The Trish Regan Show - CBS SPIRALS as Newsroom TURNS on Newly Appointed Network Chief! 60 Min Scandal IMPLODES!
Aired: 2025-12-24
Duration: 01:09:33


=== Chaos at CBS News (14:26) ===

[00:00:00]  And welcome, welcome.
[00:00:02]  Merry almost Christmas Eve.
[00:00:04]  Welcome to the program, everyone.
[00:00:05]  Good to have you here.
[00:00:06]  We're looking at a lot of chaos going on in the news industry right about now.
[00:00:09]  And it's funny because it's at a place I used to work, actually, CBS News.
[00:00:14]  Couldn't happen to some nicer people.
[00:00:15]  Let me tell you, they got a lot of issues over there.
[00:00:18]  I mean, a lot of issues.
[00:00:20]  And they're all sort of coming up to the surface.
[00:00:21]  I said this would happen.
[00:00:22]  Did I not?
[00:00:23]  I promised you.
[00:00:23]  I was like, you know, Barry, I wish her well.
[00:00:25]  But she's biting off more than she can chew because this place is kind of stuck in its ways and not in any kind of good ways, how dare she actually ask them to get somebody on record on the other side?
[00:00:39]  I mean, hey, it's CBS News, there is no other side, right?
[00:00:43]  There is no other side.
[00:00:44]  We're going to talk about that.
[00:00:45]  We get to talk about Jasmine Cronkett embarrassing herself on MSNBC.
[00:00:49]  We get to talk about a few other things like an awesome GDP report.
[00:00:53]  That's what I'm talking about.
[00:00:54]  I think Rick Santelli, my friend, you know, I used to work at CNBC, I've worked at a lot of networks.
[00:00:59]  Hallelujah!
[00:01:00]  Then I'm right here.
[00:01:01]  But Rick Santelli said, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, yeah, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, we're going to the moon.
[00:01:05]  4.3% on GDP.
[00:01:08]  We begin today on CBS News, a continuation of where we were yesterday, but new developments at this hour because I can tell you things are getting kind of dissonant, shall we say, amongst the rank and file there at CBS News because you see the rank and file are getting a little bit mad because they never liked Barry Weiss to begin with.
[00:01:28]  And they really don't like that Barry Weiss is making, what, $150 million?
[00:01:31]  Yeah, that's what David Ellison paid Barry Weiss to come in and try and fix the place.
[00:01:37]  Well, there's no fixing, okay?
[00:01:40]  Like, it's over.
[00:01:41]  I don't know what you're going to do with it, David.
[00:01:43]  I admire you for trying.
[00:01:45]  And, you know, more power to Barry, but she didn't quite know what she was getting into.
[00:01:52]  As a few people have pointed out, Barry has no experience in television.
[00:01:56]  And let me tell you, television is a whole other different animal.
[00:01:59]  You see, there's these television egos that you got to deal with, along with producer egos and editor egos and the whole smorgasbord.
[00:02:08]  Board of egos that go into producing a television program, even a bad one, like 60 Minutes, which at one point in time was actually relevant.
[00:02:19]  But in the new media world where everybody has kind of heard everything already and they're so late to the party, it's no longer relevant.
[00:02:26]  And I can tell you this reporter, she's a lovely reporter and she's a lovely person, but she was probably pretty wedded to her story.
[00:02:33]  I know her.
[00:02:34]  We were at CBS News years ago together.
[00:02:36]  I can also tell you that if you want to take on Barry Weiss, There's no better person to do it with than Sharon Alfonsi because Sharon is very well liked.
[00:02:44]  Everybody likes Sharon.
[00:02:46]  I've never met anybody that doesn't like Sharon.
[00:02:48]  I mean, you'd meet her and like immediately she's like your long lost sister and you'd be throwing down the bourbons and laughing your head off and having a good grand old time.
[00:02:58]  Okay.
[00:02:58]  She's like, she's a really cool girl and people like her.
[00:03:02]  She's come up through the ranks.
[00:03:04]  And she's not too happy because Barry Weiss next her story.
[00:03:07]  She said, hey, you need a few more people on the other side, which I suspect probably was fair, was a fair criticism.
[00:03:15]  But she criticized the wrong person, shall we say?
[00:03:18]  I mean, she could have gotten away with it, say, if it had been, oh, I don't know, Leslie Stahl, right?
[00:03:25]  I don't know if Leslie Stahl has as many fans in the building, but Sharon does.
[00:03:30]  So this is a mess for Barry Weiss and this is a mess for David Allison.
[00:03:35]  Here is, you saw the headline that's in the Daily Mail just a short time ago.
[00:03:40]  They said, mutiny at Cesspool, CBS.
[00:03:44]  I'm telling you, it is a Cesspool.
[00:03:46]  That's exactly how I describe it.
[00:03:47]  60 Minutes editor called BS and declared war over spiked deportation stories.
[00:03:53]  Staff prepared to quit.
[00:03:54]  An insider is accusing network star of grave error.
[00:03:58]  Maybe the insider is Barry.
[00:03:59]  I don't know.
[00:04:00]  I think it was a pretty big error.
[00:04:01]  I mean, I don't think you can do a story.
[00:04:03]  And I say this as somebody who was a good friend of Sharon's and actually respect her and like her a lot.
[00:04:09]  But you get inside a bubble, and when you don't think it's relevant to actually have, say, the administration on record addressing your concerns, well, you kind of missing half the story.
[00:04:23]  And I think the problem at a place like 60 Minutes is that they're just so used to their own stuff day in and day out.
[00:04:29]  Here was Morning Joe just salivating all over the story.
[00:04:33]  Use of the infamous El Salvador super prison, CCOT.
[00:04:39]  The decision was abruptly announced last night in this short social media post.
[00:04:45]  The final call to shelve the report for now reportedly came from newly installed CBS News editor in chief, Barry Weiss.
[00:04:54]  Okay, and now everybody's piling on.
[00:04:57]  Apparently, Katie Couric's even piling on.
[00:04:59]  You know, Katie Couric didn't do so well there.
[00:05:00]  Les Muniz brought Katie Couric in.
[00:05:03]  I remember this well.
[00:05:03]  I was a correspondent at the time.
[00:05:05]  I mean, I could discover the cure for cancer.
[00:05:07]  I wasn't getting on the air with Katie Couric, and nor was Sharon Alfonsi for that matter.
[00:05:10]  I think Sharon left for ABC around that time.
[00:05:13]  I left for CNBC.
[00:05:14]  She is masochistic enough to have gone back.
[00:05:20]  Yeah, not a great place to work.
[00:05:22]  Anyway, I digress.
[00:05:24]  The point being that Barry's finding this out the hard way.
[00:05:28]  Not a great place to work.
[00:05:30]  And Katie Couric, again, learned that.
[00:05:32]  What did they pay her?
[00:05:33]  Like $15 million?
[00:05:33]  And the place went bonkers.
[00:05:35]  They were like, what the heck is this woman getting $15 million for?
[00:05:38]  She doesn't know what.
[00:05:39]  She's doing, she doesn't really understand the evening news business.
[00:05:44]  And Katie eventually left with her tail between her legs.
[00:05:48]  And then, you know, you're bringing in Barry Weiss, and Barry's an outsider.
[00:05:52]  And the place is a very insulated, very insular shop.
[00:05:56]  And they don't take well to outsiders.
[00:05:59]  Think about the woman who runs 60 Minutes right now.
[00:06:01]  She's Bob Simon's daughter.
[00:06:03]  Bob Simon was a longtime correspondent there.
[00:06:06]  She's his daughter.
[00:06:07]  That's the woman that took over when the other guy was like, I'm not doing this.
[00:06:11]  I'm not doing this because.
[00:06:13]  They want to settle for $16 million for Donald Trump because we kind of edited that interview with Kamala Harris in a way that made Kamala actually seem smart.
[00:06:22]  I mean, you got to give them some credit for that, right?
[00:06:24]  Anyway, so now Barry's in the thick of it.
[00:06:27]  And she's the one that pulled Sharon Alfonsi's story.
[00:06:30]  And by pulling Sharon's Alfonsi's story, she's like ignited a firestorm.
[00:06:35]  I mean, the firestorm was already there.
[00:06:36]  Like, you know, it was brewing.
[00:06:39]  Like it was kind of, you had some kindling going on because you had these guys signing off.
[00:06:45]  Apparently they weren't going to get such great deals.
[00:06:48]  I mean, we're said they're retiring.
[00:06:50]  I think that they were kind of forced out.
[00:06:51]  One of them was John Dickerson.
[00:06:53]  He's the blondie.
[00:06:54]  And John Dickerson actually, again, talking about being bred from within, his mom was a producer there, one of the first female producers at CBS News.
[00:07:05]  And then there's Maurice, who had come up through the ranks in the local NBC station there.
