Dan Bongino's FBI resignation follows allegations that Pam Bondi's mishandling of the Epstein files and James Comey statute deadlines prompted his exit, while the host critiques the DOJ's Mar-a-Lago raid for proceeding despite internal FBI objections to poor optics. The discussion extends to Brown University's failure to identify a shooter amidst conflicting footage and conspiracy theories regarding pro-trans students, alongside severe criticism of Ilhan Omar and Debbie Wasserman Schultz over welfare fraud accusations targeting Somali households in Minnesota. Further segments expose Big Pharma lobbying against generic drugs, AOC's reaction to Stephen Miller's immigration schemes, and Pentagon investigations into Senator Mark Kelly, ultimately calling for legislative reforms to prevent political debanking and ensure fair financial access for all Americans. [Automatically generated summary]
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Dan Bongino Leaves The FBI00:14:10
told you this was going to happen.
We've been reporting it here for a few days here on the Trish Regan show, and it is now official.
Dan Bongino is officially out at the FBI.
He just announced his resignation on Twitter.
The president has said, yes, Dan's going to be going back to his show.
Dan did a great job.
I think he wants to go back to his show.
Back to the show.
Back to the show where it all began.
Dan Bongino, of course, you may know, hosts a podcast or used to host a podcast.
I guess he's going back to the podcast.
We've been reporting on this.
rather, you know, extensively.
I happen to know Dan.
I think he's a terrific, terrific guy.
He's a great broadcaster.
He is wonderful at what he does.
He's also a great patriot, a great patriot.
So I am wishing him all the best.
Of course, we liked having him at the FBI because it was nice to have someone we trusted there.
But, you know, knowing Dan, I'm sure this is not easy for him in that, you know what, it's very different being over here on this side of things where we get to kind of poke holes in things and we get to criticize.
And I actually think that I do a much better job.
Being on this side of things and ever being on the inside, right?
If you're on the inside, then you can't actually call things out the way someone like Dan or myself would like to do.
Anyway, he wrote on Twitter just a short moment ago I will be leaving my position with the FBI in January.
I want to thank President Trump, AG Bondi, and Director Patel for the opportunity to serve with purpose.
Most importantly, I want to thank you, my fellow Americans, for the privilege to serve you.
God bless America and those, all those who defend her.
So, a really classy note from him.
We got word a few days ago that he was itching to do something else.
And then this came along.
You see, this was a report in the New York Sun.
Dan Pontino's FBI office is empty.
His chief of staff has moved on.
Ex-podcaster may be gone come January 2026.
We'd also heard that Andrew Bailey had been named as co-deputy director.
So it was a little bit like getting the training wheels up and running, I guess, for Dan to eventually depart.
And the expectation, as you heard from the president, is that he's going back to his podcast.
I think this is great for Dan.
Maybe not so great for the country, but it is good for the country.
Let me.
Let me take a step back here and just say that you know, what we people in the uh podcasting business do is important in its own way right because hey, you can't trust the mainstream media.
You know that, I know that, we all know that, and you need to rely on people outside that mainstream media circus to actually tell you the truth and to poke holes in things as they come along.
You know look, I i've gotten myself in a lot of trouble over the years, shall we say, because I I have a bad habit of doing that very forcefully, shall we say.
You know, when I see something, I just kind of blurt it out and I say it.
And I don't always think through the implications, i.e. March 2020.
There's a reason I'm no longer at Fox.
It all worked out.
It all worked out.
I'm actually very thankful to them.
It was the best thing that could have ever, ever, ever happened.
But I also have had chances in my career to go on the inside of things, much as Dan just did.
And I've always thought about it and for a variety of reasons, including just the reality of having young kids and a family, I've never been able to do that.
And while I'd love to serve my country, I also think about serving my country from this position that I have right here with you in that I can say things that I wouldn't be able to say, you know, if I were part of the administration.
And I think for Dan, it's the same kind of thing.
Like Dan is so committed to America and loves America so much.
But once you're on the inside like that, you kind of have to read the company script, whatever that may be.
It can't kind of call it like you see it.
And sometimes, you know, those of us, even though, you know, it's all in the big tent here, we may think the world of Donald Trump, but we also want the ability to call him out or the ability, say, in my case, to call out one Pambondi from time to time because I'm still looking at Comey and going, where the hell is that?
You forgot to turn in your homework on time.
How could you miss?
for goodness sakes, the statute of limitations.
And I'm sure she'd say it's more complicated, but I'm just going to say, no, it's not that complicated.
September 30th, 2025, it should have been all over your office, okay?
And you should have known that the guy who was the U.S. Attorney was like besties with Comey's son-in-law.
What was he doing in the office, by the way?
Like, how, what the heck is going on?
I'm sorry.
Like, you've got to prioritize things.
And if that's a priority, and I'm pretty sure it was, I mean, everybody was saying, gee, it seems like Comey lied to Congress.
Like, maybe we should do something about this.
Just ask Rand Paul.
He really wanted you to do something about it, but you didn't do anything about it.
And we're all left sitting here wondering why.
And there was a little bit of a snafu back when you see the Epstein files were being rolled out.
I still remember.
I have the files here on my desk, right?
I have the files here on my desk.
And then she didn't have the files on her desk.
And then the next thing you know, she's blaming Dan.
And Dan's like, okay, it's her or me.
Like one of us is going to have to go.
And it looks like Pam, maybe she won that battle or maybe she didn't.
Maybe Dan really is, as I said, doing what is best.
For him and the country, because those of us over here on this side of things have a big impact and can have a big impact together, collectively with you, reminder to subscribe, share like, make a comment, all that kind of stuff, because every little bit helps with this algorithm, ladies and gentlemen.
And I think that he's looking at it saying hey, you know, i'm over here inside the system and maybe I see things and I can't say anything.
I, you know, it's like you know, you kind of you know you gotta, you gotta have a tight, tight lip on that one.
You can't actually speak out in the way that you can if you have a podcast.
And he was very, very good at doing that.
And the mainstream media can't speak out reality.
Okay.
You just, I'm living proof of it.
You can't, you can't really say what's on your mind.
