Jimmy Kimmel faces a ratings collapse and Disney regret as he refuses to apologize for calling Charlie Kirk's murder "disgusting," prompting backlash from Nexstar and FCC Chair Brendan Carr while Taylor Swift avoids his show. The host contrasts this with NBC's apolitical Jimmy Fallon securing Swift's album promotion, then attacks the "Schumer shutdown" for demanding a trillion dollars for illegals, linking AOC to Zohran Mamdani's corporate taxes that drive businesses to Florida or Texas. With gold near $4,000 and Republicans leading on trust, the segment concludes by urging an FBI investigation into alleged CCP funding for the Kirk assassination attempt via the Armed Queers of Salt Lake City, framing these events as threats to the American Dream during the nation's 250th anniversary. [Automatically generated summary]
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Schumer Shutdown and Kimmel00:15:05
And we are live.
It's good to have you all here.
Quite a day.
Quite a day.
I mean, we've got a lot going on, right?
You've got the shutdown, the Schumer shutdown, as it is now been called.
Although we have little intel that may suggest somebody else might have something to do with this one AOC, believe it or not.
You've got the Jimmy Kimmel stuff going on.
I mean, did they see this one coming?
I'll tell you.
They should have listened to us, right?
We predicted it right here on the Trish Regan Show.
Did we not?
We said the ratings would tank.
He'd get a one-day pop because everybody was just tuning in to see, well, you know.
What's really going to happen?
Was he really going to say?
Is he really going to apologize?
He did not.
He did not.
And things are back to normal, which means he is a total financial drain on Disney.
Disney, which is trying to get its NFL, Disney, ESPN deal done and needs FTC, FCC, and DOJ approval for that one.
I mean, it's not very good having Jimmy Kimmel on the air, especially when Taylor Swift disses you.
Yeah, that just came out.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is having a field day.
I mean, he is like, he is.
no match for the Dems.
It's like no matter what, no matter what they try, it just doesn't work.
For example, remember he had that little sombrero AI meme that he put out yesterday, well, no, two days ago.
And well, it was kind of a big deal and some people were kind of shaken up by it, including those over on MSNBC.
So we're going to be covering this story because this was beautiful.
MSNBC asked Hakeem Jeffries about it.
And maybe 30 minutes later, the president posted this AI.
It's a disgusting video and we're going to continue to make clear bigotry will get you nowhere.
We are fighting to protect the health care of the American people in the face of an unprecedented Republican assault.
Right?
That's what I said.
No match, no match.
Okay, by the way, we got to get into AOC because apparently she's the one responsible for the whole shutdown.
You should hear what she's out there saying, guys.
Senators think that we're having a shutdown because of me.
They're free to enter my office and negotiate because what we're not going to do is allow all of millions of people in this country to not be able to afford their insulin and their chemotherapy.
So, right, right.
We're going to charge everybody else one point something trillion dollars.
I'll tell you, people are not happy about this.
They really aren't.
And we're going to get into all of that, but we begin here.
Big show, big show.
Make sure you subscribe, share, like.
We're over a million now.
This is pretty good.
Jimmy, try that one on for size because Jimmy.
I don't know as he's getting ratings like we're getting here on the Trish Regan show.
I'll tell you, he's had a really, really hard time.
He got one big pop, right?
Because everybody wanted to tune in to see what he was going to say after saying these horrible things about Charlie Kirk.
As you recall, the first night out, you know, it was like a Monday night after Charlie had been assassinated.
And he said, well, we hit some new lows over the weekend with MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.
This is what he told his audience.
It was gross.
It was disgusting.
The feedback on this.
Was really bad right, like people were understandably upset, so upset that you saw Nexstar, you saw Sinclair say, we don't want anything to do with this guy.
The FCC chair came out saying this is pretty heinous stuff and uh, you know, they eventually decided to put him back anyway and the ratings went down.
I mean like really down.
We're going to get into the numbers here, but suffice it to say uh, he's spiraling out of control down some 73.
Meanwhile, what's NBC doing?
They're seizing this opportunity.
They're like hey hey, we're okay.
You know, we're not Colbert And we're not Jimmy Kimmel.
We've got Jimmy Fallon, and he's totally apolitical.
He even went onto CNBC yesterday to remind everybody that he's apolitical.
By the way, still in NBC property for now until that Versant thing, Versant spinoff actually happens.
But he went on there.
He's like, I'm not political.
I'm not political at all.
It's the other guys that are political, right?
Oh, and I got a big guest coming on my show.
By the way, she won't go on anybody else's show.
I am wondering how you're thinking about.
What you can put in a monologue, what it's like being on an FCC licensed avenue of broadcasting right now.
You know, our show's never really been that political.
Excuse me?
We hit both sides equally.
Excuse me?
We make everybody laugh.
And that's really the way our show really works.
I mean, our monologues are kind of the same that we've been doing since Johnny Carson was doing the Tonight Show.
So really, I just keep my head down and make sure the jokes are funny.
I have great writers, clever, smart writers.
And we just, yeah, we're just trying to make the best show we possibly can and entertain everybody.
I messaged Higgins the other day because you got Taylor Swift on Monday and then the Demon Hunters.
That's going to be a groundbreaking.
K pop.
Your booking's been on fire.
I mean, on fire, yeah.
We've been friends with Taylor Swift since back in the late night days.
I know her very well.
Oh, okay.
So you see, this was a bragging opportunity to get out there and say, hey, we're not the political show.
NBC is like, we are not ABC.
We are not CBS.
We are nice and clean and we got Jimmy Kimmel.
I don't know.
I would beg to differ.
I think that Kimmel actually throws some punches, but at least he didn't do, right, what Kimmel did.
That's for sure.
And Kimmel is seeing the effects of just having a lousy show and being a bad comedian because nobody's actually tuning in.
They got a one-night pop, right, just to see probably the conservative community saying, hey, is this guy, is he actually going to?
Is he actually going to apologize like he should?
And he didn't.
So guess what?
Nobody's watching again.
And so Disney's right back at square one, stuck with a very expensive, lousy performer.
Believe me, this has nothing to do.
I want to point out with FCC stuff, although I would say, you know, FCC airwaves, and I've told you guys this before, broadcast is different than cable.
It's different than streaming.
And you do have an obligation to have some sensitivities to your community, to be there for your community, which Jimmy apparently figures, you know, he's only got half the country as his community.
New York, LA, that's about it, right?
So, if the FCC really wanted to push this, I think they could.
But you listen to what Vance said recently.
He was like, no, no, no, we're not going to take him off the air.
I mean, if Sinclair doesn't want him on the air, if his own network doesn't want him on the air because he kind of sucks and it's costing too much, that's a different story, right?
First of all, Kimmel was taken off the air because he had low ratings, because the late night talk show host model is not doing particularly well.
And let's be honest, because he'd become so politically unhinged that I think he wasn't particularly funny.
Now, the FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, put out a couple of tweets, but the government took no action.
We did literally nothing to try to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air.
We believe in free speech.
We also believe in the right of a television station or a network to cancel somebody because of low ratings.
In other words, the ratings are low.
The guy costs too much.
He's got like 200 producers working on the whole shebang.
And you know what?
what?
For what?
Because nobody's tuning in.
Nobody's talking about him.
I mean, he got like a one night stint there and that was that.
So look, this administration very much believes in free speech, but they also believe in free market capitalism at work.
And hey, Jimmy, if nobody's watching your show, then why should it be on television?
Meanwhile, Taylor Swift is dissing you.
I mean, she doesn't want to go on there.
She's going on all the other shows.
She's dissing Colbert.
She's dissing Jimmy.
She's going on the other Jimmy, Jimmy Fallon and then Seth Myers.
