Letitia James faces up to 20 years in federal prison after Michael Cohen alleges coercion regarding false testimony against President Trump, prompting demands for her communications. The episode also scrutinizes Zohran Mamdani's citizenship application and media bias concerning CNN's reporting on Iran airstrikes and Senator John Fetterman's confrontation with hosts. Speculation continues over a 2028 vice-presidential pick involving Jake Paul or Marco Rubio, while Gene Simmons urges celebrities to avoid politics. Ultimately, the host argues that exaggerated media narratives undermine the presidency and misreport critical economic data like inflation. [Automatically generated summary]
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Leticia James in Hot Water00:11:16
And we're live.
My goodness.
You know, I've kind of missed seeing her name.
I've missed talking about her.
I promise you, I will not play the too male, too pale, too stale quote, but Leticia James.
Ah, she's back in hot water.
What do you know?
Turns out that Michael Cohen's coming around and he said some things that might land her, oh, I don't know, in the Slammer for up to 20 years.
We're going to talk about the coercion charges that are being leveled against one Leticia James.
It's great to have everybody here.
Very big day.
Lots going on.
As always, like when is there not a lot going on?
I'm Trish.
This is the Trish Weekend Show.
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So believe me, you are heard.
You are heard.
Oh, goodness.
We don't want to say to be determined.
We know exactly what the headlines are here today.
And we're starting here on one Letitia James.
Letitia James looking like she may get 20 years if all of this comes to fruition.
And I do qualify this with a big if because they are asking for all the data and all the information.
that pertains to one Michael Cohen.
He is alleging, you see, that she coerced him along with Alvin Bragg into saying some things that he didn't necessarily mean.
And that would be kind of a problem.
You see, this came out in a Substack post, oh, I don't know, back in January.
And we kind of all like looked at it and it was like neither here nor there.
It didn't seem as though it really had any legs.
And then all of a sudden late last night, what did we learn?
The Trump legal team put forward a filing and they are demanding that Letitia come forward with all of the documentation.
pursuant to her conversations, her texts, her letters with Michael Cohen and his lawyers.
And again, I want to just emphasize that the penalty here is 20 years.
I mean, it could actually even be worse.
And we'll go through the consequences.
And she could be disbarred.
She could get five years.
She could get more than 20.
I mean, if it is what we think it is.
Anyway, let me just back up for a second and let's go back to what his Substack post was.
You remember Michael Cohen?
Remember he was the fixer for Donald Trump?
He was the lawyer that kind of handled everything.
And that's how they came forward with the Stormy Daniels stuff and Alvin Bragg.
Well, he put on his Substack post in January, quote, from the time I began meeting with lawyers from the Manhattan DA's office and the New York Attorney General's office in connection with their investigations of President Trump and through the trials themselves, he writes, I felt pressured.
And then he uses a very interesting word choice.
Here's the verb, coerced, to only provide information and testimony that would satisfy the government's desire to build the cases against and secure a judgment and convictions against President Trump.
Why?
because, you know, if he didn't, he was looking at a whole lot more time.
And that was the threat he was being faced with.
He clearly felt he's feeling this pressure.
He's feeling coerced, he says.
And then he says, Letitia James and Alvin Bragg may not share the same office or political calendar, but they share the same playbook.
So calling them out there in his Substack post.
So it's kind of a big deal.
He said both used their platforms to elevate their profiles to claim the mantle of the officials who took down Trump.
Well, you know, ironically, neither one of them were able to do that, right?
But they did get.
some time from Michael Cohen, and he may be able to go back, as well as the Trump attorneys, which is what they're trying to do right now to get the discovery.
Apparently, they've been asking for it and asking for it and asking for it.
What do you think happens?
Dun dun ah, too male, too pale, too stale, lady.
Won't give them a darn thing.
So now they got to go and file a whole bunch of legal stuff.
They've had to put her on notice that she can't destroy any of the documents because they're trying to figure out whether or not a couple things.
Well, a few things here, whether it was witness tampering.
because that will carry up to 20 years in federal prison, as well as fines and disbarment.
They're also trying to figure out whether it could be obstruction of justice.
This would be a violation of Code 18 USC 1503 or 1512.
If a government official interferes with the legal process, including, this is important, ladies and gentlemen, manipulating testimony, that may be charged with obstruction.
Okay, so that carries a penalty of 10 years, 10 years, sometimes more, depending on the statute that is used.
So, obstruction of justice is a biggie.
And then you've also got subordination of perjury.
And that would be 18 U.S.C. 1622, carries up to five years.
If someone knowingly persuades another person to lie under oath, that is called subordinate perjury.
Now, see, I mean, did they persuade him to lie under oath?
That's what we got to figure out.
And that's why we need to see this correspondence.
There's also this one here.
I mean, it goes on and on.
Letitia, this is not a good day for you, honey bunny.
Not a good day.
Deprivations of rights under color of law, 18 U.S.C. 242.
If a prosecutor abuses their government authority to violate someone's rights, federal civil rights charges can apply.
That would be up to 10 year or life if severe harm results.
This is a very bad day for her, I'll tell you.
And then here you go with this one.
Basically, the professional consequences.
You could be looking at disbarment.
You could be looking at loss of your law license for sure.
You could be looking at civil suits as well.
I mean, all of this, frankly, is on the radar.
Now, keep in mind, these are allegations for criminal penalties to apply.
Investigators would need some clear evidence that Letitia James andor Alvin Bragg knowingly pressured or threatened a witness, and the intent was to produce false testimony or to interfere with justice.
Do you think she might be capable of doing something like that?
I do.
I mean, I'm, I think, a pretty good judge of character.
And I absolutely think she's capable of doing it.
I don't know as much about Alvin Bragg.
We didn't cover him as much.
He didn't, you know, make all those explosive comments quite as often in the media.
But I suspect the two of them are capable of a lot.
Here we go.
Trump demands Tishy, Tishy Baby James, turn over all communications with Michael Cohen after ex-fixer claimed he was coerced.
So the lawyers there. late last night demanded, this came out at 1133.
Gosh, I wanted to run on air with you right away, but you know, I wanted to spend some time looking at the statute and understanding the law to understand what the implications were.
And as I said, if this is proven out, she could get 20 years.
In fact, even more, it is very problematic for her.
And she's going to have to come forward with all this documentation.
They had a 25 page filing that I read last night.
But just to go through some of this with you, basically they're saying that at the heart of the case is this coercion thing, right?
Because it was so politically motivated and politically charged.
This whole investigation, you know, I know, he knows, everyone knows.
At this point, it was politically motivated.
That in and of itself, right, is a problem for her.
And that's another line of legal ramifications they are pursuing right now.
They explained in the filing that Cohen's allegation here with James's office is pretty darn vital.
In other words, they have to have the communications.
These alleged communications that have been referred to by Michael Cohen are really, really important because they need that for the proof.
And so she's going to have to come forward with all of this stuff.
