DOJ Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dillon investigates Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's naturalization, alleging she committed marriage fraud with Ahmed Nur Saeed Elmi while concealing a prior child with Ahmed Hirsi. The probe further claims her father, former Somali military colonel Nur Omar Muhammad, hid his role in the 1992 genocide against the Rahanweyn and Darud clans to secure her citizenship. Citing 18 U.S.C. 101 and 8 U.S.C. 1451, the segment details how these false statements could trigger denaturalization and deportation under Vice President JD Vance's "war on fraud," reflecting President Trump's broader call to remove Omar and Rashida Tlaib from office. [Automatically generated summary]
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Ilhan Omar Citizenship Scandal00:09:02
Ilhan Omar talks so fondly about Somalia all the time.
I really hope she likes it as much as she has let on because she may just be going back sooner than she thought.
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I am Trish Regan.
We've got a big show for you today.
I want to get into Ilhan Omar and what the Justice Department has just revealed, which is a pretty big reveal.
We're going to talk about why they're considering denaturalizing one Ilhan Omar and the alleged evidence they have to go on.
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Ilhan Omar is about to go home.
So it seems they're at least really looking quite hard into this over at the DOJ.
You know, this has been talked about for some time, but we have not really heard anything so emphatic as what we heard on my friend Benny Johnson's show earlier today, Harmeet Dillon, who is the assistant attorney general. and primarily in charge of some of the racial discrimination issues, says this is on their radar and there's an investigation going on.
She can't say much, she says, but suffice it to say, this is kind of a wow moment.
To see her contempt and right next to her, Rashida Tlaib, another person with an immigrant background.
Look, Ilhan Omar has some legal issues regarding her citizenship.
I'll just leave it at that.
I think that they've been well covered in the press.
But it's shameful.
Yeah, that was an interesting answer.
Could you elucidate at all for us on these citizenship issues for Ilhan Omar?
Will we ever see anything on that?
I will tell you that I was very.
I don't think we have anything, but I think it's been well covered, and I covered it certainly myself before I joined the DOJ.
Certainly, it's a truism of immigration law that if you commit fraud in the course of obtaining your citizenship, if you lie about being a Nazi, Guard at a concentration camp, you can be denaturalized.
If you lie about your marriage status on which your citizenship depends or your familial status or what have you, if you fake any of those documents or you lie, that's a grounds for denaturalization.
And so I think it's been credibly alleged that there are serious questions about the circumstances of the paperwork around that naturalization.
I'll just leave it at that.
I'm not working on that issue.
That's not part of what the Civil Rights Division does.
But I think we need to police that seriously.
It is a precious privilege to be granted citizenship as a naturalized citizen in this country.
And I don't think it should be taken away lightly.
But it's just a basic concept of law that if you commit fraud in the course of obtaining a benefit, you're not entitled to it.
I just think this is fantastic.
So Harmite is a fantastic lawyer, okay?
Fantastic lawyer.
I'm just going to say that.
I know her from Fox, and she was a Fox News contributor.
And I'm just going to add that she's not only a fantastic lawyer, she's not going to throw stuff out there just for the heck of it.
Am I throwing shade at Pambandi right about now?
I may be, but I have reason to, okay?
I have reason to.
Letitia James is reason number one.
James Comey is reason number two.
But anyway, Hermite's the real deal.
And so what she's saying here is that they have some thought and process that's going into this.
And she really couldn't say much.
But listen, if what is out there is believed to be true, if that turns out to be true, I'm going to tell you, and I put a nice little time together for everybody, we're going to go through this together.
There is a lot to go on, and it's very, very, very suspicious.
I'm just saying, okay?
So in 2002, Ilhan Omar is 19 years old and she marries a guy named Ahmed Hirsi.
Now they're not married in like a legal government ceremony at all.
They're married in a religious ceremony.
So as far as her culture is concerned, yes, they're very much married, but they weren't married officially in the eyes of the law.
So this is important and a distinction that we're going to come back to in a minute.
She has two children with Mr. Ahmed Hirsi in 2003 and 2006.
So it's a real marriage, okay?
They're together.
They have kids.
Then they separated in 2008.
She marries again in 2009 to a guy named Ahmed.
Oh, you know, that makes it easy, right?
Ahmed, Ahmed.
She likes the Ahmeds.
She marries a guy named Ahmed Nur Saeed Elmi.
That's the guy that some people online believe might be her brother.
I'm here to tell you it doesn't even matter if it's her brother or not, because if it wasn't a real marriage, if they didn't love each other, if it was just, you know, for money only or to help somebody get citizenship this, that or the other, that's a huge problem.
