Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib face renewed deportation calls after condemning the U.S.-Israel strike on Iran's Navy, which eliminated eleven ships and 2,000 targets. While critics like Sonny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg label the action an illegal regime change, the host argues Trump succeeds where Obama and Biden failed, citing inflation dropping to 1.7% and stock gains of 139%. The segment also covers Netflix's failed Warner Bros. bid, David Ellison's acquisition of CNN, and alleges fraud in Omar's asylum application under 18 U.S.C. 1001. Ultimately, this military victory signals a geopolitical shift that may force China and Russia to reconsider their strategies in Taiwan and Ukraine. [Automatically generated summary]
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Nancy Mace's Legal Claims00:14:19
Well, that was quite a weekend, was it not?
Wow.
Oh my goodness.
Well, I just got to say, a lot of success, a whole lot of success.
And you know what?
I like success.
I like success like this.
I'll tell you, it was just remarkable to see this.
We've basically taken out their Navy.
We have taken out their Ayatollah.
And we're getting word that they just took out an even bigger naval ship where they were launching some of the attacks from.
This is what you would call a home run for the Trump administration.
Pete Hex had given a conference on it just earlier today.
We're going to get to Ilhan, et cetera.
But wow.
but a victory lap, shall we say, for the administration.
Chanted, death to America and death to Israel was gifted death from America and death from Israel.
This is not a so-called regime change war, but the regime sure did change.
And the world is better off for it.
Okay.
2,000 plus strikes, 2,000 plus strikes.
But before anybody says, oh, gee, you know, how could he do this?
And believe me, they are saying that, how could he do this?
I just want to remind them all of what we got on the campaign trail.
What's the message to Iran?
Don't, what is your message to Iran in this moment?
Don't, i'm gonna bomb the out of them.
It's true, I don't care, I don't care, he doesn't okay, he is.
He's after one thing, and one thing only, and that is success.
We're gonna talk about his global ambitions, what the media keeps getting wrong about it, because They seem to think that we're going into this forever war.
I can tell you, and I know this from personal experience, given the conversations I've had with the president, he wants nothing, nothing like that.
Let's start on the little hoopla that was going down with one Ilhan Omar and Nancy Mace.
My goodness.
So Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, they're obviously not very happy about this.
We know where their allegiances are, shall we say.
And they made that very, very clear.
So much so that people are really, once again, questioning the citizenship.
of Ilhan Omar and whether she really deserves to be a citizen here, whether or not there were some issues with asylum along the way.
Anyway, I'll tell you, this was really quite something because, again, even in the face of 2,000-plus strikes, which everybody is calling an absolute victory, even Democrats, right?
Even Democrats right now, the polling data suggests they're even looking at this and saying this is a victory.
You have others like Ilhan Omar, surprise, surprise, saying that this is awful.
It shouldn't be done.
Well, Nancy has a word for her or two.
Naturalizing the border to Somalia.
So we'll see if that comes to fruition.
Ilhan Omar sending out over the weekend, oh my goodness, right?
Trump, quote, Trump has launched an illegal regime change war.
Quote, as somebody who has survived the horrors of war, I know military strikes will not make us safer.
They will inflame tensions and push the region further into chaos.
When we abandon diplomacy, we choose destruction.
Are you kidding me, lady?
Are you kidding me?
Do you know what we've been through for the last nearly 50 years with Iran?
Do you care?
I mean, I know you hate America.
You've made that pretty darn clear, along with your little friend, Rashida.
Rashida Tlaib, do we have her tweet?
Rashida Tlaib, as I mentioned, is also part of the club.
Yeah, one of the other squad members that said both the U.S. and genocide Israel, of course they take any shot at Israel they possibly can, doesn't care about the laws.
This is who they are.
So first of all, we've got a few things going on there.
Grammar, grammar, grammatical errors.
If one speaks English, you would say both the U.S. and Israel don't.
Not doesn't, okay?
Care about the laws.
This is who they are.
And a lot of people are taking issue with the they.
like saying that the U.S. they, like trying to somehow objectify us in this way.
Nobody likes us, especially on the heels of what we saw the other night, right, at the State of the Union from these lovely two.
The little duo, hard at work, heckling the President of the United States.
Both of them, I'm telling you, deserve censorship.
We must censure these ladies for this.
You should be ashamed of yourself not 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 blocked the removal.
Yeah, and they just heckled and heckled and heckled some more.
So just keep that in mind.
The showdown happened here with Nancy Mace saying, you know what?
My heart goes out to Ilhan, Omar, and Rashida Tlaib tonight, sending them thoughts and prayers.
And Ilhan decides to respond with this.
I hope you aren't drunk and took your staff's advice.
Rashida and I don't know this man.
That would be the Ayatollah.
We don't know this man and feel confident he didn't care about us.
That's a very interesting thing that she said.
Okay, so first of all, she's taken a swipe at Nancy, which is just whatever.
She's low class.
What are we going to say?
Low IQ, as the president would say.
So she's taken the swipe, trying to insult her about God knows what.
And she said, Rashida and I don't know this man and feel confident he didn't care about us.
So that's really interesting.
She feels compelled to say, hang on, we don't know the Ayatollah.
We don't think he cared about us.
You don't think so?
I mean, because a lot of people have made this suggestion that effectively Iran and some of our enemies have spies amongst us working in Congress, for goodness sakes, because these women don't seem to adhere to the values that the rest of the country adheres to.
So that has certainly been floated.
And she felt the need for whatever reason late at night that this was to come out and say that.
She went on to say, please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff to stay off social media when you are drunk.
I pray in this holy month you find peace and respect.
for yourself.
Okay.
Well, Nancy, former member of the military, is one tough cookie.
So I want you to see her response to Ilhan Omar, who was obviously tweeting very late at night.
He's complaining that the attack came during Ramadan.
And Rashida Tlaib, by the way, is attacking both the United States and Israel, another member of the squad, and saying they shouldn't have done this as if the U.S. is a foreign country to her.
Could you unpack some of that?
Well, I don't give a damn if it's Ramadan.
I don't care if Muslims are.
Fasting right now.
This was the right time with the right intel, the right president to go in there and do this, and he'll have his chance to explain it to her secretaries to Congress.
And she was also responding because I was complaining about that.
Where was she when Jews were slaughtered?
Over 1,000 Jews were slaughtered in Israel by Hamas, by Palestinians on a Jewish holiday.
I don't remember her complaining about that.
And when she said that very defamatory statement about me in the middle of the night, by the way, what was she doing in the middle of the night?
But I asked her what it was like to be married to your brother.
I mean, like, she has no room to attack anyone on any.
Any issue, quite frankly, and I'm ready to denaturalize and deport her to Somalia.
There you go.
You've said that before, and it sounds like you mean it.
Congresswoman Nancy Mace means what she means.
That's great.
Ed Henry, way to go.
I love it.
I was actually thinking the same thing as this all was going down because we've been reporting on Ilhan Omar a lot.
I was like, gosh, I wonder how Ilhan and Rashida feel about now, given that there was such an effort by some members of the Democrat Party to embrace Iran.
I mean, that's what we've seen for decades, right?
just go back to Barack Obama and his grand Iran deal where he was going to give them $56 billion and that was going to just solve everything.
Or why not go to, oh, I don't know, Joe Biden and the fact that he was giving them $6 billion.
They were like, well, technically it was our money, but you see, we'd sanctioned it.
So we cut them off.
All right.