And I would expect that the judge would insists that she does.
Since the publication, we should point out, of Mr. Cohen's Substack article, they've been very busy demanding this production of Cohen's research and recordings and letters and text messages with Letitia and with Alvin.
And right now, they're not getting anything.
In fact, Letitia is just stonewalling them.
So that's kind of a problem.
I mean, would you expect her to do anything else?
He's saying, you know what?
I didn't have a choice.
I had to do this.
I was coerced.
That's very specific, very legal language that could be quite problematic for one Ms. Letitia James.
It could not happen to a nicer person, right?
I mean, I think that they should have been able to get her on the other stuff.
So I'm still not pleased with what we saw go down with the mortgage allegations.
I mean, that really looked quite suspicious to me.
But this here, this is going to just be right there in writing.
So if she's coercing him through these communications that we're about to see and that she's going to have to produce, then that could actually mean, as I spoke about, A serious.
Result in terms of yeah, I know everybody wants her going to jail and I think this is probably just my own intuition here this is probably the best case they can build against her.
She was a rogue prosecutor she was going after.
I mean, they're doing the civil rights thing right because they're saying hey, you violated Donald Trump's civil rights by politically targeting him because you wanted to take down Trump, but now you could be looking at up to 20 years in federal prison through a variety of things.
Witness tampering would obviously be one of them.
In other words, if she's shaping the witness, they're saying okay, I need this, I need that.
Will you say this?
Will you say that Again?
Obstruction of justice.
All of these things are going to be a big deal.
Subordination of perjury if someone knowingly is doing this.
So that may have been communicated.
I have a feeling she's sloppy.
I mean, who the heck says, okay, I am going to put myself on my daddy's mortgage application and I am going to say that I am his wife and not think that that might not come back to haunt you at some point in time, especially when you're in politics.
So yeah, she's sloppy.
She's really sloppy.
I mean, she's got those nieces living in her place.
It's really, you know.
Not what she says.
It is super duper sloppy.
So I suspect they're going to find some there there, and when they find the there there Letitia, honey baby, you're going to go down and um, this might be Donald Trump's best way.
The irony of all this you got to admit like this is certain poetic irony of here that we're talking about is that it's Michael Cohen right, Michael Cohen, who was the guy who basically turned Donald Trump, whom he seemed to worship in, and yet now he's the one that's coming back and maybe the one that like, saves him here, but I don't think, and this is his point.
I don't think he had a choice.
Like they were going to put him away for life.
And he's like, oh, what do I do?
And he didn't have the means.
He didn't have the, you know, the backbone maybe to stand up to this.
And he was concerned about his family, et cetera.
So this will all be revealed, shall we say, in these documents that we just can't wait to get our hands on.
You know, if you watch the market today, we did end down a little bit lower.
Everybody's still really worried about the Strait of Hormuz, about oil.
We went up to 100 bucks a barrel.
I'll just say this.
You know what?
everybody chill.
Okay.
Just chill.
It's all right.
We're only down, you know, a percent and a half or something.
It's fine.
We'll get through it.
It's, you know, even if it were $200 barrel oil, I know it's not great, but you know what?
This is short-lived.
You can like maybe, you know, not take the road trip this weekend.
It'll be okay.
And in the end, it'll be much better.
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Daily Mail War Stories00:13:55
Just look at the performance there.
I want to get to another story that's important right now.
I think we should just, I have so much to talk to you about because, gosh, this guy, what's, oh, Mam Dami, his disaster that Mam Dami is.
You know, there's calls now for him to be deported.
And there's some there, there.
I went and did some digging, guys, and what I found is going to shock you.
And I'll just tell you this Congressman Randy Fine, Congressman Andy Ogles, They are onto something and the DOJ, Pam Bondi, wake up and start looking into this because there's no way this guy should have been given citizenship in the first place.
Denaturalization is on the table.
We're going to get to that.
We also want to just mention our hearts go out to everybody at Temple Israel there in West Bloomfield Township in Michigan.
Just a horrible story.
But the good news is no one was hurt that was inside the temple.
No children, I guess they were inside, were hurt.
I think a security guard was slightly injured, is in the hospital with those wounds.
But the important thing is everybody was okay.
It was the crazy one that drove into the temple that died in the accident.
And the frightening thing is just how prevalent I think some of this hate is, if you would.
Meanwhile, we've got a report out today that the Iran supreme leader is reportedly in a coma.
Now, this is being reported in the Daily Mail.
They are citing some sources, but they don't have full confirmation of this.
It's a little peculiar because he spoke today, but he didn't really speak.
He had somebody read a statement for him on Iranian state TV.
So this is the story that they're running.
Ayatollah in a coma, Iran's new supreme leader.
Don't forget, this is like number three.
The first one we took out, the second one we took out, and this one apparently we landed in a coma.
If you're to believe these media reports, again, this has not been independently confirmed.
This is just being reported in the Daily Mail.
The airstrikes hit Khamenei's son, and he, as a result, is in a coma, according to the Daily Mail, and has lost a leg.
They also say that, you know, there's this question right now as to who's running Iran.
I've had the same question myself.
I mean, I keep saying, gosh, who's in charge of this place?
Because, you know, the Ayatollah is in serious, apparently, you know, condition, right?
We don't know if the coma thing is actually true, but apparently he's been maimed badly.
The suspicion is that he also was hit in the attack that took down his dad or in the attack that took down the second one.
So we're wondering about that.
And then he comes out with a statement, but the statement doesn't actually say anything.
The leader of the Islamic Republic in their first public speech addressing the great nation of Iran and the great fighters of Iran.
The great fighters of Iran, blah, blah, blah.
So he's doing a sort of rah, rah, rah thing.
And he's got this Iranian woman on state TV reading the whole thing.
The statement says, and I'll just go through it for you.
The Iranian leader who took over for his dad said, We are not the enemy of the countries around us.
We are only targeting the basis of those Americans.
Huh.
Okay.
So the American is a big, bad American, right?
We don't really mean to do harm to you, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, or anywhere else over there.
No, no, no.
We just want to take out.
The Americans.
That's, I don't think, totally going to fly because none of those countries really appreciate what's going on.
But they're trying to divide and conquer, right?
Let's divide.
Let's have a wedge.
And so it's really America's fault.
It's not your fault.
It's America's fault.
And so this is part of what his statement has been.
But you've got to ask yourself, if you're the new leader, what are you doing?
Hold up in a hospital.
Apparently, again, I want to say that this is the Daily Mail's report.
I like the Daily Mail a lot.
You know, I'm going to go with it for today, but I want to qualify it by saying it has not been confirmed elsewhere.
But the belief is that he's in this historic quarter there in Tehran in the Sina University Hospital, and he's being attended to there.
I have to say this.
Listen, if we're doing okay, and it seems to me we're doing okay, I mean, we've got 5,000 strikes, we've taken out 5,000 targets, we apparently, according to some sources, have the new Ayatollah in a coma or at least heavily, heavily maimed and wounded, then why is it that you have all of the media establishment and all of the Democrats lining up to take shots at Donald Trump right now?