Okay, like huge problem, like we'll get to that again in a second and i'll explain to you legally why it's such a huge problem.
But she marries this guy and she marries him officially, like this is on the books right, this is in, you know, the government register.
She does this the right way when she goes and marries this guy another Ahmed nurse, Saeed Elmi and she divorces him like a year and a half later.
Okay, that's what's weird.
And then what's even more weird is that a year later, while he's off at school, allegedly in one of the Dakotas, she has a third child with the first guy.
The first guy that she's just divorced.
So you tell me how that makes sense to you, right?
She's married to one guy in a religious ceremony.
Then she separates from him, divorces him, marries this other guy in an official ceremony, but no religious stuff around it.
Like they don't do a religious ceremony.
It's like an official ceremony and not within her church.
She has another kid with the first guy.
And then, boom, presto, like a year and a half, two years later, she divorces.
The second guy, I know it's confusing, you know, she must not be a very good Muslim because she keeps getting married.
And now the latest and greatest runs an alcohol company.
Yeah, a wine company.
Well, maybe not.
There's no wine.
And then used to run a cannabis company.
So we'll tackle that again momentarily.
I want to go in order because there's so much here.
So in 2012, she then gets back together with hubby number one.
So think about it.
Hubby number one.
The one she marries in the religious ceremony and has two kids which she divorces so she can go for hubby number two, who seems a little sus and was over in the Uk, comes here apparently, went to school and they weren't even like living together while they were married.
Apparently she she still has a third child.
She goes and gets pregnant with the other guy, the first husband, and he's not around the second husband.
Then he, like I guess, goes back to the Uk.
Apparently he lives in South Africa right now, but there's not a lot on him.
He's posting some stuff on social media from South Africa, so the belief is he's now there.
She then goes back and she marries again hubby number one and hubby number one.
Now they have three kids together and she are together for for a few years until who I don't know, Mr Minette like sweeps her off her feet.
Timmy Minette, you know the looker he is not.
He comes in out of the blue and he has some kind of affair with her.
It leaves his wife, Beth Minette, for this one.
Gosh, you know, there's not much to say.
I mean, again, she's obviously clearly not a very good Muslim in any way, shape, or form.
But, you know, Timmy Minette suddenly becomes numero uno in her book and she divorces that poor guy that she's been with since she's 19 years old that she's got three kids with.
She's already divorced him once.
She divorces him again and marries Timmy Minette, the guy who has multiple times been accused of fraud.
False Marriage Allegations Explained00:11:27
Not only does she marry him, she marries him on the exact same day that she reveals her big feeding our future boondoggle to the tune of $250 million that American taxpayers were defrauded out of.
And all her, you know, peeps back in, I almost said Somalia, like little Somalia in Minneapolis, they're all involved in it.
So, yeah, we have questions.
And so does Harmeet Dillon have questions.
Because, you see, I want to go back to marriage number two.
Maybe you know, if you believe the internet, she could be uh, related to the guy.
But we don't even need that.
Okay, because if she married him under false pretenses pretending, in other words, that she was in love with the guy so that she could help him get into the country, oh that's a problem.
Okay, it's a problem because that's actually grounds for denaturalization.
I've done a lot of research on this and it turns out that if you have been naturalized as a citizen And then you go out and you use your newfound citizenship to then go marry somebody.
And it's not a real marriage, but you just want to get them citizenship.
that's like a really big bad thing to do as far as the U.S. government's concerned.
Like you go out and commit some pretty heinous acts and do some pretty heinous stuff.
I mean, like you could be convicted of murder and you'll go to jail, but you won't get denaturalized.
Think about that.
That's how seriously they take this.
So if you have been naturalized as a citizen and then you go out and you use that citizenship to offer to someone else in a false marriage, that's a big deal.
And they will and can denaturalize you.
Over that and then you're in the country without a visa and you're going to get deported.
18 Usc 101 false statements to the federal government.
They consider it as false.
They're saying now you don't have the right character to have been in the country, initially because you clearly don't believe in our constitutional values, and then 8 Usc 1451, procurement of citizenship by concealment or misrepresentation.
We're going to get to that because there's some talk out there that she never should have gotten citizenship in the first place because of who her family was, who her father was, and because she was being naturalized as sort of a derivative of his status and his citizenship.
The belief in some communities is that he never was deserving of citizenship because of his connection to the Somali rulers that were so barbaric and so horrible there that led to this civil war.
So this is actually pretty pretty, you know, significant and something that is also being looked into, as Harmit alluded to, and I want to go back to what Harmit said again because I think it's really important, especially as I go into 8 USC 1451 and talk about that.