[00:07:10]  in the same building, they were the Tweedledum and Tweedledee anchoring the CBS Evening News because I guess Nora O'Donnell, for whatever reason, they didn't like her.
[00:07:20]  It's all about the troops, and the troops didn't like her because apparently she had too big a wardrobe allowance.
[00:07:27]  I mean, I'm sure Katie's was bigger, but they didn't want you getting two bucks for your wardrobe allowance on CBS Evening News.
[00:07:34]  Oh, and she apparently requested rehearsals, and they didn't like that either.
[00:07:39]  Anyway, I would have said I didn't like her style overall because I don't like the way she treated the president during the debate.
[00:07:44]  But that's neither here nor there.
[00:07:45]  Toodledum and Toodledee, they're leaving.
[00:07:47]  And so, you know, there's speculation were they fired?
[00:07:50]  Were they forced out?
[00:07:51]  What's going on?
[00:07:52]  I don't think it necessarily matters.
[00:07:54]  The point is, they're gone, right?
[00:07:55]  So they're gone.
[00:07:56]  Barry's cleaning house.
[00:07:57]  She wants a whole new team.
[00:07:59]  She even wants to get rid of Gail King.
[00:08:01]  I mean, when you're going after Oprah's bestie, you don't think you're going to ruffle some feathers?
[00:08:06]  She's ruffling them, a lot of them.
[00:08:09]  I mean, and Gail's not going down without a fight, right?
[00:08:11]  TMZ caught up with her recently.
[00:08:13]  Hi, good morning, Miss.
[00:08:14]  Thanks, King.
[00:08:15]  Nice morning, too.
[00:08:17]  How are you?
[00:08:17]  So, this is very, very shocking to see those reports yesterday.
[00:08:21]  We're all wondering if you might be going in another direction.
[00:08:24]  Do you have an answer as of yet?
[00:08:26]  No, all I can say is this.
[00:08:27]  From what I'm being told inside this building, take a shot, 524 West 56.
[00:08:35]  All I've been told by everybody in this building is that they want me here.
[00:08:38]  They like the job I'm doing.
[00:08:40]  I like the job I'm doing.
[00:08:45]  I like the job of the people that I work with.
[00:08:45]  I'll say this.
[00:08:47]  So, I don't know what to tell you.
[00:08:48]  I was, I was, I don't know what to tell you about it, but what I'm hearing in the building is not what I'm reading in the press.
[00:08:54]  And what I'm not going to do is negotiate in the media.
[00:08:58]  Not doing that.
[00:08:59]  All right.
[00:08:59]  Do you have an idea, like, what things might look like in May if the show's going in another direction?
[00:09:03]  I have no idea.
[00:09:04]  No idea.
[00:09:07]  All I know is I am here.
[00:09:08]  I am here and glad to be here.
[00:09:11]  I'm happy to see them, Ms. King.
[00:09:13]  Bye.
[00:09:13]  Thank you.
[00:09:14]  Okay.
[00:09:15]  So, like I said, she's not going down without a fight.
[00:09:18]  So now you get a few things going on.
[00:09:20]  You've got the leadership at 60 Minutes having resigned in protest.
[00:09:26]  That was a big story in the New York Times, right?
[00:09:27]  You've got Gail King being threatened with losing her job.
[00:09:31]  You've got Toodle Dumb and Tweedle D.
[00:09:34]  I mean, it's hard to remember who they are.
[00:09:37]  I'm being unfair.
[00:09:38]  Maurice and Dickerson.
[00:09:41]  Okay, so again, twiddle dumb and twiddle d.
[00:09:43]  They're leaving and the whole place is imploding, right?
[00:09:46]  Because Barry's going in saying, I got to do my thing.
[00:09:49]  I got to, like, you know, make my changes.
[00:09:51]  And they're like, we're not having it.
[00:09:53]  We're not having it.
[00:09:53]  She went in and she pulled a 60 minutes piece that was going to air after they had gone through it and they had screened it.
[00:09:59]  And they thought it was absolutely positively perfect.
[00:10:01]  It was a, you know, absolute perfection, despite the fact that they had no one on record from the administration.
[00:10:08]  And so Barry had the audacity to say, hey, maybe you need someone.
[00:10:12]  On the other side, I mean, we are supposed to be journalists, right?
[00:10:16]  This is funny.
[00:10:18]  NBR reports Weiss refused to let the piece air without an on the record comment from the administration.
[00:10:28]  Okay, so how dare she?
[00:10:31]  You know, this is unbelievable.
[00:10:35]  I mean, she did say to them, and it's so true.
[00:10:37]  I mean, Tom Homan's been on the show a bunch.
[00:10:39]  I used to have Miller on all the time.
[00:10:42]  In fact, I could text Miller right now, as well as his wife.
[00:10:46]  And they'd probably come on this show.
[00:10:49]  And yet, no, do you think they were going to, of course they would go on 60 minutes.
[00:10:54]  Of course they would.
[00:10:55]  But apparently nobody even had his number, which is like wild to me.
[00:10:59]  Like you're 60 minutes.
[00:11:01]  Like you should have everybody on the, in the administration that you need to talk to kind of available and ready.
[00:11:05]  Right.
[00:11:06]  So apparently Barry Weiss saw the piece and she's like, I really think we need Stephen Miller or Tom Holman.
[00:11:12]  It's not like they're shy or anything.
[00:11:14]  No, they're not.
[00:11:15]  Can we get one of them?
[00:11:16]  And apparently, she had to give them the phone numbers.
[00:11:21]  I mean, I'm sorry.
[00:11:24]  Again, I like Sharon a lot, but like something's happened because you can't tell me that you don't even try to get Stephen Miller, who's on like every network he can go on and every podcast he can go on.
[00:11:37]  Like, what on earth?
[00:11:38]  Okay, so here is her email that has since been released.
[00:11:41]  So this has come out.
[00:11:43]  Axios, of course, did obtain it, and we credit them for that.
[00:11:47]  They published it here today, and we see.
[00:11:51]  Quote, hi all, I am writing with specific guidance.
[00:11:54]  This is Barry writing on what I'd like us to do in advance of the Seacott story.
[00:11:58]  This is the El Salvadorian prison, which actually my own, one of my team members here on the Trish Regan show, one of the producers, was just down there at Seacott himself and shot some great footage.
[00:12:10]  So it's not like, I mean, that was like maybe, oh, he can correct me if I'm wrong.
[00:12:15]  David, you can tell me if I'm wrong, but I think that was like six, eight weeks ago you were down there.
[00:12:20]  Like it's not like this is, I actually didn't put it on TV because.
[00:12:24]  It's, well, you know, I don't like seeing it.
[00:12:28]  Like, and I'm just moving on, all right?
[00:12:30]  I think America's kind of moved on, but the point is, like, that was months ago, months ago.
[00:12:36]  And that was another point that she made.
[00:12:37]  She's like, everybody's already seen this already.
[00:12:39]  Like, what are we doing?
[00:12:42]  Like, it's taking you this long to get around to it.
[00:12:44]  So, yeah, you know, it takes them that long to edit anything.
[00:12:47]  I mean, maybe Sharon was down there four months ago, for all I know, but it takes the folks over at 60 minutes.
[00:12:56]  The editor is a long time to string all these things together.
[00:12:59]  So she writes, last month, many outlets, most notably the New York Times, exposed the horrific conditions at Seacott.
[00:13:06]  Our story presents more of these powerful testimonies, and putting those accounts into the public record is valuable in and of itself.
[00:13:15]  But here comes the but.
[00:13:18]  If we're going to run another story about a topic that has now been much covered, we need to advance it.
[00:13:23]  Thank you, Barry.
[00:13:24]  You do.
[00:13:25]  Among the ways to do so, this is me underlining this in red, does anyone in the administration or anyone prominent who defended the use of the Alien Enemies Act now regret it in light of what the Venezuelans endured at Seacott?
[00:13:37]  That's a question I'd like to have asked.
[00:13:40]  I'd like to have that answered.
[00:13:43]  And there were a few other things.
[00:13:44]  Like I said, she said, you know, Hey, Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, these are not shy guys.
[00:13:49]  I realized we've emailed the DOH spokesperson, but you know what?
[00:13:53]  We need to push a little harder.
[00:13:55]  You don't just send off an obligatory email.
[00:13:58]  You know, when you want to get a guest, you go back and you go back and you go back and you go back.
[00:14:05]  If I want to book someone on the show, I don't take no for an answer.
[00:14:08]  All right?
[00:14:09]  60 minutes should not be taking no or no response for an answer.
[00:14:13]  She also said, at present, we do not present the administration's argument.
[00:14:18]  for why it sent 252 Venezuelans to Seacom.
[00:14:22]  All you do is have a Caroline Levitt soundbite in there, you know, from one of the pressers.