It's like NBC has a lock.
NBC has a lock on Taylor Swift.
She's got this albums of a showgirl.
Coming out, and so she's out to promote it and, very interestingly, she totally decided not to go on Jimmy's show.
Now, why might that be a woman like Taylor Swift who wants to reach as broad an audience as she possibly can?
I think part of it is the stink associated with one, Jimmy Kimmel, given his disgusting statements about Charlie Right.
That's one part of it, and then the other part is just pure simple numbers.
She wants to go where the eyeballs are.
Take a look at this, Jimmy Tanks, those numbers I told you about down 64.
That's what happened, right?
When he came back on the air, nobody wanted to watch him.
And then when you look at that gosh darn demo that everybody covets, he was down 73% in that category specifically.
So Jimmy's got a problem.
I'll tell you, back in the day, right?
Like back in the day, I sound like I used to watch him, but I didn't.
I remember my parents watching him when I was a kid.
Johnny Carson.
And I ran some sound on my shorts feed, actually, of Johnny Carson being interviewed.
I think Mike Wallace was interviewing him for 60 Minutes, back when 60 Minutes was something.
It's like back when late night comedy was something, back when the news business was something.
And one of the things that Johnny Carson said, which I found so compelling and interesting, was that he would never get political.
He chose deliberately to never go in that direction because he said at that point, you're no longer an entertainer.
You're trying to sway someone.
And his point is not to sway anyone.
Then you've kind of lost the purpose of what you're doing.
You just kind of want to make people laugh at the end of their difficult day.
Well, that's totally gone now, right?
Like who's laughing at the end of the day?
Everybody's like tuning into Rachel Maddow or whoever they have over on CNN.
You're certainly not going to laugh on either of those programs.
That is, unless they show one of Trump's specials, one of his AI sombrero specials.
Then you might start laughing.
I laughed at that pretty hard.
I'm going to show you some of that.
But I would say, you know, they got a problem because here on, you know, the streaming world or in the streaming world or over on cable where I have also worked, you can get away with a lot of opinion, right?
You're supposed to have an opinion.
And there's no obligation to your community to have any kind of community service type platform.
But broadcast television is still different because it's governed by acts, communications acts that were written in the 1930s.
So he is actually skinning on thin ice.
I mean, if he wanted, I'm just saying, if Jimmy Kimmel wanted to have a comedy show where he just attacked the right every single night, he should go over to MSNBC.
I mean, maybe then they'd get a rating.
That's an idea.
Get rid of Rachel.
You're paying her $25 million for one show.
Maybe you offer the same deal for five shows.
You see, I'm full of ideas.
They really ought to listen to me.
I'll tell you the Dems.
They don't listen to the other side enough.
If they did, they might actually start to have a fighting chance.
Anyway, Greg Gottfeld, my former colleague at Fox, who is funny and has a show on, not just The Five, but he has a comedy show at night.
And like, he's taking over, right?
Like people are watching him before they're going to watch these other clowns.
And he said something really, really powerful the other day.
And I want to play it in its entirety.
It's just a couple of minutes.
But I think you should hear this because he addresses a couple of things.
One, just the reality that, you know, Jimmy's a lucky guy because guess what?
You know, he's not a target the way Charlie was.
He still gets to go home and kiss his kids goodnight.
So there's that.
And then there's this other idea of people see this as, oh my gosh, you know, everybody's coming for the left now.
Just like, well, it's like you guys came for us, right?
Did you not?
Like, what do you think that was about?
All the shadow banning and the actual banning and Donald Trump.
couldn't have a Twitter account.
He got a lifetime ban there and on Facebook.
I mean, that's pretty significant, right?
So Greg talks about something that I like the idea of, and I think we need to actually dive into this a little bit more.
It's called mutually assured destruction.
It's actually a school of thought in political theory, real politics.
And it may be, in fact, what we need.
In other words, they need a little bit of a taste of their own medicine vis-a-vis all these lawsuits, et cetera.
I know I'm sort of merging two ideas together, but he does this.
He does it well.
I want you to hear.
Great, even in death, Charlie keeps winning debates.
You know, the media, this is what's disgusting.
Just look at the reaction.
The media is trying to make Jimmy Kimmel into their Charlie Kirk.
But as if, like, getting fired is the same as getting fired upon.
That's what disgusts me, is how they're trying, they're in a blatant effort to get the stink off them.
The decades of brainwash that created justification for violence and for murder.
Sorry, guys, he's not a victim.
The victim is Charlie Kirk.
The victims are his family.
I don't shed any tears for a lefty millionaire who can still go home and see his kids.
So look at this through that prism.
Jason Bateman predicts a reckoning over Kimmel's suspension.
Sorry, dude, the reckoning began without you.
Your side got thousands of conservatives. thrown off social media.
CNN tried to get Fox off the air.
Do you remember that?
Stelter that.
Don't say that.
Stelter tried to get us off the air.
And we're on a private airwave.
We're not in a public thing like ABC is.
While they were doing this, they were promoting rhetoric that demonized people with different viewpoints.
So there isn't a both sides here.
You can't turn Kimmel into Kirk.
That is disgusting.
And I'm going to control myself.
Let's look at the obvious here.
You have to look at this like mutually assured destruction.
Nice.
Facebook was pressured by the president or the White House to throw people out.
Trump was thrown off Twitter.
You had Roseanne, Gina Carino, Dave Chappelle, Shane Gillis, J.K. Rowling.
The list is endless.
We could take a whole hour to do it.
How do you stop that?
Mutually assured destruction.
Like what Trump is doing with lawfare.
You hunted us.
You hunted Republicans.
You hunted conservatives.
Well, maybe you won't hunt us anymore if we hunt you.
And lastly, I am so tired of these self centered fools on CNN and MSNBC with their performative outrage because they will never, ever stand outside before thousands of people and debate people who don't like them.
They are, like me, indoor cats.
They used phrase, was it SC Cup used the phrase, systematically killing free speech?
A young man was systematically killed over free speech last week.
Kimmel has every right and every opportunity to do a live free speech.
Show outdoors, and so could all those people on CNN, but they don't.
If they did, they probably wouldn't get shot because no one is demonizing them, no one is calling them Hitler.
The Cost of Political Cover00:05:02
That was your gig.
Yep.
Yep.
It's true.
I mean, think about that.
Think about what they said about Charlie.
Think about how they demonized Donald Trump and every conservative and every person who voted for Donald Trump.
You now got Eric Swalow saying he's going after anybody who's worked with Donald Trump.
I mean, what a loser that guy is.
Not to mention, hey, Fang Fang, she's still calling.
I think she's back in China.
Maybe you want to go visit Eric.
Point being, they did their fair share.
We've been through it, okay?
More than their fair share.
They tried to bankrupt a guy.
I mean, how many were there?
31 indictments?
For goodness sakes.
Enough is enough, okay?
Well, now you guys are going to get called out on it.
I'm sorry.
And you know what?
Your little comedians that you had in your back pocket, they're getting called out on it too.
And it's high time they get called out because you know what?
They deserve it.
I mean, to make fun of the murder, assassination of Charlie Kirk, a friend of mine, a colleague of mine, someone I put on air for the first time like 10 years ago, I just can't even fathom it.
I don't understand.
It's like, where's humanity?
And then at the same time, in the same breath, they're like, oh, you guys, you guys are terrible.
You guys are terrible.
They're like, you don't have a sense of humor about what, what, what, what Jimmy's saying.
Like, you don't think that's funny.
Isn't it funny?
You guys are terrible.
You don't have a sense of humor.
And then, oh, Donald Trump dares to put a little sombrero AI thing out.
And my gosh, suddenly all the humor goes bye-bye right out the window because this is nothing but, oh, a piece of total garbage.