But in terms of the false statements to the federal government, you know, if she was out there marrying somebody because she thought that, you know, this was for whatever reason, I don't know, maybe there was financial gain, maybe it was just gain because if in fact he was a relation, et cetera, they wanted to get him into the country.
I don't know, but I'll just have you at this.
Like it doesn't really matter.
If it wasn't a real marriage, then they can go after her for that.
And that's a big deal as far as the government is concerned.
And I think we have reason.
I'm just saying, not accusing anybody of anything, but I'm just saying we have reason, right?
Do we not?
To say, gee, you were married to one guy.
You had kids with him.
You suddenly dropped him like a hot potato, marry this other guy.
That was like a whiz bang, right?
Like that didn't last long.
You guys weren't even living together.
And then he ups and leaves.
Maybe this was a marriage plan gone awry because, you know, a couple of years later, she's back with the other guy.
And in the interim, she has the other kid with the first guy.
It's really strange stuff.
But again, I want to get to this next part, 8 USC 1451.
In other words, did she never deserve citizenship in the first place?
Let's go back to my friend Benny, really good interview with Harmeet.
And he's smart, right?
Because he heard what we all heard.
And he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
He let her finish her sentence.
And he's like, whoa, whoa, like slow down.
What did you mean by that?
Because it kind of dropped a big, big spectacle in our lap.
Let's go back to Harmi and Benny.
You see her contempt, and right next to her, Rashida Tlaib, another person with an immigrant background.
Look, Ilhan Omar has some legal issues regarding her citizenship.
I'll just leave it at that.
I think that they've been well covered in the press, but it's shameful.
Yeah, that was an interesting answer.
Could you elucidate at all for us on these citizenship issues for Ilhan Omar?
Will we ever see anything on that?
I will tell you that I was very.
I don't think I have anything, but I think it's been well covered, and I covered it certainly myself before I joined the DOJ.
That certainly it's a truism of immigration law that if you commit fraud in the course of obtaining your citizenship, if you lie about being a Nazi guard at a concentration camp, you can be denaturalized.
Okay, that's really important, what she just said.
And we're going to go back to the law and talk about the father.
As it relates to what Harmit's saying, I want to play it again and I won't jump in, but just listen to these words carefully.
You know, guard at a concentration camp, and we're going back to your citizenship.
If you lie about being a, oh, that you weren't a Nazi, you know, guard at a concentration camp, you can be denaturalized.
If you lie about your marriage status on which your citizenship depends, or your familial status, or what have you, if you fake, Any of those documents, or you lie, that's a grounds for denaturalization.
And so I think it's been credibly alleged that there are serious questions about the circumstances of the paperwork around that naturalization.
I'll just leave it at that.
I'm not working on that issue.
That's not part of what the Civil Rights Division does.
But I think we need to police that seriously.
It is a precious privilege to be granted citizenship as a naturalized citizen in this country.
And I don't think it should be taken away lightly.
But it's just a basic concept of law that if you commit fraud in the course of obtaining a benefit, You know, you're not entitled to it.
Boom.
Okay, so this is a big deal.
Again, you know, think about what she's saying here.
And we talked about the marriage fraud and the possibility that there may have been something funky going on there.
But let's look at this other thing, procurement of citizenship by concealment or misrepresentation.
She said, for example, you know, if it turns out you were one of the Nazis and you come here and you're looking for asylum and you don't admit what you were actually engaged in and what you were doing, then they can go back after the fact retroactively and revoke the citizenship.
And you could also thereby then revoke the citizenship of the children because the children, it becomes null and void.
She apparently got citizenship from the USA because of her dad when she was 17 years old.
So just to sort of reiterate, under US law, someone's barred from asylum or residency if they have committed war crimes, if they've participated in persecution in any way, if they've committed any crimes against humanity or engaged in terror activity.
This is a very big deal because what has been alleged, and I'm not saying this is true, but what is being discussed about the father in Ilhan Omar's case is that he may not have been fully representative of who he was.
Here's an article from a biased publication.
Okay, so like, you know, I'm always fair.
I'm not going to try and present something that isn't, but let's just, you know, indulge this for one minute because I think it's important to at least understand what is out there and what has been alleged.
So they're saying that this colonel in the army, and apparently that has been confirmed.
He was a colonel in the army.
Now she says he's a teacher, but he was at some point a colonel, right, in this army.
His name was Nur Omar.
Muhammad.
He's since been deceased.
He was her father.
And so they're saying in this article that he had a certain kind of rank and certain kind of authority and a membership of the regime Darud clan and was there for like 10 years.
And he climbed the hierarchy in Somalia military to the rank of colonel, placing him squarely, they write, in the Somalia military lands command hierarchy during and at the height of the Assak genocide campaign.