=== One-Sided Newsroom Arguments (15:20) ===

[00:14:27]  So, you know, I'm kind of with Barry on this.
[00:14:30]  I really am.
[00:14:31]  But I do think that Barry's up against it in ways that she did not anticipate, nor did her boss, David Ellison, who brought her in there, anticipate.
[00:14:40]  I mean, she's also saying, why are you calling them migrants?
[00:14:43]  They're illegals.
[00:14:45]  Why are we going with migrants?
[00:14:47]  Yeah, we were talking about this yesterday.
[00:14:49]  I told you I can barely keep up with the terminology.
[00:14:51]  I'm like, is it migrants?
[00:14:53]  Is it illegals?
[00:14:54]  Oh, is it supposed to be non-documented?
[00:14:57]  Like, just exactly what are we doing here?
[00:15:00]  I thought migrants was actually derogatory.
[00:15:02]  But like I said, it's hard to keep up with all the language.
[00:15:04]  Here is Barry Weiss talking about her grand plans for how the newsroom needed to change.
[00:15:09]  And I'm just telling you, and I could have told her back then.
[00:15:12]  In fact, the day that she got the job right here on the show, I was like, good luck.
[00:15:15]  Good luck, honey.
[00:15:16]  Because that place, it ain't changing.
[00:15:21]  One of the problems is a lot of people have tried to do centrist news.
[00:15:25]  I know this because I am like the target audience for those things.
[00:15:29]  And the reason that they have all failed is it's like trying to force feed spinach down someone's throat, right?
[00:15:35]  It's felt very like tofu, oatmeal.
[00:15:37]  It's like centrist news is choosing the midpoint between every single topic.
[00:15:42]  It's felt like an absence of charisma and identity in a moment of unbelievably low trust in all of our public institutions, especially the mainstream press.
[00:15:51]  I don't think it's by Pretending like we can go back to having a view from nowhere.
[00:15:57]  I think it's about who's in the room, right?
[00:16:00]  I think it's about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40 yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture.
[00:16:10]  Okay.
[00:16:12]  So she's kind of saying, you know, you guys gotta kind of get outside your comfort zone.
[00:16:18]  So what do they do over on MSNBC?
[00:16:20]  They say she has no business being in a newsroom.
[00:16:23]  She's not even a journalist.
[00:16:25]  Billionaires are compromising the most important journalistic institutions we have left in this country.
[00:16:30]  The game is obvious.
[00:16:32]  And in this case, Barry Weiss, who is, by the way, not a reporter, not a journalist, is cosplaying as one and is poisoning the well of one of the last bastions of investigative reporting that gets funded.
[00:16:43]  Wow.
[00:16:45]  So they want corporate America to fund the journalism, and they're like, it's all disintegrating before our very eyes.
[00:16:54]  And Barry Weiss is cosplaying as a journalist.
[00:16:56]  I said yesterday, and I'll go back to it again this guy's cosplaying as a television commentator on MSNBC.
[00:17:02]  I don't know who he is, but.
[00:17:04]  He's someone that they brought on to criticize one, Barry Weiss, who, by the way, was a New York Times editor.
[00:17:10]  I mean, granted, it was the New York Times.
[00:17:12]  And we can say what we want to say about the New York Times.
[00:17:16]  But, you know, she was at the New York Times for a lot of years.
[00:17:19]  She left because she didn't think that they were being fair, right?
[00:17:22]  That they were being too one-sided.
[00:17:25]  So she's trying to remake this newsroom.
[00:17:27]  Good luck.
[00:17:27]  So now you've got this woman, Sharon, who is very well liked by everyone within the news organization, who started her career there, who has come up through the ranks, and you know, it's one thing for Tweedledum and Tweedledee to lose their gigs and another thing for Oprah's bestie, Gale King, to lose hers.
[00:17:50]  But now you're going after somebody on the 60 Minutes team who has been kind of homegrown and that's not going to go over well.
[00:17:57]  According to Sharon, this is basically giving the administration the ability to have a kill switch on any story that they don't like.
[00:18:07]  As I understand this, Barry Weiss saw her story on Thursday.
[00:18:12]  Barry was like, I don't know about this.
[00:18:14]  I don't think this is right.
[00:18:16]  We need this, that, and the other.
[00:18:17]  Have you contacted Stephen Miller?
[00:18:19]  Have you contacted Tom Homan?
[00:18:21]  And so then apparently they went and they tried to contact them.
[00:18:24]  They also previously had reached out through the department spokesperson, but they had not heard back.
[00:18:32]  And so then, you know, the 11th hour during the Christmas season, they're like, hey, can you come on?
[00:18:37]  And apparently they couldn't.
[00:18:38]  or they didn't get back to them.
[00:18:40]  And so Barry didn't say she was killing the whole thing.
[00:18:43]  She just said, okay, we're going to wait.
[00:18:45]  We're going to wait and we're going to wait and make sure that we have the other side.
[00:18:50]  Well, they don't want the other side.
[00:18:53]  Don't kid yourself.
[00:18:54]  They don't want the other side.
[00:18:56]  Here we have in the Daily Mail, which has been all over this because, you know, they never met a good gossip story that they didn't, you know, I'm not going to criticize them.
[00:19:08]  I actually think they're a great paper.
[00:19:09]  I love the Daily Mail.
[00:19:11]  Here they are writing.
[00:19:13]  You know what?
[00:19:13]  They spoke to an editor and they're saying that Weiss's reasoning was bull, you know what?
[00:19:19]  She knows it.
[00:19:19]  We know it.
[00:19:20]  Everyone with a brain knows it.
[00:19:23]  She's just protecting conservatives.
[00:19:26]  Wow.
[00:19:27]  Okay.
[00:19:28]  I told you the place was screwed up.
[00:19:30]  They think it's just about protecting conservatives as opposed to having both sides of the story.
[00:19:35]  I'm sorry.
[00:19:36]  Not to mention that nobody cares about this story and nobody cares about 60 Minutes.
[00:19:41]  Reality.
[00:19:42]  I'm telling you.
[00:19:44]  I'm telling you.
[00:19:45]  I think we do more views, right, in any given month by a multiple of many, many factors.
[00:19:51]  What are we doing?
[00:19:52]  Like 158 million views over here.
[00:19:53]  It's incredible, right?
[00:19:55]  On YouTube, absolutely incredible.
[00:19:57]  They don't get anything near that.
[00:20:00]  And I just don't know who's watching them anymore.
[00:20:02]  Anyway, here is another little clip from Morning Joe talking about the saga.
[00:20:09]  60 Minutes correspondent Sharon Alfonsi criticized the decision in an email to colleagues yesterday that was obtained by several news organizations.
[00:20:19]  She said her team had reached out to the administration for comment several times and said the call to hold the story was, quote, not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
[00:20:33]  Weiss responded in a statement writing in part, holding stories that aren't ready for whatever reason, that they lack sufficient context, say, or that they are missing critical voices, happens every day in every newsroom.
[00:20:48]  I look forward to airing this important piece when it's ready.
[00:20:54]  Okay.
[00:20:55]  I like her.
[00:20:58]  And everybody's piling on.
[00:21:00]  Why?
[00:21:00]  Because everybody wants to seem important.
[00:21:03]  They want to seem like they're, you know, they're, I think I saw something, Megan Kelly or something is criticizing Barry.
[00:21:09]  I'm sorry.
[00:21:09]  Like, what are you guys doing?
[00:21:11]  Like, the woman's just asking for the other side of the story and everybody's willing to pounce.
[00:21:15]  Like, Katie Couric, of course.
[00:21:16]  Katie Couric.
[00:21:17]  And I would just say, you know, look, and I say this as somebody who respects Sharon as a reporter a lot, but I understand that as a reporter, we get really invested in our stories, right?
[00:21:29]  And especially one that takes as long as it takes.
[00:21:32]  When you work at 60 minutes, you'll work on something for months and months and months and months.
[00:21:36]  And yes, you go through multiple rounds of everybody looking at it, everybody trying to approve it, compliance weighing in.
[00:21:42]  But what happens when you've got a newsroom filled with people who think just like you?
[00:21:51]  There's no diversity of thought.
[00:21:53]  There are no Republicans in the room.
[00:21:55]  There are no conservatives.
[00:21:56]  There's certainly no MAGA types.
[00:21:57]  Forget about that.
[00:22:00]  You wind up with groupthink.
[00:22:01]  It's what happens at universities.
[00:22:05]  It's what happens in newsrooms.
[00:22:08]  It's what's happened at CBS.
[00:22:10]  And so now David Ellison, who is the new proud owner of Paramount, he's going in saying, we've got to do something.
[00:22:18]  We've got to do something different, right?
[00:22:19]  You know, I actually see this as a huge asset and we can make something out of this.
[00:22:23]  Heck, the guy's even willing to take on CNN and I predict he's going to get it.
[00:22:27]  I predict he's going to get it.
[00:22:28]  Now, a lot of people think this is really what it's all about.
[00:22:34]  Barry Weiss is trying to protect Paramount.
[00:22:39]  And David Ellison, in his Effort to secure a merger with Warner Brothers Discovery, parent company of CNN.
[00:22:54]  And they think that, you know, the president will have some say in that.
[00:22:57]  I mean, his DOJ will, but I don't think that's what's going to make or break anything.
[00:23:03]  I think that maybe Barry is mindful of the fact that they got sued for $16 million.
[00:23:11]  She's mindful of that, but I think she's also mindful of making sure that you have some duty.
[00:23:16]  Right to the audience to present both sides, and if you don't want to present both sides, then get out of the newsroom.
[00:23:22]  Thank you very much.
[00:23:23]  Okay, you know what?
[00:23:24]  You can go over and do a podcast.
[00:23:27]  I don't have to present both sides, I try to explain it all and then tell you how I think, but you know, frankly, I don't have to because I'm not obliged to.
[00:23:35]  I mean, out of my own sort of desire to make sure that you are as formed as possible, I try to do my best, but you know exactly where I stand, exactly what I'm thinking.
[00:23:47]  And I think that's the future of news.
[00:23:50]  You want to know where I stand, right?
[00:23:52]  Red blooded American capitalist that I am, you know exactly how I feel on things.
[00:23:57]  And I'm not going to hide it.
[00:23:58]  What's the point?
[00:24:00]  What you see is what you get.
[00:24:01]  I mean, I am all I have.
[00:24:03]  You can get an avatar to just read you straight down the middle of the fairway.
[00:24:08]  And so, you know, nobody wants to see that stuff anymore, which is why a show like 60 Minutes is so doomed.
[00:24:15]  And poor Barry trying to come in and maybe interject a little charisma and some personality into things.
[00:24:20]  They don't want it because they've only done it one way and they don't care if they are forced into total obscurity.
[00:24:29]  You think anybody's watching that CBS Evening News?
[00:24:33]  I've worked there.
[00:24:34]  Okay, you get a minute 30 for a piece.
[00:24:35]  Let's explain the entire economy in a minute 30.
[00:24:38]  Gosh, it takes me a minute 30 just to say hello to you guys when we start the show, right?
[00:24:42]  Like that's asking a lot.
[00:24:45]  And you can't possibly get all the information and nuances.
[00:24:49]  Who the heck wants to watch a 22 minute news program filled with all kinds of commercials on things that we really shouldn't be talking about frankly, inappropriate polite company.
[00:24:59]  Um, who wants to watch it?
[00:25:01]  No one, no one.
[00:25:03]  Because you do actually want some personality and some zip and some bizazz and you'll want to know what the heck the host is thinking right in between.
[00:25:09]  You know the pretty little faces, what's going on and are there any brain cells connecting?
[00:25:14]  Do they have a pulse?
[00:25:17]  Do they have a viewpoint?
[00:25:20]  Oh, they don't want you to know apparently, And I guess you guys have made your decision.
[00:25:26]  You just look at the ratings at the thing.
[00:25:28]  You just said, okay, we're out.
[00:25:29]  We're checking out.
[00:25:30]  I want to go to this clip, which some of you have seen before, because I think this is not just the end of CBS because the audience doesn't like it anymore.
[00:25:44]  It is also the end of some of these network shows as we know it, as we come upon the reality of one, they're expensive, two, they get no ratings, and three, you got the FCC breathing down their back like you've never seen before.
[00:25:55]  Brendan Carr is taking this very seriously.
[00:25:57]  There's this thing called the 1934 Communications Act.
[00:26:00]  And he's like, hey, guess who has jurisdiction over broadcast and radio?
[00:26:04]  Me, head of the FCC.
[00:26:08]  And I work for Trump.
[00:26:08]  I'm not independent.
[00:26:10]  Watch.
[00:26:10]  On those shows.
[00:26:11]  And are they doing what Kimmel did Monday night?
[00:26:14]  Is it even worse on those programs, in your opinion?
[00:26:20]  Well, if you can be unfunny, that's fine.
[00:26:24]  And a lot of people are sort of saying that, well, people are punishing Kimmel because they don't like a joke that he told.
[00:26:29]  But, you know, we don't need to rehash it here.
[00:26:31]  But obviously, what he said was not a joke, it wasn't presented at all that way.
[00:26:36]  But when you look at these other TV shows, what's interesting is the FCC does have a rule called the equal opportunity rule, which means, for instance, if you're in the run up to an election, you have one partisan elected official on.
[00:26:49]  You have to give equal time, equal opportunity to the opposing partisan politician.
[00:26:54]  So far, so good.
[00:26:55]  But there's an exception to that rule called the bona fide news exception, which means if you are a bona fide news program, you don't have to abide by the equal opportunity rule.
[00:27:05]  And over the years, the FCC has developed a body of case law on that and has suggested that most of these late night shows, other than SNL, are bona fide news programs.
[00:27:15]  And potentially, I would assume you could make the argument that The View is a bona fide news show.
[00:27:20]  But I'm not so sure about that.
[00:27:21]  And I think it's worthwhile.
[00:27:23]  To have the FCC look into whether The View and some of these other programs that you have still qualify as bona fide news programs and therefore exempt from the equal opportunity regime that Congress has put in place.
[00:27:38]  Got about 30 seconds.
[00:27:39]  Okay.
[00:27:40]  So hopefully that makes sense to you guys.
[00:27:42]  That's one thing.
[00:27:42]  He's talking about the equal opportunity rule that's there, which would mean, you know, you got to put Republicans on as much as you put Democrats.
[00:27:50]  You can't just keep stacking the deck with Democrats nonstop, which is what we've seen right on shows like The View.
[00:27:57]  And frankly, you know, apparently if you're going to go with a show like 60 minutes and you're not going to have the other side on there, they're kind of doing the same thing there.
[00:28:04]  So I think what he's trying to enforce here is some responsibility to offering two sides of the coin.
[00:28:13]  The other thing that he didn't talk about there that he has talked about in the past, and gosh, maybe I have this soundbite for you because it's fantastic.
[00:28:19]  He actually had to explain this to a sitting U.S. Senator, Jackie something, the other day on Capitol Hill because, oh, here I do have it.
[00:28:27]  It was unbelievable.
[00:28:28]  I mean, Jackie's just totally clueless.
[00:28:31]  Jackie has no clue that it turns out broadcast and cable are two different things.
[00:28:37]  And I want to just say this, and I'm going to say it over and over and over again.
[00:28:40]  And if I sound like I'm repeating myself, I'm sorry, but I want you to make sure you understand that because when people say, well, it's not fair, why would Trump's FCC be interfering?
[00:28:49]  Trump's FCC has every right to interfere in broadcast television and in broadcast radio because it all falls under the 1934 Communications Act, and there is a responsibility.
[00:29:02]  To have some kind of community involvement, community role, doing something that is good for the community.
[00:29:09]  You can do whatever you want over here, and I do, believe me, over on YouTube or Spotify.
[00:29:14]  You can do whatever you want on cable.
[00:29:17]  So, hey, Jimmy Kimmel, go get a show on cable.
[00:29:21]  Hey, 60 Minutes, I heard MSNBC is really looking for something not that you guys would rate over there either.
[00:29:27]  But in other words, those are the platforms where you have the opportunity to do whatever you want.
[00:29:32]  I want to show you this exchange because you've got.
[00:29:35]  Brandon Carr having to deal with the idiocy, frankly, of this woman who doesn't understand the distinction.
[00:29:42]  And I don't get this.
[00:29:43]  Like, I've known this forever.
[00:29:44]  By the way, you can swear on cable.

