The Trish Regan Show - CBS’s New Management FAILS in Network REVAMP! Ratings PLUNGE as Bari Weiss Doubles Down on DISASTER!
Aired: 2026-01-17
Duration: 01:17:38


=== Legacy Media Fades Away (14:36) ===

[00:00:02]  Welcome to the big show.
[00:00:03]  Always interesting when we get another network news entity going under, effectively.
[00:00:09]  I mean, maybe not going under literally in the sense that they still have deep pockets, right?
[00:00:13]  David Ellison just bought CBS, but we're talking about going under because no one's watching.
[00:00:17]  I mean, if no one was watching before, whatever they're trying, it ain't working, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:00:22]  Welcome to the program.
[00:00:22]  I am Trish Regan, where we are not mainstream media.
[00:00:25]  We are not legacy media.
[00:00:26]  We're cutting edge new.
[00:00:28]  There are no prompters here.
[00:00:29]  You'll see what I mean in just a moment.
[00:00:31]  Welcome.
[00:00:32]  We're going to get to the CBS evening news story where ratings are plunging amid the big redo.
[00:00:36]  from one Barry Weiss who thought she could fix it all.
[00:00:39]  Ha!
[00:00:39]  Good luck.
[00:00:40]  Plus, the Pentagon leaker jailed by Pam Bondi's DOJ that has been confirmed that there was an entry into a Washington Post reporter's house, the FBI doing that entry and investigation, coming out with evidence, and now putting that leaker behind bars.
[00:00:56]  We'll have more on that story.
[00:00:58]  We have learned that the man that was rammed by, nearly rammed, by the vehicle that Renee Good was in that he then shot back at, that would be Jonathan Ross.
[00:01:08]  He has been hospitalized or was hospitalized.
[00:01:10]  The administration says for internal injuries, we'll have some details on that.
[00:01:15]  Plus TSA, oh my gosh.
[00:01:17]  They're announcing that $700 million in like 2023 and 24, I believe, left the Minneapolis airport.
[00:01:26]  It's nearly a billion.
[00:01:27]  And that's actually what they declared in cash, in cash, like in suitcases, out of the country altogether.
[00:01:32]  What the heck is going on?
[00:01:34]  I mean, Donald Trump, he can't stop those visas and can't stop the money to the sanctuary cities fast enough.
[00:01:41]  We begin today on CBS News, which is just imploding in real time.
[00:01:44]  I mean, you thought it was bad as we were going into Christmas and the whole 60 Minutes fiasco because, gosh darn it, Barry Weiss, who's the new person in charge there brought in by David Ellison to kind of shape the place up.
[00:01:55]  Well, she actually wanted them to get like an extra source or two, like maybe from the administration when they were reporting out a story on immigration.
[00:02:03]  God forbid they'd be told to do that, right?
[00:02:05]  Anyway, she's having a hard time.
[00:02:07]  I mean, like a really, really hard time because she's trying stuff and it ain't working.
[00:02:12]  It's not working.
[00:02:14]  And you know what?
[00:02:14]  It's not going to work.
[00:02:15]  I can tell you this because, look, I've worked in mainstream media and I've worked actually at CBS Evening News.
[00:02:21]  And there's no way any of this is going to change.
[00:02:22]  And there's no way those people are going to change.
[00:02:24]  They are who they are.
[00:02:25]  And unless you just say, I'm going to fire everyone and start all over, I don't think you get much to work with.
[00:02:30]  On top of that, you get an audience that's actually not really into you trying new things.
[00:02:34]  I mean, I hate to break it to you, Barry, but the CBS Evening News audience is an audience that actually is not going to be watching The Trish Regan Show over here on YouTube.
[00:02:45]  They're an audience that is not even watching cable.
[00:02:48]  Like, I mean it.
[00:02:50]  I used to wonder when I worked there, like, who actually watches this?
[00:02:53]  Really and truly, I think I was recognized once in my life.
[00:02:56]  And they, at that time, had 7 million viewers.
[00:02:59]  It's now since plummeted to four.
[00:03:01]  Now I'm on YouTube and like, you know, people are stopping me at the airport and blah, blah, blah.
[00:03:04]  It's not about me, by the way.
[00:03:05]  It's not about me.
[00:03:06]  And you'll see why I'm going to say that in a second, because Barry apparently does think it's all about her and the whole team there at CBS.
[00:03:12]  They want to be the news.
[00:03:13]  They're becoming the news in kind of a bad way.
[00:03:16]  But I make this point only because it's not that accessible to people.
[00:03:20]  Or maybe only to a certain clientele, and that certain clientele and that clientele, that viewer, does not like change.
[00:03:29]  So good luck, Barry.
[00:03:31]  You can't change this.
[00:03:32]  It's 22 minutes of dribble drabble.
[00:03:35]  That's all scripted out and, by the way, you're learning this.
[00:03:38]  You're learning this because you're part of the scripting process, I understand.
[00:03:40]  Yeah, we're going to see how that went.
[00:03:42]  Not so well last week.
[00:03:43]  I mean, for goodness sakes, they're even making fun of her on her own award show at the Golden Globes, where they were saying, this is um c, like you've got to c bs, as in BS news.
[00:03:58]  I thought that was a good one.
[00:03:59]  Apparently that didn't get okayed by management.
[00:04:01]  CBS Evening News Variety writes under the new anchor, God help me if I can pronounce his name, Tony DeCopil.
[00:04:08]  We're going to go with that.
[00:04:10]  I'd never seen him up until like this whole thing, is down 23% in viewership compared to the same period a year ago.
[00:04:16]  The decline underscores the challenge, the big challenge facing Barry Weiss, the new editor-in-chief.
[00:04:22]  You can see that the New York Times is getting in on this too.
[00:04:26]  See, the media loves to pick on other members of the media.
[00:04:29]  And let's just say the New York Times is like loving this because what's happening?
[00:04:34]  Well, CBS is leaking like a freaking sieve.
[00:04:37]  Everybody over at CBS News is annoyed that Barry's in.
[00:04:40]  They're annoyed that she's making so much money, of course, because she just came in, what, 150 million bucks and they bought out her free press and they think that she's the answer to everything.
[00:04:50]  And they're like, no, no, no.
[00:04:51]  You don't understand.
[00:04:51]  We're the answer.
[00:04:52]  Okay.
[00:04:52]  We know how it's done here at 60 Minutes.
[00:04:54]  We've done it the same way since 1950 something and we're not changing.
[00:04:58]  Okay.
[00:04:59]  We went to color TV.
[00:05:00]  That's about it.
[00:05:02]  You know, I'm telling you, even Walter Cronkite might have embraced just a little bit more change, but no, they don't want any of it, any of it, any of it, any of it.
[00:05:12]  So as a result of this, yeah, they're down 23%, 23% and counting.
[00:05:18]  In fact, I think the latest and greatest out of the Wall, forgive me, not the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, they're all the same.
[00:05:24]  What can we say, right?
[00:05:25]  Especially these days, the Wall Street Journal used to be a little bit better.
[00:05:27]  Now it's turning into the New York Times.
[00:05:29]  Anyway, they're saying like down 28%.
[00:05:31]  So it's not good.
[00:05:35]  It's not good at all.
[00:05:37]  By the way, if you are tuning into this, make sure you subscribe.
[00:05:39]  I got to tell you, my producer, my own producer who watches this show live in real time out in California, I got a couple producers, one in Florida.
[00:05:46]  That's the good place to live.
[00:05:48]  I always tell them, you know, better tax environment.
[00:05:51]  And my producer in California, he actually said to me yesterday, even though he watches the show every single day live, that he wasn't getting his announcements, like his alerts saying I was live.
[00:06:03]  And so many of you guys have said that to me in the chat.
[00:06:06]  So I actually wanted to just flag that.
[00:06:08]  He asked me that I flag that for you.
[00:06:09]  I may wind up flagging it for you a couple of times here because it's important that you actually subscribe and that you hit all notifications.
[00:06:20]  And even if you have subscribed before, I'm going to show you what happened.
[00:06:23]  I know we're doing a little diversion here away from one CBS Evening News, but can you guys see that?
[00:06:32]  Okay, so this is what he sent me yesterday.
[00:06:34]  He's like, Trish, Trish, Trish, Trish, look at this.
[00:06:36]  He said, I am subscribed to all of your alerts.
[00:06:40]  And look at that.
[00:06:41]  The bell was off.
[00:06:43]  So he wasn't alerted.
[00:06:44]  So just heads up, make sure if you haven't subscribed, go back and subscribe again.
[00:06:48]  It just, it helps.
[00:06:49]  Anyway, back to CBS where nobody's subscribed.
[00:06:52]  Nobody's watching.
[00:06:53]  We need to be the news.
[00:06:54]  That was Barry Weiss's line.
[00:06:56]  And they're saying, you know, inside Barry Weiss's very bumpy revamp at CBS, it's not much of a revamp.
[00:07:03]  Apparently Nora O'Donnell was pulling a bigger number than this guy.
[00:07:05]  Meanwhile, Barry's like, you know, tooling with the script right before air, which I just got to say, like, you know what?
[00:07:16]  Thank goodness I'm over here because we don't got no scripts over here.
[00:07:20]  You know what?
[00:07:20]  This is all live.
[00:07:22]  I don't have to follow.
[00:07:24]  Any rules, any scripts.
[00:07:26]  I don't have to read somebody else's story.