I am able to do that over here.
He's able to do that with his show.
And I can tell you for one, I welcome the ability to hear his show and his perspective.
Again, and I imagine he'll start that up very, very soon.
But importantly, I also think for the country, it's good to have folks like us over here on the other side.
And now he's seen, you know, the inner workings of how it goes.
And while he's loyal to the administration, I wouldn't be surprised if we start to hear him call out a few things.
Look, I'm going to just say it again.
Pam Bondi, I believe, is in over her head.
I believe should not have missed the statute of limitations on James Comey.
I believe she should have gotten rid of the U.S. attorney.
Now, it wasn't her fault that he got in there because apparently she didn't take the gig until he had already accepted his.
But once she knew that this was going nowhere and nowhere fast, then wouldn't you actually work aggressively to make sure you followed the law, which would have meant getting the judges in that area to sign off on a new prosecutor?
And you should have done that quickly, knowing that you had a deadline fast approaching.
But apparently somebody doesn't keep a calendar.
Nope, no calendar.
And then, and then, Leticia, what happened on that one?
What happened on that one?
I mean, you had it all teed up, right?
You had the indictment, and now poof, it's gone.
You try and go back a second time, and you don't have an attorney that knows what they're doing.
Now, before you sit there and tell me, oh, well, I can't get any attorneys, I don't have any staff.
Well, tell the world about it, okay?
Tweet about it, hold a press conference on it.
Put the pressure on the sitting U.S. senators to confirm who you need for U.S. attorneys.
Don't gripe to us.
You know, all the way in.
We're looking at coming up on 2026.
For goodness sakes, we're a year into this thing, we're running out of time.
So I think Dan's like, hey, you know, if I go there to accomplish something and I don't have a winning team here to back me up, maybe I am more useful on the other side of things.
And so thus he's going to go back to do his show and we, uh are very happy for him.
I'm certainly happy for him, and i'm sure he wants to spend more time with his family and be with his family.
I I know he lives in Florida.
I don't know how that worked out with the whole DC thing, but Congratulations to him.
We'll see him back on the show.
Welcome to the program.
I'm Trish Regan.
Make sure you subscribe, share, like, all that.
Woo, that was a big intro, right?
Anyway, we've got Mar-a-Lago now under the microscope because there are these shocking deep state emails that have been exposed and uncovered, and Congress is revealing this now.
And basically, it shows that the FBI was pressured.
Oh, gosh, imagine that.
The FBI was pressured by the Biden administration into having that raid on Mar-a-Lago because you know they loved the optics of that raid on Mar-a-Lago and it left everybody saying including myself at the time I'm like gosh, what did he take for goodness sakes, right?
I mean, we're all worried about that turns out apparently it's pretty common practice.
I mean, hey Joe Biden had documents stuffed in his garage next to his What was that fancy car he said he drove the souped up Chevy?
It's right next to that in his garage locked, but he took them too.
Okay, so just saying And he had them all the way back from, well, I mean, they went back decades, decades, okay?
Anyway, the correspondence that has been uncovered shows that the FBI was pressuring the Justice Department to move forward with that raid, despite the fact that the FBI had all kinds of reservations about it.
They didn't like the optics of it.
And you had the DOJ basically saying, I don't give two, you know what, about the optics of it.
The attorney general, who was the deputy assistant attorney general at the time, won George Toskis allegedly saying in a meeting that, quote, he frankly doesn't give a damn about the optics.
Gosh darn it, he's like Scarlett O'Hare.
Oh, no, that would be Rhett Butler.
My dear, I don't give a damn of a raid of the former president's residence.
Another reveals how the FBI believed that a raid would actually be counterproductive.
You think so?
I mean, ultimately, it was totally counterproductive.
Everything you guys did was totally counterproductive.
Leticia James and your little lawsuit there, big lawsuit to the tune of half a billion dollars, that was pretty counterproductive.
Everybody looked at that and said, yeah, you know what?
I think I'm voting for the guy because I'm sure as hell not voting for you.
Well, another email is revealing again the counterproductiveness of this raid while another one. suggested that they might want to pursue, oh, an An alternative, quote, less intrusive way to reclaim the classified records.
But instead, the rest is history.
You know what they did?
August 4th, 2022, an email went out detailing a plan for executing the whole search warrant despite all of these objections from the FBI.
So you had a DOJ that was pretty rabid.
I think we all knew that.
We were all pretty disgusted by it.
And it's kind of funny the irony in there.
Oh, you know, you got Pam Bondi doing whatever Trump wants.
You want to go after Letitia James.
You want to go after James Comey.
Unfortunately, she's failed in both departments thus far.
We will talk about that.
But yeah, you know what?
Let's just say, guys, that we're not naive here.
And nobody should be naive about this because Joe Biden's FBI, as was, let's face it, Barack Obama's, a pretty litigious little group, quote, the FBI intends for the execution of the warrant to be handled in a professional, low-key manner and to be mindful of the optics of the search, they wrote.
But then the agent requested the FBI handle the operation and that the DOJ steer clear of the property due to the antagonistic relationship that they had with one Donald Trump.
Oh, and the rest is history.
I mean, we saw that they spread everything out and they were trying to show, okay, we got this, that, and the other.
For goodness sakes, they were so proud of all these things that they were confiscating.
But I would also point out there's another email between the Bureau and the DOJ in the months leading up to the raid showing that the FBI official serving as a special agent in charge of the investigation was out there saying, hey, You know what?
We got to be mindful of this because, and I quote, very little has been developed related to who might be culpable for the mishandling of the documents.
And the agent went on, even as we continue down the path towards a search warrant, WFO believes that the reasonable conversation, a reasonable conversation with the president's attorney, stating that the FBI and DOJ are readying a search warrant and have developed information that there are more documents at Mar-a-Lago ought not to be discounted.
But they didn't want that.
No, because by 8.30 a.m. on August 8th, 2022, you had the whole kit and caboodle, all the FBI agents storming Mar-a-Lago.
He wasn't there at the time.
They apparently notified the Secret Service ahead of time.
They said they did not intend on wearing any identifying jackets to execute their warrant, and then they went in.
