The Trish Regan Show - BREAKING: Fox Ratings FORCE CNN & MSNBC OUT OF BUSINESS?!! Lib Cable Networks STRUGGLE for Survival
Aired: 2025-09-08
Duration: 01:32:11


=== Cable Networks Struggling to Survive (14:36) ===

[00:00:01]  Hello, welcome to the big show.
[00:00:02]  I got to tell you, I don't know how cable survives.
[00:00:05]  Right about now, as I'm looking at the landscape and I see these new numbers coming in, and granted, Fox wants to tout them, of course.
[00:00:11]  They are, you know, king of the pack here.
[00:00:16]  I mean, without a doubt, they are way ahead of everybody else.
[00:00:18]  But I don't know how MSNBC and I don't know how CNN actually last in this environment.
[00:00:26]  I mean, their bias is excessive.
[00:00:28]  And we get the same thing going on over in Printville, right?
[00:00:31]  With the Washington Post and New York Times.
[00:00:32]  Same sort of thing as well.
[00:00:34]  I don't know how these businesses last.
[00:00:35]  I mean, I'm just going to say it.
[00:00:36]  It is a whole new world.
[00:00:38]  They have to compete with streaming and they don't have any clue how to do it.
[00:00:44]  You know, Fox is a special situation and a special case.
[00:00:47]  And granted, they're killing it, but even they should be looking at the handwriting on the wall.
[00:00:52]  So we're going to get into all of that.
[00:00:54]  The view is back.
[00:00:56]  You know, we thought maybe for a brief second, it might not be back.
[00:00:58]  I will say if it is back and it is, it's not back for long.
[00:01:02]  And we'll get into all the reasons why I want to talk about that.
[00:01:05]  Plus.
[00:01:06]  You know, I just got to say, the president, the highest approval rating ever that came out last week is just amazing.
[00:01:15]  But in some ways, it's kind of tied to the ratings, right?
[00:01:17]  It's kind of tied to what we see going on with the likes of Fox.
[00:01:21]  Fox is killing MSNBC and CNN.
[00:01:23]  But hey, you know, he's at a 55% approval rate.
[00:01:26]  And why is that?
[00:01:26]  It's because of the crime situation.
[00:01:29]  He's marching into Chicago.
[00:01:31]  And I'm telling you, he's going to have the ability to do this.
[00:01:33]  How do I know that?
[00:01:34]  The Supreme Court just came out with news.
[00:01:36]  A little news for Gavin Newsom.
[00:01:38]  Guess what they decided?
[00:01:39]  Yeah.
[00:01:40]  It turns out the feds can actually be there.
[00:01:42]  ICE can be there on the street arresting people in Los Angeles, despite what Gavin says.
[00:01:48]  You see, all of this is connected.
[00:01:49]  The Democrats have nowhere to go.
[00:01:51]  And frankly, the cable networks don't either.
[00:01:54]  Welcome to the program.
[00:01:55]  It's good to have you here on this Monday.
[00:01:56]  I am Trish Regan.
[00:01:57]  This is the Trish Regan Show.
[00:01:58]  We have trouble in Cableville.
[00:02:01]  Yes, yes, yes.
[00:02:02]  You see, Fox is killing the likes of MSNBC and CNN, and I just don't know how they continue to exist in this environment.
[00:02:10]  They could maybe try and turn it around.
[00:02:12]  Maybe they could try and be a little bit more neutral, maybe a little bit more balanced or, you know, maybe they should just close down altogether.
[00:02:18]  You just close up shop because this is not really working for you, is it okay?
[00:02:24]  You know, the ratings are in and we talked a little bit about this vis-a-vis Msnbc and Jansaki and Rachel Maddow and how I don't know again, economically speaking, that makes any sense at all.
[00:02:35]  Certainly vis-a-vis Rachel Maddow and the alleged 25 million dollars she's getting for one show a week.
[00:02:41]  Um, and poor Jansaki, Peppermint Patty over there.
[00:02:44]  You know, It's like watching paint dry.
[00:02:46]  Like you just can't watch her.
[00:02:47]  She's boring.
[00:02:49]  And by the way, that's not just me.
[00:02:50]  Apparently, New York Post did an interview with a number of people from MSNBC, and executives have come to that conclusion as well.
[00:02:58]  You know, I could have told them that before they put her on the air.
[00:03:01]  But nonetheless, here's what you should know about Fox compared to these other networks, and it's just staggering, right?
[00:03:07]  Primetime ratings, 2.43 million total viewers Monday through Sunday in primetime.
[00:03:17]  I can tell.
[00:03:18]  We're beating them right here.
[00:03:19]  I think we had 110 million last month alone right here on the Little Trish Weekend Network.
[00:03:25]  That's why it's going to be so hard for cable.
[00:03:28]  Anyway, 2.43 million total viewers Monday through Sunday in primetime since June 20th, besting ABC's 2.38 million viewers.
[00:03:37]  That's like the ABC network.
[00:03:38]  So that's kind of interesting, right?
[00:03:40]  Cable in this case is beating the ABC network.
[00:03:44]  That's.
[00:03:46]  That's kind of what you might call amazing.
[00:03:49]  In other words, they have not been able to put any good entertainment onto ABC, their primetime platform, to the point where people are going to sit there and watch news on Fox before they'll watch, you know, whatever bachelorette or bachelor, whatever shows that they've got over on ABC.
[00:04:03]  That's rather miraculous.
[00:04:04]  But it also tells you, guess what?
[00:04:07]  People are over here.
[00:04:08]  They're watching entertainment over here.
[00:04:10]  They're watching news over here.
[00:04:12]  They're watching opinion over here.
[00:04:14]  It's where it's at.
[00:04:15]  CBS coming in.
[00:04:17]  just over 2 million viewers.
[00:04:18]  That's really staggering.
[00:04:20]  So Fox News beating the regular networks who are putting forth entertainment content that nobody wants to watch.
[00:04:26]  So nobody wants to watch their news.
[00:04:27]  Nobody wants to watch their entertainment.
[00:04:29]  Think about that, guys.
[00:04:30]  And then you look at, oh my gosh, the cable stuff.
[00:04:33]  And I, again, I don't know how they stay in business.
[00:04:36]  I really, really don't.
[00:04:37]  MSNBC dropping 57% of its viewers.
[00:04:40]  CNN losing 59% year over year.
[00:04:44]  I mean, how do you stay in business for goodness sakes?
[00:04:47]  You just keep throwing money at it?
[00:04:50]  I mean, you can tell there are a bunch of times, right?
[00:04:52]  It's like the teachers union.
[00:04:54]  We'll just keep throwing money at it, see what happens.
[00:04:56]  Maybe these kids will get some better scores at some point.
[00:04:59]  Maybe these anchors will actually be able to score a number.
[00:05:03]  I'm sorry, it's not working.
[00:05:04]  So how much are you paying Anderson Cooper there at CNN?
[00:05:07]  Whatever you're paying him, it's too much, okay?
[00:05:09]  He does not succeed.
[00:05:10]  He's not doing well.
[00:05:12]  And I don't believe he ever will.
[00:05:13]  You know why?
[00:05:14]  The medium has changed.
[00:05:15]  You guys are clinging on to something that no longer exists, for sure.
[00:05:20]  So nobody wants to watch Anderson Cooper look all pretty in his little suit and tie, reading a teleprompter, scripted questions, scripted content.
[00:05:28]  It's over.
[00:05:30]  Okay, so I'll at least give, you know, the Fox guys this.
[00:05:33]  Fox, more than any other network I ever worked at, was very talent run in that the talent had a whole lot of say.
[00:05:40]  I mean, up to a certain point.
[00:05:42]  I mean, I'm living proof of that, right?
[00:05:44]  I had to get my scripts approved every night and they approved my last and final one that was the big, you know.
[00:05:52]  Hooray.
[00:05:52]  Because I called out the March 2020 stuff long before anybody else was willing to do it.
[00:05:57]  I mean, I thought shutting the country down as we did was absolutely crazy at the time.
[00:06:01]  And I stand by that.
[00:06:03]  It still was and is crazy to have a national shutdown.
[00:06:06]  You protect the people you can protect.
[00:06:08]  You certainly don't do what Cuomo did in the state of New York, right?
[00:06:11]  Sending infected people into nursing homes.
[00:06:14]  I'll never get over that one.
[00:06:15]  Anyway, the point being, I did have a little free reign.
[00:06:20]  I mean, not like I have over here.
[00:06:21]  But I do actually think that's one of the reasons why you see Fox.
[00:06:25]  way out on top because when Jesse Waters is putting together the elements for his show, he has a big hand in that.
[00:06:33]  And he has a big hand in the scripts.
[00:06:35]  And yes, the producers matter, but not to the same extent that they do at, say, a CNBC or an MSNBC.
[00:06:41]  I think Rachel, Rachel Maddow has a hand in her scripting.
[00:06:45]  I mean, she takes you down some wild rabbit holes, some entertaining, wild, conspiracy-driven rabbit holes that are just, you know, I've seen her over the years and I'm like, how does that never get called out?
[00:06:56]  Like, how?
[00:06:57]  Why do they think it's a right-wing conspiracy when it's right there in front of you, Russia, Russia, Russia, for goodness sakes, all day long, right?
[00:07:04]  And yet she's talented in the way she takes you down those rabbit holes.
[00:07:08]  You don't have a lot of people in the cable TV business over at CNN or at MSNBC that can do that.
[00:07:16]  I mean, you have the Joy Reid types and Simone Sanders is taking over with a few others.
[00:07:22]  They got a host of characters, Menendez and maybe two more.
[00:07:25]  I mean, it's like a rotating roundtable there that took over for Joy Reid.
[00:07:29]  And again, it's not informed.
[00:07:30]  It's not intelligent.
[00:07:31]  It's not thoughtful discussion.
[00:07:35]  And so, again, I mean, not to sing Rachel Maddow's praises, but she's kind of the best thing they've got in terms of I mean, crazy and conspiratorial, but thoughtful.
[00:07:48]  And then you've got, well, you know, Joe Scarborough and Mika, who are the ultimate survivors.
[00:07:51]  I mean, I'm telling you, these two, they're going to be there.
[00:07:54]  They're going to be closing the place down at some point, but they're going to stick around and stick around and stick around.
[00:07:59]  The rest of the place, you know, you can take them or leave them.
[00:08:02]  You don't need them.
[00:08:03]  So you better not be paying them a whole lot of money.
[00:08:06]  MSNBC, Versant.
[00:08:08]  I keep trying to give them a little flair, you know.
[00:08:12]  French, Versant.
[00:08:14]  Anyway, Versant, you better not pay them a lot because you're not going to be able to reap the return on your investment.
[00:08:22]  And Fox is about to put you out of business.
[00:08:24]  Look at these numbers.
[00:08:27]  This is unbelievable.
[00:08:29]  So Fox, you know, look, they only increased by 1%, which, you know, I'd like to see something better.
[00:08:36]  But clearly everybody's left the rest of cable.
[00:08:39]  You know, and again, I said it tracks sort of with the polls.
[00:08:41]  I mean, you get Trump's historic approval rating, 55%.
[00:08:44]  He's doing great.
[00:08:45]  And fox is doing great, and yet MSNBC and CNN not doing so great.
[00:08:53]  So I kind of think if we look at this, guys, I think you're facing a situation where, I mean, closure could be the best thing.
[00:09:01]  I don't know.
[00:09:02]  I think you need to probably have a lot cheaper talent.
[00:09:08]  I think you need to do away with some of the big sets and the big studios.
[00:09:11]  And I think you need to find a way to operate the place on a shoestring.
[00:09:17]  And if you can do that, then yes, you'll continue to make money because look, there's still a cable business and cable companies will still pay for that content.
[00:09:27]  You just won't be able to have the kind of presence over here streaming that you probably should going into the modern era.
[00:09:35]  I mean, I don't want to tell the story again, but I guess I will because the kids, remember, I think I told some of you guys this and my kids were like, mom.
[00:09:43]  We used to feel bad for you.
[00:09:44]  This is when I first started on YouTube and they were like, finally, finally, you know, you've made it.
[00:09:49]  And I'm like, are you kidding?
[00:09:51]  Like I, because to me and to my generation, right?
[00:09:54]  Like that was weird.
[00:09:55]  Like YouTube was this weird thing where you're like doing that up in, you know, the attic or in your parents basement or something.
[00:10:02]  It wasn't actually something that was real.
[00:10:04]  It was like public access TV or something.
[00:10:06]  And to them, it's very real and it's all real and it's all they watch and they can't tell you what networks are.
[00:10:15]  They don't even like.
[00:10:16]  I try and explain to them how I used to watch Little House on the Prairie every Thursday night at eight o'clock or whenever it came on television as a little kid.
[00:10:24]  And they, it was the one night I got to stay up late.
[00:10:28]  And they don't understand.
[00:10:29]  They're like, well, what happened?
[00:10:30]  Like, if you did, if I didn't see it, I didn't see it.
[00:10:34]  Like, I really didn't see it.
[00:10:36]  No, you couldn't go back.
[00:10:37]  You couldn't record it.
[00:10:38]  You couldn't, you know, and the idea of commercials and not even having a remote.
[00:10:43]  I mean, gosh, we had the rabbit ears as kids.
[00:10:45]  So, It is, it has come so far.
[00:10:48]  Like this industry is changing so much.
[00:10:50]  I talked to someone, I told you guys, I went to my mom's birthday over the weekend up in New Hampshire, had a wonderful time.
[00:10:55]  Anyway, and happy birthday, mom.
[00:10:57]  We'll talk about a little later in the show.
[00:10:58]  But one of her friends said, and her friend is up there.
[00:11:03]  I mean, it was my mom's 80th birthday.
[00:11:05]  She said, I think we're going to cut the cord.
[00:11:07]  She said, I looked at how much money we're paying on our cable bill.
[00:11:11]  Forget it.
[00:11:11]  We're going to cut the cord.
[00:11:12]  I said, we did that.
[00:11:13]  We did that.
[00:11:14]  And we've saved a fortune.
[00:11:15]  Of course, we had a zillion cable boxes.
[00:11:17]  It's neither here nor there other than to say, I'm looking at these numbers and I'm stunned.
[00:11:23]  I'm looking at these numbers and I just don't know how MSNBC and CNN continue to stay in business.
[00:11:32]  I mean, again, if I'm the executive running that, I think, you know, you have a few choices, right?
[00:11:39]  You can close them down entirely.
[00:11:41]  You're probably not going to do that.
[00:11:42]  I mean, it's like radio.
[00:11:43]  Radio is still a worthwhile business to be in.
[00:11:46]  You can still print money there.
[00:11:48]  You just have to run a really, really, really tight budget.
[00:11:51]  So you got to have a tight budget, which means you can't have Rachel.
[00:11:54]  It means you need a lot of, you know, wallflowers that aren't going to pop on camera.
[00:11:59]  Because I'm telling you, if you can pop on camera, you're not going to be over there at the network.
[00:12:01]  You're going to be right here, right?
[00:12:03]  I mean, we're coming up on a million subs, for goodness sakes.
[00:12:06]  You're going to build something of your own where you have your own independent voice and you don't have to kowtow to any middle management reviewing your scripts who then wants to turn around 24 hours later and give you a kick in the pants for it, right?
[00:12:17]  kick you to the curb after they approve the thing.
[00:12:22]  I don't hold grudges though.
[00:12:23]  Here I am praising Fox.
[00:12:25]  Okay.
[00:12:25]  I really don't.
[00:12:27]  You know, it all worked out in the end for the better.
[00:12:30]  I do think that they are going to have some decisions to make and they're going to have to cut expenses and they're going to have to cut talent and they're going to have to cut producers.
[00:12:40]  And that's just the way of the world.
[00:12:41]  Okay.
[00:12:42]  So then you say, well, who are they going to get rid of?
[00:12:43]  And I do think that Rachel Maddow for certain, certain sake, like, By the way, if I'm hurt, what do I want to be there for anyway?
[00:12:51]  Like I'd much rather be doing my own podcast.
[00:12:54]  I guess she does have a podcast.
[00:12:55]  I don't know if MSNBC owns it or not or sells it or it's some kind of partnership deal.
[00:13:00]  But I mean, I'm like, bye.
[00:13:03]  I'll see you.
[00:13:04]  Sayonara, right?
[00:13:05]  Like who needs it?
[00:13:06]  So, you know, it's a mutual thing.
[00:13:09]  I'm sure she is not that interested in being there.
[00:13:12]  Of course, what am I saying?
[00:13:14]  25 mil for one show, one show a week, you know.
[00:13:19]  You could probably make that work, right?
[00:13:22]  If you're her, you try and find a way to make that work.
[00:13:25]  But if I'm the network, I'm not going to make that work.
[00:13:27]  That is too much money, absolutely too much money for numbers like this.
[00:13:31]  It's not like anyone's doing well.
[00:13:33]  Look at these primetime numbers.
[00:13:35]  We were talking about how they looked over the course of the summer.
[00:13:38]  I'm looking at August versus June, prime down 57% in views, 71% in demo.
[00:13:43]  That's what they're actually trying to sell over there at these networks, their demo.
[00:13:46]  This is a train wreck, a train wreck in real time.
[00:13:51]  I mean, what?
[00:13:52]  changes it.
[00:13:53]  Maybe if somebody had some faith in the Democrat Party.
[00:13:58]  So this is really interesting, guys, because again, look at how it's tracking with polling.
[00:14:02]  Donald Trump's doing well in polling and, you know, Fox is able to survive.
[00:14:07]  These guys aren't able to survive because, again, think of the changing climate.
[00:14:11]  You have more opportunity.
[00:14:12]  You can go more places.
[00:14:13]  You don't have to watch on traditional cable anymore.
[00:14:16]  So given that diversity of content that's out there, you as a consumer get to make a whole lot more decisions and you're deciding.
[00:14:27]  Probably not you.
[00:14:28]  You probably never watched MSNBC or CNN to begin with.
[00:14:31]  But people are making the decision to go elsewhere.
[00:14:34]  They're simply not watching these networks.