[00:07:27]  I get to go to whatever story I want to go to whenever I want to go to it, unlike poor Tony.
[00:07:31]  Tony, who told us he went on some big nationwide tour and was like, I'm going to be your voice.
[00:07:36]  I'm here working for you.
[00:07:37]  No, no, he's working for Barry and the producers.
[00:07:40]  They're calling the shots.
[00:07:41]  Watch.
[00:07:42]  First night.
[00:07:42]  All right, to other news, as you just heard from Jill, well, to other news now, to Governor Walls.
[00:07:48]  No, we're going to do Mark Kelly.
[00:07:50]  First day, first day, big problems here.
[00:07:53]  All right, to other news, as you just heard from Jill, well, to other news now, to governor Walls.
[00:07:59]  No, we're going to do Mark Kelly.
[00:08:01]  First day, first day, big problems here.
[00:08:04]  Out.
[00:08:05]  Are we going to Kelly here or are we going to go to Jonah Kaplan?
[00:08:11]  We're doing Mark Kelly, possibly demoted from his retired rank of captain in the Navy.
[00:08:18]  Now we go to Minnesota.
[00:08:19]  A surprise announcement from the okay.
[00:08:24]  That's a rough one, right?
[00:08:26]  Your first night out.
[00:08:27]  He's actually quite a pro.
[00:08:29]  Quite a pro because, and Cat Crazy Sam, thank you for the super chat.
[00:08:32]  I just saw that right there.
[00:08:33]  Much appreciated.
[00:08:35]  We have a very interactive show here on the Trish Regan Show.
[00:08:37]  They can't do that on CBS Evening News either.
[00:08:39]  But you know what?
[00:08:40]  It's kind of interesting, right?
[00:08:41]  Because it gives you this glimpse.
[00:08:42]  What we just saw there with Tony is that you see that he's actually not in charge.
[00:08:47]  He's like, what are we doing, guys?
[00:08:49]  What are we doing?
[00:08:50]  Help, help, help.
[00:08:51]  The teleprompter went down.
[00:08:52]  What am I going to do?
[00:08:53]  Where's Barry when you need her?
[00:08:54]  Why was she futzing with the script?
[00:08:56]  That was what also came out of the New York Times article.
[00:08:59]  They said Barry was messing around.
[00:09:01]  And this is what got picked up by the trade publications media at one of those trade publications nasty little thing it is.
[00:09:07]  Anyway, Barry Weiss helped cause Tony The Copple's viral teleprompter gaffed by tinkering with the script minutes before the CBS debut.
[00:09:16]  So you see what's going on.
[00:09:17]  I don't know if she did or she didn't, I don't know if somebody there kind of wanted to tinker with the, the prompter him or herself right, because somebody else is running that and did somebody, did somebody?
[00:09:28]  I mean I'm not suggesting it was sabotage, but you know, like this isn't, i'll tell you if you, if you're, if you've got a prompter, you kind of want to own that prompter yourself, you want to run the prompter yourself.
[00:09:40]  Or what I learned in my career and I learned this early on because in the very beginning of my career there was this um woman who was kind of disagreeable and she used to run the prompter and she was another anchor oh, you definitely don't want that right, another anchor running your prompter.
[00:09:56]  And I learned very early in in my tenure there this was at Bloomberg that I really needed to know my stuff because chances were she just didn't care enough to actually stay with me on the prompter.
[00:10:08]  Or, by the way, like, and in her defense, she shouldn't have had to do that.
[00:10:12]  Or, you know, maybe she just didn't feel like it.
[00:10:14]  And maybe she kind of wanted to stick it to me on one day or another.
[00:10:17]  I said, I'm not going to take this chance.
[00:10:18]  I'm going to know my script inside and out.
[00:10:20]  I'm going to know everything I'm talking about because I just don't want to be there with that kind of risk.
[00:10:25]  Unfortunately for him, he didn't know where he was going.
[00:10:28]  He was waiting for the producers to call the shots.
[00:10:30]  And you never want to be in that position, right?
[00:10:32]  Because you want to know.
[00:10:33]  Even at Fox, I'll tell you, I wouldn't have been in that position because I would have been saying, we go here.
[00:10:38]  We go here.
[00:10:39]  We go here.
[00:10:40]  It is, at least my show at Fox was very producer supportive in talent, as they call you if you're on camera, the talent, in talent led.
[00:10:51]  So when the talent's leading the show, they're telling the producers what to do as opposed to the producers telling the talent what to do.
[00:10:58]  Do you understand the distinction?
[00:10:59]  And so the distinction is also really important when you come over to here, you know, and you're over in YouTube land and we're streaming and anything can happen.
[00:11:06]  And by the way, Let me just say, if you've been watching this show, anything does happen.
[00:11:12]  Leslie can tell you this.
[00:11:13]  I'm looking to see if she's in the chat today.
[00:11:15]  Leslie can tell you this because, I mean, occasionally the mic's gone down.
[00:11:17]  I mean, heck, I've even had the camera go down.
[00:11:20]  And people keep saying to me, well, why do you do it live still?
[00:11:23]  And I'm like, I just like it.
[00:11:26]  I like the energy of live and I like seeing all you guys here.
[00:11:29]  And apologies for being late.
[00:11:31]  We had a ton of elements to get in and we underestimated the amount of time it would take to get all these things in.
[00:11:37]  we as in me.
[00:11:40]  So this is what you see is what you get.
[00:11:43]  And, you know, if there's a teleprompter gaffe, well, there'll never be a teleprompter gaffe, but there could be some other kind of gaffe.
[00:11:49]  And you guys are great and you're super forgiving.
[00:11:51]  But apparently the CBS News is not so forgiving an audience and certainly not so forgiving a newsroom.
[00:11:57]  So what happened was that in the rush before airtime, she allegedly was in there tinkering with the script.
[00:12:04]  And according to the New York Times, Tony, I'm going to skip the last name because you know, I don't want to mutilate it, was flummoxed when he encountered the same words twice.
[00:12:14]  Yeah, you know, wait a second, didn't I just read that?
[00:12:18]  And he asked his producers out loud which segment he was supposed to turn to next, right?
[00:12:23]  Are we going to Kelly?
[00:12:23]  Are we doing this?
[00:12:24]  What are we doing?
[00:12:27]  And it just wasn't a good look.
[00:12:29]  So the Daily Signal has an interesting report out today.
[00:12:32]  This is their headline, and they're saying if the old guard destroys Barry Weiss, legacy media may finally die.
[00:12:39]  Woohoo!
[00:12:40]  Okay, so, and believe me, they will.
[00:12:41]  They will destroy her.
[00:12:43]  Look at what's going on in 60 Minutes.
[00:12:45]  By the way, I like Sharon.
[00:12:46]  She's someone who would benefit tremendously from being on a different kind of platform where you're not like wrapped up in a bunch of, you know, tightly wound tourniquets, which is what it's like.
[00:13:01]  I mean, just the way they speak, right?
[00:13:03]  In tonight's evening news broadcast, we, I mean, it's like, come on, guys, get it out, get it out, get it out.
[00:13:11]  But they want you to speak slowly, maybe, maybe for the audience so that they can, you know, hang on to every word.
[00:13:16]  I don't know, but.
[00:13:18]  Gosh, you only have 22 minutes in the evening news anyway.
[00:13:21]  You ought to speed it up so you can get some more content in there, right?
[00:13:25]  You get like a minute 30.
[00:13:27]  I've told you this story before, maybe a 10 second tag.
[00:13:29]  God help you if you went 12 seconds.
[00:13:31]  This was always my problem.
[00:13:32]  Trish, Trish, stay to time.
[00:13:34]  I have a lot to say.
[00:13:35]  What can I say?
[00:13:37]  I'm trying to speak as quickly as I can.
[00:13:40]  Okay, all right, all right.
[00:13:41]  But it's very tightly wound.
[00:13:43]  And look, it's just the product of what it is, right?
[00:13:45]  They've got 22 minutes of news.
[00:13:47]  They get eight minutes of commercials.
[00:13:48]  They get a sandwich into a 30 minute long show.
[00:13:51]  So where is the market for that anymore?
[00:13:53]  I guess they still have a market.
[00:13:54]  They still have like 4 million people watching, but it's nothing compared to NBC and ABC who have like 7 million and 8 million.
[00:14:02]  I was kind of shocked by that.
[00:14:03]  But back in my day, we had like 7 million on CBS Evening News and we had, I want to say 11 million on our competitors.
[00:14:12]  So what are they doing at CBS?
[00:14:14]  You know, David Ellison is trying to reinvigorate this, trying to reimagine this.
[00:14:20]  But you're running into a resistance both within the newsroom, right?
[00:14:23]  All the sort of old cronies that have been there forever and kind of like the way things are.
[00:14:28]  I mentioned Sharon before.
[00:14:30]  She's one of the, you know, she's young.
[00:14:32]  I mean, because if she's in her 50s, you know, the other woman on the show is in her 80s.

=== Reimagining Network News (09:23) ===

[00:14:39]  So, hey, you're like the kid.
[00:14:41]  You feel really good when you're walking around at CBS because you're like, damn, I'm young.
[00:14:45]  Like this feels really, really good because everybody else is almost twice my age.
[00:14:51]  So there's that.
[00:14:52]  But like she's a great example of somebody who's got a ton of personality, but you don't necessarily see that on camera.
