President Trump's criticism of CNN's leadership sparks speculation about a potential $78 billion sale to David Ellison or Elon Musk, amidst allegations of corruption and declining ratings. The episode details a Minnesota Medicaid fraud scandal involving Somali defendants who allegedly funneled pandemic relief funds through Hawala networks to ISIS, alongside an indictment of Tishella Sherry Amor Dickerson for embezzling $3.15 million from Black Lives Matter. Hosts condemn DEI initiatives and financial censorship, advocating for national standards protecting economic freedom while celebrating the shift toward independent streaming content over traditional cable models. [Automatically generated summary]
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CNN Sale and New Management00:09:55
Things are looking really rough over at CNN.
The anchors are kind of freaking out right about now.
Even though, yeah, Anderson Cooper signed that new deal, but is that new deal applicable when the company gets sold?
And believe me, it's getting sold.
We're going to talk all about that.
CNN racing for these massive changes.
But we're also going to talk about a few other things, including that fraud scandal in Minnesota that just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger.
And Timmy Walsh, oh my goodness, he thinks somehow the onus is on us to educate them that they shouldn't actually. defraud the U.S. taxpayer.
Wow.
I mean, maybe the education would help with the BLM people, too, because we just learned that the Oklahoma city director is accused of having stolen $3.15 million.
She just got indicted.
We're going to talk about it all.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you for all the birthday wishes.
We begin today on the layoffs coming to CNN.
You see, this company is up for sale, and this company is probably going to get bought by one David Ellison, who just bought CBS.
That would be the parent, or rather the underling.
Paramount is the parent company of CBS.
But he just bought Paramount and he's like on a buying spree.
Like he's not done.
He wants to get not necessarily CNN, but the parent company of CNN, which is Warner Brothers Discovery.
Now, this is a big deal because you know what?
Nobody actually wants CNN.
Everybody wants Warner Brothers Discovery.
That's what Netflix is trying to buy for what?
$72 billion versus his offer of $78 billion.
So you're talking about a $5 billion spread there.
He's offering a premium.
And he's including CNN.
Imagine that.
And then you've got, oh, Comcast circling as well.
They apparently got beat out by the likes of Netflix.
But here's the deal.
Most buyers do not want CNN.
And we all know why.
You know, don't kid yourself.
We all know why.
And so the president's sitting there and he's like, you know, I think if a deal is going to go through, it's going to have to include CNN because we're going to have to get rid of some of those terrible anchors and those terrible producers and the management that has driven that network right down the tubes.
Listen to them.
I'm not involved in that.
I will be probably involved, maybe involved in the decision.
It depends.
You have some good companies bidding on it.
I think the people that have run CNN for the last long period of time are a disgrace.
I think it's imperative that CNN be sold because you certainly wouldn't want to put people, just leave those people with some money, good money, and CNN so that they can spend even more money spreading poison because it's lies.
It's a disgrace.
So I wouldn't want to see the same company end up with CNN, the same company with money because right now they don't have too much money.
But they have value, I guess, based on the bids.
They've got value.
But I think CNN should be sold because I think the people that are running CNN right now are either corrupt or incompetent.
And that would be a factor in the decision making?
Well, in my mind, but I can be talked out of that by some very talented people that we have, antitrust people.
But I just think that the people that have run CNN into the ground, by the way, nobody watches, very few people watch, I don't think they should be entrusted with running CNN any longer.
So I think any deal.
It should be guaranteed and certain that CNN is part of it or sold separately.
But I don't think the people that are running that company right now and running CNN, which is a very dishonest group of people, I don't think that should be allowed to continue.
I think CNN should be sold along with everything else.
Okay, so in a weird way, he's actually kind of helping out, looking out for CNN, because if it just kind of continues on as is, it's going to drift into nothingness in a really, shall we say, timely way.
In other words, it's already on its last legs.
The ratings are disastrous.
It costs a fortune, right, to have all those bureaus all around the world.
So if you get somebody in there like Paramount that's run by David Ellison, son of Larry Ellison, obviously very familiar, you know, we're talking Oracle, with the tech side of things, and he's in the entertainment side of things, and he can figure out how to actually do this in an economical way.
Well, CNN, you might just have a fighting chance.
So it might actually be the best thing for you, believe it or not.
The other plan that Warner Brothers Discovery had was to just spin the thing off, a la what comcast is doing, right, with MSNBC because it doesn't want the headache of Rachel Maddow anymore.
They just don't want to deal with it.
Not to mention it doesn't make any money.
I mean, heck, you're paying her 25 million bucks for one show a week on Monday nights.
I know why it doesn't make any money.
Well, they want to spin it off and they're going to do that with this Versant thing that they're planning.
And that's coming actually within the next few weeks.
So be on the lookout for that.
That's what they had hoped to do with CNN.
What Trump is saying is, no, I think somebody should buy it and like fix it.
Try and fix it.
Like it's somewhat salvageable.
The brand is salvageable.
Now, on the one hand, he doesn't really have the place to say this, even though he is the president, but he's a former businessman.
He's still a businessman, right?
And so he's just went in.
Like they're talking.
He's like, what do I think?
Well, you know, I can be thinking about it differently depending on what the Department of Justice decides on the antitrust front.
But this is my gut reaction.
If you want to save CNN, you're going to have to find a new owner and a new owner fast.
As Caroline Levitt.
Has pointed out as well.
Here she is talking about the president's comments.
We're going to talk about what it means for some key anchors, including Caitlin Collins, Jake Tapper, and Anderson Cooper, who allegedly just signed a big new deal.
But it may, it may be void should the company be sold.
Watch.