=== FCC Independence Questions (02:48) ===

[00:29:47]  Did you know that?
[00:29:48]  Oh, you can swear here, too.
[00:29:49]  I choose not to.
[00:29:50]  I really do.
[00:29:52]  And I cut them out of the sound bites, too.
[00:29:54]  Because, you know, there's no need for that, really.
[00:29:57]  It's Christmas time.
[00:29:58]  Here's Brandon Carr with the senator who's clueless.
[00:30:03]  Will you commit to opening an investigation into Fox News for its deceptive?
[00:30:07]  Editing of this clip again, yes or no, please, because I have questions for the other witnesses.
[00:30:13]  No.
[00:30:15]  No.
[00:30:16]  So you're an elected bureaucrat.
[00:30:19]  You're deciding that some investigations should go on and others shouldn't.
[00:30:24]  And are you basing this solely on the target or are you basing this on what?
[00:30:29]  What are you basing this on?
[00:30:30]  Can you answer that question?
[00:30:32]  This was clearly edited.
[00:30:33]  Why is one edit fine and one edit not in the middle of a presidential campaign?
[00:30:38]  Senator, it's based on the law.
[00:30:39]  The Fox News interview was on cable.
[00:30:41]  There's no public interest standard.
[00:30:43]  There's no broadcast hoax rule.
[00:30:44]  There's no news distortion.
[00:30:45]  There's no role for the FCC there.
[00:30:48]  No.
[00:30:49]  Well, I think there is a rule for fairness, and the American public understands what's fair and just.
[00:30:57]  And the FCC.
[00:30:57]  You think there's a broad fairness rule that we should apply at the FCC to keep the people in the world?
[00:31:01]  I'm going to go on to merger threats, then, Chairman Carr.
[00:31:03]  Is there a.
[00:31:04]  Oh, it's really.
[00:31:06]  By the way, Franger, thank you so much.
[00:31:08]  I appreciate the kind words.
[00:31:10]  Rock, A67, CBS was done years ago.
[00:31:14]  I agree.
[00:31:15]  I mean, like, I guess, you know, it really hasn't been the same since Walter Cronkite left.
[00:31:20]  There you go.
[00:31:21]  So the place is just a mess, and nobody seems to understand that Brendan Carr has a lot of power.
[00:31:28]  And you know what?
[00:31:28]  He just made it really clear.
[00:31:29]  PBS is losing it over this one because he made it clear that not only does he have a lot of power, but that he is not beholden to anyone other than the president who appointed him.
[00:31:37]  Watch.
[00:31:39]  Senators threw sharp questions at FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr during his first congressional appearance since the agency pressured broadcasters to remove ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel from the airwaves earlier this year.
[00:31:51]  Today, Democrats pressed Carr on whether he was politicizing an independent agency.
[00:31:56]  Just so you know, Brendan, on your website, it just simply says, man, the FCC is independent.
[00:32:02]  This isn't a trick question.
[00:32:03]  Okay, the FCC is not.
[00:32:05]  Okay, is not.
[00:32:06]  So, is your website wrong?
[00:32:07]  Is your website lying?
[00:32:09]  Possibly.
[00:32:09]  The FCC is not an independent agency.
[00:32:12]  During that hearing, the FCC's website changed, removing the word independent from its mission statement.
[00:32:19]  Boom.
[00:32:19]  Okay, so they took care of that one pretty fast.
[00:32:22]  His staff just said, well, we'll get rid of that little word.
[00:32:26]  We're not independent.
[00:32:27]  We're working for the president.
[00:32:29]  And that's that.
[00:32:30]  So, you've got the FCC breathing down the back.
[00:32:33]  Of CBS, ABC, NBC.

