Trish Regan exposes CNN's alleged "MAGA" pivot, citing Harry Anton's "garbage" remarks on Democrats and linking record-low male registration to transgender policies. She details Trump's FCC threats against ABC and NBC, predicts MSNBC's fragmentation into MSNow, and mocks Rachel Maddow while highlighting Dan Bongino's FBI move and Operation Obamagate claims. Regan also covers a reduced $500M Trump penalty, a DOJ grand jury probe into Letitia James, and contrasts D.C.'s 83% crime drop with Chicago's refusal of federal aid, ultimately framing these events as proof of an existential Democratic crisis driven by extremism and policy failures. [Automatically generated summary]
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Hot Studio Warning00:02:47
And we're live.
Thank you for bearing with me a couple minutes later than expected.
But it's hot in here.
It's hot.
And you know what happened the other day?
Remember when it was so hot in the studio that, oh yeah, I do believe a camera went off.
So we're trying to prevent that from happening again.
The air conditioning should theoretically be turning on soon.
But you know, it's Monday.
Welcome to the show, everyone.
I am Trish Regan.
Good to have all of you here.
We've got a lot going on.
First of all, CNN sounding really MAGA all of a sudden.
So what is this about?
I have some theories on it.
But, you know, there's also just the reality.
And as you report the reality of the polls right now, what you're seeing is that, yeah, Democrats are struggling, like in ways that I don't think they ever thought possible.
This is a brand that is really up against it.
But what did you think was going to happen?
I'll just ask.
Like when you start telling every man that they are somehow poisonous just for existing and, you know, gender doesn't matter, this, that, and the other, of course, unless you're a man, in which case it's a huge problem.
This was bound to happen.
So we're going to talk about the worst numbers they have seen in decades.
Republicans actually looking at the best numbers they've seen in like centuries.
There's it's never been recorded this high.
I wonder why that is.
The response, meanwhile, to the media is getting desperate.
They're very, very worried, very, very concerned over at ABC and NBC.
They got some bad news overnight because Donald Trump tweeted out, or I should say, truthed out on truth social media that he's considering getting rid of their FCC license.
What does that mean?
We'll walk through it.
It's bad news for the view.
I'll tell you that.
Very bad news.
Whoopi, joy.
I'm done.
Your days are numbered.
I'm not the only one.
Rosie L. Donald said it too.
What do you know?
Okay.
And Dan Bongino.
Dan Bongino, just a great, upstanding guy.
He's now at the FBI.
He came out with a warning a few weeks back, and it looks like so much of what he said is now coming true.
So we're going to dive into that.
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Of course, I'm looking at it in real time in addition to firing off elements and talking to all of you.
But if you're seeing this in repeat, or on Spotify, for example.
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I would so appreciate it because we're doing great numbers, but the likes are like really low.
I mean, we need some more stars, five star ratings over there.
Anyway, I digress.
The big news of the day, CNN is suddenly turning mega.
I mean, I can't believe what I'm hearing out of this one reporter.
I kind of like this guy out of his ears.
I like how he's sort of sweet and traditional.
He says things like, oh my goodness, and oh my gosh, and like, I say those things, right?
I kind of appreciate that he says it.
He's got a lot of enthusiasm and he's sort of surprised.
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But when you hear the language of what he's saying, I mean, he's saying things like the Democrats are garbage.
The Democrat brand is bad, bad, bad.
Democrat brand is going the way of Cracker Barrel, a little diggy Cracker Barrel.
We can talk about that.
Cracker Barrel is really struggling because they decided to do what Bud Light did.
They decided to do what Target did.
And let's just say that's not a good idea.
You know the saying, go woke, go broke.
Anyway, let's hear from Harry Anton over at CNN just exactly how bad these poll numbers really are for the Democrats right now.
The Democratic brand right now has about the appeal with the American voter as the Crackle Barrel rebrand has with the American consumers.
Bad, bad, bad.
What are you doing?
Oh, my goodness gracious.
What are we talking about here in terms of big party registration changes in the key swing states?
Let's look at the key four swing states that, in fact, do keep track of registration by party.
Look, the Republican Party is in their best position at this point in the cycle.
Oh, my goodness gracious at this point in the cycle.
North Carolina, I couldn't find a point at which Republicans were doing better at this point in the cycle.
It's at least this century.
It probably goes way back in the last century.
And Pennsylvania, very similar.
Republicans doing better at this point than at any point.
At any point this century, at least as far as I could find.
Now, what types of gains are we talking about here for the Republican Party?
Well, let's compare it to this point during the first Trump administration all the way back in 2017.
Look at this.
The Republican Party gains in party registration compared to this point back in 2017 during the Trump first administration in Arizona.
You got a Republican gain of three points.
Okay.
How about Nevada?
Up the hill we go, even though we're sticking in the Southwest, a gain of six points.
How about, again, we come to the East Coast, North Carolina, a gain of eight points for the Republicans.
And in the Keystone State in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, again, we're talking about a gain of eight points.
My goodness gracious for Republicans, they are converting old former Democrats to their side of the ledger as well as picking up new voters, registering new voters, and it absolutely paid off for them back in the 2024 election.
I said all along, I thought Donald Trump was going to win.
I mean, gosh, for goodness sakes, the competition wasn't exactly competition.
Kamala Harris, thank you very much.
But just the messaging that we had to hear over and over and over again, it's no surprise that all of a sudden, what do you see?
Men, men are gravitating, including young men, to the Republican Party hand over fist.
I mean, these numbers are massive.
By the way, he made a reference to the Cracker Barrel brand.
It's like these people can't get out of their own way, right?
They had the old guy who was the Cracker Barrel guy, and they took him away because somehow it was more politically correct not to have him on there for whatever that's worth.
There was a funny meme going around over the weekend.
I posted it on my social, on my feed here, on my shorts feed.
Watch this cracker barrel thing is heating up.
Hello, I'm the cracker from Cracker Barrel, and y'all know I sat on that damn logo for 48 damn years longer than a snake deep throat and giraffe neck.
Then overnight, you got this DEI group of people taking over our marketing talking about we need a rebrand.
Then, poof, how you gonna rebrand without debrand?
Cracker Barrel, you might be going the way of Bud Knight, they might, right?
They really, really might.
So, Cracker Barrel, um, is not something. that you want to be compared to.
And so I'm saying Cracker Barrel, you may be going the way of Bud Light.
Harry Anton over at CNN is saying, hey, Democrat Party, you may be going the way of Cracker Barrel, whose stock just got demolished, right, over this whole woke rebrand.
But the point is, is the Democrats don't know which way to turn.
And it's like, I don't know, it's like they're really truly on the spectrum because how could you not have figured that when you tell guys they're the worst thing, like in the world, that they are somehow the enemy, that's not going to do it for you.
And somehow this, like, we're going to divide and conquer and we're going to make it all about women.
Like, did you forget that like half the population is men?
And by the way, women are married often, hopefully, to men.
And they have sons and they have brothers and they have fathers.
And you can't just demonize an entire sex of people.
I mean, I'm sitting there the whole time going, are they crazy?
You want to talk about stupid, bad, idiotic politics?
That's what the Dems got.
And it's all they've got, which is why Harry also said just a couple of weeks ago the Democrat Party brand is garbage, garbage, as they would like to say it.
Particular point, the Democratic brand is in the basement.
It is total and complete garbage in the mind of the American public.
The Democratic Party's net favorable rating, record lows in all three.
Wall Street Journal, 30 points underwater.
CNN, 26 points underwater.