We were going to give them access to some of the money that they had in accounts that we had jurisdiction over.
And what did they do?
We gave it to them.
Yeah.
Gee, thanks, Joey boy.
And the next thing you know, we're looking at October 7th, which.
Don't kid yourself.
You know what?
They had a big hand.
You want to know who the biggest sponsors of Hezbollah and Hamas are?
Iran.
Okay?
The Ayatollah and his cronies.
The Ayatollah that's no more.
The naivete is mind-boggling.
Mind-boggling.
Think about people that were actually agreeing with Ilhan Omar a few years back when she was saying nasty stuff.
She still says nasty stuff, but nasty stuff like this.
Watch.
A lot of conservatives in particular would say that the rise in Islamophobia is a result not of hate, but of fear.
A legitimate fear, they say, of quote unquote jihadist terrorism, whether it's Fort Hood or San Bernardino or the recent truck attack in New York.
What do you say to them?
I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country.
We should be profiling, monitoring, and creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men.
Oh, really?
I mean, just consider what happened in Texas over the weekend.
Thank you very much.
With a guy who was.
A supporter of the Iranian government.
Look, I mean, we have to confront that reality too, right?
The idea that somehow they have all these little tentacles out here.
And listen, you have to, I don't think you have a choice.
The president had an opportunity.
I don't care.
I'm with Nancy.
I don't care if it was during Ramadan.
I don't care.
You take that opportunity.
And to her point, she's right when she said, do you think that they were considering the fact that it was a holy day in Israel when they attacked them?
No.
So you know what?
All's fair in love and war.
And I'm telling you, this is war, okay?
You have a society.
a group of people that for whatever reason hate us.
And I'm going to get too angry and too upset, but I think about even the way that they treat women.
And to me, you just can't be on the world stage when you're requiring women to wear that garb and assuming that they can't enjoy the same opportunities and rights as men.
Like, you've just lost me.
All right.
You've lost me.
And Ilhan Omar, I find it funny.
Like she's there dressed in the garb and yet she's married for the third time.
She apparently has a family that runs a winery and a cannabis.
I mean, what is this all about?
Not exactly what a good Muslim woman should be, I suppose.
But here, I question all the marriages, including this one.
This one was very convenient, you see, because she was about to pay him $3 million, unheard of, to run her campaign.
This is money that you never see, ever, for a congressional campaign.
This would be huge for a presidential campaign.
But she's paying her campaign manager, who she then decides to marry, $3 million.
That's when he got the big pay raise.
So that marriage, to me, is suspicious.
The second marriage is certainly suspicious.
We talked about this on Friday, and I encourage any of you that did not see this to go back and watch Friday's show because I did a deep dive on Ilhan Omar and her various marriages.
I mean, she had two children with the first guy, Hirsi, Ahmed.
They're all named Ahmed.
The second guy was Ahmed too.
She legally married the second guy.
The first guy was just a ceremony in her community.
But no, the second one, she went so far as to have this big, legal, civil marriage.
And then he takes off and they divorce like a year and a half later.
That was very confusing.
And she goes back to the other Ahmed.
In the meantime, she's had like another child.
with the other Ahmed.
It's really bonkers.
And now she's with the Timmy guy who I have my suspicions about, but I'm not the only one.
I mean, considering the fact that he's been several times accused of engaging in serious fraud with his cannabis companies and his winery companies, I mean, he's really quite a brute, right?
So she takes up with him, marries him, pays him well.
I'm just saying, suspicious.
There are lots of questions as well about whether or not she should have gotten amnesty in the first place.
And this brings up Some of these big issues.
18 USC, 1001 false statements to the federal government.
Did she make false statements about her second marriage?
She wasn't out of the woods yet.
They take that really, really seriously.
So the feds, like, you can do a lot of things.
You can commit fraud, maybe not anymore given some of the legislation that's being introduced, but you can have committed fraud.
You can have committed murder.
And they're actually like, okay, but if you commit marriage fraud, that's a whole other ballgame.
So 18 U.S.C. 1001 false statements to the government.
You also have 8 U.S.C. 1451 procurement of citizenship by concealment or misrepresentation.
There are some people that believe her father may not have been on the up and up when he explained that he was trying to flee.
a war-torn Somalia because the belief by many, and I have not independently checked this, but you know what?
You're welcome to go and do your research online.
And New York Post and Daily News have reported on this rather extensively.
They don't believe that he was totally clean, totally clear, and just the school teacher that she wants you to think he was.
He is believed to maybe have had a role in the administration that inflicted so much pain on the people in Somalia, which therefore would make him having offered her asylum because he's got asylum himself all sort of a moot point.
She would lose it because under U.S. law, someone is barred from asylum or residency if they've committed war crimes, participated in persecution, committed crimes against humanity, et cetera.
So that's the big question.
And that's what they're trying to look at.
And that's what they're trying to prove.
And believe me, they are.
Harmeet Dillon just told our friend Benny Johnson this the other day.
On Friday, Harmeet Dillon actually came out, admitted and admitted that the DOJ is investigating this.
This is the most significant claim I have seen vis-a-vis anybody saying they're really looking into this.
I know the IRS.
I know Treasury is looking into the husband's business.
And whether there was money laundering and whether Ilhan Omar partaked in that money laundering, the alleged money laundering, I should say.
But Benny and Harmid are saying something really pretty extraordinary here.
Let's go to the sound.
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.
DOJ Investigation Confirmed00:03:40
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 like elucidate at all for us on the 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.
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.
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.
Wow.
Okay, so that was kind of a big deal.
And I thought it was important to show you guys that.
Again, we did quite a deep dive on this.
So I encourage you to go look at Friday's show if you want to know more about Ilhan Omar and her marriages and Ilhan Omar and the sketchy sort of questions around whether or not she deserved asylum.
But I want to go back to the news of the day.
And we've got a lot to talk about because, again, this is just truly amazing.
I mean, to me, it's like kind of a Berlin Wall moment.
And whether or not he'll get credit for that, well, I think we know the answer, right?
And I have only to go to The View today to show you some of that ridiculousness first before we do.
We've got the markets.
Did we end the day higher?
It was just amazing.
I mean, this was kind of.
You know, I said to Rob, who's my colleague at 76 Research, and we have Financial Research Company and we put out three model portfolios which, by the way, are killing it.
Killing it.
I'm going to show you some graphics on that in a second.
So victory lap.
But you know, you think about the markets and we actually ended the Dow pretty much flat down, pretty much flat on the Dow.
We ended the day down um rather, forgive me, up four tenths of a percent or so on the Nasdaq and the S P just up a touch, but basically flat.
And I just got to say, you know, that's amazing because here you are going into this so-called war.
That wasn't a war, that this is.
This is actually being celebrated as a victory and that's pretty amazing.
Anyway, we have three different stock portfolios.
I encourage you to go to 76 Research and look at it.
One of them is actually up 55 since we added it.
And then we were looking at the numbers.
Today we put this note out, just showing how incredible this is for the last 12 months.
I mean, look at these, look at these numbers, guys.
So all of the all of the portfolios have beaten THE SP.
But then when you look at these stocks that we have, we've got an inflation protection portfolio.
It doesn't sound that exciting, but let me tell you when you see your materials stock going up 139%, that's exciting.
Materials 106, another 98%, materials gaining 87%.
These are the top five in that portfolio.
So again, there's just a lot for you to look at.
I encourage you to go to 76research.com or go to 76portfolios.com if you want to look at those portfolios.