I'll tell you, the Disney host.
The one who, uh oh, had to pay 16 million dollars.
His network had to pay 16 million dollars to clear up some things that he said that were actually libelous about our now president of the United States.
Yeah yeah, that would be Georgie Poo, otherwise known as George Stephanopoulos I believe the president has another nickname for him.
Anyway, Georgie Poo is all upset about this Ai meme.
I mean, do you really need to be doing this?
He asked Mike Johnson this morning on Good Morning America, another show nobody watches.
Let me ask you about president Trump.
He had another deep fake video overnight.
How does that Help the cause of getting a deal and opening the government?
Look, the president uses social media for humor.
He makes jokes.
He does lots of things.
What the president did in showing leadership, though, two days ago, was he brought in Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to meet with me and Leader Thune in the Senate to try to work this out.
He gave them unlimited time they had in the Oval Office, and they would not come to the table to do exactly, George, what they themselves have said repeatedly over and over and over.
We have a highlight reel playing on my social media that shows Chuck Schumer in his own words for the last decades.
Saying that a shutdown would be dangerous and disastrous and reckless.
And now he is the one leading his party off that cliff.
There's one question that Senate Democrats have to ask today How long are they going to allow Chuck Schumer to do this to them so that he himself can get political cover from the far left corner of his base?
He believes he's going to get a challenge for the Senate from AOC.
That's what changed his mind.
That's what's driving this agenda.
And it's harming real American people.
You said at the outset how many people will be unpaid.
Many people will lose their jobs over this.
TSA agents, you know, the troops won't be paid.
They have to go to work.
They won't be paid because Chuck Schumer wants to play political games with a nonpartisan continuing resolution to keep the government operating.
You know, and thanks to our friends over at MRC Newsbusters, also known as for that clip.
It is sort of fascinating, right?
All that he just packed in there because the president has said, look, you know, people will lose their jobs.
This gives him a chance to do a little doge stuff that, well, he might not have been able to do otherwise.
So he's going to take that opportunity.
So there may be workers that don't actually come back.
But in terms of the workers that should be getting paid, that we want to get paid, it's not fair to them, right?
It's not fair to them.
We shouldn't have government shutdown.
There's no reason for this.
Oh, it's only because they want to make sure that they had a trillion dollars going out to all the states so the states could then allocate that money and that money would go, including to illegals.
And the belief is, and I get this because you know what?
We're realists here.
I'm a business person, okay?
Like anybody who's had to balance a checkbook or run a payroll, like you get this.
You cannot spend money that you don't have and we really don't have it.
So we're at the point of sort of no return.
And if you don't get that, well, then I guess you don't know that one plus one is two.
But the people that don't get that are people like AOC.
It's amazing because I went back to some 1997 clips of Chuck Schumer.
He was totally against immigration.
You go back to the State of the Union that I ran from what, 95?
And Clinton was like, no, you know, we absolutely cannot have people coming here illegally.
This was a big platform for them until they all came down with TDS.
Original Meme vs Current Reality00:10:22
So this was the original meme, just to jog your memory.
Remember the Mariachi band after the two guys came over and they had a meeting with Donald Trump at the White House and they went out and did a press conference and he responded with this.
Look guys, there's no way to sugarcoat it.
Nobody likes Democrats anymore.
We have no voters left because of all of our woke trans.
Not even black people want to vote for us anymore.
Even Latinos hate us.
So we need new voters.
And if we give all these illegal aliens free health care, we might be able to get them on our side so they can vote for us.
They can't even speak English, so they won't realize we're just a bunch of woke pieces of sh**, you know, at least for a while until they learn English and they realize they hate us too.
Okay, so that was the first one, right?
And we should say that there could be mass layoffs right now.
Trump and his team have talked about that.
They're working on that in terms of Doge things.
A lot's on the line, right?
First of all, you don't ever want to shut down.
But maybe this is an opportunity to clean house in ways that you couldn't have done necessarily otherwise.
But that was the original, original troll.
And then last night he decided to kind of one up it.
Last night he came out with this.
Look at this.
Remember how everybody's been talking about those Trump 28 hats?
Gavin Newsom's like all upset because he's getting Trump 28 hats.
Well, he offered the guys Trump 28 hats and then took a picture of it and then released the picture last night.
So just kind of funny.
It is an epic troll.
He's just kidding around.
Apparently.
The Democrats, they think we should have a sense of humor about Jimmy Kimmel, but they have no sense of humor about this?
No, none at all.
I mean, not.
Gavin is like freaking out.
My gosh.
Remember this one from the shorts?
He's got no sense of humor.
You think for a second you want.
I have two dozen Trump 2028 hats his folks keep sending me.
We do a little trolling.
It's called We Do a Little Trolling.
Just a little.
Or maybe a lot.
Maybe a lot.
Okay.
Because I'm thinking now this combined with, whoa, wait till you see.
Wait till you see the newest meme I'm going to show you that he released right after Hakeem Jeffries went on to MSNBC.
It's pretty good to complain about how dare he?
How dare he?
Insult me with that you know, terrible Ai meme um, but anyway, he put that one out and then there's another goody.
Okay, so there's another goody coming our way.
I gotta show you because this is new meme that he put out last night like late, like I don't know what time I don't watch Msnbc.
Maybe this show comes on around like 10 o'clock or something.
It was pretty late and Hakeem gets on there to complain about the president putting this meme up which, by the way, if you think about it's, kind of funny, because they got Msnbc to play the meme.
Effectively, Free media, right?
Well, for all 76 viewers.
They got CNN to play the meme for all their 52 viewers.
And, well, they had some fun with it in a way that only Trump could.
I'm telling you, they are no match for him.
Just no match, at least from a media perspective.
Watch.
It's a disgusting video, and we're going to continue to make clear.
Bigotry will get you nowhere.
We are fighting to protect them.
health care of the American people in the face of an unprecedented Republican assault.
I think I almost feel bad for him, okay?
I almost feel bad for him because it's like, they're so serious, they're so serious, they're so serious.
And then it's like, boom, oh my gosh, you know?
And you can't help but laugh.
You really can't help but laugh.
I mean, it's a funny meme.
I'm sorry.
I know it's weird that a president is sending that, like everybody wants to be all prim and proper.
He's not that prim and proper, okay?
And I think that's actually why people like him.
You had the CNN lady, oh my gosh, she was slipping out over this.
The day before.
We heard from the president late tonight on his view, I guess is how I would put it, on how the negotiations at the White House went today.
I want to get your reaction to what the president posted.
Look, guys, there's no way to sugarcoat it.
Nobody likes Democrats anymore.
We have no voters left because of all of our woke trans bullshit.
Not even black people want to vote for us anymore.
Even Latinos hate us.
Is that appropriate in your view?
Look, I think sometimes the president plays with the press like a little boy and a flashlight and a dog.
And he's shining the flashlight here and he's shining it there.
What he's saying is this offer from the Democrats is ridiculous.
One and a half trillion dollars on top of funding that they already agreed to.
That what they're asking for is completely ridiculous.
It's disingenuous.
And then for the Democrats to sit there and blame Republicans.
For the plight of rural hospitals is just so wrong.
The problems with rural hospitals would be their policy, not ours.
But couldn't the president just say, these demands are ridiculous, and not post a video with Hakeem Jeffries wearing a sombrero and putting that voice over Senator Schumer talking about people of color and immigrants?
I think he said that several times already.
And then for them to come and not to make any really serious offer, why didn't they just say, look, let's just talk about these extra?
Uh, COVID era subsidies, these extra subsidies that are costing some 35 billion dollars a year.
Let's make those just for the people who really need them.
Let's go back to the original ACA and make this for people under 400.