And they were in Melania Trump's closet.
They were in Barron Trump's bedroom and they were all over the joint.
And now we're finding out that they chose to do this for the first time in U.S. history.
Think about that.
The first time in U.S. history because why?
Somebody wanted to settle a score.
And of course, they all looked like buffoons before it was all said and done because it turned out that Biden had all these documents himself that were left over hanging out in the garage next to his.
Corvette.
I do think that was it.
Settling Scores With Documents00:08:04
Oh, somebody's talking about La Monica.
Funny, funny little side story I'm going to share with you today.
Clive Jenkins, 4033, just for you.
La Monica was in the elevator with my producer today.
He's down there in D.C. and he was doing some meet and greets on Capitol Hill.
And who was in the elevator but La Monica herself?
She took up a lot of space.
It was a tiny elevator, he said.
He also said there were like all Republicans in the elevator.
And La Monica, she was there.
La Monica McIver, you know, remember the red shirt, the one with the good right hook?
And I said, David, you should have told her.
Like, you know, you've had a hand in single-handedly helping to make her famous.
Like nobody would really know about La Monica.
Well, I mean, except for the fact that she did it to herself with that rather infamous footage that we won't watch.
I promise.
I won't show you that.
But you know, it's good, right?
Like, it's really fun.
It's really good.
Anyway, I guess he didn't say hi to her.
I said, you should have.
You should have.
You should have said, hey, you know, why don't you come on the show?
She only goes on MSNBC or Ms. Ms. The Ms. Network, as it's now called, I guess.
She only goes on that one.
And I guess it's because she's really looking for a gig because I don't know as the whole congressional thing's really going to work out for her.
Anyway, La Monica in the house, taking up lots of space in the elevator.
You had, oh, the other one, Fanny.
Big Fanny getting big mad today in some of her hearings because, you know, they're questioning her about just exactly what went down and the wasting of taxpayer dollars to go after Donald Trump and get that now infamous mugshot that once again, much like these FBI raids, worked in his favor.
I mean, did that not work in his favor?
Did that not work in his favor?
There he is, mugshot.
And all of a sudden everybody's like, man, I feel for you.
It's pretty scary what the government can do to you.
Pretty scary when the government doesn't like you.
I mean, heck, it's pretty scary.
They can take your bank account away.
We'll talk about that.
They can book you like Fanny did.
Big Fanny, not messing with her, right?
She gets the mugshot, which now sits right outside the Oval Office.
I mean, talking about triumph.
That's what I call triumph, ladies and gentlemen.
It feels like the American way, right?
When the chips are down and you're just that scrabbly kid that keeps going back and going back and going back.
And no matter what, they can't keep you down.
There's something very Americana about that.
And I think it's one of his big appeals for people.
So you had Letitia.
You had Jack Smith.
You had Merrick Garland.
You had Fannie.
Fannie, my or I should say, and I would be quoting him, it's Fannie like her, right?
Okay, we're keeping it clean.
Anyway, just remember that they had never in the history of this country had the FBI search a president's home until Joe Joe Biden's DOJ.
Okay, that would be Merrick Garland.
That would be Merrick Garland.
And Christopher Wray, apparently, his FBI was like, you know, we probably shouldn't do this, but they did anyway.
Just following orders here, just following orders.
So I suspect that some people need to be held accountable.
We have the email chains.
They're saying we shouldn't do this.
You got these people, including the deputy AG.
One George Tosca saying, I don't care, go ahead and do it.
Rep Butler, frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
We're going to do it because we want him out.
Think about that.
It's pretty disgusting.
It's pretty gross.
I'll tell you, you know, Bondi's got her work cut out for her, and I'll tell you, she's on thin ice, okay?
That's the inside intel.
Now, you've got people in D.C. making excuses for one Ms. Bondi saying, well, you know, she's got a lot on her plate, and she doesn't have the personnel, the staff to execute all this stuff because the Senate isn't approving the prosecutors.
That's the latest and greatest I've heard about why Pam Bondi can't get the job done.
I'm just going to say, I don't want to hear it anymore.
Okay, I really, really don't want to hear it anymore.
I've heard enough of it.
And Pam Bondi, I'm sorry, but you screwed up on Comey.
You screwed up on Letitia.
And I'm worried you're going to screw up on this one too.
And I'm coming to the realization that while you do look wonderful on camera and you are loyal to the President of the United States, that's only going to get you so far.
Okay?
You know, that and five bucks will get you a latte at Starbucks.
We need someone who's more than good on camera.
We need somebody who is high executive functioning, as they like to say in school these days.
How well are you at executive functioning?
Well, you know, you got to run a big, big team.
And you got to make sure if the Senate isn't giving you your prosecutors, I'd be raising holy H-E-L-L saying, I want them, I want them, I need them, I need them.
I'd hold press conference after press conference and tweet after tweet after tweet.
I'd be pouring out saying, I need my prosecutors now.
Instead, they're just backpedaling excuses.
I'm not going to take it.
I'm not taking it.
You know, you shouldn't take it.
None of us should be sitting here saying, okay, they did all this bad stuff and nobody's being held accountable.
Because that's how it looks right now.
Nobody's being held accountable.
I mean, except La Monica, whose indictment still holds.
David should have said hi.
Should have invited her on.
That would have been fun, right?
You know, hey, I guarantee you nobody talks about La Monica as much as I do or Leticia as much as I do.
Kathy Hochul's another one who may have it coming to her in the state of New York for other reasons.
But these women, you know, at least in terms of Leticia, in terms of Fanny, they were out for blood against the president, much like Merrick Garland and Jack Smith were.
And that really can't be tolerated.
And I think that it's high time Pam Bondi be able to move forward with real stuff.
I mean, she's also got the Clintons on her plate, right?
Because the Clintons don't even want to testify.
They're putting up all kinds of roadblocks.
They don't want to testify on Epstein.
Not at all.
So we got that one going on.
I mean, she screwed up.
Heck, gosh almighty.
I mean, I would say, you know, The one thing out of that Vanity Fair hit piece on the entire administration, which was ridiculous, the one thing that was kind of sort of funny to me was here we go.