I think the president's comments yesterday about the sale of CNN and new leadership is evidenced by my exchange with a CNN reporter in this room.
Their viewership has gone down, their ratings have declined, and I think the president rightfully believes that network would benefit.
From new ownership.
With respect to this deal, he has great respect for both companies who are bidding against one another, and I won't weigh in any further than that.
Okay, well, he likes one company just a little bit more than the other company because you see, David Ellison is the son of his friend Larry, and there allegedly have been some reports that David Ellison has communicated with him.
You know, I'm gonna get rid of some of those people that you don't like.
Now, that would be, you know, maybe a bit too far, but let's just say, okay, let's just say he's got a few reasons to really not like CNN.
And it has a lot to do with what has transpired ever since 2016.
So whether it be the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, whether it be the laptop from HE double L that did belong, what do you know, to Hunter Biden, or whether it be, oh, I don't know, the fact that they sat there and they pretended like Joe Biden was the second coming of Jesus Christ the whole time.
The guy's mentally going down and they refused to report on it until, oh, finally, Jake Tapper decided to get around to it.
Please, because he could write a book.
And he saw the handwriting on the wall.
Meanwhile, they won't even allow Stephen Miller on.
Not even at 4 a.m. can Stephen Miller, who's one of the chief architects of policy at the White House, get onto CNN.
Think about how crazy that is.
I mean, I'm not saying you have to be taking everybody from the White House, but for goodness sakes, you're just going to blackball the guy who's like in charge of policy.
You don't even want to ask him questions, for goodness sakes.
Here's Stephen Miller telling Sean Hannity the story.
Listen to this.
It's a completely true story.
So, over the last few days, our brilliant White House communications shop, Has reached out to CNN, which of course is running one fake news hit piece after another.
And they said, Stephen Miller would like to come on your network to rebut any of these lies.
And they asked, what show?
They said, Stephen Miller will do any show from dawn to dusk.
They said, what topic?
The White House said, Stephen is available to discuss any topic with any host at any time.
As far as you're concerned, Stephen has no scheduling conflicts at all.
He will make himself available from the first hour of air to the last hour of air on any subject.
And you know what?
CNN's response was, we will not take him, period, for any show on any topic.
That is completely true, Sean.
Wow.
I mean, for goodness sakes, I mean, you'd think that CNN might, uh, want to do something to help its ratings a little bit.
Right, like I mean, you guys are struggling, I think you know it's, it's tough.
We're going into the holidays right, I get it's december here on Youtube on the Trish Regan channel but heck, you know, we're doing more on one show than they are doing in the course of a day.
I mean it's unbelievable how bad those numbers are.
So you know, you might want to kind of think outside the box.
You might want to bring in some interesting new management, maybe some new anchors, and try and do things in a different way, if you could, if you could, but maybe you can't because you see you're setting your ways.
I get it.
Barry Weiss over at Paramount and CBS is going to have her work cut out for her, especially if she winds up acquiring the likes of CNN.
So then you're battling two rather staid newsrooms.
Well, I'll tell you, there were some big fireworks that happened this week there in the White House press briefing room because a couple of ladies got into it.
This would be one, Caitlin Collins, who used to actually work for Tucker Carlson.
Isn't this interesting?
She used to be kind of a conservative journalist over at Daily Caller, and she reported on entertainment and things like that from a conservative perspective.
And she kind of got into it with the likes of Caroline Levitt, who actually just totally destroyed her with, what do you know?
Battling Staid Newsrooms00:14:58
Some facts, some facts about the economy.
I love when we talk the economy.
You know how I, that's my background.
So I love talking the economy.
And I like it because you can't distort it the way they try to.
They're like, oh, you know, inflation's so bad, inflation's so bad.
It's like, hello, people.
Have you seen how much inflation has come down?
And we're now in this nice, like, even territory, so much so that the Fed felt that it could lower rates.
Well, here is, I want you to see it yourself.
Caroline Levitt.
Just destroying, totally destroying this CNN host who tries to insinuate that somehow inflation is a disaster, the economy is a disaster under Donald Trump, and she destroys her with cold, hard facts.
It has slowed to an average 2.5% base.
This is down from what the president inherited.
The president inherited 2.9% in January.
Today it's at about 2.5%.
So we're trending in the right direction with more to come.
And I would remind you, when President Trump left office in his first term, inflation was 1.7%.
And the previous administration jacked it up to a record high, 9%.
So again, in 10 months, the president has clawed us out of this hole.
He's kept it low at 2.5%.
And we believe that number is going to continue to decline.
Especially as energy and oil prices continue to decline as well.
It wasn't high under Biden.
They're just saying it's not well.
Nobody reported on it being high under Biden.
My predecessor was standing at this podium, but now you want to ask me.
Let's go back in Syria.
You're saying it's not well.
Nobody reported on it being high under Biden.
My predecessor was standing at this podium, but now you want to ask me a lot of questions about it, which I'm happy to answer.
But I will just add there's a lot more scrutiny on this issue from this press corps than there was.
Well, in the previous administration, said that too.
My predecessor stood up at this podium and she said.
Inflation doesn't exist.
She said the border was secure, and people like you just took her at her word.
And those were two utter lies.
Everything I'm telling you is the truth, backed by real factual data.
And you just don't want to report on it because you want to push untrue narratives about the president.
Smackdown.
Okay, that was pretty great.
I mean, think about that 1.7%.
And then we were all the way up over 9%.
It was more than 9% that we saw from Joe Biden.
When you looked at consumer prices, the CPI, it was up over 9%.
When you looked at producer prices, that's how much producers pay.
Before they transferred on to the consumers, it was up over 10%.
I mean, it was a disaster in every way possible.
