Letitia James faces a new DOJ subpoena alleging civil rights violations and mortgage fraud, while Gina Carano secures a Disney settlement after refusing to include pronouns in her bio. The episode highlights Trump's executive orders addressing D.C. homicide rates and his rejection of legacy media gatekeepers, contrasting this with declining cable ratings for CNN and MSNBC. Ultimately, these events suggest a shifting power dynamic where political figures challenge established institutions and media narratives face unprecedented scrutiny. [Automatically generated summary]
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We're live.
Boy, Leticia, you did it.
You really, really managed to screw yourself up pretty massively.
It's just epic the way this all is going down right now.
I told you something was going to come.
I mean, finally, we're here, right?
Finally, we are here.
We're live.
We're talking about Leticia James, everyone, and finally getting subpoenaed.
This is a really, really, really big deal, okay?
Because Leticia James has now been hit with a subpoena.
The DOJ is officially investigating her, not just for what's gone down, let's say, in terms of the Alleged mortgage fraud, which is a criminal investigation that has already been launched.
They're alleging that she basically was trying to rip off taxpayers and get a fancy deal, kind of like Adam Schiff, right?
Saying that she had a primary residence when it wasn't really her primary residence.
Anyway, that's going on.
And now this.
So now they have just come out and said basically that she violated Donald Trump's civil rights when she filed that massive lawsuit.
I mean, one after another, remember?
So we're going to get to all the details of that.
Thank you for being here.
As you can see, I am still traveling, still traveling.
I missed you guys yesterday, but I'm back today because this is a big day.
This is like, this is our territory, right?
Because we've been all over this story.
I've been all over this story.
I say we because it's like you and me together.
Meanwhile, Gina Carano has a big, big, big lawsuit that she effectively won.
Disney settling with her, but I'll tell you, they're not out of the woods yet.
And that's because Brendan Carr over at Trump's FCC is trailing closely behind.
I suspect that there's more to come for Disney.
Meanwhile, Howard Stern over at Sirius is reportedly out.
Apparently, he just hasn't kept.
Up with the times, and Donald Trump's weighing in on that.
So I'll show you that sound.
It's all coming as cable ratings are plunging.
I mean, last week's numbers, wow.
I mean, I just couldn't believe how bad it was for these folks.
Entire networks are doing what we're doing right here on the Trish Regan channel.
It's amazing, right?
And we've got, well, JLo getting kicked out of Chanel, but I get some news for her.
She's not the only one.
And I actually think it's a little bit political.
I actually think that this has something to do with Trump and tariffs.
I'm going to tell you about my own personal experience.
In the Paris Chanel store, it was like a scene on a pretty woman.
Not that I needed anything Chanel, but you know, they don't want Americans like even browsing these days.
Good to have you all here.
Let's talk about it here.
We begin today with finally Letitia James getting subpoenaed for this violation, if you would, of Donald Trump's civil rights.
That's what the DOJ is apparently calling this.
Pam Bondi is putting this at the top of her list.
This is a very big deal.
Investigation.
They have assigned an attorney, a federal attorney out of Albany, New York.
So it's being investigated in northern New York out of that district.
This is important because don't forget, this is a woman who was just absolutely rabid in how she went after Trump.
And don't doubt that for a second.
I mean, the violation of Trump's civil rights is a real issue that they may get around.
And the reason is because you know what?
When you become, and it's funny because they're going to say, oh, Donald Trump is just doing this as his retribution.
In fact, her.
Her attorney, Abby Lowell, he was also Hunter Biden's attorney.
He's already out with a statement saying that this is just basically politicization, et cetera.
But keep in mind what she did.
I mean, she didn't have any basis to go after Donald Trump.
And yet she was so vindictive.
She was so out to get him.
Thank you for the generosity.
It's great to see you all here.
I just have to take you down memory lane here because her attorney, again, Lowell, is trying to say that there's nothing there, and that she absolutely had every right to go after him the way she did.
I mean, you're talking about a fine of $500 million, a half a billion dollars, where you don't even have any victims.
In other words, where's the crime?
There's no victim.
Everybody made money, everybody got paid back.
She disputes the valuation of Mar a Lago.
I'm sorry, Letitia, but you know, you're a politician.
You're not.
A property appraiser.
Deutsche Bank could have disputed that, not you.
Anyway, here is just to remind you how rabid this woman was and is.
Here's Letitia James in all her glory.
And just know she's going down.
I mean, I'm telling you, like, she may be facing prison before all this is said and done.
He's called me venomous.
We will fight back to your attempt to bring Trumpism to New York City.
Disgraceful.
He's called me radical.
Listen, we know he's crazy.
We know he doesn't have a sound mind.
Called me a racist.
We've got to stand up to an administration which is too male, too pale, and too stale.
Too pale and too stale.
Too male, too pale, and too stale.
Thank you.
Too male, too pale, too stale.
Well, now you're in trouble, honey.
Bunny, look, again, as I said, this is being run out of Albany, New York.
They're saying that there's possible deprivation of rights.
That's the allegation.
And I can tell you, while it's in its early stage, I mean, the important thing is that they're moving forward on this because it really does seem to be a violation of civil rights.
In fact, I've played you guys the sound at length, right, from the actual appellate court trial.
Where you had the justices, and I don't know why they haven't.
I personally, I do not know why, other than, you know, I kind of got to go with what the Trump administration is alleging, and that's that Governor Kathy Hochul out of New York is not allowing those justices because there's one woman in particular that she seemingly controls there.