Susie Wiles, the chief of staff for the White House, saying on Pam Bondi, quote, she completely whiffed on those Epstein files.
And I think that all of us here collectively could agree that was a big whiff.
Quote, I think she completely whiffed on appreciating that this was the very targeted group.
They cared about this.
First she gave them binders full of nothingness these are the remember the social media influencers that she brought in.
And then she said that the witness list and the client's list was on her desk.
It's on my desk, I think she told Hannity it's on my desk as we speak, except apparently it wasn't quite.
And then she had to get a truck full that was another quote of folders from New York after they fired the FBI agent because apparently nobody wanted to release that.
And then there's this really weird thing where Comey's daughter was somehow running that investigation.
Brown University Avoids Questions00:15:31
Gee, it gets stranger and stranger and stranger.
So Pam Bondi, she's on thin ice.
Me and my friend Dan, I mean, he's got one foot out the door.
It looks like he's going back.
I mean, the good news is we'll get him back in podcast land.
And I think that he does a wonderful show and he's a very important voice to have right now as we ask questions.
But they're trying to throw him under a bus.
And I think he's just saying, you know what?
I don't need this.
Why the heck do I need this?
I came here to do a job and I thought we were going to get the bad guys.
And apparently it's a lot harder than we thought to get the bad guys.
And not only is it harder, somebody's not turned their homework in on time.
They're missing things like the statute of limitation deadlines.
And then they're like crying about it, saying, oh, this isn't fair.
No, it's fair.
I'm sorry.
All is fair because we have laws and we have rules.
And when you don't follow the laws and the rules, Pam Bondi, you know what?
You're not going to be able to indict the guy.
So shame on you.
I mean, that's enough for me to fire her, frankly.
I mean, Bongino, his office is allegedly cleared out.
And I have my own sources that are suggesting, yeah, you know, he's kind of, he needs to move on.
And this is probably the moment to do so.
So I guess the good news is Bongino will be back on the airwaves.
But in the meantime, you know, we're down a really quality guy there at the FBI.
And that's not good.
Because right now, Right about now, we really need quality people at the FBI.
Look at what's going on at Brown University.
Ladies and gentlemen, Brown University has really, in my estimation, done a lot to kind of avoid answering the questions that need to be answered.
And I can't help but wonder if it is because they have their own various biases being Brown.
And if you're not familiar with Brown University, an Ivy League institution, probably the most liberal of all Ivy League institutions, and that's saying a lot.
Okay, let's just be honest.
That's really and truly saying a lot because these places are insanely liberal.
Here is the latest and greatest new photo out of Brown University released by the FBI and the Providence Police of the new suspect.
This is a person of interest.
I should qualify that, not necessarily a suspect, just a person of interest.
And this comes to us.
Let's get a little bit of a closer view.
It's very hard to see very grainy footage.
I keep saying, what the heck is going on?
We have to rely on Tesla footage and ring camera footage to get any.
video of this guy.
What is going on with the University cameras.
Like, you guys get nothing with all the big money you got there at Brown University, billions, and you can't, and you charge plenty for anybody to go to school there, and you don't have any cameras.
They're trying to explain to us that, well, you get the old part and the new part of the university, and the new part of this building that was over in the engineering section where they were studying for their economics exam.
The new part of the building didn't, well, had the cameras, but the old part didn't.
It's like you didn't think to upgrade along the way.
Like, you wouldn't.
You wouldn't do that.
They had something like eight, 900 cameras on the campus and yet nothing of this guy.
It's really bizarre.
I mean, again, why are we relying on Ring and Tesla?
Go Ring and Tesla, for goodness sakes.
You get a big university and they got nothing.
This is what they gave us.
This footage came out after reporters demanded it.
I'll show you the footage in a second.
Well, actually, no, let's look at the footage now because you should see the footage and compare and contrast it to this picture that we're seeing.
Okay.
So watch that picture and then let's watch.
this together.
Here is the FBI footage of who they think it might be.
Here we go.
So this is the footage that they released yesterday.
By the way, if you have any information on this, call 401-272-3121 with any info.
This is the guy that they were watching for.
And a lot of conspiracies have been bred out of this right now.
In fact, a lot of people have been asking, why is it why is it that some of the students' profiles are being taken down at Brown University?
That is actually what happened, believe it or not.
They actually took the profile down of one student who was from Palestine and apparently was really all about trans rights, etc.
And somehow his information came off of the Brown website and it's like he's just been deleted from the system.
So a lot of people were like, well, wait a second.
Is that because he's a person of interest and you at Brown University don't like the idea that you brought that guy here?
And it turns out he's pro-trans and he's Palestine and he had been involved in some protests, et cetera, before.
And if he is at all responsible for this, then yeah, we're going to have a big problem, right?
The university is going to have a huge problem.
And so that was going around.
And here's what I'm going to say about that.
When you don't come forward with much information, you're going to feed this beast that is this animal of conspiracy theory stuff.
And that's just what's going to happen.
And people are going to try and solve this in some way, shape, or form on their own.
Look, when charlie was gunned down and as horrible as that is, I mean, look, at least you had Dan and Cash out there on a plane going out there saying, release the photo, release the photo now.
These guys took forever to release the photo and I'm not really sure why that is.
This came up in a wild, wild press briefing.
I'm going to show you a couple excerpts.
Watch this here because this is serious fireworks.
The reporters are like, where is this?
Why don't we have anything?
I mean, we're on day five now and this guy's still at large.
Who the heck wants to go back to school at Brown University under these circumstances?
President Donald Trump has said that Brown University is to blame for this shooting, saying it's the school's problem.
Is that a fair criticism, or do you disagree with what the president said?
I don't think it's a fair criticism.
Colonel.
Can you expand on that?
Why not?
Because Brown University is not collaborating with you guys.
You're lying to the press over here.
They have facial recognition.
We know that because they follow the students, they follow everybody in the neighborhood.
Facial recognition.
They need to release that data so everybody knows who the guy is in the video.
We got the video Saturday.
Why do you guys release the video today?
Listen, Colonel, I would just.
John, please, just for a second.