What did I say going into that?
I told you it was going to be Carter 2.0.
You guys were like, yeah, but Carter actually, like underneath it all, was a nice person.
Joe Biden wasn't.
So it was like Carter 2.0 and then some.
It was Carter 2.0, certainly from an economic perspective, certainly from an international malaise perspective.
It was a disaster all around.
Just think, okay, here's the good news, guys.
Here's the good news.
You got to look at this.
This glass half full, okay?
Because we could have had Kamala Harris.
So at least it was just Joe Biden for four years and not eight and not Kamala Harris for another four, right?
I'm glass half full.
But anyway, that girl, the one that used to work for Tucker Carlson over at Daily Caller, where she used to be a conservative, you know, it's amazing how people are so for hire, shall we say.
Yeah, you know, their opinions change based on where they work.
The good news with me is I used to get in trouble even at Bloomberg, right?
Like I get in trouble everywhere.
I mean, except for here, maybe.
But I've always been in trouble wherever I go because in a lot of those mainstream news networks, my bias is obviously, as you well know, certainly very right of center.
And as a Bloomberg correspondent, I used to find myself in a whole lot of trouble.
And sometimes, you know, it would get ugly.
And then, you know, eventually, even working in a conservative network like Fox, well, what do you know?
I got in trouble again because I dared to say the unthinkable in March 2020.
Like, we shouldn't shut down.
This is turning into CNN's.
Plain story all over again.
They're making too much of this.
We need to be smart.
We need to be level headed.
We need to approach things so that we can actually keep our economy going in a really good way, not shut down the entire country.
Now, I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so, okay?
So, anyway, and I'll always tell you.
You know that.
I wear my heart on my sleeve, for better or for worse.
So, you'll always hear nothing but the truth from me.
I don't know about some of these other people.
I do think that they tell you whatever.
Their bosses want you to hear.
And so she used to work for Tucker Carlson, and she's apparently in a tricky spot.
I think it's a hard spot to be in, frankly, if you're at CNN and you are the White House correspondent.
Jim Acosta obviously did a miserable job at it, although it kind of got to his head.
Like the fame was getting to his head.
He thought it was a really big deal.
This was so exciting.
You know, suddenly he was the star of CNN until he wasn't, right?
And now he's not.
Now he's gone and he's faded off into oblivion where he occasionally like swears on the air and somehow that gets him a little bit of attention for a day.
She I think is probably trying to play a longer, longer game.
And if she's playing a longer game, she's going to try and be a little bit smarter about this and not do the Jim Acosta stuff.
Occasionally, she may get chewed up and spit out because, well, in fairness, she probably doesn't understand inflation or the economy, right?
I think a lot of these journalists actually are incredibly lacking when it comes to understanding basic Econ 101, which should be a mandatory course, frankly, for anybody who goes into journalism.
And it's frustrating for me occasionally as a business journalist to look at that and see that and that lack of fluency, if you will call it that, a lack of fluency in terms of understanding markets and the economy.
CNBC does a much better job.
While they may have their own biases at CNBC, for the most part, it's hard to really cover the economy authentically and to cover capitalism authentically if you're at a business network.
So I look to the business networks to have a little bit more intelligence on this matter.
She, however, she doesn't know.
I mean, she's an entertainment reporter.
For goodness sakes, it worked for the Daily Caller and now she finds herself at CNN and somehow they think she's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Maybe she's the cheapest thing, okay?
Maybe she's the cheapest thing.
And therefore that is why you want her in the slot.
I don't know.
I don't know.
But boy, Caitlin, you might want to be playing this for a little bit more than, say, Jim Acosta did.
My advice.
Apparently, Jake Tapper and Caitlin were very, very, very upset.
And so this made the news.
I was watching the little clip.
It's really not worth showing you, but they're just griping on air about how dare the president say this?
How could he say this?
Why would he say this?
Well, here's the deal.
Okay, he says this because I'm going to let you in on a secret.
The guy.
Is a billionaire who built a massive international company.
And he knows a little thing or two about business.
And so, yes, now he can't decide whether or not the deal is going to go to Netflix or whether the deal is going to go to Paramount.
But he is making a suggestion that somebody figure out how to deal with the disaster that is CNN.
If for no other reason, then that's an asset, it's a brand, it has locations all over the world and you probably, from a business perspective, want to save that in some way, shape or form, if you can.
And that's a big if you can because, like you know it, it may be over.
It may just be so, so over.
I mean, the media industry has changed drastically, as you well know.
I mean to think that i'm here with you right now doing this.
It's incredible like I I every day, i'm like pinch me, because I can't believe what I can do and I can't believe that I can be here live and then I can create an entire program where I don't have to deal with any middle management and any top management.
I can say exactly what I want to say.
Think of that.
That's pretty darn amazing.
And I hope that you have subscribed.
If you haven't, please do leave a comment, all that good stuff.
It's important.
It helps us break through the algorithm.
But think of what they are doing and how they've kind of lost their way because they used to be this, that, and the other.
CNN used to be the be all end all.
And granted, you know, when something really bad happens, we do still tune into them.
I get it.
And so they serve a purpose in that sense.
And so I can understand the president.
one, from a business perspective, saying, you know, this might be an asset we're salvaging in some way.
So I think that whoever comes in might want to have a plan for this in terms of whether or not the DOJ is going to have any say over that aspect of it.
I don't know.
In fact, the more assets you're putting together, the more you are at risk, right, of having an antitrust violation.
I would say this, though, the place is so, at this point, biased that it's become very hard to watch.
I'll give you an example.
Case in point, by the way, the nightly news shows, they like ignored the Minnesota story that we've been covering here every day.