=== Viewers Abandoning Traditional News (05:18) ===

[00:14:37]  And that is a problem.
[00:14:40]  I mean, again, I just, I don't know how they keep the lights on.
[00:14:44]  I really don't.
[00:14:45]  Because you can't be in business with numbers like this.
[00:14:48]  Advertisers are not going to pay up.
[00:14:50]  They're not going to pay for this.
[00:14:52]  And you have a certain built-in cost structure that you can't get away from.
[00:14:57]  I mean, CNN, similar thing, disaster, disaster, disaster right across the board.
[00:15:01]  They're looking at total day, 333,000 total viewers.
[00:15:05]  I mean, again, we'll do that on a show for an hour here.
[00:15:08]  It's just shocking how bad these numbers are.
[00:15:12]  And they're down 15% in the demo in primetime, down 10% in total viewers, down 15% in the demo during total day.
[00:15:20]  You can't keep the lights on with a situation like that.
[00:15:24]  So what do they do?
[00:15:24]  They have to change.
[00:15:25]  They have to make some kind of I don't know what the answer is for them.
[00:15:28]  I mean, well, I know some of the answers.
[00:15:30]  One of the answers, and this is the most obvious one, is you run this business until it won't run anymore.
[00:15:38]  I mean, there's two ways you can go.
[00:15:39]  You could say, okay, we're just not going to collect the cable fees anymore, but they can't do that because it's like, you know, they're addicted to the cable fees that they get.
[00:15:47]  And you guys know how that works, right?
[00:15:48]  Like the cable company pays CNN.
[00:15:51]  I don't know what they're paying them.
[00:15:52]  Call it two bucks.
[00:15:53]  It could be five.
[00:15:54]  It could be seven for all I know.
[00:15:55]  Who cares?
[00:15:56]  Anyway, whatever they pay them per household.
[00:15:58]  That's the money they get, but they're not allowed to then take that product and go and stream it and, you know, repurpose it in the same.
[00:16:06]  Well, they can repurpose it, but they can't stream it live and so they miss out on all that revenue.
[00:16:10]  Meanwhile, everybody's like over here right, doing something totally.
[00:16:13]  Here I am streaming live doing something totally different and really innovative and hopefully refreshing right, because of the transparency.
[00:16:21]  I mean, you guys were with me the other day when the camera broke down.
[00:16:25]  One of my producers like trash, come on.
[00:16:28]  We got a fan for the camera, we fixed that, But nonetheless, I mean, you see the good, bad, and the ugly.
[00:16:38]  And I think you kind of like it.
[00:16:40]  I know I like it.
[00:16:42]  It's a heck of a lot more fun.
[00:16:44]  I mean, here I am reading your comments in real time, which is kind of cool.
[00:16:49]  Sue Gordon, good to have you here.
[00:16:50]  I am going to talk about Newsom coming up.
[00:16:53]  Jeff, good to have you here.
[00:16:55]  He does know his pronouns for sure.
[00:16:58]  Stella Smith, Texas is going to be more red in 2028.
[00:17:01]  We know that.
[00:17:02]  We know that.
[00:17:04]  Without a doubt, Texas is going to be very, very red.
[00:17:07]  It's getting redder by the day.
[00:17:09]  And part of that is because of the changes that they made, of course, to the map.
[00:17:13]  Look at it.
[00:17:14]  Wow.
[00:17:16]  Fox is killing everyone.
[00:17:19]  I mean, like, how do you exist?
[00:17:22]  Oh, can you imagine the defeat they feel at CNN, at MSNBC?
[00:17:27]  Look at this.
[00:17:27]  72,000 in the demo.
[00:17:34]  78 000.
[00:17:34]  At CNN they get 783 000, compared to the big Kahuna 2.3 over at FOX, 444 000.
[00:17:42]  Like I said, we do that on a given show.
[00:17:47]  I mean not to toot my own horn, but you know what like, we've built this thing from scratch, you and me together, because you are so much a part of this guys, and I have a couple people that help me and i'll tell you this is tremendous.
[00:18:02]  What we've been able to build and we're taking on the big guys, I mean, they want to be news and opinion there at MS. YEAH, the MS. Network or whatever they're calling it.
[00:18:14]  Nobody really knows, not even Rachel Maddow.
[00:18:15]  She was asked about it and she's like, I don't really know how to pronounce this.
[00:18:18]  Well, the guy who's the ultimate survivor, the survivor of all survivors, does.
[00:18:24]  We will become MSNOW, which stands for My Source for News, Opinion, and the World.
[00:18:31]  And look, Andrew, they even have a graphic up.
[00:18:35]  I like that.
[00:18:35]  It's actually a new logo.
[00:18:37]  It looks very sporty.
[00:18:38]  Yeah, you guys tell yourselves that.
[00:18:42]  I'll tell you what you did.
[00:18:44]  You went from rainbow to red, white, and blue.
[00:18:49]  I guess, you know, reality's catching up with you.
[00:18:50]  You know, that rainbow thing wasn't going over so well.
[00:18:55]  Anyway, no one's watching cable.
[00:18:57]  So ultimately, I think that's the real problem that they face.
[00:19:00]  And frankly, it's the same problem that Fox faces.
[00:19:06]  They, you know, they, they can't get away from the sinking ship as well.
[00:19:10]  Granted, they are by far the best of the bunch and they're commanding the largest audience share.
[00:19:16]  That can change pretty quickly, though.
[00:19:18]  Don't forget what happened after J6, right?
[00:19:19]  Didn't you see a total reversal?
[00:19:21]  I mean, Newsmax was beating Fox in the ratings.
[00:19:24]  And so I would say that, you know, the viewer can be fickle and the viewer should be at all times remembered and respected.
[00:19:34]  And perhaps Fox, to a certain extent, learned its lesson in that sense and has, you know, come back to. the fold.
[00:19:41]  I don't know how much I believe it or buy it.
[00:19:43]  Only take a look at the Wall Street Journal, which is also owned by the same person that owns Fox.
[00:19:48]  And what you will see is that there's a for sure definite bias against this administration.
[00:19:53]  So just saying.