A couple things.
First of all, Brown University.
And Brown Public Safety, Brown Police Department has been a close collaborator throughout this process.
That's not true.
I do not accept that criticism.
Secondly, everyone you see behind us, we've all been working for now 49 hours.
We're tired.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
You know, I'm sorry.
Two people have lost their lives.
Others are in serious jeopardy right now.
And you're tired, Mr. Mayor.
Okay, you're tired.
I get it.
You know, you guys are making some interesting points.
That it kind of almost seems like two different guys.
I know it's hard to see that maybe if I zoom out a little bit and you look at that guy and then you look at this footage here, it really doesn't seem like now it could be.
Now they're saying he's just a person of interest.
So maybe it's just a person of interest and that's it.
It's not necessarily the suspect.
And they're just looking for any information that people might have about this person.
Perhaps he's connected in some way, in some way, shape, or form.
But as we look at what they have, And we compare and contrast it with the guy in the video.
It just kind of seems very different to me.
And they don't look at all like the same person.
Even the build, right?
If you look at the build, the first guy's really, really stout, has a huge tummy.
And this other one doesn't seem to.
So I don't think it's the same person myself.
I mean, I agree with you all.
And so it just leads to more and more questions.
And that's where we're stuck right now with a whole lot of questions.
Gimsley Girl saying, you know what?
Two different men.
One is big.
And the other isn't one walks without knees knocking, and the other doesn't, and you know, they certainly have two different gates.
And yeah, top of the 420, I got you.
One has a belly, one does not.
That's pretty simple.
Um, definitely not the same.
I so, so where are we now then on this?
I think we're nowhere, we're absolutely positively nowhere, and so you get all these fireworks in the presser.
I want to show you some more.
I mean, again, this is what they've released, plus the other.
plus the other one that I just showed you.
And I agree.
I think it's two different people.
We know that they're trying to cast this as a gun violence story.
They don't even have the suspects, but it's a gun violence story.
That's it, period.
You can't go into any possible talk of terror.
But I have questions about that.
I mean, for goodness sakes, the woman who was gunned down, she was the vice president of the College Republicans Club, of which there are hardly any.
There's like 20 Republicans, for goodness sakes, on the Brown campus.
Thousands of kids, only 20 Republicans.
It's the kind of place where you know what?
You literally are apparently taking your life in your hands if you're a Republican.
And I'm not satisfied.
And nor are her defenders.
I mean, you consider, for example, William Branson Donahue, who runs the College Republicans, and he's devastated.
Everybody's devastated.
It's just, it's so sad.
It is so unbelievably sad what happened to this young life.
And you're not going to be looking into this angle or even acknowledge this angle?
Or what about the Middle Eastern student, the Palestine kid who took down his whole profile, who was really pro-trans?
And, you know, I'm sorry, but kind of at least tummy-wise, fit the description of the person you see walking better than the person of interest does.
This is, you know, and again, people are going to ask these questions in light of everything that's happening.
And maybe they took his information down off the website because maybe he felt very threatened.
In this environment, entirely possible, but nobody's saying.
And so now the AG of Rhode Island got really angry because a reporter dared to ask this question, dared to go there, and you're apparently not allowed to.
Just watch how angry he gets.
And I just think it's a natural question to ask, and reporters have to ask that question, for goodness sakes.
I mean, why is his image suddenly off the website?
You know, we can ask that question.
We're not implicating him.
We should be able to ask the simple question.
Well, not according to the AG of Rhode Island, who basically, in one breath, is like, don't you dare ask.
And then, oh, by the way, I really need your help.
Come on.
I want to come back to your question about that name.
And I know the name that you're asking about because a member of the media asked me about it.
I am familiar with it.
I wasn't familiar with it when the media member asked me about it.
I think it was either CBS or NBC.
I asked my team about it.
And I think this is an area where caution is really necessary.
There are lots of reasons why.
A page might be taken down, particularly if there's chatter out there about, to your question, Amanda, about words that were spoken.
It's easy to jump from someone saying words that were spoken to what those words are to a particular name that reflects a motive targeting a particular person.
That's a really dangerous road to go down.
Really dangerous.
If that name meant anything to this investigation, we would be out looking for that person.
We would let you know we were looking for that person.
You know, again, I think it's just a really dangerous road to go down.
I know that in today's age, there are lots of things that people read into things.
It's just a dangerous thing to do.
And I would leave it to us to identify persons of interest and let us run them down.
What the public can do for us today is help us figure out who this guy is.
And we hope to have more information out that will help you do that, help you help us do that.
Okay.
Yeah.
So, whatever that was, you know, he's definitely defending, you know, don't ask those questions.
So I'm going to ask this question, okay?
Why the hell don't we have any footage of anything?
How do you have this big fancy university with thousands of cameras and there's nothing there?
You got to be kidding me.
And did this killer know that there would not be a camera there?
I mean, of all the buildings to pick.
And then here's my other question.
Like, how was she not targeted, for goodness sakes?
Because, you know, if you just wanted to hurt some students on the Brown University campus, you could have gone to the bookstore, right?
You could have gone to the quad.
Like, why did you go to that particular class?
Nobody can tell us.
In fact, when you ask the university president, well, even what class were they in?
Six hours after the whole ordeal, she couldn't even tell you it was a principles of economics review.
So what's that about?
I want to go to John DiPetro.
He's an independent reporter.
Boy, do I like independent reporters these days, even though he's appearing on Fox.
That's okay.
I know Jesse, and he's a good guy.
Former colleague of mine.
Anyway, Jesse's interviewing an independent journalist there in Providence, for that island, who, like me, like you, has a lot of questions.
And they're really trying to push these guys.
They're not getting a lot of answers.
Watch.
John, why don't we know what this shooter yelled, of all things, by this point?
Yeah, Jesse, I asked that question.
And what I'm hearing from police on the down low is because there are conflicting statements from some of the witnesses of what he yelled.
I, I was questioning the chief.
We know he yelled something, uh, but they're not saying exactly what it is.
I think they got spooked over the weekend.
I know everyone's saying it's a four day investigation.
I was there.