They have completely ignored it.
Up until I think last night, ABC News was one of the first to just touch on it, barely in one of their reports on ICE and deportations.
They're just ignoring it in the mainstream media.
And CNN has kind of been ignoring it.
And so then when somebody brought it up, whoo, my goodness, you should have seen the look on the anchor's face.
And she started saying, well, we don't have any proof of that.
Ilhan Omar didn't have any connections to any of these people, despite the fact that it came from her district.
The majority of people came right from the 5th district of Minnesota.
That's how biased CNN is.
But you got to see it to believe it.
I want to show you.
This is the anchor of the 9 p.m., 10 p.m.
I don't know when this show is on.
The only good thing about this show is actually my friend Scott Jennings over there, but take a look at this nonsense.
Oh, Betsy McCoy, she did a nice job too.
Is the American Project supposed to be about treating people as individuals, not as representatives of where they came from, about who their parents were, whatever, but about who they are and what they can individually contribute to this country?
However, what Trump is doing there is basically saying you are worthless if you come from a part of the world that he doesn't think has value.
Is that really what we're doing?
That's not true in America.
No, we in America do treat people as individuals and appreciate them as individuals.
It's one of the greatest things about this country.
On the other hand, and I am no fan of Ilan Omar, and she is in a lot of deep doo doo now because she is very tangled in this billion dollar Somali Medicaid fraud scandal in Minneapolis, and she may be touched by this.
And of course.
I haven't seen any evidence of her being condemned.
Do you hear that?
I have not seen any evidence.
Let's, let's listen.
So let me tell you why I have not seen any evidence that connects.
I tell you why there is evidence.
This kind of rhetoric doesn't matter, because the economy oh my gosh, like they are delusional.
Thank you for the birthday wishes.
I appreciate it.
We'll talk about it at the end.
I never like my birthday very much, but it is very nice when you're all so kind and and so uh, appreciative of the show in general.
I'll tell you, oh, my goodness gracious.
So they're just pretending like this whole thing didn't happen.
None of it existed.
Well, I hate to remind her, but here's the picture.
Here's the picture, okay?
Ilhan Omar, staffer, pleads guilty in fraud case.
Apparently he was convicted of having stolen something like $3 million.
I mean, but, you know, I don't know what kind of news she reads or what kind of research she does, but she said, no, no, Ilhan doesn't have anything to do with this.
I mean, come on, you're late to the party.
Even Margaret Brennan from CBS had Ilhan Omar on and asked her about those connections.
They're not alleged.
The guy was a staffer for her.
For goodness sakes.
But I'll tell you what these guys are trying to do, okay?
The reason why Netflix is trying to buy Warner Brothers Discovery, which maybe it would have to take CNN along with it for the deal, is because of what we're doing here, ladies and gentlemen.
This is what we're doing here.
Take a look at these numbers, actually.
A little plug for YouTube, if you would.
I'm also on Spotify, by the way.
But look at that number.
Look at these charts.
I mean, if you look at going back 2024 through the present, you look at Warner Brothers, boom, down.
You look at Netflix, down.
You look at Paramount.
And by the way, they're all hunched down here in the bottom.
bottom quadrant, right?
Quadrant.
And then you look at YouTube and we've just been soaring.
So the share of US TV time viewing by distributor, YouTube is killing it.
But these guys, Paramount, Netflix, Warner Brothers, they think that the answer is, you know, we're going to go buy the Casablanca library.
I don't think that's the answer because the answer is the future.
How do you create content in the future?
Look at this.
YouTube said, Trisha, you want to come over here?
Anybody can come over here.
Anybody can come over here.
And you know what?
The good ones, the people that are committed and get up here and do it every day like yours truly will succeed.
And so you want to talk about a democratization, if you would, of the news commentary business or the entertainment business in general.
I mean, that's where it's at.
YouTube said come one, come all.
Netflix didn't invite me.
I think one of my old documentaries actually airs on their platform or did for a while, something I had done at Bloomberg.
But you think about that.
And the WB and Paramount, what are they?
What are they going to be?
Kind of got it cornered over here on YouTube right, and Spotify, now getting into the video side which, by the way, I will put that in my links.
It's really important.
If you haven't followed me on Spotify, I'd love it if you could do that as well.
We're trying to grow that and they are actually including video, so we put the video show there every day and I see all of your comments, so please do that.
But this is a really important chart.
I think this kind of tells you everything you need to know right about where, if you would the where the, the sort of landscape is going, where the future is, and it's not in the mainstream media.
It's just absolutely not.
Okay, here I am putting it right here.
I can talk and type at the same time.
That's talent.
I used to have like 40 people doing all this.
It's kind of amazing.
Like I said, it's a whole new world.
But you've got all these companies all trying to get in.
They're going to buy.
And you know, you're already a Warner Brothers Discovery, which could become Paramount, CBS, Warner Brothers Discovery, CNN.
It made me laugh because this one guy created this short and I have to show it to you before we get into Minnesota and some of the other things going on.
Billion Dollar Spending Scandal00:06:57
which are crazy.
You wouldn't believe how these guys were spending their money.
I mean, they're living high.
High, high, high off the hog.
Champagne and fancy vacations and luxury cars.
I mean, with our, your taxpayer dollars.
I mean, think about that.
Okay.
Here is a great little YouTube short.
Let's watch it together.
Oh, because they did the acquisition.
So it's like Warner Brothers and Netflix.
Also, Pixar.
Jared Kushner helped out with this one, too.
You know, this might not be the best.
Yeah, let's turn this off.
It's funny.
Again, thank you for all the nice, kind comments, you guys.