=== The Fickle Nature of Audiences (07:25) ===

[00:19:56]  I mean, they're going to do what they're going to do to stay in business, right?
[00:20:00]  Kind of like Scarborough is going to do what he has to do to stay in business and be there on Morning Joe.
[00:20:06]  Whether or not some of the others can, I don't know.
[00:20:08]  Jen Zaki, she just doesn't have a ton of talent.
[00:20:10]  And then she kind of has a bad habit of stepping in it like the other day.
[00:20:14]  We may never know why Donald Trump suddenly spent a week hiding entirely from the American public, but you don't actually need baseless online conspiracies to explain why he might not want to show his face in public right now.
[00:20:27]  I mean, for starters, there's the polling, and boy, is it brutal.
[00:20:31]  Jonathan Manson, I agree with you.
[00:20:36]  Rachel Maddow is running out of things to criticize Trump on.
[00:20:38]  She can't rally her troops anymore.
[00:20:41]  Right, because, you know, when you're sitting there trying to justify.
[00:20:46]  This is the crime levels in Chicago or DC, Jonathan.
[00:20:49]  I think you're kind of on the wrong side of things.
[00:20:53]  And that's where Americans are coming out.
[00:20:56]  What do you know?
[00:20:56]  You look at the internals of this poll, this historic approval rating that's just shocking the media.
[00:21:02]  They're like, how can this be?
[00:21:03]  How can it be?
[00:21:04]  Well, guess what?
[00:21:05]  He's getting his highest approval ratings.
[00:21:07]  Why?
[00:21:08]  Well, because he cares about crime.
[00:21:12]  And what do you think everyday Americans care about?
[00:21:14]  They want to be safe.
[00:21:16]  It's a natural, natural thing.
[00:21:18]  Of course, they want to be safe.
[00:21:20]  So when you look at what came out last week, James Johnson from JL Partners, who worked on this poll in conjunction with the Daily Mail, showing a 55% approval rate, highest he has ever, ever gotten.
[00:21:30]  I mean, think about that.
[00:21:31]  Pretty remarkable, right?
[00:21:33]  The numbers suggest that the majority of Americans approve of Donald Trump's executive order that he put out back on August 11th to send in the federal troops into Washington, D.C. to clean up the city, to stop crime, even as some residents, of course, continue to protest this.
[00:21:48]  And so you're seeing the same kind of thing unfold, whether it be on Rachel Maddow's show where she can no longer defend the indefensible or whether it be on the streets of Chicago.
[00:22:01]  I mean, how are you going to sit there and say, I don't want any police in Chicago when you have such a horrific crime rate?
[00:22:08]  So look at this approval rating.
[00:22:09]  I mean, just incredible, incredible.
[00:22:12]  As the networks, the liberal networks go down into the dumpsters.
[00:22:17]  And as Brandon Johnson in Chicago is increasingly looking like he's going to be out of a job.
[00:22:23]  You know why?
[00:22:24]  Talking about brilliant politics.
[00:22:25]  I mean, Trump was able to effectively put Brandon on his heels.
[00:22:31]  He backed him right into a corner.
[00:22:33]  So what do you do if you're a boxer and you're like in a corner, right?
[00:22:36]  Do you just keep, keep like until you die?
[00:22:41]  Or do you give up or do you try and be more creative on how you're striking back?
[00:22:46]  I'll tell you this.
[00:22:49]  Brandon doesn't have the right moves.
[00:22:51]  He needs to take a few boxing classes.
[00:22:53]  You know who had the right move was the woman in DC, the mayor, Muriel Browser, there.
[00:22:58]  Because you know what?
[00:22:59]  She said thank you.
[00:23:00]  She said thank you.
[00:23:01]  That was the right answer.
[00:23:02]  You don't fight this, okay?
[00:23:04]  Because he's willing to give you more resources to make your city safer.
[00:23:09]  And yet you want to pretend you're like Gavin Newsom out there.
[00:23:11]  Oh, we can't have.
[00:23:13]  Can't have anybody helping us on the crime front.
[00:23:15]  Gosh, no.
[00:23:16]  You know, it's part of our charm in California.
[00:23:19]  It's part of our charm in the south side of Chicago.
[00:23:21]  It's part.
[00:23:21]  I'm sorry.
[00:23:24]  I'm over it.
[00:23:24]  And you know what?
[00:23:25]  With what we saw this weekend, that horrific story, absolutely horrific.
[00:23:31]  It makes my stomach turn every time I think about it.
[00:23:34]  The president weighing in on that.
[00:23:36]  I'm going to get to it shortly with that poor Ukrainian woman.
[00:23:40]  I'll tell you, if that's not a wake up for the need.
[00:23:44]  For police, better police, better punishments.
[00:23:49]  Don't get people.
[00:23:50]  I mean, the guy had been in and out of jail, for goodness sakes, over and over and over again.
[00:23:57]  And he suffered from mental health issues and you turn them loose.
[00:24:01]  And the mayor there in Charlotte, you ought to see her reaction.
[00:24:04]  My gosh, Aston Matthews, thank you.
[00:24:06]  I like that you like my energy.
[00:24:09]  Thank you for that.
[00:24:10]  I'll just tell you, that's not the way to go, okay?
[00:24:13]  And you want to know why he's doing so well?
[00:24:15]  Because Americans want to be safe.
[00:24:17]  It's not that hard.
[00:24:19]  TV networks, you want to know why you suck in the ratings?
[00:24:24]  Because you don't tell the truth and you try and get out there and you know, deliver the party line.
[00:24:33]  Nobody wants to hear the party line anymore.
[00:24:35]  They want to know what you actually think.
[00:24:37]  If you have a soul somewhere deep down inside you, any Msnbc anchor, please tell us what you really think.
[00:24:45]  If you can okay, maybe you can't.
[00:24:48]  So you get lousy talent and you get a changing landscape, a changing landscape that does not favor the cable companies anymore.
[00:24:56]  I got out when I could.
[00:24:57]  What can I say?
[00:24:58]  Good timing, good timing.
[00:24:59]  You know what they say.
[00:24:59]  Luck of the Irish.
[00:25:01]  I've always had it.
[00:25:02]  Anyway, I got to look at this and say who stays, who goes, right?
[00:25:05]  Because I think Jens Hockey's absolutely at risk.
[00:25:07]  I'd keep her for the Rolodex, the Rolodex only.
[00:25:10]  If it's still good anymore.
[00:25:12]  One of you guys was saying that the other day.
[00:25:13]  If it's still good anymore, you keep her for the Rolodex, but you do not give her a show, for goodness sakes.
[00:25:17]  I mean, this woman has no presence, no pizzazz, no nothing, no intellect, no nothing.
[00:25:22]  I mean, okay, she has a Rolodex.
[00:25:26]  But nobody wants to see the people on television that she can bring on.
[00:25:31]  And she can't hold a show herself.
[00:25:33]  So what are you doing?
[00:25:35]  You got to rethink the Rachel thing because she's just too expensive.
[00:25:38]  I mean, that's just reality, right?
[00:25:40]  I mean, Saki is just boring and her ratings are a disaster.
[00:25:44]  And as I told you, the New York Post quoted people internally saying, you know, we just didn't realize how boring she'd be.
[00:25:49]  I could have told you.
[00:25:51]  I had to watch those press conferences with Peppermint Patty at work.
[00:25:54]  Heck of a liar.
[00:25:55]  Heck of a liar.
[00:25:56]  But you know what?
[00:25:57]  That's not what people want.
[00:25:58]  They don't want liars on television.
[00:25:59]  They want authenticity.
[00:26:01]  They want transparency.
[00:26:02]  I will say, I got to hand it to Mourning Joe for being the ultimate survivor.
[00:26:07]  I mean, the guy sounds like he's suddenly kind of maybe neutral.
[00:26:10]  He's like trying to help the Democrat Party find its way through this storm.
[00:26:14]  Remember the day after the election?
[00:26:16]  This was fantastic.
[00:26:16]  So Joe had not shown up in a suit and tie like in years.
[00:26:22]  Like he was just in his grungy clothes all the time.
[00:26:25]  I mean, he thought he was a podcaster.
[00:26:26]  And suddenly.
[00:26:28]  He's all spiffy, all spiffed up the morning after the election and declaring in a landslide.
[00:26:36]  And we haven't seen anything like this since Reagan.
[00:26:37]  And I'm like, who are you?
[00:26:40]  Well, I mean, so much to go through.
[00:26:42]  So many questions.
[00:26:43]  I came onto the set and Willie said, hey, by the way, because we were talking about the historic nature of this sweep.
[00:26:51]  And Willie said, do you know, he only lost Illinois by four points.
[00:26:59]  Four points.
[00:26:59]  New Jersey by five.
[00:27:01]  I mean, you talk about a we had talked about a red wave two years ago that never materialized.
[00:27:07]  This is the, I've got to say, this is the biggest red wave I've seen since Ronald Reagan's 49 state victory in 1984.
[00:27:17]  Before every, it seems every Republican across the country.

=== A Historic Red Wave Emerges (03:26) ===

[00:27:22]  Uh improved, what do you know?
[00:27:26]  He's like, huh, I better get it together.
[00:27:30]  Come on Mica, we're going down to Moro Lago, we're gonna go kiss the ring, as Rosie O'donnell said it, and so they did.
[00:27:36]  But i'm telling you like I, you know look I, I don't trust them, because he's the same guy who told us it was the best Biden ever and was willing to stump for Biden in in in my estimation, horrific ways, because the kind of accusations that were being leveled at the other side, meaning, you know, me and maybe you, if you're watching this show, if you were for Trump, then you were somehow the equivalent of some of the most heinous people in all of history.
[00:28:06]  And when you're willing to go there, I no longer trust you.
[00:28:08]  And then you can't just flip a switch and come back and suddenly be all for, you know, the working man and Joe Schmo, basically.
[00:28:16]  You know, you can't.
[00:28:17]  I know who you are.
[00:28:18]  I've seen your colors, unless that was fake too.
[00:28:21]  which maybe the real answer is you're just a total phony and all you care about is your paycheck.
[00:28:25]  And you're looking at it going, okay, well, we're going to have to reinvent ourselves.
[00:28:28]  We need to stay in business.
[00:28:30]  And I think that that is why he's trying to put on a new act.
[00:28:35]  But, you know, look, I think the whole team of them are really facing challenges unlike anything they've seen before.
[00:28:46]  In a normal cycle, right, the election happens and, you know, maybe your team doesn't win.
[00:28:51]  you feel like your audience is just not there, they're not as excited anymore, how do you get them excited?
[00:28:57]  These are normal sort of kind of secular things that you would deal with in the news business.
[00:29:03]  But you couple that together with this onslaught of new content and new creators and the fact that it's all on demand and that you can get it in a very different kind of way, in a very transparent way, in a very 3D way, right?
[00:29:19]  Where I'm reading your comments and I see the good ones and I see the bad ones.
[00:29:24]  Thank you.
[00:29:24]  Hey, Alex, it's good to see you back here.
[00:29:27]  I appreciate the comment.
[00:29:29]  Likes the show today.
[00:29:31]  And Sue, it's good to see you as well.
[00:29:33]  I see some names that are very familiar now here on the program.
[00:29:36]  Piece of my mind, of course, keeping up those likes.
[00:29:39]  You sound like Dawn right now, 1,500 likes and counting.
[00:29:41]  Let's keep them going, going, going, going.
[00:29:43]  Anyway, the reality of it all is that it's not just the normal sort of cyclical, that was the word I was looking for, cyclical, forgive me, ups and downs in the business that might be related in somewhat. to, or somewhat to the election cycles.
[00:29:57]  It's actually the fact that the industry is changing massively.
[00:30:03]  And so you've got to keep up with those changes.
[00:30:07]  I'll tell you, The View is trying, trying, trying, trying to keep up with the changes, but it can't figure it out.
[00:30:12]  They just came out with their streaming show on the weekend, and they just recently added Whoopi to that.
[00:30:17]  They're just talking about like fun stuff, like entertainment and this kind of thing, because, well, the head boss, the guy who runs Disney, Bob Iger, has instructed them to try and get away from politics.
[00:30:28]  But none of them want to do it.
[00:30:29]  This is our sweet spot.
[00:30:31]  Your sweet spot, right?
[00:30:33]  It's like the sweet spot that may get you kicked off the air, for goodness sakes.
[00:30:36]  It may actually cause ABC to lose its FCC airwaves permissions.
[00:30:42]  That's some sweet spot.
[00:30:43]  Anyway, they came back on TV today, you know, back with a bang.

=== The View Adapts to Streaming (03:11) ===

[00:30:48]  And even the person that's supposed to be like the neutral character there, she's trying to go on and on about why Trump can't actually use the National Guard and why he shouldn't use the National Guard because it doesn't do any good.
[00:30:59]  It's like, hello, lady.
[00:31:00]  Did you see the crime numbers?
[00:31:03]  Did you?
[00:31:04]  I mean, did you notice the 87% drop in carjackings that, by the way, the mayor of D.C. is actually thanking Trump for?
[00:31:14]  Apparently she didn't.
[00:31:14]  You know, she was on vacation.
[00:31:15]  What can you say?
[00:31:16]  They live a nice life getting to dick their summers off on the view.
[00:31:19]  Watch.
[00:31:20]  Her name is, I always forget this, but I wrote it in the rundown so I wouldn't.
[00:31:23]  Sarah Haynes.
[00:31:25]  But the bigger part with him constantly sending in the National Guard is it's not effective.
[00:31:30]  So you can concede, Alyssa, as you're pointing out, there are crime problems in our cities.
[00:31:34]  There absolutely are.
[00:31:36]  But what would be more effective is not treating the symptom, but the root causes.
[00:31:40]  They could take the equal amount of money that they dispensed into D.C. and house every homeless person for a night.
[00:31:46]  But then they wouldn't have an issue.
[00:31:47]  Yeah, but that's my point.
[00:31:50]  Politics is less about solutions and more about politicking.
[00:31:53]  If they wanted to solve the problem, they could infuse money into these communities.
[00:32:02]  Our thanks to our friends over at Media Research Center, AKA Newsbusters, for collecting that for us.
[00:32:08]  Look, I beg to differ.
[00:32:10]  I beg to differ with Ms. Haynes because you know what?
[00:32:13]  It's not all about throwing money at the problem.
[00:32:16]  We figured that out with the school systems now, didn't we?
[00:32:18]  It's not about money.
[00:32:20]  Sometimes it actually is about police presence.
[00:32:24]  It actually is totally about police presence.
[00:32:27]  I mean, there's been a zillion studies on this.
[00:32:30]  And I have only to look at the last couple of weeks in none other than Washington, D.C. to see the improvement.
[00:32:36]  Again, carjacking's down.
[00:32:38]  I put these stats up the other day for you guys.
[00:32:41]  I don't have them handy, I don't think, right now.
[00:32:43]  But it was pretty remarkable because it was like, wow, you know, the murder rate was down.
[00:32:48]  They went 12 days.
[00:32:49]  I mean, they broke their 12-day streak, but that was like a record, right?
[00:32:52]  12 days with sadly um, I mean, it's just amazing, we have to say this, uh no, murders in Washington Dc.
[00:32:59]  Washington Dc has a murder rate of 44 per 100 000, which is insane, like absolutely crazy, insane and just it.
[00:33:12]  You know it.
[00:33:13]  It actually is so much worse than some of the worst places in the world that you can't believe that this is our nation's capital.
[00:33:19]  And so yeah, putting the national guard out there it does a lot.
[00:33:23]  I mean visually, you want to talk about a deterrent, This stuff works, but you know what?
[00:33:28]  This show is so freaking biased.
[00:33:31]  We know this.
[00:33:32]  They're so painful.
[00:33:34]  These ladies, our friends at Media Research Center, did a study and these ladies are so left-leaning and so liberal-leaning that it turns out that they didn't have a single conservative on their show in 2025.
[00:33:48]  I mean, like, not one.
[00:33:52]  I mean, do they count Alyssa?
[00:33:55]  I mean, do they even have like Chris Christie?
[00:33:57]  Because he doesn't really count.