They didn't bring a serious offer there.
Look, in my estimation, Chuck Schumer wants the government to shut down to settle a political score.
Yeah, wow, what are they thinking?
I mean, you want to settle a political score?
I don't know about that.
I don't think it's going to get you anywhere.
Like, people don't like this.
If you look at the polls, overwhelmingly.
Democrats and Republicans alike, they don't want to shut down.
And now the Democrats are getting blamed for it because they had the opportunity to avoid this.
But no, they want the trillion dollars to kick in.
You know, it was set to expire.
I'm sorry.
It was set to expire.
Okay.
It was only supposed to be a temporary deal because of COVID.
I mean, you spent way too much during COVID.
Don't even get me started, for goodness sakes.
I mean, the third stimulus check from Joe Biden, the multi-trillions of dollars that we got from Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, for goodness sakes.
And then there's Jerome Bell, who's out on a field day.
He just kept that printing press going all day long.
All night long, for goodness sakes.
You wonder why we were looking at nearly double digit inflation on consumer prices.
There you have it, okay.
And what's happened since Donald Trump came in?
Inflation has plummeted, egg prices going down, energy prices going down.
I'm telling you, this is good stuff, and you think the market would have flipped out today on this.
It didn't.
We'll talk about that some more.
But I just get back to what the heck is the left thinking?
Because they are already in very, very bad condition vis-a-vis what we're seeing in new polls.
The Quinnipiac poll, this one blows me away only 30 approval And then, you know, Harry, some of you have seen this.
I love this soundbite because a couple of weeks ago when he was looking at the data, he broke it down to, you know, look, they can't compete.
Like the Democrats just can't compete on any of these major issues.
This particular point, the Democrats are the New Orleans Saints of political parties.
What are we talking about?
Trust the Dems or GOP more on the economy.
Who leads on the economy?
Republicans by seven.
Immigration?
Republicans by 13.
How about crime?
A big issue for Donald Trump and the Republicans.
Look at that.
Lead by 22 points.
So the bottom line is this, at this particular point, the ball may be on the ground, but the Democrats have not picked up the ball and running with it.
If anything, at this particular point, it's the Republicans who are running with the ball on the top issues, the economy, immigration, and crime.
Give some context on this.
Compare this when Republicans last took the House.
Yeah, let's compare it back to 2022.
I think this kind of gives away the game right here.
Okay, the GOP is more trusted than the Dems on the economy.
It was 12 points in 2022.
Slight, slight decline in that leap, but still 7 points.
How about immigration?
It was Republicans by three back in 2022.
Look at this.
The Republican elite's actually gone up by 10 points.
What are you doing, Democrats?
My goodness gracious.
And on crime, the Republicans were up by 13, and now they're up by 22.
The elite, again, expanding by nearly double digits.
So whatever Democrats are doing, it ain't working, Kate.
It ain't working.
Republicans have the lead on all three issues.
What's the reason that you are finding so far that's driving this?
Yeah, I mean, look, it's all about the center of the electorate, right?
You win with independence, you win overall.
And what do we see right here among independents?
Republicans still have a point lead on the economy.
They got a 10 point lead on immigration.
They got a 21 point lead on crime.
The bottom line is when you look at these numbers, Democrats should call their offices because at this particular point, even if Republicans, or even if the public doesn't like what Donald Trump is doing, they ain't necessarily liking what Democrats are doing.
And it ain't just a referendum on one party.
You actually have to go out and beat that party at this particular point.
Democrats are not able to beat Republicans.
They still look.
And again, this isn't as Donald Trump came into office.
These are numbers from this month.
These are numbers from September of 2025.
2025, we still find that the Republicans leading on all three of these issues.
It's incredible.
Okay.
So, I mean, you get massive layoffs now coming in government, something that Donald Trump wanted to do.
You got the left digging in their heels on this one, saying, well, we're not going to allow this because we want $1 trillion to go to illegals.
Now, in fairness, right?
Hakeem Jeffries is like, that is a lie.
That is a lie that the federal government can't, even if it wanted to, give money to people who are here illegally for health care.
But here's the catch.
You see, they dole out the money to all the states, and then the states have the optionality of choosing whether or not to give that money to people who are here illegally.
So bottom line is, yeah, it eventually makes its way to people who are here illegally.
And this is a big problem for the country, especially as Donald Trump has pointed out, in a day and age where you have more AI, the economy's changing, it's shifting.
We don't have the resources to just be importing tons and tons of people and then taking care of them on top of it.
That's just the reality of where we are right now.
So this is something that I think resonates with the American people.
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And then, you know, as I look at what could have happened, right, everybody's laughing about my gold dress today, laughing, praising, having some kind of reaction.
But, you know, I looked at gold.
It was like nearly 4,000 an ounce.
And I'm like, okay, it's time for the gold dress.
You know, I am a market reporter at heart.
So anyway, looking just at what has performed really well, we've got gold today at like 3,900, up 45% year to date.
Okay.
You knew this was coming.
You knew it was coming.
Everybody's talking about the gold.
Anyway, the other thing I wanted to point out was the success in Bitcoin.
So as this news came out, you saw both, you know, it was interesting.
They both moved up because that doesn't always happen.
And I always talk about these being two kinds of different assets, right?
Gold is one thing.
Bitcoin is another.
Theoretically, they should work in similar ways because they're supposed to be safe havens.
But that's not really the case.
The reality is one is your sort of standard safe haven, gold.
And the other is a play on the future, which is Bitcoin.
And so they both went up, which is really interesting.
This is a note at 76 Research, my investment research firm.
I do encourage you to go over there.
Use code word dollar so you can get it for a dollar a month, the 76 report, at least for the first two months.
It goes to $9.95 thereafter.
But we did put this note out, and I think it's important to understand also what's happened in the past, right?
What happens?
Like, do markets freak out when you have these shutdowns?
We went back and looked at all of them, and one of the longest was around 35 days, actually, during the Trump administration.
And it was between 2018 into 2019, sort of over that December into January.
And you can see how the market actually went down, in part in anticipation, but then it climbed right back up.
I think this time around, like people are wiser.
They're like, you know what?
It'll be under control.
We're not that worried.
Again, I encourage you to go to 76research.com, use code word dollar and check that out because lots of good ideas in there for you.
But I would just say that, you know, it's funny to see.
this reaction amongst all of these people.
I want to get to another big story, which is Chuck Schumer getting totally taken down by CNN today.
Now, whether this was deliberate or not, I'm going to ask you your opinion on this.
I, having been in the media business as long as I have, have this like sneaky feeling that it was totally Chuck Schumer not wanting to answer the question.
Now, it could have been his IFB, his earpiece just having gone out.
And that's how they're playing it.
But let's watch the clip together.
And you tell me what you think.
Is this Chucky boy looking for an exit path because everybody's calling this the Schumer shutdown?
Watch.
Every Republican who's gone on TV the last 12 hours or so has called this the Schumer shutdown.
What do you say about that name?
Chuck?
Chucky?
Senator Schumer, can you hear me?
I can't hear.
Oh, that's interesting.
Senator Schumer, can you hear me?
So did you notice how he said, I can't hear as soon as the anchor said, can you hear me?
I mean, that's just sort of my little suspicion.
Do you not want to answer that question?
We'll give him the benefit of the doubt because I'm a nice person and say it was just the IFB.
Actually, he should be kind of honored that they're calling it the Schumer shutdown because apparently it's the AOC shutdown.
I think Senator Schumer can hear me right now.
Maybe the government shutdown included audio on Capitol Hill.
No, that was either Chucky trying to get away from the question or, you know, as I said, maybe he should have welcomed it.
Maybe, you know, with bells on, he should have said, you better believe.