Gallup, 26 points underwater.
And that is being driven in large part by discontent within the Democratic base.
The Democratic base wants something different.
We'll ultimately end up seeing who they choose.
It'll be quite the thing who ultimately gets the rose.
It's not hard.
Again, it's common sense.
And I think that the problem is like they all got so screwy.
Maybe all this doubt about, gee, am I a boy or a girl stuff really started to set in because they completely lost their way.
I mean, if you think about what the Democrat Party brand used to represent, it was working class America.
And all of a sudden, Trump comes in and he completely stole their thunder.
So they became the party of the elites.
And the Republican Party became the party for everyone else.
And so when you look at the new data that's coming in, and the New York Times did a wonderful job looking at this data.
I mean, it's not me saying it, it's the New York Times, right?
The Democrat Party faces a voter registration crisis.
Why?
Because everybody that's registering to vote now is registering as, drumroll please, a Republican.
Nobody wants to be a Democrat.
Nobody.
I mean, they've never seen anything like this.
We already saw approval ratings that were down in the 20s, right?
I mean, it's getting worse and worse and worse.
And they did this nice little graph.
Can you see that, guys?
I mean, All the blue arrows down, All the red arrows going up, And what they're seeing is a stampede.
This is the New York Times calling it a stampede away from the Democrat Party.
It's occurring in battleground states.
So this is going to be one clean swoop.
That's what's going to happen.
The bluest states and the redest states too, according to a new analysis of voter registration.
So the states that were still considered battleground that were red, they're going more red.
They're going bright, fiery, orange, red.
And all those blue states, they're turning red too.
And again, it's not that hard to figure out.
Here's one of the things that they point out the shifts also previewed Democrat weakness in 2024.
The party saw some of its steepest declines in registration among men and younger voters, according to the Times analysis, two constituencies that swung sharply towards Donald Trump, right?
Because young people don't like what they're being told.
And men, certainly.
I mean, you want to be told you're the enemy?
You're no good at all.
We need to just basically write you out of history, including all those.
Horrible founding fathers that put this country together to begin with.
I mean, unbelievable.
Nearly 49% of men newly registering with a major party chose the Democrats back in 2020.
I don't know what they were thinking, but by 2024, guess what?
That figure was down to roughly 39%, and it's falling.
It's going to be 29% before you know it.
At the same time, the Democrat edge among women registering to vote poof.
Again, why?
Because a woman is married to a man.
A woman has children, including sons.
A woman has a father and a brother.
And the more you keep telling her that men are awful, the more she's going to say, to hell with you guys.
Like, I don't need that.
This is not who we are.
And so you look at these overall numbers and look at this graph.
I love this one.
Take a look at this.
Oh, I must have killed the New York Times to have to print this one.
Democrats, nice slope down.
You look at it really as you went into 24, too.
Like Kamala was not the answer.
Let me just say again, you look at the Republican graph.
Woo, a nice shoot up.
So that is really good news for the GOP, for Republicans, for Donald Trump.
It shows you that the economy is doing a little bit better.
People appreciate that.
It shows you that the wind is at, you know, what do they say, the wind at your back, right?
And he's sailing straight forward with all these initiatives he wanted to get done and he is getting done.
And so I think that this may in some ways sort of explain why you're seeing media try and turn a little bit.
I mean, they're seeing that the handwriting is on the wall.
Certainly over at CNN, they're trying to admit the truth.
But gosh darn it, you better be admitting the truth.
That's what you should have been doing all along instead of sugarcoating everything.
And so now it's all coming out.
It's all coming out.
And I suspect that you're going to see a lot more changes coming in the media.
You're going to see a lot more fairness.
You're going to see a lot more of both sides.
No more of this 90% bad coverage of Donald Trump and 90% great coverage of the Democrats.
Split it down the middle, for goodness sakes, guys.
You've just become an arm of the Democrat Party.
And this is, by the way, related, I should say, to the MSNBC spinoff, Versant, that's supposed to be happening relatively soon, by the end of the year, actually.
So Comcast can't wait to get rid of MSNBC.
And they are making sure that MSNBC gets rid of its name.
As you know, we've talked about this.
They're going to become MSNow, my source for news, opinion world.
Lovely.
Rather than MSNBC.
And they're getting rid of the peacock and no more colors.
They've suddenly gone red, white, and blue.
It's like, wow, what's happening?
Well, Joe Scarborough tried to explain it.
Survivor that he is, he actually sounds like he might even be on board.
Of course, it's his paycheck.
We will become MS Now, which stands for My Source for News, Opinion, and the World.
And look, Andrew, they even have a graphic up.
I like that.
There it is.
It looks very sporty.
Very sporty.
Apparently, they called him, they told him, they gave him a warning, which is a little bit better than Rachel Maddow.
They did call and give her a warning, but then she spoke to Variety and she said she didn't even know how to say the name.
So she clearly wasn't too happy.
But insiders say she's probably going to leave, either of her own accord or because the network simply can't have this kind of liability anymore.
Again, Joe's out there trying to help the Democrat Party find its future.
And he's saying, hey, you got to care about everyday people.
You got to care about, you know, blue collar workers.
You can't be on and on about all this trans stuff and sports stuff and all this stuff that nobody cares about.
But she's not following that line of thinking.
She's got a very different kind of prescription, if you would, for all of this.
You know, meanwhile, if you look at what Lazarus is saying, this is the guy, Mark Lazarus, who's the chief executive of this new Versant.
I keep calling it Versant.
It's actually Versant.
But, you know, I'm trying to give him a little panache.
Anyway, the Comcast spinoff that's going to be a total disaster.
I don't know how this company possibly succeeds because if I'm a shareholder, you think I want this?
I mean, no, no, no.
I mean, it's actually great for Comcast because they're preserving the better parts of the company.
I mean, CNBC is decent, but let's face it, you can check all your stocks on your.
On your device, you can get honest, honest research, not, you know, analysts that are buying commercials on the network, right?
Seriously, I mean, all these big banks buy commercials on CNBC and then they have their analysts on.
So it becomes this total inside baseball game.
You can get real honest to God research.
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But this guy is saying, look, you know, we think that it will help avoid confusion between viewers of NBC News and MSNBC.
They're still going to have CNBC, though.
So I think this is really about something else.
It's about trying to distance itself from the likes of Rachel Maddow and all the toxic nonsense that we've heard over there.
Here's Donald Trump talking about it.
Then you turn to CNN, which is fake news and nobody watches it, or MSDNC.
They changed MSNBC.
They changed their name now because they were so bad.
But they're the worst, owned by Comcast, run by a guy named Brian Roberts, who doesn't have a clue, he's a terrible manager.
But they're not, I don't think, selling it.
They're changing the name because they're ashamed of it, and they're disassociating it from NBC, which is also fake news.
They should be ashamed of that, too.
But a lot of fake news.
I think the news is getting better.
They're learning that they have no credibility.
ABC, CBS was just sold to a great person that I know very well, a great man, actually, just bought CBS, and I think he's going to do the right thing with it.
NBC is run terribly by Comcast.
I call it Concast because it's a whole con.
So, yeah, it's not going to fix anything, right?
It really won't fix anything.
They're just kind of, how shall I say, done for in that there's a few things going on, and we've talked about this before, but the reality is this industry has changed and it's changed massively.
The fact that I can be here with you in a way that's way more cost effective, realistically, right?
I mean, granted, you know, we deal with audio issues and camera issues from, you know, time to time, but I don't have to have, you know, 100 people working.