I mean, it's like the whole world is against him.
I couldn't believe it.
I was looking at the media reports today and it was like, whoa, I mean, they're just all ganging up.
I can't even fit them all on the screen.
I mean, oil shocks, right?
Oh, you would think the market had just tanked five, six percent instead of down, what, one percent and change?
I mean, it's like the end of the world when you open up any website.
Bloomberg's one of the best at this.
They just love it.
They're running it all day long, having a little field day.
Of course, Mike hates Donald Trump.
He told me so himself.
I used to work there.
I've told that story before here on the show.
But yeah, Mike does not like Donald Trump at all.
He still can't believe that Donald Trump's president and he's not.
Bloomberg's going to town.
You get the New York Times, which you know cannot stand Donald Trump.
So they're like, this is our moment in the sun.
We're going to run this all day long.
We're going to scare the ATLL out of every American citizen so that they really, really know Donald Trump is a bad guy.
And then, you know, you look at the headlines.
How Hegseth came to see moral purpose in war as weakness.
What?
Iran's frantic attempt to save its ships before the torpedo attack.
It's as though the New York Times is on Iran's side.
Right?
I mean, that's what it looks like.
For goodness sakes.
You know, oil shock from Iran, war grips the global economy.
Guys, get over it.
It's not that bad.
I mean, $100 oil, we can withstand a lot.
You'd be surprised.
You would be surprised.
Just look at what Joe Biden did to us.
I mean, we had what, 9.6% inflation in a month?
I think we can handle.
I think we can handle.
You know, every $10 increase in oil prices results in 24 cents at the gas pump.
So it's not pleasant, but it's not the end of the world.
For goodness sakes, this regime was killing 30,000 people.
Not that we, you know, need to.
do everything for the Iranian people, but I think we can handle a 24 cents or even a 50 cents increase in gas prices for a little bit.
And it will be for a little bit.
But no, no, no, not according to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg.
I mean, Washington Post, every major publication.
This one, I was like, gosh, I mean, they've even got Joe Rogan on board.
I mean, Joe Rogan says Trump supporters feel betrayed by Iran war.
Do you feel betrayed?
I don't think you do.
In fact, I'm looking at it saying, listen, if you have the opportunity to take them out, this is going to be a game changer for generations to come.
If we can do a real transition there, that's a big deal.
You got Georgia Maloney, Trump's friend in Europe, seeks distance on Iran, they write.
War with Iran puts further strain on America's pessimistic farmers.
I mean, you just go right down the line.
I'm like, come on.
Come on.
And then I'm looking at CNN and I'm looking at MSNBC.
I mean, I got to tell you guys, you know, I was really disappointed here because even Fox, even Fox Business where I used to work, my friend Stu, I'm like, Stu, what are you doing?
Like this, this, this doesn't seem right to me because I know him and I know he likes the president, but he's like Armageddon as well.
Well, isn't it him?
Houston, we have a problem.
Remember that famous line from Rescue of Apollo 13?
Well, you could apply it now.
Houston, we have an oil problem.
Yeah, we do.
There's plenty of supply, but we can't get it to the right place quickly.
Iranian drones and missiles have scared the world's oil tanker operators from sailing through the Straits of Hormuz.
20% of the world's oil is bottled up in the Gulf.
The president says, we've destroyed the Iranian Navy, and so we have.
But the attacks keep coming.
Three vessels hit overnight.
An oil refinery in Bahrain set on fire.
The price of oil, again, close to $100 a barrel, $94.55 as we speak.
The price of gas, perilously close to $4 a gallon.
That is not good.
This war may be about ending the Iranian nuclear threat.
It is.
But it's become a war to ensure the free flow of energy.
And at the moment, that war is not going that well.
The President and the Secretary of State both say, we're not letting up.
We're going to finish the job.
Okay, how long will it take?
Energy Secretary Wright was asked if the Straits would be open and Navy escorts in place by the end of this month.
No, we're not ready for the escorts yet, and he said he was just hopeful that the Straits would be open by the end of the month.
Be admitted, it would be weeks, not months.
Now, this is a real problem, because if all that oil stays in the Gulf into April, you're looking at oil well over $100 a barrel and gas well over $4 a gallon.
That will give the Democrats a lot of ammunition.
They know the public doesn't want a long war, and they know that okay.
Yeah, it'll give the Democrats ammunition.
I get it.
Okay.
But that's not enough to turn on him now.
All right.
Back to the crazies in the media.
We don't want Fox becoming one of them.
But, you know, they've been known to do a few funny things before.
So we say, I got some proof.
Anyway, look at this.
I mean, the New York Times, everyone.
And then this one gets me.
Okay.
They've got stocks fall on war, credit woes as Brent oil tops $100.
This is Bloomberg writing that.
I mean.
Come on.
Okay.
You see this?
They're like floating this headline out there all day long.
Well, guess what, guys?
You know what?
That's not true.
Like the market was fine.
The market's actually been fine throughout this.
I'm still waiting.
It's like really tanked because I love it when it does.
And that's when I go in.
I did well in 2020 as a result of that.
You know that?
Okay.
That's what you do, right?
You buy low.
It's like Donald Trump when he was buying for the SPR.
Remember?
And they were freaking out, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, when oil was at like 20.
And they were like, oh, he's just trying to help his friends.
He's like, no, sorry.
Oil's at 20.
I want to fill up the SPR.
And then what did Biden do?
He used it.
right before midterms because you know his inflation was so out of control that's not what the sbr is supposed to be used for it is supposed to be used for times like this but here's the deal even the wall street journal admits finally this was like low on the page war is raging tankers are burning yet the stock market isn't panicking no it's not because you know what it's not as big a deal as you guys are all making it out to be.
It's really not.
It's 20% of the world's supply.
Yeah, that's something, but it's not going to sink us.
You'd think it would the way they're carrying on.
But I have a theory on it.
I have a theory.
I think I know why this is happening.
I think the media is all ganging up on Donald Trump along with the Democrats because they figure this is their opportunity to just take him out.
Like they can't allow him to actually see something good, right?
Like to see this through to fruition.
If he solves the crisis in the Middle East, then they are forever proven to be the idiots we believe them to be.
Which is why you got a chief idiot right here, Cooney Coons, Chris Coons, Senator Chris Coons, saying, get this, that it's now time to strike a new Iran nuclear deal.
Excuse me?
Like we're on the verge of taking it out and you want to do a new deal with them, buddy boy?
Is this how much you hate Trump?
I guess.
Watch.
What would you do?
If you were the decider on this, what do you do now?
What do you want to see happen next in this war?
First, I never would have taken us into this war without first consulting with our allies and building a regional coalition, without consulting with the American people and Congress.
Although ultimately George Bush's war in Iraq was disastrous, he respected the Constitution, he got a declaration from Congress, he prepared the nation for what was a costly and difficult war.