This is all about me and I care passionately about this, because i'll tell you the woman who is chomping at his heels, one Aoc who wants to become the next senator from New York, and i'll tell you Chucky's numbers are lousy and for some reason, don't ask me why this lady has appeal.
She's moronic.
She's effectively a communist.
She rides around in a private jet to do her, you know, fight the oligarchy tour.
Yeah, I'm talking about one AOC who talks about being from, where does she say, from the Bronx, even though she grew up in a Tony Westchester suburb.
Yeah, one AOC.
Listen to her talking about how she's in control of all this.
What I'm not going to do is tolerate 4 million uninsured Americans because Donald Trump decided one day that he wants to just.
Make sure that kids are dying because they don't have access to insurance.
That's what's not going to happen.
And so, if those senators think that we're having a shutdown because of me, they're free to enter my office and negotiate because what we're not going to do is allow all of millions of people in this country to not be able to afford their insulin and their chemotherapy.
So, come strike a deal with me if that's what they really think is going on.
Come deal with you?
Well, that's interesting.
So, are you the one that's controlling this?
You see, this is what's being floated.
Apparently, Apparently, because she wants Chuck Schumer's seat so badly, he's on thin ice.
And he would have left himself open and vulnerable to this New York Congresswoman coming after him in an attack.
So then it becomes sort of myopic.
This is about Chuck Schumer trying to save his, you know what, as opposed to doing what's right for the country.
Don't forget the last time, you know, when they got.
A little band aid through.
Remember, he kept saying how important it was because we couldn't shut down the government.
We couldn't shut down the government.
We couldn't do it.
Well, now he's like all about it.
Like, how does that make sense?
So, Nancy Pelosi, his partner in crime, was asked about this today.
And I want you to hear what she had to say.
I think that AOC is getting on, you know, or under their skin.
It was a thought from the Republicans that AOC is directing this.
And she said that senators are welcome to go to her office directly.
Is she driving that?
Why are you saying such a ridiculous thing?
I'm just quoting what AOC said.
She said go to her office directly.
Do you think there's any credibility to that?
Directing this, she's wonderful, she's a real team player, and the rest of that.
You started by saying Republicans say that she's directing this, she is not.
Hakeem Jeffries is, and this takes a lot of experience, a lot of unity from the caucus in terms of the point of view, and that's what this is.
She's an articulate spokesperson for her point of view.
Hakeem Jeffries.
That kind of seems like a dig to me.
Did it not to you?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
She's wonderful.
She's wonderful.
But, you know, this takes experience.
Well, believe me, lady, you got a lot of years of experience.
So does Chuck.
I mean, this is the problem with your entire party.
You don't have any new blood.
Nobody knew you coming along.
I mean, you can say, okay, Trump's older, but guess what?
He was new.
He was fresh.
He hadn't been in a political life his entire life, right?
He wasn't just a politician.
He had actually been a businessman.
He knew what it was like to operate in the real world, unlike these people.
And so now Chucky is hostage to AOC because AOC knows if he goes along with this, she can go on the attack.
So you see how this becomes about sort of micro things as opposed to macro things.
It's about Chucky trying to cover his own, you know what, his own behind and AOC seizing an opportunity as opposed to what it really should be.
I'll tell you who gets this.
Speaker Mike.
Johnson.
You heard him say it, right, with Georgie Poustephanopoulos earlier on ABC this morning.
He also mentioned it with Laura Ingram last night.
And I'll tell you, he's spot on.
Listen to this.
The GOP bill to keep the government open may be getting the support of three Democrats now in the Senate.
So the dam may be breaking, but Schumer's, I mean, he's putting his foot down, is he not?
Yeah, he is.
And you nailed it there, Laura, hit the nail right on the head.
He's doing that for his own benefit.
Remember what happened in March.
We had a CR.
He had to do the right thing to keep the government open.
That's right.
Hill Geek.
Yes, that's it.
To keep the government open so we could do our jobs, Chuck Schumer went out and said it would be so dangerous to shut the government down.
Remember?
We have him on tape.
His entire career, he's been saying that.
Now he has suddenly shifted gears.
Why?
He's afraid of AOC.
He thinks he's going to get challenged in the next election, so he has to fight Trump, even if it means throwing the American people under the bus.
That's exactly what's going on.
And I think Senate Democrats understand that.
They don't want to be along for the ride.
Right.
Okay, so that's the problem now.
You have imbeciles like AOC calling the shots.
AOC, who is aligned with the communist Comrade Mamdami, who wants to become the next mayor of New York City.
And what is his solution?
Oh, he's going to tax every corporation, everyone's.
I mean, he's basically going to lose all business, the little that New York City has left.
This is who she sees herself aligned with.
Let's take a peek.
Oh, he went on The View.
where they love them.
They love them.
They love them until they realize they'll have no money because he's going to take it all along with ABC's money.
Oh, well, ABC will just have to relocate its studio, maybe to Connecticut or New Jersey or someplace else.
New Jersey's high taxes too.
Connecticut as well.
Here's my advice.
Go to New Hampshire.
Live for your dying New Hampshire.
No state income tax, no sales tax.
They're phasing out the dividend tax.
You can't beat it.
Anyway, I digress.
Here is Mr. Comrade Mandami.
AOC's BF on The View.
So, one of the things that I've heard you talk about is making the city affordable for everybody and that you're going to, you know, put a tax on people who make over a million bucks.
But what I want to know is.
With an exception for Joy.
Think again, my friend.
But listen, on day one, why aren't you going to big corporations like?
Amazon and Google, and making sure that they pay what could really help the city raise up and get us where we need to do.
Because I need to hear somebody say, because it's the thing nobody says.
They say, oh, we're going to make people pay, but they're not clear.
They came and they said, we're going to make these jobs, people are going to have work, but then they had to fight to unionize because they're not getting paid enough.
Absolutely.
So I don't understand why the focus, if the focus is for New Yorkers to be lifted and New York State to be lifted and put In the right perspective, why the focus isn't on the companies that could be doing a lot more for the places they have their places, but it doesn't add on.
Instead of the individual or including the individual tax corporate.
Corporations.
You mean corporations should.
As I said, Amazon and Google, corporations who don't seem to pay the same kinds of taxes everyone else pays.
Look, if you were running for mayor, I'd be voting for you.
Because I think, whoopie, to your point, The corporate greed that we're seeing in this country cannot be separated from the level of inequality that people are living through.
And one of the key revenue proposals I've put forward, you know, our agenda from the day we started was about freezing the rent for more than two million tenants, making the slowest buses in the country fast and free, delivering universal childcare.
So no longer would a family pay $25,000 a year just to find childcare for one kid.
And what we've said is that two of the main ways we pay for it, one of them would be to raise the top corporate tax rate.
This is a corporate tax rate that applies to the most profitable companies.
That do business in the state, like the ones that you've named, to that of New Jersey.
So it would just match that of our neighbor, 11.5% that they have over there.
By matching our neighbor, we would raise $5 billion a year.
And that would be money we could reinvest into working and middle class New Yorkers' lives so that everyone could afford to be here.
So, you don't see how to drive them out of the city then?
No.
So, the nature of our tax law is that that applies to any business doing business here.
They could be headquartered in Miami, but if they're doing business here, it applies to them.
And the reason that I believe they'll keep doing business here is because this is one of the largest economies in the world.
Everyone wants to be here.
And he's the mayoral candidate, I should specify, not the mayor of New York City, not yet, but.
I'll tell you, the polls are looking good for him.
Shockingly so.
What's going to happen to New York City?
And forgive me, I forgot that New Jersey had even higher corporate taxes.
You know what?
Companies are going to leave.
They're going to go to Florida.