And yet, that's what you've got at all these big networks.
And so, there's an opportunity there for people to go and seek out personalities that they like and that are transparent and forthcoming.
And that's exactly what certainly I am.
There's no scripts, there's no middle management.
And it's a very different kind of experience.
And so, the MSNBCs of the world that are out there doing all this commentary, et cetera, and you know where they're coming from every day of the week, they are going to be increasingly challenged.
I don't really see how they have a future there.
MS now or whatever they're calling it.
In other words, the name change is not going to matter.
As for other people, will they have a future there?
I mean, again, Rachel Maddow doesn't want to seem to get with the program.
On the other hand, you had Joe and Mika going right down to Mar-a-Lago, right?
The very next day, putting on their suit and tie.
I mean, we actually saw Joe in a suit and tie after the election.
That was like a miracle.
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Like he never wears a suit and tie.
All of a sudden, like you can tell, oh, he knew, knew, knows and knew which way the wind was blowing, right?
Suit and tie it was.
And he went down to Mar-a-Lago to make nice with Donald Trump.
because lots of changes are coming.
And one, I think it tells you he's a bit of a phony.
Okay, fine.
Two, it tells you he knows where his bread is buttered and he's not willing to perhaps take a chance on his own.
And three, it just reflects the reality of the world.
As for the other one, Rachel Maddow on at night, she's having a much harder time with all of it.
She had this epic, epic meltdown about Donald Trump beautifying D.C. and cleaning up D.C. and actually saying, okay, we're not going to have any more.
illegal thugs on the streets of DC and somehow that's a bad thing.
I mean, it's a really weird position for the Democrats to be in when suddenly you're on the side of defending crime.
I mean, you want to talk about brilliant politics.
That was brilliant on behalf of Donald Trump because they're out there saying, no, no, no, it's fine.
It's like everybody knows it's not fine for goodness sakes.
And yet Rachel had this total epic meltdown telling me and telling you and telling her bosses effectively she's not moving forward with the new program.
And she's got no audience.
Watch.
And, you know, Listen, you can narrow or widen the aperture as much as you want.
You can look at the very big picture or the small local picture anywhere in the country.
And we try to do as much of both of those things as we can every week here on this show.
But whether you're looking at small scale local stories or the biggest picture stories about what's happening in our country, the story is the same.
And it is now an undeniable thing.
We have crossed a line.
We are in a place we did not want to be, but we are there.
The thing we were all warning about for the last few years is not coming, it is here.
We are in it.
This is what it likes, it turns out.
This is what it's like, right?
I mean, it's August, it's a Monday.
Every day the sun rises and the sun sets, and there are sports and movies, and there are new hit songs.
There are scandals here and there.
There are crimes.
There's everybody's personal quotient of family drama, and health worries, and money worries, and falling in and out of love and in and out of faith.
Life has not stopped, and none of our personal lives have stopped.
But also at the same time, life in the United States is profoundly changing, it is profoundly different than it was even six months ago.
Because we do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge.
We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country.
Whoa!
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Okay.
That's melodramatic to see.
That's what I needed you to hear.
It's an authoritative, authoritative, authoritative.
You can tell it's Monday.
It's a consolidated dictatorship.
So, wow.
All right.
Wow.
Like she is never going to really get with the program, which has a lot of people saying, you know, maybe she's going to be better off doing her own thing elsewhere.
This is what Joy Reid decided to do, right?
Or not decided.
I think that the handwriting was on the wall there.
They didn't want anything to do with a woman who was telling people not to visit your family at Christmas or at Thanksgiving because if they voted for Trump, then they are a threat.
To democracy.
I mean, forget about the Republic thing.
These people just talk about democracy.
We were founded as a great republic and we will continue to be a republic anyway.
Here's Joy.
Speaking on some podcast recently, likening likening Msnbc to Sesame Street, that's fitting right now.
She said, it's like Sesame Street.
You just need to have it.
This needs to be like public tv.
Are you kidding me?
My gosh?
I mean, they couldn't get rid of this woman fast enough?
Was not just a channel for a lot of people?
It was a lifeline.
In a world in which every other network was either on the one hand, on the other hand, or right wing, MSNBC was like a respite for people.
People believed that every single person on MSNBC was their personal friend.
We were their friend in their head.
We were the good liberal friend who they could talk with.
We were a diverse, interesting crew.
We had all kinds of people gay folks, straight folks, men, women, blacks, Latinos, Asians, very few.
Of the Asian, you know, the small, you know, there are not that many Asian Americans that even get these opportunities.
We had like multiple Asian Americans.
We had all these different people.
So we were relatable, right?
We were like Sesame Street to people.
So when you you heard that, right?
We were like Sesame Street.
Well, here's the problem, all right?
Grown adults don't need to be watching Sesame Street Joy.
No, grown adults actually want to hear articulate, informed opinions about the news and the news itself, right?
So you got to actually present the news.
And you can't sugarcoat it the way you were always trying to do.
I mean, at some point you lose trust.
Because you guys all thought that Kamala Harris was going to win the thing.
First, you thought Biden.
I mean, you sat there and told us with a straight face.
I'm going to quote Joe Scarborough right now.
This is the best Biden ever.
I think not.
I mean, the best Biden ever.
Are you kidding me?
Did you guys not see any of the incoming video?
The constant flubs on his part.
And don't tell me that this was something that just happened.
Oh, we got a good one here.
We played it again in the shorts feed over the weekend.
You guys liked this.
I called it We've Come a Long Way, Baby, because you think about what we were dealing with with one Joe Biden, and it was this MSNBC just wouldn't play it.
I'd forgotten about this.
America is a nation that can be defined in a single word.
I was in the foot, excuse me.
You can do that one on a loop, right?
Watching it over and over again.
Look, I think that they're going to have to reinvent themselves.
So you're going to have to see talent leave, because maybe Maddo would be better off joining her friend Joy.
On Sesame Street with their own version of Sesame Street, because you know, Sesame Street's kind of going bye-bye too.
All that public funding, taxpayer money no longer going to those things.
It's really actually quite a phenomenon to be watching and it's long overdue, because they just got so crazy.
I'm telling you, if you don't have the results and if you don't have the actual product, you need to rely on all this other stuff, like pressure, for example, the pressure that the likes of Joy Reid were putting on people saying, hey, you know what, if you voted for Trump, you're no longer my friend.
You had people breaking up marriages, breaking up Friendships.
No joke.
And by the way, I've seen it.
I've seen it because I have liberal friends that no longer talk to me in all seriousness.
And I'm like, this is so weird because I'd talk to you.
We don't have to talk about politics.
There's plenty in the world to talk about.
We don't have to talk about politics.
But somehow, this is what it became.
And they complain about the times of Hitler, et cetera.
And what we had actually, I mean, I look at it from the reverse standpoint in that.
if you could shut an entire group of people out and try and debank them, try and unemploy them, unfriend them just because they supported somebody that you didn't, then what is that?
That's like a kind of fascism in its own sense, is it not?
Why can't we just all get along and enjoy our differences of opinion?
Why can't we just have this diversity of thought and talk about it in a real way?
Well, you can't over on MSNBC.
And now that's going to change.
Otherwise, I don't know how they survive.
I mean, I don't know how they survive anyway.
Again, getting back to just the economics.
of the proposal, thinking about what we can do right here, right now.
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But all of this is happening at a time when I really think this network needs to reinvent itself.
All of the networks need to reinvent itself.
It's not just MSNBC.
CNN obviously trying to do it.
As we led the show, they're suddenly going MAGA.