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Top Five Portfolio Picks00:15:43
So The view is caught lashing out against Donald Trump.
Surprise, surprise, surprise, everyone, right?
We knew this one was coming.
It's like they're just one in sync with one Ilhan Omar.
I showed you her tweet earlier.
Ilhan Omar accusing the president of launching a regime change war.
And what do you know?
Sonny Houston licking it up, saying, absolutely, buying every bit of it, hook, line, and sinker.
And now we have to listen to this woman on a show that is broadcast over publicly controlled, owned airwaves.
The FCC is in charge of them.
And all we get is this stuff, which will just make you nauseous, but you need to know what's out there.
Yeah, yeah.
Right.
Finish your sentence.
I was just going to say, you know, the bottom line is that this is an illegal war.
This is an unconstitutional war.
Only Congress can wage war and declare war.
And so that's the first thing.
I think we have to call a thing a thing.
So this is an illegal war.
This is a presidential war.
I will also say, I think what Anna was about to say did the regime really change?
No.
At this point, Donald Trump has come out and said, I had some choices.
For who would lead, but they are dead now, too.
And so now you have people that are in Iran picking their own people.
So you don't have a regime change, just like you don't have a regime change in Venezuela.
Also, what I'll say is it's very easy to start a war, right, without a plan.
It's very difficult to end a war.
We've seen in Russia invading Ukraine thinking that it was going to be over.
It's five years later, 610,000 Russians are either maimed or killed.
No, 1.2 million Russians maimed or killed.
Thousand Ukrainians maimed or killed.
That war is not over.
I thought this was going to be the president of peace.
I thought this president wanted to win a Nobel Peace Prize for peace.
That is not what I'm seeing.
I am not seeing America first.
I think people that voted for Trump, I was not one of them.
I think you were.
Those people wanted America first.
I proudly voted for Trump because the alternative was not great and we would absolutely be under the wrong power if the alternative was not.
Well, actually, let me just say that.
No, I'm going to stop everybody because we're going to go and come back and we can continue the conversation then.
I like what Sandy is saying.
The view is a waste of airtime.
The president has the power.
Why do they keep continuing on this, right?
Look, everybody's entitled to have their opinion.
Don't get me wrong.
What I would say the problem with that particular show is that there's too much of the same opinion over and over and over again.
But they have devoted the week to trying to bring on other kinds of people.
Like you saw Elizabeth Hasselbeck there, who used to be on the show before she went to Fox.
You have seen my former colleague actually at Bloomberg Television, Sarah Eisen.
I'll tell you, the business reporters, we are where it's at, man, because she just, I don't know if she's conservative or liberal.
Honestly, I never got anything from her other than she just wanted the markets to go higher, which typically means you're a conservative, let's be honest, right?
So anyway, the business reporter just trying to talk some sense.
I'm going to show you that later in the show into Whoopi Goldberg and the rest of them.
But there's no hope for them.
I mean, Ana Navarro, for goodness sakes, she should be psyched, right?
Because they're talking about taking on Cuba right now.
The president said last week, I'm thinking about Cuba.
I mean, hey, he had so much success in Venezuela and now in Iran.
Cuba, you're next.
You'd think Ghana would be doing a victory dance.
Instead, we get this.
But I also have such anxiety.
I am furious that we are going into war yet again without congressional approval.
I am furious that the American people have not been brought into this.
I am furious that we are doing this alone.
Yes, Israel is part of it.
But I look at Donald Trump and I look at Netanyahu, and I see two leaders who I think politically they benefit from war.
Netanyahu is facing criminal charges for corruption back home.
Donald Trump is facing very low numbers and Epstein files that will not, are not, and we will not let go away.
And so, I think that's where a lot of Americans are.
We're happy that the Ayatollah is dead.
He's a brutal, brutal regime.
And let me just say one more thing.
Trump has, I think, changed since Venezuela.
I think Venezuela, I think he thought Venezuela was incredibly successful.
It was.
And he's been making comparisons with what happened in Venezuela with what's happening in Iran.
I don't know Iran.
I know Venezuela.
Maduro was a piddly little third world dictator.
Venezuela is not Iran.
Iran has terrorist cells all over the world that they can activate.
Venezuela was one and done.
They went in there, they extricated Maduro, and that was the end of that.
This certainly is not that.
He's already told us it could be four or five more weeks of strikes.
We are seeing retaliation by the Iranians that the Venezuelans didn't have the ability to do.
So I think that he's in love with this idea of being the conqueror and the emperor after Venezuela.
He's got this Napoleonic.
Complex.
He thinks he's Alexander the Great.
Right.
But Venezuela is not Iran.
Okay.
So maybe it's not like Venezuela, Iran, that is.
You know, I would say it's yes, it's a little bit bigger in its might, but not that big.
Okay.
We just took out their navy.
Look at that.
I mean, pretty impressive, right?
But again, before everybody's like, oh my gosh, how did he do this without the will of the American people?
The American people elected him.
And did he not tell us over and over on the campaign trail?
I'm sorry, we have to play my most famous, my most favorite, favorite bite, and which has now become like the most famous clip of him because he promised all of this and then some.
What's the message to Iran?
Don't.
What is your message to Iran in this moment?
Don't.
I'm going to bomb the shit out of them.
It's true.
I don't care.
Well, you know, promises made, promises kept, I'd say, don't you think?
You've got everybody out there just flipping out.
They want you to think that this is somehow going to be a forever war.
I'm going to tell you, it's not.
In part because this president has no interest in that.
He does have every interest in saying, I am going to take this threat off of the table.
So Chuck Schumer is trying to get a political edge here and say, oh, you know, Iran must never be allowed to attain a nuclear weapon, but the American people do not want another.
Endless and costly war in the Middle East when there are so many problems at home.
Huh.
Who said this was going to be a costly or endless war?
He's talking about four or five weeks.
That's sort of it, right?
Four or five weeks, one and done.
I mean, you just got the Ayatollah.
We just learned today that we have also taken out another Navy ship.
Let me show you this one, guys, because this is a big deal too.
So they had one big Navy ship that they were trying to basically launch some of their attacks from.
And this one was just taken out.
Okay.
It's the largest Navy ship that Iran has.
It's their mothership.
And moments ago, literally just moments ago, this just crossed, hot off the presses.
We learned that we have struck that and we have taken that out as part of Operation Fury.
So it's like, you know, I don't see this as something that's going to go on and on for years.
If we go to the article in the Daily Mail is reporting this right here, and this is according to U.S. Central Command.
Oh, goodness gracious, look at the graphics are all over the place here.
But what you see is the damage to Iran's warfare ship further underscores the blow dealt to the country's naval power by U.S. and Israeli forces.
So this is a big deal, right?
Iran had falsely claimed that they had killed hundreds of U.S. troops.
That was not the case.
We actually did lose four service members.
Eighteen have been wounded in these strikes by Iran.
It wasn't hundreds, and instead what the truth is is that we have now taken out their quote-unquote mothership.
So for Chuck Schumer to insist that this is going to be some kind of really long, painful war, you know, I would just say no, I don't think so.
Pete Hegseth made this pretty clear as well earlier today.
If you watched any of that, let me go to a quick soundbite from him.
Death to America and death to Israel was gifted.
Death from America and death from Israel.
This is not a so-called regime change war, But the regime sure did change.
And the world is better off for it.
So the president says maybe four or five weeks longer.