They're going to go to Texas.
I mean, you've already seen a massive migration.
Have you not to Florida, including in the financial services sector?
Who the heck needs it?
I mean, you're going to live in an unsafe city where let's not talk about what has happened on the subways.
Thank you very much.
Kathy Holkle couldn't even remember the victim's name.
You know what I'm talking about.
I just don't want to get too graphic.
Yeah, it's been a tough couple weeks, right?
But it is awful, awful what is going on in New York City.
The crime is awful.
And sure, you got a lot of poverty.
You got a lot of problems.
But is your answer to say, okay, we're going to tax everybody who has anything because it costs a lot of money, let me tell you, to live in New York City, is your answer to say, oh, we don't want Amazon here.
I mean, that's an AOC answer.
Remember when AOC had an opportunity to get like tons and tons and tons of $100,000 jobs?
thousands of them in Queens.
And she said, oh, we don't want Amazon.
No, we're not going to take that company.
And they said, basically, F you.
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Thank you very much.
We don't need to be in Queens.
They were trying to do her a favor.
You know what?
They don't get it because fundamentally, they're all a bunch of communists.
And when you got a bunch of communists running the show, you got a real problem.
I mean, this is not who our country is.
It's never what our country was to ever.
I mean, we were founded on principles of freedom.
And with that freedom comes economic freedom.
Does it not?
I mean, real economic freedom.
I mean, this is what makes us so special, that you have an opportunity here, unlike anywhere else, right?
We've talked about this before.
I have cousins that live in France.
I have cousins that live in Ireland, too.
But there's no, I haven't talked about this with my Irish cousins, but in France, it's like there is no French dream.
There's nothing like that.
There's no Indian dream.
There's no Chinese dream.
It's the American dream.
Why?
Because we set up structure thanks to our brilliant, brilliant founding fathers that allows for the protection of you as an individual that allows for the protection of your property as well.
Have a ma'am Dami or an Aoc coming along and trying to take it all.
That's pretty important stuff, guys.
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It is really important that we remember that, because we are special and we are unique, unlike any other country in the world.
And you got these bozos out there saying hey, we want to just make ourselves global and we're going to bring everybody here, we're going to give them everything.
Listen, we are a country of immigrants, don't get me wrong, Right?
And we'll never lose sight of that.
But our ancestors came here legally.
And that wasn't easy.
You know, I think about my own ancestors and the potato famine and the stories my grandmother used to tell me.
I think about how, you know, my great-great-grandmother got here and she was ill and her two little children wound up in an orphanage because as a father, the great-great-grandfather had to go and work in the factory and be able to make some money.
And, you know, and that was a time and a day and age.
And I'm not, I'm not, don't get me wrong for two seconds.
I mean, this is why we do have some.
Government assistance, and this is why we need church assistance and community assistance.
Don't get me wrong, but they wound up in an orphanage and he would walk by every night after his shift at the factory was done and he would wave to them and you know what i'm gonna get like teary-eyed.
But they went on to live the American dream and that's why they came here and that is why people come here.
But we've got to find a way to do this legally.
We can't just open the spigot and say okay, everyone's in, like that's not the way this works.
And so, you know, I realize this is just a big, giant spin game.
Right now.
I'm looking at some of the sound and for goodness sakes, you've got this Governor Pritzker, you know, out of Illinois.
He's freaking out because they're going to start going into Illinois pretty soon.
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Yeah, they're sending the National Guard into Chicago to try and get that place cleaned up.
And, you know, he's furious.
He said the President of the United States decided to shut down the government because he's unwilling to sit down and discuss things with Democrats.
That's his view on it right now.
Well, they did sit down.
They did discuss things.
And you know what the sticking point was?
That $1 trillion.
$1 trillion that we don't have, that was set to expire.
Like, that's it, guys, okay?
You're not going to be able to keep that money going.
And that's what they're throwing a temper tantrum over.
That's why AOC is throwing a fit.
And she's seizing a political opportunity as well.
But you know what?
Here's the deal.
And my former co-host, from CNBC, who's now at my former employer, Fox Business, one Larry Cuddle.
Larry's terrific.
He said, you know what?
He's boiling it down to brass tacks here.
You know, you're going to have an opportunity, ladies and gentlemen, and I've said this as well, to reduce the size and scope of government like you never knew you had.
Let's listen in.
All right, folks, Russ Vogt.
Russ Vogt will seize this opportunity.
That's the subject of the riff.
Look, nobody's thrilled about government shutdowns.
They're disruptive, they're acrimonious, disorderly, and they get a lot more public attention than they really deserve.
Meanwhile, there's no economic or stock market impact.
In fact, as I said, a couple of the stock indexes actually hit record highs again today.
That's my point.
Those don't affect essential programs either.
Not affect Social Security, Medicare, veterans benefits, military operations, or others.
But we do have a shutdown.
And I'm going to say it.
This shutdown provides an opportunity to greatly reduce the size and scope of the federal government.
And when that door opens, it's important to walk through it.
What's more, the quarterback of this opportunity is Russ Vogt, the OMB director.
I can't think of a better person to be in that exact spot at exactly this moment.
Russ has been working hard on these issues for many years.
Yes.
And you know, Doge was working hard on these issues as well.
So he's talking about the OMB director and the OMB director is saying, okay, well, where's the fat right now?
Where can we save some money?
And don't forget what Donald Trump told everybody.
Do I have this sound for you?
In a press conference late yesterday afternoon, he basically said, hey, hey, you know what?
We can actually do a lot of good stuff here.
We can actually move forward with a lot of the plans that we wouldn't otherwise.
Have been able to do.
Now again, you know you don't love this.
It's not ideal to have to be in a situation where you are cutting jobs.
Uh, it is going to have an effect, certainly on the local economy there, without a doubt.
But you know, the reality is there's going to be a chance to actually do more than I think anybody actually anticipated, which means you're going to get rid of some of these jobs that you don't need, and i'm sorry, but there's a lot of jobs.
There's a lot of jobs that you just don't need.
So uh, you know he's kind of echoing what Larry is saying here.
He's saying that you know there's jobs that we can get rid of, that we might not have been able to get rid of before, and that's perhaps the upside of all this.
Let's listen in.
What are you doing.
Thank you very much, Linda.
Okay, any questions please?
Mr president, as we inch closer to a government shutdown, this morning you said you might do a lot of layoffs.
If DOGE is already reducing the federal workforce, why is it necessary to link more federal jobs cut to a shutdown?
Well, the Democrats want to shut it down, so when you shut it down, you have to do layoffs.
So we'd be laying off a lot of people that are going to be very affected, and the Democrats, they're going to be Democrats.
As you know, this country, no country can afford to pay for illegal immigration, health care for everybody that comes into the country, and that's what they're insisting.
And obviously I have an obligation to not accept that.
That would affect everybody.
You know, when I see what we're doing with AI and all the plants that are opening up in the country, $17 trillion is coming in.
If you compare that to Biden, Biden had a in four years, less than a trillion, we have 17 trillion more than that.
I think it's going to be much more than that, David, by the end of this year.
I think it's going to be far up.
And that's a record.
It's already a record in eight months.
It's a record by a lot.
But a lot of good can come down from shutdowns and get rid of a lot of things that we didn't want.
And they'd be Democrat things, but they want open borders.
They want men playing in women's sports.
They want transgender for everybody.
They never set up.
And they don't learn.
We won an election in a landslide.
They just don't learn.
So we have no choice.
I have to do that for the country.
Yes?
They don't ever learn.
I mean, they really don't ever learn.
I'm sitting there going, like, how can any group of people be so enormously stupid?
I mean, the transports, I'm sorry, forget about it.
Like you just lost the whole country with that one, except for some weird minutia of academics.