They're admitting the truth on the polls.
How about that?
Republicans doing the best they've done in centuries.
Like you can't even find numbers like this.
So it's all a really positive sign.
But I'll tell you, it doesn't need to be this.
It shouldn't have happened quite like this in that if they had just been perceptive about how human beings relate to each other, they wouldn't be in this predicament, right?
I mean, they really wouldn't.
At some point, when you keep saying, well, you know, what gender are you today?
And you get 200 and some odd different genders.
And then you get mad at somebody, you know, you get this.
pregnant man emoji for goodness sakes on Apple.
Like at some point, enough is enough.
And people are going to push back against that, including men, for goodness sakes.
How did you think that was going to work out?
You think there's a whole bunch of tampon Tim's around there?
I don't think so.
All right.
I just don't think so.
Meanwhile, it's getting worse for these networks because Donald Trump, as we speak, is threatening to revoke the broadcast licenses of two networks, in particular NBC, you know, the one that's so happy because it no longer has to deal with Rachel.
Well, forgive me.
I'm being premature.
Joy Reid and No longer has to deal, well, it doesn't have to deal with Rachel Maddow anymore or Joe Scarborough or any of them because they're going to be spun off into Versant.
But they're still not clear because you see, the NBC network, they need those FCC licenses.
And those go through the federal government and they go through the guy who's in charge of the FCC.
His name is Brandon Carr.
And he's made it very, very clear to all of these networks they're being investigated for their DEI policies, which he considers and are believed to be just check with the Supreme Court and Harvard University unconstitutional.
In other words, you cannot give somebody a job just because of the color of their skin.
But in fact, that's what was going on.
And so now, as Donald Trump considers not only what was going on on the DEI front, but also what's been going on in terms of the bias itself.
I mean, look, he's talking about a figure of, I think, 97% of the news being against him.
I saw 92% at Media Research Center.
But here's what he put out just earlier.
I guess, would that be the wee hours of the morning or late last night?
Anyway, this is brand new.
He said, why is it that ABC and NBC fake news, two of the Absolute worst and most biased networks anywhere in the world aren't paying millions of dollars a year in license fees.
In other words, he wants to get money for those license fees.
Aha, ka-ching, ka-ching.
Oh!
Oh!
It's funny, guys, because he's always like, he's like, how does the government get paid?
Why are taxpayers subsidizing anyone?
Why shouldn't we be getting something out of it?
Why aren't they paying millions of dollars in license fees?
They should lose their licenses for their unfair coverage of Republicans and or conservatives, but at a minimum, they should pay up big for having the privilege of using the most valuable airwaves anywhere at any time.
Crooked journalism should not be rewarded.
It should be terminated.
And then he went on to say, accept what is written and broadcast in the fake news.
I now have the highest poll numbers I've ever had, some in the 60s and even 70s.
Thank you.
Make America great again.
So, this is a big deal.
He wants to get rid of these licenses.
And you know what?
He could.
And this is what Brandon Carr's been talking about.
And this is why everybody at ABC and NBC is freaking out.
At NBC, they're freaking out to the point where they are spinning off these cable entities, primarily MSNBC.
Over at ABC, they've put The View, you know that show, under review.
under review, which Rosie O'Donnell has interpreted alongside me, it's like the one thing we'd ever agree on, as probably not coming back.
The head of ABC, along with the head of Disney, which owns ABC, they've been begging these ladies to try and do different kinds of stories.
Can you move to the entertainment space, for example?
They're like, no, no, no, we want to stick with politics.
Well, you stick with politics and you're going to dig yourself into a very big hole, not just because it's so biased and you don't have any conservatives that have any backbone on the show.
But also because, you know, it's expensive to run that show.
It's very expensive to run that show.
And in this new medium, you're not able to keep up in the streaming.
You know, they can't stream on YouTube.
Why can't they stream?
Well, whatever the broadcast deals are that they have, they're not able to.
Similar, you know, cable's a little different.
Cable actually really can't stream because they get paid by the cable companies to have that exclusive content.
And so sometimes they stream on YouTube.
So if you have like YouTube Premium, you'll see them.
But then all of a sudden the commercial comes on and it's just these nice, peaceful waves or like an elephant walking.
That's because there are no commercials for those cable networks and the broadcast, that's a whole other thing.
And so now Brandon Carr went on to Fox recently and was asked specifically about whether or not The View was really in trouble.
And I want you to hear what he had to say.
All of ABC, by the way, is in trouble.
It's not just The View.
But specifically, given that The View has been a point of contention, let's watch his response.
Now in the crosshairs of this administration.
Look, it's entirely possible that there's issues over there.
I mean, again, stepping back this broader dynamic, once President Trump has exposed these media gatekeepers and smashed this facade, there's 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.
Wow.
Sir, where does this end then?
Look, I think we need a course correction.
You know, it's time for America's legacy broadcasters to return to promoting the public interest.
And just recently, you know, Skydance, which is looking to acquire CBS, wrote letters to the FCC committing to serious change, to trying to root out bias, to putting in place an ombudsman that would address these issues, to returning to unbiased, trustworthy journalism.
That's where we have to go.
And I think we're getting some wins along the way.
It's trust but verify at the end of the day.
You know, we're not where we need to go.
But I think this legacy media really needs to reorient, or they're going to continue to run into issues like Colbert, where it just doesn't make economic sense to run a partisan circus.
You see that?
Colbert was losing somewhere around 40, 50, 30 million.
I don't know.
The estimates were at least in the tens of millions a year.
So no one was really watching, or if they were watching, I guess he was doing decently compared to other late night shows.
They were costing, it was costing the network too darn much.
I have a feeling that The View is kind of a similar situation because they're paying Whoopi Goldberg a lot and Joy Behar a lot.
And, you know, I don't know when their contracts are winding down, but at least from a business perspective, you know, you can kind of just say, hey, you know what?
We've cut the cord.
Investors would be happy.
You're going to save that money going forward.
And then you don't have that thing on the air anymore, which causes you to, one, save money and two, perhaps save a little bit of political headache because unless you get somebody on that couch, If it's a couch, I guess they sit around a table and chairs.
Unless you get a couple of people in there that have some backbone and are willing to push back against the likes of Joy Behar or Whoopi Goldberg, I don't think you're gonna have a shot.
By the way, no conservative worth her salt would ever do the job okay, like i've known conservatives that have done the job Justin M, thank you so much.
Identity Crisis Deepens00:09:28
Good to see you here today.
Um, i've known conservatives.
Megan Mccain did that, Abby did it.
You know what.
They did not like it one single bit.
Because You want to talk about a nasty environment to work in.
I mean, TV is bad enough.
Let me tell you, network TV, no fun.
I mean, everybody's out to kill everybody all the time.
You go over to the view?
That's a whole different ballgame of being willing to kill, right?
So great.
I'm glad that you were able to catch the live too.
We're a little bit later than normal, Justin, today, but I'm glad you were able to join.
Reminder to everybody, please, please subscribe.
All of this is changing.
So the media is changing.
NBC is nervous.
ABC is nervous.
CBS just did this deal.
So we'll see how that all shakes out with Skydance.
Meanwhile, the Democrat Party is nervous.
So it's not just the media companies, right?
But they've been carrying the water, if you would, for the Democrat parties.
It's the fact that Democrats themselves are now facing what I call an existential crisis.
Because again, as Harry said, I mean, they're going the way of Cracker Barrel, for goodness sakes.
Watch.