Those are the rumors anyway.
They're at the court, the appellate court in New York.
Allegedly, Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, told Donald Trump because he was holding up, you know, the fines that she wanted to put on traffic in Midtown Manhattan.
He said, or she said to him, Well, you know, I control the courts.
Now, she disputes that allegation, but ask yourself, why else has this thing not come out of the appellate court, for goodness sakes?
I mean, it's plain as day that it was a stupid case, stupid case.
And the justices know it and they said it.
And I mean, again, we can look at the sound together again, but I've played you everything from that.
And those justices clearly knew that that made no sense, that case, no sense at all.
You know, Eric Trump, he explained this pretty well, this violation of his father's civil rights.
Because you don't just go into office and say, I'm going to attack someone.
Like my whole goal, my motivation, heck, I'm going to campaign on it, right?
But she did.
She absolutely did.
So she deserves what's coming to her.
Let me just say, okay, here's Eric from a couple of years ago.
You have a corrupt attorney general who literally ran on the campaign promise of taking down my father.
She goes, I'm going to go after Donald.
I'm going to take down his family.
I'm going to go after his children.
I'm going to get her exact quote I'm going to get to the office of attorney general every day.
I'm going to sue Donald Trump and then I'm going to go home.
I mean, she fundraised off of this nonsense.
Like, this was her entire platform going after Donald, right after my father.
Then, obviously, she gets into office and she does exactly that.
And you've got a crooked court and everything else.
But actually, I think we're making a breakthrough with the judge.
I think they're trying to realize there are no victims.
First of all, my father's statements are undervalued, not overvalued.
Second of all, she's going after banks.
She's trying to protect banks that made hundreds of millions of dollars with Trump, meaning there were no aggrieved parties, there were no defaults, there were no loan covenants.
You guys made money.
That's why she did it.
We would borrow money.
Yeah.
Go do a great project, you know, be very successful, jobs and homes, pay a tremendous amount of interest, and then pay the banks back in full.
Like, we never had so much as a default.
No one, so what we're saying, they're saying, is there a victim in this?
I mean, you're suing us and there's no victim, but Carly, it's nonsense.
The DOJ has told Letitia James to make my father's life hell, to keep him tied up in a courtroom, to cost him tens and tens of millions of dollars, to distract him.
Right.
So, don't you think that that would actually be illegal?
Maybe even criminal?
I do.
I mean, I really do, guys.
And I'm frustrated that we're still sitting here this long after the fact.
I mean, they heard the case back in September.
It was really clear.
Even all the media reports were like, wow, the justices are really going to throw this one out fast.
It should take 30 days.
It's taken over 300.
So, September from what?
We're going back like a year and then some.
It's been over 300 days.
So, not quite a year, forgive me.
I mean, wow.
And here we are still sitting around waiting.
I mean, unbelievable, unbelievable stuff.
One of the questions that kept coming up as well, and this goes to the sort of broader theory of the idea that somehow they were just desperate to take him down at a federal level, would be was there interaction effectively between Letitia James and, say, the DOJ under Biden?
And was there interaction between, say, Fannie Willis?
I mean, we know there was, basically.
I mean, the boyfriend.
Don't get me started.
The boyfriend.
Friend of Fannie kept going to the Oval Office and he was expensing those trips to Atlanta taxpayers.
So, why did he keep going?
Why did he keep having these meetings?
What was necessary for the attorney on the case that Fannie Willis was bringing to be going to the Oval Office?
I don't know.
And Alvin Bragg, okay, so he's another one that people are saying was this deliberate?
Did they deliberately do these things?
I mean, none of those cases saw the light of day.
However, in this particular one, You're talking about a $500 million fine, right?
So that's pretty massive.
Here's Matt Gaetz asking about it.
Communicating with these state and local prosecutions against Trump, you can clear it all up for us right now.
Will the Department of Justice provide to the committee all documents, all correspondence between the department and Alvin Bragg's office, and Fonnie Willis' office, and Letitia James' office?
The offices you're referring to are independent offices of state and local.
I get that.
I get that.
The question is whether or not you will provide all of your documents and correspondence.
That's the question.
I don't need a history lesson.
Well, I'm going to say again.
We do not control those offices.
They make their own decisions.
The question is whether you communicate with them, not whether you control them.
Do you communicate with them and will you provide those communications?
You make a request.
We'll refer it to our Office of Legislative Affairs.
But see, here's the thing.
You come in here and you lodge this attack that it's a conspiracy theory that there is coordinated lawfare against Trump.
And then when we say, fine, just give us the documents, give us the correspondence, and then if it's.
Right?
And so that's the question.
Like, why wouldn't he provide the correspondence?
So, this is why this case is so significant right now, because I think they're going to be able to get to the bottom in the discovery process of just exactly what went down and how it went down.
Were there communications, for example, between Letitia James and the DOJ?
Probably.
I'm just saying, you know, call me a cynic, but probably.
And so these were the things that Matt was asking way back when.
And Merrick Garland was really being evasive, didn't want to give an answer, if you would.
So, now you're looking at a situation where, yeah.
They are now subpoenaing her.
They've got an investigation.
She's got the criminal one right with the mortgage fraud.
She's got this one for violating Donald Trump's civil rights.
You just cannot, because you're the attorney general, decide, you know what?
I get somebody.
I'm going to make an example of him so that nobody else on the side of the ticket, on the side of the aisle that I don't like, runs for president again.
And that's really what it came down to.
She didn't have anything.
And the fact that that stuck.