Marco Rubio said the worst is yet to come for Iran.
Bit of a threat, bit of a warning.
But listen, they followed through on the warnings.
Because the president had said, I did it right here on this show with you guys about a week ago.
Hey, Ron, bad things are going to happen.
Unless you back off.
But they didn't back off, and so guess what bad things are happening, but the people are thrilled.
They don't necessarily want to report that in the media, but you go from the streets of Tehran to the streets of La, to the streets of Washington Dc, and people are thrilled.
Let's go to the president of the United States speaking today on the issue.
This was our last best chance to strike what we're doing right now and eliminate the intolerable threats posed by this sick and sinister regime regime And they are indeed sick and sinister.
Our objectives are clear.
First, we're destroying Iran's missile capabilities, and you see that happening on an hourly basis on their capacity to produce brand new ones and pretty good ones they make.
Second, we're annihilating their Navy.
We've knocked out already 10 ships.
They're at the bottom of the sea.
Third, we're ensuring that the world's number one sponsor of terror, Can never obtain a nuclear weapon, never going to have a nuclear weapon.
I said that from the beginning.
They're never going to have a nuclear weapon.
They were on the road to getting one legitimately through a deal that was signed foolishly by our country.
And finally, we're ensuring that the Iranian regime cannot continue to arm, fund, and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders.
And we thought we had a deal, but then they backed out.
And they came back and we thought we had a deal and they backed out.
I said, you can't deal with these people.
You've got to do it the right way.
Today we grieve for the four heroic American service members who have been killed in action and send our love and support to their families.
In their memory we continue this mission with ferocious, unyielding resolve to crush the threat this terrorist regime poses to the American people.
A threat, indeed, it is.
I gotta say, it was the right call.
And by the way, don't take my word for it.
Obviously, I have my biases, but let's go to the Secretary General of NATO.
Okay, the Secretary General of NATO said everyone is behind this move from President Trump.
Watch.
Last couple of days, and let me also say that the Commander in Chief, the leader of the free world, President Donald J. Trump, I really commend what is happening here, taking out Khamenei.
taking out the nuclear capability in Iran, but also taking out the ballistic missile program in Iran.
This is crucial.
And what I see in Europe, I spoke with all the key European leaders over the weekend, is widespread support for what the president is doing and also making sure that when it comes to logistics, access, defending key U.S. interests in Europe and in the region, the Europeans are really stepping up.
They're stepping up, okay?
So this is good, all right?
We need them to step up a little bit.
But what is there to step up to?
Because we're going to actually just annihilate the threat.
So a lot of people are worried, okay, now they're going to go into civil war.
I can tell you, Donald Trump doesn't really care.
He's like, okay, you know, and I guess Ilhan's going to have a problem with that.
But what's the alternative?
You keep a repressive, horrible regime in place that wants to kill us?
Like, let's be realists for once.
Okay, let's join the real world.
You have a regime that wants to kill us, that wants a nuclear weapon so it can kill us.
If you have an opportunity to take them out, you do it.
Okay.
That's just common sense.
And everybody's worked up.
Well, they didn't tell Congress.
They didn't tell Congress.
Marco Rubio coming out saying, well, what do you think we're going to do?
How do you think you're going to tell all these members of Congress, right?
How are you really going to like logically, are you going to do that and think that none of this gets leaked?
Because you know it's going to get leaked.
You know it's going to get leaked in a second.
And so how do operations like this go down?
You know, when we wanted to take out Bin Laden, how'd we do that one, guys?
Do you think we got approval from 535 members of Congress?
I don't believe so, no, because you know what?
That would not have been successful had we done that.
And so, again, let's join the real world and act like adults and recognize that, no, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib running to the press or running to their friends in who knows what kind of circles and telling them this is going to happen, that would not have been conducive to an effective strike, nor would it have been something that would have protected.
are American citizens, right?
Because at that point, now you're endangering our troops.
And I don't think they're about to take that kind of risk.
No way.
Let's go to Marco Rubio trying to explain this to the media.
We did.
We notified Congress.
I mean, we notified the Gang of Aid.
We notified congressional leadership.
There's no law that requires us to do that.
The law says we have to notify them 48 hours after beginning hostilities.
We've done that.
I think the notification went today.
But we did notify members of Congress in advance.
But we can't notify 535 members of Congress.
Vote to authorize the war.
Well, Congress can vote on whatever they want.
But there's no law that requires us to do that.
And I want to say something because I see people on TV look, that's fine.
If they want to take a war powers vote, they can do that.
They've done that.
They've done that a bunch of times.
But there's no, people keep saying that we have, there's no law that requires the president to have done anything with regards to this.
To begin with, no presidential administration has ever accepted the War Powers Act as constitutional.
Not Republican presidents, not Democratic presidents.
That said, we have followed the notification at 48 hours, and we're here today.
I've done more Gang of Eight briefings than I got in the four years that Biden was president and I was a member of the Gang of Eight.
All of that said, we've complied with the law 100%, and we're going to continue to comply with it.
This is important.
There was the Gang of Eight meeting that we saw the other day, and Chuck Schumer came out of there looking kind of shell shocked.
I think he knew what was coming down.
And you can't tell everyone.
You're not going to tell 500 plus people because that's not actually going to be something that is beneficial, right, to our troops or the mission.
And so they did what they had to do.
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What's amazing, though, again, is that there's such a shift, I think an important shift that's happening because the naivete of previous administrations, whether it be the Biden administration thing, and they'd solved everything.
Remember that, Jake Sullivan?
From the NSC getting up there at some conference and saying, wow, you know, Biden solved the Middle East.
And then days later, we see October 7th happen.
This was right after they gave Iran $6 billion.
This comes on the heels of the Obama administration with its Iran deal that Donald Trump just tore up when he came into office.
He was giving them $56 billion.
And he thought that that was actually going to make things better.
Don't forget, Iran had been sanctioned.
So they would say, well, this was our money to begin with.
But I'm sorry, you know, when you're the top dog and it's just the way it is.
Okay.
You know, we hold the U.S. dollars and U.S. treasuries.
When you invest with us, this is why some people worry about the dollar, et cetera, but that's another conversation for another day.
Yeah, you invest with us and we control it.
And we did.
And we didn't give you access, Iran, because you were not playing the way we needed you to play.
And then Barack Obama comes along and he says, well, we're going to change all that.
It is true that if Iran lives up to its commitments, it will gain access to roughly $56 billion of its own money.
But the notion that this will be a game changer.
With all this money funneled into Iran's pernicious activities, misses the reality of Iran's current situation.
Iran's leaders have raised the expectations of their people that sanctions relief will improve their lives.
Even a repressive regime like Iran's cannot completely ignore those expectations.
And that's why our best analysts expect the bulk of this revenue to go into spending that improves the economy and benefits.
The lives of the Iranian people.
Okay, well, shortly after that all went down, they had our troops, remember on the boat, the very graphic image?
Yeah, so, you know, you got to be careful, you know, who you choose for friends, let's say.
And Obama and Biden, they weren't very well guided on this.
I guess Susan Rice and Valerie Jarrett were filling their heads with all kinds of ideas that really proved to be quite poor.
I mean, you could go even further because I realize there are people that would go down the conspiracy tunnel to say, you know what, they were effectively working for entities other than the best interests of the United States citizens.
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And I think that that idea has certainly crossed the president's mind.
But he had the opportunity to take him out.
A piece of my mind brings up a good point.