[00:14:56]  I would say that when I was reporting there and even when I was reporting in other venues, you didn't always get to see my personality because you are sort of pigeonholed into this, okay, here's the prompter.
[00:15:07]  Here's the script.
[00:15:08]  This is what we're doing.
[00:15:09]  And so I think in my last gig, you probably saw a little bit more of that personality come out, but you know, personality can get you in trouble now and then.
[00:15:17]  That's what I've learned because I just call it like I see it.
[00:15:19]  So this is very freeing and this is very different.
[00:15:22]  But how do you take what we're doing here, right?
[00:15:24]  And you put it into an institution like CBS?
[00:15:27]  I don't think she can.
[00:15:28]  I don't think she can do it.
[00:15:29]  I've said this for a while.
[00:15:31]  I think she's just writing off more than she can chew.
[00:15:34]  Nikki Glazer making fun of her at the Golden Globes the other night, which apparently according to the New York Post, that particular joke never got approved by management, I'm sure, because I think David Ellison was in the audience.
[00:15:46]  Remember, Ellison, his dad is a big deal.
[00:15:49]  He's Larry Ellison.
[00:15:51]  And Ellison had Skydance and he went out and bought Paramount, Paramount being the parent company of CBS.
[00:15:56]  And everybody's mad because Barry has a reputation for maybe being a little bit more centrist, right?
[00:16:03]  She's not like a Looney Tunes lib.
[00:16:05]  And so they brought in somebody who has worked in print, by the way, That's hard too.
[00:16:11]  She hasn't worked in TV, so she doesn't know the massive egos she's dealing with in TV, even on the producer front.
[00:16:16]  I mean, you got talent, and they're like a whole special little breed onto themselves.
[00:16:20]  And then you get the producers, and none of them are like print.
[00:16:23]  Like, print are the nicest people in general.
[00:16:25]  I mean, except for some lately, it's gotten kind of nasty.
[00:16:28]  But, you know, for the most part, they're very, like, humble.
[00:16:32]  And that's not the case, dare I say, in television.
[00:16:37]  And so she's coming from print, and she's managed, print journalists, granted, opinion editorial type people.
[00:16:44]  So there's a little bit more ego there, but it's just not the same as the ego that you're running into when you get into the CBS News land and television land.
[00:16:52]  So she's got a lot on her plate.
[00:16:54]  Nikki Glazer again taking a stab at CBS, calling it CBS news.
[00:17:01]  And that's what it feels like, right?
[00:17:03]  It's a bunch of BS, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:17:06]  Gosh, I spent a lot of time on this story.
[00:17:08]  You know, I just know a lot about it.
[00:17:09]  I guess that's the bottom line.
[00:17:11]  And I think to myself, back in those days when, you know, we as correspondents in the Northeast Bureau, and I think Jim Acosta was there when I was there, and Sharon was there as well.
[00:17:20]  And it was a little bit more normal back then, I guess.
[00:17:24]  That was pre-Trump.
[00:17:25]  And we would, you know, sit around and some of them would have these things called YouTube videos.
[00:17:31]  And I'd be like, huh?
[00:17:36]  What?
[00:17:37]  Like, what is that?
[00:17:38]  And like, they'd be watching the cat memes or something.
[00:17:40]  And they thought it was this.
[00:17:42]  And I'm like, what is it like?
[00:17:43]  So to me, YouTube was sort of synonymous with something else entirely, which was like you were somebody broadcasting from your parents' basement on like public access TV, or you were like producing cat memes.
[00:17:57]  I had no idea what it was.
[00:17:58]  If somebody had told me, I wish I knew way back when what this was about to become and sort of how, and my husband used to actually tell me and say, content, content, content, Trish, you're always going to be fine because you understand content, you love content, you're all about content.
[00:18:13]  The mechanism by which this content will be delivered will always change.
[00:18:17]  But as long as you understand the value of the content itself, you know, you should be fine.
[00:18:22]  And this industry will keep changing.
[00:18:24]  And I never quite fully appreciated that.
[00:18:27]  Wise man he is, my husband, never fully appreciated that until I was.
[00:18:32]  than out on my own.
[00:18:33]  And it's really, really true because look at what we've been able to build.
[00:18:37]  I look at my little channel here and I'll go and check the numbers actually in real time because I can see these things on something called vidIQ, which is an app that allows you to track things like your competitors.
[00:18:51]  And what I see over and over again is that we are doing mountains more in terms of viewership than our competitors at these mainstream media broadcast.
[00:19:04]  I mean, just little me, Trish Regan, which is kind of incredible, right?
[00:19:07]  When you think about that, guys.
[00:19:09]  And I say that not to tout my own horn, but to just sort of inform you of all these changes that are going on within the industry.
[00:19:17]  And I'm trying to walk and chew gum at the same time because I am doing this live as we speak.
[00:19:21]  But let me just look at this.
[00:19:22]  If I look at the competitors and I say, okay, we're up against, say, oh gosh, I don't know, my own former employer, Fox Business.
[00:19:32]  This feels good.
[00:19:35]  All right.
[00:19:35]  They get 3.3 million subs.
[00:19:37]  They did 51.6 million views in the last 28 days, Trish Regan.
[00:19:43]  We got 1.2 million subs.
[00:19:45]  We did 96.8 million views.
[00:19:47]  How do you like that in the last 28 days?
[00:19:49]  Let's go to CBS News.
[00:19:51]  CBS News with their $150 million lady and their giant staff.
[00:19:55]  48.6 million views.
[00:19:58]  Trish Regan, 96.8 million views.
[00:20:02]  And that's CBS News having 7 million subs.
[00:20:05]  Okay, so they get seven times the amount of subs basically that I have right here.
[00:20:10]  I mean, it's really remarkable.
[00:20:11]  CNBC, which I used to work for, and that's kind of a niche, they've got 13.1 million views despite a 4.1 million sub base.
[00:20:19]  So what does it tell you?
[00:20:21]  It tells you that people want a little personality and a little opinion and a little pizzazz and they don't have any of it.
[00:20:27]  At these networks, and so they are, done done done done, finito.
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[00:21:24]  I think he's still at Turning Point.
[00:21:26]  He used to come on my show now and then back in the day.
[00:21:29]  Let me show this to you because he makes a really great point on how the mainstream media is sort of characterizing the economy right now versus how the economy actually is.
[00:21:40]  And this is very important because I want you to see CNN saying U.S. inflation is still high, but it's falling.
[00:21:47]  Last month's consumer index measured 6%, down from January 6.4%.
[00:21:51]  Those are massive numbers, okay?
[00:21:53]  That was in March 2023.
[00:21:54]  He's talking about Joe Biden's economy.
[00:21:57]  We've gone all the way up to nine and change on consumer prices.
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[00:24:28]  Pam Bondi, wow, she's pulling a fast one.
[00:24:32]  What do you know?
[00:24:32]  Maybe she's feeling the pressure.
[00:24:34]  I think she is.
[00:24:34]  I mean, after the Wall Street Journal article saying that Trump's turning on her, after us saying repeatedly, for goodness sakes, come on, Pam, you know, we need a little something.
[00:24:44]  A little something anyway.
[00:24:46]  She just managed to jail the Pentagon leaker.
[00:24:48]  This week, at the request of the Department OF WAR she said this on twitter the Department OF Justice and FBI executed a search warrant at the home at the home of the journalist.
[00:25:00]  So this is very interesting.
[00:25:02]  This is a Washington POST journalist that apparently was getting the scoop from some contractor and getting the scoop on all this Venezuela stuff.
[00:25:09]  I gotta tell you, I am really well sourced on Venezuela guys.
[00:25:12]  I did not have the information that the Washington POST was getting um, but then again I wasn't getting it from people who were transmitting information illegally.
[00:25:21]  Okay, so this person was illegally leaking information to the Washington Post.
[00:25:27]  The leaker now is currently behind bars.
[00:25:29]  She's working proudly, she said, alongside Hegseth and working to make sure that these leaks stop because they're not going to tolerate illegal leaks of classified information.
[00:25:38]  And when reported, they pose a grave risk to our nation's national security and the brave men and women who are serving this country.
[00:25:46]  She is absolutely positively right.
[00:25:49]  So I'm really happy to see that Pam Bondi pulled one for the team.
[00:25:54]  I mean, better late than never, right?
[00:25:56]  Because we needed that.
[00:25:57]  I'm going to be just really, really frank with you.
[00:26:00]  We really did need that because it's not okay.
[00:26:03]  It's never okay to be leaking information that would then put our troops in danger.
[00:26:08]  And that's what this had come down to.
[00:26:10]  I told you, I mean, again, I'm really well sourced on Venezuela.
[00:26:14]  I've been around this story for many, many years.
[00:26:17]  And I was aware that, you know, Trump was interested, of course, in pursuing something there.
[00:26:25]  But I didn't have any indication whatsoever.
[00:26:28]  And I mean, unless my sources were lying to me, they seemed pretty surprised by a lot of what was going on, too.
[00:26:35]  So the fact that this information was coming out from this leaker was pretty darn disturbing.
[00:26:42]  And I think that, you know, anytime something like that is going on, you've got to nip that stuff in the bud.
[00:26:47]  And that's part of being a good chief executive in terms of Donald Trump.
[00:26:50]  He's got to be able to go on that.
[00:26:52]  Unacceptable.
[00:26:54]  I want to bring you some sound actually from the president.
[00:26:57]  that just came out a short time ago to just get you up to speed on this.