In the appellate court is pretty telling in light of what everybody had said and all those judges.
I mean, you just listen to the judges one after another, and it was clear to all of them, right?
It was clear to all of them at the appellate level that there was no way this was going to see the light of day.
They said, right to the appellate attorney that was arguing the case, for goodness sakes, lady, you don't even have a darn victim.
And this seems like, you know, the only one that could get hurt would be the bank itself, right?
Deutsche Bank.
And they were willing to take that risk because they wanted to make the money.
It's really remarkable.
And in the meantime, right, she's out there now.
She's suing because she wants to make sure that all illegal people can get access to SNAP benefits, et cetera.
She's suing him for like 31 different things.
Okay, so that's just the latest and greatest out of Letitia James.
But I would say it's important for Trump in this case to be on offense with her because there's some serious stuff.
Not only one, the violation of his civil rights.
To the alleged mortgage fraud.
But three, how about these allegations that Gateway Pundit came out recently and that we've been reporting on?
Because apparently she didn't feel inclined to actually be doing her job as the attorney general.
She was too busy going after Donald Trump.
Well, now they're saying that Letitia was briefed twice back in 2024 about a particular bank, Standard Chartered Bank, that had had a history of problems with money laundering effectively, you know, sort of sanctioning this money, petrodollars that were going from China to Iran.
And somehow she continued to allow them to have a license, all while knowing that they were possibly in jeopardy of sending $9.6 billion from China to Iran, like sending it through New York.
Remember, like there were sanctions in place against Iran.
I mean, you couldn't actually send money from New York to Iran.
So, why would that be happening?
And it happened right under her nose, and she allowed it.
Why?
Because she doesn't care, okay?
Right?
She just doesn't care.
I mean, clearly she doesn't care.
What woman.
Would say through her power of attorney, and the fact that she is an attorney actually makes this even more suspicious.
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What woman would say, My house in Virginia is my primary residence when she knew she was going to be, I guess, leasing it out or whatever to her niece so she could get a better mortgage rate?
I mean, what woman would, again, an attorney say that she had four levels instead of five?
In a particular unit because it meant she qualified for some kind of better tax rate, etc.
In New York, she had some Brooklyn dwelling.
And what woman would actually say in a mortgage application that her father was her husband?
I mean, this is America after all.
I think that she's probably enormously corrupt and a political animal.
And she wants to ride this all the way to the governorship in New York, but I don't think it's going to work.
I mean, I think this is, you know, between this.
And the mortgage fraud allegations, this woman's going down.
I just am frustrated, shall we say, with that court, the appellate court, because the other case should have been thrown out by now.
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You know, New York is losing it.
Letitia James is losing it.
Kathy Hochul is losing it because Donald Trump is saying, you know what?
DC is a scary place.
DC is a bad place.
And we actually need to do something to get the crime under control.
And if you guys won't do it, well, hey, you know what?
This is in my jurisdiction.
I'm the chief executive of the whole darn country.
Take a look at these statistics.
He's like, if you won't do it, maybe I will.
And this is sending them into some kind of shock.
Because I'll tell you what's sending me into shock looking at these statistics.
So these came out yesterday.
I believe this graphic, which one of my team members sent to me, is courtesy of Fox.
I can tell just from the graphic design.
I used to work there.
So anyway, I'm looking, it's a good graphic.
I'm looking at DC, right?
Versus Lima versus Havana versus, and I'm going to say this out because some of you guys listen and thank you for listening to this podcast, but this is also on video on YouTube live.
I'm looking at DC, which is shocking 41 per thousand.
That's insane.
These are homicide rates in DC versus, I mean, my gosh, you can go to Mexico City, it's eight per 100,000.
That's crazy.
I mean, Mexico City, you actually worry about it.
You're like, oh my gosh, you know, I have to really worry.
But when I'm in Mexico City, I kind of worry when I'm in Bogota.
I kind of worry when I'm in Lima, Peru, or maybe, you know, Havana or someplace down in Brazil.
And yet, no, no, no, the real place you need to worry about is being in Washington, DC, because the numbers are staggering.
I mean, DC, 41 per 100,000 homicide rates.
You've got Lima at 7 per 100,000.
You've got Havana at 4 per 100,000.
Bogota, 11 per 100,000.
So, I mean, you're talking about multiples of Mexico City at 6 per 100,000, multiples of places that are notoriously dangerous.
And this is the United States of America.
I mean, there's no reason that we should have that.
And so, Donald Trump has said, you know what?
I'm going to do something about it.
I think that this is unacceptable.
And because of that, you know, I think it's important for me to spend the next seven days putting this under effectively federal control.
So now they all are shouting, okay, this guy is a dictator, this, that, and the other.
You know where this is going, right?
Because this is all that they do.
But when you look at those homicide rates, you understand why he is upset.
Why he is upset.
Well, I'll just say that Kathy Hochul is also upset, the governor of New York.
I guarantee you.
Letitia's upset, but Letitia's.
Leticia swam bolts because she's got subpoenas now up the wazoo.
And I'm sure she's working on her fundraising letters already.
You know, she loves this.
That's how twisted this is.
Okay, guys, that's how twisted this is.
Donald Trump, on the other hand, was mad, right?
When it happened to him.
I think some of these people get kind of happy because they're like, oh, I can ride this one all the way to the bank.
Kathy Hochul is now saying, how dare he go in and try and take over DC?
And she says she's going to fight it, right?
Because she's a street fighter from Buffalo.