He also made the mistake of having broader ends than we had means.
And so, right now, yes, I would be saying to our allies in the region, We need to sit down at the table with the Iranian regime and get a ceasefire and move towards a new nuclear deal that will give us real visibility into their program and get them to stop their program.
So far, what President Trump has accomplished is there's a new supreme leader of Iran who's likely harder line, younger, healthier, angrier, and more likely to race towards a nuclear weapon whenever this war ends.
So you would negotiate?
Of course.
I would sit down as soon as possible with our regional partners, make sure that we are all aligned in terms of our military assets and our goals.
And I would see if there is not some way to end Iran's attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
I just roll over and play dead and say, What do you want?
Right?
Come on.
I mean, let's all be big boys here and let's like put our differences aside.
I mean, you may hate Trump.
I get it.
And I don't mean to be callous about the whole.
energy thing.
I just think that you're going to bring a lot more oil online.
You've got oil out in California.
I realize Gavin doesn't want us pumping there, but too bad.
They're going to use war powers and other legal means to be able to get access to some of that oil.
Then you've got oil coming out of the wazoo out in the Orinoco region of Venezuela.
I've told you before, I've traveled to Orinoco.
I know what this is.
It's thick, heavy tar, but it's oil, okay?
And we can get it.
And it's more oil than, dun-da-da, they even have in Saudi Arabia.
What do you know?
More proven oil reserves in Orinoco.
Orinoco region in Venezuela than they have in all of Saudi Arabia.
So we got to get it out of the ground.
Mayor's Problematic Organization00:16:23
I get it.
And you're not going to do those things overnight.
But the point is the world's not going to end because Iran decides to shut down the Strait of Hormuz.
By the way, the Chinese are furious.
They're like, hey, Iran, knock it off.
We need our oil.
Okay.
I want to get to Mamdami.
With everything going on in the world right now, is it really appropriate that he decides to host a prayer breakfast of some sort and really rub it in everyone's face?
Take a look.
Well, new calls today to deport Zorhan Mamdami based on the belief that he may have lied on his citizenship drugs.
In fact, it's becoming a big deal.
So, this first came about over the summer.
We reported on it back then.
But the reason it's being sort of focused on in this moment and I think is worth paying a lot of attention to, a lot of attention to, Pam Bondi, I'm looking at you, is because of the concerns that he may not be playing for our team.
He may not be on America's side.
He may be on Iran's side, okay?
And we have only to look at his rap music and the lyrics of the rap music that seem to show allegiance to terror organizations, etc.
But I don't even need to go there.
Let me just start with this.
The concern, oh, well, there's this too.
I was going to show you his his form for his citizenship.
But before we get to that, there's this one.
So back in 2015, he went on and on and on and on.
He was all upset and he let out a whole series of tweets.
He was all upset because the FBI was investigating a guy who was a known terrorist, right?
For lack of a better word, okay?
So Memdami was upset.
He's like, how dare you?
How dare you look into his personal life?
Why no proper interrogation of what it means for FBI? to have conducted extensive survey into Al-Waqi's private life.
Al-Awaqi was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2011, seven years after he had moved to the country to join the terror group.
But apparently before moving to Yemen, Al-Awaqi presided over a Virginia mosque where three of the 9-11 hijackers worshipped.
He was also linked to, oh, I'm going to just, you know, mess up this name, but we'll give it a shot, Umar Farouk Abdullah Tab. the so-called underwear bomber who tried to bomb a plane above Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009.
So Mamdami, in a series of tweets, is all upset because he thinks the FBI has somehow infringed on this guy, this terrorist's rights.
So that's 2015.
He didn't apply for citizenship here in the United States until 2018.
So somebody, somebody did not do their due diligence.
Okay, in 2018, Trump was in office.
So it was his team.
Somebody and his team did not do their due diligence on this guy.
And I think that if you go back and look at some of the immigration records, you might find that Mamdami didn't admit to some of the things that he needed to and should have admitted to.
So, you fill out this form.
You see, when you're trying to get citizenship here in the U.S., this is the N 400 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services form.
And one of the questions is, and I quote, have you ever been a member of or been associated with a group, association, foundation, party, club, society, or organization that communicates or advocates communism?
We get a little mess up in that one, but or any other form of totalitarian government?
If yes, you know what?
You got to explain what you did.
It's believed that he did not say yes.
It's believed that he just ignored that.
The problem is he was actually part of a problematic organization.
The Democrat Socialist Association, the DSA.
That's an organization that's actually backed by that guy.
We've talked about him before, Neville Singman, who's basically the guy who is bankrolled out of China and he bankrolls this organization and they are an anti-US, anti-Western communist group.
So Mamdami's a part of that.
but he never says anything on his application.
This is a big issue, not to mention the rap lyrics that supported terrorist activities, the tweets from 2015 that I was just talking about supporting an actual terrorist.
I mean, you got something to go on there and Andy Ogles knows it.
So he wrote a letter at the end of June begging Pambandi.
I realize I know she's got a lot on her plate.
I, listen, I, I empathize with that, but this is the big leagues.
We got a lot going on and they need somebody to look into this.
Janine Pirro, where are you when we need you?
Okay.
I don't know if she can do it because it's DC, but somebody ought to be looking into this because if you go back and you see these records and he did not actually say, Hey, I'm part of this anti-US group because you can't be.
Okay.
Like you had to check that box.
And if you didn't check that box, then you've lied on your documentation.
What have we talked about here?
Guess what?
You lie on that documentation.
They can rescind your citizenship.
They absolutely 100% positively can.
And so Randy Fine, I played some sound for you the other day saying we need to deport him.
We need to take away his citizenship.
This is the congressman from Florida.
And I thought, well, you know, that could be hard.
That could be a tall order.
And I was thinking, I had forgotten that Mamdami was actually just recently made a citizen.
For some reason, I was thinking that because he, you know, was here as a kid, that maybe he was, you know, naturalized as a kid alongside his parents or something.
And no, I was wrong.
He just was naturalized in 2018.
So yeah.
we got something there and we ought to be able to do something about that.
So Andy Ogles is saying, listen, you got to take this stuff seriously.
You can't be anti-US.
I realize everybody has a right to say what they want and to think what they want.
But, you know, when you come to this country and you're looking for citizenship into this country, there's some basics here for our national security.
Mamdami, if Mr. Mamdami concealed relevant associations that concealment may constitute a material misrepresentation sufficient to support denaturalization under federal law, then we got to run with that, right, Pammy?
You got to get on this.
The federal government must uphold public trust by ensuring that citizenship is not granted under false pretenses.
I respectfully urge the Department of Justice to determine whether Mr. Mandami's conduct prior to naturalization warrants formal review under applicable law.
Don't forget, this is the same guy that when he wanted to make a name for himself because he was going to be running for mayor, he went up to Albany, New York and decided to torment Tom Homan, yelling at him, joining the crowd, leading the crowd in these protests against ICE.