Now, this is important.
Again, I'm going to caution you on the source.
It's from Somaliland.
Chronicles and they don't like Ilhan very much.
So, continuing on with their publication, they say based on his position, loyalty to the regime, and his role in the military, it's virtually certain that he had intimate knowledge and involvement in the planning, conception, direction, and the execution of the genocide.
So if that were the case and he did not admit any of that, well then, guys, you're going to have, if this comes out, the ability to, yes, take away her citizenship because he never should have gotten citizenship in the first place because he would not have been of the right moral character and standing in order to have gotten it, right?
Committed war crimes, participated in persecution, crimes against humanity, you name it.
And so this is why we get back to this law, 8 U.S.C. 1451.
the procurement of citizenship by concealment or misrepresentation.
And in the eyes of the law, if you did this, your citizenship would be stripped and your children's citizenship thereby that had gotten them from you would also be stripped.
Now, again, you have to balance this with what's real, what's not.
And one of the frustrating things about this is because she's from this war-torn area, you can kind of make up anything, right?
Like, where are all the records?
What do we actually know?
What do we don't really know?
And so if you look, what you see, there's all these allegations that have been made about the dad.
and then what is really documented.
And so it's going to take a fair amount of work, I would imagine, to really figure this out.
After all, there are no formal war crimes that have been recorded.
He wasn't part of any kind of international tribunal that investigated him.
There are no criminal charges filed against him.
But they're arguing that he had to have been part of this ruling clan because he served as a colonel under Saeed Bar.
And that actually seems to be the case.
In other words, he did have this position within the military.
So if he had the position within the military, as it has been alleged, and I do believe that that could be proven out, then you'd have to go to the next column, right, and think about what did he engage in.
And that's where it starts to get really murky.
So there's two sort of lines, I think, of thinking that they're going after her on.
And that would be in terms of the citizenship.
It would be whether or not the father deserved the citizenship and therefore did she, and then whether or not she committed some kind of marriage fraud.
In that second, go around with the second hubby and then you know we haven't even gotten to Timmy Minette.
Minnesota Medicaid Retaliation Crisis00:09:50
Timmy Minette, I keep saying my net worth goes up when you, you know, she marries.
This is what she's saying to herself, my net worth just went up when she married mr Timmy Minette.
I mean, if nothing else, for goodness sake, she gave the guy a great payday.
Remember this one.
I mean.
This is why she was initially being investigated by the ethics committee, because Timmy Minette's firm he was her campaign manager.
He received 878 000 between the years 2018 and 2020.
So What was that, 2018, 2019, 2020?
So, you know, he's making somewhere less, you know, somewhere around, I'm guessing like 300 or so if we span this out over three years, a year.
And then suddenly he jumps to nearly 3 million during the 2020 campaign cycle from Omar's campaign.
Now, I'd like to know, given that campaign cycle, given that in 2020 he was making suddenly so much, did she say to herself, heck yeah, you know, this is the guy for me.
I got to marry this one.
You know, looker that he is.
I'm paying him nearly 3 million bucks.
That's a lot, by the way, for a campaign manager.
I just want to take a little aside and tell you that's a heck of a lot.
Like that's unheard of.
It doesn't exist in congressional campaigns except, you know, in Minneapolis.
with Ilhan and Timmy.
It doesn't exist to the point where Joe Biden was being criticized in a front page piece in the New York Times.
They were like, oh my gosh, he's paying his campaign manager $4 million.
I think that was the sweetener if the guy actually got him elected.
Hey, you deserve $4 million for getting Joe Biden elected too, right?
$4 million would be a lot for a campaign manager.
They couldn't believe this.
Well, hey, Timmy Minot out there in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he's getting nearly three.
Hey, not bad work if you can get it.
Of course, you've got to be married to this one.
Yeah, pick your poison.
Listen, they're going to have some problems because the administration is now laser focused on her and they're laser focused on fraud and they're laser focused on Minnesota or Minneapolis.
Her district is ground zero for all this stuff.
Trump said it the other night.
Listen.
There's been no more stunning example than Minnesota where members of the The Somali community have pillaged an estimated $19 billion from the American taxpayer.
Oh, we have all the information.
And in actuality, the number is much higher than that.
And California, Massachusetts, Maine, and many other states are even worse.
This is the kind of corruption that shreds the fabric of a nation.
And we are working on it like you wouldn't believe.
So, tonight, although it started four months ago, I am officially announcing the war on fraud to be led by our great.
Vice President JD Vance.
Boom.
Okay.
So that means Ilhan, they're on to you.
You get the Treasury Secretary.
You get the IRS.
You get JD Vance.
And we're not talking Pam Bondi territory.