How long did it take to eliminate the ISIS caliphate?
I mean, think about that, right?
He went into Syria and he cleaned up Syria in his first term, rather.
What he said is that he didn't have this opportunity to take out the Ayatollah.
He was presented with this opportunity now, and so he took it.
It was the right call, I'm just going to tell you, because if you can effectively neutralize Iran by taking out its leadership, and then taking out its weapons, then that's what I would call a home run for the world.
I looked at, though, the media, and it was really kind of nauseating over the weekend.
I was gathering all this data, and I kind of went a little dark.
Normally, I'd be tweeting up a storm, and I'm like, I just want to get all the information in, and I want to see what the media is trying to say.
And it was nuts.
Look at this.
They were all freaking out.
The Washington Post, by the way, they gave the Ayatollah this beautiful, beautiful.
I mean, they were talking about his laugh and his avuncular way.
And I'm like, guys, like, whose side are you on?
Right.
Anyway, again, they're all entitled to have their opinion.
It's just interesting when it's literally the most mainstream media organizations pushing certain narratives because they hate Trump that much.
I'll just say, you know what?
They got to get over the anti Trump stuff because that ship has sailed.
And you just look at the new poll data coming out right now.
And I think Don Baca was pointing out that some of the real clear politics data is is skewing.
in a way that doesn't necessarily help Trump.
And yet all the data that we're getting in is suggesting that, yeah, most of the country is with the president on this move.
So markets begin to react as attack risks hitting American pocketbooks.
So they're all worried about American pocketbooks.
That's what we're seeing over and over and over again in the media and the financial media at Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times.
I'll tell you, this is, you know, the obvious thing.
Everybody worries about this.
And I think, Don, did you trade oil?
I can't remember.
I know you were an options trader, but look, if you trade oil, you know how this goes down because here's the Strait of Hormuz I'm showing you on the graphic here.
This is the Strait of Hormuz.
This is really important because this is how we get our oil and 20% of our oil comes through the Strait of Hormuz.
And so when they shut this down and now Iran has promised to shut it down, it would theoretically have an effect on oil prices.
I want to just temper that a little bit because oil prices have come down significantly.
Right.
Just look at what you're paying at the gas pump compared to what you were paying with Biden.
So oil prices have come down significantly and we can withstand a fair amount, believe it or not, because for every $10 a barrel increase in the price of oil, it equates to about 25 cents or 24 cents to be exact at the gas pumps.
So we're thinking this is going to last like four weeks.
So how much is oil really going to go up?
Don't forget you've got all the American suppliers that have come on board, right?
Tons of American suppliers that are like ready, willing and able. to pump oil.
And you've also got Venezuela.
Yeah, that was smart, right?
Talking about putting the car before the horse because we now have access to the Orinoco region in Venezuela, which is actually home to more proven oil reserves than all of Saudi Arabia.
Granted, it's really thick, heavy stuff and you got to get it out of the ground.
I mean, really thick and heavy.
I put it in a coffee cup once when I was traveling there and went to see all these oil fields.
And I put the coffee cup right upside down and nothing came out.
That's how thick and tar-like it is.
You need oil at roughly $70 a barrel right now in order for that trade to make sense.
But hey, you know, it could happen.
And I think it's good to have in our back pocket.
It's also good not to have Iran messing around down there because Iran was there, believe me.
They were like, you know, besties with Venezuela.
Seriously.
So we took that one out.
Iran says straight to Hormuz closed, warns it will attack ships trying to pass.
Okay, guys, you keep trying.
You keep trying.
You know, the big guys are in town.
The big guys are in town.
And we've kind of had it.
With your shenanigans.
And so yeah, you know the markets are they going to react?
I said to my colleague Rob, again over at 76 Research, and hey, we are not too shabby, I want to remind you, 76 Research, those are our portfolios.
Go to 76portfolios.com.
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I'm actually going to put it up in the chat so if anybody's watching here, I mean these are really good numbers.
Okay, these are really really really good numbers, 76 Portfolios.
I'm putting it live in the chat or you can go to 76research.com.
But just look at the upside.
There we've beaten the ss and p handily uh, for this year.
I mean, just really, really up considerably.
But again, go look at those stock picks because there's some really good ones in there for you.
I would just say that the media is so biased against this president that they can't see straight.
So I called Rob over the weekend.
And I'm like, I don't see this as being a huge trading event to the downside.
I really don't.
I mean, to me, if anything, this is a win, right?
Like it's a big, big win, but you had some jitters and you had the media doing its part.
I'm going to tell you, it is a win.
Just look at the streets of LA.
Let's go to the streets of LA.
Hey, I mean, people are psyched, right?
They're actually playing the song YMCA in the background.
I can't play it for you because there's certain rules about music.
It's very touchy on the music front.
I guess I have to sing it myself in order for it to work.
But they're celebrating in LA and the Iranian population in LA is just thrilled.
If you go actually to the crowds overseas, you see similar type celebrations and they don't want to tell you about this.
The media never wants to tell you about all the good stuff.
Heck, I mean, there was the CBS reporter who tried to tell and did succeed in telling his audience about the good stuff that we saw on the streets of Austin, Texas.
And yet oh my goodness, his producer was like, please don't go there.
Let me show you this.
I was going to show it a little bit later on, but I think it's relevant to bring up as we talk about how insane the media is and how they only want to strike at Trump.
And anything that they perceive as a success for Donald Trump is therefore threatening to them.
So let's go to this CBS reporter.
He's in Austin, Texas just yesterday.
And he's with a big group of people that are celebrating Donald Trump, a lot of whom had been Democrats before.
But they're so thrilled that this happened that they're taking to the streets to celebrate.
And he gets a text from his producer.
I'm kind of giving you a big prelude here because it's a little bit hard to hear, but you can hear it, but I just want to kind of set it up for you.
So he gets a text from his producer saying, I wouldn't, you know, highlight this.
And he basically is like, yeah, this is what we're going with, so good for him.
Again, the CBS reporter at a local affiliate in Austin Texas, watch Hear that.
He said, Well, I am.
So he gets a text.
His boss is telling him, Do not cover the Iranian protesters praising Trump.
He said, Well, I am.
There's a lot of mixed opinions across Austin about the joint attack between the United States and Israel against Iran that happened early this morning.
Some people, like this group behind me, are thanking Trump and the United States government for following through with this attack against Iran.
Well, other people across the city say.
There needs to be more peace in the Middle East.
Strike is drawing a variety of them.
So, this is what we call great stuff.
You have a lot of people now feeling the need to be more fair in their reporting.
And it's going to happen more and more.
We'll get to CBS in a moment because consider that you have the Paramount CBS Skydance deal with Warner Brothers.
And so suddenly anybody who's conservative in their thinking or maybe just fair in their thinking, for goodness sakes, is now going to have an opportunity to be heard.
He's working at the right network right about now, I'll tell you.
Donald Trump is driving the left nuts, just nuts.
It's like everything they want to do, he somehow does and then does pirouettes the whole time around them.
He's succeeding where they could not succeed.
I mean, consider the fact that Hillary Clinton actually, she wanted to do this.
She actually wanted at one point to have some success on this front.
She was a little bit different than, say, Barack Obama, a little bit different than, say, Joe Biden.
Let's go back to 2008, Hillary Clinton promising that she was going to take Iran out.
And I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran.
Whatever stage of development they might be in their nuclear weapons program.
In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them.