Boy, we got to look at this unbelievable story.
New developments coming to us at this hour out of Minnesota.
Oh, my goodness.
Like these people were living really, really high on the hog.
They knew how to spend their money.
I mean, we're talking about a billion dollars.
At least there are some estimates that predict it could be as high as $8 billion.
You know, I wasn't kidding when I said we can't shut down the country in March 2020.
I didn't think about all the horrible fraud that would ensue, but that's another component of all this.
My friend Kevin Cork, great guy, great, great guy.
He's a reporter over at Fox.
He's a straight shooter.
He lays it all out.
I want to take a look at this with you.
Story to share with you tonight, Sean.
We're talking about luxury cars, private villas, and overseas wire transfers.
Just some of the discoveries found in dozens of files and photos.
Belonging to those Minnesota fraudsters, as you point out, most of them of Somali descent.
And that's even according to CBS News.
Now, in their report, the crooks apparently blew through hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds in one of the biggest COVID era fraud schemes.
The files documenting spending sprees in which defendants, get this, took taxpayer money that was obviously meant to feed hungry kids during the pandemic.
And instead, they used it to buy fancy cars, property, jewelry.
In some instances, they were on video popping champagnes.
At an opulent Maldives resort.
In one text, a message said to one of the fraudsters, You're going to be the richest 25 year old, inshallah, which means God willing.
Now, the documents also feature exhibits from a recent federal trial, and they include confirmation of that Maldives stay, a lakefront property in Minnesota bought again with your money, wire transfers to China and East Africa, first class tickets to Amsterdam and Istanbul, a 2021 Porsche Macan that's an SUV, and stacks.
And I mean stacks of cash.
In text messages.
I've seen the pictures.
It's incredible.
One set of defendants spent about $3 million in cash and then sent that money over to Kenya.
Another group conspired to basically bilk the state out of $47 million, claiming to have served millions.
That's a lot, right?
It's a lot to take in.
One thing I just want to point out, and I want you to keep an eye on, and we've talked about this before, but the fact that they're sending money overseas is a big deal because within that community, the Somali community, there is a terror organization connected to ISIS that is involved in all the Hawala transfers.
So a lot of the money transfers, not just only by wire, but they go via what's known as Hawala, which is sort of a person-to-person, family-to-family, clan-to-clan network.
And it's one of the reasons why sometimes it's very hard for authorities to track down terror financing.
I've done a lot of work on this in the past, and it makes it very complicated.
But it means that no matter what, if you're just sending money home to relatives in Somalia, at some point through this Hawala network, it means that you're going to have the organization that we are very much, you know, it's our enemy.
They've killed so many people, a terror organization, ISIS.
If they will be involved at some point, there's no way you're going to get around that.
And that's why Treasury Department is looking at it as we speak.
And before you get upset, because I know everybody, I saw the comments yesterday and I saw the, in the, you know, if you make a comment after the show, not just during the live, it's frustrating, I know, because people are like, where are the arrests?
Where are the arrests?
Well, you've got over 80 convictions right now.
But in terms of treasury and figuring out where all the money went, that's actually going to take a little bit longer.
So they've only been working on it for about a week.
But I have no doubt that is coming.
And for anybody to sit there and say that it didn't go to terror networks, I'm sorry, maybe it didn't go directly.
But indirectly, for sure, they were skimming something off the top.
I loved how Jesse Waters put this.
He's a good guy, too, over at Fox.
And he's funny, right?
So he's talking about these guys like Somali pirates, you know, with their fancy lifestyle living high off of you.
Take a look.
We just found out what the Somali pirates did with their loot.
Millions in taxpayer dollars meant for hungry kids went to island vacations, lakefront views, and hot cars.
The pirates lived big and burned through a lot of cash.
New court filings obtained by CBS News show the Somali scammers were living like Mike Tyson.
One went on a luxury honeymoon in the Maldives, the Radisson Blue Resort, with water so clear you can count the stripes on the fish.
But they were at the private pool popping bottles, sipping champagne during the day.
But at night, the sommelier leads guests through the finest selection of vintages.
The resort has a 3,500 bottle cellar filled with labels from around the world.
and seven restaurants serving top-tier cuisine.
And don't worry, they're halal certified.
It didn't stop in the Maldives.
These guys had a taste for the good life, an eye for waterfront properties, and luxury cars like this 2021 Porsche Macan.
These guys were young and filthy rich because they stole from you.
One showed off his box full of cash and a text, quarter mil.
They also sent millions to China and Kenya, and now the pirates are getting what they deserve.
Abdi Aziz Farah is sentenced to 30 years, and Abdamajid Mohammed got 10 years and was ordered to pay back 50 million, which we'll see if he can come up with that kind of cash.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
The more we dig, the more fraud we find.
Fraud Investigation Deepens00:04:40
I mean, it's unbelievable, right?
It's absolutely unbelievable.
And people are angry, and it's like, wait a second, shouldn't we be able to sue the state of Minnesota?
Think about it.
It took our money.
Your taxpayer dollars were going to fund things like feed.
our future, feeding the future.
By the way, something introduced by none other than Ilhan Omar.
I think she's going to have a hard time.
I mean, the scary thing is she could get elected again.
But if they are able to prove out any connections, and we know there are connections at least to the people that were, you know, doing the bad stuff, they were her friends.
I mean, one was even a former staffer, for goodness sakes.
I think if you can actually connect any of it to her bank account or to the hubby, The husband's bank account that, you know, I mean, suddenly they went from having like 200,000 to having 30 million.
I mean, whoa, overnight.
Like, that is a bit of a jump, don't you think?
For the congresswoman to have only like $200,000 to her name.