I was there 30 minutes after the shooting.
It was, it was chaos trying to evacuate all the students.
And then that went late into the night.
I left there at like 1 30, 2 o'clock.
They were still evacuating students.
And then, you know, the FBI put out that they had someone of interest that was being detained.
So this investigation, Really kicked off on Monday morning.
Okay.
Do you understand how bad that is?
He's saying this investigation didn't kick off till Monday morning.
Gosh, guys, it's only Wednesday.
So they had the entire weekend Monday, Tuesday.
We're on to Wednesday.
We still have no suspect.
We barely even have a picture, for goodness sakes.
This is messed up.
I'm sorry.
This is really messed up.
And I don't understand how, at this day and age, at such a sophisticated, Deep pocketed place like Brown, you don't have a little more.
Watch.
Sunday night after they released that person.
So they're really trying to play catch up right now.
Yeah.
And so they lost a lot of time in that.
The locals gave the FBI a tip.
They thought they had it.
The FBI investigated it.
It wasn't the guy.
So then they had to start from scratch.
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What's with the cameras?
Why is it so confusing?
They have them all over campus, but not on the back doors, apparently.
Yeah, Brown, though, it's a city campus, and this particular building happens to sit right on the edge of the city.
So when you cross the street from that building, and I was there obviously Saturday night, I was there today, I've been there every day, but you're immediately in a neighborhood.
So you have the Brown campus, and then it's directly across the street, are, you know, just residential.
So this particular person, I think people should think of what we just saw with the, The January 6th pipe bomber, where, you know, it was very cautious, very meticulous.
You watch the video of that.
That individual, you know, walks around, sits down, gets up and walks again.
This individual, you know, it's very odd, very peculiar.
We learned today that he did arrive there at 10 30, but they're doing an inner circle, then they're going to go out.
So they still don't know when did he arrive, how did he arrive.
It's a little odd that he got there at 10 30.
And like they ought to be able to go through every single camera and find other examples of him being on campus because he managed to get there.
And so, you know, is really, is it that lacking in sophistication?
You don't have any kind of software that could go like scan all of the other soft, like all of the cameras at once and say, okay, we're looking for this guy?
It's bizarre to me.
It's really and truly bizarre.
I'm sort of disgusted by it.
And yet, simultaneously, not surprised by it.
I mean, especially when you get people like Debbie Wasserman Schultz, you know her, right?
Ooh.
She just did an interview with a network called News Nation, and they asked her about the threat of Islamic terror.
And for some reason, this woman thinks we've got bigger worries.
The bigger worry being Donald Trump.
I got to show you.
It's a nice set, but Debbie doesn't look so nice on it.
What is the bigger threat to America right now, American values, American life?
Islamophobia or jihad?
I think we have to focus.
Quite frankly, on if we're worried about the threat to American values, on the person who's in the White House.
Do you hear that?
I mean, are you kidding me?
So we don't need to worry about Islamic terror.
No, We don't, that's, you know, and how dare you make any kind of insinuation that that might have been what's going on at Brown.
And by the way, we don't know what's going on at Brown, we just know that.
You know, the people that they keep showing us may or may not be the people, right?
may or may not be the people that did this.
We don't know.
We don't know much.
But we have a lot of reason to be concerned about Islamic terror.
I will say this, if nothing else.
So let's leave Brown aside for just a moment because, you know, we have a lot of theories and I want to be careful on the conjecture.
But we have a situation in California where four people have now been arrested on suspicion of trying to attack ICE agents and they found pro-Palestinian literature in their homes.
And this woman, this uber political animal that she is, DWS, like the shoe store, or is that DSW?
I can't remember.
Anyway, she thinks that Donald Trump is a bigger threat.
Wow.
Or jihad.
I think we have to focus, quite frankly, on if we're worried about the threat to American values.
On the person who's in the White House.
I mean, we have a president.
Oh, come on.
Is that where we're going?
Really?
Come on.
Yeah, I'm going there because we have a president who has completely undermined our democracy, who has.
So you don't see jihad, you don't see this as a problem?
What I don't see is it as a single lens problem.
We have a president who has been determined to undermine our constitutional principles, to degrade our democracy.
To divide instead of unite us, the responsibility I have to say, I have to say, Congressman, you know how much I admire you, and I and I always appreciate being able to come on and discuss.
I didn't know you admired her that much, I'll remember that.
I've kind of tried to avoid his show altogether.
No, I really know anyway.
Look, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, you think that the biggest problem is Trump.
You sound like you need a gig on The View, okay?
That's these people that are so you know dying of TDS.
That's the reality for them, they're ignoring.
the reality that is right in front of their eyes.
And whether you want to talk about the threat to the nation because of what we saw happen, oh, I don't know, in Australia over the weekend, what we believe may have happened at Brown, the fact that that's even in our heads tells you Americans are concerned and they're scared.
And rightly so.
You got Paris having to shut down their New Year's Eve celebration on the Champs-Élysées because they're worried about Islamic terror there and they've been through it.
They've been through hell and back.
I mean, come on, for goodness sakes.
You got a teacher in Great Britain getting fired from his job because he dared to say to a kid who was Muslim, you know, the Church of England is our official religion here in the UK.
You better believe it is in Great Britain and England.
It is the Church of England.
Thank you very much.
Okay.
And then you get the Minnesota Somalians out there with their hand in everything to the tune of a billion dollars.
I mean, this is the biggest recorded fraud, welfare fraud.
In the history of this nation, according to the White House.
And Ilhan Omar is directly connected to it.
Why?
Oh, because they're all from her district, as Margaret Brennan pointed out on that CBS show over the weekend.
Hey, Ilhan, they're all coming from your abode.
Of the 87 people charged, all but eight are of Somali descent.
And that has added to the spotlight being put specifically on your community.
Why do you think this fraud was allowed to get so widespread?
I want to say, you know, this also has an impact on Somalis because we are also taxed.
We're hurting.
We're hurting hard because, you know, we got defrauded too.
Hmm.
That was her answer.
I mean, she's also on CNN saying effectively, effectively.
It was the fault of the system because the system made it too easy.
We'll get to that in a second.