This is JD Vance territory.
All right.
So good luck with that one.
Not to mention, you know, they're going to sent you in the meantime, as you so well deserve, as does your little friend Rashida for this.
Standing up.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities that protect the criminals and enact serious penalties for public officials who block the removal of criminal aliens, in many cases, drug lords, murderers all over our country.
They're blocking the removal of these people out of our country, and you should be ashamed of yourself.
Ashamed, ashamed.
And they doubled down, of course, this week saying, you know what?
Send them home.
When you watch low IQ Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the president of the United States, writes on True Social as they scream uncontrollably last night at the very elegant State of the Union.
Such an important, beautiful event.
They had the bulging, bloodshot eyes of crazy people, of lunatics, mentally deranged and sick, who frankly look like they should be institutionalized.
When people can behave like that and knowing that they are crooked and corrupt politicians, so bad for our country, we should send them back to where they came from as fast as possible.
They can only damage the United States Of America.
They can do nothing to help it.
So he's calling them crooked, he's calling them corrupt and he wants them out of here.
Okay, and now we have learned, as of today, it's official the DOJ as we understand it, courtesy of thank you Benny, and also Harmeet Dillon, Harmeet coming up with this revelation here.
In fact, they're looking into it and she says it needs to be looked into.
Indeed it does.
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You know, look, I'm looking at these impeachment articles against one Tim.
I keep calling them all Timmy.
They must have lots of Timmies, I guess popular name in the state of Minnesota.
Timmy the governor, right?
I don't know if he's going to be governor much long.
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Dragon Rider writing, if her citizenship is revoked, does she go to prison in the U.S. or back into her country?
That's a great, great question.
I actually, I think that, you know, we could kind of flip a coin on that, which would be worse.
I think it would be worse to go back there, don't you?
Well, let me know what you think.
All right, impeachment articles filed against one Timmy Waltz because, you know, it's a little strange, just a little strange.
Have you seen this, the autism numbers?
Dr. Oz is all over this thing.
He's like, how is there a 34?
34,200% increase in the amount of autism spending under one Timmy Waltz.
I mean, it started at like $1 million in 2017.
And now by 2024, we're all the way up to $343 million in autism spending.
That's a little peculiar, so peculiar that now these Minnesota congressmen at the Freedom Caucus there, they're filing articles of impeachment.
Listen.
Representative Mike Wiener, impeachment articles for the fraudster in chief, Tim Walz, holding politicians accountable, holding him accountable for the massive amount of fraud in the state of Minnesota, estimated $9 billion.
Uh oh, Timmy.
He's like, don't look at me.
Don't look at me.
I mean, hey, I'm all about going after fraud.
Oh, yeah?
You can trust me on this.
The person who's angriest about this fraud is me.
There is certainly no political upside to having fraud in your state.
And it undermines the very program that I have spent a lifetime advocating for and trying to implement.
And we have got criminals.
It seems like the Republicans, the only people they're not concerned about in this is the actual criminals.
No, no, we're pretty concerned about them.
The criminals are the problem.
And you're a problem because you allowed them.
Okay?
Like we're not looking away from that.
We want to know who's enabling the criminals because it's not just the criminals' fault.
It's the people that were enabling them, whether it be Timmy Walsh, whether it be Ilhan Omar, whether it be Keith Ellison.
I want to go to a Fox report on this.
It'll just blow you away.
It's really disgusting.
The allegation is that the treatment centers would encourage parents to get a bogus diagnosis that their kid was autistic.
The treatment center would then get a check, and the parents would get a kickback.
The treatment centers could not receive surprise inspections because they were not licensed.
Now that licenses are required, only six out of more than 500 centers are even applying for the provisional license.
Dr. Ross says this goes all the way to the top of state leadership.
This is not a problem with the people of Minnesota.
It's a problem with the leadership of Minnesota and other states who do not take Medicaid preservation seriously.
Any delay in services is going to be, should be laid at the seat of Governor Walz.
Now, Governor Tim Walz says the decision to withhold a quarter billion dollars in Medicaid money is an example of the Trump administration weaponizing the federal government and punishing the people in a blue state.
The sense of retribution.
No state has experienced this before.
How does taking and punishing children and elderly have anything to do with fighting fraud when that's not where this issue is taking place?
It does nothing.
Now, in 2017, the money repaid to the state of Minnesota for autism treatment was less than $2 million.
By 2019, word got out that money was available.
And then, when COVID hit, the money really started moving until we see, in 2024, almost $350 million million dollars paid out for autism treatment.
Trump Administration Weaponization00:12:22
Quite i'll tell you.
You know the idea that they're trying to say that this is retribution.