You know, you'd think you'd be a better governor then if you were a street fighter from Buffalo.
You'd think you'd care about the people that are actually getting beaten up and worse in the streets of New York City and the rest of your state.
Kathy Hochul.
Anyway, here she is.
Watch.
Well, Michael, just on the first premise of your question, I've never been a hand wringer on the sidelines.
I'm a street fighter from Buffalo, and my blood is boiling over this.
And so is the other governors, the other Democratic governors.
We've talked about this, and history will judge us.
How we respond in this moment.
Because if we allow the Republicans to get away with what they're attempting to do, this legal insurrection of our U.S. Capitol, then we'll have a generation of redistricted, gerrymandered seats that are skewed against Democrats.
And when will we ever get the balance of power, at least in Washington?
I served in Congress.
You know, they've been gerrymandering.
Let's just be really, really clear for years and years and years and years.
And so now, you know, down in Texas, The conservatives have the floor, shall we say, and they want to basically put some rules through that would gerrymander, say, Jasmine Crockett out of her jurisdiction, right?
Out of her area.
And so she's really upset about it.
All the Democrats are really upset about it.
But, you know, when they do this to us, right?
When it's the other way around, it's very interesting how, when it's the other way around, it's all about, oh, suppression and, you know, not standing up for diversity and this, that, and the other.
Yeah.
But when, Republicans get the ball and try and run with it, Texas Democrats just flee.
I mean, they literally flee the state so that you can't have a quorum, so you can't actually have a vote.
That's their answer.
They don't actually engage with what they need to do.
And so, yes, the Texas governor has said, I'm going to arrest them all.
I'm looking for them as we speak.
Meanwhile, you have what's going on in the nation's capital with Donald Trump saying, This place is an H E double L hole, right?
It's a total hellhole.
Just look at the crime statistics and I'm going to do something about it, which leads.
Kathy Holkle to say what she's saying.
And then there's little, not so little, Stacey Abrams down in Georgia who is saying this.
Among the many other vile things that Donald Trump has been called, including tyrant, liar, scam artist, he is also an aspiring dictator, supported and guided like a puppet by a cabal of tech billionaires, Christian nationalists, and xenophobes.
Okay, geez, I don't know.
Does she have a podcast now or something?
I don't know what Stacey's doing.
You know, she doesn't have any billion dollar energy companies to run right now where they give away free stoves and that kind of stuff.
So she may be doing a podcast.
I'm not sure what that is that we just saw, you know, with her little side shot and everything.
Maybe it is her own show.
Who knows?
Anyway, Stacey Abrams is out there blabbing.
Kathy Holkle, I mean, they're all going nuts over on MSNBC.
It's a rather constant and similar story, but.
I guess we've seen this movie before.
I mean, think about what Tulsi told my former colleague, Laura Ingram, the other night when she said, Hey, you know, we got a media that doesn't want to report on what went down vis a vis Russiagate because, well, they were part of it.
Let's be honest, they're part of the system, they're part of the whole thing.
So they're not going to tell you, for example, I mean, credit to Fox for putting this graphic out, right?
And some of the conservative media out there, but they don't want to tell you what's really going on, say, in DC or elsewhere because.
Because they were part of the system.
They ignore what they choose to ignore for a reason.
Here's Tulsi.
They are using the same old tactic that the deep state's propaganda arm in the media uses.
Whenever they come across something that is true and that doesn't go along with whatever their narrative is that they're trying to shove down the throats of the American people, they first usually ignore it, as they did when I first released these documents a couple of weeks ago.
They tried to ignore it.
When they realized that they weren't going to get away with this, that this story was going to continue breathing life, we continued releasing new documents, then they decided, oh, we'll take this approach of saying, oh, this is nothing.
There's nothing really to see here.
This is bizarre.
This is a conspiracy.
These are the things that they do over and over and over again.
And the next step they will take when they feel that they are not succeeding in getting rid of this truth that we have uncovered for the American people, then they will go down the route of we must destroy and smear and attack.
The credibility of those who are delivering the truth to the American people.
They've done this to President Trump.
They've done this to me.
They've done this to so many different people, once again, who are trying to tell the American people the truth and expose these people, many of whom you just showed, for who they are as the propaganda arm of the deep state, which would have no power and no influence if they weren't able to feed their lies into a willing spokesperson through the propaganda media.
I mean, so just think about that.
I think spokesperson is the right word to use.
So CNN became a spokesperson.
For the left, a spokesperson for Brennan, for Comey, the same over at MSNBC.
I mean, it's just interesting with CNN because they're so international.
I sort of wonder were they part of these sort of international money schemes, right?
With USAID, were they getting any kind of kickbacks?
What is it that made them so, so set on putting forth a narrative that was just anti Trump no matter what?
I mean, he could be like, it's a beautiful sunny day out, and it could be a beautiful sunny day, and they'd be like, no, it's a hurricane.
Like, I mean, it was just.
And it is sort of bizarre.
And we're continuing to live in this really super bizarre world where the media is just getting hammered for it.
I mean, you look at, for example, cable ratings.
I want to show you these because cable ratings have just really, really, really struggled, just struggled miserably.
Ratings at cable networks in the last week, this is going to blow you away.
I mean, it blew me away.
It totally blew me away.
These numbers right here, let's see if I can put them up on the screen.
So, this is just so I'm going to show you primetime and I'm going to show you average total day.
So, look at this.
I mean, wow.
So, Fox is still killing it.
Okay.
So, Fox is way out ahead, but even Fox, I mean, for goodness sakes, they're down 41%.