=== The Brand Over Truth (05:11) ===

[00:32:36]  This actually contributed to one of the reasons why you see Versant spun off.
[00:32:42]  That would be Rachel Maddow's new home, the Miz Network, right?
[00:32:45]  They wanted to get so far away from Rachel Maddow and company, they just turned them into a whole new company that they have nothing to do with at Comcast.
[00:32:53]  And this is what they're talking about doing at Warner Brothers Discovery.
[00:32:57]  And that's not just because of the political sort of hot potato that CNN is, but a lot because of costs.
[00:33:07]  Because let's face it, these cable companies, they don't make any money.
[00:33:11]  Network TV certainly doesn't make any money.
[00:33:13]  And so they're trying to say, how do we like evolve when we've got all this streaming competition?
[00:33:18]  It's not easy.
[00:33:19]  It's hard.
[00:33:19]  I get it.
[00:33:21]  But CBS News is not going to be able to evolve because they have so many people that have really, you know, the culture.
[00:33:27]  And, you know, you can say this about the place, like the culture is strong.
[00:33:32]  And often that's a good thing.
[00:33:34]  But at that particular place, I don't think so.
[00:33:38]  I think the culture might be a little toxic and a little too strong.
[00:33:43]  And they're not willing to take the viewpoints of any outsiders, let alone Barry Weiss, who is just an editor at the New York Times.
[00:33:50]  In other words, she hasn't worked in television.
[00:33:52]  Poor woman has not worked in television.
[00:33:54]  She does not know what she's getting into.
[00:33:57]  And she's got egos like you would not believe combined with a newsroom that's set up to hate her.
[00:34:02]  The $150 million alone is going to make everybody hate her.
[00:34:06]  Look, these things, you know, newsrooms are tricky places.
[00:34:09]  Remember when Megyn Kelly went over to NBC?
[00:34:11]  I was like, that's never going to work.
[00:34:12]  That's just never going to work.
[00:34:13]  It's never going to work because everybody at NBC has been working there their whole career and then suddenly sees her coming in making millions and millions and millions of dollars.
[00:34:21]  They don't like that.
[00:34:22]  Just like when Katie Couric went over to CBS, same thing.
[00:34:26]  She's making millions of dollars and the rank and file are like, no, no, no, I don't think so.
[00:34:30]  And in a newsroom, you need the newsroom behind you because think about all the people that go into contributing to that show.
[00:34:37]  I mean, it's a little different over here on YouTube.
[00:34:39]  It's kind of like you and me and the camera and I get David and I get Sal.
[00:34:42]  That's like it, right?
[00:34:43]  We're kind of bare bones.
[00:34:44]  I mean, we get a few extra resources here and there, but it's very, very different than having, say, 40 people on your crew and another 40 producers behind the scenes.
[00:34:56]  That means you need buy in from an entire organization.
[00:35:01]  And if you're not homegrown and you come in and you're making a ton of money, the knives are out.
[00:35:06]  Like, that's just the way it works.
[00:35:07]  And Sharon is homegrown, Barry is not.
[00:35:12]  Enough said.
[00:35:13]  Okay.
[00:35:14]  And Sharon actually has equity there.
[00:35:15]  People like her.
[00:35:16]  Like I said, this may not have happened with Leslie Stahl.
[00:35:18]  I don't know if Leslie Stahl has enough fans internally within the building in order to muster that kind of support.
[00:35:24]  But this story has legs and it's not going away.
[00:35:26]  And it's going to result in one of two things.
[00:35:28]  Either Sharon goes and like the whole 60 minute team goes and like there's total mutiny and you see more people just resigning one, two, three, like one after another.
[00:35:38]  Or David Ellison makes a decision that Barry wasn't the right person for the gig.
[00:35:47]  And maybe they need like a Zerinsky or somebody in there instead, the woman who used to run 48 hours.
[00:35:52]  And I think at one point did run CBS News because once again, she's homegrown.
[00:35:59]  Or you just say, you know what, we're getting rid of all of them.
[00:36:01]  I'm keeping Barry and all these reporters with their annoying ways and their prima donna attitudes are gone.
[00:36:09]  Gonzo, let's see if they can make it on YouTube.
[00:36:11]  Doubt it.
[00:36:12]  Although Sharon actually could, because believe it or not, she's got personality.
[00:36:15]  You don't see it on 60 Minutes, but she's hilarious.
[00:36:19]  And you don't see it.
[00:36:20]  This is part of the whole problem that network news has.
[00:36:23]  You don't really know who these people are.
[00:36:26]  Like they're unique characters in and of themselves.
[00:36:29]  She's one of the funniest.
[00:36:31]  But we don't get to see that.
[00:36:33]  And so you don't really know who is talking to you through the screen.
[00:36:37]  And that's a little bit by design.
[00:36:39]  I mean, a show like 60 Minutes, they.
[00:36:42]  They want it to be about the brand.
[00:36:44]  They want it to be about 60.
[00:36:46]  It can't be about Sharon.
[00:36:47]  It can't be about Scott.
[00:36:48]  It can't be about Leslie.
[00:36:49]  It has to be about 60 minutes.
[00:36:52]  This is one thing that Fox understood really, really well.
[00:36:54]  I think Roger Ailes, like from the beginning when he started this Fox News thing, he was like, I need personality, right?
[00:37:01]  Because what do viewers actually relate to?
[00:37:04]  They can watch news anywhere.
[00:37:05]  It's just a commodity.
[00:37:07]  They need to understand who the person is delivering the news.
[00:37:11]  And it's the same thing over here on YouTube.
[00:37:12]  I mean, I love it because there's no scripts.
[00:37:14]  I don't have to deal with any scripts.
[00:37:16]  I hate scripts.
[00:37:18]  I really do.
[00:37:19]  Okay, quick story.
[00:37:21]  When I was at Fox on my two o'clock show, there was this rather like, I don't know, I would just, I would do a commentary every day.
[00:37:28]  And for my commentary, I'd have like a loose bullet thing that I'd go off of, like, I'm going to get to this and then maybe run some video of this and I'll do this.
[00:37:36]  But then occasionally, like, I'd get in trouble with those commentaries.
[00:37:40]  Yeah, because I'd say things that would ruffle somebody's feathers somewhere.
[00:37:45]  You know, inevitably, I have a bad habit of doing that.