When we're like, hang on, we got 650 billion dollars, according to the nonpartisan GAO, in fraud happening every darn year, and you people are like oh, how dare you look at us?
No no no, no.
We want to know every single last cent and where it is being spent fraudulently, and we're going to hold everybody accountable, because there's got to be some kind of system that prevents this insanity, don't you think?
CNN freaking out because guess what?
David Elson from Skydance, from Paramount, he got Paramount.
He's coming in.
He's going to get CNN.
He's going to get all of Time Warner.
And the CNN people are like, you got to be kidding me.
Oh my gosh, we have somebody who's kind of like on good terms with Trump taking.
over a major media company.
No one in Hollywood wanted this.
And I mean, no one and no one within the mainstream media news business wanted this.
They're throwing a fit because you get Barry Weiss over there running the show at CBS.
They don't know what to do.
You get a mutiny going down, right?
They're all threatening to leave.
Some of them have left Anderson Cooper.
He left CBS in 60 minutes, but you see, he's still at CNN.
So I think he's going to have to leave twice.
Think he he already wore out his welcome in the CBS negotiations.
What's going to happen next?
I'll tell you.
They are not happy about any of this.
Here's the big news, Netflix uh, woke Netflix.
They're humiliated in this loss.
They completely got squashed like a little bug.
Okay, this is like the the, the company that Susan Rice is on the board of.
She was the one just out recently promising retribution for anybody who was aligned with Maga.
We're going to come back and get you and we're in charge.
Yeah, she's the one.
Oh, no wonder Barack and Michelle got that Netflix deal, right?
They got Susan Rice on the board.
Anyway, Netflix is backing out because David Ellison is coming with deep pockets and the promise that he can get that job done.
He can get the merger done.
You're not going to run into all kinds of regulatory challenges he does not believe for a variety of reasons, possibly including the fact that he gets along better with the president.
And so consequently, Netflix is now backing out.
You know, they stood there and they were like, we got this, we got this, we got this.
And they gave like a week of due diligence at some point because you have to, right?
Duty to shareholders means. that if you are Time Warner, you can't just say, oh, we really like Netflix because they're so woke, just like us.
And, you know, everybody's going to be happy together.
The shareholders are like, show me the money, right?
And if David Ellison is like, I can do better and I promise you I'll do better and I'll give you more money, then you have a duty to the shareholders.
And so they had to go and entertain this offer.
And it turns out Netflix is out.
Woke Netflix, totally humiliated and out of the game altogether.
So now you're looking at Paramount and WB Warner Brothers together.
And Warner Brothers, of course, owns Timewell, CNN.
Okay.
We're going back a few mergers here.
We start talking about Time Warner.
Anyway, this is great because there's this little blog by this guy who is a little guy who used to have a job at CNN and now writes a newsletter on Substack or something.
And he's pointing out that, okay, it's called status.
There you go.
I couldn't remember the name of that.
I can't remember his name, but he's got this little newsletter.
And he said, it's so bad there.
They're like freaking out.
Quote, inside CNN, alarm bells went off as staffers began to panic over the suddenly very real prospect that they could be working for Barry Weiss before the end of the year.
Within minutes of the news crossing the wire, my phone lit up with messages, I'm sure, from anxious employees fretting about the future.
Quote, we are doomed, one staffer candidly said.
We're effed.
Another said, everyone is reeling about all the obvious things, said the third.
The panic at CNN right now is off the charts, one insider told his newsletter of the larger mood that had arrested the entire network.
Of course they're worried, right?
Because Barry, like, actually wants to have the other side of the story.
Like, if you're 60 Minutes and you're going to do a whole thing on the Salvador prison, she kind of actually wants to hear from, say, oh, I don't know, Tom Homan.
And you don't even try to get Tom Homan?
She's like, well, let me see if I can make the call.
We're going to hold the story until we can at least try to get the other side in there.
So CNN's like, well, what do we do now?
I think they saw this one coming, though, because I've been seeing some of the information that they've put on the show recently.
And it's like, oh, gosh, CNN, really?
Like you actually sound like a real news organization now.
You're actually admitting things like, oh, you know, Americans feel that he is better on the immigration front than, say, the Democrats want open borders.
They admitted that, right?
Like that's a big step.
Baby steps.
But a big step in terms of their baby steps that they're making to try to be less insanely biased.
Here's Variety saying just a couple of weeks ago that most Warner Brothers Discovery staffers were now in favor of the Netflix merger with Warner Brothers Studios and that HBO Max would much rather be fully consumed by, say, Netflix than by David Ellison's Paramount Skydance.
They're all worried.
Well, you know what?