[00:27:02]  Again, Bondi's saying that this leaker has been put in jail.
[00:27:06]  Well, before I go to the president, see here, but I'm deciding, unlike the CBS anchor, right, who doesn't decide.
[00:27:13]  The producers are deciding where he's going next.
[00:27:16]  I'm going to decide where we're going next because it's my show.
[00:27:19]  Thank you very much.
[00:27:20]  Here we are.
[00:27:22]  Look at the Washington Post.
[00:27:23]  So Hannah Natinson was the one who had been covering the Trump administration's efforts to fire federal workers and redirect much of the work.
[00:27:30]  forced towards enforcing his agenda.
[00:27:33]  Many of the employees shared with her their anger, their frustration, their fear of the administration's changes.
[00:27:39]  But this one went further, right?
[00:27:40]  Because this one went further in that this guy was not just communicating that.
[00:27:45]  He was communicating what we were potentially doing in the places and people we were going after in Venezuela.
[00:27:51]  His name was Mr. Perez Lugones, first name Aurelio, a systems administrator in Maryland.
[00:28:00]  I mean, it's crazy to think there's just a systems administrator in Maryland, right?
[00:28:03]  Has access to this stuff.
[00:28:04]  Top.
[00:28:05]  secret security clearance and has been accused now of gaining access to and taking home classified intelligence reports that were found in his lunchbox and in the basement.
[00:28:17]  So he's put in his lunchbox, taken into the basement, getting these classified reports out.
[00:28:22]  I mean, it's really bad.
[00:28:24]  Aurelio Perez Lugones, like what the heck?
[00:28:28]  Is he on Maduro's side?
[00:28:30]  I mean, you kind of wonder.
[00:28:34]  Or is it because you just hate Trump that much?
[00:28:38]  I'll tell you, I'd be such a bad reporter to leak it to because I'd probably tell them.
[00:28:42]  You'd never want to do that with me because I'd get so upset at the idea that somebody was doing something illegally like that.
[00:28:49]  Let's go to Donald Trump speaking about the issue today.
[00:28:53]  Another piece of information that I think is very important is the leaker has been found and is in jail right now.
[00:29:03]  And that's the leaker on Venezuela.
[00:29:06]  A very bad leaker.
[00:29:08]  Bad leaker.
[00:29:09]  So there could be some others, and we'll let you know about that.
[00:29:12]  We're hot on their trail.
[00:29:12]  But the leaker has been found, and the leaker's in jail.
[00:29:17]  And we'll probably be in jail for a long time.
[00:29:19]  Let's see what happens.
[00:29:21]  So we'll let you know.
[00:29:23]  We'll keep you apprised as to what's going to happen with that.
[00:29:26]  And I want to thank all of the.
[00:29:28]  So he's, you know.
[00:29:33]  He's going to be in jail for a long time.
[00:29:35]  It's unusual in that they did break into a reporter's house.
[00:29:38]  I mean, that's unnerving, right?
[00:29:40]  And it's unnerving for the press because the press, again, these situations are tricky.
[00:29:46]  And I guess you, I look at it like this.
[00:29:49]  I mean, if someone's giving me classified information from the Pentagon, I don't know, maybe I'm just too by the book and too much of a square.
[00:29:58]  I really wouldn't like that, okay?
[00:30:00]  Like, I don't want the classified.
[00:30:01]  I don't want to do anything that would be against my country or against our troops.
[00:30:06]  Like, at some point, I'm going to say, Hang on.
[00:30:09]  You know, this is sensitive classified information.
[00:30:12]  Apparently Hannah over at the Washington Post didn't feel the same sort of conviction, shall we say.
[00:30:17]  But they broke into her house.
[00:30:19]  They demanded.
[00:30:20]  I mean, they had a warrant and everything.
[00:30:22]  But they were concerned because she had contributed to several articles about the American pressure campaign on Venezuela, including the recent capture of Nicolas Maduro, the country's leader.
[00:30:32]  One article cited government documents describing a diplomatic meeting at the Vatican.
[00:30:38]  And in a statement then on social media, as you know, Pam Bondi's like, this guy's going down.
[00:30:43]  This person was, you know, leaking classified information.
[00:30:48]  So that's not okay.
[00:30:50]  And that's why they, at the request of the Pentagon, went to this reporter's home to look for this evidence.
[00:30:56]  Now, the Washington Post wants you to know the Washington Post is not in trouble and the reporter's not in trouble.
[00:31:02]  Like, don't forget, we do have freedom of speech, right?
[00:31:04]  So it's absolutely fine to, you know, again, not everybody's me.
[00:31:09]  So obsessed with morality, I guess.
[00:31:10]  So, you know, you're fine to report that stuff.
[00:31:15]  The problem comes from the leaker, and that's why the leaker is in jail right now.
[00:31:19]  So this is a big win, shall we say, for Pam.
[00:31:22]  And let me just say this.
[00:31:24]  Gosh darn it, Pam needed it, right?
[00:31:26]  Because she's got Janine Pirro chomping at her heels, chomping at the bit.
[00:31:32]  I mean, like, Janine is like a dog with a bone right now.
[00:31:36]  Just look at what she's doing to poor Jerome Powell.
[00:31:40]  And let's face it, I mean, so she's going a little rogue on Jerome Powell, but let's face it, I think that Pam Bondi is possibly, you know, up for grabs in terms of the job itself.
[00:31:52]  And maybe that's what Janine Pirro is looking at.
[00:31:54]  And a lot of you guys have said to me, gee, Janine would be great at it.
[00:31:58]  I don't know.
[00:31:59]  I mean, I think that Janine would have the kind of tenacity.
[00:32:05]  That you want and almost recklessness, right that you want if you want to go after everybody in a really dogmatic, aggressive way.
[00:32:15]  So I think that should be very good at that.
[00:32:17]  My one concern it's same concern I have with Pam it's that none of these people have actually run big shops and big operations.
[00:32:24]  Look, I mean, when you're, for example, running a show, even and Janine she did to her credit, she ran a small show right on the weekend.
[00:32:32]  But if you run a show right, you might be overseeing 15 producers and you know that you're not technically overseeing the tech, et cetera, but you have a hand in things.
[00:32:43]  And so I know like it's a lot, right?
[00:32:45]  When I had a large staff and a large team, it's a lot of people to oversee.
[00:32:50]  I know what that's like.
[00:32:51]  It's actually one of the reasons I prefer the intimacy, shall we say, of this environment because it's a little less headache in terms of managing everything.
[00:33:00]  But has Pam done that, right?
[00:33:02]  Like has she really had a large, large team of hundreds of attorneys that you want to be working with to make sure that they're realizing your goals?
[00:33:12]  And that's the tricky part.
[00:33:13]  Historically, we've seen too often, I think, in Republican administrations, a lack of sort of the corporate lawyer.
[00:33:20]  And the corporate lawyer is something the Democrats are all about, right?
[00:33:23]  You know, just think of the American Bar Association, all the lobbying money, et cetera.
[00:33:27]  They are all in deep with the corporate lawyers.
[00:33:31]  And so consequently, you have people that are coming in and out of law firms that are well trained in how to not just execute cases, but manage them as well.
[00:33:40]  And I don't think we have the same on the right.
[00:33:42]  So we have Pam Bondi, who's a politician.
[00:33:46]  an occasional TV person, right?
[00:33:48]  She's a TV commentator and a politician.
[00:33:51]  And then you have Janine Pirro, who did host a show once a week, a small team, who does have a phenomenal background.
[00:33:57]  By the way, she was an excellent, excellent prosecutor.
[00:34:00]  And like I said, she's rabid, right?
[00:34:02]  So maybe she would get the job done.
[00:34:04]  But I would love to see somebody else in there that really has the blocking and tackling.
[00:34:08]  I'm talking executive functioning skills, as they say nowadays, the ability to kind of be Pam or.
[00:34:17]  Gene Pirro's executive producer, right?
[00:34:20]  Like if they're calling the shots, who's getting the stuff done?
[00:34:24]  That's my concern.
[00:34:25]  Apparently, Pam, she's calling for sanctuary.
[00:34:30]  We talked about this yesterday.
[00:34:32]  I mean, he's kind of done and over with her.
[00:34:33]  He's, you know, the big article in the Wall Street Journal saying he's pretty much finished.
[00:34:38]  He doesn't understand why she's not doing anything.
[00:34:40]  He came out and said, I'm going to get rid of all sanctuary funding.
[00:34:45]  This is just yesterday, right?
[00:34:48]  No more sanctuary.
[00:34:49]  Funding for sanctuary cities, and I'm like, wait a second, didn't Pam promise she was doing this back in February of last year?
[00:34:58]  Whatever happened to that again?
[00:35:00]  I remember, like, we're not crazy.
[00:35:03]  I mean, she was going after Kathy Hochel and she was going after Leticia James in New York and the head of the DMV, and I don't know where it went.
[00:35:10]  We're here today because we have filed charges against the state of New York.
[00:35:15]  We have filed charges against Kathy Hochul.
[00:35:17]  We have filed charges against Letitia James and Mark Schroeder, who is with DMV.
[00:35:23]  This is a new DOJ, and we are taking steps to protect Americans, American citizens, and angel moms, like the mom standing right behind me, who you're going to hear from in a moment.
[00:35:37]  But then, like, what happened?
[00:35:38]  Again, you know, so he's kind of souring on her.