I mean, heck, he hadn't even met Christy Noem yet.
Little did he know that there was way more where that came from.
She was like Tom Holman on steroids.
Well, this was Mam Dombey.
This should have been the tip-off.
Right then and there.
You hear, do you believe in the First Amendment, Tom Homan?
He acts like a crazed maniac.
Boy, oh boy, what a loser.
It's kind of sad that he is more than sad that he is mayor of New York.
Look, Representative Randy Fine, he does not want him as mayor of New York.
He does not want him in this country.
He thinks he's dangerous and understandably so, especially given the 2015 tweets, especially given some of the lyrics from his little rap songs, especially given that it appears as though he was not entirely forthcoming on that.
N 400 form when he was applying for citizenship.
Let's go to Randy Fine.
Deport.
I mean, the fact of the matter is Mandami hates America, hates the Judeo Christian civilization that we have here.
You know, we're allowed to protest whatever we want.
We hear this all the time from the left.
When they were doing all this ridiculous stuff on our college campuses, people like this jerk mayor talked about how they had a First Amendment right to say whatever they want.
That's not the issue.
The issue is two Muslim terrorists.
Who were inspired by ISIS, who traveled to the Middle East, threw bombs at people.
That is the issue.
You're allowed to say whatever you want in this country.
You're not allowed to throw bombs.
But Mandami is covering for the Muslim terrorists that he supports, whether it's in the Middle East or whether it's in America.
He should be stripped of his citizenship and he should be deported.
Yeah, and I would like to also mention his wife liking dozens of posts celebrating what happened.
On October 7th.
These people, they are who they are.
They've never hidden it.
But go ahead, sir.
Well, they rub it in your face.
I mean, he wanted to say his wife's a private person.
She's irrelevant.
But then he had to bring her up, I would note, in that little statement that you played.
They're laughing at us.
It is part of the core tenet of their faith, the idea of tequila, the idea of lying and being manipulative to push the faith on us.
Mandami is a bad person.
He is an evil person.
Evil person, and he is not someone who should be a citizen of the United States, let alone the mayor of New York.
Yeah, I'd say that again, right?
I'd say that again.
You know, I'd also say you need to think about what's going on in this moment in time.
You need to think about his reaction, right?
When people are about to be victims of a bomb, and you get CNN acting like it's like, you know, just another nice little sunny day with a little field trip outing to New York for these two young boys that, you know, just Just want the best for the world.
And then you get Mam Dami effectively blaming white supremacy for it.
I'm telling you, it's time to look at deporting this guy.
Seriously.
If you were to win, you would become the first Muslim mayor of New York City.
This is, I'm going to go back to it in a second, a soundbite from Mam Dami back in late June or early July, around the time that you had Andy Ogles coming forward saying, Hey, Pam Bondi, you got to look into this guy because.
2015.
You got the lyrics on the rap songs and you've got the belief that he lied on his N-400 immigration application to become a citizen of the U.S.
And it was like, how dare you?
How dare you?
And all the media is like on his side.
He's like the little darling, right?
And so let's go back to this.
This is NBC's Meet the Press with Kristen, Kirsten, whatever her name is, Walker, Welker, I don't know.
But clearly, clearly on his side, as they all are.
And just watch this because he's swarmy.
He's swarming, all right.
If you were to win, you would become the first Muslim mayor of New York City.
Along the way, throughout the course of this primary campaign, you have received death threats.
You've received all sorts of attacks online.
Congressman Andy Ogles called for you to be deported, for example, because you were born in Uganda.
He also issued an Islamophobic epithet, which I am not going to repeat here.
But what type of toll has this taken on you personally and on your family?
It's been difficult.
It's been difficult to.
To have to deal with the regular and repeated smears and slander upon my name and on the very basis of my faith.
And I think what's so sad is that this is but a glimpse into what life is like for many Muslim New Yorkers and many New Yorkers of different faiths who are constantly being told that they don't belong in this city and in this country that they love.
And ultimately, what continues to give me hope is that these moments are but small examples, something that goes against what so many New Yorkers actually feel.
Hmm.
I told you.
Slick, right?
Really, really, really slick.
So he's trying to make you think somehow that he's just the nice guy.
He's just the nice guy.
Sheep in wolf's clothing, if I ever saw one.
But you know, the media eats all this stuff up.
CNN, they just, oh, they're on anyone's side but Trump, but clearly on Mandami's side all day long.
And we see evidence of this.
And they're on the side of Gaza and they're on the side of iran, it appears, I mean, well, the whole media is because if you can be pro-Iran, then you're anti-Trump.
For goodness sakes, everybody's priorities are messed up.
But let me go to this CNN host because this CNN host was forced to apologize live on the air.
Now, this is a big deal because I can tell you, having come from network TV, like you don't often ask your anchors to apologize on the air.
But you see, she really stepped in it.
She just automatically assumed that they were after Memdami because, hey, you know, they always are, right?
They're after Memdami.
They're never just after other people.
They got to be after the guy who doesn't look like them.
At least it's clearly she has her biases.
So we talked about this.
I highlighted this story for you yesterday and it bubbled up into such a big thing that this woman was forced to apologize on the air because she had said this up.
Next, two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here.
After an attempted terror attack against New York's mayor Zohan Mamdani, and the House speaker Mike Johnson says nothing really to condemn those comments.
Another special guest is going to be with us at the table when we come back.
You see, she automatically assumed, you heard that, right?
That it was Mam Dami that was being attacked.
Turns out it was the protesters that were being attacked.
It was not Mam Dami.
So we explained that yesterday.
And yeah, I'll tell you, it took on a life of its own.
This has been a really viral moment for this CNN anchor, and people are really angry about it.
So yeah, she tweeted something out.
But she had to double down on her show last night and say this.
More to come, but first, this morning I issued a correction first thing in the morning on X for a mistake that I made in last night's show, but I also wanted to do so on air as well.
I incorrectly said that the bombs that were thrown by ISIS-inspired suspects in New York over the weekend were directed at Mayor Mamdani.
They were not.
I failed to catch and correct that mistake in real time, and I take full responsibility for that.
And while we do make mistakes, it is important to acknowledge and correct those errors when they happen.
But next for us.
Okay, that's a big deal.
Like, I know this, having worked in TV, you know, you don't just apologize unless you really screw up and people are really mad.
Of course, she's sitting there probably saying, ooh, am I still going to have a job?
Am I still going to have a job when David Ellison comes in from Paramount and this whole merger thing happens?
Because didn't he say he wants the American public to be able to trust CNN again?
Well, how is the American public ever going to trust CNN when you got anchors like this one saying stuff like this?
I would say we've had two terrorist attacks here in the last 10 days.
And so, can we condemn those?
Why are we?
Of course.
What does that have to do with Muslims?
I'm sorry.
The two terror attacks in the last two days, what does it have to do with Muslims?
Okay, so you get where she's coming from, all right?