But I want to show you the latest and greatest.
Here she is with Wolf Blitzer on CNN, who may not be long for CNN should the Paramount deal go through.
Although Paramount is getting real pushback right now.
It looks like Warner Brothers Discovery really desperately wants to do a deal with Netflix rather than, you know, those chumpy people over there at Paramount, the Ellison family.
Anyway, I digress.
Here is Ilhan Omar on CNN earlier today with Wolf Blitzer.
Talking her book.
Oh, we are doctors, we are teachers, we are entrepreneurs, and we are elected representatives of our state.
And so these vile comments and this sort of creepy obsession that he has on me and Somali Americans really is dangerous.
And it's beneath the office of the presidency.
Okay, so that's what she's going to go with because he got caught saying.
Some pretty aggressive things about the Somali community.
You know what I'm talking about.
We've played it several times here on the Trish Regan show, and he referred to specifically Ilhan Omar as garbage and her friends as garbage.
Yes, we know that there's plenty of wonderful, upstanding members of the community, and there are many that are in the professional field, but there are also many that are collecting welfare.
And this kind of highlights one of the things that the president keeps getting at, which is why are we bringing people here that need all this aid?
Why don't we have people here? that can contribute to society as opposed to those that are going to take from society.
Just look at this.
This is a Center for Immigration Studies report.
They're showing you that in Minnesota, welfare use rates by household are overwhelmingly coming from the Somalian immigrant household.
Okay.
81% of Somalian Minnesota households are on welfare.
Now, take with that what you want.
I mean, it's not a good look.
Okay.
And we're not trying to say, hey, you know, if you're Somali from Somalia, you're probably on welfare.
But in Minnesota, you know, Eight times out of ten, you are.
And the whole idea is you're supposed to come here to this country, and we're going to give you a leg up and we're going to give you an opportunity, but you have to be willing to work for it.
Okay.
We don't want people that are freeloaders because that is not the American way.
And it's certainly not the American way to steal.
Okay.
It's not the American way to steal.
Like we are a free nation because we abide by a certain kind of set of laws.
And so for Ilhan Omar to go out and say, well, you know, it's the system, or for Waltz, my God.
Gosh, who's doubling down saying we need more Somalis to come to the country.
Minnesota, you might actually have a problem.
I mean, for him to say we just need to teach people better.
And this is what he said.
I'll play it for you.
Come on.
It's not our job to have to teach them better.
If they don't know right from wrong, they shouldn't be in the country to begin with.
I'm sorry.
It is not our job.
We got plenty of things to do.
Thank you very much.
And we welcome immigrants.
We welcome immigrants that want to help make America better, help make America great by working hard.
and believing in the opportunity that this nation affords for you, not taking.
Society.
But no, I think this idea that the Somali community is to blame for this because they didn't do more, I think that's how we got into this.
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.
Woohoo!
Okay, so who are we going to do a better job educating?
Wow.
Because, you know, you just shouldn't commit crimes and you shouldn't make it so easy for them to create crimes, says Ilhan Omar.
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.
Come on.
That's like, you know, you're really reaching at that point.
You're just really reaching because you get no excuse for this because this is not good.
And meanwhile, you know what else is not good?
Part of the whole healthcare fight has been all over this, right?
They've all been like, why do we want to keep spending money and giving money to states where there's so much opportunity for this fraud?
A lot of the healthcare fight has been hey, you get lots of people that are in the country illegally if you just give.
Blank checks to states for health care.
What happens of?
The hospitals get the money and they have to spend it on people that are here illegally.
So, even though you may have rules and you may have a law that said nobody who's here illegally is going to get health care, it turns out at the end of the day, when it's all settled out well, the hospitals, they're not going to turn anyone away, and and they shouldn't.
You understand that's part of the.
You know the oath that you take when you become a doctor and you're in the health care business.
But how are?
How are we going to pay for it?
Oh, we'll just hit up Uncle Sam.
You know, you just go to the feds.
They get all the money, right?
You know, we'll just take it from them.
And then you run the risk of what we saw happening in Minnesota happening everywhere else.
Because let's just say that the government does not do a very good job at managing its money.
They never have.
So we just got news today that you have a block of House GOP folks that decided to side with the Democrats to get an extension on the Obamacare subsidies.
Now, I don't know if this is going to make it through the Senate, but that's the latest and greatest out of the House today.
Remember, this is becoming increasingly, increasingly a problem because I just wonder who they're playing ball with.
They're playing ball with the Democrats, but they're also simultaneously, I would say, playing ball with some of the lobbying firms, because there's a lot of lobbying money at stake.
Ladies and gentlemen.
You know, you get big Pharma ripping off the American people.
You, big Pharma, its army of lobbyists working overtime as we speak, and it looks like they were successful on one front anyway, with some of these middle of the road Republicans today working overtime to keep Americans paying the world's highest prescription drug prices and they've already hiked prices on hundreds of medicines this year, while flooding us with billions of misleading ads and drugs that we do not need Drugs for, for ads for drugs we do not need, for goodness sakes.
Worse yet, you got Big Pharma pushing government mandates.
Of course, designed to stack the deck in their favor.
Their goal in Washington is pretty darn simple.
They want to escape accountability.
They want to block free market competition.
They want to jack up outrageous prices.
And guess what?
That means more government intrusion in your life, bigger profits for them, of course, and higher costs for families and for businesses.
So we've got conservatives for lower health care out with a big warning.
Join me together with them.
We thank them for their patronage and support here on The Trish Regan Show.
They're warning of this big pharma agenda alongside me and warning of how it would stick Americans and employers with billions of dollars in higher premiums and drug costs.
But, you know, you got a president who's not backing down.
So what these folks did today on the Republican side, if they still call themselves that, I don't think he's going to be very happy with it all.
That may come up in tonight's speech as well.
His administration is cracking down on drug companies that gouge Americans and mislead patients with obnoxious advertising.
Meanwhile, conservatives in Congress are introducing reforms to stop big pharma's games that block generics and keep prices high.
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And I'll tell you, they're out there fighting tooth and nail for the Somalis.
You know, they get whatever they want, apparently.