That's that actually is really telling.
Okay.
That is really telling.
I mean, we're over here and I'm broadcasting live.
I'm actually in Italy right now.
I'm going to tell you about my pretty woman experience at the Chanel store.
Like, JLo, you are not alone.
And I think it's actually an American thing.
I think they're so upset about Trump tariffs in France that the Chanel story is like turning any and every American away.
Anyway, you look at these numbers right now.
At Fox, you've got 2.41 million.
Okay, that's a big number, but it's down 16%.
16%.
In the demo, they're down 41%.
That is a big deal because they're the big kahuna here.
And then you get MSNBC off 40% and they're doing 78,000 in the demo.
The demo is what they sell the advertising numbers, the advertising revenue is what comes in.
It's based off of the demo.
It's 78,000 down nearly 60%.
You've got CNN.
This was actually put out by our friends over at Breitbart.
And they write CNN, LOL, down 44%.
So they're not doing anything there.
And then you look at the average total day, right?
The 359,000.
I mean, we have shows that are bigger than 359,000, like one show, right?
Here on the Trish Regan channel.
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So it's clear that cable is really suffering.
And just in the last week, I think this was made pretty darn evident.
Here is another screen I can show you right now.
Well, it's just a bigger version of what we were looking at.
I'm just Blown away because the fact that even Fox is down, that tells you a fair amount.
It really does.
And this is something that one of the writers there at Breitbart pointed out.
I thought this was a good way of putting it.
He was saying basically, you know, I got to tell you this, guys, you know, the demo number is a metric that sets advertising rates.
No one in the demo is watching CNN or MSNBC.
That's really clear.
And then he said, I'm going to say it again for the hard of hearing way in the back without the left wing affirmation action of the cable.
TV carriage fees.
CNN is no longer in business.
MSNBC is slashing staff and budgets are hoping to stay alive.
That is just a fact.
If you're still dumb enough to pay for cable TV, you are subsidizing these outlets.
Whether you watch or not, MSNBC and CNN, along with the other basement rated leftist networks, Comedy Central, you know, all the ones that they have associated with them, MSNBC, et cetera, receive a cut of your cable bill.
Those hundreds of millions in unearned dollars, annual unearned dollars, He points out, are what sustain these networks.
They could never survive on merit, i.e., advertising dollars based on viewership.
So it doesn't matter if you watch or not, they're still getting part of your monthly payment.
So just stop it, right?
Don't actually subscribe to these things or their streaming versions, things like Sling TV, Hulu, by the way.
We'll talk about that in a moment.
Just wet bye bye because Disney knows it's not making any money and it's super costly.
And then he says, basically, you can exterminate these guys, just exterminate them altogether.
If you cut the cord, enough is enough.
He wrote, The whole game is rigged to keep them and all the bad stuff they keep doing alive, you know.
But it only works if you cooperate.
So don't be a dummy, cut the cord, stop supporting these networks.
And it's almost like that's what people are starting to do.
The idea that they're going to have to survive on their own, think about that for a moment.
I mean, MSNBC is a great example.
They're getting spun off in their Versant spin off.
They're going to have shareholders breathing down their back saying, Hey, hey, hey.
Aren't you going to earn anything?
And they're like, well, we got to pay Rachel Maddow $25 million for her one show a week, right?
So their profitability, their margins have been squeezed enormously.
They're losing money for the company, so much so that now NBC is spinning them off and basically wants to get rid of the headache.
And it's almost like you could see it all coming.
It's almost like they could see it coming.
They're going to blame Trump.
They're going to blame Trump.
But I'm just going back to these numbers.
Don't blame Trump.
Don't blame Trump when you're looking at these shocking low numbers.
By the way, Donald Trump's loving this and he's loving even what's happening to Fox.
In the Wall Street Journal, because he's mad at Rupert because of some of the, as he calls it, piles of garbage that he's been putting in the newspaper, The Wall Street Journal.
And that's in reference to that whole scandal going down.
Actually, James Carvel had to come out with an apology and take down a podcast he put up with a bunch of garbage about Melania Trump.
Anyway, we digress.
Let me go back to what all of these sort of commentators that are on the other side of the aisle now are saying.
Blaming Trump for Low Numbers00:05:46
Their ratings are so low and they can't quite get why, but they're blaming Trump.
And it's like, guys, these are the numbers.
These are the numbers, okay?
The numbers don't lie.
Nobody's watching you.
Literally no one.
I mean, I can't believe that a channel like CNN is 359,000 for the entire day, and we'll do that in a show.
It's incredible.
But, you know, Joy and Rachel, they think they're the target, that they're going to get canceled, which they will, and it's Trump's fault.
So, you said recently that you thought that you, as an outspoken critic, could be a target yourself.
Some people think that sounds overdramatic, but I'm right there with you.
I think that he is so vindictive that he will go after, however, he has to, through the IRS, maybe, or even.
You know, through sponsors to get us off the air, maybe?
Or you?
How seriously should we be taking that?
Well, so I was asked, Am I worried about me?
And my answer was, I'm worried about all of us.
I'm no more worried about me than I am worried about everybody in the country.
I think it's bad to have somebody saying, Give me as much power as you can in this country so I can use it to go after other Americans, so I can use it to go after these subhuman internal enemies and I'll destroy them.
Like, that's just not a good system for anybody.
And I don't think anybody's.
Safe if that's the sort of basis on which he wants to get more power.
Well, remember when Nixon had an enemies list?