[00:35:41]  Understandably, I mean, like the rest of us, I think we all kind of feel a bit burnt.
[00:35:46]  And the thought is, gosh, you know, you look at what Gene Pirro was able to do, and she's just going guns blazing straight after Jerome Powell, who she knows the president doesn't like, and she doesn't care what feathers she's going to ruffle.
[00:36:04]  So maybe that's the answer, right?
[00:36:06]  I mean, because Pam, like nothing's happened, and the president has started criticizing her.
[00:36:12]  She has failed to come forward with any of the basics on Comey, Letitia James.
[00:36:17]  It's just a freaking mess, honestly.
[00:36:18]  And I still can't believe that we've expired the clock on the statute of limitations.
[00:36:25]  And I know some of you in the chat don't believe what we have, but I've run this one down.
[00:36:29]  And I know you run, Don, 11 legal channels, whatever.
[00:36:32]  I've talked to some of the top, and I'm telling you, the top litigators in the country.
[00:36:38]  And unless he perjures himself again, unless you bring him back in and he perjures himself again, your clock is up because pam freaking Bondi did not turn in the homework on time.
[00:36:49]  Okay.
[00:36:49]  Like that's the end of story.
[00:36:50]  I'm not going to get too mad about it right now, but I'm just saying like enough is enough.
[00:36:55]  So maybe we need Jean in there.
[00:36:57]  I mean, she's not going to mess around.
[00:36:58]  She's not going to mess around.
[00:37:00]  Just look at what she did going totally rogue because she wanted to go after Powell.
[00:37:04]  Yeah.
[00:37:04]  I mean, this was unbelievable.
[00:37:09]  I don't know as there's much of a case there between you and me.
[00:37:12]  Okay.
[00:37:12]  just between us folks.
[00:37:16]  Powell apparently ran like a billion dollars over budget when he did the renovations.
[00:37:24]  But like, that's not really him, dare we say.
[00:37:27]  Like, that's not entirely him.
[00:37:29]  Powell's like, he's a Fed chief.
[00:37:32]  He's not running a construction project.
[00:37:34]  So to sort of like leave all of that on him, I find a little bit too much.
[00:37:40]  She's actually saying something different.
[00:37:42]  I want to share with you. what she has sent.
[00:37:45]  So Jeanine Pirro, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, said that she actually sent Paul a letter three times asking him to explain the billion dollars in renovation, and he just ignored her.
[00:37:56]  So that's not cool either, right?
[00:37:58]  Like she is actually asking, and you owe her a little bit of lip service.
[00:38:01]  And if you're not going to explain it, then she kind of is more justified in going after you.
[00:38:07]  So she finally was like, that's it.
[00:38:11]  He's mine.
[00:38:12]  So she went in there, just completely heedless of backlash, goes totally rogue, doesn't ask her boss.
[00:38:18]  Pam, hey, can I do this?
[00:38:20]  Doesn't call up Treasury to say, what do you think?
[00:38:22]  I'm going after the Fed chief.
[00:38:24]  And she's out there to try and take him down.
[00:38:26]  Scott Besson, not too happy about it.
[00:38:28]  He's calling the president saying, this is a mess.
[00:38:30]  He was really worried, of course, about what it meant for interest rates, which actually have gone down a little bit, amazingly.
[00:38:38]  Gold's up.
[00:38:39]  Gold's up.
[00:38:39]  Silver's up.
[00:38:41]  Because, you know, when you go after a Fed chief like that, people worry that you're going to turn into some kind of banana republic.
[00:38:47]  So that's his concern.
[00:38:48]  And then the other concern is coming from Jamie Dimon, who's like, whoa.
[00:38:51]  You know, what is she doing?
[00:38:53]  And by the way, let's just point out the obvious, which is now Jerome Powell's not going anywhere.

=== Jerome Powell Stays Put (08:16) ===

[00:38:57]  Like he's hanging on until the end of his term, and he'll go eventually because his term is up, and Trump doesn't like him.
[00:39:04]  But I think Trump's been kind of measured and careful on this.
[00:39:07]  If you listen to his speech, which was all about rah-rah economy, and by the way, lots to cheer on this economy right now in Detroit, he did say some rather pointed things about Powell.
[00:39:16]  He has no use for the guy.
[00:39:17]  Watch.
[00:39:18]  And I've also announced that the U.S. government is purchasing $200 billion of mortgage bonds to bring down mortgage rates, and it's had a huge impact.
[00:39:26]  In fact, it's already started.
[00:39:27]  And just last week, the average 30-year mortgage dropped below 6% for the first time in many years.
[00:39:33]  It's coming down very rapidly, and that's not with the help of the Fed.
[00:39:37]  If I had the help of the Fed, it would be easier.
[00:39:40]  But that jerk will be gone Oh, did you hear that?
[00:39:49]  He really doesn't like them.
[00:39:50]  And I mean, this goes back a ways.
[00:39:51]  I remember the first time he made headlines on Powell was actually when I was hosting my show on Fox and I went down to the White House.
[00:39:58]  I interviewed him and he just went off on Powell.
[00:40:02]  He's like, he needs to lower rates.
[00:40:03]  He needs to lower rates.
[00:40:04]  This is an 18.
[00:40:05]  And, you know, Trump likes lower rates.
[00:40:07]  He's a real estate guy, right?
[00:40:08]  He likes the liquidity of those lower rates.
[00:40:10]  Right now, I'd say he's actually somewhat justified.
[00:40:12]  I do think that you could.
[00:40:13]  lower rates right now and do so comfortably given that inflation has been coming down.
[00:40:18]  That gives you a little bit more room.
[00:40:20]  If inflation was going up, we'd have a different scenario.
[00:40:23]  But simultaneously, listen, you almost don't have to do anything.
[00:40:27]  You just let that engine go because things are great.
[00:40:32]  5.4% GDP growth expected.
[00:40:35]  That's fantastic.
[00:40:36]  Mr. President, it's good.
[00:40:38]  Don't listen to CNN.
[00:40:40]  It's good out there.
[00:40:42]  You don't need to tinker with things the way Elizabeth Warren wants you to.
[00:40:46]  You don't need to to fuss with it, because actually, I think, like I know, nobody has patience, but we're in a pretty good scenario right now.
[00:40:55]  We do, we just are.
[00:40:56]  And so uh I, you know, even with a little bit of a volatility in the markets today, i'm still very, very high on things very, very positive.
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[00:43:02]  Oh, so this is some interesting news just coming to us at this moment.
[00:43:05]  We have learned from the administration that the ICE agent that had been hit by Renee Good and then later shot Renee Good, he has been or was hospitalized with internal injuries.
[00:43:18]  I want to go to the report coming to us from Fox News.
[00:43:21]  And Department of Homeland Security sources telling Fox News the ICE agent who was hit by Renee Nicole Good's car suffered internal bleeding in his torso.
[00:43:31]  That is the same.
[00:43:34]  Enforcement agent who was seriously wounded last June when he was dragged by a car during attempted arrest.
[00:43:43]  Yeah, a car rammed him and then dragged him.
[00:43:46]  And by the way, there was street camera footage of some of that.
[00:43:49]  The CBS local station, WCCO, covered that story last June extensively.
[00:43:55]  We'll keep you posted on the situation as we get new information.
[00:43:58]  Okay.
[00:43:59]  So that's pretty heinous.
[00:44:01]  And, you know, our heart goes out to him and his family.
[00:44:04]  And the whole thing was.
[00:44:06]  Super, super tragic.
[00:44:07]  And I just go back to, you know, why did this have to happen to begin with?
[00:44:12]  And why is it that we have women, moms that are so all of a sudden taken up with this idea of, let me go fight ICE.
[00:44:19]  Let me take the day off.
[00:44:21]  You know, I drop the kids at school and then I'm going to go and agitate against ICE.
[00:44:24]  And it's interesting the way that they're agitating.
[00:44:27]  I think this is an important thing to think about.
[00:44:30]  A liberal anchor that I know that you do not like, so I apologize in advance for showing her, but I think this is some interesting insight that she's providing us.
[00:44:40]  On why it is that you're seeing the so called soccer mom, right?
[00:44:46]  And by the way, New York Post had an article on this too soccer moms taking up this dangerous new hobby, becoming ice saboteurs.
[00:44:53]  Joy Reid, the fired ex MSNBC anchor, basically admitting that they're out there trying to radicalize effectively these women to try to get them to take on ice.
[00:45:04]  Watch.
[00:45:06]  This woman was part of a group of people who they train to try to be ice interrupters.
[00:45:10]  And what they try to do is observe what ice is doing, film them.
[00:45:14]  And try to use their white privilege, to be honest.
[00:45:17]  They're mainly white people.
[00:45:19]  Which is what we ask.
[00:45:20]  Which is what we ask them to do, right?
[00:45:21]  Because black people, like, we can't get on, we can't put our bodies on the line because cops will shoot us.
[00:45:21]  Yeah.
[00:45:26]  And so the presumption had been, particularly a white woman, because remember, part of the rationale for doing this with ICE is to save white women, pristine white women from being ravaged by, you know, criminal brown men.
[00:45:39]  So they, white women, had been taking the lead in being the ones to step.
[00:45:43]  Please, please.
[00:45:45]  Please.
[00:45:45]  Again, this is the tape.
[00:45:47]  I don't think I should have done the most heinous part, but this is the rather notorious tape.
[00:45:52]  And you see her, and she's sort of the picture of innocence there, right?