Now they're gonna have to worry and worry some more, and this is going to be one big company.
They get HBO, HBO MAX I was just going down the list CNN CBS, DC Studios, Cartoon Network, Adult SWIM Paramount Nickelodeon MTV Showtime, TNT i'm gonna run out of breath they got Harry Potter, they get DC Comics, they got Game Of Thrones, the Lord Of The Rings.
I mean, this is going to be one massive.
They've got Spongebob and they've got Door The Explorer okay.
So need I say more?
Oh, Star Trek too, okay.
So this is massive.
This is going to be a huge, huge entertainment company.
And, of course these, these companies are freaking out because they're like, what does this mean from a wokeism standpoint?
Right, like they're really, really worried.
But i'm going to tell you, it's not just what it means from sort of, are we going to actually have to be neutral in our coverage?
I think it's actually.
It means more than that that there's such an opportunity and I say this all the time.
I'm blown away by what i'm able to do on this little show and how many people i'm able to reach, and it's more than I was ever able to reach on any of those networks I worked at, which is incredible.
If you haven't subscribed, make sure you do, but this is really um just an enormously important time.
We're like on the cusp of something massive, And I think David Ellison gets this.
All of my sources that know him well say he's one of the smartest guys that you'll meet who really thinks about tech and the future of this entire business in a new way.
So he wants to bring that kind of innovation that you would see in the technology side of things to Hollywood and to the news business.
So what could that mean?
I mean, I think it's like incredible.
Yeah.
I think about this stuff a lot.
And I was thinking about it when I was at the Apple store and I tried on the goggles, you know, that they have there.
you feel like you're right on the front lines of something like a sporting event.
And I thought to myself, gosh, this is going to be huge.
This could be huge for news.
Think about CNN.
It used to be in the old days, right?
They were bringing you in your living room to the front lines of who knows what.
They can bring you the front lines of Gaza or Ukraine or right out there in the middle of a hurricane.
Well, what if it was no longer bringing these things, is how we say, to you in your living room?
Think about the power of news in the future because it won't be about in the old days when you first got TV, bringing the news to you in your living room, but rather bringing you to the news.
So that to me is the power of the future as we think about the metaverse, et cetera.
And the news organization that can harness that is going to be way out ahead of the curve.
So CNN, like they already have, right, all these bureaus all over the world and they're just sitting there and it's like this dead asset that nobody wants.
It's like the hot. potato, right?
He's the only guy who's like, yeah, I'll take it.
I'll take it.
Well, you know, he could do a lot with it.
He could do a lot with it if he actually found a way with technology to bring the viewer from their living room directly, I think beam me up, Scotty, right?
The Star Trek reference to the news.
And then they would be on the front lines of all these events sort of, I mean, not actually, not physically, but in that sort of metaverse world.
And that, to me, is the huge opportunity and the huge future.
And some people may say, is it ethical, really?
And there are concerns about that.
But you probably had all the same exact concerns when you first had television in the first place and you first had the likes of the CBS Evening News bringing you all of this footage.
Now you're going to be able to probably, at some point in the future, experience it yourself.
I think about it here on the show.
We could have you right here in the studio.
Boom, boom, boom.
And it's not just me looking at your comments in real time, and thank you for your comments, they're wonderful, but you know you'd be like here with me it, the potential, is enormous, enormous.
And I think David Ellison is probably one of the few people that sees this, and so if he's got that kind of vision and I don't know, maybe maybe i'm the one with the vision, I don't know I hope he does.
I mean again, i'm hearing from sources he's really, really smart.
And if you also think about the potential to bring ai productivity to Hollywood, I know this is scary for some people, but think about it.
You could be writing your own movies, like in real time.
You don't need to sit there and watch somebody else's movie.
You can have your own movie.
And I bet you he understands that and the power of that.
And this is what scares Hollywood.
I mean, forget the woke stuff.
That's scary enough, right?
But what's really scary to them is the reality that the entire business is about to change.
We need innovators.
We need people to think about all of this stuff differently.
And I think he will, and I think he can.
Meanwhile, over at The View, they need to start thinking about things differently, do they not?
Because the FCC is breathing down their back.
The FCC is like, we've had it with you, and it's not just because of stuff like this from Whoopee.
I'm not sure if it's one amendment.
Right.
It's time.
25th Amendment is time.
It's time.
It is time for her to go.
All right.
I think we need the 25th Amendment for her.
Anyway, the FCC is conducting this investigation.
It's been kind of heated because they're conducting it not into just all of Disney and all of ABC, but specifically into The View.
And they're conducting it over the equal time rule that the FCC under Donald Trump, Brennan Carr, is actually enforcing for the first time.