It's important to understand the biases of these crazy media people because they are trying to sway you.
And, you know, I'll tell you, they're having an effect.
You look at the polls and I think people are increasingly saying, well, I don't know.
I don't know.
Is this a good idea?
Is this a good idea?
We don't know what the president had for intelligence, but I'm going to take him at his word because I know him and he's not someone who just wants to go to war for the H-E-L-L of it.
No, He does not.
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So there was something there that made him believe we needed to take action now.
And I'm going to give it a few weeks, okay?
Like, you know, we're what?
13 days into this?
And everybody wants to hang them?
Everyone at CNN, everyone at the New York Times, everyone at Bloomberg, everyone at the Wall Street Journal, for goodness sakes.
Hang on, okay?
Just hang on a little bit because there might be more to this.
Caitlin Collins getting totally humiliated by the likes of John Fetterman.
Woo, John!
Fetterman for the win.
This was like one of the most fabulous takedowns I've ever seen.
And he's sick of it.
He, like me, is saying, wait a second, the media, they're really seemingly on the side of Iran, like all of them.
They're in one giant course because they hate Donald Trump so much.
So suddenly anything that Trump does, including possibly fixing the Middle East, is one, something that they don't want him to attain, right?
Because if he attains it, it proves, for goodness sakes, that they were all so damn wrong all along.
And two, Well, it just seems so easy and expedient, and they can make a big story of it, and CNN can seem like they're important again.
Not that they ever were.
John Fetterman totally humiliates this anchor, Caitlin Collins, who's getting a little hot and bothered under a galler.
Take a look.
You mentioned how you differ from your colleagues, your other fellow Democrats.
Every Senate Democrat except you signed a letter today to Secretary Hegseth asking for an investigation into that strike on a girls' school in Iran.
Why did you not sign that letter, Senator?
Well, because we all agree that it's a tragedy having the school hit.
Absolutely.
And we all agree now for an investigation.
What I don't agree with the rest of my colleagues in the House is that it's a war of choice or it's dumb or all the things that my colleagues have described, you know, this operation.
I think it's a good thing and I support that.
So we agree that we, you know, and actually the Pentagon is already investing in that.
They just acknowledge then that it seems increasingly likely that we were now on that.
And now I think it's entirely appropriate, just like my colleague from Louisiana said.
It's like, you know, we should apologize that.
That's a tragedy.
And I would remind everybody listening right now, the United States never, ever targets civilians.
Iran does, you know, and including their own citizens.
And they massacred that 35,000 of them just a couple of weeks ago.
And the left, please, please, the left media is much more angry about or talking about this hospital, and it is a tragedy, but they didn't seem to be as concerned about the Iranians massacring tens of thousands of their young people just a couple weeks ago, too.
So we agree on many parts of it, but we both disagree.
I mean, we all disagree that it's, I think it's a good thing.
And every single other Democrat in the caucus caused it all kinds of negative terms.
It gets even better.
Okay.
I'm saving the best for last.
So he's making the point that, yeah, the media is like totally on one side and one side only.
And, you know, the concern about, obviously, it's a tragedy with the Iranian school and the young girls that were killed there.
And everybody hates that.
Of course, you also have to ask yourself, did they, they've been known to put.
Important weaponry and people inside these hospitals, inside schools, et cetera, so that if you take one of those out, then we look like the bad guy.
It could have just been, and the Pentagon has indicated this so much so far, that it was just an honest mistake and those things happen.
Look, it happened with Biden, it happened with Obama.
But when it happens with Trump, right, it's a whole other level.
Anyway, I want to go back to this because at some point, like she tries to cut him off and go to commercial, and he loses it on her.
And you know what?
He had every right to.
I'll tell you, I'll give him credit for this.
He really seems to just be true blue.
He is what he is, and he has no use for any of the shenanigans.
Look.
We did cover the protests in Iran extensively here at CNN.
Obviously, they said a lot about how internally people felt about the regime.
But just to be clear, I don't know.
I didn't find you as.
I understand.
I just wanted to make that clear to our viewers that we did cover that.
But just to be clear, you do believe if the United States was responsible that the Pentagon should acknowledge.
That they accidentally hit a girls' school.
Yeah, I've said that.
I said it seems that they've already acknowledging all those things.
I think largely that letter, it was rendered moot at this point after what that's already come out.
Now, the Pentagon has agreed that they were behind that.
And I don't know what your network talked about, but what I'm saying is that, you know, whether like it's the New York Times, they're making it more and more trying to convince America that this has been.
A disaster or things are out of control, and that's just categorically not true.
On that, I just think it deserves coverage, obviously, given the number of children who were killed as a result of it.
It obviously matters what happened there.
Um, this is getting awkward, right?
What the Pentagon investigation says, Senator John Fetterman, I appreciate your time tonight.
Thank you for joining us as always.
Here, yes, oh, no, you don't Oh, now you don't have to cut me off here.
Go ahead, Senator.
We're not cutting you off.
Well, you said something that it's like it's appropriate to cover it.
It is appropriate to cover it.
You know, it's a tragedy.
Absolutely.
You know, and if we were on that, it's entirely appropriate for it to apologize.
If you're implying that I don't think it's wrong to cover it, that's just not true.
You know, yes, it's being covered.
I just want to clarify that.
It just seemed like a, Like a short shutoff there to imply that I didn't want to carry that.
I think it's entirely appropriate to talk about it.
Yeah, I'm not implying that.
I just wanted to clarify why we're covering it for everyone who's watching.
Senator, thank you.
I do always appreciate hearing your thoughts.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, thank you.
Yeah, right.
As President Trump today discussed what he believes is victory in the war.
Okay, okay, okay.
I'm dying.
One of you guys said, oh my gosh, these liberals, they don't know what to do with one of their own when they get a real, like, decent.
Quality liberal, my gosh.
But here's the thing.
Okay, so you've got all these little anchors out there.
They all want to be the new Don Lemon, because apparently Don Lemon used to be the big cheese there at the CNN network.
Yeah oh, and the other little guy, Jim Acosta.
So Jimmy and Donnie were like ruling it, and now they got Katie and uh um, Abby, that are now like the new queen bees.
Okay, they had the other two queen bees and now this queen bee and the other queen bee and they're gonna be out of jobs.
I'm telling you like I don't think David Ellison's gonna put up with it.
I Have multiple sources that know him very well.
He wants to make sure that people have their trust restored in the news industry, and they say he's really smart like, really, really, really smart.
He's actually going to change everything in drastic ways.
So that's going to be bad news for little Abby and little Katie, right?
David Ellison, listen to this.
David, me again.
You know, unfortunately, the world we live in has a political overlay on almost everything going on in the corporate world, certainly when it comes to news organizations.
And there is certainly a perception andor a Fear perhaps that once you take control of CNN and given the changes you've made at CBS, that you will be more beholden to the Trump administration.
Can you address that potential fear, at least on the part of many?