[00:45:56]  Just happy, smiley, go lucky.
[00:45:57]  I think that Joy's not wrong.
[00:46:01]  Joy's not wrong in that they're presenting this sort of, okay, this is just mom blocking traffic, and they can't get in the way of mom.
[00:46:10]  But here's the problem.
[00:46:10]  If mom actually speeds up and looks like she's going to run over the guy, after given his trauma that he's already been through.
[00:46:18]  And by the way, it's not insignificant, again, learning of the fact that he was hospitalized from the administration with internal bleeding after this incident, it's concerning, all right?
[00:46:26]  So you're not going to get the get out of jail free card just because you got blonde hair and white skin.
[00:46:34]  And maybe that's the lesson being learned here.
[00:46:36]  I mean, the police have to take this job very, very seriously.
[00:46:38]  And so women that are thinking that they can go and harass them, I think are now in for this rude awakening.
[00:46:45]  We've seen this harassment.
[00:46:48]  I mean, here's another example of this crazy harassment just yesterday.
[00:46:51]  I don't care what they told you.
[00:46:53]  If you guys get in my way, I will arrest you.
[00:46:55]  Sir, we're just observing.
[00:46:56]  Please come here.
[00:46:57]  You're going to observe all you want.
[00:46:58]  I am observing.
[00:47:00]  I am back.
[00:47:03]  You had anger issues as a kid, didn't you?
[00:47:05]  Were your parents present?
[00:47:06]  You should be ashamed of yourself, man.
[00:47:11]  He is.
[00:47:11]  I love my job.

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[00:47:15]  I can't believe I'm not even picking for you.
[00:47:18]  Like picking at him, picking at him, picking at him.
[00:47:19]  I think because they're trying to actually raise the temperature and they're trying to get these guys angry and they want to see some kind of force because then they're able to turn around and say, see, we want them out of our city.
[00:47:31]  So it's pretty twisted, pretty messed up stuff.
[00:47:34]  But again, our heart goes out to the gentleman.
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[00:50:04]  All right, Trump is ending visas 75 countries.
[00:50:09]  Guess what?
[00:50:10]  You're not coming here anymore.
[00:50:11]  Nope nope, nope.
[00:50:11]  We got a lot going on in terms of well, Has anybody seen Iran lately?
[00:50:17]  Yeah, so Iran's on that list and Russia's on that list.
[00:50:21]  Here's the article from Daily Mail that we're looking at, a graphic of 75 nations.
[00:50:26]  You know, did you see the headlines today as well?
[00:50:33]  I don't want to go too deeply into this, but you've got Iran actually calling for the assassination and saying, oh, we're not going to miss this time on President Trump.
[00:50:40]  That's not good, all right?
[00:50:41]  So they're out there trying to flex their muscle and he's like, okay, well, fine.
[00:50:46]  We're just not going to bring anybody that could be a threat into this country.
[00:50:49]  Let's go to his talking about this right now.
[00:50:52]  And if you come to America to rob Americans, we're throwing you in jail and we're sending you back to the place from where you came.
[00:51:07]  That would be if you're a Somalia fraudster, right?
[00:51:10]  Anyway, again, back to the news that 75 countries he's ending visas for.
[00:51:15]  We had just learned yesterday that he was ending all visas that were in process for the country of Somalia with the idea that Somalia is not in as treacherous a space anymore.
[00:51:26]  And thus, it would be okay for people to go back to Somalia, even if you were here seeking some kind of refuge.
[00:51:36]  closing airspace despite Donald Trump steering away from military strikes.
[00:51:41]  So he's kind of indicated that he would not be looking to strike Iran.
[00:51:46]  But we have, I can tell you in report that we have pulled our military out of the surrounding areas.
[00:51:54]  I believe that we had some people in Qatar.
[00:51:56]  We've taken them out because we're just doing this as a precautionary note, given how things are heating up right now, given that you have Iran calling for the assassination of the president of the United States.
[00:52:08]  So this is certainly an escalation, escalation in the situation.
[00:52:14]  And the flight radar data has shown that very few aircraft over Iran are there, right?
[00:52:20]  Because now you have this flight barrier in effect.
[00:52:23]  And the order comes in all this tension, all this tension over the crackdown that we've seen in Iran over the protesters, because the protesters have been taking to the streets.
[00:52:32]  You're starting to see a difference in sentiment.
[00:52:35]  And sources I've spoke to have said, like, for the first time, they actually feel very encouraged about a, potentially different future there in Iran.
[00:52:42]  So that's encouraging.
[00:52:44]  But given what's happening with the crackdown against the protesters, there's a chance that you could see American strikes in response.
[00:52:51]  And that's, you know, something that I think is on the table.
[00:52:55]  Like everything as he says is always on the table.
[00:52:58]  Back to what's going on with the visas and what is going on with money.
[00:53:04]  Donald Trump coming out and saying, you know what?
[00:53:07]  If you're stealing from us, we don't want you here.
[00:53:11]  We're going to send you back.
[00:53:11]  We're going to denaturalize you.
[00:53:14]  So that's interesting.
[00:53:16]  And that's going to be met with all kinds of legal mumbo jumbo.
[00:53:19]  You better be sure.
[00:53:20]  But the fact that he is being so, he probably has the room to do this on the 75 countries, given what's going on in Iran.
[00:53:27]  So he's got the cover there.
[00:53:28]  But this is fascinating.
[00:53:29]  Brand new story out today.
[00:53:31]  First reported by John Solomon and Just the News.
[00:53:35]  Feds are probing hundreds of millions of dollars in suspected Somali cash leaving Minneapolis airport.
[00:53:42]  And we're not talking about just hundreds of millions.
[00:53:45]  We're talking about 700 million over the span of two years, which is 99% more than any other airport.
[00:53:52]  Okay.
[00:53:52]  So why is so much cash fleeing Minneapolis?
[00:53:56]  And this is what they're declaring.
[00:53:58]  Imagine what's not being declared.
[00:53:59]  This is like cash going out in suitcases that they fill out the paperwork for.
[00:54:05]  Wow.
[00:54:06]  I mean, you've heard me talk about the Hawala Network, right?
[00:54:08]  And that person to person thing.
[00:54:09]  And they're bringing money back and forth here, there, and everywhere.
[00:54:12]  The TSA.
[00:54:13]  Has flagged nearly 700 million dollars in cash detected in passengers luggage leaving the Minneapolis airport in the last two years.
[00:54:20]  It is a massive cash exodus and it is believed to be tied to Somali immigrants and their money couriers again, the Hawala network.
[00:54:29]  Remember that i've done a lot of terrorist financing uh investigations throughout the course of my career, not here in the U.s.
[00:54:36]  Primarily in Latin America, going back to Hezbollah and Hamas.
[00:54:39]  But how do they do it?
[00:54:41]  The Hawala network and that's the money carriers.
[00:54:43]  Okay, so this is being reported now to Homeland Security.
[00:54:47]  They told Just the News.
[00:54:48]  The officials say the cash movements out of Minnesota's largest airport began about a decade ago around the time the Democrat Governor Tim Waltz took office and have grown substantially, really substantially in the last several years.
[00:55:03]  So pretty distressing and disturbing stuff and concerning.
[00:55:09]  They'll all were legally declared according to U.S. customs rules.
[00:55:12]  That's kind of fascinating, right?
[00:55:14]  Pretty damn fascinating.
[00:55:16]  even though that they were declared according to U.S. custom rules, it's raising a lot of suspicion because if that's what they're declaring, what are they not declaring?
[00:55:27]  Again, knowing that you've got all these fraudsters there, right?
[00:55:30]  I mean, there's a lot of suspicion.
[00:55:33]  We're now talking about $9 billion that they believe may have been generated out of the state of Minnesota.
[00:55:40]  You're talking about $600 billion nationwide.
[00:55:43]  That was the number that the GAO has been reporting.
[00:55:46]  And we're not getting really any answers.
[00:55:49]  They just want to tell us that we're prejudiced every time this comes up, right?
[00:55:53]  Which I'm not buying that anymore.
[00:55:55]  Ilhan Omar.
[00:55:56]  Ilhan, who by the way is acting really scared.
[00:56:00]  Ilhan Omar is acting like she's got something to hide.
[00:56:04]  I want to share with you something from Mike Lindell's channel.
[00:56:06]  A reporter asked Ilhan Omar yesterday about the money that is allegedly gone, $9 billion, and Ilhan challenged her on it.
[00:56:16]  So she went back again today.
[00:56:18]  Listen to Ilhan's answer and how nervous.
[00:56:22]  Ilhan now seems to be, and she's getting nasty.
[00:56:25]  Like the attacks are getting really visceral and really like almost silly.
[00:56:32]  But we'll react to it together.
[00:56:34]  Here we go.
[00:56:37]  Congresswoman Omar, yesterday you told me to please read when I asked you about the $9 billion fraud that you denied is happening, but I have it right here.
[00:56:43]  I read.
[00:56:44]  Look, Chairman Comer opens here on a massive fraud scandal $9 billion.
[00:56:49]  That's what Comer believes because he's as smart as you are.
[00:56:52]  It's not just Comer, it's Scott Besson, it's federal prosecutors, it's House Oversight, and it's Minnesota statewide.
[00:56:58]  You can have that, ma'am.
[00:56:59]  I think you need to get examined because your brain has been fried in some way, and it's not okay.