And now, in the latest disclosure, she's got 30 mil.
I find that peculiar.
Just a little, just a little, just a little.
Meanwhile, you wouldn't believe the defense that Walsh has.
The Walsh is like, well, we need to teach people better.
We need to teach them that they shouldn't be.
Coming to the country and committing fraud.
Are you kidding me?
I think we have some real cultural challenges and differences if we can't agree that we're going to be honest, honest citizens and not steal a billion dollars from U.S. taxpayers, right?
This is pathetic.
Timmy, tampon Tim, take it away.
Out of a broader ring, Medicaid fraud will stretch across all racial demographics, all ethnic groups.
So I think it's really important for us to note each.
Each community's got this in their own midst, but to blame them and say that they should have been responsible for stopping it, I think that's a pretty hard reach.
I think we continue to educate folks about why they shouldn't commit crimes.
You would hope that it's being taught both at home and at schools and in our society.
But no, I think this idea that the Somali community's to blame for this because they didn't do more, I think that's how we got into this.
And that's, you know, again, don't, I know we're not going to lose the whole plot here.
All this work that's being done, Donald Trump brought this to the attention.
This is something brand new.
This is not brand new, and it's been being worked on, but he made it white hot.
Okay, you get it.
It's Donald Trump's fault.
Gotta help him because he brought this front and center.
No, no, no.
Actually, the New York Times, to their credit, actually did the big story on it, okay?
This has been percolating out there for a while, but somehow I just want to go back because I think I did I hear that correctly?
He said something about, well, you know, we're going to be able to teach them not to defraud.
Blame them and say that they should have been responsible for stopping it.
I think that's a pretty hard reach.
I think we continue to.
Oh!
I'm sorry, we're not supposed to blame them and say they should have been responsible for stopping it?
Are you kidding me?
This guy's nuts.
I mean, he's real.
I mean, you know, you had me at the tampons in the bathrooms, but he's really nuts.
All ethnic groups.
So, I think it's really important for us to note each community's got this in their own midst, but to blame them and say that they should have been responsible for stopping it, I think that's a pretty hard reach.
I think we continue to educate folks about why they shouldn't commit crimes.
You would hope.
Woo!
Okay, we have to educate them as to why they shouldn't commit crimes.
No, I'm sorry.
We don't have to educate them, Timmy, okay?
You shouldn't be coming to the country, honestly.
If you don't know right from wrong, You should not be here.
We should not be allowing you in.
This is why we need a better vetting process, for goodness sakes.
I mean, this sounds like Ilhan.
Ilhan in her word salad the other day trying to suggest that somehow it is the fault of the system for making it so darn easy and attractive to steal.
Can you shed any light on why the fraud got so out of control in Minnesota?
I think what happened is that, you know, when you have these kind of new programs that are designed to help.
People, you're oftentimes relying on third parties to be able to facilitate.
And I just think that a lot of the COVID programs that were set up, they were set up so quickly that a lot of the guardrails did not get created.
My gosh, my gosh, my gosh.
Immigration Vetting Process Debate00:09:49
I mean, it's really infuriating.
It's really awful.
And, you know, look, again, before they blame Trump, I'm going to blame the New York Times, okay?
Look at this.
What do you know?
The New York Times is the one that did this story.
The New York Times.
I wouldn't exactly call them super.
Super right.
But the New York Times was out there doing this story.
And then I see some of you guys talking about sort of social services and stuff too.
You know, again, like we're a generous country.
We're a nice country.
I think like things are put in place for the right reasons.
But when people take advantage of them, guess what?
We don't function as a country that well anymore.
Now, do we?
And we're learning that a lot of people were taking advantage of a lot of things.
A lot of things.
I want to go to Joni Erst, who made quite a compelling statement there on the floor yesterday.
Let's go in and listen to her because this is frightening.
I mean, the.
The Medicare fraud alone is something like $79 billion.
It's crazy.
For over a decade, I've been exposing egregious Washington waste with my monthly Squeal Awards.
Some examples are too outrageous to believe.
I'm talking about bureaucrats approving PPP loans for applicants who used pictures of dolls for IDs.
Imagine giving Barbie or Ken a taxpayer funded loan.
Not only that, but they also believe folks claiming to be over 115 years old were alive and well enough to be approved for 3,095 PPP and EIDL loans worth $333 million, including $36,000 to a 157 year old.
That's pure hogwash.
But this is only the tip of the iceberg.
Instead of boosting Main Street, millions of your tax dollars were wasted through USAID to fund Iraqi Sesame Street.
And this one is unacceptable.
Improper payments or the government tossing cash into the wrong trough have become commonplace.
In fiscal year 2024, federal agencies shoveled out $162 billion in improper payments.
The most frustrating part is how simple it is to stop this waste.
A report by the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee found that $79 billion in potential COVID fraud could have been prevented.
If four basic questions were asked: one, is the applicant's social security number valid?
Two, if valid, does the name connected to that number match the name on the application?
Three, does the birthday match?
And lastly, is the individual alive?
Seriously, folks, that could have saved $79 billion right there.
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Okay, that's unbelievable.
Like, all you had to do was say, is somebody alive?
Maybe match their social security number?
Oh my gosh.
I mean, like, this is government at its worst.
Okay, this is why you couldn't say, all right, we're going to allow this Obamacare thing to go on forever.
We have to rein this in because it allows for so much slippage and nobody's minding the store.
And then you get the.
the pirates making off with the whole booty, right?
Like that's pretty bad.
And I don't know.
I mean, Ilhan's the one that introduced the darn legislation that led to all of that massive fraud, at least in Minnesota.
So I'm asking a lot of questions there.
