrod, who had one success in his political life, and that was Barack Obama.
[00:54:53]  And that was because of Barack Obama, not because of David Axelrod, and David Pluff, and all of these guys, and the Pod Save America guys, who were junior speechwriters on Barack Obama's Senate staff, who've been dining out on the relationship with him for years, making millions of dollars.
[00:55:11]  The Anita Duns of the world, who's made 40, 50 million dollars off the Democratic Party, they're all going to insert their judgment over a man who has figured out, unlike anybody else, how to get elected to the United States Senate over seven times, how to pass more legislation than any president in history, how to have a better midterm election than anybody in history, and how to garner more votes than any president that has ever won.
[00:55:34]  And they're going to replace their judgment for his.
[00:55:37]  Not to mention.
[00:55:38]  Who's Jake Tapper's audience?
[00:55:40]  Jake Tapper?
[00:55:40]  My mom or something?
[00:55:42]  I don't know.
[00:55:43]  Well, I don't know.
[00:55:43]  For real, though.
[00:55:43]  I don't even think it's your mom anymore.
[00:55:45]  No, you don't.
[00:55:46]  By the numbers, what influence does Jake Tapper have over anything?
[00:55:49]  He has the smallest audience on cable news.
[00:55:52]  And beyond that, I think that the book is right now on Amazon that he put out.
[00:55:56]  I mean, his ratings just went to after he put the book out.
[00:56:00]  You know, they did a two week infomercial for it.
[00:56:02]  I mean, it was such a money grab, such a disservice to everybody that he serves with.
[00:56:07]  How is it that I'm agreeing with Hunter Biden?
[00:56:14]  I mean, but he's darn right, right?
[00:56:17]  I mean, he's darn right.
[00:56:18]  Of course, the White House had some funny things to say about this.
[00:56:21]  They went on to say, you know, a lot of things going on, a lot of tragedy in the country right now, but Hunter's more concerned about who's going to clean up his hotel room after his benders.
[00:56:30]  This was in one of the clips also referenced how he was willing to go have some kind of war in El Salvador over.
[00:56:40]  Illegal migrants, so he's all about open borders, etc.
[00:56:43]  And so they had kind of a funny response to that, or just a pointed response.
[00:56:47]  But I would say I don't totally disagree with everything Hunter's saying.
[00:56:51]  In other words, we've talked about this before.
[00:56:53]  That was a money grabbing move from Jake Tapper, who clearly has no soul.
[00:56:57]  Clearly has no soul because you've seen him.
[00:56:59]  I mean, the guy just tore Lara Trump up one side and down the other, trying to suggest that she was making fun of little kids with stutters when she said, Joe can't quite get it out.
[00:57:09]  Well, Joe couldn't quite get it out.
[00:57:11]  Had a lot of problems and still has a lot of problems, and that was pretty darn obvious.
[00:57:16]  So, no, I agree with him.
[00:57:17]  Jake Tapper, he suddenly flipped on a dime because his buddy George Clooney and David Pluff and David Axelrod apparently told him to do so.
[00:57:25]  And I agree, no one's watching Jake, like he said, it's not even your mom.
[00:57:29]  No one's watching CNN unless you happen to catch it in the airport, okay?
[00:57:34]  And they're not even showing it in the airport half the time anymore.
[00:57:38]  So, he's not wrong in that what they did to his dad was pretty unbelievable and pretty darn bad, and maybe.
[00:57:45]  Maybe Biden would have had a better shot than Kamala Harris.
[00:57:49]  Kamala was about the worst candidate you could pick.
[00:57:52]  And they're not even willing to do the autopsy after the fact and look at all the reasons why.
[00:57:57]  This actually came out in a New York Times article this week.
[00:58:00]  They said, okay, we're going to do an autopsy and figure out how did we spend so much money, the most money in history, and have literally nothing to show for it.
[00:58:08]  And they don't want to talk about any of the obvious things that they should be talking about.
[00:58:13]  You know, why they picked a lousy candidate.
[00:58:15]  Guys, you got to have a good candidate.
[00:58:17]  They have to have a je ne sais quoi.
[00:58:19]  They have to have some appeal.
[00:58:20]  They have to have some likability.
[00:58:22]  They have to have a sense of humor.
[00:58:23]  These are things that, frankly, Kamala didn't have.
[00:58:26]  Also, Hillary didn't have.
[00:58:29]  You know what?
[00:58:29]  Barack Obama had them.
[00:58:30]  Mm hmm.
[00:58:32]  Barack Obama had them.
[00:58:33]  Reagan had them.
[00:58:35]  Clinton had them.
[00:58:37]  Bill Clinton.
[00:58:38]  I mean, I can tell you what makes a good politician.
[00:58:42]  It's often what makes a good broadcaster.
[00:58:45]  There's got to be some pizzazz, there's got to be some moral fiber, and there's got to be some self.
[00:58:51]  Deprecation and some humor, and the people that they keep choosing, they don't have any of it.
[00:58:56]  I mean, Joe Biden, technically, aside from the fact that he was really ailing and really failing and really old, he was actually a pretty decent candidate.
[00:59:04]  They had the right strategy the first time around just keep him in the basement, keep him on the prompter, don't let him out, don't let anybody see just exactly how bad he really can be, and you'll be fine.
[00:59:13]  Clearly, Hunter's pretty angry.