[00:57:06]  I really hope you get some help, you and the Republicans here.
[00:57:09]  Take care, okay, ma'am?
[00:57:12]  I'm sorry, I can't go to the learning centers that you're running over in Minnesota, but I think you should perhaps read what's actually.
[00:57:21]  I need one of those learning centers.
[00:57:22]  You see what I mean?
[00:57:25]  Like the attack is getting really, really low.
[00:57:36]  I mean, she's got nowhere to go, right?
[00:57:37]  Because what is the truth?
[00:57:39]  The truth is, yes, they believe it's $9 billion right now, and that's been reported from every news outlet.
[00:57:45]  And Ilhan Omar looks back at her and tells her she needs help when she confronts her with facts.
[00:57:54]  Ilhan Omar trying to twist it around like, you're the crazy person.
[00:57:57]  I'm sorry.
[00:57:58]  You know what?
[00:57:59]  Ilhan, you guys got a problem there in Minnesota.
[00:58:04]  A very big problem.
[00:58:04]  And by the way, you may be connected to it.
[00:58:07]  I don't think you're out of the woods in any way, shape, or form.
[00:58:09]  No, Ilhan Omar.
[00:58:11]  is going to be investigated.
[00:58:13]  I don't even think they're fully telling us everything that's going on with her.
[00:58:17]  They've kind of come out about Keith Allison.
[00:58:20]  They've come out about Tim Waltz.
[00:58:21]  Tim Waltz, who, by the way, is about to be impeached.
[00:58:24]  Yeah, that news came this afternoon by Republicans in the state house there in Minnesota because he's done nothing.
[00:58:33]  And every time everybody says, well, why aren't you doing anything?
[00:58:35]  Somehow they come back with, well, you're a racist because you're suggesting this.
[00:58:38]  It's like, no, I mean, there's nine billion missing.
[00:58:41]  We're going and knocking on daycares and nobody's there.
[00:58:44]  I mean, Nick Shirley, I'll tell you, Barry Weiss, you want to get with it over at CBS, go hire Nick Shirley, okay, for your 60 Minutes team because he knows how to do it.
[00:58:52]  Like, it's just basic reporting, which you're seeing far more of in citizen journalists than you are over at those networks because they're all in cahoots, I guess, with Ilhan Omar.
[00:59:02]  I'm not suggesting that they did anything nefarious from a financial position.
[00:59:06]  I mean, other than maybe the USAID money, I don't know, going to some of these places.
[00:59:09]  Politico looking at you with those very expensive subscriptions that nobody actually needs.
[00:59:15]  USAID was buying.
[00:59:18]  All right.
[00:59:19]  Yeah.
[00:59:20]  And you just happen to be the outlet of choice that they decide to put Biden's big letter saying that, oh, no, no, no, that Hunter Biden laptop, that was not, that was not anything but misinformation brought to you by Rudy Giuliani and the Russians.
[00:59:34]  Yeah.
[00:59:34]  Where did they choose to bring that?
[00:59:35]  To the outlet that they were paying with USAID money.
[00:59:38]  I'm just saying that's kind of an interesting coincidence.
[00:59:40]  Nonetheless, Ilhan Omar.
[00:59:42]  I suspect she is probably in for more trouble than she even understands or even knows at this point.
[00:59:51]  You've got DHS going in there, getting all of these records, going out there and finding out all kinds of things.
[00:59:59]  Chris Rufo, who's a good journalist with Manhattan Institute, was actually on Jesse's show the other night.
[01:00:04]  I think it was Jesse, maybe it was Hannity, talking about Ilhan Omar and what she might be up against.
[01:00:09]  Let's go.
[01:00:10]  I actually spent last week in Minneapolis, and there's two parallel stories.
[01:00:14]  I mean, there is a panic within the Somali community.
[01:00:17]  They've been found out for these massive fraud schemes, daycares, transportation, fake autism services, the whole nine yards.
[01:00:25]  But the political question is very important.
[01:00:27]  And my sources in Minneapolis state government say that there are open inquiries into the potential involvement at the highest level of Minnesota politics.
[01:00:37]  And so I think people will be taking a hard look, not only at Governor Tim Walz, but also Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and State Attorney General Keith Ellison.
[01:00:46]  We know that they have connections with convicted fraudsters.
[01:00:50]  The question is, were they merely complicit in these schemes or were they part of a broader conspiracy?
[01:00:55]  We don't have strong evidence now, but I think people are starting to take a look.
[01:01:00]  Well, what we do know is that Ellison promised these guys he'd make the investigation go away and then he got money as a donation.
[01:01:09]  We know that whistleblowers alerted the Walls administration and he didn't take any action.
[01:01:16]  And we know a couple of these people, like Omar, got money from these convicted fraudsters.
[01:01:21]  As political donations.
[01:01:23]  Are you saying that there could have been a conspiracy to move the welfare fraud money into their war chests?
[01:01:32]  It's certainly possible.
[01:01:33]  And I think the person, and really I'm grateful for it, Scott Besant, the Treasury Secretary, has all the tools at his disposal to actually investigate the money trail, to figure out how the money flowed between these fake nonprofits and Somali fraudsters and Minnesota politicians.
[01:01:51]  Yeah.
[01:01:52]  Okay, and he does have those tools.
[01:01:54]  And part of what they're discovering, right, with the $700 million going missing over two years from the Minneapolis airport because it's getting carried out in suitcases back to overseas locations, one of the most prominent being Dubai, that is coming into question.
[01:02:10]  Meanwhile, Ilhan's having a hard time with this, whether she's trying to insult a reporter saying, you know, you're not very smart.
[01:02:16]  There's something wrong with your head.
[01:02:17]  You're really deteriorating.
[01:02:18]  I don't know what's happened to you because you think that there's $9 billion in fraud there in Minnesota or saying things like this.
[01:02:24]  She's now determined. to defund ICE entirely.
[01:02:28]  Guys, I'm telling you, this is why it's really important, really important that her side does not win come midterms.
[01:02:33]  Let's watch.
[01:02:35]  And so today, I am glad to announce that the Congressional Progressive Caucus has adopted an official position to hold ICE accountable.
[01:02:47]  Our caucus members will oppose all funding for immigration enforcement in any appropriation bills until meaningful reforms are enacted to end militarized policing practices.
[01:03:01]  We're going to.
[01:03:04]  Press this to the full extent possible.
[01:03:06]  And like I said, I think that this may just be, it's a cold day outside, so this could be the tip of the iceberg here in Minnesota, but it's probably may not be as prevalent, but the dollars may be bigger and larger in other states.
[01:03:22]  And just to put this in perspective for American taxpayers, for American families, the GAO, the General Accounting Office, believes that there is somewhere between.
[01:03:35]  Three and six hundred billion of annual fraud roughly 10 percent of government spending that disappears due to fraud.
[01:03:43]  If we can recapture that, that is one to two percent of gdp amazing, right.
[01:03:51]  So she's scared because it's quite obvious right now that she has um, if nothing else, some association because she was getting money from some of the convicted fraudsters on top of which, On top of which, the majority of people that were involved in this fraud were coming from none other than her district.
[01:04:11]  On top of which, she suddenly is worth 30 million bucks.

=== Staggering Fraud Numbers (05:40) ===

[01:04:15]  Well, where did that come from?
[01:04:17]  Comer's referring her to the ethics committee for an investigation into how she's suddenly worth, you know, 30 million after having been worth nothing.
[01:04:25]  Up to 30 million, she's now estimating.
[01:04:27]  I'll tell you, it's very, very weird stuff.
[01:04:30]  As for the $9 billion, the $9 billion, that was reported by multiple entities.
[01:04:34]  So she has no right to sit there and say, you're crazy for thinking this and to try and discount somebody like she does.
[01:04:41]  You know, let's face it, she just keeps going back to the well of it's somehow racism, racism, racism.
[01:04:47]  I will say this.
[01:04:49]  You know what, guys?
[01:04:50]  It's really alarming that quite recently, as recently as last week, she was trying to get something called Generation Hope.
[01:05:00]  A million bucks.
[01:05:02]  This is another one of her pet projects.
[01:05:04]  It's like, Ilhan, we've had it.
[01:05:07]  Okay.
[01:05:07]  Like, you can't keep doing this.
[01:05:09]  Like, you can't keep trying to fool us over and over and over again.
[01:05:14]  This was a restaurant.
[01:05:16]  Okay.
[01:05:17]  That was somehow doubling as a place to provide mental health help to Somalis who need it.
[01:05:25]  I mean, Joni Ersk was all over this.
[01:05:27]  Listen.
[01:05:28]  Covered the other day in one of our spending bills making its way.
[01:05:31]  Through Congress was a $1 million earmark from Representative Ilan Omar of Minnesota, which was an earmark that was supposedly going to a substance abuse clinic, which actually happened to be housed in a restaurant and run by three individuals that share the same residential address, according to their IRS paperwork.
[01:05:57]  Tons of red flags.
[01:05:59]  So, this is what we saw with the fraud involving the So they managed to stamp this one out.
[01:06:05]  The owner of the Seagal restaurant confirmed to Fox News, this was on Tuesday, that Hope Minnesota does operate out of additional office spaces above the restaurant.
[01:06:17]  Okay, so they got a second floor there at the restaurant.
[01:06:19]  You know, you go have a little something to eat and then you go get some mental health help or not, right?
[01:06:23]  Because what we're learning over and over again now is that a lot of these things were like definitely of the or not category because they they don't seem to have any kids, for example, at the daycare.