And I hope to God the FBI is too.
I know they haven't officially said she's under investigation, but I would think that they are doing a lot.
Treasury is doing a lot to look back and try and understand where all that money went.
How it went to terror and, trust me, it did.
Okay, it did go to really bad places.
Just from what I know about how that whole system works, they're skimming off the top the whole way and we need it recovered and we need it back and we need to stop it.
And i'm sorry like, if you did this, lock them up, throw away the key.
Done done okay, done.
It cannot be tolerated at all.
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There's more fraud.
There's more fraud to tell you about.
I wish there wasn't.
But we got a lady out in Oklahoma City, ladies and gentlemen, who was in charge of Black Lives Matter.
And what do you know?
She kind of.
Was another one of the pirates.
She made off with a bundle, if you would.
This is, oh gosh, I'm not even daring to say her name.
I know I'm going to mess it up.
It's a tough one to say.
Let me see here.
Tishella Sherry Amor Dickerson, 52 years old of Oklahoma City.
Boy, oh boy, this lady decided to help herself.
Remember when they were trying to raise money for, let's see, we got another picture of her here.
Remember when they were trying to raise money?
We'll put her right there so we can still see the Christmas tree.
How about that?
They were trying to raise money to get people out of jail after some of those George Floyd protests.
And you remember the summer of 2020 and how bad that was?
Well, she wound up taking a lot of that money.
And instead of getting people out of jail, apparently decided to help herself and bought like six properties.
I think she spent $50,000 on food, according to authorities, allegedly, allegedly.
She's been indicted, by the way.
So she's allegedly quite the fraudster herself.
And as I understand it, the DOJ is actually launching a big investigation into Black Lives Matter overall.
Black Lives Matter would tell you there's a global organization.
You know, they have nothing to do with this lady, but she was kind of an individual chapter out there in Oklahoma City.
I don't think it's a very good look, shall we say, for the brand.
Now, the brand is going to suffer a bit, and, you know, cash is coming from.
As I said, the DOJ has launched an investigation.
The FBI is gathering research as we speak.
On black lives matter as a whole.
They just had this woman indicted because she is accused of having bought six different properties, have taken trips to Jamaica.
She uh spent fifty thousand dollars on food.
I don't know if she needed that.
Um and uh cars, cars in her name, you name it.
I mean, this is unbelievable stuff.
It's amazing how brazen people are.
Let's go to um a FOX report here, which is very interesting, on the details of this Particular Black Lives Matter case with Ms. Anderson.
Black Lives Matter in trouble again.
The leader of the Oklahoma City chapter is accused of using millions of donations as her personal.
She ran Black Lives Matter, the Oklahoma City branch, and is charged with wire fraud and money laundering.
Authorities say she began her tenure leading the organization in OKC back in 2016, giving her access to PayPal, Cash App, and bank accounts of the Black Lives Matter chapter.
They say that she put at least $3.5 million, $3.15 million, I stand corrected, in return bail checks supposed to be used to post bail for people into her personal accounts rather than into the chapter accounts.
Hmm.
Travel to Jamaica.
Oh, and I forgot the Jamaican Republic.
Tens of thousands of dollars in retail shopping and at least $50,000 in food and grocery deliveries.
That would be a lot of food.
Anyway, wow.
It.
Gets worse traveling to Jamaica, tens of thousands retail shopping, 50,000 in food and deliveries, personal vehicle registered in her name, six properties in Oklahoma City in her name or a business that she controlled.
Authorities say some of this all took place around the time of the death of George Floyd, which prompted, in some cases, violent protests across the country in 2020.
I mean, it's horrible, right?
Like they used that, they used that for their own gain.
And this lady allegedly.
Just profited off of it.
I mean, to the tune of $3.15 million, this is not okay.
This is not who we are.
And you see, they were like, it was like extortion, right?
You had to donate to BLM.
There were companies that were actually saying, we want you to donate to BLM.
And if you go on BLM's website, they've since taken it down.
But I remember they had a whole thing on how they wanted to destroy the nuclear family because the nuclear family was poison.
I mean, it's all this DEI BS.
Extortion via BLM Donations00:03:11
You know what I'm talking about.
We're going to try and keep it clean here on the Trish Regan Show on a Friday night.
But this is gross.
This is disgusting.
We don't want people stealing from the system.
Okay.
When you steal, well, that kind of destroys the entire system.
So in this case, you know, she's a native to America.
But in the case of the Somalis, you understand like we shouldn't have to teach them not to steal.
We shouldn't have to teach the BLM lady not to steal.
Come on.
And you think about this.
You think about what we all went through, right?
And that there's so much fraud, whether it be in Oklahoma City.
With this Black Lives Matter lady, or whether it be out in Minnesota, but this stuff happens.
And you think about how they put us, and by us, I mean anybody who liked or voted for Donald Trump, which would be half the country, okay?
I know that they try and tell you otherwise over on CNN, but they did so much to destroy you and me.
I like how triumphantly we are back, right?
But I mean, I went through it.
I was a cancel culture.
I mean, it was a big part of why, and I'm very happily not at Fox anymore.
And I don't hold a grudge.
I mean, it was actually the best thing that ever happened, for goodness sakes, right?
You know, and I'm actually.
Home with my kids instead of in a studio at eight o'clock on a friday night oops well, it's not eight o'clock yet.
Let's hope i'm out by eight o'clock anyway.
The important thing to remember is, a lot is changing and we need the change and the momentum to continue.
I I point to one thing in particular, and that would be the banking industry.
You know i've talked about this a lot, but it's important to me, especially given my background as a financial journalist, and thankfully, president Trump is doing a lot to ensure that we're not going to have the shutdown of people's bank accounts anymore.