And what the equal time rule is, is, oh, if you're going to have a candidate from one side of the aisle on, you've got to have the candidate from the other side of the aisle on.
And this happened recently with Jasmine Crockett.
They brought Jasmine Crockett.
Oh, she's good for ratings, right?
Maybe not.
Onto The View.
And then they had to bring on her, well, they didn't have to.
They chose to bring on her competitor, James Tallarico, who looks like he's about 12.
And he went on The View and got to talk up how great Jasmine is, right?
It was like having two Jasmins, well, different Jasmins, on The View.
And that's a problem because they never invited the Republican.
And so they got called out for it and now they're like freaking out and the view hosts are realizing, they're realizing that they're in trouble and so they got to do something different.
And the different is possibly bringing on a diversified list of guests.
Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, the rest of them, Sonny, they all just got humiliated, humiliated by what do you know, a little business reporter.
You know, we business reporters, we're kind of smart.
Whoopi Goldberg Media Clash00:04:43
You know why?
We don't just see things through a political lens.
We see things through an economic lens, through a market lens, through a numbers lens.
And so this girl who used to work with me at Bloomberg and then went over to another one of my former employers, CNBC, and does a pretty good job, she just put Whoopi and Company right darn in their place.
Let me see if I have this little video to show you.
Do we have it?
Do we have it?
I think we do.
And I'm going to bring it up for you right now because Sarah Eisen took these guys on in a way that they did not know what hit them because they're not smart enough to really understand the economy.
And so consequently, they took it right on the chin.
Let's see.
This is fantastic, you guys.
I mean, utterly fantastic.
I want to make sure it's the right one.
Oh, yeah, I got it.
Okay, here we go.
Way to go, Sarah.
After we do what we're supposed to do, I do want to ask you about the market because please.
It seems that the market doesn't really pay attention to who is president.
The market does what it does.
Actually, the market likes who's president, I think.
Really?
Oh, interesting.
There's a lot of upbeat sentiment from companies and from investors about policies that are helpful for growth.
You know, deregulation.
Do you think tariffs are helpful for growth?
The tariffs usually wouldn't be helpful for growth, but they haven't been as bad as everybody expected.
But they're not.
And it helps for rich people, it doesn't help poor people or middle income people.
Well, fair.
But, you know, when the tariffs were announced, everyone thought it would be like massive inflation and the market would fall apart and the economy would fall.
And it hasn't.
Well, it's not.
Companies have absorbed it.
You know what?
They've never been more profitable right now.
But also, they like to have.
And companies and investors.
So it's like a K curve, right?
So if you're an investor, if you're wealthy, then it's great.
If you're middle class or under the middle class, then it's not good at all.
100%.
But what I would say to that is that, you know, it helps to have exposure to stocks.
More people should have exposure to stocks, and that is something.
Well, but eventually, if you're getting paid minimum wage, you don't have exposure to stocks.
I love it.
I am loving this.
Yes, you need more exposure to stocks, 76research.com.
But in other words, she's like, listen, this is good.
This is good for the economy.
It's all, everybody's happy.
And they're like, but it can't be.
It can't be.
It's going to get bad.
And she's like, no, actually, it's pretty good.
So there you have it.
Whoopi, were you listening hard enough?
Do we need to give you another lesson in this?
I think we need to give the whole mainstream media a lesson in this.
Here's one I found on Vox.
Vox.com.
They're talking about why Eileen Gu is the winner and why the U.S. men's hockey team is the loser.
Okay.
Have I said enough here?
You get the point.
They're like, okay, Eileen Gu, she's great because, oh, well, I guess they don't see her as being somebody who the Trump camp likes.
You know, the Trump camp is looking at her saying kind of, girl, you're like some kind of traitor.
I mean, like, why the heck are you skiing for China when you could ski for the U.S. of A?
For her, it's probably all the almighty dollar that kind of is dictating things.
I'm guessing she got a lot of money from China.
Money.
That you know, because we play by the rules here in the U.s.
We wouldn't be giving to an amateur athlete.
Meanwhile, the U.s men's hockey team oh, they're bad because, you see, Trump likes them.
So that's how they.
That's how they.
That's how they think about things.
Really, that is the mainstream media, guys.
That's the mainstream media in a nutshell.
So two on that, and know that Brendan Carr is on the case, and know that we're going to get huge changes.
Really, I mean, you cannot even begin to Think about all that's Coming.
I mean, I can.
I can see it all, right?
I'm predicting the future.
A lot of changes are coming from the media industry.
Good to have you all here.
I see somebody from my hometown of Hampton, New Hampshire.
Love that.
Live free or die.
I put it on my coffee cups.
Live free or die, New Hampshire.
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