=== Why Scripts Fail Viewers (04:55) ===

[00:37:47]  Like I said, what you see is what you get.
[00:37:48]  So they were like, no, no, we have to write these out.
[00:37:52]  You're going to write them out.
[00:37:54]  You're going to get them approved.
[00:37:57]  And so that's how I had to live my life thereafter.
[00:37:59]  Not fun, right?
[00:38:01]  So I like the freedom I have here.
[00:38:05]  Make sure you subscribe, share, like all that good stuff.
[00:38:07]  We have a lot more news to get to today, but I just wanted to keep you updated on this.
[00:38:10]  This story is not going away.
[00:38:11]  And like I said, it's going to result in either more firings of rank and file reporters or.
[00:38:18]  The ousting of one Barry Weiss.
[00:38:21]  But if nothing else, it's going to be certainly entertaining, as they say.
[00:38:27]  Quick shout out for one of our sponsors here on the show.
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[00:39:55]  Hunter Biden, is this you?
[00:39:59]  I'm watching this podcast with Sean Ryan.
[00:40:03]  It was a good podcast, by the way.
[00:40:05]  And Hunter comes on.
[00:40:08]  I guess he's promoting a book or something.
[00:40:09]  I mean, he's always promoting something from art to books.
[00:40:13]  And he starts talking about his dad's administration.
[00:40:18]  We know his dad's administration was an utter failure, right?
[00:40:22]  In every form.
[00:40:23]  I'm going to tell you as an economic correspondent, I just found it to be atrocious.
[00:40:28]  When you're dealing with 9.4, 9.6% on the consumer price index and upwards of 10% on producer prices, that to me is just an abomination.
[00:40:38]  When you have open borders, that's an abomination.
[00:40:41]  And when you have 13 Marines that die in Afghanistan because you guys tried to rush this operation and you didn't think it through methodically, I'm looking at you blinking.
[00:40:49]  I'm looking at you, Biden.
[00:40:50]  I'm looking at you, Jake Sullivan.
[00:40:51]  You got a problem.
[00:40:52]  These guys did not do a very good job.
[00:40:54]  And this is what Hunter actually admit it.
[00:40:59]  Watch.
[00:40:59]  And he had mistakes like every other president has had.
[00:41:06]  Some that I may disagree with, but absolutely 100% had some real failures also.
[00:41:12]  What do you think some of those failures were?
[00:41:14]  I think one of the failures was the way in which they executed the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
[00:41:20]  I think it was an obvious failure.
[00:41:21]  I think 13 Marines are dead.
[00:41:25]  I think that there was a better way to do it.
[00:41:28]  And I think that, and I can blame it on his generals, I can blame it on the people the way in which we did it, but my dad always knew this also is that the buck stops with him.
[00:41:38]  I think that that was a failure.
[00:41:39]  I don't think leaving Afghanistan.
[00:41:45]  Wow.
[00:41:46]  Okay.
[00:41:47]  Well, that's good.
[00:41:50]  It gets better.
[00:41:51]  Hunter Biden caught on tape admitting the obvious, admitting that the open border policy that his dad so enthusiastically backed didn't work, was a bad idea, should never have happened.
[00:42:09]  Hunter, that you?
[00:42:11]  A vibrant immigration, but we don't want immigrants that are coming here illegally, draining us of resources, and also being prioritized above people that are actual literal heroes that are coming home, that are still recovering from 20 years of endless war, or anybody else in our society.
[00:42:39]  Right.

=== Venezuela Oil Deal Fallout (11:31) ===

[00:42:42]  Sean's like, I'm just not going to talk.
[00:42:47]  I'm just going to let him keep going and going because he's digging himself further in.
[00:42:50]  Like, whoa, okay.
[00:42:52]  What was that about?
[00:42:54]  Hunter, I think you need to go have a conversation with daddy.
[00:42:59]  Because that's not the policy that we saw from the Biden administration.
[00:43:02]  No, we saw millions and millions and millions of people come here illegally, and we are still paying the price.
[00:43:08]  You know it.
[00:43:08]  I know it.
[00:43:09]  He knows it.
[00:43:09]  Apparently his dad knows it.
[00:43:12]  Maybe.
[00:43:12]  Well, Hunter knows it.
[00:43:12]  I mean, think about that.
[00:43:13]  So now ask yourself the question, why is Hunter Biden saying this stuff now?
[00:43:17]  Is he going to run for office?
[00:43:20]  Is he trying to help the Democrat Party figure its way out of a paper bag somehow?
[00:43:26]  Because it's kind of in a corner and it's not doing so well.
[00:43:29]  You have only to look at the newest, latest, greatest polls.
[00:43:32]  And then it might help explain a little bit behind what Hunter Biden is saying.
[00:43:38]  So I don't get it.
[00:43:40]  I don't know why he would be so forthcoming in terms of what were obvious eras, unless he's looking at one, a political opportunity for himself, or two, some kind of hand in helping to direct the party in the future.
[00:43:53]  You saw the poll that came out the other day.
[00:43:56]  I mean, we talked about this, right?
[00:43:58]  I mean, Democrats are doing horribly, horribly, horribly, horribly.
[00:44:02]  Maybe he still hates Kamala Harris that much.
[00:44:06]  I mean, no love lost there, right?
[00:44:07]  Because Kamala took over for daddy and Kamala really helped sink the ship, even perhaps more than daddy would have.
[00:44:14]  And you have only to look at the newest poll numbers showing you that, oh my gosh, a Quinnipiac poll shows that the party's at a 15% approval rating, 77% disapproval rating.
[00:44:24]  That's really not good.
[00:44:26]  I mean, heck, Donald Trump's doing much better than that.
[00:44:29]  You get the president at least a 50% approval rating, according to a new RMG report.
[00:44:35]  And this is despite some concerns about the economy, which, by the way, I'm going to tell you in a short bit, are unfounded.
[00:44:41]  And so, you know, it's no wonder that Harry Anton over at CNN is saying this.
[00:44:47]  And the minds of the American public are lower than the Dead Sea.
[00:44:50]  What are we talking about here?
[00:44:52]  Well, let's take a look.
[00:44:52]  The net approval rating for Democrats in Congress.
[00:44:55]  You said it, Kate Baldwin.
[00:44:56]  The lowest ever.
[00:44:57]  Look at this.
[00:44:58]  Overall, they are 55 points underwater.
[00:45:00]  Their approval rating is south of 20%.
[00:45:04]  It's even worse when you look at independence.
[00:45:06]  Look at this.
[00:45:07]  Negative 61 points.
[00:45:10]  That means that their approval rating is 61 points lower than their disapproval rating.
[00:45:14]  Quinnipiac has been polling this question for the better part of the 21st century.
[00:45:18]  They have never found Democrats, at least those in Congress, in worse shape than they are right now.
[00:45:30]  Okay.
[00:45:32]  So this may be why Hunter Biden is now saying, hey, wake up, smell the coffee, pay attention to what's not working.
[00:45:41]  Immigration did not work.
[00:45:43]  There are other obvious mistakes that were very much front and center, Afghanistan being one of them.
[00:45:48]  I would also argue the economy is another biggie.
[00:45:52]  But you know what?
[00:45:52]  These Democrats don't want to admit anything.
[00:45:55]  They have a chance to take out the autopsy report and explain it to everyone, but they won't even go there.
[00:46:00]  No, no, no.
[00:46:00]  They want nothing to do with it.
[00:46:03]  And you got to ask yourself, why is that now?
[00:46:05]  I guess because they're embarrassed.
[00:46:07]  I guess because they don't want people knowing just exactly how bad it was.
[00:46:11]  There was some big, heated discussion on CNN about this the other day because somebody, oh, they just started freaking out, freaking out at the idea that we might actually come forward with this report.
[00:46:26]  It tells me that they really and truly can't handle reality.
[00:46:30]  Democrats can't handle reality.
[00:46:32]  Just watch this one right here.
[00:46:40]  Okay, that's how you know we're live.
[00:46:42]  We'll try it again.
[00:46:43]  Now, this CNN panel can't handle reality.
[00:46:46]  The Democratic Party, Kate, did an autopsy on why they lost in 2024.
[00:46:51]  They are not going to release it to the public.
[00:46:54]  How is this not a continuation of all of the reasons why the public doesn't trust the Democratic Party, thinks that they are?
[00:47:03]  This is laughable.
[00:47:05]  So why put Democrats in a barrel?
[00:47:07]  Because the facts are Republicans control the House. the Senate and the House.
[00:47:12]  18% of Americans approve of Democrats in Congress.
[00:47:16]  Listen, Republicans control the House, the Senate.
[00:47:20]  What does that have to do with anything?
[00:47:21]  The reality is Democrats ought to want to know where they went wrong, how they went wrong.
[00:47:27]  I mean, it's pretty obvious to some of us, but for them, they need it spelled out in plain English.
[00:47:32]  No need to get defensive about it.
[00:47:34]  Just confront reality.
[00:47:36]  Yeah, right?
[00:47:37]  Reality.
[00:47:39]  I mean, you guys might actually learn something.
[00:47:41]  And you might help explain it to more members of your party rather than keeping this thing under wraps.
[00:47:46]  Nobody wants to talk about it.
[00:47:48]  As soon as they're asked about it, they try and pivot to something like Venezuela, which, by the way, Trump is winning none too.
[00:47:53]  I need to tell you that in 2024, the Democrats didn't do well.
[00:47:56]  They lost the presidential election, didn't do particularly well with congressional races either.
[00:48:01]  The Democratic National Committee did this so called autopsy to figure out what went wrong and ordered this big report that was going to be made public.
[00:48:10]  But just yesterday, the chair of the DNC basically decided not to go public.
[00:48:15]  With this release, John Favreau, who used to be a speechwriter for President Obama, now is on Pod Save America.
[00:48:20]  He tweeted, Unreal, the DNC's actual position that if the public knew more about what Democrats got wrong in the last election, it would hurt the party's chances in the next election.
[00:48:31]  Isn't part of fixing what went wrong knowing what went wrong in the public?
[00:48:37]  I'm always in favor of transparency, John, and greater knowledge about mistakes that may have been made.
[00:48:43]  Frankly, my focus is on the future.
[00:48:47]  I think we know what we have to do.
[00:48:49]  To win in 2026, including, by the way, making public more about what the President's doing in that Venezuelan strike.
[00:48:58]  That opinion that was mentioned earlier in your show seems absolutely irresponsible.
[00:49:03]  The legal opinion to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that people should retire rather than raise illegalities, which is their responsibility to do as general officers or even privates, that legal opinion should be made public.
[00:49:17]  So should everything.
[00:49:19]  relating to the boat strikes.
[00:49:21]  I've seen that video.
[00:49:22]  America would be shocked and sickened by it.
[00:49:27]  And I think going forward, our focus in 2026 has to be on everything that the Trump administration is doing wrong, whether it's on affordability or concealment, the Epstein files.
[00:49:42]  I think that looking backward sometimes is helpful.
[00:49:45]  I'd like to see the so called autopsy, but I think what we have to have as our focus is going forward, strengthening and fighting for more seats in 2026.
[00:49:59]  But you don't want to actually learn what went wrong.
[00:50:05]  I see, because you do learn from your mistakes in life.
[00:50:09]  I say this all the time.
[00:50:10]  You learn and you move on, and it's all about, frankly, resilience.
[00:50:16]  I tell the kids this all the time because, you know, they get down about things and it's like, you know, you don't, what really separates those that succeed from those that don't are the people that just keep going back and they keep trying and they learn from their mistakes.
[00:50:33]  And when you learn from your mistakes, then you're resilient and you go back and you do better the next time.
[00:50:38]  And that's what the Democrats should be trying to do.
[00:50:40]  Not that we want to help them in any way, but they just can't seem to get that message.
[00:50:44]  By the way, Trump's killing it on the economy.
[00:50:46]  We're going to get there.
[00:50:47]  He's also killing it on the Venezuela stuff.
[00:50:49]  I mean, Venezuela, Colombia, every country that's sending illicit stuff here to the USA, guess what?
[00:50:56]  You have been warned.
[00:50:58]  Consider yourself warned.
[00:51:00]  I want you to hear the president speaking on the issue.
[00:51:04]  Reference the lower amount of illegal drugs that are coming by sea, and you just said that you're going to start that same program on land soon.
[00:51:11]  Are you just referring to Venezuela, or are you referring to other countries in Latin America?
[00:51:15]  Anywhere drugs are pouring in, anywhere, not just Venezuela.
[00:51:22]  Not just Venezuela.
[00:51:24]  Anywhere drugs are pouring in.
[00:51:25]  So Colombia, I do believe the quote was, he better watches, you know what?
[00:51:33]  Because he's manufacturing stuff there and sending it to the U.S.
[00:51:38]  So this is fascinating because as much as the Democrats want to flip out about this, don't forget he actually has the legal power to declare fentanyl, for example, as a weapon of mass destruction.
[00:51:53]  Because it's destroying so many lives here in America, and that's what he did the other day.
[00:51:57]  And now he's using that to say, Okay, I'm going to put up a naval blockade.
[00:52:00]  And so we've got a naval blockade, unlike anything you've ever seen there in Venezuela.
[00:52:04]  I mean, this is a really, really, really big deal, guys, and something that I think is getting overlooked.
[00:52:11]  Let me share with you some of the president's comments today on this because he's not messing around, as they say, really and truly, not messing around.
[00:52:21]  In fact, he sent out a very lengthy, very long truth social post.
[00:52:27]  that said Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest armada ever assembled in the history of South America.
[00:52:33]  It will only get bigger and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before until such time as they have returned to the United States, returned to the United States of America all the oil, land, and other assets that they previously stole from us.
[00:52:48]  The illegitimate Maduro regime is using oil from these stolen oil fields.
[00:52:54]  And by stolen oil fields, by the way, I just want to point out that the U.S. actually used to own a lot of that land there.
[00:53:00]  And Chavez kicked us all out and said, don't come back.
[00:53:06]  And so we lost all of those oil fields as a result of that.
[00:53:10]  They're using oil from these stolen oil fields to finance themselves, drug terrorism, human trafficking, murder, kidnapping, for the theft of our assets, and for many other reasons, including terrorism, drug smuggling, and human trafficking.
[00:53:22]  The Venezuelan regime has been designated a foreign terrorist organization.
[00:53:26]  Therefore, today I am ordering a total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into and out of Venezuela.
[00:53:33]  the illegal aliens and criminals of the Maduro regime has sent into the U.S. during the weak and inept Biden administration are being returned to Venezuela at a rapid pace.
[00:53:41]  America will not allow criminals, terrorists, or other countries to rob, threaten, or harm our nation.
[00:53:45]  And likewise, we will not allow a hostile regime to take our oil, our land, and other assets.
[00:53:51]  So this is really interesting.
[00:53:52]  He's referring it to his Rs because don't forget, American companies bought that land and bought those rigs and owned that property down there.
[00:54:03]  And it was the Venezuelan Chavismo regime that kicked them all out.
[00:54:07]  We're not going to allow that.
[00:54:08]  It all must be returned to the United States immediately.
[00:54:11]  Thank you for your attention to this matter.