But that actually happened.
That's real okay.
That happened, ladies and gentlemen, it was because the regulators were breathing down the backs of the banks, who then went out and shut down accounts.
Eric Trump was on the other day talking about how he had 200 accounts shut down.
I'm like, he had 200 accounts, but you know, it was business and that kind of thing.
So business accounts were even being shut down.
Thankfully, the president is changing that and working to make sure that this debanking does not happen again.
And together with Americans for Free Markets, one of our sponsors here on the show, we are thankful for their support.
I, together with them, am thanking the president for that because it's a big deal.
It's a big deal that he's made that effort.
But I'll tell you, we need a little bit more.
We need Congress to do something because we need meaningful reform.
We need the administration to basically fix these outdated laws and to increase transparency and accountability in financial regulation so that future administrations can never weaponize the financial system the way they did against us again.
Lawmakers need to establish a national standard prohibiting any financial institution from denying services based on politics or religion.
Because don't forget, I mean, God help you if you were a Catholic that went to mass in Latin.
It was like game over, right?
That was a real thing.
I mean, this is crazy, but it was real.
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Fixing Financial Regulations00:04:31
I put the URL up there.
You can see it right there, forfreemarkets.org.
For free markets.
It's really important, right?
That's how you know it's a live show.
Because if it were taped, that would never happen.
One of the reasons, by the way, people say to me, why do you do this live?
And I can tell you, number one, I love seeing your comments in real time.
And, you know, sometimes when I go to a soundbite, I'm looking at them.
And so sometimes I'm not always on camera because I'm actually reading these as we go.
I like this one.
Tony's saying, hey, Elon, you should buy CNN.
That would be something.
I think it's actually a bad business decision, though.
I'm going to be honest.
I mean, look.
I spoke with a source who knows David Ellison pretty well and said, you know, David is thinking about this differently.
And he kind of has this idea where he can marry together tech and entertainment.
And so maybe, you know, maybe he can make something of it.
But I think CNN, in and of itself, it's just, it's really hard to justify the valuation that they're putting on it.
And he's offering like a $5 billion premium, which is a lot.
And it's like a, you know, primarily cash deal.
It's a pretty good deal, actually, for shareholders.
I don't know how the board.
Turns that one down.
But I for Elon, you know, at this point, do you want it?
Because he's kind of jumped that stage already.
Right, he's gone straight to streaming, he's gone straight to, you know, full-on internet, full-on digital.
So CNN is still linear and I don't know that there's really a future for linear.
I'm going to be perfectly honest.
I mean, I I just think how lucky I am not to be in linear tv anymore.
Oh, you're so kind.
Thank you, i'm glad you like the show.
I'm glad you like the show.
Um turn turn CNN conservative, like you did with Twitter.
It still doesn't matter though, right?
Because think about the business itself.
The business itself is a business that really can't succeed in the future just because of it being cable.
So content is great.
Content's going to live on all day long.
In fact, I was talking to someone the other day who was talking about how in the future you might actually have blockchains for content creators and so then we really own our content.
What I love is for the first time in my career, And I've been at this a while.
Okay, guys, I started in 2000.
So 25 years and I do have a birthday tomorrow.
Thank you for all the nice birthday wishes.
I've been at it for a while.
I'll tell you this.
I have never felt so completely in control of what I do.
And that's because I own the content.
I control the content.
I produce the content.
And that's a very different story than what you get in linear TV or any of these big networks.
But also think about this from an advertiser standpoint.
Now we have ads in the show, et cetera, and we appreciate all our sponsors.
But there's also these programmatic ads, which you get now and then, and listen to them if you would.
Don't skip through them if you can help it, because it does help me and the show.
But those are designed to target you.
So everybody gets different ads.
I mean, that's really pretty cool.
So in linear television, you buy an ad in the spot, and everybody gets the same ad.
I mean, we've seen a lot of ads that we don't want to see for all those big pharma companies, right?
Like you can't even watch the evening news with your kids anymore because of it.
You know what I'm talking about.
Anyway, those ads get delivered in bulk and they're the same ads for everyone.
And over here in streaming, y'all get an ad that's designed to be more to you.
And I actually think that that's more effective from an advertising standpoint than what you're seeing in linear TV.
On top of which, on top of which, linear TV relies on the cable companies getting paid for the content, right?
So Comcast would then therefore pay CNN, call it, I don't know, $3 a household for every household.
Well, the change in the industry now means that the cable companies, you know, are you really going to rely on that as revenue when maybe, you know, if you were streaming, you'd do better?
Do you need the $3 a household?
Maybe not.
And so maybe the cable companies are going to say, hey, you know, maybe this is not such a good business for us to be in.
We're repaying these people to produce this content.
when people can come over here and see the Trish Regan show for free.
And by the way, I'm pretty sure, like, if you look at our monthly numbers, we're killing CNN, and this is just me.
Killing CNN with Free Content00:01:19
Well, I have two other people.
I have two other people helping me out, but it's just me.
So it's an incredible, incredible sort of advance in technology.
It blows me away every single day.
I love talking about it.
As you can see, as you can see, I should get the Oklahoma City lady off of our screen right now.
But as you can see, I love talking about it.
It's a whole new.
And so the best thing for my birthday anyway, this year is knowing that we together, and I mean that because you are so much a part of this with me, guys, you together with me, all of us here, thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I so appreciate it.
I am.
I'm 25 and then some.
Okay.
Thanks.
We have basically, basically, basically together built something.
And I'm so proud of that and consider myself very fortunate and very, very lucky.
And so it's a good birthday year.
It's great to be here.
Thank you.
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