=== Police Presence as a Deterrent (14:08) ===

[00:33:59]  I mean, they did have Schwarzenegger.
[00:34:01]  I showed you that one, right?
[00:34:02]  Joy Behar's jaw was on the floor because Schwarzenegger was like, listen, if you come to this country as an immigrant, remember, you're a guest in this country.
[00:34:13]  It's like being at someone's house for dinner.
[00:34:15]  If I go to stay at somebody's house for the night, believe me, I make my bed in the morning.
[00:34:21]  You need to respect that you are in someone else's country.
[00:34:25]  And as an immigrant himself, he said, look, I've done everything I can to give back.
[00:34:30]  I'm a big believer in giving back because I've been afforded these enormous opportunities.
[00:34:34]  And Joy was like, so that's the closest they've come.
[00:34:38]  He's not really a conservative.
[00:34:40]  I guess these never Trumpers aren't really conservatives, shall we say.
[00:34:44]  They would probably beg to differ.
[00:34:46]  They'd probably say they are the authentic conservatives.
[00:34:49]  And, you know, to a certain extent, I'm not going to totally disagree with that because they keep saying that Donald Trump was so smart, he took over the Democrat base right from under them.
[00:35:00]  I mean, to think that, you know, you had the union guy out there at the Republican National Convention.
[00:35:08]  I mean, he was talking away and Donald Trump stood there and allowed him to speak.
[00:35:15]  And, you know, I know we don't necessarily love those guys and they're not always pretty.
[00:35:20]  But the point is they were given a platform and they took it.
[00:35:25]  And slowly but surely, he's chipping away, right?
[00:35:30]  Chipping away and chipping away and chipping away.
[00:35:32]  What did you see?
[00:35:33]  the union vote nobody the union was actually voting for Kamala Harris.
[00:35:35]  They were all voting for Donald Trump because he's representing working men and women in America.
[00:35:44]  And so, you know, you get the elites out there on ABC with the million dollar paychecks representing something totally different.
[00:35:51]  They don't think the National Guard matters in Washington, D.C.
[00:35:54]  They get their own personal bodyguards escorting them in and out of the studio.
[00:35:58]  Listen, they do.
[00:35:59]  They do.
[00:35:59]  They have a driver that picks them up.
[00:36:01]  I mean, I've been there, done that.
[00:36:02]  You have a driver that picks you up and you have somebody in security that meets you at the stage entrance, escorts you into the building and then back out.
[00:36:10]  And then you go home and, you know, you get your doorman building and all is fine, right?
[00:36:16]  They don't live the same life.
[00:36:18]  Donald Trump doesn't either.
[00:36:19]  But for whatever reason, he seems to have more empathy for people that do.
[00:36:24]  And that comes across in spades.
[00:36:26]  And so he has taken the Democrats platform right out from under.
[00:36:31]  I mean, just another thing on The View, the study came out last week.
[00:36:33]  It's pretty funny because these women are like the most unliked.
[00:36:37]  the most unliked in all of daytime television.
[00:36:40]  Surprise, surprise, surprise.
[00:36:43]  AJ saying that the view pushes the people that lean left straight into Trump country.
[00:36:50]  And I think you're right.
[00:36:51]  Like, I actually think like at some point, you're just like, enough, enough already.
[00:36:56]  Like maybe I was in the middle, but now I'm full on MAGA.
[00:36:59]  Okay.
[00:36:59]  I'm full on MAGA because I can't take it anymore from these people that tell me somehow it's my fault.
[00:37:05]  We talked the other day about microaggressions.
[00:37:07]  I had never heard that expression until.
[00:37:09]  I was at some book club gathering and somebody said, well, I didn't want to go to this school because I felt like there were so many micro, she was talking about where she was going to send her kids, microaggressions and a microaggression.
[00:37:20]  It's like, what the heck?
[00:37:21]  So I go home and I look it up, a microaggression.
[00:37:23]  Oh my gosh, like if I just look at somebody the wrong way, if I wear the wrong color, if I'm slouching, like it could be a microaggression.
[00:37:31]  No joke.
[00:37:31]  I mean, this is crazy talk, people.
[00:37:34]  Crazy, stupid, stupid talk.
[00:37:36]  This show was not supposed to be this way.
[00:37:38]  Barbara Walters never wanted it to be this way.
[00:37:41]  They have.
[00:37:41]  polluted it with the likes of Joy and Whoopi and a few others on there.
[00:37:48]  And now it is just turned into a train wreck that actually could cost the entire network.
[00:37:54]  Because as we've been through, Brendan Carr, the head of the FCC, he has made it very clear to Disney's Bob Iger that you can't just abuse the public this way.
[00:38:05]  The majority of Americans do not actually trust that show or your entire news network.
[00:38:09]  So if they don't trust the airwaves, and you're feeding them 92% of the time garbage about Donald Trump that's not true.
[00:38:16]  Well, at some point, don't you have to pay a penalty for that?
[00:38:20]  Donald Trump tweeting out two weekends ago, hey, you know what?
[00:38:23]  We want you guys to have to pay up for those FCC airwaves.
[00:38:26]  The other suggestion he had was to just take away their licenses altogether and get them off the public airwaves.
[00:38:33]  Now, isn't that interesting?
[00:38:35]  Maybe that would force them to actually be in the streaming business, which they're trying to do.
[00:38:39]  You know, they're inching into it.
[00:38:40]  They've got their little weekend show that they're doing, taping on Fridays, talking entertainment news.
[00:38:46]  But, you know, their heart's not in it because, as they told us, they don't want to talk entertainment news.
[00:38:51]  No, Sonny Houston is very explicit on that.
[00:38:53]  Ana Navarro as well.
[00:38:55]  Oh, we just want to talk politics.
[00:38:59]  Problem is, nobody wants to hear you talk politics.
[00:39:03]  Hence ratings that are not doing well.
[00:39:06]  Hence advertisers pulling out.
[00:39:08]  Hence Brendan Carr looking at possibly taking away your FCC license.
[00:39:14]  Chicago.
[00:39:16]  Chicago is really putting up a fight.
[00:39:19]  You got the mayor saying, hey, we don't want Donald Trump here.
[00:39:23]  We don't want the National Guard here.
[00:39:25]  We don't want ICE here.
[00:39:26]  And he's like, oh, yeah, I'm coming in.
[00:39:29]  Because the people of Chicago want me.
[00:39:32]  Watch.
[00:39:33]  It's just gone from bad to worse to disaster.
[00:39:37]  No one really feels safe.
[00:39:38]  It's impossible to feel safe in a city like this, especially with the leadership we have.
[00:39:42]  Insane.
[00:39:43]  My opinion not enough police officers.
[00:39:45]  The police is really unappreciative, raw of hand, under Brandon Johnson, Lori Lightfoot, J.B. Prister.
[00:39:55]  Those are the three reasons why nobody wants to be a police.
[00:40:00]  Their policies, when it comes to crime, are not working at all.
[00:40:03]  Think the biggest piece of the pie has to be more police officers, more protection.
[00:40:07]  That's what the people want.
[00:40:09]  Yes, of course.
[00:40:12]  You know, this isn't rocket science.
[00:40:14]  Guys, I mean, you want to be safe.
[00:40:18]  You want your children to be safe.
[00:40:19]  What is it when you're buying a home?
[00:40:22]  You look for a safe neighborhood.
[00:40:26]  The idea that somehow Brandon Johnson thinks that he doesn't need to keep people safe, I mean, I just don't know what he's thinking.
[00:40:37]  He's turned it into, you know, it's ABT, anything but Trump.
[00:40:41]  If Trump is a good idea, it doesn't matter.
[00:40:43]  Trump can offer you the cure for cancer.
[00:40:44]  They don't want it.
[00:40:46]  Trump can offer you money to help keep your people safe.
[00:40:50]  They don't want it because it's Trump.
[00:40:52]  Now, how stupid is that?
[00:40:54]  So here, let's go to the ultimate survivor here, who actually puts Brandon Johnson in his place on Morning Joe the other day.
[00:41:01]  He asked him five different times, hey, buddy, would you take a little money for the police?
[00:41:06]  Oh, Brandon doesn't want it.
[00:41:07]  No, no, no, because he's more concerned about housing than he is safety.
[00:41:10]  So let me ask you, Mr. Mayor, those all sound like great programs.
[00:41:13]  I'm curious, would you also like to get federal funding to help put 5,000 more cops on the street in Chicago?
[00:41:23]  Would that help drive down crime?
[00:41:26]  Well, look, policing by itself is not the full strategy.
[00:41:29]  No, I understand that.
[00:41:30]  You've talked about the other things you want, and I said those are good and important programs, but I'm asking also, would 5,000 more police officers on the street in Chicago be helpful to go along with?
[00:41:44]  All of those social programs that a lot of cities are engaging in and having success with.
[00:41:50]  Well, look, here's the best way I can put it, Joe: is that in the 90s, when I was in high school, we had 3,000 more police officers and we had 900 people being murdered every single year in Chicago.
[00:42:02]  It's just not policing alone.
[00:42:04]  Of course, we want more detectives.
[00:42:05]  Of course.
[00:42:06]  I know it's not policing alone, but I know it's not policing alone.
[00:42:10]  You've told me everything else you want.
[00:42:12]  I'm curious, and this does come down to an ideological difference between.
[00:42:17]  Uh people.
[00:42:19]  Do you believe that the streets of Chicago would be safer if there were more uniformed police officers on the streets of Chicago?
[00:42:29]  I believe the city of Chicago and cities across America would be safer if we actually had, you know, affordable housing.
[00:42:37]  Look, that's not the question I asked.
[00:42:39]  My question is and I just need to answer a no do you believe the streets of Chicago would be safer if, if you got all of those other extraordinary programs put back into place, Which do have a history of being successful, if that's complemented by having 5,000 more cops on the streets of Chicago?
[00:43:04]  I don't believe that we should narrow it down to just police officers, John, what I'm saying.
[00:43:09]  That is an antiquated approach.
[00:43:11]  I'm saying we've invested in detectives.
[00:43:14]  Mr. Mayor, are you hearing what I'm saying?
[00:43:15]  I'm agreeing with you that all of these other social programs are extraordinarily important.
[00:43:19]  I just need a yes or a no, and then this will be the last time I ask.
[00:43:23]  If you get all of those other social programs that 800 million that New York City does, Los Angeles, other people do with great success, would an additional 5,000 cops on the streets in Chicago help complement those programs to make Chicago safer?
[00:43:43]  Look, we are working hard to make sure that our police department is fully supported.
[00:43:48]  I don't believe that just simply putting out an arbitrary number around police officers is the answer.
[00:43:54]  Okay, okay, all right.
[00:43:54]  It goes on for like another two minutes.
[00:43:56]  So, short answer no.
[00:43:58]  Brandon Johnson does not want any more police.
[00:44:02]  No, no, no.
[00:44:02]  He doesn't need that.
[00:44:03]  But, you know, simultaneously, apparently he's also not willing to give up the 150 police officers he has on detail for he and his wife.
[00:44:13]  Kid do not.
[00:44:14]  So this came up in a press conference the other day.
[00:44:16]  And the reporter, it's hard to hear.
[00:44:18]  You might have to turn up the volume.
[00:44:19]  The reporter says to him, hey, you got 150.
[00:44:23]  You and Stacy, would you and Stacy be willing to give up some of your police detail to kind of help the streets of Chicago?
[00:44:30]  And watch this answer.
[00:44:32]  And your wife, Stacy, be willing to cut your security detail from 150 sworn police officers and put those police officers back on the street where they can protect real Chicagoans?
[00:44:43]  So we're very proud of the work that we're doing collectively to ensure that our police officers have the resources that they need.
[00:44:51]  As I've said repeatedly, it's policing and affordable housing, it's policing and youth employment, it's policing and mental and behavioral health care services.
[00:45:01]  It's gonna take all of us the business community, the philanthropic community.
[00:45:04]  We're working collectively with Cook County government, the state of Illinois, the state's attorney as well.
[00:45:10]  The volume of cases that we are pushing towards the state's attorney so that we can continue to close out these cases as we really drill down with our detectives division as they solve crime, as they get the evidence over to the state's attorney, gives her the ability to make the prosecution so that we can continue to deter crime in the city of Chicago.
[00:45:31]  That's a holistic approach that we're taking.
[00:45:33]  Thank you.
[00:45:33]  So here's the good news for you, buddy boy.
[00:45:38]  Guess what?
[00:45:39]  You may not have a choice because you see Tom Holman wants to go in there with ICE and you guys won't cooperate with Tom Holman and ICE, but it doesn't really matter.
[00:45:50]  And by the way, short answer to that question, yeah, Brandon's not giving up his 150 police detail.
[00:45:55]  He and Stacey are hoarding that detail.
[00:45:57]  It's the same thing.
[00:45:58]  We keep talking about this.
[00:45:58]  You know, you live in a fancy house with a fancy gate and your own security detail.
[00:46:03]  You'd think we were in Latin America or something.
[00:46:05]  That's what happens there.
[00:46:05]  I mean, I've traveled throughout.
[00:46:07]  I remember being in Tegucigalpa in Honduras.
[00:46:11]  And in Honduras, it's a really dangerous place.
[00:46:13]  And so everywhere you went to Gusigalpa, you'd see people, same thing in Paraguay, with like armed, like you'd have armed guards outside these homes, okay?
[00:46:22]  Because if you could afford it, you had an armed guard.
[00:46:26]  Who wants to live like that?
[00:46:29]  I'm sorry, but again, if there's one thing the government's supposed to do, it's keep you safe.
[00:46:33]  And guess what?
[00:46:34]  They have the constitutional power to do it.
[00:46:35]  So what did the Commerce Clause, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3, the Congress shall have the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and basically immigration comes under that.
[00:46:45]  Okay, so you get the Commerce Clause, you get the Supremacy Clause, you name it.
[00:46:49]  There's a whole bunch of clauses, right?
[00:46:50]  We could go through them all.
[00:46:51]  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18, to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers.
[00:46:57]  It allows Congress to pass immigration laws as needed.
[00:47:01]  Congress has passed them.
[00:47:03]  So the government, ICE, is in charge of enforcing them.
[00:47:08]  So Congress passes the law.
[00:47:10]  They're like, okay, you can't be in the country illegally.
[00:47:13]  And somehow some mayor of Chicago is going to come up with something new or the LA governor, forgive me, LA mayor Karen Bass or the California governor, they're going to say, well, we're not going to adhere to the law.
[00:47:27]  Law doesn't pertain to us.
[00:47:28]  We don't care about the law.
[00:47:29]  I mean, you even have some precedent here, the Foreign Affairs and National Sovereignty Implied Powers Clause.
[00:47:35]  And there was a case that actually dealt with immigration back in 1989, another one in 2012, and it basically affirmed, again, the federal government having the right there.
[00:47:44]  So, but on Pa, Chicago, did you see what just happened today?
[00:47:49]  Supreme Court saying, you know what?
[00:47:51]  Trump administration can resume all those immigration sweeps in the city of Los Angeles.
[00:47:56]  The Supreme Court giving the green light to the ICE ops there.
[00:48:01]  So I would just say, hey, Chicago, hey, Brandon Johnson, maybe you want to pay attention because you're not on the right side of the law on this one.