That was a proud moment for a lot of people if they were on the enemies list.
Maybe we need to turn it around like that.
Well, I don't, I mean, I think that if he decides that he's going to go after you or me or anybody who's well known, you know, we have resources, we'll likely be fine.
But I think there's a pattern where he picks out individual people and effectively terrorizes them.
I mean, there's Stormy Daniels wearing a bulletproof vest to get into the courthouse.
Once you have political violence, you have fascism following that.
Okay, so that's where they're going, okay?
It's all fascism.
It's all Donald Trump's fault.
It has nothing to do with the fact that we really kind of are just not that watchable or enjoyable to watch.
It has nothing to do with ratings being where they are.
I mean, throughout all of cable, we haven't even talked about The View.
The View's nowhere where it was even a year ago.
It's held up decently, in all fairness, but I can't imagine advertisers are psyched about their content.
I mean, their content has just become filled with constant vitriol.
I mean, that's just the reality of it.
And don't forget, this is the same crew.
That was Russia, Russia, Russia nonstop.
That Trump didn't win the election.
I mean, I thought I was hearing things.
I literally couldn't believe it, right?
And they let Jimmy Carter, of course, kick it off.
Trump didn't actually win the election in 2016.
He lost the election and he was put into office because the Russians interfered.
Trump knows he's an illegitimate president.
The president, although legally elected, is not legitimate.
I don't see this president elect as a legitimate president.
You said you believe that Russia's interference altered the outcome of the election.
I do.
We have a president who, if in fact, is a president.
Okay, whatever.
You know the drill.
There's like a 10 minute clip of it.
But the reality is, none of these networks really can survive on their own.
It's partly why Comcast, in its earnings statement about a week and a half ago, said, We just can't wait to get rid of Rachel Maddow.
I mean, they really, I mean, this was, you know, they're so proud of the revenue from Comcast.
They've got a drop in advertising, an increase at Peacock, by the way.
And they're talking about how they're going to have this great new media company.
This is Mike Kavanaugh about the significant numbers that they saw for one of their streaming series, Love Island or something.
And that basically they're going to move on with this Versant and they're going to have USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen East, Sci Fi, and the Golf Channel all spun off.
But the key there is MSNBC, right?
Being spun off as well as the others.
Because again, that business model is dying out.
And they're going to blame Trump for something that is the reality of what happened to the Iceman when the refrigerator came along.
What's happening to these cable channels when you have something like YouTube come along?
It's just the reality of where we are right now.
And I don't think that's going to change, no matter how much they try and flatter conservatives like they're doing on CNN.
You know, this was great.
I am going to play it for you.
You've seen it before.
Probably, if you're a frequent viewer of the Trish Regan show, but let me if I can see if I can find you what CNN's been up to lately.
It's like they have to have somebody on the air with a different viewpoint because they can't continue, really.
I think it just, you look at the viewership, it's not there.
Like, no one is watching them.
And it's because everybody knows they've been feeding them garbage.
And this guy said, Hey, you want to know something?
Yeah.
The brand, the brand of the Democrat Party at this point is garbage, it's in the basement.
Nobody trusts.
The Democrat Party.
And with the Democrat Party goes CNN, goes MSNBC, goes all of the networks.
So nobody trusts these media outlets, on top of the fact that, you know, this is just a changing environment where the real money, frankly, is going to be made in streaming.
And YouTube has that covered, right?
It's gotten very hard for even these streaming networks like Hulu, which just got folded into Disney.
Anyway, here's that guy on CNN that I've grown to kind of like.
Okay.
The Democrat Party is complete garbage in the eyes of the American people.
And, you know, frankly, CNN is too.
Trump Remakes Migration Policy00:02:51
I mean, other than this one lone person out there who's taking his life in his hands in the newsroom, I think, when he says stuff like, yeah, Trump may go down as the most influential president.
In history, at least up until now, right?
The Donald Trump administration is arguably the most influential this century and probably as well, dating back a good portion of the last century as well.
Love it, like it, lump it.
Trump is remaking in the United States of America.
Let's talk about tariffs first, right?
There's all this talk that Donald Trump always chickens out when it comes to tariffs.
Uh uh, no tacos for Trump.
The effective tariff rate, get this, it's 18%, the highest, the highest since the FDR administration in the 1930s, up from, get this, just 2% last year.
From just 2% last year, we're talking about a level, an effective tariff rate level.
Get this, nine times as high this year than last year.
But it's not just on tariffs, which of course Donald Trump ran on, in which you're seeing a tremendously influential presidency.
What about immigration?
Of course, Trump ran and has always run on a very hawkish immigration platform.
Get this, 2025 net migration in the United States down at least 60% from last year.
In fact, we may be heading for the first time in at least 50 years in which we have it.
Net negative, net negative migration into the United States.
And last year, of course, in 2024, the net migration in the U.S. was 2.8 million.
This year, we might be talking about negative net migration.
My goodness gracious.
Now, of course, this is part of a larger story, as I was mentioning.
We're talking about immigration, net migration.
We're talking about the effective tariff rate.
But get this how is Donald Trump doing it?
Well, he is signing a ton of executive orders.
Get this 180, the most in a year since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Oh my goodness, you have to go back to the first half of the 20th century, the last century, and to make a comparison, Joe Biden signed, get this, just 77 during his entire first year, and we're only a little bit in August so far, and Donald Trump making history with 180, 180 executive orders signed so far this year.
So that's why I said that in my mind, Donald Trump is the most influential president of this century and probably dating back a good portion of the last century.