Yeah, no, David.
So, look, I've said this since the beginning, which is, you know, when it really comes to editorial independence, it will absolutely be maintained.
It's maintained at CBS, it'll be maintained at CNN.
And really, who we want to talk to is the 70% of Americans and really around the world that identify as center left, that center right.
And we want to be in the truth business, we want to be in the trust business, and that's not going to change.
There you go.
It's not going to change.
Okay.
They want to be in the truth and trust business.
Well, forgive me.
It does have to change.
Right.
I'm sorry, David.
We got to talk.
Right.
Like we need to talk because you got some work to do.
I realize Barry's working hard over at CBS, but you're going to have to get Barry over at CNN as well.
And you guys are going to have to really double down and get rid of the just inherent bias.
So let's just assume, let's give some of these anchors like Abby, for example. the benefit of the doubt.
Let's pretend that Abby didn't know what she was reading and she was just, you know, a typical and lazy and bad news anchor who decided to just read whatever copy happened to be in the prompter that day.
And her staff member wrote that they were attacking Mamdami, that they were, you know, going after him instead of the other way around.
It was like ISIS terrorists that were attacking the crowd of protesters.
Let's assume that she just honestly read whatever was in the prompter and she didn't manipulate or change the words on her own.
Then we have to assume that the rot is throughout the organization.
It's on top with your anchors and it's all the way down the bottom, you know, with your little production assistants and copywriters that are putting this junk into the prompter for them.
So you have a big problem and you're going to have to fix it because, you know, nobody's watching.
Nobody wants to watch.
Nobody cares.
The only show that's actually doing anything is when Scott Jennings comes on.
Their ratings go up.
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They're minute by minute.
I've looked at them for like a, a single split second.
It's like whoo, you know Scotty's doing good stuff, and then you go back to the dribble drabble of the rest of them.
What do you think of this uh possibility that Jake Paul might be in the running for vice president of the United States Of America?
Oh, you know, we looked at the Kentucky rally yesterday and i'm sorry I missed this one, because I I should have shown you this is big news, guys.
Jake Paul, you know him right, the fighter, the youtuber anyway, Jake Paul getting up on stage in Kentucky, his native Kentucky, and the president saying something at the end of this clip That you need to pay attention to.
Because I wouldn't be surprised if his name is in the running for a potential vice presidential spot on a ticket with maybe Marco on top.
Yeah, Marco's closing in on JD.
Let's watch Jake Paul.
And he walked out with a broken jaw.
This was not the greatest fight, but you know what it showed?
Lots of courage.
Come here, Jake.
Say a few words.
You're busy here, people.
Yeah, what Mr. Trump has taught me is courage.
You know, we never back down from a fight, even if they're much bigger than you, much, much bigger than you.
And I feel all the local Kentuckians feel the same way.
You guys have that fight, you guys have that swag.
There's a lot of young kids in here.
The future of America.
I grew up just a few hours away from here.
My dad taught me to fight, and all of our voices matter in America.
And I'm never afraid to speak the truth, and I know you guys aren't.
We are here representing the United States, and it's just a blessing.
Thank you, Mr. Trump.
We need more factories like this thriving all over the country, and I know he's going to be the one to bring that here to us.
I know God is with us.
I know he wants us on the right side of history, and everyone here has to do their part.
And God's got us, Trump's got us.
God bless.
Love you, Kentucky.
Okay, now it gets good.
You have to wait until the end, though.
Now, he's a great guy.
He's a courageous guy and a talented guy.
He's a hell of a fighter, too, by the way.
And I just want to say, I predict, I'm going to make a prediction, that you will be in the not too distant future running for political office.
And you have my complete and total endorsement, okay?
Yeah, that's what we want.
He's an incredible guy.
A lot of courage and smarts.
So, my sources are saying, you know, the president's looking at everyone.
and he's trying to figure out who's going to be top of the ticket and who's going to be on the ticket with the top of the ticket.
And so if he were to go with somebody like a Rubio, who's kind of more straight-laced, well, he kind of needs that more rural, like rugged guy a la JD on the ticket with Rubio.
And so, you know, he's like central casting, right?
It's like the apprentice.
He's like, okay, who have I got?
Who have I got?
Who's in my lineup?
And I see some of you are not fans.
I'm looking at at peace in my mind.
He's like, no, no.
You know, it's early.
It's early.
We'll see.
But I think that, you know, he's tossing names out there because he wants to make it interesting.
And it's getting interesting.
I mean, I've showed you the betting markets, right?
So think about it.
If you are, let's fix the camera here.
If you're Donald Trump and you're trying to pick your successor for 2028, who do you go with?
Now, normally you'd say, okay, well, it's got to be JD Vance.
Well, he's kind of holding these auditions.
Yeah, all kinds of auditions.
Okay, let's hope the camera's working here.
Yeah, he's holding all these auditions.
Vanny Fair noticed it actually back in December and they're like, my gosh, it's like an apprentice show.
Well, if that's the case, they showed a picture of him sleeping during one of the cabinet meetings.
They've been broadcasting all the cabinet meetings, as you know.
And yeah, he's asleep.
Clearly, whoever was speaking at that moment is not going to get the gig.
If you put him to sleep, it's game over.
But he thinks like a producer.
He does.
He really does.
He thinks like a producer, and he understands the element of, well, the new media world in which we live.
And so the question is, who are you going to put?
If Marco Rubio is the guy, then who are you going to put alongside him?
Are you going to put Marco Rubio in that spot?
Is he going to be able to sort of, you know, capture the mind and imaginations of everyday Americans?
I'm going to tell you, I think whoever you put in that spot, it's just really hard because Donald Trump kind of sucks up all the oxygen in the room.
He is the force and people love him or hate him.
A lot of people hate him, right?
We get it.
We're well aware.
We're on TDS 2.0.
So a lot of people hate him, but a lot of people love him.
And he's got this sort of this aura about him that is very entertaining, that that people gravitate to, and so how do you fill those shoes?
I'm gonna be honest, one, I don't think you can.
All right, nobody's gonna fill those shoes.
Two, you got to then go with like, the best option.
As a result of that, I don't know if it's Jd.
I mean hey, you know, i'm happy to to to be convinced, but I don't know.
If it's Jd, he might come across, dare I say, as not adult enough, as not mature enough, as a little bit too much of a little boy with a very cute little chubby face and lots of facial hair, because, you know, he just finally was able to grow a mustache or a beard or whatever it is that he has.
And so that is going to be working against him.
Take a look here.
Republican presidential nominee 2028.
You see who?
Marco Rubio climbing big time, big time climbing right there, up, up, and away.
He's the dark blue.
You get periwinkle little boy JD Vans there at 38.5%.
And you have marco Rubio now coming all the way up almost at 30%.
I'm wondering if he's just going to surpass him.
Listen to this.
This press conference the other day, this was amazing.