Look, the Democratic brand right now has about the appeal with the American voter as the Cracker Barrel rebrand has with the American consumers.
Bad, bad, bad.
What are you doing?
Oh my goodness gracious.
What are we talking about here in terms of big party registration changes in the key swing states?
Let's look at the key four swing states that in fact do keep track of registration by party.
Look, the Republican party is in their best position at this point in the cycle since at least 2005 and all four of these key battleground states.
We go out to the Southwest.
Arizona.
How about Nevada?
Republicans haven't done this well since 2005.
Oh my goodness gracious at this point in the cycle.
North Carolina, I couldn't find a point at which Republicans were doing better at this point in the cycle.
It's at least this century.
It probably goes way back in the last century.
And Pennsylvania, very similar.
Republicans doing better at this point than at any point, at any point this century, at least as far as I could find.
Now, what types of gains are we talking about here for the Republican Party?
Well, let's compare it to this point during the first Trump administration all the way back in 2017.
Look at this.
The Republican Party gains in party registration compared to this point back in 2017 during the Trump first administration in Arizona.
You got a Republican gain of three points.
Okay.
How about Nevada?
Up the hill we go, even though we're sticking in the Southwest, a gain of six points.
How about again, we come to the East Coast, North Carolina, a gain of eight points for the Republicans.
And in the Keystone State in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, again, we're talking about a gain of eight points.
My goodness gracious for Republicans, they are converting old former Democrats to their side of the ledger as well as picking up new voters, registering new voters, and it absolutely paid off for them back in the 2024 election.
Again, that's so great.
But I wanted to show that to you again because it's important to understand what the Democrat Party is up against.
It's shrinking and it's shrinking.
Every single day it's shrinking.
Again, you look at the New York Times analysis of this.
And basically in 2020, miraculously, they had nearly half the country, 49% of men were registering as Democrats.
But by 2024, they were like over it.
You know, the new ones coming in are like, no, thank you.
No, thank you.
No, thanks.
And it went down to 39%.
And I suspect that that number will decline even more.
You see the same thing.
Women no longer want to be a part of it.
And so what do the Democrats do?
They're in this identity crisis.
They know they have to rebrand, but they don't know which direction to go in.
So you get idiots like Gavin Newsom out in California who suddenly say, oh, let me just mimic Trump.
I'm going to take all my tweets.
I'm going to throw them into ChatGPT and I'm going to say, talk like Trump.
And then it spits this one out.
I mean, unbelievable.
Even down to the point of thank you for your attention to this matter.
So at first I thought it was a joke, but he kept doing it and doing it and doing it and doing it.
And it's weird, honestly.
It's really, really weird.
And I think that they just are, you know, basically reinforcing how nuts they all are and how sort of discombobulated and freaked out they all are because he was seen as, you know, kind of a rising star.
God forbid, right?
In the Democrat Party, I don't think he's going to get to first base.
And you've now got JD Vance trying to point out the obvious guys, like, come on, like, stop trying to copycat.
Find your own lane.
Find what matters.
And, you know, the women's sports thing and all the, it's not going to work.
Human beings are human beings.
They all need to go, like, take a psychology class or something or, you know, stop being so far out on the spectrum, for goodness sakes.
The dance question.
I mean, look, the autopsy for the Democrats, some free political advice from the President of the United States is stop sounding too much.
Stop sounding like crazy people.
That really is all it is.
I mean, this idea that Gavin Newsom is somehow going to mimic Donald Trump's style, I think that ignores the fundamental genius of President Trump's political success, which is that he's authentic.
He just is who he is.
You've got to be yourself.
You've actually got to talk to people honestly about the issues.
I don't think it's that complicated.
Don't be a crazy person.
Be authentic.
If the Democrats did that, they'd do a hell of a lot better.
But the thing is, the Democrats really can't help themselves.
If you look at the transgender issue, they're still talking about letting men play in women's sports.
If you look at the crime issue, they're calling Donald Trump a fascist for taking action that in nine days has dropped armed robberies by 55%.
So part of sounding less crazy is being less crazy.
And if the Democrats were less crazy, I think we'd all get along a whole lot better.
I'm not trying to pick on California because I am a member of the California bar, so don't get me here.
But yeah, California, her point is, is California is one of the worst.
I mean, you look at the taxes in California, it's really a nightmare.
So they're struggling to find the identity of their party.
Justin M. writing, the ironic thing is the fact that the Democrats are playing identity.
Anything is the problem.
But, you know, keep doing it, guys, right?
Because the GOP will ride that one all the way to the bank, both in midterms and in the next election cycle.
It's just funny because they're so freaked out that they're like, okay, how do we bring back men?
How do we do this?
How do we do this?
Okay, let's have like a, you know, let's, let's get a board out and we'll like spit out ideas and throw it up on the board.
And somebody somehow decided we just need to be in the gym more and show that we're working out and we're lifting weights.
And like Eric Swallow started, he started like lifting his weights and all this.
And he's doing these videos and it's so weird to see.
Right.
And it got even worse with.
Mamdani, because Mamdani, who's the communist socialist whose dad was the post colonial professor of God knows what at Columbia University.
And Mamdani, like, even though he's, I guess, Indian by background, applied because he had lived in Africa as an African American to Columbia and still didn't get in, by the way, still didn't get in.
Poor Bowden was stupid enough to take the guy.
Anyway, he's an idiot.
Like, I'm sorry.
Like, I don't actually, you know, I'm pretty, like, I don't really go outside, but the guy's a freaking idiot, okay?
And he's such an idiot that somehow he doesn't know.
That bench pressing 135 pounds just makes you look like a total loser because, you know, the Doge kid who's just gotten beat up in the streets of DC that Donald Trump is trying to improve so that we don't have young thugs out there like that.
The Doge kid, AKA Big Balls, went out and he's bench pressing after getting beaten up 225 pounds.
And this loser, this loser that wants to take everything from you and decommodify housing, his, Little socialist term to say we're going to take your house and give it to somebody else.
Yeah, I mean, this is full on communism.
Bad guy, okay?
Like, I hope to God New York does not put him in.
Anyway, the loser that he is goes out and he can barely do the 135 pounds.
Watch.
Oopsie.
Now that's the Doge employee.
That's big balls.
He's got 225.
Okay, let's watch Mamdani first because he's really bad.
He's got like a whole team.
Go, go, go.
Let me get one more.
Let me get three.
Let me get three.
Oh my gosh, and he's got a whole crowd.
No pride.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Yeah.
Let me get one more.
Let me get one.
Let me get three.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh.
By the way, peace in my mind.
I read your mind.
You said, Did you see the clip?
You bet I saw the clip.
I had the clip and the rundown all along.
Yes.
Ma'am Donnie, I'm sorry.
Like, I don't even know what to tell you.
I mean, The Doge kid, again, he just got beat up and he's like trying to recover.
And here he is doing 225, okay?
He's rapping 225.
And you get this idiot, the communist, barely squeaking by trying to do a lousy 130, 135.
I mean, this is pathetic.
So somebody's clearly telling him, hey, you got to act like a man.
Start acting like a man.
DOJ Clash Explained00:15:08
And let's just say, you know?
He's never going to be able to act like a man ever because he fundamentally, I don't even know if he believes he's a man.
I don't know what he believes he is other than a communist who wants to take all of your stuff and redistribute it.
He wants to destroy New York City, as you know, the financial capital of the world.
Everybody's going to leave.
They're going to go to Texas.
Austin is going to become the financial capital of the world.
Miami is going to become the financial capital of the world.