=== Massive Economic Shifts (03:36) ===

[00:54:14]  So this is a big, big, big deal.
[00:54:20]  And I don't think we've ever seen anything like this.
[00:54:23]  Mark Warner, the senator from Virginia, was on CNN the other day and he was being asked about Venezuela.
[00:54:28]  And he actually said the Biden administration made a huge mistake by, for example, allowing Maduro to continue on there when he was not elected.
[00:54:37]  The people elected someone else, and yet Maduro said, well, forget about that.
[00:54:40]  I'm going to stay.
[00:54:41]  And then he said, you know, that was a mistake.
[00:54:44]  And why do we care?
[00:54:45]  We care, da-da-da.
[00:54:47]  You know I'm going to level with you because of oil.
[00:54:52]  It's home to the largest proven oil reserves outside of Saudi Arabia.
[00:54:58]  This stuff is thick.
[00:54:59]  It's tar-like.
[00:55:01]  It's not efficient.
[00:55:02]  But we actually have the technology to make it efficient.
[00:55:04]  We actually have the technology to make it thinner and more usable.
[00:55:07]  And we actually had a big presence down there until Chavez kicked us out some 20 years ago.
[00:55:13]  So Donald Trump remembers that.
[00:55:16]  The companies remember that.
[00:55:18]  And they want it back.
[00:55:20]  And this is where we are right now.
[00:55:21]  Plus, you get a twofer out of it, right?
[00:55:22]  Because, you know, they're really breaking Cuba in the process.
[00:55:26]  Indeed, indeed, indeed.
[00:55:27]  I want to turn, though, for just a minute here to the economy overall, because as much as, you know, people are saying, oh, you know, the economy, affordability, you heard the president recently say that's kind of just a.
[00:55:39]  You know what?
[00:55:40]  He's not entirely wrong.
[00:55:42]  Let's go to my friend Rick Santelli because he almost fell off his chair on CNBC when we got the read on GDP.
[00:55:52]  GDP report, really strong.
[00:55:55]  I mean, this comes on the heels of that great, great, great inflation report just the other day.
[00:56:01]  His colleague, Steve Leesman.
[00:56:05]  They don't always get along, right?
[00:56:06]  It's like Steve's on one side, Rick's on the other.
[00:56:09]  And Steve like literally almost fell out of his chair.
[00:56:12]  Because it was 2.7% inflation.
[00:56:14]  Everybody thought we were going to get like 3.3%.
[00:56:15]  2.7% is really good.
[00:56:17]  Really, really, really good.
[00:56:19]  And you know what else is really good?
[00:56:21]  4.3% on GDP.
[00:56:24]  Let's see if we can see it.
[00:56:33]  Maybe we can't, but that's okay.
[00:56:35]  Let's see.
[00:56:36]  We may actually be playing into the shorts feed for you because it was pretty funny.
[00:56:40]  He did a, you know, Santelli was sort of priceless.
[00:56:44]  Ooh, I think I do have it.
[00:56:45]  What do you know?
[00:56:46]  I do have it for you.
[00:56:47]  So I want to show you this with Rick Santelli.
[00:56:51]  Zoom, zoom, zoom, baby, okay?
[00:56:53]  Remember those words.
[00:56:55]  Zoom, zoom, zoom.
[00:56:57]  We're going to the moon.
[00:57:04]  This is sticky, let's say.
[00:57:05]  Check out this reporter and his excitement over massive, massive GDP growth.
[00:57:09]  Zoom, zoom, zoom, 4.3%.
[00:57:13]  4.3%.
[00:57:15]  Zoom, zoom, zoom, indeed.
[00:57:18]  Right?
[00:57:19]  Making perhaps those $2,000 checks more viable.
[00:57:24]  I mean, everybody's like, okay, are we going to get them?
[00:57:26]  Are we going to get them?
[00:57:26]  Are we going to get them?
[00:57:27]  $2,000 for each and every American.
[00:57:30]  Well, middle income and lower income.
[00:57:32]  I don't think that the higher incomes are going to get those, but it's been sort of Trump's baby in it.
[00:57:37]  likely will become a big issue as we go into midterms.
[00:57:41]  How do we sort of redistribute the money that has been gained thanks to a growing economy and the terrorists themselves?