=== Immigration Sweeps Resume in LA (03:20) ===

[00:48:08]  You really aren't.
[00:48:09]  And again, like this is a horrible, horrible, horrible story that happened over the weekend.
[00:48:14]  But that poor Ukrainian woman, I mean, I got to tell you, I was so shaken by it.
[00:48:21]  I was so shaken.
[00:48:22]  I saw the video yesterday, and then I was really shaken because I noticed that none of the mainstream media had reported on it.
[00:48:28]  It was all what you would call alternative, right?
[00:48:32]  I mean, no one in the mainstream media was covering this.
[00:48:35]  And you remember what they did with Daniel Penny and everything.
[00:48:38]  So you know that there's a double standard.
[00:48:40]  And I was so disheartened by all of it.
[00:48:42]  I mean, I just, I still, I'm not showing the video because it's just not like it.
[00:48:47]  It was hard for me to sleep last night.
[00:48:49]  I mean, I was really upset by it.
[00:48:51]  And, you know, if you want to find it, you'll see it on X.
[00:48:53]  But the president also said, like, the video is horrible to even talk about.
[00:48:59]  But he said all his love goes out to that poor woman's family.
[00:49:03]  She just did not deserve that.
[00:49:05]  I want to briefly go to the president speaking on this today.
[00:49:08]  Not really watchable because it's so horrible.
[00:49:12]  But just viciously stabbed.
[00:49:14]  She's just sitting there.
[00:49:15]  So they're evil people.
[00:49:17]  We have to be able to handle that.
[00:49:19]  If we don't handle that, we don't have a country.
[00:49:23]  In other words, again, what is the government's job but to keep you safe, to protect you, to protect your property?
[00:49:32]  And if the government's not allowed to do that because, you know, the Charlotte mayor thinks it's more important to protect the rights of homeless people that are suffering from mental health challenges, instead of putting them in a place where they can get help, she thinks it's okay for us to just give them a free, I mean, I'm sorry, I don't buy it.
[00:49:53]  I don't buy it.
[00:49:54]  I don't buy it.
[00:49:54]  I can't buy it.
[00:49:55]  I'm sickened by it.
[00:49:57]  The mayor, let me read to you her statement there in Charlotte in North Carolina there, argues that Americans need to have more compassion for the homeless.
[00:50:10]  And this is after this horrible, horrible situation.
[00:50:12]  She says, and I quote, we will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health.
[00:50:19]  I want to be clear that I'm not villainizing those who struggle with their mental health or those who are unhoused.
[00:50:25]  Mental health disease is just that, a disease like any other that needs to be treated.
[00:50:29]  The same compassion, diligence and commitment as cancer or heart disease.
[00:50:32]  Also, those who are unhoused are more frequently the victims of crimes and not the perpetrators.
[00:50:38]  Too many people who are on the street need a safe place okay okay, nobody disagrees with that.
[00:50:44]  So do something lady right, like again, if somebody's being arrested, if you keep arresting them and letting them out and arrest them and let them out, and arrest them, and let them out and arrest them and let them out, I mean help multiple times and you never get them the mental health treatment at some point, you know what the people are going to hold you responsible.
[00:51:04]  We are a very compassionate group of people.
[00:51:09]  But when you are putting everybody else in danger because you're trying to protect a minority of people that really need other provisions and other kinds of assistance and you're not giving it to them and instead you run the risk such as what we saw, well, I'm sorry, people aren't going to go for it.

=== Compassion vs National Security Risks (06:14) ===

[00:51:29]  So again, you get back to Donald Trump's historic ratings.
[00:51:33]  It's not that hard.
[00:51:35]  It's not that hard to figure out.
[00:51:38]  He's promising to keep people safe.
[00:51:40]  And you know what?
[00:51:40]  People want to be safe.
[00:51:42]  Gavin, do you think you could imitate that?
[00:51:45]  I mean, you're imitating everything else, for goodness sakes.
[00:51:48]  Gavin Newsom, who's trying to tweet on X like he's the president in all caps.
[00:51:54]  I mean, it's really pathetic.
[00:51:55]  He just got delivered a big, big blow.
[00:51:58]  The Supreme Court of the United States of America says, hey, guess what?
[00:52:01]  You know what?
[00:52:02]  Donald Trump can resume those ice raids.
[00:52:06]  Because you see, as we were just discussing, you got the Commerce Clause, you got the Supremacy Clause, you got the Foreign Affairs and National Sovereignty Clause, you got a lot of clauses there.
[00:52:16]  You know, the federal government doesn't have a ton of power.
[00:52:18]  It really doesn't.
[00:52:19]  But on this, it does.
[00:52:22]  Okay, like it does.
[00:52:24]  Trust me.
[00:52:25]  It has the power over the borders and it has the power to police who's in the country, who's not in the country.
[00:52:33]  And by the way, if you want to change it, you better go to Congress and change it because Congress wrote the law.
[00:52:39]  Now we just have to enforce it.
[00:52:40]  So ICE's job is to enforce it.
[00:52:44]  The government's job is to enforce it.
[00:52:45]  Oh, California, if you have a mind of your own, then guess what?
[00:52:48]  They can bring the National Guard in there.
[00:52:50]  That was decided by Ninth Circuit, right?
[00:52:52]  And now the Supreme Court taking this one up.
[00:52:55]  So I'm telling you, they're going to have to figure this out and figure it out fast.
[00:52:59]  He's got no sense of humor.
[00:53:00]  You think for a second you want, I have two dozen Trump 2028 hats.
[00:53:05]  His folks keep sending me.
[00:53:09]  We do a little trolling.
[00:53:10]  It's called We Do a Little Trolling.
[00:53:12]  Just a little.
[00:53:13]  Teeny, teeny, teeny bit.
[00:53:17]  We also do a lot of winning.
[00:53:19]  Again, look at the headline.
[00:53:22]  Over my left shoulder.
[00:53:24]  Supreme Court lets Trump administration resume sweeping immigration stomps in Los Angeles.
[00:53:30]  So that's a big win for poor little Gavin.
[00:53:33]  Gavin, who's just not knowing which way to turn.
[00:53:35]  It's really interesting.
[00:53:36]  For a while, I actually thought he was getting it.
[00:53:38]  For a while.
[00:53:39]  You know, when he came out against trans sports and he started going on some conservative podcasts, I was like, okay, Gavin gets it.
[00:53:48]  Ooh, he might actually be a problem in 28.
[00:53:53]  And then he went right back to the well, right?
[00:53:55]  Stupidity, total stupidity.
[00:53:56]  He started imitating Trump on Twitter.
[00:53:58]  And now he's just, you know, digging in his heels on things like crime.
[00:54:01]  And the problem with this one is the more you sit there and say, hey, we don't want your help on crime, the more you sit there and say, hey, we don't have a problem when everybody knows the statistics.
[00:54:10]  And even if you're massaging those, they know reality.
[00:54:14]  You're not going to get anywhere you're.
[00:54:16]  You are cementing the utter extinction of the Democrat party, like if any of you had a brain you'd actually think about.
[00:54:28]  Let's come up with creative ways, maybe to work with Donald Trump on this.
[00:54:33]  Let's actually make our city safer, and then you know, you can try and take the credit at the end.
[00:54:38]  He actually does want solutions.
[00:54:39]  I disagree with the woman we played earlier on the view who said, oh, it's all politics, they don't want solutions.
[00:54:44]  Donald Trump's a businessman, trust me, He wants solutions, All he wants is solutions.
[00:54:50]  It's part of the problem.
[00:54:51]  It's why he's so impatient.
[00:54:52]  It's why he wants everything done yesterday.
[00:54:53]  It's why everything's moving at the record speed, 60 miles an hour.
[00:54:59]  Here you go.
[00:54:59]  The Supreme Court of the United States in a decision six to three.
[00:55:04]  Three guesses how that was.
[00:55:05]  The three that didn't like it.
[00:55:08]  The Supreme Court is pausing a lower court ruling that had prohibited the Trump administration from conducting roving immigration arrests across Los Angeles.
[00:55:16]  So in other words, they're pausing that.
[00:55:19]  It may come up again as an issue.
[00:55:21]  Again, a lot of this stuff is going to remain somewhat unresolved, but I think it's important to note that they're pausing the lower court.
[00:55:27]  In other words, the lower court does not have the right to intervene on this one.
[00:55:31]  And that's a good thing.
[00:55:33]  You know, I still go back to my interpretation of it, whether it's the Commerce Clause, whether it's the Supremacy Clause, whether it's the Foreign Affairs and National Sovereignty Clause.
[00:55:44]  Again, if you are not able to control who is in your country, if you don't have borders like every other country in the whole world has, then how are you really a country?
[00:55:58]  Okay, I realize this is a whole open border movement.
[00:56:03]  Look, Germany tried it, and I'm sorry, but they get a real problem now because a lot of people on welfare, guess what, the number one name of the people are on welfare.
[00:56:12]  Unfortunately, I mean, it's a certain demographic because they let all these people in from Syria.
[00:56:18]  They thought they were being generous.
[00:56:19]  I mean, granted, they have a very heavy conscience there in Germany, and everybody is named Muhammad that did the majority of people that are on the list for help have that name.
[00:56:32]  So, you know, you have a certain culture that you have to buy into.
[00:56:36]  And I think you can be very pro-immigration, but immigration that is tracked, right?
[00:56:43]  So you know who's here, and immigration that's thought through.
[00:56:47]  So I'm not saying everybody has to have a PhD or that everybody has to be a Christian for goodness sakes.
[00:56:51]  No, we pride ourselves on our diversity.
[00:56:54]  But you also just have to be thoughtful about, are these people going to be contributing members to society?
[00:57:00]  Will we become a better nation, a better country, a better melting pot?
[00:57:05]  And I use that word melting pot as opposed to the stupid salad bowl.
[00:57:09]  The left wants to be a freaking salad bowl where nobody gets along.
[00:57:13]  We are all American together and let's remember that and let's cherish that.
[00:57:18]  That is the exquisite beauty of this country that we're so unique.
[00:57:24]  And no one can take that away from us.
[00:57:26]  Well, they've tried.
[00:57:27]  I mean, they've tried, but they are not succeeding.
[00:57:31]  You know who tried the guy who couldn't seem to figure out what day it was.
[00:57:37]  America is a nation that can be defined in a single word.