This press conference kind of said it all because I'll tell you, in this press conference, you had Marco Rubio just shutting down the press exactly how the boss would love one of his apprentices to do it.
I want to just clarify what you said.
I want to just clarify what you said because you said, clarify.
But you said, I would give that only to you.
No, but you're going to read the whole thing.
But your quote is about, we knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.
We knew that would precipitate an attack.
Yeah, no, I understand.
But listen, all right, let me understand.
But I had a very specific question from that gentleman, right?
The president said that he was going to force Israelis.
Okay, but let me answer because this is my press conference.
Okay.
I was asked a very specific question yesterday.
So you guys can misrepresent it, but I was asked a very specific question yesterday.
The bottom line is this the president determined we were not going to get hit first.
It's that simple, guys.
We are not going to put Americans' troops in harm's way.
If you tell the president of the United States that if we don't go first, we're going to have more people killed and more people injured, the president's going to go first.
That's what he did.
President will always do.
He will always put the safety and security of our men and women in uniform and of all Americans before anything else.
He's always going to do that, and that's what he did here.
In addition to that, I would argue that this threat from Iran, they are hiding behind these missiles and hiding behind these drones.
They wanted to reach a point where you couldn't touch them and then they could do whatever the hell they wanted with their nuclear program.
And there is no way in the world that this terroristic regime was going to get nuclear weapons, not under Donald Trump's watch.
That's the U.S. attack.
It has nothing to do with Israel.
It has nothing to do with Israel.
Mark Ruffalo Gene Simmons00:06:25
Go ahead.
Did you see that?
He said, this is my press conference.
So, you know, he's learning from the best, if you would, and managing the press kind of well.
It's early.
We don't even need to get into all this just yet.
It's very, very early.
I think we all hate to think, you know, if it was Lilo, I'd certainly be happy if he could run again, but not the case.
So who's it going to be?
Don Back is saying he doesn't think it's going to be JD Vance.
And I think you're right.
I don't think it's going to be JD.
I think Marco's got a much better shot, you know, and they may add pete Hegseth to that list at some point too, right?
And Pete Hegseth might be somebody that might be considered, I don't know, for the VP spot.
Sort of strange when I know them all.
Like, you know, Pete was on my show every week and I'd fill in on Fox and Friends on the weekend and he's always there.
You know, it's just sort of strange.
But I guess at some point it really is a small world, a very small world.
Oh, this is good, guys.
This is good.
Check it out.
Basically, shut the f up.
Do your art and shut up.
Nobody's interested in your opinions.
That includes me.
who I vote for, who I like, who the f*** you think you are.
That's kiss legend, Gene Simmons.
He's had it with these woke Hollywood politician types, right?
They're supposed to be actors, they're supposed to be comedians, but they always have to weigh in on something.
Oh, we've had to hear from Ben Stiller lately saying, how dare you use a scene of my movie in one of your little viral media clips?
Don't you dare, don't you dare.
And he's all worked up because he hates Trump.
He's a never, never, never trumper.
He's a Kamala person.
And then you had Mark Ruffalo.
Do you guys know him?
Like, I'm not that familiar with him, but he went to the recent awards ceremony decked out in a whole bunch of pins.
Boy, oh boy, like the viral online community had a field day with this.
We'd made a short out of it.
I'm going to show you.
Dr. Mark Ruffalo is getting badly trolled, like all over the internet for those pins.
Mark Ruffalo, can you tell us about those buttons?
Oh, yeah.
You noticed all of these?
Yeah.
So this one right here is for Renee Good.
But save the white tears because I'm also wearing a Black Lives Matter button.
So I don't want to be too insensitive to that community.
And then I got the trifecta, free Venezuela, free Ukraine, and free Palestine.
But don't let you distract that from my free Israel button as well.
I don't think you can have it both ways, Mark.
No, you can't.
But, you know, he's got a lot of pins.
You got Stiller out there.
Oh, remember when he did that thing with Oprah Winfrey that she was paid a pretty penny for from the Kamala campaign.
It was like all her besties.
She had Julia Roberts there, Meryl Streep, and Ben Stiller going on and on.
We got to vote for Kamala.
Sorry.
I mean, it was great though, because everybody was so energized.
And I mean, I got to go to the convention and see her speech, which was just incredible.
And feeling that energy, you know, feeling kind of going from a stop Trump mode into a go Kamala mode, people starting to, you know, Yeah.
Really hear what she's about.
Yeah.
Shoot the applause.
Oh, boy.
I can't even imagine.
Imagine if Kamala Harris was president right now.
Holy moly.
Anyway, so, you know, Gene Simmons, he's kind of over it.
He's really sick of it.
And he, you know, from Kiss, got out there on like some sidewalk yesterday, this morning.
I don't know.
This clip is going viral everywhere.
So I got to show you the full thing so you can fully appreciate it.
He's had it up to here.
No more.
There is a few F-bombs in there, too.
We bleeped him out.
Don't worry.
I'm looking out for the kids.
Basically, shut the f*** up.
Do your art and shut up.
Nobody's interested in your opinions.
That includes me, who I vote for, who I like.
Who the f do you think you are?
People in America work hard for their living and they don't want to be lectured to by people who live in mansions and drive Rolls Royces.
It's time for everybody in the entertainment industry to shut their pie hole and just do your art.
Nobody cares what you think.
I don't.
Okay.
What will Mark Ruffalo, however the f he pronounces his name.
Mark Ruffalo, yeah, yeah.
Ruffalo, Buffalo.
What does Mark think about politics?
I don't care.
So you think celebrities should stay out of the politic talk?
Well, we both agree.
Okay.
Yeah.
I know.
Or go to Kylie Jenner and ask her what she thinks of the war so far.
Anyway, that's great, right?
I especially liked the Mark Ruffalo, Buffalo, whatever his name is.
That was a good one, Gene.
Yeah, Cat Crazy Sam says, you tell him, Gene.
You tell him, Gene Simmons.
That was a good little moment.
So I had to share that with you guys.
We're going to put it on the shorts feed too.
So check that out.
It is terrific to see you all tonight.
Yeah, just remember that, you know, Hollywood really just needs to stick to doing their art, whatever their art may be.
Some of them are more talented than others, shall we say.
You know what they're all jealous about?
They're jealous because guess what?
Everybody's watching politics right now.
Nobody cares about the entertainment industry.
For goodness sakes, did you see the news that, oh, what's his name?
He was married to JLo.
Ben Affleck.
Ben Affleck just sold his AI company to Netflix to make movies for $600 million.
And basically all of Hollywood is panicking.
They're totally freaking out because AI is going to take over their entire industry.
What's their star system going to be in the future?
Yeah.
So if I were them, I would shut the you know what up, like Gene Simmons said about politics and maybe focus on my future and how I'm going to have a career in the new Hollywood that's coming sooner than you think.
Bye bye, Ben Stiller.
Bye bye, Ruffalo Buffalo, whatever your name is.
Bye bye, Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey, all of them.
Good riddance.
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