Anyway, Riley Gaines, she was able to totally beat this guy.
Riley Gaines was bench pressing far more than him.
She's a girl.
So maybe that gives more credence to their whole women, men in sports thing.
I'm kidding.
Looking for an opportunity for.
Oh, I'm just reading something that's out loud in the super chat.
Anyway, not related to this conversation.
But again, I would just say look, they are facing a Democrat existential crisis and they don't know what to do.
So they're grasping at straws.
They're running to the gym.
They're trying to see more masculine.
They're trying to figure out how they recover from the last.
However, many years between Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, they've done some serious, serious damage.
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I want to get into Dan Bongino and this Operation Obamagate.
This is something else because Dan, who I used to work with at Fox and is a really good guy, and basically gave up a whole lot of money and his show to go over and work at the FBI.
I give him a ton of credit for doing that.
He warned.
maybe about six or eight weeks ago that there was going to be a lot coming.
And a lot of people, I get it, you're frustrated.
You're like, why hasn't it all happened right now?
But I would say he's a man of his word and I trust him.
I personally trust him.
And he said something that I want to play you.
It's relevant right now with Letitia James, of course, under fire, the judge, the whole court throwing out the $500 million penalty against Donald Trump, saying it was a violation of the Eighth Amendment because you can't have such excessive fines, right?
Just look at the Constitution.
Meanwhile, Bolton, of course, as you know, had his home raided.
And that was really something.
I mean, he faces up to 20 years actually in prison as a result of this.
But Dan alluded to all of this just a few weeks ago.
Let's watch the clip.
Let me ask you about are you going to be looking into, Cash and Pam, any potential collusion between the DOJ, Letitia James, the novel legal theory of Alvin Bragg or Nathan Wade or Fonnie Willis and the DOJ?
Is that something?
Has anything come up?
Is there any way to determine whether or not evidence was destroyed in any of these cases?
Well, there's always a way to determine that.
I don't want to comment on that specific.
Case right now for a reason.
I don't want to get ahead of the Department of Justice on that, but I want to say this.
You know, the FBI obviously has the public corruption portfolio.
And yes, if you are a corrupt politician out there, if you are engaged in behavior, you know what you're doing, we're going to find you.
I promise.
No one is going to get off the days of selecting and putting your partisan bias on and taking care of your friends.
Those days are over.
You know what, Sean?
I don't have any friends.
I don't want any friends.
Well, maybe outside of you and a couple of.
I don't care.
I didn't come here for the money.
I didn't come here to make.
I know.
You didn't go there for the money.
I can tell people.
I didn't come here to make friends.
I don't give a damn about friends.
I don't have any friends.
I don't want any friends.
I got my wife.
I got you and I got a small crew of people.
So I don't need any friends.
If you're a father, we're coming for you.
That'll help.
Yeah, exactly.
You want a friend in DC?
Right.
Go get a laparadoodle like I have because there are no friends in DC.
You've been doing this, what, 30 years?
There are no friends here.
You know, it's relevant only because in some ways, I don't know, Bolton was his friend.
But we all worked with Bolton.
I actually had a lot of arguments on the air with Bolton.
It was kind of a regular thing.
I don't think we did see eye to eye on much.
But Bolton was somebody who came in and was running the NSC for Donald Trump and published a lot of what the president considered classified information.
And basically, it got pretty heated.
Like within the administration, they said, you can't publish this stuff.
Donald Trump was pretty darn furious because he felt that it was compromising sources, et cetera.
And he published it anyway.
It turned out to be kind of a lousy book.
Even the New York Times panned it.
They said it was like 500 pages of Bolton's notes, which kind of seemed unhinged at times.
And they were like, gosh, you know, he's such a warmonger.
Like he was excited one night because he thought that they were going to bomb someplace in the Middle East.
And then he realized they weren't going to do it because Donald Trump said, no, there were going to be too many deaths.
He didn't want 150 body bags.
It's too many, too many.
And I'll tell you this from personal experience, having talked to him repeatedly about what was going on in the Middle East as well as Venezuela, et cetera.
he is very much an anti-war president.
He does not want anybody dying, like anybody on any side.
Like he really doesn't wear his bolts and it's like, okay, we go in, we go in strong.
And so there was this clash between the two of them.
And then he publishes this book with the class allegedly classified information.
The judge wound up saying, oh, you can go ahead and do it.
So he did.
And now this is coming back to bite him because as Jonathan Turley pointed out, legal scholar, he said he could face 20 years as a result of this.
Listen.
It's intriguing here because these are long standing allegations that the book indicated or referenced classified material that he may have acquired when he was in the administration.
We're not clear as to what that is, but it would suggest that it could be national defense information.
The reason that's important is that creates a heightened potential penalty.
So you can have penalties that range from five to 20 years.
20 years tends to be the census for concealing information, obstructing justice.
Simply having classified information can weigh in at about 10 years.
And there are often multiple counts because each of those documents can be charged separately.
You know, it's really interesting how this administration is actually using some of the cases that they tried to use against Donald Trump, right?
Whether it be mortgage fraud, whether it be classified documents.
Letitia getting hit with a big blow last week.
I mean, major news that $500 million penalty.
Being Tosh, she'll likely appeal it, of course, because, you know, this is what she does.
But I'll tell you, this was egg on her face.
And the media has started to turn against her.
We saw it.
I reported on this a couple of months ago with New York Magazine tending to be very liberal.
And they're kind of saying, look, this is a mess of her own doing.
You've seen MSNBC start to shift.
You've seen CNN start to shift.
Let me show you the clip.
Well, I'm not Wolf.
I have been skeptical of the attorney general's case for a long time.
I'm on record saying that this is a huge win for Donald Trump any way you cut it.
And this is a stinging rebuke to the attorney general, Letitia James.
The finding here is a very long, complicated ruling.
But the bottom line is while the finding of liability against Donald Trump can stand, for now at least, the damages award, which started at $350 million with interest gets up close to $500 million, that is thrown out.
And the core reason. for that ruling, according to the judges, is essentially that there was not enough of a showing here that there were actual victims.
And just to refresh people's memories, this is the civil fraud lawsuit brought by the attorney general.
The core allegation is that Donald Trump habitually overvalued his own assets when he was trying to get bank loans from banks and other lenders.
And essentially, the argument that Donald Trump made below that has now had resonance in the appeals court is you're talking about very sophisticated quote unquote victims.
These are billion dollar banks that made the loans Got repaid on the loans by Donald Trump with interest and actually profited to the tune of millions of dollars.
So it's not the typical type of fraud case where you have somebody stealing money from other people or ripping off unknowing consumers.
So this ruling by the appeals court is monumental.
It was also very unusual in that it took them nearly a year to reach this decision.
As Caitlin Polance just said, the next step is going to be to go up to the highest court in the state, the Court of Appeals in New York State.
You know, it is amazing that it took this long.
I mean, over 300 days.
it should have only taken like 30.
That's what's typical.
So why did it take so long?
A lot of people were speculating that Kathy Holkle had something to do with this.
This came out of a Miranda Divine column that was in the NEW YORK POST.
Allegedly, people at the White House were telling her that Kathy had told the president, listen, you got to stop meddling with my fines, you know, in Midtown Manhattan, and uh, once you stop doing that, then i'll allow them to move forward on this, on this case it's it's yeah, it's strange.
I'm just going to tell you it's really weird that it took this long.
It just shouldn't have taken this long.
And when you listen to the testimony, I mean, the judges, you knew which way they were going, right?
May it please the court, Judith Bale for the New York Attorney General's Office.