=== America Defined by Unity (14:56) ===

[00:57:44]  I was the foot of him.
[00:57:44]  America is a nation that can be defined in a single word.
[00:57:44]  Excuse me.
[00:57:49]  I was the foot of him.
[00:57:51]  Excuse me.
[00:57:51]  You know, I like that too much.
[00:57:56]  You know, I like it too much.
[00:57:58]  Hey, thank you so much, Chuck Diesel.
[00:58:00]  100% straight facts.
[00:58:01]  You know it all the time here.
[00:58:03]  And a little opinion too.
[00:58:05]  And I try to be fair.
[00:58:06]  And you know, I'm very empathetic.
[00:58:08]  So when I talk about things like immigration, please understand.
[00:58:11]  I mean, I wouldn't be here, right?
[00:58:13]  If it weren't for immigration.
[00:58:14]  My family's fairly recent.
[00:58:15]  None of us would be here if it wasn't for immigration.
[00:58:20]  So I say this with a big heart.
[00:58:22]  I just think that we need a system, right?
[00:58:24]  We just need a system so we know what's going on and that we have people that are going to help make us.
[00:58:28]  better and that want to be American, right?
[00:58:30]  You're American first.
[00:58:31]  Anyway, you saw me referencing one Joe Biden, the auto pen guy, right?
[00:58:36]  Comber, like a dog with a bone, right?
[00:58:37]  He has not given up, but he's now in the final stages of the Biden auto pen probe.
[00:58:43]  And as he nears the finish line, we're anticipating that there's going to be some real problems ahead for certain Biden staffers.
[00:58:50]  He's actually made quite a point of this.
[00:58:52]  I mean, he's struck by the fact that, you know, on the one hand, they were out there saying, best Biden ever.
[00:58:56]  He's terrific.
[00:58:57]  He's doing great, right?
[00:58:58]  And then once they get him, Under the microscope, most of them, by the way, are taking the fifth.
[00:59:02]  But once they get a few under the microscope and they say, Hey, what do you really think?
[00:59:06]  Suddenly they're like, Well, I never really saw him.
[00:59:10]  Like Ian, Ian Sams, he said, He's like the guy who was telling us, Oh, it's all great.
[00:59:15]  Like, never really saw him.
[00:59:17]  Are you serious?
[00:59:18]  Watch fit and ready to do the job.
[00:59:21]  Now saying they really didn't spend that much time with him.
[00:59:25]  The testimony doesn't add up with what we saw.
[00:59:29]  Something is awry here.
[00:59:33]  Yeah, something's definitely awry.
[00:59:35]  Look, when you have Ian Sams, who was the face of the White House response to the very damaging report that said that Joe Biden was a forgetful old man, he was the face of the White House response to our investigation, Byron Donalds and myself, as well as all the members of the House Oversight Committee, when we found that China had, in fact, Wired money to LLCs owned by Biden family members.
[01:00:02]  He was the one that would always respond and say, He talked to Joe Biden.
[01:00:06]  Joe Biden was vibrant.
[01:00:07]  Joe Biden did not do this.
[01:00:08]  The family's innocent.
[01:00:09]  And then come to find out when we put him under oath, he admits, Well, I only saw Joe Biden two times over a two year period.
[01:00:16]  That's unprecedented.
[01:00:18]  We're trying to get to the bottom of who was operating the auto pen.
[01:00:21]  And we've brought in a dozen people so far, and they're all pointing the fingers at other people.
[01:00:27]  The ones that I think may Have a little more knowledge.
[01:00:30]  They pled the fifth to avoid self incrimination.
[01:00:33]  So I think what you're going to see is unless Jean Pierre and some of these others come in and tell us more, it's becoming very apparent that Joe Biden really wasn't the one in command at the end of his presidency.
[01:00:48]  And that's important because you're talking about thousands of pardons and dozens of executive orders that were signed with that autopin.
[01:00:55]  And it appears without President Biden's knowledge.
[01:00:59]  Yeah.
[01:01:00]  That's what they've actually discovered that even his own team apparently was saying, hey, hey, hey, hey, you might want to sign some of these.
[01:01:07]  They were like ones for his own family, all these auto pardons, right?
[01:01:11]  And he wasn't even signing those.
[01:01:12]  I think the only one he did was Sonny Boy, Laptop Boy, Hunter.
[01:01:18]  Anyway, like what was going on?
[01:01:21]  I mean, KJP gaslighting us like you wouldn't believe.
[01:01:26]  Whenever I showed you, you know, he was kind of stumbling.
[01:01:28]  It was taking him a while to put his sunglasses on.
[01:01:31]  Remember the time he was wandering off at one of the G7 events and Georgia Maloney, I knew she was such a good person then, right?
[01:01:38]  She was like the mom in the group, like everybody else.
[01:01:42]  Macron's like looking for the camera and Georgia Maloney's like, oh my gosh, he's wandering off.
[01:01:47]  Let me go and get him.
[01:01:48]  He was attracted to somebody was like blowing up a big balloon and he was like wandering off to see that.
[01:01:53]  And she brought him back and just the way he was walking, just the way he seemed so out of sorts.
[01:01:59]  And then he went to put his sunglasses on and the way he was moving, like unfortunately, you know, if you've lived long enough.
[01:02:06]  You've seen this before in your loved ones and you know, I have and you recognize it.
[01:02:12]  And yet nobody could talk about it.
[01:02:15]  And if I showed this, you know, it was, it was just a cheap fake.
[01:02:19]  Remember the time he was trying to sit and he kept trying to sit and sit and sit.
[01:02:23]  And everybody was like, Oh, you know, they didn't show the part with the chair.
[01:02:25]  I showed the part with the chair.
[01:02:26]  I mean, he eventually did have a chair to sit in.
[01:02:29]  But the point was, like, he just was sort of clueless about what was going around him because everybody was still standing.
[01:02:34]  They were still standing, and yet he was over in France, in Normandy, and he kept trying to sit.
[01:02:42]  And then eventually everybody sat down.
[01:02:43]  And then if you ran this, everybody freaked out.
[01:02:46]  KJP was all over you.
[01:02:47]  Cheap fake, cheap fake, cheap fake.
[01:02:49]  Watch.
[01:02:50]  Video.
[01:02:51]  And that's exactly what they are.
[01:02:52]  They are cheap fakes video.
[01:02:54]  They are done in bad faith.
[01:02:56]  And some of your news organizations, Have been very clear, have stressed that these right wing, the right wing critics of the president have a credibility problem because of the fact checkers have repeatedly caught them pushing.
[01:03:12]  Okay.
[01:03:12]  Yeah, I got a credibility problem.
[01:03:16]  Unbelievable.
[01:03:19]  You know who has a credibility problem in addition to that lady?
[01:03:22]  The woman who came before her, the other liar that's about to lose her show on MSNBC because she can't get a rating to save her life?
[01:03:28]  I left in May of 2022 just for the facts here.
[01:03:32]  And I have seen Biden once since then when I took my daughter to the holiday party this last December after he had lost.
[01:03:39]  And so I hadn't seen him in person during that period of time.
[01:03:44]  I never saw that person, not a single time.
[01:03:47]  And I was in the Oval Office every day that was on that debate stage.
[01:03:52]  I'm not a doctor.
[01:03:53]  Aging happens quite quickly.
[01:03:55]  Were things that people saw during that period of time that were similar to that or would have been in a category of that?
[01:04:00]  I don't know, possibly, right?
[01:04:02]  And all these books are going to tell us.
[01:04:03]  Do you think that they were.
[01:04:04]  Were they actively covering it up?
[01:04:05]  Were they sort of in denial?
[01:04:07]  Or was that just a bad debate?
[01:04:09]  Like, what is your read on that?
[01:04:11]  Well, this is what I mean about cover up is a very loaded term, I think.
[01:04:15]  Well, it means you knew that it was really bad and you're pretending otherwise versus you're deluding yourself, which I think is what people do a lot.
[01:04:20]  Well, I understand, but I still think it's like cover up is often like a crime, right?
[01:04:25]  We're talking, people use that term.
[01:04:27]  They say it's worse than the crime.
[01:04:28]  People use that term as they relate to Watergate or the covering up of not sharing public information about a war.
[01:04:35]  Yeah, and I'm not.
[01:04:35]  Accusing anybody of a crime.
[01:04:36]  I understand, but other people have used that term and I think it's a bit of a dangerous term.
[01:04:40]  And she's like, How dare you?
[01:04:42]  How dare you?
[01:04:42]  I know where you're going with this because I got up there on that podium every day and I talked about how great he was and how bad you all were.
[01:04:49]  And KJP, she did the exact same thing.
[01:04:52]  And so what?
[01:04:53]  They were lying?
[01:04:55]  Yeah.
[01:04:55]  I mean, guys, they were lying a lot.
[01:04:59]  The question is who was doing the lying?
[01:05:00]  Like who was really pulling the strings?
[01:05:03]  I've told you before my thesis.
[01:05:06]  And this is really just common sense.
[01:05:09]  Because if you're the wife of Joe Biden, if you're Dr. Jill Biden, you're kind of controlling the strings there.
[01:05:15]  You're controlling him.
[01:05:16]  And so thus, her chief of staff, Anthony Brunel, who took the fifth, by the way, he's got some, you know, I have serious questions for him.
[01:05:25]  He's never going to answer them.
[01:05:26]  Comer's got questions.
[01:05:27]  He's never going to answer them.
[01:05:28]  There's something that went down.
[01:05:30]  I mean, you talk about using the 25th.
[01:05:31]  Maxine Waters, oh boy, poor Maxine.
[01:05:34]  You know, Maxine has kind of seen her day come and go.
[01:05:37]  I, I don't know, is actually actually Maxine never really had a day.
[01:05:42]  I'm being generous, am I not with that?
[01:05:45]  But Maxine Waters is all over this, saying we got to re-invoke the 25th and i'm like, wait for who?
[01:05:50]  For you, I mean poor Maxine Waters, how she still has a job, I don't know.
[01:05:57]  I i'm starting to lose, shall I say, a lot of my uh, respect that I once had for members of Congress.
[01:06:04]  I played this in the shorts feed over the weekend and I was just going to show you guys, because she is just out of it, like out of it.
[01:06:13]  And, you know, this is when you say you got to make room for a new generation.
[01:06:17]  You got to make room for people who are thinking new.
[01:06:21]  You can check it on my short feed.
[01:06:22]  Maybe we'll show it tomorrow.
[01:06:24]  It's not, it's not that great.
[01:06:25]  It's just Maxine saying, we got to use the 25th to take down this president.
[01:06:29]  And I'm like, okay, you guys have tried about everything you can and it's getting old.
[01:06:38]  Really.
[01:06:38]  Oh, hey, make sure you subscribe, share, like all that good stuff.
[01:06:41]  We got a lot more coming up because there was a White House brawl.
[01:06:44]  Well, not actually in the White House, apparently at a club near the White House.
[01:06:49]  It involved the Treasury Secretary.
[01:06:50]  I mean, my gosh, if this is true, I'll tell you.
[01:06:55]  Besant.
[01:06:56]  Besant apparently really knows how to throw him.
[01:06:59]  It's kind of new for a Treasury Secretary, you got to admit.
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[01:07:30]  A brawl at the White House.
[01:07:32]  Oh my goodness.
[01:07:33]  What is going on?
[01:07:34]  I mean, Scott, I didn't know you had it in you.
[01:07:38]  We don't know as it's entirely true.
[01:07:40]  It's apparently been reported.
[01:07:41]  I think they quotes Bannon as one of the sources here in the New York Post.
[01:07:45]  This is the lead this morning.
[01:07:47]  Hit me with your best shot.
[01:07:49]  Fire away.
[01:07:50]  Treasury Secretary threatens housing regulator in explosive Trump administration fight.
[01:07:55]  Punch you in the effing face.
[01:07:58]  Uh-huh.
[01:08:00]  So this apparently was between Scott Besant, who I like a lot, and Bill Pulte, who I kind of admire for his tenacity.
[01:08:08]  I mean, anybody that's going after Letitia James with that mortgage stuff, I mean, he's tenacious, all right.
[01:08:15]  Scott's brilliant.
[01:08:16]  Like Scott's a really, really smart financier.
[01:08:19]  He totally put, just to jog your memory on like who's who, he totally put the woman on NBC that hosts the Sunday show in her place because she doesn't know a damn thing about the Fed or the FOMC.
[01:08:32]  And so she asked a question, and he kind of just spun it back on her.
[01:08:36]  It was sort of funny to watch.
[01:08:37]  Remember, the Fed is the FOMC, okay?
[01:08:40]  So the Fed chair is right now Jerome Powell, but like he has to work with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the FOMC, which sets the rates on interest rates.
[01:08:54]  So there's this like funny exchange because, again, sometimes when you're smarter than the host, it's just too easy.
[01:09:01]  Bottom line, Mr. Secretary.
[01:09:04]  Will the Fed chair set interest rates or will President Trump?
[01:09:08]  The Fed chair doesn't set interest rates.
[01:09:10]  The FOMC sets interest rates.
[01:09:14]  So it is.
[01:09:14]  Okay, duh.
[01:09:15]  Now, I'm sorry.
[01:09:16]  Like, I started out in finance at Goldman.
[01:09:20]  I've been a financial reporter my entire career.
[01:09:23]  This is sort of funny to me because she has no clue what he's talking about.
[01:09:26]  He's like, no, no, the Fed chair doesn't set the rates.
[01:09:28]  Like, Jerome actually doesn't set the rates.
[01:09:31]  It's a board of governors.
[01:09:31]  That's why it's a big deal that Lisa Cook is getting tossed, right?
[01:09:34]  Because she was the Biden appointee and she probably wasn't going to go along with whatever Trump wanted.
[01:09:38]  And so he's trying to explain to her, it is not the Fed chair.
[01:09:41]  It is the FOMC.
[01:09:42]  It is the entire board.
[01:09:43]  What?
[01:09:44]  Board.
[01:09:44]  Should President Trump have a say?
[01:09:45]  And that the President Trump is going to make his views known just like President Biden did.
[01:09:50]  President Biden in the State of the Union, his last State of the Union said he thought there was going to be an interest rate cut.
[01:09:56]  Senator Warren called for a 75 basis point interest rate cut this time this year.
[01:10:03]  Yeah.
[01:10:04]  I mean, at least he didn't sock a tour, right?
[01:10:06]  That was like the verbal equivalent.
[01:10:09]  Anyway, Scott Besson.
[01:10:12]  Shocking.
[01:10:12]  Apparently called out Bill Pulte because Bill Pulte was talking smack about him to the president of the United States.
[01:10:23]  And so they're at this club that was started by Junior and a guy, I don't know if he's been on the show.
[01:10:31]  Have we had Malik on the show?
[01:10:32]  We may have.
[01:10:33]  I'm not sure.
[01:10:33]  But anyway, the conservative sort of financial guy started this club.
[01:10:38]  Everybody goes to this club.
[01:10:40]  Scott Besson and Bill Pulte, again, just to jog your memory on him, he's the guy who's going after Letitia.
[01:10:46]  They get into it.
[01:10:47]  Who recommended that the DOJ investigate New York Attorney General Letitia James over alleged mortgage fraud?
[01:10:54]  The AG, Letitia James, has responded.
[01:10:58]  We don't have the video, but here's the quote This investigation into me is nothing more than retribution.
[01:11:04]  It's baseless.
[01:11:05]  It has to do with the fact that on a power of attorney, I mistakenly indicated that I was a state of Virginia resident.
[01:11:14]  And prior to that, I indicated to the mortgage broker that, in fact, in bold cap letters, that I am not a resident of Virginia and never will be.
[01:11:22]  They just took the power of attorney and they're using that as a basis for enforcement of their investigation.
[01:11:27]  Bill, do you know why she said she was a resident of Virginia on the power of attorney, if in fact she wasn't?
[01:11:35]  Well, I know that we are mortgage experts and we only refer things that we think are mortgage fraud and we stand 100% behind the letter.
[01:11:42]  I'll let the letter speak for itself.
[01:11:43]  I do know and I have seen some reports from that subject's criminal defense lawyer saying certain things.
[01:11:50]  I'll leave it to the DOJ to correct various things.
[01:11:53]  But again, when we see mortgage fraud, we are going to report it.
[01:11:56]  When we see mortgage fraud, we are going to prosecute it within the confines of our.
[01:12:01]  Duties.
[01:12:02]  And we are not going to be intimidated by a subject's criminal defense lawyer.
[01:12:05]  We are not going to be intimidated by a politician or just because you have an Esquire behind your name.
[01:12:11]  We are not going to be intimidated by people.
[01:12:13]  If we see mortgage fraud, we're going to do something about it.
[01:12:16]  And I think that you're going to see us be taking this on in a big way.
[01:12:19]  Mortgage fraud is a big problem.
[01:12:21]  These companies are safe and sound, but where we see it, we are going to do something about it.
[01:12:25]  And that subject's case is no different.
[01:12:27]  Well, what are the ramifications of this?
[01:12:30]  Subject's case is now on the talk board.
[01:12:31]  Anyway, so.
[01:12:31]  We give Bill Pulte a little bit of credit, right, for going after the likes of Letitia.
[01:12:36]  And I believe he's the one that came up with Lisa Cook's mortgage issues as well.