That's a terrible thing to say, but those people who run Iran need to understand that because that perhaps will deter them from doing something that would be reckless, foolish, and tragic.
You know, I think it's important to remember that.
It's like when we play the sound of Chuck Schumer saying he needs everybody to have an ID when they go and vote, and it's like, what happened?
You know, or I've played for you in the past, Dianne Feinstein back in the 90s saying we can't be the welfare state for Mexico.
By the way, you don't even have to go all the way back to the 90s.
For goodness sake, you can go back to Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, who basically deported more people than anyone had previously done up until Donald Trump.
So what is it?
It's him.
It's him because he doesn't play by the same kind of rules.
You know, he's the cowboy that's come in and said, I'm going to do things differently.
And that ruffles a lot of feathers, but it excites the American people.
So Hillary Clinton can say she's going to take out Iran and it's all fine.
Donald Trump says he's going to take out Iran.
And oh my goodness, we have to listen to Sonny Houston and Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Beher and all the ladies at The View coming apart at the seams, not to mention the likes of Ilhan Omar.
But we know that her allegiances are somewhat sus.
Just going to say it, okay?
Somewhat sus.
Look, the president also does a very good job at trolling.
He really loves to troll the left.
And he did so over the weekend right before we got the news.
So this would have, again, I think this was Friday.
late afternoon on Friday, he was in Texas, and he spoke to the crowd there, and he said something.
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He was talking about the economy, and just before your eyes glaze over, because I know, you know, inflation, it's not that exciting.
I'm like the only one who gets all jazzed about that, but listen to what he says next.
Driven core inflation down to the lowest level in more than five years, and in the last three months of 2025, it's been down to one point inflation, 1.7%.
Nobody thought that.
So we went from the highest inflation ever to low inflation.
You know, everything took place.
I've been here one year.
Think of it.
One year, a little bit more than one year now.
Time flies.
Time flies.
Maybe we should do one more term.
Should we do one more term?
Do one more term.
Well, we're entitled to it because they cheated like Helen II, right?
We would actually be entitled to it.
Oh, I told you he was pretty good at trolling, right?
And we're going to do one more term, he says.
And we're entitled to it.
Oh, you know, they're doing a big investigation right now as we speak into Georgia.
They walked out with 700 boxes.
You know, you were here with me for it.
We covered all that in depth.
And now Alabama is looking kind of sus as well.
So could that happen?
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
But I will say this, like there's no one quite like him.
And I look at the field and I'm like, you know, JD, Marco maybe, Marco Rubio, who really seems to be elevating himself and has been so involved, of course, in the taking out of Maduro and then the Ayatollah.
And hey, you know, maybe Cuba's next.
People are talking about it.
This was interesting to me.
Also on Friday, he talks so much, you know, it's like, oh my gosh, like he was out for media availability nonstop.
Someone said to me today about Pete Hedseff, too.
Pete, who I used to work with at Fox, really great guy, very passionate about the military, et cetera, and very smart.
And someone said to me this morning, you know, I really appreciated that Pete was out there communicating with people about what went down.
And I said, yeah, this administration is insanely transparent, amazingly, amazingly transparent.
I mean, we have not seen anything like this.
It is hard to keep up with all this transparency, shall we say.
But this kind of came and went, and not a lot of people saw this over the weekend, but I want to play it for you because it's kind of a big deal.
He talked about Cuba.
It's like, I mean, he knew.
He knew on Friday that we were about to go after Iran.
It almost makes you wonder, like, what's the method to his madness?
Why did he come out and say this knowing that within hours we were going to be striking Iran?
I'd say, hey, Cuba, you might want to get your act together.
You might want to negotiate with us.
You might want to play ball.
The rest of Latin America certainly has gotten the message.
Some of them the hard way.
Nicolas Maduro looking at you.
Well, Cuba you might be next.
Cuba, you're next.
The Cuban government is talking with us.
They're in a big scale of trouble, as you know.
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They have no money.
They have no anything right now.
But they're talking with us.
And maybe we'll have a friendly takeover of Cuba.
We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba.
In case you didn't hear.
After many, many years.
We've had a lot of years of dealing with Cuba.
I've been hearing about Cuba since I'm a little boy.
But they're in big trouble and we could very well something good.
I think very positive for the people that were expelled or worse from Cuba that live here.
You know, we have people living here that want to go back to Cuba and they're very happy with what's going on.
Wow.
That would be epic.
It would be kind of interesting, don't you think?
I want to get back to what's going on in Iran in just a moment, but we're going to take a little bit of a detour because there's a very big deal that just blew apart and a very big deal that's about to get announced as the one that blew apart.
Remember how Netflix wanted to buy Warner Brothers and Warner Brothers is a massive, massive conglomerate that includes the ownership of CNN, although nobody wanted to buy CNN because that was like the hot potato that everybody's like, whoo, let me just give it to you.
I don't really want to buy it.
All the suitors that were circling, nobody wanted CNN except for one guy, David Ellison.
over at Paramount.
He had just gotten Paramount.
This is the guy that owns Skydance.
He bought Paramount, which included buying CBS.
And then he said, yeah, I want to go for WB and get everything else.
This is a massive, massive entertainment company that's going to come about.
Well, Netflix was like, no, no, no, we've got the deal.
Warner Brothers wanted to go with Netflix because, you know, everybody's woke over at Warner Brothers and everybody's woke over at Netflix and everybody saw eye to eye.
Nobody wanted this guy, David Ellison.
who was close with the Trump administration coming in, his dad, Larry Ellison, brilliant tech, obviously Oracle, one of the wealthiest guys in the world, and he liked Trump.
So the minute you like Trump, the minute you have anything to do with Trump, you know, they don't want you anywhere near their media precious jewels.
And David Ellison, per my sources, is very smart, is thinking about all of this in a very innovative way, and is thinking about how technology can change entertainment.
And he wants to come in and bust it all open, right?
Look at what he's doing at CBS News.
Barry Weiss over at CBS News.
He paid her a bundle.
The whole newsroom's flipping out.
I think she's going to just have to fire everyone.
But here's a guy who I used to work with at CBS News, actually.
Jim Acosta, who you may know, right?
He then went over to CNN and then was rather spectacularly fired from CNN.
Although, who am I to talk?
Because I had my own kind of spectacular blowup as well at Fox of all places.
Imagine being too conservative for Fox.
Yeah, I'll laugh about that forever.
Actually, it all worked out for the best because I'd much rather be here with you guys.
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I do read your comments often after the show.
If I'm not reading them in real time and I see a lot of that, I do see them after the show.
Anyway, Jim Acosta and I used to work together at CBS.
I actually took over his old office when he moved to the Atlanta Bureau for CBS.
And back then, he seemed like kind of a nice guy, like kind of, you know, nothing like what we see now.
I don't know.
Would the real Jim Acosta stand up?
This guy is so worked up over the idea that.
Scott Jennings, who's the smartest person, if you ask me, they have on all of CNN right now, who can basically take down eight people in one two minute segment.
Scott Jennings might get his own show.
I hate to break it to him, but Scott Jennings has his own show.
That would be on Salem, who I work with.
They actually are the sales partner for my show.
So, Jim, get caught up.
Yeah, he's freaking out.
Watch.
We want Scott Jennings.
anchoring the CBS Evening News or anchoring AC360 and talking about what a great president Donald Trump is and how he's the best president since George Washington and Abraham Lincoln?