That is because he is remaking the country in terms of tariffs.
He is remaking the country in terms of net migration, and he is remaking the country in terms of how much policy changes he's putting through in executive orders.
As I said, it truly is history making.
Love it, like it, or lump it.
Wow.
Right, that's pretty good.
So, you know, CNN's desperate.
They're actually trying to admit the truth now and then, and they got Harry to do it.
But I just think it's kind of over for these guys in general, right?
Disney Pronouns Backlash00:07:54
And by the way, just to echo Harry's.
Point there.
I think it's Harry Anton.
I want to point out this new census information that's coming forward that they're really losing it on.
They're just losing it.
They're so upset.
Oh my gosh.
He writes I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate census based on modern day facts and figures and importantly using the results and information gained from the presidential election of 2024.
People who are not in our country legally, or rather, he writes, people who are in our country illegally will not be counted in the census.
Thank you for your attention in this matter.
I like the thank you for your attention in this matter.
I think that's a nice little flair, if you would.
Turning to another story right now Gina Carano.
Remember Gina Carano?
She is like a fighter girl, and she had some role in Lucasfilms and in one of the Star Wars series things.
And they got rid of her.
I didn't watch, I didn't watch Gina to be perfectly honest.
Um, but I paid attention to her when I saw what happened because she was booted from Disney and she, you know, she the man that begins with the M.
I know you guys know it.
I'm gonna look down at the comments right now in real time because she was a good actress, a good MMA fighter, she was very talented and she got kind of just really the short end of the stick at Disney.
Again, I'm gonna look at your comments just because I want to.
See, you guys know, right?
The show that she was in.
Anyway, we'll get back to that.
The point is, she had a very good career going there at Disney, and she was let go for only the reason that she didn't want to put apparently her pronouns on her Twitter handle.
Yeah.
So, an actress who's a main player in one of their shows, I guess it was produced by Lucasfilms and Disney.
Was let go because she wouldn't do the pronouns in her Twitter feed.
And she apparently ticked a lot of people off, including that little Rachel one that played Snow White and like nearly bankrupted the company, right?
With her Snow White.
Well, she ticked Rachel off.
Rachel apparently had a hand in this too because she wouldn't bother to put her pronouns on her Twitter feed.
Here she is talking about it at the time.
This is great news because she won this, won this big.
I wouldn't hashtag trans rights and I wouldn't put my pronouns in.
And like they kept on it pressuring.
And finally, I just said, I'm not doing this.
Yeah.
So here's the headline today.
She said, I have come to an agreement with Disney Lucasfilm, which I believe is the best outcome for all parties involved.
I hope this brings some healing to the force.
I want to extend my deepest, most heartfelt gratitude to Elon Musk.
Don't forget, Elon had a hand in this because he offered to pay all her legal fees when he heard this.
This was another FU to Bob Iger, right?
He actually said it.
Remember at the New York Times CNBC conference?
He's like, What?
You're going to intimidate me by pulling ad dollars?
Are you kidding me?
No, FU.
And then shortly thereafter, he joined Gina in this fight against Disney and he bankrolled all of her legal fees.
Because he's like, Gosh, you can't just get fired because you're not going to put up your pronouns on your Twitter thing.
Anyway, he said, Elon Musk is actually a man I've never met.
Now, I didn't realize that either.
She never even met him.
He just did this Good Samaritan deed.
In funding my lawsuit.
So thank you for that, Mr. Musk.
And thank you, X, for backing me.
You know, think of all the people out there, you know, me included, right?
I wasn't familiar with her.
I didn't watch that show.
And all of a sudden, I was very concerned about her and really just concerned for everyone because the idea that Disney can get rid of you because you're not putting your pronouns up is pretty wild.
And I think that hit all of us hard because you realize that that cancel culture had just morphed into something that became like this vicious monster.
And it was an animal trying to like stampede out there anyone who had a different opinion.
It was bizarre.
She writes to my lawyers who walked me through this unknown territory.
Thank you for your wisdom and guidance.
I am humbled and grateful to God for his love and grace in this outcome.
I'd like to thank you all for your unrelenting support throughout my life and career.
You've been the heartbeat that has kept my story alive.
I hope I make you proud.
And then she said, I am excited to flip the page and move on to this next chapter.
My desire remains in the arts, which is where I hope you will join me, heart.
Yes, I'm smiling from my heart to yours.
She basically, there we go.
The Mandalorian, right?
Mandalorian was the show.
Thank you, Variety.
Thank you to you guys.
Gina Carano, Disney, said a legal dispute over Mandalorian firing was the headline in Variety.
You know, they're playing it like, okay, this is sort of a win for Disney.
And I just got to tell you, I don't think it is.
More on that in a second.
But first, here's Gina, a longer clip of her telling Tucker back when he still worked at Fox.
So a couple of years ago, you know, just how this all came about.
And it's a longer clip.
I want you to watch it with me.
When I wouldn't hashtag trans rights and I wouldn't put my pronouns in, like, they kept on pressuring.
And finally, I just said, I'm not doing this, you know?
Like, I'm not, like, what are the pronouns?
I didn't even know what people were talking about.
I was just not clued in to the pronouns thing, which apparently that's been happening for like seven, eight years now, right?
It's been happening.
But no one has ever explained the purpose, what, I mean, I didn't know.
You're just supposed to know.
Yeah.
And if you don't know, you're a bigot.
Yeah.
Well, then I put Beat Bop Boop.