=== Prosecuting Mortgage Fraud Without Fear (11:46) ===

[01:12:40]  But apparently something happened.
[01:12:44]  Something happened at this little club.
[01:12:47]  And it is now on the front page of the New York Post right now because our treasury secretary, our treasury secretary is a total badass.
[01:13:00]  I honestly can't believe this is happening.
[01:13:06]  I mean, because he's kind of like a polished guy, right?
[01:13:09]  Worked in finance.
[01:13:10]  Like this is not something I would expect.
[01:13:14]  But, you know, maybe Bill had it coming.
[01:13:17]  I don't know.
[01:13:18]  Okay, so let me share with you the details of this story.
[01:13:21]  According to the Post, they have confirmed it.
[01:13:23]  By the way, this is not hearsay according to them.
[01:13:26]  Apparently, Bill Pulte and Scott Besant got into this heated argument in the White House last week.
[01:13:34]  And there were threats of physical violence involved.
[01:13:38]  So, two sources tell the Post that Mr. Besson threatened to beat up Pulte.
[01:13:44]  So, Besson's 63, Pulte's 37.
[01:13:48]  Gosh, I thought he was like 47.
[01:13:50]  He needs to hit the gym.
[01:13:51]  He's like, Besson, Besson, 63, is taking on the 37 year old.
[01:13:56]  At one point, the Treasury Secretary lashed out at Pulte, allegedly saying, I'm saying allegedly because I have not confirmed this.
[01:14:03]  I'm going to call Bannon.
[01:14:04]  I think Bannon's their source on this one.
[01:14:05]  Quote, why the F are you talking to the president about me?
[01:14:11]  F you.
[01:14:13]  I'm gonna punch you in your effing face.
[01:14:16]  Okay, so let's stand corrected.
[01:14:19]  Apparently he just threatened.
[01:14:22]  Apparently he just threatened.
[01:14:23]  Apparently he didn't like actually do it.
[01:14:28]  I guess that's good.
[01:14:29]  Pulte's response, they write, was not immediately clear.
[01:14:33]  But the grudge match, first reported by Politico, is just the latest outbreak of discontent inside the administration.
[01:14:40]  Pulte and Besant have some overlapping duties, including plans to privatize the federal mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
[01:14:48]  But they've also expressed differing opinions about what to do with the Federal Reserve.
[01:14:51]  That's really interesting because actually besson is not like a huge fan, and he's written on this in the past, of the Federal Reserve outgoing governor having a ton of power.
[01:15:01]  But he's reportedly advised the president not to fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, whereas Pulte has been on a crusade to clear out central bank members, most recently referring Board of Governors member Lisa Cook to the Justice Department over allegations of mortgage fraud.
[01:15:15]  Scott Besson likely is worried about the impact on the markets, right?
[01:15:19]  The uncertainty because, hey, you know, we're like, we're the port in the storm still.
[01:15:23]  You want to come and invest in the U.S. because you know that we're safe and secure and we don't have crazy people running around doing silly things.
[01:15:32]  And therefore, your U.S. Treasury debt is always secure.
[01:15:36]  And that's part of his goal as Treasury Secretary to make sure that, you know, they know that their investments are always secure.
[01:15:42]  And so the general consensus, according to my friend Charlie Gasparino, Charlie is always, he's a good gossip.
[01:15:51]  The general consensus in the White House is that Scott would have, in fact, beat that little midget's.
[01:15:57]  ASS, and that everyone would have paid big money to watch it happen.
[01:16:04]  Of course, like who wouldn't want to see Scott Besson take on little 37 year old Pulte?
[01:16:10]  But Trump loved the mortgage fraud stuff.
[01:16:12]  He should remove him from FHFA and make him mortgage fraud czar to get him out of the White House.
[01:16:18]  That's actually Charlie's advice.
[01:16:20]  Really interesting.
[01:16:21]  So the spat that I told you about, apparently it didn't happen in the White House.
[01:16:24]  It occurred at the social club, at the executive branch social club.
[01:16:29]  And this was founded by Omin Malik.
[01:16:32]  and Trump's son, Don Jr.
[01:16:35]  And it's a swanky club and everybody goes there and apparently they're getting into a few little fights along the way.
[01:16:44]  I mean, this is just really, truly something else, is it not?
[01:16:48]  So I should change this.
[01:16:50]  Besant did not actually slug him.
[01:16:54]  He threatened to slug him.
[01:16:57]  We've got to be very clear because now the Post is reporting that he did slug Elon Musk back when.
[01:17:05]  threatens to slug Pulte.
[01:17:10]  I'm guessing Pulte deserved it.
[01:17:11]  I'm telling you, it would take a lot.
[01:17:16]  It would take a lot, but apparently it's happened before.
[01:17:18]  So in April, they write, okay, this is important.
[01:17:22]  They're not saying, oh, they do say reportedly.
[01:17:24]  In April, the Treasury Secretary reportedly hit billionaire Elon Musk after the then Doge leader body checked Besant outside the Oval Office.
[01:17:35]  Like, what is going on, people?
[01:17:38]  Got a lot of testosterone there, huh?
[01:17:42]  Elon giving him a body check?
[01:17:44]  Besant slugging him reportedly?
[01:17:49]  Is that why Elon had that big black eye?
[01:17:52]  Remember that day?
[01:17:53]  And he said, oh, he was just hanging out with X and they were playing?
[01:17:56]  I'm like, really?
[01:17:57]  Can a two-year-old do that much damage?
[01:17:59]  The two got into a spat over dueling candidates to serve as the head of the IRS.
[01:18:05]  Musk was pushing for IRS whistleblower Gary Shapely, who later got the job.
[01:18:10]  Besant had a different candidate and, you know, anyway, as the two began to exit, according to the Post, Besant confronted Musk and began labeling him a fraud.
[01:18:22]  Wow.
[01:18:23]  And that is according to Trump advisor Steve Bannon.
[01:18:26]  Okay, so that's where we're getting Steve Bannon's in this name.
[01:18:28]  I don't know who the source for this story is, but apparently everybody saw it.
[01:18:33]  I mean, it's happening at the club.
[01:18:35]  They're having like brawls at the executive club.
[01:18:40]  I mean, Washington is getting rough.
[01:18:41]  You're going to have to bring the National Guard in there.
[01:18:45]  They said that Treasury Secretary lowered his shoulder at him like a rugby player.
[01:18:52]  Man, Besson, I got to say, you know, I think that's who we want for our Treasury Secretary, someone who can really put up a good fight.
[01:19:00]  I bet you Trump loves it.
[01:19:01]  I'm just speculating.
[01:19:04]  They're fighting over him now, right?
[01:19:06]  I mean, my goodness.
[01:19:07]  Something, something, something to see.
[01:19:10]  Reminder, of course, you know, I'm looking at the markets today as we get ready to close out today's trading.
[01:19:16]  And you got a Dow that's higher, an S&P that's higher, and a NASDAQ that's higher right now.
[01:19:21]  Lots of good news right across the board, you guys.
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[01:19:36]  Nicolas Maduro is out.
[01:19:38]  Nicolas Maduro, it's over.
[01:19:39]  And the sooner you leave, the better.
[01:19:42]  I guess the question now is, can you leave?
[01:19:46]  You know.
[01:19:48]  with some of your possessions and whatever intact.
[01:19:51]  Sources tell me he knows it's over.
[01:19:54]  I have a lot of sources on this story and the belief is that, yeah, he knows it's over.
[01:19:59]  It's just sort of a question of when and how at this stage in the game.
[01:20:03]  Hegseth has been sending him quite a message.
[01:20:05]  You know, the DOD took out Department of War.
[01:20:09]  What am I saying?
[01:20:10]  We got a new name for this thing, which actually I like.
[01:20:12]  I'm going to explain in a second.
[01:20:14]  I didn't think I would like it at first, but I really do and I'll explain.
[01:20:16]  But anyway, They issued a statement the other day because after having taken out the narco-trafficking boat, which they came under some criticism for, Venezuela came back and started sort of trying to intimidate them by flying aircraft over a U.S. Navy vessel in international waters.
[01:20:38]  And this, according to the Department of War, is a provocative move designed to interfere with our counter-terror operations.
[01:20:47]  The cartel running Venezuela is strongly advised not to pursue.
[01:20:50]  or to further obstruct, deter, or interfere with any of these narcotic operations that are being carried out by the U.S. military.
[01:20:58]  And then Hegzeth, he just went straight for the jugular and delivered a message to Mr. Maduro on Fox News on Friday.
[01:21:07]  Watch.
[01:21:08]  The only person that should be worried is Nicolas Maduro, who's running effectively as a kingpin of a drug narco state, not actually elected and indicted for $50 million by the United States.
[01:21:22]  And we know he's involved in the types of drug running that has affected the American people directly.
[01:21:28]  So, China and other countries are going to say certain things, and that's their prerogative.
[01:21:32]  What we have there in the Caribbean is a clear demonstration of military might.
[01:21:36]  President Trump has shown, whether it's the Southwest border, whether it's the Houthis in freedom of navigation, whether it's Midnight Hammer in Iran, that the precise application of American power can have incredible impacts and reshape dynamics around the world and in the region.
[01:21:52]  So, Nicolas Maduro, as he considers whether or not he wants to continue to be a narco trafficker, Trafficker has some decisions to make.
[01:21:59]  And that's all I'll say about that.
[01:22:01]  Oh, decisions, decisions.
[01:22:03]  In other words, time to go.
[01:22:05]  Time to go, buddy.
[01:22:05]  Marco's going to make sure of it.
[01:22:06]  You're wrong in your question.
[01:22:09]  Number one, Venezuela is a major source.
[01:22:11]  And the reason why is the following.
[01:22:12]  And I've seen a lot of this reporting, and it's fake reporting, and I'll tell you why.
[01:22:16]  It says that somehow Venezuela is not involved in the drug trade because the UN says they're not involved in the drug trade.
[01:22:20]  I don't care what the UN says.
[01:22:23]  The UN doesn't know what they're talking about.
[01:22:24]  Maduro is indicted by a grand jury in the Southern District of New York.
[01:22:29]  That means the Southern District of New York presented the evidence to a grand jury and a grand jury indicted him.
[01:22:34]  And then a superseding indictment came out that was unsealed about a year and a half ago that specifically detailed Maduro's actions.
[01:22:41]  So, number one, let there be no doubt, Nicolas Maduro is an indicted drug trafficker in the United States, and he's a fugitive of American justice.
[01:22:52]  Okay.
[01:22:53]  Nicholas, I think you're in trouble.
[01:22:55]  So, the word on the street is he's going to be leaving.
[01:22:58]  I mean, it's going to be great news, right, for Venezuela, because I think if you get him out of there, you have a shot at getting some capitalism in.
[01:23:05]  Maria Corina Machado, who's actually been in hiding because, you know, the Maduro regime doesn't like her very much because she represents the opposition.
[01:23:13]  is the favored to take over at this point.
[01:23:15]  Having been around this story as many years as I have, I can tell you there's still competing factions and everybody wants this, that, and the other.
[01:23:23]  So she'll have her work cut out for her in terms of really articulating her role.
[01:23:28]  But again, I guess at some point you're going to have to have an election of some sort.
[01:23:34]  He has apparently some popularity, not enough, but still some popularity there in the country.
[01:23:41]  I think that there are reasons for us to want to take him out.
[01:23:44]  One is to try and offer the people a little bit of a better lifestyle so they stop coming here right, um?
[01:23:50]  And then the other thing is i've told you this before you get a lot of oil there, and I know it would take a lot of years and a lot of time i've heard different estimates to get it out of the ground, but it's.
[01:23:59]  It's quite representative of a huge oil source and it's right here in our hemisphere.
[01:24:04]  And the danger is you got China there, you got Iran there, you got Russia there, and they all want their take right and they love being so close in proximity to us, and so they're courting Maduro, and the other day I showed you a little video he put on Tic-tac, Tic-tac.
[01:24:20]  Tic-toc.
[01:24:20]  It's like Tic-tac.
[01:24:22]  Where he's bragging about he's got his fancy cell phone from China.