I mean, what kind of crazy, stranger things, upside down world are we going to become if that's the kind of news and information that we have pumping out over the airwaves in this country?
It sounds to me that that's exactly what Donald Trump wants.
All you have to do is go inside his twisted mind.
I mean, just the other day, he was tweeting about sending a hospital boat to Greenland.
I think it's a good idea.
Don't you?
I want Greenland.
I don't know how much longer I can listen to you, Jim.
I'm going to be honest, but let's see.
I think the soundbite's almost over.
Who's going to cow these giant media properties into combining into one another and becoming propaganda arms of his administration?
I mean, what kind of crazy 1984?
Shit, is this?
Oh, my goodness.
I'm so sorry.
We try not to have anything like that.
We'll have to go back after the fact and clean up his mouth.
He does.
You guys are so funny.
So, Mark says, Why does he look like Rosie O'Donnell?
That's a fair question.
I think he interviews her a lot.
And then somebody else had a good point.
Oh, somebody else, Freebird said, Gosh, he sure looks like Rosie O'Donnell.
And, oh, Leslie.
She's Leslie's so nice.
By the way, Leslie, welcome back.
We are so happy to have you back.
watching the show and we're so happy that you're well.
I'm looking, you guys have Don Baca has a cute little nickname for him, Jim Acosta.
Listen, somebody else said, why is he like emulating Rachel Maddow?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Like what happens to people?
Have you noticed that?
It's like they saw that the conservatives had a lock on being good looking.
And they decided we're going to be the antithesis of this.
Except who would want to be the antithesis of that?
I mean, why not just go with the good looking, right?
This is really kind of funny.
It's hysterical.
They don't like Trump.
They don't like that this media conglomerate is going to happen, which probably is going to get through, by the way.
That was one of the other issues.
Like as a shareholder, I said from the beginning, and don't doubt me on this stuff.
Heck, I run a financial research company on the side, right?
Don't doubt me on this stuff.
I told you that the Twitter deal was going to go through and that Elon was going to have to pay up.
And so, hey, I guess if you were a risk arbitrator and you wanted to bet on Twitter, that was a great stock to buy because you knew that that deal was going to go through.
I kept saying it.
And the other deal I knew was going to come to fruition.
Now it does have to clear the antitrust section of the DOJ.
But I said that this deal would happen.
Why did I know that?
How did I know that?
Because it's pretty darn simple.
Shareholders would basically be lining up to take all of these people out if that deal hadn't gone through because David Ellison was offering that much more money.
And he was offering to get the redheaded stepchild, CNN, that nobody wanted.
The president had already said, gee, if anybody does this deal, I'd really like to see them take CNN.
Because CNN is a good asset and it is a good property.
And what CNN doesn't realize is that they were going to fold their doors.
The word on the street is that the CNN folks are flipping out.
They're freaking out.
They cannot believe that they are going to be owned by the likes of David Ellison and Paramount.
They're saying, we're doomed.
We're finished.
Those were the quotes.
We talked about it on Friday.
And I just have news for them.
You know what was going to happen if you guys didn't do this deal?
You were going to be out on your tushies because that network was going to fold.
So maybe David Ellison can come along and actually do something different.
And save your you know whats.
Because he might have some really good ideas.
I got one for him.
Okay, just humor me.
Like I said, I'm not too shabby.
I'm kind of smart on this media stuff.
I think he needs to figure out a way to bring the news, not just to the people, but the people to the news, right?
In 3D.
We're talking metaverse stuff.
I mean, I'm getting kind of futuristic on you.
I know, I know.
But I think that this is actually the future.
I've said this before.
I think after I tried on those goggles at Apple, I came back and I said to you all on the show, this is awesome.
I realize we're all talking and I can see your comments in real time.
But what if you could actually be here?
What if you could be in the studio?
What if we're like.
What if it was like, beam me up, Scotty, and you can be in the studio, or I could take you to State of the Union and you could be right there on the side of the stage next to the president.
I mean, the possibilities are endless for somebody who's smart, who can think about this in new ways.
And I think that's what David is going to bring to CNN.
And they're so desperate for this innovation.
And without this merger, CNN would have been over.
And the merger had to happen, right?
Because at least from a shareholder perspective, you want to go with the best deal.
And he was offering.
The best deal, you know, you look at what's going on, for example, at The View, that place is a mess.
You get the FCC breathing down their back, ABC, and lots of hot water over this FCC investigation.
So much so that they found themselves trying to bring on anyone who has a different viewpoint that's not so crazy woke.
So they found uh, my friend Sarah Eisen, who I used to work with, very nice woman at Bloomberg, and she's married to a guy that I used to work with who was an assignment editor at Bloomberg.
And like I said, I would never have said like they're conservative, I just know that.
She, as a business reporter, wants what's best for the economy.
And so she called Whoopi out.
And I loved it.
I loved it because Sarah's smart and she wasn't taking any of Whoopi's BS.
Watch.
Like, this should be the least politicized story.
Honestly, I was watching that final, the men's final, with 26 other million people, which is one of the highest ever rated for an Olympic sport.
And they were screaming with that win in overtime.
It's a unifying moment for America.
The women were invited to the State of the Union.
They're going to come to the White House.
Yeah, but he insulted them.
Has the teller been there?
No, it was a terrible look.
But wait a second.
Well, the woman insulted the women, and that's why he was.
It was a celebratory joke.
I don't know.
I'm not going to excuse that.
Is that a joke?
But I think that we shouldn't politicize everything.
We've got to stop giving them shadows.
One of the things that was kind of weird was how they immediately had to cut to commercial.
Right?
Like it was like, oh my God, you know, she actually said this stuff and we have to go to a commercial.
It's kind of like Whoopi was panicking, if you would.
You know, and she should panic.
She should panic because she's been known to say some funky stuff, which we'll get to in a second.
But also there was one more little gem.
that some of you may have seen.
I thought this was great.
And again, I just say, you know, business reporters have a certain kind of level-headedness about them that you don't see.
And, you know, I'll pat myself on the back for this one, but you just don't see it in the mainstream media.
You really don't, because the mainstream media is all about, you know, the drama.
And they don't actually have the ability to see the forest for the trees.
They get caught up in the emotion.
And I think most business reporters want what's best for the market, what's best for the economy, and they have the ability, the ability to cut through some of this nonsense.
Like what these ladies were trying to say to her.
Watch.
Business Reporters Level-Headed00:10:42
After we do what we're supposed to do, I do want to ask you about the market because 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.
Are you saying the tariffs are helpful for growth?
The tariffs are.
Usually wouldn't be helpful for growth, but they haven't been as bad as everybody expected.
But they're not.
Well, 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 apart.
And it hasn't.
Well, it's not.
The new companies have absorbed it.
You know what?
They've never been more profitable right now.
But also, they like 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.
Like, more people should have exposure to stocks, and that is something.
Well, but it's not good.
Well, essentially, if you're getting paid minimum wage, you don't have exposure to stocks.
And that's part of why we wanted to get more 401k programs.
So here's what we're doing.
Sorry about that.
Sorry about that.
Thanks for asking.
It was interesting because it's very rare that we get to sit with a financial person.
So that's why it's interesting.
That's why you just got peppered with so many questions.
Keep it coming.
They're like, sorry, we're being so rude to you because clearly you know something and we don't.
But she's right again.
And I say this and I realize I've said this like four times today, but we just got the numbers guys.
And like, I'm so excited.
Look at this last 12 months.
Look at these stocks up 139%.