[01:06:38]  You know, Besson, again, is the man on this, the man of the hour.
[01:06:42]  He's on the ground in Minnesota.
[01:06:43]  You got Treasury officials there.
[01:06:45]  You got agriculture officials there.
[01:06:46]  You got ICE officials, DHS officials, and you've got IRS officials, and they're all over this because, again, they kind of want to know what's going on when $700 million just disappears from one airport.
[01:06:59]  You kind of got to scratch your head and say, why is this happening so much in Minneapolis and not anywhere else?
[01:07:04]  I mean, the numbers are staggering.
[01:07:06]  Again, 99% more than anywhere else.
[01:07:10]  So we're lowering that to 3,000.
[01:07:13]  Oh, good.
[01:07:13]  And we're also targeting the two counties here.
[01:07:17]  And we're going to do enhanced surveillance.
[01:07:19]  And from now on, anyone who wires money out from one of these money service businesses has to check a box saying whether they are on public assistance.
[01:07:30]  And if you are on public assistance, we are going to start pushing that you cannot wire money out of the country.
[01:07:36]  Oh, gosh.
[01:07:37]  And what if they lie and they don't tell us for public assistance?
[01:07:39]  Well, then.
[01:07:40]  That's a crime lying out of federal form.
[01:07:42]  We're going to follow it up, and we are going to push that you can no longer do that.
[01:07:49]  The American people, our generosity has been taken advantage of.
[01:07:53]  Our generosity is funding al Shabaab in Iranian interests, it could be.
[01:07:57]  Well, the money.
[01:07:57]  This is really bad.
[01:07:59]  The money is supposed to go for alleged asylum seekers and their families and children.
[01:08:05]  And if you were wiring the money out of the country, one of two things must be true.
[01:08:09]  You are getting too much money, and your benefits should be cut.
[01:08:13]  Or you were part of this conspiracy.
[01:08:15]  Where did that money come from?
[01:08:17]  We're going to find it out.
[01:08:18]  That's what Treasury does.
[01:08:20]  IRS has a group called Criminal Investigations.
[01:08:23]  Criminal Investigations was the group.
[01:08:26]  Yeah.
[01:08:27]  So TPS status for Somalians in the U.S. gone.
[01:08:33]  I mean, a whole lot of people losing any kind of TPS status, losing visas, et cetera.
[01:08:38]  I mean, there's going to be a real change coming in part because of what's going on with Iran right now at this hour.
[01:08:45]  It's sort of.
[01:08:47]  Unbelievable.
[01:08:48]  And for her to have the gall to try and pretend that this is nothing but some kind of media story.
[01:08:53]  I'm sorry, you got convictions on your hands, all right?
[01:08:55]  There are convictions that have gone, and they're all from your district.
[01:08:58]  Thank you very much.
[01:08:59]  That's pretty darn clear.
[01:09:01]  I want to go to some more sound from Ilhan Omar, who's very, very worried right now, as she should be.
[01:09:07]  And she's trying to somehow suggest that, you know, this is all craziness, that ICE should be defunded, as you saw, and that they have no justification to even go after the alleged fraudsters.
[01:09:19]  Watch.
[01:09:21]  I'm so exhausted in trying to ask what any of this information has led to you finding any criminals that you have indicted that explains why you are wasting so much of our taxpayer resources and also terrorizing our communities in the amount of federal law enforcement agents that you have in the streets of our city and our state.
[01:09:50]  There needs to be some sort of justification.

=== War Powers Justification (03:19) ===

[01:09:55]  Okay.
[01:09:56]  Well, I think we have the justification, right?
[01:09:59]  We get the justification that there's $700 million going out of Minneapolis in cash on suitcases going to foreign countries.
[01:10:08]  We get that.
[01:10:09]  We get the fact that we have multiple convictions, which you were reminded of recently on CBS.
[01:10:14]  Of the 87 people charged, all but eight are of Somali descent.
[01:10:18]  And that has added to the spotlight being put specifically on your community.
[01:10:26]  Why do you think this fraud?
[01:10:27]  Was allowed to get so widespread?
[01:10:31]  Well, I want to say, you know, this also has an impact on Somalis because we are also taxpayers in Minnesota.
[01:10:42]  We also could have benefited from the program and the money that was stolen.
[01:10:49]  And so it's been really frustrating for people to not acknowledge the fact that we're, you know, we're also, as Minnesotans, as taxpayers, Um, really upset and angry enough.
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[01:11:19]  I just want to look at some of your comments.
[01:11:20]  We got some breaking news that just came into us, a good sort of win for for president Trump, a win that he shouldn't have had to have been fighting for.
[01:11:28]  But we've just learned that Senate Republicans have defeated Venezuela war powers resolution.
[01:11:33]  As Trump pressured to GOP senators to kind of turn around, their Democrats were basically saying that he didn't have the right to do what he did with Maduro and they were fighting that.
[01:11:45]  And it was concerning in that it wasn't clear whether or not the president would have to backtrack on any of that.
[01:11:52]  I mean, if you take away that that ability right of him to be able to do what he needs to do to ensure the safety of the U.S., that would be indeed a huge problem.
[01:12:02]  But Republicans did block that effort to Trump.
[01:12:06]  to check Trump's power on Venezuela.
[01:12:09]  GOP leaders succeeding in pressuring fellow senators who initially supported the measure that would have limited President Trump's military authority in Venezuela.
[01:12:19]  You had Senator Josh Hawley out of Missouri reversing himself on the War Powers Resolution, saying that Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that President and President Trump convinced him that it was not needed.
[01:12:32]  That's a really important distinction.
[01:12:34]  It brought the shift to about a 50-50 tie there, which was broken.
[01:12:39]  Just moments ago, just within minutes, in favor of Republican leadership by Vice President JD Vance.
[01:12:48]  Mr. Hawley, as well as Young, Senator Young, were part of a group of five Republicans who last week had joined all the Democrats and said that they were supporting the measure aimed at curbing the president's war powers.
[01:12:59]  And that, of course, prompted a big backlash we saw on social media and elsewhere, because that would have put, and Randall, I want to get to your comment there in a second, that would have been, you know, difficult obviously for uh the president to have encountered.

=== Live Truck Tech Glitches (04:23) ===

[01:13:14]  I'm just trying to bring up some of your comments and we can see them in the live section here, um Randall saying, uh, Edward Armuro, last of the good ones at CBS yeah, and that was a while ago.
[01:13:27]  Yeah, you got, you got to go back a ways and you think about not to change the conversation too much, but as we started the show and we were talking about the end of mainstream media and the end of legacy media and evening news kind of going out with a bang, there they, They were at one particular point in time.
[01:13:44]  And I always found that interesting when I worked there because everything was quite antiquated.
[01:13:49]  You know, like rotary phones still.
[01:13:52]  Like this wasn't that long ago.
[01:13:54]  I mean, this was like 2005.
[01:13:58]  And, you know, they had rotary phones in some of the offices and they had the old speaker phones like you'd see on Charlie's Angels.
[01:14:05]  Like the place had not been updated in forever, probably since Edward Moreau was still there.
[01:14:11]  And so CBS, it was sad because you thought about what.
[01:14:14]  they once were in terms of being very much on the cutting edge of technology.
[01:14:18]  That's what TV was.
[01:14:19]  Like it was brand new technology.
[01:14:21]  First you had radio and then you had TV and you think about color TV and all these things that were happening to give people the news in real time.
[01:14:29]  And the news was all about this immediacy.
[01:14:32]  And even when I started in it, I mean, you know, look, I to this day I have like PTSD whenever there's a hurricane coming into town or any kind of weather because I really want to get to my location beforehand because I'm very worried about not being able to get out of town.
[01:14:47]  I mean, I've covered so many hurricanes, right?
[01:14:49]  Where I was like, I needed to be in position.
[01:14:51]  And then you need to have your live truck.
[01:14:53]  And the live truck would cost a fortune.
[01:14:55]  Hurricane aside, like suppose I just wanted to do a hit right outside my house.
[01:14:59]  Guess what?
[01:15:00]  It's like 10 grand, 15 grand to get a live truck.
[01:15:03]  And now look at this.
[01:15:04]  You don't even need any more live trucks, right?
[01:15:05]  You just take your phone and go.
[01:15:07]  It's incredible.
[01:15:09]  But it used to be that these networks were all over the technology.
[01:15:13]  And they were the YouTubes of the day, right?
[01:15:16]  They were.
[01:15:16]  all in on what the technology was in the future.
[01:15:19]  And now they resist it with every fiber of their being.
[01:15:24]  And they want to cling to the past.
[01:15:27]  And that is not a way forward for CBS, NBC, ABC, any of them.
[01:15:31]  Like the train has left the station.
[01:15:33]  Things are changing.
[01:15:34]  You're going to make it or break it if you can actually figure out how to be facile and different and transparent, right?
[01:15:42]  Look at the transparency, first of all, that you get right here.
[01:15:45]  I mean, we're dealing with breaking news in real time.
[01:15:47]  I'm looking at your comments in real time.
[01:15:49]  We're sort of a three-way thing.
[01:15:51]  I think we're going to get to the point where you guys are actually going to be able to come on the show, right?
[01:15:54]  It's not just going to be a comment that I'm going to read, but we're going to be able to like swipe you in.
[01:15:58]  And there you are as, you know, it's just changing.
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