Okay, academics don't control the world.
Guess what?
Donald Trump won the popular vote and he won the Electoral College.
And right now, when you look at these numbers, he's winning, winning, winning again because he stands for something.
And people do want law and order.
And people, you know, again, nothing, we know, we recognize we are a country of immigrants.
Let's find sensible ways to do this.
Let's strategically say, hey, you know what?
And not everybody has to have a PhD, but we need, say, nurses and we need, you know, dishwashers and we need drivers and we need people in the sciences and we need computer engineers.
Like, let's actually have a strategic plan where we say, we're going to do X, Y, and Z.
And then we go out and find those people and we recruit them.
And like, it's a process, right?
To get into the United States.
Instead, right now, it's like, come one, come all, and we'll give you free everything.
I mean, hey, when you get the Roosevelt Hotel with Daily MAID service, you know, and a $300.
Card to go buy your ethnically appropriate food every single day, who wouldn't want that, for goodness sakes, who wouldn't take that deal?
So we're in a situation now where yeah, the government shut down.
Listen, here's the good news.
Anybody on social security or Medicaid or anything you know, the programs are all going to stay there.
That's not getting cut.
But the reality is we do have an opportunity to kind of look long and hard at what else.
What else is there and what should go and um, And what really, ultimately, our government should be.
Because if you have a view of government as being limited in scope and really being there to say, secure the country and defend the country, then that limit would actually mean that in good conscience, you couldn't say, okay, we're going to give a trillion dollars to all these states for all these various health care programs that we have no control over.
No, you would leave that up to the states, would you not?
For them to try and manage it.
But that's not actually what's going on here.
It's disturbing to see.
I want to play another clip of Mike Johnson, this one here on CNN.
And he's sort of explaining what's going on with Chuck Schumer.
You look at these poll numbers, again, being so disastrous, absolutely disastrous for the Democrats.
It's hard to even comprehend how anybody could make so many bad decisions over and over and over again.
But sure enough, they did.
They did.
And you know what?
They're feeling the pain, right?
They're feeling the pain.
But let me get to this because as we talk about AOC directing all of this, and I have a big feeling she is quite a big reason behind all that we see going on.
Let's hear a little bit more from Mike Johnson.
He's the one who originally brought that up in a segment he did on CNN.
Once this goes into effect, which is after the midterms, people will feel cuts who are not necessarily.
Yeah, those young able bodied men who are sitting around playing video games.
That's a big portion.
Not just them.
Look at the studies.
Look at the studies.
So, but when you see the $1 trillion that they do want to put back into this, you don't think that what they are doing is politically.
Palpable for even a lot of people in your district?
There's one reason and one reason alone that they're making this clear.
They will see cuts to Medicaid.
Here's the motivation.
Let's just cut to the chase.
Chuck Schumer is doing this.
The reason he switched his position he's had for 30 years right now and doing the exact opposite that he said in March of this year, as recently as March, is because he is in political jeopardy.
He's afraid he's going to get a challenge from his left flank and AOC or someone else will run against him for his Senate seat.
So Chuck Schumer has to put up a fight and pretend that he's fighting the president, fighting Republicans.
I've been in town.
This town, maybe even longer than you.
And so I've seen politics played on all kinds of things.
That's fair, but I'm telling you what's happened right now.
I want to talk about something you said this morning about Chuck Schumer.
You said, Schumer has now handed the keys to the kingdom.
I'm just going to jump in.
I mean, was that not awkward?
She's like, I know more than you, buddy.
I have been in this town longer than you.
And he's like, No, I'm actually trying to give you the read of the room for the here and now.
And then she's like, Well, I'm going to move on to something else.
I mean, that was really, really awkward.
You could just feel the tension in the room.
Way to go, Mike.
The executive branch, and that a shutdown can provide an opportunity to, quote, downsize the government.
I just want to be clear.
Do you think that the OMB, the executive branch, should use this shutdown as an excuse to permanently fire federal workers?
Well, I can tell you right now, the president has been a benevolent president.
He is mitigating the harm right now.
OMB has not come out of the blocks and fired a bunch of people.
That's not what's happening.
But do you think they should?
Well, it provides an opportunity.
Chuck Schumer has provided the Trump White House with an opportunity to downsize the government on.
Priorities and policies and personnel that they deem to be non essential.
Now, Chuck Schumer has very different priorities about the federal government than the federal government.
What is your priority?
You're the Speaker of the House.
You consider.
I certainly want to downsize the size and scope of the federal government.
So you think that the people who are maybe furloughed right now or even working without pay should be on the chopping block for.
No, I wouldn't say that because the people that are furloughed right now are hardworking American federal workers.
Who should be fired during the shutdown?
I don't know.
You'd have to show me a proposal of what is being done.
I don't have it either, but I have a conference call with Russ Vogt at OMB in about two hours, and we're going to ask him about the details of that.
Whoa!
So, again, you're going to have massive layoffs coming.
Russ Vogt is working on it.
And, you know, Doge had already done a lot of work on this, and they kept running into roadblocks, but now apparently you're home free.
You can get rid of a lot of people that you don't need.
So, maybe that's going to save a lot of money.
I think taxpayers would kind of like that.
Again, you know, we're not for.
Anybody losing their job.
But when you look at where the Usaid money was going, for goodness sakes, that's your hard-earned tax dollars right, that were going to um, the trans opera in Colombia.
I mean and this is coming from someone who likes opera okay, but the trans opera in Colombia, like what is Usaid tax money going to that for, for goodness sakes?
Or the the trans comic book?
I mean there are a lot of trans things.
They were really pushing that agenda, which was like the most stupid agenda, like of all agendas, like I.
I mean that one i'll never.
I mean the history books will be written about that because that was the most stupid move they could have ever made, truly, could have ever possibly made.
I mean, what did they think?
They were going to drive the whole country crazy?
They kind of did.
I mean, when you think of the vitriol out there.
And Jimmy Kimmel's part of that.
His constant anger as we began this show talking about ABC and how Disney's kind of in a tough spot right now because they brought the guy back thinking things were going to go okay.
They got a one-night bump as I told you they would.
And that was that.
Ratings are still tanking, just like the Democrat Party.
Is tanking okay?
So we're going to get through this, and I'm sorry to members of the military, for example, that you know are still having to work and they don't get paid.
It's not right, it's not fair.
But would it be right and fair to say we're going to charge taxpayers another trillion dollars because we want all this USAID money for the trans opera in you know Colombia, Peru, wherever the heck it was?
Do we really want to be doing that?
Do we want to give USAID money to oh, I don't know, Politico?
Politico, which was the place that they chose to release that letter with the 51X spooks that decided Mike Morrell, former deputy director of the CIA, that they were going to try and thwart any nonsense about this Hunter Biden laptop, which was for real and was being investigated by the FBI.
And yet they came out with a letter saying exactly the opposite.
I mean, it's like March 2020 when they came out with lots of letters and mandates saying exactly the opposite.
I mean, they have had their way over and over and over again.
They shut down.
The other side.
You know, I realize that Trump is kind of vocal about things.
Perhaps he shouldn't be so vocal.
He just speaks his mind.
Biden, on the other hand, if he had anything to do with anything, because that's certainly debatable given his mental health challenges, mental decline, I should say, mental decline challenges, there was a whole team working behind the scenes to make sure that they shut up other people.
And they did so really effectively.
I mean, for goodness sakes, taking the president right off of Twitter, taking the president off of Facebook, making sure that certain viewpoints could not be heard.
You heard Mark Zuckerberg told the entire story.
to one Joe Rogan about how the Biden administration was putting so much pressure on them.
Well, it wasn't just the media that they were putting pressure on.
It was also the financial community.