I mean, we know what we're doing.
Thank you very much.
It can't always be like this.
I get it.
But you know, when we have these victories, I really like to tell them because this is a big deal.
And we work really, really hard over at 76 research to find you the right stocks.
We have three portfolios.
I realize inflation protection does not sound that exciting.
And I take the blame for that because I came up with that name.
Rob's like, we should call it the debasement rate or something like a little bit more spicy.
Inflation protection.
And yet you've got companies are up 139%.
So listen, there's a lot there.
I encourage you.
And I agree with Sarah.
Even if you're making minimum wage, you know what?
There's some way, some way that you can put a little bit aside.
And over the long run, compound interest, baby, it all adds up.
We have learned today that 11, 11 naval ships, Iranian naval ships have been taken out.
Pretty massive, extraordinary moment, 2,000 successful strikes on Iran.
And the president says this could last about four weeks, about four weeks.
That's what they're anticipating to really finish the job.
So this is monumental.
Just keep that in mind.
I mean, really and truly monumental.
We're talking Berlin Wall kind of stuff because this is saving the world from a known enemy.
And as much as others tried to go out there and tried to say, okay, we're going to do this, that, and the other, we're going to play nice.
I mean, Hillary back in 2008 was a toughie.
And then, you know, you got Barack Obama there and Barack Obama rolled over and played dead and said, here's $56 billion.
And then look what happened.
And then you had Joe Biden doing the exact same thing, giving them $6 billion.
Oh, they say it's their money.
But, you know, we had control over it.
Why did we surrender that?
Money is fungible.
Money can go any which way.
And it seems to have gone into planning for October 7th, which happened not too long thereafter.
I want to go back to Marco Rubio giving a short briefing to the press there in D.C. moments ago.
That the hardest moments are about to come, hardest hits are about to come.
They're suffering a tremendous amount of damage.
Honestly, again, I'm not going to give away the details of our tactical efforts, but the hardest hits are yet to come from the U.S. military.
The next phase will be even more punishing on Iran than it is right now.
Someone was screaming, How long will it take?
I don't know how long it will take.
We have objectives.
We will do this as long as it takes to achieve those objectives, and we will achieve those objectives.
The world will be a safer place when we're done with this operation.
That's the truth of it.
The world will absolutely be a safer place.
The world is a safer place tonight because of this operation.
It's really exciting to see and distressing that so many members of Congress, Rashida, Ilhan Omar, I'm looking at you, have suddenly lost sight of where their allegiance should be.
You know, it's going to have broader implications as well.
It's going to have broader implications, I would say, on international relations as a whole.
If you think about this being an ally of China, what does China do with this information right now?
What does Russia do with this information?
If you also think about it this way, you could consider that all of these little countries that don't have nuclear capability, they're kind of fair game under this administration.
I wonder if we've actually had an enormous improvement in the software and the AI capabilities that our military is actually using.
And that software improvement has enabled us to be extremely precise, more precise.
Than ever before, and thus Donald Trump is taking advantage of that.
I mean, think about Palantir, think about Anthropic, which actually just got tossed, is no longer going to be working with the Pentagon, but think about UM Claude, and and chat GPT and, and you know again, Palantir and some of these just extraordinary military companies that have tremendous capabilities and the technology is growing.
So, so fast.
I want to go to my former co-host, actually on CNBC, great guy.
Uh, my first time my daughters were ever on television, my twin girls.
We had our highest rated show.
I'm like, Larry, this is all we need to do, right?
I want to go to Larry Kudlow.
He held the girls on TV, which is a big deal because he didn't have kids or anything, but he was so sweet.
Anyway, let's go to Larry Kudlow there on my other former employer.
It's getting kind of silly, right?
I'm so much happier over here on Fox Business, but he's talking about the ramifications of all this, and it's a big deal.
Last year, and what did President Trump say?
He said, The future of the Middle East is commerce, not chaos.
He has handled these Middle Eastern countries differently than past presidents.
He even went in and said, Look, I'm not a nation builder.
I'm not trying to interfere.
With your business, he recognizes that these Gulf states, they're monarchies, right?
They're not going to see the world the same way that we see the world from a democratic standpoint.
And Secretary of War Pete Hedseff reiterated that today in telling people, look, this is not going to be another Iraq.
We're not interested in nation building.
So that's not what we're going to see here.
So I think what President Trump has done through that commerce, not chaos, is built these relationships with these Gulf nations, which are clearly paying dividends, right?
No forever war.
There's no forever war, which is what Democrats are trying to pull.
No forever war.
He's made that very clear.
And the regime change could be a regime alteration or regime change.
We don't know how that's going to play out.
Well, it's going to be an alteration.
Most of them are dead.
Well, it's going to be.
We don't know even if the governments can survive with their successors.
But can I make one more point?
You know, not only all the Gulf states are supporting it, the European, the big European countries finally coming around, but not a peep, almost not a peep from China.
Or Russia.
Almost virtually silence from them.
And you know what?
Russia's going to think twice about Ukraine.
China's going to think twice about Taiwan.
This is a huge change in world geopolitics.
It's an enormous change in world geopolitics.
It is.
He's right.
So I don't think we're going to mess with Russia or China, right?
Because they have nuclear capability.
But when they see the success of what just happened with Venezuela and they see that just weeks later, I mean, it's like flying, right?
Like I said, you've got to really keep up.
Keep up, keep up.
A few weeks later, here we are taking out the Ayatollah.
That's pretty incredible.
We're taking out the entire Iranian Navy.
I don't know how they're going to shut down the Strait of Hamuz, as they're talking about, because we've got all their naval ships.
I mean, this is incredible.
And so I think if you're China, if you're Russia, you got to sit there and say, gee, like they got something.
They got something maybe that we don't.
And by the way, we don't want to really engage in this.
So we've taken out a country that they saw themselves as having an allegiance to.
That's pretty powerful.
And that sends a signal to the world.
So someone said to me, gosh, Trish, you seem so happy today.
And I am.
I am happy.
I feel that we are in a much, much better position.
It's why when everybody was talking about, David, I agree, here comes Cuba.
He said, Cuba's next.
President said it.
I just played that sound by.
Listen, when you think of all the dangers that are out there in this world and to think that you're suddenly making the world a safer place, this is a generational style move.
It's not going to be nation building.
He has no interest in nation building.
What you're going to see, I promise you, what you're going to see happen is he's going to say, okay, now the people can work it out.
The people can elect whoever they want and they can work it out.
We don't really care as long as they don't have nuclear capability, as long as they're not trying to kill us.
If you're trying to kill us, we're going to care.
Hey, make love, not war, right?
Let's all prosper.
You guys pump oil.
We'll buy it.
Seems like a good trade.
But when you want to dictate how we should live our lives and you wish death upon America, you know what?
It's going to come back to haunt you.
It's going to come back to bite you.
It's going to come back, in fact, to kill you.
I think that's the message you're hearing over and over and over again.
So this is a very good moment, an exciting moment.
I'm thrilled for the president.
I'm thrilled for our country.
And I think there's going to be more good stuff to come.
The president is going to be speaking with Congress tomorrow.
You're going to be assured that you're going to hear from the likes of, well, maybe we'll get to see them heckle him again, right?
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
There's going to be some of that coming.
But yes, Arthur7765, I agree with you.
It is a safer world today.
And that is thanks. to the president that you elected.
Every American should feel proud tonight.
I know I, for one, certainly am.
Job well done.
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