All of the defendants repeatedly violated.
Ms. Bale, can you identify any previous case in which the Attorney General sued under Executive Law 6312 to upset a private business transaction that was between equally sophisticated partners where the supposed victim had the ability and legal obligation to discover?
The allegedly misrepresented matters by conducting its own due diligence, where the supposed wrongdoer advised the supposed victim through written disclaimers to conduct its own due diligence and to draw its own conclusions, where the alleged misrepresentation almost entirely concerned inherently subjective valuations of properties and businesses, and where the victim never complained about any fraud in the transactional losses from it.
Because I've gone through the cases which you've cited.
And all of them always involved the consumer protection aspect.
It involved protection of the market.
Several responses.
And I want to add to his question and little to no impact on the public marketplace.
Wow.
Well, I guess she learned the hard way.
Leticia did anyway that the Eighth Amendment is for real.
Excessive fines prevents the government from imposing disproportionately large monetary policies.
In other words, she couldn't do what she was trying to do, which was to bankrupt him and literally take his property.
She wanted to go right into Trump Tower and take it over.
That was her goal for political reasons only.
Four days after a judge ordered Donald Trump to pay $355 million for a decade of fraud, New York Attorney General Letitia James says she's prepared to do everything she can to make sure the former president pays his fine, including, she told us, seizing the buildings that bear his name.
If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek, you know, judgment enforcement mechanisms in court, and we will ask the judge to seize his assets.
Unbelievable, just unbelievable.
The whole thing was crazy.
By the way, Justin M, I agree with you.
Everything is taking so freaking long.
The Auto Pen thing we haven't even talked about that recently, like what was going on.
I look, these things take time, I.
I think it's important to be somewhat patient.
I do think it's important to give some benefit of the doubt.
I think the good news is the Democrats are on defense.
If you think about the last time that Donald Trump was in there, he was on defense.
Right now, it's a very different scenario, and so that's the good news.
All of this however, does take time.
That's the reality of it.
Um, And I'm hopeful, I'm hopeful that this is a different time around, okay?
And they've had four years on the sidelines and they spent a lot of time.
Stephen Miller, four years running America Legal First, right?
All he did was focus on this stuff.
And so when you think about how they're going in and taking over DC from a crime perspective, trying to put the National Guard in there, this is all because they've realized, okay, we have the legal power to be able to do these things.
When you think about what they did in California as those protests were going on, again, they won that one in the Ninth Circuit.
They've thought this all through.
And so I get it.
It's frustrating.
It's taking time.
But the important thing is, things are moving.
So I'm not discouraged yet.
You know, I want everything yesterday, too.
But speaking of Letitia, like, look what's going on with Letitia.
There's a number of things.
They've got two investigations going on.
One is whether or not, I mean, it was clear the court already decided, like, you know, violation of the Eighth Amendment.
But what about Donald Trump's civil rights?
In other words, were his civil rights violated?
This is the latest and greatest.
I'll let Fox do the recap here.
But basically, and I think this is the right one, I want to make sure I have the right soundbite for you.
I think this is the right one where they're talking about how they're looking into whether or not his civil rights as an individual were violated by one Letitia James.
Washington, what do you know, David?
Well, hi, Dana.
Two well placed sources familiar with the probe tell Fox News that New York Attorney General Letitia James and her office is under investigation by the DOJ here in Washington.
We're told that Attorney General Pambondi signed off on the probe.
Subpoenas were sent to James's office, and there is a grand jury investigation underway in the New York State Capitol of Albany.
The specific investigation, my colleague Jake Gibson, Ashley Oliver, and myself are being told involves deprivation of rights, which in plain language means someone in a position of legal authority violating someone else's constitutional or legal rights.
Those sources tell Fox News the DOJ is going after James because she took then former President Donald Trump to court, simply because she didn't like him.
And campaigned on getting him.
DOJ, led by Bondi, believes she violated his First Amendment rights dealing with free speech.
James has said before she believed Trump inflated his net worth to get good deals on loans from lenders and other financial benefits.
Ms. James won in a court judgment of over $450 million against the Trump organization.
Trump is appealing and it's pending.
The entire scope of the grand jury probe in Albany, Dana, is unclear.
Grand juries are secretive, but we've learned.
From these wealth place sources, it stems from a recent strike force set up inside the Justice Department to investigate an alleged plot to tie Trump to Russia in 2016.
Sources say that strike force has expanded to other topics.
Now, to recap, the Justice Department has initiated grand jury proceedings in Albany, New York, against the Empire State Attorney General, Letitia James.
First Amendment Challenge00:02:52
But remember, this is important.
A grand jury simply decides if there's enough evidence to indict.
To be clear, we are told this is very early in the process, and no one, as I speak to you right now, is facing any charges at this time.
Fox News reached out to Attorney General James' office multiple times, but we've yet to hear back.
Dana.
All right, David.
But I think that she's still at serious risk for an indictment.
I mean, they just announced, right, the DOJ investigation out of New York.
And that comes on the heels of the mortgage fraud investigation.
Again, interesting that he's going after people with the exact same things.
I mean, this one's different, frankly.
It's different.
But this is a big deal.
Like, she's actually facing some real challenges.
I want to get to what's happening both in DC as well as Chicago.
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But I'll tell you, Leticia's going to have some problems.
I've said this all along.
I mean, she was such a political animal, right?
I mean, she was just downright mean.
I think about what Peter Navarro said about her.
Because he was right.
I mean, like, she's like the worst of the worst.
Letitia James is another one that belongs in jail.
Look, look, the Look, the Democrats, look, they really overplayed their hand on this because they thought they could take Donald Trump out.
Federal Resources Needed00:08:59
They didn't.
And in the process, they totally destroyed American people's faith in our Justice Department.
And they got President Trump a lot of votes because of that.
I mean, the book I wrote about the I Went to Prison So You Won't Have to, the whole theme of that thing is that.
I'm the wake up call.
If they can come for me, they can come for you.
So people need to understand that these are bad people.
Letitia James, Fannie Willis in Georgia, Alvin Bragg in Manhattan.
The question is how coordinated were they?
And that's the question that needs to be answered by an investigation.
That's my question as well.
I'll tell you, that is my question.
How coordinated were they?
I think that we're going to find out more about that, guys.
I really do.
In the coming weeks, it's a question that Matt Gaetz was asking during some of the hearings of Merrick Garland, and he didn't get a firm answer.
Turning now to crime plunging.
I mean, this is amazing to see.
Crime is plunging way, way down, way, way down in DC, just like in a week since Donald Trump took over.
I mean, did you see this?
That's something to brag about, right?
We're going to use the Fox graphic here.
Thank you to my friends with whom I used to work.
All of this is so fantastic down 46%, with robbery, carjackings down 83%.
Car theft down 21%, violent crime down, property crime.
I mean, wow, I love seeing this.
I really, really do.
And you know what?
There's a chance, dare I say, that this could spread throughout the country.
I mean it because people are calling for the president to come to their cities, like what do you know, Chicago, Chicago, which really struggles.
Think about the south side of Chicago.
Here's a woman out there saying, hey, you know what?
We need some help.
Would the president come and help clean up Chicago because Brandon Johnson's not doing the job?
Say thank you to our president, the people's president, like I keep saying the real MVP, President Donald J. Trump.
Thank you, President Trump, for hearing us, for listening to us.
We need you here in Chicago, not just to see the National Guard.
We're asking one more thing.
We need you to come in and investigate.
the Brandon Johnson administration, the Prisker administration, and Tony Prinkle and CTU.