=== Texas Reparations Debate (06:54) ===

[00:57:51]  I'll tell you, Jasmine Crockett doesn't know what we should do with anything.
[00:57:56]  Jasmine Crockett is running for Senate.
[00:58:02]  I can't believe I have to say those words.
[00:58:03]  I think the short answer is she's going to get to nowhere fast.
[00:58:07]  Anyway, Jasmine Crockett, who got redistricted out of her district when the map was redistricted, John in Texas has decided to continue trying to advance her political career.
[00:58:16]  And she was like everywhere yesterday, all over the airwaves.
[00:58:19]  And she even managed to get around to MSNBC, where, whoa, they like actually sort of asked her a tough question.
[00:58:28]  And I don't think it went that well.
[00:58:31]  No, because she has no answers.
[00:58:36]  Answers indeed.
[00:58:37]  Trying again.
[00:58:37]  Here we go.
[00:58:38]  Congresswoman, I'm so glad you brought up policy.
[00:58:40]  I went back and I watched your launch speech about your campaign for Senate, and a lot of it was talking about the back and forth with Trump and other people who have put you down over the years.
[00:58:51]  But there really wasn't that much about policy, so I want to give you the opportunity now to talk a little bit about that.
[00:58:57]  Affordability is on everyone's minds.
[00:58:59]  You talked about extending the ACA subsidies.
[00:59:02]  Can you give us, like, A couple of other examples of policies that you would fight for to help Texans, your constituents, on affordability issues if you were granted a seat in the Senate.
[00:59:15]  Yeah, so first of all, I think we need to raise the minimum wage.
[00:59:18]  We have not done that in a national way, and so Texas is not taking it upon themselves.
[00:59:22]  So the minimum wage is still $7.25.
[00:59:25]  We can start to go ahead and put more money into working people's pockets.
[00:59:29]  And whether you're a minimum wage worker or otherwise, we know that once you raise the minimum wage, everyone else's wages go up.
[00:59:37]  We know that costs are going up to the extent that we know that when people were showing up in those food lines as the president was sending $40 billion over to Argentina instead of making sure that people that are supposed to get their SNAP benefits had their money, we know that there were a lot of working class people.
[00:59:55]  We have somehow decided that in this country we were okay with two senators from Texas voting to make tax cuts for billionaires permanent while at the same time not being okay with making sure the tax subsidies.
[01:00:08]  are that are temporary are available as it relates to healthcare.
[01:00:12]  We also know that we are in Texas and we do trading big.
[01:00:16]  We are one of the largest trading states in this entire world.
[01:00:20]  And with that, we know that we are experiencing record bankruptcies from a lot of our small businesses because of the tariff policies that this president has decided he wanted to implement.
[01:00:30]  It is time to rein him in.
[01:00:31]  It is time to implement some sort of checks and balances because he has exceeded his power.
[01:00:36]  We also know that ultimately when I came down to making this decision, The Senate is the one that actually has oversight over the Supreme Court.
[01:00:46]  It is time for us to actually exercise some oversight.
[01:00:49]  And this is the only court, the highest court in the land.
[01:00:52]  It's the only one that does not have any type of ethics that they have to follow.
[01:00:57]  I think that we need to look at that.
[01:00:59]  In addition to the fact, anyone who gets a lifetime appointment has to go through the Senate.
[01:01:05]  And so it's time for us to make sure that we have someone who has been in those courtrooms and can make sure that the right judges are on the benches.
[01:01:15]  Okay.
[01:01:16]  So I don't think that went so well.
[01:01:18]  What do you guys think?
[01:01:19]  I mean, I'm kind of thinking, and there's another one I want to show you.
[01:01:22]  She's like almost giving Kamala Harris a run for her money in terms of word salad.
[01:01:28]  She's just really struggling.
[01:01:31]  There's another one on reparations that was just an absolute disaster.
[01:01:35]  She went on and did this podcast, and I'm like, Really, I mean, you want to run for Senate, but then again, hey, you know, Kamala Harris was elected.
[01:01:43]  The difference, though, is Kamala Harris was elected in none other than California.
[01:01:49]  And Jasmine is trying to run in Texas.
[01:01:52]  So when you can't even answer the softballs on some little podcast or on MSNBC, oh, sorry, the Ms. Network, the Ms. Now Network.
[01:02:02]  Yeah, I don't know what to tell you, but here's another one.
[01:02:05]  She's just digging herself in deeper and deeper and deeper.
[01:02:10]  I'm going to try to get through these quickly.
[01:02:12]  There's some misinformation going around about your stance on reparations.
[01:02:16]  I guess it's based off of someone proposed what we do with tax dollars.
[01:02:20]  Misinformation.
[01:02:21]  Misinformation.
[01:02:23]  Because you see, if we were to look at an old clip of Jasmine Crockett, I was just looking at this the other day, she's saying how basically you have to give reparations out because, you know, black people need it and there's really no other way around it.
[01:02:35]  So that's now suddenly misinformation.
[01:02:37]  And you gave critique for the idea, but you weren't necessarily saying you were.
[01:02:40]  Anti reparations.
[01:02:41]  No, no, no.
[01:02:41]  And you've told me you've become, you've come lead on a couple projects.
[01:02:44]  Yes.
[01:02:45]  Yes, like truth and reconciliation in the house.
[01:02:47]  That's something that Barbara Lee was leading on that I'm now working on.
[01:02:51]  I think that anybody that knows me knows that I'm a fan of, you know, making sure that people understand our contributions as well as acknowledging the harm that has happened as it relates to our people.
[01:03:07]  And so for me, it's always been about what is it that we can actually get past?
[01:03:13]  Okay.
[01:03:13]  I feel like what we do is we constantly have the conversation and we're like, reparations, reparations.
[01:03:19]  But it's like, all right, so if we were to move forward in any way, what does that look like?
[01:03:24]  And so, you know, I look at it like I think it takes kind of some bold, unapologetic people to move the needle.
[01:03:32]  We know that Donald Trump advocated for reparations for January 6ers, right?
[01:03:38]  And so it's like, why is that not a big controversy, right?
[01:03:41]  Like, I mean, that's a bit more controversial in my mind, right?
[01:03:46]  So, why is it that we can sit here and be okay with the fact that billionaires are going to get historic tax cuts that are permanent?
[01:03:54]  And That are permanent.
[01:03:56]  And we're not talking about like really evaluating what could move the needle as it relates to how far behind we got because of our contributions basically just from slave labor.
[01:04:09]  And yeah, so.
[01:04:12]  What was that?
[01:04:16]  What was that, Kamala?
[01:04:18]  That's sort of amazing.
[01:04:18]  Like, if you're gonna go into politics, Jasmine, like, kind of feel your way out on some of these issues ahead of time so you don't get yourself stuck.
[01:04:29]  in a situation like the one that we just saw.
[01:04:32]  You know, Kamala, if you're listening, that same advice would go for you as well.
[01:04:37]  They just are really clueless, clueless, clueless, clueless, not well spoken and not able to articulate any of their positions.

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[01:07:07]  So um, Another day, another story.
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[01:07:19]  I'm hosting this year.
[01:07:21]  Mm hmm.
[01:07:23]  Okay.
[01:07:26]  And I'm going to admit it.
[01:07:28]  I actually made the decision to outsource the cooking because there's a lot of people coming.
[01:07:37]  I think we have like 20 some odd people coming, Christmas carols and all.
[01:07:40]  Okay.
[01:07:41]  So dinner, carols, then church on Christmas Eve.
[01:07:46]  And I just, I said, you know what?
[01:07:48]  Between the show and getting all the kids' gifts wrapped and all of it, I'm going to just have it.
[01:07:56]  Pre made, so we got someone to cook for me and they're gonna drop it off.
[01:08:00]  I feel like I feel so sacrilegious doing that, but you know, the truth is, it was only like 10 or 15 more.
[01:08:08]  I'm like, I think I found a good deal on this caterer, so I'm like, this will work, and I'm really excited because we have so many really close friends and my family here with me.
[01:08:19]  Um, and then again, we're having an encore on Christmas Day and uh, lots more food again.
[01:08:27]  I admit, okay?
[01:08:28]  Like I admit, normally, you know, my mom's like, I don't know what to say about you.
[01:08:32]  You're such a disappointment in life, right?
[01:08:35]  All right.
[01:08:35]  I mean, the Republican thing kind of had her too.
[01:08:39]  To be a conservative and to not cook my own Christmas dinner.
[01:08:45]  Yikes.
[01:08:45]  This is like the first year.
[01:08:47]  I just figured, you know what?
[01:08:48]  I got a lot going on and we got a lot of people.
[01:08:50]  So hopefully the food is terrific.
[01:08:53]  I'm sure it will be.
[01:08:54]  But that aside, it's just, it's great to be with our loved ones at a time like this.
[01:08:59]  And I'm so lucky to have both my parents here.
[01:09:04]  It's really, it's a big deal.
[01:09:06]  It's a big, big deal.
[01:09:07]  So thank you for everything you do.
[01:09:09]  I'm so lucky to have you guys here.
[01:09:10]  I will be back with you again for a shorter little show tomorrow.
[01:09:14]  And we will keep this conversation going.
[01:09:16]  You know, I'm still going to be on all through the holidays.
[01:09:20]  I can't take a day off.
[01:09:21]  Like my husband thinks there's something wrong with me.
[01:09:23]  I just can't take a day off.
[01:09:26]  I really enjoy this.
[01:09:29]  So I hope you do too.
[01:09:31]  I'll see you guys tomorrow.
[01:09:32]  Bye.