In my beep, bop, boop.
Yeah.
So that, if I'm translating, that just means middle finger to you, right?
Well, that just meant I can put anything I want in my bio.
I can do whatever I want.
That's all that was.
Because you thought it was a free country.
Yeah, because I thought it was a yes.
Yeah, right.
Just trying to follow your train of reasoning here.
Yeah, I just, you can put anything in your bio that you want.
And the whole, you know, meltdown that that caused was just, I mean, and then, You know, in a bad way, or people impressed?
I'm impressed.
No, I mean, it's cool now, but well, I was this was mind you, this was like one and a year and a half ago, so this was like I was speaking out about lockdowns, masks, vaccinations, and pronouns way before anybody was even like saying a word about it, and so I was a little bit ahead.
I'm sure if I would have done that now, it wouldn't have been a big deal, but because I was talking about this when nobody else was talking about it, especially nobody else in my industry, it was like, um, Lucasfilm called me and they were like, okay, we're gonna need you to get, um, Go on a Zoom call with 45 of our LGBTQ community, and we have to get you on the phone with these people.
We need to have you watch all these movies about the trans lives documentaries.
And I was like, okay, I'll watch your documentaries and I'll talk to your people, but I'm not going to get on a Zoom call with 45 different people who can have their phones out videotaping me.
And I feel like that's extremely abusive.
Disney Hit From All Sides00:06:39
Yeah, it was.
She was right.
I mean, what a brave woman to stand up to all of this.
And again, I echo her thanks to Elon Musk, who kind of was standing up for society and humanity in the world, right?
One, by buying Twitter and making it X, and two, getting out there and saying, hey, Gina, I'll take this case on.
I'll help you because it's not easy when you're the person getting canceled.
Trust me, right?
Like, you got a lot of incoming.
A lot.
And as much as you may be a hero to some, just the incoming is really hard.
Been there.
It's not fun.
And so she's right when she's like, okay, yeah, maybe it looks cool now, but you know, it wasn't so great at the time.
And I'll tell you why Disney now is not out of the woods in any way, shape, or form.
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But back to Gina, because Gina was incredibly, incredibly brave.
But what I'm telling you is Disney's not out of the woods.
Disney has more trouble coming its way.
And we know this well for a variety of reasons.
One, you're seeing that they're folding that Hulu business that they had, right?
They're sunsetting that.
If you look at the way the mainstream media is presenting it, they're saying it like, oh, you know, like no big deal.
Like they're just going to have all this cost savings, all this cost savings.
Cost savings is all about Disney really struggling.
I mean, Disney is getting hit from all sides.
And I actually had a great graphic I wanted to show you.
Let's see if we can bring it back onto the screen right now.
Here we go.
Did that work?
Let's see.
We'll try one more time.
Perhaps not.
Anyway, the graphic was just showing you how much in dollar terms they were going to save.
I know, Don Beck, I saw you in the comments saying that you're liking your short right now on Disney.
This is a company that was trading at $200 five years ago and now is really, really struggling.
So maybe this will help it a little bit.
But I think what it's telling you is that they were not able to make Hulu a success.
Are they going to be able to make Disney Plus a success?
I mean, the verdict is still out.
Meanwhile, as far as Gina goes, think about what lies ahead right now for this company because Brandon Carr is still lurking in the background.
And Brandon Carr doesn't have a whole lot of use, shall we say, for any of these networks, including.
ABC, which airs The View.
Here he is.
Yeah, something really significant is happening right here.
And it goes back to President Trump.
When he ran for office again, he ran directly at these legacy national broadcasters.
And for years, people cowed down to the executives behind these companies based in Hollywood, in New York.
And they just accepted that these national broadcasters could dictate how people think about topics, that they could set the narrative for the country.
And President Trump fundamentally rejected it.
He smashed the facade that these are gatekeepers.
That can determine what people think.
And everything that we're seeing right now flows from that decision by President Trump.
And he's winning.
I mean, look, PBS has been defunded.
NPR has been defunded.
CBS is committing to restoring fact based journalism.
You see it, you know, everything from, you know, Joy Reid is gone at MSNBC.
All these things aren't isolated pinpricks.
They go back to this emperor has no clothes moment where President Trump stood up to these legacy media gatekeepers and now their business models are falling apart.
Let's go to The View, shall we?
Joy Behar yesterday said this.
First of all, who tried to overthrow the government on January 6th?
Let me think.
Who was that?
Okay, can we just fast forward her?
You know what it is.
You guys have seen these before.
She's just, you know, going on and on and on about Trump and hating on him.
And by the way, the White House responded to this.
Let's go to their response.
Green is not a good color.
That from yesterday.
Who knows what happens today?
The White House chose to respond to that.
And this is what they said Joy Behar is an irrelevant loser suffering from a severe case of Trump derangement syndrome.
It's no surprise that the View's ratings hit an all time low last year.
She should self reflect on her own jealousy of President Trump's historic popularity before her show is the next to be pulled off air.
End quote.
Is the View now in the crosshairs of this administration?
Look, it's entirely possible that there are issues over there.
I mean, again, stepping back this broader dynamic, once President Trump has exposed these media gatekeepers and smashed this facade, there are a lot of consequences.
I think the consequences of that aren't quite.
Finished.
And look, the view's got a lot of challenges there.
It wasn't that long ago, I think one episode, one show alone, they had to stop, interrupt the show, and read four separate legal notices to try to avoid legal liability.
So I'm not surprised to hear people saying that their ratings are struggling.