Hey, it's all hands on deck.
Thank you, President Trump.
Thank you.
I think that she may have touched a nerve because all of a sudden, Brandon Johnson's out doing a press conference and so is Prickster, okay, who actually envisions himself running for president.
He might want to use a little Ozempic first.
Sorry.
Anyway, check this out.
Here is Brandon Johnson basically saying, don't you dare come near my city.
Well, like everybody wants him there.
They want to clean up.
They want to clean up Chicago.
Why shouldn't you want this?
The fact that they, I guarantee you would take Biden's help, but you're not going to take Trump's.
As the mayor of this city, I can tell you that Chicagoans are not calling for a military occupation.
They are calling for the same thing that we've been calling for for some time, and that's investment.
What safe cities across America all have in common, they invest in people.
And that's what we're doing in Chicago.
We need the federal resources.
To make sure that we're building more affordable housing, expanding mental and behavioral health care, education, all of these things that could reduce crime and provide real community safety.
Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars for a publicity stunt to invoke chaos and terror, the federal government should spend that money on proven solutions to crime and violence reduction.
We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence.
We've already tried that, and we've ended up with the largest prison population in the world.
Without solving the problems of crime and violence, the addiction on jails and incarceration in this country, we have moved past that.
It is racist, it is immoral, it is unholy, and it is not the way to drive violence down.
We cannot return to the same failed strategies that got us here in the first place.
Under the previous presidential administration, we requested more federal resources to address gun violence in our city.
We continue to make that same call.
We have made significant progress on our own, but there is so much more that we can do if we had real support from the federal government.
Looking for a handout, I guess.
I would just say this.
You know, those numbers that are on the screen right now, those are pretty remarkable.
And that's like just after one week.
Imagine what could be done if you really decided to take crime seriously in Chicago.
And by the way, you know, Donald Trump's all about accountability.
So he's not going to give you a ton of money and let you squander it.
That's not what he's going to do.
No way, no how.
In fact, you know, this same mayor, we recently saw that he's having some challenges making ends meet.
He had to like basically admit they're running out of cash.
They don't have the money in Chicago to deliver on all the programs.
So sure, he wants the federal money handout, but he doesn't actually want to have to be accountable for it.
And the difference between what Trump is asking for and what Chicago is asking for, two totally different things.
They're like, give me, give me, give me.
And Trump's like, no, no.
I want results.
I want real results.
I mean, heck, not only does he want to see results like what we're seeing in the city of DC, where, by the way, the numbers are atrocious.
I mean, I've showed you guys this graphic.
It's 44 murders per 100,000, which is like worse than Lima, Peru, or worse than Mexico City, or worse than Bogota, Colombia, worse than parts of Africa.
It's amazing.
And so now Donald Trump's talking about maybe going into Chicago and helping out the city of Chicago.
And they're like, no, no, no, we just want the money.
We don't want anything else.
We don't actually really want you helping.
I think that he's going to want something in the way of proof.
If he gives a dollar, he wants to know where that dollar is going.
If you saw him over the weekend, and we put this in the shorts feed, he was actually talking about even beautifying the city of DC again.
He said, No one knows grass like I do.
This just cracked me up.
I mean, it's a really interesting soundbite.
And, you know, it's almost, dare I say, It's kind of theoretical and rather, I don't know if you guys saw it, but I want to show it to you right now because I got a real kick out of it.
He's saying grass has a life and basically all this grass died some 40 years ago along with basically Washington, D.C.
And since the last four decades, Washington, D.C. has become a real hellhole.
And how do we change that?
One, we clean up the streets by having more people in terms of a police presence.
And now the National Guard has been authorized to be carrying weapons as well.
So this is a big deal.
And then he said, you know what, we need to make it prettier.
I want to make it look Better.
I think we need more grass because it's got to actually look the part, right?
It is the nation's capital.
So, this is kind of an interesting thing.
He was speaking actually with all the people in the parks that are doing the work and giving them a nice little pep talk.
Let's take a peek.
I'm going to be redoing your parks.
I'm very good at grass because I have a lot of golf courses all over the place.
I know more about grass than any human being, I think, anywhere in the world.
And we're going to be regressing all of your parks, all brand new sprinkler systems, the best.
That you can buy just like Augusta.
It'll look like Augusta.
It'll look like, more importantly, Trump National Golf Club.
That's even better.
But we're going to have all brand new, beautiful grass.
You know, like everything else, grass has a life.
Do you know that?
Grass has a life.
You know, we have a life, and grass has a life.
And the grass here died about 40 years ago.
So we're going to be rebuilding all of your parks, and it's going to happen fast.
It's going to go up like a miracle.
So you do the job on safety, and I'll get this place fixed up physically.
And we're going to be so proud of it at the end of six months.
But let's say at the end of a year, this place will be maxed out in terms of beauty.
And again, if you can copycat those numbers, I mean, that's just a week.
So we'll see what happens in a month.
We'll see what happens in six months.
But it's very, very clear.
It's very, very clear.
Grass Has A Life00:02:47
Charlotte, I'm sorry.
I know we're not at a million by the end of August.
It is the end of August.
But, you know, Utah makes it harder, I swear to God.
Let me just finish my thought on, you know, I think.
As far as Chicago goes, the people want him.
Chicago's flipping red.
It's exactly what I was telling you with the New York Times article at the top of the show.
When you look at all of these areas, right, what are they doing?
They're switching.
They're all going red because it's pretty simple.
It's pretty simple, guys.
You know, men don't want to be part of this anymore.
Women are married to men.
And you look at that chart and it shows you what's really going on.
So, Chicago, is the latest.
As for me and my numbers, I know, Charlotte, I'm with you.
I wish I was in a million too.
We'll get there.
I promise you, together, we will indeed get there.
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I have a theory that it gets harder.
I remember this when I was coming up on 100,000.
It took forever, it seemed.
I mean, we were at like 90,000 forever.
I think Peace of My Mind sent me a note on Twitter.
He's like, how long is it going to take?
It's taken a while, but that's okay.
Because you know what?
The numbers, they're nice, but they really don't matter in the scheme of things.
When I look at our audience and I can see statistics on this, we have the stickiest audience.
You know why?
I don't market.
I don't do anything extra.
I'm just here every day, not even at the same time.
Don Beck is like, can you at least be at the same time?
It's hard.
You know, I get three kids and the whole thing and I was traveling recently.
But one of these days we're shooting for like one o'clock.
And once school starts, I'm going to have to really work towards that goal.
One o'clock Eastern, that is.
But I think that the reality is it gets harder as you get closer and closer to this goal.
And then I'm told anyway by other people in this platform that it just unleashes after you hit that.
So I'm committed.
I'm not going anywhere.
I don't care if they keep us here for the next darn year.
But whatever you guys can do to help push just by telling your friends and getting the word out and liking and sharing and commenting, I do read the comments after and spreading the word is much, much appreciated.
So Charlotte, thank you for your attention to that.
We'll get there.
We'll get there.
I have no doubt.
Granted, you know, I wish it was six months ago too, or at least this month, but it'll happen.
Yeah, it'll happen.
Anyway, thank you for all you guys do.
I truly do appreciate it.
And it's a wonderful medium to be here with you and not with these networks and to be able to have the freedom to do this.
I love it.
I really do.
And I love all of you.
So thank you.
And I will see you back here live.
Let's shoot for one, shall we?
It'll be a little earlier.
I can make sure all the kids get their dinner and in bed a little bit earlier as well.