I've said this before.
We get an hourglass economy, a lot of top on the top, a lot on the bottom that they're going to fight hard for.
And, you know, the top's always fighting for themselves.
And then everybody else in the middle gets squeezed.
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I mean, really, really, really squeezed.
And that, you know, is reflected even in terms of the top Democrat, one of the top Democrats.
I mean, that Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
If you can still call her a top Democrat, she's out there pushing, you know, oh, Trump is bad.
Trump is bad.
As long as terror isn't bad, it's Trump that's bad.
That's what's most dangerous for the country.
Unbelievable.
I'll tell you what's dangerous for the country.
The Democrats are dangerous for the country.
Just look at what they did as we began the show telling you about the Mar-a-Lago raid, for goodness sakes.
Just look at, you know, Fannie with her testimony down there in Georgia today.
I mean, Fannie's a disaster with what she did.
Letitia's a disaster with what she did.
You had Jack Smith and his investigation.
I mean, that is pretty darn scary, if you ask me.
If you ask me, go back to Lois, right?
And the IRS under Obama, and she was also trying to target Tea Party people.
I mean, they've weaponized government, and they've done it even on the financial front with bank accounts because they had regulators just breathing down the banks' backs all the time, and they wanted this, that, and the other, and they wanted to stop bank accounts for certain individuals if they, oh, I don't know, if they supported Donald Trump.
That's pretty darn scary.
And so I love what Americans for Free Markets is doing.
You can check them out at forfreemarkets.com because they are together, well, with me.
And again, we thank them for their support.
But with me thanking the president, collectively, we all are, right?
Because the president has stopped that with an executive order.
But you know what?
It needs to go further because an executive order is one thing.
How do you make sure that there's no more debanking?
How do you make sure that you can access free markets and banking for all Americans nationwide, regardless of what their politics might be or even their religion?
Because, gosh darn it, if you were a Catholic and God help you, if you went to Mass in Latin, you know, it was like the FBI was like, hmm, for some reason.
That really set them off.
So this is what they're working towards right now, making sure that we have some legislation, that making sure we have some rules around these outdated laws.
We need to increase transparency.
We need to increase accountability so that, you know what, you don't have regulators calling all the shots and the regulators are working for the politicians or the White House.
And that is just wrong.
I remember Janet Yellen wanted to get access to everybody's bank account above 600 bucks.
I'm like, what is she talking about?
She's going to go out and find all her billionaires that are evading taxes if she can just somehow get her hands into anybody's account that had more than $600 in transactions.
It's wild.
So, Americans for Free Markets is calling on Congress to advance critical reforms, strengthen President Trump's leadership on fair access to financial services.
You can learn more today at forfreemarkets.com.
Woo!
AOC.
I got to tell you about this because she's just losing it.
You see, Stephen Miller gets under her skin.
Like, really under her skin.
It's sort of funny.
He said this the other day.
I think I played it for you when he said it, but he went off on the Biden scheme to get all these illegals into the country.
And she's just like, losing out.
I'm going to show you what she said in response.
But let's first watch Stephen.
Let me take you back a couple of days on phone.
This was not a loophole.
The Biden administration, Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, devised a scheme.
To fly illegal aliens into the country and then to escort them en masse across the border by the millions and to give them something known as parole, which gives them a work permit, which gives them a social security number, which gives them access to the voting booth.
This was the plan all along to get them here illegally so they can get free government benefits, get hooked to welfare, and be able to participate in American elections.
This was an attack on.
So he's saying it was an attack on our democracy and like.
How was that not the plan?
I mean, I think it was just pure politics.
And I think we're the crazy ones for saying that.
But, you know, New York actually had to tell them at the appellate court level that they couldn't get 800,000 people that were not citizens to vote.
They tried in New York.
So that was the direction they were heading in.
It got stopped in its tracks by American voters who overwhelmingly voted for President Trump.
And now AOC is losing it.
Like I said, you know, he gets under her skin.
Donald Trump and Stephen Miller want you to believe that this is who we are as a country.
And we are here to say that it is not.
We are a country that has fought and defeated the Confederacy, that has defeated a history of civil rights violations, of secret police, of fascism.
We are a country guided by a monument to freedom on the waters of New York City.
Who shines brightly and welcomes, quote, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free to our shores.
How much you want to bet ChatGPT wrote that one for her?
So, right now, I ask everyone in our country to fight for that ideal, to fight for this legacy.
Thank you.
Hold on.
I'm sorry, the legacy's gone, right?
You know, they're the ones out there spending a billion dollars of taxpayer money.
They're saying it could be six to eight billion dollars before it's all said and done.
You're bringing in people into the country.
You don't even know who's here.
There are estimates from Tulsi Gabbard.
of 18,000 people that are here that are known terrorists.
I mean, I hate to even say it.
It's like scary.
Okay, like that's actually pretty scary.
And yet they're delusional, completely, totally, utterly delusional.
Anyway, we'll see what the president has to say tonight.
Venezuela may come up.
I'm hearing from sources that the Trump administration is very, very, very, very committed to seeing this through.
They want Maduro out.
And this is like a pet project of Marco Rubio's.
It actually has been for quite some time.
Maduro has been awful for the people of Venezuela.
Let's be really clear on that.
He should have left.
He was already voted out by the people he didn't leave.
So now it's escalating.
The question is, how far are we willing to go in terms of resources?
And by resources, I mean people, too.
I mean, the president doesn't want to be losing lives over this.
But at some point, you know, Maduro is going to have to exit stage left or else.
So I think that possibly could be one of the things that's on the agenda tonight.
Look for that.
You may also hear something about these Mar-a-Lago raids.
You may hear more on Mark Kelly because, as you know, This has been escalating.
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Pete Hexess saying, you know, finally a correct headline.
The Washington Post saying Hexess office is escalating the probe of Senator Mark Kelly, according to the Pentagon.
So that's true as well.
The Pentagon really looking to probably move forward, possibly take his retirement away, possibly something more, because as the president has suggested, this was a seditious move by them, especially given his background in the military, in the military being kind of critical.
Anyway, I thank you all for being here.
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