It was also banks.
I mean, I told you myself, I mean, I got calls like I'd never gotten before.
I'm like, why am I suddenly so popular with my bank that I've had for 20 some odd years?
No, suddenly they wanted to know all about me and we had to talk regularly.
I'm like, why are they calling me constantly while under the Obama and Biden administrations?
You had regulators, of course, pressuring these banks.
pressuring these banks to, in fact, close accounts for some industries.
I've talked to friends in the crypto industry that ran into this and for individuals that they didn't like.
I mean, we've heard that the Trump family, I can confirm that, members of the Trump family could not get bank accounts.
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It's nuts, right?
So this was all politically motivated.
It was called debanking and it happened and it trampled on the freedoms of everyday Americans.
Everyday Americans, everyday business owners, everyday citizens that constitutionally had a right to open a bank.
Account, but you had the government suddenly leaning in and trying to get it.
Oh, they wanted to get in really hard.
I remember when Janet Yellen, you know Little I I used to call her um like uh, from Cinderella, you know the fairy godmother.
Fairy godmother in the markets Booty Bobby Boo, let me just lower interest rates again and we'll print a little more money and cause a little inflation, but who cares?
Well, she wanted to get into everybody's bank account if you had more than six hundred dollars in transactions, because somehow they're going to catch the uh, the big fish that way.
Oh, that's not what that was about.
That was about getting into the banks once again.
So thankfully, President Trump is taking decisive action to stop this.
And that's important.
His executive order calls out regulators who abused their power.
And there were ones that did that and makes it very clear that debanking has got to end once and for all.
No more.
But lasting reform, you know what?
It's going to require more than an order.
It's going to require Congress to act.
And that is where you come in.
And that is where my friends over at Americans for Free Markets, and I'm happy to partner with on this because it's so important.
That's where they come in.
And that's why they're thanking President Trump for standing up for freedom and urging Congress to follow his lead together.
You know what we can do?
We can establish a national fair access standard to prevent services from being denied based on political, social, or religious views.
I mean, yeah, duh, right?
This will bring clarity and consistency.
And you know what?
Some long overdue accountability, shall we say, to a very non-transparent industry.
So to protect the financial freedom of every American.
of every consumer, of every American business.
Congress must build on President Trump's leadership here.
Update these outdated laws and codify his executive order.
Americans for Free Markets is calling on Congress right now to ensure the abuse of power can never happen again.
You can learn more today at forfornfreemarkets.com.
That's forfreemarkets.com.
Who's not for free markets?
I'm for free markets all day long.
along.
You know, I wasn't going to do this story, but I think it's important to do in light of something that Ted Cruz talked about last night.
And this is in regards to my friend Charlie Kirk.
I want to pull some sound up for you because, you know, he got out there and he made some very bold statements about, oh, do we have it?
We may not have it.
We may not have it, unfortunately.
So I will paraphrase.
Let me do that.
I'm going to paraphrase.
Ted Cruz got out last night on Fox News and he made some powerful statements about how we actually have to understand where money is coming from that's funding some of these radical organizations.
I mean, I don't know how, for example, this group that's called, well, this group that's possibly associated with the assassination on Charlie Kirk.
Again, this is just all alleged right now.
Allegedly and reportedly, the FBI is reviewing this rebel group.
It's called Armed Queers of Salt Lake City.
And I would just question like, apparently, they were getting some money from the Communist Party of China.
And we know that because the leader of that group, you see her, she's an Iranian American.
Her parents immigrated from Iran.
Her name, I believe, let's see if we can pull that up for you.
Do we have it?
Do we have it?
Yeah.
Oh, good luck pronouncing this.
Ermiah Fananian.
And, you know, the FBI, let's just say they're looking into everything right now, and I can confirm that.
According to this story in the Daily Mail, a Bureau official said it's certainly possible that she's been brought in for questioning.
It did seem strange that they removed all of their social media images so quickly, right?
That was a little bit bizarre.
Right after Charlie Kirk's assassination, one has to wonder if there was any kind of support.
For the training, maybe you don't even need that much training.
I've been told by my hunter friends, like it was a pretty easy shot.
But was there any kind of radicalization that went on of Tyler Robinson courtesy of this group?
Here they are learning to shoot.
It's a concern.
And this is something that, again, Ted Cruz brought up last night because we have to know where money is coming from.
Ana Polina Luna has been all over this.
And one of the things that she keeps coming up with is, or coming back to, is this Neville Singman.
And the allegations against him, because he is somebody who is very heavily funding an organization called the Party FOR Social AND Liberation like, quite literally, the Communist Party here.
Its ideology is communism Marxism, less Leninism.
It's very far left, and Neville Singman lives in China and has actually built a business, sort of you know, having all these bots, i'm told, all over the world.
In fact, the NEW YORK Times did this huge article on him.
A global web of Chinese propaganda leads to a US tech mogul.
This is relevant because apparently this group, this group, armed queers of Salt Lake City, got funding from this group apparently for their trip to Cuba.
So that's a little weird.
And then on top of it, as Anna Palina rightly points out, in this particular, do I have the, yeah, if you look at Ermaya's Instagram profile, and I have to lean in because I can't see it that well, but it says PSL web.
So she was actually part of that organization, that organization that I just told you about that's being funded out of China by that one guy that the New York Times and the Daily Beast and a bunch of other liberal publications did quite a story on.
So this PSL Workers' World Party.
I guess it's split from the Workers' World Party.
Forgive me, but it's another one of those, you know, Workers' Party.
This one getting a lot of its bankroll allegedly out of China.
Neville Sigmund denies it all.
He denied it all in the New York Times article.
Ana's trying to get him in.
Congresswoman Ana Polina Luna wants to get him in to testify.
I mean, if he shows up on U.S. soil, they're immediately going to bring him in for testimony.
But right now, you know, he's just out of the country.
And he says he has nothing to do with this.
But it's peculiar that this particular girl, and again, we don't know much right now.
And I'm I'm careful about speculation.
Out of respect to Charlie, out of respect to the process here, we don't want to go too overboard in terms of trying to figure out, okay, what's what, but here's what I'm going to go back to.
Whatever may have influenced this kid, even if it was just as simple as some chat rooms on Discord, if there's any connection to any of these organizations, we need to know about that.
That's actually pretty serious.
And, you know, in the case of George Soros, and I know everybody wants to make him the boogeyman and, you know, he comes up a lot.
Sure, let's follow that money.
I have a feeling it, you know, went to Black Lives Matter and things like that, which aren't great.
Believe me, they're no walk in the park.
And it really felt like for a while they were inciting some of this really dangerous rhetoric.
But if the Chinese are actually trying to, you know, arm a trans movement, I think that's something we need to know about.
And, by the way, if she's running this organization, doesn't she have to, like, register as a foreign lobbyist or something like, because you're getting money from a foreign source?
I find that very peculiar.
So a lot of questions regardless.
I mean, maybe this kid was just nuts right, obviously nuts and was not radicalized by any group.
Maybe, you know, just felt passionately about his roommate whatever, who knows?
I doubt that's the case.
I actually think that he went down a rabbit hole that a lot of young people sadly, are going down and uh, really couldn't ever get out of, and It's an unbelievable tragedy and something I will never forget.
We were all here together the day it happened.
And there's not a lot to say other than we've got to shore this up, okay?
So if we've got foreign actors trying to manipulate our kids, our young people, our universities, no more.
We're serious about this.
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We want you all out.
And the FBI is going to find out exactly what went down, not just with Charlie Kirk, but any foreign organization.
That is trying to manipulate our young people in a negative, bad way.
We don't want that.
And we're going to find you.
And we're going to find all the people that you're funding.
And it's going to end.
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