=== Symbolic Shift to Department of War (03:20) ===

[01:24:26]  I'm like, yeah, you know, because they're like monitoring every single thing you say on it, Mr. Maduro.
[01:24:33]  Anyway, so he's kind of in tight with China and he's trying to use that a little bit as a positioning strategy, right?
[01:24:40]  But it's probably not that smart because Marco has wanted this for a long time.
[01:24:46]  Pete is not joking around and nobody likes the socialist, communist, devastating you know, reality of what has happened in Venezuela.
[01:24:57]  Horrible stuff.
[01:24:58]  I mean, a country that, you know, was once enjoying the highest standard of living in all of Latin America has fallen to the poorest.
[01:25:06]  That is what socialism does to you.
[01:25:09]  Remember that.
[01:25:09]  I mean, seriously, remember that as this Mamdami comes into New York with his sweet talk of nothing.
[01:25:17]  Remember what has happened to Venezuela.
[01:25:19]  I'll tell you, all the financial companies will just leave.
[01:25:21]  Anybody with money will leave.
[01:25:24]  You will be left with nothing in New York.
[01:25:25]  Meanwhile, we've got the Department of War on our hands.
[01:25:28]  You know, I got to tell you, at first I was like, wait a second.
[01:25:32]  And I actually texted my colleague at 76 Research, Rob Horton.
[01:25:36]  Some of you get his research and my research.
[01:25:38]  I encourage you to do that code word dollar at 76 Research.
[01:25:41]  And I texted him and I was like, gosh, you know, I don't know if I like this.
[01:25:43]  Like from a marketing standpoint, don't we defend our country?
[01:25:47]  And then I thought about it.
[01:25:49]  And I sat down to dinner with my husband the other night and I was like, you know, I've been thinking about this.
[01:25:54]  He gets to hear all my ramblings before you do.
[01:25:58]  And I said, you know, I actually think that this is good.
[01:26:04]  And the reason this is really good is because we can't sugarcoat this as anything other than what it is.
[01:26:13]  You know, you can call it defense, whatever.
[01:26:15]  And then all of a sudden you're over in Vietnam and, you know, you're losing lives because war costs lives.
[01:26:23]  And war is bad and war is awful.
[01:26:26]  And we should never, ever, ever want it.
[01:26:27]  At first, it looked to me like we were kind of like warmongering, but we're not.
[01:26:31]  We're actually just being realist.
[01:26:32]  Trump is saying, hey, hey, you know what?
[01:26:35]  This is an army, a navy, a military that's built for war.
[01:26:42]  So let's understand that.
[01:26:44]  Like let's put it out front and center.
[01:26:47]  You got to know what you're signing up for, right?
[01:26:49]  It's not for an operation because you want to change your gender.
[01:26:52]  It's because you're willing and able.
[01:26:57]  To go to war for your country and your freedoms, and that is a big thing.
[01:27:02]  So I think it's actually an important and symbolic move to change it to the Department OF WAR, because we should all know what this is.
[01:27:13]  You know, we should all feel what this is, and when we make commitments with troops, we can't call it anything other than what it is, Because this has a certain gravitas and also a certain fear factor, okay?
[01:27:33]  But there should be that fear factor.
[01:27:35]  This is not, you know, like a bed of roses, for goodness sakes.
[01:27:42]  You know, the military does tough stuff, and that's reality.

=== Family Memories Before Hosting Guests (04:23) ===

[01:27:47]  So thank you, President Trump and Pete, for ushering in a new era of reality.
[01:27:55]  Look, we need it, right?
[01:27:56]  We need it.
[01:28:00]  This is a hard turn.
[01:28:01]  This is what we call a hard turn in my business because you're going from something kind of serious and kind of down and kind of depressing to something really happy.
[01:28:07]  I just wanted to once again wish my mom a happy birthday.
[01:28:11]  I had such a good time with her and my whole family.
[01:28:14]  We had a little party for her up in New Hampshire with some of her friends and she's going to kill me.
[01:28:19]  I probably shouldn't be saying this.
[01:28:22]  Hopefully she's not watching.
[01:28:22]  She doesn't watch me.
[01:28:24]  I'm okay.
[01:28:26]  I want to see if I can show you guys a picture of her because it was her 80th birthday.
[01:28:31]  And gosh, is she a beautiful woman.
[01:28:33]  When I was a kid, she looked just like Linda Carter.
[01:28:36]  So I used to get confused because I'd be sitting there watching Wonder Woman, you know, on television when I was really little.
[01:28:42]  And I'd look up at my mom and I'd be like, huh?
[01:28:45]  Years later, I actually interviewed Linda Carter for something.
[01:28:50]  And I was like, oh my gosh, I'm still looking at my mom.
[01:28:53]  This is really, really strange.
[01:28:55]  Anyway, my mom's an amazing woman.
[01:28:57]  She was a journalist herself, which is kind of cool, right?
[01:29:01]  So I followed in her footsteps.
[01:29:03]  When I was a little kid, I used to go out.
[01:29:05]  On stories with her.
[01:29:07]  She would take me with her because she didn't have a babysitter.
[01:29:11]  And I got to kind of be out in the field, like old fashioned style, right?
[01:29:17]  She was a print reporter for the Boston Globe magazine.
[01:29:20]  She wrote a bunch of freelance pieces for them.
[01:29:24]  Here she is.
[01:29:24]  So it's my sister.
[01:29:27]  She's very tall and she wears very high heels.
[01:29:31]  I'm around 5'7, but she's probably like 5'9, and then very high heels.
[01:29:35]  And then that's my mom in the middle.
[01:29:38]  So that was on her birthday, which was yesterday.
[01:29:40]  We had a nice brunch for her.
[01:29:42]  And then a wonderful, a wonderful dinner the night before.
[01:29:47]  You know, this is terrible.
[01:29:48]  My camera ran out of battery.
[01:29:50]  So I'm waiting on the family to send me some more pictures.
[01:29:53]  But here's one I got of my sister and me right before we went to, before we started receiving guests and welcoming guests.
[01:30:04]  So it was a really, really, oopsie daisy, what am I doing?
[01:30:07]  It was a really, really nice event and just a really special moment.
[01:30:12]  Uh it's, it's a big birthday and, like my mom, just I mean she's, she's amazing, she is such a trooper and she definitely does not look her age and i'm told that's a.
[01:30:23]  You know, that's a good thing right, because good jeans, good jeans.
[01:30:26]  Um I, I will say this, my sister and I both got good jeans.
[01:30:32]  I will say this, my mom is often mistaken for my sister and oftentimes I get annoyed because i'm like, really It's been happening for a while.
[01:30:47]  Like ever since I was 28 or 29, 30, I'm like, really?
[01:30:53]  Anyway, the good news is hopefully I will stay young looking as well for many, many more years to come.
[01:31:00]  And when somebody says that to me and my daughter, I'll be really, really happy.
[01:31:04]  So I think it's a good thing.
[01:31:05]  Anyway, I love you, mom.
[01:31:07]  I love you so much.
[01:31:09]  Happy birthday.
[01:31:10]  Many, many more to come.
[01:31:12]  And thank you for all you've done and all your support over these years.
[01:31:16]  I will send her this clip in case she's not watching live.
[01:31:20]  Thank you so much, guys, for being here.
[01:31:22]  Thank you for helping me celebrate.
[01:31:23]  You guys are so sweet.
[01:31:25]  Oops, that's a different story.
[01:31:28]  That's what we call a hard turn, right?
[01:31:30]  A hard turn.
[01:31:31]  Leticia James got stuck in some really bad video the other day.
[01:31:35]  Now you want to see it, right?
[01:31:37]  Well, I think we did it as a chapter.
[01:31:38]  You can go and look it up.
[01:31:39]  I mean, she really.
[01:31:41]  Okay, now I have to show you.
[01:31:43]  Now I have to show you.
[01:31:44]  So, Leticia James.
[01:31:45]  Do we have it?
[01:31:47]  She was in this parade and there were like porta potties involved.
[01:31:51]  All right, I'm not going to ruin my mom's birthday thing with it.
[01:31:53]  I'm sorry.
[01:31:54]  I'm going to make you go look for it.
[01:31:55]  You can do a search.
[01:31:56]  Letitia James, humiliating, humiliating position she was caught in.
[01:32:01]  We put it on the feed on Friday over the weekend.
[01:32:04]  Thank you for being here.
[01:32:06]  Thank you to all of you for all you do and for all your great comments.
[01:32:09]  I'll see you back here live tomorrow.